OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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,ention," in 1866. In 1869 he was appointed 

 Third Auditor of the Treasury, and subse- 

 quently Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the 

 Southern District of Ohio. He had been an 

 invalid for two or three years past. 



May 25. ROBIE, Rev. JOHN E., a Method- 

 ist clergyman and religious journalist, editor 

 for many years past of the Buffalo Christian 

 Advocate, and a man of great influence in his 

 denomination in Western New York; died at 

 Cowlesville, N. Y., of apoplexy. 



May 31. HASKELL, LLEWELLYN, an enter- 

 prising and highly-esteemed merchant of New 

 York, the founder of Llewellyn Park, an exqui- 

 site suburb of Orange, N. J., ; died in Santa 

 Barbara, Gal., aged about 60 years. Mr. Has- 

 kell was of Welsh ancestry, but was a native 

 of Maine. He had resided in New York and 

 its vicinity for many years, and was well 

 known and cherished for his strict integrity, 

 large public spirit, and unswerving devotion to 

 liberal ideas. He had been suffering from 

 pulmonary disease for some years, and had vis- 

 ited Santa Barbara'in the hope of a complete 

 restoration to health in that genial climate. 



May 31. PITCHER, WILLIAM II., M. D., 

 an eminent physician of Hudson, N. Y. a 

 son of Governor Nathaniel Pitcher; died in 

 Hudson, from the effect of poison introduced 

 into his system while making a post-mortem 

 examination in a case of erysipelas. 



May . COLEMAN, Prof. BENJAMIN B., a 

 member of the Faculty of the University of 

 Virginia, who was a candidate for a vacant 

 professorship in Miami University, Oxford, 

 Ohio ; was killed by being run over by the 

 railroad-cars at Charlottesville, Va., as he was 

 attempting to mail a letter to allow his friends 

 to present his name as a candidate for the va- 

 cancy. 



June 2. COLTON, Rev. HENRY MARTYN, a 

 Congregationalist clergyman and teacher ; 

 died in Middletown, Conn., aged 45 years. He 

 was born in Royalton, Niagara County, N. Y., 

 November 5, 1826 ; graduated at Yale College 

 in the class of 1848, and, after a year devoted 

 to a select course of study, entered the Yale 

 Theological Seminary, and in November, 1852, 

 was ordained pastor of the First Congregational 

 Church in Woodstock, Conn. Resigning this 

 charge in January, 1855, he removed to East 

 Avon, Conn., where he supplied the pulpit of 

 the Congregational Church two years. In 

 May, 1857, he established a classical school in 

 Middletown, which he continued for eleven 

 years. In September, 1868, he opened the 

 " Yale School for Boys," in New York City, 

 which he was still conducting at the time of 

 his death. 



June 2. MARTIN, Rev. GEORGE W., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman; died at Denver, Col. 

 He graduated at the Union Theological Semi- 

 nary in the class of 1868, and, after preaching 

 at Saugerties one year, was settled over the 

 Presbyterian Church at Schaghticoke, N. Y. 

 In the spring of 1871, his health becoming im- 



paired, his people gave him a, vacation, and he 

 went to Denver in the vain hope of recovery. 

 He was an eloquent preacher, and his talents 

 gave promise of great usefulness. 



June 2. NICHOLSON, Colonel JOSEPH HOF- 

 FER, a lawyer and politician of note; died 

 at Annapolis, Md., aged 66 years. He was a 

 native of Baltimore, and second son of Judge 

 Joseph H. Nicholson, of the Court of Appeals 

 of Maryland ; graduated at Harvard University, 

 and commenced the practice of law in his na- 

 tive city. For many years he was Clerk of 

 the Senate of Maryland, and was acting Secre- 

 tary of State under Governor Veazy. He was 

 appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne 

 Arundel County by Governor Pratt, and, by 

 President Fillrnore, United States consul at Tu- 

 nis. The office of Principal Executive Clerk of 

 the United States Senate was created for Colo- 

 nel Nicholson, and he continued to perform 

 his duties until 1861, since which he had held 

 the position of Secretary of the Annapolis 

 and Elk Ridge Railroad Company, of which he 

 had long been a director. Colonel Nicholson 

 was widely known as an influential politician 

 and a vigorous writer. 



June 2. PLUMMER, Hon. GEORGE, a promi- 

 nent citizen of Glastenbury, Conn.; died there, 

 aged 87 years. He was born in Glastenbury, 

 December 7, 1785 ; graduated at Yale College 

 in the class of 1804, which numbered many 

 eminent scholars, studied law at New Haven 

 with his uncle, Judge Mills, and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1807. Until 1812 he continued 

 to practise his profession in his native place, 

 attending constantly the courts at Hartford. 

 The death of his father at this time devolved 

 upon him the charge of a considerable estate, 

 and, with naturally a strong taste for the quiet 

 life of the farm, he at once abandoned the law, 

 and, as he often used to emphasize it, " with- 

 out the least regret." Though never after- 

 ward making a writ, he often acted as magis- 

 trate and brought in many ways to the service 

 of his townspeople his legal acquisitions and 

 skill. Near the close of the War of 1812 he 

 entered the military service. Under Brigadier- 

 General Lusk, who commanded a brigade of 

 1,800 men at New London, he acted as brigade- 

 major and inspector, and remained in the ser- 

 vice so long as the exigencies of the coast de- 

 fence required. In politics Deacon Plummer 

 was Whig and Republican. In 1844 he repre- 

 sented the Second District in the Senate, and 

 again in 1851. He was twice a member of the 

 corporation of Yale College, for which, as an 

 alumnus, he cherished very strong attachment. 

 In matters ecclesiastical and religious he held 

 a special prominence. For nearly half a cen- 

 tury he served the church as deacon, and acted 

 as its treasurer, and for thirty years was con- 

 tinuously chosen treasurer of the town, his 

 name being entered upon all tickets alike. 

 Warmly enlisted in all movements for the pub- 

 lic good, he was especially interested in edu- 

 cational and religious matters. 



