duated at Yale College in 1814, studied law at Whitestown, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1817. He returned to his untive city, and practised his profession for many years. II served sever..1 years in the State Legislature, and in 1834 was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was a Representative in Congress from his State from 1829 to 1833, and also from 1839 to 1840. In June, 1810, he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and in 1856 was promoted to the office of Chief-Justice, which he held to the time of his death. In 1846 he was appointed one of the Professors of Law in Yale College, but resigned in 1847.

STRONG, THOMAS M., D.D., died at Flatbush, L.I., June 14. He was born at Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1797, received his preparatory classical training in New York, and graduated from Columbia College in 1816 with the highest honors of his class. Upon the completion of a full theological course, he was licensed to preach, and in 1819 was settled in Norfolk, Va. In 1821 he received a call to the United Presbyterian Churches of Chambersburg and Shippensburg, Pa., and the following year was called to the charge of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush, N.Y., where he had remained for nearly forty years. In 1828 he was elected Stated Clerk of the General Synod.

STUART, HON. ISAAC WILLIAM, died in Hartford. Conn., Oct. 2, aged 52 years. He graduated at Yale College in 1828, and for a short time after taught in the Hopkins Grammar School at Hartford. He had a taste for the study of hieroglyphics and Oriental literature, and in 1830 published a translation, with notes, of Greppo's “ Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of Champollion." Being elected Professor of Greek and Latin in the College of South Carolina, he removed to Columbia and resided for some years. Returning to Hartford, he was for many years proprietor of the Wyllys Estate, on which stood the Charter Oak. He was the author of an edition, with notes, of the "Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles," "Life of Nathan Hale," "Hartford in the Olden Time," and an elaborate life of Governor Jonathan Trumbull.

SUMNER, GEN. WILLIAM HYSLOP, died in West Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 24. He was born in Roxbury, July 4, 1780. His early advantages were good, and in 1793 he was sent to Phillips Academy, in Andover, where he was fitted for college. He graduated at IIarvard, with honor, in the class of 1799, and immediately commenced the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1802, and opened an office in Tremont Street, Boston. Gen. Sumner was aide-de-camp to Governors Strong and Brooks, and upon a subsequent appointment of adjutantgeneral by Governor Brooks, relinquished the practice of the law. He was a Representative of Boston in the Legislature for twelve years. He was intrusted with several important agencies by the Government, and in 1828 was appointed by the Secretary of War a member of the Board of Army and Militia Officers, of which Gen. Scott was president, to report a plan for the organization of the militia and a system of cavalry tactics. In conpection with other gentlemen. he founded and put in operation the East Boston Company. He wrote a very elaborate history of East Boston.

TILLINGHAST, CAPT. OTIS II., was killed at the bat'le of Bull Run, July 21. He was born at Homer, N.Y., March 6, 1823. In 1837 he graduated with honor at West Point, and was appointed brevet second lieutenant in the Third Artillery, joining Sherman's Battery under Gen. Taylor, at Šaltillo,

Mexico. In 1856 he was appointed regimental quartermaster and stationed in Florida. Soon after he was ordered to Fort Moultrie. In July, 1801, he was appointed chief quartermaster to Gen. McDowell's army, and attached himself to Col. Porter's division.

TILTON, COM. EDWARD G., of the United States Navy, died in Washington, D.C. He entered the service in 1822 as a midshipman, and received his commission of commander in 1853. He had command of the sloop-of-war Saratoga in the Home Squadron, and subsequently was assigned to duty as a member of the Light-House Board.

TRUMBULL, HON. JOSEPH, died in Hartford, Ang. 4. He was born in Lebanon, Conn., Dec. 7. 1782, graduated at Yale College in 1801, studied law with William T. Williams, of Lebanon, was admitted to the bar in Ohio, and soon after in Windham county, in his own State, and in 1804 removed to Hartford, where he practised his profession until 1828, when he became president of the Hartford Bank. He represented the town of Hartford in the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1832, 1848, and 1851. In 1834 he was a Representative in Congress, and a member of the House from 1839 to 1843. In 1849 he was elected Governor of Connecticut.

TUCKER, HON. GEORGE, a Virginia jurist, died at Charlottesville, Va., aged 85 years. He was elected to Congress in 1819, and re-elected in 1821 and 1923, In 1825 he retired from Corgress to accept the Professorship of Law in the University of Virginia, which position he filled with honor for many years, He was the author of a Life of Jefferson, and a Political History of the United States.

