OH1TUAR1KS, FOREIGN. (ADAMS ALBERT VICTOR CHRISTIAN EDWARD.) 583 



mustered out of the service at the close of tho war 

 with the rank of brevet-major ifciicral of Volunteer.-,. 



Wood, Walter Abbott, manufacturer, born in Mason, 

 N. 11., Oct. -J:;, 1>U>; died in IlooMek Falls, N. Y., 

 .Inn. 1."'. \ *'<-. He received a (oiiiiiioii-schooi educa- 

 tion, M-rvi-d an apprenticeship in his father's plow 

 an<l wauon manufactory, removed to lloosiek Falls in 

 .in I, iif;i-r \\orkiiiir I"'" some time as a machinist, 

 estal>li>ln d himsrlf us a manufacturer of reapers, 

 mowers, ami hinders. He devised many impr-.ve- 

 nients iii agricultural implements, and was .-<> success- 

 ful that in l^.'-s he established an ofliee in London 

 nnl be^an supplying implements for the European 

 market. ll>- received first prizes for exhibits at the 

 World's Fairs in London, Paris, Vienna, and Phila- 

 delphia, and was honored by Queen Victoria, Napo- 

 leon 111. ami Francis Joseph of Austria. He nevei 

 held public office till 1878, when he wan elected to 

 ess from t lie 17th New York District as a Re- 

 publican. He was re-elected in 1880, and served on 

 the committee^ on Public Expenditures and on Ex- 

 penditures in the Interior Department. 



Wray, Mary Retan, actress, born in Ridgetield, Conn., 

 in IN'4; died in Newtown village, Long Island, 

 N. Y.. Oct. 5, 1892. She married Air. Wray in 1826, 

 and soon afterward made her first appearance on the 

 stage in the Chatham Street Theatre, New York city, 

 as a dancer. Subsequently she made an engagement 

 at the Old Bowery Theatre, which lasted for six 

 years, and during this time she frequently played 

 with Junius Brutus Booth. She supported Edwin 

 Forrest in " Macbeth " in the Walnut Street Theatre, 

 Philadelphia ; made a Southern tour in a company in 

 which Joseph Jetferson and John Ellsler were en- 

 gaged; in 1848 was a member of the Seguin Opera 

 Company; and in 1864 retired from the stage. She 

 was for more than thirty-five years a member of the 

 American Dramatic Fund, and was said to be the 

 oldest representative of the American stage. 



Wyant, Alexander H., landscape painter, born in Port 

 Washington, Ohio, Jan. 11, 1836; died in New York 

 city, Nov. 29, 1892. In early youth he showed a strong 

 taste for drawing and painting, and was enabled to 

 study in Carlsruhe, Dusseldorf, and London. In 1864 

 he opened a studio in New York city ; in 1865 exhibited 

 his first painting at the National Academy of Design, 

 in 1868 was elected an associate of the academy, and 

 in 1869 an academician. He was one of the earliest 

 members of the American Society of Painters in 

 Water Colors, and a member of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Artists. Among his pictures in oil were : " Staten 

 Island from the Jersey Meadows" (1867) ; " Scene on 

 the Upper Susquehanna " (1869) ; " The Bird's Nest " 

 and "A Changeful Day" (1870); "Shore of Lake 

 Champlain" and "A Pool on the Ausable" (1871); 

 " Fort at New Bedford " (1874) ; " A View on Lake 

 (Jeorre" and "A Midsummer Retreat" (1875); 

 "Maogilliouddy's Reeks" and "The Wilds of the 

 Adirondacks" (1876); "An Old Clearing" (1877); 

 " An Old Road Evening," and " Pool in the North 

 Woods." To the water-color exhibition he contrib- 

 uted : "Scene on the Upper Little Miami" (1867); 

 "A Reminiscence of West Virginia" and "Trees 

 and Stutf in New Jersey" (1869); "New Jersey 

 Meadows" (1870); "Gathering Shells" (1872); "Late 

 Autumn, Ausable River" (1876); "Scene in Mas- 

 sachusetts" and "An Irish Lake Scene" (1877; 

 " Reminiscences of the Connecticut." " Mountains 

 in Kerry," and others (1878). His " Sunset on the 

 Prairie" was in the Centennial Exhibition (1876); 

 and his Reminiscences of the Connecticut," in 

 water color, and u New England Landscape," in oil, 

 were in the Paris Exhibition (1878). 



