OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Afril >'). YEADOX, RICHARD, a Charleston 

 editor; died in that city, aged 68 yearH. !!< 

 was horn in Charleston, 8. 0., Octoher 28, 

 1802, received a good academical education, 

 graduated with honor at the South Carolina 

 .to, and entered upon the study of law in 

 the Dili'-. -it' u distinguished lawyer of that city. 

 Upon his admission to the bar he gave promise 

 of a brilliant eareer in his profession, but sub- 

 sequently became interested in politics, and 

 became a daily contributor to the political col- 

 umns of the City Gazette. His essays were 

 nl\v.-i\ s vigorous, thoughtful, and closely logical. 

 Afterward he became editor and proprietor 

 of the Charleston Courier, which journal bore 

 abundant evidence of his intellectual power. 

 For many years previous to his death he was 

 a constant sufferer from a chronic affection 

 which seriously affected his spirits, causing al- 

 ternate exaltation and depression, and it was 

 his custom to bury himself in study and work 

 in the vain attempt to forget his physical pain. 

 His Hfo was a ceaseless round of toil. He was 

 called to till various public offices in the city 

 and State ; was for several terms a member of 

 the Legislature, acting on the most laborious 

 committees. In the latter situation he always 

 maintained his position as a steady, sturdy de- 

 bater, vigorous always, and bringing to his ar- 

 gument large resources of law and learning 

 from an ample treasure-house of memory. The 

 great profits from his law practice annually, 

 and the continued and increasing prosperity of 

 the Courier, had accumulated wealth in his 

 hands, which, with his charitable instincts, 

 was an instrument of great good, and, although 

 his losses through the late war were heavy, he 

 applied himself to his profession with new 

 vigor until his labors were terminated by 

 death. 



April 26. LOCKWOOD, ROE, an eminent 

 bookseller and publisher; died in New- York 

 City, aged 70 years. He was born in Bridge- 

 port, Conn., and at the age of twenty-one re- 

 moved to New York, where he entered into the 

 book business, following it for an uninter- 

 rupted period of nearly fifty years. He was 

 a man of strict integrity and active Chris- 

 tianity. 



April 26. RUSSEL, ABRAHAM, a judge in 

 New-York City ; died there, aged 58 years. He 

 was born in South Carolina, but removed to 

 New York when quite young. After being ad- 

 mitted to the bar, he practised until 1857, 

 when he was elected to the office of City 

 Judge, for four years. He was succeeded by 

 Judge McCunn, who subsequently resigned his 

 office, and Judge Russel was appointed to fill 

 the vacancy on the 7th of January, 1863. In 

 1864 he was reflected, and continued in office 

 up to the 81st of December, 1869, when he 



was succeeded by Judge Bedford. lie was a 

 candidate lor reelection, but failed to receive 

 tin- nomination, lie immediately opened a 

 law office and resumed the practice of law 

 with Judge John H. Reid, of Suffolk County. 



A/iril 28. AYLETTB, PATRICK HENRY, an 

 eminent lawyer and journalist, was killed by 

 the Court-House accident in Kirhmond, Ya. 

 He was a native of the County of Kin/ William, 

 V :i., and a lineal descendant of Patrick Henry, 

 the Revolutionary patriot. After a liberal edu- 

 cation in the institutions of his own State, he 

 attended the Law School of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and, returning to Virginia, entered upon 

 the practice of his profession in his native 

 county. About 1850 he removed to Richmond, 

 where he soon distinguished himself by his lit- 

 erary taste and ability as a writer for the press, 

 and his power as a political orator receiving 

 from President Buchanan the appointment of 

 United States District Attorney for the Eastern 

 District of Virginia, and subsequently holding 

 a corresponding office under the so-called Con- 

 federate government. 



April 28. BROCK, Dr. JOSEPH BALDWIH, a 

 physician and newspaper reporter, killed by 

 the Court-House accident in Richmond. He 

 was born in Madison County, in 1828, entered 

 the University of Virginia in 1848, as a student 

 of medicine, and graduated with honor. He 

 entered upon the practice of his profession in 

 Spottsylvania, served in the Confederate army 

 as surgeon, and after the war became con- 

 nected with the Richmond Examiner, which 

 was finally merged in The Enquirer. By the 

 same sad accident the following prominent 

 citizens of Richmond lost their lives : NA- 

 THANIEL P. HOWARD and POWHATAN ROBERTS, 

 distinguished lawyers, JULIUS HOBSON, col- 

 lector of the city, and Captain WILLIAM A. 

 CHARTERS, chief of the Fire Department of 

 Richmond. 



April 28. MITCHELL, Rev. JOHN, a Congre- 

 gationalist clergyman, editor, and author; died 

 at Stratford, Conn., aged 75 years. He was born 

 in Chester, Conn., December 29, 1794, graduated 

 at Yale College in 1821, and entered Andover 

 Theological Seminary in the autumn of the 

 same year, but after studying nine months was 

 compelled to leave in consequence of impaired 

 health. In January, 1824, he became editor 

 of The Christian Spectator, published in New 

 Haven, was licensed to preach in 1829, and in 

 1830 was ordained pastor of the First Congre- 

 gational Church in Fair Haven, Conn. In 1836 

 he took charge of the Edwards Church in 

 Northampton, Mass., but in 1842 resigned, and 

 went abroad for the recovery of his health. 

 Upon his return, finding himself unable to re- 

 sume the cares incident to the ministry, he 

 spent the greater portion of his remaining 

 years at Stratford, employing himself, as far as 

 his strength would admit, in literary work. 

 He was the author of a manual entitled " The 

 New-England Churches," " Notes from over 

 the Sea" (2 vols.), "Scenes and Characters in 



