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vA 26. YOUNG, Rev. DAN', an eminent 



ii, died ill Portsmouth, 



rears. 11 w:n ;i native of New 



Ham .mciiccd preaching at nineteen 



:id entered the. New Fllglalid 



('..lit ;ir>t year. !!< - 



his country -i\ \ear-in tlu- N'cw Hampshire 



in the House, and live in 



. lie >ervcd also one term in the 



al Assembly of New York State. Ill 



hotli of these bodies ho stood up as tho pioneer 

 champion of temperance and religious lihorty. 

 For more than forty year- he re-i<led in South- 

 ern Ohio, where he was a leading spirit in 

 things commercial, political, and theological. 



7.- -I\Ki:i:, Rev. GEORGE, LL. D., a 

 relational clergyman and teacher, died at 

 AH, ot-cgo County, N. Y. He 

 graduated at Williams College, in 1839, and 

 was tor several years, principal of the Coopers- 

 town Female Seminary, which position he held 

 at tho time of his death. 



March 28. EMKIISON, Rev. Jonx S., mission- 

 ary of tho American Board to the Sandwich 

 Islands, died at Waialua, aged 66 years. lie 

 was a native of Chester, N. H. \_ graduated at 

 Dartmouth College, Hanover, X. II., in 1826, 

 and at Andover Theological Seminary, in 1830. 

 Ill- -nnlies had been with reference to a mis- 

 sion in India; but a special call for more mis- 

 sionaries to the Sandwich Islands led him 

 thither, and ho was appointed to the station at 

 "Waialua., Oahu, where his entire missionary life 

 was spent, with the exception of four years as 

 professor in the Lahainaluna Seminary. Dur- 

 ing his residence here he published, in connec- 

 tion with others, an "English-Hawaiian Dic- 

 tionary,'' which was based upon Webster's 

 Abridgment. At the close of four years' ardu- 

 ous labor as teacher, he returned to his former 

 v, -here he diligently prosecuted his work 

 until, in 1SU4-, the state of his health rendered 

 it advisable to resign his pastorate, having 

 twice, been afflicted with an apoplectic attack. 



March 29. RIDDLE, Hon. GEORGE READS, an 

 American statesman, died in "Washington, D. 

 C. IIo was born in New Castle, Del., in 1817, 

 educated at Delaware College, studied engi- 

 neering, and was engaged for years in locating 

 and constructing railroads and canals in differ- 

 ent States, the last of which was the great 

 work at Harper's Ferry. Subsequently he 

 studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, 

 and was appointed Deputy Attorney-General 

 for his native county, holding that position un- 

 til 1850, when he was elected a Representa- 

 tive to Congress, serving two terms. In 1849 

 he was appointed, by the Governor of the 

 State, a commissioner to retrace the celebrated 

 " Mason and Dixon's line." In 1864 he was 

 elected a Senator to Congress, for the term 

 ending iu 1869, serving on the Committees on 

 the District of Columbia, Private Land Claims, 

 Manufactures, and Printing. 



March, 31. SPAULDING, Rev. BENJAMIN 

 ADAMS, a Congregational clergyman, died at 



OttninwH. Iowa, aged 52 ;. was ana* 



tive of Billcrica, Mass., entered Yah; College in 



but the following year e.n: 

 more chi-s. in Har\ard ColU-gc. J.T. 

 the c!:i-- of ISlll. 11.- p;i:--i|. d hi- tb.-. 

 studie- in the Andover Seminary with the class 

 of 184:1, and having been urged to go to the 

 valley of the West ho gave him-elf to this 

 work, and was ordained at hciimark, Iowa, 

 November, 1848. He planted churc!, 

 . and in IN:, 1 mtt hi 



pa-tor of the Congregational church in Ot- 

 tiimwa, where ho continued until lMi',:l. After 

 nearly twenty years of labor in that field, in 

 enfeebled health, be sought a more bracing air, 

 and spent nearly a year at Fan Clare, \Vi-< 

 where his ministry was ac d success- 



ful. But the hardships of his missionary life 

 had undermined his constitution, and ho was 

 compelled to rest from his work. In 1865 he 

 was elected Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion for Wapdlo County, Iowa, which office 

 he held at the time of his death. 



April 4. RANDOLPH, GEORGE WTTIIE, Sec- 

 retary of War for the Confederate Government, 

 died in Alhemarle County, Va. He was a na- 

 tive of Virginia, and a grandson of Thomas 

 Jefferson. At the age of thirteen he entered the 

 United States Navy, in which he advanced to a 

 lieutenancy, when he resigned. In 1845 he 

 obtained a license to practice law, and opened 

 an office at Charlottesville, from whence he re- 

 moved, in 1850, to Richmond. At tho begin- 

 ning of the secession movement, Mr. Ran- 

 dolph was regarded as one of its leaders 

 in Virginia. lie was one of the first to en- 

 list, and took part, as a major, in the battle 

 of Bethel. For gallantry in this action he was 

 appointed brigadier^general. On the 17th of 

 March, 1862, he succeeded Mr. Benjamin as 

 Secretary of War, which office he retained until 

 November 17, 1862, when he resigned it on ac- 

 count of an official difference with Jefferson 

 Davis. Having resumed the practice of law, he 

 went, in December, 1863, to France, being 

 charged with business for the Confederate 

 Treasury Department. Ho returned home in 

 September, 1865, his health being hopelessly 

 shattered. 



April 7. WOOD, Rev. JAMES, D. D., an emi- 

 nent Presbyterian clergyman, teacher, and au- 

 thor, died at Hightstown, N. J., aged 67 years. 

 He was a native of New York State, graduated 

 at Princeton Theological Seminary, and, after 

 preaching in Am-terdam, N. Y., for a time, was 

 appointed agent of tho Board of Education for 

 the \Vest. Subsequently he was, for many years, 

 Professor of Church History in the Indiana The- 

 ological Seminary, and upon his resignation be- 

 came principal of an academy for boys iu New 

 Albany, Ind. His next appointment was that of 

 assistant secretary of the Board of Education at 

 Philadelphia. A few years ago he was elected 

 president of Hanover College, Indiana, which 

 position he resigned during the last year, that 

 ho might become principal of the Van Rensse- 



