OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 593 



cier, banker, and lawyer of New York and 

 New Orleans ; diet! in Philadelphia, aged 92 

 years. His parents were members of the So- 

 ciety of Friends, He was born in Swan Island, 

 Kennebec County, Me., December 7, 1779. 

 Being thrown upon his own resources at the 

 age of sixteen, he came to New York and en- 

 tered into the employ of a commission-house 

 as a clerk. He was speculative and industrious, 

 and, before he had attained the age of twenty- 

 one, he was owner of four ships and a brig, 

 and had a good business standing. He mar- 

 ried, August 27, 1801, Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Thomas Hazard, of New York. He evinced 

 at the wedding-dinner his self-reliance, by 

 treating with indifference the news which he 

 then received of heavy losses through the fail- 

 ure of a merchant to meet his engagements. 

 This confidence in his own good fortune was 

 not misplaced. He soon regained his credit, 

 and when the war with Great Britain broke 

 out he offered to raise a loan of $5,000,000 for 

 the National Government. He founded The 

 Union newspaper to advocate the election of 

 De Witt Clinton to the office of Governor of 

 New York. In 1815 he founded the Exchange 

 Bank, in Wall Street, and had very extensive 

 dealings with Government. This concern, and 

 the extensive business he transacted besides, 

 gave him a commanding position in financial 

 affairs. The bank broke in 1819, but Mr. Bar- 

 ker continued his business on a large scale, 

 deriving advantages from his influence with 

 banks in the interior. He was provoked to 

 send a challenge to one David Rogers, and was 

 found guilty of the offence, although he defended 

 himself with great ingenuity and subtlety of 

 argument. The sentence of disfranchisement 

 which he received was cancelled by Governor 

 Clinton. His legal knowledge was again called 

 into use when, on the failure of the Life and 

 Fire Insurance Company, he, with others, was 

 indicted for conspiracy to defraud. After long 

 litigation, the indictment was finally quashed. 

 In 1834 he removed from New York to New 

 Orleans, where he studied for and was admit- 

 ted to the bar. He also attained prominence 

 in finance, and was President of the Bank of 

 Commerce when General Butler entered New 

 Orleans. He was elected to the United States 

 Senate in Louisiana at the close of the war, 

 but, owing to the unreconstructed condition of 

 his State, his credentials were not recognized 

 by Congress. Since the war he had led a 

 quiet and retired life. During the last two 

 years he had resided with his son in Spruce 

 Street, Philadelphia. 



Dec. . MONTGOMERY, Colonel JAMES, a 

 Kansas pioneer ; died in that State, aged 58 

 years. From 1856 to 1861 he was the central 

 figure of the Free-State cause in Kansas. Dur- 

 ing the war he commanded a regiment of col- 

 ored troops. He was one of the most intimate 

 friends and advisers of John Brown, and was 

 one of the party who proposed to rescue the 

 old man while he lay in prison at Charles- 

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town, had there been any reasonable proba- 

 bility of accomplishing that result. 



Dec. . POOR, JOHN A., a journalist; died 

 in Portland, Me., aged 63 years. He was one 

 of the original projectors of the Atlantic & 

 St. Lawrence Railroad, and of the European 

 & North American Railroad; was President 

 of the proposed Rutland Railroad, and had 

 been editor and proprietor of The State of 

 Maine, formerly a daily paper in Portland. 



Dec. . WELLS, Rev. HORATIO T., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman and educator ; died in An- 

 dalusia, Pa. He was the founder of a flour- 

 ishing college in that place, and was for many 

 years actively engaged in the promotion of 

 education in his denomination. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 1. Du- 

 KAND, Sir HENRY, K. C. S. I., Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor of the Punjab, and former Secretary 

 of the Foreign Department in the Government 

 of India ; died in the Punjab, by a fall from 

 an elephant, aged 59 years. He was born in 

 1812, and educated at Addiscombe. Entering 

 the Indian army at an early age, he fought in 

 the campaign in Afghanistan, and afterward 

 in several other engagements, including the 

 Indian mutiny. He was subsequently appoint- 

 ed Secretary of the Foreign Department in 

 the Government of India, and in 1870 was in- 

 trusted with the government of the Punjab. 

 Resolving to render himself thoroughly ac- 

 quainted with that extensive province, he com- 

 menced an extended tour, during which he 

 met his death as above stated. 



Jan. 3. GIBSON, WILLIAM SIDNEY, F. S. A., 

 Registrar in Bankruptcy, and an author ; died 

 in London. He was born at Fulham, about 

 1815, and educated privately; was called to 

 the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1845. Having been 

 appointed a Registrar of the Court of Bank- 

 ruptcy, he had acted in -that capacity in the 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne district. He was the 

 author of "The History of Tynemouth," of 

 "An Historical Memoir on Northumberland," 

 and other historical works, and of " Lectures 

 and Essays on Various Subjects." Mr. Gibson 

 was a Fellow of the Geological Society, hon- 

 orary member of the Academie des Arts, Sci- 

 ences, et Belles-Lettres de Dijon, and Fellow 

 of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, 

 Copenhagen, and was a member of the Com- 

 mittee of the Architectural and Archaeological 

 Society of Durham. In 1857 the University 

 of Durham conferred upon him the honorary 

 degree of M. A., " as an acknowledgment of 

 his good service in the cause of literature and' 

 liberal pursuits." 



Jan. 5. NOEL, Hon. and Rev. LELAND, 

 Vicar of Exton, Rutlandshire; died at the 

 vicarage, aged 73 years. He was the son of 

 Sir Gerard Noel Noel, Bart., by his first mar- 

 riage with Diana Baroness Barbara, and was: 

 born August 21, 1797. He was educated at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, had been Vicar' 

 of Exton, Rutlandshire, since 1832, and was- 

 made Honorary Canon of Peterborough Ga- 



