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OBITUAREIS, UNITED STATES. 



consistent life, won for him the honor and re- 

 spect of all who came in contact with him. 



Oct. 24. SOIIOULEE, General WILLIAM, a 

 prominent journalist and politician of Massa- 

 chusetts; died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., aged 

 58 years. lie was born in Renfrewshire, Scot- 

 land, in 1814. While yet a lad he was 

 brought to this country by his father, who es- 

 tablished a cloth-printing business on Staten 

 "Island, N. Y. Subsequently, the family re- 

 moved to West Cambridge, Mass., where they 

 followed the same trade. Young Schouler, 

 who early manifested a decided taste for liter- 

 ary pursuits, studied hard, and contributed 

 many articles to the journals of the time. In 

 1842 he purchased the Lowell Courier, which 

 he edited for six years, when he became editor 

 of the Atlas, a Whig paper published in Bos- 

 ton ; he was also associated with Thomas M. 

 Brewer in its proprietorship and management. 

 The Atlas became at once the leading W r hig 

 journal of New England, and vigorous articles 

 appeared in it from the pens of such leaders 

 as Rufus Choate, Edward Everett, and the 

 Storys. It was the favorite journal of Daniel 

 Webster, who honored Schouler with his 

 friendship, and whose speeches were always 

 considered correctly printed only in the At- 

 las. During this pei'iod, Schouler represented 

 Boston several times in the Legislature, and 

 was a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 

 tion of 1853. Soon after the election of 

 Franklin Pierce to the presidency, in 1852, the 

 power of the Whig organ began to wane, and 

 Schouler went to Ohio, where he became con- 

 nected with the Cincinnati Gazette. Though 

 his reputation as a journalist was established, 

 he did not thoroughly succeed in the West, 

 and returned to Boston in 1858, and edited 

 the consolidated Atlas and Bee. In 1860 he 

 was appointed Adjutant-General of the State 

 of Massachusetts a position which he had 

 also hehl in Ohio under Governor S. P. Chase. 

 He served Massachusetts during the trying 

 years of the civil war with great vigor and 

 usefulness ; and, as an intelligent second to 

 Governors Banks and Andrew, he did much to 

 prepare the State for the struggle in which it 

 bore so noble a part. General Schouler pub- 

 lished several works, the most notable of which 

 were "Massachusetts in the Civil War," and 

 "Political and Personal Recollections." 



Oct. 25. JOHNSTON, Hon. WILLIAM F., Gov- 

 ernor of Pennsylvania from 1848 to 1852 ; died 

 in Pittsburg. 



Oct. 30. METOALF, Rev. KENDRIOK, D. D., 

 an Episcopal clergyman and educator ; died 

 in Geneva, N. Y. He graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1829 ; was Professor of Latin and 

 Greek Languages and Literature in Hobart Col- 

 lege for a period of twenty-five years. He re- 

 ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity from 

 Columbia College, in 1850. 



Nov. 2. McPiiERSON, WILLIAM M., an emi- 

 nent citizen of St. Louis, Mo. ; died there. He 

 was largely identified with the interests of St. 



Louis, and widely known as a man of benevo- 

 lent impulses and deep religious feeling. 



Nov. 4. GUION, Rev. ALVAH, an Episcopal 

 clergyman of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; died in that city, 

 aged 77 years. He was born in Bedford, Wcst- 

 chester county, N. Y. About 1852 he removed 

 to Williamsburgh, where he founded Grace 

 Church, became its rector, and remained there 

 until about five years since, when he organized 

 the Guion Church Society, in Greene Avenue, 

 Brooklyn, erected the building, and minis- 

 tered to its congregation, until failing health 

 compelled him to retire in part from the work 

 about a year since. 



Nov. 7. KIMBALL, CEAFT P., M. D., a pio- 

 neer settler, physician, and philanthropist, of 

 Northern New York ; died in Rutland, N. Y., 

 aged 85 years. He served as surgeon in the 

 army in the AVar of 1812, about which period 

 he settled near Watertown, Jefferson County, 

 where he lived for sixty years. His practice 

 extended over all the adjoining towns,' and at 

 the time of his death he was the oldest physi- 

 cian in that region. 



Nov. 10. WEIGHT, Rev. EDWAED, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and teacher; died at Blooin- 

 ington, Ind. 3 aged 68 years. He was born in 

 New York City, August 14, 1804, was edu- 

 cated for business, and became a partner in a 

 prosperous mercantile house at the age of 

 twenty-four, but upon his conversion aban- 

 doned his bright business prospects, and, having 

 studied privately for a time, entered Princeton 

 Seminary in 1833. In 1836 he was licensed 

 by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, and was 

 first settled at White Plains. Removing thence 

 to Southwestern Ohio in 1844, he preached in 

 Reading, New Castle, and Pleasant Ridge ; 

 then being obliged to leave off on account of 

 his health, he taught at Lexington, Ky., and at 

 Clifton, Ohio. His health becoming somewhat 

 restored, he again began to preach, and for nine 

 years was a supply at Auburn, and adjacent 

 points in the Presbytery of Fort W 7 ayne. In 

 April, 1865, he removed to White Rock, 111., 

 where he preached for three years. His health 

 again failing, he removed toBloomington, Ind., 

 in June, 1868, in the vain hope that his 

 strength might yet be renewed. 



Nov. 11. COE, ROBEET E., a young student 

 of remarkable intellectual promise, died from 

 the effects of an injury received at the gym- 

 nasium in New Haven, Conn. He was a son 

 of Dr. Coe, for many years past secretary of 

 the Home Missionary Society, graduated at 

 Yale College in the class of 1872, and took a 

 large number of the highest prizes, scholastic, 

 literary, and social, in the gift of the college. 

 He also won the prize offered for "the most 

 graceful gymnast," at the exhibition in his 

 sophomore year. His love of athletic sports 

 probably hastened his death. While practis- 

 ing in the gymnasium a few weeks previous, 

 his foot slipped, throwing him violently upon 

 his head, and a severe illness supervened, from 

 which he did not recover. 



