OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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separated from the Democracy, and in 1865 

 \v.-n triumphantly elected by the Republicans 

 ( .r Mi.rri.~i County as State Senator. He was 

 ivi -looted in 1868. In 1869 his name was men- 

 tioned as a candidate for the office of United 

 States Senator, to till the vacancy caused by the 

 death of Mr. Wright. Ho lost the nomination 

 by only three votes in caucus, after an energetic 

 canvass against Mr. Frelinghuysen. Mr. Cobb 

 had been spending a few weeks at Greenbrier 

 White Sulphur Springs earlier in the season, 

 and was on his return thither when the acci- 

 dent occurred. 



Aug. 6. HEADLEY, J. BOYD, U. S. Col- 

 lector of Internal Revenue ; was killed by the 

 same accident. Before the late war he was 

 engaged in banking in Peoria. 111., but removed 

 to New-York City in 1861, and opened a bro- 

 ker's office. He was the owner of a large 

 amount of real estate near Morristown, N. J. 



Aug. 9. SHANAHAN, Rev. JOHN, a Roman 

 Catholic priest ; died at the parsonage of St. 

 Peter's Church, New-York City, in his 78th 

 year. He was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 

 1772. While yet young, he was a professor in 

 St. Mary's Seminary, at Eramettsburg, Md., and 

 among his pupils were the late Archbishop 

 Hughes, Archbishop McCloskey, Bishop Wha- 

 len, of Wheeling, and the late Bishop Fitzpat- 

 rick, of Boston. A large portion of his life was 

 spent in missionary travelling, chiefly in the 

 Eastern and Middle States, and California, but 

 for the last fifteen years he was attached to St. 

 Peter's Church. He had been blind for a period 

 of six years. 



Aug. 11. SEWALL, THOMAS, D. D., a Meth- 

 odist Episcopal clergyman and author, died in 

 Baltimore, Md., aged 55 years. He was a son 

 of the distinguished Prof. Sewall. 



Aug. 12. FRENCH, BENJAMIN B., a promi- 

 nent citizen of Washington, D. C. ; died there, 

 aged 70 years. He was a native of New Hamp- 

 shire, but had resided in Washington for a 

 period of forty years. From 1845 to 1847 he 

 was Clerk of the House of Representatives, 

 and afterward Commissioner of Public Build- 

 ings. He was the author of several works, 

 and a prominent member of the Masonic 

 fraternity. 



Aug. 13. JENKS, GBENVILLE TUDOR, a 

 prominent lawyer of Brooklyn ; died suddenly 

 at Saratoga, N. Y., aged about 40 years. 

 He was a nephew of Wendell Phillips, and was 

 born in Boston, Mass. After completing his 

 academic course at the University of New 

 York, he studied law in the office of Messrs. 

 Lott, Murphy, and Vanderbilt, and, soon after 

 his admission to the bar, attached himself to 

 the law firm of Hyde and Pearson. In 1863 

 he entered into partnership with Judge 0. E. 

 Pratt, and later they added to the firm Judge 

 Emott and Joshua Van Cott, continuing the 

 partnership until 1867, when Mr. Jenks asso- 

 ciated with himself another partner, with whom 

 he continued until his death. He was a man 

 of brilliant talents, keen and ready wit, and 



well versed in the details of his profession. 

 While he had a taste for all branches of the 

 law, he distinguished himself more particularly 

 in commercial law, and was very successful in 

 criminal law. His genial nature and ardent 

 affections rendered him popular, not only 

 among his professional brethren, bnt with all 

 with whom he was brought into contact. 



Aug. 13. PBESSLY, Rev. JOHN T., D. D., 

 a Presbyterian clergyman, theological profess- 

 or, and author ; died at Alleghany, Pa., aged 

 67 years. He was born in Abbeville District, 

 South Carolina, studied at the Theological 

 Seminary in New York, under Dr. John Mason, 

 and held his first pastorate in his native vil- 

 lage. From thence he was called to the The- 

 ological Seminary and the charge of the First 

 Associate Reformed (now United Presbyterian) 

 Church in Alleghany, in both of which stations 

 he labored with distinguished ability and suc- 

 cess for nearly forty years. 



Aug. 14. HAINES, RICHARD T., an 'emi- 

 nent merchant of New York, died at his resi- 

 dence in Elizabeth, N. J., in his 76th year. 

 He was one of the founders of the American 

 Tract Society, was a member of its Executive 

 Committee from the beginning, and for forty 

 years the efficient chairman of its Finance 

 Committee. As a member of its Boa'rd of 

 Direction, he was ever devising liberal things, 

 and, with his ample fortune, contributing 

 largely to its funds. He was a director and 

 liberal supporter of the American Bible So- 

 ciety, the American Board of Foreign Missions, 

 and other religious and benevolent institu- 

 tions. 



Aug. 16. MAESH, LEONARD, M. D., Profess- 

 or of Anatomy and Physiology in the Univer- 

 sity of Vermont ; died at Burlington, Vt. He 

 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1827, and 

 in the medical department in 1832. He was 

 for some years Professor of Latin and Greek 

 in the university, and was connected with it 

 for a period of fifteen years. 



Aug. 16. VAN METER, Rev. HENRY L., a 

 Baptist clergyman and missionary for twenty 

 two years hi Bassein, Burmah ; died atMottville, 

 near Skaneateles Lake, N. Y., aged 46 years. 

 He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 

 21, 1824, graduated at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and the Hamilton Literary and Theo- 

 logical Institute, was ordained September 28, 

 1848, was appointed missionary and sailed from 

 Boston, October 21, 1848. His labors were 

 almost without intermission from that period 

 until failing health compelled him to return 

 to this country, where he arrived but a month 

 previous to his death. 



Aug. 16. WRIGHT, HENRY C., a noted lec- 

 turer on antislavery, peace, spiritualism, etc. ; 

 died at Pawtucket, R. I. Mr. Wright's nature 

 was impulsive, earnest, and perhaps fanatical ; 

 but he possessed strong convictions, and stated 

 them with great force and eloquence. At one 

 time he was conspicuous among the band of 

 antislavery orators who assembled annually in 



