Funeral plans for Morris K Jesup at Brick Presbyterian Church
The funeral for Morris Ketchum Jesup, who died at his Madison Avenue home, will be held Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at Brick Presbyterian Church Fifth Avenue and 27th Street with Rev. William R Richards officiating. A special Chamber of Commerce meeting today at 12:30 p.m. will consider Jesup’s death, as he long led the organization and served on multiple boards. Memorial addresses will be delivered by George F. Seward Joseph H Choate John S Kennedy Seth Low and other notable figures.
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No. Q
Madison Avenue
Tribune
Brick Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue
27Th Street
William R Richards
Chamber of Commerce
Jesup
Georrge F. Seward
Joseph H. Choate
John S. Kennedy
Seth Low
William Butler Duncan
A. Foster Higgins
Bratton Ives
Mr. Jesup
Dr. Armstrong
Rapid Transit Commission
Royalty Agreement Ends Stage Ban on Die Lustige Witwe
Henry W. Savage and the Froehlich dispute over The Merry Widow led to an injunction against a German version at 1465 Third Avenue. After a Tuesday court action, the Viennese operetta was withdrawn, then restored following a new agreement under which Mrs. Froehlich will pay weekly royalties to Savage’s representatives.
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Henry W. Savage
Fromme Brothers
Caroline Froehlich
Harvard's Oldest Alum Dead
Charles Alfred Welch Harvard class of 1833 died at his relatives’ home in Cohasset Massachusetts from heart trouble He was born in Boston in 18 He became a leading attorney in Springfield after Harvard and was a long time member of the Porcellian Club He served three years as grand master of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Masons.
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Boston
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Federal Building
Springfield
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Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts
Archbishop Farley Visits Irish Exposition in New York
Archbishop Farley and Monsignor Javelle visited the Irish Exposition at Madison Square Garden yesterday. Farley praised the mineral exhibit and learned silver was found in Armagh, contradicting prior beliefs about Wicklow. Knights of Columbus will be guests of honor tonight as all officers accept the invitation.
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Monsignor
Javelle
Madison Square Garden
Wicklow
Armagh
Knights of Columbus
Miss Truax Weds Before Operation
Chicago January 22 Actress Sarah Truax of Chicago married attorney Charles S. Albert of Minneapolis this afternoon at a hospital where the bride will undergo an operation tomorrow. The ceremony was postponed last week due to the actress illness.
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Chicago
Sarah Truax
Charles S. Albert
Minneapolis
Stedman Will Leaves Estate to Sons and Granddaughter
The will of Edmund Clarence Stedman filed for probate leaves the residuary estate to his sons Frederick S. Stedman and Arthur G. Stedman and granddaughter Laura W. Stedman after gifts to institutions. Dr. Thomas L. Stedman and Laura W. Stedman named literary executors with specific duties and substitutions possible.
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Frederick S. Stedman
Arthur G. Stedman
Laura W. Stedman
Stedman
Thomas L. Stedman
Robert Underwood Johnson
Miss Stedman
Lfe
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Stock Exchange
Frederick
Yale University
Theocritus
Authors’ Club
Bayard Tayior
The
Goethe
Mr. Stedman
Bayard Taylor
Count Usedon
Century Association
May Compromise Tower Suit In White Plains
Justice Mills reported no new court action in the Mary B Tower vs Albert B Tower divorce suit. The parties reached a 28 item agreement in the suit for a limited divorce and rumors spread of a potential compromise. An affidavit alleges Rice heard Tower offer 36000 to secure the divorce, with death reducing the widow's share of real estate.
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Justice Mills
Supreme Court
White Plains
Mary B. Tower
Albert B. Tower
Poughkeepsie
Vanderbilt Aids Newport Church in Organ Debt Gift
Alfred G. Vanderbilt sent a 606 dollar check to the Ladies Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church in Newport to cancel its organ debt. An official announcement of the gift may be made next Sunday.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Ladies’ Aid Society
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Weather Report Forecasts Cold Shift From Northwest
The official forecast tracks a return to pure winter in the Northwest with high pressure and low temperatures dipping two to ten degrees below zero in North Dakota and Manitoba. Colder conditions extend through the central valley, Great Lakes, and Middle Atlantic regions, while the South remains warmer. Local rains and light snows are noted in the Northeast and upper Midwest with a new storm approaching the North Pacific Coast. Winds will be fresh along the coasts, with mainly fair but colder weather over the next two days and colder spell moving into Thursday through Friday across multiple regions. Local District and New England forecasts call for fair and colder conditions. A postal record from the Weather Bureau shows yesterday’s temperatures and last year’s comparisons.
