OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ALVORD IUi 



in the regular army i^tied with the 



lk of major in l s ik.*. 11, .- . -iK. -.1 

 chair of Com par 



at tin- medical svhiMil ,.f t u y ..f Pennsyl- 

 vania, wh 1 till 187& when he was t 



ferml to the chair >f Physiology. He remained 111 

 



professor c >7* he ai^, I.. 



reason Miy and Sure- ry at the Philadelphia 



teral yea 



;he Philadelphia Hospital. He was 

 Pfcujdcnt of the American Lan 



s<i. and President of the American Ana- 

 tomical Sn-i.-ty in 1891-TW. He was tho author ..f 

 num.-- 'graphs and books. Including " out- 



lines .native Anatomy an>l ItedicaJ /'"">1- 



C*T W (1867.; "Studies in the Facial Region " 

 \u Analysis of tin- Life Form in 



.<triu of Human Anatomy" (1880). 

 \l\or.l I horn. is (.old. kWJJ r, bom in <Mion- 

 dapa, Onondaca County. N. Y.. Dec. 20, 1*10; died 

 . N. Y.. <>.';. -,';. !*::. He was gradu- 

 ated 'at Yah- in 1 *-.'*. admit t.-d to the bar in 1882, 



,-d till lMi. In 1MI he cnr 

 al life as a Democrat and \va- elected to the 

 Assembly, where he served through fourteen 

 -"J. In isiil he 



became a Republican : in isr>*. isiil. and l^'.i ] 

 ^peaker of the House; in l^ill In- \\a< elected 



: in 1SIJ7-V, 



was a memUT of the Constitutional Convention; 

 in 1878 he was chairman of the Apportionment 

 Committee of the House ; and in 1804 he was 

 president of the Constitutional Convention. 



n he was engaged in the manufacture of 

 salt." lie was considered a high authority on par- 

 liamentary law. 



Vtkinsbn. John _vman. born in Deerfield, 



Salem County. N. J.. Sent. 0. 1 *::: : died in Haver- 

 straw. V r^Deo, 9, IW7. He entered the old New 



nee ..f the Methodist KpisCOpal 



Church in ;-:,.;. and in 1858 was assigned to the 

 newly created Newark Conference. Subsequently 

 he was attached to the Hock Island Conference of 

 Illiii' Toil Conference of Michigan, and 



again t the Newark Conference of New .Jersey. 

 He held pastorates in Newark. .Jersey City. Chicago, 

 Bay City. Adrian, and lastly in Haverstraw. lie 

 was a frequent contributor to the denominational 

 peas; was the author of the hymn "Shall we meet 

 beyond th- and among other works had 



published "The Living \\ -Memorials 



of Methodism in New Jersey" (1860) ; "The (Jar- 

 f S.rrows" (ixijs): ""The Class LKM 



ntennial History of American Metho- 



" (1884); and shortly before his death a work 

 on the - Wesleyan Movement in America." 



llabcork. James Francis, chemist, born in Bos- 

 ton. Mam.. Feb. M. 1MI: died in D..rct, 

 Mast^ July 20. 1897. He was graduated at the 

 l^awrence Scientific School, where he applied him- 

 self wholly to rhemiMry. in lsr,2. and rstabli-hed 

 him^-lf in Boston as an analytical chemist and 

 chemical ex|>.Tt. In 1869 he was elected I'n.fe-M.r 

 of Chemistry in the Massachusetts College of I'har- 



. where he remained till 1874, when he was 

 called to the similar chair in the Boston I'niver- 

 sity. In th- following year he was appointed 

 assayer and inspector of liquors. He held this 

 office till 1885, when he became city injector of 

 milk in Boston, serving as such till'inx!). While 

 State assaver he secured the insertion in the liquor 

 statutes of the definition ,,f the u-rm intoxicating 

 liquor** known as the U-jK-r-c.-nt. limit, and while 

 inspector of milk he secured the suppression of the 

 use of coloring matter in milk and largely in- 

 creased the efficiency of the office. He invented 



the fire extiniruMic:- . was widely 



klldwil as a lecturer on scientific subjecl>. published 

 num. nation and the rh-mi>tr\ 



of food, and was a;. heiuical witOOM in 



important ; 



llacou .lidiu I diniiiul. inri-t. b.-in in 1 

 field. . ; di.-.l in Columbia. 



