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of Pacific Ocean steamers, and volunteer lieu- 

 tenant, U. S. N., died at sea. He was a na- 

 tive of Pennsylvania. Soon after the war 

 broke out lie entered the United States naval 

 service, and was commissioned a volunteer 

 lieutenant. He commanded the United States 

 supply steamer Massachusetts, of seven guns, 

 for some two years, and was known as an 

 able, patriotic officer. After the close of the 

 war he retired from the service and resumed 

 his connection with the merchant marine, being 

 for some time in command of the Quaker City, 

 running between this port and Charleston. 

 Upon the withdrawal of that vessel from com- 

 merce, Captain West accepted a position in the 

 service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 

 which he held as first officer of the Golden 

 City at the time of his death. 



May 30. FULLER, RICHARD F., an eminent 

 lawyer of Boston ; died in Wayland, Mass., aged 

 48 years. He was a brother of the gifted Mar- 

 garet Fuller, and was born in Cambridge ; grad- 

 uated with honor at Harvard College in the 

 class of 1844 ; studied law, and entered upon 

 the practice of his profession in Boston, where 

 he distinguished himself by his ability and 

 scholarship. He was fond of literary pursuits, 

 and published several volumes, including a 

 biography of his brother, Kev. A. B. Fuller, 

 and a volume of poems, entitled " Visions in 

 Verse." 



June 1. NOTT, Rev. SAMUEL, a Congrega- 

 tionalist clergyman, the last survivor of the first 

 band of missionaries sent out by the American 

 Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to 

 India, in 1812 ; died at the residence of his son, 

 in Hartford, Conn., aged 81 years. He was 

 born in Franklin, Conn., in 1788, being a 

 younger brother of the late President Nott of 

 Union College. He was educated at Union 

 College, graduating there in 1808, and at An- 

 dover Theological Seminary in 1810, where he 

 was a classmate with Drs. Gardner Spring and 

 R. S. Storrs, Sen. ; was ordained February 6, 

 1812, and went out with Gordon Hall, Adoni- 

 ram Judson, Samuel Newell, and Luther Rice, 

 as the first company of missionaries sent out 

 by the American Board. He returned, and, 

 from 1816 to 1823, was a teacher in New York; 

 from 1823 to 1829, preached in Galway, N. Y., 

 and from 1829 to 1849, in Wareham, Mass. 

 After resigning his pastorate at Wareham, he 

 remained there till about 1860, in charge of a 

 school, which he taught with great success. At 

 the completion of his seventieth year, he dis- 

 posed of his school and went to reside with his 

 son in Hartford, Conn. 



June 2. ARNOLD, JONATHAN E., a promi- 

 nent lawyer and politician of Milwaukee, Wis. ; 

 died there, aged 55 years. He was a native of 

 New England, but went to Milwaukee soon 

 after his admission to the bar, and speedily 

 took rank as an able counsellor and an eloquent 

 advocate. He attained a high reputation, not 

 only in his own, but the adjacent States. He 

 was identified with the Whig party during its 



existence, and, on its demise, joined the Demo- 

 crats. He could have had, for many years, any 

 position in the gift of his party, but, latterly, 

 the evil habit of intemperance had lost him 

 much of the respect he had formerly enjoyed. 

 He was, however, esteemed by his brethren of 

 the legal profession, and was president of the 

 Milwaukee Bar Association at the time of his 

 death. 



June 2. FOSTER, Commander JAMES P., U. 

 S. N., a gallant naval officer, twenty-one years 

 in the service ; died at Indianapolis, Ind., aged 

 42 years. He was born in Bullitt County, 

 Ky., June 8, 1827, but removed with his 

 father's family in childhood to Bloomington, 

 Ind., and was appointed to the naval service 

 from Indiana in 1846, and at the inauguration 

 of Mr. Lincoln had reached the rank of lieuten- 

 ant. On the 16th of July, 1862, he was com- 

 missioned a lieutenant-commander, and in 

 October of the same year, returning from a 

 foreign . cruise, was ordered to the Mississippi 

 squadron, commanded by Admiral Porter. He 

 was placed in command of the Neosho, from 

 which he was soon transferred to the iron-clad 

 ram Chillicothe, of two guns, and in March of 

 1863 distinguished himself by the valuable 

 service performed by his vessel during the 

 Yazoo expedition. Later in the year he was 

 placed in command of the gunboat Lafayette, 

 of eight guns, and rendered valuable assistance 

 during the bombardment and siege of Vicks- 

 burg. After the close of the war Lieutenant- 

 Commander Foster was ordered to the Naval 

 Academy and placed in charge of the practice- 

 ships ; and on the 25th of July, 1866, was pro- 

 moted to the rank of commander, and placed in 

 command of the Osceola, and ordered to the 

 Brazilian squadron, where he contracted the 

 disease (jaundice) of which he died. Last 

 year he was ordered to the naval station at 

 Mound City, IlL, and on the 22d of March last, 

 being completely disabled, he was relieved and 

 placed on waiting orders. He was an able, 

 gallant officer, and his death will be regretted 

 by all who knew him. 



June 2. LEE, Rev. DAY KELLOGG, D. D., a 

 Universalist clergyman and author ; died in New 

 York City, in the 53d year of his age. He was 

 born in Sempronius, Cayuga County, N. Y., 

 September 10, 1816, and entered the ministry 

 in 1835, preaching his first sermon in Ann Ar- 

 bor, Mich. He has been settled as pastor of 

 Universalist societies in Newark, N. J., Salem, 

 Mass., Southbridge, Mass., William sburgh, L. I., 

 Ogdensburg, N. Y., Auburn, N. Y., and New 

 York City, removing from Auburn to New York 

 in June, 1865. He received the honorary degree 

 of M. A., from Tufts College, Massachusetts, in 

 1864, and that of D. D. from the Theological 

 School of St. Lawrence University at Canton, 

 N. Y., in 1868. Dr. Lee was an indefatigable 

 worker not only in his parish and in preparing 

 his sermons, which always contained some- 

 thing fresh and interesting, but also in many be- 

 nevolent and philanthropic undertakings. He 



