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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BURNHAM CARTER.) 



Nye." He was a member of the Lotos Club of New 

 York city and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 



Bnrnham, Horace Blois. lawyer, born in Columbia 

 County, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1824 ; died at Aspen Shade, 

 llenrico County, Va., April 10, 1894. He was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 12, 1844, 

 and practiced law in the courts of that State till 1861. 

 On (Jet. 31 of that year he entered the National army 

 as lieutenant colonel, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry ; on 

 Oct. 31, 1864, was both honorably mustered out under 

 his commission and commissioned major and judge 

 advocate ; on March 13, 1865, was brevetted lieuten- 

 ant colonel and colonel for meritorious services dur- 

 ing the war; and on Feb. 25, 1867, was transferred to 

 the regular army with the rank of major. He was 

 promoted lieutenant colonel and made deputy judge- 

 advocate general, July 5, 1884, and was retired Sept. 

 10, 1888. He was engaged in the principal campaigns 

 in Maryland and Virginia in 1862-'63, serving with 

 the Army of the Potomac during the latter year, ex- 

 cepting while on temporary duty in New York city 

 during the draft riots. From Oct. 31, 1864, till May 

 23, 1866, he was judge advocate of general courts- 

 martial, and then served a year in the Bureau of Mili- 

 tary Justice in Washington, D. C. In 1867-'70 he was 

 chief judge advocate of the 1st Military District, with 

 headquarters at Richmond, and during this period he 

 served as an additional judge of the Hustings Court, of 

 Kichmond, and as one of the judges and president of 

 the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. He was 

 attached to the Department of the South in 1870-'72 ; 

 was on temporary duty in the Department of Texas in 

 1872; was judge advocate in the Department of the 

 Platte in 1872-'86 ; and completed his active service 

 in the Military Division of the Pacific at San Fran- 

 cisco. Gen. Crook commended his fidelity to duty in 

 general orders, and Gen. Howard testified to his fidel- 

 ity and zeal on the eve of his retirement. 



Butterfield, Horatio Quincy, educator, born in Phillips, 

 Me., Aug. 5, 1822; died in Olivet, Mich., Feb. 12, 

 1894. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1848, 

 and at the Bangor Theological Seminary, Maine, in 

 1853, studying law for a short time between the two 

 courses. He practiced in Eastern cities and towns till 

 1866, when he was chosen Professor of Ancient Lan- 

 guages in Washburn College, Kansas, of which he 

 became president in 1869. In 1876 he resigned to as- 

 sume the presidency of Olivet College, Michigan, 

 which he retained till 1892. 



Campbell, Allan, civil engineer, born in Albany, 

 N. Y., in 1815 ; died in New York city, March 18, 

 1894. He received a thorough education, studied 

 civil engineering, and for nearly fifty years was con- 

 nected with large undertakings in the line of his 

 profession. He began working on a railway, and 

 when twenty-one years old had become chief en- 

 gineer. Subsequently he was employed on the Ithaca 

 and Owego Railroad, the Erie Canal, and the Ohio 

 river improvement. In 1850, under a contract with 

 the Peruvian Government, he laid out and began con- 

 structing the first railway built in South America, ex- 

 tending from Lima to Callao, and in 1855 he became 

 chief engineer of the New York and Harlem Railroad, 

 of which he was afterward president for six years. 

 He was engineer of the harbor defenses constructed 

 for the port of New York in the early part of the civil 

 war, and was chosen by Commodore Vanderbilt to be 

 superintendent of the Harlem Railroad improvement. 

 He was also for a time chief engineer of the construc- 

 tion of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1876 he was 

 appointed commissioner of public works in New York 

 city, to succeed Gen. Fitz John Porter, and from De- 

 cember, 1880, till July 27, 1883, he was comptroller of 

 the city, succeeding John Kelly. In 1882, as the Citi- 

 zens' candidate for mayor, adopted by the Republi- 

 can party, he was defeated by Franklin Edson, of 

 Tammany Hall. 



