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was also controlling manager of the Northern 

 Indiana and president of the Cleveland and 

 Toledo Railroads. 



July . XATTPI, Rev. Father HONORATTJS 

 X. ; died at Mount Hope Retreat, near Balti- 

 more, Md., aged 83 years. He was a native of 

 France, and was for forty years professor of 

 French at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmetts- 

 burg. He was ordained priest by the late 

 Archbishop Carroll. 



Aug. 1. WILSON, Rev. SAMUEL B., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and professor of the- 

 ology; died in Hampden-Sidney, Prince Ed- 

 ward County, Ya., aged 86 years. He was 

 born in Virginia; educated at Hampden-Sidney 

 College ; studied theology under some of the 

 great theologians of Virginia in the beginning 

 of the present century; was ordained in 1806, 

 and settled the same year at Fredericksburg, 

 Va., where he remained as pastor, greatly 

 esteemed and beloved, till 1841, when he was 

 called to fill the chair of theology in the Union 

 Theological Seminary, at Hampden-Sidney, 

 then just vacant by the death of Dr. Baxter. 

 He continued in this professorship until his 

 death, a period of twenty-eight years, and filled 

 it with marked ability, though, for the last few 

 years, somewhat infirm in body. 



Aug. 6. BAKEE, DAVID JEWETT, a pioneer 

 settler and political leader in Illinois for many 

 years ; died at Alton, 111., aged 77 years. He 

 was born in East Haddam, Conn., September 

 V, 1792, of Revolutionary stock, removed with 

 his parents to Ontario County, N. Y., in 1800, 

 fitted himself for college, while engaged in 

 the work of a farm in the wilderness, and 

 graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton 

 County, N. Y., in 1816, studied law with Hon. 

 John Dixon, of Ontario County, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1819. He marrie.d, and 

 removed to Illinois the same year, settling at 

 Kaskaskia, then the capital of the State, and 

 speedily obtained a large practice on that cir- 

 cuit, becoming a few years later probate judge 

 of Randolph County. In 1823 an attempt was 

 made to introduce slavery into Illinois, by an 

 amendment of the constitution. He opposed 

 this with such energy with voice and pen, that 

 the supporters of slavery in the State deter- 

 mined to kill him, and Thomas Reynolds (after- 

 ward Governor of Missouri) attacked him with 

 a bludgeon in the streets of Kaskaskia, inflict- 

 ing a blow upon his head, the scar of which 

 remained till his death. In 1829 he was ap- 

 pointed by Governor Edwards United States 

 Senator, to fill a vacancy, and served till 1831 ; 

 carrying through Congress the important meas- 

 ure of selling the public lands to actual set- 

 tlers in quantities of forty acres, which greatly 

 facilitated the settlement of Illinois and other 

 new States. In 1833 General Jackson ap- 

 pointed him United States Attorney for Illi- 

 nois, and Mr. Van Buren reappointed him, so 

 that he filled this important office till 1841. 

 He became a Whig in 1840, and a Republican 

 in 1854, taking an active part in the political 



struggles of both parties, but holding no office, 

 and only once a candidate. 



Aug. 7. CHAPMAN, CHARLES, an eminent 

 criminal lawyer and politician of Connecticut ; 

 died in Hartford, Conn., aged 70 years. He 

 was born in Newtown, Conn., in June, 1799, 

 his father being Asa Chapman, an eminent 

 lawyer, and judge of the Supreme Court; re- 

 ceived a good academic education, was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1823, practised law in New- 

 town 1824-'27, removed to New Haven, and 

 in 1832 to Hartford ; was a member of the Con- 

 necticut Legislature three times before 1841 ; 

 United States District Attorney, 1841-'45; 

 member of Congress from First District, Con- 

 necticut, 1851-'53 ; candidate of the Temper- 

 ance party for Governor in 1854; and in 1856 

 joined the Democratic party. Though occa- 

 sionally active in political life, Mr. Chapman's 

 greatest power was manifested in his profes- 

 sion. As a criminal lawyer he had no superior 

 in his State, hardly one in the nation. He was 

 a man of infinite wit, great sarcastic power, 

 and a genial companion and friend. 



Aug. 7. EASTMAN, PHILIP, LL; D., an emi- 

 nent jurist of Maine ; died in Saco, Me., aged 

 70 years and 6 months. He was born in 

 Chatham, N. H., in February, 1799, educated 

 at Fryeburg, Me., and Bowdoin College, gradu- 

 ating in 1820, studied law with Stephen Chase, 

 and Judges Baylies and Dana, and was admitted 

 to the bar at Paris, Me., in 1823. He practised 

 law at North Yarmouth, Me., 1823-'36 ; at Har- 

 rison, Me., 1836-'47 ; and at Saco, 1847-69. In 

 1840 he was associated with Ebenezer Everett, 

 Esq., in revising and publishing the " General 

 Statutes of Maine;" in 1840-'42 he was a 

 member of the Maine Senate. In 1842-'43 he 

 was a commissioner to locate the claims of 

 settlers on the northeastern boundary of Maine 

 nnder the Washington Treaty; and for five 

 years subsequently commissioner for Cumber- 

 land County. From 1831 to 1869 he was a 

 member of the Board of Overseers ofBowdoin 

 College. In 1849 he published a carefully-pre- 

 pared digest of the first twenty-six volumes of 

 the " Maine Law Reports." As a lawyer, he 

 took a high rank among the leading jurists of 

 the State, which has furnished so many emi- 

 nent members of the legal profession. 



Aug. 8. LITTLE, CHAELES C., a leading 

 Boston publisher and importer of books for 

 more than forty years; died at Cambridge, 

 Mass., aged 70 years. He was born at Kenne- 

 bunk, Me., July 25, 1799, went to Boston early 

 in life and entered a shipping-house, where he 

 remained but a short time. After spending a 

 winter at Charleston, S. 0., Mr. Little returned 

 to Boston and entered the bookstore of Carter, 

 Hilliard & Co. He subsequently became a 

 member of the firm of Hilliard, Gray, Little & 

 Wilkins, in which he continued until the for- 

 mation of his partnership with the late James 

 Brown, in the year 1837, under the style of 

 Charles 0. Little & Co., or as it appeared on 

 their books, Charles C. Little and James Brown. 



