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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Jan. 1. SWEET- 

 SEK, CHARLES, a New York journalist; died 

 in Florida, aged 29 years. He graduated 

 at Amherst College in 1862, and from that 

 time gave liis attention to literary pursuits. 

 He founded successively the Round Table, the 

 Evening Mail, the Star, the Evening Gazette, 

 and the City. After the failure of the latter 

 enterprise, he removed to Minnesota, and sub- 

 sequently to Chicago, where he obtained a po- 

 sition as literary editor of the Times, hut, 

 symptoms of consumption having developed 

 themsejves, he was compelled to seek a warmer 

 climate in the vain hope of relief. 



Jan. 3. LOVELL, Brevet Brigadier-General 

 CHARLES S., Colonel Fourteenth Infantry, U. 

 S. A., a gallant soldier of the Mexican and late 

 wars ; died at Louisville, Ky., aged 58 years. 

 He was born in Massachusetts in 1812, served 

 through the Mexican "War with distinction, 

 and for his bravery in the late war received 

 three brevets. He was in command of the post 

 at Nashville at the close of hostilities, and sub- 

 sequently was assigned to the command of 

 Fort Yuma, Cal., where he contracted the dis- 

 ease which resulted in death. 



Jan. 5. MACK, Dr. A. W., physician and 

 journalist; died in Chicago, 111., aged 49 years. 

 He was born in Moretown, Vt., in 1822, and 

 early settled in Kalamazoo County, Mich., where 

 he received his medical education and entered 

 upon the practice of his profession. At the 

 expiration of thirteen years, he removed with 

 his family to Kankakee, 111. Here he com- 

 menced his long career as a member of the 

 Legislature, with which he was connected for 

 fourteen years. After the outbreak of the war, 

 Dr. Mack, while still a member of the Senate, 

 organized the Seventy-sixth Illinois Regiment, 

 of which he became colonel, and with which 

 he accompanied General Banks's army to Red 

 River. In 1865, upon returning from the war, 

 he started the Chicago Republican, with C. A. 

 Dana as editor-in-chief. Upon Mr. Dana's with- 

 drawal, Dr. Mack assumed the editorial charge. 

 Subsequently he retired from his editorial po- 

 sition, and entered upon a remunerative law- 

 practice. 



Jan. 6. SMEAD, WESLEY, M. D., a physi- 

 cian, philanthropist, and author ; died in Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., aged 70 years. He gave large 

 sums to charitable institutions, including $37,- 

 000 to the "Widows' Home in Cincinnati. He 

 was the author of several valuable medical and 

 other works. 



Jan. 9. HALE, NATHAN, a journalist, maga- 

 2ine writer, and college professor ; died in Bos- 

 ton, Mass. He was born in Boston, graduated 

 at Harvard College in 1838, and thenceforth 

 devoted himself to literary pursuits. He was 

 for many years editor of the Boston Daily Ad- 



vertiser, and in 1843 added to this the editor- 

 ship of the Boston Miscellany. Finding his 

 constitution severely taxed by this double du- 

 ty, he was compelled to retire from active ser- 

 vice, and only indulge in occasional writing. 

 Upon the withdrawal of President Hickok from 

 Union College, Schenectady, he took the chair 

 of Rhetoric in that institution, and subsequent- 

 ly was associated with his brother, Rev. Ed- 

 ward Everett Hale, in conducting the Old and 

 New Magazine. 



Jan. 10. KELLY, JAMES, a prominent citi- 

 zen and politician of New York ; died there, 

 aged 58 years. He was born in that city, in 

 1812, and with a limited education acquired a 

 competence early in life as a baker. He en- 

 tered political life as an Old-Line Whig, but on 

 the dissolution of the party became identified 

 with the Republican organization. His first 

 official position was that of alderman, to which 

 he was elected in 1846, serving until 1852, and 

 was President of the Board of Aldermen from 

 1849 to 1851. During the ten years following 

 he occupied many positions of mercantile and 

 political trust, such as Commissioner of Emi- 

 gration, presidential elector, chairman of the 

 Whig and Republican Central Committees, 

 President of the Stuyvesnnt Insurance Compa- 

 ny, and Trustee of the Fire Department. In 

 1858 he was appointed Receiver of Taxes, a 

 position which he held four years. At the out- 

 break of the war he cooperated with Govern- 

 or Morgan in arming and forwarding regiments 

 to the front. In 1863 he was appointed Post- 

 master by President Lincoln, and was reap- 

 pointed by President Johnson, thus serving two 

 full terms. At the expiration of his term of 

 office in 1869 he retired to private life, his ar- 

 duous public services having impaired a con- 

 stitution naturally robust. 



Jan. 11. MoNAMEE, THEODORE, an eminent 

 merchant of New York City, and one of the 

 founders of the New York Independent ; died 

 there, aged 58 years. He was a native of Con- 

 necticut, but removed to New York, and early 

 became identified with the mercantile as well 

 as the moral and religious interests of that city. 

 After a successful experience in trade he 

 became a member of the firm of Bo wen & 

 McNamee, which firm subsequently built the 

 first marble store on Broadway, and were the 

 founders of the Independent. For several 

 years he had been in charge of the credit de- 

 partment of the firm of H. B. Claflin & Co., of 

 which lie was about to become a partner. He 

 was actively engaged in the mission-work of 

 the city, and for some years was superintend- 

 ent of the Sunday-school of the Fourth Avenue 

 Presbyterian Church, of which he was a promi- 

 nent member. 



Jan. 14. FULLER, PERRY, a politician ; died 



