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69th year of bis age. He was a native of New 

 Jersey, a graduate of Rutgers College, and 

 New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and 

 had passed nearly forty-eight years in the 

 ministry. In 1849 he was president of the 

 General Synod of the Reformed Church, 

 which met that year in New York City. 



Nov. 23. ROBERTS, Rev. JAMES A., a vener- 

 able Congregationalist clergyman; died in 

 Berkley, Mass., aged 83 years. He was a na- 

 tive of England, and educated there. He was 

 a man of quiet, reserved, and scholarly habits, 

 had been ordained sixty years since as a Con- 

 gregationalist minister, and had passed the 

 last seventeen years of his life in Berkley. 



Nov. 23. WIGGINS, W. T., a young but very 

 popular actor of St. Louis ; died in that city, of 

 small-pox, aged 27 years. He was a native of 

 Rushville, 111., and during the late war was a 

 sergeant in the army. For the last six years 

 he had acted the low-comedy parts in Ben de 

 Bar's Theatre, St. Louis, and was very popular. 



Nov. 24. GRIFFITHS, WALTER S., a merchant, 

 underwriter, and philanthropist of New York ; 

 died at his residence in Brooklyn, aged 64 

 years. He was born in New York City, in 

 1808, and, with the exception of a few years in 

 Rochester, spent most of his life in Brooklyn. 

 For some years he was a prominent forward- 

 ing merchant, and was one of the incorporators 

 of the New York Warehousing Company. 

 Daring the civil war he did much for the sick 

 and wounded soldiers from Brooklyn. He 

 took an active part in the great Sanitary Fair 

 held at the Academy of Music, and was chair- 

 man of the War-Fund Committee. Always 

 energetic and possessed of remarkable ex- 

 ecutive ability, he invariably pushed to a 

 successful termination the work in which he 

 happened to be engaged. When the Prospect 

 Park Commission was first formed, he was an 

 active member, and continued in the position 

 until his resignation, about two years ago. 

 Mr. Griffiths was the originator of the Home 

 Life Insurance Company, of which he was 

 president until his death. He was also one 

 of the executive committee of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and a director of the Atlantic Fire 

 Insurance Company. 



Nov. 26. DILLON, ROBERT JAMES, an eminent 

 lawyer of New York City ; died there, in the 

 63d year of his age. He was of Irish descent, 

 educated in this country, and, having been ad- 

 mitted to the bar in early life, soon gained a 

 reputation for his professional zeal and ability. 

 He was deeply interested in many enterprises 

 for improvingthe condition of immigrants, par- 

 ticularly those from Ireland. He was a trus- 

 tee and director of the Irish Emigrant Society, 

 and was afterward chosen counsel and vice- 

 president of the Emigrant Savings Institution. 

 His labors in both these institutions conduced 

 greatly to elevate them to their present condi- 

 tion of power and influence. Mr. Dillon was 

 a patron of the fine arts, and his refined taste 

 and appreciation of landscape scenery con- 



tributed in a great degree to the advancement 

 of many of the delightful portions of the Cen- 

 tral Park, in which he became especially in- 

 terested before it was laid out, and for the es- 

 tablishment of which he labored assiduously 

 before the Legislature in 1856 ; and for the 

 advancement of which he toiled with varying 

 earnestness, as commissioner, from his appoint- 

 ment in 1857. 



Nov. 27. JOHNSON, HENRY, a New York 

 publisher ; died at his residence in Gravesend, 

 L. I., in the 58th year of his age. He was 

 born near London, England, and came to this 

 country when a youth, entering into the em- 

 ployment of the firm of D. Appleton & Co., 

 publishers, with whom he remained over twen- 

 ty years. About the year 1855, he became i 

 partner of Robert Martin, in the serial 

 periodical publication of illustrated books, 

 which he met with great pecuniary success, tli 

 firm now being known as Johnson, Fry & Co. 

 Mr. Johnson was largely identified with Brook- 

 lyn real estate, and was a careful, shrewd, and 

 successful operator, and at the time of his de- 

 cease was largely identified with the promo- 

 tion and improvements of the new Boulevard 

 running to Coney Island. 



Nov. 30. COLHOUN, JOHN, Commodore 

 United States Navy ; died in New York City, 

 in the 70th year of his age. He entered the 

 service January 25, 1821, and was placed upon 

 the retired list in October, 1864. Subsequent- 

 ly, he was promoted to the rank of commodore 

 on the retired list, and was for a time light- 

 house inspector. 



Nov. . HENDERSON, Rev. A. W., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and educator; died at 

 Thornton, 111., aged 60 years. He was a grad- 

 uate of Union College and Princeton Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, and, when his health failed in 

 the ministry, he, with his wife, established a 

 female seminary in Chicago, which was very 

 successful. His delicate health requiring a 

 change of climate, he spent several years 

 abroad, and since his return he had devoted 

 his energies to building up a church at Thorn- 

 ton, 111. 



Nov. . KTTMMER, AGNES S., founder and 

 principal of the Edgeworth School for Young 

 Ladies, in Baltimore, Md. ; died in that city. 

 She was a native of Bethlehem, Pa., and was 

 untiring in her zeal in the cause of education. 



Nov. . LAMB. JOSEPH, a centenarian, long 

 resident in Tennessee ; died in Hawkins Coun- 

 ty, Tenn., aged 110 years. 



JV00. . WOLVERTON, Rev. THOMAS, a Bap- 

 tist clergyman ; died in Daviess County, Mo., 

 aged 87 years, having preached for a period of 

 sixty years. 



Dec. 5. JOHNSON, THOMAS A., senior jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court of the State of New 

 York; died at Corning. He was elected in 

 the Seventh District, in 1859, for a term of 

 fourteen years. He was also one of the Jus- 

 tices of the General Term. 



Dec. 5. MAXWELL, Brevet-General 0. 0., a 



