OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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2. HALL, NATHAN K., Judge of the 



I'. B. Dlitrid <'"nrt r..rt!io Noi-tln-m iMMri.-t 

 A Y,,rk ; died at Buffalo, N. Y., aged 64 

 years. He was born in Marcellus, Onondaga 

 Mnrrli, 1810, studied law in 

 the ol .:ml I'illmoro (afterward Presi- 



dent), whoso | .art nor in practice he became in 

 hold dii'A-ivnt administrative and judicial 

 - in liia native State, and was a Represent- 

 ative in Congress from 1847 to 1849. On Mr. 

 Killmore's accession to the presidency, in 1850, 

 he was appointed to the office of Postmaster- 

 mi, the responsible duties of which po- 

 Oi..n ho performed with strict integrity and 

 hoimr, never allowing himself to be influenced 

 liy unworthy or partisan motives. In 1852, on 

 the retirement of Judge Conkling from the 

 lii-in-h <>t' the U. 8. Court, Judge Hall was ap- 

 pointed his successor. Coming to this position 

 in the maturity of his powers, he devoted him- 

 self with patient industry, a conscience void 

 of all offense, and an earnest desire to be found 

 faithful to his great responsibilities, to his new 

 duties. No one of the U. S. District Court 

 j ml ires won a higher reputation for legal 

 knowledge, sterling integrity, and judicial 

 ability, than Judge Hall. 



M.irch 2. HAWKINS, Mrs. MART ANNE, 

 widow of Charles W. Hawkins, a devoted and 

 philanthropic Christian woman; died in Brook- 

 lyn, X. Y., aged 66 years. Her attention was 

 called early to the condition of children and 

 youth, and especially of young girls, who were 

 morally imperilled, and without home or 

 friends who could protect them from falling 

 into vice. She possessed great executive abil- 

 ity, and was earnest, persevering, and self- 

 denying, in her labors in their behalf. She 

 was one of the founders of the American 

 Female Guardian Society, and it was largely 

 through her efforts that the present commo- 

 dious and eminently useful u Home for the 

 Friendless " was erected, furnished, and lib- 

 erally endowed. She was almost from the first 

 President of the Female Guardian Society and 

 editor of the Advocate and Guardian, and 

 though for many years she had been an in- 

 valid, confined to her couch and easy-chair, 

 and much of the time suffering severe pain, 

 she was so wise in counsel, so clear-headed 

 and able in planning and carrying out meas- 

 ures for the society's advancement, that she 

 was retained in the presidency till her death. 

 Few women have been so signally useful. 



March 2. STEPHENS, Rev. JOHN L., a mis- 

 sionary of the American Board in Mexico, was 

 murdered by a mob at Ahualulco, Mexico, aged 

 27 years. He was a native of Swansea, Wales, 

 and came in early childhood to America ; was 

 educated in California, graduated from the 

 Theological Seminary of the Pacific, and while 

 pursuing his studies taught a night-school of 

 Chinese, into which some native Mexicans 

 found their way. Becoming deeply interested 

 in the latter, he sought an appointment as 

 missionary to Mexico, was ordained in Sep- 



tember, 1872, and soon after left for the field 

 of labor. Having been prospered in hit work 

 at Guadalajara, he courageously proceeded to 

 Ahualulco, where he fell a sacrifice to hi* mis- 

 sionary ardor. 



.March 8. BUBBALL, WILLIAM POBTSB, a 

 prominent railroad officer; died in Hartford, 

 Conn., aged 68 years. He was born at Canaan, 

 Conn., graduated from Yale College in the 

 class of 1826 ; studied law in Salisbury, and 

 the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted 

 to the bar of Litchfield County in April, 1829. 

 Ho practised law in his native town until Oc- 

 tober, 1889, when he was chosen president of 

 the llousatonio Railroad Company, just organ- 

 ized, and removed to Bridgeport, Conn. This 

 office he held for the period of fifteen years, 

 when he resigned in consequence of the press- 

 ure of other engagements. He was also con- 

 nected with the New York & New Haven 

 Railroad during its construction and the ear- 

 lier years of its operation ; was treasurer, and 

 afterward president, of the Illinois Central 

 Railroad, vice-president, and afterward presi- 

 dent, of the Hartford & New Haven Railroad, 

 and was finally vice-president of the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad upon 

 the consolidation of those companies. In 1859 

 he removed to Salisbury, and subsequently 

 represented that town several times in the 

 General Assembly, and had also been a mem- 

 ber of the State Senate. 



March 3. FOWLER, ROBEBT, a leading mer- 

 chant and politician in Baltimore; died there. 

 He held the office of State Treasurer from 

 1862 to 1870, and was a member of the pres- 

 ent Maryland House of Delegates. During 

 the war he was a strong Unionist, and as a 

 business-man he was largely identified with 

 the commercial interests of the State. 



March 8. RITCHIE, Captain DAVID, U. S. 

 Revenue Marine Service ; died on Long Island, 

 aged 88 years. He was a gallant officer, and 

 rendered good service at the Metis disaster in 

 saving nineteen of the passengers from drown- 

 ing, for which he received the thanks of Con- 

 gress. 



March 11. BONDI, Rev. J. D. D., a Hebrew 

 rabbi, scholar, and editor ; died in New York 

 City, aged 70 years. He was born at Dresden, 

 Saxony, in 1804, and came to this country 

 about 1854. Since 1865 he had been editor 

 of the Hebrew Leader. He was also the au- 

 thor of several controversial works. 



March 18. GARDNER, HIRAM, a New York 

 jurist; died at his residence in Lockport, X. Y. 

 He was one of the earliest settlers of that 

 town. He was elected to the Assembly for 

 Niagara County in 1886. In 1847 he was 

 elected County Judge, and in 1868 he was re- 

 appointed to the same court by Governor Fen- 

 ton, in place of Judge Laurent, who had been 

 appointed to the Supreme Court. He was 

 elected Canal Commissioner in 1868. 



March 18. SHARPS, CHRISTIAN, inventor of 

 the famous Sharps rifle ; died at Vernon, 



