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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



New York at the anniversary of the American 

 Antislavery Society, and who, by their earnest 

 avowals of their faith, finally fought their way 

 to the hearts and sympathies of the people. 



Aug. 17. BELL, JOSHUA F., a Kentucky poli- 

 tician ; died in Kentucky. He was a native 

 of that State, and educated for the law. From 

 1845 to 1847 he was a Representative in Con- 

 gress, serving as a member of the Committee 

 on Invalid Pensions. He was also a member 

 of the "Peace Convention" of 1861. 



Aug. 18. HOXIE, JOSEPH, a politician, ora- 

 tor, and prominent citizen of New York ; died 

 in "Westerly, R. I., aged 75 years. He was born 

 at Charlestown, R. I., August 13, 1795. In his 

 seventeenth year he went to New York, pay- 

 ing for his passage on a sloop by working for 

 three days breaking stone in the streets. He 

 afterward earned an humble living by working 

 on a turnpike between Portsmouth and New 

 York, and when twenty years old he started a 

 public school. He subsequently opened a cloth- 

 ing-store in Cherry Street, and next engaged 

 in the importing business in Maiden Lane. In 

 1837 Mr. Hoxie received the Whig nomina- 

 tion for County Clerk, and was elected by an 

 overwhelming majority. From that time he 

 became deeply interested in politics, and on the 

 nomination of General Harrison to the presi- 

 dency entered heartily into the canvass. In 

 the next presidential campaign he warmly 

 supported his life-long friend, Henry Clay. In 

 1852 he was nominated for Congress in the 

 Fifth District, but was defeated by the Demo- 

 cratic candidate. In 1859 he was the Repub- 

 lican candidate for County Clerk, but was un- 

 successful, though he had a very large vote. 

 He was appointed in 1864, by Mr. Lincoln, 

 Collector of Internal Revenue in the Fifth 

 District, and in the last presidential campaign 

 he delivered addresses in Staten Island and 

 New Jersey, in which the reminiscences of 

 political life he introduced were much appre- 

 ciated. About 1852 the Commonwealth Fire 

 Insurance Company was established by Mr. 

 Hoxie, in conjunction with several leading 

 citizens, and in 1868 he accepted the office of 

 President of the Amicable Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, and held that position at the time of his 

 death. 



Aug. 18. MERRIOK, SAMTTEL VAUGHAN, a 

 leading manufacturer of marine steam-engines 

 and other machinery; died in Philadelphia. 

 He was the senior member of the firm of Mer- 

 rick & Sons, one of the largest establishments 

 in the United States, was first President of the 

 Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, and 

 one of the projectors, and for a long time an 

 officer, of the Franklin Institute. 



Aug. 20. HAWLEY, GIDEON, an eminent 

 scholar and philosopher ; died in Albany, N. Y., 

 aged 85 years. He was born in Huntington, 

 Conn., in 1785, removed to Saratoga County 

 in 1794, graduated from Union College in 1809, 

 and was admitted a member of the Albany bar 

 in 1813. In 1814 he was appointed secretary 



of the Regents of the University, the duties of 

 which office he discharged without salary for 

 twenty-seven years with great faithfulness and 

 ability. On the organization of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in 1846, he was appointed 

 one of the four Regents at large, the other 

 three being Richard Rush, Rufus Choate, and 

 William C. Preston, all of whom had died be- 

 fore him. Mr. Hawloy was a man of wide and 

 varied learning, being thoroughly familiar with 

 the whole range of English literature, as well 

 as that of most of the nations of Continental 

 Europe, and was also familiar with the various 

 departments of science. He prepared and 

 printed some years since, for private distribu- 

 tion among his friends, a scries of "Essays on 

 Truth and Knowledge," which were charac- 

 terized by great metaphysical discrimination 

 and acuteness. 



Aug. 21. DAVIS, Rev. HENRY, D. D., a Bap- 

 tist clergyman and author; died in Danville, 

 111., aged 70 years. He was born in Charlton, 

 Saratoga County, N. Y., April 23, 1800. In 

 1807 his parents removed to New-York City, 

 where he received a good English education. 

 In 1818 his family removed to Western New 

 York, and soon after he engaged in teaching 

 in Ogden, and while there made a profession 

 of religion, uniting with the Baptist Chureli. 

 In 1821 he returned to New-York City and 

 engaged in business, which ho relinquished in 

 1823, to devote himself to the ministry, and 

 entered Hamilton (now Madison) University 

 the same year, and graduated in 1827, and was 

 ordained in Bridgewater, N. Y., where a church 

 was organized under his ministry. He planted 

 the first church at Detroit, Midi., and was 

 pastor successively at Palmyra, N. Y., at Brock- 

 port, Jordan, Cannon Street, in New-York City, 

 and of the Second Church, Rochester, also at 

 Columbus, O., New Corydon, Ind., and Rock 

 Island, 111. While in New York ho was for a 

 time a secretary of the Home Mission Society, 

 and was for two or three years an agent of 

 the Missionary Union in Ohio. At the timo 

 of his death he was pastor at Rock Island. He 

 was seized with the illness that proved fatal, 

 while on a visit to relatives at Danville. Dr. 

 Davis was a ready and graceful writer, and 

 contributed largely to the periodicals and re- 

 views of' his denomination, and also published 

 several small religious treatises, occasional ad- 

 dresses, etc. 



Aug. 22. APPLEGATE, A. J., Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Alabama; died at Mobile. He was 

 a native of Ohio, served in an Ohio regiment 

 during the late war, afterward settled in Hunts- 

 ville, Ala., and in 1868 was elected Lieutenant- 

 Governor of the State. 



Aug. 22. TAYLOR, JAMES B., a prominent 

 and wealthy citizen of New-York City ; died 

 there, aged 64 years. Mr. Taylor was for many 

 years an active political leader, never holding 

 office himself, but exerting a controlling in- 

 fluence in his party. He was both the personal 

 and political friend of William H. Seward, and 



