Benjamin A. Willis

           THE DEATH ROLL.
 Congressman Benjamin A. Willis died at
his home in the Osborne, on West Fifty-seventh
street, on Thursday morning, under circumstances
unusually painful. His death was only made
known to a few in order that no knowledge of
it might be conversed to his wife, who lay ill in an
adjoining chamber. His younger brother died
only last week. Mr. Wills was confind to his
house about six weeks ago by an attack of Bright's
disease. His wife, while giving all her attention
to him,  was taken with a cold, which
resulted in pneumonia. A few days ago,
while still dangerously ill, she gave birth
to twins, a girl and a boy. Mr. Willis's remains will
be taken from the house today to-day to Westbury, L.I.,
and buried to-morrow from the Friends' Meeting
House in that town. Mr. Willis was born of Quaker
parentage in Roslyn, L.I., March 24, 1840. He was
graduated by Union College in 1861, and studied
law at Poughkeepsie and with William M. Ingra-
ham in Brooklyn. In 1862 he raised a company
at Roslyn and entered the army. He
served in the 119th New York and subse-
quently as Colonel of the Twelfth New
York Regiment and continued in the ser-
vice until the close of the war, participating in
many of the principal battles. Subsequently he re-
sumed the practice of his profession. He was
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874 as a
Liberal Republican, endorsed by the Democrats.
He was re-elected two years later over Levi P. Mor-
ton. For some years Mr. Willis was a warm friend
of Samuel J. Tilden. He was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic and of the Union and
the Manhattan clubs.