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vented a machine for folding, which was con- 

 nected with a Hoe rotary, and several other 

 appliances, which have been patented. The 

 " Christian Union," a weekly paper, then edited 

 by Mr. Beecher, reached a circulation of 136,- 

 000 copies while his firm was its publisher. 



FULLER, JEROME, died September 2d, 1880, 

 at Brockport, in the seventy-fourth year of his 

 age. Formerly a leading Whig of western 

 New York, he represented Monroe County 

 successively in the Assembly, 1843 ; in the Sen- 

 ate, 1848-'49; and in the Constitutional Con- 

 vention of 1867. After Mr. Fuller left the Sen- 

 ate, President Fillmore appointed him (1851) 

 Federal Judge of the Territory of Minnesota. 

 When Minnesota was admitted as a State, 

 Judge Fuller returned home, and in 1867 was 

 elected County Judge of Monroe County during 

 a succession of terms. 



GITTINGS, Major ERSKINE, of the Third 

 United States Artillery, was born in Maryland, 

 in 1839. He graduated from the Military Acad- 

 emy, West Point, in May, 1861. After drilling 

 troops for some time in Washington, he was 

 promoted first-lieutenant, and served on the 

 staff of General Runyon at Alexandria, Vir- 

 ginia, in the Port Royal Expedition, and the 

 Department of the South. In the attack on 

 Secessionville, South Carolina, October, 1862, 

 he was wounded, and was promoted, for gal- 

 lant and distinguished services, to brevet cap- 

 tain. He was at the fall of Vicksburg. He 

 was again brevetted major for meritorious ser- 

 vices at the siege of Knoxville, December, 1863. 

 He was ordered to West Point after the close 

 of the war, as Assistant Professor of Natural 

 and Experimental Philosophy. He was ap- 

 pointed captain, February 5, 1867, and ordered 

 to Fort Hamilton, where he died, September 

 20th. 



HOLMES, THEOPHILUS HUNTER, Lieutenant- 

 General in the Confederate Army, was born in 

 North Carolina, in 1804. Appointed a cadet at 

 West Point in 1825, he graduated in 1829, and, 

 as brevet second-lieutenant, was assigned to 

 the Seventh Infantry Regiment. He declined 

 a second-lieutenancy of dragoons in 1833. In 

 1835 he was made first-lieutenant, and in 1838 

 he became a captain. For gallant and meri- 

 torious conduct at Monterey he was brevetted 

 major. After the Mexican War, he was sta- 

 tioned in Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas. 

 In 1860 he was ordered to Fort Columbus, 

 New York, on recruiting service. He went on 

 leave of absence to North Carolina, where he 

 owned large estates. In 1861 he resigned his 

 commission, and entered the Confederate army. 

 He commanded at Acquia Creek, and engaged 

 in the various campaigns of the Army of North- 

 ern Virginia, until he was appointed by Presi- 

 dent Davis to the command of the trans-Mis- 

 sissippi Department. He died at Fayetteville, 

 North Carolina, on June 20th. 



IRVING, Rev. THEODORE, LL. D., was born 

 in New York, in 1809. In 1826 he joined his 

 celebrated uncle, Washington Irving, in Europe, 

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and spent three years in Madrid, London, and 

 Paris. In 1836 he was appointed Professor of 

 Belles-lettres in Geneva College, New York. 

 After twelve years he was transferred to a 

 professorship in the Free Academy, now the 

 College of the City of New York. In 1856 he 

 was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church, 

 and was rector of Christ Church, Long Island, 

 and of two parishes on Staten Island. He was 

 also assistant rector of the Church of the Holy 

 Trinity. Mr. Irving was the author of the 

 " Conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto " 

 (1835); "The Fountain of Living Waters" 

 (1854) ; " Tiny Footfalls " (1869), and " More 

 than Conqueror " (1873). He died December 

 20th, in New York. 



JOHNSON, BUSHROD R., Confederate general, 

 was born in Ohio, in 1817, graduated from 

 West Point and served in the regular army 

 until the close of the Mexican War, when he 

 resigned and became Superintendent of the 

 Western Military Institute, of Kentucky. He 

 also acted as Professor of Engineering, Me- 

 chanics, and Natural Philosophy. This Insti- 

 tute was removed for sanitary reasons to Nash- 

 ville. When Tennessee seceded he joined the 

 Confederate side. At Fort Donelson he was 

 captured with his command. He took part in 

 many of the battles, and in 1863 attained the 

 rank of major-general. After the surrender 

 he resumed his professorship at Nashville. He 

 died at his home in Illinois, on September 

 llth. 



KINNEY, WILLIAM BUENET, was born at Mor- 

 ristown, New Jersey, in 1800. His grandfa- 

 ther, Sir Thomas Kinney, came on a scientific 

 tour to America, and ended by settling in Mor- 

 ris County. His father, Colonel Abraham Kin- 

 ney, was a gallant Revolutionary officer and 

 quartermaster-general during the war of 1812. 

 His mother was Miss Hannah Burnet, a de- 

 scendant of the famous Bishop of Salisbury. 

 William B. Kinney was educated at Princeton, 

 and after having studied law, medicine, and 

 theology, he finally chose the profession of 

 literature and settled down to journalism. He 

 founded the Newark " Daily Advertiser," which 

 afterward passed into the hands of his son 

 Thomas. In 1841 Mr. William B. Kinney con- 

 tracted a second marriage with the authoress, 

 Mrs. Elizabeth 0. Stedman, mother of the poet, 

 Edmund C. Stedman. In 1850 President Tay- 

 lor sent Mr. Kinney to the court of Victor 

 Emanuel, of Sardinia, as United States Minis- 

 ter. After three years' residence at Turin he 

 removed to Florence for the purpose of collect- 

 ing material for a history of Tuscany. This 

 work, which he had long meditated, is still in- 

 complete. In 1865 Mr. Kinney returned to 

 his native country, and has lived in compara- 

 tive retirement. He died in Morristown, Oc- 

 tober 21st. 



LOGAN, Judge STEPHEN J., born in 1799; 

 died at Springfield, Illinois, July 17th. He had 

 been a resident of that State since 1833. He 

 was the law partner of Abraham Lincoln, be- 