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Weather Bureau
Obituary of Walter M. Ferriss Pioneer Scholar of Brooklyn
Walter M. Ferriss died at his Bay Ridge Brooklyn home from pneumonia on Tuesday. Born October 26 1835 in Vermont to New England Quaker stock he studied at Union College and became a writer for Appletons American Encyclopedia The American Supplement to Britannica The Century Dictionary and Webster's International Dictionary He married Sarah Ryder in 1857 and had two daughters and a son He was a member of Chi Psi The funeral is at 10 30 this morning at his home with Rev Bishop Falkner officiating
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Bay Ridge
Stewart Avenues
Brooklyn
E. George Ferriss
Mr. Ferriss
Vermont
New England
Union College
A. N. Littlejohn
Robert Earle
Court of Appeals
Ferriss
John Anthon
Appleton
Forum
Sarah Ryder
Kings County
Chi Psi
Bishop Falkner
Christ Church
Franklin C. Cornell dies at 70 in Ithaca N Y
Franklin C. Cornell died suddenly of heart disease at his Ithaca home yesterday morning in his seventy first year. He was Ezra Cornell’s son and Alonzo B Cornell’s brother, longtime trustee of Cornell University and former chairman of the executive committee. As a founder and president of the Ithaca Trust Company he was a leading Ithaca businessman.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Ezra Cornell
Cornell University
Alonzo B. Cornell
University
Samuel D. Halliday
Cornell
Ithaca Trust Company
Death of Henry Martyn Parkhurst noted in Brooklyn
Professor Henry Martyn Parkhurst aged eighty three died at his home 173 Gates Avenue Brooklyn from pneumonia. Born in New Hampshire he moved to New York to work as a newspaper reporter later serving twenty years as a stenographer for the New York Superior Court. He joined the Brooklyn Institute as first astronomy department president and claimed to have observed Donati's comet in 1858. Parkhurst helped found the observatory on his grounds and was part of Brook Farm. His wife Anna E. Edwards survives him.
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Morris Ketchum Jesup
Westport
Conn
Charles Jesup
New York
Edward Jesup
Abigail Sherwood
Saugatuck
Morris K. Jesup
Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor
Paterson
N. J
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I&c
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Pearl Street
M. K Jesup & Co
Rogers Locomotive Works
Jesup
Europe
Henry Martyn Parkhurst
Charles H. Parkhurst
John L. Parkhurst
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Parkhurst
New Hampshire
Donati
Brooklyn Institute
Brook Farm
Anna E. Edwards
Assistant Surgeon Blakeman Dies At Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Assistant Surgeon Robert Silvester Blakeman U S N retired died at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital after illness begun following his wife’s departure to Bridgeport Conn. A 35 year old veteran of the Spanish American War he served on the cruiser Boston and volunteered for Iloilo after Manila Bay earning two medals of honor for bravery.
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Norfolk
Robert Silvester Blakeman
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
Bridgeport
Conn
Blakeman
Boston
Iloilo
Philippines
Manila Bay
Bowden Virginia Republican Leader Dies at 55
George E Bowden a Virginia Republican national committeeman former congressman and longtime public official died at his Norfolk home after a Christmas illness He was 55 and survived by his wife two sons and a daughter Bowden served as Collector of Customs Port of Norfolk and Portsmouth and was a friend of President McKinley acting as federal appointment referee in Virginia
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George E. Bowden
Virginia
Congress
United States Court of the
Eastern District of Virginia
Bowden
Portsmouth
McKinley
Walter Lincoln Tyler Dies at 41 in Brooklyn
Walter Lincoln Tyler of A. B. Lee Electric Elevator Company died from blood poisoning yesterday at his home 80 Fierrepont Street Brooklyn. He was born in Brooklyn 41 years ago, graduated from Columbia University in 1887, and became a director of Flatbush Trust Company and Home Title Insurance Company vice president. He served as a trustee of the Church of the Pilgrims and was a member of the Hamilton Club and Crescent Athletic Club.
