OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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S., major U. S. A., ami adjutant-general on Gen. 



.' stall', \v;is kill.-d instantly by falling 



.rs while attempting to get on 



I ho train as it was starting t'roui Garrison's 



Station on tin- Hudson Kiver Railroad, aged 80 



years. I'ol. Rowers was a native of Illinois, a 



printer by trade, and formerly edited a Demn- 



newspaper in that State. Ho entered 



the army at tlio outbreak of the war, joining 



during the operations against Forta 



Henry and 1 >oiielson. At the battle of Shiloh 



he, was ordered on duty at Grant's headquar- 



i 'pointed aide-de-camp. In No- 



BT, isi'ii'. 1 10 was appointed major and judge- 

 fid voczite of the Army of the Tennessee, and in 

 September, 1803, was promoted to the rank of 

 UflQtenant-ookmd and assistant adjutant-gen- 

 l-'rom that time until the surrender of 

 Lee lie was Gen. Grant's chief assistant adju- 

 tant-ireiieral in the Held, and was retaLaed in the 

 position at Washington when Gen. Grant 



iishcd his headquarters there. 



rch 6. GORDON, Hon. JAMES, an emi- 

 nent lawyer and assistant judge of Washing- 

 ton County, Pa., died at Cookstown, Pa., 

 aged 84 years. He took up his residence in 

 Monongahela City as early as 1810, and at 

 once identified himself with the welfare of 

 the community. He filled various public offices 

 with credit to himself and great acceptance 

 to his constituency ; held the office of justice 

 of the peace for thirty-five years, and also 

 th;a of notary public for many years; was 



late judge of the county for five years, 

 county commissioner, county auditor, and a 

 member of the board of revenue commis- 

 sioners, representing the district at Harrisburg 

 iu its sessions for 1857. 



March 8. DALLAS, PHILIP MIFFLIK, a lawyer 

 of Philadelphia, and former Secretary of the 



ion to the American embassy of Great 

 Britain, died in Philadelphia, aged 41 years. He 

 was a son of George M. Dallas. 



March 9. FBOST, Dr. HENRY K., an eminent 

 physician and medical professor of the South 

 Carolina Medical College, died in Charleston, 

 aged 71 years. On his mother's side he- 

 was of Huguenot descent, his ancestors in this 

 country being of the family of the Rev. Francis 

 Le Jan, who lied from France after the revoca- 

 tion of the Edict of Nantes. He was educated 

 ut the academy of Dr. Moses Waddell, and soou 

 sifter graduating entered upon the study of 

 medicine in Charleston, completing his course 

 in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1816. 

 lie was then chosen resident physician of the 

 Philadelphia Almshouse. On. his return to 

 Charleston ho was elected regular physician to 

 thirra'd Dispensary. In 1852 and 1853 he com- 

 ir.eneed a course of lectures, .and in 1854, in 

 connection with other eminent medical gen- 

 tlemen, established the Medical College of South 

 Carolina. 



March !>. HAVEN, LUTHER, collector of the 

 port of Chicago, died in that city, aged 59 

 years. He was a native of Fruuiingham, Mass., 



educated in the district school, and in 1631 

 t nt< red a private academy at Ellington, ( 

 as teacher till 1834, when ho accepted tl. 

 pointinent of teacher in the English and mathe- 

 matical department of Leicester Academy, an 

 institution then ranking as one of the first of 

 its class in the United States. He filled this 

 position first as teacher, then as principal of 

 this department, till 1845. Ho then engaged 

 in mercantile pursuits in his native State. Re- 

 garding the West as furnishing a broader and 

 better field for a man of his calling, ho removed 

 to Chicago in 1849, where he resided until his 

 death. Mr. Haven soon became actively inter- 

 ; in the management of the schools of the 

 city, and to his intelligent counsel and long- 

 continued labors they are largely indebted for 

 their efficiency and excellent character. He was 

 for several years president of the board of edu- 

 cation ; and as a fitting reward for his long ser- 

 vice in that capacity, one of the largest schools 

 of the city received his name. 



March 9. TROTTER, Hon. JAMES F., one of 

 the leading judges of Mississippi, died at Holly 

 Springs. He was a Senator in Congress in 1818. 



March 11. DOCBLEDAY, Hon. ULYSSES F., 

 an eminent bookseller and member of Congress 

 from Auburn, N. Y., died at Belvidere, 111., aged 

 72 years. He was a native of the county of 

 Otsego, where, in 1809, he was apprenticed to 

 H. & E. Phinney, of whom he learned his trade. 

 In 1813 he was journeyman printer at Utica, in 

 the office of Messrs. Seward & Williams. In 

 1814 he removed to Albany, where he worked 

 for Messrs. Webster & Skinner, and where he 

 married the daughter of Capt. Thomas Don- 

 nelly, for many years Sergeant-at-Arms of the 

 House of Assembly. In 1816 he established a 

 paper at Ballston, Saratoga County, from which 

 place he removed to Auburn, editing in that 

 village for twenty years an able journal. In 

 1831 Mr. Doubleday was elected to Congress, 

 and in 1833 he was reflected. Subsequently 

 he removed to New York City, where he resided 

 until within a few years. 



March 11. OULE, WILLIAM, a gunsmith, died 

 in Syracuse, N. Y., aged 106 years. He was 

 born iu Montreal, March 3, 1760, learned the 

 trade of a gunsmith, subsequently went to what 

 is now the State of Mississippi, as an Indian 

 trader, and again returned to Montreal, where 

 he married. Business misfortunes overtook him, 

 and he emigrated to the United States. During 

 the war of 1812 ho was a soldier in our army. 

 After his discharge he went to Utica, and worked 

 at the gunmaking business for over thirty 

 years, lie was st'dl a workman at the age of 

 ninety-eight years. At the age of one hundred 

 years his hair was white, but it subsequently 

 assumed a dark-brown color. 



March 12. MOORE, Rev. MARTIX, editor of 

 the "Boston Recorder," died at Cambridge, 

 Mass., aged 76 years, lie had exercised the 

 pastoral office for nearly thirty years at Na- 

 tick, and then at Cohasset, and was for twenty 

 years editor of the '* Recorder." For the las* 



