OBITUARIES. UXITED STATES. 



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OBITUAEIES, AMERICAN. The following 

 names of persons deceased in 1863, but omitted 

 in the last volume of the ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, 

 in consequence of the pressure of other topics, 

 are inserted here, and biographical sketches of 

 them will be found under the titles referred to : 



April o, 1863. REID, DAVID BOSWELL, 

 LL. D. (See REID, DAVID B.) 



May 12. SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL MOSHEIM, 

 LL. D. (See SCHMUCKER, S. M.) 



Aug. 17. ROGERS, Commander GEORGE W. 

 (See ROGERS, G. W.) 



Oct. 1 6. WAYLAND, JOHN. D. D. (See WAY- 

 LAND, JOHN.) 



Dec. 23. TAPPAN, BENJAMIN, D. D. (See 

 TAPPAN, B.) 



Jan. 1, 1864. HUBBAED, Hon. HENRY, died 

 in Pittsfield, Mass., aged 80 years. He was for 

 many years a prominent member of the Berk- 

 shire bar, for a time conducted a political paper, 

 " The Berkshire County "Whig," and was repeat- 

 edly a member of th6 Massachusetts legisla- 

 ture. At the time of his death he was one of 

 the commissioners to Xew Orleans to inquire 

 in regard to the protection of colored Massa- 

 chusetts sailors while in that port. 



Jan. 2. BOWDEN, Hon. LEMUEL J., United 

 Srat d-5 Senator from Virginia, died of small-pox 

 at Washington, D. C. He was a native of East 

 Virginia, where he occupied a prominent posi- 

 tion as jurist and advocate, and was greatly es- 

 teemed for his private virtues. 



Jan. 2. HERRICK, JACOB B., died at his res- 

 dence, Hunter's Point, Westchester County, X. 

 Y., in the 64th year of his age. He was one 

 of the oldest and most eminent of the produce 

 merchants of Xew York, his house ranking 

 with the first in that branch of trade. Upon 

 the announcement of his death, the Directors 

 of the Produce Exchange Association convened 

 a special meeting, and adopted a series of reso- 

 lutions of appreciation and sympathy. 



Jan. 3. HUGHES, JOHN, Archbishop of Xew 

 York. (See HUGHES, JOHN, Archbishop.) 



Jan. 8 MAYER, CHARLES F., died in Balti- 

 more, aged about 67 years. He was an emi- 

 nent jurist, and held a high and honored posi- 

 tion at the Baltimore bar, in the Court of 

 Appeals at Annapolis, and in the United States 

 Court at Washington. 



Jan. 5. CAMP, Rev. AMZI, died in Xew York 

 City. He was for nearly thirty years in the 

 employ of the American Tract Society as city 

 missionary. His life was one of earnest, pa- 

 tient, self-denying labor among the neglected 

 classes, in the performance of which he finally 

 contracted the disease of which he died. 



J'l/'i. 7. LOOMIS, Rev. WILBUR FISK, died of 

 typhoid fever at Xashville, Tenn., aged 36 years. 

 He was pastor of a congregational church in 

 Shelburue Falls, Mass., but feeling a strong 



desire to devote hinuelf to the care of disabled 

 soldiers in the hospitals, offered his resignation, 

 which, however, his people refused to accept, 

 but granted him a furlough. He at once en- 

 tered the service of the Sanitary Commission, 

 as hospital visitor and relief agent, laboring 

 with the utmost faithfulness and devotion at 

 Xashville, Murfreesboro', and Chattanooga, un- 

 til prostrated by the disease which terminated 

 his life. 



Jan. 7. SMITH. Hon. CALEB BLOOD. (See 

 SMITH, CALEB B.) 



Jan. 8. STORER, GEORGE H., Rear-Admiral 

 in the United States Xavy, died at Portsmouth, 

 X. II., in the 75th year of his age. He was 

 born in Portsmouth, obtained a midshipman's 

 warrant in 1809, and served more than twenty- 

 one years at sea and twenty years on shore. 

 He was Governor of the Xaval Asylum in 1855, 

 and since that time had performed no active 

 duty afloat. He had been for many years out 

 of health, though continuing an active member 

 of various Boards until a few days previous to 

 his death. 



Jan. 9. TOUSLEY, LORIN BAILEY, died in 

 Canandaigua, X. Y. He was born in Sharon, 

 Vt., in 1804, but removed in childhood to Au- 

 rora, X. Y., where he early entered upon an 

 active Christian life. In 1834 he was employed 

 as a city missionary in Buffalo, and in 1842 be- 

 came the agent of the American Sunday-school 

 Unioa for Western Xew York. Wholly de- 

 voted to his work, he became widely known as 

 " The Children's Minister." In 1858, while su- 

 perintending the removal of a building, he was 

 crushed by the falling of a heavy beam ; and, 

 from that time, though laid aside from active 

 duty, and a victim of unutterable bodily ago- 

 nies, served the cause by his pen. 



Jan. 12. ROSE, Col. EDWIN, died at Jamaica, 

 L. I. He was born in Bridgehampton L. L, 

 Feb. 14, 1817, graduated at West Point, but re- 

 signed his position in the army in 1837, to en- 

 ter the service of the State of Michigan as civil 

 engineer. He reentered the service in 1861, 

 as Colonel of the 81st Xew York volunteers, 

 and served with honor through the Peninsular 

 campaign, when, his health becoming impaired, 

 he accepted the appointment of Provost-mar- 

 shal of the First Congressional district of Xew 

 York. He twice represented Suffolk County 

 in the Legislature. 



Jan. 19. FOSTER, STEPHEN C. (.5Vc FOSTER, 

 STEPHEN C.) 



Jan. 20. SAUNDEES. T. M., a captain in the 

 United States Army, died at St. Paul, Minn. 

 He was a native of Virginia. During the Cri- 

 mean war he obtained a furlocgh and joined a 

 British regiment. He was twice wounded at 

 the battle of Inkerman. At the breaking out 

 of the Rebellion he continued firm in the sup- 



