OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 





recommended him for tlie office of county en- 

 piiccr ..f Bt l.uis County. Very soon after 

 :al (irant was commissioned as brigadier- 

 :-.(! Mr. HillyiT a place on Ins 

 staff, and durinir tho Tennessee and Vick.sburg 

 campaigns lu- rose t<> tlio rank of brigadier- 

 general, ivi-i-iving his coiiuui-^ioii in .Inly, 

 1863. After tho close of the war, President 

 (irant appointed General Hillyer to be reve- 

 nue a^'iiit in New York City. Ho held this 

 tor a short timo only, and began tho prac- 

 <t" tin- law there. His success in a legal 

 \ as not very great, as he was naturally 

 a politician, and devoted most of bis time to 

 political pursuits. In the spring of 1874 he 

 ..(iiiinatcd by the President as general 

 appraiser in tho Custom-House, in place of 

 Judgo lloircltoom, hut his unfitness for this po- 

 sition was so obvious to those who knew him 

 best, that a general demurrer was raised by 

 the press, and the nomination was withdrawn. 

 General Hillyer was the last surviving member 

 of General Grant's original staff. 



July 16. HOI.T, PHILETCS II., a wealthy 

 flour-merchant and patriotic citizen of New 

 York City ; died there, aged 71 years. He was 

 born in New Bedford, Mass., but was brought 

 to New York by his parents in his childhood, 

 and, after receiving an excellent education, 

 went into the flour-business with his father, 

 and continued in it till his death. He was an 

 enthusiast in military matters, and was active 

 in encouraging the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. 

 N. G., to attain its excellence in drill and dis- 

 cipline. He spent his money on it without 

 stint, and contributed liberally toward its ex- 

 penses at tho beginning of the war. 



July 17. GOODBIOH, Rev. WILLIAM H., 

 D. D., an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, 

 scholar, and writer ; died at Lausanne, Switz- 

 erland, in the 60th year of his age. His father, 

 the late Prof. Chauncey A. Goodrich, D. D., 

 was eminent alike as a theologian and lexi- 

 cographer. Dr. W. H. Goodrich was born in 

 New Haven, in 1825, fitted for college in the 

 Hopkins Grammar-School, and under his fa- 

 ther's direction graduated from Yale College 

 with high honors in 1843, studied theology in 

 the Yale Divinity School, and from 1847 to 

 1848 was a tutor in Yale College. He then 

 went to Europe, where he remained for nearly 

 two years, and in 1850 was ordained pastor of 

 the Congregational Church in Bristol, Conn., 

 where he remained four years, when he ac- 

 cepted a call to tho pastorate of the Presby- 

 terian Church in Binghamton, N. Y., and in 

 1858 was called to become pastor of the First 

 Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, where he 

 remained until 1872, when his arduous labors 

 having overtasked his strength he went to Eu- 

 rope for his health, retaining his pastoral con- 

 nection. But his health did not improve, and 

 he longed to return, and was only restrained 

 from coming by the decided opposition of his 

 physicians, and he finally sank and died in 

 Switzerland. Dr. Goodrich was an able and 



brilliant writer, an eloquent and instructive 

 preacher, and one of tho best pastors in tho 

 country. His people were very strongly at- 

 tached to him. Ho had published some mis- 

 cellaneous sermons and addresses, many re- 

 .irtides, and several religious essays, and 

 was a frequent contributor to the religious 

 press. Ho received tho degree of D. D. from 

 Western Reserve College in 1804. 



July 18. EATON, GEORGE N., a prominent 

 merchant and promoter of education in Balti- 

 more; died in Europe, where he had been trav- 

 eling for his health, aged 62 years. Although 

 mi .-nergctic business-man, he had been a hard 

 student, and, while self educated, was a man of 

 wide, and generous culture. He had taken a 

 deep interest in the promotion of the public 

 schools of Baltimore. In 1854 he was elected 

 a member of the Board of School Commis- 

 sioners, in which body he remained eleven 

 years, nine of which he was its president. In 

 1805 Harvard University conferred on him the 

 degree of Master of Arts, in recognition of his 

 services in the cause of education. These ser- 

 vices received further recognition in 1865, 

 when the late George Peabody appointed Mr. 

 Eaton one of the trustees of the Peabody Edu- 

 cational Fund for the Southern States. Ho 

 was for many years a director and for a time 

 vice-president of the Board of Trade, and a 

 director in the Union Bank, the Savings-Bank 

 of Baltimore, and of the Maryland Institute 

 for the Instruction of the Blind. 



July 18. WINSLOW, JAMES, a New York 

 banker, senior partner of the great banking- 

 house of Winslow, Lanier & Co. ; died in New 

 York City, in the 60th year of his age. He 

 was born in Albany, and passed his earlier 

 business-years in the hardware-store of Eras- 

 tus Corning, in that city. Subsequently ho 

 came to New York, and entered the firm of 

 Winslow, Lanier & Co., which had been es- 

 tablished by his father. From modest propor- 

 tions the business grew until the firm was con- 

 sidered one of the best in the street. Mr. 

 Winslow had been identified also with na- 

 tional banking interests, and at the time of his 

 death was vice-president of the Third Na- 

 tional Bank. His youngest son was a member 

 of the scientific corps sent out by the Govern- 

 ment in the Swatara to observe the transit of 

 Venus. 



July 19. HARDING, Brigadier-General AB- 

 NER C., U. S. Volunteers, a lawyer, soldier, 

 railroad-builder, and member of Congress; 

 died at Monmouth, Warren County, 111., aged 

 67 years. He was born in East Hampton, 

 Middlesex County, Conn., February 10, 1807, 

 and was educated chiefly at Hamilton Acade- 

 my, in Oneida County, N. Y. After practis- 

 ing law in Oneida County for some time, he 

 removed to Illinois. In that State he con- 

 tinued to practise law for fifteen years, and to 

 manage farms for twenty-five years. In 1848 

 he was a member of the convention which 

 framed the constitution under which Illinois 



