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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



agent ; acting part of the time also as chaplain 

 and Southern secretary. During the war he 

 was of great service as naval chaplain at New 

 Orleans, where he took upon himself double 

 duty, by acting also for the Christian Commis- 

 sion. He remained with the American Sea- 

 man's Friend Society until laid aside by ill- 

 health in the spring of 1871. 



Aug. 15. RUST, Colonel RICHAED, an early 

 California journalist; died atMokolumne. He 

 was a native of Vermont. 



Aug. 18. DAVENPOET, Captain HENEY K., 

 U. S. Navy ; died at Frangensbad, Bohemia. 

 He was a native of Georgia, and was appointed 

 from that State, entered the service February 

 19, 1838, and remained in it nearly twenty-nine 

 years, leaving a record of rare faithfulness and 

 devotion to duty. At the time of his death he 

 was captain of the Congress, on the European 

 station. 



Aug. 18. SPIER, THOMAS J., member of 

 Congress from the Fourth Congressional Dis- 

 trict of Georgia ; died in Barnesville, Ga. 



Aug. 19. ANDEESON, Rev. H. T., a clergy- 

 man of the "Disciples," or Campbellites, an 

 eminent scholar and author ; died in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., aged 61 years. He was the author 

 of an interlinear translation of the New Tes- 

 tament, and, during the last five years, had 

 been engaged in revising his work, taking for 

 his basis the Tischendorf text, which he had 

 almost concluded. 



Aug. 19. JONES, Rev. EVAN, a Baptist cler- 

 gyman, for fifty years missionary to the Cher- 

 okees; died at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 

 aged 83 years. He was a native of Wales, born 

 in May, 1789, engaged in mercantile business 

 in London for a few years, but removed to 

 America in early manhood. Having received an 

 appointment as missionary to the Cherokees, 

 he gave his whole soul to the work, and his 

 labors were not only largely instrumental in 

 the preservation of peace among that tribe, 

 but were blest to the conversion of several 

 thousand of the sons and daughters of the 

 forest. 



Aug. 23. Cmms, Rev. THOMAS F., D. D., a 

 clergyman, professor, and author ; died in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., aged 56 years. He was born in 

 England in 1816, and was a son of Rev. Thomas 

 Curtis, who was the publisher of the " Ency- 

 clopedia Metropolitana." The elder Curtis 

 emigrated to the United States in 1829, and 

 became a Baptist clergyman and author of some 

 repute in South Carolina. The son (Rev. T. F. 

 Curtis) was educated in one of the Southern 

 colleges, and studied theology there. He was 

 subsequently settled for several years in the min- 

 istry near Boston, and was called thence to a 

 professorship in Lewisburg University, Pa., 

 where he served for ten or twelve years as Pro- 

 fessor of Theology in the Theological Depart- 

 ment. He had published two works of general 

 acceptance in the denomination, "Commun- 

 ion," and "Progress of Baptist Principles in 

 the last Hundred Years." In 1865 he resigned 



his professorship, and in 1867 published a work 

 on "Inspiration," in which he took similar 

 views with Bishop Colenso, going beyond him 

 in some particulars, repudiating both the in- 

 spiration and authenticity of much of the Old 

 Testament and part of the New. He removed 

 to Cambridge, Mass., in 1867, where he was 

 soon after attacked with softening of the brain, 

 and died after a protracted illness. 



Aug. 26. LELAND, Z. A., an eminent law- 

 yer and jurist of the State of New York; died 

 at Strachan Place, Saratoga, aged 76 years. 

 He was a native of Vermont, and received a 

 liberal education, which was completed at Mid- 

 dlebury College, under the auspices of Gov- 

 ernor Leland, who was then one of the officers 

 of that institution. He was admitted to the 

 bar of New York in 1820, and in a professional 

 career of over thirty years held a distin- 

 guished position, in a range of practice which 

 brought him in frequent contact withB. Davis 

 Noxon, John C. Spencer, John A. Collier, Dud- 

 ley Marvin, and others of like distinction as 

 jurists and advocates. He was a strong and 

 vigorous thinker, a thoroughly-trained lawyer, 

 and an able and effective debater. Though he 

 was an ardent politician, he had no taste for 

 public office. In 1838 he yielded to the wish 

 of the bar and the personal request of Gov- 

 ernor Marcy, in accepting the place of presid- 

 ing judge of the Steuben County courts ; and 

 it was his singular good fortune to have almost 

 every judgment he rendered, from which an 

 appeal was taken, during a term of five years, 

 unanimously affirmed by the appellate tribunals. 

 He was a member of the Legislature in 1842 

 and 1843, but from that time declined all offi- 

 cial positions, and after an honored and suc- 

 cessful professional career in the city of Au- 

 burn, to which he had removed from Bath in 

 1843, retired from active life and spent his 

 later years at his home on the Hudson. 



Aug. 26. MATTHEWS, Mrs. , mother 



of Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President of the 

 United States; died at South Bend, Ind. She 

 was a lady of gentle, dignified, and refined 

 manners, and was held in high esteem by a 

 very wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 

 Her first husband, Schuyler Colfax, father of 

 the Vice-President, was an officer of the Me- 

 chanics' Bank in New York City, where he lived 

 and died, his only son being born four months 

 after his death. Mrs. Colfax several years after- 

 ward married Mr. Matthews, and removed to 

 the village of New Carlisle, in Northern Indi- 

 ana. During the minority of Vice-President 

 Colfax the family lived together, and, when Mr. 

 Colfax became Speaker of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, Mrs. Matthews and daughter ac- 

 companied him to Washington, his wife being 

 then a confirmed invalid. Mrs. Matthews was 

 a woman of more than usual intelligence, a 

 fond but firm mother, and had the entire con- 

 fidence, esteem, and filial devotion of her dis- 

 tinguished son during all the trying years of 

 his early life and his later manhood. 



