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r.M.|,.-r;if'-..l with him in his political projects. 

 II. li.-td IM.-OII until hitt retire-incut from active 

 political management, four or five years ago, 

 tli" leader of the conservative wing "1 the l^ 1 

 ])iililican8. He was a large stockholder in tho 

 New- York TiiMt. 



Any. 26. GUILD, LINUS, a prominent, inilu- 

 enti.-tl, and philanthropic citizen of Massachu- 

 dicd in 1 Unchain, Mass., aged 67 years. 

 its born in Southbridgo, Mass., in 1803, 

 and graduated from Yale College in 1824. JI<> 

 il tho legal profession, and, after practis- 

 ing t'r some years, accepted tho agency of a 

 manufacturing company at Lowell, where he 

 remained for fifteen years. Ho then returned 

 to the practice of his profession in Boston, and 

 took an active part in politics, being for several 

 years a member of one or the other branch of 

 tlu- Massachusetts Legislature. He was elected 

 :i corporate member of the American Board of 

 Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1845, 

 and was a very faithful and active member of the 

 prudential committee, from 1859 till his death. 

 He was also for some years one of the Board 

 of Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary, 

 and Phillips Academy, and was a man of 

 large-hearted benevolence. 



Aug. 29. ANDERSON, Kev. WILLIAM 0., D. 

 D., a Presbyterian clergyman and scholar ; died 

 at Junction City, Kansas. He was a native of 

 Philadelphia, a graduate of one of the Penn- 

 sylvania colleges, and for some years President 

 of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. When the 

 churches in San Francisco began to select the 

 ablest of the Eastern clergymen for their pul- 

 pits, Dr. Anderson was one of the first whose 

 labors were demanded. He complied with the 

 call, and became for some years the faithful 

 and beloved pastor of the First Presbyterian 

 Church in San Francisco. His arduous labors 

 having impaired his health, he returned to the 

 East and spent some years in retirement at 

 Germantown. His health having become par- 

 tially restored, he returned to his work, and, 

 after preaching within the bounds of the New- 

 Albany Presbytery for a time, set out for tho 

 Pacific coast, and died after a brief illness at 

 Junction City. 



Sept. 3. DICKINSON, Miss MARTHA Brsn, an 

 eminent teacher ; died in Brooklyn, L. I. She 

 was a daughter of Rev. Baxter Dickinson, D. 

 D., of that city, and from her early youth was 

 remarkable for her depth of piety and earnest 

 desire for usefulness. The great labor of her 

 life was the founding of the Young Ladies' 

 Seminary at Lake Forest, 111., which, under 

 her skilful and judicious management, secured 

 from the first the confidence and support of the 

 public. Her failure in health was the result 

 of her untiring devotion to the cause of edu- 

 cation. 



Sept. 4. MAHAN, MILO, D. D., a distin- 

 guished Episcopal clergyman, professor, and 

 author ; died in Baltimore, Md. He was a man 

 of much scholarship, and had been for some 

 years professor in Columbia College, from 



which he was called to tho rectorship of St. 

 I'mil'i Kpi^copiil Church, Baltimore. A few 

 m. .11' M to his death ho was elected 



1'r. .lessor of HyHtornatic Divinity in the Epis- 

 copal General Theological Seminary in New- 

 York City, and had signified his acccj. 1 

 lie, was the author of an aide reply to Bishop 

 Colenso's works against tho inspiration of the 

 Scriptures, and also of a curious and elaborate 

 work on the significance of the numbers in the 

 Scriptures. 



Sept. 5. BEDFORD, GUNNINO S., M. D., lato 

 Professor of Obstetrics in the University Med- 

 ical College, N. Y. ; died in New York, a; 

 years, lie was from an old and distinguished 

 Maryland family; hi grand-uncle, Gunning 

 Bedford, after whom he was named, having 

 been one of tho signers of the Declaration of 

 Independence, and afterward Chief Justice of 

 Delaware. Dr. Bedford was born in Rilti- 

 more in 1800; was educated at Mount St. 

 Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md., where he 

 was a fellow-student with Archbishops Hughes, 

 McCloskey, and Purcell, and tho late Kev. Dr. 

 C. Constantino Pise. He graduated in 1825 

 with the highest honors of his class, excelling 

 particularly in classics and oratory. Ho had 

 decided to adopt tho legal profession, arid was 

 on his way to Massachusetts, to enter tho of- 

 fice of Daniel Webster as a law-student, when 

 he met in Philadelphia a college classmate, who 

 induced him to go with him to hear the late 

 Dr. John D. Godman deliver lite lectures on 

 the " Circulation of the Blood, 1 ' in his medical 

 course. He was so entranced with Dr. God- 

 man's eloquence that he resolved to abandon the 

 law and become a medical student. After three 

 years of close and diligent study, he received 

 his medical diploma from Rutgers Medical Col- 

 lege, in 1829, and soon after married and vis- 

 ited Europe, where for two years he continued 

 to prosecute his medical studies. On his re- 

 turn in 1833, he was appointed professor in 

 the medical college at Charleston, S. 0., and 

 soon after was called to a professorship in the 

 new medical college founded by Dr. Alden 

 March, in Albany, N. Y. He lectured there 

 for one or two years, but felt that New- York 

 City was the appropriate place for him, and 

 removed thither about 1830, where he soon 

 commanded a large and lucrative practice in 

 the special department of the profession (ob- 

 stetrics) which he had chosen. In concert 

 with the late Dr. Valentine Mott, his former 

 preceptor, and for many years his colleague, 

 Dr. Bedford projected the University Medical 

 College, in 1840, and took the chair of obstet- 

 rics in the brilliant faculty with which its first 

 course opened. He retained this professorship 

 until 1862, with a reputation for thorough 

 knowledge, skill in imparting instruction, and 

 extraordinary eloquence in its communication, 

 which was enhanced with each year. He re- 

 signed in consequence of ill health. To Dr. 

 Bedford is due the honor of being the first to 

 introduce into the United States the "Obrtet- 



