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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



College," "My Mother, or Recollections of 

 Maternal Influence," and "Rachel Kell." 



April 28. MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, a Penn- 

 sylvania politician; died near "Washington, Pa. 

 He was born at Canton, Bradford County, 

 1819, educated at "Washington College, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1832. He 

 was a member of Congress from 1856 to 1860, 

 and was the author of the Crittenden-Mont- 

 gomery Amendment, intended as a measure 

 of pacification on the slavery question. 



April 28. PLEASANTS, HUGH R., a veteran 

 journalist of Richmond ; died in that city. He 

 was connected with the press forty years. 



April 30. CLAPP, WILLIAM, a Vermont poli- 

 tician, died at St. Albans, aged 59 years. He 

 had been a member of the State Senate, and 

 House of Representatives, and for some years 

 held the office of United States Collector for 

 his district. 



May 5. HOWAED, Rev. LELAND, a Baptist 

 clergyman; died at Rutland, Vt., aged 77 

 years. He had been for more than fifty years 

 in the ministry, and had been pastor of large 

 and influential churches in Hartford and Mori- 

 den, Conn., Rutland, Vt., and elsewhere. He 

 was a preacher of very considerable ability. 



May 7. WRIGHT, JENNY ; died in Throg's 

 Neck, Westchester County, N. Y., aged 101 

 years. Her whole life was spent in that coun- 

 ty, and she had descendants to the fifth gen- 

 eration. 



May 8. PLATT, JAMES, an eminent citizen 

 of Oswego; died there, aged 83 years. He 

 was the first mayor of the city, and formerly a 

 State Senator, and President of Lake Ontario 

 National Bank. 



May 8. TILDEN, DANIEL, M. D., a distin- 

 guished physician; died in Sandusky, Ohio, 

 aged 82 years. He was for some years Presi- 

 dent of the Ohio Medical Society. 



May 9. BRAINARD, LAWRENCE, a distin- 

 guished citizen and political leader in Vermont; 

 died at St. Albans, aged 76 years. He had been 

 active in forwarding the political, commercial, 

 and railroad interests of that State ; was for 

 several years candidate for Governor, and in 

 1854 was elected to the United States Senate, 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sena- 

 tor Upham. 



May 12. BECKWITH, Rev. GEORGE C., D. D., 

 a Congregationalist clergyman; died in Boston, 

 Mass., aged 70 years. He was one of the 

 founders of the American Peace Society, and 

 for thirty-three years its Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, the editor of its magazine, The Advocate 

 of Peace, and the author of its earnest appeals 

 and petitions for international peace congress- 

 es, and the substitution of arbitration for war. 

 But, though this had been the cause in which 

 his best efforts were engaged for so many 

 years, he was not a man of one idea. Every 

 good cause met his hearty approval, and re- 

 ceived his cordial cooperation. 



May 14. BACKUS, Hon. FRANKLIN T., an 

 eminent lawyer of Ohio; died in Cleveland, 



aged 57 years. He was born in Lee, Mass., 

 May 6, 1813, removed to Lansing, N. Y., in his 

 youth, graduated at Yale College in 1836, and 

 established a classical school in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 studying law at ih& same time. In 1837 he 

 was admitted to" the bar. In 1846 he was a 

 member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 

 and in 1848 of the State Senate. In 1861 he 

 was a member of the Peace Convention, which 

 met in Washington with the hope of averting 

 the late war. The later years of bis life were 

 devoted to the duties of his profession, in 

 which he had become eminent. 



May 14. IRVING, Hon. THOMAS, Judge of 

 the United States District Court for Western 

 Pennsylvania; died in Pittsburg. He was ap- 

 pointed to his office in 1869. 



May 15. BRYAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, an 

 eminent art connoisseur ; died at sea, between 

 Havre and New York. He was a native of 

 Philadelphia, graduated at Harvard College, 

 and studied law, but his fondness for art ab- 

 sorbed much of his time and attention. He 

 donated a valuable gallery of paintings to the 

 New- York Historical Society. 



May 16. BORDEN, ENOCH R., a journalist, 

 died at Trenton, N. J., aged 47 years. He had 

 edited the Daily State Gazette, with the ex- 

 ception of a few brief intervals, for twenty 

 years ; occupied a position in the Public Docu- 

 ment Department, and afterward in the Pen- 

 sion Agency at Washington, under President 

 Fillmore, and was private secretary and aide- 

 de-camp to General Newell, and Secretary 

 of the New-Jersey Senate in 1865 and 1866. 



May 16. FARNTTM, Brevet Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral J. EGBERT, United States Volunteers ; died 

 in New York, aged 46 years. He was born in 

 New Jersey, in 1824, and at an early age was 

 sent to Pottsville, Pa., where he was educated. 

 At the breaking out of the Mexican War in 

 1846, he entered the army as sergeant-major 

 of the First Pennsylvania Infantry, and served 

 faithfully through the campaign. In the suc- 

 ceeding years, his restless love of liberty and 

 adventure connected him with the Lopez Ex- 

 pedition to Cuba from New Orleans in 1850, 

 and made him an active sharer in the Nicara- 

 guan expeditions under the filibuster Walker. 

 Still later, he was captain of the famous slave- 

 yacht Wanderer, and was indicted at Savan- 

 nah for carrying on the slave-trade. This 

 episode in his life he always regretted, and, 

 when the war broke out in 1861, instead of 

 siding with the South, as was expected, he 

 made amends by promptly enlisting as major 

 in the Seventieth New-York Volunteers, raised 

 and commanded by General Sickles. He took 

 a gallant part in all the engagements in which 

 the Sickles Brigade distinguished itself, and rose 

 in due time to be colonel of the Seventieth. 

 At the battle of Wiiliamsburg, May 5, 1862, 

 he was very severely wounded, shot through 

 both thighs, but after his recovery he joined 

 his regiment again, and participated in the 

 battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and 



