OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Government Survey of the Central Water Line, 

 and at his death Chief-Engineer of the James 

 River & Kanawha Canal. 



Dec. 30. MORGAN, ALONZO D. ; died in 

 Aurora, Cayuga County, N. Y., aged 41 years. 

 He was a son of Hon. Edwin B. Morgan, for- 

 merly member of Congress, and was one of 

 the proprietors of the New York Times, a young 

 man of high moral character and fine culture. 



Dec. 31. BROWN, JOHN A., a wealthy 

 banker of Philadelphia, the third son of Alex- 

 ander Brown, a Baltimore banker, whose four 

 sons were subsequently at the head of great 

 hanking-houses in Liverpool, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, and Baltimore ; died in Philadelphia, 

 aged 85 years. Born in Ballymena, County 

 Antrim, Ireland, May 21, 1788, he came to this 

 country with his father about 1800, and dur- 

 ing the whole period of his active life was 

 identified with American interests. In 1818, 

 his father, who had already established a bank- 

 ing-house in Baltimore, opened a branch house 

 in Philadelphia, of which Mr. John A. Brown 

 became the manager. Since then, the firms 

 established by these sons of Alexander Brown 

 have been known throughout the commercial 

 world for their integrity, not less than for 

 their control of vast resources. About thirty- 

 four years ago, Mr: John A. Brown retired 

 from the firm with a large fortune, retaining, 

 however, his connection with some of the 

 leading financial institutions of Philadelphia, 

 New York, and elsewhere, his influence in 

 business affairs remaining unimpaired until 

 the failure of his health, about two years pre- 

 vious to his death. Good judgment, careful 

 estimates of men, tact in dealing with oppor- 

 tunities, and perfect uprightness, were the 

 prominent features of his business life. He 

 was not an indiscriminate giver, but, where 

 the approval of his judgment was secured, his 

 charities were unstinted, often disbursed by 

 thousands. He gave to benevolent objects the 

 sum of $506,000; $300,000 of which was do- 

 nated to the Presbyterian Hospital of Phila- 

 delphia with the provision that no part of the 

 principal or income should be used in build- 

 ing, the payment of debts, or in any other way 

 than the payment of current expenses after 

 the hospital should be opened. The result of 

 this wise aud liberal provision was, that the 

 friends of the hospital raised the entire amount 

 necessary for the erection and furnishing the 

 buildings from other sources, and now have a 

 hospital liberally endowed. 



Dec. 31. FOED, Rev. JOHN, a Presbyterian 

 clergyman and scholar; died at Parsippany, 

 N. J., aged 86 years. He was a native of Mor- 

 ris County, and early in life displayed a great 

 fondness for books, having mastered the 

 French language in his youth, so that sub- 

 sequently he was able to preach in that lan- 

 guage. He graduated at Princeton in the 

 class of 1812. About 1816 he was installed 

 pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Parsip- 

 pany, in which relation he continued until he 



was seventy years old, when, according to a 

 purpose formed long before, he retired. His 

 resignation did not prevent his abundant 

 labors in vacant churches, in mission-fields, 

 and in assisting the pastors in his neighbor- 

 hood. He was a scholar of far more than 

 ordinary attainments; was a fine mathemati- 

 cian, and well versed in the Latin, Greek, and 

 Hebrew languages. Mr. Ford was a powerful 

 preacher, and had given several valuable dis- 

 courses to the press, as well as an elaborate 

 catechism of Christian doctrine. 



Dec. 31. PEIESTLEY, JOHN, a publisher and 

 for seventeen years treasurer of the Century 

 Club of New York City ; died there, aged 60 

 years. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, May 29, 

 1812, and arrived in this country at the age of 

 four years. His grandfather was a brother of the 

 celebrated Joseph Priestley. Mr. Priestley be- 

 gan business in New York in the paper-trade, 

 and in 1846 became publisher of the Whiff 

 Review, which he managed for a year, During 

 that period he gave to American literature 

 that remarkable poem of Edgar A. Poe, "The 

 Raven," for which he paid $10 a liberal sum 

 for that day. He was elected to the Century, 

 December 4, 1847, then in its infancy, and had 

 been its treasurer since 1856. He was a man 

 of singular purity of character and sterling 

 worth. 



Dec. 31. REED, JESSE D., a Baltimore jour- 

 nalist ; died in that city. He was for many 

 years connected with the Baltimore Sun. 



Dec. . ANNECKE, Colonel FEITZ, a Prus- 

 sian officer and journalist; died by accident in 

 Chicago, aged 55 years. He was formerly 

 editor of the Anzeiger des Westens, a German 

 paper in St. Louis. During the late war he 

 commanded a regiment from Wisconsin. 



Dec. . BEEBE, GILBEET JUDSON, a Demo- 

 cratic journalist; died in Poughkeepsie, aged 

 45 years. He was for many years a resident 

 of Brooklyn, L. I., and was editor and pro- 

 prietor of the Banner of Liberty, an exponent 

 of extreme Democratic principles, though hold- 

 ing itself independent of that party. He was 

 a frequent speaker at political gatherings, and 

 his fluency gave him some power as an orator. 



Dec. . BOND, JOHN R. S., a Western jour- 

 nalist ; died in Chillicothe, O., aged 50 years. 

 He was the son of a pioneer of Ohio, and 

 travelled in early youth from Venice, in that 

 State, to Michigan, on horseback, through an 

 almost unbroken wilderness. From Niles, 

 Mich., he went in a skiff down the Kankakee 

 and Mississippi Rivers, to St. Louis, a distance 

 of 700 miles. He was the founder of the 

 Louisville Courier- Journal, and had owned at 

 different times not less than eight journals. 

 At the time of his death he was editor of the 

 Scioto Gazette. 



Dec. .LA ROCHE, -, M. D., an eminent 

 physician and medical writer; died in Phila- 

 delphia, aged 77 years. He was the author of 

 several medical works, and for some years had 

 been engaged in preparing a history of medi- 



