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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Supremo Court of Georgia, and from 1839 to 

 1841 a member of Congress from that State. 

 He took an active part in the war, and was a 

 member of the first permanent Confederate 

 Congress. 



March 19. LEWIS, ELLIS, a Pennsylvania 

 jurist; died in Philadelphia, He was born in 

 Lewisburg, Pa., May 16, 1798, commenced life 

 as a printer, studied law, was admitted to the 

 bar in 1822, was District Attorney for Dauphin 

 County in 1824, member of the Legislature in 

 1832, Attorney-General, 1833, President Judge 

 Eighth Judicial District, 1833, President Judge 

 Second Judicial District, 1843, Judge of the 

 Supreme Court, 1851, Chief Justice of Penn- 

 sylvania, 1854-'57, and commissioned to revise 

 the Civil Code in 1858. Of late years he 

 had resided in Philadelphia. 



March 24. ELLEBY, Commodore FRANK, U. 

 S. N. ; died at Castleton, Vt. He was a native 

 of Rhode Island, from which State he was ap- 

 pointed, and received his commission in 1812. 

 He was made lieutenant in 1820 ; commanded 

 the Cyane in the Brazil Squadron, 1827; on 

 duty at the rendezvous at Boston and New 

 York from 1829 to 1837; commanded the En- 

 terprise in 1840 ; was retired September 12, 

 1855, and was commissioned commodore on 

 the retired list in 1862. 



March 25. VANDERPOEL, Judge ISAAC V., 

 a prominent Democratic politician of Buffalo ; 

 died there, aged 57 years. He was born in 

 Kinderhook, Columbia County, in 1814, where 

 he was educated and lived until he took up his 

 residence in Erie County in 1835. He was elect- 

 ed State Treasurer in 1857, and discharged the 

 responsible duties of that office during the 

 years 1858 and 1859 with entire acceptability. 

 At the time of his death he was Judge of the 

 Police Court of Buffalo. Judge Vanderpoel 

 was a man of more than ordinary mark. For 

 several years he was one of the most prominent 

 Democratic politicians of the State. 



March 26. SAWYER, Rev. BENJAMIN, D. D., 

 a venerable Congregational clergyman; died 

 in Salisbury, Mass., aged 89 years. He was 

 pastor of the church in Amesbury from 1816 

 to 1835. 



March 27. REDFIELD, Captain GEORGE DA- 

 VIS, a lawyer and volunteer officer of Minnesota; 

 died -in St. Anthony, aged 38 years. He was 

 a native of Syracuse, N. Y., where he resided 

 during his youth and early manhood. Symp- 

 toms of consumption having made their ap- 

 pearance, he went West and settled in St. 

 Anthony, where he practised law. During 

 the frontier warfare with the Indians, young 

 Redfield bore a conspicuous part. He was 

 engaged in a number of severe contests with 

 these enemies, and performed his part well 

 and honorably. He received a severe wound 

 in one of these encounters, from the effects of 

 which he never fully recovered. 



March 28. GRIFFIN, Colonel WILLIAM H., 

 a civil engineer ; died in Houston, Texas, aged 

 55 years. He was born in Edgefield, S. 0., 



March, 1816; graduated at West Point in 

 1835 ; resigned his commission in 1837; served 

 as civil engineer in the South for a period of 

 twenty-five years ; was a colonel in the Con- 

 federate army during the war, and after the 

 surrender was again a civil engineer. 



March . OONYNGHAM, Judge JOHN N., an 

 eminent jurist; died, by accident, on a Missis- 

 sippi railroad. He was born in Philadelphia, 

 in 1798, graduated at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in 1816, and, after his admission to 

 the bar, removed to Wilkesbarre, where he 

 continued to reside, and was for more than 

 thirty years judge in that district. He was 

 known as a man of strict integrity, and for 

 many years occupied a leading position in the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in that State. 



April 4. TAYLOR, Rev. EDWARD T., the 

 seaman's preacher, known as " Father Taylor ; " 

 died at Boston, Mass., aged 77 years. He had 

 been a Bethel missionary for a period of forty 

 years, and was greatly beloved by the whole 

 community, while his genial wit and eccen- 

 tricities made him a special favorite with the 

 sailors. 



April 6. PRATT, Colonel ZADOCK, formerly 

 member of Congress from Greene County, 

 N. Y. ; died at Bergen, N. J., aged 80 years. 

 He was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer 

 County, N. Y., October 30, 1790. He com- 

 menced his business life without means, but 

 by industry gained a large fortune, mostly 

 in the tanning business. In 1823 he was 

 chosen colonel of militia; in 1830, State Sena- 

 tor; in 1836, a presidential elector. In 1836 

 and 1842 he was elected to Congress, where he 

 was known for his efforts in behalf of the re- 

 duction of postage, and his plans for the new 

 Post-Office buildings. The Bureau of Statis- 

 tics owes its origin to him. In 1852 he was 

 again a presidential elector. He established a 

 newspaper and a bank at Prattsville, was a 

 delegate to the " Baltimore Convention " of 

 1852, and to various other Democratic con- 

 ventions, and the president of many societies 

 and institutions. 



April 8. INSLEE, Rev. E. B., a Presbyterian 

 clergyman and missionary to China ; died in 

 New Orleans, La., aged 48 years. He had de- 

 voted nearly fourteen years to missionary la- 

 bor among the Chinese, and his death was the 

 result of the privations and exposures to which 

 he was subjected during the last few years of 

 his service in that field. 



April 8. MOORE, Rev. HUMPHREY, D. D., a 

 Congregational clergyman ; died in Milford, 

 N. H., aged 92 years. He was a native of 

 Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1799. In 1802 he was ordained 

 pastor of the Congregational Church in Mil- 

 ford, where he preached for a period of thirty 

 years. He was a man of more than ordinary 

 ability, and his influence extended widely 

 throughout the southern portion of New 

 Hampshire. 



April 9. HOWARD, SANFORD, a noted agri- 



