OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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ber of the Board of Managers of the Delaware 

 & Hudson Canal Company in March, 1852, 

 and remained in that position till April, 1855. 

 In that month he was chosen president of the 

 company, pro tern., and in 1858 he was elected 

 the permanent president of the company. He 

 continued acting in that capacity till April, 

 1869. Among the prominent institutions with 

 which Mr. Olyphant was connected may be 

 mentioned the New York City Hospital. He 

 became one of the governors in 1853, and 

 ever afterward took an active and zealous in- 

 terest in the management of its affairs. He 

 was constant in his efforts to improve the con 

 dition of affairs at Bloomingdale Asylum, and 

 made almost weekly inspections of that insti- 

 tution. At the recent reorganization of the 

 Erie Railway, Mr. Olyphant was made one of 

 the directors of the company. 



April 26. BROWN, Lieutenant GEOBGE ED- 

 GAB, U. 8. Volunteers, a lawyer of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; died there, aged 31 years. He 

 was born in Hampden, Me., November 1, 1841 ; 

 graduated from Bowdoin College in 1862, and 

 in October of that year entered the army as 

 sergeant of the Twenty-second Maine regiment, 

 was promoted to be first-lieutenant, and served 

 on the Mississippi. At the close of the war he 

 held a position in the Patent-Office two years, 

 and after studying law entered upon the prac- 

 tice of his profession in Washington. 



April 26. HOWE, Lieutenant ALBION, U. 8. 

 A. ; was killed by the Modocs in the Lava Beds. 

 He was a son of Colonel Marshall E. Howe, 

 U. 8. A., and was born in Jacksonville, Fla., May 

 16, 1840. He graduated from Bowdoin Col- 

 lege in 1861, was mustered into the Fourteenth 

 N. Y. Artillery as eecond-lientenant ; served 

 through the campaign from the Wilderness to 

 Petersburg, received a staff appointment, and 

 rose to the rank of major. At the close of the 

 war he held a position in the custom-house 

 at Boston. In 1866 he was commissioned sec- 

 ond-lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery, U. 8. 

 A., and in 1869 was promoted first-lieutenant, 

 having previously been brevettcd lieutenant- 

 colonel of volunteers and captain in the U. S. 

 Army for gallantry during the war. He 

 served as ordnance-officer at Fortress Monroe, 

 where he married a daughter of General Barry, 

 commanding ; was assigned to duty in North 

 Carolina in pursuit of the Ku-klnx gang, and 

 afterward to dnty on the Pacific. 



April 26. THOMAS, Captain EVAN, U. 8. A., 

 a gallant officer ; was killed by the Modocs in 

 the Lava Beds. He was a son of General Loren- 

 zo Thomas, formerly adjutant-general of the 

 army, and was born in Washington, D. C. He 

 entered the army at the commencement of the 

 late war, receiving the rank of sccond-lientcn- 

 ant hi the Fourth Artillery of the regular 

 army, and was made first-lieutenant, May, 

 1861. He received the rank of captain by 

 brevet, December 18, 1862 ; major by brevet, 

 July 3, 1863, and captain, in August, 1864. 

 Dnringtlie fight with the Indians upon the 15th 



and 16th, he had command of the mortars, 

 rendering effective service in harassing the 

 enemy. 



April 26. WICKS, ALFEKD, a prominent 

 citizen and philanthropist of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

 died there. He was a merchant, and a mem- 

 ber of the Produce Exchange, and for many 

 years had been identified with the interests of 

 the city, and especially with its humanitarian 

 movements. 



April 26. WRIGHT, Lieutenant THOMAS F., 

 U. S. A., was killed by the Modocs in the 

 Lava Bed?. He was a son of the late General 

 George Wright, and nephew of the late General 

 Sumner; was born in Missouri, but migrated 

 to California ; served in the civil war as colo- 

 nel of volunteers, receiving the brevet of 

 brigadier-general ; entered the regular army as 

 first-lieutenant Thirty-second Infantry, July 28, 

 1866, and was assigned to the Twelfth Infan- 

 try, January 31, 1870. 



April 27. AULICK, Commodore JOHN H., 

 U. S. Navy ; died at Washington, D. C., aged 

 84 years. He was born in Winchester, Va., 

 entered the navy as midshipman in 1809, 

 and in 1812 served on the Enterprise in all the 

 engagements of that vessel, carrying the British 

 ship Boxer and the privateers Fly and Mars, 

 which the Enterprise captured, into port. He 

 afterward served on the Saranac, Ontario, Con- 

 stitution, and Brandy wine, and wnsin command 

 of the Washington Navy-Yard from 1843 to 

 1846. He commanded>the Vincennes in 1847, 

 and the East India Squadron, his last cruise in 

 1853. In 1861 he retired on the rank of cap- 

 tain. Throughout his long career he was one 

 of the most faithful and efficient officers in the 

 service. 



April 28. WHITE, WILLIAM, a spiritualist 

 and publisher of infidel works ; died in Boston, 

 Mass. He was the publisher of the Banner 

 of Light, and numerous works on spiritualism. 



April 29. SHARKEY, WILLIAM, Governor of 

 Mississippi; died at Washington, D. C. He 

 was a prominent and influential man in that 

 State, and was provisional Governor from 1865 

 to 1866. 



April 29. WATIKS, JOHN, a civil engineer 

 and lawyer ; died in Columbia, S. C., aged 45 

 years. He was born in Statesburg, Sumter 

 County, 8. C., in 1828, graduated from Yale 

 Cllege in 1849, and, after devoting four years 

 to civil engineering, turned his attention to the 

 study of law, serving in the mean time as clerk 

 of the Court of Appeals in his native State. 

 From 1857 until his death he practised his 

 profession in Columbia, with the exception of 

 a period of service in the Confederate army 

 during the rebellion. 



May 1. SHKNFESSEL, PETEB, a pioneer set- 

 tler of Kentucky; died in Estill County, aged 

 109 years. He was born in February, 1764. 

 He was long employed in the Red-River Iron- 

 Works, and was active and vigorous in mind 

 and body till a few days before his death. 



May 2. SMITH, Commodore WILLIAM, U. S. 



