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Year in necrology of eminent figures worldwide
A survey of notable deaths over the past year lists statesmen, scientists, clergy, generals, editors, and artists from various nations. Among the names are Edward Lasker, Keshub Chunder Sen, Judah P. Benjamin, Cyrus McCormick, Jane Gray Swieshelm, Blanchard Jerrold, and Allan Pinkerton, with losses spanning Europe, America, and Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr Edward Lasker
New York
globe
Keshub Chunder Sen
Calcutta
Earl Grosvenor
London
John Letcher
Virginia
E. W. M. Mackey
South Carolina
Boston
Wendell Phillips
Eugene Rouher
W. H. Hunt
Russia
St. Petersburg
Judah P. Benjamin
Charles O'Conor
Cyrus H. McCormick
Congress of thia country
Heister Clymer
Pennsylvania
House
John Hill
New Jersey
Folger
Pr. R. H. Clarkson
Nebraska
H. H. Kavanaugh
George F. Pierce
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Matthew Simpson
M. E. Church
Ezra Abbott
Massachusetts
Channing
Jost Generale Terrer
Alford
Fillebrown
Gregory
George F. Simmons
A. A. Harwood
Alexander Murray
Francia E. Todlben
Sebastopo
Wimpffen
Jean Paul Schramm
Hicks Pasha
Soudan
Science
Gavot
Princeton
John Gustavus Droysen
Berlin
Woodward
United States army
Augustine Voelcker
Grimm
Samuel D. Gross
Jane Gray Swieshelm
Mary Clemmer Ames
Charles Reade
Blanchard Jerrold
Henry T. Byron
Henry Laube
Wilbur F. Storey
Chicago Times
Thomas Che
London Times
Thomas Kinsella
Brooklyn Eagle
Nicholas Trobner
Henry Bond
omas G. Appleton
Beaton
Smith Sheldon
R. M. Hoe
Prince Leopold,e
Albany
Cannes
Anna
Austria
Prince of Orange
Arthur Richard Wellesley
Duke of Wellington
Salten Pasha
Lord Ampthill
Prussia
Nelson Poe
Maryland
Anos Morrill
Texas
Robert E. Chambers
Radians
Thatcher
Colorado
a wayne
Supreme Court
Brigeon
opera
Taglioni
Frank Ghanian
John Evers
Michael Costa
Hullah
Charles Delmonico
Allan Pinkerton
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