OBITUAR] 





Presiding 

 II imon I'lea- |ir. 

 tail !!' V, !iic!i year he was the 

 lidaie I'm- County Senator, but 

 following year ho was 

 i 'lerk for live years. 



i 'onimandiT < ii:ni:.;i: \\'., 

 L. lie wa-i a na- 

 which State ho was a citi- 

 M-rvice in ( >ctl>cr, Is 1 1, 

 I liis la-t commisMon July 25, 1866. 

 n more than twenty year-* of sea 

 :h le>s than tliiv:.- in which lie was 

 unemployed. His la^t command was that of 

 166, a paddle-wheel steamer of ten 

 gun- an<l 7 -*' ton.-, to which ho was ordered 

 .rch of tho current year. 

 '. 1. WHITIM;, Hon. GEO. C., Chief Clerk 

 it' the Department of tho Interior, died ia 

 Washington, \). ('., aged ."in years. He was a 

 native of Virginia, and had been in the Govern- 

 -crvice thirty years. Ho was formerly 

 ner of IVn-ions, and had been con- 

 1 with tho Department of the Interior 

 from tho period of its inauguration. For some 

 time lu> had been out of health, and had just 

 returned from a trip to Cape May, feeling 

 . h-.it hy some mistake anover- 

 of morphine was Driven him, from tho 

 - of which he died in sleep. Mr. Whiting 

 B prominent Mason, and held the po- 

 sition of ( i rand Master of the District of Co- 

 lumbia. 



iMv.Eit, General HENRY S., 

 tea Volunteers, died of yellow lever 

 at Galveston, Texas, lie was a resident ot 

 Toledo, Ohio, and had been a prominent 

 Democratic politician there, having been a 

 candidate for Congress in 18(>4, against the 

 i'-y, in which conte-t lie 

 port of the Conservative Re- 

 publicans. During the war h-j wa< commander 

 of the >i\lv--evcnth Ohio iv/nin-nt. Fora 

 short time previous to his death he had been in 

 the employ of the internal revenue service. 



Sept. 7. TTCKKI:. .losr.i-ir. i ])romincnL citi- 

 zen of New York, dkd tliere in tho 80th year 

 of his age. He was horn in Eaton town, N. J., 

 but removed to N'ew York in 18i)5, where ho 

 . .1 in business as a master 'mason or 

 builder. He was a veteran of the \Var of 1812, 

 rved fourteen years in the State militia. 



lie wa< twice elected on the old Whig ticket 



to till the office of alderman. In 1830 lie was 

 strongly urged to accept the nomination of a 

 -entative in Congress, but declined. In 

 1840 he was on the Whig electoral ticket, and 

 in 184:2 was a m.-mber of the New York 

 ibly. 



A.-M.-tant-Surgeon S.VM- 



Maj.ir .I'nited States Army, died at 



yellow fever. He was 



i'orn in the S -.sine, and descended 



from two distinguished patriotic lines. He e:i- 



tiie Naiional Army April 1(5, 

 Alter -;it in the active duties of the 



p-M-matn-nt, ho-|iital - : ,,( the 



!,ac, iiiidei ilan, and 



.ntly with it until it was disbandi-d .subso- 

 (pient to the sunvmlerofi.. 

 I)iiriiitr his liell service lie rose from th. 

 tion -of regimen' ;i to that of M.-dical 



Of the Ninth Army < iving 



r " meritorioii- c.,;idn<-t at the 

 capture of Petersburg." During oye of the 

 clo>ing battles of the war, at a time when the 

 brilliant and raj>id *eri..-s ..f l-\-deral Miccesscs 

 (. uded to obsciiru acts of indisidual gallantry, 

 Or. A<l:im>d istiiigni-lieil bin riding 



along tho advanced line of combatants, and, 

 under the, lire of tho enemy, dressing the 

 wounds of General I'oti'-r, who, from t!. 

 euliar circumstances of th ild not be 



removed from the spot where he fell, and, but 

 for the prompt and gallant action - 

 Adams, would have lost his life. A 

 of tho war Dr. Adams received an invitation 

 from a wealthy and well-known gentleman to 

 accompany his family on a European tour 

 phyMcian. A request made of the War Depart- 

 ment for a leave of absence was, however, re- 

 fused on the ground that his services could not 

 bo spared, and he was soon after ordered to 

 Texas, where, in the language of another who 

 narrates his career, " his last months, and days, 

 and nights, were spent in ministering to the 

 sick and dying, and he fell a victim to over-ex- 

 ertion in saving the lives of others." He was 

 not only eminently faithful in the disc-bar, 

 his professional duties, but was highly esteemed 

 for tho purity of his Christian character. 



Sept. 9. TAYLOR, Kev. THOMAS HOUSE, D. I)., 

 Hector of Grace Church, New York, an eminent 

 scholar and writer, died at his country resi- 

 dence, West Park, on the Hudson, at 

 born in Georgetown, S. C., October 18, 

 and received his collegiate education and theo- 

 logical training in that State. In 1834 he was 

 called to succeed Bishop Wainwright, in the 

 rectorship of Grace Church, New York, at that 

 time on the corner of Broadway and Hector 

 Street. Since that period, his life had been 

 closely associated with tho history and pros- 

 perity of that church. He was an elegant 

 preacher, and as a writer and debater held 

 high rank among the Episcopal clergy of tho 

 country. In the feuds which have distracted 

 the Episcopal Church he was identified with 

 the Low Church, or Anti-Liturgical party, and 

 in the debates and votes of the Dio. 

 vent ions was also on that side. About two 



airo he was thrown from his carri.. 

 his country residence at West Park, and was 

 iously injured by the concussion that he 

 did not recover his health for a long time. In 

 the spring of 1800 his congregation voted him 

 a leave of absence for a year, and sent him to 

 make the tour of tho Continent for the benefit 

 of his health. After his return mu.-!i of his 

 time was spent at his country home on the 

 Hud.son. His ministry, during a period of 

 thirty-t-hree years, was marked by a faithful 



