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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



graduated at Geneva College, of which he 

 was subsequently tutor, studied theology, and 

 was ordained deacon by Bishop Onderdonk in 

 1830, and priest by the same at Ithaca, N. Y., 

 in 1832. On becoming deacon, he took charge 

 of the mission at Ithaca, and organized par- 

 ishes in Candor, Kichford, Elmira, and Dan- 

 by, N. Y. In 1834 he became rector of St. 

 John's Church, Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and soon 

 after was local secretary of the Domestic 

 Board of Missions, where he remained seven 

 years. He then travelled in Europe three 

 years, and on his return was again chaplain at 

 Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He became rector of St. 

 Peter's, Milford, Conn., May 1, 1848, and was 

 instrumental in building there the beautiful 

 stone church. He resigned the rectorship 

 March 7, 1861, since which he has been secre- 

 tary and general agent of the Domestic Com- 

 mittee. 



Aug. 18. DEAPKR, Miss CHARLOTTE and 

 Miss JULIA, sisters, and founders and associate 

 principals of the "Draper Female Seminary" 

 at Hartford, Conn., died in that city, aged re- 

 spectively 70 and 68 years. The seminary 

 which they founded, and over which they had 

 presided for more than thirty years, was one 

 of the best in New England, and had educated 

 more than two thousand young ladies, many 

 of whom had in their time become teachers. 



Aug. 19. TOMPKINB, Rev. JOHN, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman, died in Marcellus, N. Y., aged 

 56 years. He graduated at Hamilton College 

 in 1837, and subsequently at the Auburn Theo- 

 logical Seminary, soon after which he settled 

 at Marcellus, laboring faithfully in his pastorate 

 until his death. 



Aug 21. KIMBALL, Rev. WILLARD, a promi- 

 nent Baptist clergyman, and former editor, died 

 at Newton Centre, Mass., aged 71 years. 



Aug. 21. WEYDEMEYER, Col. JOSEPH, U. S. 

 Army, a Prussian exile, died in St. Louis, aged 

 48 years. He was a native of Westphalia, 

 Khenish Prussia. Early in life he became an 

 artillery officer, and served with credit in the 

 Prussian army at the same time with Gen. 

 "Willicb, since so distinguished in our own na- 

 tional army. Col. Weydemeyer subsequently 

 devoted his pen to the liberal cause, as assistant 

 editor of a paper at Frankfort-on-the-Main, but 

 after the unsuccessful issue of the revolution of 

 1848, left Germany with the throng of patriot 

 exiles and located at London. Thence he cor- 

 responded with the " Reformer," a leading Ger- 

 man radical paper of New York. Arriving in 

 New York in 1851. he was associate editor in 

 the conduct of the "Reformer," in company 

 with Kellner, now of the " Philadelphia Demo- 

 crat." From New York Col. Weydemeyer 

 went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged for 

 some time as civil engineer. He next became 

 engaged at Chicago in editing the Stimme des 

 VolJces, or " Voice of the People," the organ of 

 the German Working-men's Association of Chi- 

 cago. About seven years ago he took up his 

 residence at St. Louis, and at the breaking out 



of the war abandoned the pen for the sword, 

 and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of 

 the Second Missouri Artillery, commanded by 

 Colonel Almstedt. In 1863 he was associated 

 with Dr. Hil]gartner in. editing the Neue Zeit, 

 but on the call for more regiments became 

 colonel of the Forty-first Missouri Infantry, 

 which regiment was assigned to guard the city, 

 and Col. Weydemeyer for a long time held the 

 position, and faithfully discharged the duties of 

 commandant of the post of St. Louis. Col. 

 Weydemeyer was a gentleman of modest pre- 

 tension and kind disposition, a gallant soldier, 

 an able writer, of strict integrity and honor, 

 and devoted to the elevation of the laboring 

 classes. His favorite theme was the economy 

 of labor and the improvement of the condition 

 of the working-men. Of indomitable industry, 

 he was, up to the end of his life, in addition to 

 his official duties, engaged in writing and pub- 

 lishing essays on his favorite topics connected 

 with the labor question. 



Aug. 22. NAGLE, JAMES, Major-Gen. U. S. 

 Vols., died at Pottsvillc, Pa. During the 

 Mexican War he was a captain in the First 

 regiment of Pennsylvania Vols., and in April, 

 1861, reentered the service as colonel of the 

 Sixth Pennsylvania Vols. He was attached to 

 the command of Major-Gen. Paterson during 

 the campaign ending with the battle of Bull 

 Run, July 21, 1861, and was discharged at the 

 expiration of his term of service. Subsequently 

 he was in command of the Forty-eighth Penn- 

 sylvania Vols., and distinguished himself at 

 South Mountain, where he commanded a brigade 

 in Gen. Sturgis's division of Gen. Burnside'a 

 army corps. 



Aug. 27. WHITE, Judge FORTUNE C., a 

 prominent lawyer of Oneida County, N. Y., 

 died at Whitestown, aged 79 years. He was a 

 native of that town, and grandson of Judge 

 Hugh White, its founder; received a thorough 

 academic course, and entered a mercantile estab- 

 lishment, but having a taste for study, turned 

 his attention to the law, and at an early age 

 became an active and efficient member of the 

 celebrated firm of Storrs and White. The ra- 

 pidity with which he rose in his profession at- 

 tests the native strength of his intellect and the 

 legal drill and discipline of his mind. Not only 

 as a lawyer, but as a citizen and legislator, his 

 forensic achievements, and the conceded states- 

 manship of his legislative career, marked him as 

 among the prominent men of Central New 

 York. As chief judge of the Court of Pleas 

 and Quarter Sessions of Oneida County, from 

 1837 to 1843, he retained high reputation as a 

 jurist and an able expounder of law. Endowed 

 with a commanding presence, and a proclivity 

 for martial display, he enrolled himself among 

 the citizen-soldiers of his " beat," while yet in 

 his minority; and devoting himself to the re- 

 quisite drill and tactics, he rose rapidly, yet by 

 regular gradations, to the command of a brigade 

 in his county. During his military career, he 

 served two campaigns in the war H'ith Grea> 



