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cil, to which ho had been elected two f 



Mr. l>an:i was through lit\- an 

 .r.ticiim, and strenuous opponent of 



\i> A., a 



rgyman, died in Philadel- 

 l)i. ni in Nuremberg, Havana, 



April is, isi-_>. [a earl? manhood he trarclled 

 .<\\f to Switzerland, and was com cried 

 years. lie j..ined 



-eiiting church in Kivndi Switzerland, but 

 in is:!:, adopted tin- views of the Baptists and 

 went to Herne tor study preparatory to the 

 wo,-k of the ministry, lie became pastor of a 

 church in Kmnienthal, and also performed 

 tnueli missionary labor in a region in which lie 

 was constantly exposed to persecution. After- 

 ward he visited his native city, and while 

 there- received an invitation from George Miil- 

 ler and others associated witli him in Bristol, 



. to labor among the Germans in America. 

 this invitation, lie reached the United 

 States in March, 1839, and soon began his work 

 in N'ewark. X. .1. Among his countrymen he 

 enco ;iieh opposition then and often 



vard. For a year or two he resided in 



ling, Pa., and preached in all the region 

 ' around. In 1842 he removed to Philadelphia, 

 and established there a German church, which 

 under his ministrations rapidly grew and pros- 



1. lie also laid the foundations of several 

 other churches in different parts of the country. 

 His attainments in scholarship were more than 

 ordinary, and as editor of the Senbote for ten 

 u lie exerted a great influence on the opin- 



and practices of the German Baptists of 

 America. 



Oct. 19. IIOYT, EBEK, Chief Engineer U. S. 

 Navy, was killed by the explosion of the boiler 

 of the steatn-yacht Albetnarle, at the Naval 

 Academy, Annapolis, Md. He was born in 

 . May 13, 1834, educated at 

 the public schools, and, after graduating at 

 the high-school, became a student under a 

 prominent architect of that city. lie subse- 

 quently turned his attention to civil engineer- 

 ing, and assisted at the erection of the present 

 li-ht-houso on Minot's Ledge. Later, he made 

 mechanical engineering a special study, and in 

 Mr'.y, 1857, entered the United Stntes Navy; 

 commencing his tirst cruise in October of 

 that year on the late United States frigate 

 Merrimack. The outbreak of the war found 

 him attached to the steam-sloop Richmond, 

 then in the Mediterranean. The vessel was 

 recalled, and sent to join the Gulf squadron, 

 under Farriigut. While in this squadron, Mr. 

 Hoyt was present at the engagement between 

 the Water Witch and the rebel gunboat Ivy ; 

 th- light between the ram Manassas and the 

 U. S. gunboats on the lower Mississippi ; the 

 bombardment of Fort McRae and the batteries 

 at 1'eiisacola; the passage of Forts Jackson and 

 St. Philip, and the Chulmette batteries ; the pas- 



I sage and re- passage <>f Yicksburg; the fight with 

 the Confederate ram Arkansas, and the siege of 



Port Hudson. Upon his return North in 1883, 

 he was promoted to the rank of chief-en;.' 

 and, his health having become impaired by 

 his arduous duties in the Gulf Squadron, he W8 

 . duty MS in>|)cct..r of inm-clads and 

 other learner, then building at Boston. In 

 1805, the Navy Department having determined 

 ihlMi a department of steum engineering 

 at the Naval Academy, ordered him to duty an 

 senior a^istant to Cui^EngfalMf Wood, who 

 was made head of that department. 8 

 queiitly, upon tin- detachment of Mr. Wood, 

 Mr. lloyt became head of the department, and 

 occupied that position until his death ; although 

 his health had been so seriously impair 

 several months previously, that hi ; friends had 

 repeatedly urged him to retire, at least tempo- 

 rarily, from a position that demanded such un- 

 remitted application. Mr. Hoyt was well fitted 

 for the profession he had chosen, and, both as 

 assistant and head of department, has been 

 very largely instrumental in establishing and 

 developing the engineering course at the 

 Academy. Possessing no little mechanical 

 talent, he had originated a number of useful 

 devices, while his quick perception and gener- 

 ous appreciation of the labors of others, lent 

 valuable aid in bringing forward important im- 

 provements that might not otherwise have 

 become known. The great desire of his later 

 life was, that the Naval Engineer Corps should 

 be permanently established in a prominent and 

 acknowledged position as a body of scientific, 

 as well as thoroughly-trained, practical engi- 

 neers, and to that end, no personal sacrifice 

 seems to have been too great. 



Oct. 20. SIEWERS, Rev. JACOB F., a Mora- 

 vian clergyman and missionary, died at West 

 Salem, 111., aged 62 years. He first entered 

 the ministry in 1847, as missionary among the 

 negroes on St. Mary's River, Florida. After 

 terminating his work in this field, he labored 

 as missionary among the destitute population 

 in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. In 

 1857 he was called to take charge of the con- 

 gregation at Bethania, N. 0., where he re- 

 mained until 1865, when ho was appointed to 

 the post at which he died. 



Oct. 21. CUMMINGS, Captain WILBUR F., 

 Fifteenth Infantry, U. S. A., died of yellow fever, 

 at Mobile, Ala. He had proved himself a faith- 

 ful and energetic officer in the volunteer ser- 

 vice, rising by merit to the rank of major, and 

 by way of a recognition of his faithfulness was 

 . appointed a captain in one of the new regi- 

 ments of the regular army organized at the 

 close of the war. His extraordinary zeal in the 

 performance of his duties, was well calculated to 

 elevate his own reputation, and that of his 

 i eirimcnt, winning, at the same time, esteem 

 and respect. 



Oct. 27. FOLSOM, LEVI, M. D., an eminent 

 physician, died in New York. He was born 

 in Limerick, Me., in 1802, and received his 

 academical education at Phillips Academy, 

 Exeter, N. H., where he subsequently studied 



