ARNOLD, Billy
Famous Base Ball Manager Dead
ALBANY, Jan. 19
– “Billy” Arnold, the famous base ball manager, died in the Albany
county almshouse hospital. Death was due to apoplexy. Arnold managed the
renowned Nationals of this city in 1878. [Friday, January 20, 1899
Hornellsville, New York. SRC1.]
BURKENBOSCH, Abram
Abram Burkenbosch, 58, of Johnstown,
was killed when a loose electric wire was blown about him as he left his
home to warn children playing near it. [Daily Messenger, Canandaigua. May 11, 1934.
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EVERITT, Edward
Edward Everitt Sweet, 24 years
old, a son of State Engineer Sweet and employed in his department, died
at Albany yesterday morning of typhoid fever. [Sunday, January 10,
1886 New York, New York. SRC1.]
EYCK
TEN EYCK – At
Albany, on Tuesday morning, May 18, JULIA G. widow of Hon. John C. Eyck
of Mount Holly, N.J. [Wednesday, May 14, 1890 New York, New York.
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GARDNER, Peter
- At Albany, N Y, Sept 27, Peter
Gardner, formerly of Nantucket, 51 years 6 months 26 days. [The
Campaign Post -Boston. Friday Morning, Oct. 14, 1864 .
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HAND, Edward
23. – Hand, Edward, Superintendent of
the Bank Department of the State of New York, died at Albany.
[Thursday, January 04, 1866 New York, New York.
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HASWELL, John H.
John H.
Haswell
John H. Haswell died at Albany,
N.Y., yesterday. He was born in that city in 1841, the son of the late
Henry B. Haswell. He was a graduate of the Albany Boys’ Academy, and
also of the Law Department of Georgetown University. In January, 1865,
Mr. Haswell was appointed to a clerkship in the Department of State at
Washington, D.C., by the late W.H. Seward, then Secretary of State. He
served through the several grades, and upon the reorganization of the
department was appointed Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Indexes and
Archives, a position he held up to the time of his resignation, last
Spring.
For a number of years Mr. Haswell
was in charge of all the diplomatic correspondence, arranging it for
presentation to Congress. From the memoranda furnished him, Mr. Haswell
formulated the treaty for the acquisition of Alaska. He also had charge
of all the correspondence relative to the Alabama
claims.
In 1876 he devised a cipher code,
which has been employed by the Government ever since as a means of
communicating with its representatives abroad. Just before returning to
Albany Mr. Haswell completed a second code, which was first used by the
Federal Government Sept 30 last in transmitting a dispatch to the United
States Minister to Great Britain. In 1898 he issued a special code to be
used during the war with Spain. One of the most important works which he
compiled was a chronological history of the Department of State and
Foreign Relations of the Government from Sept. 5, 1774, to
1894.
Mr. Haswell was a member of several
Masonic bodies in Washington. He is survived by two sisters - Mrs.
A. Cuyler Ten Eyck and Mrs. Dudley Walsh, and one brother, Trowbridge
Haswell. [Wednesday, November 15, 1899 New York, New York.
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PARKER, Amasa J.
AMASA J.
PARKER
Amasa J. Parker, the eminent jurist,
died in Albany last evening, after a brief illness, at the age of
eighty-three.
He was born at Sharen,
Litchfield County, Conn. He sprang from old New-England stock, and at an
early age gave evidence of remarkable talent. In the Summer of 1825 he
passed an examination on the whole course at Union College and received
his degree. Two years after he was principal of an academy at Hudson,
N.Y. Studying law with his uncle, Amasa Parker, a distinguished lawyer
at Delhi, N.Y. he was admitted to practice at the age of twenty-one. He
became associated with his uncle, and the firm had a wide reputation in
Delaware and surrounding counties.
His first
vote was cast for Andrew Jackson for President, and in 1833 he began a
distinguished political career, being elected by the Democracy as member
of Assembly from Delaware County. In 1835 he was elected a Regent of the
University of the Sate, being the youngest person ever chosen to that
position. He represented Delaware and Broome Counties in the
Twenty-fifth Congress, his popularity being so great that the Whigs
would not nominate a candidate against him. In the great debate on the
sub-Treasury scheme proposed by President Van Buren, and opposed by the
Whigs and some of the Democrats, Mr. Parker took a leading part,
advocating the measure with earnestness and vigor. The measure, however,
failed to become a law at that Congress. Returning home he served three
years as District Attorney, and in 1844 Gov Bouck appointed him Circuit
Judge and Vice Chancellor of the Third District. He then took up his
residence in Albany and at once became a leading figure in his
profession and in his social and domestic
life.
In 1847 he was elected a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the Third District, serving eight years. During the
year 1854 he served in the Court of Appeals. His opinions were models of
their kind, were ably written, and covered many celebrated
cases.
