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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN, (PLANT POPE.) 



Mr. Pillsbury was a Republican in politics, and 

 served as State Senator from 1877 till 1887. He 

 was the author of the famous " bond bill," by 

 which the repudiated bonds of Minnesota were 

 paid after hanging like a cloud over its name for 

 years. He was for many years president of the 

 "Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company. 



Plant. Henry Bradley, railroad and steam- 

 ship promoter, born in Branford. Conn.. Oct. 27, 

 1819; died in New York city. June '23, 1899. He 

 received a common-school education, and in 1837 

 entered the service of the New Haven Steamboat 

 Company in charge of their express business be- 

 tween New York and New Haven. In 1854 he 

 was appointed superintendent of the southern di- 

 vision of the Adams Express Company, with head- 

 quarters at Augusta. Ga. In 18(il he organized 

 the Southern Express Company, of which he was 

 continuously president. During the civil war he 

 had permission to run this express through the 

 lines of the army without hindrance. In 1867 

 he became president of the Texas Express Com- 

 pany. While traveling in the interests of the 

 Southern Express Company he became impressed 

 with the many opportunities that Florida pre- 

 sented if its railroad facilities were developed, 

 and. acting on this idea, he promoted the build- 

 ing of enormous hotels, the running of railroads, 

 and the formation of steamship lines to make 

 the hotels easy of access. The hotel at Tampa, 

 Fla., one of the largest in the world, was the 

 first of these ventures. It proved a great suc- 

 cess, and he immediately began the erection of 

 others. In 1879 he began to secure control of 

 what later became widely known as the " Plant 

 system "' of railways and steamships. The rail- 

 roads that were purchased by him and his asso- 

 ciates include the Atlantic and Gulf of Georgia, 

 the Savannah and Charleston, the South Florida, 

 the Brunswick and Western, the Alabama Mid- 

 land, the Abbeville Southern, and a number of 

 smaller railroads. In 1886 he established the 

 steamship line between Port Tampa, Key West, 

 and Havana. Cuba; later the line running between 

 Boston and Halifax was purchased and chartered 

 as the Canada, Atlantic and Plant Steamship Com- 

 pany (Limited). In 1893 the North Atlantic line 

 was purchased, and the route between Boston, 

 Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island is now 

 operated by the company of which he was at 

 the head. He left an estate in trust valued at 

 about $10,000.000. The last codicil of his will 

 purports to extend the trust to great-grandchil- 

 dren, and his widow contested the will on the 

 ground that the trust was invalid as suspending 

 the ownership of the personalty and the aliena- 

 tion of the realty for a longer period than the 

 laws allow. 



Pond. George Edward, journalist, born in 

 Boston, Mass., March 11, 1837; died at Spring 

 Lake, N. J., Sept. 22, 1899. He was graduated 

 at Harvard College in 1858 and at the Harvard 

 Law School in I860. From 1862 to 1864 he served 

 as a first lieutenant of volunteers in the National 

 army, resigning in 1864 to become an associate 

 editor of the Army and Navy Journal. This 

 place he gave up in 1868, but ten years later re- 

 sumed it. He was also associated in an editorial 

 capacity with the New York Times, the Phila- 

 delphia Record, the Galaxy Magazine, and the 

 New York Sun, on which last he was an edi- 

 torial writer at the time of his death. To the 

 Galaxy he contributed a notable series of Drift- 

 wood Essays over the signature Philip Quilibet. 

 3 he published a volume of military history 

 entitled The Shenandoah Valley in 1864, in Scrib- 

 ner 9 Campaign Series. He wrote the article on 



Gen. Philip H. Sheridan in the Annual Cyclo- 

 pedia for 1883, and to Liber Scriptorum, the book 

 of the Authors' Club, he contributed remarkably 

 interesting recollections of James Russell Lowell 

 in his intercourse with a select body of students 

 who read Dante with him. 



Pope. Charles Bohr (Charles Pope Rohr),. 

 actor, born in Weimar, Germany, Feb. 17, 1832; 

 died in New York city, July 2, 1899. His father, 

 who was an architect in Weimar and an intimate 

 friend of Goethe, brought his family to the United 

 States in 1834 and settled in Rochester, N. Y., 

 where Charles learned the printer's trade. His 

 first appearance was in the Rochester Theater, 

 in 1848, in the character of Sir James Blount in 

 Richard III. After two months in this theater 

 he joined a traveling company, and then played 

 small parts for a short season in the Adelphi 

 'Theater, Washington, D. C. On Dec. 25, 1848, 

 he made his appearance in New York city at 

 the old Broadway Theater as Danglars in The 

 Count of Monte Cristo. There he remained, ris- 

 ing steadily in position and popularity, for sev- 

 eral years. He w r as in the cast of The Stranger, 

 Oct. 8, 1849, when Charlotte Cushman made her 

 homecoming after a triumphant trip to England 

 and Charles W. Couldock made his first appear- 

 ance in the United States. Finally he attracted 

 the attention of Edwin Forrest for his perform- 

 ance of Lucius in Virginius, March 19, 1852, who 

 advanced him to the position of second man in 

 his support. He was advanced to leading juvenile 

 man in the support of Miss Julia Dean in 1853, 

 first appearing with her as Bertrand in The Belle 

 of the Faubourg, Sept. 17 of that year, and 

 Master Waller in The Love Chase in subsequent 

 performances. He remained at the Broadway 

 until the end of the season of 1853-'54. He played 

 Salamenes in the production of Sardanapalus at 

 the old Bowery Theater for a short time begin- 

 ning Sept. 4, 1854, and then for a time was lead- 

 ing man at the New York Theater (subsequently 

 the Winter Garden). The promise of this the- 

 ater depreciated rapidly, and Mr. Pope accepted 

 a place as leading man of the St. Charles Theater, 

 New Orleans. He remained there for the season,, 

 and in the autumn of 1855 went to St. Louis, 

 with whose theatrical history he thereafter was 

 most prominently associated. During the season 

 of 1855-'56 he was the leading support of Miss 

 Julia Dean in her first visit to California, and 

 his acting was received by the Californians with 

 scarcely less enthusiasm than was that of Miss 

 Dean. * Returning to the East in the autumn of 

 1857, Mr. Pope was for a time leading man of 

 the Boston Theater, and then made a tour as 

 principal support with Charlotte Cushman and 

 another with Avonia Jones. Early in 1858 he 

 accepted an invitation from Ben de Bar to play 

 as a star in the West and South. He met with 

 great success in this venture, and was especially 

 popular in St. Louis, New Orleans, Louisville, 

 Cincinnati, and Memphis. His repertory was 

 practically the same as that of Mr. Forrest, Mr. 

 Booth, and other Shakespearean stars." His mag- 

 nificent and athletic figure, the dignity of his 

 carriage, and the power and sweetness of his voice 

 caused many to regard him as Forrest's equal. 

 In April, 1861, he played on the Pacific coast 

 several months with much good fortune. He 

 remained three years in the far West, and con- 

 formed to the custom of the country by losing- 

 much of his well-earned fortune in mining specu- 

 lation. After a short retirement he reappeared 

 at the American Theater, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 

 1862, in Schiller's Robbers, and continued his for- 

 mer success. In 1864 he appeared at Niblo's 



