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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



ing the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, 

 and the Kansas border war. Finally, after 

 varied persecutions, his declared conviction 

 that slavery was morally wrong obliged him 

 to leave the town, to avoid violence, in the 

 spring of 1855. The next seven years he 

 passed in Western New York, as agent of the 

 Western Education Society, and of the Auburn 

 Theological Seminary. Resigning the former 

 of these positions in April, 1862, he took charge 

 of the Presbjterian church in Penn Yau, 

 N. Y., over which he was installed June 12th. 

 From April, 1865, until his death, he was 

 pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in St. 

 Lonis. Mr. Starr was the author of a pamphlet, 

 published anonymously, in 1853, entitled "Let- 

 ters for the People, on the Present Crisis " 

 (52 pages, 8vo.), which contained nine letters 

 written from St. Louis, and discussing the in- 

 fluence of slavery upon the opening of Ne- 

 braska Territory and the building of the Pacific 

 Railroad. He also published a sermon on the 

 death of President Lincoln. 



Jan. 11. COGGILL, GEOEGE, formerly a lead- 

 ing merchant in New York City, died there, 

 aged 87 years. He was a native of Leeds, 

 England, and, after being actively engaged in 

 business there for some years, came to this 

 country in 1811, taking up his residence in 

 Fishkill, where he remained until the close of 

 the War of 1812. Subsequently he entered 

 largely into the wool business, through which 

 he became extensively known at home and 

 abroad. 



Jan. 14. CHILTON, Hon. SAMUEL, formerly 

 member of Congress from Virginia, died at 

 Warreuton, Va., aged 62 years. He was an 

 able lawyer, and his integrity aud honor gave 

 him a deserved popularity among the people. 

 He represented the district of Fauquier 1843- 

 '45, was a member of the Constitutional Con- 

 vention of Virginia, and filled many other 

 offices of trust. 



Jan. 14. UPDIKE, Hon. WILKINB, a promi- 

 nent citizen of Rhode Island, died at his resi- 

 dence in South Kingston, R. I., aged 82 years. 

 He had been for nearly half a century an active 

 public man in his State, holding various offices 

 of trust and honor. 



Jan. 15. HAZAED, Captain SAMUEL F., 

 U. S. N., died at Newport, R. I. He had been 

 forty-four years in the service, nearly half of 

 which had been spent at sea. In 1862 he was 

 promoted to a captaincy, and, after one year's 

 cruise, was assigned to shore duty at the Naval 

 Rendezvous, Boston. 



Jan. 19. ROBINSOX, HOEATIO N., LL. D., a 

 mathematician and author, died at Elbridge, 

 N. Y., aged 6,1. He was a native of Hartwick, 

 N. Y., and received but ordinary educational 

 advantages until sixteen years of age, when he 

 made the calculations for an almanac, which 

 attracted the attention of a wealthy gentleman 

 of the neighborhood, who sent him to Princeton 

 College. He did not remain, however, to 

 graduate ; but, at the age of nineteen, received 



and accepted the appointment of Professor of 

 Mathematics in the Navy, which position he 

 filled acceptably for ten years, visiting many 

 parts of the globe. In 1835 he removed to 

 Canandaigua, N. Y., taking charge of the acad- 

 emy in that place, and subsequently of the one 

 at Genesee. His health becoming somewhat 

 impaired by teaching, he removed with his 

 family in 1844 to Cincinnati, Ohio. Here he 

 entered the field of authorship, and his first pro- 

 duction, "The University Algebra," combined 

 so much of originality, and new and practical 

 methods, with such thorough knowledge and 

 treatment of the subject, that it met with great 

 success and popularity. This encouraged him 

 to prepare several other works, all of which 

 were published by Jacob Ernst, of Cincinnati. 

 He removed to Syracuse, N. Y., in 1850, and 

 and in 1854 to the town of Elbridge, where he 

 resided at the time of his death. In 1858 the 

 publication of his books was removed from 

 Cincinnati to New York. After this transfer 

 some of the best practical talent of the country 

 was employed to assist Professor Robinson in 

 completing his series, by adding a full course 

 of elementary text-books, and thoroughly re- 

 vising and rewriting the higher mathematics. 

 The very large and increasing circulation of 

 these books attests their merits, and the name 

 of the author will long be familiar to the best 

 teachers and educators of the entire country. 

 He was an enthusiast in the pursuit of science, 

 and what would have been considered severe 

 labor, and even drudgery by many, was but 

 recreation to him. During the many long 

 years he was confined to his room, even to 

 the week of his death, he was constantly em- 

 ployed in improving and developing some new 

 thought, principle, or method of his favorite 

 science ; when unable to use the pen, and often 

 while suffering the most acute pains, would 

 he dictate for another to write. 



Jan. 24. MAXWELL, Professor SAMUEL, for- 

 merly of Marietta College, died at Marietta, 

 Ohio, aged 62 years. He was a native of Berk- 

 shire County, Mass., and graduated at Amherst 

 College in the class of 1829. Subsequently he 

 was for twenty-one years at the head of 

 the Preparatory Department of Marietta Col- 

 lege. At the time of his death he was in the 

 employ of the American Missionary Associa- 

 tion. 



Jan. 25. PENNTNGTON, Hon. ALEXANDEB C. 

 M., died in New York City, in the 56th year of 

 his age. He was a native of Newark, N. J., 

 studied law, and served two terms in the State 

 Legislature. From 1853 to 1857 he was a rep- 

 resentative in Congress from New Jersey. 



Jan. 27. BEOWN, Hon. MASON, an eminent 

 jurist and legal writer, died at Frankfort, Ivy., 

 aged 67 years. He was a native of Philadelphia, 

 graduated at Yale College in the class of 1820, 

 and entered the law-office of Hon. John J. 

 Crittenden, of Frankfort, Ky., completing his 

 studies in the Law School at Lexington. En- 

 tering upon the practice of his profession in 



