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speaker, and a devoted pastor. In 1868 ill 

 health compelled him to resign a pastorate in 

 Auburn, Me., sinc^ which time he had been 

 unable to resume the duties of his profession. 



Nov. 7. BASCOM, OLIVER, an active poli- 

 tician of the State of New York ; died at White- 

 hall, N. Y., of heart-disease, aged 54 years. He 

 was born in Orwell, Vt., at which place his 

 father pursued the occupation of a farmer, and 

 when quite young commenced life as a clerk in 

 a store in Whitehall, N. Y. He afterward be- 

 came a director of the Northern Transportation 

 Company, and for ten years was secretary and 

 treasurer of that corporation. About two 

 years ago he resigned those offices, and entered 

 the lumber firm of Brett, Spooner & Co. In 

 the fall of 1868 he was elected Canal Commis- 

 sioner, and performed the duties of that office 

 with creditable assiduity, and thus probably 

 aggravated the malady which terminated his 

 career so suddenly. 



Nov. 8. KENT, Eev. ARATTTS, a pioneer Con- 

 gregationalist clergyman and home missionary, 

 died at Galena, 111., aged 75 years. He was 

 born in Suffield, Conn., educated at Yale and 

 Princeton, and, upon the completion of his 

 theological course, applied to the Home Mis- 

 sionary Society for "a place so hard that no 

 one else would take it," and in 1829 was sent 

 to the Galena lead-mines. Here he was un- 

 ceasing in his labors, and in less than two 

 years had a Sabbath-school with ten teachers 

 and from sixty to ninety scholars, having also 

 established a day-school, which he conducted 

 himself. In 1831 he organized the First Pres- 

 byterian Church in Galena, and, after holding a 

 pastorate for several years, became in 1848 an 

 agent of the Home Missionary Society. He 

 was indefatigable in the performance of all his 

 duties, never sparing himself in heat or cold, 

 storm or sunshine. The foundation and pres- 

 ent prosperity of Beloit College, and Eockford 

 Female Seminary, are in a large degree owing 

 to his energy. He was a man of remarkably 

 generous impulses, and, with a salary always 

 small, gave to charitable objects in the course 

 of his ministerial career nearly seven thousand 

 dollars. 



Nov. 9. PRATT, THOMAS G., a prominent 

 politician and political leader of Maryland; died 

 in Baltimore, aged 65 years. He was born in 

 Washington in 1805 ; was educated in an acad- 

 emy in Georgetown, D. C., studied law, and 

 frequently served in the Maryland Senate. In 

 1837 he was a presidential elector ; from 1844 

 to 1848, Governor of Maryland; Senator in 

 Congress from 1850 to 1857; a delegate to the 

 Chicago Convention of 1864 ; and to the Phila- 

 delphia National Union Convention of 1866. 



Nov. 11. BINGHAM, Eev. HIRAM, a Congre- 

 gationalist clergyman and missionary of the 

 American Board; died in New Haven, Conn., 

 aged 80 years. He was born at Bennington, 

 Vt., graduated at Middlebury College in 1816, 

 and at the Andover Seminary in 1819, being or- 

 dained the same year. Having a strong desire 



to carry the gospel to the Sandwich Islands, 

 he offered his services to the American Board, 

 and received an appointment in 1819. Ho was 

 stationed on the Island of Oahu at Honolulu, 

 which soon became the permanent seat of 

 government, and the chief resort of whaling 

 and other ships of the North Pacific, and his 

 unwearied labors for a period of twenty years 

 gave him a strong influence for good over the 

 kings and chief rulers of that time. In 1841 

 Mr. Bingham was obliged to return to the 

 United States, in consequence of the failure of 

 his wife's health, which never was sufficiently 

 recovered to admit of her return ; and after 

 her death, which occurred some years later, it 

 was not considered advisable for him to resume 

 his connection with the mission. 



Nov. 11. COIT, Eev. GURDON S., D. D., an 

 Episcopal clergyman; died in Bridgeport, Conn. 

 He was formerly a professor in Trinity College, 

 Hartford, Conn., and for twenty-five years was 

 Eector of St. John's Church, Bridgeport. 



Nov. 11. WARNER, WYLLTS, Secretary and 

 Treasurer of Yale College ; died in Chicago, 

 aged 70 years. He graduated at Yale College 

 in 1826, and subsequently at the Yale Theo- 

 logical Seminary; but, although licensed to 

 preach, was never a settled pastor. In 1829 

 he was made a tutor at Yale, and was sub- 

 sequently appointed agent to collect what was 

 known as the $100,000 fund for the college, in 

 which work he was very successful. In 1833 

 he was chosen treasurer of the college in place 

 of James Hillhouse, deceased, and continued in 

 that office until 1852, when failing health com- 

 pelled him to resign. Upon the death of Eev. 

 Samuel E. Andrew, secretary of the college, in 

 1858, Mr. Warner was elected to that office, 

 which he continued to fill to the time of his 

 death. 



Nov. 15. BALDWIN, ALEXANDER W., United 

 States District Judge for Nevada ; was killed 

 at Alameda, Cal., by a railroad accident, aged 

 34 years. He was a native of Alabama, and 

 son of Judge Joseph G. Baldwin of the Su- 

 preme Court of California, author of "The 

 Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi." 

 Young Baldwin was educated for the law, and 

 became a member of the successful firm of 

 Stewart, Kirkpatrick, and Baldwin, of Vir- 

 ginia City, Nevada. When but thirty years 

 of age he was chosen a United States district 

 judge, and had already won himself much 

 honor when his brilliant career was suddenly 

 ended. 



Nov. 15. BUTTERFIELD, JOHN, a.pioneer in 

 the establishment of stage and express lines; 

 died in Utica, N. Y., aged 86 years. He was 

 born in Helderberg, N. Y., and was self-edu- 

 cated. In 1822 he removed to Utica to assist 

 in the management of the regular stage-line 

 for the transporting of passengers between 

 Albany and Buffalo, and soon became the lead- 

 ing manager of that business in the State. 

 Upon the establishment of railroads he at once 

 directed his energies to that new project, and 