TURNER, REV. SAMUEL H., D.D., died in New York, Dec. 21. He was born in Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 1790, graduated at the University of Pernsylvania in 1807, studied theology under Bishop White, and in 1812 became rector of the church at Chestertown, Md. In 1818 he was elected Professor of Historic Theology in the Theological Seminary in New York, and in 1821 Professor of Eiblical Learning in the same institution. In 1831 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew in Columbia College. He was the author of "Thoughts on Scriptural Prophecy." Companion to the Book of Genesis." "Biographies of Jewish Rabbis," and other works.

VAN VRANKEN, SAMUEL A., D.D., a clergyman of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church, died at New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 1. He was born in Fishkill, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1792, graduated at Union Cllege, Schenectady, N.Y., studied theology at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N.J., and in 1817 was settled as pastor over the United Reformed Dutch Churches of Freehold and Middle town. In 1834 he was installed pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie. N.Y. In 1837 he became pastor of the Broome Street Church in New York City, and in 1941 was chosen by the General Synod as Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick.

VOSBURGH, COL. ABRAM S., of the New York Seventy-first Regiment, died in Washingten, D.C., May 20, aged about 35 years. He was formerly a merchant of New York.

WARD, JAMES HARMAN, Commander in the United States Navy, was killed in the attack on Matthias Point, June 27. He was born in Hartford in 1806, and educated at the Vermont Military Academy at Norwich, and Trinity College, Hartford. In 1823 he received an appointment as midshipman on board of the Constitution, con

manded by Commodore McDonough; in 1831 | was made lieutenant and attached to the Mediterranean squadron. He was the author of a Manual of Naval Tactics," and a series of lectures subsequently published under the title of "Elementary Instructions on Naval Ordnance and Gunnery;" also a work entitled "Steam for the Million." In 1857 he was appointed to the command of the receiving-ship North Carolina. the commencement of the present war he organized the Potomac flotilla, and was made its commander on the 16th of May.

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WASHINGTON, JOHN A., Colonel in the Confederate Army, was killed in a skirmish, Sept. 15. He had been the proprietor of Mount Vernon, but sold it to the Mount Vernon Association for $200,000.

WATMOUGH, HON. JOHN G., died at his residence in Philadelphia. He was born in Delaware, Dec. 6, 1793, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as lieutenant of artillery in the War of 1812-14. In 1830 he was elected to Congress, and served two terms as a Representative of the third district of Pennsylvania; was subse quently High Sheriff of Philadelphia, and Surveyor of the Port in 1841.

WHITE, CHARLES, D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman of Indiana, died at Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 29, aged 65 years. In 1842 he was inaugurated President of Wabash College, and continued in that office until his death.

WHITE, DANIEL APPLETON, LL.D., died March 30. He was born in Massachusetts, Jan. 7, 1776, and graduated at Harvard College in 1797; commenced the practice of law in Salem, Mass., and was for many years Judge of Probate for Essex county. He was for one term a Representative in Congress. WHITE, HON. JOSEPH L, formerly a member of Congress from Indiana, was shot at Nicaragua, and died of his wounds, Jan. 5. He was of late years a resident of New York City, and was connected with the Nicaragua Transit Company.

WHITTEMORE, THOMAS, D.D., died in Cambridge, Mass., March 21. He was born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1800. His early advantages were rather limited, but, while in the employ of a bootmaker in Boston, he became acquainted with the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and was induced to commence studying for the ministry under his direction, and preached his first sermon two weeks before reaching his majority. In 1820 he was settled in Milford, Mass., and subsequently over the Universalist Society at Cambridgeport. He was at one time joint editor of the Universalist Magazine," and for nearly thirty years editor of the Trumpet." In 1830 he published a "History of Universalism." and in 1832 Notes and Illustrations of the Parables," followed by several collections of hymns. He also published a work entitled Plain Guide to Universalism." He was president of the Cambridge Bank, and also of the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad. He represented Cambridge several years in the State Legislature.

WILDEY, THOMAS, founder of the order of OddFellows in this country, died at his residence in Baltimore, Oct. 19. He was a native of England, but came to this country early in life. He was the first Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge of the United States. His funeral was attended by delegations of the order from all sections of the country.

WILKINS, HON. JOHN HUBBARD, died in Boston, Dec. 5, aged 67 years. He was born in Amherst, N.II., graduated at Harvard College in 1818, with high honors, studied theology in the Divinity School at Cambridge, and in 1821 entered the

book-store of Hilliard, Gray & Co., Boston, ar salesman, and in 1826 as partner. In 1832 he withdrew, and formed a co-partnership in the paper business. In 1853 he was elected president of the National Bank at Boston, which position he occupied until a few months previous to his death. Mr. W. was elected to the Senate in the State Legislature in 1850 and 1851, and was a member of the State Convention in 1853. He was the author of a work entitled "Elements of Astronomy.”

