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of Landisburg and Centre, in Pennsylvania, 

 where he labored with great success for seven 

 years. Subsequently he was pastor of churches 

 in Middle Tuscarora, Flemington, N. J., and 

 Snow Hill, Md. Dr. Olmstead was the author 

 of some valuable works, besides occasional 

 sermons and essays. His little volume, en- 

 titled "Thoughts and Counsels for the Super- 

 intendent," was very popular, as also " Our 

 First Mother," and "Noah and his Times." 

 The latter was a very elaborate and somewhat 

 successful effort to reconcile the Scriptural 

 account of the flood with the theories and de- 

 ductions of modern geology. 



Oct. 17. GILLIAM, ROBERT B., member of 

 Congress elect from the Fourth North Carolina 

 District ; died in Oxford, N. 0. 



Oct. 17. RIDGE WAT, ROBERT, an editor ; 

 died in Amherst County, Va. He was elected 

 to Congress, in 1869, from the Fifth District 

 as a Conservative. He was formerly editor 

 of the Richmond Whig. 



Oct. 18. PERKINS, THOMAS CLAPP, an emi- 

 nent lawyer; died in Hartford, Conn., aged 

 72 years. He was a native of that city, gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 1818, taking the salu- 

 tatory; studied law with the Hon. Seth P. 

 Staples, of New Haven, and, upon his admis- 

 sion to the Hartford bar, rose rapidly to dis- 

 tinction in his profession. Gifted with an 

 extraordinarily retentive memory, and an equal- 

 ly surprising quickness of perception, he made 

 the most of his facts and authorities ; and 

 could improvise his points, as the trial pro- 

 gressed, without previous knowledge or prep- 

 aration of the case. He was earnest and ex- 

 haustive in argument, using his precedents 

 and authorities in the way most effective, 

 while in consultation his judgment was held 

 in high estimation. Some years since he was 

 elected to the bench of the Supreme Court, 

 but declined the honor, preferring to adhere 

 to his profession. Mr. Perkins married a 

 daughter of Dr. Lyman Beechor. 



Oct. 22. PENNINGTON, Rev. J. "W. C., D. D., 

 a colored Presbyterian clergyman, formerly a 

 slave ; died in Jacksonville, Fla., aged 70 years. 

 He escaped from slavery at the age of twenty- 

 one years, and found his way to New York, 

 where he was assisted in his studies for the 

 minis-try by the Presbyterian Church, then in 

 Laight Street, under the care of Dr. Cox. He 

 was subsequently settled in Hartford, and later, 

 over the Shiloh Presbyterian Church, New 

 York. For two or three years past he had 

 been laboring with zeal and success among the 

 freedmen in Florida. He received the degree 

 of D. D. from the University of Heidelberg, 

 Germany. 



Oct. 28. WILLIAMS, General WILLIAM, an 

 eminent philanthropist ; died in Norwich, 

 Conn., aged 82 years. He was a native of Con- 

 necticut, and throughout a period of nearly half 

 a century was identified with the most important 

 interests of the community in which he lived. 

 The cause of popular education received his 



unceasing attention. He was one of the ori- 

 ginal founders of the "Norwich Free Acad- 

 emy," and a munificent donor to its endow- 

 ment, serving as president of the Board of 

 Trustees at the time of his death. For many 

 years he made an annual visit to all, or nearly 

 all, the public schools in New-London County. 

 "When the feeble church, which embraced a 

 remnant of the Mohegan tribe of Indians, was 

 deprived of its missionary pastor, General 

 "Williams assumed the agency necessary to the 

 continued maintenance of a Sabbath service, 

 and, in addition to pecuniary aid, gave for more 

 than seventeen years his personal labors as a 

 Sunday-school teacher among that people. In 

 the various departments of missionary work, 

 home and foreign, he was an active and liberal 

 helper. Being connected with maritime enter- 

 prises, he was the sailor's friend, and an early 

 and constant contributor to the Seamen's Friend 

 Society, of which he was a vice-president, as 

 also to the American Home Missionary, and 

 the American Bible Societies. He was also a 

 corporate member of the Board of Missions. 



Oct. 29. RICHARDS, Rev. GEORGE, a Con- 

 gregational clergyman; died in Bridgeport, 

 Conn. He was a native of New England, stud- 

 ied at Phillips Academy, Andover, graduated 

 at Yale College in 1840, studied theology at 

 Andover and New Haven, and from 1844 to 

 1845 was tutor in his college. He was a man 

 of fine scholarly attainments and most attrac- 

 tive social qualities, which, with his fervent 

 piety, and pastoral gifts, strongly endeared him 

 not only to his people, but to all who were 

 associated with him. 



Oct. 31. SCHAEFFEE, Brigadier-General WIL- 

 SON, U. S. Vols., Governor of Utah ; died at Salt 

 Lake. He was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, 

 and spent most of his life in that State. At 

 the outbreak of the war in 1861 he immediate- 

 ly offered his services to the Government, and 

 served during the entire struggle on the staff 

 of General Butler, achieving marked distinc- 

 tion during that general's several cam- 

 paigns. At the close of the war he returned 

 to his home in Illinois, where he remained un- 

 til the spring of 1870, when he was sent to 

 Utah as Territorial Governor, and during his 

 short period of service displayed a remarkable 

 degree of firmness in the discharge of his duty. 



Oct. . BREWER, EBEXEZEE, a philanthro- 

 pist; died in Pittsburg, Pa. Most of his life 

 was spent in that city, where he was the lead- 

 ing spirit in all charitable and philanthropic 

 movements, devoting large sums to local ob- 

 jects every year, and in his will making liberal 

 bequests not only to city objects, but also 

 to missions, and various charitable societies 

 abroad. 



Oct. . DAVIS, Brigadier- General HAS- 

 BROUCK, U. S. Vols., a daring and skilful caval- 

 ry-officer; was lost on the Cambria. He was 

 conspicuous for his courage and address at 

 Martinsburg, Va., 1 Harper's Ferry, and in Stone- 

 man's raid. 



