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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



new regular regiments the Sixteenth Infantry 

 and soon received his commission as briga- 

 dier-general of volunteers, standing number 

 three on the list. As provost-marshal-general 

 during McClellan's peninsular campaign, he was 

 active and efficient. His health was seriously 

 affected while serving in this capacity, and 

 liis visit to and long sojourn in Europe were 

 undertaken in the vain hope of regaining it. 

 He had resigned his commission in the army, 

 soon after the close of the war. 



Jan. 5. SIIEEWOOD, Rev. JOHN M., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and journalist, for some 

 years editor {>nd proprietor of the North Caro- 

 lina Presbyterian; died at Fayetteville, N. 0. 



Jan. 5. TODD, General JOHN BLAIE SMITH, 

 a grandson of the late venerable President J. 

 B. Smith of Union College, and himself Dele- 

 gate in Congress, Speaker of the House in the 

 Territorial Legislature, and Governor of Da- 

 kota Territory ; died at Yankton, D. T., aged 

 about 57 years. General Todd was born in 

 Kentucky, but appointed to the Military Acad- 

 emy from Illinois. He graduated in 1837, 

 and was assigned to the Sixth Regiment of 

 Infantry, with which he served through the 

 Florida and Mexican Wars, arid subsequently 

 on frontier duty till September 1856, when he 

 resigned and went into trade at Fort Randall, 

 Dakota Territory. During the late civil war 

 he was a brigadier-general of volunteers, and 

 for a time in command of the Sixth Division 

 of the Army of the Tennessee. He was a 

 Delegate in Congress from Dakota, 1861-'65; 

 Speaker of the House in the Territorial Legis- 

 lature, 1867-'69; and Governor of the Terri- 

 tory, 1869-'7l. 



Jan. 8. MALONEY, Lieutenant-Colonel MATJ- 

 EICE, U. S. A. retired list, a gallant officer who 

 had risen from the ranks to his position, who 

 was widely and creditably known throughout 

 the army, and was finally placed on the re- 

 tired list after thirty-five years of faithful 

 service. He was born in Ireland, but came to 

 this country in early life and enlisted in the 

 army as a private in 1834 or 1835; was a 

 non-commissioned officer of the Fourth In- 

 fantry from November, 1836, to November, 

 1846. Served in the Florida War; in the 

 Cherokee nation, to 1841 ; in Florida, to 1842 ; 

 and at Fort Scott, to 1845. In the Mexican 

 War he participated in the battles of Palo Alto 

 and Resaca de la Palma. He was commis- 

 sioned as second-lieutenant in the Fourth In- 

 fantry, November, 1846, and took part in the 

 battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, 

 Churubusco, El Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, 

 and the city of Mexico, where he was wounded ; 

 was regimental adjutant, 1847, and bre vetted 

 first-lieutenant U. S. Army, for gallant and 

 meritorious services at the battle of El Molino 

 del Rey; was likewise brevetted captain for 

 similar services at the battle of Chapultepec, 

 Mexico ; was commissioned first-lieutenant 

 Fourth Infantry, and in November, 1854, pro- 

 moted to a captaincy; served with the regi- 



ment on the Western frontier, and in the war 

 with the South to September, 1862, as colonel 

 of the Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteers; alter 

 which he served as major of the First I . k s. 

 Infantry in the field during the war; was 

 brevetted lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army dur- 

 ing the siege of Vicksburg, and afterward 

 colonel for meritorious services during the 

 war; June 16, 1867, was commissioned lieu- 

 tenant-colonel of the Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, 

 and afterward commanded the post of Mc- 

 Pherson Barracks, Atlanta, Ga. Colonel Ba- 

 loney was presented a gold medal by the 

 citizens of New Orleans, La., for his gallant 

 record in the Mexican War. 



Jan. 9. THAYER, JOSEPH, an eminent lawyer 

 and political leader, of Uxbridge, Mass.; died 

 in Worcester, Mass., aged 82 years. He was 

 born in Douglas, Worcester County, Mass., Feb- 

 ruary 13, 1790, and received his early education 

 there. He graduated from Brown University 

 in 1815, studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1818. He settled in Uxbridge, and was 

 widely known for more than fifty years as an 

 able lawyer, an influential politician, and au 

 intelligent and skilful agriculturist. He was 

 often a member of the Legislature and was a 

 delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 

 1853. 



Jan. 9. TODD, Colonel WILLIAM W., an 

 eminent and venerable merchant of New York 

 for more than a half-century, prominent in 

 public and private enterprises of benevolence ; 

 died in New York City, at the age of 90 years. 



Jan. 10. ATKINSON, ARCHIBALD, a promi- 

 nent politician and Congressman of the Isle of 

 Wight, Va. ; died there, in his 80th year. He 

 was born September 13, 1792, received liis 

 early education in his native count} 7 , studied 

 law at William and Mary College, was at the 

 battle of Craney Island in 1813, practised law 

 in Smitlifielcl, Va., was a member of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly from 1815 to 1817, and also 

 of the House of Delegates and State Senate 

 for several years. In 1843 he was elected a 

 Representative in Congress from Virginia, and 

 served until 1848, and was a member of the 

 Committees on Naval Affairs and Commerce. 

 He was prosecuting attorney for his county 

 twenty years, mayor of Smithfield, and a 

 magistrate. 



Jan. 10. LEAVITT, DATID, a journalist of 

 Boston, for more than twenty-five years con- 

 nected with the Boston Journal; died in Bos- 

 ton, aged 55 years. 



Jan. 11. REYNOLDS, WILLIAM A., a pr< 

 nent and esteemed citizen of Rochester, N. Y., 

 the builder and proprietor of the "Arcade" 

 and Reynolds Hall ; died in Rochester. 



Jan. 11. ROGERS, JOHN, a centenarian of 

 Boston, said to be the oldest man in that city ; 

 died from the effects of a fall, aged 103 year* 



Jan. 12. BRADFORD, -Captain and Brevet 

 Major THOMAS C., Ordnance, U. S. A. ; died 

 at West Point, N. Y., aged 34 years. M:iji 

 Bradford was a native of Rhode Island, and 



