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id to be the largest salary ever paid to a railroad 



president anywhere. Mr. Jewett assumed the man- 

 agement of theaffairs of the company in July, 1*74. 

 About a year afterward the company was obliged 

 to apply for a receiver and President Jewett was 

 appointed to that office. He succeeded in extri- 

 cating the corporation from its financial embarrass- 

 ments ; became president of its reorganized board 

 of directors, and in 1884 retired from business life 

 to his home in Zanesville. 



Johnson, Rachel, actress, born in Louisville, 

 Ky.. July 4, 1845 ; died in New York city, Oct. 10, 

 1S!)8. At an early age she made her first appear- 

 ance on the stage as Partheuia in " Ingomar," at 

 the Howard Athemcum, Boston, while that theater 

 was under the management of Edward L. Daven- 

 port. Soon afterward she married Bernard Ma- 

 cauley, an actor and manager of the Louisville 

 Theater. She remained in her native city for many 

 years, occupying the place of leading woman in her 

 husband's theater and aiding him in the manage- 

 ment of that house as well as Wood's Theater, Cin- 

 cinnati, of which he was also manager. From time 

 to time she also played starring engagements in the 

 Southern States, and she became very popular. 

 After her marriage she was professionally known 

 as Rachel Johnson for some years, but finally she^ 

 assumed her married name on the bills and was 

 generally referred to as Mrs. Barney Macauley. 

 Her last appearance was at Palmer's Theater, New 

 York city, in the title role of " Clarisse," her adap- 

 tation of Dumas's play "Francillon," May 16, 1890. 



Johnston, Richard Malcolm, author, born in 

 Powclton, Hancock County, Ga., March 8, 1822; 

 died in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 23, 1898. He was 

 graduated at Mercer University, Ga., in 1841. and 

 after teaching for a year was admitted to the bar. 

 From 1857 to 1861 he was Professor of Literature in 

 the University of Georgia, and during the civil 

 war he was an officer in the Confederate service. 

 Since 18G7 he had lived in Baltimore, engaged in 

 literary work. As a humorist his merits are con- 

 siderable, and as a careful, faithful delineator of 

 certain phases of Southern life he takes honorable 

 rank. His novels and short stories arc mainly con- 

 cerned with the life of middle Georgia. His vari- 

 ous published books include "Georgia Sketches" 

 (Augusta. 1864); " Dukesborough Talcs" (Balti- 

 more, 1871); " Historical Sketch of English Liter- 

 ature," with W. 11. Browne (Philadelphia, 1872); 

 "Life of Alexander II. Stephens," with W. II. 

 Browne (1878) ; "Old Mark Langston" (New York, 

 1884); "Two Gray Tourists " (1885) ; "Mr. Ab- 

 salom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk" (1888); 

 " Ogecchee Cross Firings " (New York, 1889) : 

 "Widow Guthrie " (1890) ;" The Primes and their 

 Neighbors" (1891); "The Chronicles of Mr. Bill 

 Williams"; "Studies: Literary and Social" (In- 

 dianapolis, 1891-'!)2) : " Mr. Billy Downs and his 

 Likes" (Now York, 1892); "Mr. Fortner's Marital 

 Claims" (1892); "Little Ike Templin" (Boston, 

 1894) ; " Old Times in Middle Georgia " (New York, 

 1897) ; " Pearse Arnerson's Will" (Chicago, 1898). 



