OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 





which tori boon bequeathed to her, and also 

 cMMtrilmtod $800 per year from her private 

 fund*. 



Jitne, 11. I'm;, ('apt. Kusnx, U. S. N., for 

 i.uval service, du-d in 

 MIL, aged 86 years. Ho was a 

 New Haven, and at thirteen years of 

 cabin-boy in a brig bound 

 ; lmlii-i. nnd continued in the mer- 

 chant II isl3, with the exception of 

 forced service on board an English 

 8 -ryiiiLT on dili'erent ships and in 

 ditler >ns, tlio year 1821 found him 



sailing-master of the line-of-battlo ship 

 Franklin, in the Pacific. Ho was on theBrandy- 

 wino when she took Gen. Lafayette to France, 

 :in<l on her cruise in the Mediterranean in 1825. 



--! he. was promoted to a lieutenancy. 



rved upon the Java, Delaware, Falmouth, 

 I)ol[hiii, and others, nnd from 1840 to 1843 

 was senior lieutenant of the New York Navy- 

 Yanl. In 1843 he was commissioned com- 

 inan-ler, and from 1852 to 1855 was in com- 

 mand of the receiving-ship North Carolina at 

 New York. In September, 1855, he was placed 

 on the reserved list with leave-pay as commander, 

 and in 1863 was promoted to captain. During 

 three years of the late war he was in command 

 of the naval rendezvous at Portsmouth, N. H. 



June 11. PORTER, WILLIAM SMITH, an editor 

 nnd teacher, died at New Haven, Conn., aged 

 67 years. He was a native of Farmington, 

 Conn., graduated at Yale College in tho class of 

 1825, and spent the following year as acting 



-;or of mathematics in Jefferson College, 

 in 1829 he completed his theological course at 



I laven, and afterward preached for a time 

 in Prospect, Conn. Ho was subsequently editor 

 of an antislavery newspaper in Boston, a 

 teacher in Monson, Mass., and a surveyor in 

 Farmington, Conn., and for the last fifteen or 

 twenty years had been engaged in mathemat- 

 ical and statistical pursuits, compiling for a 

 number of years tho " Connecticut Annual 



_>r," and other similar publications. 

 June 13. ODELL, Hon. MOSES F., a promi- 

 nent citizen of Brooklyn, N. Y., naval officer of 

 the port of New York, died at his residence in 

 Brooklyn, aged 48 years. He was a native of 

 Tarrytown, Westchester County, N. Y., received 

 a common-school education, and from a hurablo 

 clerkship in the custom-house rose to the office 

 of assistant collector of New York City, was 

 public appraiser under President Buchanan, a 

 Representative from New York to the Thirty- 



ith Congress, and reflected to the Thirty- 

 i'j-hth Congress, serving on tho Committee on 

 Military Affairs. When tho war broke out, Mr. 

 O<1. 11 warmly supported tho policy of the Gov- 

 ernment, and while in Congress voted for the 

 constitutional amendment abolishing slavery in 

 the United States. As a member of the Con- 

 gressional Oommitteo on tho Conduct of the 

 War, ho was prominently before tho public, lie 

 was a warm personal friend of 1'ro-ident Lin- 

 coln. In 1865 ho was appointed naval officer 



of tho port of New York, and held that posi- 

 tion until his death. Mr. Odcll was for many 

 years deeply interested in tho welfare and pro*- 

 pi-rity of Sabbath-schools, devoting much time 

 a:i'l influence to the work. 



June 17. Conwxo, Rev. ICIIABOD, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and antislavery lecturer of 

 great eloquence, died at Baraboo, Wis. He was 

 born in Bristol, New York, in 1811, and early 

 manifested the eloquence and zeal for reform 

 which characterized his entire life, becoming a 

 popular lecturer on temperance at the ago of 

 1 7. At the age of 20, he entered Canandaigua 

 Academy, and prepared for coHege, teaching in 

 the English department, to pay his way. He 

 entered Middlebury College in 1834, and while 

 maintaining a fair rank as a student, became so 

 much interested in the antislavery cause, that 

 in his junior year he asked and obtained per- 

 mission of the faculty to go out for a few weeks 

 and plead the cause of tho slave. His addresses, 

 though courteous in tone, were so fervid and el- 

 oquent, that they raised a violent opposition, and 

 more than once his life was in danger. The 

 college faculty, terrified by the fury of the popu- 

 lace, represented that young Codding was a 

 truant from his college duties. On his return, 

 he learned that they had made these state- 

 ments, and going before them he compelled 

 them to own their prevarication and retract the 

 censure ; and then, disgusted with their course, 

 he left the college. For the next five years ho 

 traversed the New England States and New 

 York, as the agent and lecturer of tho Ameri- 

 can Antislavery Society, thrilling tho hearts 

 of his hearers by his eloquence; and though 

 persecuted and often seriously injured by the 

 mobs, he never lost his self-command, or dis- 

 played a violent or vindictive spirit. In 1842 

 Mr. Codding removed to the West, where he 

 spent the most of his remaining life. He had 

 entered the ministry of the Congregational 

 Church, and was a pastor successively at 

 Princeton, Lockpoft, Joliet, Baraboo, Wis., 

 and Bloomington, 111.; but tho cause of the 

 slavo was ever near his heart, and his rejoicing 

 at the emancipation proclamation and the pro- 

 hibition of slavery by the constitutional amend- 

 ment was manifested by public addresses of 

 more than his usual eloquence and fervor. He 

 had in the 24 years of his residence in tho 

 West lectured in almost all parts of Illinois, 

 and was greatly admired and beloved. His 

 death was the result of acute disease. 



June 18. MERRIOK, Rev. JAMES L., a Congre- 

 gational clergyman, and former missionary to 

 Persia, died at Amherst, Mass., aged 63 years. 

 He was a native of Monson, Mass., was educated 

 at the academy in that town, graduated at 

 Amherst College in the class of 1880, studied 

 theology at Princeton, and removing South 

 for his health, was licensed to preach, and 

 ordained as an evangelist at Charleston, S. ( . 

 April, 1834. The following August he received 

 from tho American Board his instructions as 

 a missionary to the Mohammedans in Persia 



