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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



was also one of the originators of the American 

 Express Company, in which organization he 

 was a directing power until his death. Per- 

 ceiving the commercial importance of the elec- 

 tric telegraph, he took part in the establish- 

 ment of the New York, Albany, and Buffalo 

 Telegraph Company. He also aided largely 

 in building up the city of Utica. 



Nov. 23. MCLEAN, Eev. DANIEL YEBCH, 

 D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman and author ; 

 died at Red Bank, N. J., aged 68 years. He 

 was a graduate of Miami University, Ohio, was 

 for several years pastor of the old Tennent 

 Church of Freehold, N. J. ; afterward was 

 president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 

 and at the time of his death was pastor of the 

 Church at Red Bank. 



Nov. 27. KIEENAN, General JAMES L., Brig- 

 adier-General of Volunteers, in the late war ; 

 died in New York City, aged 32 years. He was 

 a native of New York ; received a liberal edu- 

 cation, and graduated as a physician at the 

 University of New York. When the war com- 

 menced he was in the practice of his profes- 

 sion, and was engaged at the same time as one 

 of the editors of the Medical Press. His 

 patriotism, however, led him to volunteer his 

 services on behalf of his country. At the 

 battle of Port Gibson, Miss., he was severely 

 wounded, and fell into the hands of the enemy, 

 but subsequently 'escaped. For his services in 

 the field he was commissioned as a brigadier- 

 general, and at the close of the war was ap- 

 pointed United States consul at Chin Kiang, 

 China, the duties of which office he performed 

 acceptably to the Government. 



Nov. 27. NICHOLAS, SAMUEL SMITH, a jurist 

 and publicist of Kentucky ; died in Louisville, 

 aged 73 years. He was a son of George Nicho- 

 las, a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and was 

 born in Lexington, Ky. When a youth he en- 

 tered into active business in Baltimore under 

 the care of his uncle, Robert Smith, afterward 

 mayor of the city. Although but a lad, he was 

 sent as supercargo to Lima and Canton, and he 

 made the best use of the voyage to perfect his 

 commercial and general education. On his re- 

 turn he entered into business in New Orleans. 

 Thence he removed to Kentucky, and became 

 a law student in the office of the late Chan- 

 cellor Bibb, then living at Frankfort. Enter- 

 ing upon the practice of his profession in Louis- 

 ville, he rose rapidly to a high position, and in 

 December, 1831, became judge of the Court 

 of Appeals. Subsequently he served in the 

 State Legislature. He assisted in the prepara- 

 tion of the Revised Code of Kentucky, and was 

 the author of a series of essays on constitu- 

 tional law. 



Nov. 28. PEAT, ISAAC C., a New York jour- 

 nalist, author, and dramatic actor; died in 

 New York City, aged 56 years. He was born 

 in Boston in 1813, his father being one of the 

 wealthiest merchants in that city. He was 

 connected for some time with the Journal of 

 Commerce, and afterward wrote for the Herald; 



was the author of "Virginius," a play first 

 brought out at the Academy of Music, and was 

 very successful as a theatrical manager. 

 . Nov. . WALSH, BENJAMIN D., State Ento- 

 mologist of Iowa ; died at Rock Island, 111., from 

 the effects of an accidental injury, aged 61 

 years. He was born in England, but emigrated 

 to the United States at the age of twenty-two 

 years. He had received an ex-cellent education 

 in England, and, having a strong predilection for 

 natural history, he devoted himself to the study 

 of some branches of it for nearly forty years. 

 He had been connected with the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Philadelphia, and the Smith- 

 sonian Institute, and had given much time to 

 the investigation and arrangement of the very 

 large collection of insects brought home by the 

 various exploring expeditions. He was regarded 

 as a standard authority on entomology, and for 

 two years past had been employed by the State 

 of Iowa in connection with the Agricultural 

 College in investigating the insects of the State 

 injurious to vegetation. 



Dec. 2. RICHAEDSON, ALBEET DEANE, jour- 

 nalist and author; was assassinated in New 

 York City, aged 36 years. He was born in 

 Franklin, Mass., was educated in his native 

 town and at Holliston, and at the age of seven- 

 teen went to Pittsburg, Pa., and engaged in 

 teaching, employing his leisure time in writing 

 for the press. Subsequently he removed to 

 Cincinnati, where he was attached to the Sun, 

 and afterward to the Unionist, the Daily Co- 

 lumbian, and the Cincinnati Gazette. Having 

 made an engagement with the Boston Journal, 

 he went out to Kansas as correspondent for 

 that paper, and resided there for about two 

 years, acting as secretary of the Territorial 

 Legislature, and as adjutant-general to the Ter- 

 ritorial Governor. He took an overland trip 

 across the country as far south as the Rio 

 Grande ; and in the winter of 1859-'60 returned 

 East. Having become connected with the Tri- 

 ~bune, he spent a year in Colorado as correspond- 

 ent for that paper, and upon his return went 

 through the South on a secret mission for the 

 Tribune. He was war correspondent of that 

 paper from the summer and autumn of 1861 

 (when he was with Fremont in Missouri) to 

 May, 1863, when, after numerous experiences 

 in field and camp, he was taken prisoner by the 

 enemy, on the Mississippi River, and held in 

 confinement twenty months at various South- 

 ern prisons; escaped December 18, 1864, from 

 Salisbury, N. C., prison, and reached Knoxville, 

 Tenn., after incredible hardships, January 13, 

 1865. After his escape he wrote " Field, Dun- 

 geon, and Escape," which sold to the extent of 

 nearly 100,000 copies. His health being im- 

 paired, his visited California in the autumn of 

 1865, with Mr. Colfax and other friends, and 

 on his return wrote "Beyond the Mississippi," 

 which also had a very large sale, and which he 

 revised in 1869, after another journey across the 

 Plains. In 1868, while still in the occasional 

 service of the Tribune, he wrote a biography 



