OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



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denly at Baltimore, aged 55 years. He was 

 born in Wintonbury (now Bloomfield), Hart- 

 ford County, Conn., was educated at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Hartford, and was for some time professor 

 in the Virginia State High School. In 1843 he 

 was ordained, and the next year emigrated to 

 Texas, and became Kector of St. David's 

 Church, Austin, and President of St. Paul's 

 College, a flourishing collegiate school which 

 he had founded. At the outbreak of the war 

 he was firm in his adherence to the old flag, 

 and, though h'e had previously been highly es- 

 teemed for his piety and activity in all matters 

 pertaining to the advancement of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church in Texas, and was subjected 

 at once to the most bitter persecution, he re- 

 mained an uncompromising loyal Unionist. 

 One of the incidents of his trials was his refusal 

 to use a sentence in the form of Confederate 

 prayers put forth by Bishop Gregg, which men- 

 tioned "the unnatural and cruel war forced 

 upon us." This refusal brought down on him 

 the force of unjust prejudice to such an ex- 

 tent, that the bishop, who was one of his 

 parishioners, with all his interposing influence, 

 scarcely saved him from being hanged. He was 

 obliged to refrain from his pastoral functions 

 altogether, and at the conclusion of the war 

 came North in an impoverished condition. 

 After a year's pastoral charge at Steubenville, 

 Ohio, he was appointed Secretary and General 

 Agent of the Protestant Episcopal Freedmen's 

 Commission, and was the life of that organiza- 

 tion. His death was the result of disease of 

 the heart, and was without a moment's pre- 

 monition. 



March 6. SHALER, CHARLES, an eminent 

 lawyer of Pittsburg, Pa., a graduate of 

 Union College in 1809; died in Pittsburg, 

 aged about 79 years. He had been for many 

 years the leader of the Pittsburg bar, and 

 had a high reputation throughout the Middle 

 and Western States for thorough knowledge of 

 all questions of land-titles and commercial law. 

 He was for some years a judge in the Pittsburg 

 judicial district, and we believe more than once 

 a member of the State Senate, and in 1847" as- 

 sociated with himself Edwin M. Stanton (At- 

 torney-General of the United States under Mr. 

 Buchanan, but best known as Mr. Lincoln's War 

 Secretary), and, as ajunior partner, Mr. Theo- 

 dore Umbstratter, and the firm were repeatedly 

 employed by the Government in important 

 cases of land-titles, such as those involving 

 large portions of California, the New Almaden 

 mines, the controversy known then and long 

 after as the Erie war, etc. This partnership 

 continued until December, 1860, when Mr. 

 Stanton was called into Mr. Buchanan's Cabi- 

 net. Judge Shaler's ambition was to be emi- 

 nent in his profession, and political life had no 

 charms for him. 



March 7. DEVERETTX, THOMAS P., a dis- 

 tinguished jurist and legal writer, of North 

 Carolina; died at his residence, Connemara, 

 Halifax County, N. C., aged 76 years. He 



was born in Newbern, N. C., and educated at 

 Yale College, New Haven, graduating in the 

 class of 1813. He studied law at the Litchfield 

 (Conn.) Law School, but for some years did 

 not seek for practice, a competent fortune 

 rendering that unnecessary until some reverses 

 in business changed the course of his life. He 

 then resolved to devote all his energies to his 

 profession. Not long afterward, he was ap- 

 pointed U. S. District Attorney for the Dis- 

 trict of North Carolina, an office which he 

 filled for many years. In 1826 he was ap- 

 pointed reporter of the Supreme Court of the 

 State in conjunction with his classmate, Hon. 

 George E. Badger, and soon became sole 

 holder of the office by the resignation of his 

 associate. Four volumes of law and two of 

 equity reports were the fruits of his labors in 

 that capacity. Eeceiving in middle life, by the 

 death of an uncle, the care of a large estate, 

 the remainder of his days he spent on his 

 plantation, while he served also as one of the 

 presiding Justices of the County Court of 

 Halifax. 



March 7. TOWNSEND, Mrs. HANNAH, a col- 

 ored woman, formerly a slave in the family of 

 the Bergens at Queens, L. I. ; died at Queens, 

 at the advanced age of 112 years. She was 

 born in 1757, and had spent her whole 

 life with the family. She retained her 

 memory and most of her faculties completely 

 till a few days before her death, which was 

 caused by grief for the death, within a few 

 days of each other, of two of the Bergen 

 brothers, Luke and Schenck, at the ages of 77 

 and 79 years. 



March 8. MIRIAN, FLETCHER, a centenarian 

 of Westfield, Middlesex County, Conn.; died 

 there, aged 103 years. 



March 9. CLARK, MYRON, an active and 

 influential citizen of Vermont ; died at his 

 residence in Manchester, Vermont, in the 

 79th year of his age. He was born at Hoosick, 

 in Rensselaer County, N. Y., September 12, 

 1790. Early in life he engaged in the tan- 

 ning business in Vermont, and after a few 

 years transferred his business from Bennington 

 County to Manchester. He was elected one 

 of the Assistant Judges of the Bennington 

 County Court in 1824, and was twice reflected. 

 In 1829 he became a member of the Governor's 

 Council, and held the office three years. 

 During the four years from 1831 to 1834 he 

 was Judge of Probate for the district of Man- 

 chester. In 1862 he was elected to the Ver- 

 mont Senate, and was reflected in 1863. In 

 the Senate he was a valuable member in all 

 matters pertaining to the financial affairs of 

 the State. Judge Clark was active in pushing 

 forward the construction of the Western Ver- 

 mont Railroad from Rutland to Troy, and for 

 several years had the management of the road. 



March 9. COBTJRN, CHARLES RITTENHOUSE, 

 an eminent educator and writer on educational 

 topics ; died at Harrisburg, Pa., aged 60 years. 

 He was born in Bradford County, Pa., June 5, 



