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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



th great railway project which met with die- 

 alter so soon after his death. 



Aug. 19. POOLE, FITCH, a literary man, 

 journalist, and anthor ; died at Peabody, Mass., 

 afred 70 year*. Though he hud only a common- 

 ohool education, he made good use of his ad- 

 vantage*, and became extensively known for 

 his literary attainments, for many years being 

 ited with the press. He belonged to 

 tli.- Whig party, and was the author of several 

 satirical and pointed ballads, that were very 

 popular at the time. Among these was " Giles 

 Corey's Dream." He was thoroughly conver- 

 sint with the habits and manners of the period 

 of the Salem Witchcraft (1692), and was the 

 editor of a certain manuscript found at the tear- 

 ing down of the old First Church, which, from 

 its exact similarity to those of a more ancient 

 date, was treasured for some time as a rare 

 discovery. Mr. Poole, at different times, rep- 

 resented the town of Peabody in the Legisla- 

 ture; was a member of the school committee 

 and board of selectmen ; was editor of the 

 Dantert Witnrd when that paper was estab- 

 lished in 1859, and retained the position until 

 1898. He was formerly member of the Jordan 

 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. He was 

 also the fonnder of the Mechanics' Institute 

 Library, the institution which Mr. Peabody af- 

 terward endowed with his name and twenty 

 thousand dollars, and, for the last seventeen 

 years of his life, had been the librarian of that 

 institution. 



Aug. 20. HOADLET, DAVID, an eminent 

 merchant and financier of New York City, 

 for twenty years President of the Panama 

 Railroad Company ; died at Englewood, N. J., 

 aged 67 years. While singularly modest and 

 aiuwsnming in his manners, few business-men 

 possessed such sound judgment, clear percep- 

 tions, and marked executive ability. Ho was 

 a man of the most unquestioned integrity, and 

 while often placed in positions of high respon- 

 sibility in the management of the affairs of 

 peat corporation', he never failed to justify 

 in the fullest degree the confidence placed in 

 him. He was also a man of great benevolence, 

 never withholding his liberal aid from any de- 

 serving object. 



Avg. 81. VAX PELT, Rev. PETER, D.D., 

 nn Episcopal clergyman, formerly Professor of 

 < triental Languages in Burlington College, N. 

 T. ; died in Philadelphia, aired 75 years. 

 1 ivinir Hurlitiirton he held a professorship in 

 thn K|.isr,,|ml Divinity School, in West Phihi- 

 il'-l[ihia. For many years also he occupied 

 the position of Secretary of the Board of For- 

 a%i Ifiiatoaa, 



Aug. 84. LORD, FREDERICK B., a well- 

 known railroad-man: died at (Win-ton, Ky., 

 aged 89 years. He was a son of the Int. ' 

 Went Lord of Dartmouth College, and gradu- 

 ated from that institution in the class of 1860. 



Any. 24. Yonro, BKKJAMIN, an actor of 

 negro parts; died In PhQadalpU*. He was 

 remarkably successful in the delineation of 



negro characters, and was particularly suc- 

 cessful as " Uncle Tom." 



Aug. 28. BUKXKTT, Judge DAVID, an emi- 

 nent New Jersey jurist; died at Patcrson, 

 N. J. He was born in Springfield, N. J., in 

 1800. At about the age of eighteen he went 

 to New York City, where he learned the trade 

 of printer, after which he went to Paterson, 

 N. J., and worked three years as a journeyman 

 printer. In September, 1825, in connection 

 with Mr. Day, he started the Paterton Intelli- 

 gencer. In April, 1845, he was appointed Sur- 

 rogate of Passaio County; was clerk of the 

 Board of Chosen Freeholders ton years, and 

 was connected with several banking institu- 

 tions. 



Aug. 28. O'BRIEN, JOHN, Secretary of the 

 Catholic Total Abstinence Society of America ; 

 died in St John, N. B. 



Aug. 28. WOLLE, Rev. SYLVESTER, an emi- 

 nent Moravian minister; died at Bethlehem, 

 Pa., aged 58 years. At the time of his death 

 he was Treasurer of the Provincial Elders' 

 Conference, or Executive Board of the North- 

 ern Diocese of the Moravian Church, and was 

 also, by appointment, financial agent for the 

 Foreign and Home Missions of the Chun-li. 



Aug. 30. CABDOZA, JACOB N., a Southern 

 journalist, widely known and esteemed in 

 Georgia and South Carolina; died at Savan- 

 nah, Go., aged 87 years. 



Aug. 80. ROOT, Rev. DAVID, a Congrega- 

 ttooanol clergyman, reformer, and philanthro- 

 pist; died in Chicago, aged 83 years. He was a 

 native of Pomfret, Vt., graduated from Middle- 

 bury College, and labored several years as a 

 missionary in Georgia. In 1819 be became 

 pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in 

 Cincinnati, which position he held until 1832, 

 when he accepted a coll to the Congregational 

 Church, in Dover, N. H. Here he became 

 identified with the antislavery cause, for his 

 courage and devotion to which he endured 

 much persecution not only in Dover, but like- 

 wise in Waterbury, Conn., to which place he 

 afterward removed. Subsequently he held a 

 pastorate for a period of seven years in Guil- 

 ford, Conn., and in 1851 removed to New Ha- 

 ven. The following year he retired from the 

 ministry. Among his benevol v.-crc 



the endowment of a professorship in Beloit 

 College in 1858, to the amount of $10,000, a 

 donation of $20,000 to Yale Seminary in 1868, 

 and a gift of $5,000 to the American Mission- 

 ary Association in 1866. 



Sept. 1. HERRON, Rev. AJTDRRW, D. D., a 

 rnited Presbyterian minister; died at Cedar- 

 villc, Ohio, aged 86 years. He was the 

 minister in that denomination. For many 

 years ho was in the Associate Church, where 

 he was long the Stated Clerk of Synod ; he 

 subsequently transferred his membership tn 

 tin- Reformed Presbyterian Church, which, it 

 will be remembered, was one of three bodies 

 which, by their nnion in 1858, formed the 

 United Presbyterian Church. 



