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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



model manufacturing village of South Man- 

 chester, built np entirely by these brothers, a 

 " rural paradise for workmen," as it has been 

 well called, with its cottage homes, its churches, 

 public halls, schools, and libraries, is a nobler 

 monument to their practical benevolence, their 

 intense faith in human brotherhood, and their 

 attachment to those who for a generation have 

 been their faithful employ6s, than pillar, statue, 

 or storied pile, since it has developed their rare 

 culture, their sweet charity and philanthropy, 

 and has offered a practical example of the har- 

 mony which may exist between employers and 

 workmen. Here all the brothers had their 

 homes, and they sought to surround them with 

 artistic beauty and with the sweet atmosphere 

 of affection and sympathy. In all these move- 

 ments of business, artistic taste, or philanthro- 

 py, Charles Cheney shared most heartily with 

 his brothers, every thing being done by the har- 

 monious concurrence of all. It fell to his lot 

 in the management of their business to spend 

 a considerable portion of his time in Hartford, 

 where they had also extensive manufactories ; 

 and he came to be considered as in some sort 

 a citizen of that city ; and one of its most elo- 

 quent and accomplished writers said of him, at 

 his death : " He was in the best sense a public 

 man, without being an office-holder (except for 

 a term or two in the Legislature), and in fact 

 always shrinking from any public display. He 

 took the warmest interest in political affairs, 

 especially in the moral questions, and his name 

 and purse were always at the service of the 

 cause of humanity. He was an abolitionist 

 when it was singular to be one, and, in all the 

 drama of the war and the preparation for it, he 

 was one of the wise whose counsel was sought, 

 one of the liberal to whom appeal was never 

 made in vain. Whenever aid was sought for 

 any thing worthy, the name of Charles Cheney 

 was sure to he one of the first thought of. He 

 was full of charity and toleration for all men." 

 June 20, DERBY, GEOEGE, M.D., an eminent 

 sanitarian, secretary of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Health since January, 18G6 ; died in 

 Boston, aged 55 years. He was a native of Sa- 

 lem, born in 1819, and entered Harvard College 

 in 1834, but in consequence of ill health left in 

 1836. He was subsequently admitted to a 

 degree. He graduated from Harvard Medical 

 School as M. D. in 1843, and after a short time 

 commenced the practice of his profession in 

 Boston, giving great attention to sanitary sci- 

 ence. He had acquired A" fine practice and a 

 high reputation by his writings on sanitary sub- 

 jects in the sixteen or seventeen years which 

 followed, when in September, 1861, he volun- 

 teered and was coinrniseioned surgeon of the 

 Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 

 teers. His services not only to that regiment, 

 but to the health and sanitary condition of the 

 army, were exceedingly valuable, and the Gov- 

 ernment recognized them by commissioning 

 him, even after his health had compelled him to 

 leave the army, as surgeon of volunteers, with 



brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. On his re- 

 turn home he at once set about the creation of 

 a State Board of Health, and notwithstanding 

 many adverse influences he succeeded in effect- 

 ing its organization in 1865, and had acted as 

 its secretary since January, 1866. His eight 

 registration reports were full of interest, and 

 exceeded in ability any documents of the kind 

 ever published. In 1871 he was appointed 

 Professor of Hygiene in Harvard College, and 

 held that position till his death. 



June 20. MADDIX, Rev. THOMAS, D. D., 

 an eminent and venerable clergyman of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, South ; died in 

 Nashville, Tenn., after a brief illness, at the age 

 of 80 years. 



June 20. MORSE, Colonel HENRY BAGG, U. 

 S. Volunteers, a gallant soldier of the late war, 

 and subsequently Circuit Judge in Arkansas; 

 died at Eaton, N. Y., aged 38 years. He 

 was born in Eaton, July 2, 1836, received a 

 good academical education, and assisted his 

 father in his large farming and manufacturing 

 enterprises. In 1862 he was authorized by 

 Governor Morgan to raise a company for the 

 Chenango and Madison regiment, and by the 

 13th of August, had enlisted one hundred and 

 thirty men. He was commissioned captain 

 at once and promoted in three weeks to be 

 major and lieutenant- colonel. His regiment 

 was sent to the Department of the Gulf. Here 

 he soon distinguished himself for bravery and 

 military ability ; he was active at Bisland and 

 Cedar Creek ; led the assault on Port Hudson, 

 June 14, 1863, where he was severely wounded, 

 and subsequently was in command, at Sabine 

 Cross-Roads, of a brigade ; and for his gallant 

 conduct there was brevetted brigadier-general. 

 He was also one of the Board of Prison Inspect- 

 ors for the Department of the Gulf at New 

 Orleans, and acting chief-quartermaster of the 

 Nineteenth Army Corps during the latter part 

 of his term of service. At the close of the war 

 he studied law for two years in the office of 

 Pratt, Mitchell & Brown, of Syracuse. Going 

 thence to Arkansas, he arrived there during 

 the time that State was under martial law. 

 He held the office of revenue collector, and, 

 upon the organization of the State government, 

 he was appointed Probate Judge, and after- 

 ward Circuit Judge, Avhich office he held for 

 nearly six years, and was much commended 

 by the papers of that State for his fairness and 

 ability. His health failing, he returned to his 

 friends in Eaton in the summer of 1873, and 

 remained until March, 1874. He reached Ar- 

 kansas in the heat of the Brooks-Baxter ex- 

 citement, and took an active part, as hereto- 

 fore, in State matters, being chairman of the 

 Jefferson County Republican Committee, but 

 his strength was too greatly taxed, and he was 

 compelled to return North again, reaching 

 home on the 3d instant, to learn the sudden 

 death of his mother, and very soon to follow 

 her. 



June 21. JACOBY, Rev. L. S., a German 



