OBITUARIES. 



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She married Signer Susini a little less than a 

 year previous to her death. 



July 6. MACKENZIE, CHARLES KENNETH, 

 burned to death at the destructive fire of the 

 Rainbow Hotel, Beekman street, N. Y., aged 

 74 years. He was for a time in early life aide- 

 de-camp and military secretary to the Duke of 

 "Wellington. He was a man of good family and 

 connections, a ripe scholar, and an excellent 

 linguist, with great and versatile literary attain- 

 ments, having been a contributor to the Edin- 

 burgh and Quarterly Reviews, and the Ency- 

 clopaedia Britannica, and also at a later period 

 the leading writer of editorials for the London 

 daily conservative journals. 



July 8. RIPLET, Hon. PHILIP, ex-mayor of 

 Hartford, Conn., died at his residence in that 

 city, aged 68 years. He was for many years at 

 the head of an extensive iron foundry at the 

 falls in the Connecticut at "Windsor Locks, and 

 had been identified with most of the great busi- 

 ness enterprises of the city. He was twice 

 elected mayor. A man of philanthropic dispo- 

 sition, he had taken an active part in the estab- 

 lishment of the State Normal and State Re- 

 form Schools, and had been one of the trustees 

 of the latter from its organization. 



July 11. FOCLKROD, JOHN, died in Philadel- 

 phia. He served in the war of 1812, and at a 

 later period in life was a member of the House 

 of Representatives and Senate, and of the Re- 

 form Convention for the adoption of the new 

 Constitution. He was also, by appointment of 

 the Supreme Court, a member of the Board of 

 Prison Inspectors. 



July 24. VAN BUP.EN, MARTIN. (See VAX 

 BCP.EN.) 



July 24. MrDGE, Prof. T. A., late of Mc- 

 Kendree College, and pastor of Baldwin City 

 Station, in the Kansas Conference, died in the 

 college building while engaged in his study. 



July 24. MILNOR, WILLIAM HENRY, M.D.. 

 surgeon in the army, died at Savage's Station, 

 near Richmond, Va:, aged about 60 years. He 

 was a son of the late Rev. Dr. Milnor, and at 

 the time of his death Past Grand Master of the 

 Masonic Order in the State of New York. 



July 25. WALLACE, BENJAMIN J., D.D., died 

 at Philadelphia, aged 52 years. He was a 

 native of Philadelphia, a cadet at "West Point 

 from 182Y to 1830, passed through a theological 

 course at Princeton, X. J., and subsequently 

 had charge of various churches in the States 

 of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. He was for a 

 tune professor in Delaware College, Newark, 

 Del. In 1850 he removed to Philadelphia, and 

 assumed the editorship of the "Presbyterian 

 Quarterly Review " from its commencement. 



July 25. "WILLIAMS, REUEL. LL.D., died at 

 Augusta, Me., aged 79 years. He was a native 

 of Maine, an able member of the legal profes- 

 sion, served in both branches of the State Le- 

 gislature, and six years as a Senator in Con- 

 gress. 



Aug. 1. THORXWELZ, JAMES HENRY, D.D., an 

 eminent Presbyterian clergyman, died at Char- 



lotte, N. 0. He was born in Marlborough Dis- 

 trict, S. C., in 1811, graduated at South Caro- 

 lina College (Columbia, S. C.), in 1829, and soon 

 after commenced the study of law, but after a 

 tune abandoned it for theology, and having 

 passed through the usual course of study, com- 

 menced his ministerial career as the pastor of 

 the AVaxhaw Presbyterian church. In 1836 he 

 was elected professor of logic and belles lettres 

 in South Carolina College ; but in 1838 resigned 

 to become pastor of the Presbyterian church 

 in Columbia. In 1840 he accepted the profes- 

 sorship of the Evidences of Chistianity, and the 

 chaplaincy of the college, and held it till May, 

 1852, when he accepted a call to the pastorate 

 of the Glebe street Presbyterian church in 

 Charleston. In December of the same year he 

 was recalled to Columbia to take the presi- 

 dency of the college, with which he had been 

 so long connected. In 1856 he resigned at the 

 call of the General Assembly of the Presby- 

 terian Church (O. S.), to take the senior profes- 

 sorship of the Presbyterian Theological Semi- 

 nary at Columbia, which he held until his 

 death. In his native State perhaps no man 

 wielded a more powerful influence than Dr. 

 Thornwell. John C. Calhoun, whom, in intel- 

 lectual form and character he strongly resem- 

 bled, pronounced him the greatest man of his 

 acquaintance, and the position he held in the 

 General Assembly of his church, showed that 

 the statesman's judgment of. him was not far 

 wrong. He was an ardent and uncompromis- 

 ing advocate of slavery, and encouraged the 

 secession movement to the utmost of his pow- 

 er both with pen and voice. He opened the first 

 session of the Secession Convention cf South 

 Carolina with prayer. Amid his other duties 

 Dr. Thornwell had been a somewhat prolific 

 writer. His published sermons, addresses, es- 

 says, and occasional pamphlets are very nu- 

 merous ; the latest of them was a sermon elabo- 

 rately defending secession. He had also pub- 

 lished two volumes, " Arguments of Romanists 

 Discussed and Refuted " (New York, 1845), and 

 "Discourses on Truth " (New York. 1854). 



Aug. 5. McCooK. Brig.-Gen. ROBERT L., 

 an officer in the Union service, shot by 

 guerillas near Salem, Alabama. He was a na- 

 tive of Jefferson county, Ohio, born in 1827. 

 He was a man of fine attainments, and had early 

 chosen the legal profession. He studied law in 

 Columbus, and opened an oftlce in that city 

 when he was only 21 years of age. A few 

 years later he removed to Cincinnati, where he 

 had acquired a large practice. At the first 

 call for troops he raised a regiment of Ger- 

 mans for the war. During the two months 

 that his regiment was in camp in Ohio, he had 

 drilled them into a high state of perfection. 

 In the campaign of western Virginia in the 

 summer and autumn of 1861 McCook and his 

 " bully Dutchmen," as his regiment was called, 

 were constantly on the alert, and at Rich 

 Mountain, Cheat Mountain, in the various 

 skirmishes on and near the line of the Balti- 



