

OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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was appointed from that State to the Military 

 Academy, whence he graduated in 1861, rank- 

 ing sixth in his class. He was assigned to the 

 Ordnance Department and served as ord- 

 nance officer on the staff till after the battle of 

 Bull Bun, then as assistant-ordnance officer 

 at the Washington Arsenal from August, 1861, 

 to August, 1863, being wounded by the burst- 

 ing of a cannon; was promoted to be captain 

 of ordnance in March, 1863; was Assistant 

 Professor of Mathematics at West Point for 

 six months; in charge of the construction of 

 Columbus (Ohio) Arsenal for three or four years 

 subsequently ; bre vetted major in March, 1865, 

 and in 1868 assigned to duty as Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics at West Point. 



Jan. 13. RICH, ISAAC, a wealthy and be- 

 nevolent merchant of Boston, who, having ac- 

 quired an immense fortune in the fish busi- 

 ness, gave largely to educational purposes dur- 

 ing his life, and bequeathed by will over a 

 million dollars to found and endow a Wes- 

 leyan Unis'ersity in Boston. He died in that 

 city, aged 71 years. 



Jan. 14. BOGTTE, Rev. HOKATITJS PUBLICS, 

 a Presbyterian clergyman, a graduate of Ham- 

 ilton College (Clinton, N. Y.) in 1820, and of 

 Andover Theological Seminary in 1823. He 

 was a pastor in Central New York for twenty- 

 eight years, and, for some years after 1831, 

 agent of the Society for Ameliorating the Con- 

 dition of the Jews. Of late years, though 

 without a regular charge, he had preached al- 

 most constantly. He died at Buffalo, of con- 

 gestion of the lungs, in the 76th year of his 

 ago. 



Jan 14. Mo GILL, Right Rev. Jonsr, Roman 

 Catholic Bishop of Richmond, Va. ; died 

 there, aged 63 years. He had, a fine reputa- 

 tion as a scholar and author, before his conse- 

 cration as bishop in 1850. Among his pub- 

 lished works were " Faith our Victory," and 

 " The True Church." 



Jan. 15. HANNA, JAMES M., a prominent 

 jurist of Indiana, one of the Justices of the Su- 

 preme Court from 1858 to 1865, and for some 

 years State Senator; died at his residence 

 near Curry ville, Vigo County, Indiana. 



Jan. 15. HEMENWAY, Mrs. DIANA H., a 

 zealous and active promoter of Sunday-school 

 instruction in Missouri for nearly twenty years 

 past; died at Chambersburg, Mo. Though par- 

 tially disabled by paralysis, she had accom- 

 plished a vast amount of labor in this direc- 

 tion. In one year (1870) she had either or- 

 ganized or revived eighty-seven Sunday-schools 

 in the section of the State in which she resided, 

 writing more than 500 letters in the accom- 

 plishment of this work. 



Jan. 15. LrsTNER, Rev. GEORGE A., D. D., 

 an eminent Lutheran clergyman and contro- 

 versialist, born at Minden, Montgomery Coun- 

 ty, N. Y., February 15, 1796; died at Scho- 

 harie, aged 76 years. He was educated at 

 Union College, graduating thence in 1817, and 

 from the Hartwick Theological Seminary about 



three years later. A man of deep and earnest 

 religious convictions, thoroughly orthodox in 

 his views, and a born leader, he took the front 

 rank in his synod in opposition to the ration- 

 alism which was even then very prevalent in 

 the Lutheran Church. At length, finding all 

 other means unavailing, he and a considera- 

 ble number of the younger men of the Synod 

 went out from it and formed the Hartwick 

 Synod, of which he was for some time presi- 

 dent. In 1837 the rationalistic members of 

 this Synod withdrew and formed the Franck- 

 ean Synod, on the widest latitudinarian basis, 

 and a new controversy sprung up. Dr. Lint- 

 ner remained in the pastorate at Schoharie till 

 1849, and was subsequently engaged in promot- 

 ing the work of foreign missions, and of the 

 American Bible Society. 



Jan. 15. WOOD, Mrs. ELIZA LOGAN, better 

 known to the public as Eliza Logan, a popular 

 actress from 1841 to 1859 ; died in New York 

 City, in the 42d year of her age. She was a. 

 daughter of Cornelius A. Logan, a poet and 

 dramatist, and, like her sisters Olive and Ce- 

 cilia, early made her debut on the stage. Her 

 first appearance was in the character ofNbrcal, 

 at the age of eleven years. She was from 1850 

 to 1859 one of the most popular actresses on 

 the New York stage, in such characters as Pau- 

 line (in " The Lady of Lyons "), Julia (in " The 

 Hunchback "), Bianca, Emdne, Lucrezia Bor- 

 gia, etc., etc. In 1859 she married George 

 Wood, a theatrical manager; bought Wood's 

 Theatre, Cincinnati, and retired from the stage. 

 Her husband subsequently bought Wood's Mu- 

 seum in New York, and she removed to that 

 city. Her last illness was protracted, and she 

 had borne much pain with patient fortitude. 



Jan. 17. SEDLEY, WILLIAM HEXRY, better 

 known to the theatre-going public as W. II. 

 Smith, an actor of great ability, for more than 

 fifty years connected with the stage ; died in 

 San Francisco, in the 66th year of his age. He 

 was born December 4, 1806, near the town of 

 Montgomery, in Wales, and was the son of a 

 brave officer in the British Army, killed in the 

 Peninsular War. He left his home to escape 

 from the persecutions of his step-father, at the 

 age of fourteen, and joined a company of stroll- 

 ing players. The early part of his career was 

 full of vicissitudes and troubles, but he adhered 

 to his determination to learn his profession by 

 hard study and faithful work, and he had 

 achieved a fair reputation before coming to 

 this country in 1827. His first appearance 

 here was at the Walnut Street Theatre in Phila- 

 delphia. His highest reputation was won in 

 Boston, where he first appeared in 1828, at the 

 Tremont Theatre, as Rolando in u The Honey- 

 moon." In 1836 he managed Palby's National 

 Theatre, in that city ; and from 1843 to 1860 

 he was stage-manager of the Boston Museum. 

 His first performance in New York took place 

 at the old Chatham Street Theatre, November 

 3, 1840, when he acted Edgar, to the Lear of 

 Junius Brutus Booth, Local play-goers also 



