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there, and became active as a politician and lecturer. 

 In 1853 he removed to St. Paul, Minn. ; in the follow- 

 ing year established the " Daily Times " there ; and 

 in 1856 was the sole representative of the newly 

 formed Republican party in its first national conven- 

 tion. On Nov. 26, 1862, he was commissioned captain 

 and commissary of subsistence in the Union army ; 

 fitted out Gen. Sibley's Indian expedition with nearly 

 400,000 rations ; became chief of the commissariat at 

 St. Cloud, where he supplied twelve ditt'erent military 

 posts ; and afterward was on duty at Forts Ripley and 

 Snelling. In 1866 he commanded a company which 

 explored the Vermilion lake region, prospecting for 

 precious metals, and later he spent much time pros- 

 pecting in the Black Hills. President Harrison ap- 

 pointed him United States consul at Malaga, Spain, 

 111 the summer of 1891, and he died at his post. He 

 was author of " Thrilling Scenes among the Indians," 

 drawn from personal observations ; ' Pen Pictures and 

 and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers of St. Paul 

 from 1838 to 1857 " ; " Recollections of Eminent Men " ; 

 " Indian Legends " ; and " Heleopa." 



Nnssbaum, Isaac, philanthropist, born in Bavaria ; 

 died in Albany, IS. Y., May 21, 1893. He came to the 

 United States in 1848 ; was aid-de-camp to Gov. 

 Horatio Seymour in 1862-'64 ; was also on the staffs 

 of Govs. Hoffman, Tilden, and Robinson ; and founded 

 the Jewish Home for the Aged in Albany. 



Osborne, Edward B., journalist, born in Northampton, 

 Mass., Aug. 3, 1814 ; died in Albany, N. Y., July 20, 

 1893. When thirteen years old he was apprenticed 

 to the printer's trade in' the office of the Northampton 

 "Gazette." In 1836 he became publisher of the 

 Quincy " Patriot," which supported John Quincy 

 Adams in his canvass for Congress ; then went to the 

 Danbury " Times " in the same capacity and remained 

 till 1853; removed to Poughkeepsie; purchased the 

 "American"; changed its name to the "Dutchess 

 County Democrat," and combined it with the "Tele- 

 graph" in 1856; and was editor of the latter news- 

 paper till 1883, when he retired from active business. 

 He was a member of the New York Assembly in 

 1884-'85 and 1889 ; clerk of Dutchess County in 1886- 

 '89 ; and State Senator in 1890-'92, obtaining his seat 

 after a contest. 



Otis, Charles G., manufacturer, born in Troy, N. Y., 

 in 1831 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1893. He 

 was the elder of the two sons of Elisha G. Otis, who 

 in 1854 established in Yonkers, N. Y., the nucleus of 

 the present great elevator works. He entered his 

 father's factory about 1856, and was joined by his 

 brother, Norton P. Otis, in 1858. On the death of 

 their father, in 1861, the sons conducted the business 

 till 1867, when, in consequence of the great demand 

 for passenger and freight elevators caused by the 

 erection of monster buildings, they organized a stock 

 company, of which Charles became president and 

 Norton secretary and treasurer. The company was 

 highly successful, repeatedly enlarged its plant, built 

 branch works in Chicago to accommodate its busi- 

 ness in the Western States, and placed its elevators 

 in nearly every large city in the world. Probably 

 the most noted success of the company was the equip- 

 ment with its elevators of the Eiffel Tower at the 

 Paris Exposition in 1890. 



Owens, John 0.. archaeologist, born in Louisburg, Pa., 

 in 1866 ; died in Honduras, Central America, Feb. 18, 

 1893. He was graduated at Bucknell University in 

 1887 ; had been a teacher in the South Jersey Insti- 

 tute; was completing his third year as a graduate 

 student in Harvard; and at the time of his death was 

 in charge of the Honduras expedition under the aus- 

 pices of the Peabody Museum of American Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology of Harvard University. Early 

 in the previous winter he had explored th'e ancient 

 ruined city of Copan, and on his last expedition he 

 had made special explorations of the old city of Qui- 

 ragua and taken molds of the great carved monoliths 

 or stone idols of that neighborhood, from which casts 

 were to be made and set up as supplementary to the 

 ruins of Yucatan on the exhibition grounds in Chicago. 