WILKINSON, COMMODORE JESSE, U.S. Navy, died at his family residence, near Norfolk, Va., aged 77 years. He was Virginian by birth, and entered the navy in 1805. He was in the service of the Government fifty-four years.

WILLIAMS, THOMAS SCOTT, LL.D., an American jurist, died in Hartford, Dec. 15. Ile was born in Wethersfield, Conn., June 26, 1777, graduated at Yale College in 1794, studied law at Litchfield, Coun., and was admitted to the bar of that county in 1799. In 1803 he removed to Hartford, where he continued to reside until his death. He was a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1815, 1816, 1819, 1825, 1827, and 1829, and was a Representative in Congress for two years. In 1829 he was appointed an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and in 1834 ChiefJustice, which place he held until he reached the age limiting the tenure of the office. He was for many years previous to his death president of the American Tract Society, and a leading officer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and of the American Bible Society. His donations to these and other objects during life were large, and he also bequeathed considerable sums to them in his will.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, a soldier of the Revolution, died at New Milford, Conn., April 12. He was born at Greenfield Hill, Sept. 27, 1762, and, though young, took an active part in the battles of the Revolution in Southwestern Connecticut, and attained his majority with the recognition of the Republic in 1783. He died at the venerable age of 99, on the day when its integrity and union were first seriously assailed by the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

WINTHROP, MAJOR THEODORE, was killed in the battle of Great Bethel, June 10. He was born in New Haven, Sept. 21, 1828, graduated with high honors at Yale College in 1848, and from 1849 to 1851 travelled in Europe, Among other enterprises in which he took part was the celebrated expedition of Lieutenant Strain in Central America. On his return he engaged in the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. When President Lincoln issued his first proclamation for volunteers, Mr. W. offered himself promptly, and joined the New York Seventh Regiment, and, before its return, accepted the position of first lieutenant in the regular army. He connected himself with General Butler's staff, and took part in the expedition against Great Bethel. Since his death the following works from his pen have been published:-"Cecil Dreeme," "John Brent," "Edwin Brothertoft," and the "Canoe and Saddle."

WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM, Ex-Governor of Michigan, died at Detroit, Oct. 20, aged 84. He was elected Governor of the State in 1840, and in 1842 United States Senator for six years.

WRIGHT, HON. JOHN C., a resident of Ohio, died Feb. 13, in Washington, whither he had gone, by the appointment of Governor Dennison, as one of the commissioners to the Peace Congress. He was in his 78th year.

BELL, LUTHER V., M.D., died in camp, near Budd's Ferry, Md., Feb. 11. He was born in Francestown, N.H., in 1805, and gained a high reputation as Superintendent of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, at Somerville, Mass., from 1837 to 1856. He was a leading Whig politician, was a member of the Executive Council in 1850, and candidate for Governor in 1856, and at the time of his death was medical director of Hooker's division of the Army of the Potomac.

BENEDICT, LEWIS, died in Albany, N.Y., in July. He was born in 1784, was a leading hardwaremerchant, exercised for many years more political influence in the State than any other private citizen, was chairman of the Whig State Committee in 1838-40, and in 1849 was appointed postmaster of Albany, but was superseded in the following year.

BERRIAN, WILLIAM, D.D., rector of Trinity Church, N.Y.. died in that city, Nov. 7, in the 76th year of his age. His ministerial connection with Trinity parish commenced in 1811, and was broken only by a brief settlement at Belleville, N.J. During his rectorate of more than fifty years he had won the esteem and respect of the great body of the older residents of New York City by his earnest, conscientious, and unassuming performance of his clerical duties.

