586 OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. 



well as of the railroad company, at the time of 

 his death. He was a native of Madis9n, Conn., 

 and had commenced life as a- sailor-boy, and 

 had, in after-years, become a large ship-owner. 

 He was, in all the relations of life, a man of 

 rare excellence, and his loss was one of the 

 severest which could have been inflicted upon 

 the city of which he was, perhaps, the most 

 eminent citizen. 



Dec. 31. PERKTSS, Dr. J. M., an eminent 

 surgeon and analytical chemist of Chicago, died 

 in that city, aged 56 years. He was a native 

 of Canada. At a comparatively early age, hav- 

 ing determined to adopt the practice of medi- 

 cine as a profession, he left this continent for 

 Europe, where, for several years, he studied in 

 the best English hospitals, and finally graduated 

 with high honors. Returning to Canada, Dr. 

 Perkins practised medicine for a short time, and 

 then removed to the State of -Vermont, where 

 his skill and ability rapidly gained for him a 

 most enviable reputation. Some six or seven 

 years ago he removed to Chicago, where he sub- 

 sequently practised with considerable success. 

 As a scientific man, Dr. Perkins stood very 

 high in the ranks of his profession. He was a 

 skilful anatomist, combining an excellent phys- 

 iological knowledge, with a cool, determined 

 mind, a quick eye, and steady hand. In this 

 branch of his calling, few surgeons excelled 

 him. His reading had been deep and extensive, 

 lie was a good analytical chemist, and thor- 

 oughly versed in the beauties of inorganic and 

 the intricacies of organic chemistry. In botany, 

 natural history, and theoretical mechanics ha 

 also evinced an acquaintance and familiarity 

 which could only have been obtained by close 

 study, and a deep scientific love. 



Dec. . ALBRO, Rev. Dr. , a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman and "author, died at Cambridge, 

 Mass., aged about 67 years. He was, for nearly 

 thirty yenrs, pastor of the Shepard Congrega- 

 tional Church in Cambridge, and was greatly 

 beloved by his people.' He was the author of a 

 series of question-books for Sabbath-schools, 

 and also of some other works. 



Dec. . SEMPLE, Gen. JAMES, formerly a 

 Senator in Congress, and Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of Illinois, died at "Elsah Landing," 111., 

 aged 67 years. He was a native of Kentucky, 

 was admitted to the bar, and first began the 

 practice of law in Louisville. After the death 

 of his wife, who was a sister of Gen. Duif 

 Green, about 1827, he removed to Illinois, and 

 established himself in the practice of his pro-, 

 fession at Edwardsville, in Madison County. He 

 was soon after elected and reelected to the 

 Legislature, and was Speaker of the House for 

 several sessions. He was afterward Attorney- 

 General of the State and a General of the State 

 militia. He was appointed minister to Bogota 

 by President Van Buren, where he remained 

 four years. Returning home at the close of 

 Mr. Van Buren's administration, he was chosen 

 by the Legislature a Judge of the Supreme 

 Court in 1842, on the resignation, of Judge 



Breese,' who had been elected to the United 

 States Senate; and on the death of Judge 

 McRoberts, in March, 1843, then a Senator in. 

 Congress, he was appointed by Gov. Ford to 

 fill the vacancy, and afterward elected for the 

 unexpired term by the Legislature. After the 

 expiration of his term in March, 1847, when 

 he was succeeded by the late Stephen A. Doug- 

 las, he lived in retirement at "Elsah Landing," 

 on the Mississippi. 



OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. The following 

 death occurred in 1865, but owing to the re- 

 mote place of the decease, intelligence of the 

 event did not reach this country till after the 

 ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1865 had gone to 

 press. Its notice is too important to be omitted. 



Dec. 7. RAMESR, PHRA PAWARENDR, the 

 second King of Siam, died at Singapore, from 

 a chronic malady which had affected him for 

 five years. He was a man of remarkable intel- 

 ligence, and education, writing English very 

 fairly, and was conversant with many English 

 and American treatises on mechanical and phys- 

 ical science. An autograph letter, written by 

 him some years ago, to the late Colonel Samuel 

 Colt, indicated not only a considerable famil- 

 iarity with English, but an acquaintance with 

 the principles on which Colt's pistol was con- 

 structed. 



Jan. 1, 1866. DESMIOTTELS, M., Professor 

 and President of the College of Hyeres, and 

 author of several valuable text books, died at 

 Hyeres, Provence, France, aged 73 years. He 

 was a graduate of the Normal School, and author 

 of an important work entitled >' History of the 

 Middle Ages." 



Jan. 2. NEWTON, Mrs. ANTST MARY, an artist 

 of great merit, died in London, aged 33 yeara. 

 She was a daughter of Joseph Severn, the Eng- 

 lish painter, and early evinced a talent for draw- 

 ing, receiving at the age of seventeen years, com- 

 missions from the royal family. She particu- 

 larly excelled in copying from the old masters. 

 Among her best works were " Sebaste," a mys- 

 tical Christ-child, and " Elaine." "When an ex- 

 hibition was held for the benefit of the Lanca- 

 shire poor, Mrs. Newton sent three water-color 

 pictures which readily sold for 300, a sum 

 which she contributed for the relief fund. la 

 1861, she was married to Mr. Charles T. New- 

 ton, superintendent of Greek and Roman An- 

 tiquities at the British Museum, and subse- 

 quently executed on a large scale, a number of 

 drawings from the finest antique sculptures and 

 vase paintings of the Museum, as illustrations 

 of her husband's lectures. These have been 

 pronounced by critical judges as unsurpassed 

 in truthfulness and beauty. 



Jan. 3. PAROHAPPE, CHARLES JEAN BAPTISTS, 

 a French general and legislator, grand officer 

 of the Legion of Honor, died in Paris, aged 

 79 years. He greatly distinguished himself in 

 the Napoleonic wars, was twice in command 

 in Africa, and was Director of tho War Depart- 

 ment from 1848 to 1851. He was also a mem- 

 ber of the Corps L6gislatif fivn 1852 to 1866. 



