OBITUARIES, UNITED STATIC. 



was a native <> ;-anby, Conn., studied 



Hartford, and, removing to Now York, 



dry goods Importing and job* 



bitiff business. Simv 1*12 lie has been in the 



basinew. 



. I.",. -Si> . HII:\M F., an emi- 



nent physician, died nt St. Albans, Vt., aged 40 

 i at tho University of 

 fill practitioner, and had 

 fro'iiu-mly ivpivs-ntcd his town and county in 

 the Stato Legislature; was president of the Ver- 

 Medieid Society, and Commissioner for 

 tho Ii 



-CnoATE, RUFUS, Capt. U. 8. Vols., 

 1 reliefer. Ma--., aired 32 years. Ho 

 was a son of the late lion. Rufus Ohoate, was 

 in Saloin, Mass., graduated at Amherst 

 i, was admitted to tho bar in 

 u, 1858, and in 1861 entered the volun- 

 teer service as second lieutenant Massachusetts 

 volunteers. Ho took part in the prominent 

 battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, and 

 Antietam, and for good conduct was promoted 

 to a captaincy, but in 1862 was obliged to re- 

 sign on account of ill-health. 



Jan. 18. DAVIS, Hon. JOHN G., member of 

 Congress from Indiana, died at Terre Haute, 

 aged 55 years. He was a native of Fleming 

 County, Ky., but removed with his parents to 

 Indiana when yet a boy. Before attaining his 

 majority he was elected sheriff of his adopted 

 county, and afterward clerk, which office ho 

 hold twenty-one years. In 1850 ho was elected 

 to Congress, in which body he served four 

 years with more than ordinary distinction. 



Jan. 20. MORGAN, Col. CHRISTOPHER A., In- 

 spector-General of the Department of Missouri, 

 died of asphyxia, from the escape of gas from a 

 coal-stove in his room at St. Louis. He entered 

 tho service as captain in the Thirty-ninth Ohio 

 Vols., and in August, 1861, was attached to 

 the staff of Maj.-Gen. Pope. Since June 30, 

 1862, lie was an additional aide-do-camp, with 

 the rank of colonel, and being from time to 

 time assigned to varied and important positions, 

 fulfilled tho trusts reposed in him with rare 

 fhlolity and ability. 



Jan. 20. OTTOLENGIN, Mrs. HELEN ROSALIE 

 RODRIGUEZ, a Southern authoress and periodical 

 writer of much merit, died in Charleston, S. 0., 

 aged 23 years. 



Jan. 23. COOLTDGE, Brevet Lieut.-Col. RICH- 

 ARD II., surgeon U. S. A., and medical director 

 of tho Department of North Carolina, died at 

 Raleigh, N. C., aged abont 60 years. He was 

 a native of Now York, and was appointed assist- 

 ant-surgeon from that Stato in 1841. He was 

 a man of tho'rongh loyalty and patriotism, and 

 of superior abilities, both as a surgeon and a 

 medical writer. Ho was a son-in-law of Com- 

 modore Moms. 



J"/i. 2:;. HAWLET, CHARLES, an eminent 

 lawyer of Connecticut, died at Stamford, Conn., 

 aged 7-1 years. He was born at Monroe, Conn., 

 graduated at Yale College, in the class of 1813, 

 itndied law at Ncwtown and Litchfield. and in 



1810 commenced tho practice of his profession 

 in Stamford, continuing it with marked BOC- 

 til his death. He served repeatedly in 



both branches of tho State Legislature, was one 

 of the presidential electors in 1829, and in 1887 

 was elected Lieutenant-Goveruor. 



Jan. 23. THOMPSON, Hon. OSWALD, an emi- 

 nent jurist, presiding judge of the Court of 

 Common Pfeas, died of apoplexy in Philadel- 

 phia, aged 57 years. He was a native of Phila- 

 delphia, graduated at Princeton College in 1828, 

 studied law under the direction of Hon. Joseph 

 R. Ingersoll, and was admitted to the bar March 

 27, 1832. In December, 1851, Le was made 

 presiding judge of the Conrt of Common Pleas 

 of tho County of Philadelphia. To this high 

 and important position he brought every re- 

 quisite qualification. He was ample in learning, 

 penetrating, and full of resource in grappling 

 with difficult cases, but very cautious, fearing 

 to err. His integrity was pure and unswerv- 

 ing, his love of justice surpassing his pride of 

 opinion, and his devotion to the arduous duties 

 of his position so untiring, that in all proba- 

 bility his life was a sacrifice thereto. Judiro 

 Thompson was elected a member of the l\\<- 

 torical Society, was a trustee of the General 

 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, a member of tho 

 American Philosophical Society, and received 

 the degree of LL. D. from Jefferson College. 



Jan. 24. BOORMAN, JAMES, an eminent New 

 York merchant and philanthropist, died in that 

 city, aged 83 years. He was a native of Kent 

 County, England, but came to this country with 

 his parents when about twelve years of age. 

 He was first apprenticed to Mr. Divie Bethune, 

 and subsequently entered into partnership with 

 him in 1805. This connection was afterward 

 dissolved, and Mr. Boorman, in connection with 

 John Johnson, formed the well-known firm of 

 Boorman and Johnson, for many years one of 

 tho most prominent und influential firms in 

 New York City. For many years they almost 

 entirely controlled the Dundee trade, and their 

 subsequent transactions in Swedish iron and 

 Virginia tobacco were well known. Mr. Boor- 

 man was one of the pioneers and prime movers 

 in tho construction of the Hudson River Rail- 

 road, and was for many years its president. 

 Ho was also one of tho founders of the Bank 

 of Commerce, and his name stands first in the 

 list of tho first board of directors of that in- 

 stitution. Retiring in 1855 from the immediate 

 cares of business, he did not lose his interest in 

 the public good, but continued, and perhaps 

 increased, his large and always unostentatious 

 benefactions. The Institution for tho Blind, 

 the Protestant Half Orphan Asylum, the South- 

 ern Aid Society, and the Union Theological 

 Seminary were among the recipients of his 

 bounty. Ho was also a liberal supporter of the 

 Church, and of most of the causes peculiarly IKT 

 own; and in the recent dark hours of his 

 country's trial he was resolute in maintaining 

 her cause, and this while cherishing a warm 



