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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ALLEN AUCHMUTY.; 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN, for 1893. 



Allen William Henry Harrison, jurist, born in Wmhall, 

 Beimincrton County, Vt., Bee. 10, 1829; died in New 

 York city, April 26, 1893. He was graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1851, and was admitted to the 

 bar of Sullivan County, N. H., in 1858. From Novem- 

 ber of that year till September, 1863, he held clerk- 

 ships in various county courts, and then till Decem- 

 ber 1865, he was a paymaster in the Union army. 

 He was iud^e of probate from 1867 till 1874, and regis- 

 ter of bankruptcy from 1867 till 1876. In the latter 

 year by general request of the Sullivan County bar, 

 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme 

 Court of New Hampshire, an office he retained till 

 within a short time of his death. 



Ames, Frederick Lothrop, capitalist, born in North 

 Easton, Mass., June 8, 1835; died on a Fall River 

 steamer on Long Island Sound, Sept. 12-13, 1893. 

 He was a son of Oliver and Sarah Lothrop Ames, and 

 cousin of Oliver Ames, Governor of Massachusetts in 

 1886-'88. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter 

 Academy, and was graduated at Harvard in 1854. 

 Though' anxious to study law, he yielded to the 

 wishes of his father, and entered on a business career 

 in the Ames manufactory in North Easton. In 1863 

 he became a member of the firm, the name of which 

 was changed in 1876 from Oliver Ames & Sons to 

 Oliver Ames & Sons Corporation, of which he was 

 made treasurer. Besides his interest in this corpora- 

 tion, Mr. Ames acquired large holdings of stock _ in 

 about 75 railroad companies, and was an active 

 director in numerous other financial and manu- 

 facturing corporations. Mr. Ames was considered 

 the wealthiest man in Massachusetts. He inherited 

 $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 from his father; owned real 

 estate in Boston assessed in 1892 at $6,100,700 ; and 

 was credited by the "street" with possessing an es- 

 tate estimated at from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. To 

 Harvard University and to various institutions in 

 Boston and North 'Easton, Mass., he had been a lib- 

 eral benefactor for many years, always giving without 

 ostentation. After his death it was reported that the 

 donor of $500,000 to Harvard for building, equipping, 

 and maintaining a reading room was Mr. Ames, and 

 that the necessary legal papers were awaiting his sig- 

 nature at the time of his death. 



Armstrong, David Hartley, legislator, born in Nova 

 Scotia, Oct. 21, 1812; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 

 18, 1893. He received an academic education in 

 Readtield, Me.; taught school for eighteen years; 

 and, removing to St. Louis in 1837, opened and con- 

 ducted in the following year the first public school 

 established by law in Missouri. In 1847 he was ap- 

 pointed comptroller of the city as a Democrat ; in 

 1848 and 1849 was reappointed ; in 1854 was appointed 

 by President Pierce postmaster of St. Louis ; and from 

 October, 1877, till March 3, 1879, filled the vacancy 

 in the United States Senate caused by the death of 

 Lewis V. Bogy. During the civil war he was im- 

 prisoned for sympathy with the Confederacy. Sub- 

 sequently he aided B. Gratz Brown and other Demo- 

 crats in organizing the Liberal party. He was also at 

 one time receiver of the Missouri Pacific Kailroad. 



Armstrong, Sanrael Chapman, educator, born in Wai- 

 luku, Mam, Hawaii, Jan. 30, 1839 ; died in Hampton, 

 Va., May 11, 1893. He was the son of Eichard Arm- 

 strong, one of the first American missionaries to the 

 Sandwich Islands, and the founder of the educational 

 system of the kingdom. He was educated in local 

 schools and in Oahu College, Honolulu, till 1860, 

 when, on the death of his father, he came to the 

 United States and entered "Williams College, where 

 he was graduated in 1862. Immediately after leav- 

 ing college he organized Company D, of the 125th 



New York Infantry, with which he was assigned to 

 the Army of the Potomac. At Harper's Ferry he was 

 taken prisoner, and held three months. He then 

 served to the close of the war, and was mustered out 

 of the volunteer service with the rank of brigadier-gen- 

 eral in November, 1865. He was one of the first offi- 

 cers to volunteer and qualify for command of colored 

 troops, and the last two years of his service were 

 spent with them, his last active commission being that 

 of colonel of the 8th United States Colored Infantry. 

 His service with the colored troops and the deep in- 

 terest he took in them attracted the attention of Gen. 

 O. O. Howard, who, in March, 1866, induced him to 

 enter the employment of the Freedman's Bureau. 

 He was at first charged with the oversight of all the 

 colored people in 10 counties in Virginia, and made 

 his headquarters at Hampton, where a large number 

 of refugees had gathered. After two years of skillful 

 and fruitful administration there, during which he 

 elaborated a progressive scheme for the education of 

 the poor colored people, he secured the aid of the 

 American Missionary Association and of personal 

 friends at the North, and established the school that 

 subsequently became the Hampton Normal and Ag- 

 ricultural Institute. As its name suggests, the insti- 

 tution was designed to afford education, make teach- 

 ers, and render graduates self-supporting. In this 

 cause he labored till death. For the first ten years 

 the beneficiaries were exclusively negroes. Then the 

 United States Government, noting his remarkable 

 success, arranged to have Indian children taught 

 there also, and since 1878 the two races have studied 

 and worked side by side without friction. At the 

 time of Gen. Armstrong's death the institution had 

 nearly 200 Indian and between 500 and 600 col- 

 ored youth, and about 100 teachers and employees. 



Ashcroft, Edward H., inventor, born in Whitehouse, 

 near Belfast, Ireland, March 19, 1819; died in Lynn, 

 Mass., Aug. 11, 1893. He came to the United States 

 with his parents in 1832, and for many years assisted 

 his father in the manufacture of silk handkerchiefs. 

 Subsequently he became proficient in color mixing, 

 designing on wood, and wood engraving, and in the 

 Harrison presidential campaign manufactured the 

 " Tippecanoe and Tyler too " handkerchief. In 1849 

 he fitted out the first large sailing vessel with sup- 

 plies for California ; in 1850 was offered and de- 

 clined the presidency of the first life-insurance com- 

 pany organized in trie United States ; and in 1851-'81 

 was engaged in manufacturing the Ashcroft fusible 

 plug for use in steam boilers and the Ashcroft steam 

 gauge, both his own inventions. 



Anchmnty, Eichard Tylden, philanthropist, born in 

 New York city, in 1831 ; died in Lenox, Mass., July 

 18, 1893. He received a collegiate education ; studied 

 architecture, and was for many years in partnership 

 with James Kenwick ; served with the Union army 

 in the field from the beginning of the civil war till 

 1864, and was then employed in the War Department 

 in Washington till the close of the war. He retired 

 from business after the war, and with his wife ap- 

 plied himself to the development of Lenox as a 

 model summer and autumn resort, and to works of 

 benevolence. In 1881 long and thoughtful investi- 

 gations culminated in the establishment by himself 

 and wife of the New York Trade Schools, at First 

 Avenue and 67th Street, on a plan entirely original, 

 and already productive of large results. He desired to 

 afford young men instruction in certain trades, and to 

 enable young men already in them to further im- 

 prove themselves, and planned his system for man- 

 ual and scientific teaching so that not only can skill be 

 acquired quickly, but the reason why work should be 

 done in a certain way is made plain. The branches 



