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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



goons in 1857-'60 ; was engaged in the surprise 

 of the Utah Indian encampment in 1859 ; and 

 at the commencement of the war was made 

 captain in the Sixteenth Infantry; fought in 

 the battles of Shiloh and Perry ville, for the 

 latter receiving the rank of brevet major. He 

 served also with distinguished bravery in com- 

 mand of the cavalry and outposts at Lexing- 

 ton, and covering the retreat of the Army of 

 Kentucky to Louisville in 1862. He took part 

 in the pursuit of General John Morgan, and, in 

 command of the Sixteenth Infantry (Army of 

 the Cumberland), in the Chattanooga cam- 

 paign, and led that regiment at the battle of 

 Lookout Mountain. He received his brevet 

 lieutenant-colonel's commission for gallant and 

 meritorious services during the Atlanta cam- 

 paign. On the further increase of the army in 

 1866, he was appointed major of the Thirty- 

 fourth Infantry, which position he held until 

 the reduction of the military force. After 

 that time he resided in Philadelphia, until, 

 enfeebled by disease, he went to Nashua, to 

 die among his kindred. 



Sept. 10. HALL, Eev. ALBERT G., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman ; died in Kochester, 

 N. Y. He commenced life as a printer, and 

 in 1830 was the publisher of the Rochester 

 Observer, a religious weekly then maintained 

 in that city, and subsequently absorbed by 

 the New York Evangelist. He was licensed 

 by the Presbytery of Rochester, July 1, 1835, 

 and first settled as pastor of the Presbyterian 

 Church in the little village of Penfield, about 

 five miles northeast of Rochester. His talents 

 and promise as a preacher were at once seen 

 and acknowledged, and he was called to the 

 Third Presbyterian Church in the city of Roch- 

 ester, in 1840, which position he continued to 

 hold for a period of thirty years. He was a 

 faithful and diligent pastor, and honored 

 throughout the denomination. 



Sept. 11. TOTTED, Brigadier and Brevet 

 Major-General JAMES, U. S. A., an able officer; 

 died^in Sedalia, Mo., aged 55 years. He was 

 nominated from Pennsylvania to the "West 

 Point Military Academy in 1837, and four years 

 later received the rank of brevet lieutenant in 

 the Second Artillery. He served in the Flor- 

 ida and Mexican Wars ; was made first-lieuten- 

 ant in 1847, and in 1857 and 1858 aided in 

 quelling the disturbances in Kansas and on 

 the frontier. In February, 1861, he was com- 

 pelled to evacuate the arsenal at Little Rock, 

 Ark., where he was in command. He served 

 with Generals Lyons and Fremont in Missouri, 

 as chief of artillery. Under General Halleck 

 he rose to the command of a division, and 

 afterward to be Inspector-General of the De- 

 partment of the Missouri, finishing his war 

 record by commanding the artillery in the 

 siege of Mobile in 1865. He was brevetted 

 major-general, March 13, 1865, for gallant and 

 meritorious service in the field, was made In- 

 spector-General of the Division of the Atlantic 

 in 1865, and of the Department of the East in 



1866. General Totten's service in the army 

 ended in 1870. 



Sept. 15. THACKER, HARVEY, a venerable 

 pioneer, son-in-law of Daniel Boone ; died in 

 Shasta County, California, aged 128 years. 

 He was born in Buncombe County, N. C., about 

 1743. He was thirty-eight years of age when 

 the Revolutionary War broke out, and it is said 

 that he served after he was seventy, under 

 General Jackson, at the battle of New Orleans, 

 under Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and 

 also in the Black Hawk War in Illinois. 



Sept. 15. -VAN VECHTEN", Rev. JACOB, D. D., 

 a clergyman of the Reformed (Dutch) Church ; 

 died in Auburn, N. Y. He was formerly pas- 

 tor of a church in Albany, and was the author 

 of some religious works. 



Sept. 18. LONGNECKER, HENRY C., a Penn- 

 sylvania jurist; died at Lehigh, aged 49 years. 

 He was a soldier of the Mexican War, member 

 of Congress from 1858 to 1861 ; colonel of 

 the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment during 1861- 

 '63, and Judge of Lehigh County in 1867. 



Sept. 18. STUART, SIDNEY If., ex-Judge of 

 the Police Court of New York; died there, 

 aged 60 years. He was distinguished as a 

 criminal lawyer. 



Sept. 19. HOLMES, Rev. JOHN" MILTON, a 

 brilliant and eloquent Congregational clergy- 

 man ; died in Jersey City, aged 35 years. He 

 graduated at Yale College in the class of 1857, 

 and on the completion of his theological stud- 

 ies accepted a call from the First Congrega- 

 tional Church in Jersey City, and began his 

 ministry there in the fall of 1860. Immedi- 

 ately he took rank among the best preachers 

 of the neighborhood, and his speech in Brook- 

 lyn, at the Congregational Reunion in 1862, 

 made him known to many people in New York 

 and Brooklyn. Mr. Holmes lost his health in 

 the service of the Jersey City church, and ever 

 since his dismission from the pastorate, three 

 years ago, a regular salary had been paid him, 

 with the pledge that it should be continued as 

 long as he might need it. His songs, written 

 when in college, are still the chief dependence 

 at alumni gatherings. 



Sept. 20. NICHOLS, EDWARD W., a well- 

 known landscape-painter ; died in Peekskill, 

 N. Y., aged 51 years. He was born in Oxford, 

 N. H., in 1820, and in his earlier years was 

 a teacher of sacred music in different parts of 

 New England, where his delicate tastes and 

 manly virtues won him many friends. He 

 subsequently studied law at Burlington, Vt,, 

 and was admitted to the bar; but the gentle- 

 ness of his nature unfitted him for the strug- 

 gles of the legal profession, and he resolved to 

 be an artist. He pursued his art-studies for a 

 time in New York City as a pupil of Cropsey, 

 but afterward went to Italy, where he spent 

 two years with great profit and delight. His 

 pictures were highly valued by good judges of 

 art, and but for his extreme modesty he might 

 have taken a high rank in his profession. 



Sept. 21. DAKIX, Lieutenant GEORGE A., 



