OBITUARIES, UNITED STA'I KS. 





! Ile-idcnt near the same 

 rnment. 



. nwn.i ,8 ' . a promi- 



j.olitician of Michigan, died at Ja--' 

 Midi. II. U at lirid-.'-.-port. Conn., 



June. 17'.i~>. I" l' s:> > s li' became i;nowu tn tlio 

 public a- tin- antlior of ft volume outitl.-<| 

 American l.ibcrlies ami American >' 



v aiul Politically Illustrated,' 1 and from 

 tli ; - time was identified with all the conventions 

 :nd movements of the old Liberty party. In 



tie removed to Michigan to take charge of 

 an ant islavery paper, which was published at 

 a pecuni.-rry ls-, for -ome time. In 1840 and 



he supported James (J. Mirney, and in. 



lohii 1*. Hale, for president, and in 1854, 



:iie IJemihlicau party was formed, ho was 

 tin- nominee of tho Free-Soil party for Com- 

 mi-sioiier of tho State Land OHice. The new 



placi'il his name upon their ticket, and he 



vice elected. Ar. a member of the State 

 Cabinet he was honest and fearless, and dis- 

 tinguished himself by an able State paper against 



onstrtatiooality of the payment by the 

 t' th'- i-x [lenses of the Judges of the Su- 

 ]ireme Court, whose salaries were fixed by the 

 Constitution at a Crossly inadequate sum. His 

 \ie\vs on tiiis subject were followed by the 

 Auditors, in opposition to those 

 of the Attorney-General. From 1859 he lived 

 in retirement upon a farm near Jackson, Michi- 

 gan, where he died. 



11. KINO, lion. JAMES GOKE, died in 



Y-ii-k. lie was horn in Everton, near 

 Liverpool, Knglaiid, Mav 3, 1819, during the 

 temporary residence of his parents there; 

 graduated at Harvard College, in the class of 



-tudied law in New York, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1842 ; was appointed Judge 

 of the Supreme Court in 1850, by Governor 

 Hunt, and held that office till January, 1852. 

 lie then joined th" linn of James (I. King & 

 Sons. 1, anker-. He was widely known for his 



.:_rh patriotism and siriet integrity of 

 oharai 



Junr. \'l. AVirrn-:, ITon. JAMES W., a promi- 

 nent lawyer, Judire of the Supremo Court of 

 New York. di"d at Sjfforns, N. Y., aged Gl 

 years. lie was a native of Limerick, Ireland, 

 and was a nephew of the Irish author (Jerald 

 Grifliu, with whom he was a classmate in Dub- 

 lin I'niver.-ify. He emigrated to America at 

 tho ago of 10, and at Biogharnton studied 

 law with General "Waterman, whose daughter 



larried in 1834. Soon thereafter he 

 moved to New York and opened a law-office, 

 and in compliance with the request of the late 

 Archbishop Il'iirhes founded and edited the 

 New York Freeman's Journal. Ho was an 

 influential member of the, Irish Directory and 



'r in Irish-American movements gener- 

 ally. In ISiin he was elected to the Superior 

 Court. As a zealous Union man during the 

 war. lie heivme the intimat" friend of Secre- 

 tary Stauton and Abraham Lincoln. His physi- 

 cal powers having been overtaxed in a recent 



trial bcfo'v th.. ' 'ourt of Claim*, 



ho retired to his country seat at SuftV 

 he reiuai I until his death. 



Jim?, 13. BI:OWN. THOMAS. ;i lawyer and 

 rly a journalist in Ohio. <li,-d in l',!-.oklyn, 

 I.. I., a-.-ed about -is ye-irs. llcwasanat! 

 Ohio, and passed the earlier years of his life 

 upon his father's farm ; graduated at Franklin 

 College, and studied law in Cleveland, wher--. 

 for a time, he practised his prof... -ion. He- 

 took a prominent part in tho Free Soil move- 

 ment of 1848, and in 1850 abandoned the pro- 

 fession of law, and, in connection with Colonel 

 John 0. Vaughn established the True Demo- 

 rr.it. the Free-Soil organ of Northern Ohio. 

 In 1853 he withdrew from tho Den* 

 which, in the course of the next year, became 

 tho Cleveland J.l- 1\ and t-Mabli-hed the 

 Ohio Farmer. At this time he became a warm 

 personal friend of the lion. Salmon P. ( 

 and on that gentleman's accession to the Treas- 

 ury Mr. Brown was appointed special agent 

 of the Treasury Department for the Pacific 

 coast. In that capacity he first went to San 

 Francisco in 1862, and while there he settled 

 many irregularities in the management of the 

 United States Mint, Marine Hospital, and Cns- 

 tom-IIonse. After his return to New York he 

 acted for some time as Private Secretary to 

 Mr. Smythe, Collector of that Port, and at the 

 time of his death was Supervisor and special 

 agent of the Treasury Department of "New 

 York. Mr. Brown possessed social qualities 

 of the highest order and was a writer of no or- 

 dinary ability. 



June 15. CAKMIKXCKE, Jonx HEHMAXX, a 

 landscape painter, died in Brooklyn, L. I., in 

 the 58th year of his age. He had been for 

 many years a resident of Brooklyn and a suc- 

 cessful teacher of his art ; was a member of the 

 Art Association and one of tho earliest and 

 most active members of the Brooklyn . v 

 emy of Design, and of the Artists' Fund So- 

 ciety of New York. 



June 16. ABBOTT, Brevet Colonel ROBEHT 

 O., surgeon in the United States Army, died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 43 years. He entered 

 the army in 1849, as assistant surgeon, and in 

 that year accompanied Magruder's Battery to 

 California. After serving about five years on 

 tho Pacific coast, ho was ordered East, and 

 served in Florida and Texas until the outbreak 

 of the war in 1861. During 1861, he re- 

 mained on duty in New York, busily occupied 

 M Assistant to the Chief Medical Purveyor. 

 Early in 1862, he joined the army of the Po- 

 tomac for i*s first campaign, and was made 

 Medical Director of the Fifth Army Corps, hold- 

 ing that position till after tho second battle of 

 Kull Run. He was then assigned to duty as 

 Medical Director of the Department of Washing- 

 ton. Ho was there at the head of the great re- 

 ceivinu' depot for the sick and the wounded of 

 the Army of the Potomac, and had charge of 

 all the hospitals in and about AVa*hiugton. to- 

 gether with all tho hospital transports. 