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A. B. Lee Electric Elevator Company
Broadway
Fierrepont Street
Brooklyn
Mr. Tyler
William S. Tyler
Columbia University
Flatbush Trust Company
Home Title Insurance Company
Hamilton Club
Crescent Athletic Club
Church of the Pilgrims
Obituary notes for Davies and Johnston highlight NYC builders and clergy
John H. Davies formerly a contractor and builder in New York City died at his Bayonne home at sixty nine. He built the 7th Regiment Armory and Levi P Morton's home in New York. Harriet Elinor Johnston wife of Rev J Wesley Johnston died at 73 Willow Street Brooklyn. Dr Johnston once led St John’s M E Church, and his wife organized the Kings Daughters and Sons circle, a strong church group.
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New York City
Bayonne
N. J
Mr. Davies
7Th Regiment
Levi P. Morton
New York
Harriet Elinor Johnston
J. Wesley Johnston
John Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Manhattan
Willow Street
Brooklyn
Dr. Johnston
St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church
Circle of King’s Daughters and Sons
Oration at Karat Club Dinner Praises America and Law
Ex Lieutenant Governor M Linn Bruce stole the show at Delmonico s with a keynote on Generalities and the Roosevelt era. He praised American institutions, likening policy to necessary surgery, and urged adherence to law over men while defending national resilience. Senator Gore lauded Oklahoma using sharp humor about grafters and politics.
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Oklahoma
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Congress
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Vicksburg
Shiloh
Appomattox
Mr. Bruce
Reception by Hippodrome Cats on Their First American Visit
At the Hippodrome matinee Coleman's six trained cats will hold a stage reception after the show on their first visit to America. Children in the audience will be invited to meet the cats on stage with their own pets, milk will be served, and the receiving cats include Adelina Nina Zaza Chila Peter and Liza. Mr Coleman's dogs will attend as spectators.
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Perrine Marriage Notice Published By Tribune
Notice indicates the Perrine marriage to occur December 28 1997 at home in Charleston South Carolina with Ginevra Perrine formerly of Charleston and now of Kansas City Missouri. The notice requests indorsement of full name and address for marriage and death notices.
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San
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Death notices appear in The Tribune and Tri Weekly Tribune
Obituaries inform readers of multiple local deaths including Eliza A. Banta of Mamaronack New York and James H. Bartholomew of East Orange New Jersey. Details list dates January 21 1908 January 2 1908 and January 23 1908 with service times and interment plans, including travel arrangements from Grand Central and Brick Church station.
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East Orange
N. J
James H. Bartholomew
Glenwood Ave
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Brick Church
New
Funeral notices from a New York area church and community
A compilation of obituaries and funeral notices dated January 1908 from Brooklyn and New York, naming individuals such as Frank Cornell, Thomas Greenleaf, Morris Ketchum, Harriet Elinor Johnston, Clarence McCloskey, Hibbert B. Masters, William Henry Morse, Janet Ouchterloney, Henry Martyn Parkhurst, Walter Lincoln Tyler, Eliza Wilson, and others. It lists dates, places like Plainfield New Jersey, Brooklyn addresses, Oak Bluffs Cemetery, and services at Presbyterian and Methodist churches with burial and cremation details. The notices reference Undertaker Frank Campbell and local cemetery arrangements, times, and locations, including 10:30 am services and January 22 to 25 event windows.
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Plainfield
N. J
Thomas Greenleaf
New City
Jesup
Morris Ketchum
Presbyterian Church
Sith St
Sth Ave
Johnston
Harriet Elinor
J. Wesley Johnston
John Street Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
Willow St
Brooklyn
Oak Bluffs Cemetery
Martha's Vineyard
Mass
McLoskey
Clarence McCloskey
Lexington Ave
St. John the Baptist
Lewis and Willoughby Aves
Calvary Cemetery
Masters
Hibbert B. Masters
West 7Th St
Liberty St
Morse
William Henry Morse
East End Baptist Church
van Sicklen Ave
Glenmore
Continental Lodge
Walter Lincoln Tyler
Jens Brooklyn
Oc Wilson
Eliza
Thaddeus Wilson
D. D
Ng Lake
N- 5
Bytertan Church
Red Bank Pennsylvania
Cortlandt St
Desirable help sought for various offices at Uptown Tribune
Special notices advertise a file of applications for positions of various kinds at the Uptown Office of The New York Tribune. It lists office hours, subscription rates, and postal rates for domestic and foreign destinations, with details on daily, weekly, and Sunday editions and almanac pricing.
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