OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



March 19. MEBIAM EBEN. (See MEKIAM 

 EBBN.) 



March 20. DE CHARMS, RICHARD, died in 

 Philadelphia, aged 67 years. He was a native 

 of Philadelphia, was in early life a printer, 

 graduated at Yale College in the class of 1826, 

 and the year previous engaged in the study of 

 Swedenborgian theology under Thomas Wor- 

 cester, D. D., at the same time superintending 

 the publication of the " New Jerusalem Maga- 

 zine." His theological studies were continued 

 in Baltimore with Rev. John Hargrove, and his 

 first sermon on the "Paramount Importance 

 of Spiritual Things," was published at that 

 place in 1828, and was afterwards reprinted in 

 London. After a year of pastoral labor in Bed- 

 ford, Penn., he went to London and studied 

 under Rev. Samuel Noble. On returning to 

 this country in 1832, he became pastor of the 

 First New Jerusalem Church in Cincinnati, and 

 conducted a periodical called " The Precursor." 

 He subsequently preached in Philadelphia, Bal- 

 timore, and New York. In his later days he 

 devoted much attention to various mechanical 

 contrivances and inventions of his own. He 

 was the author of "Sermons illustrating the 

 Doctrine of the Lord." " Series of Lectures 

 delivered at Charleston, S. C." "The New 

 Churchman," and " Freedom and Slavery in the 

 Light of the New Jerusalem." 



March 22. COXE, JOHN REDMAN, M. D., died 

 in Philadelphia, aged 91 years. He was a native 

 of Trenton, N. J., was educated in Philadelphia, 

 but completed his classical course in Scotland, 

 returned to America in 1790, studied medicine 

 with Dr. Rush, and after receiving his diploma 

 in 1794, again went to Europe, studying at 

 London, Paris, and Edinburgh. In 1796 he 

 settled at Philadelphia, and in 1798, during the 

 visitation of yellow fever, was appointed by the 

 Board of Health Physician to the Port. He was 

 for several years one of the physicians of the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, and also of the Phila- 

 delphia Dispensary. In 1809 he was elected 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, from which chair he was trans- 

 ferred, in 1818, to that of Materia Medica and 

 Pharmacy, which he held until 1835. Dr. Coxe 

 was the first to introduce the practice of vac- 

 cination in Philadelphia. Although he attain- 

 ed to so great an age, Dr. Coxe never had a 

 sick day in his life, and died without any ap- 

 preciable disease. 



March 22. GARDINER, Hon. ROBERT HAL- 

 LOWELL, died in Gardiner, Me., aged 82 years. 

 He was a native of Bristol, England, and a 

 grandson of Dr. Gardiner, one of the proprie- 

 tors of the Kennebec purchase. In 1792 the 

 subject of this notice came to this country, fitted 

 for college in the Boston Latin School, and 

 graduated from Harvard College in the class 

 of 1801, having the salutatory oration assigned 

 to him at commencement. After graduating 

 he spent sixteen months in foreign travel, and 

 in 1803 returned and settled upon his estate, de- 

 voting much of his time thenceforward to its 



improvement and to the benefit of the towc 

 which bears his name. A church, a lyceum, 

 and a public library owe their existence to him. 

 He was an active member of the Maine His- 

 torical Society, and was its president from 1846 

 to 1855. He was also a corresponding member 

 of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 



March 23. VAST RENSSELAER, Col. HENRY, 

 Inspector-General of the United States Army, 

 died in Cincinnati, aged about 53 years. He 

 was a son of the late Stephen Van Rensselaer, 

 graduated from the Academy at West Point in 

 1831, but soon after resigned his connection 

 with the army, married a daughter of the Hon. 

 John A. King, of Jamaica, L. I., and went to 

 take possession of a patrimonial landed estate 

 in St. Lawrence County. In 1841 he was elect- 

 ed a member of the House of Representatives 

 from his district, and served through the three 

 sessions of the 27th Congress. For some years 

 past he had resided in Cincinnati, but upon the 

 breaking out of the rebellion offered his services 

 to his country, and was made by Gen. Scott 

 chief of staff, with the rank of brigadier-general. 

 Upon the retirement of Gen. Scott, the subject 

 of this notice was made inspector-general in 

 the regular army, with the rank of colonel, and 

 continued in the faithful discharge of the duties 

 of his post until a few days prior to his death. 



March 25. DAVENPORT, W. W., died in Bos- 

 ton, aged 100 years. 



March 25. JANVIER, Rev. LEVI, a mission- 

 ary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions, was 

 murdered by a fanatic Sikh at Mela, in Lodiana, 

 Northern India. He was born at Pittsgrove, 

 N. J., April 25, 1816. His early studies were 

 pursued under the instruction of his father, 

 who was a Presbyterian clergyman. He sub- 

 sequently entered Lafayette College, Easton, 

 Pa., and studied for awhile at Lawrenceville, 

 and then entered the junior class of Princeton 

 College, where he graduated in 1837 as saluta- 

 torian of his class. Having united with the 

 Presbyterian Church, and decided to prepare 

 for the ministry, lie entered the Theological 

 Seminary at Princeton, and while a student 

 there offered himself to the Board of Missions 

 as a missionary to Lodiana. He sailed for 

 India, accompanied by his wife, in September, 

 1841, and reached his destination in the spring 

 of 1842. During his voyage he had commenc- 

 ed the study of the Urdu language, which is 

 largely spoken in Lodiana ; and possessing a 

 remarkable facility for acquiring languages, ho 

 was able to preach in it soon after his arrival, 

 and a few months later to translate some tracts 

 and books into it. He next acquired a thorough 

 familiarity with the Panjabi language, and with 

 the aid of Dr. Newton, of the same mission, un- 

 dertook the preparation of a Panjabi Diction- 

 ary, which was completed in 1854. It is a 

 quarto volume of 438 pages, in three columns. 

 He continued his labors as a preacher and 

 translator up to the time of his death. He 

 had gone to Mela to preach and distribute 

 tracts, and in the evening was met by the 



