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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ABEL ACTON.) 



June 1, 1902. He removed in 1871 to Rochester, 

 where he studied law and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1875. He then became associated with 

 Eugene H. Satterlee. This firm continued in 

 practise till November, 1893, when Mr. Yeoman 

 was appointed an associate justice of the Su- 

 preme Court of New York, which post he held 

 till Jan. 1, 1895. He then resumed practise with 

 his former associate and Joseph W. Taylor, and 

 that relation continued till Mr. Yeoman's death. 

 He was for many years a member of the Board of 

 Managers of the State Industrial School and a 

 trustee of the Rochester Orphan Asylum. 



Young, Eliza Bland, actress, born in Lon- 

 don, England, May 31, 1812; died in the Actors' 

 Home, West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., 

 Aug. 10, 1902, being then the oldest actress in 

 the United States. She made her first appear- 

 ance in 1822, at the Adelphi Theater, London, in 

 a play called Scotch Valley. After a brief expe- 

 rience on the stage she returned to school for 

 five years, and then reentered theatrical life. 

 She traveled through England and other coun- 

 tries, playing soubrette and juvenile rOles for 

 several seasons, supporting at various times Gus- 

 tavus Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Ira 

 Aldridge, and other stars. She was a member of 

 the Robertson stock company for five years. In 

 1844 she married William Watkins Young, an 

 English actor-manager, and in 1856 she came 

 to the United States. She made her first appear- 

 ance in this country June 4, 1857, at Providence, 

 R. I., as Mrs. Lilywhite in a comedy entitled The 

 Forties and Fifties. During the thirty years fol- 

 lowing she appeared in many stock companies of 

 this country, and at one time or another sup- 

 ported nearly every prominent theatrical star 

 of the American stage. She was the original 

 Tabitha Stork in Lester Wallack's Rosedale, and 

 acted in the first American productions of The 

 Ticket-of-Leave Man, The Serious Family, East 

 Lynne, and the New Magdalen. Her last ap- 

 pearance was in. the season of 1899, at the age of 

 eighty-seven, when she appeared as the Third 

 Witch in Macbeth at the Fifth Avenue Theater, 

 New York city, supporting Mrs. Langtry. 



Zimmermann, Adolph, actor, born in Ger- 

 many in 1870; died in New York, Feb. 22, 1902. 

 He received his early dramatic training in the 

 court theaters of his native country, and became 

 a favorite in leading rOles. In 1900 he came to 

 the United States, and entered the Irving Place 

 Theater company as its leading man. He soon 

 won the same popularity with German-American 

 audiences that he had enjoyed in his own coun- 

 try. He was a highly accomplished and versatile 

 actor, and aside from his professional work, he 

 became very well known in some of the best Ger- 

 man clubs and societies in New York. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Abel, Sir Fred- 

 erick Augustus, English chemist, born in 1827; 

 died in London, Sept. 26, 1902. The family, of 

 Swedish origin, had produced men notable in 

 science, music, and painting. He entered the 

 Royal College of Chemistry as one of Hofmann's 

 first pupils, and was soon promoted to be an as- 

 sistant. In 1851 he became Professor of Chem- 

 istry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 

 In 1854 he was appointed chemist to the 

 War Office, which post he held until 1888, when 

 he was retired by the civil-service regulations. 

 In these thirty-four years he made nis most 

 important contributions to the chemistry of ex- 

 plosives. His work on the use of guncptton as 

 an explosive, which was summarized in a paper 

 printed in the Philosophical Transactions of 1866 

 and in the Bakerian Lecture printed in the same 



journal for the succeeding year, was perhaps his 

 most important contribution to science. He 

 showed how guncotton,' previously regarded ae 

 dangerous and inefficient, could be safely handled 

 and prepared of constant composition, and indi- 

 cated its great value 

 as an explosive agent. 

 He also did important 

 work, in conjunction 

 with Sir Andrew Noble, 

 on the chemical changes 

 that result from firing 

 gunpowder. In 1888 he 

 was appointed chair- 

 man of the Government 

 Committee on Explo- 

 sives. As the result 

 of a series of experi- 

 ments conducted under 

 its auspices, " cordite," 

 an explosive containing 

 both guncotton and ni- 

 tro-glycerin, was pat- 

 ented by Abel and Dewar, and soon became 

 the standard explosive of the country. In 

 connection with the petroleum acts of 1868 

 and 1879 he devised an apparatus for deter- 

 mining the temperature at which petroleum 

 gives off inflammable vapor which is still in 

 general use. He took a leading part in establish- 

 ing the Imperial Institute. He Avas elected a 

 fellow of the Royal Society in 1860, and received 

 a royal medal in 1887 for his researches on explo- 

 sives. He was knighted in 1883, and the K. C. B. 

 was conferred on him in 1891. He was presi- 

 dent of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1890, and of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute in 1891. 



Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg- 

 Acton, Baron, English historian, born in Naples, 

 Italy, Jan. 1, 1834; died at Tegernsee, Bavaria, 

 June 19, 1902. He was the son of Sir Richard 

 Acton, inherited his large English property, and 

 remained with his mother until he was sent 

 when not yet ten years of age to the Catholic 

 school at Oscott, of which Dr. Wiseman was 

 the president. After completing the course 

 of four years at Oscott, then a center of Cath- 

 olic influence, visited often by the Oxford con- 

 verts, he read with Dr. Logan, a priest in 

 Edinburgh who had been a Protestant, and 

 when prepared for admission to Cambridge, Dr. 

 Logan s university, he applied successively at 3 

 colleges, and was each time refused because he 

 was a Roman Catholic. Consequently he went 

 to study at Munich, where he lived in the house 

 of Dr. Doellinger, with whom he visited Rome 

 in 1857, having in the previous year attended 

 the coronation of the Emperor Alexander II with 

 his stepfather, Lord Granville. He traveled in 

 the United States and became acquainted with 

 Prescott and Dr. Brownson, just as in Europe he 

 came to know every eminent historian and every 

 leader of Catholic thought. German. French, and 

 Italian to him were household tongues as well as 

 English, and from his youth up he impressed 

 scholars and statesmen alike with the vast range 

 of his knowledge and the brilliancy of his con- 

 versation. When Newman had displeased the au- 

 thorities of his Church by enunciating some origi- 

 nal views of doctrine and polity in the Rambler 

 and had resigned the editorship in consequence, 

 Sir John Acton succeeded him, and soon after- 

 ward transformed the periodical into the Home 

 and Foreign Review, to which some of the fore- 

 most writers of Europe contributed until he 

 stopped the publication because the authorities 



