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and Surgeons in New York, and was, in 1851, 

 Vice- President of the National Association of 

 Physicians for revising the Pharmacopoeia. 

 He was the author of numerous articles in 

 medical journals, among the most noted of 

 which were those on "lion-contagiousness of 

 Yellow Fever," on "The Uses of Opium in 

 Rheumatism," and on " The Effects of Tobacco 

 on Health and Longevity.'" 



June 8. ROBERTSON, Dr. W. H., a surgeon 

 and medical director in the Confederate army 

 during the late war; died at Farmville, Va., 

 aged 43 years. He was a brother of General 

 Beverly H. Robertson, 0. S. A., on whose staff 

 he served during the war, though at heart a 

 Union man. In 1869 he served in the State 

 Constitutional Convention of Virginia, and 

 was otherwise prominent in allaying the diffi- 

 culties growing out of the war. 



June 8. SABIN, Rev. LEWIS, D. D., a Con- 

 gregationalist clergyman ; died at Templeton, 

 Mass.. aged 66 years. He was born in Wilbra- 

 ham, Mass., April 9, 1807, and at the age of six 

 years removed, with his father, to Belcher- 

 town. In 1831 he graduated from Amherst 

 College with the highest honors of his class, 

 and for four years after, with the exception of 

 a part of 1832 and 1833, which he spent in the 

 Theological Seminary at Andover, was the 

 Principal of the Hopkins Academy. In Au- 

 gust, 1835, he was licensed to preach, and was 

 ordained June 6, 1836, as an evangelist, for the 

 purpose of engaging in missionary service at 

 Stanstead, Canada East. After a year in this 

 work, he returned to Massachusetts, and in 

 1837 was installed pastor of the Trinitarian 

 Church in Templeton, which charge he held 

 for a period of thirty-five years, resigning, on 

 account of failing health, in 1872. In 1857, 

 he received from his alma mater the degree 

 of D. D., and in 1862 was elected a member 

 of the Board of Trustees of the college, hold- 

 ing that office until his death. 



June 22. BURNHAM, SAMUEL, a Boston jour- 

 nalist and historical writer ; died in that city, 

 aged 40 years. He was born in Rindge, Che- 

 shire County, N. H., and was a son of the Rev. 

 Amos W. Burnham, D. D., pastor of the Con- 

 gregational Church in Rindge for a period of 

 fifty years. . The son graduated from Williams 

 College in 1855, and, although afflicted with 

 poor health, goon after assumed charge of 

 the academy at Amherst, N. H. Subsequently 

 he removed to Boston, Mass., and entered upon 

 a career of literary industry which ended only 

 with his death. His labors were varied and 

 abundant. He wrote the history of East Bos- 

 ton, several small volumes for the American 

 Tract Society, Boston, on natural history, was 

 one of the editors of the Congregationalitt, 

 literary editor of the Watchman and Reflector, 

 a correspondent for numerous religious, liter- 

 ary, and scientific periodicals, edited Charles 

 Sumner's works, and, at the time of his death, 

 had nearly completed a history of the Old 

 South Church, of Boston. 



June 22. MOBELEY, EDWARD, State Treas- 

 urer of Connecticut in' 1867 and 1868 ; died at 

 Hampton, Conn., aged 60 years. 



June 26. HILLEN, Colonel SOLOMON, mem- 

 ber of Congress, formerly mayor of Baltimore, 

 Md. ; died in that city. He was a native of 

 Maryland, and was a Representative in Con- 

 gress from that State from 1839 to 1841. 



June 29. GRANT, JESSB ROOT, father of 

 President Grant ; died at Covington, Ky., 

 aged 78 years. He was born in Westmore- 

 land County, Pa., in 1794, and at five years 

 of age removed with his father's family to 

 Deerfield, Ohio. Upon the death of his father, 

 in 1805, he was apprenticed to a tanner, which 

 business he followed until he reached the age 

 of sixty years. When the War of 1812 threw 

 that portion of the country into excitement, 

 and unsettled business to some extent, the 

 family removed to Maysville, Ky., and, upon 

 the cessation of hostilities, Jesse returned, in 

 1815, to Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, 

 where he resumed his business as a tanner; 

 but the prevalence of ague and fever in that 

 region compelled him to go South for a while, 

 and a few months later he established himself 

 in the southern part of the State. Previous to 

 the war, he held a partnership in a large tan- 

 nery and leather-store in Galena, 111., and, upon 

 retiring from business, divided a portion of his 

 property among his children. After the ac- 

 cession of his son, Ulysses, to the presidency, 

 he was appointed postmaster at Covington, 

 Ky., which position he held until his death, 

 though unable for the last two years to dis- 

 charge its duties. 



July 1. COOLET, ex-Judge W. H., a promi- 

 nent member of the New Orleans bar; was 

 killed in a duel, aged 47 years. He was a na- 

 tive of Louisiana. His political action had 

 drawn upon him the fierce maledictions of 

 Colonel R. B. Rhett, editor of one of the jour- 

 nals of New Orleans, and an editorial article 

 in Rhett's paper led to a challenge, which was 

 accepted, and Judge Cooley wa killed at the 

 first fire. 



July 1. FOWLEE, Prof. JOHN W., formerly a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, and afterward a Bap- 

 tist clergyman ; died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 

 early life, owing to doubts upon the question of 

 infant baptism, lie abandoned the ministry, and 

 studied law. He was an eloquent public speak- 

 er, and did effective service for Henry Clay in 

 the presidential campaign of 1844. Later in life 

 he became a Baptist, and reCntered the minis- 

 try. 



July 1. SIDELI/, Lieutenant-Colonel and 

 Brevet Brigadier-General WILLIAM H., U. 8. A., 

 Tenth Infantry ; died in New York City, aged 

 63 years. He was born in New York, August 

 21, 1810. graduated from the Military Academy 

 at West Point, July 1, 1833, and was promoted 

 brevet second-lieutenant, First Artillery, but, 

 finding his duties too irksome, and desiring a 

 more active life, he resigned, October 1, 1833, 

 and entered upon the more congenial profes- 



