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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



discharge of its duties, and he held the strong- 

 est affections of his people. 



Sept. 10. GREEK, Chief-Engineer ALEXAN- 

 DER, United States Navy, died suddenly of dis- 

 ease of the heart, at sea, on board the United 

 States steam sloop-of-\var Tuscarora. lie en- 

 tered the Navy as a third assistant engineer, on 

 the 1st of December, 1854, and rose succes- 

 sively, with credit to himself, and usefulness 

 to the service, to the position of chief engineer, 

 which he held at the time of his decease. The 

 commencement of the late war found him on 

 duty as a first assistant engineer on board the 

 sloop-of-war Hartford, in the East Indies, and 

 upon her return to the United States he was 

 actively employed in the fitting out of the 

 steamer Paul Jones, then building for service 

 on the blockade, and in which vessel he sailed 

 on her first cruise, as the senior engineer, in 

 charge of her machinery, until relieved and or- 

 dered to examination for promotion to the rank of 

 chief engineer. Upon two occasions previously 

 notwithstanding his continuous active duty 

 ashore and afloat he had been refused permis- 

 sion to appear for examination for promotion on- 

 account of the same physical disability (disease 

 of the heart) which so suddenly terminated 

 his earthly existence. In consequence of this 

 postponed examination, his promotion, when 

 obtained, found him much below his "date" 

 on the Navy Register though he had never 

 failed to pass all of his professional examina- 

 tions with credit. Soon after his promotion 

 to a chief engineer, he joined the iron-clad 

 frigate New Ironsides, commanded by the pres- 

 ent Rear-Admiral Rowan, then employed in 

 arduous blockade service off Charleston, and 

 frequently engaged in attacks upon the- forts 

 and batteries on Morris or Sullivan's Island. 

 In this vessel he remained until she was put 

 out of commission at the close of the war, after 

 she had taken an important part un4er the 

 command of the present Rear- Admiral Rad- 

 ford, in all the attacks upon Fort Fisher, which 

 led to its capture. After a short period of rest 

 he was again ordered to duty on board the 

 Tuscarora, where he met his untimely death, 

 when the cruise had nearly terminated. 



Sept. 13. LAMBERT, First-Lieutenant Louis 

 J., Seventeenth United States Infantry, died at 

 Brenham, Texas, of yellow fever. He served 

 with distinction during the entire war, as 

 captain and assistant adjutant-general, United 

 States Volunteers, and received successively 

 the brevets of major, lieutenant-colonel, and 

 colonel, for gallant and meritorious service. 

 He entered the Seventeenth United States In- 

 fantry in 1866, and had but recently joined his 

 regiment, when he met his untimely fate. 



Sept. 13. TAYLOR, Captain HENRY M., 

 United States Volunteers, died in New Or- 

 leans. He was a grandson of General Henry 

 Storms, late Commissary-General of New York. 

 At the commencement of the war he en- 

 tered the cavalry service, and for gallant and 

 meritorious conduct was promoted from one 



grade to another until he reached the rank of 

 captain. After the close of the war he was 

 mustered out of service, and took up his resi- 

 dence in New Orleans, where he had been sta- 

 tioned. Here he remained until 'he fell a vic- 

 tim to the yellow fever. 



Sept. 14. FLETJRY, Colonel ERNEST DE, BAROX 

 I>E LISLE, a wealthy Frenchman of high rank, 

 died in New York City. He was born in Lyons 

 of a family of renown throughout France 

 and was educated in Paris. Being very 

 wealthy, he travelled extensively, and more 

 than twenty years ago came to this country. 

 He visited California in 1848, and was subse- 

 quently instrumental in locating the Nicara- 

 gua route* He travelled in Central and South 

 America also, and about nine years ago fixed 

 his residence in the city of Mexico. Earnestly 

 espousing the cause of Maximilian, he joined 

 the Imperial army, and was awarded a cap- 

 tain's commission. Just before the final tri- 

 umph of the Liberals he was promoted to the 

 colonelcy of a regiment of Imperial chasseurs. 

 He was made a prisoner of war at the surren- 

 der of Maximilian, tried by a court-martial, and 

 sentenced to be shot. Two days before the 

 time set for his execution, Colonel de Floury 

 bribed the guard and escaped, going to Vera 

 Cruz in disguise, and thence sailing to Havana 

 and New York. Arriving at the latter city, he 

 was intending to sail for France in the next 

 steamer, but his death occurred in the interim. 



Sept. 16. COLLINS, JOSEPH B., President of 

 the United States Life Insurance Company, 

 died in New York, in the 74th year of his age. 

 He was a native of Trenton, N. J., and entered 

 the insurance business about the year 1841. 

 In 1848 he was elected president of the New 

 York Mutual Life Insurance Company, which 

 position he held until 1853, when being super- 

 seded, he was instrumental in the organization 

 of the United States Life Insurance Company, 

 of which he was president till his death. Mr. 

 Collins was one of the most active promoters 

 of the benevolent organizations of the city, 

 being one of the founders and officers of the 

 City Mission, the Association for Improving 

 the Condition of the Poor, the Juvenile Asylum, 

 etc., etc. He took a deep interest in the wel- 

 fare and moral and intellectual training of the 

 neglected children of the city. 



Sept. 16. O'CoNNELL, Major and Brevet-Colo- 

 nel JOHN D., U. S. Infantry, died at Houston, 

 Texas, of yellow fever. He entered the service 

 in July, 1852, and served with great distinction 

 during the late war, receiving for gallant and 

 meritorious service successively the brevets of 

 major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel. He was 

 a faithful officer, and stood high in the affections 

 of all with whom he was associated. 



Sept. 17. OTTERSON, Rev.. JAMES, a Scotch 

 Presbyterian clergyman, died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa. He was born in New York City in October, 

 1792, and after completing his scholastic educa- 

 tion at Columbia College, entered on the study 

 of theology under Dr. Mason, of the Associate 



