OBITUARIES, rMTKD BTATE8. 





nilv, lYiin-ylvania, April '2'', 1838, 



graduated \vitli hiu'h honor .-it i'i-inect..ii, in 



ui.l at tin- Mt-ili.-al rni\er.Mtv "!' IVim- 



ia n !"<r, |. II d.-nt I'hyMcian 



in Itlockley Alm-hoii-e. Philadelphia, in 



ami ITtt OOtnmiMioned A--i-tant Sin-.'.- -i. 1 . 9. 



Army, to date from April 1C,, 1801-'2, sine.' 

 which time lii-i s.M-vice ha- b.-.-n constant anI 

 disiinu'iii-licd. IK- \vas enirag.-d in hospital 

 duty in Washington, with temporary details to 



. itile-ticlds of Antictam and Frederleks- 



hurg, until March, 1H(!3, \vlu-n la- joined the 

 Army of the Potomac, and was attached to the 

 3, Cavalry. His gallantry and sur- 

 gical skill soon brought liiin into notice, and in 

 . I line ho was made Modieal In-pector of the 

 Cavalry Corps. At the battle of Beverly 

 Ford, where ho acted as aide-de-camp, his 

 hor<e was killed, and he was sli.irht.ly wounded. 

 In May, 1SH4, he was Acting Medical Director 

 of the Cavalry Corps, and served as such during 



.podition against Richmond. In June he 

 was made Acting Medical Inspector of the 

 Army of the Potomac, and -erved as such on 

 General Meade's staff until January, 1865, 

 when he was placed on hospitAl duty at Balti- 

 more. Upon the outbreak of the cholera in 

 New York harbor, in the summer of 1866, be 

 was transferred to Hart's Island, and thence to 

 David's I.-land, where he remained until May, 

 1867, whence he was sent to the Department 

 <>f the Missouri. lie was ordered to New 

 Mexico, joining two companies of the Thirty- 

 eighth Infantry (colored), at Fort Harker, near 

 which post cholera broke out in the command. 



ife fell a victim to the disease soon after 

 leaving Fort I)odge, and four days afterward, 

 exhausted by grief, anxiety, and incessant, 

 lahor, he himself yielded up his life. He had 

 received the following brevets: Captain, to 

 date from May 12, 1864, for gallant and meri- 

 torious service at the battle of Meadow Bridge, 

 Ya., it ; s believed on the personal recommenda- 



>( General Sheridan; Major, to date from 

 March 1:5, 18G5, for faithful and meritorious 

 -ervicc- dr.rinir the war; Lieutenant-Colonel, to 

 date September 28, 1866, for meritorious and 

 distinguished services at Hart's Island, New 

 York harbor, when cholera prevailed. 



July 23. GOLDSBOROUGII, lion. BRICE J., 

 Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, died 



Cambridge, Md., in his 6-lth year. He 

 entered public life as a representative of Dor- 

 chester County in the Maryland House of Del- 



9, in 1824, served two terms, was ap- 

 pointed Associate District Judge, and held this 

 position until it was abolished by the Consti- 

 tution of 1851. lie then resumed practice as 

 u lawyer until 18il, wlien Governor Hicks ap- 

 pointed him to till a vacancy in the Court of 

 Appeals, an office to which he was triumph- 

 antly elected at the next election succeeding 

 the death of his predo.-e--.or. Judge Goldsbor- 

 .vas an ardent and active Union man from 

 the beginning to ihe end of the Rebellion. 

 July 23. SEITZ, Rev. CASIMII:, a Roman 



Catholic pric-t of the Benedictine <' 



ark, X. J. lln was born in I >_".), in the 

 kin^I'iin of Havana, and in 1-S.T1 |i -;'i hi, father- 

 land f.-r St. Vim-cut'-, in IVnn-ylvania, win-re 

 d. He mad. l.i- oleum 

 in Is'.i'i, and having from- through 

 bis th.-oh.-ical stud'. Ill in 1857, 



the Ycr\ R. -\erciid Aii-n-tine Wirth. O. S.B., 

 for the pur '.IMiinL' (founding) anew 



of the Order, to Kan-a-, \\ ' 

 soon ordain, d pri.--t by t he Ri-lit R-\ 'Tend J. 

 15. Mi'-.'--. Hi hop Of I.'-a\eiiwi;rth. Not l-.n_' 

 afterward he had a large lield assigned for bin 

 lar'y labors, exteiid'.n^ o\. r mor.- than 

 two hundred mik-s. His health failing, he was 

 advi.-cd by his physicians to go to Germany, 

 which he did, with the permi- -ion of i 

 pcrior. After an absence of a few months he 

 returned home, and was made Prior of th< 

 edictino Convent, at St. Mary's, Erie, Pa., 

 which position he held nearly three years. In 

 January, 1807, he was made Vice-President of 

 St. Vincent's Abbey, Westmoreland County, 

 Pa. Ho removed to Newark a short time pre- 

 vious to his death. 



July 23. SIT.AR, Hon. JAMES, a newspaper 

 writer of great ability, died in New York, 

 aged 25 years. He was a native of Rathmines, 

 Dublin, Ireland, graduated at Trinity College, 

 Dublin, in 1802, and then became a reporter 

 on The Irish Times, the leading journal of the 

 Irish capital. After a short term of service 

 Mr. Spear removed to America and became an 

 attache of The New York Herald, on which 

 paper he gained considerable reputation as a 

 ready and facile writer on all matters relating 

 to New York life. Early in the summer of 

 1866 he was sent to Europe as a correspondent 

 of The Herald, during the German war, and 

 remained abroad three months. On his return 

 he joined the staff of The New York World 

 newspaper, where he remained constantly em- 

 ployed until his decease, which resulted from 

 an attack of fever. 



July 24. BRADFORD, Jonx QCIXCY, an emi- 

 nent lawyer, died in New Orleans, La. He had 

 a collegiate education at the North, and soon 

 after his graduation went to New Orleans; wag 

 an Administrator of the University of Louisiana, 

 and District Attorney of the Parish of Plaque- 

 mines, lie was a staunch Union man during 

 the war, and for his loyalty to the Government 

 was, in 1862, cruelly beaten by a mob at the 

 Post-office. 



Jnlil ~1\. "McI.Ki.i.AN, Major DAVID, United 

 States Yolun'cers; died in Nov.- York, aged 42 

 He was for many years connected with 

 various Scotch societies in Now York, and for 

 five years hold the oilice of Chief of the Cale- 

 donian Club. Ho was among the first of the 

 y-ninth Regiment (Highlander^, to vol- 

 unteer 'in 1861, and on the fall of Colonel Cam- 

 eron he commanded his regiment at Bull 

 Kun. 



July 20. MACE, Hon. DAXIEL, died by his 

 own hand, at Lafayette, Ind. He was a native 



