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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Michael's Parish, Litchfield, Conn. In 1854 

 he became rector of Grace Church, Utica, 

 N. Y., where, also, a church was erected under 

 his auspices. The honorary degree of D. D. 

 was conferred on him by Hobart and Hamilton 

 Colleges in 1863. 



April 6. CLAY, Mrs. LTTCRETIA HART, widow 

 of Henry Clay, died at the residence of her son, 

 John M. Clay, near Lexington, Kentucky, aged 

 83 years. She was a devoted wife, a faithful 

 mother, and an earnest, active, and self-sacri- 

 ficing Christian. 



April 6. DRINKER, ~W. WALN, died suddenly 

 at Albany, N. Y., in the. 64th year of his age. 

 He was formerly a police magistrate of New 

 York City. He was engaged in an argument 

 before one of the Committees in the Capitol, 

 and while stooping to read from a document, 

 fell dead upon the floor. 



April 6. KIRKLAND, Mrs. CAROLINE M. (See 



KlRKLAND, C. M.) 



April 8. KITTRIDGE, JONATHAN, died at his 

 residence in Concord, N. II., aged 65 years. He 

 was one of the earliest pioneers in the temper- 

 ance cause, and his lectures and essays, in the 

 infancy of that movement, contributed greatly 

 to its success. 



April 9. MOUTON, ALEXANDER, a major- 

 general of the rebel army, formerly acting 

 Governor of Louisiana, and for some years a 

 Senator from that State in Congress. He was 

 killed near Mansfield, La., in the severe battle 

 between the Union troops under Gen. A. J. 

 Smith, and the rebels, during the Red River 

 expedition. 



April 9. PARSONS, M. M., a brigadier-gen- 

 eral in the rebel army from Missouri, killed iu 

 the battle near Mansfield, La. 



April 10. RIVES, JOHN C. (See RIVES, J. C.) 



April 10. TAGGART, THOMAS, an eminent 

 jurist of Pennsylvania, died at Lycoming, Pa., 

 aged 34 years. 



April 10. THATER, WILLIAM SIDNEY, United 

 States Consul General to Egypt, died in Alex- 

 andria, Egypt. He was born in Haverhill, 

 Mass., 1830, graduated at Harvard University 

 in 1850, delivering the commencement poem 

 on that occasion ; and after engaging in lite- 

 rary pursuits in Boston, became in 1852 an at- 

 tache "to the New York "Evening Post," with 

 which journal he remained connected until 

 his appointment in 1861 as consul general. 

 For several years he was the Washington cor- 

 respondent of the " Post," and in that capacity 

 exhibited a sagacity and ripened judgment 

 rarely seen in so young a man, and which gain- 

 ed him the esteem of eminent men of all poli- 

 tical parties. It may be doubted whether any 

 contemporary journalist of his age possessed so 

 many influential friends in political or social 

 life. By Mr. Seward and Mr. Sumner he was 

 held in special regard ; and during the illness 

 of the latter, in consequence of the assault of 

 Preston S. Brooks, Mr. Thayer spent many 

 hours of each day with him, and was entrust- 

 ed with the delicate task of reading and an- 



swering his correspondence. During the lat- 

 ter part of his connection with the " Evening 

 Post," he performed, -with rare tact and skill, 

 the duties of associate editor. His own contri- 

 butions were written with great perspicuity 

 of style and knowledge of his subject, and 

 not unfrequently were pervaded by a pleasant 

 vein of humor, which formed a marked feature 

 in his conversation. Ill health finally compel- 

 led him to desist from editorial labors to seek 

 a more genial climate. His appointment to 

 Egypt, it was hoped, would enable him to re- 

 cruit his health, and at the same time to serve 

 the country in a useful public capacity. Al- 

 though the field was of limited extent for the 

 display of diplomatic ability, it was the opinion 

 of the Department of State that he was one of 

 the most useful and successful of our represent- 

 atives abroad. The manner in which he inter- 

 posed in favor of Paris, a. Christian missionary, 

 and secured- the punishment of his enemies, 

 showed the energy and address of a practiced 

 diplomatist. His health, however, was too 

 shattered to enable him to derive much benefit 

 from his residence in Egypt, and he gradually 

 sank under the pulmonary disease which af- 

 fected him, his death being accelerated by of- 

 ficial labors, from which he could not be per- 

 suaded to desist. 



April 10. TICKNOR, WILLIAM D., an emi- 

 nent publisher of Boston, died at the Conti- 

 nental Hotel, Philadelphia. He was born in 

 Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1811, and entered a 

 broker's office in Boston, Mass., at the age of 

 15, and accumulated considerable property by 

 the time he was 21. Subsequently he was for 

 two years a bank teller, and then entered upon 

 the bookselling and publishing business, in 

 which he continued till his death. He early 

 formed the acquaintance and became the pub- 

 lisher of some of the most eminent of the poets 

 of Boston and its vicinity, and his editions of 

 the poems and prose works of Longfellow, Low- 

 ell, Holmes, Whittier. and Saxe, as well as Ten- 

 nyson, Leigh Hunt, Massey, Dobell, Bulwer, 

 and other English poets, and of De Quincey, 

 Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Kingsley, Haw- 

 thorne, Holmes, and other eminent English and 

 American novelists and essayists, had estab- 

 lished for his house a high reputation on both 

 sides of the Atlantic. The house of which he 

 was the head established also some years since 

 the "Atlantic Monthly," so well known as a 

 magazine of high character and extensive cir- 

 culation. 



April 11. WILLARD, Hon. JUSTICE, died in 

 Springfield, Mass., aged 74 years. He was a 

 native of Greenfield, Mass., graduated at Dart- 

 mouth College in 1811, studied law in his na- 

 tive town, and soon after completing his stu- 

 dies settled in Springfield, where for half a 

 century he manifested an active interest in all 

 its public affairs. In 1815 he was appointed 

 Deputy United States Collector of internal rev- 

 enue, and subsequently was for several years 

 a member of the Legislature first of tha 



