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found it necessary to visit this country for a 

 short period, he spent two years in organizing 

 and developing the church at Doniphau, and was 

 making preparations to return to his work in 

 China, when he was seized with typhoid fever 

 which, as above mentioned, resulted in his 

 death. He was a man of remarkable purity 

 of character, and fervent piety. 



Sspt. 26. AYBES, DANIEL, an active and 

 energetic business-man, of New York City, 

 long at the head of the iron - trade ; died 

 there, aged 83 years. He was a native of 

 New York, and his business experience was 

 commenced in the celebrated iron- house of 

 Blackwell & MaFarlane, in Coenties Slip. 

 Starting with them in the capacity of an er- 

 rand-boy, he became a member of the firm be- 

 fore passing his twentieth year, and before at- 

 taining his thirtieth he was at the head of the 

 firm. Blackwell and McFarlane died, leaving 

 young Ayres and the son of McFarlane to carry 

 on bhe business, and so successfully did they 

 do it that in a short time their reputation for 

 far-seeing enterprise was known among the 

 trade throughout the country. The iron-work 

 for many of the heaviest undertakings of the 

 day was done by them, and Fortune seemed 

 smiling upon all their efforts, when the failure 

 of the managers of the Morris Canal to meet 

 their liabilities brought ruin upon the house. 

 Subsequently, however, the liabilities were all 

 mat, and Mr. Ayres became a member of the 

 firm of Boorman & Johnson, with which house 

 he continued until 1848, and retired with a 

 competency. He was a man of fine literary 

 tastes, and delighted in philanthropic enter- 

 prises. 



Sept. 29. COAN, Mrs. FIDELIA CHURCH, a 

 missionary of the American Board, in the 

 Sandwich Islands ; died at Hilo. aged 62 years. 

 She was born at Churchville, Monroe County, 

 N. Y., February 17, 1810, was educated in 

 Rochester, Palmyra, arid Canandaigua, and in 

 1834 was a teacher in the Female Seminary in 

 Middlebury, Vt. Soon after, she was married 

 to the Rsv. Titus Coan, and with him sailed as 

 a missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, where 

 she remained a faithful and earnest worker 

 until her death, with the exception of the brief 

 interval of a visit to her native land in 1870. 

 Mrs. Coan was an accomplished scholar and a 

 lady of great moral worth. 



Sept. . ALLEN, Rev. LORENZO B., D. D., 

 an eminent Baptist clergyman and teacher; 

 died in Minneapolis, Minn., aged 60 years. 

 He was a native of Maine, the son of a Baptist 

 clergyman; graduated from Waterville Col- 

 lege (now Colby University) in 1835, with high 

 honors, studied theology at Newton Theolo- 

 gical Seminary, was settled as a pastor at 

 Thomaston, and three or four other places in 

 Maine, for ten or twelve years, and then re- 

 moved to the West, where his fine reputation for 

 scholarship and general executive ability soon 

 led to his being called to the presidency of Bur- 

 lington University, Burlington, la. He strug- 



gled for some years with the difficulties insepa- 

 rable from the position of head of an unendowed 

 Western college, which he was expected, by 

 sheer force of will, to raise to an equality with 

 the old and richly-endowed colleges of the 

 Eastern States; but the strain was too severe, 

 and with impaired health and a feeling of dis- 

 couragement he was obliged to relinquish the 

 task. In 1866 he resigned, and removed to 

 Minneapolis, where he built up a flourishing 

 female seminary. 



Oct. 1. ASPEB, JOEL F., member of Con- 

 gress from Missouri; died at Chillicothe, in 

 that State. He was elected from the Seventh 

 District, in the fall of 1868, by a majority of 

 over 7,000. 



Oct. 1. CEOSS, GEORGE D., a prominent 

 citizen and jurist, of Rhode Island; died in 

 Westerly, R. I., aged 74 years. He was born 

 in that town, January 24, 1799, and was in 

 active business there during most of his life. 

 He served six terms in the General Assembly; 

 was one of the ten State Senators under the 

 charter in 1828, was Chief Justice of the Court 

 of Common Pleas for Washington County, and 

 in 1840 was one of the commissioners for fix- 

 ing the boundary-line between Connecticut 

 and Rhode Island. In 1842, and again in 

 1853, he was elected a member of the conven- 

 tions called to frame and amend the State 

 constitution. He served as Senator, under 

 the constitution, in 1849, and throughout his 

 life held many offices of honor and trust in 

 his native town, interesting himself especially 

 in the matter of free schools, of which he was 

 a strong advocate. 



Oct. 1. SMITH, WILLIAM PRESCOTT ; died in 

 Baltimore, Md. He was born there in 1822, 

 and received a common-school education. He 

 entered political lite as a Whig, and was an 

 ardent supporter of his party. In 1850 he re- 

 ceived an appointment on the Baltimore & 

 Ohio Railroad, and was henceforth connected 

 with it and railroad interests generally, long 

 holding the position of master of transporta- 

 tion on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; and 

 for some years before his death that of general 

 manager of the line between New York and 

 Washington. Mr. Smith held the office of 

 Collector of Internal Revenue for a brief pe- 

 riod in 1866, and in 1867 visited Europe. He 

 contributed during many years to the press, 

 and evinced a warm interest in the progress of 

 literature and science. 



Oct. 2. EMERSON, BENJAMIN D., an author; 

 died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., aged 87 years. 

 He was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and 

 was associated with his brother in the prepara- 

 tion of Emerson's Arithmetics. According to 

 the provisions of his will, the bulk of his prop- 

 erty is to be given to religious and educational 

 purposes, among which Dartmouth College 

 receives $100,000. 



Oct. 2. JUDD, Mrs. LAURA, wife of Dr. G. P. 

 Judd, a former missionary of the A. B C. F. M., 

 to the Sandwich Islands; died at Honolulu, aged 



