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OBITTJAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



the Mutual Life Insurance Company, vice- 

 president of the Relief Fire Insurance Compa- 

 ny, and active in all business matters. 



June 4. MENDENHALL, GEOBQE, ' M. D., an 

 eminent physician, professor, and philanthro- 

 pist ; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 60 years. 

 He was born in Sharon, Pa., in 1814, of Quaker 

 parentage, studied medicine under Dr. Benja- 

 min Stanton, at Salem, Ohio, and was so pro- 

 ficient as to receive his diploma in Philadelphia 

 before he had attained the age of twenty-one. 

 In 1843 he settled in Cincinnati, where he hence- 

 forth resided, enjoying in due time extensive 

 practice, and holding the first rank in his pro- 

 fession. He became noted especially for his 

 success in obstetrics, and was successively pro- 

 fessor of that branch of medical science at the 

 Miami and Ohio Medical Colleges. Dr. Men- 

 denhall was a Fellow of the Koyal Obstetrical 

 Society of England, and was president of the 

 National Medical Association of this country. 

 Dr. Mendenhall was a man of great benevo- 

 lence and philanthropy, and at the organiza- 

 tion of the Sanitary Commission, at the com- 

 mencement of the late civil war, he was one 

 of the " associates," and president of the Cin- 

 cinnati branch of the Commission. In this 

 capacity he rendered great and valuable ser- 

 vices to the work of the Commission, and, sec- 

 onded by the energetic and judicious assistance 

 of his estimable wife, who was president of the 

 Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of that city, he 

 made the Cincinnati branch one of the most 

 efficient auxiliaries of the Commission. After 

 the close of the war the attention of Dr. and 

 Mrs. Mendenhall was attracted to other phi- 

 lanthropic work in the city of their adoption, 

 and their charitable labors will be long re- 

 membered. 



June 12. McNAUGHTON, JAMES, M. D., an 

 eminent physician and medical professor ; died 

 in Paris, France, aged 78 years. He was of 

 Scotch descent, and born in Perthshire, Scot- 

 land, in 1796. He was prepared for the uni- 

 versity at Kenmure College, and graduated 

 from the medical department of the University 

 of Edinburgh in 1816. The following year he 

 came to this country and entered upon the 

 practice of his profession in Albany, N". Y. 

 Subsequently he was chosen professor in the 

 Medical College of Fairfield, Herkimer County, 

 N. Y., which position he held for a period of 

 twenty years. In 1840 he was elected Pro- 

 fessor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in 

 the Albany Medical College, where he remained 

 until his death. During his connection with 

 this latter institution it is stated that he never 

 missed one week of lectures, so thoroughly 

 devoted was he to his work, and at the time 

 of his death he was the oldest teacher of medi- 

 cine living, having lectured for fifty-three years, 

 and delivered seventy courses of lectures. Dr. 

 McNaughton served for a time as president of 

 the Albany County Medical Society, was a 

 governor of the medical department of Union 

 University, and president of the medical and 



surgical staff of the Albany Hospital. He was 

 traveling in Europe with hia family and had 

 reached the railroad depot in Paris, prepara- 

 tory to starting for Geneva, Switzerland, when 

 he was taken with faintness and survived but 

 a few hours. 



June 13. McKiM, JAMES MILLEE, a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and famous antislavery 

 leader; died at West Orange, K J., aged 64 

 years. He was born in 1810, studied at Dick- 

 inson College, Pa., and Princeton College, N. 

 J., and entered the ministry as pastor of a 

 church at Womelsdorf, N. J., in 1835. A few 

 years previous, a copy of Garrison's " Thoughts 

 on Colonization " fell into his hands, the pe- 

 rusal of which made him an abolitionist. He 

 served as a delegate in the convention which 

 formed the Antislavery Society, and from that 

 time the objects of his ministry and of the 

 Society became inseparable. In October, 1836, 

 he left the pulpit to devote all his time and 

 energies to the cause of emancipation, accept- 

 ing a lecturing agency under the auspices of 

 the Society. In the summer of 1834 he de- 

 livered addresses in Pennsylvania, and although 

 often subjected to obloquy, and even danger 

 from personal violence, he knew no fear, neither 

 was his zeal in any degree abated. His theo- 

 logical views having undergone some change, 

 he was led to sever his connection with the 

 Presbyterian Church and its ministry, and in 

 1840 removed to Philadelphia and became the 

 publishing agent of the Pennsylvania Anti- 

 slavery Society. His principal duties, at first, 

 were the management of the Pennsylvania 

 Freeman, which he also edited for a short 

 time, after the retirement of John G. Whittier. 

 His duties were subsequently much enlarged, 

 and his position changed to that of correspond- 

 ing secretary of the Society, in which capacity 

 he acted for a quarter of a century as a general 

 manager of the affairs of the Society, taking 

 an active part in the national as well as local 

 antislavery work. The- Pennsylvania Free- 

 man was consolidated with the National Anti- 

 slavery Standard in 1854, subsequently to 

 which time he acted as a correspondent of the 

 latter journal. Mr. McKim's position and la- 

 bors brought him in constant contact with the 

 operations of the "underground railroad," and 

 he was frequently connected with the slave 

 cases which came before the courts, especially 

 after the passage of the Fugitive-slave Law of 

 1851. In the winter of 1862, immediately after 

 the capture of Port Royal, he procured the 

 calling of a public meeting of the citizens of 

 Philadelphia, to consider and provide for the 

 wants of the 10,000 slaves who had been sud- 

 denly liberated. One of the results of this 

 meeting was the organization of the Phila- 

 delphia Port Royal Relief Committee. By re- 

 quest he visited the Sea Islands, accompanied 

 by his daughter, and on his return made a re- 

 port which served his associates as a basis of 

 operations, and which was republished exten- 

 sively in this country and abroad. He con- 



