UNITED 



568 



r tin.' law, :ui'! n able 



IM-trict Attorney f.>r that 

 M accomplished scholar, and tho 

 I dramas. 



. died in 



'.torn in CamSn .. Juno 



.ted at Harvard ' i^l-, 



1 upon the <lr;ith of his father 



. :Vom President Monroe an otlicc 



al Huston, for tho purpose 



:,>pi>rting his mother and family. After 



holding tliis oilico two years, ho was appointed 



. ivhioh appointment was renewed by 



\dam . In 1830 he was removed by 



i.u-kson, solely on political grounds. 



Ote<] a I! [iresentativo ill tlio State 



i.ituns in 1830 and 1831, and afterward 



1 into mercantile business, which ho pur- 



. and was favorably known 



-ion, New York, and Philadelphia, as an 



. and upright business man. 



irew from business and devoted 



aimself to lit'-rary pursuits. 



1*. HAM., Hon. ALI.KV A., United 

 to Bolivia, died at Cochabamba, 

 one of the capitals of that government. Ho 

 ve of North Carolina, and in early 

 1 to Tennessee and coin- 

 ed the practice of law at Nashville. Ho 

 however, .turned his attention to the 

 a;id f i!- thirty years was connected with 

 .iding newspapers of Nashville. In 1826 

 lie took charge of the Nashville Republican 

 md State Gazette, with which, in 1834, other 

 ro consolidated, under the name of 

 / limner, which was again changed, 

 'blican Banner. In 1841 

 Mr. Hall withdrew from the editorial charge of 

 aooepl the po-ition of onargti 

 i .'X.iiehi which was tendered him 

 in, and which position lie 

 continued to fill during the administration of 

 lent Tyler. Returning to Nashville from 

 this mission in 1SK>, he took charge of the 

 . ille Wliij. In 1849 he gave this up to 

 accept tin- position of Register of tho Treasury, 

 to which he was appointed by President Taylor. 

 .tinned in this position for some months, 

 and was then appointed Assistant-Secretary of 

 i he Treasury, under the lion. "Win. P. Mere- 

 dith a warm attachment having sprung up 

 ;i tho two. Ho shortly afterward was 

 induced to take charge of the Republic, the 

 administration paper at Washington, and edited 

 it for some mouths. Subsequently he was dis- 

 patched to San Francisco on public business, 

 ;Vm which ho returned to Nashville, and was 

 connected with the Xa-hvillo Daily Ncirs in 

 1857, 1858, and 1859. lie was a 

 I'nion man. and left Nashville shortly 

 'iho, commencement of tho war, went 

 :> V\" and in 18(53 was appointed 



mini-: -ideiit Lincoln. Mr. 



Hall was an ardent politician, arid a bold and 

 fearless writer of the "Whig school. He com- 



manded the ]-, :ho best men r 



<>f both p 1 when not absorbed 



in the labors of his profession, to which he 



is a genial and agreeable com- 

 panion, llewa- never a candidate, before tin- 

 people for public honors, and his strength wa- 

 ; haii in the forum. 



.'/'// -7. l;ru INCH, THOMAS, an Am* 

 author, died in Mosion, M;i 

 was ;i native of that city, studied in the 

 School, and at Phillips Academy, V. 

 graduated at Harvard Collet,"' in 1H14. li 

 in the mercantile buMii'-ss until ls:j7, when lie 

 was appointed a clerk in the Boston Merchant-' 

 I5ank, which ofHce he held during the remain- 

 der of his life. His leisure 

 to literary pursuits. In 1855 he publisln 

 "Age of Fable," followed by the "Age of 

 Chivalry," "Legends of Charlemagne.' 

 "Poetry of the Age of Fable." His last book 

 was entitled "Oregon and Eldorado; <.r. 

 raance of the Rivers." 



May 29. SMITH, Hon. ALBKHT, a lawyer 

 and politician, died in Boston, Mass. He was 

 bora In Hanover, Plymouth County, Ma--., 

 January 3, 1793 ; graduated at Brown Univer- 

 sity in 1813; was admitted to the bar in 181G, 

 and the following year removed to Maine. In 

 1820 he was sent to the General Court of Mas- 

 sachusetts. From 1830 to 1838 he was Marshal 

 of the United States for Maine, was a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress, from 1839 to 1841, and 

 in 1842 was appointed United States Commis- 

 sioner to settle the Northeastern Boundary 

 under tho Ashburton Treaty, which business 

 was completed in 1847. 



I//// .HALL, Lieutenant-Colonel NORM AN 

 J., United States Army, died in New 

 He graduated at the Military Academy at 

 Point, in 1859; entered the Fourth Artillery; 

 served with General Anderson at Fort Sumter; 

 subsequently took part in General McClellan's 

 Peninsular campaign, serving first in the ar- 

 tillery, and afterward on the staff of McClel- 

 lan ; at the battle of Fredericksburg, while 

 commanding a brigade as Colonel of the Seventh 

 Michigan Volunteers, he volunteered to lead 

 our men across tho river in tho attack. At 

 Gettysburg, while at the head of a brigade, and 

 part of tho time (owing to the death of supe- 

 rior officers) of a much larger command, lie 

 stood the brunt of the enemy's onset until re- 

 lieved ; and throughout his long service in the 

 field ho did constant and gallant duty. At the 

 close of the war his enfeebled health compelled 

 him to ask for a place upon the retired list, 

 which request, was granted. For gallant and 

 meritorious service he \\ ively bre- 



; captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel 

 of the regular army. 



Jnne 1. I)K.VI:!:I:I x, HI'MIMIKKY. an eminent 

 ship-owner and merchant of Salem. Ma--.. 

 died there. He was born in Mnrblehend, Mass., 

 August 6, 1777, graduated at Harvard College 

 in 1798, studied law and was admitted to the- 

 bar of Suffolk, but soon after engaged in nu-r- 



