HUGHES OLIPHANT IS BURIED TODAY
Funeral services over the remains of Hughes Oliphant were held this afernoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his brother, Dr. Nelson B. Oliphant, 160 West State Street. The Rev. Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons of Princeton officiated, assisted by the Rev. Peter K. Emmons, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The bearers were his sons, Capt. Orville D. Oliphant of this city and Campbell Oliphant of Washington, and the deceased's brothers, Dr. Oliphant, Samuel D., James B. and Robert Oliphant. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Ivins & Taylor.
Besides the two sons and four brothers named, Mr. Oliphant is survived by a widow, formerly Miss Blossom Drum of Washington, daughter of the late Adjutant General of the United States R. C. Drum, by a daughter Miss Margaret Coulter, also of Washington, and a third son, Lieut. Col. T. M. S. Oliphant, U.S. Army, now stationed in the Philippines.
Mr. Oliphant had lived retired in Washington for 15 years. Prior to that he had always made his home in Trenton, his residence being in the present W. J. B. Stokes home on West State Street. Graduating from Princeton as a civil engineer in 1870, he built the South Penn Railroad in Western Pennsylvania, now part of the P.R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] system, and later engaged in the manufacturing business here, having been the owner some years ago of both the Delaware and Bellmark potteries in this city.
Mr. Oliphant was one of ten sons of the late Gen. S. D. Oliphant and Mrs. Oliphant, formerly Miss Margaret Coulter. with hsi death, only four of these sons now survive.