BETHUNE, GEORGE W., D.D., a clergyman of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church, died in Florence, Italy, April 27. He was born in the city of New York in 1805, and was the son of Divie Bethune, an eminent and philanthropic New York merchant. He entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., at an early age, and maintained a high reputation for scholarship. After passing through the theological course at Princeton, N.J., he was ordained, in 1825, as chaplain to seamen at Savannah, Ga. In 1826 he transferred his ecclesiastical connection to the Reformed Dutch Church, and was installed pastor at Rhinebeck, N.Y. His abilities as a preacher led to his call, in 1830, to Utica, N.Y., and in 1834 he again removed to Philadelphia, where he remained as pastor till 1848, when, at the earnest solicitation of his friends, he accepted the pastorate of the New Reformed Dutch "Church on the Heights," Brooklyn, N.Y. He continued in this relation till 1859, when, in consequence of failing health, he resigned, and went to Italy for the benefit of the voyage and climate. During his stay in Italy he took charge of the American Chapel at Rome, then the only Protestant place of worship in that city. On his return in 1860, he became associate pastor of a Reformed Dutch Church in New York City, but, his health becoming again impaired, he returned to Italy in 1861, where he died of apoplexy. Dr. Bethune was distinguished as a profound belles-lettres scholar, and as a writer both of prose and poetry. His "Lays of Love and Faith" possess considerable poetic merit, and indicate a refined and highly-cultivated taste. He had also published several sermons and occasional addresses and essays, and edited "The British Female Poets, with Biographical and Critical Notices," and Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler," with valuable notes

and additions.

BOHLEN, GEN. HENRY, was killed in Virginia, Aug. 22. He was born in Germany, settled in Philadelphia as a wine-merchant, and in 1861 became colonel of the 75th Pennsylvania regiment, in Blenker's division. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, April 28, 1862, served under Frémont and Sigel in Western Virginia, distinguishing himself at the battle of Cross Keys,

and was killed in a skirmish while covering the retreat of the Army of Virginia across the Rappahannock.

BOLLES, MRS. MARY C., died at Montville, Conn., Jan. 4, aged over 104 years. Her husband, a near relative of Gov. Griswold, served throughout the Revolutionary War, and fifty-two of their direct descendants are now living.

BONGARS, GEN. THEODORE XAVIER THOMAS, Count de, died in New York, Feb. 1, aged about 70 years. He formerly held a high rank in the French army, and during the Mexican War commanded a regiment of New York volunteers, highly distinguishing himself. He belonged to the old hereditary nobility of France.

BOONE, ENOCH, died in Meade co., Ky., March 8. He was born in 1778, and was the first white male child born in Kentucky.

BOSWORTH, ALFRED, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, died in Warren, R.I., June 10.

BRADLEY, MIDSHIPMAN JOHN B., was killed in the battle below New Orleans, April 24. He was the only son of Col. John Bradley, of Jefferson co., N.Y., was born in October, 1843, and left the Naval Academy for active sea-service at the commencement of the rebellion, serving first with great credit in the Southern blockading squadron, and participating in the attack on Fort Hatteras. IIe was then made acting master of the propellor "Isaac Smith," of the Port Royal expedition, and showed great bravery in carrying a line to the "Governor" in a severe gale, nearly losing his life. He commanded the battery of his vessel in the attack at Port Royal, was then detached to the fleet of Com. Farragut, acted as aid to Capt. Alden of the steamer "Richmond," and was instantly killed while receiving an order from him and in the act of returning a military salute.

BRANCH, GEN. LAWRENCE O'BRIEN, killed at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, was a son of the Hon. John Branch, formerly Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator, and President Jackson's first Secretary of the Navy. He was born in Halifax co., N.C., in 1820, graduated at Princeton College in 1838, practised law in Raleigh, and was a member of Congress from 1855 to 1861. After the secession of his State he entered the Confederate army, attaining the rank of brigadiergeneral, and held the chief command at Newbern at the time of its capture by Gen. Burnside.

BRIGHAM, JOHN C., D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman, for 35 years Corresponding Secretary of the American Bible Society, died in Brooklyn, E. D. (Williamsburg), N.Y., Aug. 10.

BRODHEAD, COL. THORNTON F., of the 1st Michigan Cavalry, died in Alexandria, Va., August 31, of wounds received in the battle near Centreville, He was born in New Hampshire in 1822, a son of the Rev. and Hon. John Brodhead, was a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and for more than twenty years a resident of Detroit, Mich. He served in the Mexican War as an officer of the Fifteenth U.S. Infantry, was twice brevetted for gallantry in battle, was afterwards a member of the State Senate and postmaster of Detroit, and in 1861 raised a cavalry regiment, with which he served successively under Banks, Frémont, and Pope.

BROWN, MRS. MARY PORTER, died in Constantinople, March 28. She was born in 1788, was a sister of Commodore David Porter, formerly Ame rican Minister to Constantinople, and had lived in Turkey thirty years.

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BURNS, ANTHONY, whose arrest and trial as a fugitive slave at Boston in 1854 created an intense excitement and public disturbance there. died at St. Catharine's, C.W., July 27. After being remanded to slavery, he was redeemed, studied at Oberlin College, and became pastor of a Baptist church at St. Catharine's.

