1885 deaths
Category: 1885 deaths

Guillaume Casman
Belgian soldier, explorer and administrator

Oliver P. Rood
American soldier

Nicoline Thaulow
Norwegian author

Philip Heidelbach
American businessman

Harriette Estelle Harris Presley
American missionary

John Baptist Snowden
American slave who bought his freedom and was Methodist minister

Thomas Allen
Sea captain in South Australia

Ezra W. Taft
American politician

William A. Scott
American Presbyterian minister

William Barry
American author and Congregationalist pastor

Sarah Dana Greenough
American poet and novelist

Mary Pirie
Scottish botanist and teacher

Arthur Teape

Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman
American philanthropist

Abner M. Bradbury
American politician

Gustavus Adolphus Smith

George Green Sampson
English physician and politician

Mazhar Nanautawi
Indian Muslim scholar

Chimnabai I
Maharani of Baroda

Samuel Cole
19th century American politician

James G. Ryals Jr.
American university president

Joshua Wilson
American politician and physician

Daniel Schwarz
Musical artist

Henry A. Silver
American politician

Frances Helen Prideaux
British physician

Hamilton Henderson Chalmers
Associate justice of the supreme court of Mississippi

Robert R. Vandiver
American politician

Nagai Naokoto

Andrew Dumont
Louisiana reconstruction-era American politician

Thomas S. Stanfield
American politician and judge

Daniel A. Frink
American politician

John Allen Lewis
American newspaper editor

C. H. Collyns
English priest and translator

John Day
Australian jockey and champion pedestrian

Levin M. Powell
American military officer

Jacob J. Sawyer
American composer, pianist, and conductor

Valentine Dell
American politician, educator and journalist

James L. Smallwood
American educator

Charles Paulk
American politician

Isaac Caldwell
American lawyer and educator