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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



fire of 1872 in Boston, Mr. Upton, though a 

 heavy loser, was the first to organize measures 

 of relief for the other sufferers, and contrib- 

 uted largely to the fund for this purpose. His 

 death was caused by internal cancer. 



July 7. MYERS, Lieutenant-Colonel and 

 Brevet Brigadier-General FREDERICK, U. S. A., 

 Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Depart- 

 ment of Arizona; died at Santa F6, New 

 Mexico, aged 49 years. General Myers was a 

 native of Connecticut, and appointed from that 

 State to the Military Academy at West Point 

 in 1841. He graduated in 1846, and the same 

 year was commissioned second-lieutenant of 

 the Fifth Infantry, and entered into service 

 immediately in the Mexican War, and for good 

 conduct was promoted to a 'first-lieutenancy in 

 October, 1848. He served with his regiment 

 on frontier duty in Texas till January 1, 1855, 

 when he was made quartermaster of his regi- 

 ment, and in August, 1856, promoted to the 

 rank of captain on the staff and assistant- 

 quartermaster in New Mexico. He served in 

 that Territory, in Oregon and Washington 

 Territory, till the summer of 1861, when he 

 was recalled to the East, and from September, 

 1861, to April, 1862, was engaged in organ-* 

 izing the Ohio Volunteers ; and from that time 

 till the close of the war was on active duty as 

 chief-quartermaster and deputy chief-quarter- 

 master in the Department of the Rappahannock, 

 in the Third Army Corps, in the Army of the 

 Potomac ; and from April 1, 1863, to February 

 1, 1865, in the Department of the Northwest, 

 and subsequently in the Military Division and 

 the Department of Missouri to October 1, 1865. 

 During this period he had been promoted to 

 the staff rank of major and lieutenant-colonel, 

 and on the 13th of March, 1855, had been 

 brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and briga- 

 dier-general U. S. A., for faithful and merito- 

 rious services. Since October, 1865, he had 

 been engaged in settling quartermasters' ac- 

 counts at St. Louis, on a board of examination 

 at Washington for several months, on a tour of 

 inspection of military posts in the Department 

 of Missouri for two months, as quartermaster at 

 headquarters of the Department of Missouri, on 

 special duty at Chicago, and subsequently as 

 deputy quartermaster-general of the Depart- 

 ment of Arizona. 



July 8. COWDIN, Colonel ROBERT, First 

 Regiment Massachusetts State militia, a brave 

 officer of Massachusetts troops in the late war, 

 who in June, 1861, marched his regiment 

 through Baltimore to Washington, and distin- 

 guished himself at the battle of Blackburn's 

 Ford, in July of that year, by his coolness and 

 fearlessness. He was well known and greatly 

 esteemed by all parties in Boston. 



July 8. RANDALL, Captain HENRY, a vet- 

 eran steamship commander and inventor ; 

 died in New York City, aged 72 years. He 

 was born at Berlin, N. Y., in 1802, and from a 

 boy exhibited a great fondness for the sea, and 

 a decided talent for navigation. He became a 



seaman, and rapidly advanced from an obscure 

 position on shipboard to a high rank, and, 

 while yet a young man, became the commander 

 of the steamboat Empire, then plying on Lake 

 Erie. A few years later he was placed in 

 command of the steamship Northerner, one of 

 the first steamers ever dispatched from New 

 York to the Pacific coast. He was afterward 

 a resident of New York City, and in 1850 be- 

 came commander of the steamship Yankee 

 Blade, in the California trade. He at length 

 settled in California, where he remained sev- 

 eral years. He again appeared in New York, 

 and soon afterward obtained a patent for his 

 invention of four-wheeled steamers. He never 

 carried into execution this dream of his life, 

 though during the few months previous to his 

 death he was more zealous than ever before in 

 perfecting his invention. He obtained from 

 the New York Legislature, in 1873, a charter 

 for a steamship company whose vessels were 

 to be built on the plan which he had patented. 

 Considerable success had attended his efforts 

 in the formation of this company, though it 

 was still far from an organization. He was a 

 man of strict integrity and much energy and 

 decision of character, and had great business 

 talent. 



July 11. CALDWELL, TOD R., Governor of 

 North Carolina, and long a prominent political 

 leader in that State ; died at Hillsboro, N. C., 

 aged about 56 years. He was born in Morgan- 

 ton, Burke County, N. 0. ; graduated from the 

 University of North Carolina in 1840 ; studied 

 law, and was admitted to the Burke County 

 bar in 1842, and the same year was elected to 

 the State Legislature from Burke County, and 

 continued there till 1844. He then devoted 

 himself to his profession very closely for sev- 

 eral years, but -in 1850 was elected State Sen- 

 ator, and had been in public life most of the 

 time since. After the close of the war he was 

 a member of the Reconstruction Committee 

 and president of the Western N. C. Railroad, 

 and in 1868 was elected Lieutenant-Governor 

 on the same ticket with W. W. Holden, who 

 was chosen Governor. After the impeachment 

 of Holden and his removal from office in 

 March, 1871, Lieutenant- Governor Caldwell 

 became Governor. In August, 1872, he was 

 elected Governor over Judge and U. S. Sena- 

 tor Merrimon, by 1,882 majority, after a most 

 exciting and hotly-cpntested election. His ad- 

 ministration had given general satisfaction, and 

 the confidence of the people of the State in his 

 honesty, integrity, and sound judgment was 

 very strong. His death was sudden, and re- 

 sulted from disease of the kidneys. 



July 12. HILLYER, Brigadier-General WIL- 

 LIAM SILLIMAN, U. S. Vols., an officer of volun- 

 teers on General Grant's utaff during the late 

 war, and previously a lawyer in St. Louis ; 

 died in Washington, D. C., aged 43 years. He 

 was practising law in St. Louis in 1859, and 

 perhaps some years earlier, and had become 

 intimate with the then ex-Captain Grant, and 



