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banker of Washington, D. 0., of great ability 

 and promise ; died there, aged 31 years. He 

 was born in Geneva, N. Y., in 1841, and in 

 1801 received from Hon. S. P. Chase a posi- 

 tion in the loan branch of the Treasury. His 

 great aptness and skill in financial matters 

 attracted the attention of Messrs. Henry D. 

 and Jay Cooke, and in 1863, when they organ- 

 ized the First National Bank in Washington, 

 they made Mr. Huntington its cashier, and 

 from that time till his death he had filled the 

 position with distinguished ability. His death 

 was caused by congestive chills. 



April . MACY, JOSIAH, Sen., an eminent 

 merchant and former shipmaster of New York, 

 a member of the Society of Friends; died at 

 his residence in Rye, N. Y., aged 88 years. He 

 was a native of Nantucket, Mass., born in 1784, 

 and in early life was a commander of packet- 

 ships plying between New York and Liverpool, 

 and was so popular that berths were engaged 

 on his ships for many passages ahead. Upon 

 leaving the sea he went into the sperm-oil 

 trade, in which he continued with great success 

 for many years. 



April . MARTIN, ARNOLD, an enterpris- 

 ing but never successful journalist, who, in the 

 course of thirty-two years, had started eighteen 

 different newspapers, in New England, the 

 South and the Northwest ; died in great pov- 

 erty at San Diego, Gal., aged 52 years. 



April . SMITH, Mrs. MAEY, a venerable 

 lady of Morristown, N. J. ; died there, at the 

 advanced age of 101 years and 6 months. She 

 was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 

 and attended services in the churches up to 

 within a few years back. 



April . STURGIS, RUSSELL, one of the most 

 eminent and respected shipping-merchants of 

 New York City; died there, aged 68 years. 

 He was a native of Barnstable, Mass., born in 

 1804, came to New York when a young man, 

 and was for years captain of a merchant-ship, 

 trading to the East Indies. Subsequently he 

 established a shipping-house in New York, of 

 which he remained the head until his death. 

 He was, from their organization, at the head 

 of the Pilot Commissioners ; he was for some 

 time chairman of the Harbor-Masters, and 

 took the most lively interest in every thing 

 pertaining to the welfare of the merchant 

 marine of New York. During the war he 

 rendered efficient service to the Government 

 in procuring and fitting out vessels. His 

 youngest son was killed in Virginia while with 

 the Army of the Potomac. Since the war Mr. 

 Sturgis had been the chief proprietor of one 

 of the lines of steamers to Savannah. 



April . TUFTS, QUINCY, a philanthropic 

 citizen of Boston, a grandson of the distin- 

 guished Dr. Cotton Tufts, of Weymouth ; died 

 in Boston. He left by his will $10,000 to Har- 

 vard College for the education of indigent 

 students; $2,000 to Amherst College, and 

 $2,000 to Atkinson (N. H.) Academy, for a like 

 purpose ; $10.000 to the town of Weymouth 



for a free library, lectures, etc. ; $10,000 to the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital for free beds ; 

 and some $40,000 to be distributed among the 

 city charitable institutions. 



May 2. DAVIS, THOMAS T., a prominent and 

 enterprising citizen and lawyer, of Syracuse, 

 N. Y., member of Congress from that district 

 for two terms ; died there, aged 62 years. He 

 was the son of Rev. Henry Davis, D. D., first 

 president of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., 

 and was born, at Middlebury, Vt., August 22, 

 1810; graduated from Hamilton College in 

 1831 ; studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in Syracuse in 1833. From the time of 

 his settlement in Syracuse he took a deep and 

 active interest in the various manufactures, 

 and railroad and mining enterprises of that 

 thriving and growing city; was connected 

 with its great salt-manufacture, and was coun- 

 sel for most of the manufacturing establish- 

 ments of the city. He was elected in 1862 to 

 the Thirty-eighth Congress, and in 1864 re- 

 elected to the Thirty-ninth. Since the con- 

 clusion of his second term he had remained in 

 private life, attending to his large legal busi- 

 ness. 



May 6. SWIFT, ROBERT, an American mer- 

 chant and conchologist, long resident at St. 

 Thomas, West Indies; died there, aged 73 

 years. He had established himself on the 

 island in 1831, and, being a man of fine culture 

 and great fondness for scientific pursuits, his 

 house was ever open to distinguished Ameri- 

 can visitors. He was constantly in communi- 

 cation with our ablest concholpgists, in regard 

 to his favorite study, and his collection of 

 shells was said to be the best in the West In- 

 dies. 



May 7. ROCKWOOD, Rev. LUBIN BURTON, a 

 Congregationalist clergyman, secretary of the 

 New England Branch of the American Tract 

 Society; died in Boston, aged 60 years. He 

 was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and 

 studied theology at Andover and Union Theo- 

 logical Seminaries. He had been settled for 

 several years in the pastorate, but for twelve 

 or fourteen years had been engaged in the ser- 

 vice of the Tract Society, and with great suc- 

 cess. 



May 8. KITCHEN, JOHN S., M. D., a surgeon 

 in the United States Navy ; died in Philadel- 

 phia, in his 42d year. He Was born in New 

 York, in November, 1830, was commissioned 

 an assistant-surgeon in the navy, May 1, 

 1855, and made his first cruise on the coast 

 of Africa in the sloop-of-war St. Louis. His 

 next service was aboard the steam-frigate Wa- 

 bash, Mediterranean squadron. In 1859 he 

 was promoted to passed assistant-surgeon, and 

 was attached to the receiving-ship Ohio, at 

 Boston, and the naval hospital at Chelsea, 

 Mass., until 1861, when he was commissioned 

 a surgeon, and ordered to the steamer Poca- 

 hontas, but subsequently transferred ^ to the 

 sloop-of-war Mohican, on board of which lat- 

 ter he participated in the battle of Port Royal. 



