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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CRUTCHFIELD DAY.) 



teers. He accompanied the regiment to the front as 

 its colonel, and, under assignment to the Army of the 

 Potomac, his command was made the headquarters 

 guard under Generals McClellan, Hooker, Meade, 

 and Burnside. In 1862 he was captured and was con- 

 fined in Libby, Salisbury, and Belle Isle prisons till 

 exchanged for Col. Chancellor, of the Confederate 

 army. Subsequently he took part in every battle of 

 the Army of the Potomac, was wounded three times 

 at the Wildnerness and again at Spottsylvania Court 

 House, and for gallantry at the latter was promoted 

 brigadier-general. Aftei the war he settled an Wash- 

 ington, was president of the old Board of Aldermen, 

 and was warden of the jail from 1869 till his death. 



Crutchfield, William, 'farmer, born in Greenville, 

 Tenn., .Nov. 16, 1826; died in Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 Jan. 24, 1890. He received a common-school educa- 

 tion ; removed in early youth to McMinn County, 

 Tenn., where he remained four years ; settled in Ala- 

 bama and engaged in farming in 1844 ; and made his 

 permanent residence in Chattanooga in 1850. During 

 the civil war he was one of tht, famous band of un- 

 compromising Union men of Tennessee, and rendered 

 the national armies important service as a guide, win- 

 ning thereby the gratitude and friendship of Generals 

 Grant, Rosecranz, and Thomas. After the war he 

 applied himself to assisting ex- Confederates to re- 

 establish themselves in business, and held several 

 local offices. In 1872 he was elected to Congress from 

 the Third Tennessee District as a Eepublican, and 

 served in that body on the committees on Revolution- 

 ary Pensions and War of 1812 and on patents. He 

 was a man of many eccentricities. 



Cummings, Joseph, educator, born in Falmouth, Me., 

 March 3, 1817 ; died in Evanston, 111, May 7, 1890. 

 He paid for a course of instruction in the Maine 

 Wesleyan Seminary by his own labor ; was graduated 

 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1840 ; 

 taught in the High School in Augusta, Me., while 

 preparing for his collegiate course, and after gradua- 

 tion was appointed teacher of mathematics in Ar- 

 menia (N. Y.) Seminary, of which he was prin- 

 cipal from 1843 till 1846. In the latter year he 

 joined the New England Conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church. After holding pastorates in several 

 cities, he was elected President of Genesee College, in 

 Lima, N. Y., in 1853, and resigned in 1858 to accept 

 the presidency of Wesleyan University. He held 

 this office till 1875, was Professor of Mental Philosophy 

 and Political Economy there till 1881, and was then 

 elected President of the Northwestern University, in 

 Evanston, 111., where he remained until his death. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity in 1854, and that of LL. D. from Northwest- 

 ern University in 1866. Dr. Cummings published 

 numerous addresses and sermons, and edited Butler's 

 "Analogy of Religion." 



Cutter, George Fi, naval officer, born in Massachu- 

 setts, in 1820; died in Washington, D. C.. Sept. 1, 

 1890. He was appointed a captain's clerk in the 

 United States navy on April 19, 1838, and after serv- 

 ing on the '"Cyane," in the Mediterranean squadron, 

 till May 18, 1841, was appointed purser June 5, 1844. 

 He was* promoted paymaster June 22, 1860, and pay 

 director March 3, 1871, and was retired Aug. 30, 1881. 

 During his naval career he was on sea service twelve 

 years and seven months, on shore, or other duty, 

 twenty-two years and two months, and was unem- 

 ployed ten years and ten months. He served on the 

 United States brig u Truxtun," off the coast of Africa, 

 in 1844-' 45 ; sloop " Albany," of the home squadron, 

 in 1846-'50, and was captured by the Mexicans ; 

 receiving ship, at the Boston Navy Yard, in 1850-'54; 

 steamer " Massachusetts," of the Pacific squadron, in 

 1854-'57 ; Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1858-'60 ; steam 

 sloop "Richmond," of the Western Gulf blockading 

 squadron, in 1861-'62 ; and flag ship " San Jacintp," 

 as fleet paymaster of the North Atlantic blockading 

 squadron, in 1863. In 1865-'67 he was inspector of 

 provisions and clothing at the Boston Navy Yard ; in 

 1868-' 69 was fleet paymaster of the Asiatic squadron ; 



in 1869-'77 was on duty at the Boston and Brooklyn 

 Navy Yards : in 1877 was general inspector of provis- 

 ions and clothing for the navy ; and from November, 

 1877, till his retirement, he was paymaster-general. 



