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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BUTTRE CARROLL.) 



the James and the Appomattox. In October, 1864, 

 Gen. Butler was sent to New York city, where elec- 

 tion riots were apprehended. In December he com- 

 manded an expedition against Fort Fisher, the chief 

 defense of Wilmington, N. C., but was unsuccessful, 

 and was removed from command by Gen. Grant. He 

 returned to Massachusetts, but continued to take an 

 interest in public aifajrs, and in 1866 was elected to 

 Congress by the Republicans. He was returned for 

 twelve years with but one intermission of two years, 

 between 1875 and 1877. In 1868 he was an active 

 manager of the movement that led to the impeach- 

 ment of President Johnson. In 1871 he was a candi- 

 date for Governor of Massachusetts, but was defeated. 

 In 1879 when he had changed his politics, he was 

 again a candidate for Governor on the Greenback and 

 Democratic tickets, but was again defeated. In 1882 

 the Democrats united upon him and secured his 

 election, although they lost the rest of their ticket. 

 While in that office he brought a charge against the 

 Tewksbury almshouse of gross mismanagement, and 

 a long investigation followed in the Legislature, but 

 the charge was not sustained. In 1883 he was renom- 

 inated, but was defeated. In 1884 the Greenback 

 and Antimonopolist parties united upon him as their 

 candidate for the presidency of the United States, 

 and they gave him 133,825 votes. He married, in 

 1842, Sarah Hildreth, daughter of Dr. Israel Hil- 

 dreth, of Lowell, Mass. She had been an actress for 

 several years previous to her marriage, but retired 

 from the stage then, and died in April, 1876. 



Buttre. John Cheater, steel engraver, born in Auburn, 

 N. Y., June 10, 1821 ; died in Ridgewood, N. J., Dec. 

 2, 1893. He studied drawing and engraving on wood, 

 and on removing to New York city, in 1841, applied, 

 himself to engraving on steel, with large success. An 

 original method of treating portraits, bv which he se- 

 cured a peculiar tint and a remarkably lifelike ex- 

 pression, early won for him wide celebrity, which 

 was shown in the sale of his first notable engraving, 

 a life-size portrait of President Buchanan, in 1858. 

 During the civil war he produced portraits of the 

 leaders in the National and Confederate armies, and 

 other celebrities, including a striking one of Presi- 

 dent Lincoln. In the line of studies he produced 

 " The Emptv Sleeve," " Welcome Home," " Martha 

 Washington,"" " The Old Oaken Bucket," and " The 

 First Step." He also engraved President Lincoln's 

 Proclamation of Emancipation on a plate measuring 

 2 by 3 inches. In 1880-81 he published portraits of 

 nearly 250 well-known citizens of the United States, 

 under the tide of " The American Portrait Gallery," 

 in 3 volumes, with text by his daughter Lillian, and 

 shortly after Gen. Grant's death he published his last 

 engraving, a vignette of the great soldier. 



Bynner, Edwin Lassetter, author, born in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Aug. 5, 1842 ; died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 5, 

 1893. He was graduated at the Harvard Law School ; 

 was admitted to the bar; and practiced in Boston, 

 St. Louis, and New York city till 1886, when he gave 

 up law for literature. He gave special attention to 

 the colonial history of New England. Besides 

 writing the chapters o_n the topography and land- 

 marks of the provincial period in the " Memorial 

 History of Boston," he published the historical nov- 

 els "Nimport" (1877); "Tritons" (1878); "Da- 

 men's Ghost" (1881); "Agnes Surriage" (1886); 

 " Penelope's Suitors " (1887) ; " The Begum's Daugh- 

 ter," a narrative of social life in New York city at 

 the time it was passing from Dutch to English occu- 

 pation (1889) ; " The Chase of the Meteor, and Other 

 Stories'- (1891); and " Zachary Phips " (1892). 



Camp, TTirn.Tn 1 manufacturer, born in Plymouth, 

 Mass., April 9, 1813 ; died in New Haven, Conn., 

 July 9, 1893. He was a nephew of Chauncey Jerome, 

 the first clockmaker in New England; was appren- 

 ticed to the new industry ; bought out the business 

 on the removal of the firm to New Haven in 1851 ; 

 organized a new company in 1853, and remained at 

 the head of it till 1892. He supported a city and two 

 Sunday -school missionaries in other States ; founded 



the Mount Hermon Boys' School at Gill, Mass. ; co-op- 

 erated with Dwight L. Moody in establishing the 

 Northtield Seminary for Young Women, and gave 

 the Moody institutions nearly $100,000. An appeal 

 against the probate of his will, which contained be- 

 quests to charitable and religious organizations aggre- 

 gating $100,000, was filed by his family. 



