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OBITUAEIES. 



May 3. BANGS, NATHAN, D.D. an eminent 

 Methodist clergyman, died in New York. He 

 was born in Stratford, Conn., May 2, 1788. 

 The years of his early manhood were occupied 

 with school teaching and land surveying. In 

 1800 he became a member of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, and in 1801 entered the itin- 

 erant ministry in that church. His first ap- 

 pointments wure in Lower and Upper Canada, 

 and it was not till 1808 that he received a cir- 

 cuit in the Albany district, in the United 

 States ; and the same year he was appointed a 

 member of the General Conference. In 1810 

 he received his first appointment in New York 

 city, and for the next ten years he was called 

 to fill the most important appointments in the 

 church. In 1S20 he was elected to the agen- 

 cy of the Methodist Book Concern, and the 

 general editorship of its publications. He 

 served in this capacity for eight years, and then 

 for four years editor of the church organ, the 

 " Christian Advocate and Journal," and for the 

 four years following, of the " Methodist Quarter- 

 ly Review." In 1836 he was chosen Corre- 

 sponding Secretary of the Methodist Missionary 

 Society, and remained in that position till 1841, 

 when he was elected President of Wesleyan 

 University, Middletown, but resigned in 1842, 

 and entered once more upon the active duties 

 of the ministry, in New York and Brooklyn, 

 in which he continued for ten years. His 

 health becoming infirm, he took a supernumer- 

 ary relation in 1852, but preached occasionally, 

 till the last two or three years of his life. 

 Amid his often abundant labors, Dr. Bangs 

 found time for the preparation of numerous 

 works for the press, some of them controver- 

 sial in character. Fourteen or fifteen of these 

 are yet in circulation. One of the most impor- 

 tant and elaborate of these is a " History of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church," in 4 vols. 12mo. 



May 4. SNELL, THOMAS, D.D., a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman, died at North Brookfield, 

 Mass., aged 88 years. He was a native of Mas- 

 sachusetts, graduated at Dartmouth College in 

 1795, and Avas pastor of the Congregational 

 church at Brookfield for more than fifty years. 



Mat/ 6. TIIOEEAF, HENRY D., died at Con- 

 cord, Mass. He was born in Boston, July 12, 

 1817, graduated at Harvard College in 1837, 

 and spent the three following years in teaching. 

 For some time he was a member of the family 

 of Kalph Waldo Emerson, in Concord. He 

 was eccentric in his habits, and nearly every 

 year made an excursion on foot through the 

 woods and mountains of Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, New York, and other places, and for 

 more than two years lived in a hut about a 

 mile and a half from Concord, built by himself 

 at an expense of about $28, supporting himself 

 as a surveyor, pencil maker, &c. He was well 

 known to the public as the author of " A Week 

 on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," pub- 

 lished in 1849, and "Life in the Woods," pub- 

 lished in 1854. Early in 1863 two posthumous 

 works from his pen were also issued. 



May 8. BAILEY, GOLDSMITH F., a member 

 of Congress, died at his residence, in Fitchburg, 

 Mass. He was first elected in 1860. 



May 11. MACATJLEY, Rev. THOMAS, D.D., 

 LL. D., a Presbyterian clergyman, died in 

 New York city, aged 85 years. He was for- 

 merly a professor in Union College, and sub- 

 sequently pastor of the Presbyterian church in 

 Murray street, New York. 



May 11. VINTON, Hon. SAMUEL F., died in 

 Washington, D. C. He was born at South 

 Hadley, Mass., Sept. 25, 1792, graduated at 

 Williams College in 1814, studied law, and sub- 

 sequently removed to Ohio. He was for many 

 years a member of Congress, and in 1862 was 

 appointed one of the commissioners under the 

 act abolishing slavery in the District of Colum- 

 bia. He was a man of ability, and during his 

 long term of service in Congress was respected 

 and beloved. 



May 12. MEIGS, Rev. BENJAMIN CLARK, 

 D.D., a missionary of the American Board in 

 Ceylon, died in New York, aged 72 years. He 

 was a native of Connecticut, graduated at Yale 

 College in 1809, and received his theological 

 education in the seminary at Andover. He was 

 one of the founders of the Ceylon mission of the 

 American Board, and having been ordained, 

 embarked for that island in 1815, being one of 

 the second company of missionaries sent out 

 from this country. In 1841 he made a brief 

 visit to his native country, and in 1858, after 

 forty-two years' service, retired from the field. 



May 15. TRACY, REV. E. 0., a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman, died in Windsor, Vt., aged 66 

 years. He was editor of the "Vermont Chron- 

 icle," and previously, for several years, of the 

 " Boston Recorder." 



May 18. KEIM, Gen. WM. H., died at Har- 

 risburg, Pa., aged about 49 years. He was for 

 several years a militia general and in 1859 

 was elected surveyor general of the State. At 

 the commencement of the present war he ac- 

 cepted the position of major-general from Gov. 

 Curtin, and was in Gen. Patterson's division on 

 the Upper Potomac during the three months' 

 service. In the fall of 1861 he was appointed 

 a brigadier-general by the President, and join- 

 ed McClellan's division, where a brigade, con- 

 sisting chiefly of Pennsylvania regiments, was 

 placed under his command. He died of a com- 

 bined attack of typhoid fever and dysentery. 



May 18. SCOTT, WILLIAM, formerly Judge 

 of the Supreme Court of Missouri, died in 

 Jefferson City, Mo. He had a high reputation 

 as an able jurist. 



May 20. BALDWIN, JAMES FOWLE, died 

 suddenly in Boston, aged 80 years. He was a 

 native of Massachusetts, where he received a 

 thorough academical education and prepared 

 himself for mercantile life, but imbibing from 

 his father and brother a taste for engineering, 

 he joined the latter in the construction of the 

 Dry Dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard. In 

 1828 he was one of the State Commissioners 

 for the survey of the Western railroad. In 



