OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Gettysburg, and was breveted brigadier-gen- 

 eral for gallantry ; but his wounds broke out 

 nfivsli, and he was compelled, much against his 

 will, to abandon active service, and take a po- 

 sition as colonel of the Eleventh regiment of 

 tin- Veteran Reserve Corps, which he hold 

 until the close of the war, when his regiment 

 was disbanded. He was subsequently appoint- 

 ed Inspector of Customs in New York City, 

 a position which ho held at the time of his 

 death. 



May 17. LITTELL, EM A KIM, founder of 

 Littelfs Lining Age, and of LMeWs Museum ; 

 died in Brookline, Mass., aged 73 years. Ho 

 was born in Burlington, N. J., but removed to 

 Philadelphia, and in January, 1819, started a 

 weekly literary paper, entitled the National 

 Recorder; subsequently he established the 

 Saturday Magazine, which in 1822 he con- 

 verted into the Museum of Foreign Literature 

 and Art. After conducting this with great 

 success for nearly twenty-two years, he re- 

 moved to Boston, where, in April, 1844, he 

 published LittelVs Lining Age, which from that 

 time has borne a high character for literary 

 merit. 



May 18. WOODWARD, CHARLES, M. D., an 

 eminent physician of Middletown, Conn., died 

 there. He repeatedly represented the town in 

 the State House of Representatives and Senate, 

 was a trustee of the Wesleyan University, and 

 had been President of the State Medical So- 

 ciety. 



May 22. HAZARD, SAMUEL, archaeologist, 

 historian, and publisher ; died at Germantown, 

 Pa., aged 86 years. He was the son of Ebene- 

 zer Hazard, who was United States Postmaster 

 from 1782 to 1787, and who published several 

 volumes of historical collections, State papers, 

 etc. In 1828, he commenced the publication 

 of the " Pennsylvania Register," which was 

 issued until 1836, forming sixteen volumes 

 large octavo. He next published the " United 

 States Commercial and Statistical Register," 

 forming six large octavo volumes, issued from 

 1839 to 1842. The " Annals of Pennsylvania," 

 from 1609 to 1682, an octavo volume of 800 

 pages, was next issued by Mr. Hazard. He 

 also, by appointment of the Legislature, printed 

 the "Pennsylvania Archives," from 1682 to 

 1790, from the original records, forming twelve 

 volumes. Few men have continued their un- 

 remitting industry in the collection of the 

 records of the past to so late a period of life 

 as did Mr. Hazard. This devotion is the more 

 remarkable, as his early life was spent in mer- 

 cantile and commercial pursuits, and he had 

 made several voyages to the Indies before 

 commencing his antiquarian researches. 



May 24. DEMERS, GEORGE W., a prominent 

 journalist, editor, reporter, politician, orator, 

 and for some years a clergyman; died at Alba- 

 ny, after a lingering illness of several years. 

 Mr. Deniers was in every respect a remarkable 

 man. For some years past ho had been the 

 editor of the Albany Evening Journal, and 



had been distinguished, not only for his ability 

 as an editor, but for bin amenity and fiurtesy, 

 qualities not always noticeable in the editorial 

 fraternity. His studies ranged over a wide 

 extent of knowledge, and both as a writer and 

 a speaker ho attained great eminence. !! 

 learned printing in the office of the Lansing- 

 burg Democrat. In his earlier years he \ 

 served as reporter and editor on the Troy 

 Daily Time*. His greatest speech was in the 

 Syracuse Convention, in 1863, on the emanci- 

 pation question, in response to an argument 

 of the late lion. II. J. Raymond. His review 

 of Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights 

 Bill was a marvel of forcible writing, and its 

 sharp sentences helped to sever the last links 

 between that President and the Republican 

 party. He is reputed to have accomplished 

 the feat of reporting a lecture filled with tech- 

 nical phrases and eccentricities, verbatim, from 

 memory alone. His political influence, al- 

 though the most memorable feature in his ca- 

 reer, in no wise unfitted him for success hi the 

 pulpit, and he entered upon the ministerial 

 profession in later years with ardor and suc- 

 cess, as pastor of a Baptist church at Sand 

 Lake, N. Y. Before he retired from that pro- 

 fession many scores had been added to the 

 church over which he presided, attracted by 

 his high attainments and fervid piety. He 

 was celebrated in private life for acts of spon- 

 taneous and hearty friendship, and for lending 

 a helping hand to those in need of assistance. 



May 25. PLUMB, JOSEPH, a prominent citi- 

 zen of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., a leading re- 

 former in the antislavery, temperance, and 

 other benevolent and philanthropic causes; 

 died at Cattaraugus, N. Y., aged 79 years. 

 He was often tendered official positions, but 

 declined them, and won the esteem of even 

 those who were antagonistic to his views, by 

 his strict conscientiousness and kindness of 

 heart. He was one of the band that organ- 

 ized the Liberty party of 1844. 



May 26. WILLIS, NATHANIEL, a venerable 

 journalist and founder of newspapers, father of 

 the late poet, N. P. Willis ; died in Boston, aged 

 90 years. He was born in Boston, in June, 

 1780, and came of a race of printers and 



Eublishers. His grandfather had been a pub- 

 sher in Boston, and his father was the pro- 

 prietor of the Independent Chronicle, a leading 

 political paper from 1776 to 1784, and after- 

 ward of the Potomac Gruardian, and other 

 journals. True to his inherited preferences, 

 the son established the Eastern Argus at Port- 

 land, in 1803, and conducted it for some years. 

 During the Administration of John Adams, 

 Mr. Willis wrote some severe and caustic arti- 

 cles against the Administration, and, being 

 prosecuted under the Sedition Law then in 

 force, he was imprisoned ; and his son N. P. 

 Willis used to say that his earliest boyish remi- 

 niscence was the carrying his father's dinner 

 to him every day at the prison in which ho 

 was confined. Having disposed of his interest 



