OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



617, ho chased a British blockade-runner into 

 Cuban waters and fired on her. The matter 

 was investigated, and Commander Hunter was 

 placed on the retired list. In 1866, by act of 

 CongreM, be was promoted to be captain on 

 the retired list, since which he had resided in 

 Newport and its vicinity. 



Not. 22. MUTER, CIIAKLKS, an eminent Bos- 

 ton merchant and railroad-builder; was lost 

 with his wife on the Villo du Iluvre, aged 66 

 years. In 1843 he retired from a large com- 

 mission business, and had resided for some 

 years abroad. After a short visit to this 

 country, they were returning to their foreign 

 home upon the ill-fated steamer. 



Not. 23. SIGOUBNEY, HKSBT, an eminent 

 manufacturer of Boston ; was lost on the Villo 

 du Havre, aged 42 years. He graduated from 

 Harvard University in 1851. He was a direc- 

 tor in the Laconia and Pepperell Manufacturing 

 Companies, and also in the Lowell Railroad 

 Corporation. 



Nov. 24. HITCHCOCK, SAMUEL A., a wealthy 

 and philanthropic citizen of lirimfield, Moss. ; 

 died there, aged 89 years. Ho had been the 

 architect of his own fortune, coming np from 

 small beginnings and a humble position, but 

 commenced his course of generosity when his 

 property was much less than it ultimately bo- 

 came. After his retirement from business his 

 gilts became increasingly large each year. At 

 bis death bis property amounted to about $8,- 

 000,000, and be left no will. His gifts to be- 

 nevolent objects before his death comprise his 

 endowment of the Hitchcock Free High School 

 in his native town with $30,000; donations to 

 Amherst College aggregating $175,000, $100,- 

 000 being prevented last year; contributions to 

 the fund of the Andover Theological Seminary, 

 $1 J, 000; $50,000 to the Illinois College at 

 Jacksonville, 111., and $8,000 to Tabor (Iowa) 

 College. Mr. Hitchcock also gave to the church 

 at Brimfield $5,000 as a fund, and within a year, 

 $40,000 toward the Congregational house in 

 Boston. The full extent of his benefactions is 

 believed to reach $650,000. 



Not. 27. NKWKLL, Mias Lcov LAXODON, a 

 member of the Shaker commnnity ; died at 

 Alfred, Me., aged 97 years. She was born 

 July 4, 1776, the birthday of the republic, 

 and was to have been a prominent figure in 

 the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia. 

 She Is supposed to have been the last of the 

 children of Independence day and year. 



Not. 28. MoKmrB, JAMBS, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician In Topsham, Me. ; died there, 

 aged 76 yean. Ho was a member of the 

 medical profession fifty years, and held a pro- 

 (Morship in Itowdoin College fourteen yean. 



Not. Ml Mono, Jons M., an eminent 

 Journalist; died in Washington, I). 0., aged 87 

 yean. He was a native of Connecticut, and 

 wu once editor of the Okarle$ton Itepublioan, 

 and later of the Washington Chronir.U. At 

 the time of his death he was the Executive 

 Clerk of the United State* Senate. 



Nov. 29. RKDFIELD, P. M. W.. M. D., a 

 professor in the New York City Normal Col- 

 lege; died in Harlem, N. V. 



Nov. 80. GEBUARD, LEWIS I'., M. !>., an 

 eminent physician and medical writer of 1'liilu 

 delphia; died there, aged 83 years. Hu 

 graduated from the University of Pennsylva- 

 nia, with the class of 1813, and from that 

 time bad been in continuous practice of his 

 [.rot'ess'ion, having first opened an office in 

 froy. In 1816 he removed to Philadelphia, 

 and from that time identified himself with 

 the benevolent enterprises of the day, among 

 which was the formation of a colonization 

 society, of which he was a member. He was 

 the leader and promoter in establishing the 

 first temperance society in Pennsylvania; tho 

 place of meeting being his parlor, and the 

 number consisting of three a chairman, sec- 

 retary, and treasurer who resolved them- 

 selves into an executive committee of three. 

 As the oldest practitioner in Philadelphia, he 

 was regarded with great esteem by the fac- 

 ulty, and only a few weeks previous to his 

 death, attended a medical consultation in the 

 interior of New Jersey. 



Not. 80. ROCKWELL, WILUAJC H., M. D., 

 Superintendent of the Asylum for tho Insane 

 at liruttlcboro, Vt. ; died there, aged 74 years. 

 He was one of the oldest superintendents in 

 the country, and had a higli reputation in tho 

 treatment- of the insane for many years, Imt. 

 within the last two or three years there hud 

 been much complaint of his management. 



Nov. . Surra, STEPHEN, a colored citi- 

 zen of Gcrmantown, Pa. ; died there. He 

 was born a slave, but purchased his own free- 

 dom in his nineteenth year, and eventually ac- 

 quired a handsome fortune, which he used 

 with great liberality for the benefit of his 

 race. He was a preacher in tho Methodist 

 Church, and built, at his own expense, tho 

 "Zion Methodist Church of Philadelphia." 



Not. . HTDE, HENRY H., a veteran life- 

 insurance agent nnd underwriter of Boston ; 

 died there, aged 70 years. Ho was of Puritan 

 stock and Now England birth. For twcttty- 

 fivo years he was an agent of tho Mutual Life 

 Insurance, ton of which he spent in traveling 

 from State to State, insuring people in some 

 cases almost against their own will his 

 natural eloquence and magnetic power ren- 

 dering him almost resistless. For tho last 

 fifteen years he had boon the General Agent 

 of the Mutual Life Insurance at Boston. 



Not. . FOBSTAU, EDMOND J., a banker 

 and sugar-planter of Louisiana; died there. 

 For twenty-Sve years he represented the house 

 of Baring Brothers of London, in New Or- 

 leans. Ho was twenty years a member of tho 

 Louisiana Legislature, and expended large 

 sums in advancing tho art of sugar-making. 

 Mr. Forstall was an authority upon finance, 

 and a man of general information. 



Not. . HBYER, Rev. 0. T., a Lutheran 

 clergyman and missionary ; died at the Luther- 



