OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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profession in Burlington and Monmouth Coun- 

 ties, he was elected to the House of Assembly 

 from Monmouth County, and in 1844 was a 

 member of the State Constitutional Conven- 

 tion. He was subsequently elected to the State 

 Senate from Monmouth County, and in 1850 

 was chosen Governor. He was subsequently 

 a Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, 

 and an active member of the Prison Reform 

 Committee. Princeton College conferred on 

 him the honorary degree of A. M. 



April 23. HOWE, EDMUND G., a banker and 

 manufacturer of Hartford, Conn., largely iden- 

 tified with the manufacturing, financial, and 

 railroad enterprises of that city ; died there, 

 aged about 63 years. 



April 23. ROBINSON-, ALEXANDER, an Indian, 

 chief of the tribe of Pottawattomies ; died at 

 the Indian Reserve, in Illinois, aged 100 years. 

 He was always a steadfast friend of the whites, 

 and in 1818 paddled the Kinzie family, the ear- 

 liest settlers in Chicago, across the lake from 

 Michigan in his canoe. He had lived on the 

 reserve for forty years. 



April 25. CLARKE, WILLIAM COGSWELL, a 

 Now Hampshire jurist, Attorney-General of 

 the State since 1863 ; died in Manchester, N. 

 II., aged 62 years. He was born in Atkinson, 

 N. H., in 1810, prepared for college at Atkin- 

 son Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth 

 in 1832. On leaving college, he taught an 

 academy at Gilmanton for some time, after 

 which he studied law and graduated at the 

 Dane Law School, at Cambridge, Mass. He 

 commenced the practice of his profession at 

 Laconia, and was Solicitor of Belknap County 

 for several years. In the spring of 1844 he 

 removed to Manchester, where he had resided 

 ever since that time. He soon took a high 

 rank at the Hillsborough County bar, and held 

 the office of City Solicitor during the years 

 1849-'50. He was appointed Judge of Probate 

 of Hillsborough County, in 1852, and held the 

 office four years. In July, 1863, Governor Gil- 

 more appointed him Attorney-General, and 

 reappointed him in 1868. He was a trustee 

 of the City Library many years, a trustee in 

 the Manchester Savings-Bank, and a director 

 in the City Bank. He was the first treasurer 

 of the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad cor- 

 poration, and he was clerk of the corporation 

 many years. He held the latter office at the 

 time of his death. He was a man of superior 

 intelligence and ability, and discharged the 

 duties of Attorney-General, with which he was 

 intrusted, with great credit to himself and the 

 State. 



April 25. McFERRAN, Lieutenant-Colonel 

 and Brevet Brigadier-General JOHN C., U. S. A., 

 Deputy Quartermaster-General, Department of 

 the South, a very able and conscientious army 

 officer ; died suddenly, at Louisville, Ky., aged 

 about 52 years. He was a native of Kentucky, 

 and entered the Military Academy from that 

 State in 1838, graduating in 1843. After gradu- 

 ating, he was assigned to duty as second-lieu- 



tenant of the Third Infantry. During the 

 Mexican "War he was with the Seventh In- 

 fantry, and engaged at Palo Alto, and Resaca 

 de la Palma. After that war he was trans- 

 ferred back to his old regiment, and in 1856 

 entered the Quartermaster's Department of the 

 army, in which he had served ever since. Dur- 

 ing the civil war, he was in New Mexico and 

 in Washington Territory ; received his brevet 

 in 1865, and his lieutenant-colonelcy in 1866. 

 Since then, he had had charge of the eighth 

 division of the' Quartermaster's Department. 

 General Terry well said of him in his general 

 order announcing his death: "As an officer, 

 he was distinguished for his able and con- 

 scientious discharge of every duty ; as a man, 

 for stainless honor and exalted worth. Dying, 

 he leaves behind him a reputation for purity 

 and integrity which reflects honor upon the 

 service in which he was an officer, and upon 

 the profession of arms." 



April 25. WALKER, A. J., an Alabama ju- 

 rist, Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 State from 1856 to 1862, a member of a family 

 conspicuous for their activity in the Confed- 

 erate movement, and eminent commander of 

 the Knights Templars of the State; died in 

 Montgomery, Ala., aged 53 years. 



April 27. -COLE, Mrs. FLORENCE FRANCES, 

 better known to the public by her stage name 

 of Florence Stanley, a popular actress, being 

 connected with the Holliday-Street Theatre 

 Company, in Baltimore, but who had left the 

 stage about two years since ; died in Baltimore. 



April 27. KIDWELL, ZEDEKIAH, M. D., a 

 prominent Democratic politician and mem- 

 ber of Congress from Northwestern Virginia ; 

 died in Fairmount, W. Va., aged 58 years. 

 He Avas born in Fairfax County, Va., January 

 4, 1814; was educated by his father, who was 

 a civil engineer ; studied medicine, and grad- 

 uated from the Jefferson Medical College, Phil- 

 adelphia, in 1839. After practising medicine 

 for some years, Dr. Kid well studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1849, served a num- 

 ber of years in the Virginia Legislature ; was 

 a member of the Constitutional Convention in 

 1849, a presidential elector in 1852, and a 

 representative in Congress from 1853 to 1857. 

 In 1857 he was elected one of the three com- 

 missioners who formed the Virginia Board of 

 Public Works, and retained his position for 

 several years. He was always a Democrat, and 

 personally popular with his party. He sympa- 

 thized with the Confederacy, and wentoff South 

 early in 18*61, and remained about Richmond, 

 in some official position most of the time, till 

 the end of the war, coming back to his old 

 home after it was over, wrecked in his political 

 fortunes and broken down in health. 



April 27. STEVENS, PARAN, a prominent 

 and well-known hotel proprietor ; died in New 

 York City. He was the first proprietor of the 

 Revere House, Boston, and was, at the time of 

 his death, the principal proprietor of the Re- 

 vere and Tremont Houses, in Boston; of the Fifth 



