OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Railroad Company, but was compelled to re- 

 sign by the unhealthiness of the climate. He 

 was an accomplished physician and surgeon, 

 and had already attained high rank in his pro- 

 fession. 



Dee. 18. ROBERTSON, ANTHONY L., Chief 

 Justice of the Superior Court of New York, 

 died there, aged 60 years. He was born in 

 New York City, June, 1808, and received his ed- 

 ucation at Columbia College, where he graduat- 

 ed in 1825, with high honors. After a thorough 

 course of study he entered upon the practice of 

 law, and became distinguished in his profession ; 

 was Assistant Vice-Chancellor for the First Judi- 

 cial District of New York in 1846, Surrogate 

 of the county of New York in 1848, and in 

 1859 was elected a Judge of the Superior Court. 

 After the expiration of his term of office in 

 1865, Judge Robertson was reflected, and dur- 

 ing the following year was chosen Chief Jus- 

 tice by his associates. In 1867 he was one of 

 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 

 and took an active part in the proceedings of 

 that body. 



Dec. 20. MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS, an author 

 of school-books, etc. ; died in Philadelphia, Pa. 

 He was a native of Connecticut, and for some 

 years a popular teacher. The imperfection of 

 the geographical text-books in use led him to 

 devote himself to the study of that science, 

 with a view to the preparation of better works, 

 and his successive text-books, maps, and treat- 

 ises, became standard authorities on the sub- 

 ject. His school geographies had a larger cir- 

 culation than any others which were brought 

 into competition with them. 



Dec. 20. O'REILLY, Rev. WILLIAM, a Roman 

 Catholic priest, and Vicar-General of the Dio- 

 cese of Hartford, Conn., died at Newport, R. L, 

 in the 50th year of his age. He was born in 

 Ireland, but came to the United States in 1839, 

 and was ordained a priest in 1844. He was 

 formerly settled at Rochester, where he suc- 

 ceeded his brother, the late Bishop O'Reilly, 

 as pastor of St. Patrick's Church. He subse- 

 quently removed to Buffalo, where he was 

 made vicar-general, and continued to reside till 

 1855, when he was called to the diocese with 

 which he was connected at the time of his 

 death. He was also pastor of St.- Mary's Cath- 

 olic Church at Newport, and founded St. Mary's 

 School there. 



Dec. 21. PRICE, JOSEPH M., a banker of 

 New York City, and author of "Interest 

 Tables," and other works on exchange, died in 

 New York, aged 64 years. He was educated 

 as a practical surveyor, and in that capacity 

 assisted in the original survey of the Erie 

 Railroad. For some years he was an officer 

 of the New York Bank of Commerce, and sub- 

 sequently, for fifteen years, President of the 

 Oriental Bank, an experience resulting in the 

 production of his well-known "Interest Ta- 

 bles," and various stock and foreign exchange 

 tables. He was a prominent member of the 

 New York Clearing-House Association, and 



was often called to serve on its most import 

 ant committees. 



Dec. 22. JONES, Rev. JOSEPH H., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., aged about 68 years. He graduated at 

 Harvard College and at the Princeton Theolo- 

 gical Seminary ; was settled many years over 

 the Presbyterian Church in Woodbury, N. J., 

 and subsequently held a long and successful 

 pastorate in New Brunswick, N. J., followed 

 by one of more than twenty years over the 

 Sixth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. 

 This charge he resigned to take care of the 

 Fund for Disabled Ministers, a trust which he 

 managed with great delicacy and fidelity. 



Dec. 26. GIBBS, Brevet Major-General AL- 

 FRED, U. S. A., a brave and gallant officer, 

 died at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was 

 born April 23, 1823, and in 1842 entered West 

 Point, where he graduated in 1846. After 

 graduating he was brevetted as second-lieuten- 

 ant, and assigned to the Mounted Rifles, with 

 orders to join his regiment then engaged in the 

 Mexican campaign. He served through the 

 Mexican War with honor, and was twice bre- 

 vetted for gallant conduct. After the Mexican 

 War he served in California on the staff of 

 General Persifer F. Smith, and, on the recall 

 of that officer, was ordered to New Mexico on 

 frontier duty. Here he was taken prisoner on 

 the breaking out of the late war, but was 

 subsequently exchanged. On coming North 

 he took command of the 130th New York, and 

 served under Sheridan during the latter part 

 of the war. For gallant and distinguished ser- 

 vices he was made brevet major-general of 

 the regular army. General Gibbs was an 

 officer of the army of the United States for 

 twenty-three years, twenty-two of which were 

 spent in active service. 



Dec. 28. BISHOP, Dr. WILLIAM S., U. S. N., 

 Surgeon of the United States Naval Asylum, 

 Philadelphia ; died there. He had been nearly 

 twenty-six years in active service, and in 1861 

 retired with the rank of commander. 



Dec. 29. CLARK, MOSLY, a wagon-driver in 

 the Revolutionary War; died in Richmond, 

 Va., at the great age of 122 years. 



Dec. 30. GREANER, WILLIAM, a tobacco 

 manufacturer in Richmond, Va. ; died there, 

 aged 75 years. He was a native of Baltimore, 

 Md., and in 1812 enlisted as a volunteer sol- 

 dier in the war with Great Britian. In 1815 

 he returned to his trade in Richmond, and 

 during the late war his factory was used as a 

 prison, under the name of " Castle Thunder." 



Dec. 30. WASHBURNE, ICHABOD, a wealthy 

 and philanthropic manufacturer of Worces- 

 ter, Mass. ; died there, aged about 70 years. 

 He was the founder and proprietor of the 

 well-known "Washburne Iron- Wire Works," 

 and had accumulated great wealth in the 

 manufacture of telegraphic and other kinds 

 of wire. During life he was noted for his be- 

 nevolence, and his large bequests to charitable 

 objects constitute an enduring monument to 



