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own and her husband's health, she returned 

 to this country. 



May 16. HUNT, Mrs. BEKIAH, a centenarian 

 of Randolph, Mass. ; died there, aged 104 years, 

 retaining her memory to her last hours. 



May 17. RUSSELL, WILLIAM, an eminent 

 elocutionist and author of text-books in read- 

 ing and oratory ; died at Lancaster, Mass., 

 aged 75 years. He was born in Glasgow, 

 Scotland, April 28. 1798, and was educated at 

 the Latin School and the University of Glas- 

 gow. Soon after the completion of his stud- 

 ies, symptoms of a pulmonary affection induced 

 him to come to this country, and, locating in 

 Savannah, Ga., he took charge of the Chatham 

 Academy in that city in 1819. A few years 

 later, upon his marriage with a Connecticut 

 lady, he removed to New Haven, Conn., and 

 taught the New Township Academy and the 

 Grammar School connected with Yale College. 

 He next devoted himself to the instruction of 

 classes in elocution in Andover, Cambridge, 

 and Boston. From 1826 to 1829 he had the 

 editorial charge of the American Journal of 

 Education, published in Boston ; but, his du- 

 ties proving too arduous for his health, he was 

 induced to take a school for young ladies in 

 Germantown, Pa., and classes also in Phila- 

 delphia. Subsequently, he returned to Bos- 

 ton, resuming his specialty in teaching tliero 

 and at Andover, lecturing in the Teachers' 

 Institutes in Rhode Island and New Hamp- 

 shire, and during the winter seasons lecturing 

 at Princeton College, and in the cities of New 

 York and Brooklyn. In 1849 he established 

 a seminary for teachers in New Hampshire, 

 which he continued to direct for several years, 

 but the severity of the winters compelled him, 

 in the spring of 1853, to move his seminary 

 to Lancaster, Mas?. The spring and autumn 

 months he devoted to lecturing at the Teach- 

 ers' Institutes in that State, under the direc- 

 tion of the Secretary of the Board of Educa- 

 tion. Mr. Russell was the author of seven- 

 teen volumes of educational periodicals, and 

 treatises and essays on general education, and 

 twenty-six text-books, mainly on reading and 

 elocution. 



.!/">/ 18. WHITING, Mrs. MATILDA 8., a 

 missionary in Syria and Jerusalem for twenty- 

 five years; died at Newark, N. J., aged 68 

 years. The first eight years of her missionary 

 life were spent in Jerusalem, but subsequently 

 she was transferred to Syria proper, where 

 she remained until, in feeble health and wid- 

 owed, she returned to this country. At the 

 time of her death she was president of the 

 Woman's Missionary Society, of Newark. 



Mm/ 22. FAONANI, JOSEPH, a portrait- 

 painter of great merit ; died in New York. 

 He was born in Naples, Italy, December 24, 

 1819, and began his professional life at the 

 early age of sixteen years. Before completing 

 hit thirtieth year he won reputation by sev- 

 eral crayon portraits, among the most re- 

 markable of which was that of Baron Smacker, 



chamberlain to the Queen-dowager, mother 

 of Ferdinand II. While very young, Fagnani 

 entered the Royal Academy at Naples, and 

 remained there until he was eighteen. Re- 

 moving next to Vienna, he gained success in 

 his painting of the Archduke Charles. In 

 1842 he received and accepted a flattering 

 offer from the Queen-Regent of Spain, Maria 

 Christina, to make album portraits of the dis- 

 tinguished Spaniards who shared her exile. 

 While under this engagement, Mr. Fagnani 

 formed the acquaintance of Sir Robert Peel 

 and Sir Henry Bulwer, laying the foundation 

 of a strong and lasting friendship. In 1851, 

 at the age of thirty-two, he came to New York 

 City, where he married an American lady. In 

 1858 Mr. Fagnani revisited Europe. Hearing 

 of his arrival, Queen Christina, then at Mal- 

 maison, sent for him to paint two portraits of 

 herself, as well as likenesses of the Prince 

 and Princess Ladislas Czartoriski. In 1860 lie 

 continued his industrious labors by painting 

 two portraits of Richard Golden. One of 

 these was given by Fagnani to the New York 

 Sanitary Fair, where it was bought by Morris 

 Ketchnm, who presented it to the New York 

 Chamber of Commerce. The other was pur- 

 chased by the National Portrait Gallery, Lon- 

 don. Among the most noted of his works are, 

 his portraits of Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel, the 

 Prime-Minister Ratazzi, and General Cialdini. 

 May 28. WILLIAMS, Rev. LORENZO D., a 

 Methodist clergyman and educator; died in 

 Meadville, Pa. He was for many years Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Sciences and Vice-President 

 of Allegheny College. His death was caused 

 by his being thrown from a carriage. 



May 29. ATWOOD, JOHN MCLLIKEN, a mer- 

 chant and philanthropist of Philadelphia ; died 

 at Hartford, Conn., aged 78 years. He was 

 born in Haverhill, Mass., August 4, 1795, and 

 was a brother of the well-known missionary, 

 Harriet Newell. He studied one year in Ha- 

 verhill, and then, deciding upon a mercantile 

 life, went to Boston as a clerk, and in 1816 

 established himself in Philadelphia, the firm 

 being Atwood & Co., and Atwood, White & 

 Co. In 1864 he withdrew from business, and 

 devoted a large share of his time thenceforth 

 to public interests. He was one of the found- 

 ers of the American Sunday-school Union, and 

 on its committee of publication for more than 

 forty years ; and was also one of the founders, 

 and for fifteen years president, of the Mer- 

 chants' Fund, a noble charity, for the relief 

 of unfortunate merchants. 



May 30. BEVEBIDGE, Rev. THOMAS. D. D., 

 a United Presbyterian clergyman ; died at 

 Xenia, Ohio, aged 77 years. For some years 

 he was a professor in the Theological Semi- 

 nary of the Associate Church at Canonsburg, 

 Pa. 



June 1. BATES, Hon. ASHEK B., an eminent 

 jurist, crown advisenfor fourteen years to the 

 Hawaiian Government; died in San Francisco, 

 aged 63 years. He was born in Leroy, N. Y., 



