OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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July 15. CPSHINO, JAMES, Jr., an active 

 friend of public schools and a prominent 

 member of the Board of Education in New 

 York City; died there, aged 41 years. He 

 was a native of New York, and early identified 

 himself with the cause of education. In 1858 

 he held the office of school commissioner, 

 serving as chairman of the Committee on Fi- 

 nance. Upon the establishment of the new 

 Board of Education, his prominent position 

 made him a candidate for the presidency of 

 that body. 



July 15. MILLS, ETHELBEBT SMITH, a promi- 

 nent and influential citizen of Brooklyn, L. I. ; 

 was drowned at Coney Island, not without 

 some suspicion of suicide. Mr. Mills had been 

 a very enterprising business-man, and, from his 

 talents, energy, and fine social nature, he had 

 been greatly beloved ; but in an evil hour he 

 became entangled with designing men and 

 wns implicated with them in the fraudulent 

 nse of the funds of the city and of one of the 

 trust companies. It is believed that he was 

 at first rather the tool of others than the ori- 

 ginator of the scheme, but it ended in marring 

 a character otherwise greatly esteemed. 



July 16. GLENDY, Commodore WILLIAM M., 

 U. S. N. ; died in Baltimore, Md., aged 72 years. 

 He was born in Virginia, and appointed from 

 Maryland to the Naval Academy, which he 

 ente; ed in 1818. In 1827 he was commissioned 

 as lieutenant, and served successively with the 

 Brazil, Pacific, and East India Squadrons. He 

 received his commission as captain, September 

 14, 1855, and commanded the sloop Saranac 

 at the outbreak of the civil war. In 1862 he 

 WM promoted to the rank of commodore; 

 made prize commissioner at Washington in 

 1863, and placed on special duty at Philadel- 

 phia in 1865. 



July 16. Rrsn, Rt. Rev. CHRISTOPHER, 

 Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church ; died in New York City, aged 96 years. 

 He was born a slave in Craven County, N. C., 

 in 1777, went to New York in 1798, and joined 

 the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 

 1808. Having been licensed to preach in 1816, 

 he was ordained a superintendent in 1828, and 

 successfully occupied every position in the 

 Church until he was made bishop in 1849. He 

 was one of those who influenced the separa- 

 tion of the colored branch of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, and it was his address be- 

 fore Bishop George which finally brought about 

 that result. At that time there were only 

 about 100 members, but it has since increased 

 to 100,000. The bishop never married, and 

 he died peacefully of old age. He was one 

 of the remarkable men of the present century 

 in many respects, and his counsels in the Af- 

 rican Church were always regarded with par- 

 ticular veneration. 



July 17. GUSHING, SAMUEL B., an eminent 

 civil engineer; died at Providence, R. I. 



July 17. HAOAR, , a colored woman of 



Alexandria, Ey., said to be the oldest person 



in the United States ; died at the age of 122 

 years and six months. 



July 18. ASHLET, DELOS R., late member 

 of Congress from Nevada ; died in San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. He was educated for the law in 

 Monroe, Mich., went to California in 1849, 

 where he held the office of district attorney 

 in 1851, -'52, and -'53, was a member of the 

 California Assembly in 1854 and 1855 ; a State 

 Senator in 1856 and 1857, and State Treasurer 

 in 1862. Early in 1864 he removed to Nevada, 

 and was elected a Representative from that 

 State to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving as 

 chairman of the Committee on Mines and 

 Mining, and on that on Free Schools in the 

 District of Columbia. He was also rcelected 

 to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com- 

 mittee on Public Lands. 



July 20. GCINSBURG, Rev. MOSES, D. D., 

 an eminent Jewish rabbi and author ; died in 

 Boston, aged 61 years. He graduated from 

 the University of Prague, in Bohemia, of which 

 city he was a native, and came to America 

 about the year 1848. He possessed a thorough 

 Talmudical and collegiate education, and had 

 been for some years rabbi of the Warren-Street 

 Synagogue in Boston, resigning his charge in 

 1872 on account of failing health, lie was 

 the author of a book on Judaism, and some 

 letters on the controversial points between 

 Judaism and Christianity. 



July 20. RATHBCN, BENJAMIN, a prominent 

 business-man of Buffalo, convicted of extensive 

 forgeries, in 1836, and later proprietor of 

 an hotel in New York ; died at Fort Washing- 

 ton, New York City, aged 82 years. He entered 

 into the hotel business, in the country, and 

 subsequently removed to Buffalo as proprietor 

 of the Eagle Tavern. Becoming somewhat 

 successful in business, he made large invest- 

 ments during an era of speculation, and, through 

 the influence of a nephew with whom he was 

 in partnership, was involved in a system of 

 forgeries which resulted in his conviction and 

 confinement in prison for a term of five years. 

 The nephew, Lyman Rathbnn, though the most 

 guilty of the two, escaped to Texas and fought 

 in the struggle against the Mexicans. After 

 serving his time in prison, Benjamin Rathbun 

 went to New York and again embarked in 

 hotel-life, but was not successful. His private 

 life was said to be irreproachable. 



July 22. ETHEBIDGE, ROBEKT, Chief Clerk 

 and acting Naval Officer of the Port of New 

 York ; died at Frankfort, Ilerkimer County, N. 

 Y., aged 59 years. He was born in Ilerkimer 

 County, November ,4, 1814; was for several 

 years cashier of the Mohawk Valley and Frank- 

 fort Banks; was elected County Treasurer in 

 1848, and again in 1866, and in 1869, and was 

 for several years a member of the Board of 

 Supervisors of his county. 



July 22. FOBD, ELIAKIM READ, a prominent 

 and wealthy citizen of Otsego County, N. Y. ; 

 died at Oneonta, N. Y., aged 76 years. He 

 was born in Albany County, and emigrated 



