OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (RICKOFF KOUKKS.) 



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American Indians, and his collection was espe- 

 cially rich in material relating to the Six Nations. 



Bickoff, Andrew Jackson, educator, horn 

 near Newhope, N. J., Aug. 23, 1824; died in San 

 Francisco, Cal., March 29, 1899. In 1830 his 

 parents removed to Cincinnati. He hegan teach- 

 ing at the age of seventeen, and by means of un- 

 tiring application to his studies he won from the 

 Ohio University the degree of A. M. He was for 

 five years superintendent of schools in Ports-, 

 mouth, Ohio. He then taught in the public 

 schools of Cincinnati, was appointed superintend- 

 ent of schools there two years later, and held 

 that office five years. He afterward established 

 a private school, which he conducted about nine 

 years. He was elected to the Board of Education 

 in Cincinnati in 1864, and was made president, 

 which office he held more than two years, when he 

 accepted an offer of the superintendency of the 

 schools in Cleveland. Fifteen years later he as- 

 sumed similar duties in Yonkers, N. Y. On re- 

 signing the latter office he returned to Ohio, and 

 then removed to California. In 1885 he was 

 president of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, 

 and in 1859 was elected president of the National 

 Teachers' Association. In 1880 he was elected 

 a member of the National Council of Education, 

 which is limited to 52 members. For several 

 years after 1888 he was in charge of Felix Adler's 

 Workingman's School. He was the author of 

 an arithmetic and many other schoolbooks, and 

 he was the editor of a series of six readers. He 

 recommended the plan of reorganization of the 

 educational system which is now in successful 

 operation in Cleveland; and at the Centennial 

 Exposition in 1876 his system of schools in that 

 city was declared superior to that of any other 

 city in the United States. In fact, his system was 

 the pattern after which nearly all the school sys- 

 tems of the Western States were constructed. 

 He also paid much attention to school architec- 

 ture, and to the heating and ventilation of school- 

 rooms. He was authorized by the Board of Edu- 

 cation of Cleveland to make the floor plans of 

 6 of the large school buildings, the Central High 

 School being one of the number; and he also made 

 the plans for their heating and ventilation. At 

 the Centennial Exposition he received a medal for 

 the best designs for school buildings. 



Bobbins, Hiram, playwright, born in Harris- 

 burg, Pa., in 1837; died in Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 

 21, 1899. In the years immediately following the 

 civil war he appeared as an actor. His last work 

 as a playwright was The Destruction of Hell, an 

 extravaganza founded on Dante's Inferno, which 

 was produced in Chicago in 1895. He went to the 

 Klondike in 1897, and contracted a fatal cold. 

 During his residence in Little Rock he was promi- 

 nent in politics. 



Roberts, Charles Boyle, jurist, born in Union- 

 town, Md., April 19, 1842; died in Westminster, 

 Md., Sept. 10, 1899. He was graduated at Calvert 

 College in 1861, and was admitted to law prac- 

 tice in 1864. In 1868 he was a presidential elect- 

 or on the Democratic ticket. He was elected to 

 Congress in 1874, and re-elected in 1876. In 1883 

 he was elected Attorney-General of Maryland, 

 and in 1891 was appointed an associate judge 

 of the State Court of Appeals. In 1892 he was 

 elected chief justice of the 5th Maryland Dis- 

 trict, which office he held until his death. 



Boberts, Daniel, lawyer, born in Wallingford, 

 Vt., May 25, 1811; died in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 

 6, 1899. He was graduated at Middlebury Col- 

 lege in 1829, studied law, and was admitted to 

 the bar in 1832. He then went West, and spent 

 a great part of the time till 1835 in Illinois, when 



he returned to Vermont, practiced in Manchester 

 till 1855, and then removed to llurlington, where 

 he formed a partnership with Lucius K. Chitt.cn- 

 den, afterward Register of the Treasury of the 

 United States. Mr. Roberts w;is Hank (Commis- 

 sioner in 1853-'f>4, and in I8r>r>_'f><; was special 

 agent for the United States Treasury Depart- 

 ment. In 1868-'69 he was State's attorney for 

 Chittenden County, and from 1870 till 1S72 was 

 city attorney of Burlington, which office he 

 again held in 1880. In 1878 he completed a 

 Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of 

 Vermont; in 1889 published a supplement to it; 

 and at the time of his death had finished a sec- 

 ond supplement. He received the degree of LL. D. 

 from Middlebury College in 1877. In 1880 he 

 was president of the Vermont Bar Association. 



Bobinson, Charles Seymour, clergyman, 

 born in Bennington, Vt., March 31, 1829; died in 

 New York city, Feb. 1, 1899. He was graduated 

 at Williams College in 1849. After teaching 

 nearly two years, he spent a year at the Union 

 Theological Seminary, New York city, and the 

 next at Princeton Seminary, and on April 19, 1855, 

 he was ordained pastor of the Park Presbyterian 

 Church in Troy, N. Y. In 1860 he went to the 

 First Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn, N.Y.,and 

 in 1868 accepted a call to the American Chapel 

 in Paris, France, where he established a regular 

 church organization. On the outbreak of the 

 war between France and Prussia he returned to 

 New York and assumed the pastorate of Madison 

 Avenue Presbyterian Church, with which he re- 

 mained till 1887. After the suppression of the 

 Commune, in 1871, Dr. Robinson spent several 

 months in Paris, striving to reorganize the work 

 of the American Chapel. Since 1887 he had held 

 no regular charge for any considerable period. 

 He received the degree of D.D.from Hamilton Col- 

 lege in 1866, and that of LL. D. from Lafayette 

 College in 1885. Dr. Robinson published many 

 volumes of sermons and other works, but was 

 probably most widely known as a hymnologist. 

 His books include Songs of the Church (New York, 

 1862) ; Songs for the Sanctuary (1865) ; Songs for 

 Christian Worship (1866) ; Short Studies for Sun- 

 day-school Teachers (1868) ; Chapel Songs (1872) ; 

 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (1874); 

 Christian Work and Bethel and Penuel, sermons 

 (1874); Spiritual Songs (1878); Spiritual Songs 

 for Social Worship (1880); Studies in the New 

 Testament (1880); Spiritual Songs for Sunday 

 School (1881) ; Studies of Neglected Texts (1883) ; 

 Laudes Domini, hymn-book (1884); Sermons in 

 Songs (1885); Sabbath Evening Sermons (1887); 

 The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the Exodus 

 (1887); and Simon Peter: Early Life and Times 

 (1887). 



Bogers, Edward F., horticulturist, born in 

 Salem, Mass., in 1826; died in Peabody, Mass., 

 March 29, 1899. After receiving a common-school 

 education, he made several voyages in his father's 

 vessels, and then for fifteen years withdrew almost 

 wholly from the public eye and applied himself 

 to his garden. He produced the famous Rogers 

 grape by taking the vine of the Mammoth Globe 

 and the pollen of Black Hamburg and Sweet- 

 water vines. To him belongs the credit of first 

 hybridizing the grape, and he was awarded the 

 only gold medal ever given by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society in this line. In 1856 he 

 recrossed the hybrids with the T 7 . rinifcra, ob- 

 taining vines bearing fruit nearly identical with 

 the foreign kinds. Subsequently he gave much 

 attention to hybridizing pears, with equal success. 



Bogers, William F., soldier, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., in 1820; died in Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 



