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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



litical leader in Maine ; died at Saco, Me., aged 

 54 years 6 months. He was born in Limerick, 

 Me., April 8, 1815 ; had a good academical ed- 

 ucation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 

 1837, and practised his profession from 1837 

 to 1845. In 1841, 1842, and 1845, he was a 

 member of the Maine Legislature, and in 1845 

 Speaker of the House ; he was State Treasurer 

 from 1847 to the close of 1849; member of 

 Congress from the First Congressional District 

 of Maine from 1851 to 1855 ; and Collector of 

 the District of Portland, under President Bu- 

 chanan, from 1857 to 1861. 



Oct. 19. MOETON, ALEXANDEE, a celebrated 

 gold-pen manufacturer, and a liberal and patri- 

 otic citizen of New York ; died in New York 

 City, aged 49 years. By the adoption of skil- 

 ful automatic processes, invented by himself, 

 he made a great change in the manufacture of 

 gold pens about the year 1860, and thence- 

 forth the pointing, tempering, and grinding 

 of these pens, which had formerly been done 

 unequally and often imperfectly by hand, was 

 all accomplished by machinery. His pens had 

 a high reputation, and an immense sale through- 

 out the Union, and his large income was dis- 

 bursed with a generous hand for the cause of 

 the Union and its defenders. 



Oct. 23. AYEEY, EPHEAIM K.-, a once fa- 

 mous Methodist clergyman ; died in Pittsfield, 

 Ohio, aged 70 years. He was a native of Con- 

 necticut, and had been for some years a Meth- 

 odist preacher, and had attracted attention 

 by his eloquence and ability, when he was 

 stationed in Fall River, Mass., in 1832 and 1833. 

 Here he became acquainted with a young wo- 

 man, a member of his church, named Sarah 

 Maria Cornell. They were for a considerable 

 period very intimate, but without exciting any 

 particular attention, Miss Cornell being affi- 

 anced to another. At length the body of the 

 girl was found near a haystack, in a field re- 

 mote from the highway, and the circumstances 

 made it evident that the double crime of seduc- 

 tion and murder had been committed. Mr. 

 Avery's known intimacy with her led to the 

 suspicion that he was the murderer. He was 

 tried both by an ecclesiastical and a civil court ; 

 the former acquitting him after a careful and 

 protracted trial, with emphatic assurance of 

 his innocence, and the latter failing to make a 

 case against him, and discharging him under a 

 nolle prosequi. But the community refused to 

 believe him innocent, and, after attempting in 

 vain, for some years, to continue in the min- 

 istry, he felt compelled to withdraw from it, 

 and removed to Ohio, where, for more than 

 thirty years, he had led the life of a quiet, in- 

 dustrious farmer, and was greatly respected 

 and beloved by his neighbors and acquaint- 

 ances. 



Oct. 23. FAEMEE, JOHN "W., a generous and 

 philanthropic citizen of New York; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 50 years. In the winter 

 of distress which followed the financial panic 

 of 1857, he not only gave bountifully of pro- 



visions to the poor, but established the soup- 

 house system for their benefit, thus furnishing 

 them with nutritious food at a rate much be- 

 low what they could have prepared it for at 

 their own homes, even if the meat had been 

 given them. He followed the same course in 

 1861-'62. For four or five years past he had 

 been deeply interested in cooperative move- 

 ments, and had organized a number of co- 

 operative societies in New York and vicinity. 

 He was fertile in expedients to aid the poor to 

 help themselves, and never chary of his own 

 means in aiding them to do so. 



Oct. 28. HENBY, Rev. ROBEET "W., D. D., an 

 eminent and eloquent Presbyterian clergyman, 

 educated at Princeton, N. J., and settled suc- 

 cessively in Chicago, 111., as co-pastor with Rev. 

 Dr. McElroy, in New York City, and over the 

 North Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia ; died 

 in Alexandria, Egypt. He had been making 

 the tour of Europe and the East since May, 

 1869, and was bound homeward, when he was 

 seized with the Syrian fever, at Alexandria, and 

 died after a few days' illness. 



Nov. 2. BANGS, Rev. HEMAN, a pioneer 

 Methodist clergyman; died in New Haven, 

 Conn., aged 79 years. He was born in Fair- 

 field, Conn., April 15, 1790, but early removed 

 to Delaware County, N. Y. At the age of 

 eighteen he was converted, and soon after was 

 licensed to preach. In 1815 he joined the 

 New York Conference, and continued in it for 

 fifty-four consecutive years. For many years he 

 was the presiding elder for the New Haven Dis- 

 trict, and in 1868 was the presiding elder of the 

 South Long Island District. His ministry was 

 a successful one, and during his pastorate he 

 admitted some ten thousand persons to church 

 membership. 



Nov. 5. RIGGS, Dr. JETUE R., a prominent 

 physician of Paterson, N. J. ; died at Drakes- 

 ville, Sussex County, N. J. He was born in Mor- 

 ris County, N. J., June 20, 1809 ; studied medi- 

 cine and graduated at the Barclay Street Med- 

 ical University of New York. In 1828 he made 

 an extensive sea-voyage over the world ; prac- 

 tised his profession from 1832 to 1849 ; served 

 two years in the New Jersey Legislature ; in 

 1855 was elected for three years to the Senate 

 of New Jersey ; and in 1858 was chosen a Rep- 

 resentative in Congress, serving as a member 

 of the Committee on Manufactures. 



Nov. 6. HALL, Rev. HENET LEWIS, a Congre- 

 gationalist clergyman ; died at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., aged 34 years. He was born in Guilford, 

 Ct., in November, 1835 ; fitted for college at 

 East Hampton ; graduated with honor from Yale* 

 College in 1860 ; studied theology at New Haven 

 one year; was one year with the army as 

 chaplain of the Tenth Regiment Connecticut 

 Volunteer Infantry; and then studied three 

 years at Halle, in Germany, with Tholuck, in 

 whose family he spent most of that time, and 

 with whom he was on terms of cordial in- 

 timacy. He was a thorough scholar, a careful 

 and elegant writer, a dignified and impressive 



