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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



April 24. CLACK, FEANKLIN HULSE, died 

 from wounds received during the battles of 

 Mayfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. He 

 was a son of Commander Clack, U. S. N., was 

 born in Florida, 1828, graduated at Mount St. 

 Mary's College in 1845, and took the degree of 

 Bachelor of Laws at Yale College, 1847. In 

 1851 he was appointed Secretary of Legation 

 to Brazil, and after his return and settlement 

 in New Orleans, was appointed U. S. District 

 Attorney for Louisiana. On retiring from this 

 position he continued the practice of law with 

 great success. 



April 24. LINCKLAEN, LEDYAED, died in 

 Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., aged 44 

 years. He was the founder of that village. 



April 25. SCHNEIDER, Rev. JAMES II., died 

 at Key West, of yellow fever, aged 25 years. 

 He was a son of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Schneider, 

 missionary of the A. B. 0. F. M. at Aintab, 

 Syria, and was born at Broosa, Turkey, grad- 

 uated at Yale College in I860, and spent tho 

 three years following in teaching in the State 

 Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass. It was his 

 desire to enter into the service of his country, 

 and being drafted, he at once reported in per- 

 son for duty, was appointed lieutenant in the 

 2d regiment of U. S. colored troops, and subse- 

 quently chosen chaplain of the regiment, being 

 ordained at Bridgewater, Oct. 27, 1863. In 

 entering the military service he declined an 

 appointment as Tutor in Yale College, and 

 postponed his preparations for the work of a 

 foreign missionary, upon which he had deter- 

 mined. 



April 27. LOWEXTHAL, Rev. ISIDOEE. (See 



LdWENTHAL, I.) 



April 27. PAESONS, LEMUEL SPEAGUE, died 

 in Cohoes, N. Y., aged 55 years. He was a 

 native of Wolcott, Conn., was educated at tho 

 Academy in Troy, N. Y., and at Yale College, 

 from which he graduated in 1837. In 1839 he 

 removed to Albany, N. Y., where, with his sis- 

 ter, he established a select family school, and 

 was at the same time principal of the Pearl 

 Street Academy for Boys. In 1845 he was 

 chosen principal of the Albany Female Acade- 

 my, tho duties of which he discharged with 

 success until 1855, when he resigned his office, 

 and subsequently engaged in the manufacturing 

 business in Cohoes, where he remained until 

 his death. 



April 28. HOLBEOOK, JAMES, special agent 

 of the Post Office Department, died at Brook- 

 lyn, Conn., at the age of about 52 years. He 

 was a self-made man, and, we believe, origin- 

 ally a printer by profession. He was for 

 some years connected as editor with the "Nor- 

 wich Aurora," and in 1839 started the " Patriot 

 and Eagle," at Hartford, Conn. In 1840, this 

 paper, which had previously been Democratic 

 in its politics, became the organ of the " Con- 

 servative " party, which had a short-lived exist- 

 ence in that State. In 1845 Mr. Holbrook 

 was appointed special agent of the P. O. De- 

 partment, and continued to hold that position 



under each successive administration till his 

 death. He proved a remarkably expert and 

 skillful detective officer, and brought every 

 considerable mail robber to justice with unerr- 

 ing certainty. In 1855 he published a volume 

 of sketches of his experience as a detective, 

 under the title of "Ten Years among the Mail- 

 bags," and in 1859 established "The United 

 States Mail," a journal devoted to postal mat- 

 ter, which he edited with decided ability till 

 his death. 



April 29. WAEE, JOHN, M.D., died in Bos- 

 ton, aged 68 years. He was a native of Hing- 

 ham, Mass., studied at Phillips Academy in 

 Andover, and graduated with honor at Harvard 

 College, in the class of 1813. After leaving 

 college he studied medicine with Dr. John 

 Gorham, of Boston, received his degree of M.D. 

 in 1816, and in 1817, after a practice of one 

 year in Duxbury, removed to Boston, where 

 he resided the remainder of his life. In 1832 

 he was appointed Professor of the Theory 

 and Practice of Medicine in the Medical De- 

 partment of Harvard College, which office 

 he held until 1858. He published various 

 medical lectures and discourses ; essays on 

 "Croup," on "Delirium Tremens," and on 

 "Hfemoptysis ;" a volume on the "Philosophy 

 of Natural History," and a "Memoir of Henry 

 "Ware, Jr." He was for several years President 

 of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was 

 also a member of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences. 



April . HARBISON, JOHNSON, colored, 

 died at Ypsilanti, Mich., aged 119 years. 



April . KINGSBUEY, Rev. CYETJS, for 

 forty-five years a missionary among the Choc- 

 taws, died at the Mission Station in the Choc- 

 taw Nation. He was one of the first mission- 

 aries of the American Board to that tribe. 



April 30. SOLOMON, AMY, died in Attle- 

 boro', Vt., aged 107 years. 



April 30. PUGH, EVAN, Ph.D., died at Belle- 

 fonte, Penn., of typhoid fever, aged 36 years. 

 He was a native of Chester County, Penn., 

 where he resided until the summer of 1852, 

 when he sailed for Europe. While there he 

 pursued the study of agricultural chemistry in 

 the best German universities, making some new 

 and important discoveries in chemical science, 

 which gained him a high reputation abroad. 

 In the autumn of 1858 he returned to this 

 country to accept the appointment of Presi- 

 dent of the Pennsylvania Agricultural College, 

 Centre County, Pa., a position he filled with 

 singular ability and success. 



May 1. DUNCAN, WILLIAM CECIL, D.D. 

 (See DUNCAN, W. C.) 



May 1. PORTEE, Commodore WM. D. (See 

 POETEE, WM. D.) 



May 2. MARSTON, Hon. NYMPHAS, died in 

 Barnstable, Mass., aged 76 years. He was a 

 native of Barnstable, was a pupil, and subse- 

 quently Preceptor of Sandwich Academy, grad- 

 uated at Harvard College in 1807, studied law, 

 and began the practice of his profession at Nuo 



