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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



fore his election as Judge, which office was 

 twice conferred upon him. He was a delegate 

 to the Constitutional Convention of 1847, and 

 was a member of the State Legislature for four 

 terms. 



MoCLosKEY, Dr. JOHN, D. D., President of 

 Mount St. Mary's College, Emmetsburg, Mary- 

 land, was born in Ireland, in 1817. Brought 

 to America at an early age, he entered Mount 

 St. Mary's in 1830, and pursued his theological 

 as well as his classical studies there. He was 

 ordained by Bishop Hughes, of New York, in 

 1840. He returned to his college, and in 1844 

 was made its vice-president. He was elected 

 president in 1871. He resigned in favor of Dr. 

 Watterson in 1877. Dr. McCloskey resumed 

 the presidency in 1879. He died at his post of 

 usefulness and honor December 24th. 



MAcWnoRTER, Professor ALEXANDER, born 

 in New York, in 1822, was the grandson of Dr. 

 MacWhorter, chaplain of General Knox's bri- 

 gade of artillery, of Revolutionary fame. Pro- 

 fessor MacWhorter was a graduate of Yale 

 College in 1842. He filled the chair of English 

 Literature and Metaphysics at the Troy Univer- 

 sity. He was a profound Hebrew scholar, and 

 published, in 1857, " Yahveh Christ, or the 

 Memorial Name," in which he tried to prove 

 that the word Jehovah should be Yahveh, " He 

 who shall be," meaning Christ. His argument 

 is ingenious. He wrote largely for reviews ; 

 his last article, " The Edemic Period of Man," 

 is learned. He died in July, at New Haven. 



MERRIAM, GEORGE, was born in 1803, in "Wor- 

 cester, Massachusetts, died June 22, 1880, in 

 Springfield, where he was a member of the 

 well-known Webster's Dictionary publishing 

 firm of G. & C. Merriam. At the age of fif- 

 teen years he went into a printing-office, 

 where he acquitted himself with such credit 

 that when he became of age he was taken 

 into partnership. In 1831 he removed to Spring- 

 field and established with his brother the firm 

 that has since become famous, and in 1847 

 bought the plates and copyright of Webster's 

 Dictionary, which was, at that time, a drug on 

 the market. This work they carefully reedited, 

 having secured a series of scholarly revisions 

 of it. 



NEALE, Professor SAMUEL A., one of the 

 most prominent colored men in the country, 

 died at Frederick, Maryland, on August 16th, 

 at the age of fifty-five. He was one of the 

 Faculty of Avery College, Allegheny City, 

 Pennsylvania. He took an active part in the 

 political campaign of 1876, and was a member 

 of the Republican State Central Committee of 

 Pennsylvania. 



NICHOLS, Rev. SAMUEL, D. D., was born No- 

 vember, 1787. He graduated from Yale Col- 

 lege in 1811, and studied for the ministry of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was 

 probably the oldest presbyter of that Church in 

 America at the time of his death, which oc- 

 curred July 17th at Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

 He was the friend of Chief-Justice Jay, and 



officiated at his funeral. Williams College con- 

 ferred his degree of Doctor of Divinity. 



NOTES, AMOS C., was born in Massachusetts, 

 in 1818. He removed to Pennsylvania in 1848. 

 In 1869 he was a member of the Legislature of 

 that State. In 1877 he received the Democrat- 

 ic nomination for Governor, and was subse- 

 quently elected State Treasurer. He died Sep- 

 tember 4th, in Westport, Pennsylvania. 



O'CALLAGHAN, Dr. EDMUND BAILEY, M. D., 

 LL. D., was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ire- 

 land, in 1799. After completing his collegiate 

 course, he spent two years in Paris. In 1823 

 he emigrated to Quebec. He was admitted to 

 the practice of medicine in 1827. In 1834 

 he was editor of " The Vindicator." In 1836 

 he was elected a member of the Assembly of 

 Lower Canada. After the insurrection, he re- 

 moved to New York. He was a laborious stu- 

 dent of the history of Canada and of the Colo- 

 nial Annals of New York. He published trea- 

 tises and essays on that subject, translating 

 French and Dutch documents, and preserving 

 many curious political and family anecdotes. 

 His " History of the New Netherlands, or New 

 York under the Dutch," appeared in 1846, and 

 has passed through several editions. In the 

 office of the Secretary of State at Albany he 

 collated and edited for the State the records 

 embodied in the fourteen volumes of the 

 "Documentary History of the State of New 

 York," and eleven volumes containing " Docu- 

 ments relating to the Colonial History of New 

 York." This work required the devotion of 

 twenty-two years. Afterward, in 1870, he re- 

 moved to New York City. His long labors in 

 behalf of American history ended only with his 

 life. He died in New York, May 27th. 



O'KEEFE, Rev. EUGENE, was born in Cork, 

 Ireland, but came to America in his boyhood, 

 and was educated at the College of St. Francis 

 Xavier, and afterward at the Sulpician College, 

 Montreal. After his ordination he began his 

 labors in the house of the Bishop of Toronto, 

 where he remained until 1864, when he took 

 charge of a parish in New Jersey. He was a 

 profound linguist and classical scholar. He is 

 most widely known by his translations from 

 the Italian and Greek languages. He died in 

 New York, September 22d. 



OMOHUNDRO, J. B., better known as "Texas 

 Jack," was one of the most noted scouts of the 

 Far West. In the Sioux campaign of 1876, 

 under General Crook's command, he was em- 

 ployed by the Government. After the defeat 

 of the Sioux he rode three hundred and twenty- 

 five miles in six days through a hostile coun- 

 try, bringing the news twenty-four hours ear- 

 lier than the military authorities. He died May 

 28th, at Leadville, Colorado, and was buried 

 with military honors. 



OPDYKE, GEORGE, ex-Mayor of New York, 

 was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 

 in 1805. Though descended from Gysbert 

 Opdyke, one of the early Knickerbocker set- 

 tlers, the father of George Opdyke was a plain 



