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lie subsequently studied law, and went to Cali- 

 fornia admit 1849 or '50, where ho married, 

 vd iii busiiu'SB, and was for some years a 

 judirn in ono of the courts. In 1802 he re- 

 turned ti St. Louis, and from 1868 to 1807 was 

 -. (1 in cotton-planting in Mis- 

 xs-ippi nnd 1 nin-iana, where In- rented lar^o 

 plantations. Ho then came to Washington and 

 practised law with success. After President 

 (i rant's first election ho returned to Mississippi, 

 \\ lu-ro in 180'J he was nominated for Governor 

 by the National Union Republicans and sup- 

 1 l>y the Democrats. He was, however, 

 l>adly beaten by Mr. Alcorn, the regular Re- 

 publican candidate, who received twice as 

 many votes as he. Soon after he withdrew 

 iV.-m politics, and, again making his home in 

 Washington, engaged in a general practice of 

 law there. In December, 1878, he embraced 

 the Roman Catholic faith, and during his pro- 

 tracted illness was attended by Rev. Dr. White, 

 <>f St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church. 



March 23. DUNNING, Rev. EDWABD Os- 

 BOKNE, a Congregationalist clergyman and ar- 

 chaeologist; died in New Haven, Conn., aged 

 64 years. He graduated from Yale College in 

 1832, and from the Yalo Divinity School in 

 1835, and was settled as a pastor, in Rome and 

 in Canajoharie, N. Y., till 1846. He then ac- 

 cepted an appointment from the American 

 Bible Society as their agent in the Southern 

 States, in which he continued till the late civil 

 war, when he became a chaplain in the army 

 and was stationed at Cumberland, Md., but re- 

 turned to his Work after the war. He had be- 

 come very much interested years ago in ex- 

 ploring ancient mounds in various parts of the 

 South, and continued his explorations till a 

 few months before his death. 



March 24. TEAOT, Rev. JOSEPH, D. D., a 

 Congregationalist clergyman, journalist, and 

 author ; died at Beverly, Mass., in the 80th 

 year of his age. He was born in Hartford, 

 Vt.. November 8, 1794, graduated from Dart- 

 mouth College in 1814, and after a theological 

 course entered the ministry. He was pastor 

 at Thetford and West Fairiee, Vt., from 1821 

 to 1829, and subsequently for some years in 

 his native town, Hartford, Vt. Thence he 

 removed to Windsor, Vt., to edit the Ver- 

 mont Chronicle, where he continued five years, 

 and then went to Boston as editor of the Bos- 

 ton Recorder, being also a contributor to the 

 New York Observer, Journal of Commerce, etc. 

 He was appointed, a year or two later, New 

 England Secretary of the American Coloniza- 

 tion Society. He published: "Three Last 

 Things; " " History of the American Board ; " 

 "The Great Awakening" (1842); and "Me- 

 morial of the Colonization Society continued " 

 (1867). 



March 27. HARBISON, JOSEPH, an eminent 

 mechanical engineer, born in Philadelphia, in 

 1810 ; died there, aged 64 years. Having 

 mastered engineering science, he was one of 

 the first builders of locomotive-engines in this 



country ; and, his reputation becoming ettab- 

 li-hed, he was invited by the Czar to St. 

 Petersburg, where he OHtublished extensive 

 inach: and derived largo profits from 



contract* with the Russian Government. He 

 had erected several costly buildings in Phila- 

 delphia, nnd had collected a large and very 

 e gallery ( ,f paintings at his residence. 



March 29. BABTI.ETT, HOMER, a prominent 

 manufacturer and philanthropist, of Massachu- 

 setts; born in Granby, Conn., in July, 1795: 

 lied in Boston, aged 79 years. He graduated 

 from Williams College in 1818, studied law, 

 was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac- 

 tice in Williamstown ; removed to Ware, Mass., 

 in 1824, and soon after became cashier of a 

 bank there, but resigned in 1882, to become 

 connected with manufacturing. In 1887 he re- 

 moved to Lowell, and became manager of one 

 of the manufacturing companies there, and in 

 1860 removed to Boston, where he spent the 

 last fourteen years of his life. He was twice a 

 member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and 

 once a presidential elector. In 1854 he was a 

 member of the Governor's Council. He had 

 taken a deep interest in the struggle in regard 

 to the removal of Williams College to North- 

 ampton, in 1818-'21, and was a trustee of the 

 college from 1858 to 1869. He left it $4,500 

 in his will. 



March 81. HIRST, HENKY B., a poet and 

 magazine writer, of Philadelphia ; died in that 

 city, aged 61 years. He was born in Philadel- 

 phia, August 23, 1813; in his youth engaged 

 in mercantile pursuits, but finally studied law, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He had 

 at that time published several poems in Gra- 

 ham's Magazine, which were very popular. In 

 1845 his first collected volume of poems was 

 published in Boston, under the title of " The 

 Coming of the Mammoth : the Funeral of 

 Time, and Other Poems." In 1848 was pub- 

 lished his "Endymion: a Tale of Greece," in 

 four cantos. This was a classic story, varied 

 from the old Greek legend, and was written, 

 the author said, before he had perused the 

 poems of Keats. In 1849 he published another 

 volume of poems, which included a romance 

 entitled the "Penance of Roland," based on an 

 incident in the days of knighthood and rigor- 

 ous penalties. The volume also contained the 

 ballad " Florence," and verses descriptive of a 

 "robin's life." 



March . VAN TASSELL, Mrs., a missiona- 

 ry among the Ottawa Indians and subsequent- 

 ly a physician ; died in Maumee City, Ohio, 

 aged 89 years. She commenced her medical 

 education when she was fifty-eight years old ; 

 attended medical lectures in New York City, 

 and was said to have been the first woman 

 ever admitted to the full course of medical 

 lectures in this country. After qualifying her- 

 self for practice, she spent several years as a 

 medical practitioner in Memphis, Tenn. 



April 1. MARSH, Rev. SAMTEJL, a venerable 

 and able Congregationalist clergyman, born at 



