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OBITUARIES. AMKK! 



Mated as end men in two minstrel hall- night 



ight Hi- tir>t marked success wa- made in 



her he went to dig for gold, an. I 



where, with WamU.ld. I is, he 



organi/ed the long-famous San Francisco Min 



nnliin w. Mfilly fortunate. an<l 



rt?mni i flc coast for six years. I 



established themselves in the hall on 

 Broadway, oppntito Niblo's Garden, in 



N had mi- it her long per iccea*. 



(hi* hall the trouje moved uptown to a house 



built fT them, but the change was unfortunate. 



Soon Kertmrd nii.l Wan; i 1 . n'ku- 



h was left to hold the house I 

 Speculation in stocks wrought hi- financial ruin. 



e. hiwyr.born iu Springfield, Maaft, 



ii Shadow Farm, i 



i*-:7. His grandfather and 



father were well-known In i the latter was 



also president of several railroad cor|orations. Tip- 

 son was graduated at Harvanl in 1 *."!. continueil 

 his studies fr two years in Herlin and Pan-, ami 

 m hi- return studied law in Sji ingtield am! 

 York ami at the Harvard Law School. After his 

 admission to the bar he established himself in prac- 

 N <.rk. In it private 



secreUry to Gov. F.dwin I). Morgan, in 1861 was 

 appointed to hi- staff. and in appointed 



paymaster general <>! 'k. with the rank of 



colonel, and also a captain in the 4th New York 

 v Artillery, and was detailed to the military 

 sUff of Gov. Morgan, who had been r<>mnii--i>ned 

 a major general of volunteer-. In IMJ'J- '!':' (..I. 

 Bliss, under instruction- from - :-y of War, 



organ i/ed the -joth. 'Jth. and :;i-t Rafunenti of 



t'nited States colored tro..ji-. After the war he 

 resumed his law practice. In 1HWJ he was appoint- 

 ed attorney for the Metro[M>litai) Hoard of Kxcise 

 and the Metropolitan Hoard of Health, in 



t apfK'inted him United 

 -ut hern I>i.-trict of New York, and 

 in 188l-*83 he assisted th.- I'nited States Att..rn-y- 



ral in the prosecution of the Star \i 

 cases. For more than twenty years prior to 1893 

 he was active in Republican jM.litical affairs. He 

 drew up tt rk charter of ls;;{ and several 



important amendments afterward made to it. \\.,- 

 one of the three commissioners appointed to com- 

 pile the special and local acts relating to the city of 

 York in l879- ( 8Q,and sul.-e jueiitly drew' up 

 the ' \ city cons,, lidation' act."" He al-o 



drew up and procured the pas-ag- of the fir-t tene- 

 ment-house act for the city. While an under 

 mite he was associated with David A. Wells in the 

 compilation of the "Annual of Science I ' 

 and "Things not generally known." and biter in 

 life he published three editions of the * Law of Life 

 Insurance " and four editions of the -Ann 

 Code of Civil Procedure." 



Bluejacket. < ha rlcs - , ,M Indian chief. U.rn 

 in Michi-an in 1HO; died in lilueja. k.-t. Cherokee 

 Nation. Indian Territory. ()<rt.: II, was the 



last of a long line of Shawnee chiefs, and hereafter 

 the remnant of that triln? will be ruled by an e 

 il. Shortlv l,ef,,re hi- ileath lie a< 

 an tnritatkmof theWyand n,-c,,iinty<K 



il S--iety to revi.it the Shawnee town-hip and 

 locate th. Kll-kwatawa, the "Prophet." 



it might IH- marked with a raomunent The 

 ; -mmey and the excitement Q 



he received while 



passing through Kansas City proved too severe for 

 the old man and occasioned his death. 



llrittan. H.irri. t (, . born in ! 



land RKrit 1^>:J; dic-1 in >.-,u Francisco. c a I.. April 

 was the daughter of a clergyman. 

 who removed his family to Brooklyn, X. Y., during 



ifter ac.piirini: a general 



.'ion -he \\eni to the African i \ field 



under the au-piees of the I . 'iiie-t i<- and Foreign 



Mishi -f the Protestant F.pi--,.j,.-il 



Church, and spent ' '.-aehiiiL: in Lil>eria. 



