OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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-:i, iu-adqiiurteM were established in 

 ;i.l Lieutenant Van Burcn was trans- 

 , h i':i, 1SH2) to Gen. Burnside's 

 i H* jn.L'o-advocnto of tho de- 

 partment. On Juno 4th ho was ordered to 

 lie Military Governor of North Oaro- 

 linii i ', Im had just in-rived, nnd who 



had applied for his services. He acted as mili- 

 iv. Stanley until Gen. Burn- 

 Carolina, "While in this posi- 

 timi ho received his commission of aide-de- 

 \\itli the rank of major. He was on 

 e and constant duty during tho East Ten- 

 nessee campaign, and in the spring of 1804 his 

 corps was ordered to New York to recruit, and 

 \ urd was transferred to Virginia, joining 

 rniies operating against Richmond. Here 

 lie won himself much honor, and passing 

 through tho usual promotions was made brevet 

 -general, and ordered to duty on the staff 

 ii. Parke, commanding the district of New 

 York, and while in the discharge of his duties 

 was laid aside by the sickness which eventually 

 terminated his life. 



April 14. STONE, REV. COBNELICS, a clergy- 

 man of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at 

 Jay, Maine, aged 49 years. Ho left the ministry 

 on account of failing health, and was subse- 

 quently a member of the State Senate. 

 April 15. TUTTLE, REV. SAMCEL L., a Pres- 

 'an clergyman, and assistant secretary of 

 tho American Bible Society, died at Madison, 

 X. J. He was a graduate of Princeton College 

 in 1836, of the Theological Seminary in 1840, 

 was licensed and settled hi Caldwell the same 

 yeiir ; in 1848 was chosen agent of the American 

 JJililo Society for Connecticut; in 1851 was set- 

 tled in Madison as pastor of the Presbyterian 

 church, and in 1863 was chosen assistant sec- 

 retary of the American Bible Society. 



J//rtH7. NYE, Capt. EZRA, formerly com- 

 mander of the ''Pacific," and other steamers of 

 ollins line, died in Newark, N. J., aged 

 08 years. Ho was a native of Massachusetts, 

 nnd for a long time captain of tho packet-ship 

 M Independence," celebrated for her short pas- 

 sagos between Liverpool and New York. 

 April 21. THOMPSON, Hon. LUOAS P., judge 

 prerae Court of Appeals of Virginia, died 

 . unton, Va. He was a jurist of considerable 

 ability, and had been judge of the eleventh Cir- 

 cuit Court from 1856 to 1864, when he was 

 d to tho judgeship of the third section of 

 tho Court of Appeals. 



April 22. WA.BBINER, Rev. FRANCIS, a Con- 

 uonal clergyman and author, died at Ches- 

 1 lass., aged 61 years. He was a native of 

 Springfield, graduated at Amherst College in 

 . and the following year became teacher of 

 .ipmen in mathematics and navigation on 

 tho frigato Potomac, which, in 1881-'84, was 

 ono of a squadron sent to the islands of tho 

 Indian Archipelago to protect American com- 

 merce. An account of this expedition, Mr. W. 

 published on his return, in a volume entitled 

 k Tho Cruise of tho Potomac," a very interest- 



ing book. Having studied theology at New 

 Haven and New York, he was ordained over 

 the Congregational Church in Chester in Octo- 

 ber, 1841. Dismissed after a pastorate of ten 

 years, he preached as stated supply, and subse- 

 quently as settled pastor, in Waterford, Yt.. 

 from 1848 to 1859. Then leaving that place on 

 account of the severity of the climate, he re- 

 turned to Chester, and became the pastor of 

 the church of his first charge, until compelled 

 by feeble health to resign in August, 1805. A- 

 a writer he was clear, vigorous, and often elo- 

 quent, and as a pastor successful. 



April 23. Ewixo, WILLIAM BELFOBD, M. D., 

 an eminent physician of New Jersey, died at 

 Greenwich, N. J., aged 90 years. He graduated 

 at Princeton in 1794, studied medicine at Tren- 

 ton, under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Bell- 

 ville, one of the most distinguished physicians 

 of the State, and commenced the practice 

 of his profession in the Island of St. Croix, in 

 which place ho continued two years. He then 

 settled in Greenwich, N. J., the place of his na- 

 tivity, where he continued actively engaged as 

 a physician for twenty-eight years, when he 

 retired from its duties. He was president of 

 the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1823, and, 

 at tho time of his death, probably the oldest of 

 the Fellows of that venerable society. He was 

 for many years presiding judge of the county 

 courts, ten years a member of the State Legis- 

 lature, and a member of the convention which 

 framed the constitution of New Jersey hi 1841. 



April 26. ADAMS, Rev. Jomr R., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, died at Northampton, 

 Mass., aged 64 years. He was a native of 

 Plainfield, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 

 the class of 1821, taught three years in Phillips's 

 Academy, Andover, and graduated at the Theo- 

 logical Seminary there in 1826. The interval 

 between 1826 and 1831, when he was settled as 

 pastor over the Congregational Church, in Lon- 

 donderry, N. H., was occupied in teaching and 

 in missionary labor in "Western New York. He 

 remained in Londonderry five years, and after- 

 ward preached for two years in Great Falls, 

 N. II. His second settlement, in 1847, was in 

 Brighton, Mass., where he also remained five 

 years. He was subsequently for fourteen years, 

 from 1847 to 1861, pastor of the Congregational 

 Church in Gorham, Me. In June, 1861, he was 

 appointed chaplain of tho 6th Maine Regiment, 

 and was present at most of the battles of tho 

 Potomac Army, from the first Bull Run battle 

 on. When the term of service of his own regi- 

 ment expired, he became chaplain of the 121st 

 New York, another regiment in the same bri- 

 gade, and remained in service until its discharge, 

 July, 18G5. The value of his army services was 

 siu'h as to receive a public acknowledgment 

 from the Governor of Maine and from general 

 officers. On his return home, he was employed 

 in the work of the Maine Missionary Society, in 

 the western part of that State. The disease 

 which occasioned his death was acute inflamma- 

 tion of the brain, and was attributed by his phjr 



