1875 Deaths

The Princeton Press, Sat., Sept. 4, 1875:     Rev. Daniel H. Vanderveer, a colored minister of the Shiloh Presbyterian Church in New York city and a highly respected member of the Presbytery of New York, was killed on Monday morning at Long Branch by being run over by a train of coal cars. Mr. Vanderveer left the city on Saturday to spend the Sunday at Long Branch, and was on his way home when the accident occurred which resulted in his death. He had just stepped from a passenger car at the depot of the New Jersey Southern Railroad and was in the act of crossing the siding when the train overtook him. His body was completely severed into two parts. He was born in Princeton, N. J., and was in the sixty-eighth year of his age and had been forty years a clergyman.		He formerly had charge of the colored mission at Troy, where he labored for a number of years under the rules of the Methodist denomination. During his career as a Methodist he was attached to several churches in New York state and in Connecticut. About fifteen years ago he joined the Presbyterian denomination. Four years ago he resigned his pastorate at Elizabeth, N. J., and came to New York city as assistant to Rev. Dr. Garnet, in whose care the Mission in West Thirtieth street had recently been placed. Mr. Vanderveer ministered in this field with great assiduity. His duties lay principally among the poorest of the colored people, and were both constant and arduous. He leaves a wife, but no children.
The Princeton Press, Sat, Oct. 23, 1875:     A colored man named Samuel Little was found in the canal near Washington street, on Wednesday morning. He worked for Mr. Shann, as a teamster, and was a sober and industrious man. He had been missing since Monday night, and is supposed to have been drowned at that time. Esquire Hudnut held an inquest on Wednesday afternoon and evening. The jury, after a long session and most patient investigation, brought in their verdict: "Drowning from causes unknown." He was a young man, and engaged to be married at an early day, in Burlington.		The Princeton Press, Sat, Dec. 11, 1875:     On Sunday morning a colored woman, named Susan Thompson, of middle age or past, residing in a house belonging to Madame Sullivan, and living there alone was found dead in her room. She had apparently risen that morning and proceeded to light a fire when it was thought she fell struck with disease of the heart and almost instantly died. Coroner Mount viewed the remains; but circumstances were such that it was not thought necessary to hold an inquest.

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