OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Smithfield, Ky., where he preached six years. 

 Snbseqnently he taught in Bedford County, 

 Tenn., and in Shelbyville, where he died. 



April 4. WOOLLKY, General JOHN W., for- 

 merly governor of the National Military 

 Asylum at Milwaukee, Wis. ; died there. 



April 5. MOOEB, ANDBEW BABKT, ex-Gov- 

 ernor of Alabama; died at Montgomery, Ala. 

 He was originally a school-teacher in that 

 State, and served as Governor from 1857 to 

 1861. 



April 8. GILSEY, PETER, a New York alder- 

 man and prominent citizen, died at his resi- 

 dence, aged 62 years. He was born at Hobro, 

 in the province of Jutland, Denmark, and, 

 after receiving a fair education, emigrated to 

 America in 1827, landing at New York alone 

 and friendless. He first procured employment 

 in a piano-manufactory, and by strict economy 

 managed to save part of his earnings from 

 week to week, so that in a few years he was 

 enabled to em bark in an independent business. 

 Renting a little shop in the Bowery, he bought 

 the stock of a retail tobacconist. Here his 

 prosperity began, and it was not long before 

 he felt justified in removing to more extensive 

 premises on the corner of Broadway and Cort- 

 landt Street, where his business was carried on 

 until his death. Here, in 1854, he erected the 

 Gilsey Building, one of the first large iron 

 structures raised in the city. Henceforth his 

 investments were chiefly in Broadway real 

 estate, from which he derived the greater part 

 of his fortune. Among the other buildings 

 erected by him are the St. George Hotel, the 

 Coleman House, and Apollo Hall. In politics 

 he was a Democrat, bat, while he was interest- 

 ed deeply in public questions, he held no office 

 until the municipal campaign of 1871, when he 

 was elected alderman by about 83,000 votes. 

 The following year he was reflected, his course 

 in the Board having won the confidence of his 

 constituents and the respect of his associates. 



April 8. WILLIAMS, STALHAM, an aged and 

 influential citizen of Utica, N. Y. ; died in that 

 city, in the 100th year of his age. He was 

 born in Deerfield, Mass., in 1773, and settled 

 at Utica jnst before the War of 1812. At the 

 organization of the Savings-Bnnk of Utica, 

 in 1839, he was elected treasurer, a position 

 which he continued to fill np to the time of 

 his death. He was a man of spotless integrity 

 in all the walks of life. 



April 9. GIBBS. GEORGE, an eminent phi- 

 lologist, antiquarian, and author; died in New 

 Haven, Conn. He was a grandson of Oliver 

 Wolcott, and was born in Newtown, L. I., 

 JWy 8, 1817. He was formerly connected 

 with the United States Coart Survey. For 

 many years he devoted his time to the study 

 of the vocabularies and folk-lore of the Indians 

 of the Northwest. In 1846 he published "Me- 

 moirs of the Administrations of Washington 

 and John Adams, edited from the Papers of 

 Woloott." He was also the author of " The 

 Judicial Chronicle," published in 1834. 



April 11. THOMAS, Rev. EVAN, D.D., a 

 Methodist clergyman, one of the Peace Com- 

 missioners to the Modoc Indians; was mur- 

 dered by them near the Lava Beds in Southern 

 Oregon. He had been for many years an in- 

 fluential and successful preacher in California. 



April 12. DE PEYSTEB, Colonel JOHN 

 WATTS, Jr., a gallant soldier in the late war ; 

 died in New York City. He served during the 

 early part of the rebellion as volunteer aide-de- 

 camp on the staff of his cousin, General Philip 

 Kearney, and was especially commended for 

 his gallantry at the battle of Williamsburg. 

 At the battle of Chancellorsville he was chief 

 of artillery of the Second Division, Sixth Corps, 

 with the rank of major. For his gallantry on 

 that and other occasions, on the recommenda- 

 tion of Major-General Hooker, he was pro- 

 moted successively to be lieutenant-colonel and 

 colonel. 



April 12. PAULSON, UK-HARP, an eminent 

 citizen of New Jersey ; died at Redfield Park, 

 uged 100 years. He had held several impor- 

 tant offices, and was a man of high moral and 

 religious attainments. 



April 15. IDE, WILLIAM E., M. D., an emi- 

 nent Ohio physician ; died in New York City, 

 aged 57 years. He was born in Kirby, Vt., 

 received a good education, and pursued his 

 medical studies under the direction of Dr. 

 Willard Parker, of New York. He was a resi- 

 dent of Columbus, Ohio, for a period of twenty 

 years, and during that period identified him- 

 self with the interests of the city. 



April 16. PHIPPEN, Rev. GEORGE, a Baptist 

 clergyman; died in Chicago, aged 88 years. 

 He was born in Salem, Mass., February 2, 1790, 

 graduated from Brown University in 1811; 

 studied theology, and was ordained and settled 

 in Middlctown, Conn., in 1812, where he 

 preached five years, and then removed to a 

 pastorate in Lynn, Mass. In 1822, having 

 been attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, 

 he was obliged to give up preaching for a 

 time, but in 1828 was settled in Canton, Conn., 

 where he remained nine years, two of which 

 were spent in obtaining funds for the estab- 

 lishment of the Connecticut Literary Institu- 

 tion in Suffield. Subsequently he preached in 

 Fayetteville, N. Y., West Troy, and Newbnrg, 

 and in Lee and Tyringham, Mass., until 1850, 

 when in connection with his son he had for 

 some years charge of an academy in Peeks- 

 kill, N. Y. In 1870 he removed to Chicago. 



April 16. STYLES, RICHABD CBESSON, M. D., 

 an eminent physician and sanitarian, late of 

 Brooklyn, L. I.; died at Westchester, Pa., 

 aged 42 years. He was born in Philadelphia, 

 October 3, 1830, graduated from Yale College 

 in 1851, studied medicine in Philadelphia, 

 where he received his degree of M. D. in 1854, 

 and thence went to Paris, prosecuting his 

 studies until 1857, when he returned to this 

 country, and was appointed Professor of 

 Physiology in the University of Vermont. 

 Upon this appointment he returned immedi- 



