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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



In January, 1 869, while on the staff of Gen- 

 eral Parke, at Strawberry Plains, Tenn., Colo- 

 nel Bowen was thrown from his horse, re- 

 ceiving a severe wound and contusion on his 

 head, from the effects of which he very slow- 

 ly, if indeed he ever entirely, recovered. As 

 he became convalescent, he was ordered to 

 recruiting and other duty at New Orleans and 

 elsewhere. Last season he left Oswego, N. 

 Y., for San Francisco, by way of the Isth- 

 mus. On the journey he was attacked with 

 the Panama fever, and afterward with pneu- 

 monia, and had returned to his home near 

 Boston in the vain hope that a change of cli- 

 mate might prove beneficial. 



July 11. GOODELL, Mrs. ABIGAIL P., wid- 

 ow of the late William Goodell, D. D., mission- 

 ary of the American Board at Constantinople ; 

 died in Philadelphia, in the 72d year of her 

 age. She was a native of Ilolden, Mass., and 

 was married to Mr. Goodell in November 

 of 1822, and the following month sailed with 

 him for Palestine. There they were called to 

 pass through many trials and perils. The 

 treachery of the Bedouin Arabs constantly 

 endangered their lives. There also Mrs. Goodell 

 acquired the AraMc language. At the end of 

 five years, the Greek Revolution breaking 

 out, they were obliged to leave Syria and 

 return to Malta, where they remained nearly 

 three years. In the summer of 1831, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Goodell were sent by the Board to Con- 

 stantinople to establish a mission, where they la- 

 bored thirty-four years, with untiring zeal, dur- 

 ing which time they suffered by fire, persecu- 

 tion and plague, Mrs. Goodell sharing heroically 

 in the dangers and exposures as well as labors 

 of her husband, proving a most faithful com- 

 panion. She here acquired the Greek, Turkish, 

 and Armenian languages, and it is a marvel, 

 that, with so many family cares and duties, 

 and other labors, she was able to accomplish 

 so much in the way of study, especially of lan- 

 guages. During their work in the East, Dr. and 

 Mrs. Goodell spent but one year in their native 

 land, but in 1865, the infirmities of years affect- 

 ing Dr. Goodell, they returned to this country 

 to pass the remainder of their days. 



July 11. MYERS, Captain and Brevet Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel EDWARD, U. S. A., a brilliant 

 cavalry officer ; died at Beaufort, S. C. He 

 enlisted in the army in the First Regiment of 

 Dragoons, and served with distinction in that 

 capacity against the hostile Indians of Oregon. 

 Soon after the breaking out of the late war 

 he was appointed a second-lieutenant in the 

 First Cavalry, and was a member of the staff 

 of General Wesley Merritt from 1862 to 1866, 

 during which time he was twice brevetted " for 

 gallant and meritorious services " brevet cap- 

 tain for the battle of Todd ? s Tavern, Va., and 

 brevet major for the battle of Five Forks, Va. 

 and, at the close of the war, received the 

 brevet of lieutenant-colonel in the U. S. Army 

 "for gallant and meritorious services during 

 the war." 



July 15. POURNAIS, JACOB, the oldest man 

 in the United States ; died in Kansas City, 

 aged 134 years. He was a French-Canadian 

 by birth, and when Wolfe was killed on the 

 Heights of Abraham, September 13, 1759, 

 was working in the woods on a piece of land 

 purchased by himself near Quebec, and that 

 event was indelibly impressed upon his mem- 

 ory. About 1805, he accompanied the expedi- 

 tion of Lewis and Clarke, in their explorations 

 for the discovery of the Columbia River. He 

 went from Canada to Pittsburg, then a small 

 town, and down the Ohio in keel-boats, and was 

 in New Orleans in 1814. His experience dur- 

 ing the former trip making him a valuable man 

 to the Fur Company, he was employed as a 

 hunter and trapper for more than half a cen- 

 tury. During the occupation of New Orleans 

 by General Jackson, 1814-1815, Pournais was 

 refused enlistment "because he was too old." 

 About thirty years previous to his death, be- 

 ing too old for active service, he removed to 

 Kansas City, and passed the remainder of his 

 life in comfort, his recollections of events and 

 incidents continuing to the last. 



July 16. LIXCOLX, THOMAS TODD (" Tad"), 

 the second surviving son of the late President 

 Lincoln ; died at Chicago, aged 18 years. Dur- 

 ing the period of his father's administration he 

 was the petted child of the White House, and 

 of all who frequented it, full of life and vigor, 

 but, with all his insubordination and reckless 

 mischief, he was at heart a child of a remark- 

 ably truthful and generous nature. The shock 

 of his fathers sudden death greatly sobered 

 and steadied him. His education, under the 

 direction of his brother Robert, progressed 

 rapidly, and he had recently returned from 

 Europe, improved by his residence abroad, and, 

 with every promise of usefulness, was stricken 

 down in the first flush of early manhood. 



July 17. ROOSEVELT, COKXELIUS V. S., a 

 prominent and wealthy citizen of New York ; 

 died at Oyster Bay, L. I., aged 77 years. Ho 

 was born in Maiden Lane, New York, January 

 30, 1794. He entered Columbia College, but 

 did not graduate, and in 1818 became a part- 

 ner of his father, continuing this relation un- 

 til the death of the latter, in 1840. Mr. Roose- 

 velt carried on the business with his sons until 

 about 1865, when his legal retirement from 

 the firm took place. He had practically re- 

 tired from business about fifteen years earlier, 

 taking hardly any share in its management. 

 About twenty years ago the character of the 

 business transacted was changed to plate glass, 

 etc. The family have occupied the same stand 

 for a period of eighty years. He had, by his 

 strict integrity and devotion to his business, 

 amassed a "fortune of many millions, and in the 

 latter part of his life devoted the entire income 

 of his property to benevolent objects. 



July 19. LEIGH, WILLIAM, a jurist of Penn- 

 sylvania; died in Philadelphia, aged 84 years. 

 He was Judge of the Circuit Court from 1830 

 to 1857. 



