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York. He led a mixed brigade at the second 

 I>;i1 tie of Fredericksburg, and was severely wound- 

 ed iit Salem Church. He was appointed a colonel 

 in the invalid corps and assigned to command the 

 Jd lirigade, Veteran Reserve Corps. Later he was 

 made brigadier general by brevet. He was sta- 

 tioned in Baltimore as Gen. Frye's aid in charge of 

 Maryland and Delaware. After the war he set- 

 tled in Washington, and built up a practice as 

 a consulting lawyer in trade-mark cases. He was 

 the compiler of Browne on Trade-marks. 



Bruce, Catherine Wolfe, philanthropist, born 

 in New York city, Jan. 22, 1810; died there, March 

 13, 1900. She was a daughter of George Bruce, 

 the type founder, in whose honor she built, estab- 

 lished, and endowed the George Bruce Free Li- 

 brary, a branch of the New York Free Circulating 

 Library. In 1888 she gave $50,000 to Harvard 

 College observatory for the purchase of a photo- 

 graphic telescope, and later gave other sums for 

 astronomical work. The Bruce memorial telescope, 

 which was at first placed in Harvard College, was 

 taken to Arequipa, Peru, in 1895, and set up in 

 Harvard observatory there. In 1897 she gave a 

 fund to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 

 for the award of a gold medal once a year for 

 distinguished service in astronomy. She wrote 

 and published a translation of the Dies Ine (1890). 



Burke, Joseph. W., soldier, born in Ireland in 

 1830; died in Jacksonville, Ala., Nov. 7, 1900. 

 In early manhood he settled in Dayton, Ohio. 

 He raised a regiment for the National service, and 

 fought through the civil war. He was with Sher- 

 man in his march to the sea, and for his bravery 

 in the battles of that campaign was brevetted 

 major general. After the war he settled in Jack- 

 sonville, Ala., and was interested in the develop- 

 ment of the commercial and mineral resources of 

 the State. He was collector of the port of Mobile 

 under the administrations of Presidents Harrison 

 and McKinley. 



Burr, Alfred Edmund, journalist, born in 

 Hartford, Conn., March 27, 1815; died there, Jan. 

 8, 1900. After obtaining a common-school educa- 

 tion he became connected with the Connecticut 

 Courant, and learned every department of news- 

 paper work, from typesetting to editorial work. 

 In January, 1839, he purchased a half interest in 

 the Hartford Times, a Democratic paper, and in 

 1841 became its editor and sole proprietor. In 

 1853, and again in 1866, Mr. Burr was elected 

 to the Legislature. In 1854 he took strong ground 

 against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, 

 standing almost alone in his party in the opposi- 

 tion. In 1860 he supported Breckenridge and 

 Lane. For more than twenty-five years he headed 

 the Connecticut delegations to the Democratic na- 

 tional conventions. He was president of the com- 

 mission that built the State Capitol in Hartford; 

 one of the original members of the State Board of 

 Health, which was established in 1878; president 

 nf the State Board of Pardons, constituted in 1883; 

 :iinl a member of the permanent State Commission 

 on Art and Sculpture. He was the oldest news- 

 paper editor in New England. 



Camp, Henry, evangelist, born in Youngstown, 

 Ohio, in 1835; died in New York city, Jan. 4, 

 1900. At the beginning of the civil war he entered 

 the National army as a private, and by gallant 

 service rose to the rank of major. After the war 

 he became interested in evangelical work in the 

 ^ est. He was chief evangelist in the Tabernacle 

 n Detroit for about four years. For some months 

 )revious to his death he had preached every night 

 n the Mariner's Temple, New York city. 



Carlin, James W., naval officer, born in 1848; 

 lied on the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 30, 1899. He was 

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graduated at the Naval Academy, April 19, 1869; 

 promoted master, July 12, 1870; lieutenant, Feb. 

 12, 1874; lieutenant commander, May 10, 1895; 

 and commander, March 25, 1898. In 1889 he was 

 executive officer of the Vandal ia in the memorable 

 hurricane of that year at Apia, Samoa, and after 

 the death of Capt. Schoonmaker waa in command 

 of the ship. From March, 1898, he had charge of 

 a supply ship, and made trips between Australia 

 and the Philippines. At the time of his death he 

 was on his way to the naval hospital at Yoko- 

 hama to be treated for peritonitis. 



Carman, Elbert S., journalist, born in Hemp- 

 stead, Long Island, in 1836; died in New York 

 city, Feb. 28, 1900. He was graduated at Brown 

 University in 1858, and engaged in business in 

 New York city. He contributed articles on out- 

 of-door life to Turf, Field, and Farm and Moore's 

 Rural New Yorker. He became associate editor 

 of the latter paper, and in 1876 bought it and 

 changed its name to Rural New Yorker. In con- 

 nection with the paper he established the Rural 

 Grounds at River Edge, N. J., which were de- 

 voted to the work of testing new plants, vines, 

 and seeds and to the originating of new varieties. 

 He published Setter and Pointer (1872). 



Carpenter, Francis Bicknell, portrait painter, 

 born in Homer, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1830; died in New 

 York city, May 23, 1900. He was mostly self- 

 taught, receiving his only instruction in art dur- 

 ing six months in 1844 in the studio of Sanford 

 Thayer in Syracuse. He came to New York city 

 in 1851, and one year later was elected an asso- 

 ciate of the National Academy. Among those who 

 sat to him for portraits were Presidents Fillmore, 

 Pierce, and Lincoln, William Henry Seward, 

 Charles Sumner, George William Curtis, James 

 Russell Lowell, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace 

 Greeley, Schuyler Colfax, and John C. Fremont. 

 His portrait of President Fillmore is in the City 

 Hall, New York city, and that of President Lin- 

 coln in the Capitol in Albany. In 1864 he painted 

 a large historical picture representing President 

 Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. 

 It was exhibited in the principal Northern cities 

 in 1865, and afterward purchased by Mrs. Eliza- 

 beth Thompson for $25,000 and presented by her 

 to the nation. It hangs in the staircase of the 

 House of Representatives in Washington. An- 

 other picture, International Arbitration, was 

 bought by Mrs. Carson, and presented to Queen 

 Victoria in 1892. Mr. Carpenter published in 

 1866 Six Months in the White House with Abra- 

 ham Lincoln. 



Chamberlain, Mellen, lawyer and librarian, 

 born in Pembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821 ; died in 

 Chelsea, Mass., June 25, 1900. He was graduated 

 at Dartmouth College in 1844. After teaching 

 several years at Brattleboro, Vt., he entered Dane 

 Law School, Cambridge, was admitted to the bar 

 in 1849, and practiced many -years in Boston, 

 having his residence in Chelsea. In the latter city 

 he held sundry municipal offices. In 1858 and 

 1859 he was a member of the Legislature, and 

 in 1863 and 1864 he was a member of the State 

 Senate. He was appointed a justice of the mu- 

 nicipal court of Boston in July, 1866, and served 

 till 1878. During part of this time he was its 

 chief justice. In August, 1878, he was elected 

 librarian in chief of the Boston Public Library, 

 and he served till October, 1890, when he retired 

 on account of impaired health. He received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth College in 1885. 

 He was the author of many pamphlets on his- 

 torical and literary subjects. Some of his pub- 

 lished works are John Adams, the Statesman of 

 the American Revolution (Boston, 1884) ; The 



