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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ROPES SAETORI.) 



10. 1899. He entered the volunteer service in 

 the civil war as a member of the 21st New York 

 Infantry, served two years, and rose to the rank 

 of brevet brigadier general. After the war he 

 was successively auditor, comptroller, and mayor 

 of Buffalo. In 1887 he was appointed superin- 

 tendent of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at 

 Hath, which office he held till 1891. 



Ropes, John Codman, historian, born in St. 

 Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 183(5: died in Bos- 

 ton, Mass., Oct. 28, 1899. He was graduated at 

 Harvard in 1857, and after studying at Harvard 

 Law School was admitted to the bar in 1861. 

 Since the latter year he had practiced his pro- 

 fession continuously in Boston, and from 1865 

 \vas at the head of the firm of Ropes, Gray & 

 Loring. His interest in military affairs began 

 early in his career, and it was in great measure 

 through his influence that the Government at- 

 tempted the collection and preservation of in- 

 formation relative to the civil war. He organ- 

 ized the Military Historical Society of Massachu- 

 setts, to which he left his valuable collection of 

 military books and maps, and in recognition of 

 his services to the United States army he was 

 elected a member of the Loyal Legion. His earli- 

 est published work was The Army under Pope 

 (Xew York, 1881). a concise analysis of the sum- 

 mer campaign of 1862 in northern Virginia. This 

 was followed by The First Napoleon (Boston, 

 1885), originally given to the public in the form 

 of lectures at the Lowell Institute, in Boston. 

 This was followed by The Campaign of Waterloo, 

 an elaborate monograph (New York, 1892-'93). 

 At the time of his death two volumes of The Story 

 of the Civil War (New York, 1894-'98) had ap- 

 peared. The materials for the completion of this 

 history had been collected by him, and a final re- 

 view and critical summary of the war had been 

 written. 



Rose, William G., lawyer, born in Mercer 

 County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 23, 1829; died in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1899. He educated 

 himself, studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1855. He was for a short time editor 

 and proprietor of the Mercer Independent Demo- 

 crat, and in 1857 and 1858 he was elected to 

 the Pennsylvania Legislature as a Republic- 

 an. In 1865 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, 

 where, after being admitted to the bar, he en- 

 gaged in the real-estate business. In 1877 he 

 was elected mayor of Cleveland, and his ad- 

 ministration of municipal affairs was excep- 

 tionally able; and when, in April, 1891, he was 

 a candidate for re-election, he was returned 

 with a handsome majority. During the great 

 railroad strike, in his first administration, he 

 handled all difficulties so well that he was com- 

 mended by both his friends and his political op- 

 ponents. During the strike no property was lost 

 and no citizen was in jeopardy of his life. At the 

 beginning of his second administration the pres- 

 ent federal system of city government was in- 

 augurated, and upon him fell the work of setting 

 the untried machinery in motion. So thoroughly 

 and efficiently did he do this that his management 

 of affairs has always been regarded as one of the 

 best the city ever had. He was unanimously 

 nominated for Lieutenant Governor in 1883, and 

 raYi 7.000 votes ahead of his ticket, which was 

 defeated. 



Russell, William Augustus, manufacturer, 

 born in Wells River, Vt., April 22, 1831 ; died in 

 Boston. Mass., Jan. 10, 1899. He was educated 

 at Franklin, N. H., and Lowell, Mass., and in 

 184S began working in his father's paper mill 

 m the latter city. In 1853 the father and son 



formed a partnership, and moved their plant to 

 Lawrence. Soon afterward the father was obliged 

 by failing health to retire from business, and the 

 son assumed the whole management. In 1856 he 

 began enlarging his operations by leasing and 

 buying mills in Belfast, Me., and Lawrence, Mass. 

 Having found by costly experiments that wood 

 pulp was needed, he established in Franklin, 

 N. H., in 1869, the first mill in the country for 

 the production of the new fiber. He succeeded 

 in this w r here many had failed, and created a 

 new branch of industry. For the conversion 

 of the fiber into paper he purchased two mills 

 in Franklin and erected a large one in Bellows 

 Falls, Vt. To carry out his plans in the last 

 place he was obliged to purchase the entire 

 water pow r er there, build a new dam, and en- 

 large the canal. Through his enterprise this 

 small town grew to be the third in valuation in 

 the whole State. At the time of his death he was 

 operating paper mills at Bellows Falls, Vt., Law- 

 rence, Mass., St. Anthony's Falls, Minn., and in 

 several places in Maine. Mr. Russell was a dele- 

 gate to the Republican National Conventions of 

 1868 and 1876, a representative in the Massachu- 

 setts Legislature in 1869, and a member of Con- 

 gress from 1879 till 1885. 



Rust, John R., civil engineer, born in Wolfe- 

 borough, N. H., in 1828; died in Brooklyn, N. Y. r 

 Sept. 12, 1899. He became a railroad builder, 

 and helped to lay out the Lake Shore and the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul lines. Among 

 his other engineering works were the construc- 

 tion of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad 

 through the White Mountain notch, the St. 

 Johnsburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, and a 

 bridge across Maquam Bay. 



Rycraft, John, abolitionist, died in Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., in December, 1899. In 1854 a slave 

 named Joshua Glover escaped from his master, 

 a planter living near St. Louis. He was discov- 

 ered near Pacine, Wis., and was captured under 

 the fugitive slave act and taken to Milwaukee. 

 A mob broke open the jail and rescued the slave, 

 and Rycraft and S. M. Booth, the publisher of 

 an antislavery paper in Milwaukee, were arrested 

 on the charge that they had incited the mob and 

 aided in the rescue. Both were convicted of vio- 

 lation of the fugitive slave act, and a judicial 

 conflict was precipitated between the State of 

 Wisconsin and the United States; but the affair 

 was closed by the events attending the outbreak 

 of the civil war. 



Sartori, Lewis Constant, naval officer, born 

 in Bloomsbury, N. J., June 3, 1812; died in Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., Jan. 11, 1899. He was appointed 

 a midshipman in the navy Feb. 2, 1829; promoted 

 passed midshipman, June 15, 1837; lieutenant, 

 Sept. 8, 1841; commander, April 27, 1861; cap- 

 tain, Sept. 26, 1866; and commodore, Dec. 12, 

 1873; and was retired June 3, 1874. He was on 

 sea duty nineteen years and four months, and on 

 shore or other duty nine years and nine months. 

 Prior to 1840 he served successively at. the Bra- 

 zilian station and with the Mediterranean, West 

 Indies, and Pacific squadrons. During the Mex- 

 ican War he was attached to the bomb schooner 

 Stromboli, in w r hich he took part in the capture 

 of Tabasco and Coatzacoalcos. While on the John 

 Adams, in the Pacific squadron, in 1855, he com- 

 manded a successful expedition and engagement 

 against the Fijis. In 1861 he commanded the 

 blockading steamer Flag; in the latter part of 

 1862 the Florida, of the North Atlantic squadron; 

 in 1863, the Portsmouth, of the Western Gulf 

 squadron; and in 1864, the Monongahela and 

 Oneida, off Mobile. After the war he served on 



