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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



school training under the direction of the Eev. 

 Dr. Stoughton, a well-known Baptist minister, 

 he was placed at the age of fourteen in a law- 

 office, and early admitted to the "bar. Soon 

 after he was appointed clerk to the mayor's 

 court, at that time a responsible and lucrative 

 office. This position he resigned to join the 

 Junior Artillerists, which had volunteered for 

 service in the War of 1812. Toward the close 

 of the war he was promoted to a colonelcy. 

 In 1819 he was elected to the Legislature, and, 

 although a very young man, the proceedings of 

 the body show that he took an active and lead- 

 ing part. This was the last office he accepted, as 

 he devoted himself earnestly to his profession, 

 in which he had a large practice. He was a 

 hard-working lawyer, and his industry and 

 ability gave him eminence. 



Sept. 10. SAGE, OREN, an eminent manu- 

 facturer of Eochester, N. Y., died in that city, 

 aged 79 years. He was a native of Middle- 

 town, Conn., and served as an apprentice to a 

 tanner and shoemaker in that town until 

 twenty-one years of age. His educational ad- 

 vantages comprised but a single month of 

 schooling. In 1809 he removed to Ballston 

 Spa, and in 1827 to Eochester, where by in- 

 dustry and perseverance he soon acquired a 

 competency. He was a man of singular piety, 

 and, while giving freely to the benevolent ob- 

 jects of the day, was specially interested in the 

 Eochester University and Theological Seminary, 

 of which he was a liberal benefactor. 



Sept. 13. ORME, Brig.-Gen. W. W., U. S. 

 Vols., died at Bloomington, 111. He was former- 

 ly a successful lawyer in that town, but at the 

 commencement of the late civil war threw up a 

 lucrative practice to enter the military service. 

 He served with credit, but returned to his home 

 in poor health, from which he never recovered. 



Sept. 13. WALKER, Eev. AUGUSTUS, mis- 

 sionary of the A. B. 0. F. M. to Eastern Turkey, 

 died of cholera, at Diarbekir, aged 44 years. 

 He was a native of Medway. Mass., graduated 

 at Yale College in 1849, and at Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1852; was ordained the 

 same year at East Medway, and sailed, with 

 his wife, for Smyrna, January 7, 1853. He was 

 an earnest and faithful worker in the mis- 

 sionary field for more Hi&n twelve years. 



Sept. 17. CALDWELL., Hon. GEORGE ALFRED, 

 a prominent lawyer of Kentucky, died at Louis- 

 ville. He was a native of that State, and was 

 a Eepresentative in Congress from 1843 to 

 1845, and again from 1849 to 1851. 



Sept. 17. WRIGHT, Eev. E. W., D. D., a dis- 

 tinguished Presbyterian clergyman, died in Al- 

 leghany City, aged 49 years. He was a native 

 of Lancaster, Ohio, graduated at Miami Uni- 

 versity, Ohio, studied theology one year at 

 Princeton, and completed his course in the 

 Theological Seminary at Alleghany in 1838. In 

 October, 1839, he was ordained an evangelist 

 at Frankfort, Ind. Previous to this he had la- 

 bored some time in Lafayette, Ind., and had 

 received a call to the church in that place, but 



had declined it, owing to the troubles growing 

 out of "the division of 1838." Afterward the 

 call was renewed ; he accepted, and was in- 

 stalled pastor in October, 1840. He continued 

 in this pastorate five and a half years, and then 

 accepted an agency for the Board of Education 

 in the West, the duties of which he performed 

 for six months. He then took charge of the 

 church at Delphi, Ind., of which he continued 

 to be pastor for a period of nearly twenty years. 

 But his labors were by no means confined 

 to his own particular field. Very many were 

 the protracted meetings which he held, or at 

 which he assisted, in neighboring and also 

 in distant churches. Because of his vigor- 

 ous constitution in early life, he seems to have 

 considered himself possessed of special fitness 

 for the extensive travel and "much hardness " 

 encoxtntered by pioneers in founding and caring 

 for churches in new countries. For him to 

 swim his horse and himself through canals, 

 creeks, and rivers, and to continue his journey 

 "just as he was," was no uncommon occur- 

 rence.. At the time he became connected with 

 the Synod of Indiana, it extended from the Ohio 

 Eiver on the south into Michigan on the north, 

 and to Missouri on the west ; and to attend the 

 meetings of the synod required a ride on horse- 

 back sometimes of 150, 200, or even 300 miles. 

 Dr. Wright was stated clerk of the Synod of 

 Northern Indiana from the time of its forma- 

 tion, in 1842, until his removal to Alleghany. 



Sept. 20. PEASLEE, Gen. CHARLES H., one 

 of the most conspicuous public men of New 

 Hampshire, died at St. Paul, Minnesota, aged 

 62 years. He was born in New Hampshire, in 

 1804, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1824, 

 and coming to the bar after a regular study of 

 his profession, settled in Concord, the capital 

 of that State. He was a State representative 

 from 1833 to 1837, adjutant-general from 1839 

 to 1847, and a member of the National House 

 of Eepresentatives from 1847 to 1853. On re- 

 tiring from Congress, he was immediately ap- 

 pointed Collector of Customs at Boston by 

 President Pierce, a position which he filled 

 four years with eminent ability and success. 

 Since 1857 he had resided in Portsmouth. He 

 was a gentleman of generous and genial im- 

 pulses, upright in his life, public-spirited, and 

 filled with honor every position to which he 

 was called, enjoying the respect and confidence 

 of the people of his State to the last. He was 

 among the most active originators of the insane 

 asylum of his State, and a member of the board 

 of directors from its establishment to the time 

 of his death. 



Sept. 21. HAXSOX, Mrs. JOHN- T., a niece of 

 Oliver Goldsmith, died at West Hoboken, N. J., 

 aged 80 years. 



Sept. 21. SCRIPPS, JOHN L., a journalist of 

 Chicago, and former postmaster of that city, 

 died at Minneapolis, Minn. He was a native 

 of Missouri, graduated at McKendree College, 

 Lebanon, 111., and temporarily filled a profes- 

 sorship in that institution. Subsequentiy h 



