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Glens Falls, X. Y., which charge he resigned 

 in 1837, and accepted a call to the First United 

 Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, Washing- 

 ton County, N. Y., which he resigned in 1843, 

 and has had no regular charge since. He was 

 principal of Cambridge "Washington Academy 

 from July, 1843, to 1848. In 1857 he donated 

 his valuable mineralogical and geological collec- 

 tion to Andover Theological Seminary, where 

 he arranged it in suitable apartments provided 

 by the trustees, and to which they awarded the 

 title of " The Newton Cabinet." In 1863 he 

 presented to Middlebury College his library, 

 where it is arranged in an alcove bearing his 

 name. He was a consistent and earnest labor- 

 er in the interests of education and progress, a 

 patient and persevering investigator in natural 

 science ever ready to give agricultural inter- 

 ests, and the mechanical arts, the benefit of his 

 scientific research and observation, seeking to 

 promote and ennoble labor in all its varied de- 

 partments, and harmonize it with Christian and 

 civil duties. 



Oct. 27. CAHILL, Rev. D. W., D. D., an Irish 

 Roman Catholic clergyman and orator, died in 

 Boston, Mass., aged about 65 years. He had 

 attained a high reputation in this country as a 

 lecturer on astronomy, chemistry, and other 

 subjects. 



Oct. 27. DEABING, Brig.-Gen. , an 



olficer in the Confederate service, killed near 

 Petersburg, Va. 



Oct. 27. KIDDOO, Col. , an officer of 



U. S. volunteers, died from wounds received in 

 battle near Richmond. He was in command 

 of the 22d regiment U. S. colored troops. 



Oct. 28. GBEENLEAF, BENJAMIN, a teacher 

 and author, died in Bradford, Mass., aged 78 

 years. He graduated at Dartmouth College in. 

 1811. From 1820 to 1850 he was Principal of 

 Bradford Academy, where he fitted thousands 

 of young men for college. He was widely 

 known as the author of a series of mathemati- 

 cal works, among which are "Mental Arith- 

 metic for Beginners," Boston, 1845, '46, '51 ; 

 " Mental Arithmetic for Schools," Boston, 1858, 

 '59, '60, '61; ditto for "Primary Schools," 

 1860; "National Arithmetic," Boston, 1835, 

 '47, '55, '60, with Key ; "Elements of Algebra," 

 Boston, 1862 ; " Practical Treatise on Algebra," 

 Boston, 1853, '54, '55, '60; "Elements of 

 Geometry," Boston, 1860 ; " Elements of 

 Geometry and Trigonometry," Boston. 



Oct. 29. RANSOM, Brig.-Gen. T. E. G. (See 

 RANSOM, T. E. G.) 



Oct. 29. ADAMS, Rev. SAMUEL W., a clergy- 

 man of the Baptist Church, died in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, aged 49 years. He was born in Vernon, 

 Oneida County, N". Y., graduated at Hamilton 

 College, Clinton, N. Y., and at the Theological 

 Seminary, Hamilton, N. Y., was pastor of the 

 church in Vernon three years, and in 1846 re- 

 moved to Cleveland and entered upon the pas- 

 toral relation which he held until his death. 



Oct. 29. PATE, Col. HENEY CLAY, an officer 

 n the Confederate service, killed during the 



engagement between Gens. Sheridan and Stu- 

 art's cavalry near Richmond, aged about 33 

 years. He was a native of Western Virginia, 

 and was a speaker and writer of some distinc- 

 tion. He attained an unenviable notoriety as a 

 " border ruffian " leader in the Kansas troubles 

 of 1855-'58. On the breaking out of the war 

 he raised a battalion of cavalry in Richmond, 

 which was soon merged in the 5th Virginia 

 cavalry, and being promoted to the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel, served through the principal 

 battles in Virginia. He had but recently been 

 made colonel. 



Oct. 31. HUNTINGTON, Rev. DANIEL, a cler- 

 gyman of the Congregational Church, died at 

 Hadley, Mass., aged 90 years. He was born in 

 Lebanon, Conn., graduated at Yale College, 

 the first scholar in the class of 1794, and was 

 for some years a tutor both at Yale and Wil- 

 liams' Colleges. He was the predecessor of 

 Rev. Dr. Beecher as pastor of the church in 

 Litchfield, and afterwards had charge of a par- 

 ish in Middletown, Conn. In 1816 he removed 

 to Hadley, Mass., where he continued to reside 

 until his death. He was the father of Rev. F. 

 D. Huntington, D. D. 



Oct. 31. WINANS, Rev. B. F., a clergyman of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and presiding 

 elder of the Indianapolis district of that society, 

 was killed by a railroad accident near Lafayette, 

 Indiana, while acting as agent of the Sanitary 

 Commission. 



Not. 1. CHASE, Rev. IEAH, D. D. (See 

 CHASE, IEAH, D. D.) 



Nov. 1. THOMPSON, R. H., M. D., formerly 

 Health Officer of the port of New York, died in 

 Brooklyn, L. I., aged 47 years. He was a na- 

 tive of Rensselaer County, N. Y., practiced 

 medicine in Albany for ten years, and removed 

 to Staten Island in 1855, having received the 

 appointment of Health Officer. During the 

 Quarantine riots in 1858 his house, with all its 

 contents, was burned by the rioters. Soon 

 after he removed to Brooklyn and interested 

 himself in various measures of public improve- 

 ment, becoming President of the Brooklyn Cen- 

 tral and Jamaica Railroad, Park Commissioner, 

 and, in 1863, Quarantine Commissioner. To 

 his skill as a physician, and his executive talent, 

 the port of New York is largely indebted for 

 its present immunity from the epidemics inci- 

 dent to emigration and foreign commerce. 



Nov. 2. SWAN, Hon. WILLIAM D., a teacher 

 and author, died at his residence in Dorchester, 

 Mass. He was the author of a series of Spellers 

 and Readers for the use of schools. 



Nov. 2. TAIXMADGE, Hon. N. P. (Sec TALL- 

 MADGE, N. P.) 



Nov. 2. WHITLOCK, Rev. G. C., LL.D., 

 died in Albia, Iowa. He was for several years 

 a teacher in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at 

 Lima, N. Y., and more recently had been Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Science in Victoria College, 

 Coburg, Canada. 



Nov. 3. MAXWELL, Hon. THOMAS, was acci- 

 dentally killed on the railroad at Ehrira. X. Y., 



