OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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. EOKARD, Mrs. Dr. , the wife 



of the Rev. Dr. Eckard, now a professor in 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and sister of 

 Kev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D., of Columbia, 

 S. C. ; died there. Dr. and Mrs. Eckard were 

 for many years active and zealous missionaries 

 of the American Board in the island of Cey- 

 lon, and her health was finally so much im- 

 paired by the climate and her labors that she 

 was compelled to return to the United States. 



March . TROUSDALE, General WILLIAM, 

 a veteran soldier and political leader in Ten- 

 nesee ; died in Nashville, Tenn., aged 82 years. 

 He was born in Sumner County. Tenn., in 

 1790, and served as a private soldier and as a 

 lieutenant in the Creek War, and participated 

 in the battles of Tallahatchie and Talladega. 

 He again served as a private during the latter 

 part of the last war against Great Britain, tak- 

 ing part in the capture of Pensacola and the 

 battle of New Orleans. In 1836 he again en- 

 tered upon an active military career, serving 

 as a major-general of militia in the Seminole 

 War. He also participated in the Mexican War 

 as a colonel of infantry, taking part in all the 

 battles in the valley of Mexico, being wounded 

 in the battle of Molino del Rey, and also sus- 

 taining two severe wounds in the attack on 

 Chapultepec. In 1849 he was elected Gov- 

 ernor of Tennessee, and continued in that po- 

 sition till 1851, since which time he had not 

 taken an active part in public affairs. 



April 1. FOSTER, Rev. LEMUEL, a Presbyte- 

 rian clergyman, home missionary, and teach- 

 er, whose field of labor had principally been in 

 Illinois; died at Washington Heights, 111., in 

 the 73d year of his age. He was born in 

 Hartland, Conn., November 24, 1799, gradu- 

 ated from Yale College in 1828, and from the 

 Yale Theological Seminary in 1831 ; was com- 

 missioned by the American Home Missionary 

 Society as a missionary in 1832, and for forty 

 years continued in his work, as a preacher and 

 teacher, gathering churches and establishing 

 academies, with great success. 



April 5. GALLOWAY, SAMUEL, a prominent 

 citizen and political leader in Ohio, for some 

 years a professor and teacher there and in Indi- 

 ana, and subsequently Secretary of State and 

 Representative in Congress ; died in Columbus, 

 0., aged 61 years. Mr. Galloway was of 

 Scotch-Irish parentage, and was born in Gettys- 

 burg, Pa., in 1811. He removed to Ohio in 1819, 

 and was educated at Miami University, gradu- 

 ating thence, with its highest honors, in 1833. 

 The next year he taught a classical school at 

 Hamilton, O., and in 1835 was elected Profess- 

 or of Ancient Languages in Miami Univer- 

 sity, but resigned, in consequence of ill health, 

 in 1836. In 1838 he resumed teaching, first 

 at Springfield, O., and in 1839 as Professor of 

 Ancient Languages at South Hanover College, 

 Indiana. His health being again impaired, he 

 returned to Ohio in 1841, studied law, and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1842, and removed to 

 Cliillicothe. In 1844 he was elected Secretary 



of State, and removed to Columbus. He was 

 Secretary of State for eight years, and then, 

 declining a reelection, resumed the practice of 

 his profession, and took an active part in poli- 

 tics, for which his genius for oratory peculiarly 

 fitted him. In 1854 he was elected to Con- 

 gress, and served through the Thirty-fourth 

 Congress, taking an active part in the political 

 conflicts arising out of the Kansas question. 

 He declined a reelection, and since that time 

 had held no office, though he had taken a deep 

 interest in political questions. As an attorney 

 and advocate, or a political or platform speaker, 

 he had no superior in his mingled humor and 

 pathos, and his magnetic power over an audi- 

 ence. He was also very active in religious 

 matters, having been for thirteen years ruling 

 elder in the Presbyterian Church, and several 

 times a commissioner to the General Assem- 

 bly. 



April 5. HUTCHINSON, Rev. ELIJAH, a Bap- 

 tist clergyman, scholar, and pulpit orator, for 

 thirty-eight years in the ministry; died at 

 Windsor, Vt., aged 62 years. He was born in 

 Warren, N. Y., June 7, 1810 ; removed with his 

 parents to Newport, N. H., four years later, 

 was educated at the New Hampton Liter- 

 ary and Theological Institution, and subse- 

 quently pursued his studies privately with 

 Rev. Dr. Baron Stow, at Portsmouth, N. H. 

 In 1831 he entered Newton Theological Insti- 

 tution, and graduated thence in 1834 with 

 honor. The same year he was settled at 

 Windsor, Vt., where he remained to the end 

 of his life, being an active pastor for twenty- 

 five years of the time. He was repeatedly 

 called to city churches, which his reputation as 

 a scholar and pulpit orator had reached, but he 

 refused to leave his people, who were warmly 

 attached to him. He published little a few 

 sermons of remarkable pathos and eloquence, 

 and some able review articles, were all ; but 

 whatever came from his pen was admirable in 

 its quality. 



April 5. JACKSON, SAMUEL, M. D., a dis- 

 tinguished physician, medical professor, and 

 author, of Philadelphia; died in that city, 

 aged 85 years. He was born in Philadelphia, 

 March 22, 1787, was educated at the Universi- 

 ty of Pennsylvania, but took his medical de- 

 gree 'at the Rutgers College medical depart- 

 ment in 1813, and settled in Philadelphia. 

 He was appointed professor of the Institutes of 

 Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1835, and retained his professorship till 1863. 

 At his resignation he was made Emeritus pro- 

 fessor, and retained the title till his death. 

 Dr. Jackson was the author of " Principles of 

 Medicine," 8vo, 1832 ; Discourse Commemo- 

 rative of Professor Nathaniel Chapman, 1854; 

 Introduction to J. C. Morris's Translation of 

 "Lehman's Chemical Physiology," 1856; and 

 " Occasional Medical Essays." 



April 5. PITCHER, ZINA, M. D., an eminent 

 physician, medical professor, and author, of 

 Detroit, Mich. ; died there, aged about 75 years. 



