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Buried September 30, 1913. In 1902, she erected a cenotaph to her father, Abram Van Wyck, in the United Methodist Church Cemetery in Pemberton, New Jersey.

The reference for this information predates the erection of the marker on which his first name appears as Abram.

She was the daughter of Abraham Van Wyck and Elizabeth Searcy Cantrell. On February 16, 1854, she married Dr. William B. Magruder in the District of Columbia. It was his second marriage as his first marriage was on September 8, 1835 to Elizabeth Hutchinson (1807-1847).

Source: Geographical & Biographical Memorials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham and Elkins Families by Josiah Granville Leach, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1898.

The Washington Times

Monday, September 29, 1913:

Mrs. Sarah Magruder

Mrs. Sarah Van Wyck Magruder, old resident of Washington and widow of Dr. W.B. Magruder, of this city, died at her apartment in the Marlborough yesterday. Mrs. Magruder was a native of Nashville, Tennessee and eighty years old. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Frederick Almy, of Lawrence, Rhode Island. Funeral services will be held at St. James Episcopal Church tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

The Evening Star Monday, September 29, 1913

Died

Magruder. On Sunday, September 28, 1913, at her residence, the Marlborough, Sarah Van Wyck, widow of Dr. William B. Magruder of this city.

Funeral services at St. James’ Church on Tuesday, September 30, at 10AM.

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WIDOW OF GENERAL ANDERSON DIES IN NEW JERSEY

Mrs. Juliet Van Wyck Anderson, 95 years old, widow of General Adna Anderson, and socially prominent here, died at her Summer home in Pemberton, New Jersey, Wednesday, according to word received here.

She was a member of the Washington Club and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She resided here at 2119 R street.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. John C. Fremont of this city; her son John C. Anderson of Washington, and her grandchildren, Captain John C. Fremont, U.S.N; Jessie Benton Fremont and Mrs. Juliet Fremont Hull.

The funeral will be held in the Grace Episcopal Church, Pemberton, New Jersey, tomorrow afternoon.

~ Source: The Evening Star - Washington, D. C. - Friday, May 4, 1928 - Page 9 - Column 3.

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The Georgetown Evening Star, Friday, May 17, 1889

To Be Buried Here

The remains of General Adna Anderson, of New York, who shot himself at the Lafayette Hotel, in Philadelphia, late Tuesday night, will be brought to this city and funeral services will take place in the chapel at Oak Hill Cemetery tomorrow.

The Helena Daily Herald , Thursday, May 16, 1889:

General Anderson

Short Sketch of the Life of a Remarkable Man, Who Ended His Career Yesterday by Suicide

A private telegram received in Helena yesterday afternoon announced the death in Philadelphia of General Adna Anderson, ex-Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The sad news was published in the Herald yesterday afternoon and last night it was supplemented by the startling announcement, flashed over the wires in a press dispatch, that General Anderson had committed suicide. What the motive was that prompted the rash act is not known. All that can be learned of the tragedy is reported in our telegraphic columns today.

The deceased was one of the most remarkable railway men of the age and was well known in Montana where he superintended the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was born in Ridgeway, Orleans County, New York, July 25th, 1827. He entered railroad life in 1847, acting as chain man on a surveying party for the location of the New York and New Haven Railroad. He soon rose in his profession and in 1848 was Assistant Engineer of the Connecticut River Railroad in Massachusetts, occupying similar positions on several other roads. In 1860 he became Chief Engineer of the Henderson & Nashville Railroad. From June 1862 to February 1863, he was Assistant Engineer and Chief of the Construction Corps of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia and afterwards Chief Engineer of military roads in that State. From February to November 1864, he was General Superintendent of government roads, military Division of Mississippi; from November 1864 to July 1866, Chief Superintendent and Engineer of the military roads of the United States. After the war he was Chief Engineer of the Illinois & St. Louis Bridge; General Superintendent of the Kansas Pacific Railroad for three years; Vice President and General Manager of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad for three years; Vice President and afterwards President of the Lafayette and Bloomington Railroad Co.; receiver of the Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad; General Manager of the Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad and from February 1880 to January 1888 Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad and from October 1886 to January 1888 second Vice President of the same company.

General Anderson was a warm personal friend of Colonel and Mrs. W.F. Sanders, of this city. Colonel Sanders was grieved at the news and when asked by a reporter what he knew of the deceased, he said: Prior to the war, in Tennessee and when the war broke out, General Anderson was in charge of a railroad running out of Nashville and was appointed receiver of the road by Governor Isham G. Harris, who is today United States Senator. Governor Harris was importuned to take the road away from him because he was a Yankee. The Governor replied that Anderson was an honest man and as the only reason advanced for his removal was his birthplace, he refused to remove him and kept him in possession of the railroad. Anderson was in Tennessee when the war broke out in 1861 and while his sympathies were on the Union side, he was not demonstrative. When Fort Donelson fell and Buell’s army came down from Bowling Green to Nashville, Anderson was on the river and first saw the troops coming down the pass. Subsequently he moved to Virginia and was made Superintendent of all military transportation under General Grant.

He was a man of remarkable ability, continued Colonel Sanders, and fit to be President of the United States or any other position that could be accorded him. He was a great man and understood better than any man I ever knew, excepting General Grant, the power of silence; he was wonderful in this, but to his acquaintances he was genial and interesting.

His monument is not only his patriotism which was preponderable in force, but the Northern Pacific Railroad, which he built and laid from Bismarck to Tacoma; it is his own creation more than any other man’s.

General Anderson leaves a wife and three children, two boys and a girl. One of his daughters is the wife of Lieut. Fremont, of the United States Army, a son of General John C. Fremont. At the time of his death General Anderson was President of the Steel Car Company and President of a burglar alarm company. While he always commanded a princely salary during his life, having received $17,000 a year from the Northern Pacific Company, it is believed he died a comparatively poor man.

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New York Herald

New York, New York

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DIED

VAN WYCK-In this city, on the 17th instant, after a short, but severe illness, SALVADORA McLAUGHLIN, wife of Philip V.R. Van Wyck, and daughter of Salvadora Meade and Captain I. T. McLaughlin, United States Navy, deceased, aged 38 years.

Funeral services, without further invitation, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer’s, Lexington av. And 66th street, on Saturday, 19th August, at ten A.M.

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MANSFIELD C. BAY FUNERAL HELD

Private funeral services were held this morning for Mansfield C. Bay, retired St. Louis businessman and former civic leader who died Saturday at Forest Park Manor nursing home. He was 88 years old.

Mr. Bay organized and was president of the Bay Brothers Lumber Co. which went out of business in 1937. For a time he served as president of the Jefferson Bank. Mr. Bay received the St. Louis Award in 1937 for his services to the community.

Mr. Bay received the award for his services on the old Cost of Government Committee in St. Louis county. The committee was organized by the county Chamber of Commerce. As a result of its efforts, a new budget system was adopted, tax collections were improved and a central purchasing system was initiated.

A one-time Democrat, Mr. Bay was appointed chairman of the Willkie-for-President Club here in 1940.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Barbara B. Niekamp, Mrs. Betty Calfee and Mrs. Virginia deLeuw, all of St. Louis. Burial was in Bellefontaine cemetery.