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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



had been stationed for many years, and owned 

 property, continuing in the practice of his pro- 

 fession until his death. He was a man of fine 

 literary culture, and a vigorous writer. 



Sept. 5. CAREIGAN, ANDREW, a prominent 

 citizen of New York ; died in that city. He 

 was of Irish origin, had been a Commissioner 

 of Emigration since 1847, and for many years 

 president of that board, his zealous supervision 

 and sound judgment doing much toward the 

 perfection of that organization. The Emigrant 

 Code of the State of New York, the adoption 

 of which was largely due to his energy and 

 statesmanlike foresight, remains the best monu- 

 ment of his wisdom and benevolence. 



Sept. 6. ADAMS, JONATHAN, an eminent civil 

 engineer ; died in Concord, N. H., aged 74 

 years. He was a native of Massachusetts, and 

 commenced engineering at an early age, de- 

 voting himself closely to his profession through 

 life. Before the advent of railroads he was for 

 some years engaged in superintending the con- 

 struction of canals in Virginia and other South- 

 ern States. He entered upon railroad engi- 

 neering immediately upon its introduction 

 into this country, and applied himself espe- 

 cially to that work until within a few weeks 

 of his death. To enumerate the railroads upon 

 which he has been actively employed, or con- 

 cerning the construction of which he has been 

 consulted, would be to name many of the most 

 important lines in New England and New York. 

 While engineer of the Northern road of Mas- 

 sachusetts, he became pleasantly acquainted 

 with New Hampshire peoole, and for a long 

 time made Lebanon his home, so far as his 

 profession would allow. A short time before 

 his death he inspected the route of the proposed 

 branch railroad from Meredith to Conway. 

 "With an experience of over half a century, it 

 is unnecessary to say that he was one of the 

 most accomplished civil engineers in the coun- 

 try. Mr. Adams resided for a short time in 

 Cambridge, Mass., where his son, then a mem- 

 ber of Harvard College, was drowned early in 

 1871. From Cambridge he removed to Con- 

 cord, where a residence for him was in process 

 of construction at the time of his death. 



Sept. 7. STEONG, JULIUS L., a member of 

 Congress from the First District, Connecticut ; 

 died in Hartford of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 

 aged 44 years. He was elected to Congress in 

 1869, and reflected in 1871. 



Sept. 10. BROWNE, Rev. SAMUEL J., a wealthy 

 Presbyterian cleagyman, formerly a minister of 

 the United Brethren ; died at Harrison Junc- 

 tion, Ohio, aged 85 years. He was born in Eng- 

 land, March 19, 1788, and came to Cincinnati 

 in 1798 with his father, Rev. John W. Browne, 

 who was an English Independent minister. 

 For many years, Samuel was a member of the 

 United Brethren, but, parting with them on 

 the question of secret societies, he joined the 

 Presbytery of Cincinnati about four years since. 

 He accumulated a large fortune by the rise of 

 real estate in that city, and bequeathed the 



sum of $150,000 for the establishment of a uni- 

 versity to bear his name, also land whereon to 

 erect the huilding, and an endowment for pro- 

 fessorships. He further gave $12,000 and a 

 lot for the erection of a church, and provided 

 for a free school, with an annuity of $000 for a 

 teacher. 



Sept. 12. SKELLET, SYLVESTER, a printer, 

 journalist, and accomplished proof-reader; 

 died in Brooklyn, L. 1. His lile had been an 

 eventful one. He fought under Don Carlos in 

 Spain, and, on the defeat of his cause, departed 

 for France, where lie made his way hundreds 

 of miles on foot, to the seaboard, and took 

 passage for London. Here he continued his 

 occupation for a time as printer, but subse- 

 quently decided to emigrate to the United 

 States. Arriving in New York, he obtained 

 employment on the World and Tribune, on the 

 former in the capacity of proof-reader. He 

 was in San Francisco at the time the Vigilance 

 Committee cleared the city of the thieves, and 

 took an active part on the side of law and or- 

 der. He became part proprietor of the Alta 

 Californian, and as a journalist obtained an 

 enviable reputation in the Golden City. At 

 the outbreak of the war he enlisted, and as a 

 private soldier fought in all the principal bat- 

 tles for the Union, receiving a commission at 

 the close of the war, and then returning to his 

 own profession. He was known as one of the 

 best readers in the profession, and was a com- 

 plete encyclopaedia in general information. 



Sept. 13. DURFEE, BRADFORD M. C., a young 

 merchant of great enterprise and philanthropy ; 

 died in Fall River, Mass., aged 29 years. In 

 addition to local gifts, he built the fine dormi- 

 tory at Yle College, known as Durfee Hall. 



Sept. 17. MARGARET , a woman of color, 



the oldest woman in Philadelphia ; died there, 

 at the advanced age of 115 years. She was a 

 member of Shiloh Baptist Church. 



Sept. 23. LOGAN, JOHN WESLEY, Bishop of 

 the Zion M. E. Church, Syracuse, N. Y., a man 

 of color ; died at Saratoga, aged 62 years, lie 

 was a native of North Carolina, and at twenty 

 years of age was still a slave. His master order- 

 ing him to goto church cne day, he started for 

 Canada in pursuit of one. In the early r.nt" 

 slavery days he was an active and zeah 

 agent with Gerrit Smith, Lewis Tappan, Put 

 nam, Wright, and others, in the " Undergronnc 

 Railroad." He had resided in Syracuse lor 

 twenty-five years, and was a man highly-r 

 spected. 



Sept. 23. PATTERSON, Rev. JONAS, D. D^, a 

 United Presbyterian clergyman ; died at New 

 Wilmington, Pa. He was president of West- 

 minster College in that place for about sev 

 years prior to 1866. 



Sept. 25. GREEN, Rev. DAVID D., a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and missionary ; died at Doni 

 phan, Kansas, aged 44 years. He had been, 

 for a period of ten years, a faithful laborer as a 

 missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions 

 at Ningpo and Hang-Chow, China. Having 



