OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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;, in command of u c-ompany at 

 r, in 1813; ami again, ns aido- 

 . cMimiandiii;.' general iu 1814. 



.it LiouU-Col. 

 A., i lied at Philadelphia from 

 ifu wound received in the battle of 

 ; lo served as adjutant-general in 

 .-hirv, and as mustering and dis- 

 ioer in New York and Pennsylvania. 

 A\i'j i /.GERALD, Rev. FREDKBiCK, an 



pal clergyman, died in Iloboken, N. J., 

 UTS. He was a native of England, 

 to this country early in life and was 

 : Yallo Crucis, N. 0. ; was ordained 

 in Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1863, and soon 

 a iu T returned to North Carolina, where most 

 ministerial life was passed. He preached 

 in Jackson, Halifax, and Goldsborough, and in 

 18G1 became assistant in St. Mary's School, 

 Raleigh, and one of the editors of the " Church 

 Intelligencer." In 1865 he came North, and be- 

 came rector of Trinity Church, Iloboken, N. J., 

 where he won the hearts of his people by his 

 many excellences of character and his fidelity 

 to his work. He had just accepted a call to a 

 church in Nashville, Tenn., at the time of his 

 death. 



Aug. 31. HOWELL, Rev. ISAAC P., a Roman 

 Catholic clergyman, of Elizabeth, N. J., died at 

 Strpudsburg, Pa., aged 67 years. Ho was a 

 native of Philadelphia, and was educated at 

 lit St Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md. Ho 

 was ordained at Fordham, by the late Arch- 

 bishop Hughes, and was sent on his missionary 

 career to Elizabeth, where he officiated for 

 ;\\ enty- three years. He died of pulmonary 

 consumption, the pure air of Stroudsburg, which 

 place he had visited in the hope of benefit to 

 liis health, proving unavailing to restore him. 

 He hud long been connected with religious and 

 ttional establishments, several of which he 

 (bonded. 



Aug. . CRAIDER, FREDERICK, a veteran of 

 -evolution and of the War of 1812, died at 

 Meadville, Miss., aged 108 years. 



A u<j. . ROBINSOX, Rev. J. J., D. D., for- 

 merly President of Marysville, College, Tenn., 

 thrown from his carriage and killed at 

 : >ville, Tc-nn. Ho had recently been elected 



glent of a new institution at Bristol in that 

 tate. 



Ana. . WADE, Hon. EDWARD, died in East 

 Cleveland.Ohio, aged 63 years. He was a 

 native of West Sprin.uMield, Mass, where he re- 

 ceived a common-school education, and in 1821 

 removed with his father to Ashtabula County, 

 < >hio, devoting his attention to agriculture until 

 '. Subsequently he studied law in Albany 

 and Troy, and in 1827 was admitted to the bar in 

 -letVersou County, Obio. In 1832 he removed to 

 ruioiiville, and afterward settled in Cleveland. 

 He wa< elected a Representative to the Thirty- 

 third Congress, and was reclected, serving on 

 the Committee on Commerce. 



Sept. 2. BCRJOIAM, Col. JAMES C., U. S. A., 

 died in New York. He was appointed major 



in the Second New York Infantry, December 

 8, 1846, and served with the command in that 

 capacity from Vera Cruz to Churubusco. Sub- 

 sequently he was promoted to be licutcnant- 

 colonel in September, 1847, and led the regiment 

 through the several battles around the city of 

 Mexico. After the war he returned home with 

 his regiment, and received great honor. Col. 

 Burnham was city marshal of New York under 

 the administration of Mayor Wood, and was a 

 prominent politician for several years. 



Sept. 2. MARLAY, Rev. M., D. D., a Meth- 

 odist clergyman, died of cholera at Ripley, 

 Ohio. Ho was pastor of a church at Dayton, 

 and, in company with the Rev. Robert Wallace, 

 had attended the conference at Ripley, and 

 parted but a few hours before the death of 

 each. 



Sept. 2. WALLACE, Rev. ROBERT, a distin- 

 guished Methodist clergyman of Ireland, died 

 of cholera at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was ap- 

 pointed as one of a deputation from the Irish 

 Methodist Conference to the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church in the United States, and to the 

 Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada. Having 

 visited Ripley, the seat of the Cincinnati Con- 

 ference, he was en route for Laporte, Ind., and 

 in passing through Cincinnati was seized with 

 the epidemic which terminated his life. 



Sept. 7. BALDWIX, MATTHIAS W., an eminent 

 citizen of Philadelphia, pioneer in American 

 iron manufactures, died in that city, aged 70 

 years. In 1829, as soon as the news reached 

 America of the success of steam locomotives 

 upon the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, 

 he predicted the revolution the invention 

 would accomplish in every branch of business, 

 and the rapidity with which it would develop 

 the resources of this country. In the same 

 year the first model of a locomotive engine seen 

 in America was constructed by him, and ex- 

 hibited on a miniature railroad. After this 

 experiment Mr. Baldwin devoted his energies 

 to the manufacture of locomotives, and was 

 the first to make them in this country. His 

 work grew with the demand, till for many years 

 before his death his establishment was one of 

 the largest in the world, employing over a 

 thousand workmen, and sending locomotives 

 not only to all American States, but to Russia 

 and other European countries. Many of the im- 

 provements in locomotive machinery were in- 

 vented by him. But ho did not confine his 

 influence to a single department of industry. 

 He was a liberal friend of the arts and sciences, 

 and took a special interest in agriculture and 

 horticulture. By enterprise in business he had 

 gained a largo fortune, which ho freely used for 

 tbe benefit of every deserving cause. Be>ido 

 munitieent gifts to city, State, and national 

 charities without number, ho erected several 

 churches, and devoted freely of his means to 

 the advancement of religious interests. 



Sept. 10. RANDALL, Hon. JOSIAII, a leading 

 Democratic politician and lawyer, died in Phila- 

 delphia, aged 77 yearf. Having rec#' f *ed hu 



