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and became distinguished for his monuments, 

 statues, and groups, a number of which adorn 

 Greenwood Cemetery. He was also the sculp- 

 tor, or designer, of several of the soldiers' 

 monuments in different sections of the coun- 

 try, and aided his father both in the design 

 and execution of the statue and monument to 

 General Thomas at Troy, N. Y. He was killed 

 by a railroad collision in Harlem Tunnel. 



Jan. 22. RICH, THOMAS B., a venerable and 

 estimable citizen of New York City, for many 

 years engaged in the manufacture of chemical 

 and medical drugs and preparations, the first 

 to introduce into the American market carbolic 

 acid and its various compounds, and for thirty 

 years past the faithful and efficient treasurer 

 of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Asso- 

 ciate Reformed and United Presbyterian 

 Churches a work of great labor and respon- 

 sibility, and -at times involving large advances, 

 and which he performed during the whole 

 time without any remuneration. He was a 

 native of New York City, and died there, aged 

 80 years. 



Jan. 25. HOLTON, Prof. ISAAC FARWELL, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, a botanist, chemist, 

 professor, and journalist, born in Westminster, 

 Vt., August 30, 1812 ; prepared for college at 

 South Berwick, Me., and Amherst Academy, 

 Amherst, Mass. ; graduated from Amherst 

 College in 1836, having taught his way through 

 college ; graduated from Union Theological 

 Seminary in 1839, and was licensed to preach 

 the same year. In 1840 he went to Illinois as 

 a home missionary, and during the next five 

 years, besides preaching, was instructor in 

 Greek and natural history in the " Mission In- 

 stitute " near Quincy, 111., and from 1844 prin- 

 cipal of a school near Natchez, Miss. ; from 

 1848 to 1852 professor in the New York Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy ; in 1853 and 1854 lecturer 

 in chemistry and natural history to the College 

 of New Jersey ; in 1855-'56 he was traveling in 

 New Granada, and studying its flora, and on 

 his return for two years Professor of Chemis- 

 try and Natural History in Middlebury College, 

 Vt., acting as pastor of the Congregational 

 Church in Meredith Bridge, N. H., the while. 

 In 1857 he brought out his work, " New 

 Granada ; Twenty Months in the Andes," and 

 soon after went to Illinois, where he remained 

 in the pastorate for five years, not having re- 

 ceived ordination until 1860. Coming East in 

 1864, he engaged in literary labor, and in 1865 

 became one of the editorial staff of the Boston 

 Recorder, and was one of the editors of the 

 Boston Daily News from its establishment, be- 

 sides doing much other literary work. He 

 was also, at the time of his death, clerk of 

 the State Senate Committee on Elections. His 

 death was the result of heart-disease, and oc- 

 curred at his residence in Everett, Mass., in the 

 62d year of his age. 



Jan. 28. ALEIOKS, HERMAN, an eminent law- 

 yer, antiquarian, and historical writer, a de- 

 scendant of the oldest Dutch family in Penn- 



sylvania ; died in Harrisburg, Pa. He ranked 

 among the most distinguished lawyers of his 

 State both for his professional learning and his 

 wide general attainments, and was, withal, a 

 man of the most sterling integrity. No man 

 in the State had so thorough a knowledge of 

 the history of Pennsylvania, both as a colony 

 and an independent State. 



Jan. . RUNNELS, ex-Governor HARRISON 

 GRAY, a political leader and politician of 

 Texas, being a member of the Legislature of 

 that State, elected Governor in 1857 over 

 General Sam Houston, and held office from 

 1857 to 1859 ; died in Texas. He was an ac- 

 tive supporter of the Confederacy, and after 

 the war retired to private life. 



Jan. . RUOFF, CHARLES, a German ma- 

 chinist, a native of Wurtemberg, who settled 

 in Philadelphia in 1822, and from that time 

 waa actively engaged in the manufacture of 

 iron-work. He invented a machine for cutting 

 grooves in cannon and gun-barrels similar to 

 that which was afterward patented by Sir 

 William Armstrong. He died in Philadelphia, 

 aged 76 years. 



Feb. 1. COBLEIGH, Rev. N. E., a Methodist 

 clergyman and journalist ; died in Atlanta, 

 Ga. He was formerly a resident of Boston, 

 Mass., where he was one of the editors of 

 Zion's Herald, and at the time of his death 

 was editing the Atlanta Methodist Advocate. 



Feb. 2. DODGE, NATHANIEL S., an American 

 author; died in Boston, aged 64 years. He 

 was a very voluminous contributor to news- 

 papers and magazines, and wrote useful and 

 entertaining articles. He saw some service as 

 an army quartermaster, and was afterward a 

 clerk in one of the departments at Washington. 

 At the time of his death he was president of 

 the " Papyrus Club," an organization of liter- 

 ary men in Boston. He was the author of 

 " Stories of a Grandfather about American 

 History." 



Feb. 2. Louis, JACOB, an old soldier of Na- 

 poleon; died in New York City, aged 107 

 years. He fought in the battles of Leipsic, 

 Cairo, Alexandria, Austerlitz, Moscow, and 

 Waterloo, receiving in these engagements nine- 

 teen wounds, nearly all in the right leg. He 

 came to this country in 1847, and married his 

 last wife when he was eighty-one years of age. 



Feb. 3. MILLS, Mrs. C. R., wife of Rev. C. 

 R. Mills, Presbyterian missionary at Tung- 

 chow, China; died there. She was formerly 

 from Buffalo, N. Y., where she was married in 

 1857, and immediately entered upon her mis- 

 sionary work. After about fourteen years of 

 service, she returned with her husband on a 

 visit to this country, and had resumed her la- 

 bors at Tungchow only two or three years since. 



Feb. 4. VAN ALEN, JAMES I., an eminent 

 New York merchant; died at Fort Wash- 

 ington, in the 86th year of his age. He en- 

 tered upon his business career about 1811, and 

 might t>e called one of the founders of the 

 commercial prosperity of New York, ranking 



