OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PORTER REILLY.) 



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the author of a monograph on The Corporation 

 of Yale College (1885) ; The Administration of the 

 City of Washington (1886) ; and Sketches of Yale 

 Life (1886). 



Porter, Sarah, educator, born in Farmington, 

 Conn., Aug. 17, 1813; died there, Feb. 18, 1900. 

 She was a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Noah Porter, 

 pastor of the Congregational Church of Farming- 

 ton, and sister of President Noah Porter of Yale 

 College. She began her life work with a small 

 clay school for girls, which grew into a large semi- 

 nary, and attracted students from all parts of 

 the United States. Some years previous to her 

 death she retired from the active direction of her 

 school. 



Price, Charles W., missionary of the American 

 Board, born in Richland, Ind., Dec. 28, 1847 ; Eva 

 Jane (Keasey) Price, born in Constantine, Mich., 

 Aug. 19, 1855; one child; all killed near Wenshui, 

 Shensi province, China, Aug. 16, 1900. Mr. Price 

 studied at Oberlin College, and was graduated at 

 the Theological Seminary in 1889. Mrs. Price was 

 also a student at Oberlin. They joined the Shensi 

 mission in 1889. 



Prime, Frederick Edward, soldier, born in 

 Florence, Italy, Sept. 24, 1829; died in Litchfield, 

 Conn., Aug. 12, 1900. He was graduated at West 

 Point in 1850, and was assigned to work on the 

 fortifications about New Y'ork harbor, including 

 the building of Fort Schuyler. At the outbreak 

 of the civil war he was captured at Pensacola, Fla., 

 while on his way to Fort Pickens, but was released 

 in time for duty as assistant engineer on the con- 

 struction of the defenses of Washington. He served 

 in the Manassas campaign in 1861 as captain of 

 engineers, and later was engaged on the defenses 

 of Baltimore. He then became chief engineer suc- 

 cessively of the departments of Kentucky, of the 

 Cumberland, and of the Ohio. While in the latter 

 he was wounded and taken prisoner, Dec. 5, 1861, 

 near Mill Spring, Ky., but was released in the 

 following spring. He was chief engineer in Grant's 

 Mississippi campaign, and was promoted major 

 of engineers, June 1, 1863. He was brevetted major 

 for gallantry at the battle of Corinth, lieutenant 

 colonel for gallantry at Vicksburg, and, March 13, 

 1865, colonel for meritorious services during the 

 war. After the war he was a member of the 

 special board of engineers in charge of work at 

 Willett's Point about a year, and later he served 

 in connection with the improvements at the mouth 

 of the Mississippi river and at Galveston. He 

 was retired, Sept. 5, 1871. 



Pryor, Luke E., lawyer, born in Madison Coun- 

 ty. Ala., July 5, 1820; died in Athens, Ala., Aug. 

 o', 1900. He 'was admitted to the bar in 1841, and 

 began practice in Athens. In 1879 he was ap- 

 pointed United States Senator to fill the unex- 

 pired term of Senator Houston; he was afterward 

 elected to the office for the full term, but declined. 

 In 1882 he was elected a Representative in Con- 

 gress, and sewed one term. He also represented 

 his county in the Alabama Legislature. 



Purple, Samuel Smith, physician, born in 

 Lebanon, N. Y., June 24. 1822 ; died in New York 

 city. Sept. 30. 1900. He was graduated at the 

 medical department of the University of New 

 York in 1844. From 1846 till 1848 he was physi- 

 cian in the New- York city dispensary, and in 1849 

 was ward physician under the Board of Health 

 during the cholera epidemic. He was vice-presi- 

 dent of the New York Academy of Medicine from 

 1870 till 1875, and its president from 1876 till 

 1880. He was the author of medical works, in- 

 cluding The Corpus Luteum, Menstruation, Con- 

 tributions to the Practice of Midwifery, and Ob- 

 servations on Wounds of the Heart. 



