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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



years he was the Secretary of the Connecticut 

 Missionary Society, auxiliary to the American 

 Home Missionary Society, and for several years 

 also was chaplain of the Insane Retreat at 

 Hartford. A modest, retiring man, he was 

 greatly beloved by all who knew his worth. 



Dec. 17 MINER, Miss MYRTILLA, an Ameri- 

 can philanthropist, died in "Washington, D. 0., 

 of consumption. She established a school for 

 colored children in Washington, but was sub- 

 jected to severe persecution in consequence. 

 For many years she had devoted all her ener- 

 gies amid feeble health to the improvement 

 and elevation of the people of color in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 



Dec. 19. McCLELLAND, ALEXANDER, D. D., 



Professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature 

 in the Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, 

 N. J. ; died there in the 69th year of his age. 

 He was a native of Schenectady, N. Y., and a 

 graduate of Union College in that city. He 

 was for some years pastor of Eutgers Street 

 Presbyterian Church, New York City, and 

 while there was conspicuous among the preach- 

 ers of the city for his learning and eloquence. 

 Subsequently he held a professorship in Dick- 

 inson College, Carlisle, Pa. For the last nine- 

 teen years he had been connected with the 

 Theological Seminary at New Brunswick. 



Dec. 21. FEY, WM. HENEY. (See FEY, WM. 

 HENRY.) 



Dec. 23. KESSLER, Eev. JOHN, D. D., a dis- 

 tinguished clergyman of the German Eeformed 

 Church, died at Allentown, Pa. 



Dec. 24. Fox, JOHN LAWRENCE, M. D., Fleet- 

 Surgeon U. S. Navy, died at his residence in Eox- 

 bury, Mass., aged 54 years. He was a native of 

 Salem, Mass., graduated at Amherst College in 

 1831, and in 1837 entered the navy as assist- 

 ant-surgeon. In 1847 he received a full com- 

 mission. A few months previous to his death 

 he was appointed Fleet-Surgeon upon the staff 

 of Admiral Porter, and his death was doubt- 

 less the result of overtaxing his system by tho 

 Bevere duties of his department. 



Dec. 24. MAY, Col. CHARLES A., an officer of 

 the U. S. Army, died in New York City, aged 46 

 years. He was a native of "Washington, D. C., 

 was appointed to a second lieutenancy in tho 

 2d regiment of dragoons, in 1836, and distin- 

 guished himself in the Florida war. At the 

 beginning of the war with Mexico he joined 

 the forces under Gen. Taylor, and assumed 

 command of a squadron of his regiment. He 

 took part in the battle of Palo Alto, and was 

 breveted major for his gallantry on that occa- 

 sion ; distinguished himself at Eesaca and Buena 

 Vista, where he was promoted to a colonelcy, 

 and in 1860 resigned his commission and took 

 up his residence in New York City. For some 

 years previous to his death he held the position 

 of vice-president of the Eighth Avenue rail- 

 road. 



Dec. 24, WOOD, Hon. JOHN M., formerly 

 member of Congress from Maine, died in Bos- 

 ton, aged 49 years. He was a native of Orange 



County, N. Y., but removed to M.'iine, where 

 he was elected to the Legislature, and after- 

 wards to Congress for two terms, from 1854 to 

 1858, serving as a member of the Post Office 

 Committee. 



Dee. 25. FILLMORE, Major JOHN S., paymas- 

 ter U. S. Army, died at his residence in Denver 

 City, Colorado Territory. He was a native of 

 the State of New York; was appointed pay- 

 master by the Governor of Colorado, in Au- 

 gust, 1861, and was commissioned paymaster 

 in the U. S. Army by the President, in No- 

 vember, 1862. 



Dec. 25. NOYES, WILLIAM CURTIS. (See 

 NOYES, WILLIAM CURTIS.) 



Dec. 25. WALLACK, JAMES W. (See WAL- 

 LACE, JAMES W.) 



Dec. 27. COOKE, Hon. ELEUTHEROS, died at 

 his residence in Sandusky, Ohio, aged 77 years. 

 lie was born in Granville, N. Y., in 1787, the 

 year in which the Constitution of the United 

 States was framed by the General Convention, 

 and his name was given in commemoration of 

 that event. For nearly half a century Mr. 

 Cooke had identified himself with numerous 

 public enterprises and works of internal im- 

 provement, having for their object the devel- 

 opment of the resources of the State of Ohio. 

 He was the pioneer of railroad enterprise in 

 the West, having been the originator and pro- 

 jector in the construction and early operation 

 of the Mad Eiver Eailroad, now the Sandusky, 

 Dayton, and Cincinnati Eailroad. Mr. Cooke 

 had served, at different times, and for many 

 terms, in both branches of the Legislature of the 

 State, and as a member of the Congress of tho 

 United States discharged his duties with faith- 

 fulness and acceptance to his constituents. As 

 a lawyer and advocate he had few equals, and 

 no superiors, in Ohio. He was father of Jay 

 Cooke, the Government banker. 



Dec. 28. OETON, Eev. AZARIAH G. D.D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and theologian, died 

 at Lisle, Broome County, N. Y., aged 75 years. 

 He was a native of Tyringham, Mass. ; studied 

 at Lenox Academy, and graduated with the 

 highest honors at Williams' College in 1813. 

 In 1817 he entered the Theological Seminary 

 at Princeton, and upon completing his course 

 was commissioned by the Assembly's Board of 

 Missions "to -preach to destitute places in 

 Georgia." He was ordained in 1822, and from 

 that time until 1835 was pastor of the Presby- 

 terian Church at Seneca Falls, N. Y. Subse- 

 quently he preached at Lisle, N. Y., and from 

 1838 to 1852 in the Congregational Church at 

 Greene, N. Y., and again at Lisle until 1860, 

 having held the pastoral office for thirty-eight 

 years. In 1838 he published a reply to Prof. 

 Stuart on the Constitution in its relation to 

 slavery. In 1842 he prepared the Memorial of 

 Chenango County to the Senate, praying that 

 the O'Sullivan bill for the abolition of capital 

 punishment might not pass, by the timely re- 

 ception of which the final passage of the bill 

 was prevented. He was also the author of ar 



