OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



cits now called 



i.l fiinii-hed it with philo- 

 nont-s ft scientific apparatus ;iml 

 :i 



But his most prom- 

 i pioneer in 



almshouso reforms, fo andcr i tho Asylum for 



;i, and as th.-mo-t earnest 



Ming of tho Hurtlbrd and 



No I:I:K-T, Lieut. MON-UOK, U. S. 



i\-, W. I., of yellow fever. 



He \ras a native of Baltimore, and one of the 



most daring and zealous young olllcers in the 



nspicuous part in the operations 



before Charle-;o:i. partioipated in tho assault on 



nd was on board tho ill-fated 



iron-Had l\.-.-!;uk when sunk by tho enemy's 



shot in Cliarle.st'in harbor, lie died on board 



theTJ. S. steamer Florida while lying iu quaran- 



Nov. 20. BIIEVOOHT, Captnin ABR\M N"., U. 

 S. Marino Corps, died in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho 

 entered the service in March, 1820, and was 

 1 upon tho retirc'l list in November, 1861. 

 lie leaves behind him an honorable record of 

 faithfulness and devotion. 



. 20. THOMAS, Jonv, an eminent printer 



of New York, died at Ruhway, N. J., aired >'<~2 



yean. He removed from Utica, to Now York, 



when a boy, and engaged in learning the print- 



ade. Subsequently he opened an office 



; Street, continuing the business for 



many years, and was the first to use the steam 



cylinder in the city. For a long period he 



printed tho "Courier and Enquirer" and "The 



Sun." 



Nov. 28. AIJLD, J. BLAKELEY, an editor and 

 author, die 1 in New York aged 51 years. IIo 

 i native of that city, and graduated at 

 iliia College in tho class of 1835, having 

 excelled as a classical scholar and exhibited 

 mathematical talent of a high order. From 1835 

 to 1833 Mr. Auld studied law in tho office of 

 General Sandford, and went to Now Orleans in 

 1840 to practise at the bar of that city. IIo 

 was subsequently Professor of Belles-Lettres 

 and Mathematics at the college of tho Rev. Dr. 

 llawkes in \ew Orleans. A few years after 

 he took editorial charge of " The Wall Street 

 Journal," after which ho became connected 

 with "The Daily News," on which he was .'la- 

 ployed as one of its editors Cor .several years. 

 Wliilo on "The Daily News" he aided tho 

 well-known lawyer, Mr. Geonre (Jritlin, in 

 inakinir translation? from tho Fathers of tho 

 early Church for his- work on the "StiHerinu's 

 of ('hrist" During the mayoralty of M 

 inann, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Gunther, Mr. Auld 

 occupied the position of secretary. At the 

 lime of his decease he was first a.-sistant- 

 t-lerk under the present incumbent, Mayor 

 lloil'man. In this post he was most efficient, 

 courteous, and untiring in tho performance of 

 his <!:: 



Noc. 2S. FRY, Hon. JACOB, Auditor-General 



of IVnn Ivaiiia, died at Norristown. ITe waa 

 a native i>f 1'eiinsylvania, and was a Repreaent- 

 ntive in Congreas from that State from 1 



. 80. SERVOS*, THOMAS L., an aged and 

 eminent citizen of New York, died tli.-. IIo 

 was a native of Philadelphia, and during a res- 

 idence of some years in Natchez and New Or- 

 leans acquired a largo fortune. In 1827 he re- 

 d to Now York and established tho 

 "Louisiana Line" of five ships between New 

 York and New Orleans. He was for many 

 a trustee of the old Chambers Street 

 Bank for Savings, and a manager of tho 

 American Bible Society, Public School Society, 

 and other organizations. 



Nov. . BRONSOX, Rev. ASA, D. D., a Bap- 

 tist clergyman of some note, died at Fall River, 

 Mass, lie was a preacher of great eloquence, ' 

 and for nearly forty years was pastor of a 

 church in that town. 



Nov. . HALE, Mrs. SAB ATI PRESTON, widow 

 of the Hon. Nathan Hale, of Boston, and sister 

 of the late Hon. Edward Everett, died at 

 Brookline, Mass M aged 70 years. She was a 

 lady of extraordinary mental and social powers. 



Nov. . ROWLANDS, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., a 

 Welsh clergyman and editor, died in Pennsylva- 

 nia. He was the author of a volume of exposi- 

 tions on the parable of the Prodigal Son, and 

 was for thirty years editor of a Welsh magazine, 

 tho first published in that language iu tho 

 United States. 



Dec. 3. PERKINS, Judge , tn eminent 



and philanthropic citizen of Mississippi, died at 

 the Oaks, near Columbus, aged 86 years. He 

 gave $60,000 to the Theological Seminary at 

 Columbia, S. 0., of which $40,000 was to en- 

 dow a professorship of natural sciences in con- 

 nection with revealed religion. He also gavo 

 largely to other objects, making the amount of 

 his gifts for a few years past reach the sum of 

 $80,000. 



Dec. 6. HAWKS, Miss CHARLOTTE P., a well- 

 known authoress, died at Worcester, Ma-s. 



Dec. 10. MIXOT, CHARLES, a distinguished 

 railroad officer and engineer, died at Somer- 

 ville, Mass., aged 54 years. He was a native 

 of Ilavcrhill, Mass., and son of Judge Minot. 

 After graduating at Harvard College in the 

 class of 1828, at tho early age of sixteen years, 

 ho studied law and practised at the Suffolk bar. 

 In 1841 he was appointed Superintendent of 

 the Boston and Maine Railroad, but left within 

 a year for the Erie Railway, with which ho 

 remained until 1854, when ho left, and sub- 

 sequently became attached to the Michigan 

 Southern Railroad. In 1859 ho returned to tho 

 Erie Railway as Superintendent, which position 

 he resigned about two years ago. Since that 

 time Mr. Minojt has held tho position of con- 

 sulting engineer of the company. ^ IIo was 

 one of the best-known railroad men in th* 

 country, and nearly every railway throughout 

 the West has officers or employ6s who began 

 railroad life under Mr. Minot's instructions. 



