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K- t'u- tin- rapidity with which he dispatched 

 uisiiH-ss, iind, in tlio many civil and criminal 

 cases disposed of during his service of eight 

 years, not one of his decisions was reversed 

 by a higher court. As an agriculturist, ho was 

 among the foremost in the introduction of 

 labor-saving machines, and improved live- 

 stock, and in the formation of associations 

 and every other movement for advancing agri- 

 cultural interests. 



March 80. Foss, Rev. ARCHIBALD 0., a 

 Methodist clergyman and scholar; died in 

 Clarens, Switzerland, aged 40 years. He joined 

 the New York Conference in 1852, and during 

 the following year was stationed at Lenox. In 

 1854 and 1855 he was pastor of the Morrisania 

 Mission, and in 1856 was transferred to the 

 Thirtieth-Street Church. In 1858 he was as- 

 sociated with the Rev. Dr. McClintock, at St. 

 Paul's Church. In 1860 he was sent to Tar- 

 rytown. In 1861 he was appointed a pro- 

 fessor in the Wesleyan University, at Middle- 

 town, Conn., and after two years returned to 

 the ministry, and was presiding elder from 

 1863 to 1865 in the Poughkeepsie district. In 

 1866 he was again pastor of the Thirtieth- 

 Street Church, New York, and in 1868 offi- 

 ciated at Sing Sing, where, his health failing 

 him, he was compelled to go to Europe. 



March 80. MILLER, Rev. TOBIAS HAM, a 

 Universalist clergyman and journalist ; died in 

 Portsmouth, N. II., aged 68 years. He was 

 the original "Uncle Toby "of the Boston Car- 

 pet Bag, was on the Chronicle (Portsmouth) 

 eighteen years, and the Portsmouth Journal 

 twenty years. Early in life he was settled in 

 Maine as an Orthodox clergyman, but later be- 

 came a firm Universalist. A short time be- 

 fore his last illness he completed a series of 

 articles ufion the Portsmouth Privateers of 

 1812, which will undoubtedly be given to the 

 public. 



March .30. STEWART, Hon. DUOALD, a promi- 

 ment citizen and politician of Middlebury, Vt. ; 

 died at his residence there, aged 49 years. He 

 represented Middlebury in the State Legis- 

 lature in 1861-'63. In 1864 he became State 

 Auditor of Accounts, and retained that office, 

 under successive refilections, until his death. 



March 81. BOTDEN, SETH, a remarkable 

 inventor and manufacturer ; died at Middle- 

 ville, N. J., in the 82d year of his age. He 

 was born in Foxborough, Mass., in 1788. In 

 1815 ho removed to Newark, N. J., and en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of leather. In 1816 

 he invented a machine for cutting " brads," by 

 which their cost was largely diminished. At 

 about the same time he commenced to work a 

 machine of his own invention for splitting 

 leather. The manufacture of " patent leather " 

 was begun by him in 1819, and the business 

 which ho then started now forms one of the 

 most important of the business enterprises of 

 Newark. He made the first specimens of 

 malleable iron in 1826, and continued its 

 manufacture until 1831; perfected the first 



locomotive with a driving-rod outside the 

 wheel ; invented (simultaneously with others) 

 the steam " cut-off; " produced the first daguer- 

 reotype in Aim-rim; assisted Professor Morse in 

 working out the theory of electric telegraphy ; 

 inv.-nt.-d the process of making the alloy of 

 zino known as "spelter;" discovered the 

 method of making Russian sheet-iron, which 

 he manufactured, but at BO great a cost that 

 he could not compete with the imported arti- 

 cle ; and patented a " hat-body doming ma- 

 chine," which is now used in all hat-manu- 

 factories in this country. In his latter years 

 Mr. Boyden gave his attention to agriculture, 

 and many of the most celebrated descriptions 

 of strawberries were his. 



March 81. BRADY, WILLIAM V., a promi- 

 nent citizen and politician of New-York City ; 

 died there, aged 59 years. He was born at 

 Harlem, in 1811, and received only the ad- 

 vantages of a common-school education. For 

 a few years he served in offices, and subse- 

 quently learned the trade of a jeweller and 

 silversmith, and was at one time extensively 

 engaged in that business in John Street. He 

 retired from business in 1835, and turned his 

 attention to real estate, becoming one of the 

 best judges of the value of property in the 

 city. In 1842 he became interested in politics, 

 and took a prominent part in the organization 

 of the Common Council. In 1843 he was 

 elected Alderman of his ward, and continued 

 to serve as such with ability and fidelity until 

 the spring of 1847, when the Whigs, having 

 been for several years defeated, elected Mr. 

 Brady as Mayor, he receiving nearly all the 

 votes for that office in the Fifteenth Ward. 

 The following year Mr. Havemeyer was chosen 

 by the Democratic party, and Mr. Brady was 

 appointed Postmaster, serving until 1853, when 

 he was elected President of the Continental 

 Insurance Company, just organizing; he faith- 

 fully discharged the duties of that position for 

 five years, and then resigned, to travel in 

 Europe for a year. In 1853 he was elected a 

 trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, and has since continued an active and 

 valuable member of its Board of Trustees. 

 After his return from Europe he was connected 

 with various other important companies in 

 New York. His time was mostly devoted, how- 

 ever, to the improvement of real estate ; to the 

 appraisement and divisions of large estates; 

 and as a general adviser to the many who 

 sought his counsel. 



April 4. FROTniNGHAM, NATHANIEL LANO- 

 DON, D. D., a Unitarian clergyman and author ; 

 died in Boston, Mass., aged 77 years. He 

 was born in Boston, July, 1793, graduated at 

 Harvard University, in 1811, a classmate of 

 Edward Everett, and in March, 1815, was or- 

 dained pastor of the First Church, in that city, 

 which position he held until March, 1850, 

 when ill-health compelled him to resign. 

 Since that period his life has been devoted to 

 literary pursuits. He was the author of several 



