OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



579 



Sept. 2. HICKMAN, ROBERT S. (known as 

 " Bean " Hickman) ; died in Washington, D. 0., 

 aged 60 years. lie was supposed to be a na- 

 tive of Virginia or Maryland. He made his 

 appearance in Washington about the time of 

 the Mexican War, and at once became noted 

 for the elegance of his dress and manners. 

 He was on intimate terms with most of the 

 prominent men of his time, and his personal 

 reminiscences were useful to him in his de- 

 clining days in securing an odd quarter from 

 some stranger who would listen to him. In- 

 offensive and civil in his manners, pleasant in 

 his address, witty, talkative, always good-na- 

 tured and respectful, "Beau" Hickman spent 

 his time in Washington hotels and other places 

 where the traveling public could be found, al- 

 ways watching for an opportunity to make a 

 request for " that quarter." For years he lived 

 easily and merrily on his pitiful gains, but when 

 old age began to creep upon him, and the peo- 

 ple had heard all his stories, his fast-waning 

 popularity lessened his receipts, until poverty 

 induced sickness and death. 



Sept. 2. HBBBABD, DEMAS, formerly mem- 

 ber of Congress from New York ; died at Smyr- 

 na, N. Y., aged 68 years. He was born in Win- 

 field, Herkimer County, N. Y., January 17, 

 1806; received an academical education ; stud- 

 ied law, and was for many years supervisor of 

 Chenango County. From 1838 to 1840 he was 

 a member of the State Legislature, and from 

 1865 to 1867 was a Representative from the 

 Ilerkimer District to the Thirty-ninth Con- 

 gress, serving on the committee on the Post- 

 Office and Post-roads. 



Sept. 2. REID, CHESTER ISIIAM, ex-Judge 

 of the Superior Court of Massachusetts ; died 

 at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, Va., 

 aged 50 years. 



Sept. 3. RINGS, D., first Chief-Justice of 

 Arkansas ; died at Little Rock. 



Sept. 4. APPELMAN, Colonel HIBAM, late 

 Secretary of the State of Connecticut ; died at 

 Mystic Bridge. During the late war, he com- 

 manded the Eighth Connecticut Regiment, and 

 his death was the result of wounds received at 

 the battle of Antietam. 



Sept. 5. LAMOXT, CHARLES A., a prominent 

 Wall-Street broker ; was killed by an acci- 

 dental fall in Fifth Avenue, New York City. 

 He was highly esteemed as a citizen, and was 

 at one time in the sugar-refining business, firm 

 of Plume & Lamont. In 1863 he became a 

 Wall-Street broker, in which business he was 

 very successful. 



pt. 10. WAKE, Judge ASHTTR, LL. D., an 

 eminent admiralty jurist, and former jour- 

 nalist; died in Portland, Me., aged 92 years. 

 He was born in Sherbnrne, Mass., February 

 10, 1782; graduated from Harvard University 

 in 1R04, was tutor there from 1807 to 1811, 

 and Professor of Greek from isil to 1815. 

 He edited the Boston Yankee, in Boston, one 

 year, was admitted to the Boston bar in 1816, 

 and, removing to Portland in 1817, prac- 



tised his profession and edited the Portland 

 Eastern Argus until 1820, when he was made 

 Secretary of the State of Maine. From 1822 

 to 1866 he served as Judge of the United 

 States District Court of Maine. In 1839 he 

 published "Reports of Cases, United States 

 District Court of Maine," 1822 to 1839; and 

 later contributed to Bouvier's " Law Diction- 

 ary" articles on "Admiralty Jurisdiction," 

 "On the Duty of Masters of Vessels," and 

 " Privileged Debts." 



Sept. 11. MoCooK, General EDWIN STAN- 

 TON. Territorial Secretary, and at one time 

 Acting Governor of Dakota: was assassinated 

 at Yankton, Dakota, by P. P. W intern uite, a 

 banker of Yankton, who had once aspired to 

 the general's position, and who had sought a 

 quarrel with him. General McCook was the 

 fifth son of General Daniel McCook of New 

 Lisbon, Columbia County, Ohio, who, with his 

 eight sons, took an active port in the late war. 

 They were all brave, resolute, and earnest men, 

 and, though not remarkable for military abil- 

 ity, several of them, and among the number 

 the father and three of the sons, sealed their 

 patriotism with their blood. Edwin, born 

 at New Lisbon, was named after Edwin M. 

 Stanton, and was as brave as the rest. After 

 being wounded by Wintermute, and though 

 himself unarmed, he seized his assailant and 

 dashed him to the floor. Wintermute fired 

 three times, and with fatal effect. 



Sept. 11. WOBTBINGTON, WlLMER, M. D., a 



prominent and estimable physician and public 

 citizen of Pennsylvania, born in Westchester, 

 Pa. ; died there, aged 70 years. He had a 

 very high professional reputation, and an ex- 

 tensive consulting practice; had been Presi- 

 dent of the State Medical Society, and was 

 greatly esteemed by his brethren in the pro- 

 fession. He had also mingled in political life, 

 had been a member of both branches of the 

 State Legislature, and President of the Senate. 

 For some years previous to his death, he had 

 been the executive officer of the Board of State 

 Charities, having in charge the duty of making 

 a personal visitation of all institutions, educa- 

 tional or humanitarian, enjoying State aid. 

 Dr. Worthington was a man of the highest in- 

 tegrity and religious principle, a leading and 

 influential elder in the Presbyterian Church, 

 and often a commissioner in the General As- 

 sembly of that church. 



Sept. 18. PIERCK, Colonel GEORGE H., a 

 prominent political leader of New Hampshire, 

 long connected with the Democratic party; 

 died in Dover, N. H. 



Sept. 18. MERRILL, Rev. SAMTTEL H., aCon- 

 gregationalist clergyman, and author, settled at 

 Scarboro', Me. ; died there from paralysis, with 

 which he had been seized in the pulpit, on the 

 31st of August, aped 68 years. Mr. Merrill 

 was a graduate of a Western college and of 

 Lane Theological Seminary, and had been for 

 many years a pastor in Maine. He went out 

 as chaplain of the First Maine Cavalry during 



