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other churches. Dr. Wylie was a thorough 

 scholar, an eloquent and able preacher, and 

 exerted a powerful influence in the Reformed 

 Presbyterian Church. 



March 21. DODS, JOHN BOVEE, LL. D., an 

 American author and psychologist, born in 

 New York, in 1795 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 aged 77 years. He had published " Thirty 

 Sermons," 8vo, "Philosophy of Mesmerism," 

 1847; "Philosophy of Electrical Psychology," 

 1849; "Immortality Triumphant," 1851; 

 "Spirit Manifestations Examined and Ex- 

 plained," 1854. 



March 23. GBEGOBY, SAMUEL, a philan- 

 thropic reformer, a graduate of Yale College 

 in 1840, who devoted himself for twenty-five 

 years to the work of securing a medical edu- 

 cation for women who sought to enter the 

 profession; died in Boston, aged 59 years. 

 He was born in Guilford, Vt., April 19, 1813, 

 and for several years after his graduation was 

 engaged in teaching, lecturing, and writing on 

 educational and sanitary subjects. In 1847 

 he began the special work, to which his atten- 

 tion was devoted for the rest of his life the 

 medical education of women, and their intro- 

 duction into the profession. In 1848, he suc- 

 ceeded in founding the New England Female 

 Medical College in Boston, which is said to 

 have been the first institution for the exclusive 

 medical education of women in the world. 

 He had the satisfaction of seeing this college 

 firmly established, and was its secretary until 

 his death. 



March 23. NELSON, Mrs. ELIZABETH KEY, 

 wife of Hon. Thomas H. Nelson, United States 

 minister to Mexico ; died at Maltrata, Mexico, 

 of disease of the heart, aged about 46 years. 

 Mrs. Nelson was a daughter of the late Colo- 

 nel Marshall Key, a conspicuous and able po- 

 litical leader and lawyer of Washington, Ma- 

 son County, Ky. She was well educated, and 

 early in life married Thomas H. Nelson, then 

 a youth just entering upon his career as a law- 

 yer, and who has since become distinguished 

 both as a political leader and a diplomatist. 

 Soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson 

 removed to Indiana, where she shared with 

 her husband all the trials, and contributed her 

 full proportion to all the triumphs of the ac- 

 tive, eloquent, and successful lawyer, who had 

 become one of the founders of the Republican 

 party. Mr. Nelson was sent to Chili as United 

 States minister resident almost at the outset of 

 the late war, and remained there, at a post 

 which the course of events rapidly invested 

 with a peculiar and almost vital importance 

 to the commercial and political interests of the 

 republic then battling for its life, during the 

 whole of Mr. Lincoln's Administration, and 

 a full year of that of his successor. In 1869 

 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to 

 Mexico, where he still remains. How large 

 and effective a part Mrs. Nelson took in the 

 labors of her husband, throughout this entire 

 period, the archives of the State Department 



attest. She had been a student, without pre- 

 tence as without parade, all her lifelong. Her 

 knowledge of foreign languages, of history, and 

 of political economy, enabled her to afford her 

 husband an assistance as intelligent as it was 

 assiduous; and none of those of her sex who 

 clamor most loudly in public for the "equality 

 of woman with man " have done or can ever 

 do so much to prove the truth of their doc- 

 trine in its true appreciation, as this tender, 

 modest, and devoted wife. Her union with 

 her husband was as the Shakesperian "mar- 

 riage of true minds." Those alone who knew 

 her well and intimately can estimate its beauty 

 and its worth, and estimating these, come near 

 to measure the depth and bitterness of a sor- 

 row which present sympathy the most sincere 

 may soothe, but years can never adequately as- 

 suage. President Juarez, who had recently 

 experienced a similar affliction, and whose la- 

 mented wife had been an intimate and strongly- 

 attached friend of Mrs. Nelson, manifested the 

 most profound sympathy with Mr. Nelson, and 

 throughout the social and diplomatic circles of 

 the Mexican capital her loss was deeply and 

 unaffectedly mourned. 



March 25. RICHAEDS, Rev. ELIAS J., D. D., 

 an eminent Presbyterian clergyman and author, 

 pastor for twenty-six years past at Reading, 

 Pa. ; died there, aged about 60 years. He 

 was a native of Llangollen, in the valley of 

 the Dee, in North Wales, but migrated to the 

 United States when five years of age. He 

 was educated at Bloomfield Academy, N. J., 

 Princeton College and Princeton Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, graduating from the college 

 in 1831, and from the seminary in 1837. From 

 April, 1838, to October, 1846, he was a pastor: 

 at Ann Arbor, Mich., for one year, at Paterson, 

 N. J., for three years, and over the Western 

 Presbyterian Church four years. In 1846 he 

 was settled at Reading, where he remained 

 till his death, being by common consent the 

 ablest clergyman of that thriving city. He 

 was an eloquent and finished speaker, a chaste 

 and vigorous writer, and a man of a lovely 

 and amiable character. He was a frequent 

 contributor to the Presbyterian Quarterly Re- 

 view, and had published a memoir of Mrs. 

 Morrison, a missionary in India, and one or 

 two other works. The degree of D. D. was 

 conferred on him by Lafayette College, at 

 Easton, Pa., in 1870. 



March 29. WALKEB, ISAAC P., United States 

 Senator from Wisconsin for one term ; died in 

 Milwaukee, Wis., of apoplexy. He had been a 

 prominent political leader in the early history 

 of Wisconsin, was presidential elector in 1841, 

 and in 1848 was elected United States Senator. 

 He served from 1849 to 1855, and was chair- 

 man of the Committee on Revolutionary 

 Claims. 



March 30. OLIVER, Major-General JOHF M., 

 a gallant officer of volunteers from New York, 

 who served under General Sherman in his 

 Western campaigns ; died in Washington, D. C. 



