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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



one of his visits acting for six months as chap- 

 lain of the American Chapel at Paris. About 

 six months previous to his death, he received 

 an appointment as professor at Bowdoin Col- 

 lege. 



Dec. 14. WALLBRIDGE, ARTHUR D., a young 

 lawyer, poet, and author, of great promise; 

 died in Rochester, N. Y., aged 29 years. He 

 was a son of the Hon. S. D. Wallhridge, and 

 was born in Games, Orleans County, N. Y., in 

 1843, graduated at Princeton, in 1867, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He 

 evinced poetic abilities of great promise, and 

 was author, among others, of the well-known 

 melodies, "Now I Lay me Down to Sleep," 

 " Sleeping where the Daisies Grow," "Baby 

 Meets Me on the Stairs," and " Gone." The 

 first of these was once very popular. 



Dec. 15. CIIOATE, Hon. DAVID, a Massa- 

 chusetts lawyer and jurist; died in Essex, 

 Mass., aged 76 years. He was an elder brother 

 of the eminent lawyer, Rufus Choate, and 

 served with credit in both branches of the 

 Massachusetts Legislature. He was a Repub- 

 lican, and held the position of Trial Justice for 

 many years in Essex, and was an active and 

 earnest supporter of benevolent institutions. 



Dec. 16. DE COUDEES, Louis, the oldest 

 brass-founder in the country ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, aged 83 years. At the early age of thir- 

 teen he was taken by James P. Allaire as his 

 first apprentice, Mr. Allaire at this time carry- 

 ing on a small brass and bell foundery. It was 

 at this establishment the brass castings were 

 made for McQueen, who had a machine-shop, 

 and did the work for Robert Fulton, in apply- 

 ing his steam-engine to the first paddle-wheel 

 steamboat, the Clermont of North River. 

 Several years later Mr. Allaire started his 

 steam-engine works in Cherry Street, New 

 York, which became the leading establishment 

 of the city, and famous over the entire coun- 

 try for the number and character of the en- 

 gines it supplied to the first steamboats which 

 ploughed the waters of this continent. Mr. 

 De Coudres continued with Mr. Allaire more 

 than half a century, some of the time as su- 

 perintendent of the iron-fonndery, and all of 

 the time in charge of the brass-casting depart- 

 ment, in which art his reputation was preemi- 

 nent. This branch of the Allaire Works pos- 

 sessed for many years almost a monopoly in 

 the trade of bell-casting. The first great fire- 

 alarm bells put up in the City Hall Park were 

 cast by Mr. De Coudres. 



Dec. 17. LOOMIS, Rev. HUBBELL. one of the 

 pioneers of Illinois; died at Upper Alton, aged 

 97 years. He was father of Prof. E. Looinis, 

 of Yale College, and was the first president 

 of Shnrtleff College, Alton, 111. He was a na- 

 tive of Connecticut, graduated from Union 

 College in 1799, and, after several years' teach- 

 ing, settled as a Congregationalist clergyman 

 in Wellington, Tolland County, Conn., where 

 his son, Prof. Loomis, was born in 1811. 

 Not long after his birth, Mr. Loomis, whose 



eminent scholarship had won him collegiate 

 honors both from Union and Yale Colleges, 

 became convinced that the views of the Bap- 

 tists on the subject and mode of baptism were 

 correct, and, receiving baptism, he became a 

 clergyman of that denomination. A few years 

 later he migrated to Illinois, and labored there 

 zealously as a missionary. In 18S2, when the 

 the late Rev. John M. Peck had obtained a 

 college charter and a partial endowment for 

 his "Rockspring Seminary," at Upper Alton, 

 he secured the services of Mr. Locn.is as its 

 first president, and he remained at its head for 

 nearly twenty years, exhibiting rare abilities 

 as a teacher and presiding officer. 



Dec. 18. BISHOP, Rev. AETEMAS, a clergy- 

 man and formerly a missionary of the Ameri- 

 can Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions 

 to the Sandwich Islands; died at Honolulu, 

 aged 77 years. He embarked for the islands 

 as missionary, November 19, 1822. 



Dec. 21. HULIN, Rev. GEORGE IT., a, Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and journalist; died in 

 Bloomfield, N. J., aged 68 years. He was Lorn 

 in Saratoga County, N. Y., December 23, 1804, 

 and entered upon the ministry at Westcn, Ct. 

 Subsequently he removed to Orringtcn, TMe., 

 and later to Onondaga Valley, N. Y., where he 

 preached with great acceptance until in 1846 

 he assumed the editorial management of the 

 Religious Recorder, a Presbyterian paper at 

 Syracuse. The Recorder was finally merged 

 in the New York Evangelist, and Mr. Hulin for 

 a time was connected with that pr.per. In 

 1856 he removed to Bloomfield, where he re- 

 sided until his death, though the state of his 

 health prevented him from engaging actively 

 in the ministry. 



Dec. 28. TOWNLEY, DANIEL O'COSTNELL, a 

 journalist of some note; died in New York 

 City, aged 41 years. He was born at Newry, 

 in the north of Ireland, in December, 1831, 

 received a liberal education, and was a con- 

 tributor to Londcn and Dublin periodicals. 

 In 1860 he came to this country, and was for 

 a few years on the staff of iheJVtw York Times, 

 previous to the establishment of the Evening 

 Mail, when he resigned to accept an editorial 

 position on that journal. He contributed oc- 

 casional articles to Scribner's Magazine, and 

 wrote humorous sketches under the ncm de 

 plume of " Alderman Rooney." A few months 

 previous to his death he retired from journal- 

 ism to act as business manager of the Grand 

 Opera-House. 



Dec. 29. CONKEY, WALTER M., a wealthy 

 and distinguished citizen of Norwich, Chenango 

 County, N. Y., president of the Chenango 

 Bank for twenty-five years; died suddenly at 

 Norwich. He had been treasurer of the New 

 York & Oswego Midland Railroad since its 

 organization. 



^Dec. 30. -LosAiNE, Colonel EDWARD, an emi- 

 nent civil engineer; died in Richmond, Va.. 

 a^ed 55 years. He was born in New Orleans. 

 He was for some years in charge of the U. S. 



