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time of his death he was the senior member of 

 the Board of Fellows of Brown University, 

 which Board, in 1861, conferred on him the 

 honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 



Feb. 8. SMITH, JOTHAM, a scholar and jour- 

 nalist ; died in Yonkers, Westchester County, 

 New York, in the 55th year of his age. He 

 was born in Bedford, Westchester County, N. 

 Y., graduated from the College of New Jersey, 

 in 1833, was admitted to the bar in 1836, and 

 acquired a high reputation as a writer in New 

 York City. In 1854 he became assistant editor 

 of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, and during 

 General Webb's absence was its managing 

 editor till it was merged in the World in 1864. 

 He then became editor of the Yonker* States- 

 man, which he conducted till his death. 



Feb. 9. HILL, Mrs. LUCY ELIZABETH (Shep- 

 ard), wife of Eev. Thomas Hill, D. D., late 

 President of Harvard College ; died at Waltham, 

 Mass., aged 31 years. Mrs. Hill, from early 

 girlhood, was held in high esteem for her in- 

 tellectual powers and her rare acquisitions as 

 a scholar. She was an accomplished and sin- 

 gularly successful teacher, first as an assistant 

 in the Dorchester High School, then at the 

 Eagleswood Institution, in New Jersey, and, 

 more recently, after spending a year as profess- 

 or at Antioch College, in the High School in 

 Cambridge. In these important positions she 

 became really eminent for the extent and ac- 

 curacy of her learning, especially as a linguist 

 and mathematician, and for her influence in 

 inspiring an ardor for knowledge in her pupils. 

 Young as she was, there are those now in their 

 manhood and womanhood, ready to confess 

 their indebtedness to her as an efficient and 

 thoroughly competent instructor in the highest 

 branches. Her marriage with President Hill 

 interrupted her work as a teacher. But, as 

 the wife of the learned president, she took a 

 deep interest in his favorite studies, and marked 

 put for herself a very extended course of learn- 

 ing. Her strength was not, however, equal to 

 her aspirations, and her health and mental 

 powers gave way under the too severe pres- 

 sure, and, after some months of suffering, death 

 came as a relief. Her graces of character were 

 not inferior to her intellectual endowments, 

 and won the respect and love of all whose 

 privilege it was to form her acquaintance. 



Feb. 9. LORD, JAMES COOPER, a philan- 

 thropic merchant and iron manufacturer of 

 New York, the founder, in 1860, of the "First 

 "Ward Industrial School," who had more re- 

 cently established a free reading-room, founded 

 a library, and erected two churches for the 

 benefit of the workmen at his iron-works in 

 New Jersey, and their neighbors. 



Feb. 9. McCoNNELL, MURRAY, an eminent 

 lawyer, was assassinated in his office at Jack- 

 sonville, 111., aged V2 years. He was one of 

 the oldest citizens of Central Illinois, and was 

 thoroughly identified with the political his- 

 tory of that State. He participated in the 

 Black Hawk War, and shortly after was elect- 



ed a representative in the State Legislature. 

 From 1864 to 1868 he was a member of the 

 Senate. Under the Administration of Presi- 

 dent Buchanan (1857-'61), he held the office 

 of Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. General 

 McConnell was a man of decided ability, ready 

 wit, and considerable scientific and literary at- 

 tainments, and possessed a large fortune. 



Feb. 10. WISE, Kev. HENRY ALEXANDER, Jr., 

 an Episcopal clergyman, son of Governor Wise, 

 of Virginia ; died in Wilmington, Del. He was 

 a popular preacher, and had been a rector in 

 Richmond, Philadelphia, Harrisonburg, and 

 Baltimore. 



Feb. 12. BARNES, Major-General JAMES, U, 

 S. Yols. ; died at his residence in Springfield, 

 Mass., aged about 60 years. He was born in 

 Massachusetts, and became a cadet at West 

 Point in 1825, graduating in 1829, fifth in a 

 class of forty-six, and that one of the most re- 

 markable classes of the Military Academy. He 

 remained in the army seven years, advancing 

 to the rank of first lieutenant of the Fourth Ar- 

 tillery, when he resigned and became a railroad 

 engineer and superintendent on the Western 

 Railroad of Massachusetts from 1836 to 1848, 

 and chief engineer of the Seaboard andRoanoke 

 Railroad from 1848 to 1852. He also con- 

 structed, either wholly or in part, the Rome 

 and Watertown, the Sackett's Harbor and Ellis- 

 burg, the Buffalo, Corning, and New York, the 

 Terre Haute, Alton, and St. Louis, and the 

 Potsdam and Watertown Railroads, between 

 1848 and 185T. During the late war, he was 

 colonel of the 18th regiment Massachusetts 

 Vols., from July 26, 1861, to November 29, 

 1862, participating in most of the battles of the 

 Army of the Potomac during that period. He 

 was promoted to be Brigadier-General of Vol- 

 unteers, November 29, 1862, and was at Freder- 

 icksburg, Chancellorsville, the skirmishes of 

 Aldie and Upperville, and the battle of Gettys- 

 burg, where he commanded a division and was 

 wounded severely. Subsequently he was on 

 court-martial duty or in command of posts to 

 the close of the war, and was brevetted Major- 

 General of Volunteers, March 13, 1865. He was 

 mustered out of the service January 15, 1866. 

 His health was broken by his wounds, and, 

 though he interested himself somewhat in rail- 

 road matters, he was unable to engage in any 

 active business. 



Feb. 12. LEAVENWORTH, Rev. ABNER JOHN- 

 SON, an eminent Presbyterian clergyman and 

 teacher; died at Petersburg, Va., in the 66th 

 year of his age. He was born in Waterbury, 

 Conn., fitted for college in part at Am- 

 herst Academy, and graduated at Amherst 

 College in 1825, studied theology at Andover, 

 Mass., completing his theological course in 

 1828, and from 1829 to 1838 was pastor at Bris- 

 tol, Conn., and at Charlotte, N. 0., and in the 

 latter town was principal of the Young Ladies' 

 Seminary. In 1838 he removed to Warren- 

 ton, Va., and, in 1840, to Petersburg, Va., 

 where for twenty-nine years he was the prin- 



