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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



to Eome and became a student in the Ameri- 

 can College, where ho became thoroughly 

 versed in the history and dogmas of his 

 Church. On the completion of his fourth year, 

 of theology, he stood an examination, before 

 the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda and 

 the professors of theology, for the doctorship, 

 which was conferred upon him because of his 

 learning and knowledge of the several theses 

 which were proposed for explanation. On his 

 return to Brooklyn, he gained a high reputa- 

 tion as a preacher. In 1870 he accompanied 

 Bishop Loughlin to the (Ecumenical Council 

 at Rome as his theologian, and upon the re- 

 turn-voyage contracted an affection of the 

 lungs, which subsequently proved fatal. 



Dec. 15. HILL, GEORGE, formerly Librarian 

 of the State Department at Washington, and 

 an author ; died in New York, aged 75 years. 

 He was born in Guilford, Conn., in 1796; 

 graduated with distinction at Yale College, 

 and subsequently was employed in one of the 

 public offices in Washington. In 1827 he en- 

 tered the Navy as Professor of Mathematics, 

 and during a cruise in the Mediterranean wrote 

 several poems suggested by classical subjects, 

 which he published in 1834, in a volume enti- 

 tled "The Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems." 

 In 1831 he retired from the Navy, to accept the 

 position of Librarian in the State Department 

 at Washington, which he held for eight years. 

 In 1839 he was appointed consul for the south- 

 western portion of Asia Minor. On his re- 

 turn home he again accepted a position in the 

 State Department, which he held for ten years, 

 when he retired from active life to the place 

 of his birth. His poems were reprinted, with 

 some additions in 1839 ; and in 1870 he issued 

 a third edition, revised and enlarged, in a vol- 

 ume entitled " Titania's Banquet, Pictures of 

 Women, and Other Poems." His latest poem 

 was written for the dedication of the monu- 

 ment over the grave of his friend and towns- 

 man, Fitz-Greene Halleck, at Guilford, and 

 his last prose composition was a scholarly es- 

 say on Sappho. 



Dec. 16. KALOPOTHAKES, Mrs. MAETHA 

 HOOPER BLACKLER, a missionary and author; 

 died in Athens, Greece, aged 42 years. She 

 was the daughter of Captain Francis Blackler, 

 of Marblehead, Mass., where she was born, 

 June 1, 1830. Having been converted early 

 in life, she felt a deep interest in the cause of 

 missions, and in 1858 was married to Rev. M. 

 D. Kalopothakes, M. D., of Athens, who had 

 spent several years in this country studying in 

 the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 

 and, having graduated, returned, accompanied 

 by his wife, as a missionary to his native land. 

 She acquired the Greek language with great 

 facility, and with such efficiency, that she was 

 able to correct the proof-sheets of the Star of 

 the East, a weekly paper published by her 

 husband. During the last three years she 

 translated books from the English and wrote 

 articles for the Chiles Paper, published also 



in Greek, and aided him in his correspondence 

 with friends in England and America. Though 

 naturally somewhat timid, her gentleness of 

 disposition, and unwearied devotion to the 

 work upon which she had entered, drew the 

 people to her irresistibly, and her influence 

 was widely felt among the Greek women. But 

 her excessive labors affected her health so 

 seriously that it became necessary for her to 

 return with her husband and children to her 

 native land for a brief respite. In August, 

 1871, she sailed again for her missionary field, 

 but a few months of labor completed her 

 work. 



Dec. 16. MOTT, RICHARD, an eminent law- 

 yer ; died in New York City, aged 72 years. 

 He was born at Grand Isle, Vt., January 7, 

 1800; studied law at Plattsburg, N. Y., and 

 in 1821 entered upon the practice of his pro- 

 fession there, serving in the courts of the 

 county until 1830 when he removed to New 

 York. During the whole of his professional 

 career in the latter city he was much engaged 

 with cases involving the law of taxes, assess- 

 ments, streets, and other questions of munici- 

 pal law, his great familiarity with which ren- 

 dered him an authority among eminent law- 

 yers. In the celebrated case of Lispenard, he 

 was the associate of Daniel Webster, and made 

 the opening argument in the Court for the Cor- 

 rection of Errors. During the ten years pre- 

 ceding his death he had been mostly employed 

 by the municipal authorities in different ca- 

 pacities. 



Dec. 17. PATTERSON, Mrs. HELEN H., widow 

 of the late Dr. R. M. Patterson, professor in 

 the University of Pennsylvania ; died at Avon- 

 more, near Philadelphia, aged 79 years. She 

 was the daughter of the distinguished Revolu- 

 tionary patriot, Thomas Leiper, and was re- 

 markable for her rare mental endowments and 

 personal attractions. 



Dec. 21. MORSE, Rev. DAVID SANFORD, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman; died in Austerlitz, 

 Columbia County, N. Y., aged 78 years. Ear- 

 ly in life he chose the legal profession, and had 

 entered upon its practice with the promise 

 of a brilliant future, when at the age of twen- 

 ty-five he was converted. Turning aside at 

 once from the bright prospects before him, he 

 entered upon a course of preparation for the 

 pulpit, and devoted the remainder of his life 

 to the work of the ministry. 



Dec. 21. WINSTON, JOHN ANTHONY, Gov- 

 ernor of Alabama from 1853 to 1857 ; died in 

 Mobile. Though regarded as a man of moder- 

 ate temper during his administration as Gov- 

 ernor, he entered into the secession movement 

 in 1861 with great zeal, and was the commis- 

 sioner sent by the Secession Convention to 

 Arkansas, to induce that State to secede. Sub- 

 sequently, either from infirm health or from 

 dissatisfaction with some of the movements 

 of the Confederate leaders, he took no promi- 

 nent part in the civil war. 



Dec. 26. BARKER, JACOB, a merchant, finan- 



