OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 





a ft era few years a partner 

 " !, in conjunction 



with whom In- compiled the \.-dnahlo Digest of 

 laws, known as " Moivht-ad ami 

 " I -'or a number of ye.v 

 be Circuit Court of his district, 

 and from IS.") to is.V.i, during the admini-tra- 

 tion of Governor Mori-head, ho occupied tho 

 ]u>-t ( Secretary of State. Highly distin- 

 guished in Ins profession, lie was also warmly 

 <i.-d for his worth of character. To his 

 public; spirit Frankfort was largely indebted for 

 - of ]>ul>lic utility and ornament. Ho was 

 the lather of the lion. Benjamin Crat/ Brown 

 and Brigadier-Ghanera] John Mason Brown. 



. -BuowNKi.i., IlrssKi.L B., M. I)., an 

 American physician ami surgeon, died in Upper 

 . on the River Nile, aired 211 years. After 

 IIIL: liis cla-sical education at Marietta 

 v, Ohio, he began his niedioal studies 

 with Dr. Welier, of Cincinnati, and from there 

 proceeded to Now York, and entered the Belle- 

 Medical College, where he graduated dur- 

 ing the session of 18G3-'64. He then held 

 tie- position of house surgeon in Bellevue 

 Hospital for the period of two years, and dur- 

 ing the latter part of his term occupied the 

 post of senior surgeon of the Charity Hospital 

 on Blackwcll's Island, during this time, being 

 also elected curator of the Bellevue College 

 Mu-eum. Symptoms of pulmonary disease de- 

 veloping themselves, he was advised to accept 

 the position of surgeon on board the steamer 

 ' Arago," which ho held for a period of about 

 eighteen months, but with no benefit to his 

 health. Thinking a warmer climate might prove 

 more beneficial, he was induced to join a party 

 itlemeii intending to make a tour through 

 1 while upon his passage up the Nile 

 .id'lenly seized with a fatal attack of 

 hemorrhage. 



Jan. 27. DAVIS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, an 

 eminent New York merchant (of the firm of 

 ] >avis & Brooks, shipping merchants), and one of 

 the directors for some years of the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company, died of Bright's disease of 

 the kidneys, in the 72d year of his age. Mr.. 

 Davis was a man of extensive and profound 

 knowledge on matters connected with finance 

 and commerce, and was a brilliant and gei.i:d 

 writer on political or commercial topics. I IN 

 "Peter Scriber Letters," in the Commercial 

 Advertiser, were widely read and admired. 

 Soon after the appearance of Mr. Seba Smith's 

 "Letters of Major Jack Downing" in regard 

 to the Maine Legislature, Mr. Davis appeared 

 with a series of "Major Jack Downiug's Letters " 

 Washington, detailing his interviews with 

 General Jackson at the White House, and their 

 plans for cleaving down the monster United 

 Hank. These appeared first in the 

 A'icertiser and were transferred to the 

 rw. 



Jim. 27. Ei.ni:i:n, Hon. NATHAXIKL- B., died 

 at Bethany. 1'a., aged 7:2 years. Ho was born 

 in Orange County, N. Y., was a representative 



from Pike County, Pa., in Congress, froi , 

 to 18'J '-anal commi ion.-r 



vania, and naval officer of I'hila'Ielphi:. 

 1852 to 1856. 



./<m. 'JN. I.\<;i! \ir\M. I >ANir.r, GREEN-LEAP, an 

 eminent cla--i'-al teacher, died in 

 Ma--.. a;:ed 7'' \ear~. IN- was a native of Bos- 

 t"!i. cdiic.-iied at the Latin School, and 

 uated at Harvard College in the class of 1809, 

 after which ho opened a classical school in 

 Boston which he continued for more than forty 

 years. About the year 1852 he removed with 

 liis family to Braintree, and there conducted a 

 school until a few years previous to his death. 



Jan. 31. FRANCIS, JOSEPH II., for many 

 years a prominent publisher of Boston, died in 

 that city, of virulent small-pox, aged 54 years. 

 He was formerly largely engaged in the issue 

 of juvenile books, together with some works on 

 general literature. 



Jan. . SEMPLE, Hon. JAMES, formerly 

 judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois, died at 

 Elsah Landing, Miss., aged G7 years. He was 

 a native of Kentucky, studied law, and, after 

 practising his profession in Louisville, removed 

 to Illinois, where he became a member of the 

 Legislature and during four years was Speaker 

 of the House. In 1833 he was elected Attorney- 

 General of the State ; appointed minister to 

 New Grenada in 1837; elected Judge of the 

 Supreme Court of the State in 1842 ; and was 

 a Senator in Congress, from Illinois, from 1843 

 to 1847. 



Feb. 1. BKYAXT, HEXRT, M. D., died in the 

 Island of Porto Rico, aged 46 years. He was 

 a native of Boston, Mass., graduated at Har- 

 vard College in 1840, and studied medicine in 

 the Tremont Medical School, in Boston, and 

 subsequently in Paris, France. Returning to 

 his native city he entered upon the practice of 

 his profession there, but was obliged to re- 

 linquish it from ill-health. In July, 18G1, ho 

 was commissioned surgeon of the 20th Ma a- 

 chusetts regiment, and the following Septem- 

 ber was made brigade surgeon, which post ho 

 resigned in 1863 on account of the precarious 

 state of his health. 



Feb. 1. Jonxsox, Hon. PHILIP, member of 

 Congress from Pennsylvania, died in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., aged 49 years. He was born in 

 Warren County, N. J., but in 1839 removed 

 with his father's family to Pennsylvania, set- 

 tling in Northampton County, where he studied 

 two years in Lafayette College. He then went 

 to the South and remained there two years, 

 teaching school. Returning home at the end of 

 this period, he studied law, was admitted to 

 the bar in 1848, and before long was chosen 

 Clerk of the Court of Sessions and of the Oyer 

 and Terminer. In 1853 and 1854 he was a 

 member of the State Assembly, was chairman 

 of the Democratic State Convention in 1857, 

 ami Revenue Commissioner of the Third Judicial 

 District of the State in 1860, in which year ho 

 was elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress from 

 Pennsylvania. He was twice reflected, and in 



