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can tile pursuits. As a factor, agent, and own- 

 er, he made voyages to various parts of the 

 world, visiting the East Indies and the chief 

 marts of Europe. During the war of 1812 he 

 was captured in one of his vessels and carried 

 to Bermuda, remaining many months on that 

 island. Early retiring from seafaring life, he 

 made Salem his home, and from it directed 

 for a great length of time a vigorous, energetic, 

 skilful and prosperous business as a ship-owner 

 and merchant. 



June 3. TAEDY, Major JOHN^ A., United 

 States Army topographical engineer, died in 

 Georgetown, D. C., aged 28 years. He gradu- 

 ated at West Point in 1860, second in his class; 

 served at Fort Pickens in 1861, and was with 

 the Hilton Head expedition, and finally in the 

 western army, receiving the brevet of major 

 for his services in the field. His death was 

 hastened by exposure ia the performance- of 

 his arduous duties. 



June 5. SHIPPED, WILLIAM, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician, scientist, and philanthropist, 

 died in Philadelphia. He was born in that city, 

 January 29, 1792, and was a grandson of Dr. 

 William Shippen, a surgeon of the American 

 army during the Eevolutionary War, and af- 

 terward one of the founders of the Medical 

 Department of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 He was prepared for college in Germantown, 

 and graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1811, studied medicine under Dr. Cas- 

 par Wistar, and was for some time Professor 

 of Anatomy in the University. Subsequently 

 he practised his profession in Bucks County, 

 Pa., but in 1836 removed to Philadelphia and 

 devoted his time to the public schools, and to 

 the charitable and religious institutions of the 

 city. For nearly forty years he was a member 

 of the Board of Trustees of the College of New 

 Jersey, frequently taking part in the examin- 

 ation of the students in the departments of 

 physical science. He was prominent in all the 

 educational and charitable movements of his 

 native city, and held a high place in the affec- 

 tions of all with whom he was brought into 

 contact. 



June 7. CALHODX, Rev. GEORGE ALBIOX, 

 D. D., an eminent Congregational clergyman, 

 and polemic writer, died in North Coventry, 

 Conn., aged 78 years. He was of Scottish an- 

 cestry, attained to a large stature, and was a 

 leader in his youth among his .companions. He 

 commenced the study of law, but subsequently 

 entered college, and with one other student con- 

 stituted the first class at Hamilton, and took 

 his degree on graduation at Williams, where he 

 had studied during a part of his course. By 

 great efforts and the most rigid economy he 

 completed his studies at Andover and was 

 licensed to preach April 22, 1817. 



The year after his graduation he spent as a 

 Home Missionary in the vicinity of Geneva, in 

 Western New York, preaching almost daily, 

 and laboring so diligently and continuously as 

 permanently to injure his health. Thence he 



removed to North Coventry, where he was in- 

 stalled as pastor, March 10, 1819, and devoted 

 himself with great zeal and energy to his work. 

 Such were his views of the sacredness of the 

 pastoral relation that he declined several invi- 

 tations to other important fields of labor 

 though he spent 'one year very successfully in 

 collecting funds for the endowment of the 

 Theological Institute of Connecticut, of which 

 he was for many years a trustee, and that semi- 

 nary owes much of its prosperity to his devoted 

 and zealous efforts. 



He was elected Fellow of Yale College in 

 1849, and received the degree o/D. D. from his 

 Alma Mater, Hamilton College, in 1852. 



On account of age and infirmity he resigned 

 active pastoral duties in 1861. 



June 7. O'HAEA, Col. THEODORE, formerly 

 an officer of the United States Navy, and a poet 

 of some merit, died in Barbour County, Ala. 

 He was a native of Kentucky, in which State 

 he resided for some years ; served in the army, 

 and subsequently was connected with the Lopez 

 and Walker movements. During the war he 

 was an officer on the staff of A. S. Johns- 

 ton, and afterward upon that of General Bragg. 

 At one time he edited the Mobile Register. 



June 7. TRIMBLE, J. M., a theatrical archi- 

 tect, died in Albany, N. Y. He was born in 

 New York in 1813, and early connected him- 

 self with the United States Navy. Leaving 

 that, he turned his attention 'to the trade of 

 carpentry. At a later period he became con- 

 nected with the Bowery Theatre as stage-car- 

 penter. From the Bowery he \vent, in the 

 same capacity, to the old National, where he 

 distinguished* himself by devising excellent 

 scenery and stage appointments. After the 

 National Theatre was burned, he became an 

 architect and builder of theatres. He built 

 Tripler Hall, the old Broadway, the Olympic, 

 and the New Bowery, besides theatres in Buf- 

 falo, Charleston, Richmond, and other cities. 

 He remodelled the Albany Museum, and, in 

 18(53, built the Albany Academy of Music, 

 which continued under his management until 

 his death. For several years previous to his 

 death he had been totally blind. 



June 9. PECK, Hon. HENRY E., Minister Resi- 

 dent and Consul-General of the United States 

 to Hayti, died at Port au Prince. He was a 

 native of Rochester, N. Y. After studying 

 theology, he entered the Congregational minis- 

 try. Some years later he was appointed pro- 

 fessor at Oberlin College, Ohio. Mr. Peck be- 

 came early known as an ardent champion of 

 the antislavery cause, and in 1856 he took an 

 active part in the presidential campaign. He 

 exercised a great political influence in his own 

 and the adjoining States, hut was never known 

 to seek any office. In 1862, his health being 

 greatly impaired, he accepted from Mr. Lincoln 

 the position of Commissioner to Hayti, hoping 

 thus both to improve his health and to have an 

 opportunity to continue his efforts in behalf of 

 the negro race. In 1865, he received the ap- 



