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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Jan. 1. BUR- 

 s, Kov. EBKNEZER, a Oongregationalist cler- 

 gyman, and fur fifteen years a missionary of the 

 American Board to the Mahrattas in Western 

 India; died at Newton Centre, Mass., aged 

 64 years. Ho was connected with tho mis- 

 sion to the Mahratta people, in Western 

 India; from 1839 to 1854, stationed at Ahmed- 

 nagger until 1851, and then at Satara. He 

 returned, finally, to the United States in 1854, 

 with his motherless children, having buried 

 two wives in India, and was released from his 

 connection with the Board in 1855. Since his 

 return, he has been engaged on an elaborate 

 work upon the antiquity of man, for which 

 his studies had eminently qualified him, and 

 whii-Ii at the time of his death was nearly com- 

 pleted. 



Jan. 3. GBANDVAL, JEAN HENRY GUIGNON 

 DK, formerly a captain in tho Royal Army of 

 France, and of late a successful teacher of 

 young ladies in a seminary established by him 

 in Uoboken, N. J. ; died there. He was a na- 

 tive of La Rochelle, France, and, upon the ac- 

 cession of Louis Philippe, was compelled to 

 flee to this country. 



Jan. 3. HOPKINS, BENJAMIN F., a "Wisconsin 

 politician ; died at Madison, Wis., aged 40 

 years. He was born in Washington County, 

 N. Y., in 1829, emigrated early to Wisconsin, 

 and, entering into business pursuits, became 

 notably successful. He was private secretary 

 to the Governor one term, a member of both 

 branches of the Legislature, elected to Con- 

 gress in 1866, and reflected in 1868, serving on 

 the Committees on Enrolled Bills and Public 

 Lands. 



Jan. 3. LOZIER, Mrs. CHARLOTTE DENMAN, 

 M. D., a skilful and accomplished female 

 physician, professor, and medical writer ; died 

 in New York City, aged 26 years. At a very 

 early age she entered upon the study of 

 medicine, giving all her energies to the task of 

 overcoming the obstacles in the way of her 

 advancement in the science, and comprehend- 

 ing with wonderful aptitude the principles in- 

 volved in the art. Her days were spent in the 

 class-rooms and hospital, and her nights in 

 anatomical and physiological investigations. 

 She took an active part in the struggle to se- 

 cure for female students tho privilege of attend- 

 ing the clinics of Bollevue Hospital, leading 

 them herself to the wards and operating-rooms. 

 She was an able lecturer, a skilful practitioner, 

 nnd an active and energetic worker in all move- 

 ments for the elevation of woman. 



Jan. 3. WILLIAMS, Brevet-Colonel THOMAS 

 C., U. S. A., commanding the post at Little 

 Rock, Ark. ; died there of congestion of the 

 brain. He was a native of Philadelphia, and 

 was appointed from the volunteers. 



Jan. 4. McGBOABTT, General STEPHEN J., 

 a lawyer of Cincinnati, who volunteered in the 

 late war, and for his faithful service was pro- 

 moted to the rank of brigadier-general, and 

 brevet major-general of volunteers ; died in 

 Cincinnati. He was a member of the bar of 

 Hamilton County, and was commissioned 

 captain of the Tenth Ohio three-months regi- 

 ment, April 18, 1861. He was a gallant and 

 efficient officer, and lost an arm in the service. 

 Being of Irish birth, he had great influence 

 over the Irish citizens of Cincinnati in secur- 

 ing their support of the war. 



Jan. 6. GOOOIN, WILLIAM L., a Virginia 

 politician, died in Richmond, aged 63 years. 

 He was born in Bedford County, Va. ; re- 

 ceived an academic education, was admitted 

 tp the bar at the age of twenty-one, and prac- 

 tised in several of the Circuit and District 

 Courts. In 1836 he was elected to the Vir- 

 ginia Legislature by the Whigs, and declined a 

 reelection the following year. In 1839 he was 

 elected a Representative to Congress from Vir- 

 ginia, where he served until 1847. During his 

 last term he was chairman of the Committee 

 on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. He was one 

 of the West Point visitors during Fillmore's 

 Administration. In 1859 he was the Whig 

 candidate for Governor of Virginia, bnt was 

 defeated by John Letcher. The latter portion 

 of his life was devoted to the practice of his 

 profession, in conjunction with agricultural 

 pursuits. 



Jan. 6. MOWER, JOSEPH A., Brevet Major- 

 General, and Colonel Thirty-ninth Infantry 

 U. S. A. ; died at New Orleans, of congestion of 

 the lungs. He was a native of Vermont, but en- 

 tered the army from Connecticut, as a private 

 soldier in the company of Engineers in the 

 Mexican War, receiving his first commission 

 June 18, 1855. During the civil war he was in 

 constant service. At Corinth he bore a con- 

 spicuous part, and, having been severely wound- 

 ed, was for a time in the hands of the enemy. 

 During the Vicksburg campaign he attracted 

 the attention of the commanding general by 

 his personal bravery. From 1863 to the close 

 of the war he was with General Sherman, ris- 

 ing through all grades to the command of tho 

 Twentieth Corps. Since the death of General 

 Rousseau, he has been in command of the 

 Department of Louisiana, embracing the States 

 of Louisiana and Arkansas. 



Jan. 9. HUYLER, JOHN, a prominent citizen 

 and political leader, of Hackensack, N. J. ; died 

 of injuries received in an encounter with a 

 drunken man on the bridge at that place, aged 

 sixty-one years. He was a native of New- 

 York City, where he resided until 1846. He 

 was president of the Board of Supervisors of 

 Bergen County ; member of the New Jersey 



