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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



did at Bunker Hill, HI., aged 88 years. He 

 was born in Millbury, MAM., September 27, 

 18U; graduated from Amhorst College in 

 1889, commenced teaching ID Delaware, and, 

 removing to Kentucky, was engaged in his 

 profession there for a period of seventeen 

 years. When the late war commenced he was 

 teaching in Tennessee, and, deeming it unsafe 

 to remain there, on account of his antislavery 

 sentiment*, he retained to the North and spent 

 the remainder of his life in Illinois. 



March 6. BISHOP, TIMOTHY, the oldest sur- 

 viving graduate of Yale College, died in New 

 Haven, Conn., aged 95 years. He was born 

 in that city, October 89, 1777, graduated from 

 Yale College In 1796, in the same class with 

 the late Professor Silliman, and engaged in mer- 

 cantile business in the city of his birth, where 

 be resided until his death. 



March 1. OLEVELAITD, Rev. JOHN P., D. D., 

 a Presbyterian clergyman ; died at Newbury- 

 port, Mass., aged 74 years. He was born in 

 Meld, Mass., July 19, 1798; graduated at 

 Bowdoin College in 1821, and commenced 

 teaching at Wolfboro, N. H. In 1825 he was 

 appointed Professor of Mathematics at Phillips 

 Academy, Exeter, N. H., in the mean while 

 pursuing the study of theology. In February, 

 1837, he was ordained pastor of the Tabernacle 

 Church, Salem, Mass., where he remained un- 

 til 1894, and after preaching three years in 

 Detroit, Mich., he retired from the ministry 

 for the presidency of Marshall College, Mich. 

 In 1811, owing to the financial embarrassment 

 of the college, he resigned his position, and 

 accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian 

 Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Subsequently he 

 preached in Providence, Northampton, and 

 Lowell, and was chaplain of the Thirtieth 

 Massachusetts regiment to Ship Island and 

 New Orleans, after which he preached only 

 as opportunity presented. 



Murtk 8. BrsnxtLL, Prof. JAOKSOIT Joins, 

 an eminent Professor of Mathematics and 

 Natural Philosophy in Ohio and Wisconsin ; 

 died at Beloit, Wis., aged 58 years. Ho 

 graduated from Yale in 1841, was tutor for 

 two years In Western Reserve College, Hud- 

 son, Ohio, and was offered a professorship 

 there. For the next flve years he was finan- 

 cial agent of the college, and of the Western 

 College Society, and in 1848 was appointed 



or of Mathematics and Natural Phi 

 phy in Beloit College; resigned In 1868, and 

 went into business, bnt was rtappointed in 

 1868, and sen .! until his death. 



Iforr-A 8. HKXRT, Commander Knurxn W., 

 X., on the retired list since 1867 ; died 

 at Piermont, N. Y., aged about 63 years. II- 

 was a native of New York, and appointed 

 from that State. He entered the navy as mid- 

 shipman In April, 1842, and had been thirty- 

 one yean to the service, eighteen and a half of 

 whloh were passed at sea. 



V.i FT 4 8. RICHMOND, WILUAM E., a promi- 

 of Providence, R. I., for many 



yean a leading member of the Providence bar, 

 and for some years editor of the 1'roridtnee 

 Journal ; died in that city, aged 87 years. 



March 9. DEXTER, THOMAS AMOBT, an emi- 

 nent citizen of Boston ; died there, aged 88 

 yean. He was born May 16, 1790, and gradu- 

 ated at Harvard University in 1810. 



March 11. BELLOWS, HI.M:V A.. Chief-Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire ; 

 died at Concord, aged 70 years. He was ap- 

 pointed one of the Associate-Justices of thut 

 State in 1859, and became Chief-Justice about 

 1870. He received the degree of LL. D. from 

 Dartmouth College in 1869. 



March 11. Dix, Colonel CHARLES TEMPLE, 

 youngest son of Governor Dix, an artist of great 

 merit; died in Rome, Italy, aged 83 years. He 

 graduated from Union College in 1 858, had early 

 turned hia attention to art, and had made good 

 progress in his studies when, upon the break- 

 ing out of the late war, he was chosen aide-de- 

 camp on the staff of his father, and won much 

 credit by his faithful performance of the du- 

 ties of his position. At the return of peace 

 he devoted himself anew to his pursuit, and 

 soon established a name among the most prom- 

 ising of our marine painters. His ' Sunset in 

 Capri " is a fine and spirited study of sea and 

 shore. 



March 11. ELT, Rev. SAMUEL R., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and scholar; died at 

 Roslyn, L. I., aged 70 years. He was born in 

 West Springfield, Mass., December 29, 1803; 

 graduated at Williams College in 1830, studied 

 theology at Princeton, N. J., was licensed to 

 preach in 1833, and the following year was in- 

 stalled pastor of a chnrch at Carmel, N. Y., 

 where he remained three years. In October, 

 1886, he became pastor of the Presbyterian 

 Chnrch at East Hampton, L. I., formerly Dr. 

 Lyinan Beecher's church. After a pastorate 

 of ten years here, he removed to Brooklyn, 

 and soon after to Roslyn, where be performed 

 the duties of pastor for many years, accepting 

 no salary. Ho received his degree of divinity 

 from Columbia College in 1866. 



March 18. LOWEU, Hon. .losircA A., a po- 

 litical leader in Mnino ; died in Maehias, Me., 

 aged 72 years. He was horn in Thomoston, 

 Me., March 20, 1801 ; his educational ad- 

 vantage* were limited, but he commenced 

 active life by teaching school ; studied law, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 182(5. !!> was 

 a member of the Maine Legislature for. several 

 years from 1832, aReprr-. 'iitative in Congress 

 from that State from 18:i9 to 1848, and in 1844 

 was a presidential elector. 



March 14. GRIMES, Rev. L. A., a color. .1 

 Baptist clergyman of remarkable gifts; died in 

 Boston, aged 64 years. Ho was born a slave ; 

 was self-educated, but had made himself a 

 sound and able scholar, and maintained a high 

 rank as a preacher nud pnstor. !!< had !" -n 

 the pastor of the Colored Church in Boston lor 

 about twenty-five yenrs. He was deeply inter- 

 ested in the education of men of color for the 



