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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



April 16. HALL, GEORGE, former Mayor of 

 Brooklyn L. I., died in that city. He was 

 born September 21, 1795, and was a printer 

 by trade. The greater portion of his active 

 life was devoted to the interests of Brooklyn, 

 of which he was a trustee at the time it was 

 incorporated as a city, and under the act of 

 incorporation became its first mayor. In 1854 

 he was again elected mayor. He early took 

 a strong stand for the cause of temperance, to 

 which reform he devoted the best energies of 

 his life. His philanthropy was one of the most 

 prominent features of his character, and his 

 generosity toward the needy often led him to 

 be unjust to himself. His unflinching integrity 

 and nobleness of purpose won the respect and 

 love of all classes of the community. 



April 17. HOMANS, JOHN, M. D., an emi- 

 nent and skilful physician of Boston, Mass., 

 died in that city. He was born in Boston in 

 1793 ; studied at Phillips Academy, Andover ; 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1812 ; re- 

 ceived his degree of M. D. in 1815, and entered 

 upon the practice of his profession in Worces- 

 ter, where he remained one or two years. 

 From thence he removed to Brookfield, Mass., 

 where he practised until 1829, when he re- 

 turned to Boston. For several years he was 

 president of the Massachusetts Medical So- 

 ciety. 



April 23. FIELD, JONATHAN EDWARDS, 

 an eminent lawyer of Massachusetts, died at 

 Stockbridge, Mass. He was a son of Dr. 

 D. D. Field, and was born in Connecticut, 

 July 11, 1813 ; graduated at Williams College 

 in 1832 with the second honor of his class, and 

 immediately after commenced the study of 

 law in the office of his brother, David Dudley 

 Field, New York. At the age of twenty he 

 removed to Michigan, and soon after began the 

 practice of law at Ann Arbor, and was one of 

 the secretaries of the convention which ac- 

 cepted the act of Congress for the admission 

 of Michigan into the Union. His health fail- 

 ing, after five years he -returned to Stockbridge 

 in 1839, where he resided until his death, en- 

 gaged in the practice of his profession, and 

 serving the public in several capacities at dif- 

 ferent times. In 1854 he was appointed by 

 Governor Washburn, under an act of the Le- 

 gislature, one of a commission to report a 

 plan for the revision and consolidation of the 

 statutes of Massachusetts. He served also as 

 a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1855, 

 1863, '64, and '65, and was for three terms 

 president of that body, an honor never before 

 conferred on one of its members. His courte- 

 ous yet dignified manners and his profound 

 legal attainments secured for him the respect 

 and esteem of the members of the legal profes- 

 sion, and in the community in which he re- 

 sided his death was universally regarded as a 

 great public loss. 



April 25. BKONSON, CHARLES P., a noted 

 lecturer on physiology and elocution, died in 

 New York City, aged 66 years. He was for 



many years a teacher in elocution, and was the 

 author of a work on elocution which had a 

 circulation of 125,000 copies. The principal 

 work of his later life was the preparation of a 

 Bible, so printed as to show accent, rhetorical 

 pauses, and emphatic words. This immense 

 labor is complete, but has not yet been pub- 

 lished. 



April 25. BTJEL, Hon. ALEXANDER W., died 

 in Detroit, Mich. He was born in Rutland 

 County, Yt., in 1813 ; graduated atMiddlebury 

 College in 1830, studied law, and in 1834 re- 

 moved his residence to Michigan. In 1836 he 

 was attorney for the city of Detroit; in 1837 

 was elected to the State Legislature, and again 

 in 1847, and 1849 to 1851 was a Representative 

 in Congress from Michigan, serving on the 

 Committee on Foreign Affairs. 



April 25. MASON, Rev. HENRY M., D. D., 

 an Episcopal clergyman, died at Easton, Md. 

 He had been rector of Christ Church in that 

 town for thirty years. 



April . WARD, HORATIO, a banker of well- 

 known philanthropy, died in London. He was 

 a native of New York, but had resided many 

 years in London. He left $100,000 to the Na- 

 tional Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Washing- 

 ton, D. 0., and $100,000 for the benefit of or- 

 phans made by the late war. 



May 3. PITTS, SAMTJEL, editor of the De- 

 troit Advertiser, died in Detroit, Mich., aged 

 58 years. He was born at Fort Preble, Port- 

 land harbor, Maine; graduated at Harvard 

 College in the class of 1830 ; studied law, and 

 practised his profession in Detroit twelve years. 

 He subsequently engaged extensively in the 

 manufacture of pine lumber, and withdrew en- 

 tirely from his profession. He built up a very 

 large business, realizing therefrom a handsome 

 fortune. 



May 3. STOHLMANN, Rev. CHARLES F. E., 

 D. D., an eminent Lutheran clergyman, died in 

 New York, aged 58 years. He was born near 

 Buckeburg, Schaumburg-Lippe, in 1810, and 

 emigrated to this country in 1833. For thirty 

 years he was pastor of the St. Matthew's Ger- 

 man Evangelical Lutheran Church in New 

 York. He was widely known as a writer in 

 the Lutheran Herald, and other German pa- 

 pers. 



May 4. RIPLEY, Miss MARIANNE, an emi- 

 nent teacher and scholar, sister of George 

 Ripley, died in Milwaukee, Wis. She was 

 born in Greenfield, Mass., received a good New- 

 England education, and was for some years the 

 assistant of her father, who was engaged in 

 the mercantile business. About the year 1836 

 she commenced teaching. Subsequently she 

 joined her brother and some of his friends, 

 who afterward became eminent in literature, 

 in that Utopian enterprise, the Brook Farm 

 community, and gave to it her best energies 

 and her most earnest labor. When this enter- 

 prise had utterly failed, she went to Concord, 

 Mass, (in 1848), and opened a school, which was 

 highly successful, until she was obliged to 



