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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



in the class of 1825, and at the Medical School 

 in 1828, and, following the example of his 

 father and grandfather, entered upon his pro- 

 fession in his native city, where his talents, in- 

 dustry, and social qualities, soon placed him in 

 the front rank. With his father he was also for 

 many years engaged in private medical instruc- 

 tion. The unremitting labors of his profession, 

 however, proved too severe for his health, and 

 a few years previous to his death he retired 

 from active practice. 



June 21. GREENLEAF, Rev. PATRICK HENRY, 

 D. D., an Episcopal clergyman ; died suddenly 

 in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 62 years. He was born 

 in New Gloucester, Me., July, 1807, graduated 

 at Bowdoin College, in the class of 1825, and 

 had been for some years Rector of Emmanuel 

 Church in Brooklyn. 



June 22. EATON, Captain WILLI AM B., a dis- 

 tinguished shipmaster, and captain in the vol- 

 unteer naval service ; died at North Chelsea, 

 Mass., aged 50 years. He commenced life as 

 a sailor, and for many years commanded some 

 of the finest ships sailing from this port in the 

 Valparaiso trade, being considered one of our 

 most skilful navigators. Upon the outbreak 

 of the late war he left the civil for the volun- 

 teer service, and commanded several gunboats 

 and transports, in which he was very success- 

 ful in taking prizes, among which was the large 

 iron ship Circassian. Recently he was in com- 

 mand of the steamer De Soto, of the New 

 York and New Orleans line. His death was 

 supposed to have resulted from the bite of an 

 insect while working in his garden. 



June 24. DAVENPORT, Elder WILLIAM, a 

 minister of the Christian Church ; died at Ne- 

 braska City, aged 72 years. He was a native 

 of Kentucky, and in early life a slaveholder, 

 but manumitted his slaves before 1834, and re- 

 moved to Tazewell County, 111., where he was 

 a preacher and pastor for more than thirty 

 years. In 1848 his brother and himself estab- 

 lished a school at Walnut Grove, which has 

 since become Eureka College. He was a Union 

 man during the war, and was taken prisoner 

 by John Morgan. 



June 24. MASON, DANIEL GREGORY, of the 

 publishing firm of Mason Brothers, New York ; 

 died at Schwalbach, Germany, aged 49 years. 

 He was a native of Massachusetts, and a man 

 of fine literary attainments and musical culture. 

 His health had been failing for several months, 

 and, upon the advice of .physicians, he went to 

 Carlsbad, Germany, but, finding no relief, left 

 for the place in which he died. 



June 26. BARKER, JAMES W., a prominent 

 politician, merchant, and philanthropist of New 

 York ; died at Rahway, N. J., aged 54 years. 

 He was born in White Plains, Westchester 

 County, N. Y., served as clerk in a mercantile 

 house, and soon entered into business for him- 

 self, which his energy and good management 

 rendered exceedingly prosperous. He was an 

 earnest and zealous Whig, and, after the disor- 

 ganization of that party, he united with others 



in founding the " Order of the Star-Spangled- 

 Banner," a secret organization for the purpose 

 of preventing the political ascendency of for- 

 eign-born inhabitants of this country, of which 

 order he became the head in 1853. In 1860 

 Mr. Barker united with the supporters of Mr. 

 Lincoln, and was ever after an earnest and 

 zealous Republican. In 1863 he established a 

 large mercantile house in Pittsburg, doing a 

 business of nearly two millions per annum. 

 At the time of his death he was president of 

 the Eclectic Life Insurance Company. 



June 30. BRIGGS, GEORGE, formerly a mem-' 

 her of Congress from New York ; died at Sara- 

 toga, N. Y., aged 64 years. He was born in 

 Fulton County, N. Y., but, when eight years of 

 age, removed with his parents to Vermont, 

 where he was educated, and for several years 

 engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits. 

 In 1837 he was elected by the Whig party to 

 the lower House of the Vermont Legislature, 

 serving one term, at the end of which, in 1838, 

 he settled in New York City, and embarked in 

 the hardware business, which he followed for 

 "many years, amassing a large fortune. He 

 represented the Whig party in Congress from 

 1849 to 1853, being elected from the Fifth New 

 York District, and was also elected to the Thirty- 

 sixth Congress from the Seventh District of 

 New York, serving as chairman on the Com- 

 mittee on Revolutionary Claims. He was a 

 delegate to the Philadelphia " National Union 

 Convention " in 1866, since which time he 

 had taken but little part in political matters. 



June . MOULTRIE, JAMES, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and medical professor in South 

 Carolina Medical College; died at Columbia, 

 S. 0. He was passionately devoted to natural 

 science, and, in the intervals of professional 

 labor, had made large contributions to the 

 different departments of zoology. 



June . TERRY, HENRY D., Brigadier- 

 General of .Volunteers in the late war ; died in 

 Washington, D. 0. He was a native of Con- 

 necticut, but emigrated early in life to Michi- 

 gan, where he had entered upon the legal pro- 

 fession before the commencement of the war. 

 He had given considerable attention to mili- 

 tary matters for some years, and. when the call 

 was made for troops in June, 1861, he raised a 

 regiment (the fifth Michigan), of which he was 

 appointed colonel, and which was mustered 

 into the service, August 28, 1861. They were 

 ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and such 

 were the ability and military skill manifested by 

 Colonel Terry, that on the 17th of July,' 1862, 

 he was commissioned brigadier-general, having 

 already for some months been in command of 

 a brigade. He served through the war in the 

 Army of the Potomac, behaving with great 

 gallantry in the several battles in which he 

 was engaged, and, when mustered out of service 

 in 1865, resumed the practice of his profession 

 in Washington, D. C., where he continued to 

 reside till his death. 



July 2. ROCHE, JAMES, an Irish patriot and 



