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remained with that paper twenty years. During 

 the administration of Gov. Cornell he was made 

 a canal appraiser, and served as chairman of the 

 board. Later he was appointed collector of the 

 port of Buffalo by President Harrison, and served 

 four years. In 1894 he was selected by Comptroller 

 Koberts as deputy comptroller. In 1898 he was 

 nominated by the Republican party to succeed Mr. 

 Roberts, and was elected. His death occurred on 

 the day after his renomination for the office, at 

 a convention where he had been in attendance. 



Morrill, Mary S., missionary of the American 

 Board, born in Deering, Me., March 24, 1864; killed 

 in Paoting-Fu, Chi-Li province, China, July 1. 

 1900. She studied at Farmington Normal School, 

 embarked for China, March 20, 1889, and was sta- 

 tioned in Paoting-Fu. 



Morris, William Hopkins, soldier, born in 

 New York city, April 22, 1827; died in North 

 Long Branch, N. J., Aug. 26, 1900. He was gradu- 

 ated at West Point in 1851, and entered the army 

 as brevet second lieutenant, 2d Infantry ; promoted 

 second lieutenant, Dec. 3, 1851 ; and resigned on 

 account of ill health, Feb. 28, 1854. He was ap- 

 pointed assistant adjutant general with the rank 

 of captain, Aug. 20, 1861 ; he was assigned as chief 

 of staff to Gen. Peck, and served oTuring the Penin- 

 sula campaign. Sept. 2, 1862, he was made colonel 

 of the 135th Regiment, New York Volunteers, 

 which later became the 6th New York Artillery. 

 He was in command of the garrison at Fort Mc- 

 Henry, and was ordered to Harper's Ferry, where 

 he was made brigadier general. When Harper's 

 Ferry was abandoned he was ordered to join the 

 3d Corps, Army of the Potomac; he was in reserve 

 at the battle of Gettysburg, and participated in 

 the action of Wapping Heights and in the Rapidan 

 campaign. He was transferred to the 6th Corps, 

 and took part in the Richmond campaign, being 

 engaged in the battles of the Wilderness and 

 Spottsylvania, where he was severely wounded. 

 He was mustei'ed out of the service, Aug. 24, 1864, 

 and was made brevet major general, March 13, 

 1865, for services in the battle of the Wilderness. 



Morrow, George Espy, educator, born in Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, in 1840; died in Paxton, 111., March 

 27, 1900. He served in the civil war as a member 

 of the 2d Regiment, Ohio Volunteers. He was 

 graduated at the law department of the University 

 of Minnesota in 1866, and then became editor of 

 an agricultural journal, serving till 1875. In 1876 

 he was elected president of Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege. In 1877 he became dean of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of Illinois, and he 

 remained there till the close of 1896, when he 

 accepted the presidency of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Oklahoma, where he served till 1899. 



Mullen, Tobias, clergyman, born in Clundy, 

 Ireland, March 4, 1818; died in Erie, Pa., April 22, 

 1900. He was educated at Maynooth College, came 

 to the United States in 1843, and was ordained a 

 priest, Sept. 1, 1844. Aug. 2, 1868, he was conse- 

 crated Bishop of Erie, and he served till Aug. 10, 

 IS!)!), when he was appointed to the titular see of 

 Germanicopolis. 



Newell, Charles M., physician, born in Con- 

 cord, N. H., Nov. 21, 1823;* died in Watertown, 

 Mass., May 24, 1900. At the age of fourteen he 

 ran away to sea as a cabin boy. He became cap- 

 tain of the Copia, and spent nineteen years on the 

 Pacific Ocean. He then began the study of medi- 

 cine in Lowell, Mass., and for thirty-five years 

 practiced the vacuum cure there and in Boston. 

 He was at one time a correspondent of the Boston 

 Transcript, signing his articles Captain Barna- 

 cle. His published works are Leaves from an Old 

 Log (Boston, 1877); Kalaui of Oahu (1881); 



Kamehameha, the Conquering King (New York, 

 1885) ; The Voyage of the Fleetwing (Boston, 

 1887); The Isle of Palms (1888); and Wreck of 

 the Greyhound (1889). 



Northrup, George Washington, educator, 

 born in Antwerp, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1826; died in 

 Chicago, 111., Dec. 30, 1900. He was graduated 

 at Williams College in 1854, and at Rochester 

 Theological Seminary in 1857, where he remained 

 for a time as Professor of Church History. He 

 was ordained a Baptist minister at Rochester in 

 1857. From 1867 till 1892 he was president of 

 the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, at Mor- 

 gan Park, 111., acting also as Professor of Sys- 

 tematic Theology. When the seminary became the 

 divinity school of the University of Chicago, in 

 1892, he was placed at the head of the department 

 of theology. He received the degree of D. D. from 

 Rochester University in 1864, and that of LL. D. 

 from Kalamazoo College in 1879. 



Oliver, Marshall, educator, born in Massachu- 

 setts, April 29, 1843; died in Annapolis, Md., Nov. 

 25, 1900. In 1869 he was appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor in the department of drawing in the United 

 States Naval Academy, and later he became the 

 head of the department of drawing. May 20, 1881, 

 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the 

 United States navy, serving also as instructor in 

 drawing and librarian of the Naval Academy. At 

 the time of his death he was instructor in the 

 department of marine engineering and naval con- 

 struction. He held the relative rank of captain in 

 the United States navy. 



Olsson, Olaf, educator, born in the province 

 of Vermland, Sweden, March 31, 1841; died in 

 Rock Island, 111., May 12, 1900. He was educated 

 at Fjelsted College, Upsala, and entered the min- 

 istry of the Lutheran Church in 1863. For six 

 years he served as assistant pastor in the parish 

 of Karstad, but in 1869, with a large number of 

 his parishioners, settled in Smoky Hill valley, 

 McPherson County, Kansas. He helped to organ- 

 ize the colony, and served the people in secular and 

 spiritual matters. He was a member of the Kansas 

 Legislature in 1871-'72. In 1877 he w r as called to 

 Augustana College, Rock Island, as Professor of 

 Theology, where he remained until 1888, when fail- 

 ing health compelled him to resign. The following 

 year he traveled in Europe, but he was recalled 

 from his travels to take charge of a Swedish con- 

 gregation at Woodhull, 111. He served this con- 

 gregation until 1891, when he was called to the 

 presidency of Augustana College and Seminary, 

 which office he held until his death. He received 

 the degree of D. D. in 1892, and in the following 

 year the University of Upsala conferred on him 

 the degree of Ph. D. He published Det Christna 

 Hoppet (The Christian Hope) in 1888; Till Rom 

 och Hem igen (To Rome and Home Again) in 

 1891; At the Cross (reprinted in Sweden) ; Greet- 

 ings from Abroad : being Recollections of Travel in 

 England and Germany (also translated into Nor- 

 wegian). All these are published by the Au- 

 gustana Book Concern, Rock Island, 111. He was 

 also the author of numerous articles in the Swedish 

 periodicals of his synod. 



Otis, Fessenden Nott, physician, born in Ball- 

 ston, N. Y., in 1834; died in New Orleans, La., 

 May 24, 1900. He was graduated at the New 

 York Medical College in 1852. From 1853 till 1861 

 he served as surgeon on the steamers of the United 

 States Mail and Pacific Mail companies. In 1862 

 he became a police surgeon in New Yoi'k city, and 

 he was president of the medical board of the Police 

 Department from 1870 till 1872. He served for a 

 time as clinical lecturer, and afterward as clinical 

 professor, at the College of Physicians and Sur- 



