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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



her officers, and served three years and a half 

 in her, making a cruise in the Gulf, thence to 

 China and Japan. He served as senior Assist- 

 ant on the Niagara during the laying of the 

 Atlantic Cable, and was in charge of the en- 

 gine department of the San Jacinto when the 

 rebel commissioners, Slidell and Mason, were 

 captured, since which time he has been super- 

 intendent of the Monitors built at the iron 

 ship-building yard .at Jersey City. Previous 

 to the Tecumseh being commissioned, he was 

 ordered to the Onondaga; but preferring to go 

 to sea in a vessel of his own construction, he 

 succeeded in getting detached and ordered to 

 the Tecumseh, and had left a sick bed to be 

 present at the engagement during which he 

 lost his life. 



Aug. 6. STEDMAX, Brig. -Gen. GRIFFIX A., 

 an officer of U. S. volunteers, killed near Peters- 

 burg. He was a native of Hartford, Conn., a 

 graduate of Trinity College, and entered the 

 service in 1861, as major of the llth regiment 

 Conn. vols. On the resignation of the lieutenant- 

 colonel he was advanced to that position, and in 

 the battle of Antietam, where Col. Kingsbury, 

 the commander of the regiment, was killed, ho 

 was wounded, but not fatally. Recovering, he 

 commanded the regiment at Fredericksburg, 

 and Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. At the 

 commencement of the campaign of 1864, ho 

 was put in command of a brigade, and fought 

 through all the terrible battles of the campaign 

 in such a way as to win the frequent commen- 

 dation of his superior officers, After the ex- 

 plosion of the mine at Petersburg his brigade 

 was much exposed to the assaults of the en- 

 emy, and in one of the frequent skirmishes 

 which occurred he lost his life. His commis- 

 sion as brigadier-general did not arrive till after 

 his death, though he had been acting in that 

 capacity for several months. 



Aug. 9. FISK, Miss FIDELIA, an American 

 missionary and authoress, died at Shelburne, 

 Mass. She was formerly a teacher in the 

 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ; but in 1843 

 resigned her position there and went to Persia, 

 where she labored as a missionary for fifteen 

 years, being much of the time connected with 

 a female seminary as teacher. Owing to the 

 failure of her health she was obliged to return 

 to this country, and subsequently assisted in 

 preparing for publication "A Memorial of 

 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary," ""Woman 

 and her Saviour in Persia," and at the time of 

 her death was engaged upon " Reminiscences 

 of Miss Mary Lyon." 



Aug. 9. FRANCIS, Ex-Gov. Jonx BROWX. 

 (See FEAXCIS, Jonx BROWX.) 



Aug. 11. MoCALL, JAMES, a prominent 

 merchant of New York, died in that city of 

 rheumatism of the heart. He was a native of 

 Ireland, came to this country at an early age, 

 and entered into the mercantile trade. Upon 

 retiring from business he was elected President 

 of the Metropolitan Bank of New York, which 

 position he filled for many years. 



Aug. 11. VARIAX, ISAAC L, ex-Mayor of 

 New York City, died at his residence in Peeks- 

 kill, aged 75 years. He was a descendant of 

 the Knickerbockers, and was for near half a 

 century identified with the history of Ne\\ 

 York. 



Aug. 12. VAX DOREX, Rev. ISAAC, a distin- 

 guished teacher and clergyman of the Dutct. 

 Reformed Church, died at Perth Amboy, N. J., 

 in his 92d year. He graduated at Princeton 

 College, studied Divinity with Dr. Romaine of 

 Schenectady, and Dr. Livingstone, was licensed 

 to preach by the Collegiate Dutch Church of 

 New York, and in 1800 was settled in Hope- 

 well, Orange Co., N. Y., where he labored 

 twenty-three years. He then removed to New- 

 ark, N. J., where he was principal of the acad- 

 emy four years, from thence to Brooklyn, and 

 after establishing the Collegiate Institute in 

 that city, removed to Lexington, Ky., continu- 

 ing in the work of teaching until quite ad- 

 vanced in life. 



Aug. 13. COLLIER, Rev. JOSEPH AVERT, 

 died at Kinderhook, N. Y., aged 36 years. He 

 was a native of Plymouth, Mass., studied at the 

 Monson Academy, and graduated at Rutgers 

 College, N. J., July, 1849. The succeeding fall 

 he entered the Theological Seminary of the 

 Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick, 

 and upon the completion of his studies was or- 

 dained pastor of the churches of Bronxvillo 

 and Greenville, Westchester Co., N. Y. In the 

 spring of 1855, he accepted a call to the pastor- 

 ate of the Reformed Dutch Church of Geneva, 

 N. Y., and after a successful ministry of four 

 years resigned on account of ill health, and ac- 

 cepted a call from a church at Kingston, N. Y., 

 over which he was installed Nov. 15, 1859. 

 He was the author of " The Christian Home ; 

 or, Religion in the Family ; " " The Right Way ; 

 or, the Gospel applied to the Intercourse of In- 

 dividuals and Nations ; " " The Young Men of 

 the Bible ; " " Little Crowns and How to Win 

 Them ; " " Pleasant Paths for Little Feet ; " 

 and the "Dawn of Heaven." 



Aug. 13. WIXSLOW, Rev. HUBBARD, D. D. 

 (See WIXSLOW, HUBBARD.) 



Aug. 16. GIRARDET, VICTOR J. B., a brigadier- 

 general in the rebel array, killed in the action 

 near Richmond, Va. He was quite young, and 

 had previously to the campaign of 1864 been 

 provost-marshal of Richmond. 



Aug. 16. STREIGHT, Col. ABEL D., U. S. 

 volunteers, killed during an engagement at 

 Dalton, Ga. He was a resident of Indianapolis 

 when the war broke out, and when the call 

 was made for three years' men, raised a reg- 

 iment, of which he was made colonel, and took 

 part in the campaign which placed Kentucky 

 and Tennessee in the possession of the Union 

 armies. In 1863 he led a cavalry force on a 

 raid through Alabama, which though well con- 

 ducted was but partially successful, and re- 

 sulted in his being taken prisoner and confined 

 in Libby prison. After a long period of priva- 

 tion and suffering, he made his escape and re- 