Young, Van Boron, jurist, born in Flat Creek, Bath 

 County, Ky., Jan. 28, 1837; died in South Frankfort, 

 Kv., Kd>. -J7, 1892. He received a common-school 

 education, studied law in Frankfort, and at the. uni- 

 versity in Lexington, received a diploma from Tran- 

 sylvania College, and took a further course of private 

 instruction. In 1856 he removed to Leavenworth, 

 Kan., and was engaged in real-estate business till 



I860, when lie returned to his native county to prac- 

 tice law. Soon afterward lie was nominated for presi- 

 dential elector on the Douglas ticket, and the same 

 year waa elected to the Legislature. Before the close 

 of his term he resigned, and was elected clerk of 

 the circuit court and appointed master in chancery. 

 While nerving as clerk lie was appointed Common- 

 wealth attorney. About 18:; IK; removed to Mount 

 Sterling, and was^jlected judge of the Supreme Court 

 of Kentucky; removed to Frankfort and was chief 

 justice of the court at the time of his- death. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Adams, John Conch, 

 an English astronomer, born in Lidcot. Cornwall, June 

 5, IM'J; died in Cambridge, June 21,1892. He was 

 graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in 

 1843, as senior wrangler, was elected a fellow, and 

 became a mathematical tutor. For several years he 

 was engaged in difficult and delicate observations for 

 the solution of the problem of the irregularities in the 

 motions of Uranus, and was the joint discoverer with 

 Leverrier of the planet Neptune that caused the per- 

 turbations, the existence and position of which he also 

 predicted from his calculations. For many years he 

 was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge 

 University and director of the observatory. 



Airy, Sir George Biddell, an English astronomer, born 

 at Alnwick, Northumberland, June 27, 1801 ; died at 

 Greenwich, Jan. 2, 1892. He was educated at Colches- 

 ter Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 graduating from the latter in 1823 as senior wrangler. 

 In 1825 he discovered the optical malady since called 

 astigmatism, and suggested its remedy. In 1826 he 

 became Lucasian professor at Trinity, and from 1827 

 to 1836 delivered lectures on experimental philoso- 

 phy, in the course of which he advocated the undu- 

 tatory theory of light. In 1828 he was elected Plumian 

 professor, and took entire charge of the Cambridge 

 Observatory. In 1835 he became Astronomer Royal, 

 and introduced at Greenwich the altazimuth, the 

 water telescope, transit circle, and other improve- 

 ments. For fifty years he was recognized as the ad- 

 viser of the Government on scientific topics of general 

 interest. He investigated the disturbance of the com- 

 pass in iron ships, and provided a method for correct- 

 ing the irregularities. From experiments by him were 

 obtained data for weighing the earth and determining 

 the theory of gravity, as well as rendering more exact 

 ancient chronologies. He received from the Universi- 

 ties of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh the degrees 

 of D. C. L. and LL. D., and was a Fellow of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society^ and a member of many home 

 and foreign scientific institutes and societies. In 1872 

 he was created a Knight Commander of the Bath, and 

 in 1881 resigned his post as Astronomer Royal, which 

 he had held for forty-six years. On this occasion he 

 was awarded a pension of 1,100 per annum by the 

 Treasury. He published " Gravitation," originally writ- 

 ten for the " Penny Cyclopaedia " ; "Mathematical Lec- 

 tures "; " Ipswich Lectures on Astronomy "; ' Treatise 

 on Errors of Observation " (1861) ; "Th'e Invasion of 

 Britain by Julius Caesar" (1865) ; "Treatise on Sound" 

 (1869); "Treatise on Magnetism" (1870); "Trigo- 

 nometry"; "Figure of the Earth"; "Tides and 

 Waves'"; "Algebraical and Numerical Theory of Er- 

 rors"; "Notes on the Earlier Hebrew Scriptures" 

 (London, 1876); "Lunar Distance" (London, 1881) ; 

 "Terrestrial Magnetic Force in the Horizontal Plane 

 at Greenwich " (London, 1886V He also contributed 

 many technical papers to scientific journals. 



Albert Victor Christian Edward, Prince, Duke of Clar- 

 ence, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 

 and next in succession after his father to the British 

 throne, born at Frogmoro House, Jan. 8,1864: died in 

 Sandringham House, Jnn. 14, 1892. He was a seven- 

 months' child, but not a weakly one. When he was 

 thirteen years old ho was sent, with his brother 

 (leoix'e, who was his junior by seventeen months, on 

 board the " Britanniea," where the boys underwent 

 the training of midshipmen, while still receiving in- 

 struction from their governor, Rev. John Neale Dai- 

 ton. When they had served two years they were 



