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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



American statesman, died at Salt Lake City, 

 aged 65 years. lie was a native of New York, 

 but in early life removed to Wisconsin Terri- 

 tory, from whence he was sent a delegate to 

 Congress, from 1839 to 1841, and was a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress from that State from 1849 

 to 1853. He was also for many years U. S. 

 Judge for Northern Michigan, and from 1841 

 to 1844 Governor of Wisconsin. In the fall of 

 1861 he was appointed Superintendent of In- 

 dian Affairs, and in 1863 was made Governor 

 of Utah. 



June 14. PAGE, Col. JOHN HAM WILLIAMS, 

 a lawyer and president of the Cape Cod Rail- 

 road Company, was drowned in Boston Harbor, 

 aged 60 years. He fitted for college at Phil- 

 lips' Academy, graduated at Harvard College 

 in 1826, and studied law in the Law School at 

 Cambridge and also at New Bedford, where he 

 practiced his profession twelve years. He then 

 removed to Boston to become treasurer of the 

 Lawrence Machine Company. He was after- 

 wards chosen president of the Cape Cod Rail- 

 road Company, which office he held at the 

 time of his death. He was a representative in 

 the State Legislature from New Bedford in 

 1844, 1845, and 1846 ; was a member of the 

 Executive Council of Governor Clifford in 

 1853, and of Governor Washburn in 1854. He 

 was several times affected with mental aberra- 

 tion, and while in this state he ended his life. 



June 16. RUGGLES, Hon. CHAELES H., an 

 eminent American jurist, died at Poughkeep- 

 sie, N. Y., aged about 75 years. He was a 

 native of Litchfield Co., Connecticut, and was 

 a member of the New York Assembly in 1820, 

 and a Representative in Congress from that 

 State from 1821 to 1823. After a successful 

 career in the practice of his profession, he was 

 appointed one of the eight Circuit Judges, 

 under the Constitution of 1821, in which posi- 

 tion he served with the entire approbation of 

 the bar and the community for several years. 

 When the Convention for revising the 

 Constitution sat in 1846, he took his seat as a 

 member from the county of Dutchess, and, by 

 common consent, was placed at the head of 

 the committee appointed to prepare the new 

 judicial system to be established. He was 

 made Judge of the Court of Appeals on its 

 first organization, and in 1853 was presiding 

 Judge. In 1855 Judge Ruggles retired from 

 the bench'on account of failing health. 



June 17. RUFFIX, EDMUND, a prominent 

 Southern politician and agriculturist, died by 

 his own hand, near Danville, Va., aged 80 

 years. He was a native of Virginia, and an 

 active participant in the. war, having made 

 his boast of being the first to fire upon Fort 

 Sumter. Previous to the war he devoted 

 much attention to the subject of agriculture, 

 was president of the Agricultural Society of 

 Virginia, and for some years published "The 

 "Farmer's Register" at Petersburg. He was 

 also the author of a popular volume on calca- 

 i-eous manures. 



June 26. GKUNDY, Rev. R. C., D.D., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman, died in Dayton, Ohio. 

 He was a native of Kentucky, and a graduate 

 of Princeton Theological Seminary. Early iu 

 his ministerial career he was settled at Mays- 

 ville, Ky., where he labored zealously and 

 effectively for many years. Subsequently he 

 accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian 

 Church at Memphis, Tenn. Here he labored 

 until the war broke up the relations between 

 himself and his church, being driven from the 

 pastorate because of his attachment to the 

 Union. He remained, however, in Memphis, 

 preaching most of the time in a public hall, 

 without compensation, until that city was 

 occupied by the Union forces. Soon there- 

 after he was called to the pulpit of the Cen- 

 tral Presbyterian Church in Dayton, where he 

 remained until his death. 



June 29. BOLLES, ENOCH, a prominent cit- 

 izen of Newark, N. J., died in that city, aged 

 86 years. He was a native of Connecticut, and 

 in his early days followed the sea. The vessel 

 in which he sailed was imprisoned in Charleston 

 harbor by the embargo early in this century, 

 and returning North, he engaged in the shoe 

 business in Newark, and subsequently was for 

 forty years principally engaged in real estate 

 speculations, by which, through the growth of 

 the city, he amassed a large fortune. He was 

 for a long period on the town committee, and 

 was a member of the first common council of 

 the city in 1836, and also in 1837 and 1840. 



June 29. MCCLANAHAN, Col. JOHN R., of 

 the Confederate army, and editor of the 

 "Memphis Appeal," was killed by a fall from 

 the window of the Gayoso House, Memphis. 

 In 1860 he was a warm supporter of Mr. Doug- 

 las for the Presidency. He subsequently en- 

 gaged in the war, and on the approach of the 

 national troops removed his publishing office 

 to Grenada, Miss., and thence in rapid succes- 

 sion to numerous other points. After the closo 

 of the war he returned to Memphis. He was 

 considered a fine scholar and an able writer. 



June 30. OROHAKD, Rev. ISAAC, city mis- 

 sionary and author, died in New York, in the 

 80th year of his age. He was a native of Eng- 

 land, converted at the age of 13 years, and 

 soon after attaining his majority entered the 

 ministry, and eventually became the pastor of 

 an Independent or Congregational church at 

 Wai worth, near London. In 1828 he was led 

 to unite with the Baptist Church, and a few 

 years subsequently emigrated with his family to 

 America, landing in New York, during the 

 visitation of the Asiatic cholera. After labor- 

 ing for a ghort time as pastor of the Baptist 

 church at West Troy, and afterwards as an in- 

 structor in an educational institution at Ilad- 

 dington, near Philadelphia, he took up his final 

 residence in New York, in 1836, in connection 

 with the City Tract Society, where he continued 

 till his death. He was the author of several 

 tracts and controversial works. 

 ,/wrte . FRY, JOSEPH REESE, a- Philadelphia 