CAMBRELENG, CHURCHILL C., died at West Neck, near Huntington, Long Island, April 30. He was born in North Carolina in 1786, in 1802 entered the employment of John Jacob Astor in New York, where he carried on mercantile business most of his life, and was for many years a leading Democratic politician. He was a member of Congress from 1821 to 1839, in the latter year was appointed Minister to Russia, and in 1846 was a member of the State Constitutional Convention. In Congress he was at different times chairman of the Committees on Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, and his reports and political pamphlets were numerous and able.

CANTWELL, COL., of the 82d Ohio Regiment, fell at the second battle of Bull Run, August 30. At the moment he receive his death-wound, he was gallantly leading the left wing of his regiment, which was giving way under the fire of an overwhelming force of the enemy. Scarcely had his men recovered and again advanced, before a Minie ball struck him under the left eye, and, penetrating the brain, cause 1 instant death.

CHASE, EDWARD I., United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York, died suddenly at Lockport, N.Y., Oct. 14. He was born in New Hampshire in 1809, was a brother of the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and removed to Lockport in 1830 or 1831.

CHEESEMAN, DR. JOHN C., an eminent American physician and surgeon, died in New York City, Oct. 11, aged 75. He had been a professor in one of the medical schools of the city, one of the visiting and subsequently one of the consulting surgeons of the New York Hospital, and ranked among the foremost surgeons of the city.

CHILDS, COL. J. H.. the late commander of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, entered the service from Pittsburg, Alleghany county, and, after becoming distinguished for his ability and courage, entered upon the conflict at Antietam as an acting

| brigadier-general, and upon that sanguinary field, while rallying his command, yielded up his life as a sacrifice to the cause of his country.

CLEMENS, REV. W., a Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, died, June 24, on the passage from St. Thomas. West Africa, to New York. He was a native of Wheeling, Va., and was attached to the Corisco mission.

COFFING, JACKSON G., a Presbyterian clergyman and missionary in Central Turkey, died in the house of the American Vice-Consul at Alexandretta, March 25, from a gunshot-wound inflicted by a robber twelve hours previously. The band to which the murderer belonged were subsequently arrested near Beyrout, with the active assistance of Captain Hebart of the British gunboat Foxhound, and executed.

COLEMAN, COL. A. H., 11th Ohio Regiment, was killed in the battle of Antietam. His regiment formed a part of the Second Brigade of Cox's Kanawha Division, and during the various fights in which that well-known command participated, Colonel Coleman was always distinguished for his active and valuable services. His remains were recovered after his sudden decease, and transported westward via Baltimore, to which city they were borne side by side with those of Colonel Childs, of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry,

COLLYER, THOMAS, an extensive ship-builder, died in New York, Nov. 9.

COLT, SAMUEL, died in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 10. He was born in Hartford, July 19, 1814, was early employed in his father's factory, in his 16th year made a voyage to the East Indies as a sailor before the mast, during which he made his first wooden model of a revolving pistol, after his return worked for a time at the dyeing and bleaching business, and then travelled as a lecturer throughout the United States under the name of Dr. Coult. In 1835 he obtained his first patent for revolving firearms in England, France, and the United States; but his first attempt to establish their manufacture at Paterson, N..J., failed so completely that when, in 1847, he received an order from the Government for 1000 pistols, he could not procure one of those previously made as a model. Ile filled his first contract in New Haven, but soon removed to Hartford, where he succeeded in establishing a manufactory, which was, at the time of his death, one of the most extensive and perfectly organized armories in the world, capable of turning out 1000 arms per day, employing a capital of over $1,000,000, and filling orders from all parts of Europe and America. He had also erected convenient residences for his workmen, and made provision for their intellectual and social culture. Mr. Colt was also the inventor of a powerful submarine battery, and one of the first to invent and lay down a submarine telegraphic cable.

CONDICT, DR. LEWIS, died in Morristown, NJ, May 26, in the 90th year of his age. He was high sheriff of Morris county about the close of the last century, was a member of the State Legislature from 1805 to 1810, and twice elected Speaker of the House, in 1807 served as commissioner for settling the boundary between New York and New Jersey, and was a member of Congress from 1811 to 1817, and from 1821 to 1823.

COOPER, E. S., M.D., died in San Francisco, Cal, Oct. 13. He was born in Somerville county. Ohio, in 1821, practised medicine at Peoria, Ill., went to San Francisco in 1855, and was President of the Faculty and Professor of Surgery in the University of the Pacific. He possessed the highest skill as a