Campbell, Douglas, lawyer, born in Cherry Valley, 

 N. Y., in 1839 ; died in Schenectady, N. Y., March 7, 

 1893. He was a sou of Judge William M. Campbell, 

 of the Superior and Supreme Courts of New York, 

 and was graduated at Union College in 1860. At the 

 beginning of the civil war he entered the Union 

 army, and was rapidly advanced till he attained the 

 rank of major and the command of the 21st United 

 States Colored Infantry, when ill health caused him 

 to resign. He then studied law at Harvard, and be- 

 gan practicing in New York city in 1866. His finan- 

 cial success at the bar enabled him to retire from 

 practice a few years ago and to give his whole atten- 

 tion to some historical studies he had begun more 

 than twenty years before. As a result of these studies, 

 and of prolonged personal research in the libraries of 

 the United States, London, Leyden, and the Hague, he 

 published " The Puritan in Holland, England, and 

 America : An Introduction to American History " 

 (New York, 1892), which drew from Mr. Gladstone a 

 letter of gratification and approval. 



Campbell, James, lawyer, born in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Sept. 1, 1812; died there, Jan. 27, 1893. He was edu- 

 cated by private tutors, and was admitted to the bar 

 in 1834. W hile a member of the Board of Education 

 he introduced the resolution which gave the city its 

 Girls' Normal School. In 1841-'51 he was judge of 

 the Court of Common Pleas by appointment, and in 

 the latter year, when the office became elective, he 

 was defeated for the office by Judge Richard Coulter, 

 the Native American candidate. Soon afterward he 

 was appointed by Gov. Bigler Attorney-General of 

 the State, and held the office till March 4, 1853, when 

 President Pierce appointed him Postmaster-General. 

 He served through the entire administration. In the 

 decade preceding the civil war he was a vigorous 

 leader of the Pennsylvania Democracy. In 1862 he 

 was defeated for the United States senatorial nomi- 

 nation by Charles R. Buckalew ; in 1873 declined a 

 seat in the State Constitutional Convention ; and sub- 

 sequently practiced law. 



Cappa, Carlo Alberto, bandmaster, born in Alessan- 

 dria, Sardinia, in 1834 ; died in New York city, Jan. 6, 

 1893. He was the son of an officer in the Sardinian 

 army, and was educated in the Royal Academy of 

 Asti, to which only the sons of soldiers are admitted. 

 On leaving the academy he entered the band of the 

 6th Lancers in the Sardinian army, and became first 

 trombone player. In 1856 he enlisted as a musician 

 on the United States frigate " Congress," then at 

 Genoa, and after a two years' cruise settled in Phila- 

 delphia. His first engagement was with Kendall's 

 band, with which he made a tour of the principal 

 cities, and he then played with Shelton's New York 

 band till its leader, Grafulla, was appointed leader of 

 the 7th Regiment band, when he accompanied him. 

 In 1881 he succeeded to the leadership of this band, 

 and held it till his death. In 1869 he also became 

 first trombone player in Theodore Thomas's orches- 

 tra, remaining seven years. He was also connected 

 with the Mapleson orchestra and the Philharmonic 

 Societies of New York and Brooklyn. In 1891 he 

 was made a cavalier of Italy by King Humbert. 



Carroll, Samuel Sprigg, military officer, born in 

 Washington, D. C., Sept. 21, 1832: died there, Jan. 

 28, 1893. He was graduated at the United States 

 Military Academy and appointed a brevet 2d lieuten- 

 ant in the 9th United States Infantry in 1856 ; was 

 promoted 2d lieutenant 10th Infantry the same year, 

 1st lieutenant and captain in 1861, and lieutenant- 

 colonel 21st Infantry in 1867 ; and was retired with 

 the rank of major-general June 9, 1869. In the 

 volunteer service he was commissioned colonel 8th 

 Ohio Infantry, Dec. 7, 1861, was promoted brigadier- 



