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rard * 1828, nnd immediately went 1<> 



. \\hcre In- studied .-ix months. IIo 



t> Hallo, when- lop some time ho 



iusandTholuek. 



, returning (in 1881) to America, ho walk- 



d I t! Mil travelled in some other 



i nrope. \Vhile in (Jroeco be became 



i in tin- cause of education, and 



1 himself to raiso the necessary 



to found a college for girls at Athens, 



whirl), he .said, Americans ought to provide, in 



Meat of their portion of the debt owed to 



Greece by all modern civilized nations, lie was 



>n by Bishop Griswold, in St. 



iirch. Providence, October 12, 1882, 



and priest in the same church, November 13, 



1838. Ho assisted Bishop Griswold, at St. 



X Salem, for a short time, and spent the 

 summer of 1834 in missionary efforts in Maine, 



/illy in Augusta. He went to Illinois in 



itumn, and held missionary services there ; 

 perhaps the most interesting was held at 



Mown, in the German language, where 

 eighty emigrants received the sacrament of the 



's Supper. They were of several religions 

 denominations Lutheran, Romanist, and Re- 

 formed ; but all listened eagerly to an address 

 in their own language, and gladly received the 



ment from the missionary's hands. In 

 June, 1835, he became rector of St. Paul's 

 Church, Norwalk, Conn., and the following 

 year removed to New York, where he had charge 

 of different churches until 1841, when he went 

 t I '.upland, hoping to interest tho English 

 Church in a mission to the Turks. In 1842 he 

 returned to his native city, where he was for a 

 short time rector of Christ's Church. The fol- 

 lowing five years he devoted to missionary 

 labor throughout the State, went to England 

 and Scotland in 1848, and again in 1853 trav- 

 elled over a large portion of Europe. Subse- 

 quently he was pastor of churches in Milwau- 



.Mid in 1861 was chaplain of the Second 

 U isrnnsin regiment, to which many of his 

 parishioners belonged. Two years later ho re- 

 turned to his farm in Poughkoepsie. Ho was 

 the author of several pamphlets, among which 

 are, "A Visit to lona in 1840," published in 

 Glasgow; "A Midsummer .Day Dream," and 

 " Metacoract," the first canto of an epic poem. 

 He was also tho principal mover in tho work 

 of translating the Prayer Book into the Ger- 

 man language in 1880. 



July 21. JONES, Hon. NATHANIEL, died at 

 Newburg, N. Y. He was a member of the 

 New York Assembly in 1827 and 1828 ; a Rep- 

 resentative in Congress from 1837 to 1841 ; 



Senator in 1852 and 1853, and also held 

 tho offices of surveyor-general of tho State, and 

 canal commissioner. 



Jul n 21. Tnoitx, Hon. JAMES S., an editor 

 "f'Troy, died in that city, aged 28 years. IIo 

 <1 an excellent common-school education, 

 was for a year a student at the Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic I nstitute, afterward studied law with the 

 lion. Job Pierson, and entered on the "Troy 



Whig "as local editor in 1857. Afterward he be- 

 came a writer in tho " Budget " for a brief p 

 was a legislative correspondent of tho ''Troy 

 Times," and finally took a position as city 

 editor on that paper, which he hold nntil his 

 death, although for the last seven months of hia 

 life the duties were performed by others. He 

 was a frequent contributor to the columns of 

 other papers. He held the office of city clerk 

 of Troy for a brief period, and was elected to 

 the Legislature last winter, where his illness 

 prevented him from taking any prominent part. 



July 22. WHITE, Hon. THOMAS, formerly 

 presiding judge of one of the judicial districts 

 of Pennsylvania, died in Indiana, Pa., aged 07 

 years. He was a member of the Peace Con- 

 gress of 1861. 



July 24. MOKOAN, Brevet Brig. -Gen. GEORGE 

 N., U. S. Vols., died at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

 He was a native of New York, removed to Min- 

 nesota in 1856, and settling at St. Anthony, 

 assisted in erecting the first foundery and ma- 

 chine-shop at tho Falls. At the outbreak of 

 the war, although engaged in a prosperous 

 business, and surrounded by a young and inter- 

 esting family, to whom he was ever fondly at- 

 tached, he left all, and was among the very 

 first to join his country's defenders ; enlisting 

 in Company E of the First regiment Minnesota 

 Volunteers, he was elected captain of that com- 

 pany at the organization of the regiment. Upon 

 the resignation of Major Dike, in 1861, he was 

 promoted to that grade, and became lieutenant- 

 colonel in 1862. Immediately after tho battle 

 of Antietam he succeeded to the colonelcy of 

 the same regiment, upon the promotion of 

 Gen. Sully, and held that command until May, 

 1863, when his health failing entirely, be was 

 transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and 

 became colonel of the Second regiment of 

 that corps, which position he held until within 

 a few days of his death. Gen. Morgan partici- 

 pated with the First regiment in all its battles 

 (some fifteen in number), from Bull Run to 

 Fredericksburg, inclusive. As a soldier, he was 

 distinguished for bravery and coolness in ac- 

 tion ; as a commander, although a strict dis- 

 ciplinarian, ho was noted for his impartiality 

 and courteous bearing to those under his com- 

 mand, and for his watchful care over the inter 

 ests and welfare of his men. 



July 24. TAYLOR, Rev. FITCH W., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, senior chaplain of the U. S. 

 Navy, and an author of much merit, died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 62 years. Ho was a na- 

 tive of Middle Haddam, Conn., graduated at 

 Yale College in 1828, and was educated for tho 

 ministry, and soon after accepted a charge in 

 tho diocese of Maryland. In 1841 he received 

 tho appointment of chaplain in the U. S. Navy, 

 which ho held twenty-four years. In the course 

 of his sea service he made a voyage around the 

 world, an account of which he published under 

 the title of "The Flag-Ship." Ho also pub- 

 lished other works, and at his death left behind 

 him several volumes in manuscript 



