OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



tely to Paris and spent several months in 

 reviewing his physiological studios. In 1858 

 he accepted the chair of Physiology in the 

 Berkshire (Mass.) Medical Institution. In 1862 

 Dr. Styles, impelled by patriotic motives, en- 

 tered the United States service as Surgeon of 

 Volunteers. He was ordered at first to the 

 chance of a general hospital at Pittsburg, Pa., 

 but subsequently was transferred to the Army 

 of the Potomac as snrgeon-in-chief of Cald- 

 well's division, Hancock's corps, in which 

 position he participated in all the movements 

 of the arduous campaign of 1868. The follow- 

 ing year he left the service and accepted the 

 appointment of resident physician of the Kings 

 County Hospital, Brooklyn. Upon the organi- 

 ution of the Metropolitan Board of Health in 

 1866 he accepted the office of Deputy Registrar 

 of Vital Statistics, and in 1868 was made As- 

 sistant Sanitary Superintendent, holding the 

 two positions until the Board of Health was 

 dissolved in 1*7". In the summer of this year, 

 hb health failing him, he traveled in Europe 

 to tome extent, but received no permanent 

 benefit. 



April 18. WATSON, Commodore JAMBS M., 

 U. 8. N. : died at Vallejo, Cal. He was a na- 

 tive of Virginia, from which State he was ap- 

 pointed February 1, 1823; saw seventeen yean 

 of sea-service, his last cruise being in 1854; 

 and was unemployed nearly fourteen years. 

 In 1855 he was retired on the rank of lieuten- 

 ant. In 1866 he was light-house inspector. 



April 19. ABMSTROXO, Captain JAMBS F., 

 U. 8. N. ; died in New Haven, Conn., aged 56 

 years. He was a native of New Jersey, from 

 which State he was appointed March 7, 1832. 

 In 1868 be was in command of the Navy-Yard 

 at Pensacola. His last cruise was in 1864. He 

 was on the reserve list for a time, but was re- 

 instated again, and in 1871 was on duty at the 

 Navy- Yard, Mare Island, California. 



April 19. BLISS, GEORGE, an eminent law- 

 yer and politician of Springfield, Mass. ; died 

 there, aged 80 years. He was born in Spring- 

 Held, November 16, 1793; graduated from Yale 

 College in 1818; studied law with his father, 

 and entered upon the practice of his profession 

 ill 1815 at Monson, Mass., where he remained 

 seven yean. Returning to Springfield, he en- 

 tered Into partnership with Jonathan Dwight, 

 Jr., and in 18S7 commenced public life as a 

 member of the House of Representatives of 

 MiuMchnsetU, serving three successive terms, 

 and again in 1853, when he was Speaker. In 

 1885 he was President of the State Senate. 

 Among many public enterprises which occu- 

 pied hb attention was the completion of the 

 Western Railroad between Worcester ami Al- 

 bany, of which road he was president prior to 

 184, when he retired, and visited Europe. 

 Upon hb return home he became interested in 

 otter railroad nchemes, chiefly at the West, in 

 ooodnrtinir which he gained a wide reputa- 

 tion. In May, 1MO, he withdrew from all 

 etive burincM. 



April 20. LANDOH, DILLON STEVESS, M. TX, 

 an eminent physician of Brooklyn, L. I.; (Had 

 ill. re. aged 51 years. He was a man of fine 

 intellectual qualifications, skillful in the prue- 

 tiee of his profession, and greatly beloved by 

 his medical associates as well as patients. For 

 a period of twenty years he was visiting phy- 

 sician of the Brooklyn City Hospital. Dr. 

 Landon was a son-in-law of the late J. Wesley 

 Harper, of Harper & Brothers. 



April 20. STODDABD, CHAKLES, an eminent 

 merchant and Christian philanthropist of Bos- 

 ton ; died there, aged 71 years. He was born 

 at Northampton, June 27, 1802, and was the 

 son of Solomon Stoddard, a distinguished law- 

 yer, and for many years clerk of the courts. 

 In 1814 young Stoddard went to Portsmouth 

 and spent two years with an uncle, but, in 

 1816, returned to Boston and entered tho store 

 of Tappan & Mansfield, silk merchants, with 

 whom he remained until his majority. In 

 1828 he went into business for himself, estab- 

 lishing the firm of Edwards & Stoddard, which 

 was dissolved in 1845, himself going into the 

 firm of Stoddard, Lovering & Co. In 1832 

 he became a member of the Prudential Com- 

 mittee of the American Board of Missions, 

 which place he occupied for forty years, dur- 

 ing all of which time ho negotiated tho foreign 

 exchange of tho board without remuneration. 

 Ho was also for thirty-three years an efficient 

 trustee and liberal friend of Williams College, 

 Mass., and since 1853 had devoted the M 

 of his income to public and private charity. 

 He was a man of the strictest integrity, most 

 unblemished honor, and noble impulses. 



April 22. WmTTLKSBY, ELIJAH, a retired 

 merchant of New York City ; died at W ailing- 

 ford. Conn. Ho had been thirty-five years in 

 business, and was widely known for his liber- 

 ality and literary culture, and owned one of 

 tho finest libraries in Connecticut. 



April 84. OLYPIIAXT, GEOBOE TALBOT, nn 

 eminent merchant, of New York; died in that 

 city, aged 54 years. He was born in New York, 

 June 29, 1 81 9. On account of feeble health ho 

 was taken from school at an early age, and 

 never received a collegiate education, though ho 

 devoted much attention to classical studies. 

 After a short business experience in the estab- 

 lishment of his father in New York City, tie re- 

 moved to Mount Morris, in the Genesco Valley. 

 and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits 

 for about ten years. It was in this section of tho 

 State that he acquired a considerable reputation 

 in political life, and in tho campaign of 1844 

 Henry Clay had few more ardent advocates. 

 In 1849 Mr. Olyphant sailed for China for the 

 purpose of recruiting his health, returning in 

 the same year. Again in the following year ho 

 repeated his trip, and was returning to Ameri- 

 ca when his father, who accompanied him. died 

 in Egypt In 1850 he united in forming the tirm 

 known as Olyphant's Sons, engaged in n very 

 extensive China trade. In 1858 ho retired from 

 active mercantile life. He was elected a mom- 



