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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



her maiden name being Emily Bradley. While 

 a young school girl she wrote several brilliant 

 sketches, under the signature of Alice G. Lee, 

 for " The Saturday Gazette," a Philadelphia 

 weekly, edited by Mr. Joseph 0. Neal, who sub- 

 sequently became her husband, and, at his re- 

 quest, she substituted the name of Alice for that 

 of Emily. Upon his death in 1847, a year after 

 their marriage, she assumed the editorial charge 

 of that journal ; and conducted it successfully 

 for a number of years, at the same time con- 

 tributing, both in prose and verse, to some of 

 the leading periodicals of the day. She was 

 the author of a work entitled "Gossips of 

 Rivertown," published in 1860 ; also of a large 

 number of juveniles. She was married in 1853 

 to Mr. Samuel L. Haven. 



Aug. 24. BARTLETT, JOHN SHEBEEN, M. D., 

 founder of " The Albion" weekly newspaper, 

 published in New York, died at his residence in 

 New Jersey, aged 73 years. He was a native 

 of Dorsetshire, England, received a medical 

 education in London, and on the recommenda- 

 tion of Sir Astley Cooper was appointed sur- 

 geon in the British navy in 1812. During his 

 passage to the West Indies in the Swallow, he 

 was captured by the United States frigates Pres- 

 ident and Congress under Commodore Kodgers, 

 and was taken as prisoner of war to Boston, 

 where he was under surveillance until his dis- 

 charge in 1813. At the close of the war he 

 married a lady of Boston, and commenced the 

 practice of his profession in that city. He sub- 

 sequently removed to New York, and in 1822 

 established " The Albion," widely known as an 

 organ of English conservative politics in this 

 country. After conducting this journal for a 

 period of twenty-five years, he relinquished the 

 editorship of it and established a paper of simi- 

 lar character in Boston, " The Anglo-Saxon." 

 Re subsequently undertook the publication at 

 Liverpool of " The European," designed to fur- 

 nish a weekly summary of foreign news for 

 American circulation. In 1857 he was British 

 consul in Baltimore. 



Aug. 26. FOOTE, Mrs. CAROLINE AUGUSTA, 

 widow of the late Admiral Foote, died at New 

 Haven, Conn., in the 47th year of her age. 

 The husband, wife, and two children have died 

 within a year. 



Aug. 27. FLOYD, Hon. JOHN B. (See FLOYD, 



Aug. . BOWEN, Major-General JOHN S., an 

 officer in the Confederate service, died in Ray- 

 mond, Miss. He was a native of Georgia; 

 graduated at West Point in July, 1853, and was 

 appointed brevet second lieutenant of Mounted 

 Rifles. He resigned May, 1856. At the time 

 of the capture of the State militia by General 

 Lyon, at Camp Jackson, Mo., he was in com- 

 mand of one of the regiments, and was after- 

 ward exchanged for some of the Lexington 

 prisoners, when he entered the Confederate 

 service regularly. 



Aug. 28. SWORMSTEDT, LEROY, D. D., died 

 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Mary- 



land, Oct. 4th, 1798. In 1817 he was a mer- 

 chant's clerk in Cincinnati, and the following 

 year became a travelling preacher by joining 

 the Ohio Conference. For eighteen years he 

 traversed the large circuits and districts of the 

 West with wonderful diligence and marked 

 success. In 1836 he was made assistant, and in 

 1844, chief agent of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Book Concern at Cincinnati, where he remain- 

 ed until obliged to retire from active service in 

 1860. He was distinguished for his rare ex- 

 ecutive ability. His preaching was methodical, 

 and often powerful. He was scrupulously 

 punctual to all his engagements, and in the 

 management of the Book Concern he displayed 

 uncommon talent and energy, and his efforts to 

 extend its business and promote its interests 

 were attended with the most gratifying success. 



Aug. 30. BRADISH, Hon. LUTHER W. (See 

 BRADISH, L. W.) 



Aug. 30. NEWCOMB, HARVEY, D. D., died in 

 Brooklyn, aged 60 years. He was born in 

 Thetford, Vt., and in 1818 removed to Alfred, 

 N. Y. When less than sixteen years of age he 

 commenced teaching school, and continued in 

 that occupation most of the time for eight 

 years. In the spring of 1826 he became pub- 

 lisher and editor of a newspaper in Westfield, 

 N. Y., where he remained two years and then 

 removed to Buffalo and edited the Buffalo " Pa- 

 triot" nearly two years. In 1830 and 1831 he 

 published the " Christian Herald " at Pittsburg, 

 Pa., and a paper for children, and for nearly 

 ten years from that period was mainly engaged 

 in writing Sabbath school books. In 1840 he 

 was licensed to preach the Gospel, and the fol- 

 lowing year had charge of the Congregational 

 church at West Roxbury, Mass., and subse- 

 quently was pastor of the churches at West 

 Needham and Grantville. In 1849 he returned 

 for a season to editorial life, being assistant editor 

 of the " Daily Traveler " for about a year, and of 

 the New York " Observer" two years. In the fall 

 of 1859, having spent several years in writing, 

 establishing mission Sabbath schools in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., and preaching to the Park Street 

 Mission church of that city, he was installed 

 over the Congregational church in Hancock, 

 Pa., where he continued to labor as long as his 

 health allowed him to remain in active life. 

 He was the author of not less than 178 vol- 

 umes, a great majority of which had special 

 reference to the wants of children and youth, 

 and had a large circulation ; among these were 

 fourteen volumes of Church history. Accord- 

 ing to a calculation made several years ago, the 

 circulation of his works had reached nearly 

 sixty-five millions of pages. His largest work 

 was the " Cyclopedia of Missions." 



Aug. . RIPLEY, Brig.-Gen. ROSWELL SA- 

 BIN, died in Charleston, S. C. He was a native 

 of Ohio, and appointed cadet from that State 

 in 1839 ; graduated 7th in his class, and was 

 appointed brevet second lieutenant 3d artillery, 

 July, 1848 ; became second lieutenant in the 2d 

 artillery in 1846, and first lieutenant, March 3d, 





