

OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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to the front under the command of General 

 Kearney, with whom his intelligence and bold- 

 ness made him a marked favorite. At the 

 close of the war he was brevetted brigadier- 

 general by the Governor of New Jersey. He 

 left his home early in July last for Minnesota, 

 in the vain hope of obtaining relief for the 

 disease of which he died, consumption. 



Aug. 24. RAND, Rev. ASA, a Congregational 

 clergyman and journalist; died in Ashburn- 

 ham, Mass., aged 88 years. He was a native 

 of Rindge, N. H., a graduate of Dartmouth in 

 1806, and ordained in January, 1809. After a 

 pastorate of thirteen years in Gorham, Me., 

 Mr. Rand became the first editor of the Chris- 

 tian Mirror, and subsequently was editor of 

 the Boston Recorder. He was one of the early 

 abolitionists of New England, and to his writ- 

 ings the late Governor Andrew ascribed his 

 antislavery convictions. 



Aug. 26. MASON, Rev. SUMNEK R., D. D., 

 an eminent Baptist clergyman ; was killed by 

 the railroad collision at Revere, Mass., in 

 the 52d year of his age. He graduated at 

 Madison University and the Hamilton Theo- 

 logical Seminary, was settled at Lockport, N. 

 Y., for a time, and in 1855 became pastor of 

 the church in Cambridgeport, where he took 

 a prominent place as an able preacher, and 

 was active in promoting the cause of educa- 

 tion and every public interest. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Executive Committee of the Mis- 

 sionary Union, and at the last anniversary 

 delivered the annual sermon. At the time 

 of his death, Dr. Mason was on his way to 

 Beverly, on an exchange of pulpits. 



Aug. 27. BOARDMAN, WILLIAM WHITING, 

 LL. D., a former political leader in Connect- 

 icut ; died in New Haven, Conn., aged 77 

 years. He was born in New Milford, Conn., 

 October 10, 1794; graduated from Yale Col- 

 lege in 1812; studied law at Litchfield and 

 Cambridge, and practised with success. He 

 AY as for some years Judge of Probate for the 

 New Haven District; was for several years a 

 member of the State Legislature, and for one 

 or two terms Speaker of the House, and repre- 

 sented the New Haven District in Congress in 

 1841-1843. Trinity College conferred on him 

 the degree of LL. D. in 1863. 



Aug. 27. VAN METER, Mrs. LOUISA HOOKER, 

 an estimable and accomplished lady, for twen- 

 ty-three years a missionary of the American 

 Baptist Missionary Union, in Burmah; died 

 at Bassein, Burmah, aged 46 years. She was 

 born at Irondequoit, N. Y., April 19, 1825, 

 educated at the Female Seminary, Hamilton, 

 N. Y. ; married to the Rev. Henry L. Van 

 Meter, in 1848, and sailed in October of that 

 year for Burmah. She had been indefatigable 

 in her labors among the Karen women and 

 children, had established schools and religious 

 meetings, and prepared numerous books and 

 primers in the Karen language for them. In 

 18G8 she visited the United States, and after a 

 few months went back to her work greatly 



cheered and encouraged. Her husband died 

 in 1870. (See VAN METER, AMERICAN ANNUAL 

 CYCLOPAEDIA, 1870.) Her last illness was brief, 

 but very painful. 



Sept. 8. O'DONNELL, DANIEL KANE, a jour- 

 nalist and author ; died in Philadelphia, aged 

 29 years. He was born in that city in 1842, 

 and educated at Girard College. After a little 

 experience at the printing business, he became 

 editor of a Philadelphia weekly literary jour- 

 nal, to which he contributed many poems and 

 criticisms. He joined Forney's Press in 1862 

 as news editor, then became one of the leader 

 writers, and ultimately night editor. He 

 wrote .a criticism on Fry's Opera of " Notre 

 Dame " which attracted general attention, and 

 gave him a wide-spread reputation. About 

 1864 Mr. O'Donnell followed Sherman's army 

 as chief correspondent of the Press, and wrote 

 many excellent letters. General Woodford 

 made him Assistant Superintendent of Educa- 

 tion in Charleston, and to that work he de- 

 voted himself with enthusiastic earnestness. 

 He resigned his position on the Press in 1865, 

 removed to New York City and was appointed 

 index register on the Tribune. The year 

 following he became one of the editorial writ- 

 ers, and musical critic, and in the spring of 

 1867 was sent to Mexico to recruit his health, 

 and describe the reconstruction of that coun- 

 try for the columns of that journal. He re- 

 mained there until 1868, and then went to Cu- 

 ba, to report the progress of the revolutionary 

 movement. Returning in 1869, he resumed 

 his editorial duties in the Tribune office, de- 

 voting himself chiefly to the foreign depart- 

 ment. In the course of the year he resigned, 

 and subsequently resided in Philadelphia, 

 spending what strength his failing health left 

 him in preparing a volume on Mexico (which 

 is still unpublished), and writing a little for 

 the magazines. As early as 1863 he had pub- 

 lished in Philadelphia a volume of poems en- 

 titled " The Song of Iron and the Song of 

 Slaves, with other Poems." This book com- 

 manded more than usual consideration, and 

 occasioned an animated debate upon the li- 

 cense of poetic diction. He subsequently 

 wrote the poems of " The Fish-Market," " The 



Cobbler's HOT 



St. Cecilia," and "Birds in 



the Square," first published in the Indepen- 

 dent. 



Sept. 9. FOOTE, CHARLEB C., M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician, died in New Haven, Conn. 

 He was a native of Jamestown, Chautauqua 

 County, N. Y., and stood high in his pro- 

 fession. 



Sept. 10. GAY, Brevet-Colonel and Major 

 EBENEZER, U. S. A., a brave and skilful officer ; 

 died at Nashua, N. H. He entered West Point 

 in 1850, but, owing to the breaking of his leg 

 at cavalry drill, and subsequent illness, he did 

 not graduate till 1855, when he entered the 

 army as brevet second-lieutenant of dragoons; 

 served on the frontier and in quelling the Kan- 

 Bas disturbances as a second-lieutenant of dra- 



