OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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July 23. RAMSEY, Rev. JAMES B., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman ; died at Lynchburg, 

 Va. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and 

 formerly a missionary of the Presbyterian 

 Church among the Choctaws. In 1855 he be- 

 came a pastor at Lynchburg, where he was 

 universally loved and respected. 



July 23. REYNOLDS, JOHN, a prominent and 

 venerable citizen of Meadville, Pa. ; died there, 

 aged 90 years. He was born in England, and 

 in his youth came with his father to this coun- 

 try, and, by his integrity and purity of life, 

 became a blessing to the community where he 

 lived. He had acquired a liberal fortune, 

 which he generously dispensed in works of 

 charity. In his eighty -ninth year he lectured 

 before the Literary Association of his village, 

 and devoted many of his leisure hours in con- 

 tributing to the press facts and reminiscences 

 of other days. 



July 24. WILLIAMSON, Captain JAMES C., 

 U. S. N. ; died in Jersey City, aged about 54 

 years. He was born in New Jersey, but 

 was appointed to the navy from New York in 

 1832. He served with the Mediterranean and 

 the Brazil Squadrons for a number of years, 

 being promoted to passed midshipman in 1839. 

 In 1840 he was stationed at the Brooklyn 

 Navy- Yard, and for the next three or four 

 years was attached to the receiving-ship New 

 York. Having been commissioned as lieuten- 

 ant in 1844, he served alternately in the Home 

 and the East-Indian Squadrons till 1858, and 

 he sounded the channel of the Canton River in 

 1856, under fire from the fort, one man in his 

 boat being killed. In 1861 he was made ex- 

 ecutive officer of the steamship Brooklyn, on 

 special service, and superintended the landing 

 of the reinforcements at Fort Pickens on the 

 15th of April. During the late war, he com- 

 manded, first the Penguin and then the Flag, 

 doing duty in the blockading service, having 

 been made a commander for his gallant action 

 at Fort Pickens. He was commissioned cap- 

 tain in 1866, and ordered to New Orleans on 

 special duty, and thence he went to the Navy- 

 Yard at Boston, where he remained till 1869. 



July 26. BIRD, Rev. MILTON, D. D., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman; died at Evansville, Ind. 

 He held for some time the pastorate of a 

 church at "Walnut Grove, Ky., and was for 

 many years stated clerk of the General Assem- 

 bly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 



July 26. HALLO WELL , colonel of the Fifty- 

 fourth Massachusetts Volunteers (colored), and 

 brevet brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers; 

 died at West Medford, Mass., aged about 35 

 years. He was a gallant young soldier, and 

 succeeded the lamented Colonel Shaw, as 

 commander of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts 

 regiment, after the assault on Fort Wagner. 



July 26. HOSMER, CHARLES, Secretary of 

 the Connecticut branch of the American Tract 

 Society; died in Hartford, at the age of 86 

 years. He had held that post with fidelity 

 and honor since 1816. Probably no other 



man, living or dead, labored so long and so 

 efficiently in the Tract cause. He was also an 

 able antiquarian, writer, and collector ; one of 

 the founders, and for many years Secretary, of 

 the Connecticut Historical Society. 



July 27. BOYLE, Brigadier-General J. T., .1 

 Kentucky lawyer, and at one time Military Gov- 

 ernor of that State; died at Louisville, Ky., 

 aged 63 years. His record during the late 

 war was a brave and loyal one. At the time 

 of his death he was President of the Evans- 

 ville, Henderson & Nashville Railroad. 



July 27". GILBERT, CURTIS FOWLER, a jour- 

 nalist, army correspondent, and soldier in the 

 late war ; died at Jersey City, from disease 

 brought on by exposures during the war. He 

 was a man of rare culture and ability. 



July 27. Hows, J. W. S., a journalist and 

 dramatic critic ; died in New York City, aged 

 76 years. 



July 30. USHER, Captain J. D., U. S. rev- 

 enue marine service ; died at Newbern, N. C. 

 He had been in the service since 1844, and was 

 at the time of his death in command of the 

 revenue steamer Stevens. 



July . Fox, Rev. CHARLES M., D. D., an 

 Episcopal clergyman; died at Chicago, aged 

 54 years. He was a native of Ireland, and de- 

 scended from an ancient and highly-respectable 

 family who owned vast estates in the counties 

 of Fermanagh and Tyrone. He was educated 

 at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, gradu- 

 ated from Trinity College, Dublin, and entered 

 the ministry of the Established Church at 

 an early age. He came to this country about 

 1860, and, having recently completed a pasto- 

 rate of two years over St. Paul's Protestant 

 Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., accepted a 

 call to a church in Chicago. 



July . HAMILTON, Mrs. ALEXANDER, niece 

 of President Monroe, and widow of the great 

 statesman and financier of the post-Revolution- 

 ary period ; a most accomplished lady, of great 

 dignity and force of character, and who re- 

 tained her matronly beauty and her intellect- 

 ual powers in their highest perfection to ex- 

 treme old age ; died in New York City. 



July . MOORE, WILLIAM A., a theatrical 

 manager ; died in New York. He was born in 

 Bath, England, in May, 1825, and made his 

 debut in the United States in 1849, at the Astor 

 Place Opera-House, as a singing-witch in" Mac- 

 beth." Subsequently he held the position of 

 prompter at Niblo's Garden. During the en- 

 gagement of the Ravel family at the same 

 theatre in 1856-'57, he was stage manager, 

 and on the close of their engagement travelled 

 with the family. In 1859 Mr. Moore went to 

 Europe with James M. Nixon, and engaged 

 Cooke's Royal Circus, with which he re- 

 turned, when he became manager of Niblo'?, 

 and during the following year was proprietor 

 of the bar and refreshment saloon. During 

 the season of 1865-'66 he was stage-manager 

 at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and 

 was afterward employed as travelling business- 



