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take charge of a university at Cairo; but the climate of the 
East proved injurious to the health of his wife, who, with a 
daughter and infant son, had followed him to Japan, and he 
reluctantly returned to the United States in 1877. He was 
decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the 
Rising Sun of Meiji, thus making him a nobleman of Japan, 
with the right to carry two swords, and he always regarded 
his life in Japan with the utmost satisfaction. 
On May 10, 1877, he was reappointed to the position in 
the Patent Office which he had resigned sixteen years before. 
He remained connected with that office until so much en¬ 
feebled by progressive paralysis that he could no longer per¬ 
form his duties, and relinquished the service on September 
30,1891. He was tenderly cared for by his daughters, dying 
on June 14,1893, in his seventy-seventh year, and was buried 
in Congressional Cemetery. 
Dr. Antisell was twice married; first to Eliza Anne Nowlan, 
of Dublin, who died after his removal to New York city, and 
a second time to Marion Stewart Forsyth, of Detroit, Michigan, 
daughter of a paymaster in the United States Army. He 
had twelve children, of whom three died in infancy. Six 
daughters and two sons survived him; both the latter re¬ 
moved to Montana some time before his death. 
In person Dr. Antisell was short and rather stout, with a 
florid complexion, especially in his younger days. In offi¬ 
cial life he had the reputation of being reserved and even 
somewhat brusque, but among his friends he was cordial and 
even warm-hearted, with an abundant supply of the wit and 
humor for which the Irish race have been always noted. 
The writer has abundant reason to remember many sponta¬ 
neous acts of kindness from him in our occasional early in¬ 
tercourse, which were greatly augmented when the changes 
of official life brought us into closer relations. 
During his whole career he was preeminently a teacher, 
especially of physiological chemistry, of which he had a 
thorough knowledge, as it was then understood. He was for 
thirty years connected with the Medical Department of 
