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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



under the command of Colonel Dimmiek, at 

 Fortress Monroe. The vital importance of re- 

 taining that post had been duly estimated, and 

 early efforts made to secure it by reenforce- 

 ments, concerning the safe arrival of which 

 many fears were entertained, until, upon the 

 21st of April, young Abert, after many perils, 

 reached Washington, as bearer of dispatches 

 from Colonel Dimmiek announcing the arrival 

 of the reinforcements and the safety of Fortress 

 Monroe. On the 14th of May, 1861, Lieuten- 

 ant A. was commissioned* captain in the Sixth 

 regiment, United States Cavalry, and subse- 

 quently was appointed a colonel of volunteers, 

 which rank he held at the time of his death. 

 He served through the whole war with the ex- 

 ception of six weeks, when laid up by a broken 

 leg. At the close of the war he was ordered 

 to Northwestern Texas, and in 1866 was or- 

 dered to Galveston as Acting Assistant Inspec- 

 tor-General of the Military District of Texas. 

 In July previous to his death he was promoted 

 a major of the Seventh Cavalry, though his 

 commission did not reach him until some weeks 

 later. Early in August his family were stricken 

 down with the yellow fever, and a few days 

 after the death of his devoted wife, he fell him- 

 self a victim to the pestilence. He was a brave 

 and accomplished officer and conscientious in 

 the discharge of all his duties as a man and a 

 Christian. 



Aug. 25. CLARK, WILLIAM II., Principal of 

 the Brooklyn branch of "Bryant, Stratton & 

 Clark's Business Colleges,"- died in Brooklyn, 

 aged 35 years. lie was born in Oswego, N. Y., 

 and, when quite young, removed with his pa- 

 rents to Ashtabula County, Ohio. In 1855 he 

 attended the Commercial College at Cleveland, 

 and two years later connected himself with this 

 department of education, which henceforth be- 

 came his life-work, and in which he was emi- 

 nently successful. 



Aug. 26. DAVENPORT, N. T., an actor of 

 considerable celebrity, died in Boston, Mass., 

 aged 36 years. The greater portion of his life 

 was spent in Boston, and he was connected 

 with the first theatre company organized there. 

 He was a careful and conscientious actor, and 

 maintained a good position in society by his 

 talents and integrity. He was also a good 

 sketch-writer. 



Aug. 27. WniTEiiEAD, lion. IRA C., Judge 

 of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, died at 

 Morristown, N. J. He was born near Morris- 

 town in 1798, and graduated at Princeton Col- 

 lege in the class of 1816. He then studied law 

 in the office of the late Chief-Justice Horn- 

 blower of Newark, and was admitted to the 

 bar in May, 1821, continuing the practice of 

 law in his native county until he was called to 

 the bench of the Supreme Court in November, 

 1841. 



Aug. 28. DUNN, Rev. ROBINSON P., D. D., 

 Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in 

 Brown University, Providence,' died at New- 

 port, R. I. Graduating at the university in 



1843, with the highest rank in his class, he was 

 for two years a member of its corps of instruc- 

 tors, and then went to the Princeton Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, where he pursued his theological 

 studies with a zeal and success corresponding 

 to that which had characterized him in college. 

 In 1849 he was ordained and settled as the 

 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in 

 Camden, N. J., where he was eminently useful 

 as a preacher. In 1851 he was called back to 

 the place of his education, to fill the chair of 

 Rhetoric and English Literature, and from that 

 time to the end of his life he performed the du- 

 ties of this department with unusual ability, 

 and the most conscientious fidelity. He was 

 not only accomplished as an instructor and a 

 scholar, holding before his classes the best 

 ideals of literary taste, but he was also a man 

 of fervid Christian faith, and omitted no op- 

 portunity to urge upon the students xmder his 

 care the attractive power of religions truth. 



Aug. 28. HAMLIN, Gen. CYRUS, an officer of 

 United States Volunteers, died of yellow fever 

 in New Orleans, La. He was a native of 

 Maine, and in 1862 was commissioned a captain 

 in the United States Army, and assigned to 

 duty as one of the additional aides-de-camp 

 provided for by law. On Decembers, 1864, he 

 was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general 

 of volunteers, which position he held until the 

 close of the Avar, when he was mustered out 

 of the service. 



Aug. 29. STEARNS, JOSIAH O., Superinten- 

 dent of the New Jersey Central Railroad, died 

 at Elizabeth, N. J. He was born in New 

 Hampshire, in 1.831. He commenced railroad 

 life as conductor on the Pennsylvania Central 

 road, from which he subsequently transferred 

 his services to the New Jersey Central, occupy- 

 ing the position of Assistant Superintendent 

 thereon till 1862, when he succeeded his rela- 

 tive, Mr. John O. Stearns, as Superintendent. ' 

 Mr. Stearns was indefatigable in the discharge 

 of his duties to the company, and was univer- 

 sally esteemed for his liberality to the poor and 

 his many social virtues. 



Aug. 30. McQcEEN, Hon. JOHN, died at So- 

 ciety Hill, near Charleston, S. C. He was born 

 in Robinson County, N. 0., in 1808, and claimed 

 descent in a direct line from Robert Bruce, of 

 Scotland. He was educated under the direc- 

 tion of his brother, Rev. A. McQueen, studied 

 law in his native State, and completing his 

 course in South Carolina, to which he removed 

 his residence, was admitted to the bar in 1828, 

 entering upon the practice of his profession in 

 Marl borough District. In 1833, he was elected 

 a colonel of the State militia, and in 1835 rose 

 to the position of major-general, which he held 

 ten years and then resigned. In 1849 he was 

 elected a Representative in Congress, continu- 

 ing a member to the Thirty-sixth Congress. 

 He was reflected to the Thirty-seventh Con- 

 gress and withdrew in December, 1860. 



Aug. 30. WATJGIT, CHARLES R., Clerk of 

 Essex County, N. J., died at his residence in 



