OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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lUmbiana County, and editor of the Buckeye 

 State. During the administration of the late 

 Governor Tod, he held the office of military 

 secretary. 



Jan. 29. ELLIOT, GEOKGET., M.D., an emi- 

 nent physician and Professor of Obstetrics in 

 Bellevue Hospital, New York ; died at his resi- 

 dence in that city. He graduated at the Phil- 

 adelphia Medical School, and subsequently 

 studied in Paris, London, and Dublin, where 

 he attained great clinical skill under the cele- 

 brated Dr. Shekelton. In 1857 he was chosen 

 visiting physician of the Lying-in Hospital, in 

 New York, and in 1861 was elected to fill the 

 chair of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery in 

 the Bellevue Hospital College. He was the 

 author of a number of medical works, the 

 chief of which, known as " Elliot's Obstetric 

 Clinic," was received by foreign medical crit- 

 ics with great favor. 



Feb. 1. HILL, Rev. ALONZO, D. D., a Unita- 

 rian clergyman, scholar, and antiquarian ; died 

 in Worcester, Mass. He was born in Harvard, 

 Mass., June 30, 1800, and graduated from Har- 

 vard College in 1822. Having studied divinity, 

 he was ordained in 1827 as pastor of the Uni- 

 tarian Society in Worcester, where he remained 

 till his death, with a high reputation for schol- 

 arship, and the esteem of all who knew him. 

 He was one of the overseers of Harvard Col- 

 lege, Secretary of the American Antiquarian 

 Society, and a zealous friend of education. 



Feb. 1. UNDERBILL, Dr. R. T., a Quaker 

 physician and eminent agriculturist; died at 

 Croton Point, on the Hudson, aged about 70 

 years. He received a good education, and at 

 an early age began to practise medicine, which 

 he abandoned some years later, to devote his 

 entire attention to the culture of grapes and 

 the manufacture of the wine which has since 

 made his name celebrated in the United States. 

 Being of an experimental turn of mind as well 

 as a scientific and practical farmer, he soon 

 succeeded in introducing features into his vine- 

 yards that amazed his less progressive neigh- 

 bors, who, thirty-five years ago, ridiculed the 

 idea of making wine on the banks of the Hud- 

 son. He was one of the original stockholders 

 of the Elevated Railroad, and continued to 

 take an active interest in it until his death. 



Feb. 3. TATLOE, Rev. HORACE S., mission- 

 ary of the American Board to Madura; died 

 there, aged 56 years. He was born at West 

 Hartland, Conn., October 31, 1814; received 

 his collegiate and theological education at 

 Western Reserve College, Ohio ; was ordained 

 at Milan, April 17, 1844; and the following 

 May sailed with his wife for the Madura mis- 

 sion. He was first stationed at Tirupuranum, 

 but in May, 1850, removed thirty miles south 

 to Mandapasalai, at which station he remained 

 until his death. After a period of twenty 

 years of severe service, his failing health com- 

 pelled him to visit the United States, but, as 

 soon as practicable, he returned to his field of 

 labor. Mr. Taylor was an earnest, zealous, and 



faithful laborer, and accomplished a great 

 work during the twenty-five years of his mis- 

 sionary life. 



Feb. 5. MANLEY, Rev. IRA, a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman and home missionary ; died 

 at Keene, Essex County, N. Y., aged 91 years. 

 He was a graduate of Middlebury College ; 

 studied law, was admitted to the bar, and left 

 a fine practice to enter the ministry. He was 

 a home missionary for sixty years, and a pio- 

 neer in all good enterprises. The last twenty- 

 two years of his life were mostly passed in 

 Wisconsin. 



Feb. 6. HIESTER, ISAAC ELLMAKER, a promi- 

 nent Democratic politician of Pennsylvania ; 

 died at Lancaster, Pa., aged about 50 years. He 

 graduated with high honors from Yale College 

 in 1842 ; studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in Lancaster in 1844 ; was deputy Attorney- 

 General for Lancaster County in 1848, and was 

 a member of Congress from 1853 to 1855. He 

 was a candidate for election in the Thirty-fourth 

 Congress, but was defeated, and resumed the 

 practice of his profession. 



Feb. 7. STEINWAY, ENGLEHARD HEINRICH, 

 the founder and head of the great piano man- 

 ufacturing firm of " Steinway & Sons," in 

 New York City, died there, aged 74 years. He 

 was born in the duchy of Brunswick, Germany, 

 on the 15th of February, 1797. A talent for 

 music induced him, in early boyhood, to make 

 his own musical instruments, the cythera and 

 guitar, on which he played with taste. He 

 learned cabinet-making, worked in an organ- 

 factory, thoroughly studied the art of piano- 

 making, and then founded an independent 

 business. In 1849, he sent his second son, 

 Charles, to New York, to investigate the pros- 

 pects which the New World offered to the 

 piano-trade. His report was so favorable that, 

 early in 1850, Heinrich Steinway and his family, 

 with one exception, set sail for America, and 

 settled in New York. In the spring of 1853, 

 the father and his four sons commenced busi- 

 ness for themselves in Varick Street, where 

 they rented a rear building, manufacturing 

 about one piano a week. At the expiration 

 of a year, the firm found the building too 

 small for their increasing business, which was 

 transferred to a larger building in Walker 

 Street. The success which accompanied them 

 in their manufacture of pianos may be dated 

 from the year 1855, when they exhibited at 

 the New York Industrial Exhibition of the 

 American Institute, held in the Crystal Palace, 

 a piano that was constructed after a new sys- 

 tem, and was awarded a gold medal. The 

 business of the firm continued to increase with 

 such rapidity that, in 1858, they were com- 

 pelled to purchase a large plot of ground, on 

 which a factory was erected in 1859, and 

 occupied in 1860. In 1863 it was found neces- 

 sary to add a southern wing, by which the 

 building was extended to its present propor- 

 tions. Mr. Steinway retired some years since, 

 leaving the business in the hands of his sons. 



