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in Paris for two years. He first established 

 himself in Canandaigua, N. Y., where he was 

 very successful, but subsequently removed to 

 Rochester, where, until the failure of his 

 health, he occupied a very high rank in the 

 profession. 



Jan. 11. SPRAGUE, Rev. DANIEL GREENE, 

 a Presbyterian clergyman of remarkable abil- 

 ity and success during a ministry of more than 

 til'ty years; died at Salem, N. Y., in the 77th 

 year of his age. He was born at Killingly, 

 Conn., July 8, 1796, fitted for college at Plain- 

 field Academy, graduated from Brown Uni- 

 versity in 1819, and from Andover in 1822, and, 

 after one year's service as a home missionary 

 in Illinois, was pastor at Hampton, Conn., for 

 fifteen years, at Westchester, Conn., for five 

 years more, and at South Orange, N. J., for 

 sixteen years, continuing to reside there for 

 eight or nine years after his failing health had 

 required his resignation. He had resided with 

 his son, at Salem, N. Y., for three and a half 

 years, and was greatly esteemed. His ministry 

 had been remarkably successful. 



Jan. 11. WOODWARD, JAMES MONTGOMERY, 

 a Connecticut lawyer and journalist; died at 

 Wolcottville, Conn., aged 46 years. He grad- 

 uated from the New Haven Law School in 

 1846, and practised his profession till 1851, 

 when lie became the principal editor of the 

 New Haven Daily Journal and Courier. He 

 continued to edit this paper till 1861, when ho 

 was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Second 

 Regiment Connecticut militia, and was en- 

 gaged in the war for nearly two years. He 

 then resumed editorial work, first on the 

 Waterbury American, and afterward at his old 

 post at New Haven. In 1869 he was com- 

 pelled to abandon his duties in consequence 

 of failing health. 



Jan. 12. BALDWIN, OBADTAIT, a centenarian 

 of Crown Point, N. Y. ; died there, aged 101 

 years. 



Jan. 18. FAILE, THOMAS HALL, an eminent 

 merchant and philanthropist of New York 

 City, one of the governors of the New York 

 Hospital, and a liberal giver to all benevolent 

 objects ; died at Nice, France, in the 70th year 

 of his age. 



Jan. 13. ROSE, ORRIN J., nn eminent citi- 

 zen of Chicago, and late U. S. consul at An- 

 cona, Italy; died in New York City in the 46th 

 year of his age. 



Jan. 14. MCDONALD, ANDREW, a centena- 

 rian of New Orleans, for twenty-one years a 

 resident in that city; died there, aged 104 

 years. 



Jan. 16. CLEVELAND, Prof. WILLIAM 

 CHARLES, C. E., and Professor of Civil En- 

 gineering in Cornell University, Ithaca; died 

 there. He was a graduate of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School of Harvard University in 1862, 

 where he resided and practised his profession 

 until called to the position he occupied at the 

 time of his death. He was a man of rare tal- 

 ents, a passionate lover of art, and eminently 



fitted for the important work of an educator 

 of youth. 



Jan. 16. KILE, Prof. O. H., a leading edu- 

 cator; died at Westerly, R. I., aged about 38 

 years. He graduated from the University of 

 Vermont in 1863, and had been at the head 

 of the Westerly High School for several years. 



Jan. 17. BALLARD, DAVID C., journalist; 

 died in Boston, aged 72 years. He was con- 

 nected with the Boston Advertiser for a period 

 of nearly forty years. 



Jan. 18. DOTY, Colonel LOCKWOOD L., a 

 lawyer, and officer of volunteers during the 

 late war ; died in Jersey City, aged 46 years. 

 He was born at Groveland, N. Y., May 15, 

 1827. His early years were spent in his native 

 village, and, when of age, he entered a law- 

 office in Geneseo, N. Y. He was active in 

 procuring enlistments during the war, was 

 military secretary of Governor Fenton, and 

 founded the State Military Bureau at Albany, 

 which collected the history of the volunteer 

 regiments and provided for the care of the sick 

 and wounded. In 1871 he received from Presi- 

 dent Grant the appointment of Pension Agent 

 of New York City, which position he held 

 until ill health compelled his resignation a few 

 weeks previous to his death. 



Jan. 18. WILSON, DANIEL M., an eminent 

 citizen and philanthropist of New Jersey; died 

 at Newark, aged 70 years. In early life he 

 was engaged in mercantile pursuits in New 

 York City, by which he acquired an ample 

 fortune. Upon retiring from business, he be- 

 came a resident of Newark, N. J., and from 

 that time identified himself with all its impor- 

 tant interests. He was one of the most active 

 citizens in building the plank-road between 

 that city and New York, and was the presi- 

 dent of the company from its formation ; was 

 a director of several financial institutions, and 

 president of the Republican Trust Company 

 of Newark from its organization. For several 

 years he was president of the American and 

 Foreign Bible Society, and held other impor- 

 tant offices connected with the Baptist denomi- 

 nation. He was also president of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Peddle Classical and Scien- 

 tific Institute, at Hightstown, N. J., to which 

 he was a large contributor. 



Jan. 19. WALKER, Mrs. MARY A., widow of 

 the late Hon. Robert J. Walker, sister of the 

 late Prof. Bache, grand-daughter of A. J. Dal- 

 las, and great grand- daughter of Benjamin 

 Franklin ; died in Washington, D. C. 



Jan. 21. OTIS, Mrs. HARRISON GRAY, widow 

 of the eminent scholar, orator, and Senator of 

 that name, and a distinguished leader of society 

 in Boston; died in that city, aged 70 years. 

 She was a woman of fine culture and great 

 dignity of character, while her abundant wealth 

 enabled her to give largely to the benevolent 

 organizations of the day. In 1854 she published 

 a novel, entitled "The Barclays of Boston." 



Jan. 22. DALZELL, ROBERT M., an eminent 

 citizen and millwright of Rochester, N. Y. ; 