While then- sh. - i \. r\- 



:n Africa. : !..-! rat ion \\ith 



au-ed her to return to her home. 



i with the Woman's 



' ilhen 



LamU. and by i ! -, lia. t hen ha\ in- but 



Jhe leached Calcutta 



in \^<: mi ionar re I" work 



onder her difeotkmav And. M superintendenl of the 



..i .Mi ion. reinaiiii d in thai fiel.l more than 



I'.i i!laii i- -aid to have been t he 



\merican admitted to the private apart meiit- 



of high-ca>le Indian women, and her sympathy for 



the women of [ftdia generally prompted her to 



the b Kifdoo, the Hindoo ( iirl." and " Shu- 



-llolie. the Hindoo." Tie of tin- -ale i.f 



her books were applied t.. mi ionarv \\.,ik. In 

 liriitan wmt to Yokohama, Japan, where 



she was superintendent of the large mi jo M , 

 lished for the iH-nelit of Kma-ian children til 

 and was then placed in char-'- of the lion 



uarics. At the time of her death she had 

 reached San FraiicM- ( > on her rk. 



Hrn-h. ( harlc- P.cnjaiuin. . . nglneer, born 

 in N. -w York city, Feb. i:,. ls4s : died there. .lune :{, 

 1897. He was graduated as a civil engineer at the 

 I'niversityof the City of New York, and hi- lir-t 

 i! -ervice was with the engim-i-r corpl "f 

 theCroton Afpieduct Department '. In 



the la-t year he established him-elf in imlependent 

 practtoe. He \\a- a].pointe<l Adjunct !' 

 Civil Fngineering in the I'niver-iiy of the City of 



New Tori In 1874; became fall professor and dean of 



the school of engineering there in l*ss : wa- elected 

 an associate of th.- American Society of Civil ' 

 nccrs in 1^71. a memler in 1^77. a director in 1888, 

 and viee-pre-ident in 1^!>'J; and wa- loi 

 a member of the Charity Orgatii/.at ion Society. 

 Professionally he was widely known for hi- work in 

 designing and con-t ruct ing" waterworks throughout 

 the I'nited State- and for hi- connection as engi- 

 neer with the Wa-hington Hridge over Harlem H\er 

 in New York, the llud-on IJiver Tunnel, the pi 

 d br the Hudson at New York, and t he 



lloboken Land and Improvement Company. His 

 la-t important work was as chief engineer of the 

 Hacken-ack Water Company of New ,b i 



Hntlcr. ( liarlc- philanthropist born In Kinder- 

 book Landing. Columbia Conn' 

 died in New York city, hec.'i:;. Is;i7. ||e 



f Meilad Butler, the first judge of Columbia 

 County, and a brother of I'enjamin Franklin Hut- 

 ler. Atton, kl of the United States in Pre-i- 



dent Jackson'l Cabinet. Char ;iduatcd at 



ademv : studied law wilh his 

 brother and Martin \"an Huren. who had I 

 law partners: was admitted to the bar in 1^,M. and 

 i-hcd him-elf for practice in Ly-n-. N. \ . 

 : lie removed t . and 



lie assistant di-trict attorney of (i. 

 County and attorney for ; life in-n 



niv. While acting in the la-t capac 

 was influential with .John Jacob A-tor. I 



. in building up that portion of the 

 8 he went i . then kii' 



I'orn. and as a town was being laid out 

 there he made lan_'<- in\ n land tha 1 



afterward comprised within the limits of tip- 

 He placed his brother-in-law. William H. O^den. in 

 charge of this property, arx. the latter became the 



iiayor of Chicago after its incorporat ii 

 city, in 1837. Subsequently he bought much land 



