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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



Legislature from 1850 to 1854; Speaker of the 

 House, 1853-'54; Judge of the New Jersey 

 Court of Appeals, 1854-'57; member of Con- 

 gress, 1857-'59 ; and was an earnest advocate of 

 the Lecompton Bill. Judge Huyler was a man 

 of strict integrity and large wealth. 



Jan. 9. RISLEY, General ELIJAH, a promi- 

 nent citizen of Fredonia, N. Y. ; died there, 

 aged 82 years. He was born in East Hart- 

 ford, Conn., May 7, 1787; removed in early 

 youth to Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., 

 and subsequently to Fredonia, where in 1831, 

 in connection with his brothers, he established 

 the business of raising garden-seeds, which 

 business they carried on ftr a period of a 

 quarter of a century with great success. In 

 1848 he was elected, on the Whig ticket, as 

 Representative in Congress from his district. 

 He was particularly interested in educational 

 matters, and held many important offices of 

 trust in his township. 



. Jan. 10. CHASSKLS, Rev. DAVID, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and teacher; died at 

 Holland Patent, aged 83. He was born in 

 Glasgow, Scotland, April 30, 1787; but at 

 the age of eight years emigrated with his 

 parents to the United States, and soon after 

 settled in Vermont. In 1810 he graduated at 

 Dartmouth College ; was for some years prin- 

 cipal of the academy in Peacham, Vt., and 

 subsequently of the academy in Cambridge, 

 N. Y. ; was ordained by the Presbytery of 

 Troy in 1820; took charge of the Fairfield 

 Academy in the following year, and after- 

 ward of the academy at Herkimer. He was 

 never installed pastor, but he frequently served 

 as a stated supply. He was a fine classical 

 scholar and a thorough teacher. 



Jan. 11. DUNN, Rev. CLARKSON, an Episco- 

 pal clergyman; died in Elizabeth, N. J., aged 75 

 years. He was born in Woodbridge, in 1795; 

 graduated at Union College in 1818, and at the 

 General Theological Seminary in 1820; was 

 ordained priest in the same year, and became 

 rector of a church at Elizabeth, which charge 

 he held until his death. 



Jan. 12. ROOT, P. SHELDON, an eminent 

 lawyer and judge, of Oneida County, N. Y. ; 

 died in New Hartford, aged 60 years. He was 

 formerly a law-partner of Horatio Seymour, 

 clerk of the county, and for fourteen years 

 judge of the County Court. 



Jan. 13. BIGELOW, LAFAYETTE J., Jr., A. M., 

 LL.B.,. an eminent lawyer and journalist, died 

 at "Watertown, N. Y., aged 35 years. He was 

 born in the town of > Ellisburgh, Jefferson 

 County, N. Y., May 13, 1835 ; entered Union 

 College, Junior year, in the fall of 1854; left 

 there at close of the year, and became a student 

 in the law department of the university at 

 Albany; graduated there in 1857, receiving 

 the degree of LL.B.; in May, 1857, he re- 

 moved to Watertown, the county seat of his 

 native county, and commenced the practice of 

 law ; in the fall of the same year he was 

 chosen special Surrogate, and in the fall of 



1862 was elected to the office of District At- 

 torney of his county, a position which he had 

 held for two years previous, by appointment 

 of the court; in November, 1863, retiring 

 from the law, except to serve out his term as 

 District Attorney, he purchased an interest in 

 the Daily and Weekly Reformer (published at 

 "Watertown), of which he became one of the 

 editors and proprietors. He was an active 

 Republican, and in 1867-'68 was a member of 

 the Assembly, serving on the Committee on 

 Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools. 



Jan. 14. BARRY, JOHN S., died at Constan- 

 tine, Mich., aged 68 years. He was a native 

 of Vermont, but in 1832 removed to Michigan, 

 where he entered actively into political life as 

 a Democrat. In 1836 he became a State Sen- 

 ator, and again in 1840. In 1841 he was elect- 

 ed Governor, serving four years, and reflected 

 in 1852, when he served two years. During 

 his successful campaigns he sustained the " Wil- 

 mot Proviso," intended to prohibit slavery in 

 the Territories. In 1860 he was again a Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor, but was defeat- 

 ed by the Republican candidate. During the 

 late war he was in sympathy with the ultra 

 wing of the Democratic party. 



Jan. 14. BLANCHARD, Rev. AMOS, D. D., 

 a Congregationalist clergyman; died in Lowell, 

 Mass., aged 63 years. He was born in Ando- 

 ver, Mass., March 7, 1807 ; studied at Phillips 

 Academy, graduated at Yale College in 1826, 

 studied theology at Andover and at New Ha- 

 ven, and in 1829 was ordained pastor of the 

 First Congregational Church in Lowell, Mass. ; 

 in 1845 he was installed pastor of the Kirk 

 Street Congregational Church in the same city, 

 and died in that office. He received the de- 

 gree of doctor of divinity from Williams Col- 

 lege in 1852. 



Jan. 15. BIRNEY, Captain JAMES G., U. S. A., 

 an Army officer of great bravery, died at Fort 

 Davis, Texas, aged about 33 years. He was a 

 son of the Hon. James G. Birney, a noted 

 antislavery leader, once a slaveholder, who 

 was the candidate of the Liberty party for the 

 presidency in 1844. Captain Birney was born 

 in Michigan, and was an early volunteer in the 

 late war, serving for a time on the staff of his 

 kinsman, General David D. Birney, subse- 

 quently commanding a regiment, and then a 

 brigade. After the war he received an appoint- 

 ment as first-lieutenant in the regular Army, 

 and was very soon promoted to a captaincy. 



Jan. 15. ROBERTS, Rev. GEORGE C. M., 

 M. D., LL. D., a distinguished Methodist clergy- 

 man and physician ; died in Baltimore, aged 64 

 years. 



Jan. 18. RADFORD, WILLIAM, died atYon- 

 kers, N. Y., aged 57 years. He was born in 

 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N. Y,, June 

 24, 1814, received a good common-school edu- 

 cation, settled in New York in 1829, and was 

 for a long time engaged in mercantile pursuits. 

 In 1862 he was elected a Representative from 

 New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serv- 



