The 1900s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: Deaths

THE 1900s: LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS: DEATHS

Herbert Baxter Adams, historian whose students included Woodrow Wilson and Frederick Jackson Turner who helped organize the American Historical Association (1886), 30 July 1901.

Daniel Agnew, 93, Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge who found local dry laws constitutional, 9 March 1902.

Susan Brownell Anthony, 86, reformer and founder of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, 13 March 1906.

Caroline Astor, 78, socialite, founder of the "Four Hundred," 30 October 1908.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer, 54, first woman to make fortune in the cosmetics industry, 1903.

Frank C. Bangs, 74, humorist, lecturer, 12 June 1908.

Josephine Abiah Penfield Cushman Bateham, 71, influential advocate of Sunday closing laws (blue laws), 15 March 1901.

John Bidwell, 80, former Prohibition Party presidential candidate, 4 April 1900.

Calamity Jane, 51, cowgirl, adventurer, 1 August 1903.

Julia Colman, 80, Woman's Christian Temperance Union officer, influential writer and editor, 10 January 1909.

Jane "Jennie June" Cunningham Croly, 72, newspaper reporter and clubwoman, 1902.

Rev. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, 87, well-known Presbyterian preacher, writer, and ardent temperance worker, 26 February 1909.

Nathan Smith Davis, 87, physician, sanitary reformer, and antialcohol advocate, 16 June 1904.

Noah Davis, 83, New York attorney and temperance advocate who linked drinking and crime, 20 March 1902..

Mary Mapes Dodge, 74, author of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1865), 21 August 1905.

Ignatius Donnelly, 69, Republican and Populist politician and reformer, author of social commentary novel Caesars Column (1891), 1 January 1901.

Marshall Field, 70, merchant, developed one of the first department stores in the United States, 16 January 1906.

Rev. Charles Henry Fowler, 70, Methodist minister, foreign missionary, Prohibition advocate, 20 March 1908.

Helen Mar Jackson Gougar, 63, teacher, writer, WCTU and Prohibition Party activist, 6 June 1907.

Edward Everett Hale, 87, reformer, author of "The Man Without a Country," 10 June 1909.

William Torrey Harris, 74, educator, writer, 5 November 1909.

Samuel Dexter Hastings, 86, merchant, politician, anti-slavery and temperance reformer, 26 March 1903.

Oliver Otis Howard, 78, commissioner of U.S. Freedmen's Bureau 1865-1876, 26 October 1909.

Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt, 75, national temperance worker and health-education reformer, 24 April 1906.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, 64, who said in 1877, "I will fight no more forever," 1904.

Samuel Porter Jones, 58, Methodist evangelist who preached all over the country on moral and temperance issues, 15 October 1906.

Leslie Enraught Keeley, 67?, successful promoter of the Keeley (or Gold) Cure for alcoholism, 21 February 1900.

Mary Ashton Livermore, 83, teacher, suffragist, Massachusetts WCTU president, 23 May 1905.

Henry Demarest Lloyd, 56, publicist, social reformer, author of the influential book Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), 28 September 1903.

Helena Modjeska, 58, actress, 8 April 1909.

Francis Murphy, 71, temperance evangelist whose "Murphy Movement" got tens of thousands to take the "Murphy Pledge," 30 June 1907.

Frederick Law Olmsted, 80, urban planner, designer of Central Park, Boston's Emerald Necklace, and other parks, 28 August 1903.

Hiram Price, 87, president of Anti-Saloon League of America, 30 May 1901.

Esther Pugh, 73, national WCTU treasurer, 28 March 1908.

Carl Schurz, 76, reformer, champion of civil service reform, 14 May 1906.

Samuel R. Scottron, household goods manufacturer, encourager of black inventors, 1905.

Henrietta Skelton, 57, national WCTU lecturer and organizer, German-language temperance worker, 22 August 1900.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 87, leading suffragist and peace activist, 1902.

Sarah Hackett Stevenson, 66, nurse, educator, first head of WCTU's National Temperance Hospital, 14 August 1909.

Eliza Daniel "Mother Stewart" Stewart, 96, radical dry crusader, antislavery activist, first chairwoman of the national WCTU, 8 August 1908.

Eliza Jane Trimble "Mother Thompson" Thompson, 89, Ohio temperance reformer; instigator of 1873-1874 "Hillsboro uprising" involving praying at saloons, 3 November 1905.

Isabelle Urquhart, 42, actress, 7 February 1907.

Zarelda Gray Sanders Wallace, 84, temperance activist, suffragist, March 1901.

Annie Turner Wittenmyer, 73, first president of national WCTU, president of Non-Partisan (anti suffrage) WCTU, 2 February 1900.