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and took a position on The Tribune. .He was 

 a gentleman of extensive information, and a 

 ready and vigorous writer. 



Nov. 25. BRONSON, SILAS, a wealthy and 

 philanthropic citizen of Waterbury, Conn., died 

 at New York. He was a native of Middlebury, 

 Conn. Among his bequests was the sum of 

 $200,000 to the city of Waterbury for a public 

 library. 



Nov. 25. CROSS, Hon. JOHN A., President of 

 the Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn, and of the 

 Broadway Railroad Company, died in Brook- 

 lyn, L. I., aged 64 years. During a long aud 

 active business and public career, Mr. Cross had 

 represented the Seventh Ward in the Board of 

 Aldermen, when that ward consisted of the 

 present Seventh, Eleventh, Nineteenth, and 

 Twentieth Wards. He served two years in 

 the State Legislature, and one year in the 

 Senate. 



Nov. 25. SHERMAN, CONGEE, a celebrated 

 printer of Philadelphia, died in that city, aged 

 74 years. He was born near Albany, and when 

 a young boy entered the office of The Albany 

 Journal. In the year 1811 he removed to Phil- 

 adelphia, where from 1812 to 1830 he worked 

 as a journeyman printer. In 1830 he pur- 

 chased the printing establishment of Messrs. 

 Tower & Hogan, booksellers, of Philadelphia. 

 He began in a small way, with four or five 

 hand-presses, but in 1837 was enabled to erect 

 a steam-press the second one for book -printing 

 in that city. From that time until 1860 he was 

 engaged in the production of books, which for 

 beauty of typography have seldom been sur- 

 passed. In 1860 he retired from business. 



Dec. 6. JUDKINS, JESSE PARKER, M. D., an 

 eminent surgeon, died in Cincinnati. He was 

 born in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, 

 in 1815, and was descended from a Quaker 

 family whose names have been identified with 

 medicine for nearly a century. His collegiate 

 education was obtained at Cannonsburg and 

 Steubenville, Ohio, and his medical education 

 at the Ohio Medical College, from which he 

 graduated M. D. in 1838. In the following year 

 he received from that institution an appoint- 

 ment as Demonstrator of Anatomy, which he 

 accepted, adding to these duties the practice of 

 his calling, and in a short time won a place in 

 the front rank of his profession. In 1847 Dr. 

 Judkins was called to the chair of Anatomy in 

 the Starling Medical College of Columbus, and 

 continued to occupy that position until 1852, 

 when he accepted the professorship of Descrip- 

 tive Surgery in the Miami Medical College, 

 where he remained until his death, having had 

 his department changed to that of Special Pa- 

 thology. In 1853 he visited Europe for the 

 purpose of giving his attention to the study of 

 the higher branches of the surgical art. He 

 remained abroad over a year, during which 

 time he visited all the famous hospitals of tho 

 Continent. In 1864 the loss of an elder brother 

 preyed so strongly upon his mind that his health 

 was affected seriously, and since that period he 



had necessarily been less active in his profes- 

 sional duties. 



Dec. 7. BURROUGHS, Captain JOHN H., Uni- 

 ted States Marine Corps, died in St. Thomas, 

 W. I., of yellow fever. He was a native of 

 Pennsylvania, and entered the service in June, 

 1861, from the State of Minnesota, as a second 

 lieutenant in the marine corps, and was ordered 

 to the sloop-of-war Cyane, in the Pacific squad- 

 ron. He was shortly afterward promoted to 

 a first lieutenancy, and served on her for more 

 than two years. Erom the Cyane he was or- 

 dered to the sloop-of-war St. Mary's, still serv- 

 ing in the Pacific squadron. On the 1st of 

 September, 1864, he was promoted to a cap- 

 taincy, and ordered home, and after a brief 

 furlough was attached to the Marine Barracks 

 at Philadelphia. He was soon thereafter placed 

 in command of the Marine Guard on the Ehode 

 Island, flag-ship of th'e West India squadron, 

 and when the Susquehanna became the flag-ship 

 of the North Atlantic squadron, he joined her 

 as senior officer of the marines, and continued 

 to serve on her until his death. 



Dec. 7. MANAHAN, Eev. AMBROSE, D. D., a 

 Roman Catholic priest, died in Troy, N. Y. 

 He was born in New York in 1814, and at the 

 age of seventeen years left this country to pur- 

 sue his ecclesiastical studies in Rome. Return- 

 ing from Europe, he was appointed in 1841 

 president of St. John's College, at Fordham, 

 N. Y. When this college was given to the 

 Jesuits, Father Manahan became pastor of St. 

 John's Church, New York City. Some time 

 after this, at the request of his fellow-student, 

 Bishop Fitzpatrick, he went to Boston, where 

 he remained for some years. Subsequently his 

 declining health induced him to spend a few 

 months in Utica, and from thence he entered 

 the hospital of the Sisters of Chanty in Troy, 

 where he died. He was the author of the 

 " Triumphs of the Catholic Church in the Early 

 Ages " (1859), and also of some minor works. 



Dec. 9. BROWN, JOHN B., died in Washing- 

 ton, D. 0. He was a native of Richfield, Ot- 

 sego County, N. Y., and was born July 16, 1807. 

 In 1849 he emigrated to Alexandria County, 

 Va., where he soon became a leader of the Re- 

 publican party of Virginia. In 1856 he was 

 one of the electors for Fremont. In 1860 he 

 was a delegate to the convention at Chicago 

 which nominated Abraham Lincoln for Presi- 

 dent. Upon his return home he was arrested 

 and thrown into prison, on the charge of cir- 

 culating incendiary documents. When the 

 war broke out, $1,000 was offered for his ap- 

 prehension by the Confederate authorities. 

 Soon after the election of Mr. Lincoln he re- 

 ceived an appointment in Washington, which 

 he held for five years. 



Dec. 9. JOHNSTON, EDWARD WM., an editor, 

 died at St. Louis, Mo., aged 68 years. He was 

 a grandson of Patrick Henry, and a brother of 

 J. E. Johnston, the Confederate general. He 

 was a man of brilliant and varied literary ac- 

 complishments, was ten years the literary editor 



