088 OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Dee, 20. Gorin, Mrs. GBOROK, formerly a 

 missionary and teacher of the A. B. (.'. F. M., 

 At Mt. Lebanon, Syria ; died at Jamaica Plain, 

 near Boston. She was Corresponding Secre- 

 tary of the Women's Board of Missions, hav- 

 ing been associate. 1 with that body since its 

 organization as one of its most earnest and 

 efficient workers. 



Dee. 22. Ao \ssiz, Mrs. ALEXANDER, daugh- 

 ter-in-law of the late Professor Agassiz; died 

 in Oatubridge, Mass., of pneumonia, sup. rin- 

 dnced by fatigue in her unceasing attentions 

 at the time of hU death. She was the grand- 

 daughter of the late Robert G. Shaw, of Bos- 

 ton, and was a lady of remarkable worth and 

 culture, greatly beloved by a wide social and 

 literary circle. 



Dtf. -2-2. Ilumi-i, WILLIAM, for many years 

 a leading fur dealer in Baltimore, Md. ; died 

 there, at the age of 92 years. He came to this 

 country from Russia sixty years ago ; became 

 connected with the Hudson Bay Company, and 

 was an intimate friend of John Jacob Astor, of 

 New York, and Pierre Choteau, Jr., ofSt. Louis. 



Dee. 22. HEMOXD, CHARLES LENOX, a fa- 

 mous antislavery reformer ; died at Reading, 

 Mass. He was of African descent, and highly 

 educated. He visile*! the great Antislavery 

 Convention in England in 1H40, and remained 

 Abroad as a lecturer for two years. 



JOXES, SAMUEL T., a lawyer of 

 Brooklyn, United States Commissioner, and 

 Clerk of United States Circuit and District 

 Courts ; died in Br.xjklyn, aged 80 years. Ho 

 was born in Wilton. Kairtield County, Conn., 

 and at the age of ei :htcen went to New York 

 and studied law with his brother. 



/' . .'I. M< ISOOE, LYMAX J., publisher 

 and proprietor of the Vermont Chronide ; died 

 at Rutland. Vt. H-> had long been connected 

 with that paper, which was the organ of the 

 Oongregationalists of Northern New England, 

 and was greatly esteemed by all who knew 

 him. 



Dee. 25. RtrrasLS, ex-Governor Harrison 

 R. ; died in Bowie County, Miss. He was a na- 

 tive of Mississippi, bat in 1841 removed to 

 Texas, and until the war was a large cotton- 

 planter on Red River. He early became con- 

 nected with the political history of Texas, serv- 

 ing eight rears in the Legislature, during the 

 last of which he was Speaker of the House. 

 In 1835 he wai elected UMtauat-Ovranor. 

 In 1857 he was elected Governor of the State 

 by a Urge majority over Ram Houston. 



Dec. 88. TELLER, c..lon,.l PAVIBL W.. a 

 wealthy merchant of New York; died in that 

 city, lie canned surveys to be made, at his 

 own expense, for a canal across the 1st limns 

 of Darien. 



Dee. 27. PATTI*. WILLIAM 8., a banker of 

 Providence, R. I. ; died there, aged 78 years. 

 He win a native of Newport, and a son of 

 Rev. William Patten, D. D., for nearly fifty 

 years pMtor of a Oongregationalist Church in 

 Providence. He graduated at Brown Univer- 



sity in 1818, studied law, and entered njm 

 the practice of iiis profession in Newport, ami 

 subsequently removed to Providence. In No- 

 vember, 1831, he became cashier of tlie Manu- 

 rers' Bonk, which position he held lor a 

 period of more than forty-two years. Alter 

 the organization of the city government, he 

 served tor several years as a member of tlie 

 Common Council, and was twice president of 

 that body. He was also, for three ye. 

 member of the General Assembly, of t lie Low- 

 er House of which he was Speaker in 184 , 

 He was one of the founders of the Providence 

 Atheiiajnm, and for thirty years was act 

 connected with the administration of ii 

 fairs, holding the position of vice-president of 

 its corporation for nine years, and of presi- 

 dent for fourteen years. In 1856 he became a 

 trustee of Brown University, and since 1867 

 had been Chancellor of that institution. 



Dee. 30. BAYLOR, Rev. R. E. B., a Baptist 

 clergyman of Texas, and subsequently, t' >r more 

 than thirty years, a political leader; died at Gay 

 Hill, Texas. He was a Representative, in Con- 

 press from Alabama from 1829 to 1881. He was 

 the founder of Baylor University, Texas. 



Dee. . GniMKE, SARAH, an eloquent and 

 influential advocate of antislavery prim 

 died at Englewood, N. J. She was a daughter 

 of Chief-Justice Grimke, of South Carolina, 

 and a member of the Society of Friends, lie- 

 coming convinced of the social and moral evils 

 of slavery, she, together with her sister. An- 

 gelina, emancipated their slaves, and . 

 North to lecture upon slavery. Both sifters 

 wore well educated and highly accomplished. 

 while their purity of character and deep-toned 

 piety gave them great influence in their pub- 

 lic course. They were ready writers, and, 

 while lecturing through tlie Northern S 

 wrote for the press on slavery and woman's 

 rights. Sarah was the author of a book re- 

 viewing the Bible argument,", which some of 

 the clergy were using to prove that the ! 

 dation of the slave and woman were alike in 

 harmony with the expressed will of God. 



Dee. . Winrpi.E, INDEPENDENCE, a vener- 

 able citizen of Uxbridgo, Mass; died there, aged 

 96 years. He was noticed, when a child, by 

 Washinprton. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 1. KRAUT, 

 Prof. WiuiBUf THEODOR, Ph. D., a German 

 jurist and publicist; died at Gdttingen. 

 78 years. He was born at Lmiebnrg. in 

 March, 1800, educated at the Univereitte* of 

 (l.'ttin.'en ami Berlin, where he studied law 

 under Hugo, Kichorn. nnd Savigny. In 

 he became instructor in the College of .In 

 at Gottingen, adjunct professor in 1828, and 

 full professor of German law in 1880, in the 

 university. From 1850 to 1868 he wit in the 

 Hanoverian Senate, as representative of the 

 university. He was moderately liberal in his 

 political opinions, but did not, like some of bis 

 brother professors, fall under the displeasure 

 of the Government. In 1887, however, he 



