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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



He was a native of Washington, Litchfield 

 County, Conn., and, having received a very 

 thorough academical and medical education 

 in New York City, removed to Detroit, where 

 for more than forty years he was greatly 

 distinguished in his profession. Tor many 

 years he was a professor in the University of 

 Michigan, and was the author of several medi- 

 cal works. 



April 6. RICHARDSON, Captain EDWARD, 

 an active and useful philanthropist and re- 

 former, who had for almost half a century 

 been actively engaged in promoting the welfare 

 of seamen, and of the poor, ignorant, and de- 

 graded generally; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 aged 83 years. He was a native of Massa- 

 chusetts, was bred to the sea, was for many 

 years captain of packet-ships plying between 

 New York and Liverpool, and was very 

 popular. In February, 1833, he organized the 

 Marine Temperance Society, and lived to see 

 52,000 names signed to its pledge. He retired 

 from sea-service about 1837, and was for some 

 years superintendent of The Seamen's Home. 

 He was also vice-president of the New York 

 Port Society for many years. At the age of 

 seventy-three he originated the Water and Do- 

 ver Street Missions, for sailors and the poor 

 and vicious classes who haunt that portion of 

 New York, and had established a day-school 

 and Sunday-school for the children of that 

 vicinity, and held religious meetings for them 

 two evenings in the week, never failing to be 

 present himself in all weathers. He had also 

 aided in 1867 in founding the Van Buren 

 Street Mission in Brooklyn, with its day and 

 Sunday schools, and religious services, and to 

 the end of his long life was active in every ef- 

 fort for the temporal and spiritual benefit of 

 those around him. 



April 7. CORWIN, MOSES B., a prominent 

 political leader in Ohio many years ago, a 

 member of Congress for two terms; died in 

 Urbana, Ohio, in his 83d year. He was an 

 elder brother of the late Governor Thomas 

 Corwin, and was born in Bourbon County, Ky., 

 January 5, 1790, removed to Ohio in child- 

 hood, received an excellent education, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1812. 

 He was a member of the State Legislature in 

 1838 and 1839, was a Representative in Con- 

 gress from 1849 to 1851, and from 1853 to 

 1855, and was a member of the Committee on 

 the Post-Office Department. Two of his sons, 

 the late John A. Corwin and Jacob Corwin, 

 have been distinguished in political affairs. 



April 7. WALSHE, JOHN T., an Alabama 

 journalist, scholar, and professor, born in Ire- 

 land; died in Mobile, Ala., aged 58 years. He 

 received his education in Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, but came to the United States at the age 

 of twenty, and in 1837 became the editor of 

 the Montgomery Advertiser, which he con- 

 ducted with great ability for eleven years, 

 when he retired from it to accept a professor- 

 ship in Spring Hill College, near Mobile. The 



approach of the late civil jwar again brought 

 him into editorial life as an able and brilliant 

 advocate of the " Staie Rights" doctrines. 

 His later years had been spent in literary and 

 editorial pursuits. 



April 9. HARTSHORN, Rev. CHANCELLOR, a 

 Baptist clergyman and teacher, for some time 

 a professor in Hamilton Literary and Theologi- 

 cal Institution, now Madison University ; died 

 at Ann Arbor, Mich., aged 71 years. He was a 

 native of Central New York, and had received 

 his early education at Hartwidk Academy and 

 Hamilton Institution, and was so able a classi- 

 cal scholar that he was, immediately after his 

 graduation, employed as a teacher and profess- 

 or at Hamilton ; but, after about three years, 

 he felt so strongly called to become a preacher, 

 that he gave up all other pursuits to enter upon 

 his chosen work. His pastorates were mainly 

 in Central New York, but in the decline of 

 life, worn down by excessive labor, he made 

 his home with his son-in-law in Ann' Arbor, 

 and died there. 



April 12. CROSMAN, Commander ALEX- 

 DER F., U. S. N., a brilliant and capable naval 

 officer, son of Brevet Major-General George 

 H. Crosman, U. S. A., was drowned in the 

 harbor of Greytown, Nicaragua, aged 34 years. 

 Commander Crosman was born in Missouri, 

 June 11, 1838, and entered the Naval Academy 

 from Pennsylvania, October 1, 1851. He served 

 before the war in the Mediterranean squadron 

 in 1856-'58, and in the Brazil squadron, Para- 

 guay Expedition, in 1858-'59. During the war 

 he was attached to the East Gulf squadron- 

 first to the gunboat Tahoma, and was sul 

 quently in command of the steamer Somers 

 From 1863 to 1865 he was in the South Ath 

 tic squadron attached to the frigate Wab* 

 and did gallant service in various expedite 

 and minor engagements. Since the war 

 had been attached to the Naval Academy, th< 

 U. S.' steamers Ossipee and Onward, and to 

 the Portsmouth yard his last orders being to 

 the command of the Isthmus Surveying Expe- 

 dition in January, 1872. His last hours in 

 New York were occupied in preparing for 

 publication a book on seamanship, in which 

 he had embodied the ripened results of pro- 

 fessional study and experience. 



April 12. MAHONET, First-Lieutenant AN- 

 DREW, U. S. A., a gallant officer of the regular 

 army, who had been an active and efficient 

 officer of Volunteers, during the late war, vol- 

 unteering among the first in Massachusetts; 

 had repeatedly been wounded, and had risen 

 to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and brevet- 

 colonel in the volunteer service. He was ap- 

 pointed lieutenant in the regular army, March 

 7, 1867, and joined the Fourteenth Infantry in 

 July, 1869, and had been with his regiment at 

 Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, but was 

 absent on sick-leave, and died in Boston, 

 Mass. 



April 13. CLARKE, NATHANIEL B., a well- 

 known and popular actor, whose real name 



