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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



ored servant in President Madison's family ; 

 died in St. Louis, Mo., aged 107 years. Her 

 mother lived to the age of 115 years. 



July 3. FURMAN, CHARLES M., a prominent 

 citizen of Charleston, S. C., and at one time 

 Comptroller-General of the State ; died in that 

 city, aged 75 years. He was a son of Rev. 

 Richard Furman, D. D., of Charleston ; was 

 born and educated there, admitted to the 

 bar in 1819, and practised his profession with 

 signal success until 1832, when he was elected 

 treasurer of the lower division by the Legis- 

 lature of the State. In this place he gave evi- 

 dence of that financial ability for which, in 

 after-years, he was so signally noted, and was 

 subsequently elected to the important office of 

 Comptroller-General of the State. The duties 

 of this office he discharged with fidelity, and 

 he was afterward chosen one of the Masters in 

 Equity for Charleston District, an office at that 

 time of grave and serious responsibilities. When 

 Judge Colcock was elected Treasurer of the 

 Bank of the State, having a high estimate of 

 Mr. Furman's financial abilities, he prevailed 

 upon him to undertake the duties of cashier 

 of the bank. He continued to discharge the 

 duties of this office until 1850, when he was 

 elected President of the bank, and continued 

 to hold this position until the close of the war. 

 Mr. Furman had frequently been called to fill 

 offices of honor and trust. In 1824 he was 

 elected a member of the lower branch of the 

 Legislature, and was also a member of all the 

 city Boards. He was connected with the South 

 Carolina Railroad for many years as a director, 

 and was sent to England for the purpose of 

 conducting an important and delicate trust for 

 that company ; was a member of the Secession 

 Convention in 1860, and of the National Dem- 

 ocratic Convention which nominated Seymour 

 and Blair for the presidency in 1868. Mr. 

 Furman was also a prominent member of the 

 Masonic fraternity. 



July 4. PIIELPS, ZENAS MONTAGUE, A. M., 

 formerly associate principal of the Mount Pleas- 

 ant Military Academy, at Sing Sing, N. Y. ; 

 died at Amherst, Mass., aged 61 years. He 

 was educated at Williams College, graduating 

 thence in 1839, and devoted his whole life to 

 the profession of teaching, in which he had 

 achieved a good degree of success. 



July 10. McCnESNEY, Rev. WILLIAM E., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and missionary at 

 Canton, China; was killed by pirates at a little 

 village called Kam-Kai, aged 28 years. He 

 had been connected with the mission at Can- 

 ton but two years and a half, and had made 

 commendable progress in the acquisition of 

 the language. Anxious to commence preach- 

 ing, he, in company with a fellow-missionary, 

 took a short trip into the country for that pur- 

 pose, and had proceeded about fifteen miles, 

 preaching by the way, when they anchored 

 their boat for the night, near the above-men- 

 tioned village. A cargo-boat being attacked 

 near them by pirates, they found themselves 



under fire, and Mr. McChesney was killed in- 

 stantly. He was a favorite with both natives 

 and foreigners, and gave promise of great use- 

 fulness. 



July 12. TRAPIER, Rev. PAUL, D. D., an 

 Episcopal clergyman, and professor in the 

 Theological Seminary of South Carolina ; dkd 

 in Baltimore, Md., aged nearly 70 years. 

 a theologian, he ranked among the highest in 

 the diocese, and in the conventions of the 

 Church, both diocesan and general, he was 

 recognized as an able counsellor and debater. 

 For many years he was Rector of St. Michael's 

 Church, Charleston, and for a time was a city 

 missionary in charge of St. Stephen's Chapel, 

 where he wielded a great influence for good. 



July 14. STEPHENS, Judge LINTON, a Ge( 

 gia jurist and politician, brother of Alexandc 

 H. Stephens ; died at Sparta, Ga., aged 49 

 years. He was born in Taliaferro County, 

 Ga., in 1823, and was left an orphan at the age 

 of three years. But friends took charge, of his 

 education, and, like his brother, he studied law, 

 and in due time was admitted to practice. He 

 evinced great legal ability, and ultimately rose 

 to the bench. He took an active part in the 

 politics of Georgia, and was a delegate from the 

 county of Hancock to the Georgia Secession 

 Convention of 1861. Judge Stephens voted 

 therein against the ordinance of secession, but 

 subsequently proposed a preamble and resolu- 

 tion declaring that the lack of unanimity in 

 the convention was in regard to the (proposed) 

 remedy, and its application before a resort to 

 other means of redress, and not as to alleged 

 grievances. This was adopted, and he signed 

 the ordinance. He had acted all along with 

 the Union party, who were styled " Coopera- 

 tioni<ts," in contradistinction to secessionists, 

 and wrote in November, 1860, an important 

 public letter, explaining and defending his 

 views. During the war, he was a member 

 of the Georgia Legislature, and introduced 

 therein the peace resolutions of 1864, and also 

 vigorously denounced the suspension of the 

 privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by the 

 Confederate Congress. After the war. Judge 

 Stephens continued to take an active interest 

 in politics, and, about a month before the Bal- 

 timore Convention, spoke at a public meeting 

 in favor of the adoption of a straight Demo- 

 cratic presidential ticket. 



July 16. DEXTER, GEORGE, a well-known 

 news-dealer of New York ; died at Geneva, 

 Switzerland, in the 63d year of his age. lie 

 was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1809, learned 

 the printing business in Boston, and about the 

 year 1843 removed to New York City, where 

 he continued to work at his trade. He and 

 his early partner, Mr. Tuttle, were the first 

 to conceive the idea of the newspaper broker- 

 age business, which they established in Ann 

 Street, about twenty years ago. After years 

 of success and several changes, the " Ameri- 

 can News Company" was originated, em- 

 bracing the business of several competing 



