OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McNuLTA MAURY.) 



fought on the Seminole. He was again on the 

 Juriiata during May and June, 18(54, and took 

 part in the attacks on Fort Fisher. After the 

 civil war he was assigned to duty in the Brazil 

 squadron in 1865-'66; from June, 1866, till Sep- 

 tember, 18U7, he was executive officer of the flag- 

 ship Brooklyn, of the South Atlantic station. 

 From September, 1867, till November, 1868, he was 

 an instructor at the Naval Academy. From 1868 

 till 18'J5 he served for various periods as execu- 

 tive oilicer of the Macedonian and of the Frank- 

 lin, equipment officer at Philadelphia, head of the 

 department of seamanship at the Naval Academy, 

 commander of the Yantic, of the Kearsarge, of 

 the Portsmouth, and of the Constitution, mem- 

 ber of the court of inquiry on the loss of the 

 .Icaimette. commander of the Omaha, superin- 

 tendent of the Naval Observatory, and member of 

 the Naval Officers' Retirement Board. Dec. 21, 

 1895, he was placed in command of the Asiatic 

 squadron, serving till Jan. 4, 1898, when he was 

 appointed member of the Government Lighthouse 

 Board. In July, 1898, he was made superintend- 

 ent of the Naval Academy, and served till Feb- 

 ruary, 1900, when he was given sick leave. 



McNulta, John, lawyer, born in New York 

 city, Nov. 9, 1837; died in Washington, D. C., 

 Feb. 22, 1900. In 1852 he settled in Attica, Ind., 

 and in 1858 was made a partner in the firm of 

 Dick & Co., wholesale tobacco dealers. In March, 

 1859, he removed to Bloomington, 111. May 3, 

 1861, he was commissioned captain in the 1st 

 Illinois Cavalry. Aug. 20, 1862, he was made 

 lieutenant colonel of the 94th Illinois Infantry ; 

 he served with this regiment to the close of the 

 war, was promoted colonel, and was brevetted 

 brigadier general. He returned to Bloomington, 

 and in 1866 was admitted to the bar. In 1868 

 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1873 he 

 was elected to Congress. In June, 1885, he was 

 made receiver of what is now the Toledo, St. 

 Louis and Kansas City Railway; in April, 1887, 

 he was appointed to the same office for the Wa- 

 busli Railway; in February, 1895, for the Whisky 

 Trust; Jan. 3, 1898, for the Calumet Electric 

 Street Railway Company; and Jan. 4, 1898, for 

 the National Bank of Illinois. Because of the 

 success he attained in managing the affairs of 

 these organizations, he became known as the 

 " Great American Receiver." 



Marble, Edward Stevenson, actor and dram- 

 atist, born in Louisville, Ky., in 1848; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1900. He was a son 

 of Danford Marble, one of the first comedians of 

 Yankee dialect. His mother was Anna Warren 

 Marble, a sister of William Warren, the actor. 

 As with children of all theatrical families, his 

 lir-il appearance on the stage was made as a child. 

 Hi- first speaking part was that of Count Win- 

 lerst-n's son in Kotzebue's Stranger, at Rice's 

 Theater, Chicago, in 1860. He passed to Mc- 

 Vicker's Theater in 1862, from which after a 

 season he was engaged by Mrs. John Drew for 

 the Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia. He went 

 in the following season to the Walnut Street 

 Theater, in the same city, then under the man- 

 agement of Edwin Booth and John S. Clark. 

 While playing important parts in that company 

 he was engaged for the first company of the 

 California Theater. San Francisco, under the man- 

 agement of John McCullough and Lawrence Bar- 

 rett. He played Dolly Spanker in London As- 

 Mirance at the opening of that theater, and re- 

 mained a popular member of the company for 

 four years of almost continuous work. Durins 

 the summer of 1874 Marble played with Joseph 

 Proctor on a tour through the Pacific States. 



