OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Kissengen, Germany, while travelling in Europe 

 for his health. He was a son of Rev. Jedediah 

 Morse, of Charl.estown, Mass., where he was 

 born, June 18, 1795. At the age of nine years 

 he was sent to Phillips Academy, Andover, 

 and there he remained during his whole course 

 preparatory for admission to college. He en- 

 tered Yale College in 1808, when he was in 

 his fourteenth year, and graduated in 1812, the 

 youngest member of his class. The year im- 

 mediately following his graduation he spent in 

 New Haven, being employed as the amanuen- 

 sis of President Dwight, and living in his fam- 

 ily. In 1814 he entered the Theological Sem- 

 inary at Andover, and, having passed through 

 the regular three years' course, was licensed 

 to preach in 1817. The winter immediately 

 succeeding his licensure he spent in South Car- 

 olina as a supply of the Presbyterian church 

 on John's Island. On his return to New Eng- 

 land, he was associated with his father for 

 some time in a very successful geographical 

 enterprise ; and, in the spring of 1823, enlisted 

 with his brother in another enterprise still 

 more important the establishing of the New 

 York Observer, of which he was associate 

 editor and proprietor for thirty-five years ; and 

 during this long period he contributed largely 

 to its columns, especially by translations from 

 the French and German. In 1858 he retired 

 from active life, and a few years since removed 

 to New Haven, with special reference to super- 

 intending the education of his sons. 



Sept. 23. BEEOHER, Lieutenant FREDERICK, 

 U. S. A., a brave and gallant young officer, was 

 killed by the Indians on the upper Republican 

 River, Kansas, aged 28 years. He was a son 

 of the Rev. Charles Beecher, of Georgetown, 

 Mass., and nephew of Henry Ward Beecher. 

 He graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, in 



1861, and immediately entered the service of 

 his country as 'a sergeant in Company B, 16th 

 Maine Volunteers. Subsequently he was pro- 

 moted to be second lieutenant and first lieu- 

 tenant respectively. He was twice severe- 

 ly wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13, 



1862, and at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. The 

 last time wounded he was even then suffering 

 from the old wound, but could not be per- 

 suaded to remain away from his command. 

 The severe nature of his wounds necessitated 

 his transfer to the Veteran Reserve Corps, in 

 which he served as lieutenant until commis- 

 sioned in the regular army by President Lin- 

 coln in 1865. He served with distinction after 

 his appointment in the 9th Cavalry. He had 

 just been ordered to duty in the Signal-Office, 

 but was killed before he could obey the order. 



Sept. 24. PARKER, WILLIAM, Superintendent 

 of the Panama Railroad Company, was killed 

 by one of the employes of the company in his 

 office at Aspinwall. He was born at Perth 

 Amboy^ N. J., about 1808 ; was educated at 

 the Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont. 

 He built the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 

 Massachusetts, and was appointed the first 

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superintendent of that road, a position which 

 he held until his election as President of the 

 Baltimore and 'Ohio Railroad. He held the 

 presidency for about five years, and then took 

 charge of the Boston and Lowell line in the 

 dual capacity of agent and president. Subse- 

 quently he became the consulting engineer of 

 the European and North American Railroad at 

 St. Johns, New Brunswick, and left that to 

 assume the high post of responsibility which he 

 held under the Panama Railroad Company. 



Sept. 26 t BEALL, S. W., was killed by an 

 editor, at Helena, Montana. He was a na- 

 tive of Virginia, and a graduate of Columbia 

 College, N. Y. Having removed his residence 

 to Wisconsin, he became a member of the Con- 

 stitutional Convention of that State, and was 

 afterward elected Lieutenant - Governor, act- 

 ting as Governor for three years, when that 

 officer was elected to the United States Sen- 

 ate. From that time until the outbreak of the 

 war, he held many important offices in the gift 

 of his State and of the United States. Patriotic 

 and ardent, in spite of his years, he entered 

 the army as major of a Wisconsin regiment, 

 and was afterward transferred to the Veteran 

 Reserve Corps, and made lieutenant-colonel. 

 He never faltered in the discharge of his duty, 

 and received for his gallantry both from Gen- 

 eral Grant and the lamented McPherson unso- 

 licited testimonials of the most flattering char- 

 acter for his bravery and patriotism. He was 

 well known throughout the country as a writer 

 for the Atlantic and other magazines. 



Sept. 26. STUART, Rev. DAVID TODD, a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and teacher, died at Shelby- 

 ville, Ky., aged 58 years. He was a native of 

 Kentucky; was educated at Centre College, 

 Danville, Ky., studied theology at Princeton 

 in 1832, and after the completion of his course 

 returned to Kentucky, and accepted the pas- 

 torate of the church of Shiloh and Olivet. Sub- 

 sequently he took charge of the Shelby ville Fe^ 

 male Seminary. 



Sept. 27. KING, ROBERT P., a distinguished 

 printer and citizen of Philadelphia, died ther& 

 aged 53 years. Beginning life poor, as a print- 

 er, he built up the large and respectable- 

 house of King & Baird, of which he was the 

 head. He was an active member of the Re- 

 publican party ; during the war was President 

 of the National Union Club, President of the 

 Soldiers' Home, and of the Mount Moriah 

 Cemetery Company. Though wielding great 

 influence in the party, he never aspired to 

 office. 



Sept. 28. FESSENDE^, T. A. D., M. 0. from 

 Maine, died at Lewiston. He was born in 

 Portland, January 23, 1826 ; graduated at 

 Bowdoin College in 1845, became a lawyer; 

 and was a member of the convention that 

 nominated John C. Fremont for the presiden- 

 cy. In 1858 he was appointed aide-de-camp to 

 Governor Morrill ; in 1860 he was elected to 

 the Maine Legislature, and in 1861 he was 

 made Attorney for Androscoggin County. In. 



