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OBITUARIES. 



city and a graduate of Yale college in the class 

 of 1798. Young Herrick received a good aca- 

 demical education, and while yet a youth be- 

 came a clerk in the well known book store of 

 Gen. Hezekiah Howe, upon the death of whom 

 he was for a short time in business as a book- 

 seller on his own account. In 1843 he was 

 appointed librarian of Yale College, and contin- 

 ued to discharge the duties of that office until 

 his resignation in 1858. In 1852 he was ap- 

 pointed treasurer, which post he held until his 

 death. His devotion to the interests of the 

 college was ever active and thorough, and by 

 no means confined to his official trusts. Since 

 the death of Prof. Kingsleyin 1852 he had had 

 the chief charge of the triennial catalogue, had 

 prepared the annual record of deceased gradu- 

 ates, and collected much information respecting 

 the biographies of early graduates. The super- 

 vision of the college property also formed a 

 portion of his cares. He held many important 

 trusts in connection with municipal affairs, and 

 was considered the most active man hi town. 

 Notwithstanding his many duties he made high 

 attainments in various departments of science, 

 devoting much attention to entomology, astron- 

 omy, and meteorology. The " American Jour- 

 nal of Science " contains many valuable articles 

 from his pen. Among these an essay on the 

 " Hessian Fly and its Parasites," the result of 

 nine years' careful investigation, and papers on 

 the Meteoric Showers of August and the exist- 

 ence of a planet between Mercury and the Sun, 

 are the most remarkable. His knowledge of 

 local history, general literature, and bibliog- 

 raphy was very extensive and always at com- 

 mand. He received an appointment as a mem- 

 ber of the U. S. Exploring Expedition under 

 Capt. Wilkes, but declined the honor, mainly, 

 it is believed, from considerations of filial duty 

 to his aged mother. 



June 18. PERRY, Col. JAMES H., D. D., died 

 of apoplexy at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, aged 

 about 51 years. He was educated at West 

 Point, served in the Texan War of Independ- 

 ence and through the Mexican campaign. At 

 the commencement of the present war he was 

 pastor of the Pacific street M. E. church at 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., but from love of his country, 

 and a sense of duty, resigned the pastorate of 

 the church, and raised a regiment called the 

 Continental Guards, which was accepted as the 

 48th N. Y. State volunteers. This regiment 

 formed part of Gen. Sherman's Port Royal ex- 

 pedition. At the time of his death he had com- 

 mand of Fort Pulaski. 



June 21. ELLET, Col. CHARLES. (See ELLET, 

 C.) 



June 27. HOPKINS. JOSIAH, D.D., a Presby- 

 terian clergyman, died at Geneva, N. Y. He 

 was born in Pittsford, Vt., April 25, 1786, 

 studied the ordinary branches of an English 

 education, and afterward theology with the 

 minister of his parish, and subsequently with 

 Rev. Samuel Haynes, the celebrated colored 

 preacher, and was licensed as a Congregational 



preacher in 1810, and after a year's labor as a 

 missionary in western Vermont settled as a 

 pastor at New Haven, Conn., in 1811, and re- 

 mained there 19 years, teaching theology most 

 of the time in addition to his pastoral duties. 

 He prepared for his classes while residing there 

 "The Christian Institute," a theological text 

 book, which passed through many editions. In 

 1830 he accepted the pastorate of the 1st 

 Presbyterian church in Auburn, N. Y., which 

 he filled with great acceptancy. In 1848 he re- 

 signed in consequence of ill health, and re- 

 moved to Ohio, and having after some years 

 recovered his health, returned to the vicinity 

 of Auburn, but his disease (asthma) returning, 

 he sought relief at the water cure at Geneva, 

 where he died. 



June 27. TUCKEB, Col. ISAAC M., of the 2d 

 New Jersey regiment, was killed in the battle 

 of Games' Mill. He was a resident of Newark, 

 N. J., a member of the legal profession, and a 

 man of much influence throughout the State. 

 In 1856 he was a member of the State Repub- 

 lican Executive Committee. He was a true 

 patriot, and his services to his regiment were 

 most valuable. He was shot by the enemy 

 while being borne wounded from the field. 



June 30. BAILEY, Col. GUILFORD D., was 

 killed at the battle of the Seven Pines, aged 28 

 years. He was a native of New York, graduated 

 at West Point in 1856, and was appointed to 

 artillery service. Soon after his graduation he 

 was ordered to Florida, and after a short ser- 

 vice there was assigned to Forts Mackinaw, 

 Snelling, and Leavenworth successively. When 

 secession began he was in Texas, where he 

 refused peremptorily to be included in Twiggs's 

 surrender in 1861. Coming North, he was 

 sent with Major Hunt's battery to reenforce 

 Fort Pickens. Subsequently he raised a vol- 

 unteer -regiment in the northern part of New 

 Jersey, and joined the army of the Potomac, 

 participating in all the battles until as chief 

 of artillery in Gen. Casey's division he was 

 mortally wounded. 



June . MEREIAM, Rev. W. W., a mission- 

 ary of the American Board, was assassinated 

 by robbers near Philippopolis, Turkey, upon his 

 return from a missionary meeting at Constan- 

 tinople. His wife, who accompanied him, died 

 a few days after of typhus fever brought on by 

 grief and oyerexertion in guarding and con- 

 veying home the remains of her husband. 



July 6. SUSINI, Mrs. ISABELLA HINCKLEY, a 

 popular vocalist, died in New York. She was a 

 daughter of the late Dr. Hinckley, a practis- 

 ing physician of Albany. She early manifested 

 a taste for music, and her voice being an excel- 

 lent soprano, great care was spent upon her 

 education in that art. At the age of 17 she was 

 taken to Italy, where for two years she studied 

 under the best lyrical and dramatic masters, 

 after which she appeared in Italian opera in 

 several European capitals, and upon her return 

 to this country, in several American cities, 

 everywhere being received with great favor. 