In the Summer of 1853 Judge Parker
visited Europe, and was warmly received by distinguished lawyers and
jurists of the Old World. At Lord Brougham’s invitation he delivered an
address before the Law Reform Club of England regarding the admirable
workings of the legal reform that had been made in the State by the
Constitutional Convention of 1847. In 1855 the Know-Nothing sentiment
was strong and Judge Parker was an unsuccessful candidate for Justice of
the Supreme Court, George Gould, the candidate of the American Party,
being elected. He resumed the practice of his profession and refused to
be a candidate again for Judge of the Court of Appeals, although the
Democracy had again recovered its lost ground and was in power in the
district and State.
In 1856 Judge Parker was
the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of the State, John A.
King, the Republican nominee, being chosen. He ran again in 1858, when
Edwin D. Morgan was elected by 17,000 majority. In these two contests,
however, Judge parker ran ahead of his ticket. During the war he was
recognized as a “peace Democrat.” In 1867-8 he was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention. In 1865 his son Amasa J. Parker,
Jr., became associated with him, and eleven years later Judge Edwin
Countryman was admitted into the firm. Some of the more important cases
in which Judge Parker has been engaged were those on the question on the
right to tax national banks, on the title of Trinity Church property,
the Levy will contest, the controversy between the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company and the boundary-line question between the States of New
York and New Jersey.
Judge Parker was one of
the founders and a Professor of the Albany Law School for twenty years.
He published six volumes of Law reports, being decisions in criminal
cases. He was a Trustee of Cornell and Union Universities, and was
honored with the degree of LL D by Hobatt College. He was custodian of
the Harmamus Bleecker legacy, which he turned over to the Young Men’s
Association of Albany, and which formed the nucleus of the Public Hall
fund. He is survived by one son, Gen. Amasa J. Parker, Jr., and three
daughters, Mrs. John V. L. Prayn, Mrs. Erastus Corning, and Mrs. Selden
E. Marvin. [Wednesday, May 14, 1890 New York, New York.
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PARKER – Entered into rest
May 13, AMASA J PARKER, in the 83d year of his age. The funeral services
will be read over his remains on Friday afternoon, may 16, at 3 o’clock
at St. Peter’s Church, Albany N.Y. [Wednesday, May 14, 1890 New
York, New York. SRC1.]
SELKIRK, Edward
The Rev. Edward
Selkirk, D.D., rector emeritus of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church,
and Canon of All Saints’ Cathedral, died in Albany yesterday. He was one
of the oldest ministers in Albany. He was born Oct. 13, 1800, in
Waterbury, Conn., and was a resident of the capital since 1839. His
first charge in Albany was at Trinity church, where he remained until
1884. He was then compelled to resign because of advancing years. Dr.
Selkirk was a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, and the General
Theological Seminary, this city. The immediate cause of death was
pneumonia. [Sunday, February 15, 1891 New York, New York.
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WALWORTH, Clarence A.
The Rev. Clarence A.
Walworth
The Rev. Clarence Augustus Walworth
died at Albany yesterday, after a long illness. He was the eldest son of
the late Reuben Hyde Walworth, Chancellor of the Court of Chancery, and
was born May 30, 1820 at Plattsburg, N.Y. He received his early
education at the Albany Academy, and was graduated from Union College in
1838.
Following his father’s wishes,
Clarence Walworth studied law, and practiced successfully in Canandaigua
for a few years, after which he determined to devote himself to religion
and entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Before he
completed his studies there he had decided to become a Catholic priest.
He entered the Order of Redemptorists and pursued his studies for the
priesthood under their direction in Belgium for five years. After two
years of priestly labor in England he returned to America and in 1858
joined the late I.T. Hecker and others in founding the Order of
Paulists.
Soon after the Paulists had taken
possession of the property in New York City. Father Walworth was
prostrated by a long and severe attack of malarial fever. This, with the
exhaustion from long continued overwork enfeebled his health to
such a degree that it became necessary for him to transfer his labors to
the secular priesthood, He was affiliated to the Albany Diocese, and his
first labors were as pastor of St. Peter’s Church, Troy. He was
appointed pastor of St. Mary’s, in Albany, in 1866. He took an active
part in work for the temperance cause and for the welfare of the city,
State, and country. He was a man of profound learning and his interest
in general literature was unflagging, as shown in his many published
works. He was also a practical geologist, and was specially familiar
with the geology of this State. [Thursday, September 20, 1900 New
York, New York. SRC1.]
WEBSTER, George
Died at Albany, on
the 22d ultimo, George Webster, Esq, on of the Editors of the Albany
Daily Advertiser, aged 61 years. Mr. W. was one of the founders of that
paper, about 40 years ago. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania) March 5 1823 Page 3. SRC 5.]
WILSON
Judge Wilson, long a resident of Albany, died in Chicago on
the 11th.[Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 05/30/1863.
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YOUNG, Edward
--Edward Young, the attorney for the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, died in Albany yesterday from
injuries received on Wednesday by being thrown from his horse in
Washington Park. A fracture at the base of the skull was the cause of
death. Mr. Young did not regain consciousness after the accident. He was
born in Honesdale, Pa., 37 years ago, the son of Coe F. Young. He
graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, and
Columbia Law School. He married a daughter of Thomas Cornell, of
Rondout, of whose vast estate he was executer. A widow and two children
survive him. [Saturday, April 22, 1893 Middletown, New
York.SRC1.]
