OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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The legal profession proving distasteful, lie 

 accepted a position as instructor in the academy 

 at North Bennington. Having subsequently 

 been licensed to preach, he was invited to take 

 the pastoral charge of the Baptist Church there, 

 which he accepted in 1843, and held with 

 great acceptance until his death. 



Nov. 27. RUNYON, Judge PETER P., an able 

 jurist of New Jersey ; died in New Bruns- 

 wick, aged 84 years. He was a graduate of 

 Rutgers College, and entered the legal pro- 

 fession, in which he attained distinction, and 

 was elevated to the bench, where he won a 

 high reputation as a jurist. He had been an 

 active and prominent leader in the affairs of 

 the Baptist denomination in the State, with 

 which he had been connected for nearly fifty 

 years. 



Nov. 28. CARROLL, Mrs. BRIDGET, an Irish 

 centenarian ; died in New York City, aged 102 

 years. She was born in the parish hospital, 

 County Limerick, Ireland, in October, 1769. 

 Her parents died in Ireland at the ages of 

 forty-one and sixty-seven respectively. Her 

 father was a poor weaver, with a large family, 

 for whom his best exertions were often insuf- 

 ficient to provide support. She married at the 

 age of thirty- three, and gave birth to ten chil- 

 dren, eight of whom are now alive in this 

 country and in Ireland. Her husband died 

 thirty years ago, at the age of seventy-six. 

 She had thirty-seven grandchildren, of whom 

 twenty-six are living, the eldest being in his 

 thirty-fourth year, and four great grand-chil- 

 dren, of whom the oldest is in his fifth year. 

 When she arrived in this country, eight years 

 ago, she had not an unsound tooth. At the 

 age of ninety-eight she fell on the sidewalk on 

 New-Year's day and wrenched her hip, which 

 disabled her from taking a long daily walk, to 

 which she was accustomed. "Within a few 

 days of her death she would sew and mend 

 stockings, being able, without spectacles, to 

 thread the finest cambric needle. 



Nov. 30. MILLWARD, Hon. WILLIAM, mem- 

 ber of Congress from the "Western District of 

 Pennsylvania; died at Kirkwood, Del. He 

 was a native of Pennsylvania, and during the 

 war served as United States Marshal of his 

 district. 



Nov. . QUINN, Rev. THOMAS, a Roman 

 Catholic priest; died in Providence, R. I. 

 During the war he was chaplain of the First 

 Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, and dis- 

 tinguished himself for his loyalty, courage, 

 and fidelity in scenes of danger. 



Dee. 2. DAVIS, Rt. Rev. THOMAS FREDERICK, 

 D. D., Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina; 

 died at Camden, S. 0. He had formerly been 

 an active and efficient home missionary, con- 

 tinuing in the work even after he had become 

 blind. For several years previous to his death 

 he was partially incapacitated for the perform- 

 ance of his episcopal duties. 



Dec. 2. MACDONOUGH, Captain CHARLES S., 

 U. S. Navy; died at Montclair, N. J., aged 



52 years. He was born in Connecticut, in 

 1819, and was the eldest son of the late Com- 

 modore Thomas Macdonough. He was ap- 

 pointed to the Navy from New York, on April 

 8, 1835, and saw service successively in the 

 Mediterranean, on the coast of Africa, on the 

 Pacific station, again on the coast of Africa, 

 then on the Pacific station again, on the Bra- 

 zilian station, on the coast of Africa for the 

 third time, and in 1861 was placed on the re- 

 tired list. Subsequent to that date, however, 

 he was employed on the receiving-ships at 

 New York and Portsmouth, N. H., his service 

 terminating in 1865. In May, 1848, he had 

 attained the rank of lieutenant, and in 1857 

 was commissioned as captain. For some time 

 past he had been in failing health, and his 

 death ultimately resulted from paralysis. 



Dec. 4. SMITH, Major THOMAS L., First Au- 

 ditor of the Treasury; died in "Washington, 

 D. 0., aged 84 years. He was born in Din- 

 widdie County, Va., in 1787. His ancestors 

 were connected with the history of the coun- 

 try from its foundation, his father having been 

 sent to France on a diplomatic mission, where 

 he died. He was then brought up by his un- 

 cle, Prof. Granville B. Smith, at that time 

 President of "William and Mary College. In 

 1812 he was commissioned a major in the reg- 

 ular army; resigning, he married an English 

 lady, then in Philadelphia, celebrated for her 

 beauty and accomplishments. He removed to 

 New York, served in the Legislature of that 

 State, and was elected President of the City 

 Bank, which position he resigned upon the 

 personal solicitation of General Jackson, to 

 accept the position of Registrar of the U. S. 

 Treasury, finally arriving at the post of First 

 Auditor, which he retained until his death. 

 He possessed literary tastes of a high order, 

 and was for many years a constant contributor 

 to the press, in prose as well as poetry. 



Dec. 6. NELSON, Rev. JOHN", D. D., a Con- 

 gregational clergyman ; died in Leicester, Mass., 

 aged 85 years. He was born in Worcester, 

 Mass., in 1785, and graduated at Williams Col- 

 lege. In 1813 he was ordained pastor of the 

 Congregational Church in Leicester, where his 

 whole ministerial life, extending over a period 

 of fifty-eight years, was passed. From 1844 

 he had a colleague, and for eighteen years pre- 

 vious to his death was an invalid. 



Dec. 10. HIGBEE, Rev. EDWARD Y., D. D., 

 an Episcopalian clergyman ; died in New York 

 City, aged 70 years. He was for a time chap- 

 lain of the U. S. Senate, and for many years 

 previous to his death was Assistant Minister 

 of Trinity Parish, New York. 



Dec. 11. STRYKER, Rev. HERMAN B., a cler- 

 gyman of the Reformed (Dutch) Church ; died 

 on Staten Island, aged 78 years. He came of 

 an honored ancestry of remarkable ministerial 

 talent. He served in the War of 1812. 



Dec. 12. GARDINER, Rev. , D. D., a 



Roman Catholic priest; died in Brooklyn, 

 L. L, aged 32 years. In early youth he went 