Pardee, Dwight Whitfield, jurist, born in Bristol, 

 Conn., Feb. 10, 1822 ; died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 6, 

 1893. He was graduated at Trinity College in 1840 ; 

 served two terms as State Senator ; was judge of the 

 Superior Court of Connecticut in 1863-'74 ; an asso- 

 ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the State in 

 1874-'89 ; and then declined reappointment. 



Parsons, George Frederiojournalist, born in Brighton, 

 England, June 15, 1840 ; died in New York city, July 

 19, 1893. He was educated by private tutors, appren- 

 ticed in the mercantile marine service in 1856, and 

 promoted to first mate before reaching his majority. 

 In 1862 he went with his father to British Columbia, 

 attracted by the Fraser river gold excitement, and, 

 failing in his first business venture, established and 

 edited for two years the " North Pacific Times." He 

 removed to San Francisco in 1865, and for seventeen 

 years was engaged in editorial work in that city and 

 in Sacramento. In 1882 he removed to New York 

 city, and became an editorial writer on the "Trib- 

 une " and a contributor to various publications. Mr. 

 Parsons had collected a valuable library, especially 

 of works relating to witchcraft and occultism. 



Patterson, James Willis, Senator, born in Henniker, 

 N. H., July 2, 1*23; died in Hanover, N. H., May 4, 

 1893. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1848, and 

 studied for the ministry, but was not ordained. He 

 was a tutor in Dartmouth in 1852-'54, Professor of 

 Mathematics there in 1854-'59, and Professor of As- 

 tronomy in 1859-'65. He was Secretary of the State 

 Board of Education for five years. He was a member 

 of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1862, was then 

 elected to Congress as a Republican, and in 1866 was 

 chosen United States Senator for the term ending 

 March 4, 1873. He was author of the bill constituting 

 consular clerkships, and also of that establishing col- 

 ored schools in the District of Columbia, and was 

 chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment and Re- 

 form, and of that on the District of Columbia. In 

 1872 it was discovered that various members of Con- 

 gress had held stock in a joint stock company called 

 tne Credit Mobilier of America, which had been the 

 construction company of the Union Pacific Railroad ; 

 and this was held to be highly improper, because the 

 value of the stock might be greatly affected by their 

 votes. An investigation was ordered, which in the 

 House of Representatives resulted in the formal cen- 

 sure of two members. The report of the Senate com- 

 mittee (Feb. 27, 1873) closed with a resolution to ex- 

 pel Senator Patterson, but the resolution was not 

 adopted, and in a few days his term expired. Later 

 and very thorough investigation shows that Mr. Pat- 

 terson's supposed connection with the affair can all 

 be explained, and that the committee's report, in seek- 

 ing to make a scapegoat of him, was grossly unjust. 

 He had been a regent of the Smithsonian Institution 

 in 1864-'65, and a delegate to the loyalist convention 

 in Philadelphia in 1866. In 1877 and 1878 he was 

 again a member of the Legislature of his State, and in 

 1885 he was appointed State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, which office he held as long as he lived. 

 Iowa College gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1868. 

 Mr. Patterson made a fine appearance on the platform, 

 and was one of the most agreeable and convincii-j 

 of orators. In 1880 he delivered the address at the un- 

 veiling of the soldiers' monument in Marietta, Ohio. 



Peabody, Andrew Preston, educator, born in Beverly, 

 Mass., March 19, 1811 ; died in Boston, Mass., March 

 10, 1893. He was graduated at Harvard in 1826, and 

 at its Divinity School in 1832 ; then spent a year as 

 tutor in mathematics in the college; and in 1833 was 

 chosen junior pastor of the South" Unitarian parish in 

 Portsmouth, N. H., and within three weeks became 

 sole pastor. He held this charge without interruption 

 till 1860, when he succeeded Bishop Huntington as 

 Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard, 

 and also as preacher to the college, and held these 

 offices till 1881, when, resigning to give his whole at- 

 tention to a mass of literary work he had in prepara- 

 tion, he was unanimously elected professor emeritus. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Harvard Col- 



