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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



July 27. HIBBARD, HARRY, formerly mem- 

 ber of Congress from New Hampshire ; died at 

 Somerville, N. H., aged about 57 years. He 

 was born in Vermont, and was graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1835. After being suc- 

 cessively Assistant Clerk and Clerk of the House 

 in the New Hampshire Legislature, he was 

 elected a member of the House, and was Speak- 

 er in 1844 and 1845. He was a member of the 

 State Senate from 1846 to 1849, officiating two 

 years as President. In 1849 Mr. Hibbard, who 

 was a Democrat, was elected from the Fourth 

 Congressional District of New Hampshire a 

 Representative in Congress by a large majority 

 over his Whig opponent, and served, in all, 

 three terms. 



July 29. HARDING, Rev. FRANCIS A., a cler- 

 gyman of the M. E. Church, before the division 

 in 1844, and since, of the Methodist Church 

 South; died in Baltimore, aged 59 years. Mr. 

 Harding was a slaveholder and a delegate to 

 the General Conference of 1844, and it was the 

 objections to his reception, as a slaveholder, 

 contrary to the "Discipline" prepared by 

 Wesley, which was the moving cause, quite as 

 much as the objections to Bishop Andrew, 

 which led to the division of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in that year. 



July . GREENE, Rev. JOHN SINGLETON 

 COPLEY, died at Longwood, near Boston, Mass., 

 aged 61 years. He was the son of the late 

 Gardiner Greene, formerly a prominent and 

 wealthy merchant in New York; a grandson 

 of the celebrated portrait-painter, after whom 

 he was named, and a nephew of the late Lord 

 Chancellor Lyndhurst. 



July . RAMSAY, STERRETT, the oldest pay- 

 master in the United States Navy, died at Get- 

 tysburg, Pa., aged 82 years. He was born in 

 Pennsylvania, and appointed to his first com- 

 mission from that State. He entered the ser- 

 vice of the Union on the 18th of November, 

 in the year 1830, and was last at sea in May, 

 1853. His total registered sea-service was thir- 

 teen years, and his employment on shore or 

 other duty eleven years and six months. He 

 was rated as unemployed during sixteen years 

 and eleven months, and credited with a total 

 service to the country of forty-one years and 

 one month. 



July . TOLLEFSON, LARS, a man of giant 

 stature, died in Chicago, 111., aged 38 years. He 

 was a native of Norway, and measured seven 

 feet nine inches in height, weighing three hun- 

 dred and seventy-five pounds. He was fre- 

 quently importuned to exhibit himself pub- 

 licly, but his constitutional modesty induced 

 him to decline all offers, and seek a less munifi- 

 cent livelihood by selling beer. 



July . VANDERHORST, , Bishop of the 

 colored Methodist Church ; died in Charleston, 

 S. C., in the 64th year o f his age. 



Aug. 1. RITTER, Captain and Brevet Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel JOHN F., Eighth Regiment In- 

 fantry, U. S. A. ; died at Catskill, N. Y., aged 

 36 years. He was born in Pennsylvania, edu- 



cated at the Military Academy, West Point, 

 and filtered the army in 1856. He served in 

 Florida against the Seminole Indians ; was on 

 frontier duty during the Utah Expedition ; 

 served during the civil war, and for meritori- 

 ous services was rapidly promoted. He was 

 made colonel of the First Missouri Cavalry 

 Volunteers in 1862; brevet lieutenant-colonel 

 in 1863 ; resigned the volunteer commission in 

 1864, and in 1866 was transferred to the Thirty- 

 third Infantry, U. S. A., having previously been 

 Acting Inspector-General of the Department 

 of the Mississippi. Subsequently he was trans- 

 ferred to the Eighth Infantry. 



Aug. 3. LELAND, SIMEON, an eminent hotel- 

 proprietor; died in New Rochelle, aged 55 

 years. He was the eldest and the founder of 

 the firm of Leland Brothers, who have been 

 connected with the management of many ho- 

 tels in this country. Simeon Leland, however, 

 confined his attention more particularly to New 

 York City, and in 1845 purchased, in connection 

 with Preston Hodges, the Clinton House, on 

 Beekman Street, near Printing-House Square, 

 which was formerly occupied by the Park Bank. 

 Mr. Leland continued in the management of the 

 Clinton House till 1852. In 1851 he obtained 

 from A. T. Stewart a twenty years' lease of the 

 Metropolitan Hotel, which he opened in part- 

 nership with his brothers in September, 1852, 

 continuing in charge till March, 1871. Since 

 that time he had been living in retirement with 

 his family, at his residence in New Rochelle. 



Aug. 5. CRANE, Captain GEORGE H., Twen- 

 ty-second Infantry, U. S. A. ; died at Ponea 

 Agency, Dakota Territory. 



Aug. 6. CLARK, JASON, an eminent citizen 

 of Jefferson County, N. Y. ; died in Plesis, 

 aged 71 years. He was born in Greenfield, 

 Saratoga County, in 1801, and early removed 

 to Jefferson County, then known as the Black 

 River country, being comparatively new and 

 unsettled. Taking charge of the survey and 

 sale of land as agent for several landed proprie- 

 tors, he at once became largely identified with 

 the business interests of the community in 

 which he had selected his home, retaining a 

 local influence rarely enjoyed, as shown by 

 the various positions of public trust to which 

 he was almost uninterruptedly chosen in 

 magistracy of the town, and which continm 

 till his death. He was also, although not ii 

 the legal profession, at times honored with a 

 position on the bench of the county. At dif- 

 ferent periods his prominence in public estima- 

 tion had given him (unsought) the candidacy 

 for the State and national Legislatures, and 

 once also he received the suffrages of his party 

 throughout the State for Canal Commissioner, 

 but to these offices he failed of election, as the 

 party was in the minority. 



Aug. 7. GREY, Captain THOMAS, U. S. A. 

 (retired) ; died at San Francisco, Cal. 



Aug. 9. ECKFELDT, JACOB R., Chief Assay or 

 of the United States Mint for many years ; died 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., aged 70 years. His father, 



