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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (STONE TH WING.) 



in New York city, and patented and built the first 

 street car constructed in the United States. The suc- 

 cess of these two vehicles led him to confine himself 

 to their manufacture. He built up a vast business, 

 shipped stages and street cars to nearly all parts of 

 the civilized world, was burned out several times, and 

 attended to his business till within a few days of his 

 death. 



Stone, Lucy (Blackwell), reformer, born in West 

 Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818; died in Dorchester, 

 Mass., Oct. 18, 1893. She came of patriotic and fight- 

 ing stock, for her grandfather was a colonel in the 

 Kevolutionary War, and subsequently led 400 men in 

 Shays's rebellion. Her father was a farmer. She 

 determined to obtain a collegiate education, being 

 first moved thereto by a desire to read the Bible in 

 the original, and learn for herself the significance of 

 the passages relating to the equality rights of the 

 sexes. She went to Oberlin College, Ohio, and was 

 graduated there in 1847. After leaving college she 

 became an avowed champion of woman's rights. In 

 fact, to use the language of Mrs. Stanton, she was the 

 first who " really stirred the nation's heart on the sub- 

 ject of woman's wrongs." In the year of her gradu- 

 ation she lectured oh this theme in her brother's 

 church, in Gardner. Mass., and in 1848 she went 

 upon the lecture platform in behalf of the Massachu- 

 setts Antislavery Society, and traveled extensively 

 through the Eastern and Western States and Canada, 

 presenting her special subject of woman's rights as 

 occasion offered. In 1855 she married Henry B. 

 Blackwell, but before doing so made an agreement 

 with him that she retain her maiden name with the 

 prefix Mrs. They removed to New Jersey, and some 

 years later, when property on which she refused to 

 pay taxes had been seized in default of such payment, 

 she published a protest against " Taxation without 

 representation." In, 1869 she formed the American 

 Woman's Suffrage Association ; in the year following 

 she became coeditor of the " Woman's Journal " in 

 Boston, and in 1872 she became its editor in chief, 

 which place she filled for many years, her husband 

 and her daughter being associated with her. From 

 1867 to 1882 she was again a lecturer, traveling and 

 speaking in behalf of the woman-suffrage amend- 

 ments. She was an officer and moving spirit in local, 

 State, and national suffrage associations and meetings, 

 and saw great changes wrought in that movement. 



Strain, Patrick, clergyman, born in Dcrrydrum- 

 musk, County Down, Ireland, Nov. 27, 1822 ; died in 

 Lynn, Mass., Feb. 7, 1893. He removed to Salem, 

 Mass., in 1841 ; was educated for the Eoman Catholic 

 priesthood at the Sulpician College and the College 

 of St. Hyacinthe in Montreal, and at the Seminary 

 of St. Sulpice in Paris ; was ordained a priest in 

 1850 ; and was assigned to the small joint parish of 

 Chelsea and Lynn in 1851. His labors there were - 

 fruitful. In 1862 he rebuilt the church in Lynn, 

 which had been ^burned down, and the Church of 

 St. Thomas, in Nahant, was built under his admin- 

 istration. In 1887 he was appointed missionary 

 apostolic to the Holy See, and permanent rector in 

 Lynn; on Feb. 17, 1891, he was created a domes- 

 tic prelate to Pope Leo ; and on May 24 following, 

 after an audience with the pope, he celebrated mass 

 in St. Peter's, in Eome. He was given a memorable 

 reception by his parishioners on nis return. 



Taylor, James Wickes, consular officer, born in Penn 

 Yan, Yates County, N. Y., in 1819; died in Winni- 

 peg, Manitoba, Canada, April 28, 1893. He was 

 graduated at Hamilton College in 1839; studied law 

 in Cincinnati in the same ottice with Salmon P. 



Constitutional Convention in 1850. In 1851-'54 he 

 edited a newspaper in Sandusky, and in 1854, when 

 Mr. Chase was elected Governor, he appointed Mr. 