Davis, Nelson Henry, army officer, born in Oxford, 

 Worcester County, Mass., Sept. 20, 1821 ; died on 

 Governor's Island, New York Harbor, May 15, 1890. 

 He was graduated at the United States Military Aca- 

 demy in 1846, and assigned to the Third Infantry as 

 brevet second lieutenant ; was promoted second lieu- 

 tenant and transferred to the Second Infantry, Feb. 

 16, 1847 ; first lieutenant, June 8, 1849 ; captain, 

 March 3, 1855; major and assistant inspector-gener- 

 al, Nov. 12, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, June 13, 1867; 

 colonel, June 25, 1872, to rank from March 23, 1864, 

 and with pay and allowances from Jan. 6, 1873, the 

 date of his confirmation by the United States Senate ; 

 brigadier-general and inspector-general, March 11, 

 1885 ; and was retired on Sept. 20 following. In the 

 volunteer service he was colonel of the Seventh Mas- 

 sachusetts Infantry from Sept. 4 till Nov. 12, 1861. 

 In the regular army he was brevetted first lieutenant, 

 Aug. 20, 1847, for gallant conduct at Contreras and 

 Churubusco; lieutenant-colonel, July 3, 1863, for 

 Gettysburg ; colonel, May 29, 1864, tor the Apache 

 Indian war in Arizona ; and brigadier- general, March 

 13, 1865, for services during the war. After the war 

 he was inspector-general of the military district of 

 New Mexico in 1868 ; the department of Missouri in 

 1868-'72; on inspection duty in 1872-'76 ; and in the 

 latter year he was appointed inspector-general of the 

 military division of the Atlantic. 



Davis, Beuben, lawyer, born in Tennessee, Jan. 18, 

 1813; died in Huntsville, Tenn., Oct. 14, 1890. He 

 was a second cousin of Jefferson Davis. He received 

 a limited education, studied and practiced medicine, 

 and subsequently adopted the legal profession. In 

 1835 he was elected district-attorney for the Sixth 

 Judicial District of Mississippi ; in 1837 was re- 

 elected ; in 1842 was a judge of the High Court of 

 Errors and Appeals ; and in the early part of the 

 Mexican War was colonel-commandant of the Missis- 

 sippi Rifles. He was a member of the Lower House of 

 the Mississippi Legislature in 1855-'57, and a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress in 1857-'61, serving on the 

 committees on post-offices and post roads, and on ex- 

 penditures in the Navy Department. In 1880 he pub- 

 lished " Recollections of Mississippi and Mississip- 

 pians," dedicated to the lawyers of the State, by '' the 

 sole survivor of the bar of fifty years ago." 



Davison, Henry J., engineer, born in New York city, 

 Dec. 22, 1835 ; died in Liverpool, England. July 22, 

 1890. He received a private-school education, and 

 when eighteen years old became an apprentice in the 

 Chelsea Iron Works, New York city, at which light- 

 draught steamers and gas plants were being made. 

 After the failure of the company and the transfer of 

 its plant to the Novelty Iron Works he was engaged 

 by the latter as foreman. While he was in New Or- 

 leans building two mammoth baking ovens the Crystal 

 Palace in New York was burned, and on his return, 

 learning that many engineers had declined to under- 

 take the removal of the frame-work of the great dome, 

 he volunteered to take it down, and accomplished the 

 task without accident. After this he established him- 

 self as a mechanical engineer, and for several years 

 was occupied in designing and putting together, after 

 their manufacture elsewhere, light-draught steamers 

 for South American rivers, and in building the tele- 

 graph lines in the United States of Colombia. Re- 

 turning to New York city, he applied himself ex- 

 clusively to g_as enterprises and the construction of gas 

 plants. He introduced the new system of water gas ; 

 constructed large gas plants in New York city, Al- 

 bany, Syracuse, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, and 

 elsewhere ; and with others brought the entire gas 

 plant of Indianapolis, Ind., early in 1890. 



Day, Henry Noble, educator^ born in Washington, 

 Conn., Aug. 4, 1808; died in New Haven, Conn., 

 Jan. 12, 1890. He was a nephew of President Jere- 

 miah Day, of Yale University, author of "Day's Al- 



