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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (QUEEN RUSK.) 



Hunt. He took part in several engagements, and in 

 the battle of Chancellorsville commanded three bat- 

 teries. Soon after this battle he resigned, and re- 

 sumed his pastorate in Albany. About 1882, on the 

 occasion of a reunion of the Puttkamer family, he re- 

 visited his former home, and was astonished by an 

 announcement that during his residence in the 

 United States he had inherited and then forfeited by 

 his absence the large family estate in Pomerania, 

 which included about 50 villages, and yielded a vast 

 revenue. The property had been secured by a rela- 

 tive, who successfully resisted dispossess measures, 

 and refused to make him an allowance of $4,000 per 

 annum, which he agreed to take in lieu of his claim. 

 He then returned to the United States, and continued 

 in the ministry till 1888, when the infirmities of age 

 led him to retire. 



Queen, Walter W., naval officer, born in Washington, 

 D. C., Oct. 6, 18-24; died there, Oct. 24, 1893. He was 

 appointed a midshipman in the United States navy, 

 Oct. 7, 1841 ; was promoted passed midshipman, Aug. 

 10, 1847 : master, Sept. 15, 1855; lieutenant, the fol- 

 lowing day; lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862; 

 commander, July 25, 1866; captain, June 4, 1874; 

 commodore, Feb. 9,1884; rear-admiral, Aug. 28.1886, 

 and was retired Oct. 6, 1886. During his naval ca- 

 reer he was on sea service eighteen years, on shore 

 or other duty sixteen years, and was unemployed 

 seventeen years. In the Mexican War he was attached 

 to the frigates " Cumberland " and "Ohio"; served 

 in the fort at Point Isabel during the battles of Palo 

 Alto and Resaca de la Palma ; and took part in the 

 attacks on Alvarado, Tampico, Tuspan, and Vera 

 Cruz. In 1848 he was dismissed from the navy for 

 fighting a duel, but in 1853 he was reinstated. Dur- 

 ing the civil war he participated in the re- enforcement 

 of Fort Pickens; commanded the 2d Division of Por- 

 ter's mortar flotilla in the bombardment of Forts 

 Jackson and St. Philip in April, 1862, and in the at- 

 tack on Vicksburg in June, 1863 ; and commanded 

 the gunboat " Wyalusing" in the engagement with 

 the Confederate ram "Albemarle " and ner consorts 

 "Bombshell" and " Cotton Plant " on May 5,1864, 

 when the ram, to prevent capture, sought refuge in 

 Roanoke river. His last service was as commandant 

 of the navy yard at Washington, D. C., in 1885-'86. 



Eeason, Charles L., educator, born in New York city, 

 of free colored parents, refugees from Hayti, in July, 

 1818 ; died there, Aug. 16, 1893. He was educated in 

 the old Quaker school in Mulberry Street, and in 

 1832 became a teacher in the Quaker school in Lau- 

 rens Street. With his salary he paid for advanced 

 private instruction, and became an accomplished 

 mathematician and linguist. In 1836 he was ap- 

 pointed a teacher in a school for colored children, 

 conducted as a part of the public-school system. 

 For thirty years he was principal of Colored Gram- 

 mar School No. 2, and since 1888 had been principal 

 of Grammar School No. 80. In all, he had been a 

 public-school teacher for fifty-seven years, and was, 

 in point of service, the oldest public-school teacher in 

 New York city. 



Reynolds. Lo'vell Z., naval officer, born in Keokuk, 

 Iowa, in 1857: died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 16, 

 1893. He was appointed a cadet in the United States 

 Naval Academy, from Alabama, June 5, 1871 ; was 

 graduated, June 20, 1876 ; promoted ensign, Dec. 28, 

 1 878 ; lieutenant in the junior grade, Jan. 9, 1886 ; and 

 lieutenant, June 25, 1891 ; and had been in command 

 of theUnited States Coast-Survey steamer "Endeavor" 

 since July 26,1890. On Nov." 24, 1879, the "Con- 

 stellation," to which he was attached,, sighted the 

 Hungarian bark " Olivia " in distress in a heavy 

 storm off the Azores. Ensign Reynolds volunteered to 

 go to the relief of the ship with a boat's crew, and 

 reached the " Olivia" in time to rescue her captain 

 and crew of eleven men. For this heroic act he re- 

 ceived the thanks of the Austrian Government and 

 the decoration of the Royal and Imperial Order of 

 Francis Joseph, the Life-Saving Benevolent Associa- 

 tion of New York presented him with a gold medal, 



and he was also given the special medal authorized 

 by Congress for rescuing life. Subsequently lie was a 

 member of the Greely Relief Expedition, and was one 

 of the first to reach the survivors. 



