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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



March 28. THOMPSON, THOMAS, a wealthy, 

 benevolent, but eccentric art connoisseur; 

 died in New York City, aged 71 years. He 

 was born in Boston, August 27, 1798, fitted for 

 college in the Boston Latin School, graduated 

 at Harvard University in 1817, studied theology 

 with Kev. Dr. W. E. Channing, but soon relin- 

 quished the profession and devoted himself to 

 the fine arts. His first collection of pictures, 

 said to have been the finest in Boston at that 

 time, was burned in the destruction of the 

 Tremont Temple, in March, 1852. It was val- 

 ued at $92,000. After the fire he set himself 

 the task of replacing it, and succeeded in 

 making a collection of very great value, em- 

 bracing the best works of most of our Amer- 

 ican artists and many very choice foreign pic- 

 tures. This collection, which had been piled 

 up in a warehouse in Boston for years, was 

 brought to New York in January, 1870, and 

 its value is estimated at half a million dol- 

 lars. He possessed, aside from this, an estate 

 of about $900,000, and lived very quietly in 

 Boston (having never, it is said, been on a rail- 

 car or steamboat in his life) till about ten years 

 ago. He had a wife, but no children, and had 

 made a will bequeathing his entire estate to 

 constitute a fund, after his wife's death, the in- 

 come of which should be appropriated for the 

 sole use of poor needlewomen of Boston. But 

 the action of the Boston assessors, in taxing his 

 property and pictures more highly than he 

 thought was just, so displeased him that he re- 

 moved from Boston to New York, shut up his 

 house and pictures, and never visited the city 

 again. He also cancelled his will, and made 

 another, bequeathing his property in the same 

 way for the use of needlewomen in Brattle- 

 boro, Vt., and Rhinebeck, N. Y., in equal shares. 

 March 30. BOWIE, THOMAS C., an engineer ; 

 engaged in constructing the North Missouri 

 Railroad, was killed by falling into a cellar in 

 Kansas City, Mo. He was born in Maryland, 

 was a nephew of Reverdy Johnson and of 

 Odin Bowie, present Governor of Maryland, 

 and had been, until recently, connected with 

 the United States Coast Survey. 



April 2. LOED, Rev. JEREMIAH S., D. D., a 

 Reformed (Dutch) clergyman of decided ability 

 and devotion ; died in Harlem, New York City, 

 in the 57th year of his age. He was a native 

 of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Union Col- 

 lege, in the class of 1836, and, after being set- 

 tled for some years at Montville and at Greggs- 

 town, N. Y., was called to the pastorate of the 

 Reformed Church in Harlem, in 1848, and had 

 been their honored and successful pastor for 

 twenty-one years. 



April 4. BURTON, Brevet Brigadier-General 

 HENRY S., Colonel Fifth Artillery, U. S. A., 

 commandant at Fort Adams, Newport; died 

 there of apoplexy, aged 51 years. He was a 

 native of New York, but entered West Point 

 in 1835 as a cadet from Vermont, and grad- 

 uated in 1839 with the commission of second 

 lieutenant in the Third Artillery, serving as 



such during the Florida War. From 1843 

 to 1846 he was stationed at West Point as 

 one of-the military instructors. When the war 

 with Mexico broke out, he became lieuten- 

 ant-colonel of New- York Volunteers, distin- 

 guishing himself for his defence of La Paz, in 

 Lower California, and receiving his commis- 

 sion as captain in the regular service for his 

 conduct on that occasion. May 14, 1861, he 

 was made a major, and during the last war 

 served with distinction, becoming lieutenant- 

 colonel in July, 1863, and colonel of artillery 

 in August of the same year. March 13, 1865, 

 he was brevetted brigadier-general in the 

 United States Army for gallant and meritorious 

 services at the capture of Petersburg. 



April 4. FAIRFAX, CHARLES SNOWDEN, a 

 descendant of the last Lord Fairfax ; died in 

 Baltimore, aged 40 years. He was born at 

 Vaucluse, Fairfax County, Va., in March, 

 1829, and became entitled to the baronetcy 

 upon the death of his great-grandfather, Rev. 

 Bryan Fairfax, in 1846 ; but neither his imme- 

 diate ancestry nor himself laid claims to the 

 title, having become too thoroughly imbued 

 with American sentiments. Some years ago 

 he removed to California, where, in 1854, he 

 served as Speaker in the House of Repf esenta- 

 tives, and subsequently for five years as clerk 

 of the Supreme Court. He was chairman of 

 the California delegation to the Democratic 

 National Convention, which assembled in New 

 York in July, 1868. 



April 5. BEAKMAN, DANIEL FREDERICK, 

 the last surviving soldier of the Revolution on 

 the pension list ; died at Sandusky, Cattaraugus 

 County, N. Y., aged 109 years and 6 months. 

 He was born in New Jersey in 1760, but in 

 early childhood removed with his parents to 

 the Mohawk Valley, New York, and in 1778 

 was enrolled in the militia. In 1845 he removed 

 to Cattaraugus County. He lived 85 years with 

 his wife, who died at the age of 105 years. In 

 1867 Congress passed a special act, giving him 

 a pension of $500 during the remainder of his 

 life. He was a member of the Lutheran 

 Church. 



April 5. MILLER, Rev. GEORGE B., D. D., 

 Professor of Theology in the Lutheran Theolo- 

 gical Seminary at Hartwick, N. Y., and an au- 

 thor of high repute ; died at Hartwick, aged 

 about 63 years. He was an accomplished lin- 

 guist, and highly successful as a teacher, mod- 

 est and unassuming in his manners, but pow- 

 erful in his influence for good. His influence 

 in the churches of New York and New. Jersey 

 was wide-spread and eminently beneficial. 



April 6. CUNARD, Sir EDWARD, for nearly 

 thirty years agent of the Cunard line of British 

 steamers ; died suddenly of heart-disease, at his 

 residence, in New York, aged 53 years. He 

 was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 1, 

 1816, and was educated in that province. His 

 father, Sir Samuel Cunard, was made a baronet 

 in 1849, for the energy and ability displayed in 

 devising and carrying out his system of Atlan- 



