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for ten years, when he removed to Hartford, 

 and engaged in mercantile pursuits, but in 

 1845 began to devote his attention to life in- 

 surance, and in 1846 secured the charter of 

 the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, of which he was the first secretary, 

 and afterward president till his death. He 

 had signed, as president or secretary, 97,000 

 policies, and paid $8,000,000 in losses. The 

 remarkable success of life insurance in Amer- 

 ica is largely due to the tact, energy, and in- 

 dustry of Dr. Phelps, who led the way in 

 which thousands have successfully followed. 



March 21. LAWRENCE, Colonel TIMOTHY 

 BIGELOW, an American diplomatist, late Con- 

 sul-General to Italy ; died in Washington City, 

 aged 42 years. He was the fourth son of the 

 late Abbott Lawrence, and was born in Bos- 

 ton, November 22, 1826. He was fitted for 

 college in Boston, and graduated at Harvard 

 University in 1846, and subsequently passed 

 several years in travelling in Europe. In 

 1849 he went to England, and was an at- 

 tache" to the American Legation in London, 

 not only during the time Abbott Lawrence 

 was American minister, but until 1855, when 

 his father's death called him home. In 1862 

 he was* appointed Consul-General to Italy, 

 and filled the position in a manner to receive 

 the warm regard of all who had official or 

 friendly intercourse with him. The deafness 

 of Colonel Lawrence prevented his taking an 

 active part during the war in the military 

 service of his country in aid of the Union. 

 His personal influence and his purse greatly 

 aided the loyal cause, however, during the 

 civil war. After passing a month with his 

 English friends, he embarked for home about 

 six weeks before his death, and was received 

 with great cordiality. Having business at 

 Washington, he went there in season to wit- 

 ness the inauguration services, and took the 

 disease which resulted in his death. 



March 21. MACFARLAN, ALL AX, an enter- 

 prising and wealthy lawyer and railroad presi- 

 dent of South Carolina; died in Charleston, 

 S. 0., aged about 49 years. He was a native 

 of Greenock, Scotland, but migrated to this 

 country in his youth, and graduated at the Col- 

 lege of New Jersey in 1844 with the highest 

 honors of his class. He studied law with the 

 late James L. Petigru, of Charleston, S. 0., was 

 admitted to the bar in 1847, and practised his 

 profession in Cheraw, S. C., for some years 

 with great success. He inherited a large for- 

 tune from an uncle, and, before the breaking 

 out of the war, he was a very extensive planter, 

 owning several hundred slaves and a large body 

 of land. He was a man of high character, 

 great energy, and much public spirit. He was 

 very active in developing the resources of 

 South Carolina, and in promoting its system 

 of internal improvements. He was at one 

 time president of the Northeastern Railroad 

 of South Carolina, and resigning this position 

 he was made president of the Cheraw and 



Darlington Railroad, which office he held at 

 the time of his death. 



March 23. REMINGTON, Rev. STEPHEN, a 

 Baptist clergyman and author, eminent for his 

 ability, and success in the ministry ; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., ^aged 65 years. He was 

 originally a Methodist clergyman, and for twen- 

 ty years was a popular and influential preacher 

 in the itinerancy. In 1848, while pastor of St. 

 Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Lowell, 

 Mass., he was led to investigate the views of 

 the Baptists, and a few months later withdrew 

 from the Methodist Church and united with 

 the Baptists. Soon after, he published a little 

 volume entitled "Reasons for becoming a Bap- 

 tist," which has had an immense sale, and has 

 been translated into several European lan- 

 guages. This was followed by "A Defence of 

 Restricted Communion," which also had a wide 

 circulation. Mr. Remington was successively 

 pastor in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, 

 and Boston, and was very successful in each of 

 these fields, two thousand and eighty-three per- 

 sons having united with the churches of which 

 he was pastor during his labors among them. 



March 24. POMEROT, Rev. SWAN L., D. D., 

 a Congregational clergyman and scholar ; died 

 at Sunderland, Mass., aged. 70 years. He was 

 a graduate of Brown University, and of An- 

 dover Theological Seminary, where he com- 

 pleted his course in 1824. He was settled for 

 some years as a pastor in Portland, Me., and 

 was called thence to a secretaryship of the 

 American Board of Commissioners of Foreign 

 Missions. He displayed great ability and en- 

 ergy in this position for a number of years, but 

 terminated his connection with it about 1860. 

 He had not since, we believe, had any pastoral 

 charge. 



March 26. CROPPER, Mrs. HESTEE, a cente- 

 narian of New York City ; died there, aged 1 02 

 years. 



March 27. MILLER, SAMUEL, said to have 

 been the richest man in Virginia, died near 

 Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va. Mr. Mil- 

 ler's fortune was the result of his own exertions, 

 and he possessed so large a comprehension of 

 commercial affairs, that, though living in per- 

 fect seclusion on his farm, he operated freely 

 in all the great centres of trade ; and, though 

 his estate was greatly impaired by the late 

 war, he left somewhat more than three mill- 

 ion dollars. Only two particulars of the dis- 

 position of his property have transpired : the 

 bequest of $193,000 for the endowment of a 

 female orphan asylum in Lynchburg, and of 

 $100,000 to found a chair of agriculture in the 

 University of Virginia at Charlottesville. 



March 28. PRINCE, WILLIAM R., a noted 

 gardener, florist, and nurseryman, of Flushing, 

 L. I., author of several works on plants, trees, 

 etc. ; died there, aged 74 years. He was espe- 

 cially noteworthy as the originator of the 

 " Morus Multicaulis " speculation in 1836-'87, 

 by which so many, and himself among the 

 number, were made bankrupts. 