Josephine, Mother, benefactor, born in Ireland, 

 about 1827; died in Leavenworth. Kan., Feb. 7, 

 1N9S. She was in her twentieth year when pesti- 

 lence and famine in her native land reached their 

 height. She applied herself fearlessly to the work 

 of relief, and when the worst had passed became a 

 Sister of Charity. Coming to the United States, 

 she first settled in Cincinnati. In 1854 she joined 

 Mother Xavier in Nashville, and in 1858 went to 

 Leavenworth, where Bishop Miege placed Sister 

 Josephine in charge of the novices. When St. John's 

 hospital was completed she was appointed to take 

 charge of its management. From superior of the 

 hospital she became procuratrix of the whole com- 



munity, assistant mother of the sisters, and mother 

 superior, being elected to the last office three times in 

 succession. She was widely known in the West be- 

 cause of her success in establishing academies, hos- 

 pitals, and asylums. The last completed work in 

 her long life of benevolence is the orphan asylum 

 at Helena, Mont., which cost more than $50,000. 

 Under her immediate charge at Leavenworth were 

 more than 800 sisters, who looked after orphan 

 children in asylums, nursed 10,000 patients annu- 

 ally in 10 hospitals, and taught in 15 schools. 



Joy, John D. \V., merchant, born in Boston, 

 Mass., in 1828; died -there, Oct. 4, 1898. He was 

 educated in the common schools, entered business 

 life, and was variously employed till he became a 

 partner in the house of Mason, Lawrence & Co. 

 Later he was a member of the firm of Frothingham 

 & Co., and on the death of Mr. Frothingham he es- 

 tablished, about 1870, the firm of Joy, Langdon & 

 Co., dry-goods merchants. He was an active work- 

 er in the Universalist Church ; was president of the 

 Massachusetts Universalist Convention for thirty- 

 five years, and treasurer of the Universalist pub- 

 lishing house thirty years. He was also president 

 of the Board of Trustees of Tuft's College, with which 

 he had been identified from its inception, and to 

 which he had given $20,000 for the library. 



Kahnweiler, David, inventor, born iii Kocken- 

 hauser, Bavaria, in 1826; died in New York city, 

 Nov. 5, 1898. He emigrated to the United States 

 in 1847; made a fortune in dry goods in Wilming- 

 ton, N. C., which he lost during the civil war, and 

 came to New York city, where he invented a ma- 

 chine for milling, which brought him a second for- 

 tune. He experimented with the floating properties 

 of ground cork, and finally invented the cork- 

 jacket life preserver. Mr. Kahnweiler also con- 

 structed a metallic life raft and patented a cash- 

 carrier system. 



Kavanagh, John, painter, born in Present t, 

 Canada, in 1858; died in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 8, 

 1898. He accompanied his parents to Cleveland in 

 early childhood and received his first ideas of art 

 in the studio of a photographer. For three years 

 he spent the autumn and winter months in study 

 at Cooper Institute, New York city, then for nearly 

 three years he was in Munich, for one year at 

 home, and for three years in Paris. In 1889, after 

 visiting the picturesque regions and art centers of 

 England and Scotland, he opened a studio in Cleve- 

 land. While in Munich he received honorable men- 

 tion and a gold medal for his paintings, and in 

 Paris his canvases were accepted for three consecu- 

 tive exhibitions at the Salon, and at one exhibition 

 he had the rare honor of having three paintings 

 hung, for which he received a gold medal. His last 

 notable exhibition was at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition in Chicago in 1893. 



Keely, John Ernest Worrell, impostor, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 3, 1837 ; died there, Nov. 18, 

 1898. His education was meager, and at an early 

 age he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and he 

 worked at his trade till 1872. During this time he 

 became interested in music, and the tuning-fork, so 

 he said, gave him his first hint of a new motive 

 power that he claimed to have discovered. He spent 

 years experimenting with the effect of sound vibra- 

 tions on metals, and finally he made a machine that 

 appeared to develop an enormous power. It did 

 not need steam, compressed air, or electricity, but 

 started at the sound of a violin bow. He displayed 

 this machine, which became known as "the Keely 

 Motor," before capitalists and scientists in 1874'; 

 and a stock company was formed and thousands of 

 dollars were advanced to enable him to perfect his 

 discovery and apply the principle. Between 1874 

 and 1891 Mr. Keely expended large sums in exper- 