Rademacher, Joseph, clergyman, born in West- 

 phalia, Mich., Dec. 3, 1840; died in Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., Jan. 12, 1900. lie was educated at St. Vin- 

 cent's College, Pennsylvania, and at St. Michael's 

 Seminal v. I'lttsburg. He was ordained a priest 

 Aug. 2, 1862, at Fort Wayne. After serving about 

 six years at missions in Indiana, he was appointed 

 pastor of the Church of St. Paul of the Cross, at 

 Columbia City. In 1877 he became pastor of the 

 Church of St. Mary, at Fort Wayne. In a short 

 time he was made chancellor of the diocese. Later 

 he was for a short period pastor of the Church 

 of St. Mary, at Lafayette. June 24, 1883, he was 

 consecrated Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., and Aug. 1, 



1893, he was transferred to the bishopric of Fort 

 \Vayne, which place he held at his death. 



Ramsdell. George Allen, lawver, born in Mil- 

 ford, N. H., March 11, 1834; died in Nashua, N. H., 

 Nov. 16, 1900. He studied at Amherst College, in 

 1857 was admitted to the bar, and practiced six 

 years in Peterboro, N. H. In 1864 he was ap- 

 pointed clerk of the Supreme Court of Hillsbor- 

 ough, and removed to Amherst, where he resided 

 till 1866, when the records were removed to 

 Nashua. In 1887 he resigned the office and re- 

 sumed practice. Later he became treasurer of the 

 City Guarantee Savings Bank, and at the same 

 time was president of the First National Bank of 

 Nashua. From 1870 till 1872 he was a member 

 of the Legislature, and in 1876 was a member of 

 the constitutional convention. In 1891 -'92 he was 

 a member of the Governor's Council. He was 

 elected Governor of the State in 1896, and served 

 till 1898. (For portrait, see Annual Cyclopaedia 

 for 1897, page 550.) 



Reed, George William, actor, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa,, in 1844; died there, Aug. 11, 1900. 

 He was an elder brother of Roland Reed, and like 

 his father, who was known as " Pop '' Reed, had 

 been associated with the Walnut Street Theater, 

 Philadelphia, from boyhood. His first appearance 

 was made there Avhen he was a baby, and for many 

 years he played minor parts as a member of the 

 old stock company under the management of John 

 S. Clarke. He enlisted in the navy at the begin- 

 ning of the civil war. and served through the con- 

 test and for some years thereafter. For an act of 

 signal heroism in volunteering to go down into 

 the magazine during a fire on board his ship, in 

 a Chinese port, Congress voted him a medal of 

 honor. In 1882 he returned to the stage and 

 played in companies, supporting Frederick Warde 

 and with other stars, but retired after a few years. 



Beilly, Henry J., soldier, born in Ireland", 

 Sept. 24, 1845; died in Pekin, China, Aug. 15, 

 1900. In the civil war he enlisted in the navy, 

 joining the Mississippi squadron, and took part in 

 the Red river expedition and in the bombardment 

 of Vicksburg. Sept. 22, 1864, he entered the regu- 

 lar army as a private in the 5th Artillery. He 

 was promoted second lieutenant, Dec. 1, 1866; first 

 lieutenant, Sept. 18, 1868: and captain, Jan. 3, 



1894. In 1876 he was graduated at the artillery 

 school. In 1894 he was placed in command of 

 Light Battery F, 5th Artillery, and with it \\a- 

 stationed at the Presidio. San Francisco, and later 

 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and at Fort Hamilton. New 

 York. In the Spanish-American War he com- 

 manded his battery at Santiago, and later he took 

 part in Gen. Miles's expedition to Porto Rico. 

 After a short stay in the United State- he \\as sent 

 to Manila, where he arrived April 23. 1899. He 

 took part in nineteen engagements against the 

 Filipinos, the most important being that at Putol 

 Bridge. His battery was selected for service in 

 China, and he was 'killed by a stray bullet two 

 days after the fall of Pekin. 



