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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Feb. 5. ELTON, Eev. ROMEO, D. D., LL. D., 

 a Baptist clergyman, professor, and author; 

 died in Boston, Mass., aged 78 years. He was 

 a native of Connecticut, graduated at Brown 

 University in 1813, and was professor of the 

 Latin and Greek Languages and Literature 

 there for about twenty years. After the death 

 of his wife, he resigned his professorship and 

 went to England, where he resided for some 

 years, marrying there an authoress of con- 

 siderable celebrity, Miss Prothesia Goss. Sub- 

 sequently he returned to this country, and was 

 for a time acting pastor in Newport, R. I., and 

 Windsor, Conn., but after two or three years 

 resumed his residence in England, where his 

 wife died in 1867. In the summer of 1869 he 

 returned to the United States, and in Novem- 

 ber, 1869, married a third time in Boston. 

 Professor Elton was a man of fine taste, and 

 wide and generous culture. His classical at- 

 tainments were fully recognized abroad, and 

 he was an honored and active corresponding 

 member of numerous learned societies. A 

 higher measure of intellectual force might 

 have given him a more exalted position in the 

 literary world, but wherever he was known he 

 was beloved for his courteous manners, his 

 real refinement, and his large and generous 

 sympathies with every good cause. He will be 

 known as a writer principally by his " Life and 

 Remains of Jonathan Maxcy, D. D.," the first 

 president of Brown University, a work of great 

 care and, labor, and by a small memoir of Roger 

 "Williams, published in England, which con- 

 tained much new matter, and particularly the 

 letters of Mrs. Sadlier, daughter of Sir Edward 

 Coke, to Roger Williams. He had also pub- 

 lished numerous occasional sermons and ad- 

 dresses. Dr. Elton left by will twenty thousand 

 dollars to Brown University, and the same sum 

 to Columbia College, Washington, D. C., to 

 found professorships. He had previously en- 

 dowed some scholarships in Brown University. 



Feb. 5. HOAG, TRUMAN H., a prominent citi- 

 zen of Toledo, Ohio; died in Washington, D. 

 0. In 1869 he was chosen member of Congress 

 for the Tenth District, Ohio, having previously 

 been the unsuccessful Democratic candidate 

 in that district. He was a man of fair abilities, 

 and much respected in the community where 

 he resided. 



Feb. 7. WASHBTTENE, PETEE THACHEB, Gov- 

 ernor of Vermont; died at Woodstock, aged 55 

 years. He was born in Lynn, Mass., September 

 7, 1814, but at the age of three years removed 

 to Vermont, graduated at Dartmouth College, 

 studied law, and after his admission to the bar 

 obtained an extensive and profitable practice. 

 Entering into politics, Mr. Washburne was 

 elected at various times to both branches of 

 the State Legislature, in which he served with 

 credit. He also held for several years the posi- 

 tion of reporter to the Supreme Court of Ver- 

 mont. Soon after the outbreak of the rebellion 

 he was appointed Adjutant and Inspector Gen- 

 eral of the State, and served in that capacity 



until 1866. The energy displayed by Mr. Wash- 

 burne in organizing and sending forward the 

 Vermont volunteers, and the close attention 

 he paid to their welfare while in the field, 

 gained for him much popularity with the 

 people. Last June he was nominated by the 

 Republicans for the position of Governor of 

 the State, and at the election in September fol- 

 lowing was elected by a large majority. In 

 October he was installed into office, since 

 which time, until stricken down by illness, he 

 had been engaged in the administration of the 

 affairs of the State with marked success. 



Feb. 9. BKTTELHEIM, Rev. J. B., M. D., a 

 missionary and clergyman, of Jewish parent- 

 age; died in Brookfield, Mo., aged 59 years. 

 He 'was born in Presburg, Hungary, in 1811, 

 educated in the Jewish faith at the Hungarian 

 universities, and in medicine at Padua, visited 

 Greece and Egypt, was naval surgeon in the 

 Egyptian Navy, and afterward was a surgeon 

 in the Turkish Army. He became a convert to 

 Christianity in Turkey, was an Independent 

 minister in London in 1845, and was for nine 

 years a missionary to the Japanese inhabitants 

 of the Loo-choo Islands. In 1854 he came to 

 America. 



Feb. 11. KEEP, Rev. JOHN, an eminent Con- 

 gregationalist clergyman ; died at Oberlin,Ohio, 

 aged 89 years. He was born in Long Meadow, 

 Mass., April 20, 1781, graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1802, being the last survivor from a 

 class of sixty, studied theology under Dr. A. 

 Backus, and Rev. A. Hooker, was licensed by 

 the Litchfield North Association, June 11, 

 1805, and was immediately settled over the 

 Congregational chnrch in Blandford, Mass., 

 where he remained sixteen years. In May, 

 1821, he removed to Homer, N. Y., and was 

 pastor of the Congregational Church there un- 

 til 1833, when he resigned in consequence of 

 disaffection caused by his sympathy with the 

 " new measures " of revivalists. The following 

 year he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and soon 

 after organized the First Congregational Church 

 in Ohio City (now Cleveland West Side), and 

 became its pastor. In 1834 "Father Keep" 

 (as he was called) was appointed a trustee in 

 Oberlin College, and in 1835 became an agent 

 to raise funds for the institution, heading the 

 subscription himself by a donation of $1,000. 

 Soon after his election he gave, as president 

 of the board, the casting vote which admitted 

 colored pupils to that institution, and has 

 shaped its remarkable history. The reverses 

 of 1837 caused his return to the pastoral work, 

 as supply in Wooster, Ohio, and in Lockport, 

 and Albion, N. Y. Subsequently, in view of 

 the pressing needs of the college, he undertook 

 a mission to England, to raise funds in its 

 behalf, and devoted himself entirely to that ob- 

 ject for a period of eighteen months, returning 

 with the sum of $30,000. Resuming his pas- 

 toral work, he labored in Mansfield, Hartford, 

 and Litchfield, Ohio, and in Arcade, N. Y., 

 until he removed to Oberlin in 1850, and aided 



