OBITlAi 



wasnotanactofret>cllion.hu m incident 



of t .rosin \ery lawlessness in Kan^i Doo- 



little was a delegate to the Peace r..n\mt. 



f I h<- mi. 

 i;eachment in... ! -nt John- 



i.Hllll 1'llioll < on\ell- 



lion in Philadclpii : the National 



.cntion in Baltim-re in : 

 !>.. u-rt ; iculturist. horn in < 



heail. i Hi \N aukcpm. III.. 



Canada : 



.itiiU'lmm. Vl.. ill 1*5'.; drove across the 

 count 



beyond] * v Chicago, a few yean after- 



ward: an.l there worked at tl. and 



III t!i 1 excitement of 



Me wa- Ulisuc. 



asa minor and returned to the States, and there- 



after applied him-. -If solely to the n of 



to have been the lir-t man to 



seedlings liy the million. He 



planted large forests near Farliimton. Kan., and 



elsewhere; had charge of the ^-leciion and plant- 



f trees on the grounds of Leland Stanford 



rnivei>ity in California and of George W. Vandcr- 



lult's estate at Biltraorc, N. C. ; assi-ted I'm:. 



:n preparing 1: rt f-T the tenth 



census; an 1 many of toe m<t valuable 



specimens in the collect km of woods presented by 

 Mr: .to the American Mu-cum oi 



ural History in New York. 



|).,u Nc.il reformer. horn in Portland. M- .. 

 Man . iy7. II 





educated at public and private institutions. includ- 

 Portlana Academy and tin- Friend-' Academy 

 1. Ma-s.; entered 1, 'l tan- 



nery when fifteen 

 old. and on attaining his 

 majority itf-aiiK- 

 IIT in the bu>ii 

 ii-r i In- firm name of 

 J.Mah I"WcV S,n. H,. 

 remained a mnnl.er of 

 this firm for fifty-one 

 and at tin. 



oonneoted with other 

 rn& In 



was appointed 

 chief engineer of tin- 

 Port land Fin- Depart- 

 ment. In this oilice he 

 di>played notable coiir- 



I tact. 1: 



- as a fireman 

 lel him to undertake the temperance reform, which 

 subsefpi- nt ly m:i !- his name familiar throughout 

 the world. v of proliiliitimi 



was followed I y the inauguration of a pulilic a.u'ita- 

 which was greatly promoted ly hi- popularity 

 and oarne-tness. In 1 **:{! he induced the hoard of 

 ii. -n of Portland to siilimit the nuest ion of 

 or no license to popular vote, and the result 

 d a majority I for licen-e. Four 



years afterward the.) M a;:ain suhmitted to 



wh<n the no-lioens- n hy a ma- 



jority ..f |<MI. Dunn? this interval be WM greatly 

 in hin .-(Toru hy \\\* attempts to reclaim 

 a hi^h public- offiejal who had lecome a confirmed 



naniacand wa- 



in IMU hen-tire.l from active participation in bu-i- 

 ness and 1 ling thmnph tl in his 



sleigh in winter, in his carriage in summer hold- 

 ing pub!: 



wherever he found auditor-, and distributii, 

 immense amount of original temperance literature. 

 This missionary work for absolute prohibition \va- 

 carried on at his own expense for ten years, and, 



1 rtland. in 



he immediately dratted "a" bill for the sup- 

 pression of drinking I. >!-- and tippling -! 



al and ! 

 wa- deemed ' QQ b\ In- 



friend- : but h- took ii In the 1. . .h-- 



i it- pro\i-:oiis at a public I 



itS act ::.:tl( -. and on the follo\\- 



in^' day >aw it adoptad and a; 



. The la 



enacted through hi- elTorl- in made the 



Mihjert of a constitutional amendmeiii in 1 V M; 

 and was furlh- : n .1 in l s '.l. Mr. 



Wa8 rc-eleeted ' 



the Legislature in* 1C .-land in 



the invitation ,,f the I'nited f reni|.. 



>-at Britain, and delivered many pub!; 



dresses in i *:;. L8MLiid I s : r. and was tin- Pro- 



hibitioii cjimli-late |.,r Pre-iilent of the I'nited 

 States in 1880. Hi- ninetieth birth- ia\ . Mai 

 1SU. was littm^ly observed by ten 

 i/ations throughout chri-teni'lom. Karly in 

 he offt-r-l ' \\ 'ashburn.'and 



raising nearly two full regiments he was com- 



.ned colonel of the loth Maine Volui.' 



.:id joined (!en. Butler's expedition to 



'rlcaiis in the following Fi-bruary. In April. 

 l v( '-. he was commissioned a bri.iradn -r .u'cneral of 

 volunteer-, and commanded at Fort St. Philip, at 



.-,,la. Fla.. ami at the defen M (r- 



. north of the oil i! in the attack 



<>n Port Hudson. M. L where hi- conduct 



elicited the commendation of his divi-ioii com- 

 mander, ami where he received two wound-. While 



klefdng \\ithin the Feileral line he wa- cap- 

 tured by a party of Confederate cavalry, and \\a- 

 held a prisoner at Mobile and in Libby prison till 

 the following March, when he was exchai 



f hi- kindness toCoiifi-i- while 



at New Orleans hi> own restraint wa- made a- com- 

 fortable as possible. Impaired health caused him 

 to resign hi- commission. Nov. :{(, 164. As a mili- 

 tary ollieer he was one of the first ' . t Im- 

 propriety of employing colored soldier-, and 

 fused to return any escaping slave to bon 



Drake. Jonathan. abolitioni>t, born in Hamp- 

 ton. N. II. ..lun. lied in Leomin-i. r. Mass^ 

 .Ian. 17. is'.i?. lie settled in Leo.ninster in 

 and when the anli>lavery movement was at its 

 height he conducted public meetings and turned 

 his home into an " underground-railway " -tat ion. 

 In l.v". home tin- fugitive 

 slave Shadrach after his e-.-apc from tin' P. 



1 iiouse. dressed him in woman's clothe-, and 

 ted him in his flight to ('.ma-la. II 

 friended .Iam< one of .b Ifrr-on I> 



. in a similar manner. Mr. Drake was widely 

 known as a strong no-liceiiM- and antitobucco ad- 



:c. 



Ih-cu. Louisa Lane. : n in Lond-m. 



Fn-land. Jan. 1 :icd in Larchmont. N. V.. 



An-. :?1. 1^!7. She was the dauirhtcr of an 

 named Lane and hi- wife (-ub-erju- ntly Mrs. Kin- 

 locli. a potuilar a< ' :npanyin^ her 



mother to Philadelphia in IK.'?, made her fir 



.-at the\\"a!nul M reel Theater, 

 Sept. 'Jo. in the f the little Duke of York, 



with Junius P.rutus Po<th a- (ilo-ter. In the fo|- 

 lowinj: year she apjK-ared at the Park Theater, New 

 York, i'n "Little Pickie." ami then for five 



1 in tin- larp- cities as an "infant phenom- 



." her re|H-rtory includin.i; "Twelve Pn-cis-ly." 

 -The Heir at I : ad to Ifuin." M Th 



Four Mowbrays." and "The A \11 Work." 



In ls:',:{ she joined a -lock company at the Bowery 

 'f heater. New York, and in it played with all the 

 great stars of the duy. When fourteen years old 



