OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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March 1. HOLT, Judge J. J., died at La- 

 vacca, Texas. He was a brother of Joseph 

 Holt, late Attorney- General U. S., and was at 

 one time Justice of the Tenth Judicial District 

 of that State. 



March 4. BAXTER, FOETUS, died in Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. He was born in Brownington, 

 Vt. ; received a liberal education, entered 

 the mercantile business, and was elected a 

 Representative from Vermont to the Thirty- 

 seventh Congress, serving on the Committee 

 on Elections; reflected to the Thirty-eighth 

 Congress, and served on the same committee, 

 and also on that of Expenditures in the Navy 

 Department. In 1852 and in 1856 he was a 

 presidential elector. Was reflected to the 

 Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Com- 

 mittees on Elections and Agriculture. He was 

 a Republican in politics, and an able defender 

 of the interests and rights of the poor and op- 

 pressed. 



March 5. BURROUGHS, CHARLES, D. D., an 

 Episcopal clergyman, died in Portsmouth, N. H. 

 He was born in Boston, Mass., December 27, 

 1787; graduated at Harvard University in the 

 class of 1806 ; studied theology, and was or- 

 dained priest in 1812. Having been chosen 

 rector of St. John's Church, Portsmouth, he 

 officiated in that capacity for nearly half a 

 century. He was for nearly thirty years presi- 

 dent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the 

 Insane; was for nearly forty years annually 

 elected president of the Portsmouth Athe- 

 naaum; was elected in 1842 corresponding 

 member of the Massachusetts Historical So- 

 ciety, and was president of the General Theo- 

 logical Library of Boston from the period of its 

 establishment until his death. In 1833 the 

 degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 

 upon him by Columbia College. 



March 6. COOPER, Mrs. JULIA DEAN, an 

 actress ' of high reputation, died in New York 

 City, aged 37 years. She was educated by her 

 father (himself an actor) for the stage, and 

 made her first appearance at the old Broadway 

 Theatre. Her success was a flattering one, 

 and her reputation extended West and South, 

 where she married a Mr. Hayne, of Charleston. 

 Seven or eight years after, she moved to San 

 Francisco, having been obliged- to return to 

 her profession for the support of her family. 

 Subsequently she separated from her husband, 

 and in 1866 married a Mr. Cooper, of New 

 York. She was a lady of high literary culture 

 and many private virtues. 



March, 6. LINCOLN", Dr. ISAAC, an eminent 

 physician in Maine, died at Brunswick, Me. He 

 was born in Cohasset, Mass., January, 1780; 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1800, and sub- 

 sequently taught a grammar-school in Hingham 

 two years, giving his leisure hours to the study 

 of medicine. In 1804 he commenced practice 

 in Topsham, Me., and in 1820 removed to 

 Brunswick, where he was a successful practi- 

 tioner for more than half a century. In 1831 

 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of 



Medicine from Bowdoin College, of which insti- 

 tution he was overseer for more than sixty 

 years. 



March 11. ANDREWS, Colonel TIMOTHY P., 

 U. S. A., died in Washington, D. C., aged 74 

 years. When a young boy, without the 

 knowledge of his father, he repaired to the 

 Patuxent River, where commodore Barney's 

 flotilla was confronting the enemy during the 

 War of 1812, and, boarding the flag-ship, ten- 

 dered his services to the commodore, in any 

 position in which he could be useful. The 

 commodore accepted his offer, and employed 

 him as an aide, in which position he rendered 

 valuable services. He subsequently was en- 

 gaged in active service in the field, and in 1822 

 was appointed paymaster in the army. In 

 1847 he resigned to take command of the regi- 

 ment of voltigeurs raised for the Mexican War. 

 He was distinguished in the battle of El Molino, 

 and brevetted a brigadier-general for gallant 

 and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cha- 

 pultepec. On the close of the war, and the 

 disbandment of the voltigeurs, .he was rein- 

 stated by act of Congress in his old situation 

 of paymaster, and in 1851 was promoted to 

 the position of - Deputy Paymaster-General. 

 During the late war, upon the death of General 

 Lamed, Colonel Andrews succeeded him as 

 Paymaster-General of the army, and his un- 

 wearied devotion to the responsible duties of 

 his position seriously affected his health. 



March 22. CARTER, JOSIAH MASON, an emi- 

 nent lawyer and politician, of Connecticut, 

 died at Norwalk, Conn. He was born in New 

 Canaan, Conn., June 19, 1813; graduated at 

 Yale College in 1836, and, after a course of 

 study in the Law School in New Haven, was, 

 in 1839, admitted to the bar in Fairfield 

 County. From 1840 to 1847 he was engaged 

 in the practice of his profession in New York 

 City, when he removed to Norwalk, and formed 

 a partnership with Thomas B. Butler, which 

 continued until 1855, when Mr. Butler was 

 transferred to the bench. He served three 

 terms in the State Legislature, during the 

 last of which he was Speaker of the 

 House. From 1862 until Ms death, he held 

 the office of State Attorney for Fairfield 

 County, and was also, for a number of years, 

 chairman of the Board of Education in the 

 town of Norwalk. Mr. C. was once the can- 

 didate of his party for the office of Lieutenant- 

 Governor, and twice declined the nomination of 

 Judge of the Superior Court. 



March 27. FREEMAN, PEYTON RANDOLPH, 

 died in Hanover, N. H., in the 93d year of his 

 age. He was a native of Hanover, and graduated 

 at Dartmouth College in 1796, being the last 

 surviving graduate of that class, and the 

 oldest alumnus of the institution in the order 

 of graduation. 



March 27. GOODRICH, Rev. CHAUNCEY, 

 a Congregational clergyman, died in New 

 Haven, Conn. He was the eldest son of Prof. 

 Chauncey A. Goodrich, and was born in Mid- 



