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prominent editor of West Tennessee ; died in 

 Memphis, aged 59 years. He was a strong Whig 

 during the old political struggles, and was 

 editor at different times of the West Tennessee 

 Whig, the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, and 

 other papers in the same State. Before the 

 late war broke out, he defended the Union 

 against the more violent secessionists, but 

 finally joined the Southern cause. When the 

 Memphis Appeal was revived after the war, he 

 became editor-in-chief, holding that position 

 about one year, when he retired from editorial 

 life. 



Jan. . STOTJGHTON, EDWIN H., Brigadier- 

 General Vermont Volunteers ; died in Boston. 

 He was a native of Vermont, and appointed from 

 that State to the Military Academy. He grad- 

 uated at West Point with the class of 1859, seven- 

 teenth in a class of twenty- two, and was immedi- 

 ately assigned to the infantry service. He served 

 in New Mexico for two years, but resigned in 

 March, 1861. In the summer of the same year, 

 Governor Fairbanks, of Vermont, commissioned 

 him colonel of the Fourth Vermont Volunteers, 

 with which organization he forthwith joined the 

 Army of the Potomac. He commanded his reg- 

 iment throughout the Peninsular campaign 

 under General McOlellan, rendering such ef- 

 ficient service as to secure for him the commis- 

 sion of a brigadier-general. He was assigned 

 to the command of the Second Vermont 

 Brigade, with which command he was sta- 

 tioned for some time at Fairfax Court-house. 

 While here he was captured by Mosby, the 

 guerrilla, March 8, 1863, who made a night 

 raid upon the camp, apparently for the 

 express purpose of effecting the general's 

 capture. After being confined for some weeks 

 in Libby Prison, General Stoughton was 

 released, his commission having expired by 

 constitutional limitations four days before his 

 capture. He resigned his connection with the 

 Volunteer Army on his release. He then en- 

 tered upon the practice of the law in New 

 York City, and continued to follow his profes- 

 sion until his disease compelled him to retire 

 to Boston, where he died. 



Feb. 3. CATJLKINS, Miss FEANCES MAX- 

 WAKING, authoress and antiquarian; died at 

 New London, Conn., aged 73 years. She was 

 born in New London in 1796, and had spent 

 most of her life in that city and Norwich. She 

 was highly educated, and early manifested a 

 taste for literary and antiquarian pursuits. She 

 had published excellent histories of the two 

 cities (New London and Norwich), as well as 

 some other historical works. She had also for 

 some years edited the Christian Almanac, and 

 some other publications of the "American 

 Tract Society." 



Feb. 6. HTTBBARD, JOHN, M. D., LL. D. ; 

 died in Hallowell, Me., aged 73 years. He 

 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1816, stud- 

 ied medicine, and graduated M. D. at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1822. In 1849 he was 

 elected Governor of the State, by the Demo- 

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cratic party, and remained in office by annual 

 reelection till 1852. He was a hearty supporter 

 of the law prohibiting the sale of ardent 

 spirits as a beverage, generally known as the 

 "Maine Law." His death was the result of 

 disease of the heart. 



Feb. 7. ANGELL, WILLIAM PITT, a promi- 

 nent politician of New York ; died at Morrisania, 

 N. Y., aged 56 years. He was born in Otsego 

 County, February 2, 1813, studied law in the vil- 

 lage of Cuba, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1830. A few years after, having removed to Cat- 

 taraugus County, he was chosen District Attor- 

 ney of that county. In 1845, President Polk ap- 

 pointed him Indian Agent, and he filled that 

 office with credit for four years. In 1849 he 

 was elected State-Prison Inspector, and at the 

 end of the three years' term was chosen a mem- 

 ber of the New York Legislature from Catta- 

 raugus County. In 1856 he supported General 

 Fremont for the presidency, and in 1860 and 

 1864 Mr. Lincoln. In 1865, however, he sup- 

 ported President Johnson, and returned to the 

 Democratic ranks, but held no office. 



Feb. 7. BUEEILL, ALEXANDER M., an emi- 

 nent lawyer and legal writer ; died at Kearny, 

 N. J., aged 62 years. He graduated at Co- 

 lumbia College, N. Y., in 1824, with the 

 highest honors of his class, after which he 

 entered the office of Chancellor Kent, and 

 devoted himself for several years to the study 

 of law. He was remarkable for his scholarly 

 precision and discrimination in the use of lan- 

 guage, and was the author of several valuable 

 legal works, among which may be mentioned 

 "Circumstantial Evidence; " "Assignments; " 

 "Practice ; " and a " Law Dictionary." He also 

 aided in the compilation of Worcester's Dic- 

 tionary. 



Feb. 7. HAYDEN, General WILLIAM, an emi- 

 nent and respected citizen of Hartford, Conn. ; 

 died there, aged 75 years. Originally by profes- 

 sion a builder, he had identified himself with 

 many of the public buildings of the city and 

 State. He had also been brigadier-general of 

 the Connecticut militia, Chief of the Fire 

 Department, Collector of the Port, a member of 

 the Legislature, and for a long time a member 

 of the Municipal Council. 



Feb. 8. DUNCAN, JAMES H., LL. D., an emi- 

 nent citizen of Massachusetts ; died at Haver- 

 hill. He was born in that town, December 5, 

 1793, graduated at Harvard College in 1812, 

 studied law, and in 1815 was admitted to the 

 Essex bar, entering upon the practice of his 

 profession in his native town. He served four 

 years in the State Legislature ; was State Sen- 

 ator from 1828 to 1831 ; State Councillor in 

 1840 and 1841 ; and a Kepresentative in Con- 

 gress from 1849 to 1853, all of which offices he 

 filled in a manner highly satisfactory. He was 

 also for a long period an active member of the 

 Executive Committee of the American Bap- 

 tist Missionary Union, and chairman of its 

 Board of Managers, and was a trustee of 

 the Newton Theological Seminary. At the 



