OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



645 



July 30. INGRAM, ALEXANDER, M. D., a sur- 

 geon of the U. S. Army, was lost in the wreck 

 of the steamship Brother Jonathan, off the coast 

 of Oregon. Dr. Ingram was born in Scotland, 

 during the temporary sojourn there of his par- 

 ents both American citizens. He entered the 

 army of the United States in May, 1861, rank- 

 ing sixth in a class of twenty members. In 

 January, 1862, he was on duty with the 2d 

 cavalry at Cantonment Holt, Washington. He 

 served with credit to his corps and with eminent 

 satisfaction to the regiment, and was with it 

 through all its campaigns with the Army of the 

 Potomac until January, 1863. He was then 

 ordered to Washington, and assigned to the 

 charge of St. Aloysius Hospital, and when that 

 was broken up, was transferred, as surgeon in 

 charge, to Judiciary Square Hospital. In Sep- 

 tember, 1864, he was ordered to California, and 

 put on a board for the examination of applicants 

 for appointment as assistant-surgeon of volun- 

 teers. After being relieved from this duty, he 

 was appointed chief surgeon of the troops in 

 Southern California. When Gen. Wright was 

 ordered to the command of the Northern Divi- 

 sion of the Pacific coast, the medical director 

 of the department, knowing the eminent fitness 

 of Dr. Ingram for the position, assigned him as 

 the chief medical officer of Gen. Wright's com- 

 mand. 



July 30. NISBET, JAMES, an American editor 

 and author, was lost in the wreck of the Brother 

 Jonathan, off the coast of Oregon, aged about 

 65 years. He was by birth a Scotchman, and 

 having been somewhat unsuccessful in his career 

 as novelist and journalist in England and Aus- 

 tralia, he removed to California not far from 

 1855. His first literary venture in this country 

 was " The Annals of San Francisco," which, 

 although pecuniarily a failure, led to his em- 

 ployment as news editor on " The Chronicle." 

 Later, he accepted a like position on "The 

 Bulletin," then edited by James King, who was 

 subsequently assassinated during the disturb- 

 ances prior to the reign of the Vigilance Com- 

 mittee. Upon the death of Mr. King, Mr. 

 Nisbet became editor of that paper. 



August 3. BERGEN, PETER G., ex-Judge of 

 Kings County Court, died in Brooklyn, L. I. 

 He was a descendant of the early Dutch settlers 

 of Long Island, and for a quarter of a century 

 had been identified with the popular interests 

 of the city of Brooklyn. He was at one time 

 county judge, and besides other offices of honor 

 and trust, was for twenty-two years a promi- 

 nent and valued member of the Board of Edu- 

 cation. 



August 3. MoLouGHLiN, Rev. F. T., a Ro- 

 man Catholic clergyman, died in New York 

 city, aged 29 years. Ho was born in the parish 

 of Aglia, Upper Canada, and at an early age 

 entered the College of St. Michael, Toronto. 

 The office of the priesthood being evidently his 

 vocation. Mr. McLoughlin came to the United 

 States, and was received into the Seminary of 

 St. Mary's, Baltimore, . Md. His theological 



studies having been completed, he was ordained 

 priest by Bishop Loughlin, in the Cathedral of 

 St. James, Brooklyn, for that diocese. Soon 

 thereafter he was assigned to the parish of Flat- 

 bush, where he ministered with zeal and fidelity 

 to the people committed to his care, until his 

 health became visibly impaired, when he was 

 translated to the Church of the Assumption, 

 Brooklyn. Here he continued the studies of 

 his office, and won, by his attention to the best 

 interests of his people, the sincere admiration 

 of all. Again was he assailed by disease, which 

 the best medical skill could not overcome, and 

 was obliged to cease his labors and retire to the 

 country, where he could obtain that repose so 

 essential to his complaint. At the time of his 

 death he had just returned from a voyage to 

 Europe, whither he had been for the benefit of 

 his health. 



August 11. CAMPBELL, DUNCAN R., D. D., a 

 Baptist clergyman, and for many years Presi- 

 dent of Georgetown College, Ky., died at Cov- 

 ington, Ky., aged about 63 years. He was a 

 native of Scotland, and a graduate of one of 

 the Scottish universities, but came to this coun- 

 try while yet a young man, and after spending 

 some years in the pastorate, in which he was 

 justly admired for his abilities as a preacher, 

 he came to Georgetown, Ky., first as pastor of 

 the Baptist Church in that flourishing town, 

 and on Rev. Dr. Malcom's resignation of the 

 presidency of the college in 1849, succeeded 

 him in that office, which position he retained 

 until his death. The college had been prosper- 

 ous under his administration, until the com- 

 mencement of the war, when the students very 

 generally enlisted on one side or the other, and 

 the classes were exceedingly small till the close 

 of the war. Dr. Campbell was a man of fine 

 culture, and extensive as well as thorough 

 scholarship, both in belles-lettres and theology. 



August 11. SHERMAN, Hon. J. H., U. S. 

 Consul to Prince Edward Island, died at his 

 residence in Charlottetown, in the 63d year of 

 his age. He was a native of Albany, N. Y., 

 and early became interested in steam naviga- 

 tion. In 1830 he was master of the Hudson 

 River steamer De Witt Clinton. Of late years 

 he had resided in Vermont, and was appointed 

 to the consulate from thence in 1861. The cli 

 mate of Prince Edward Island acted unfavor- 

 ably upon his lungs, and, after a long struggle 

 against disease, congestion set in and proved 

 fatal. 



.August 14. MATTIXGLY, JAMES F., manager 

 of the American Telegraph for sixfeen years, 

 died in Baltimore, Md., of consumption. 



Aug. 19. DODD, Rev. EDWARD MILLS, mis- 

 sionary of the American Board at Constanti- 

 nople, died of cholera at Marsovan, Turkey. 

 He was born at Bloomfield, N. J., June 22, 

 1824. His father was an elder in the Presby- 

 terian church at Bloomfield. After receiving 

 a good school education he became a clerk in a 

 store in his native place in 1839, and that year 

 having become hopefully a Christian, felt that 



