James Crandall Lane

             OBITUARY NOTES.
 Gen. James C. Lane, who died of pneumonia at
his office in the Alpine Buildings at midnight
Wednesday, was born in this city July 23, 1823.
After being graduated at Poultney, Vt., in 1841,
he made a specialty of of architecture and of civil
engineering, which he carried on until 1851. He
aided in the construction of the Illinois Central
Railroad. Later he entered the United States Coast
Survey at Washington and was afterward engaged
in mineralogical surveys in San Domingo, Porto
Rico, and Cuba. He entered the civil was as Major
of the One Hundred and Second Regiment of
New-York Volunteers and was in 16 battles, ser-
ving with distinction in the battles of Cedar and
Lookout Mountains and Missionary Ridge and
many of the principle battles constituting the
Georgia campaign. Since the close of the war he
he has been engaged mineralogical surveys in Cali-
fornia, Arizona, Nevada, and Lower California, as
well as in topographical surveys in Palestine. He
was also engaged as chief engineer of the South
Side and of the New-York, Woodhaven and Rock-
away Railroads of Long Island, and at the time of
his death had just completed his duties as chief
engineer of the new parks of Westchester County.
He leaves a widow and four children.