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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ABBETT ALLEN.) 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN, FOR 1894. 



Abbett, Leon, jurist, bora in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 8, 

 1836 ; died in Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 4, 1894. He was 

 graduated at the Philadelphia High School in 1853 ; 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857 ; and 

 removed to Hoboken, N. J., in 18(52. At the begin- 

 ning of his practice in Hudson County, N. J., he 

 formed a partnership with William J. A. Fuller, of 

 New York city, which lasted till Mr. Fuller's death, 

 nearly thirty years afterward. In 1863 he was ap- 

 pointed corporation attorney of Hoboken, and in 

 1864 and 1866 he was elected to the Legislature as a 

 Democrat. During his second term he took up a 

 permanent residence in Jersey City. In 1868 he was 

 again sent to the Legislature, and was chosen Speaker 

 of the House, and in the following year he was simi- 

 larly honored. He was a delegate to the National 

 Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1872, and to 

 that at St. Louis in 1876, and was one of the secre- 

 taries at the former and the chairman of the New 

 Jersey delegation at the latter. In 1874 and 1876 he 

 was elected to the State Senate, of which he was 

 chosen president in 1877. Under Gov. McClellan he 

 became a member of the commission to draft a general 

 charter for the government of cities ; and under 

 Gov. Ludlow, of the commission to devise means for 

 a more equitable mode of taxation. In the meantime 

 he was appointed corporation counsel for Jersey City, 

 Bayonne, and the town of Union, and was for some 

 years President of the Board of Education of Jersey 

 City. He was elected Governor of the State, over 

 Judge Jonathan Dixon, in 1883, and over Gen. E. 

 Burd Grubb in 1889 ; was the unsuccessful candidate 

 for United States Senator in 1887 and 1892; and was 

 appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of 

 New Jersey in 1893. He received the degree of LL. D. 

 from the College of New Jersey during his first term 

 as Governor. 



Adams, John Quincy, legislator, born in Boston, Mass., 

 Sept. 22, 1833; died in Quincy, Mass., Aug. 14, 1894. 

 He was a son of Charles Francis Adams, the diplo- 

 matist, a great-grandson of President John Adams, 

 and a grandson of President John Quincy Adams. 

 He was graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1855, but after a brief practice he 

 abandoned the law, became the farmer member of the 

 family, and interested himself in town affairs and in 

 State and national politics. During the civil war he 

 served on the military statf of Gov. John A. Andrew. 

 In 1865 he was electe'd to the Legislature; in 1867 he 

 advocated the cause of President Johnson and was 

 defeated as Democratic candidate for Governor of 

 Massachusetts; in 1868, 1869, and 1870 he was simi- 

 larly defeated ; in 1867 and 1870 he was elected to the 

 Legislature ; in 1872 was candidate for Vice-President 

 of the United States on the ticket with Charles 

 O'Conor ; and in 1873 was defeated for Lieutenant- 

 Governor and again elected to the Legislature. He 

 received the Democratic nomination for Congress in 

 the old 2d District in 1884, but declined it on ac- 

 count of the pressure of private interests. In 1887 he 

 accepted an appointment on the Metropolitan Sewer- 

 age Commission, and in 1891 became a member of the 

 Rapid Transit Commission. Mr. Adams inherited 

 the valuable Adams estate, acquired large additional 

 properties, created one of the finest model farms in 

 Massachusetts, and had heavy interests in large finan- 

 cial concerns. The adoption of what has become 

 known as the " Quincy School System " was due in 

 large measure to his efforts while ell airman of the 

 school committee of the town of Quincy. 



Alcorn, James Lusk, lawyer, born near Golconda, 111., 

 Nov. 4, 1816 ; died in Eagle Nest, Miss., Dec. 20, 1894. 

 He was brought up in Livingston County, Ky., re- 



ceived a collegiate education, was deputy sheriff for 

 five years, and was elected to the Legislature as a 

 Whig in 1843. In the following year he removed to 

 Coahoma County, Miss., and began practicing law. 

 During the nineteen years, 1846-'t>5, he served for 

 sixteen years in the Legislature of Mississippi, part of 

 the time in the House and part in the Senate. He 

 was a Whig candidate for presidential elector in 1852 ; 

 was nominated by the Whigs for Governor in 1S.~>7, 

 but declined, and the same year was the unsuccessful 

 Whig candidate for Congress ; and was elected Presi- 

 dent of the Levee Board of the Mississippi-Yazoo 

 Delta in 1858. In 1861 he was a member of the State 

 Convention, by which he was chosen a brigadier- 

 general, but Ms commission was refused by Jefferson 

 Davis because of past political differences. He was 

 elected United States Senator in 1865, and was refused 

 his seat: was the successful candidate for Governor 

 of Mississippi in 1869; and having been elected 

 United States Senator again, resigned the office of 

 Governor, Nov. 30, 1871, and took his seat in the 

 Senate on Dec. 4 following, for the term ending March 

 3, 1877. In 1873 he was an independent candidate 

 for Governor, and was defeated by Gen. Adelbert A. 

 Ames. After his retirement from the United States 

 Senate he lived quietly on a highly improved planta- 

 tion. His last political service was as a member of 

 the State Constitutional Convention in 1890. He was 

 the founder of the levee system of Mississippi, and 

 the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for 

 Colored Youth, at West Side, bears his name. 



Alexander, Samuel Davies, clergyman, born in Prince- 

 ton, N. J., May 3, 1819; died in New York city, Oct. 

 26, 1894. He was the fifth son of Rev. Archibald 

 Alexander, D. D. ; was graduated at Princeton in 

 1838; began studying civil engineering, but soon 

 abandoned it and took the full course in Princeton 

 Theological Seminary ; and was licensed to preach 

 in 1847. In 1848-'50 he was pastor of the Port Rich- 

 mond Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa. ; in 

 1850-'55, of the village church in Freehold, N. J. ; 

 and from 1855 till 1893, of the Phillips Presbyterian 

 Church in New York city. On resigning tiis last 

 pastorate he was made clerk of the Presbytery of New 

 York, and he held the office till his death. Dr. 

 Alexander was for many years a contributor to the 

 "Princeton Review," and was author of "Princeton 

 College during the Eighteenth Century " and a u His- 

 tory of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland." 



Allen, Jerome, educator, born in Westminster West, 

 Vt., July 17, 1830 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 26, 

 1894. lie was graduated at Amher'st College in 1851, 

 studied theology at East Windsor Hill, Conn., and 

 took charge of the academy at Maquoketa, Iowa, in 

 1853. From 1855 till 1859 he was Professor of Natural 

 Sciences in Alexander College, Dubuque, and he then 

 became principal of Bowen Collegiate Institute and 

 pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hopkinton. In 

 1861 the institute was incorporated as Lenox College, 

 and he was chosen its first president. After he had 

 served here for eight years failing health constrained 

 him to resign. He spent the next two years as super- 

 intendent of schools at Monticello, Iowa, and in or- 

 ganizing teachers' institutes throughout the State, and 

 then, removing to New York city, he engaged in lit- 

 erary educational work. Subsequently he became a 

 member of the faculty of Institute Conductors of the 

 State of New York ; Professor of Natural Sciences in 

 the State Normal School at Geneseo, N. Y. ; editor of 

 "Barnes's Educational Monthly"; President of the 

 New York State Teachers' Association ; and principal 

 of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minn. To 

 his efforts more than to any other agency was due the 

 founding of the New York School of Pedagogy. In 



