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OBITOARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Navy; died at St. Louis, Mo. He was born in 

 Kentucky, from which State he was appointed 

 March 4, 1828, making about fifty yean in the 

 service. He was placed on the retired and 

 reserved list January 9, I860. 



May 8. BEACH, L 1'., .Surveyor-General of 

 Washington Territory; died at Olvmpia, \V. T. 

 A man of fine and generous culture, he had 

 held this important position since 1871, and 

 was thoroughly devoted to the promotion of 

 the beet interests of the Territory. His reports 

 were models in the fulness of their information 

 respecting the productions and capabilities of 

 that vast but little-known region. 



May S. XOTT, Rev. HANIIEI. GERSHOMI, a 

 Baptist clergyman ; died in Rochester, N. T. 

 He was born in Saybrook, Conn., November 

 10, 1799, graduated from Yale College in 1823, 

 took a theological course in the Yale Semi- 

 nary, and in 1826 was settled over the First 

 Congregational Church in Nashua, N. H. Sub- 

 sequently he became a Baptist, and accepted 

 the position of agent of the American bethel 

 Society, and was for three years Bethel chap- 

 Iain in Buffalo. Later he preached in Bath, 

 Waterville, and Kennebunkport, Me., remain- 

 ing at the latter place for a period of twelve 

 years. His health demanding a change, he ac- 

 cepted a call to Avon, N. Y., in July, 1860, and, 

 after a few years, removed to Rochester, where 

 he continued to reside until bis death. 



May 5. M.-AI.USTKR, II. N".. an eminent 

 lawyer of Bellefonte, Pa.; died there. He was 

 a prominent member of the Constitutional 

 Convention of his State. 



J/ny 6. SrorrritB, Captain GEORGE C., a 

 brave and gallant tea-captain ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. Ho was famous for the rescue of 

 the passengers of the steamer San Francisco 

 in 1H68. 



May H. Kixo, Judge EDWARD, a Pennsyl- 

 rania jurist; died at Philadelphia, Pa., aged 78 

 years. He was a native of PhOadeipUft, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1816, and was I' 

 1. nt-lii !:> of ihe Court of Common Pleas 

 from 1825 to 1851. 



May 9. PITJIPELI.T, GBoitoE JAMES, a dis- 

 tinguished agriculturist and stock-breeder of 

 Owego. N. Y.; died there, aged 68 years. He 

 was born in Owego, December 11, 1805, gradu- 

 ated from Yale College in the class of IVY.. 

 completed the coarse of study nt tin- I.itchtivld 

 Law School, and in 1829 was admitted to the 

 bar of New York City. II.- then entered his 

 father's land-office, where he spent some years 

 in the practice of his profession. About 1885 

 he turned his attention to agricultural im- 

 provement*, and to the breeding of choice 

 stock, in which ho made great improvements. 



Mag 10. BIROK, Rev. LEWIS M.. a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and home niiionarv ; died 

 at Minneapolis Minn., aged 89 years. 'lie was 

 born t Vienna, Trumt.nll Connty, (.. edu- 

 cated at the Western Reserve College. Hudson, 

 O., and, after spending two years in r 

 !, enured Union Theological Seminary, from 



which he graduated in May, 1862. In the fall 

 of the same year he was appointed chaplain of 

 thr < >ne Hundred and Seventy-third Regiment 

 of New York Volunteers, and was three years 

 in the service. A few months alter leaving 

 the array, he received a call from a church in 

 Charlestown, Ohio, where he labored lour 

 monthst, and which charge he was obliged to 

 relinquish on account of failing health. He 

 then removed to Burlington, N. J., where, on 

 a fruit-farm, he remained three years, during 

 which time, however, he canvassed the county 

 in which Burlington is situated, for the Ameri- 

 can Bible Society, and was also agent for the 

 American and Foreign Christian Union. He 

 preached also, occasionally, as opportunity of- 

 fered and his strength permitted. Thence he 

 removed to Patcrson, N. J., where he \v;is 

 employed for about two years as city mission- 

 ary. From Paterson he removed to Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., as missionary of the Presby- 

 terian Board, and the next year was appointed 

 to the new section of country along the Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana Railroad. 



May 11. BAILEY, Rev. JOSEPH A., D. D., a 

 Baptist clergyman of Waterbury, Conn. ; died 

 at Carlsbad, Bohemia, aped about 47 years. 

 Dr. Bailey was a man of line culture, an elo- 

 quent preacher, very fond of literary research, 

 and much beloved by his people. Ho had gone 

 abroad in the hope of restoring his health, which 

 had been seriously impaired by his cx>,--i\,- 

 labors in the pastorate, hut derived no benefit 

 from the waters of Carlsbad, which to him, as 

 to so many American invalids within the past 

 few years, seemed to have proved rather inju- 

 rious than beneficial. 



May 12. HARRIS, Lieutenant GEOKOE M., 

 U.S.A.; died from wonnds received in the 

 fighting at the Lava Buds, California, aged 26 

 years. He graduated from West Point in 

 1868, and was stationed at Fort Macon during 

 the troubles with the Lowery outlaws. Sub- 

 sequently, at his own request, he was trans- 

 ferred to Battery K, Fourth Artillery, and 

 joined his company during the operations 

 against the Modocs, in January last. He was 

 a nephew of the late Bishop Mcllvaino, of 

 Ohio. 



May 15. GILMORK. lion. S \MI-KI. A.. Presi- 

 dent-Judge of the Fayetto Judicial histrict, 

 Pa.; died at Uniontown, I'a.. acred <">7 years. 

 He had held that position sine,' 1H4H, dis- 

 charcrincr the duties of his office in the most 

 faithful ami conscientious manner. 



-lA'.V 15. SMITH, Mrs. MARY SJTKLI, a mis- 

 sionary of the American Board at Ceylon; 

 died at Rocky Hill, Conn., aged 69 years. She 

 was born in Oummington, Mass., September 

 21, 1814. In 1836 she wns married to I>r. 

 StecU-, and soon after sailed from Boston for 

 Madras. A few years after his death she mar- 

 ried Rev. J. C. Smith, of the Ceylon mission, 

 and was a faithful and cnercrctic worker in tho 

 missionary field for a period of nearly thirty- 

 six years. In 1872, upon tho failure of her 



