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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DETMOLD ELLIS.) 



correspondent and field artist for " Harper's Weekly," 

 and he remained with the armies to the close of the 

 war. lie was wounded at Shiloh and at Antietam ; 

 served for some time on the staff of Gen. John A. 

 Logan; was appointed a military engineer during 

 the siege of Vicksburg; was ottered, but declined, the 

 command of a regiment ; and accompanied Gen. 

 Sherman on the march to the sea. He also acted as 

 correspondent for several New York newspapers. 

 During President Hayes's administration he designed 

 an elaborate china dinner set for the White House, 

 ornamented with fish, fowl, food animals, and fruit 

 common to the United States. About 1880, Mr. Davis 

 removed to Asbury Park, where Mr. Bradley, the 

 founder, built him a unique studio on the sand of the 

 beach. Here he drew the plans for the panorama of 

 the battle of Missionary Ridge, and in recent years 

 executed art and literary work for magazines and 

 other publications. 



Detmold, William, surgeon, born in Hanover, Ger- 

 many, Dec. 27, 1808; died in New York city, Dec. 26, 

 1894. He was the son of Henry G. Detmold, M. D., 

 formerly court physician to the King of Hanover, and 

 was graduated in medicine at the University of 

 Gottingen in 1830. After serving as a surgeon in 

 the army of Hanover for seven years, he settled in 

 New York city, and introduced orthopedic surgery 

 into the United States. He established an orthopaedic 

 clinic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 

 1841 ; became Professor of Military Surgery and 

 Hygiene there in 1862; was a volunteer surgeon in 

 the Union army in the civil war; and gave much aid 

 to the organization of the medical corps of the army. 

 During the war he invented a combined knife and 

 fork for one-handed soldiers, which was supplied to 

 the army by the Government. Dr. Detmold had 

 been Vice-President of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, consulting surgeon to the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, a founder and President of the Society for 

 the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, 

 the first President of the New York County Medical 

 Association, and a frequent contributor to the medical 

 and surgical journals. 



Eames, Jane Anthony, philanthropist, born in Provi- 

 dence, E. I., in 1816; died in Boston, Mass., July 8, 

 1894. She was a sister of the late Henry B. Anthony, 

 for many years United States Senator from Rhode 

 Island, and widow of the Rev. James II. Eames, D. D., 

 rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, 

 Concord, N. H. More than fifty years ago she began 

 writing for the newspaper press, being one of the 

 first woman journalists in the United States, and she 

 had written much since, particularly for the u Provi- 

 dence Journal." She had traveled extensively, ac- 

 quired a large estate, and given liberally to chari- 

 table and religious objects. She was noted for her 

 constant industry, and her benefactions included an 

 enormous quantity of the work of her own hands. 

 Mrs. Eames published, besides monographs, several 

 volumes made up of her letters from abroad, and 

 " My Mother's Jewel," "Agnes and Eliza," and other 

 religious books for the young. 



Early, Jnbal Anderson, military officer, born in 

 Franklin County, Va., Nov. 3, 1816; died in Lynch- 

 burg, Va., March 2, 1894. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy in 1837; served in 

 the Indian war in Florida for nearly a year, and then, 

 resigning his commission, engaged in the practice of 

 law at Rocky Mount, Va. In 1841-'42 he was a mem- 

 ber of the Virginia House of Delegates, and in 1842-'47 

 was Commonwealth attorney. At the beginning of 

 the Mexican War he re-entered the army, became 

 major of the 1st Virginia Volunteers, and for two 

 months was the acting Governor of Monterey. In 

 1848 he resumed law practice and the office ot 

 Commonwealth attorney, retaining the latter till 1852 

 and continuing at the former till the outbreak of the 

 civil war. He entered the Confederate army with the 

 rank of colonel ; commanded a brigade at Bull Run ; 

 was wounded in the battle of Williamsburg, in May, 

 1862; commissioned a brigadier general in 1863; 



commanded the division that, by holding the lines at 

 Fredericksburg, supported Gen. Lee while fighting 

 at Chancellorsville ; and was at the head of a division 

 at Gettysburg. In 1864 he was promoted lieutenant 

 general, and in 

 July of that year 

 he crossed the 

 Potomac, and a 

 part of his force 

 advanced as far 

 as ( 'hambersburg, 

 Pa., which they 

 burned by hi's 

 orders, lie ad- 

 vanced toward 

 Washington with 

 his main force, 

 but was detained 

 at the Monocacy, 

 where a hastily 

 gathered force 

 under Gen. Lew 

 Wallace with- 

 stood him until 

 the Sixth Corps came up from the Army of the Po- 

 tomac and assured the safety of the capital. In the 

 ensuing autumn Gen. Early for a while met with 

 success in the Shenandoah valley, but Gen. Sheridan 

 checked him at Opequan and Fisher's Hill. Early 

 then surprised the National army at Cedar Creek,, 

 but was defeated by Sheridan, after his memorable 

 ride and the rally of his troops, and again at Waynes- 

 borough, in March, 1865. Soon afterward Early was 

 removed from his command by Gen. Lee, and took 

 no further part in the war. After a trip to Europe he 

 resumed law practice, till, in conjunction with Gen. 

 Beauregard, he was appointed a supervising manager 

 of the principal drawings of the Louisiana lottery. 

 He lived quietly in Lynch burg after the suppression 

 of the lottery, and was unreconstructed to the last. 

 He published "A Memoir of the Last Year of the 

 War for Independence in the Confederate States" 

 (Lynchburg, 1867). 



Edwards, William Hayden, diplomatist, born in Ripley, 

 Ohio; died in Berlin, Germany, May 1(1,1894. He 

 began his official career as a clerk in the State De- 

 partment in Washington, and became familiar with 

 foreign countries while twice serving as private secre- 

 tary to the admiral commanding the European squad- 

 ron. He had also been sent on diplomatic missions to 

 Europe by the State Department. In 1877 he was 

 appointed secretary of the United States legation in 

 Brazil ; in 1878 was made consul general at St. 

 Petersburg ; in 1882 became associate counsel for the 

 United States before the French and American 

 Claims Commission; and from May, 1884, till April, 

 1885, was chief of the diplomatic bureau of the State 

 Department at Washington. lie accompanied Isaac 

 Bell, J^r., United States minister to the Netherlands, 

 to the Hague as private secretary, and since July, 

 1889, had been United States consul general at Berlin. 

 He married the Baroness Ileekeren van Molenaaten, 

 who was reputed to be very wealthy. 



Ellis, George, clergyman, born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 

 8, 1814; died there", Dec. 20, 1894. He was graduated 

 at Harvard University, in 1833, and at the divinity 

 school in 1836. In 1840 he became pastor of the 

 Harvard Unitarian Church in Charlestown, Mass., re- 

 maining there until his resignation, in 1869. From 

 1857 to 1864he filled the chair of Systematic Theology 

 at the Harvard divinity school, and delivered courses 

 of historical lectures before the Lowell Institute, in 

 Boston, in the years 1864, 1871, and 1ST',), lie was at 

 one time editor of the "Christian Register," and for 

 several years edited " The Christian Examiner" also. 

 For a number of years he served as President of 

 the Massachusetts Historical Society, holding that 

 office at the time of his death. In 1857 his nlmn 

 mater gave him the degree of D. D., and in 1883 con- 

 ferred upon him that of LL. D. lie was an enthusi- 

 astic student, possessed of unwearied patience, clear. 