Returning to the East, he became in 1875 the 

 comedian of the Macauley Theater, Louisville, 

 Ky., where he \\a> in the iirst support of Mary 

 Anderson as Peter in Itomeo and Juliet, in 1877 

 lie joined Lotta, and played for several seasons 

 the parts opposite her in her plays. He was then 

 three years the principal comedian in Mr. E. 

 H. Sothern's support, when he became comedian 

 of the Madison Square Theater, New York, in 

 which his first part was Buckstone Scott in 

 Young Mrs. Winthrop. He wrote a burlesque 

 called Patchwork for The Saulsbury Trouba- 

 dours, Tuxedo for Thatcher's Minstrels, Spot 

 Cash for M. B. Curtis, and The New Olympus and 

 The Modern Rip Van Winkle for the students of i 

 Lafayette College, all of which were played suc- 

 cessfully. In addition he wrote many ballads 

 that have had temporary popularity. Since 1889 

 he had conducted a dramatic school in Baltimore. 



Mather, Fred, fish culturist, born in Green- 

 bush, N. Y., Aug. 2. 1833; died at Lake Nebago- 

 main, Wisconsin, Feb. 14, 1900. He was educated 

 at an academy in Albany, N. Y. Later he spent 

 several years hunting and fishing in the West. In 

 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 113th Regi- 

 ment, New York Volunteers, and later became 

 a sergeant in the 7th New York Artillery. In 

 1868 he became a fish culturist and settled in 

 Horieoye Fulls, N. Y., where he began to hatch 

 fish. In 1872 he became an assistant to the 

 United States Fish Commission. In 1875 he suc- 

 ceeded in transporting salmon eggs to Germany 

 in a refrigerator box, and about the same time he 

 invented an apparatus by means of which shad 

 eggs were hatched in bulk. In 1884 he succeeded 

 in hatching the adhesive eggs of the smelt. In 

 1880 he had charge of the American exhibit at 

 the Fisheries Exhibition in Berlin. In 1883 he 

 was appointed superintendent of the New York 

 Fish Commission station at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 where he began the hatching of lobsters and cod- 

 fish. In 1877 he became fish editor of the Field, 

 Chicago, and afterward he held a similar place 

 on the staff of Forest and Stream, New York. 

 He was the author of Fish Culture: Ichthyology 

 of the Adirondacks (1885); and Men I Have 

 Fished With (1897). 



Maury, Dabney Herndon, soldier, born in 

 Fredericksburg, Ya., May 21, 1822; died in Peoria, 

 111., Jan. 11, 1900. He was graduated at West 

 Point in 1846. He served in the Mexican War, 

 and was brevetted first lieutenant for bravery at 

 the battle of Cerro Gordo, where he was severely 

 wounded. In 1847 he was appointed Assistant 

 Professor of Geography, History, and Ethics at 

 West Point, and in 1850 became assistant in- 

 structor in infantry tactics. In 1852 he was as- 

 signed to frontier duty in Texas; from 1856 till 

 1859 he was cavalry 'instructor at Carlisle bar- 

 racks; and in 1860 he became adjutant general of 

 the Department of New Mexico. At the outbreak 

 of the civil war he resigned his commission and 

 became a colonel in the Confederate army. For 

 bravery in the Elk Horn campaign he was bre- 

 vetted brigadier general, and for gallant conduct 

 at Corinth and Hatchie he was made major gen- 

 eral. He participated in the defense of Mobile 

 and in the operations about Vicksburg. At the 

 close of the war he was in command of the De- 

 partment of the Gulf. He returned to Virginia, 

 where in 1868 he organized the Southern His- 

 torical Society. In 1885 he was appointed min- 

 ister to the United States of Colombia, serving 

 till 1889. He was the author of many contribu- 

 tions to periodical literature, and published His- 

 tory of Virginia; System of Tactics in Single 

 liaiik (1859); Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops 





