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Ulster County, N. Y., July 20, 1825. His early 

 years were passed upon a farm, with only such 

 limited means of education as the common 

 school afforded. As years advanced the desire 

 for an education increased, and he spent some 

 months in the academy, but at eighteen com- 

 menced teaching. Later, he entered the New 

 York State Normal School, and, upon his 

 graduation therefrom in 1847, entered upon 

 his life-work as an educator. His fondness for 

 mathematical science gave him a remarkable 

 facility for clearness in teaching, and his en- 

 thusiasm won the interest of his pupils, arous- 

 ing them to thought and study, and in turn 

 fitting them for the work of teaching. He de- 

 livered a series of lectures before his normal 

 classes and teachers' institutes, in which with 

 great earnestness he set forth the noble and 

 high purpose of the teacher. His marked suc- 

 cess as an author is evinced by the great popu- 

 larity of his mathematical series of text-books 

 a popularity scarcely inferior to that of any 

 other series in this country ; and as a sign and 

 seal of bis love for mathematical science he 

 left a fund to Rochester University, furnishing 

 a gold medal, worth one hundred dollars, to 

 the student who should pass the best examina- 

 tion in mathematics, provided he reached a 

 certain absolute standard, which standard was 

 so high that at one examination the medal 

 was not awarded. 



August 10. ALLEN, A. G., a New Hamp- 

 shire politician and journalist ; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., aged 65 years. He was a native 

 of New Hampshire. During the Administra- 

 tion of President Pierce he served as Navy 

 Agent in Washington ; subsequently he became 

 a newspaper correspondent, and was afterward 

 successively on the editorial staff of several 

 Washington journals. 



Augutt 12. MACOMB, WILLIAM H., Commo- 

 dore U. S. N. ; died in Philadelphia. He was 

 a son of Alexander Macomb, Major-General U. 

 8. A., and was born in Detroit, Mich., June 16, 

 1818. He entered the service as midshipman 

 in 1884, became lieutenant in 1847, commander 

 in 1862, captain in 1866, and commodore in 

 1870. From 1856 to 1858 he served on the 

 Portsmouth, East India Squadron ; in 1856, 

 engaged and captured the Barrier Forts in 

 Canton, China; commanded the Metacomet in 

 the Paraguay Expedition ; attempted the pas- 

 sage of the Confederate batteries at Port Hud- 

 son, March, 1863; commanded the Shamrock, 

 North Atlantic Blockade Squadron, in 1864- 

 -'65 ; had charge of the naval force in the cap- 

 tare of Plymouth, N. C., October 30, 1864; and 

 for his services on the Roanoke River, near 

 Poplar Point, N. C., was advanced in grade 

 and commanded the steam-sloop Plymouth, of 

 the European Squadron, in 1869. In 1871 he 

 was light-house inspector. 



\"g. 13. JOHNSON, Rev. SAMUEL ROOSE- 

 VELT, D. I)., an Episcopal clergyman, Rector 

 of St. Thomas's Church, Amenia, N. J. ; died 

 there. He was for many years Emeritus Pro- 



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fessor of Systematic Theology in the General 

 Theological Seminary of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, New York City. 



Aug. 14. ANDREWS, GABNETT, a political 

 leader in Georgia; died at Washington, Wilkes 

 County, Ga. He practised law with consider- 

 able success for many years, and also took an 

 active part in politics. In 1855 he was nomi- 

 nated for Governor of Georgia, but was de- 

 feated. He was at first strongly opposed to 

 secession, but afterward acquiesced therein. 



Aug. 14. TTLEE, Rev. JOHN E., a Congrega- 

 tionalist clergyman and teacher ; died in Vine- 

 land, N. J., aged 63 years. He was the son of 

 Rev. Dr. J. Bennett Tyler, of the East Windsor 

 Theological Seminary, Conn. He was for many 

 years pastor of a Congregational church in 

 East Windsor, and also taught in the academy 

 there. Upon the failure of his health, he re- 

 moved to Vineland, and engaged in the in- 

 surance business, preaching occasionally, as he 

 was able. 



Aug. 15. DURAND, ELIAS, an eminent phar- 

 macist and botanist of Philadelphia ; died there, 

 aged 79 years. He was born in Mayence, 

 France, January 25, 1794. After studying in 

 Paris, he joined the medical corps in Napole- 

 on's army, and was present at the battles of 

 Lutzen, Bautzen, Hanau, Katzbach, and Leip- 

 sic. Upon the downfall of Napoleon, he re- 

 solved to come to this country, with the view 

 of pursuing the study of botany, and to enjoy 

 the benefit of free institutions. He settled first 

 in Baltimore, and afterward in Philadelphia, 

 where he established a drug-store, which be- 

 came the resort of many of the most eminent 

 physicians of the day. Besides his celebrity as 

 a chemist, he acquired an extended reputation 

 as a botanist, and was thoroughly familiar with 

 the flora of North America. He had gathered 

 a large herbarium, embracing ten thousand 

 species of North American plants, the work 

 of nearly forty years. This he presented to 

 the Museum of the Jardin des Plantei of Paris, 

 in 1868. A separate gallery has been devoted 

 to the collection in that institution, and it has 

 been named, after the donor, Herbaria Du- 

 randi. Mr. Dnrand was a constant contribu- 

 tor to home and foreign scientific publications, 

 evincing great versatility in treating scientific 

 subjects, both in his own and the English lan- 

 guage. He was a member of several scientific 

 societies, both in this country and abroad. 



Aug. 15. STODDAED, WILLIAM, a Michigan 

 State Senator and Representative ; committed 

 suicide during a temporary attack of insan- 

 ity, at Litchfield, Michigan. He served four 

 terms as a Representative, and two as Sen- 

 ator. 



Aug. 17. WARFORD, General A. B., a prom- 

 inent railroad-man, at one time President of 

 the Northern Pacific Railroad; died at Har- 

 risbnrg, Pa. He was largely identified with 

 the railroad and other measures for develop- 

 ing the interests of the Northwest, and had 

 tuken a prominent part in pushing forward 



