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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



regard for many in the South, with whom lie 

 had friendly .intercourse in happier days. 



Jan. 25. HEYEE, Eev. WILLIAM S., a clergy- 

 man of the Protestant Eeformed Dutch Church, 

 died at Newburg, N. Y., aged 68 years. He 

 was a native of New York City, graduated at 

 Columbia College in 1815, completed his theo- 

 logical course in the spring of 1821, and in 1823 

 was ordained and installed pastor of the Re- 

 formed Dutch Church of Fishkill, where he 

 remained until 1851, when ill-health compelled 

 him to resign, and soon after he removed to 

 Newburg. He was an eminent scholar and an 

 able preacher. 



Jan. 27. CEELE, JOSEPH, the oldest man in 

 America, died at Caledonia, Wisconsin, aged 

 141 years. He was born of French parents, in 

 what is now Detroit, but which was then only 

 an Indian trading-station, in 1725. The record 

 of his baptism in the French Catholic church 

 in that city establishes this fact. He was a 

 resident of Wisconsin for about a century, and 

 was first married in New Orleans in 1755, when 

 thirty years of age. A few years after his mar- 

 riage he settled at Prairie du Chien, while Wis- 

 consin was yet a province of France. Before 

 the Eevolutionary War, he was employed to 

 carry letters between Prairie du Chien and 

 Green Bay. He bore arms at Braddock's de- 

 feat, and was an old man when Jackson de- 

 feated Packenham at New Orleans. A few 

 years ago he was called as a witness in the 

 Circuit Court of Wisconsin, in a case involving 

 the title to certain real estate at Prairie du 

 Chien, to give testimony in relation to events 

 that transpired eighty years before, and many 

 years. before the birth of the litigants. For 

 some years past he had resided at Caledonia 

 with a daughter by his third wife. He was 

 sixty-nine when she was born. Up to 1864 Mr. 

 Crele was as hale and hearty as most men of 

 seventy. He could walk several miles without 

 fatigue, and was frequently in the habit of 

 "chopping" wood for the family use. The 

 only weakness of mind which he ever betrayed 

 was in the last year or two of his existence, 

 when he frequently remarked, with a startling 

 air of sadness, that he feared that perhaps 

 " death had forgotten him." 



Jan. 28. CHANDLER, Hon. THOMAS, an 

 American statesman, died at Bedford, N. H., 

 aged 93 years. He was a native of that town, 

 and educated as a farmer. In 1817 he was 

 elected State Senator, and held that office several 

 years. He was also at various times a member 

 of the lower House of five State Legislatures, 

 eommencing as early as 1821, and closing with 

 the year 1842. In addition to these civil hon- 

 ors, he was elected a Eepresentative to Con- 

 gress, in 1829 and reflected in 1831. 



Jan. 28. GEIER, WILLIAM P., surgeon United 

 States Navy, was lost by the explosion of the 

 Miami, near the mouth of the Arkansas Eiver. 

 He was a son of Justice Grier, of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, and received an 

 appointment as surgeon in the regular army in 



July, 1862, and served in the office of the as- 

 sistant surgeon-general at St. Louis. He was 

 with Pope in his Virginia campaign, and with 

 McClellan at Antietam. During 1864 and 1865 

 he was assistant medical director in the De- 

 partment of Philadelphia. The only incident 

 known of his death was that a group of officers 

 were seated around the stove on board the 

 steamer Miami, opposite Napoleon, on the Ar- 

 kansas Eiver, about eight o'clock on the evening 

 of the 28th, when the explosion occurred, an4 

 no member of the group was ever seen again. 



Jan. 29. ELMENDOEF, Eev. ANTHONY, D. D., 

 an eminent clergyman of the Eeformed Dutch 

 Church, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 53 years. 

 He was a native of Ulster County, N. Y., and 

 descended from an ancestry connected with the 

 first settlement of that region. He graduated 

 with honor at Eutgers' College, N. J., in 1836, 

 and afterward at the Theological Seminary at 

 New Brunswick. In 1839 he was licensed to 

 preach, and subsequently was pastor of the 

 churches in Hurlay and Hyde Park, and soon 

 after 1847 removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where 

 he labored with great acceptance until 1851, 

 when a new organization was formed under his 

 auspices. This new church grew rapidly, and to 

 its welfare he devoted all his energies for thir- 

 teen years, until failing health obliged^ him to 

 resign. He was an earnest worker, an able 

 preacher, and had a strong hold upon the affec- 

 tions of the community. 



Jan. . HUBBABD, W. B., an eminent law- 

 yer and millionnaire, died at Columbus, Ohio, 

 aged 71 years. He was a native of Lowville, 

 N. Y., emigrated to Ohio when a boy, and be- 

 came distinguished as a scholar, and also as a 

 financier. 



Jan. . EOMAN, ANDR BIENVEXU, ex- 

 Governor of Louisiana, died in St. James Parish, 

 La., aged nearly 71 years. He was a native of 

 the Parish of St. Landry, La., though his ances- 

 tors were originally from Provence, France. In 

 1818 he was chosen to the House of Eepresent- 

 atives, and continued to be rechosen for succes- 

 sive terms without opponent. He was elected 

 Speaker, and had served four years in that 

 place, when he resigned, on being appointed, by 

 Governor Johnson, parish judge for St. James. 

 He held the office for two years, resigning it 

 in 1828 to be returned again to the House of 

 Eepresentatives, where he was again elected 

 Speaker. In 1830 he was elected Governor of 

 the State, and entered on the duties of the office 

 iu January, 1831. By the constitution of 1812, 

 the Governor of the State was not eligible for a 

 second term. When Governor Epman retired 

 in 1835, by constitutional limitation, the two 

 Houses of the Legislature voted him thanks for 

 the manner in which he had discharged his 

 high duties, and the citizens of New Orleans 

 entertained him at a public dinner. Governor 

 Eoman was a member of the convention which 

 passed the ordinance of secession, but he was 

 among those who disapproved of the policy of 

 secession, and voted against tb& passage o f +b& 



