OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (POWELL HECTOR.) 



Garden, New York, as Chateau Honaud in the 

 Corsican Brothers, Nov. 21, and a few weeks 

 later he took an engagement as a star in German 

 at the Stadt Theater (afterward the Windsor), 

 in the Bowery. On Dee. 23, 18(54, he played 

 Othello (in German) there, with Mme. Methua- 

 Scheller as Desdemona. In April following he 

 returned to Niblo's Garden, appearing as Clifford 

 in The Hunchback, with Kate Bateman as Julia. 

 Subsequently he traveled several years as leading 

 support with Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, 

 Julia Dean, and Mrs. Jean Davenport-Landor. 

 At the beginning of the season of 1868-'G9 he 

 took the management of the Indianapolis Thea- 

 ter. In 1867 he had married Miss Margaret E. 

 Macauley, of Indianapolis, sister of the popular 

 actor Barney Macauley. In 1869 he entered into 

 comanagement of the St. Charles Theater, New 

 Orleans, with Ben de Bar, and in 1870 took 

 charge of the new opera house in Kansas City. 

 During all this time he played in the West as 

 a star. In 1874 he became associated with G. 

 R. Spaulding in the management of the Olympic 

 Theater, St. Louis, and he produced there an 

 English adaptation of Salvini's Samson, which 

 was made by William Dean Howells, and was 

 often played by Mr. Pope with great public ap- 

 proval. In the same year he made another suc- 

 cessful tour of California. In 1876 he became 

 resident manager of the Varieties Theater, New 

 Orleans, and in 1877 made a starring tour of 

 Australia and New Zealand. With the encour- 

 agement of his friends in St. Louis in 1879, he 

 built Pope's Theater, and then retired from active 

 work as a player and devoted himself to its busi- 

 ness management. In. this he was very success- 

 ful. In 1888 he sold his theater and ended his 

 association with the drama to enter political life. 

 In September, 1889, he was appointed United 

 States consul at Toronto, Canada. At the in- 

 coming of another political party Mr. Pope was 

 superseded, and thenceforward his home was in 

 New York city. His skill as an orator and po- 

 litical debater made his services in campaign 

 work valuable, and he was engaged by his party 

 in that work in the State of New York for sev- 

 eral years. In 1898 he made a brief return to 

 the stage in the performance of Shakespearean 

 parts, playing the week of May 7 at the National 

 Theater, Philadelphia, and the week of May 14 

 at the Bijou Theater, Brooklyn. His last appear- 

 ance was in the part of Colonel Sapt in Rupert of 

 Hentzau, at Plainfield, N. J., Dec. 10, 1898. 



Powell, Aaron Macy, editor, born in Clinton, 

 N. Y., March 26, 1832; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 May 13, 1899. He was educated at the New York 

 State Normal School, and for several years pre- 

 vious to the civil war was editor of the Anti- 

 slavery Standard, later called the National Stand- 

 ard. He was secretarv of the American Anti- 

 slavery Society from 1866 till 1870, assistant 

 secretary of the National Temperance Society 

 from 1873 till 1894, editor of the National Temper- 

 ance Advocate and of the Philanthropist, and 

 was president of the National Purity Alliance. 

 His published works include State Regulation of 

 Vice (New York, 1878) ; The Beer Question 

 (1881); and The National Government and the 

 Liquor Traffic (1882). 



Prince, Frederick Octavius, lawyer, born in 

 Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1818; died there, June 6, 

 1899. He was graduated at Harvard College in 

 1836, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 

 1840, and began to practice in Boston. He re- 

 sided in Winchester, and represented that town 

 in the State Legislature in 1851-'53. In the lat- 

 ter year he was a member of the Constitutional 



Convention, and in l<Sf>f> was elected to the State 

 Senate. In 1860 he allied himself with the Demo- 

 cratic party, and was a delegate to the National 

 Democratic Convention at Charleston, S. (.:. |',y 

 that convention he was elected secretary of the 

 National Democratic Committee, and was re- 

 elected to that office successively till IHHH. Mr. 

 Prince, having in the meantime become again a 

 citizen of Boston, was elected mayor of the city 

 in 1876, though his party was at that time in 

 the minority. He was defeated for re-election 

 in 1877, was successful in 1878, and was again 

 twice re-elected, serving till the end of 1881." It 

 was largely to his foresight that Boston owes 

 its magnificent system of parks. He also labored 

 successfully for the improvement of its system 

 of sewerage. He was defeated as the Democratic 

 nominee for Governor in 1885. 



Putnam, John R., jurist, born in 1829; died 

 in Hong-Kong, China, Nov. 28, 1899. He was. 

 elected to the Supreme Court of New York in 

 1887, and his term would have expired in 1900. 

 In 1891 he was appointed to the General Term of 

 the 3d department. He continued in that office 

 till 1894, when he was designated as one of the 

 justices of the appellate division of the 3d de- 

 partment. His death occurred while he was on 

 his way to visit his son, a lieutenant in the 6th 

 United States Infantry, stationed at Manila. 



Rayner, William S., philanthropist, born in 

 Bavaria in 1821; died in Baltimore, Md., March 

 1, 1899. In early youth he removed to Baltimore. 

 He was a director in the Western Maryland Rail- 

 road and of the Western National Bank, and at 

 the time of his death was president of the King- 

 Avood Gas, Coal, and Iron Company, of the Curtis 

 Bay and South Baltimore Harbor and Improve- 

 ment Companies, and chairman of the Baltimore 

 Equitable Fire Insurance Society. He gave the 

 ground and erected the building of the Hebrew 

 Orphan Asylum, and for many years was a di- 

 rector of the House of Refuge, vice-president of 

 the Poor Association, and a manager of the Home 

 for Incurables. To each of these and of other 

 humane institutions he gave much of his time 

 and wealth. 



Rebisso, Louis T., sculptor, born in Italy in 

 1837; died near Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1899. 

 He took an active part in Mazzini's attempt to 

 establish an Italian republic, and rather than 

 serve a twenty years' imprisonment (the penalty 

 imposed on the rebels by Victor. Emmanuel's gov- 

 ernment) he escaped to an American ship, whose 

 captain took him to Boston. Despite the subse- 

 quent amnesty to political prisoners and exiles,, 

 he refused to return to his native country. He 

 had studied in Italy with the sculptor Rubatto,. 

 and also under Prof. Varni, and after settling in 

 Boston he was employed several years in monu- 

 mental establishments. His fame as a sculptor 

 began to develop after his removal to Cincinnati,, 

 where he worked with T. D. Jones. The first 

 important work that left his studio was the colos- 

 sal equestrian statue of Gen. James B. McPher- 

 son, which was unveiled in Washington, D. C., in 

 August, 1876. In 1887 he was awarded the com- 

 mission for the Grant monument in Lincoln Park,. 

 Chicago, in a competition with 14 other sculp- 

 tors. He also produced the statue of Gen. Wil- 

 liam Henry Harrison in Cincinnati and bust* 

 and monuments elsewhere. In 1875 he was ap- 

 pointed instructor in the McMicken School of 

 Design (now the Cincinnati Art Academy). 



Rector, Henry M., Governor, born in 1816; 

 died in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 15, 1899. In 1860 

 he was elected Governor of Arkansas as an Inde- 

 pendent Democrat, after an intensely bitter can- 



