OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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j town in the General Assembly, and was twice a 

 j member of the Senate from the Nineteenth Dis- 

 trict. In 1847 he removed to Hartford, and 

 filled the office of school-fund commissioner. 

 In 1857 he was elected, with Nathaniel Ship- 

 man, to the Legislature, from Hartford, and 

 was chosen Speaker of the Houso o^Kepre- 

 sentatives by the Republicans. In the practice 

 of law he formed a partnership with the late 

 Judge Henry Perkins, the firm being Bulkley 

 & Perkins. His later years had been devoted 

 to the business of life insurance. He was the 

 first President of the Connecticut Mutual Com- 

 pany, which he assisted in organizing, and sub- 

 sequently, in 1850, organized the ^Etna Life 

 Company, taking its presidency at the start, 

 and holding it to the time of his death. ID 

 public positions and responsibilities he has 

 been conspicuous for many years. He accu- 

 mulated a large fortune, amounting to a million 

 of dollars or more. 



Feb. 13. CUTLER, SAMUEL 0., a prominent 

 and honored citizen of Wayne County, N. Y. ; 

 died in Pultneyville, N. Y., in his 64th year. 

 I He was born in Aurora, in 1808, was for some 

 j years State Senator for the Wayne and Cayuga 

 District, and occupied a prominent position in 

 the civil affairs and in the philanthropic move- 

 ments of the region in which he resided. 



Feb. 13. MOLLER, Captain BARNARD J., U. 

 S. N. retired list, a gallant naval officer ; died 

 at Detroit, Mich., aged about 62 years. He 

 was a native of Pennsylvania, from which 

 State he received an appointment ns midship- 

 man in the navy, April 1, 1827, being pro- 

 moted to passed midshipman, 1833 ; lieuten- 

 ant, December 8, 1839, on which rank he was 

 retired September 13, 1855, subsequent to 

 which he received a commission as commander, 

 July 10, 1861, and captain, 1867. His first ser- 

 vice was in the West India squadron, 1 828-'30, 

 and he afterward served in the Mediterrane- 

 an, at the Naval School, Norfolk, on the Coast 

 Survey, and on several occasions at the Brook- 

 lyn Navy-yard, New York. 



Feb. 17. HERVEY, Rev. HENRY, D. D., an 

 able and eminent Presbyterian clergyman of 

 Ohio ; died at Martinsburg in that State, in 

 the 74th year of his age. He was distinguished 

 for his fine scholarship, his thorough theolo- 

 gical attainments, his independence of thought, 

 and his excellence and faithfulness as a preacher 

 and pastor. 



Feb. 17. MoCARTER, JAMES J., an eminent 

 publisher and bookseller in Charleston, S. C., 

 for more than fifty years; died in Columbia, 

 S. C., in the 72d year of his age. He was a 

 native of Morris County, N. J., learned the 

 printing and bookselling business in Morris- 

 town, N. J., and established himself in Charles- 

 ton about the year 1826. He was greatly 

 esteemed for his integrity and fine social quali- 

 ties, and during the late civil war was a gen- 

 erous and noble friend to the Union soldiers 

 who were prisoners there. 



Feb. 18. COVERT, JOHN M., M. D., an emi- 



nent physician, and accomplished scholar and 

 poet ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in the 40th 

 year of his age. He was a native of St. Augus- 

 tine, Fla., and was born July 25, 1832. He 

 was educated in Charleston, graduating from 

 Charleston College in 1853, and from the South 

 Carolina Medical College in 1855. Soon after 

 taking his medical degree he went to Norfolk, 

 Va., as a volunteer in the epidemic of yellow 

 fever there. He settled there in practice soon 

 after, and married. In 1861 he volunteered as a 

 surgeon to the First Louisiana Volunteers, and 

 was subsequently a medical director on Gen- 

 eral Lee's staff, and was distinguished for his 

 gentleness, kindness, and professional skill. 

 He returned to Norfolk after the war, but in 

 1867 volunteered to go to Galveston, Texas, to 

 combat the yellow fever there. In 1869 he 

 removed to Brooklyn, where other members 

 of his family had preceded him, and had attained 

 to a fine practice at the time of his death, and 

 was just becoming known in literary circles 

 for his remarkable attainments. He was an 

 excellent belles-lettres scholar, and possessed 

 poetical talent of a high order. 



Feb. 21. WOOD, WILLIAM, an enterprising 

 and able journalist; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 aged 37 years. He was born in Cheddar, 

 Somerset County, England, December 13, 1835, 

 and was the son of a Methodist clergyman and 

 missionary. He came to the United States at 

 the age of eighteen, and was connected as a 

 reporter with a Williamsburgh paper; in 1859 

 removed to Rome, N. Y., and became editor for 

 four years of the Rome Sentinel. Returning to 

 England, he remained there till 1867, as editor 

 of the Cardiff (Wales) Times. On his return 

 he connected himself with the WilliamsburgJi 

 Times, but in 1868 joined the staff of the Brook- 

 lyn Eagle, of which he had latterly been man- 

 aging editor. 



Feb. 23. BROWN, Rev. JOHN H., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, eminent for his schol- 

 arship; died in Chicago, 111., aged 77 years. 

 He was a native of Green County, Ky., and 

 had been for some years pastor of the First 

 Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Ky., and 

 subsequently for a long time was settled in 

 Springfield, 111. He had removed to Chicago 

 in 1869. 



Fel). 24. LOCKWOOD, LE GRAND, an eminent 

 banker and railway director; died in New 

 York City, aged 51 years. He was a native 

 of Norwalk, Conn., but came to New York, in 

 1838, as a clerk for Jasper Corning & Co. In 

 1843 he became a member of the firm of Genin 

 & Lock wood, and in 1856 the senior partner 

 of the house. The banking-house had always 

 been one of the most prominent and esteemed 

 in the street, and, although they were embar- 

 rassed in the gold panic of September, 1869, 

 they had regained very nearly their old posi- 

 tion. Mr. Lockwood was a man of great be- 

 nevolence, and of a genial and generous dis- 

 position. 



Feb. 24. SALTER, Rev. THOMAS G., an Epis- 



