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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



copal clergyman and chaplain in the U. S. Navy ; 

 died at Cliarlestown, Mass., aged 62 years. He 

 was born in Connecticut, educated at Trinity 

 College, Hartford, and was for a number of 

 years rector of the Episcopal Church in Do- 

 ver, N. H. He entered the navy as chaplain, 

 in March, 1861, had had four years' sea-service, 

 and was at the time of his death stationed at 

 the Charleston Navy-yard. He ranked as 

 commander. 



Feb. 25. DYSAET, Captain EOBEET M., a 

 Pennsylvanian officer of volunteers, on the 

 staff of General Starkweather in the Army 

 of the Cumberland ; died in New York City, 

 of illness resulting from wounds received in 

 action during the late war, aged 35 years. 

 He was born in Lancaster, Pa., January 18, 

 1837, and entered the Union Army, October 

 8, 1861, as a first-lieutenant in Company I, 

 Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colo- 

 nel Hambright. He was afterward promoted 

 to the captaincy of Company 0, in the same 

 regiment, and then transferred to the staff of 

 General Starkweather, of the Army of the 

 Cumberland, with whom he served until the 

 close of the war. His residence since the war 

 had been at Lebanon, Pa., but he had come to 

 New York on business when stricken down 

 by his last illness. 



Feb. 27. COSKERT, Very Rev. HENEY BENE- 

 DICT, D. D., Vicar-General and Administrator 

 of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Balti- 

 more; died in that city, of pneumonia, in the 

 64th year of his age. He was a native of 

 Frederick County, Md., and has been Vicar- 

 General of the archdiocese since 1849. In 

 1854 he declined the appointment by the Pope 

 of Bishop of Portland, Me. He was the 

 intimate friend and the heir by will of the late 

 Archbishop Spalding, whom he had buried 

 about three weeks before his own dissolution. 



Feb. 29. CEIPPEN, SCHUYLEE, a New York 

 jurist, for eight years one of the Judges of the 

 Supreme Court of the State of New York ; 

 died at his residence at Cooperstown, N. Y., 

 aged 77 years. 



Feb. 29. JEFFREY, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, more than fifty years 

 in the ministry, for forty -five years stated 

 Clerk of the Synod of Pittsburg, and for 

 thirty-five years pastor of Bethany Church ; 

 died in "West Fairfield, Pa., aged 77 years. 



Feb. . BRIGGS, JOSEPH WILLIAM, a special 

 agent of the Post-Office Department, and the 

 originator of the system of free delivery of 

 letters in cities, which he had organized in 

 fifty-two cities; died in Cleveland, Ohio. 



March 1. CROSBY, THOMAS RUSSELL, M. D., 

 an eminent physician of Hanover, N. II. ; died 

 there, aged 55 years. He was a son of Prof. 

 Dixie Crosby, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, and of the Hanover Medical School in 

 1841, and had been himself Professor of Anat- 

 omy, Physiology, and Natural History, in the 

 Norwich University for some years. 



March 3. ROULSTONE, SAMUEL, an ingenious 



and skilful mechanic, for twenty years the gun- 

 carriage maker at the Charlestown Navy-yard ; 

 died in Charlestown, Mass., aged about 55. 

 During the late war his position was one of 

 great care and responsibility, and his gun-car- 

 riages were noted fur excellence, becoming the 

 recognized standards to which other manufac- 

 turers were obliged to conform. 



March 4. DANA, Commander WILLIAM II., 

 U. S. N., a gallant naval officer ; a native of 

 Ohio, and a resident of that State, who entered 

 the naval service in 1850, was promoted to be 

 lieutenant-commander in 1862, and distin- 

 guished himself during the war, made com- 

 mander in 1869; died in Boston, suddenly, 

 aged about 40 years. 



March 5. GORDON, CHARLES, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and surgeon of Boston ; died in 

 that city, aged 63 years. He was born in Hing- 

 ham, Mass., in 1809, and came of a family of 

 physicians, his father and elder brother being 

 both members of the profession. He was edu- 

 cated at the Derby Academy, Hingham, and 

 at Brown University, graduating from the lat- 

 ter in 1829. He took his medical degree in 

 1832, and commenced practice in Lowell. Af- 

 ter three or four years' practice, he laid aside 

 a sufficiency to enable him to spend two years 

 in medical study in Paris, and, on his return, 

 he settled in Boston, where for more than thirty 

 years he was a leading and successful physician 

 and surgeon. He was a rapid and skilful oper- 

 ator, and remarkable for his accuracy in diag- 

 nosis, his carefulness in observation, and his 

 promptness and courage in the management of 

 difficult cases. He made repeated visits to Eu- 

 rope, both on account of his health, and the 

 education of his daughters. Dr. Gordon had 

 also taken a lively interest in military matters, 

 and was a member, and for some years com- 

 mandant, of the New England Guards. His 

 death was the result of an attack of pneumonia. 



March 5. LOOMIB, Colonel and Brevet Briga- 

 dier-General GUSTAVUS, U. S. A. retired list, 

 a brave and faithful officer of the Regu- 

 lar Army, sixty-four years in the service ; di( 

 in Stratford, Conn., aged 83 years. He w 

 born in Thetford, Vt., in 1789, entered the 

 Military Academy at West Point in 1808, and 

 graduated in 1811, was assigned to artillt 

 service, distinguished himself in the War 

 1812, and was made captain in the staff; to( 

 part in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mes 

 can Wars, though seldom called into battle, wa 

 promoted to be colonel of Fifth Infantry in 

 1851, and was mostly on frontier and garrison 

 duty till the commencement of the late war, 

 when he was assigned to mustering and re- 

 cruiting service. He was brevetted brigadier- 

 general, U. S. A., in 1865, for long and faithful 

 service, and had already, in 1863, been placed 

 upon the retired list as "having been borne 

 on the army register for more than forty-five 

 years." In private life General Loomis was one 

 of the most exemplary, conscientious, and be- 

 nevolent men in his profession. 



