OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HUBBARD HUNTINOTON.) 



Thomas's death, in 1893. The Bunch of Keys, 

 which had been sold for $500 to Mr. Edouin and 

 Mi. Frank Sanger, was first played in New York 

 city at the San Francisco Minstrels' Opera House, 

 March 26, 1883, and by its instantaneous success 

 made the fortunes of its owners, the reputation 

 of its inventors, and a new style of American 

 comedy. A Rag Baby was produced in 1884. A 

 Parlor Match, which made Evans and Hoey fa- 

 mous and rich, was first produced at Tony Pas- 

 tor's Theater, New York, Sept. 22, 1884. Hoyt 

 and Thomas received $3,000 for this play. A Case 

 of Wine was produced by the late Charles B. 

 Bishop at Austin, Texas, Nov. 10, 1884, A Tin 

 Soldier at the Standard Theater, New York, May 

 3, 1886, and an opera, called The Maid and 

 the Moonshiner, on Aug. 16, 1886, at the same 

 house. The last was a failure, which Hoyt at- 

 tributed to the fact that its title did not begin 

 with the article " A," and thereafter all his titles 

 began with that useful part of speech. A Hole in 

 the Ground was first presented at the Fourteenth 

 Street Theater, New York city, Sept. 12, 1887. 

 In the winter of 1887-'88 a serious play, called 

 A Midnight Bell, in which Maude Adams played 

 the heroine, was produced, but the craze for farce 

 which Hoyt and Thomas had created prevented 

 any success of this really well-deserving piece. 

 A Brass Monkey was the next farce, produced 

 May 22, 1888. Then came A Texas Steer, first 

 played April 28, 1890. This play was written 

 for 'Mr. Hoyt's first wife, Miss Flora Walsh. Sept. 

 18, 1890, was first produced A Trip to Chinatown, 

 with which the dramatists reached high-water 

 mark. It is said that this farce made for them 

 $500,000 in five years, and it holds the record for the 

 longest continuous run of any dramatic production 

 in America. In 1893 Miss Walsh died, and in 1894 

 Mr. Hoyt married Miss Caroline Miskel, who had 

 been playing in A Temperance Town, first pro- 

 duced March 14, 1892. A Milk-White Flag was 

 produced Dec. 23, 1893. After Mr. Thomas's 

 death in this year Mr. Hoyt entered into partner- 

 ship with Mr. Frank McKee and leased the 

 Madison Square Theater, New York, the name of 

 Avhich was changed to Hoyt's Theater. Hoyt's 

 later works and the dates of their production 

 were: A Black Sheep, Sept. 10, 1894; A Contented 

 Woman, Sept. 2, 1895; A Runaway Colt, Nov. 12, 

 1895; A Stranger in New York, Feb. 15, 1897; 

 A Day and a Night, April 18, 1898; and A Dog 

 in the* Manger, Jan. 30, 1899. The current of pub- 

 lic esteem set gradually away from this kind of 

 clever nonsense, and the last-named plays were 

 failures. Mr. Hoyt was twice elected to the Legis- 

 lature of his native State. 



Hubbard, Oliver Payson, physician, born in 

 1'oiufret, Conn., March 31, 1809; died in New 

 York city, March 9, 1900. He was graduated at 

 Yale College in 1828. From 1831 till 1836 he was 

 Assistant to the elder Prof. Benjamin Silliman in 

 the chemical laboratory of Yale College, and he 

 aided Charles Goodyear in all the early experi- 

 ments that led to his discovery of the process of 

 vulcanizing India rubber. In 1836 he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Miner- 

 alogy, and Geology in Dartmouth College, and he 

 filled that chair thirty years. After resigning his 

 professorship he continued his lectures in Dart- 

 mouth Medical School till 1883, when he was made 

 professor emeritus. In 1853 he built the Shattuck 

 Observatory. From 1867 till 1895 he was overseer 

 of the Thayer School of Engineering. Prof. Hub- 

 hard was a founder of the Association of American 

 Geologists and Naturalists in 1841; also a founder 

 <>f the American Association for the Advancement 

 <>t' Science in 1848, and its secretary and a vice- 

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president from 1885 till 1892. After 1874 he re- 

 sided in New York city. He was a contributor 

 to scientific periodicals, and was the author of the 

 History of the New Hampshire Medical Institu- 

 tion; History of the Chandler School, Dartmouth 

 College (1881) ; Account of Seven Nineveh Slabs; 

 Biographical Sketches of the Class of 1828, Yale 

 (1898) ; and College Memorabilia. 



Humphreys, Frederick, physician, born in 

 Marcellus, N. Y., March 11, 1816; died at Mon- 

 mouth Beach, N. J., July 8, 1900. He was edu- 

 cated in the public schools and at Auburn Acad- 

 emy. He served as clerk in a store in Auburn 

 two years, and in 1832 went South for three years. 

 He taught a school three years in Chillicothe, Ohio, 

 and later studied for the ministry in the Methodist 

 Church. He was an itinerant minister five years 

 in New York and Ohio. In 1844 he settled in 

 Utica. In 1846 he began to investigate homoeopa- 

 thy, and he spent the winters of 1848, 1849, and 

 1850 at the Homoeopathic Medical College in Phila- 

 delphia, where, in 1853, he became Professor of 

 Homoeopathic Institutes and Practice of Medicine, 

 serving four years. For some years he had been 

 maturing a plan for the preparation of homoeo- 

 pathic medicines for popular use, and in 1856 he 

 announced the invention of a number of combina- 

 tions, which he termed his " homoeopathic spe- 

 cifics." In that year he settled in New York city 

 and began to advertise his specifics. He was a 

 constant contributor to Our Animal Friends, and 

 published Proving of the Apis Mellittua, or Poison 

 of the Honey Bee (1852). 



Huntingdon, Collis Potter, railroad builder, 

 born in Harwinton, Conn., Oct. 22, 1821 ; died at 

 Pine Knot Camp, near Lake Raquette, N. Y'., Aug. 

 13, 1900. He was educated in a local school, and 

 worked on his fa- 

 ther's farm till he 

 was fourteen years 

 old. He then set 

 out for himself, 

 and for several 

 years peddled 

 clocks in the 

 small Connecticut 

 towns. In 1837 

 he went to New 

 York city, and, 

 having procured 

 credit for $3,000 

 worth of clocks, 

 went to sell them 

 through the South 

 and West. In 1S42 

 he settled in One- 

 onta, N. Y., hav- 

 ing entered into 



partnership with his elder brother, and the 

 firm carried on a general merchandise business. 

 In October, 1848, the brothers made a ship- 

 ment of goods to California, which Collis fol- 

 lowed in March, 1849. With others, he was de- 

 tained on the isthmus, and he improved the time 

 by buying a stock of goods and peddling them 

 back and forth across the isthmus. When he ar- 

 rived in California he began business in a tent in 

 Sacramento, dealing in the various articles re- 

 quired in mining life. Later he opened a largo 

 hardware store in the city, having become asso- 

 ciated in business with Mark Hopkins. In 1860 

 he matured a scheme for a transcontinental rail- 

 road, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mr. 

 Hopkins having united with him in paying the 

 expenses of a survey across the Sierra Nevada 

 mountains. Five men organix.e<l the Central Pa- 

 cific Railroad Company, of which Mr. Huntington 



