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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



Point, in 1823, as second lieutenant in the 

 Second United States Infantry, and in 1832 

 was promoted to be first lieutenant. In 1838 

 lie was made captain. He was first assigned 

 to duty at Sault St. Marie, and afterward 

 served in the Florida War from 1837 to 1842. 

 In the Mexican War he distinguished himself, 

 and was brevetted major for gallant conduct at 

 Oerro Gordo, and lieutenant-colonel for his 

 gallantry at Contreras and Ohurubusco. In 

 the latter action he was severely wounded in 

 the left arm, and never afterward recovered its 

 use. In 1851 he was made major of the Sev- 

 enth Infantry. On account of his wounds, re- 

 ceived in the service, he was placed on the 

 retired list in 1861, but in the following year 

 he was made mustering and disbursing officer 

 for Michigan, and was assigned headquarters 

 at the lakes. On the breaking out of the late 

 war he offered his services to the Government. 

 They were accepted, and in 1862 he was ap- 

 pointed, on the death of Colonel Backus, as 

 chief mustering officer of Michigan. In 1863 

 he became military commissary of musters. 

 This position he held under various generals. 

 For his long and valuable services he was 

 brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. 



Sept. 4. DUNNELL, Dr. HENEY G., a homoeo- 

 pathic physician of New York, died, in that 

 city, of heart-disease. He was born at Albany, 

 N. Y., in 1803, and removed to New York 

 when about nineteen years of age. In 1828 

 he graduated at the New York Medical Uni- 

 versity, and, after a few years' practice in his 

 profession, adopted the views of Hahnemann 

 and practised accordingly. He was appointed 

 City Inspector, March 10, 1837. He was the 

 author of a biography of the Dunnell family, 

 from the time of their settlement in New Eng- 

 land in the seventeenth century. 



Sept. 4. FOESYTHE, Kev. W. H., a home 

 missionary of Kentucky, died in Harrison 

 County, aged 66 years. For twenty-five years 

 he preached the gospel in destitute regions, 

 most earnestly and faithfully, without fee or 

 reward, often giving large sums of money to 

 aid in the erection of houses of worship and 

 benefit the distressed. 



Sept. 4. FBENOH, Colonel GEOBGE, a colored 

 man, well-known in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., died 

 in that city, at the advanced age of 106 years. 



Sept. 14. JONES, LEONABD, better known 

 as "Live Forever Jones," a monomaniac, died 

 in Louisville, Ky. He was born in Henderson 

 County, in 1798, his family being noted for 

 their intelligence and high moral standing. 

 When about twenty years of age, he exhibited 

 symptoms of monomania, wandering about 

 from place to place, preaching the doctrine 

 that by prayer and fasting a man would live 

 always. He made frequent journeys to Wash- 

 ington, being an aspirant for every high office, 

 State and Federal. 



Sept. 17. FENDALL, CLAEENCE, officer of the 

 U. S. Coast Survey, died at Norfolk, Va., aged 

 33 years. He was a graduate of Georgetown 



College, and subsequently was for fifteen years 

 attached to the Coast Survey. During the 

 war he was detailed for service, under General 

 Grant and Admiral Porter, for duty as an engi- 

 neer on the Mississippi, in the neighborhood 

 of Yicksburg, where he contracted the disease, 

 chronic diarrhoea, of which he died. At the 

 time of his death, he was an assistant in com- 

 mand of the surveying schooner Hassler, which 

 recently had been employed in surveying the 

 Potomac. 



Sept. 17. OLDS, Eev. M. S., D. D., rector of 

 Christ Church, Washington, D. C., died in that 

 city, aged 40 years. Early in life he moved 

 from Ohio to Wisconsin, where he studied and 

 practised law. He served gallantly as a lieu- 

 tenant during the Mexican War, and at its 

 close returned to Wisconsin. A few years 

 after, he studied for the ministry, and in 1855 

 was ordained by Bishop Whipple, with whom 

 he was always a great favorite. He was pastor 

 of a church in Wisconsin for some years, and 

 afterward in Trenton, New Jersey, from 

 whence he received a call, in 1864, to Christ 

 Church, which he accepted, and has since 

 acted as its rector, until prostrated by sick- 

 ness. 



Sept. 20. QUINEE, Miss JOANNA, a self- 

 taught sculptor, died in Lynn, Mass. She was 

 born in Beverly, Mass., August 27, 1796. In 

 1843, while visiting friends in Boston, she saw 

 a sculptor modelling in clay, and being deeply 

 interested resolved to make the attempt her- 

 self. She did so, and her success was such 

 that she at once devoted herself to the art. 



Sept. 21. ABBE, Hon. JOSHUA G., Commis- 

 sioner of the Metropolitan Fire Department, 

 died in Windham, Conn. He was born in that 

 town, in June, 1828. He was one of the earlier 

 settlers of Nebraska, and was for a time a 

 member of the Territorial Legislature. Sub- 

 sequently he removed his residence to New 

 York, and became connected with the Fire 

 Department at the time of its organization. 



Sept. 22. LELAND, HENEY PEEEY, an Ameri- 

 can author and magazine writer, died in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. He was born in that city, Octo- 

 ber 28, 1828. He was a gentleman of many 

 natural gifts, which had been cultivated by 

 travel and by extensive and various study. He 

 was a frequent contributor, in prose and verse, 

 to the newspapers and magazines. He had a 

 fresh vein of genial humor, and, if his health 

 had been preserved, he would undoubtedly 

 have risen to high eminence in literature. 

 A few years ago he published a volume of 

 sketches of foreign travel, "Americans in 

 Rome," which was full of delightful reading. 

 He also published a volume of humorous 

 sketches under the title of " The Gray Bay Mare." 

 During the war he served as a lieutenant in the 

 118th Pennsylvania regiment, and was pros- 

 trated by a sun -stroke, from the effects of 

 which he never fully recovered. 



Sept. 22. MOESE, EICHAED OAEY, one of the 

 founders of the New York Observer ; died in 



