OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Sept. 29. PAGE, YELVERTON P., clerk of the 

 United States Senate, died in Washington. He 

 contracted the illness which terminated his life 

 by ministering to the comfort, during the whole 

 of a stormy night, of a regiment of soldiers 

 who, being without shelter, had been com- 

 pelled to remain upon the sidewalk in front of 

 his house. 



October 1. EMMONS, EBENEZEB, M. D. (See 

 EMMONS, E.) 



Oct. 2. HUNT, Major E. B. (See HUNT, E. 

 B.) * 



Oct. 6. SUMNER, EDWIN V. (See SUMNER.) 



Oct. 7. HAYWARD, GEORGE, M. D., died at 

 his residence, in Pemberton Square, Boston. 

 He was a son of Dr. Lemuel Hayward, formerly 

 a distinguished physician and surgeon of Bos- 

 ton, and was born in that city, March 9th, 

 1791. He was fitted for college at the Public 

 Latin School, and graduated with distinction 

 at Cambridge in 1809. After studying the 

 profession of medicine, he established himself 

 as a physician in his native city, acquired an 

 extensive practice, and attained to an eminence 

 equal to that of his father. In 1835 he was 

 appointed professor of clinical surgery in the 

 Medical School of Harvard University, which 

 chair he held until 1849. He spent several 

 years in Europe, and enjoyed a reputation 

 there for skill in surgery, which reflected cred- 

 it upon America. He was for several years 

 president of the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 

 ety, and was also a member of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1852 he 

 was elected a member of the corporation of 

 Harvard College, which important trust he 

 held at the time of his death. 



Oct. 14. QOOK, Brig.-Gen. HENRY F., an offi- 

 cer in the Confederate service, was killed at 

 Bristow Station. He. was a native of Missis- 

 sippi ; served in the Mexican war as first lieu- 

 tenant in Jefferson Davis's regiment of Missis- 

 sippi volunteers; distinguished himself in the 

 battle of Monterey, where he was wounded, 

 and commanded Co. C in the battle of Buena 

 Vista. He had joined the Confederate army 

 early in the war, and had risen by successive 

 promotions to the rank of brigadier-general in 

 1863. 



Oct. 14. FLOY, JAMES, D. D. (See FLOY, 

 JAMES.) 



Oct. 16. WAYLAND, JOHN, D. D. (See WAY- 

 LAND, JOHN.) 



Oct. . DIMMOOK, Brig.-Gen. CHARLES, an 

 officer in the Confederate service, died in Rich- 

 mond. He was a graduate of West Point, and 

 served in the United States army for fifteen 

 years. At the commencement of the war he 

 resigned and joined the Confederate army, 

 where he filled the office of Chief of the Ord- 

 nance Department of Virginia. 



Oct. 18. RUFFIN, Col. THOMAS, an officer in 

 the Confederate service, died at Grace Church 

 Hospital, Washington, from wounds received 

 at the battle of Bristow Station. He was a na- 

 tive of North Carolina, but for a number of 



years was a citizen of Missouri, residing at 

 Bolivar, Polk co., and was at one time State 

 attorney for that judicial circuit. Subsequent- 

 ly he returned to his native State from which 

 he was elected to Congress. 



Oct. 18. VIELE, Gen. JOHN J., an officer of 

 the N. Y. State militia, died at Eagle Bridge, 

 Rensselaer county, N. Y., aged 55 years. He 

 was a lawyer by profession, and a man of 

 much political influence throughout the county 

 and State. His death was unexpected, and 

 caused deep sorrow to a wide circle of friends. 



Oct. 19. HOYT, Hon. JAMES G., Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of the 8th Judicial District 

 of New York, died at his residence in Buffalo. 



Oct. 19. SAVAGE, Hon. JOHN, Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 

 York, died at Utica, aged 84 years. He held 

 the office of chief justice fof fourteen years, 

 and had a high reputation as a jurist, while as 

 a citizen he was honored for his integrity and 

 personal worth. 



Oct. 22. DARCY, JOHN S., M. D., died in 

 Newark, N. J., of paralysis, in the 76th year 

 of his age. He was a native of Morris county, 

 N. J., and was born in Hanover township, Feb- 

 ruary 24th, 1788. His father having been for 

 years the most eminent physician of that coun- 

 ty, he entered upon the study of medicine with 

 him and succeeded to his large practice, in 

 which he met with great success. In 1832, the 

 epoch of the first appearance of the Asiatic 

 cholera in this country, he removed to Newark, 

 N. J., and by his skill and promptness in the 

 treatment of that terrible disease, and by his 

 devotion to his patients and sympathy with their 

 sufferings, he soon attained a practice more ex- 

 tensive and exacting than any other in the State, 

 and which finally impaired his own remarkably 

 vigorous constitution. He was very early in 

 life a member of the State Legislature, and sub- 

 sequently, before removing from Morris county, 

 U. S. marshal for New Jersey appointed to that 

 office by Gen. Jackson. He continued to hold 

 tins appointment during Mr. Van B*uren's admin- 

 istration. He exerted great influence in his party 

 in the State, but was averse to holding office. On 

 the incorporation of the New Jersey Railroad 

 Company he was elected its president, and held 

 the office till his death, a period of over thirty 

 years. In 1849 he made an overland journey 

 to California, merely for the improvement of 

 his health; but, though the expedition was 

 otherwise a success, his health was rather in- 

 jured than benefited by it. He was for many 

 years a prominent member of the masonic fra- 

 ternity, and for some years held the office of 

 grand master of the Grand Lodge of the State. 



Oct. 22. PUTNAM, Prof. JOHN N., died on 

 board the steamer Alpha, on her passage be- 

 tween Halifax and Boston, aged 40 years. He 

 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1843, and 

 was subsequently tutor and professor of the 

 Greek language and literature, in his alma ma- 

 ter. Intense application had impaired his- 

 health, and he had made a voyage to Halifax 



