Deaths

Herbert Baxter Adams, 51, historian, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, 30 July 1901.

Susan B. Anthony, 86, a leader in the women's suffrage movement; also fought to secure women's rights in education, 13 March 1906.

Henry Barnard, 89, one of the most distinguished educators of the nineteenth century; a nationwide leader in the common-school movement, university president, and first U.S. Commissioner of Education, 21 July 1900.

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, 74, educator and diplomat; former principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia; renowned for being the nation's first African American diplomat, 1908.

Francis L. Cardozo, 66, clergyman, educator, and politician; former school principal; professor of Latin at Howard University; served as both secretary of state and state treasurer in South Carolina's Reconstruction government, 22 July 1903.

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