OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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.rn the trade of tanner and cur- 

 ! ut littk- beyond the 

 iviuiwk-dgi- <>f r iii- 1 1 ii jister prov- 



ing u li-il him at the ago of six- 



..iih scarcely a change of clothing, 

 arrived in Albany, with the determination of 

 A i'tcr spending three years 

 re, he entered into business for 

 ..' iq.nu his small savings of two hundred 

 dollar-, ;::.d \\ : :ul, until the sudden 



i of the war of 1812 found him over- 

 as and sugars bought at high 

 . ami compelled him to stop payment, lie 

 r. with his creditors, and 

 years to tho full dis- 

 < of his compromise debts. Subsequently 

 ;il into the livery business, and was greatly 

 In 1823 ho was elected scrgeant-at- 

 anns of the Assembly, and the next year to the 

 office in the Senate, and subsequently 

 door-keeper to tho same body, which duty he 

 : until tho memorable political cam- 

 . of 1840,when ho was displaced. In 1842 

 .is appointed by President Tyler postmas- 

 ter at Albany, and served in that office through 

 tho administration of Mr. Polk, and until re- 

 1 by Gen. Taylor. During the most of 

 that period this position was one of peculiar 

 importance and respon.-ibility, Albany being a 

 large distributing and collecting office, and his 

 judgment, discretion, and fidelity were impli- 

 citly relied on, not only in the ordinary manage- 

 ment of the office, but in the performance of 

 :ctions not strictly official requirements, 

 involving the collection and custody of con- 

 siderable sums of money, but for which he 

 neither sought nor received commission or emol- 

 ument. In 1850 he associated Jiimself with Mr. 

 John Butterfield, in the express organizations 

 which have since grown into colossal propor- 

 tions, and was prominent in the recent consoli- 

 dation of the great companies, to which his fore- 

 cast and judgment gave an impetus. He was 

 one of the founders of the Albany Orphan Asy- 

 lum, and for several years, and at his death, its 

 president. 



M<iy 15. BASTIXE, MART Axx, tho oldest in- 

 habitant of New York, died there, aged 118 



'May 17. CLAPP, Rev. TIIEOUOKE, a Unitarian 

 clergyman, died in Louisville, Ivy., aged 71 

 . lie was a native of Easthampton, Mass., 

 graduated at Yale College in 1814, studied the- 

 ology at Andover, and in 1822 became pastor 

 of the First Presbyterian Church in New Or- 

 leans. In 1834, having adopted Unitarian views, 

 his conuection with the Presbyterian Church 

 was dissolved. In 1858 he published a volume, 

 ' Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections 

 of a Thirty -five Years' Residence in New Or- 

 leans/' 



May 18. BACON, lion. DANIEL S., judge of 

 probate for Monroe County, Mich., died in Mon- 

 roe, aged 68 years. lie was a native of Onon- 

 (Amnty, N. Y. At the age of twenty- 

 tour he became a resident of Michigan, then a 



Territory, and was among ita earliest settlers. 

 At the time of his death he had been a resident 

 of Monroe forty-four years. Daring this ex- 

 tended period ho had been intrusted with im- 

 portant and responsible offices, both in Church 

 and State. He was an influential member of 

 tho Legislative Council of the Territory of Michi- 

 gan, afterward a member of the State Legisla- 

 ture, one of the judges of the county court, and 

 for some years judge of probate for Monroe 

 County, and for the last ten years a ruling elder 

 in tho Presbyterian Church. All these offices 

 ho filled with faithfulness and integrity, and to 

 the satisfaction of the entire community. 



May 19. PIGGOT, JOSEPH, an old and emi- 

 nent citizen of .New York, died there, aged 87 

 years. He was a native of New York, and in 

 1825 was a member of the Legislature, being 

 prominently identified with the old Democratic 

 party. In later years he was an ardent "Whig 

 of the school of Henry Clay. For many years 

 ho was actively engaged in the old Public 

 School Society. He was the father of nineteen 

 children, but three of whom survive him. 



May 20. COOK, LEMUEL, a Revolutionary 

 soldier, died at Clarendon, Orleans County, 

 N. Y., aged 102 years. He was a native of 

 Plymouth, Vt., entered the army at the age of 

 seventeen, was present at the surrender of Corn- 

 wallis at Yorktown, and took an honorable 

 discharge at the close of the war, signed by 

 Gen. "Washington. He removed to Western 

 New York about thirty years ago, and led an 

 active life until past his hundredth year. 



May 22. GEIFFHT, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, a 

 prominent Republican politician of Massa- 

 chusetts, died near Boston, aged 40 years. He 

 was a native of Londonderry, N. H., studied 

 law, and in the practice of his profession was 

 eminently successful. He exercised a great in- 

 fluence over the Legislature of Massachusetts. 

 Spurning expediency in politics, he advocated 

 the right at whatever cost, whether its adher- 

 ents were in the minority or majority. 



May 29. Cox, Dr. HENEY G., an eminent 

 New York physician, died in that city, of paral- 

 ysis, aged 47. He was a native of Bermuda, 

 received a thorough English and classical edu- 

 cation, and was elected to the Legislature of the 

 islands. At the age of twenty-six he came to 

 New York to pursue the study of medicine. 

 Placing himself under the guidance of Dr. 

 Cheeseman, he graduated in 1849 at the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, and was immedi- 

 ately appointed house physician at Bellevue 

 Hospital, and subsequently to a position on tho 

 medical staff at the Quarantine Hospital, Staten 

 Island. About 1860 ho settled in private prac- 

 tice in the city, and was physician to the State 

 Hospital at Ward's Island. This office he Held for 

 many years, with great credit to himself and with 

 equal efficiency and benefit to tho institution, and 

 only left it to attend more closely to the private 



K-actico that had been growing up for him, 

 o was never forgotten by the commissioners 

 in charge of the hospitals ; and lately, whan a 



