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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



mandant of the United States Armory in 

 Springfield, Mass. ; died in that city, aged about 

 26 years. He was a graduate of West Point in 

 1862, and served honorably in the late war. 



July 8. TODD, Rev. NATHANIEL, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and teacher, died in Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. He was born in Rowley, Mass., 

 January, 1780 ; graduated at Brown University, 

 R. I., in 1800 ; "studied theology in Philadelphia, 

 and was licensed to preach in 1803, at Bridge- 

 ton, N. J. After preaching some years in 

 Schenectady, his health compelled him to re- 

 sign his charge, and when sufficiently recovered 

 he assumed the two-fold duties of pastor and 

 teacher at Woodbury, N. J. After leaving 

 Woodbury, he was successively principal of an 

 academy at Westchester, Harrisburg, Leb- 

 anon, Mifflinburg, and Beaver, Pa., and for 

 many years of a classical school in Allegheny, 

 where many who are now ministers of the 

 Gospel, teachers, lawyers, physicians, and mer- 

 chants, enjoyed the benefits of his tnition. 

 Though during the greater part of his active 

 life he was known to the public as a teacher, 

 yet he always considered the preaching of the 

 Gospel to be his great business. Mr. Todd was 

 an earnest, open-hearted man, decided in 

 opinions, and expressing himself without dis- 

 guise or reserve. In the early part of his min- 

 istry he took an active part in the revivals 

 which prevailed at that time in New Jersey. 

 His manner in the pulpit in his prime of life, it 

 is said, was impressive, and at times powerful. 



July 8. VAN EMBURGH, Capt. ABEAM, U. S. 

 Volunteers, committed suicide in a fit of insan- 

 ity, at Paramus, N. J., aged 36 years. At the 

 commencement of the late war he oifered his 

 services to the General Government, together 

 with those of his military company, " The Na- 

 tional Guard," and was accepted. Upon his 

 return he was elected to the New Jersey Legis- 

 lature. While at work upon his farm his brain 

 was injured by a sunstroke. 



July 9. KINO, RUFTJS H., a banker, died 

 suddenly at Albany, N. Y., aged 73 years. lie 

 was a native of Ridgefleld, Conn., and was the 

 son of an officer of the Revolutionary Army. 

 When a young man he removed to Albany, and 

 entered into the dry-goods business. Subse- 

 quently he became a director and president of 

 the State Bank in that city, with which he was 

 connected nearly forty years. He was a man 

 of the strictest integrity, and was well known 

 for his liberality. 



July 12. BONNAFON, First-Lieut. A. B., U. 

 S. A., died at Indianola, Texas. He entered 

 the volunteer service at the beginning of the 

 late war, in the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania, 

 and was finally appointed colonel of that regi- 

 ment. For his conduct at the battles of Stone 

 River, Ohickamauga, Mission Ridge, and Resa- 

 ca, he was highly complimented by his com- 

 manding general. At the close of the war Col. 

 Bonnafon was appointed a lieutenant in the 

 regular army. 



July 14. WHITE, WILLIAM N., an editor, 



died at Athens, Georgia. He was for many 

 years previous to his death editor of the 

 Southern Cultivator, the only agricultural 

 paper that sustained itself during the war, and 

 was distinguished for his thorough practical 

 knowledge of agriculture, and his excellent 

 judgment in matters appertaining to farming. 



July 17. HITCHCOCK, DANIEL D., M. D., an 

 eminent physician in the Cherokee Nation, died 

 of cholera, at Fort Gibson, in the 45th year of 

 his age. He enjoyed the advantages of a supe- 

 rior classical and professional education. His 

 father had been a missionary of the American 

 Board among the Cberokee Indians, and find- 

 ing that an educated physician was needed, ho 

 settled among them and practised his pro- 

 fession intelligently and earnestly for about 

 sixteen years. The trying years of the war 

 bore hard on the Cberokee people, and Dr. 

 Hitchcock lost all his property and became 

 broken down in health. He was just recover- 

 ing from these disasters, and had received the 

 appointment of Pension Agent for the Chero- 

 kee Nation, when on the 29th of June cholera 

 broke out at Fort Gibson, and from that date 

 to the 16th of July he labored incessantly, day 

 and night, among the sick and dying, when he 

 was attacked suddenly, and died, after an ill- 

 ness of less than twenty hours. 



July 18. BERGEN, Hon. JOHN G., died in 

 Brooklyn, N". Y. He was born in 1814, and 

 entered public life in 1846 as Supervisor of the 

 Eighth and Ninth Wards of Brooklyn, which 

 post he filled at various times until iS58. lie 

 was one of the original members of the Board 

 of Education. In 1860 he was appointed by 

 the Governor as one of the Commissioners cf 

 the Metropolitan Police, at which post he re- 

 mained until the close of his life. In 1866 he 

 was made a member of the Board of Health, 

 and his faithfulness and devotion in every de- 

 partment of duty greatly aggravated the de- 

 cline of his health. 



July 20. CHANDLER. General SAMUEL, a 

 veteran of the war of 1812, died at Lexington, 

 Mass., in his 74th year. In the year 1812, at 

 the age of 18, he received the appointment of 

 first-lieutenant in the army, and went into 

 service on the Canadian frontier, taking part in 

 the battle of Lundy's Lane and in other en- 

 gagements during the war with Great Britain. 

 At the close of the war he left the service and 

 went into trade in his native town. He soon 

 gained the confidence of his fellow-citizens, and 

 thenceforward took an active part in the town 

 and subsequently in county affairs. After 

 having been a member of both branches of the 

 State Legislature, he was in 1840 elected Sheriff 

 of Middlesex, and held that position until 1855. 

 He was also major-general of the State Militia 

 for many years, but latterly had resided upon 

 his farm and given his attention to agricultural 

 pursuits. 



July 20. McGiLL, Lieut.-Colonel GEORGE 

 McCurxocn, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., died 

 near Fort Lyon, Colorado. He was born in 



