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years of age he was sent to Europe as super- 

 cargo, and before he was twenty-one, was es- 

 tablished as a commission merchant in Amster- 

 dam. Here he resided several years, embracing 

 the period of the French occupation of Hol- 

 land. After leaving Amsterdam he made sev- 

 eral voyages; among others to the Canary 

 Islands and Havana, and again to Amsterdam, 

 where after remaining two years he returned 

 home. He soon left again for Russia, and on 

 his return from St. Petersburg in 1810, his 

 vessel loaded with iron was shipwrecked on 

 the Naze, the southern cape of Norway, and 

 being unable to obtain a passage home, he was 

 obliged to remain and endure the rigors of a 

 Norwegian winter. After this he remained at 

 home for a time and subsequent to the declara- 

 tion of peace in 1815, was for many years en- 

 gaged in the East India trade. In 1821 he, in 

 connection with some others, purchased a 

 woollen mill at Salisbury, now known as the 

 Salisbury Mills, and of which he was for a 

 long time president. In 1827 he withdrew 

 from commerce, and entered more largely into 

 manufactures. From 1827 to 1835 he was 

 president of the Mechanics' Bank, Newbury- 

 port. He was for several years in the House 

 of Representatives and Senate. He was a de- 

 voted member of the Episcopal Church, and 

 often delegate to the General Episcopal Con- 

 vention. 



Nov. . DUNCAN, Brig.-Gen. JOHNSON K., an 

 officer who died in the Confederate service. He 

 was a native of Pennsylvania ; entered West 

 Point in 1845, and upon his graduation was ap- 

 pointed brevet second lieutenant 2d artillery ; 

 was transferred to the 3d artillery, Oct. 1849, as 

 second lieutenant, and in Dec. 1853 was made 

 first lieutenant. He resigned Jan. 31st, 1855, 

 and upon the commencement of the war entered 

 into the Confederate service as colonel. He 

 was appointed brigadier-general from Louisiana, 

 and commanded Forts Jackson and St. Philip 

 at the time of the bombardment by Flag Officer 

 Farragut. 



Dec. 2. PIERCE, Mrs. JANE M., wife of ex- 

 President Pierce, died at Andover, Mass. She 

 was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, March 

 12th, 1806. In 1834 she was 'married to Hon. 

 Franklin Pierce, then of Hillsboro, who was 

 serving his first term in Congress. Her fine 

 natural endowments were developed by a care- 

 ful and generous culture, which eminently fit- 

 ted her for the exalted position to which she 

 was called during her husband's administration, 

 and her piety, chastened by affliction in the loss 

 of all her children, was of that elevating and 

 refining nature which exerted a powerful in- 

 fluence over her wide circle of friends. During 

 the last years of her invalid life she found much 

 physical relief, as well as enjoyment, in foreign 

 travel, and in residence near the mountains and 

 seashores of New England. Her death was a 

 peaceful and fitting close to a life of uncommon 

 purity and devotion to the happiness and good 

 of others. 



Dec. 4. WHISTLER, Ool. WILLIAM, an officer 

 of the U. S. army, died at his residence in Cin- 

 cinnati, at a very advanced age. He was a na- 

 tive of Maryland, but appointed to the army from 

 the Northwest Territory, June 8th, 1801. He 

 was the oldest army officer in the United States, 

 with the exception of Gen. Scott, having been 

 in service for more than 60 years. At the date 

 of his retirement from service, October 9th, 

 1861, he was colonel in the 4th infantry. 



Dec. 10. INGHAM, CHARLES C., died in New 

 York city, aged 66 years. He was one of a 

 family who had devoted themselves to art, and 

 for many years he and his brother, who sur- 

 vives him, stood in the first rank of American 

 portrait painters. His portraits possessed the 

 rare charm of presenting the sitter in his most 

 characteristic position, and his happiest mood, 

 developing hidden graces of expression only 

 known to those who were in the most intimate 

 relations with him. 



Dec. 13. GREEN, Gen. THOMAS J., an officer 

 in the Confederate service, died at his residence 

 in Warren county, N. C., aged 62 years. He was 

 a general in the Texan war of independence, 

 a member of the Texan Congress, the leader 

 of the Mier expedition, one of the band of 

 " Mier prisoners," and subsequently historian 

 of that transaction. He was afterward a State 

 senator in California, and major-general of the 

 militia in that State. 



Dec. 16. BUFORD, Maj.-Gen. JOHN. (See Bu- 

 FORD, JOHN.) 



Dec. 17. VAN BRTTNT, Commodore GERSHOM 

 J., of the U. S. navy, died at Dedham, Mass., 

 aged 63 years. He was a native and a citizen 

 of New Jersey, and entered the service Novem- 

 ber 3d, 1818. He received his commission of 

 commodore, July 16th, 1862, was in command 

 of the Minnesota, which sailed from Boston soon 

 after the commencement of the war, and took 

 an active part in the reduction of the Hatteras 

 forts, and in the blockading service at Hamp- 

 ton Roads. Subsequently he was intrusted by 

 the Government with the supervision and equip- 

 ment of Gen. Banks's New Orleans expedition, 

 and at the time of his death was acting under 

 the orders of the War Department as inspector 

 of transports for the New England district. He 

 was highly esteemed in the navy for his talents 

 as an officer as well as for his intrinsic worth. 



Dec. 18. MAT, JAMES, D. D., Professor of 

 the Divinity School, Philadelphia, died in that 

 city after a short illness. 



Dec. 21. BAINE, Hon. A. 0., died at Clifton, 

 Lander county, Nevada Territory. He was born 

 at Raleigh, North Carolina, September 21st, 

 1810. He removed to California not far from 

 1849, and settled at Stockton, in which city he 

 practised his profession of lawyer, winning the 

 respect and esteem of the bar by his scholar- 

 ship and integrity of character. Until 1857 he 

 was a devout Presbyterian, but at that period 

 he embraced the Catholic faith, adhering to the 

 rigid performance of the most minute detail of 

 the discipline and regulations of the church. 



