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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (Smcox STALLO.) 



Simcox. F. E., missionary of the Presbyterian 

 Board, born in Bullion, Pa., April 30, 1867; May 

 Ii. (Gilson) Simcox. born in London, Pa.; both 

 killed in Paoting-Fu, Chi-Li province, China, June 

 30, 1900. Mr. Simcox was graduated at Grove 

 City College, Pennsylvania, in 1889, and at the 

 Western Theological Seminary in 1893. 



Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers, phy- 

 sician, born in Fyvie, Scotland, June 17, 1837; 

 died in High Mount, N. Y., July 4, 1900. He was 

 graduated at the Long Island College Hospital in 

 1863, and was a surgeon in the National army in 

 1863 and 1864. He evolved a plan for a hospital 

 corps which is now in use in the army and the 

 National Guard. In 1864 he was appointed ad- 

 junct professor in the Long Island College Hospital; 

 in 1872 lie was made Professor of Gynaecology, and 

 in 1886 became dean of the faculty of that institu- 

 tion. He was the author of many medical works, 

 including Diseases of the Bladder and Urethra in 

 Women (New York, 1878); Treatise on the Dis- 

 eases of Women (1888); Education and Culture 

 as Correlated to the Health and Diseases of 

 Women (Detroit, 1888) ; Text-book on the Dis- 

 eases of Women (New York, 1888) ; and Medical 

 Gynaecology (1895). 



Smart, James Henry, educator, born in Center 

 Harbor, N. H., June 30, 1841; died in Lafayette, 

 Ind., Feb. 21, 1900. He was educated chiefly at 

 the Concord, N. H., high school. He taught in 

 Concord and other New England schools from 1858 

 till 1861. From 1863 till 1865 he was principal 

 of the intermediate school in Toledo, Ohio. From 

 1865 till 1875 he was superintendent of schools in 

 Fort Wayne, Ind., and then for six years was 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction in Indiana. 

 In 1883 he became president of Purdue Univer- 

 sity, which office he held at his death. Dr. Smart 

 was a member of the Indiana State Board of Edu- 

 cation twenty-seven years; was assistant commis- 

 sioner of Indiana to the Vienna exposition in 1873; 

 United States commissioner to the Paris exposition 

 in 1878; and commissioner from the United States 

 Department of Agriculture to the agricultural con- 

 gress at The Hague in 1891. He was president of 

 the Indiana Teachers' Association in 1871, of the 

 National Educational Association in 1880, and of 

 the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 

 periment Stations in 1890. He received the degree 

 of LL. D. from Indiana University in 1883. He 

 was the author of An Ideal School System for a 

 State, The Institute System for the United States, 

 The School Laws of Indiana, Books and Reading 

 for the Young, Indiana Schools, and Manual of 

 School Gymnastics. 



Smith, James Cosslett, jurist, born in Phelps, 

 N. Y., Aug. 14, 1817; died in Canandaigua, N. Y., 

 Sept. 26, 1900. He was graduated at Union Col- 

 lege, and began the practice of law soon after his 

 graduation. He was a member of the Peace Com- 

 mission that met in Washington a short time be- 

 fore the civil war. In 1862 he was appointed to 

 the supreme bench of New York, and he served 

 till 1887, when he was retired. 



Smith, James GK, telegraph operator, born in 

 Durham, N. H., April 14, 1836; died in New York 

 city, March 3, 1900. In 1850 he was a messenger 

 in the telegraph office in Durham, where he learned 

 to operate the instrument. In 1862 he went to 

 New York city, and during the civil war had 

 charge of all dispatches sent from New York to 

 the South, fn 1864 he was appointed superintend- 

 ent of a division of the line between Boston and 

 Nova Scotia. In 1869, with Stephen B. Stearns, 

 he purchased the Franklin Telegraph Company, 

 \\linM- wires ran from New York to Boston. To- 

 gether they invented a duplex system of telegra- 



phy. In 1877 he withdrew from the Franklin 

 Company, and for a few years engaged in the 

 electric-light business. Later he organized the 

 Continental Telegraph Company and established 

 the rapid stock exchange service between New 

 York and Philadelphia. In 1881 he orga nixed the 

 Builders' and Merchants' Telegraph Company as 

 a rival to the Western Union. In 1885. his latest 

 company failed, and from that time he devoted 

 his attention to telephones. At the time of his 

 death he was president of the Smith Vassar Tele- 

 phone Company. 



Smyth, Frederick, jurist, born in County Gal- 

 way, Ireland, in 1832; died in Atlantic City, N. J., 

 Aug. 18, 1900. He came to New York city in 

 1849, and began work as a lawyer's office boy. 

 In 1855 he was admitted to the bar. In 1857 lu> 

 became assistant in the office of United States 

 District-Attorney McKeon, and upon the latter's 

 retirement, they formed a law partnership, which 

 was continued till 1879. From 1863 till 1865 Mr. 

 Smyth was a commissioner of schools; he also 

 served as a member of the Board of Education 

 and as counsel to the Excise Board. In 1875 he 

 was defeated as the Tammany candidate for Re- 

 corder; in December, 1879, he was appointed to 

 fill the unexpired term of Recorder Hackett, ami 

 in 1880 was elected for the full term of fourteen 

 years. In 1894 he was a candidate for re-election, 

 but was defeated by John W. Goff. In 1896 he 

 was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of Xew 

 York, which office he held at his death. He was 

 a member of Tammany Hall from the time he 

 became a voter. 



Sonntag, William Louis, artist, born near 

 Pittsburg, Pa., March 2, 1822; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 22, 1900. His youth was passed in 

 Cincinnati, and there he began the study of art 

 in 1848. In 1851 he removed to New York city. 

 From 1853 till 1857, and in 1861, he studied abroad. 

 He devotad himself to the painting of American 

 landscapes, keeping as far as he could from the 

 realistic school. Some of his works are View on 

 Licking River, Kentucky (1846); four pictures 

 entitled The Progress of Civilization (1848); The 

 Spirit of Solitude (1851); Evangeline (1852); A 

 Dream of Italy (1860); A Morning in the Alle- 

 ghanies (1865); Sunset in the Wilderness, exhib- 

 ited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876; and 

 The Fog Rising off Mount Adams. He was a 

 member of the National Academy of Design, of 

 the Water Color Society, and of the Artists' Fund 

 Society. 



Squibb, Edward E.., chemist, born in Wilming- 

 ton, Del., July 4, 1819; died in Brooklyn, N. Y.. 

 Oct. 26, 1900. He was graduated at Jefferson 

 Medical College, Philadelphia, was appointed a 

 surgeon in the United States navy, and later v :as 

 placed in charge of the medical station of the 

 Brooklyn Navy Yard. During the civil war his 

 skill was utilized by the Government in the prep-. 

 aration of pharmaceutical supplies. About this 

 time he prepared a cholera remedy, which lias been 

 a standard ever since. Later he resigned from the 

 navy and established a private laboratory in 

 Brooklyn. In 1885 he retired. 



Stallo, John Bernhard, lawyer, born in Sier 

 hausen, Oldenburg. .March 16. IS'2:?: died in Home. 

 Italy. .Ian. 6. 1000. He came to the United State- 

 in 1839. He taught in a private school in Cincin- 

 nati, and later he was made Professor of German 

 in St. Xavier's College, serving till 1843. In that 

 year he became Professor of Mathematics and 

 Chemistry in St. John's College. Fordham. N. Y. 

 In 1847 he returned to Cincinnati and studied law. 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1S.">:{ lie 

 was appointed judge of the Court of Common 



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