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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



which he spent some time in travelling in Eu- 

 rope. Choosing the profession of the law, he 

 made Portland his home, and during the great- 

 er part of his professional life was a partner 

 in business with the late Hon. W. P. Fessen- 

 den. His tastes never led him toward court 

 practice, but rather toward conveyancing and 

 other departments of real-estate business, in 

 which he was unusually well informed and ac- 

 curate. He had the literary temperament, and 

 wrote easily and gracefully. His contributions 

 to the press would probably fill many volumes. 

 As an antiquarian he was decidedly the first 

 in Maine, with few equals in the country. 

 Among his works were the " History of Port- 

 land," a fully-annotated edition of " Smith's 

 and Deane's Journals," u The Lawyers of 

 Maine," and many elaborate papers read be- 

 fore the Maine Historical Society. He knew 

 intimately the history of all the old Portland 

 families, and had few equals as a writer of 

 local obituaries. 



March 1. ASHMEAD, ISAAC, a printer, and 

 prominent citizen of Philadelphia; died in 

 that city, aged 80 years. He was one of the 

 founders of the American Sunday-School 

 Union, and also aided in establishing the Ameri- 

 can Presbyterian, and the Presbyterian Quar- 

 terly Review. He was printer of all the pub- 

 lications of the American S. S. Union, and was 

 the inventor of composition printing-rollers. 



March 2. SMAEIFS, Kev. S. J., a Koman 

 Catholic missionary, and author ; died in De- 

 troit, aged 47 years. He was born at Telburg, 

 province of North Brabant, Holland, March 

 3, 1823. After a preliminary course he enter- 

 ed the University of North Brabant, and from 

 the commencement of his course gave signal 

 exhibition of his talent and industry by keep- 

 ing the lead of his class, not only in mere tech- 

 nical excellence of acquirement, but in the 

 more brilliant directions of poetical and ora- 

 torical effort. After finishing his university 

 studies, he came to this country in 1841, and 

 entered on his novitiate in the Society of Jesus 

 on the 13th of November of that year, at Flo- 

 rissant, Mo. After two years spent in the 

 Jesuit College of that place, he was sent to 

 Cincinnati, where he pursued his ecclesiastical 

 studies, and acted as assistant professor in 

 Poetry and Khetoric. While stationed at Cin- 

 cinnati Father Smarius published many poems 

 anonymously, which were widely admired for 

 their beauty and sweetness. Here he remained 

 till, 1848, when he was sent to St. Louis to 

 carry on further his ecclesiastical training, and 

 to teach in the same branches as before. He 

 was ordained priest in 1849, and went to Ford- 

 ham, N. Y., for the purpose of finishing his 

 ecclesiastical preparations. In 1853 he was 

 appointed to the pastoral care of the Church 

 of St. Francis Xavier, in St. Louis, and he 

 quickly became celebrated for the remarkable 

 eloquence and attractiveness of his pulpit dis- 

 cowses. His church was crowded on all oc- 

 casions with the best culture of St. Louis, not 



only members of his own church, but of other 

 denominations. He gave several courses of 

 lectures on theology, which commanded much 

 admiration for their acuteness and scholarship, 

 and gave the reverend orator a wide-spread 

 reputation for controversial power. In 1861 

 Father Smarius was detailed to enter on the 

 duties of a missionary, making Chicago his 

 headquarters. Constantly travelling through 

 the vast field over which his duties extended, 

 he gave himself no rest in the service of the 

 Church, with the exception of a visit to Eu- 

 rope in 1865, which his failing health rendered 

 absolutely necessary. His book on dogmatic 

 theology, entitled " The Points of Controver- 

 sy," displays much ability and learning. 



March 3. CUNNINGHAM, Eev. W. M., D. D., 

 a Presbyterian clergyman ; died at La Grange, 

 Ga. He had just been elected President of 

 Oglethorpe College, in that State, a position 

 for which his fine culture and remarkable ex- 

 ecutive ability eminently qualified him. His 

 death was the result of an accidental injury. 



March 7. UJHAZY, LADISLAS, a Hungarian 

 patriot, but for more than twenty years past a 

 resident of the United States ; died at San An- 

 tonio, Texas, aged 79 years. He was, during 

 the Hungarian Eevolution of 1848, governor 

 of the celebrated fortress of Comorn, in Hun- 

 gary, during its siege and defence by General 

 Klapka. After the fall of tlie fortress he made 

 his escape to the United States, and, having 

 spent some time in the Northern cities, finally 

 settled in Texas with a number of other Hun- 

 garian exiles. 



March 9. PKOTTDFIT, Rev. JOHN, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, professor, and author ; 

 died in New York, aged 67 years. He was a 

 son of Alexander Proudfit, D. D,, was born in 

 Salem, Washington County, N. Y., graduated at 

 Union College in 1821, was for a time pastor 

 of a church in Newburyport, Mass., and after- 

 ward for nearly twenty years Professor of 

 Greek at Kutgers College, New Brunswick, 

 N. J., preaching most of the time. He had 

 been for some years past a resident of New- 

 York City, and was widely known and greatly 

 esteemed for his learning and piety. 



March 11. MILLER, MOEEIS S., Lieutenant- 

 Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. 

 A., a gallant and faithful officer ; died at New 

 Orleans, aged 56 years. He was a son of Judge 

 Morris S. Miller, a prominent citizen of Utica, 

 and was born April 2, 1814. In 1830 he en- 

 tered the Military Academy at West Point, 

 graduated in 1834, and was appointed brevet 

 second lieutenant in the Third Regiment Artil- 

 lery. He participated in the Florida and Mex- 

 ican Wars, and in the War for the Union. In 

 1835 he was besieged by the Indians at Fort 

 King, Florida, for two -months, just after Os- 

 ceola had opened the war. In 1844-'45 he was 

 stationed at Fort Moultrie, and often drilled 

 the battalion in which were Lieutenants W. T. 

 Sherman, George H. Thomas, and T. W. Sher- 

 man. At the outbreak of the war Gen- 



