644 



OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



days she had been quite intimately acquainted, 

 and who had reached by this time the age of 

 78 years. Soon after, he sought her hand in 

 marriage, and after several decided rejections 

 she was finally induced to give her consent. 

 A few days after the wedding she placed a large 

 sum in his hands, which was subsequently irre- 

 trievably lost in a Texan speculation, of which 

 no mention was made to her ; and upon her in- 

 quiries, his reply was such as to cause a coolness 

 between them, which, aggravated by further 

 speculations and losses, finally induced her to 

 file a complaint against him, praying that he 

 might have no further control or authority 

 over her affairs. A separation ensued, though 

 the marriage contract was never dissolved by 

 law. Since then, Madame Jumel has resided in 

 comparative retirement on Washington Heights. 



July 17. BAILEY, Hon. GEORGE W., Secre- 

 tary of State of Vermont, died at his residence 

 in Montpelier. He had held the above-men- 

 tioned office for four years, discharging the du- 

 ties of his position with credit to himself and 

 to the State. 



July 18. BILLINGS, BENJAMIN L., an eminent 

 lawyer of New York, died of apoplexy on the 

 steamboat Matteawan while taking his family 

 to Keyport, N. J. He was a practitioner of 

 great ability and research. 



July 18. HAYWARD, NATHANIEL, an Amer- 

 ican inventor and manufacturer, died at Col- 

 chester, Conn., aged 57 years. He was a native 

 of Easton, Conn., and resided there and at other 

 places in the State until 1847, when he removed 

 to Colchester. In 1837 he discovered the pro- 

 cess of combining rubber gum with sulphur, 

 which was the beginning of the successful man- 

 ufacture of rubber cloth. This discovery he 

 sold in 1838 to Charles Goodyear, of New Haven, 

 who soon after secured a patent for it. In 1843 

 Mr. Hayward invented the process of preparing 

 fire-proof or vulcanized rubber, and in that year 

 he made the first rubber shoes that had been 

 made from sheet-rubber, at Woburn. He soon 

 after discovered a method for giving high polish 

 to rubber shoes, and in 1847 established the 

 ITayward Rubber Company at Colchester, which 

 for several years employed five hundred hands 

 in the manufacture of rubber boots and shoes, 

 and is still one of the largest rubber shoe man- 

 ufactories in the country. Latterly, he had taken 

 a greater personal interest in the rubber mills 

 at Stoneham, which have turned out large num- 

 bers of pontoons for army use, and other varie- 

 ties of rubber manufacture. Mr. H. was always 

 among the foremost in works of practical benev- 

 olence and local improvement, and has left a 

 large estate and an excellent reputation as a 

 moral and business man. 



July 18. NICHOLAS, Capt. JOHN S., U. S. N., 

 died at Bound Brook, N. J., in the 65th year 

 of his age. He was a native and citizen of Vir- 

 ginia, from which State he was appointed in 

 June, 1815. He received his last commission 

 in 1855, and saw two years of sea service under 

 it, making nearly twenty years spent at sea out 



of forty-nine in the navy. He was a classmate 

 of the late Admiral Du Pont, and was last or 

 dered to some special duty under the War De- 

 partment. 



July 22. CARROLL, Hon. CHARLES H., a 

 prominent lawyer and politician of Livingston 

 County, N. Y., died at his residence in Grove- 

 land, in the 71st year of his age. He was a 

 native of Maryland, and removed with his fathei 

 to Livingston County in 1815, where he has 

 resided since, except during a few years' absence 

 in Missouri, occupied in the supervision of the 

 large estate of the family. He studied law with 

 John C. Spencer, in Canandaigua, but never* 

 practiced, although he served one or two terms 

 as Judge of Livingston County. He was a 

 member of Assembly in 1836, and represented 

 his district in Congress from 1843 to 1847. He 

 was the last male representative of his family. 

 His elder brother, Henry, was secretary to 

 Henry Clay while Commissioner at Ghent, and 

 was killed in 1820, in Missouri. Dr. Daniel J. 

 died in New York, and the younger of the 

 three brothers, Wm. T., died while holding the 

 office of Clerk of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States. 



Judge Carroll was a man of positive character. 

 Although not brilliant, he was an intelligent 

 and forcible debater, and wielded, for many 

 years, a commanding political influence in his 

 district. He was a life-long and devoted friend 

 of Henry Clay, an ardent Whig until that party 

 was merged into other organizations, when he 

 passed over into the American party, and sub- 

 sequently identified himself with the Democracy. 

 But during the war, he was thoroughly for the 

 Union, and was happy that he lived to see the 

 rebellion subdued. He was of a genial dispo- 

 sition, but found his greatest pleasure in super- 

 intending his large estate, in developing its 

 agricultural resources, and in improving the 

 breed of horses and cattle. In this he rendered 

 a great service to the section of country where 

 he lived for half a century. 



July 23. SPEDDEN, ROBERT, ex-Lieut. U. S. 

 N., died at New Orleans, aged 83 years. He 

 entered the navy early in the present century, 

 and left it in 1824. In 1814 to took a promi- 

 nent part in the defence of New Orleans, losing 

 an arm at the fight of Lake Borgne. In 1824 

 ho resigned his commission, and settled perma- 

 nently in New Orleans, where he occupied the 

 highest social position, and held from time to 

 time many offices of trust, such as port warden, 

 harbor master, and coroner of the parish of 

 New Orleans. 



July 24. TAYLOR, Rev. FITCH W., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, and senior chaplain in the 

 United States Navy, died in Boston, aged 64 

 years. 



July 25. COOK, Rev. EDWIN R. T., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, rector of Wainwright Me- 

 morial Church, New York, died in that city, 

 aged 40 years. lie was an able, devoted, and 

 efficient pastor, and his labors had been signally 

 blessed to the prosperity of his church. 



