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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



arrived at Tabreez, October, 1835, and after 

 two years of labor and exploration, joined the 

 Nestorian Mission at Oroomiah, where he 

 remained till June, 1845. Returning home 

 to this country, upon the abandonment by the 

 American Board of all direct labors among 

 the Mohammedans, he was installed pastor of 

 the Congregational Church in South Amherst, 

 in 1849, where he labored fifteen years. Dur- 

 ing the late war he gave a bounty from his own 

 purse to every soldier who enlisted in his own 

 parish, and at his death bequeathed his entire 

 property to the four institutions in which he re- 

 ceived his classical and theological education, 

 to be appropriated to four Persian scholarships. 



June 21. MARGUERITTES, Madame JULIE DE, 

 or Mrs. RE A, an authoress, and dramatic and 

 musical critic, died in Philadelphia, aged 52 

 years. She was a native of London, England, 

 and daughter of Dr. A. B. Granville, F. R. S., an 

 . eminent medical practitioner and author. Julie, 

 at an early age, married Baron de Marguerittes, 

 a Frenchman of unquestionable station and 

 character. The baron being wealthy and of 

 a somewhat roving disposition, devoted many 

 years to travel, and, in company with his wife, 

 visited every European capital, and the various 

 localities made famous in prose or poetry. Her 

 wonderful familiarity with European affairs and 

 its interesting scenes is thus accounted for. 

 The revolution of 1848 found the baron in Paris, 

 and, having taken sides with the unsuccessful 

 party, he was compelled to leave France, and 

 take an asylum in the United States. Very 

 soon after their arrival in this country, she 

 became a contributor to' the New York " Sun- 

 day Courier," writing the " Ins and Outs of 

 Paris," a work which was afterward published 

 in book-form, and met with a rapid sale. 

 About 1856, immediately after the death of 

 her husband, she removed to Philadelphia, and 

 became connected with the " Sunday Transcript," 

 and remained attached to that paper up to 

 the time of her death, in the capacity of 

 dramatic critic, and as a contributor of "Pa- 

 risian Pickings," and other admirable papers. 

 After the death of Baron de Marguerittes, she 

 married George G. Foster, who died in 1850. 

 He is well known in connection with the light 

 literature of the country. She was afterward 

 married to Samuel J. Rea, a well-known at- 

 tache of the Philadelphia press. Madame Mar- 

 guerittes was one of the most voluminous 

 writers in the country. By the indefatigable 

 use of her pen, she not only supported her 

 children, but educated them with great care 

 and expense. 



June 22. EISENUTH, BERNARD, the oldest 

 man in Pennsylvania, died at Newcastle, Schuyl- 

 kill County, aged 111 years. Until 105 years 

 of age, he worked regularly in the field. 



June 24. BAERETT, Rev. SAMUEL, D. D., a 

 Unitarian clergyman, of Boston, died in Rox- 

 oury, Mass., aged 70 years. Ho was a native 

 of Royalston, in that Sfeate, was educated at 

 Wilton, N. H., graduated at Harvard College, 



in 1818, and subsequently at the Theological 

 School at Cambridge. In 1825 he became 

 pastor of the Twelfth Congregational Society, 

 and for a time edited the " Christian Register." 

 In 1850 he went to Europe for a few months, 

 and in 1860 retired from the pastorate, since 

 which time he has resided in Roxbury. The 

 degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by 

 Harvard College in 1847. 



June 24. KENNARD, Rev. JOSEPH H., D. D., 

 an eminent Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, 

 died there, aged about 70 years. He was an 

 eminent divine, and had been a pastor in that 

 city for forty years. 



June . COOKE, JOHN II., a brigadier-gen- 

 eral in the war of 1812, died in Richmond, 

 Va., aged 86 years. He was a successful far- 

 mer, and-a vigorous agricultural writer. 



July 1. AVERT, Hon. EDWARD, died at 

 "Wooster, Ohio, aged 76 years. He studied at 

 Fairfield, Conn., graduated at Yale College in the 

 class of 1810, studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar of Connecticut. In 1816, he visited 

 England, and in the following year removed 

 to Wooster, Ohio, where he continued the 

 practice of his profession until his death. He 

 was for two years a member of the State Sen- 

 ate, and in 1847 was elected a judge of the 

 Supreme Court of Ohio, his term expiring in 

 1851. 



July 2. PARHAM, Col. WILLIAM ALT.ES, a 

 Confederate officer, died at Warrenton, N. C. He 

 entered the service of the Southern army as first 

 lieutenant of the Sussex Sharpshooters, was 

 afterward provost marshal of Norwalk, and 

 subsequently participated in all the battles of 

 the army of Virginia up to May, 1863 ; was se- 

 verely wounded at Malvern Hill, and never fully 

 recovered his health, though having a part in 

 several subsequent engagements. 



July 6. BRUCE, GEORGE, one of the earliest 

 and most eminent type-founders in the United 

 States, died in New York, aged 85 years. He 

 was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26, 1781, 

 and emigrated to the United States, where his 

 brother David had preceded him, in June, 1795. 

 He first attempted to learn the trade of a book- 

 binder, but his master being tyrannical and ex- 

 acting, he left him, and by his brother's per- 

 suasion apprenticed himself to Thomas Dobson, 

 printer, in Philadelphia. In 1798 the destruc- 

 tion of Dobson's office by fire, and the preva- 

 lence of the yellow fever, drove the brothers 

 from Philadelphia. George had the yellow 

 fever at Amboy, but recovered through hia 

 brother's care, and the two went to Albany, 

 and obtained employment there, but after a few 

 months returned to New York. In 1803 young 

 Bruce was foreman and a contributor to the 

 "Daily Advertiser," and in November of that 

 year printer and publisher of that paper for the 

 proprietor. In 1806 the two brothers David 

 and George opened a book printing-office at the 

 corner of Pearl Street and Coffee-House Slip. 

 "Lavoisier's Chemistry" was the first work 

 printed by them, and aU the labor was performed 



