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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



the present Congress served on the Committees 

 on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and Ex- 

 penditures on the Public Buildings. He was 

 also a delegate to the Chicago Convention of 

 1864. 



Feb. 2. OTIS, JAMES F., for many years a 

 prominent newspaper editor, died at Boston, 

 Mass. He was a native of Newburyport, Mass., 

 and a nephew of the late Harrison Gray Otis. 

 He had been for thirty years connected with 

 the press, a portion of which were spent in the 

 . Express office, in New York, and also held a 

 long editorial connection with the New Orleans 

 Picayune. 



Feb. 2.~ WILSON FORSYTHE, an American 

 poet, died at Alfred Centre, N. Y. He was the 

 author of " The Old Sergeant " and other poems 

 of note, and was a man of decided talents. 



Feb. 4. AMES, General JOSEPH L. P., chief 

 quartermaster in General Sheridan's command, 

 died in Boston, Mass., aged 67 years. He was 

 formerly chief of police in Boston. 



Feb.. 6. LEE, HENRY, died in Boston, Mass., 

 aged 95 years. In 1832 he received the electoral 

 vote of South Carolina for the Vice-Presidency. 



Feb. 6. SWAETWOTJT, Commander SAMUEL, 

 U. S. N., died in Brooklyn, N. Y.. aged 62 

 years. He entered the naval service in 1820, 

 serving in the Hornet, Cyane, Peacock, and 

 Constitution. For several years he commanded 

 the naval station at Brooklyn. 



Feb. 11. AIKEN, Hon. JOHN, an eminent 

 citizen of Massachusetts, died at Andover, aged 

 70 years. He was a native of Vermont. From 

 1844 to 1851 he was a member of the Massa- 

 chusetts Executive Council. From 1850 to 1865 

 he was a member of the Prudential Committee 

 of the A. B. C. F. M., and was also connected 

 with the American Education Society. At the 

 time of his death he was a trustee of the 

 Andover Theological Seminary. ' 



Feb. 11. GOOD WILLIE, Rev. THOMAS, D. D., 

 a United Presbyterian clergyman, died at Bar- 

 net, Vermont, aged 67 years. He was an emi- 

 nent scholar, and for forty years pastor of the 

 United Presbyterian Church at Barnet. 



Feb. 13. JOHNSON, WILLIAM, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and medical writer, died in New 

 Jersey, aged 78 years. He was an able practi- 

 tioner, and was widely known by his contribu- 

 tions to the New Jersey Medical Reporter. 



Feb. 13. OBTON, JASON R., M. D., an Amer- 

 ican physician, poet, author, and editor, died in 

 Brooklyn, aged 61 years. He was a native of 

 Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., was educat- 

 ed to the profession of medicine, which he 

 followed for many years successfully, but finding 

 his duties overtaxing his physical powers, he 

 removed* in 1850 to New York and devoted 

 himself to literary pursuits. For some years 

 he was a writer for the Musical World. He 

 also at one time edited the Weekly Review. 

 Among his published volumes may be men- 

 tioned il Arnold and Other Poems," and " The 

 Camp-Fires of the Red Men." He was a man 

 of spotless integrity and noble impulses. 



Feb. 14. ANDREWS, Rev. WELLS, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman, and educator, died at Wash- 

 ington, 111., aged 79 years. He was a graduate 

 of Princeton College, N. J. He was pastor of a 

 church in Alexandria, D. C., ten years, and 

 for the same length of time pastor of a church 

 in Northern Ohio. He was Professor of Lan- 

 guages in Ohio University six years. In 1843 

 he removed to Illinois, and was for ten years 

 pastor of a Presbyterian church in Tremont, 

 previous to his pastorate at Washington. 



Feb. 16. BROWN, Rev. SIMEON, a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman and editor, died at Ottumwa, 

 Iowa, aged 58 years. He was a native of 

 Washington County, Pa., but while yet in his 

 infancy his parents removed to Knox County, 

 Ohio. He was educated at Jefferson College, 

 Pa. ; ordained to the ministry in 1835, and was 

 pastor of the church in Fredericktown, Ohio, 

 six years. In 1844 he removed to Zanesville, 

 where he labored until 1850, after which he was 

 for a time an agent of the Presbyterian Board 

 of Education. In 1 841, while in Fredericktown, 

 he commenced the publication of a religious 

 monhtly called .The Galmnistic Monitor, and 

 subsequently The Presbyterian of the West, 

 which after several removals was finally pub- 

 lished at Cincinnati. Becoming involved in a 

 theological controversy, Mr. Brown left the 

 Presbyterian Church in 1857, connecting him- 

 self with the Congregationalists, and until 1863 

 was in the employ of the Home Missionary 

 Society in Southern and Middle Ohio. In 1864 

 he took charge of the Congregational Church 

 at Ottumwa, Iowa, where he continued until his 

 death. 



Feb. 17. STORRS, ZALMON, formerly Judge 

 of Probate for Mansfield, Conn., died there, aged 

 87 years. He was a native of Mansfield, grad- 

 uated at Yale College in 1801, and the following 

 year entered upon the study of law with the 

 late Judge Thomas S. Williams, of Hartford, 

 Conn., then a resident of Mansfield. Circum- 

 stances, however, led him to relinquish his law 

 studies. During his long life he several times 

 represented his native town in the State Legis- 

 lature, was for a period of six years Judge of 

 Probate, twenty years postmaster, and for thirty- 

 five years justice of the peace, holding the 

 latter office until seventy years of age, the 

 limit fixed by law. 



Feb. 18. DOWNING, SAMUEL, a Revolutiona- 

 ry pensioner, died near Amsterdam, N. Y., 

 aged 105 years. He was born near Exeter, N. 

 H., enlisted in the army in 1776, and joining 

 it near West Point, took part in the campaign 

 against Burgoyne and afterward in the cam- 

 paign about New York. In 1779 he received 

 his discharge. 



Feb. 20. STRATTON, HENRY DWIGHT, one of 

 the founders and managers of Bryant, Stratton 

 & Co.'s chain of Business Colleges, died in New 

 York, aged 43 years. 



Feb. 22. ALEXANDER, Hon. HENEY P., for- 

 merly member of Congress from Herkimer Dis- 

 trict, N. Y. ; died at Little Falls, N. Y., aged 65 



