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at Raleigh, N. 0., aged about 72 years. He 

 was a member of the North Carolina Legisla- 

 ture from 1829 to 1834, and in 1831, during the 

 height of the nullification excitement, intro- 

 duced a resolution into the House of Commons 

 of the State, denouncing it in the strongest 

 terms. "When the secession movement began, 

 he opposed it with great vigor, and voted 

 against the convention to take North Carolina 

 out of the Union. He was known as a decided 

 Unionist daring the war, though, like Mr. Botts, 

 of Virginia, he remained at his home and kept 

 aloof from political action. In 1865 he was 

 elected Governor of the State, and served until 

 the reconstruction of the State, when he gave 

 place to Governor Holden. 



Sept. 10. GOLD, SAMUEL WADS WORTH, 

 M. D., an eminent physician and agriculturist, 

 of West Cornwall, Conn. ; died there, aged 75 

 years. He was educated at Williams College, 

 graduating in the class of 1814, and studied 

 medicine, practising for some years under a li- 

 cense. In 1829 he received the degree of M. D. 

 from Williams College, and in 1836 from Yale 

 College, of which he subsequently became a 

 Fellow. He was a member of the Senate 

 of Connecticut, and for many years, in con- 

 nection with his son, Samuel W. Gold, Jr., 

 M. D., had had the reputation of being in the 

 very front rank of New England farmers. His 

 contributions to agricultural literature and 

 science were numerous and valuable. 



Sept. 11. BAHNSON, Right Rev. GEORGE F., 

 D. D., a bishop of the Moravian Church, for 

 the southern division ; died at Salem, N. C., 

 aged 64 years. A native of the Netherlands, 

 where he was born in September, 1805, he 

 came to this country many years ago, and was 

 employed as a teacher in the Moravian Theo- 

 logical Seminary at Nazareth, Pa. He subse- 

 quently accepted a call as pastor of the Mora- 

 vian Church at Lancaster, and officiated in that 

 capacity until 1861, when he was ordained a 

 bishop, and assumed the charge of the Church 

 in the Southern States, taking up his residence 

 in Salem, where he died. Bishop Bahnson had 

 just returned from Europe, where he had been 

 for several months, attending the General 

 Council of the Moravian Church. He was a 

 man of fine culture, amiable manners, and de- 

 cided ability. 



Sept. 18. DOER, Rev. BENJAMIN, D. D., an 

 eminent Episcopal clergyman and author of 

 Philadelphia ; died at Germantown, Pa., in the 

 74th year of his age. He was born in Salis- 

 bury, Conn., in 1796, graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1817, and at the General Episcopal 

 Theological Seminary in New York in 1820. 

 He received ordination as a priest from Bishop 

 Hobart in 1823 ; and after having taken charge, 

 in turn, of the parishes of Lansingburg and 

 Waterford, N. Y., and Trinity Church, Utica, 

 and serving as secretary of the Episcopal Board 

 of Missions, he, in 1837, became rector of 

 Christ Church, Philadelphia, where he spent a 

 useful ministry of thirty-two years. He re- 



ceived the degree of D. D. from the University 

 of Pennsylvania in 1838. He was the author 

 of several devotional works of considerable 

 merit. 



Sept. 19. WOODBRIDGE, Rev. JOHN, D. D., a 

 distinguished Congregationalist clergyman and 

 author, born in Southampton, Mass., in 1784; 

 died at Waukegan, Wis., in the 85th year of his 

 age. He graduated at Williams College in 1804, 

 and was ordained as pastor of the church in 

 Hadley, June 20, 1810, where he remained until 

 September 15, 1830, when he became pastor 

 of the Bowery Presbyterian Church in N. Y. 

 city. Here he remained about ten years, and 

 was afterward settled at Bridgeport and New 

 Hartford, Ct., and on the 16th day of February, 

 1842, became pastor of the Russell Church in 

 Hadley, from which he was dismissed, at his 

 own request, July 15, 1857. His entire pasto- 

 rate in Hadley, therefore, lasted thirty-five years. 

 Dr. Woodbridge came from a ministerial family, 

 there having been but one break in the line of 

 John Woodbridges, ministers of the Gospel, 

 since the Reformation, or for more than three 

 hundred years. Dr. Woodbridge possessed 

 fine antiquarian tastes, and had made some val- 

 uable contributions to the early history of Old 

 Hadley and the Connecticut Valley. 



Sept. 21. ROCKWOOD, Rev. GILBERT, a Con- 

 gregationalist clergyman and missionary ; died 

 in Wilbraham, Mass., aged 58 years. He had 

 been a missionary among the Tuscarc-ras from 

 1837 to 1861. 



Sept. 22. ALLEN, RICHARD L., an editor, 

 author, and practical agriculturist; died in 

 Stockholm, Sweden, aged 66 years. He was 

 born in Hampden County, Mass., in October, 

 1803, educated at Westfield, Mass., and early 

 entered into mercantile pursuits in New York 

 City. Relinquishing this, he entered into lit- 

 erary pursuits and the study of the law in 

 Baltimore, but on account of impaired health 

 returned to a more active, out-door life in 1832. 

 He had a large tract of woodland on the Niag- 

 ara River, which he cleared and brought into 

 cultivation, and commenced breeding various 

 kinds of improved stock, a business in which he 

 took great delight. In 1842, in conjunction with 

 his elder brother, Mr. A. B. Allen, he founded 

 the American Agriculturist, of which for thir- 

 teen years he was contributor, co-editor, and 

 publisher. He also prepared during this period 

 "The American Farm Book," a capital work, 

 and also a valuable treatise on " The Diseases 

 of Domestic Animals." The demand for im- 

 proved agricultural implements, stimulated by 

 the Agriculturist, led the Allen brothers to 

 open an agricultural implement warehouse, 

 which is still carried on, and this business be- 

 came so extensive that they withdrew from the 

 paper to conduct it. Mr. Allen had also a 

 large amount of real estate at Manitowoc, 

 Wis., and was greatly esteemed there for 

 his liberality and kindness of heart. He was 

 a man of cultivated intellect, of fine tastes, 

 and a most generous and amiable disposition. 



