592 



OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



General Zollicoffer, occasioned such sharp cen- 

 sure that he resigned his command, but served 

 in some capacity throughout the war. He died 

 at Danville, Kentucky, November 27th. 



DAFT, Miss OLIVIA, born in Liberty Street, 

 New York, in 1778 ; died in Newark, New 

 Jersey, on June 10th, at the age of one hun- 

 dred and two. 



DAGGETT, Rev. Dr. OLIVER ELLSWORTH, born 

 at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1810 ; died in 

 Hartford, September 1st. He graduated from 

 Yale College in 1828. He was Professor of 

 Divinity at Yale for several years. The u Con- 

 necticut Hymn-Book," issued in 1845, was in 

 part compiled by Dr. Daggett. 



DENISON, Rev. Dr. SAMUEL D., died at White 

 Plains, New York, September 3d, at the age of 

 seventy. He was the descendant of Major- 

 General Daniel Denison, commander -in-chief 

 of Massachusetts Colony during King Philip's 

 War. In 1842 he became Secretary of the Epis- 

 copal Mission in New York. He was ordained 

 in 1845. His long life was devoted to mission- 

 ary work. He received his degree of D. D. 

 from Hobart College in 1867. At the time of 

 his death he was Honorary Secretary for For- 

 eign Missions of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. 



DERBY, LAVANCHIE FITCH, died October 12, 

 1880, in Brooklyn, New York. She was a na- 

 tive of Cooperstown, and became the wife of 

 James C. Derby, the well-known publisher. 

 Mrs. Derby was conspicuous in society for the 

 generous and graceful hospitality which she 

 dispensed to a large circle of literary people, 

 whom her husband attracted to their home in 

 Auburn, New York, and Brooklyn. Some of 

 the late years of her life were passed in the 

 South, on a plantation bought by her husband 

 to gratify her, near Aiken, South Carolina, 

 where she left a vivid impression of herself 

 upon the minds of her Southern friends. Her 

 remains are interred in Fort Hill Cemetery, at 

 Auburn. 



DOGGETT, DANIEL S., Bishop of the Method- 

 ist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Vir- 

 ginia, in 1810. His father was a prominent 

 member of the bar, and the son began the 

 study of that profession, but changed to the 

 ministry. He was made Chaplain of Randolph 

 Macon College, a Methodist institution. After 

 preaching throughout the Southern States, in 

 1873 he was made a bishop. He was about to 

 preside over the California Conference, when 

 he was seized with the illness which resulted 

 in his death, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 

 27th of October. 



EMANUEL, Dr. MAULEY, born in England; 

 graduated from St. George's Hospital, London, 

 and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons. He emigrated to Pennsylvania, and 

 was for many years President of the Delaware 

 County Medical Society. He was also justice 

 of the peace, and at one time United States 

 examining-surgeon for pensioners. The last 

 ten years of his life he spent in Philadelphia, 



where he died, in July, at the age of eighty- 

 six. 



ESTORGE, Dr. JOSEPH LEONARD, was born in 

 Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1830, and died there, 

 August 21st. He studied at the Royal Col- 

 lege of Cahors, France, where he was a class- 

 mate of Gambetta. Having graduated in medi- 

 cine, he was pursuing scientific studies in Paris 

 when the war between the States recalled him 

 to America. He was appointed a surgeon in 

 the Confederate army in the trans-Mississippi 

 Department. He was captured at Fort de 

 Russey. After the war, he practiced his pro- 

 fession in St. Landry, and endeared himself to 

 the people by his skill and devotion during the 

 epidemic of 1878. 



FARR, EVARTS W., was born at Littleton, 

 New Hampshire, in 1840. He was educated 

 at Dartmouth College. During the war be- 

 tween the States he entered the army as a pri- 

 vate, and was promoted to the rank of major. 

 In 1867 he was admitted to the bar. In 1876 

 he was a member of the Executive Council of 

 New Hampshire, He was elected as Repre- 

 sentative of the Third District of New Hamp- 

 shire to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con- 

 gresses of the United States. He died in Little- 

 ton, on November 30th. 



FARRELL, Rev. THOMAS, born in Ireland, in 

 1823 ; came to America in his youth ; was ed- 

 ucated at Mount St. Mary's, and ordained by 

 Archbishop Hughes. He was a Greek and 

 Latin scholar of high attainments. During the 

 war his great pastoral influence was all em- 

 ployed in behalf of the Government, as he was 

 a stanch Union man. He died July 19th. 



FISH, BENJAMIN, was born near Trenton, 

 New Jersey, in 1785. In 1812, during the war 

 with England, he was employed in transporting 

 commissary and ordnance stores for the Gov- 

 ernment. When the first railroads were being 

 constructed in the United States, he undertook 

 to connect New York and Philadelphia by rail. 

 His management was conservative. His rule 

 was to wait one hour for a train, and then send 

 out a locomotive to look for it. When asked 

 by a conductor how long he should wait, his 

 answer was, " Wait, sir, till you learn some- 

 thing." Mr. Fish was largely connected with 

 various railroad and canal enterprises. He rep- 

 resented Nottingham in the State Legislature 

 in 1833. He died on June 22d, in Trenton, 

 New Jersey, aged ninety-five. 



FORD, EDWARD LLOYD, publisher, died in 

 New Jersey, December 16th, at the age of 

 thirty-six. He was in the army during the late 

 war, and came out as captain on the staff of 

 General Birney. In 1867 the publishing firm 

 of J. B. Ford & Co., of which he was a partner, 

 was begun. Many notable books were pub- 

 lished by this house and its successor. Captain 

 Ford had a strong mechanical bent, and intro- 

 duced many improvements. It was at his sug- 

 gestion that the present mode of uniting a 

 folding and pasting arrangement with the ordi- 

 nary printing-press was first adopted. He in- 



