OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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been an occasional contributor of valuable 

 articles to the columns of the New York Ob- 

 server. 



Oct. 13. RUSSELL, Colonel WILLIAM H. 

 ("Owl Russell ")) formerly private secretary to 

 Henry Clay ; died at Washington, D. C. Colo- 

 nel Russell was a native of Kentucky, and 

 had attained to considerable prominence as 

 a politician and office-holder there, but re- 

 moved to Missouri, where he was a member 

 of the State Legislature, and a candidate for 

 Congress; but an opponent, taking the advan- 

 tage of his foible of personal vanity, concocted 

 a ridiculous story of his replying to the " to 

 whoo " of an owl, by a recital of the offices he 

 had held and expected to hold, which not only 

 defeated bis election, but fastened upon him 

 the tobriqutt of " Owl Russell," which clung 

 to him through life. 



Oct. 13. SCOTT, T. PARKIN, Chief- Justice 

 of the Supreme Court of Baltimore; died in 

 that city, aged 69 years. He was the son of 

 Judge John Scott, of Baltimore, and was born 

 in that city, April 19, 1804. In 1825 he was 

 admitted to the bar, and succeeded his brother 

 aa Auditor of the County Circuit Court until 

 the nw constitution of 1S51. When the Cir- 

 cuit Court for Baltimore City was established 

 in 1853, he was appointed Auditor, serving in 

 that capacity for a period of ten years. He 

 was the first President of the Catholic Insti- 

 tute, and for many years vice-consul for the 

 Papal States, in Baltimore. In 1861 he took 

 active measures to induce Maryland to join 

 the seceding States. He published at that time 

 a pamphlet in favor of secession, entitled " The 

 Crisis; " was a member of the Legislature at 

 its special session of April 26, 1861, and threw 

 all his influence against the Union. For his 

 course at this time he was arrested, on Sep- 

 tember 12, 1861, conveyed to Fort McIIenry, 

 and thence to Fortress Monroe, whence two 

 weeks later he was sent to Fort Lafayette, and 

 after two months' imprisonment there trans- 

 ferred to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, where 

 he was confined for thirteen months more, and 

 then released by the Government. During 

 his incarceration his health suffered consider- 

 ably. On his release he resumed practice, and 

 at the close of the war wag elected Judge of 

 the City Court. In 1869 he was elected Chief- 

 Justice of the Supreme Court of Baltimore, 

 which office he continued to fill till his death. 

 He was a man of extensive and profound legal 

 attainments. 



Oct. 14. BEKESFOED, SAMUEL B., M. D., an 

 eminent physician and surgeon of Hartford, 

 Conn.; died there, aged about 70 years. Dr. 

 Beresford was a native of England, and was 

 educated there, but soon after receiving his 

 medical diploma went out to Demerara, South 

 America, where he practised his profession for 

 several years in partnership with an uncle, with 

 whom he came to Hartford about 1835, and 

 soon attained a large practice from his skill 

 and thorough knowledge of his profession. 



He had contributed many papers to the medi- 

 cal journals, but left, we believe, no other 

 publications. 



Oct. 22. HOYT, ADOLPHUS DAVENPORT (Dol- 

 ly Davenport), a well-known actor; died at 

 New Orleans, La. He was born at Stamford, 

 Conn., in 1831, and made his first appearance 

 on the stage in 1848, at Baltimore. In the 

 earlier part of his career he acted Claude Mel- 

 notte, and the lovers in general, but in his 

 riper years he excelled in such manlier juve- 

 nile parts as Horatio and Montana, and in 

 characters fraught with grotesque humor. His 

 Dalton, in the " Ticket-of-Leave Man," at- 

 tracted much attention, and also his Pinch- 

 loci: in Brougham's comedy. A part of his 

 youth was devoted to the study of law, but he 

 left the bar for the stage, and in 1853 was at 

 the old Broadway Theatre. In that year he 

 married Miss Lizzie Weston, but, the match 

 proving unfortunate, they were divorced in 

 1857, the lady subsequently becoming the wife 

 of Mr. Charles Mathews. The subsequent 

 career of Davenport was full of vicissitudes 

 and trouble. For the last ten years he had 

 acted for the most part in the Southern and 

 Southwestern cities. 



Oct. 23. SIXBURY, ROBERT, a noted hunter 

 on the John Brown Tract ; died at Leray, Jef- 

 ferson County, N. Y., at the age of 110 years 

 and 7 months. He had acquired great repu- 

 tation as a hunter in Northern New York, 

 where he had slain over 2,200 deer. It was 

 said that he used alcoholic stimulants to 

 excess, and "never with any conscientious 

 scruples." At eighty years of age he met with 

 an accident which necessitated the amputation 

 of one of his legs, and he assisted the country 

 doctor to perform the operation, which lie sur- 

 vived for a period of thirty years. He retained 

 his vigor nearly to the last. 



Oct. 24. BEBB, Hon. WILLIAM, former Gov- 

 ernor of Ohio ; died at Rockford, 111., aged 71 

 years. He was born of Welsh parents, in 

 Butler County, O., December, 1802. From 

 1846 to 1848 he was Governor of Ohio. He 

 was the father of the botanist, Bebb. 



Oct. 25. HEENAN, JOHN C ARM EL, a well- 

 known pugilist; died at Green River, Wyo- 

 ming Territory, aged 39 years. He was a na- 

 tive of West Troy, N. Y., where he was born, 

 May 22, 1835. In 1849 he went to California 

 as an Argonaut, and, being a blacksmith, ob- 

 tained work in a machine-shop at Benicia. 

 Being remarkably strong and well-formed, 

 Heenan picked up the rudiments of sparring, 

 and soon became famous locally as a success- 

 ful amateur. His first essay at the lessons of 

 the prize-ring was a challenge to Yankee Sul- 

 livan in 1855, but it never came to any thing. 

 In 1856 John came back to the Atlantic coast, 

 became a proficient in the "manly art," and a 

 match was arranged between him and John 

 Morrissey in 1858, when a terrific struggle 

 occurred, Morrissey winning. A year after 

 this, in April, 1860, Heenan went to England 



