OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Aug. 31. BISHOP, HIRAM N., D. D., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman of remarkable ability and elo- 

 quence, died in Paris, France, from the effects of 

 sun-stroke, aged 45 years. He was rector of St. 

 John's Episcopal Church, Chicago, but had ac- 

 cepted a call to the rectorship of St. John's, Cin- 

 cinnati, and was spending a few months in Eu- 

 rope before entering upon the duties of his new 

 charge, when he was suddenly taken away by 

 congestion of the brain induced by sun-stroke 

 experienced at Lucerne, Switzerland. 



Aug. 31. KRAFT, HENRY, Ph. D., an ac- 

 complished German chemist, died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. He was born in 1801, in Bavaria, and 

 emigrated to America in 1844. He was a pri- 

 vate pupil of Professor Fuchs, of the Uni- 

 versity of Landshut, from which institution 

 Professor Kraft graduated. He was eminent 

 as a chemist, and pursued his profession with 

 a zeal which his ardent enthusiasm for natural 

 science fostered. His contributions to science 

 were mostly published in Germany. His cor- 

 respondence with the prominent scholars of this 

 country and Germany testifies to the esteem in 

 which he was held by that class of true philan- 

 thropists. 



Aug. . ANDROS, R. S. S., an American 

 editor, poet, author, and Government official, 

 died at Berkeley, Mass. He was th.e son 

 of Kev. Thomas Andros, author of "The 

 Jersey Prison Ship," and in early life was ed- 

 itor of several newspapers, and contributed a 

 number of poems of exquisite beauty to the 

 Democratic Review, then under the charge of 

 Mr. O'Sullivan. He was for several years 

 Deputy Collector of the port of Boston, and 

 prepared a codification of the Revenue Laws or 

 Customs Guide, which is the standard author- 

 ity with all having business at the Oustom- 

 House. - Since the war, he had acted as the 

 confidential agent of the Treasury Department 

 in organizing custom-houses in the South. 



Aug. . POSEY, Mrs. RACHEL, the widow 

 of a Revolutionary soldier, and herself a Revo- 

 lutionary pensioner, died at Valley Forge, Pa., 

 aged 103 years. Her recollections of the suffer- 

 ings of the army under General Washington, 

 at Valley Forge, in the terrible winter of 1777- 

 '78 were very vivid. Her husband, to whom she 

 was married just after the war, was many years 

 her senior, and fought through the war, being 

 wounded and taken prisoner, and suffering 

 many hardships. He lived till 1827. Mrs. 

 Posey had had 248 descendants, five of them in 

 the sixth generation. 



Aug. . SMITH, Brevet Brigadier-General 

 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Major 27th Infantry, 

 U. S. A., died at Fort Reno, Wyoming Territory, 

 aged 37 years. He was born in Trenton, New 

 Jersey, in 1831, appointed to West Point by 

 Hon. J. E. Edsall, in 1849, and graduated in 

 1853, thirty -ninth in his class. He served on 

 the frontier, in Texas, Nebraska, Utah, Kan- 

 sas, California, Nevada, Washington Territory, 

 Montana, etc., till the war, and was promoted 

 to a captaincy, May 14, 1861, was colonel of 



the 1st Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and took 

 part in the battle of Shiloh ; was transferred to 

 the Army of the Potomac, and fought through 

 the Peninsular campaign ; assigned to command 

 of 126th Ohio Volunteers, and in West Virginia 

 operations, much of the time as brigade com- 

 mander, to June, 1863, and subsequently in 

 Central Virginia, till the close of the war ; bre- 

 vetted brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers for 

 services before Petersburg ; after the war Pro- 

 vost Marshal-General, Department S. 0., in au- 

 tumn of 1865 ; acting Assistant Commissioner 

 Freedmen's Bureau and commander of post 

 of Georgetown, S. 0., till August, 1866 ; subse- 

 quently on recruiting service, and on frontier 

 duty at Forts Philip Kearny and Reno till his 

 death. He was promoted to be major of 27th 

 Infantry, U. S. A., July 28, 1866. He was 

 greatly beloved by all his associates for his 

 amiable manners and kindliness of heart. 



Sept. 1. SIMEON, BENJAMIN, a wealthy and 

 philanthropic citizen of Elmira, N. Y., died at 

 Riverhead, L. I. He was born at Riverhead, 

 in May, 1792. He engaged in mercantile busi- 

 ness in his native town and in New York City, 

 and, having been greatly prospered, removed 

 in 1835 to Elmira, and invested largely in real 

 estate in that then small village. The steady 

 advance of this property laid the foundation of 

 his large fortune. His philanthropic dispo- 

 sition led him to take a deep interest in the 

 religious and charitable enterprises of the day, 

 being particularly interested in the cause of 

 education. He was one of the founders of the 

 Elmira Female College, to which he gave in all 

 $80,000. He also gave largely to the Auburn 

 Theological Seminary, Hamilton College, home 

 and foreign missions, and various other ob- 

 jects. 



Sept. 1. WHITTLESEY, Judge THOMAS T., an 

 able jurist, died in Madison, Wis. He was 

 born in Fairfield County, Conn., in 1798, and 

 passed his youth in Danbury; entered Yale 

 College when fifteen years of age, and gradu- 

 ated with honor in the class of 1817. He rep- 

 resented his district in Congress from 1836 to 

 1839, and commanded the highest respect of 

 his associates and constituents. He also held 

 the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of 

 Connecticut. After the death of his wife, 

 some years since, he retired from public life, 

 and, removing to Madison, Wisconsin, devoted 

 himself to the improvement of his estate, 

 building mills, and encouraging the settlement 

 and improvement of the country. In 1852 he 

 was elected State Senator by a large majority. 



Sept. 2. HALL, GEORGE, a Connecticut phil- 

 anthropist, died in Norwich, aged 80 years. 

 He was a native of Hartford, but was for many 

 years a resident of Savannah, Ga. He was a 

 bachelor, and devoted the greater part of his 

 very large property to charitable objects. 



Sept. 3. SMITH, Brevet Brigadier-General 

 JOSEPH R., U. S. A., died at Monroe, Mich. 

 He was born in Sandy Hill, Washington 

 County, N. Y., in 1802 ; graduated at West 



