OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Methodist ( I. r-vmaii, journalist, presiding el- 

 der, and author, of Jewish extraction; diod at 

 St. Louis, in tin- Olst year of his ago. Ho wua 

 I... ni in old St relit/., Mecklenburg, October -Jl, 

 isi::. His parents \\ereofLeviticalnnd priest- 

 . i nt, highly intelligent, and of most af- 

 fectionate disposition. His early education 

 was very thorough, especially in tho ancient 

 languages. In 1835 he united with the Lu- 

 theran Church, and, having studied medicine, 

 came to tho United States in 1889, and settled 

 as a physician in Cincinnati, but after a time 

 devnied himself to teaching. In tho beginning 

 of 1S41 he united with the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church, and almost immediately entered 

 tho ministry. In August of that year ho was 

 sent by Bishop Morris to St. Louis, to establish 

 tho first German Methodist mission. His suc- 

 cess was very great, and in 1849, at his own 

 request, he was sent by the Missionary Board 

 to Bremen, to found a mission there. Here he 

 labored incessantly, filling the various positions 

 of pastor, presiding elder, editor, publishing 

 agent, and superintendent, and all with the 

 greatest success, for tho space of twenty-two 

 years. Early in 1872 he returned to the 

 United States, and was stationed in St. Louis. 

 In 1873 he was made presiding elder of the St. 

 Louis District; but his health soon began to 

 fail, and from January, 1874, to his death he 

 was a great but very patient sufferer. He had 

 published numerous tracts, sermons, and es- 

 says, both in German and English. 



June 29. PERKINS, HENRY A., an eminent 

 banker and financier of Hartford, Conn., for 

 more than forty years president of the Hartford 

 Bank ; died in that city. In all matters of 

 practical finance Mr. Perkins was regarded as 

 the highest authority in his city or State. 



June 29. WARREN, CHARLES HENRY, a 

 prominent jurist and railroad-officer of Massa- 

 chusetts ; died in Plymouth, Mass., in the 76th 

 year of his age. He was born in Plymouth, 

 September 29, 1798. He fitted for college at 

 Sandwich Academy, and graduated from Har- 

 vard College in 1817. He studied law in 

 Plymouth, was admitted to the bar in 1819, 

 and, after practising there a year, removed to 

 New Bedford. There he was United States 

 I Mstrict Attorney for the Southern District of 

 Massachusetts, 1832 to 1839; Judge of tho 

 Court of Common Pleas, 1839 to 1844. He 

 removed to Boston in the latter year, and 

 practised his profession till 1846, when he was 

 elected president of the Boston & Providence 

 Railroad, which office he held till 1867, when 

 he retired to Plymouth, where he passed the 

 closing years of his life. 



June . PARMELEE, THEODORE N., a ven- 

 erable editor, correspondent, and author; died 

 at Branford, Conn.,, aged 70 years. He had 

 been editor of the old Middlesex (Conn.) Ga- 

 zette, Washington correspondent of the New 

 York Herald, in the days of Van Buren, and 

 later in life an editor of the Buffalo Commer- 

 cial. Being clever, affable, and sagacious, he 



became ft favorite with the leading men of hit* 

 time, and during tho Tyler Administration was 

 on intimate terms at tho White House. J!i- 

 44 Recollections of an Old Stager," contributed 

 during recent years to the magazines, were 

 deemed entertaining, the author's mind being 

 well stored with the political history of the 

 country anterior to the war. Mr. Parmelee 

 was tho confidential friend and secretary of the 

 kite Dean Richmond, and enjoyed the esteem 

 of many leading men. 



July 1. UPTON, GEOKQR BRUCE, a distin- 

 guished manufacturer and shipping-merchant 

 of Boston, born in Eastport, Me., October 11, 

 1804; died in Boston, at the age of 70 years. 

 Losing his father when he was but a year old, 

 young Upton's childhood and youth were spent 

 in Billerica, Mass. In the excellent academy 

 there he had nearly fitted for Harvard College, 

 when, at the age of fourteen, he decided to go 

 into business, in preference to taking a collegiate 

 course. He spent nearly three years in Boston, 

 and then went as confidential clerk to a dry- 

 goods house in Nantucket, in which, at the 

 age of twenty-one, he became a partner. The 

 new firm built ships, engaged in the sperm- 

 whale fishery, manufactured oils and caudles, 

 and carried on a large and thriving business 

 till 1846, when Mr. Upton, being satisfied that 

 the trade of Nantucket had reached and passed 

 its culminating point, decided to go elsewhere 

 and enter upon those extended business opera- 

 tions for which he was so well adapted. While 

 in Nantucket he had been twice a member of the 

 General Court and three times State Senator. 

 He removed first to Manchester, N. H., and 

 established the Manchester Print- Works, and 

 the next year took up his residence in Boston. 

 In that city he was treasurer for eight years of 

 the Michigan Central Railroad, and was large- 

 ly engaged in commerce, building numerous 

 clipper-ships for the California and Pacific 

 trade, entered into the banking business, and, 

 forming no partnerships, took upon his own 

 shoulders an amount of business which few 

 men could have transacted without breaking 

 down ; yet, so perfect was his system and so 

 completely was he master of all his business, 

 that he was never hurried or worried, and 

 always found ample time for rest and recrea- 

 tion. He was very active and patriotic dur- 

 ing the war, and, though long past the age of 

 military service, kept a substitute in the army, 

 contributed largely for bounties to recruits, 

 aided in all efforts for the relief of sick and 

 wounded soldiers, and did all in his power 

 toward bringing the piratical cruisers of the 

 ocean to destruction. He was warmly in 

 favor of reconstruction, but protested most 

 vigorously and ably against the Clarendon- 

 Johnson Treaty in regard to the Alabama; 

 and, when Earl Russell sought to traverse the 

 averments of that petition of "the stern repub- 

 lican, Upton," Mr. Upton replied in an " open 

 letter to Earl Russell," which effectually nul- 

 lified tho statesman's criticisms. At the great 



