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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (VINCENT WARNER.) 



ington. In 1866 he was sent by the New York 

 Tribune to report the Austro-Prussian War, but 

 was too late in the field. He remained abroad 

 to report the Paris Exposition of 1867. Before 

 going abroad he married a daughter of William 

 Lloyd Garrison. From 1868 till 1871 he was sec- 

 retary of the Social Science Association in Boston. 

 He resigned in 1871 to travel in Germany. He 

 returned to this country in 1873, and bought for 

 the German bondholders the property of the Ore- 

 gon and California Railroad Company and the 

 Oregon Steamship Company. He also became a 

 member of a Frankfort committee of Kansas Pa- 

 cific Railroad bondholders, and in 1875, with C. S. 

 Greeley, of St. Louis, became receiver of the 

 property. By means of a so-called blind pool of 

 $20,000,000 he formed the Oregon and Transcon- 

 tinental, which acquired control of the Oregon 

 Railway and Navigation Company and the North- 

 ern Pacific, and in September, 1881, he was elected 

 president of the Northern Pacific. In 1884 the 

 companies in which he was interested became so 

 involved that there was a collapse, in which he 

 suffered heavily. Mr. Villard returned to Ger- 

 many, where he formed new financial relations 

 which enabled him to repair his fortunes, and in 

 three years came back to the United States. In 

 October, 1889, he became chairman of the Board 

 of Directors of the Northern Pacific, which place 

 he held until the panic of 1893. He gave aid to 

 Edison, the inventor, and -in 1890 he purchased 

 from the latter the Edison Lamp Company of 

 Newark and the Edison Machine Works at Sche- 

 nectady, from which he organized the Edison Gen- 

 eral Electric Company, serving as its president for 

 two years. In 1881 he purchased a controlling 

 interest in the Evening Post and the Nation, and 

 placed Edwin L. Godkin and Horace White at 

 their head. Mr. Villard made many gifts to edu- 

 cational and charitable institutions. 



Vincent, James, actor, born in Dublin, Ireland, 

 in 1846; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1900. 

 He made his first appearance at the old Olympic 

 Theater, New York, Jan. 2, 1874, and was for 

 several years a member of the vaudeville com- 

 pany which occupied that house. June 6, 1879, 

 at the Lyceum Theater, New York, he began a 

 long engagement with Rice's Evangeline, in which 

 he played King Boorobola Gah. Oct. 12, 1880, 

 he began an engagement with Henry Jarrett's 

 company, playing Cinderella at Booth's Theater, 

 New York. In the season of 1884-'85 he was a 

 member of H. C. Miner's Silver King company. 

 I'Yoin 1886 to 1890 he supported Pat Rooney in 

 the latter's plays, and for the later years he was 

 a member of Andrew Mack's company. His last 

 appearance was in the role of Andy McCue in 

 The Rebel, at Providence, May 19, 1900. 



Wallace, Robert B., soldier, born in Illinois; 

 died at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, March 13, 1900. 

 He was graduated at West Point, June 12, 1890, 

 and assigned to the 2d Cavalry as second lieu- 

 tenant; promoted first lieutenant, Jan. 4, 1897. 

 In the war with Spain he assisted in the organiza- 

 tion of the 1st Montana Volunteers, was com- 

 missioned lieutenant colonel of that regiment, and 

 accompanied it to the Philippines. He was se- 

 verely wounded in the action at Caloocan, Feb. 10, 

 IS!)!). He was made brevet colonel of volunteers 

 and brevet captain and major, United States army, 

 for services at the battles in front of Manila, Feb. 

 5 and 10, 1899, and at the crossing of the Rio 

 Grande de la Pampagna, April 27, 1899. Later he 

 \\as appointed colonel of the 37th Regiment, 

 United States Volunteer Infantry, which he com- 

 manded till Sept. 25, 1899. when he was compelled 

 to return to the United States on sick leave. 



Walworth, Clarence Alphonsus, clergyman, 

 born in Plattsburg, N. Y., May 30, 1820; died in 

 Albany, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1900. He was the eldest 

 son of Chancellor Walworth, and was graduated 

 at Union College in 1838. After studying law he 

 practiced his profession in Rochester a few years, 

 and then entered the General Theological Seminary 

 of the Episcopal Church in New York city, but 

 before completing his studies he became a Roman 

 Catholic and entered the order of Redemptorists. 

 He studied for the priesthood in Belgium, and 

 then, after two years of church work in England, 

 he returned to the United States. With Father 

 Hecker and others he founded the order of Paul- 

 ists in 1858. He was subsequently transferred to 

 the secular priesthood, and after serving for a 

 short time as pastor of Saint Peter's Church, Troy, 

 N. Y., assumed in 1868 the charge of Saint Mary's 

 Church, Albany, and was its pastor at the time of 

 Ills death. He was active in the temperance cause, 

 was a practical geologist, and was especially well 

 versed in the geology of his native State. He pub- 

 lished The Gentle Skeptic, The Doctrine of Hell, 

 and Andiatorocte (1888). 



Warner, Charles Dudley, author, born in 

 Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1829; died in Hartford, 

 Conn., Oct. 20, 1900. His father, Justus Warner, 

 who was of Puritan 

 stock and a man of 

 culture, died when 

 Charles was four years- 

 of age. Charles in- 

 herited his father's 

 taste for literature, but 

 in his early boyhood he 

 had access only to Cal- 

 vinistic treatises, bibli- 

 cal commentaries, and 

 the biographies of aus- 

 tere divines. At the age 

 of twelve he became a 

 member of his uncle's 

 household at Cazenovia, 

 Madison County, N. Y., and there he pursued 

 his classical studies until he entered Hamilton 

 College, Clinton, N. Y., at which institution 

 he was graduated in 1851, having won the 

 first prize in English. While an undergradu- 

 ate he had contributed to The Knickerbocker 

 and Putnam's Magazine. Shortly after leav- 

 ing college he prepared A Book of Eloquence, 

 a compilation for the use of school children, 

 which displayed his keen critical judgment. Al- 

 though his inclinations were toward a literary 

 career, he spent a year, 1853-'54, with a survey- 

 ing party on the Missouri frontier. On his return 

 to the East he entered the law tchool of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated 

 in 1856, and began the practice of his profession 

 in Chicago. He married in that year Susan, 

 daughter of William Eliot Lee, of New York, who 

 survives him. In 1860, at the solicitation of Gen'. 

 Joseph R. Hawley, who had known him at school 

 and college, Mr. Warner took up his resid -nc in 

 Hartford. Conn., to aid in the publicatirn of the 

 Press, a Republican evening newspaper. When 

 Gen. Hawley went to the front in the following 

 year Mr. Warner assumed control of the piper 

 In 1867 the press was consolidated with the 

 Courant, a morning journal, of which Mr. Warm i 

 became part owner. He had traveled extensively 

 in this country when, in 1868, he first went ti 

 Kn rope* remaining there for fourteen months 

 lli> liright and entertaining letters to the C'oii 

 rant won instant success, and were widely quoted. 

 Mr. Warner's writings as a tourist arc union:.; 

 his most popular works. Ik- spent a large par; 



