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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



the General Superintendent of Missions in the 

 State. He was very widely known and highly 

 esteemed throughout the Northwest. 



April 15. ATEE, Dr. BENJAMIN, a Republi- 

 can politician and legislator of Jefferson Coun- 

 ty, Ga. ; was murdered near his home. He was 

 about 69 years old, and at his death was the 

 senior member of the Georgia Legislature. He 

 had recently returned from Washington, D. 0., 

 where he had been with other members of both 

 Houses of the Legislature, as a delegation to 

 secure the early recognition of the State by 

 Congress. 



April 15. DAT, TIMOTHY C., a Republican 

 politician of Ohio ; died in Cincinnati, of con- 

 sumption, aged about 49 years. He was 

 elected to Congress from the first Ohio dis- 

 trict in 1854, on the Anti-Nebraska ticket, by 

 3,274 majority, and served from December, 

 1855, to March, 1857. On the formation of the 

 Republican party, in 1855, he united with it, 

 and was active in promoting its interests 

 thenceforward. 



April 15. EMERSON, CHARLES NOBLE, As- 

 sessor of Internal Revenue, Tenth Massachusetts 

 District ; died in New York City, aged 48 years. 

 He was born in Williarnstown, Mass., February 

 6, 1821; graduated at Williams College, in 

 1840 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar 

 there ; served in the late war, advancing to the 

 rank of major of volunteers ; was appointed As- 

 sessor of Internal Revenue, 1865, prepared and 

 published a valuable manual called the "Rev- 

 enue Guide," published in 1867, and died on 

 his return from Nassau, N. Providence, whither 

 he had been for the improvement of his health. 



April 16. MORGAN, Colonel EDWIN WEIGHT, 

 Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University, 

 South Bethlehem, Pa. ; died in Bethlehem, aged 

 52 years. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and 

 was appointed a cadet at West Point from that 

 State in 1833, graduating third in his class in 



1837. He was appointed second lieutenant, 

 Second Artillery, July 1, 1837 ; served in the 

 Florida War in 1837-'38, and superintended, in 



1838, the removal of the Cherokees from 

 Georgia to the West ; was promoted to be 

 first lieutenant of Second Artillery in July, 

 1838, and from that time till May, 1839, was 

 on the northern frontier at Buffalo, N. Y., dur- 

 ing the Canadian disturbances. He resigned, 

 May 31, 1839, and was immediately employed 

 as principal Assistant State Engineer of the 

 State of Pennsylvania, in the prosecution of her 

 extended public works, until the close of 1846. 

 In April, 1847, he was reappointed as an officer 

 of the U. S. Army, with the rank of major, 

 Eleventh Infantry. He served throughout the 

 Mexican War, 1847-'48, being promoted in Sep- 

 tember, 1847, lieutenant-colonel, Thirteenth 

 Infantry, and on the 81st July, 1848, was dis- 

 banded. Returning to civil life, he was Superin- 

 tendent of the Western Military Institute at 

 Blue Licks, Ky., from 1849 to 1851 ; Chief En- 

 gineer, Shelby Railroad, 1852-'54 ; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Shelby College, Ky., 1853-'54 ; Joint 



Superintendent with Mr. Thornton Johnson, of 

 Kentucky Military Institute at Harrodsburg, 

 1854-'56, *md in entire charge of it from 1856 

 to 1861. In 1866 he was appointed Professor 

 of Mathematics in Lehigh University, which 

 position he held till his death. 



April 18. OEBISON, Rev. JAMES H., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman, for nineteen years a mis- 

 sionary of the Presbyterian Board in India ; died 

 at Bellefonte, Pa., aged about 45 years. He was 

 a native of Pennsylvania, a graduate of Jef- 

 ferson College and of Princeton Theological 

 Seminary, and went out to India in 1849. 

 After nineteen years of constant and wearing 

 labor, he returned to this country in March, 

 1869, and within a few weeks after his arrival 

 died from a sudden attack of bilious colic. 



April 19. MITCHELL, Professor , an 



eminent mathematician, a member of the So- 

 ciety of Friends, and, at the time of his death, 

 Professor of Mathematics in Vassar College, 

 Poughkeepsie ; died there, aged 76 years. He 

 was for nearly fifty years a teacher in Nan- 

 tucket, Mass., and devoted much of his time 

 to the study and practice of astronomy, and 

 trained his daughter, Miss Maria Mitchell, now 

 Professor of Astronomy in Vassar College, 

 and one of the best practical astronomers in 

 the United States, in that science. She was for 

 many years an assistant in his school, and a 

 cooperator with her father in his favorite 

 study and discovered a comet and several 

 asteroids at Nantucket. 



April 20. DIEHL, Rev. MICHAEL, D. D., a 

 Lutheran clergyman, Professor of Ancient 

 Languages and Literature in Wittenberg Col- 

 lege, Springfield, O. ; died there, aged about 

 50 years. He was a native of Pennsylvania, 

 a graduate of Gettysburg College and Theolo- 

 gical Seminary, teaching for a time while pros- 

 ecuting his studies at Waynesboro, Pa. He 

 was called to his professorship at Wittenberg 

 College almost immediately after the comple- 

 tion of his theological course, and continued in 

 that position till his death. He was also, during 

 the greater part of his career as professor, 

 pastor of two Lutheran churches in the vicin- 

 ity of Springfield. He also prepared a volume 

 of " Memoirs and Remains of Rev. Dr. Keller," 

 the first President of Wittenberg College, and 

 contributed largely to the Lutheran periodical 

 press. 



April 20. RANDOLPH, ROBERT B., a lieuten- 

 ant of the Navy, dismissed by President Jack- 

 son, and famous in history as the man who 

 pulled the President's nose ; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., aged 78 years. He had entered 

 the Navy early, had been gradually advanced 

 to the rank of lieutenant, and under Deca- 

 tur had done good service to the country. 

 He was a cousin of John Randolph of Roan- 

 oke. His dismission from the service was un- 

 justifiable, and, whether directed by Jackson 

 from misapprehension, or from personal preju- 

 dice, is unknown. Randolph, having ascer- 

 tained that it was done by special order of the 