Carlsson, Erland, clergyman, born in Sultorp, Sweden, 

 Au. 24, 1822; died in Chicago, 111., Oct. 19, 1893. lie 

 was graduated, at Lund University in 1848, and in 

 1849 was ordained and became pastor of the Vexio 



and Lessebo parish, Sweden, where he also served as 

 tutor for the sons of Countess Carie Cederstroern. In 

 1853 he received a call from the United States and 

 sailed for this country. For twenty-two years (1853- 

 '75) he was pastor of the largest Swedish church in 

 Chicago. The fervor of his pulpit ministrations and 

 his masterly skill as an organizer built up a parish of 

 1,600 members. He served on a number of the most 

 important boards and committees in the Swedish Au- 

 gustana Synod, of which he was one of the organ! /ATS 

 in 1860. He was president of the board of regents of 

 Augustana College and Theological Seminary, at 

 Rock Island, 111., in 1860-'70, 1878-'82, and 1884-'87. 

 He also served for a number of years as treasurer and 

 general manager of the same' institution. He was 

 President of the Augustana Synod from 1881 to 1888, 

 when he declined a re-election. In April, 1875, he 

 accepted a call to the pastorate at Andover, 111., where 

 he labored until 1887, when he resigned on account of 

 failing health, and removed to Lindsborg, Kan. 



Carroll, Anna, Ella patriot, born in Kingston Hall, 

 Somerset County, Md., Aug. 29, 1815; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Feb. 19, 1894. She was a great-grand- 

 daughter of Sir Thomas King, and a daughter of 

 Thomas King Carroll, Governor of Maryland. She 

 began writing political pamphlets at an early age, 

 and after her father had impoverished himself by 

 manumitting his slaves at the beginning of the civil 

 war, she also set free all that she had inherited. On 

 Nov. 30, 1861, she submitted to the Federal authori- 

 ties in Washington a plan for conducting the cam- 

 paign in the West and South, which she claimed was 

 adopted by President Lincoln, put into execution, 

 and "broke the backbone of the rebellion." This 

 plan, in brief, was to divert the operations of the na- 

 tional military and naval forces from the Mississippi 

 river to the Tennessee, and thence to work southward 

 to the center of the Confederacy. Of course it was 

 nothing more than would have occurred to any general 

 placed in command in theWest as the obvious course to 

 be pursued. Miss Carroll presented a memorial to 

 Congress on March 31, 1870, asking for recognition 

 and remuneration for her services. The memorial 

 was referred to the military committee and lost sight 

 of for several years. In 1881 the committee, of which 

 Gen. Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, was then chair- 

 man, submitted to the House of Representatives a 

 unanimous report, upholding Miss Carroll's claim, 

 and giving a large mass of documentary and other 

 evidence in support of their decision. The name of 

 almost every official, legislator, and person in Wash- 

 ington in apposition to lie conversant with the facts 

 at the time appears in this report, and the strongest 

 commendations are quoted from President Lincoln, 

 Secretary Stanton, Assistant-Secretary Thomas A. 

 Scott, Chief-Justice Chase, and several of the most 

 distinguished Senators and Representatives in Con- 

 gress, but Congress never took any further steps to- 

 ward granting Miss Carroll the recognition and re- 

 muneration prayed for. 



Carter, Timothy Harrington, publisher, born in Lan- 

 caster, Mass., in January, 1799; died in Newtonville, 

 Mass., July 11, 1894. "lie became a clerk in the 

 bookstore of Cummings & Hilliard in Boston in 

 1815 ; was admitted to partnership in the new firm 

 of Cummings, Hilliard & Co. in 1820; and re- 

 tired in 1827. About two years afterward he estab- 

 lished a bookstore and printing office, and when the 

 business had reached a paying condition lie sold to 

 his brother Richard and his clerk, C. I. Hendree, a 

 third each of the business, becoming himself a silent 

 partner. The new firm took the name of Carter, 

 Hendree & Co., and established what is now known 

 as " the old corner bookstore." Mr. Carter established 

 the first type foundry and the first power printing 

 press in Boston, as well as the first stereotype plant 

 in New England. About 1831 he began the publica- 

 tion of "The United States Gazette," first edited by 

 Theophilus Parsons; subsequently founded "The 

 Living Age," with Mr. Littell as editor ; and in 1834-^ 

 '35 engaged in publishing books, mostly for youth, of" 



