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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (STOETZER TORREY.) 



York stage in 1888. All Stockton's stories are 

 marked by a quaint humor that is peculiarly 



CLAYMONT. 



his own. He was a skilful and accomplished edi- 

 tor and a most genial companion. His every 

 impulse was kindly, every opinion or criticism 

 appreciative; and his conversation abounded in 

 the same humor that secured popularity for his 

 published work. He lived several years near 

 Morristown, N. Jr, but a few years ago bought a 

 fine old place, Claymont, in Jefferson County, 

 West Virginia, and made it his home. For por- 

 trait, see frontispiece. 



Stoetzer, Wilhelm, soldier, born in Allstedt, 

 Germany, about 1843; died on Governor's is- 

 land, New York, April 20, 1902. He was edu- 

 cated at Leipsic; joined the Prussian army for 

 service in the war against France, and partici- 

 pated in numerous engagements, including Metz, 

 Worth, Sedan, and the siege of Paris. After 

 the war he came to the United States and en- 

 listed in the regular army; and was assigned to 

 the 12th Infantry. He remained in the army till 

 his death. He was also a distinguished linguist 

 and musician, and was the official interpreter of 

 every command to which he was attached while 

 in the American army. 



Stromberg, John, musician, composer, and 

 orchestra leader, born in Prince Edward Island 

 in 1860; died in Freeport, Long Island, July 5, 

 1902. At a very early age he showed marked 

 talent for composing music, and received a thor- 

 ough musical education. He traveled several 

 seasons in Canada with various theatrical com- 

 panies, and then came to the United States, lead- 

 ing orchestras in theaters in different cities and 

 composing many songs that caught the public 

 fancy. In 1896, after finishing a long engage- 

 ment as orchestra leader for Andrew Mack, the 

 singing Irish comedian, he became the musical 

 director at the famous vaudeville theater of 

 Weber and Fields in New York city. Here, with 

 an extraordinarily fine company to bring his 

 songs before the public, he composed all the 

 music for the brilliant burlesques given at that 

 theater. None of his compositions failed to 

 achieve success, and soon after they were heard 

 in New York they were played, sung, and whis- 

 tled all over the country, so great was their 

 peculiar charm. 



Swayne, Wager, military officer, born in Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1834; died in New York 

 city, Dec. 18, 1902. He was graduated at Yale 

 University in 1856; studied at the Cincinnati 

 Law School; was admitted to the bar in Ohio 

 and began practise in Columbus. At the out- 

 break of the civil war he raised the 43d Ohio 



Infantry and was made its major; was promoted 

 lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 14, 1861; colonel, Oct. 18, 

 1862; brigadier-general, March 8, 1865; major- 

 general, June 20, 1865; and was mustered out 

 Sept. 1, 1867. After the war he was transferred 

 to the regular army, and was commissioned colo- 

 nel of the 45th Infantry, July 11, 1870. He served 

 under Gen. Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, 

 and at Salkahatchie, S. C., he received a wound 

 that caused the amputation of his leg. Shortly 

 after the war he was made Military Governor of 

 Alabama. He established the first school for 

 negroes in the South at Talladega. After his 

 retirement from the regular army he returned 

 to Ohio and practised law in Toledo till 1880, 

 when he removed to New York city, where he 

 formed the firm of Dillon & Swayne, which later 

 became Swayne & Swayne. He was for many 

 years general counsel for the Western Union Tele- 

 graph Company, the Wabash Railway Company, 

 the Associated Press, and other corporations. 



Thompson, Hugh Miller, Episcopal clergy- 

 man, born in County Londonderry, Ireland, June 

 5, 1830; died in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 18, 1902. 

 He removed with his parents to the United States 

 in 1836, received a common-school education ob- 

 tained in Caldwell, N. J., and was graduated at 

 Nashotah Theological Seminary in 1852, and was 

 ordered priest in 1856. He was successively in 

 charge of Grace Church, Madison, Wis., and 

 Church of the Nativity, Maysville, Ky., and after 

 his ordination to the priesthood was rector of St. 

 James's Church, Portage, Wis., 1856-'58; St. 

 Matthew's, Kenosha, Wis., 1858-'59; Grace 

 Church, Galena, 111., 1859-'66; assistant rector of 

 St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, 1866-70; rector 

 of St. James's Church, Chicago, 1870-'71; Christ 

 Church, New York city, 1871-75; Trinity, New 

 Orleans, 1875-'83. In addition to the duties of 

 his profession he was Professor of Church His- 

 tory at Nashotah Seminary, 1860-70, and for 

 seven years editor of the Church Journal, in 

 New York, continuing his editorial labors after 

 removing to New Orleans. In 1883 he was con- 

 secrated bishop-coadjutor of Mississippi, and 

 he became bishop of that diocese on the death of 

 Bishop Green in 1887. He attended the Lambeth 

 Conference in 1888, and preached in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and before Ox- 

 ford University. His published books include 

 Unity and its Restoration (1860); Sin and its 

 Penalties (1862); First Principles (1868); Abso- 

 lution (1872) ; Copy, a very popular collection of 

 editorial papers (1872) ; Is Romanism the Best 

 Religion of the Republic (1873) ?; The World and 

 the Logos (1886); The World and the Kingdom 

 (1888); The World and the Wrestlers (1895); 

 The World and the Man; More Copy (1897). 

 Many sermons by him were issued separately, and 

 he often contributed to pamphlet controversy. 



Torrey, Henry Augustus Pearson, educator, 

 born in Beverly, Mass., Jan. 8. 1837; died there, 

 Sept. 20, 1902. He removed to Burlington, Vt., 

 in boyhood, and was graduated at the university 

 there in 1858. He was graduated at Union The- 

 ological Seminary, New York, in 1864, ordained 

 in 1865, and beca*me pastor of the Congregational 

 church in Vergennes, Vt. In 1868 he was made 

 Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy 

 in the University of Vermont, and he occupied 

 that chair continuously thirty-four years, being 

 at the time of his death, in point of service, 

 the oldest member of the faculty. From 1888 

 to 1893 he had charge of the university library. 

 He received the degree of LL. D. in 1896. He 

 contributed to the Andover Review a series of 

 articles on The Theodicee of Leibnitz (1885) and 