Roberts, Milton Josiah. surgeon, born in Norwalk, 

 Ohio, in 1850; died in New York city, April 26, 1893. 

 He was educated at Cornell University, and, in medi- 

 cine, at the Universitv of the city of New York ; be- 

 came an assistant of Prof. Sayre, under whom he de- 

 veloped a special taste for orthopaedic surgery, and, 

 in surgical operations, of Dr. George M. Beard ; was 

 appointed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the 

 University of Vermont, visiting orthopaedic surgeon 

 to the citv hospitals on Randall's Island, and consulting 

 orthopaedic surgeon to the Woman's Hospital in 

 Brooklyn; and established and edited the "Annals 

 of Surgery," a technical periodical of high merit. He 

 also invented a number of devices and apparatus to 

 facilitate surgical work and to relieve deformities and 

 suffering, notably a spinal corset. 



Eobinson, Alfred Peter, jurist, born in Georgetown, 

 Del., Feb. 17, 1842 ; died there, March 1, 1893. He 

 was admitted to the bar of Sussex County in April, 

 1863 ; began practicing in partnership with his father, 

 and continued alone after the lutter's death, in 1866 ; 

 was appointed Deputy Attorney-General in 1875; and 

 became Chief Justice of Delaware, Jan. 26, 1893. 



Robinson, William Mattison, journalist, born in Mere- 

 dith, N. II., in 1840; died in New Orleans, La., Aug. 

 18, 1893. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade, 

 and worked at the case and on newspapers in Boston 

 till the beginning of the civil war, when lie enlisted 

 in the 8th Massachusetts Battery. Subsequently he 

 joined the 10th United States Heavy Artillery, with 

 which he won the brevet rank of major. After the 

 war he settled in New Orleans, re-entered journalism, 

 and was engaged in it till his death, serving many 

 years on the staff of the " Republican," and for the 

 last thirteen on that of the " Picayune." During his 

 residence in New Orleans he held several Federal 

 and State offices. 



Roots, Logan H., philanthropist, born in Perry 

 County, 111., March 26, 1841 ; died in Little Rock, 

 Ark., May 30, 1893. He became principal of the high 

 school in Duquoin, 111., in 1861 ; was graduated at 

 the Illinois State Normal University in 1862- aided 

 in organizing and enlisted in the 81st Illinois Volun- 

 teers immediately after leaving the university ; was 

 chief depot commissary for General Sherman's army 

 on its inarch to the sea and served to the close of 

 the war. He then settled in Arkansas, engaged in 

 planting and trading, became active in politics after 

 the passage of the reconstruction acts, and was elected 

 to Congress from the 1st Arkansas District as a Re- 

 publican in 1866 and 1868. On the expiration of his 

 second term he applied himself to the development 

 of Arkansas, and acquired an estate valued at $1.400,- 

 000. In his will he directed that his estate be held 

 intact till the year 1914, one half of the income up to 

 that time going to his wife and daughters, ore tenth 

 to be applied to charitable and humanitarian | urposes, 

 two tenths to a brother and sister, the remaining two 

 tenths to be invested. He authorized the income of 

 $20,000 to be paid to the city of Little Rock for the 

 period of twenty years for the support of the po->r 

 and needy, and directed that after the year 1914 the 

 residue of his estate, after payment of specific legacies 

 of $500,000, be paid to the city for park and hospital 

 purposes, provided the State, county, or city will 

 raise an equal fund, otherwise the proposition to be 

 made to the city of Hot Springs or Eureka Springs. 

 It was thought that the residue would amount to 

 about $700.000. 



Rusk, Jeremiah McLain. agriculturist, born in Morgan 

 County, Ohio, June 17, 1830; died in Viroqua, Wis., 

 Nov. 21, 1893. He received a common-school educa- 

 tion, was brought up on a farm, and on removing to 

 Vernon County, Wis., in 1853, was successively en- 

 gaged in farming and in conducting a hotel. In 1855 

 he became sheriff, and in 1861 was sent to the Legis- 

 lature. Early in 1862 he raised the 25th Wisconsin 



