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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 







OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 1864. KING, 

 DANIEL, M. D., omitted in CYCLOPEDIA of 1864. 

 (See KINO, DANIEL.) 



KINO, THOMAS STARR, omitted in CYCLOPEDIA 

 of 1864. (See KING, T. S.) 



KNIGHT, JONATHAN, M. D., omitted in CYCLO- 

 PEDIA of 1864. (See KNIGHT, J.) 



Jan. 1, 1865. MARLATT, Rev. A. G., a cler- 

 gyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 

 President of Irving Female College, Mechanics- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, died at the college. 



Jan. 1. MCDONALD, ANGUS W., a colonel 

 in the Confederate service, and for many years 

 brigadier-general of Virginia militia, died in 

 Richmond, Va. He was a native of New York, 

 and was born in 1802. His father was a major 

 in the United States Army, and died during the 

 war of 1812, at Buffalo, N. Y. The son was 

 appointed a cadet at West Point, and graduated 

 in 1817, and on his graduation was appointed 

 third lieutenant in the artillery corps. He was 

 promoted to a second lieutenancy in February, 

 1818, and in April of the same year to a first 

 lieutenancy. He resigned in January, 1810, 

 and commenced the practice of law at Romney, 

 Va. Ho had been for many years a brigadier- 

 general of the militia of Virginia, and on the 

 breaking out of the war received a commission 

 as colonel of volunteers in the Confederate army. 

 In Juno, 1864, he was captured by Gen. Hunter, 

 near Lexington, Va., and was exchanged on the 

 14th of November. 



Jan. 2. MERSELES, Hon. JACOB M., ex-State 

 Senator of New Jersey, died of paralysis at 

 South Bergen, N. J. He was a member of the 

 legislature for three years, sheriff of Hudson 

 County for three terms, and was the pioneer in 

 establishing various stage and city railroad lines 

 in that section. 



Jan. 4. WRIGHT, Rev. AUSTIN H., M. D., 

 Missionary of the American Board, died at 

 Ooroomiah, Persia. 



Jan. 5. MILNOR, Mrs. ELEANOR, widow of 

 Rev. James Milnor, D. D., died at Brooklyn, 

 L. I., aged 86 years. She was an authoress, 

 and well known for her active interest in the 

 New York City Orphan Asylums and other 

 local benevolent institutions. 



Jan. 10. WELD, LEWIS LEDYARD, Lieut.-Col. 

 of the 41st U. S. Colored troops, died near 

 Richmond, Va., aged 32 years, lie was a na- 

 tive of Hartford, Conn., graduated at Yale 

 College in 1854, studied law, and in 185T was 

 admitted to the bar. In 1858 he commenced 

 the practice of his profession in Leavenworth, 

 Kansas, and subsequently removed to Denver 

 City. Upon the organization of the Territory 

 of Colorado, he was made Secretary, and was 

 for some time the Acting Governor, exerting a 

 powerful influence for the maintenance of the 

 national authority. In 1862 he resigned liU 



office, with a view to engage in the military 

 service, and while waiting a suitable opportu- 

 nity edited the Denver " Commonwealth." He 

 served in Maryland, South Carolina, Florida, 

 and in the Army of the James, before Richmond, 

 where he died from an acute disease brought 

 on by exposure. 



Jan. 12. E WEN, DANIEL, City Surveyor of 

 New York for forty-eight years, died at his res- 

 idence in that city, aged 69 years. 



Jan. 13. BARTLETT, WILLIAM PITT GREEN- 

 WOOD, an eminent mathematician connected 

 with the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, 

 Mass., died in that place aged 27 years. He 

 graduated at Harvard College in the class of 

 1858, after attaining a high standard of scholar- 

 ship, and in 1859 was appointed one of the 

 proctors of the college, which office he held 

 until 1862. In the summer of 1860 he visited 

 England and France, to attend the anniversary 

 meetings of the great European Scientific So- 

 cieties. He contributed largely to the " Mathe- 

 matical Monthly," and was elected a member 

 of the American Cabinet of Science. 



Jan. 14. FOWLER, Col. SAMUEL, a prominent 

 member of the New Jersey Legislature, died at 

 Trenton, N. J., of pneumonia. 



Jan. 14. KEMPSHALL, Hon. THOMAS, ex- 

 member of Congress from New York, died at 

 Rochester. He was a native of England, and a 

 pioneer settler of Rochester, representing his 

 State in Congress from 1839 to 1841. 



Jan. 15. HARPER, Hon. JOSEPH M., ex-mem- 

 ber of Congress from New Hampshire, died at 

 Canterbury in the 78th year of his age. He 

 was a native of Limerick, Me., but studied med- 

 icine and commenced practice in Canterbury 

 in 1819. In the war of 1812 Dr. Harper served 

 for some time as a surgeon in the army. In 

 1826 and '27 he was a member of the New 

 Hampshire House of Representatives and a 

 member of the State Senate in 1829 and '30. 

 The last year he was President of the upper 

 branch of the Legislature, and by the resigna- 

 tion of Matthew Harvey, became acting Gov- 

 ernor of New Hampshire from May till June 

 in 1831. Soon afterwards Dr. Harper was four 

 years a Representative in Congress. In 1843 

 he was elected President of the Mechanics' 

 Bank in Concord, and filled the position till 

 1856. 



Jan. 1 6. BELL, Col. LEWIS, of the 4th New 

 Hampshire volunteers, acting brigadier-general, 

 died of wounds received at Fort Fisher the pre- 

 ceding day. He was born in Chester, N. H., 

 in 1836, and was the youngest son of the lato 

 Governor Samuel Bell. He graduated at' Brown 

 University in 1853, and commenced the prac- 

 tice of law at Farmington, N. H. In 1860 ho 

 was appointed solicitor for Stafford County. 

 In April, 1861, he was offered the captaincy of 



