OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Congregationalist clergyman, and an influential 

 political leader in Western Massachusetts ; died 

 at Northampton, Mass., aged 62 years. He 

 had represented Northampton for several 

 years in the Legislature, and had been particu- 

 larly active in the Free-soil and early Republi- 

 can times. 



Jan. 25, BUTTLES, ALBERT BARNES, a distin- 

 guished lawyer of Ohio, a graduate of Yale 

 College in 1842, admitted to the bar in Ohio 

 in 1845, Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court 

 of Common Pleas of Ohio, from 1854 to 1858, 

 and subsequently engaged in a large and suc- 

 cessful practice in Columbus, O., till his death 

 there, at the age of 50 years. 

 1 Jan. 28. EDDY, NOEMAN, a political leader, 

 and at his death Secretary of State for India- 

 na ; died at Indianapolis, Ind., aged 61 years. 

 He was born in Scipio, Cayuga County, New 

 York, December 10, 1810, and removed in 

 1836 to Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Ind., 

 where he remained until 1847, when he set- 

 tled at South Bend, in the same State. He 

 was elected a member of Congress in 1852, 

 over Vice-President Colfax, then the candidate 

 of the Whig party. In 1855 he was appointed 

 by President Pierce District Attorney for Min- 

 nesota, and in 1857 he was made Commis- 

 sioner of the Indian Trust Lands in Kansas. 

 He afterward served as a member of the State 

 Senate, and in 1859-'60 was appointed by the 

 Legislature a member of the commission " in 

 relation to the settlement, adjustment, and 

 collection of dues to the State from various 

 persons and officers indebted thereto." In the 

 fall of 1861 Mr. Eddy took the principal part in 

 organizing the Forty-eighth Regiment, Indiana 

 Volunteers, of which he was commissioned 

 colonel, and continued in personal command 

 until July, 1863, when he was compelled to 

 retire from the service by reason of ill health, 

 and disability resulting from severe wounds 

 received in the battle of luka, Miss., while at 

 the head of his troops. In that engagement 

 the Forty-eighth lost 119 killed and wounded 

 out of a total of 420 who entered the fight. Af- 

 ter his retirement from the army, Colonel Eddy 

 lived in comparative quiet at his home in South 

 Bend, practising his profession, until he was 

 appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for 

 the Eleventh District by President Johnson, 

 an office he continued to hold until relieved 

 by Mr. Chestnutwood, tinder the present Ad- 

 ministration. At the Democratic State Con- 

 vention in 1870, Colonel Eddy was nominated 

 for the office of Secretary of State over Jason 

 B. Brown, receiving 634 votes on the first bal- 

 lot. The Democrats carried the State that 

 year, and he was elected. From the time he 

 entered on the duties of his office, he was a 

 resident of Indianapolis. 



Jan. 28. LYMAN, JOSEPH BAEDWELL, LL. B., 

 an American journalist, agriculturist, and 

 author ; died at Richmond Hill, Long Island, 

 of small-pox, aged 42 years. He was born in 

 Chester, Mass., October 6, 1829, educated at 



Yale College, whence he graduated in 1850, 

 and after teaching for three years commenced 

 the study of law, teaching, meanwhile, in 

 Nashville, Tenn. He graduated from the New 

 Orleans Law-School in 1856, and practised his 

 profession in New Orleans till 1861, when he 

 removed to Stamford, Conn., and engaged in 

 horticulture, writing for the Agriculturist and 

 other papers meanwhile. During this period 

 he wrote, conjointly with Mrs. Lyman, " The 

 Philosophy of Housekeeping." In 1865 he 

 became agricultural editor of the World, in 

 1867 managing editor of Hearth and Home, 

 and a few months later agricultural editor of 

 the Tribune, where his remarkable abilities 

 found full scope. He was cut off in the prime 

 of his active and useful life. 



Jan. . LOBMAN, ALEXANDEE, a wealthy 

 and benevolent citizen of Baltimore, died in 

 that city. He left by will nearly $200,000 to 

 benevolent objects connected with the city 

 which had been for so many years his home. 



Jan. . PULLEN, Major JOHN A., one of the 

 pioneers in the express business in this coun- 

 try, the associate of Wells, Adams, Harnden, 

 and Butterfield, and, at the time of his death, 

 the manager and leading director of the Na- 

 tional Express Company ; died at Tarrytown, 



Jan. . WILLIAMS, Miss BETSY, a descendant 

 of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, 

 R. L, a woman of great eccentricity, both in 

 her habits and her religious beliefs. She left 

 a fortune estimated at two million dollars to 

 the city of Providence, on condition that a 

 suitable monument should be erected at a des- 

 ignated point to her illustrious ancestor, but 

 the heirs-at-law contested the will on account 

 of her alleged unsoundness of mind. 



Feb. 1. MILLEE, EDWAED, C. E., a Philadel- 

 phian civil engineer, a graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania ; died in West Philadel- 

 phia, aged 62 years. Mr. Miller was a native 

 of Philadelphia, and had attained so high a 

 rank in his profession, that for many years he 

 had held important and responsible positions 

 in connection with the public works of Penn- 

 sylvania and other States. He was also a man 

 of very active piety, and of great benevolence. 



Pel). 4. BEENT, ROBEET J., an eminent jurist 

 of Baltimore, Attorney-General of Maryland 

 for several years, and subsequently a judge in 

 one of the higher courts ; died in Baltimore, 

 aged 61 years. 



Feb. 5. BAKEE, CHAELES M., an eminent 

 lawyer and jurist of Wisconsin ; died at Gene- 

 va, Wis., of apoplexy, aged 67 years. He was 

 a native of the city of New York, but spent 

 his early years and received his education in 

 Vermont. He established himself in Geneva, 

 Wis., in 1838, and soon attained distinction as 

 a lawyer and counsellor. He was a member 

 of the Territorial Council, and of the first Con- 

 stitutional Convention, and, in 1848, one of the 

 revisers of the statutes of the State. He was 

 subsequently for some years circuit judge, and, 