 Taylor State librarian. He removed to St. Paul, 

 Minn., in 1856, intending to practice law, but in the 

 following year was chosen secretary of the St. Paul 



and Pacific Railway. From this office he was called 

 to Washington, D. C., where he was special agent 

 of the Treasury Department in 1860-'70. While 

 there he also acted as Com?nissioner of Mining 

 Statistics, and drew up the Mineral Lands act of 

 Congress. In September, 1870, President Grant ap- 

 pointed him United States, consul at Winnipeg, 

 where he remained till his death. For promptly 

 communicating intelligence of a projected Fenian 

 raid into Manitoba he received the thanks of the 

 British Government. Consul Taylor had published 

 a " History of Ohio " from its settlement to its ad- 

 mission into the Union ; " Alleghania, or the Strength 

 of the Union and the Weakness of Slavery in the 

 Highlands of the South " ; and " Forest and Fruit 

 Culture in Manitoba." 



Thome, Charles Robert, actor, born in New York city, 

 in 1814; died in San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 13, 1893. 

 He made his first appearance on the stage as Octa- 

 vian in "The Mountaineeers " at the Park Theater in 

 New York in 1830, and for more than fifty years re- 

 mained on the stage, playing in all parts of the world 

 and in a large variety of characters. At various times 

 he was manager of the Chatham Street Theater, A.stor 

 Place Opera House, and Lyceum Theater in New York 

 city; the American and Metropolitan Theaters in 

 San Francisco; the Federal Street Theater and How- 

 ard Athena?um in Boston ; and the Union Theater in 

 Leaven worth, Kan. His first wife was Maria Ann 

 Mestayer, whom he married in Richmond, Va., in 

 1830. She retired from the stage in 1864, and died in 

 1881. Their four sons Charles Robert, Jr. (died in 

 1863), William II., Edwin Forrest, and Thomas (died 

 in China) possessed much of their parents' dramatic 

 ability, and made creditable appearances on the stage. 



Thornton, Harrison B., missionary, born in Hampden- 

 Sidney, Va., about 1858; died in Cape Prince of 

 Wales, Alaska, Aug. 19, 1893. He was a son of Col. 

 John Thornton, and a brother of James Thornton, 

 Professor of Mathematics in Hampden-Sidney Col- 

 lege, and of William Thornton, Professor of Applied 

 Mathematics in the University of Virginia. Pie was 

 appointed to the mission station at Cape Prince of 

 Wales, Alaska, in 1890, and was the only white man 

 among 35,000 Eskimo Indians. He married Miss 

 Neda Pratt, of Auburn, Me., who was connected with 

 the American Missionary Society, in 1892. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Thornton were engaged in educating the In- 

 dians, and had built a schoolhouse, which was large- 

 ly attended for six months in the year. For several 

 months Mr. Thornton had been laboring earnestly to 

 break up the liquor traffic among the natives, and by 

 so doing had made many enemies. He was shot dead 

 by one of three native boys. The next day two of the 

 boys were caught by the natives and shot to death, 

 and a party was organized to search for the third. 



Thwing, Edward Payson, clergyman, born in Ware, 

 Mass., Aug. 25, 1830; died in Canton, China, May 9, 

 1893. He was graduated at Harvard in 1855, and at 

 Andover Theological Seminary in 1858 ; was pastor 

 of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Mass., in 

 1862-'67 ; of the Tolmers Square Church in London, 

 England, in 1867-'68 ; and of the Church of the Cov- 

 enant in Brooklyn, N. Y., subsequently ; and was 

 Professor of Vocal Culture in Gorham Seminary, 

 Maine, in 1870-'74, and of Sacred Rhetoric in the 

 Tabernacle Free College in Brooklyn in 1874-'78. 

 While in Brooklyn he studied medicine, and was 

 graduated at the Long Island College Hospital. For 

 many years he had been in the habit of visiting Lon- 

 don and preaching each summer. In 1891, while 

 making a tour of China, he became impressed with 

 the need of hospitals and asylums there constructed 

 and conducted on modern plans, and in 1892 he re- 

 turned and undertook the building of a model asylum 

 in Canton. He was a frequent contributor to news- 



Sapers and magazines, and had published " Drill 

 ook of Vocal Culture and Gesture," " Outdoor Life 

 in Europe," " Bible Sketches," etc. His wife, SUSAN 

 MARY ( WAITE) THWINO, born in Portland, Me., about 

 1840 ; died in Canton, China, June 18, 1893. 



