OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



573 



1:1 as n inar- 

 f his country. 



died 



lie U;i< !l 



1 lamp-hire, and was elected a 

 iiivc from New York to the Thlrty- 

 :i^ns rlmirinan of the Com- 

 mit: >iiitnre. 



v '.gor JOSEPH, a wcll- 

 :i dv.arf. 'MIKIII, Me., aged 61 



. Ho was 36 inches nigh, ami \vcighcd45 



. WII.UAM I*., an artist and 



poet of Cincinnati, died in that city. He was 

 a man of culture and varied information, and 



under various cognomens, the most pop- 

 ular K-inir " V:mdyko Brown." He was the 

 the " Harp of a Thousand Strings." 

 of his paintings rank high in artistic 

 merit. 



. !'. VITI, VITO, a prominent Italian 



tant of Philadelphia, died in that city, 



^0 years. lie came to the United States 

 in 1815, and settled at Alexandria, Va., where 



- engaged as an importer of Italian niar- 



d fancy goods. Subsequently ho removed 

 to Philadelphia, and was soon established in a 

 thriving bushir 



'. 10. TRACY, Major WILLIAM R., police 



;~>ioner of Chattanooga, Tenn., died there 

 in the '27th year of his age. He was a native 



\ eland, Ohio, and a graduate of Yale Col- 

 In't'-Ti: tlio commencement of the war ho 



to Tennessee, and soon after was major 

 in the First Tennessee Cavalry. 



-. 10. WILLABD, CHARLES T., a skilful 

 photographer of Philadelphia, was accidentally 

 killed there. He was the inventor of the sys- 

 tem of ciphers for telegraphing, used by the 

 'mnent during the war. 



. 11. GROSVENOR, Rev. DAVID AI>AMS, 



'urn clergyman, and founder of sev- 



r.-d female seminaries of distinction, died at 



Cincinnati. Ohio, aged 64 years. Ho was a 



native of Vermont, studied at Phillips's Acad- 



md graduated r.t Yale College in the class 

 of 1826, having been hindered in the prose- 

 cut ion of his studies by a temporary failure of 

 his eyi^. After graduating, he spent one rear 

 at Ellington, Conn., as principal of the iii.L'h 

 school, and subsequently studied theology at 

 New Haven ; was licensed to preacli in 1829, 

 and commenced his labors in the ministry at 

 Pomfret, Conn. In August, 1881, ho went to 

 1'xbridge, Mass., and in Juno following was in- 

 stalled over the First Evanp 'ical Society of 

 that place, as colleague pastor to the Rev. 

 Samuel .ludson, whose funeral services he 



hed and published under the title "The 

 Heliever Victorious." After eleven years his 

 connection with tlie church in Uxbridge \vas 

 Jis-nlved in the summer of 1842. Accepting 

 an invitation from the First Presby: 

 rimn-li of Klyria, Lorain County, Ohio,' he re- 

 moved thither, and commenced his ministry 

 there in October of the same year, and was in- 



stalled in February following. IIi> ministry in 

 K.Uri.i continued for about ten year?, and was 

 terminated by a season of illness, vhi 

 dered him unable to preach for one yea: 

 ntuinn of 1853 he took charge of th- 

 Congregational Church of Medina, where ho 

 continued for about nine years. After his pas- 

 toral work in Medina ceased, ho prosecuted an 

 y for many months in aid of the Lake Erie 

 Female Seminarj', of which he had been from 

 its commencement an active trustee, and greatly 

 assisted in securing its endowment Few min- 

 isters have done more to promote the cause of 

 education than he. In each of the three places 

 of his permanent ministry he originated and 

 sustained female seminaries of a high order and 

 extensive influence. 



Aug. 11. PLYMPTON, Major P. W. L., brevet 

 Lieut.-Colonel U. 8. Army.died at Galveston, 

 Texas. He graduated at West Point in 1847, 

 and soon after joined his regiment, the Seventh 

 Infantry, then commanded by his father, at the 

 city of Mexico. After the Mexican War he 

 served with his regiment in the Indian Ter- 

 ritory, and commanded a battalion of it at the 

 battle of Valverde, New Mexico. For his gal- 

 lant conduct on this occasion he received the 

 brevet of lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army. In 

 1863 he was promoted major of the Seventeenth 

 U. 8. Infantry. 



Aug. 11. WRIGHT, WASHINGTON, a journal- 

 ist, died in San Francisco, Cal., aged 38 years. 

 He was a native of New York State, and nephew 

 of Silas "Wright the statesman. His early ad- 

 vantages were very meagre, and at sixteen yeare 

 of age ho went with a company of volunteers 

 to the war in Mexico, where he was employed 

 in the hospitals until the end of the campaign, 

 when he returned and entered into an engage- 

 ment in the editorial rooms of the " Springfield 

 Enterprise," Illinois. In 1855 he conducted the 

 " Citizen " of Chicago, and the following year 

 went to California, where he distinguished him- 

 self in connection with different papers in Sac- 

 ramento, Placerville, Virginia City, and finally 

 at San Francisco, where he was an associate 

 editor of the ''American Flag" at the time of 

 his death. 



Aug. 12. HorrzMAtf, WILLIAM F., editor and 

 proprietor of the "Daily Gazette," Little Rock, 

 Arkansas, for the past twelve years, died there, 

 aged 41 years. He was an able writer, honest, 

 fearless and independent. His death was caused 

 by pulmonary consumption. 



Aug. 14. RUTHERFORD, JOHN COLES, a promi- 

 nent Virginian politician, died at Rock Castie, 

 Goochland Co., Va. Ho was a distinguished 

 member of the bar, served his county in the 

 House of Delegates for twelve years, and for 

 his legal knowledge was frequently appointed 

 chairman of the Committee of Courts of Jus- 

 tice ; he was also Chairman of the Committee 

 on Banks. 



/. 18. CARDER, Rev. J. DIXON. D. D., ar 

 Episcopal clergyman, died at Milford. Conn, 

 aged 63 years. He was born in Richfield, N. V. 



