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Show GENERAL AND PRIEST. The Rev. William Adams Olmstead. chaplain of St. Elizabeth's hospital, Xew York, died on Monday Mon-day in St. Vincent's hospital after a paralytic' stroke. He was born in Albany seventy-six years ago and was a graduate of Howard university in Washington. In 1861 he recruited a company at Troy and went with it to the front. He was made colonel of the Fifty-ninth Xew York volunteers, served with his regiment before Richmond and Petersburg Pe-tersburg and at the battles of Savage Station and Gettysburg. At the close of the wTar he was brev-etted brev-etted brigadier-general. He went back to Howard university and studied medicine, was graduated and went west, having in the meantime been converted to the Catholic faith. After being for a time at Xotre Dame university he was ordained and became the chaplain of Seton hospital at Spuyten Duyvil. Four years ago he went to St. Elizabeth's. He was a member of many societies, among them the Loyal Legion and the Society of the Colonial Wars. The funeral was held from St. Ambrose church.- Xew York, on Thursday. |