He was -radu 



. stu.lird law at the l.ilchlield 



MM.!, and was admitted to the l-.-ir 



i'lished liii.-zui-t 



early in lif> . ! \\a^ appoint! : 



of th Mates legation at Si. P .and 



fora time was acting n* chary'- <i'<i U'hile 



at this post I,, id,, daughter , 



hen I'nited Stales min: 



On the election of Abraham Lincoln t.. the; 



dency he resigned his oilier, returneil to Soul! 



. and enieretl the Confederate aim] 



till the close of tin- war and rising from the ranki 



to the grade of major. In l s ',i; !,, \va- >eleded to 

 aCCOH r t" Washing 



:.ite for the restoration of South Can-! 



1 he I'nioli ; . field 



in 1HJ7. and otliciated till n-n 



military commander; and in I^T-J removed 

 Iambi* and was the unsuccessful Democratic candi- 

 date for Coiupw. The reopening >f South ' 

 lina Col lego by act of the Legislature in 1S73 was 

 due in the lar'got m> In- eil'ort'. In 1 V M 



he was a 1 )eino-rat i<- presidential elrd-ii'. and in 

 1886 was appointed 1'niied States chary'- d'affaires 

 in Uruguay and Paraguay. 



Baker. Nilliam Spolin. author. b,,rn in Phila- 

 delphia. Pa.. April 17. is-jj; dieil there. S.pt. s, 

 1897. He acquired a priTate-echool education and 



studied conveyancing, which he practiced till l^n. 

 afterward applying himsi-lf wholly t<> special hi>ti-r- 

 i'-al research and writing. He was one of tin 

 enthusiastic and thorough students of Washingto- 

 niana. and made the largest and finest collection ..f 

 biographies, sketches, portraits, medal-. and \>\ 

 papers of Washington in \is|,n(. Among Ins 

 il publications are " |-!ngra\ d Portraits of 

 Washing!.. n." " .Medallic Portraits of \\'ashingt.n," 

 "Character Portraits .f Washing!. iiing- 



ton's Itinerary." and "Washington after th.' B 

 lutioii." At the time of his death h.- had in 

 Wa-hington in Philadelphia." II is ..t her publi- 

 cations included Ameri<-an Bngrarera and their 

 Works." "William Sharp, i and his 



Work*.'* ami " The Antiquity ' .ngand the 



I'tility and Pleasures of Prints." 



Itateman. Not ton. educator, born in Fairlield, 

 N. .1.. .Inly -.':. l^'-J: died in (Jah-^burg. III., < M. -Jl, 

 Be accompanied \\\< father's family to Illi- 

 nois, in l^:j:!; ^\M-\\\ his early y(uth at hard manual 

 labor; worked his way through Illin< 

 being graduated in l*l:'>: studied for the mini-try 

 MIC Theological Seminary: arid became a irav- 

 : agent for an historical chart. After i 

 'ars sp.nt in traveling in the United S 

 he be'-an his notewirth\ 



principal of a private school in St. Lou!-, l-'ro.'u 

 l^i; till isr,l he wa r of Mathematics in 



St. Charles College, and in the last year was placed 

 in charge of the public free school i'n Jacksonville, 

 havii of principal of 



the hiirh s.-hoo). superintendent of the city M-hooK 

 and school fommis<iom-r of the county." Ii. 

 he was elc Superintendent of Public In- 



struction. During 1868^*84 the State was in h 

 cratic hands, and then failing of re-el ction he was 

 employed in the office of the provost marshal gen- 

 eral of Illinois. His tenure of t he office of superin- 

 tendent was marked by a series of official report- "f 

 high value, in which the various phases of public 



