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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



was governed from 1848 to 1870. He also 

 served in the State Legislature in 1848-'49, 

 and 1850. During the ten years preceding the 

 rebellion he was engaged in railway enter- 

 prises. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 

 Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, and rose to the 

 rank of colonel. For bravery at Fort Donel- 

 son he was raised to a brigadier-generalship, 

 and in 1863 had command at Murfreesboro', 

 Tenn. In 1864 he was elected a Representa- 

 tive in the Thirty-ninth Congress, and was a 

 member of the Committees on Manufactures 

 and Militia. In 1866 he was reflected to the 

 Fortieth Congress, from what was then the 

 fourth district, and served on the Committees 

 on the Union Prisoners, Claims, and Militia. 

 General Harding early entered with zeal into 

 the construction of railroads in Central Illinois, 

 and was one of the master-spirits in projecting 

 and building the Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, 

 now a part of the Chicago, Burlington & 

 Quincy combination. Ho is supposed to have 

 left a fortune of $2,000,000, no small part of 

 which he amassed in railroad enterprises. 

 Some years before his death lie endowed a 

 "Harding Professorship" in Monmouth Col- 

 lege. 



July 20. QUIXBY, JAMES M., a distinguished 

 citizen of Newark, N. J. ; died there, aged 69 

 years. He had been mayor of the city, State 

 Senator, and had held other positions of honor 

 and trust. He was widely known and esteemed 

 not only in Newark, but throughout the South, 

 with which ho had long had business con- 

 nections. 



July 22. FREEMAN, Captain FORTUNATUS, 

 a noted sea-captain of remarkable energy and 

 fertility of resources, a native of Yarmouth, Eng- 

 land; died in New York City. Coming to the 

 United States young, he first commanded ves- 

 sels sailing from Baltimore. Subsequently he 

 was commander of the sailing-ships Sea, Mar- 

 mion, Resolute, Guy Mannering, and Silas 

 Wright, all of which sailed from New York. 

 When captain of the Sea, he took over the last 

 presidential message ever carried by a sailing- 

 vessel, and made then the fastest time ever made 

 in a transatlantic passage by a sailing-vessel. 

 He was commander of the steamers Colorado 

 and Minnesota, and distinguished himself when 

 the latter took fire in mid-ocean. The flames 

 were overcome after twelve hours of heroic 

 exertion. 



July 25. POTTER, HOEATIO, Jr., First-Lieu- 

 tenant and Adjutant Seventeenth United States 

 Infantry, U. S. A., Captain and Brevet Major 

 of Volunteers, a gallant officer in the late war, 

 son of Bishop Potter ; died in New York City, 

 aged 33 years. He was born in Albany, in 

 1841, and was intended for the law. He en- 

 tered Columbia College in 1860, but left in 

 1861, enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. 

 N. G., and marched with it to Washington in 

 April, 186.1. On his return, he received a 

 commission as second-lieutenant in the Seventh 

 New York Artillery. To enter active service, 



he exchanged and obtained position on the 

 staff of General R. B. Potter, who commanded 

 the Second Division of the Ninth Army Corps. 

 He served throughout the campaign, and took 

 part in all the engagements with that corps. 

 He was made a first-lieutenant on April 1, 

 1864, and a captain on June 12, 1865. At 

 the assault on Petersburg he distinguished 

 himself by bravery and daring, and was bre- 

 vetted major. After the war he obtained a 

 commission as second-lieutenant in the Sev- 

 enteenth United States Infantry, and served 

 with that regiment two years in Texas. Later 

 the regiment was sent to Dakota, where Lieu- 

 tenant Potter was engaged in several expedi- 

 tions against the Indians. In September, 1867, 

 he was made a first-lieutenant, and in De- 

 cember, 1870, was promoted to the position of 

 adjutant of his regiment. His death was 

 caused by haemorrhage from the lungs. 



July 26. HARRIOTT, JOHN V., an able and 

 accomplished underwriter and a very active 

 philanthropist in all religious benevolent enter- 

 prises ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 50 years. 

 Mr. Harriott was born in New York City, No- 

 vember 1, 1824, and educated in the public 

 schools there ; he had been connected with the 

 Firemen's Insurance Company for more than 

 thirty years, and was for twelve years the 

 president of the company, and an active mem- 

 -ber of the Board of Underwriters. He had 

 been for many years an officer and superin- 

 tendent of Sunday-schools, and was very hearty 

 in his support of all important religious enter- 

 prises. 



July 26. SHAW, Commodore THOMPSON 

 DARRAH, U. S. Navy, a brave and efficient 

 naval officer ; died at Germantown, Pa., aged 

 75 years. He was a native of Pennsylvania, 

 and entered the navy May 28, 1820; was 

 .commissioned a lieutenant, May 17, 1828. In 

 1827 he was on duty on the frigate Mace- 

 donian, with the Brazilian Squadron, and 

 again, in 1833-'4, saw service in Brazilian 

 waters, on the sloop-of-war Lexington. His 

 next active duty was on the frigate Constella- 

 tion, in the Pacific, in 1840. Subsequent to 

 that date he was on duty at the Baltimore and 

 Philadelphia rendezvous, and with the Bureau 

 of Construction. In 1855 he was in command 

 of the sloop-of-war Falmouth, of the Home 

 Squadron, and during the early period of the 

 late war commanded the steamer Montgomery, 

 of the Western Gulf Blqckading Squadron. His 

 last cruise expired in February, 1862. On July 

 16, 1862, he was commissioned a commodore 

 on the retired list, but subsequent to that date 

 was on special duty in Philadelphia for a short 

 time in 1864-'65. 



July 27. HEWITT, MAHLON T., an enter- 

 prising and energetic citizen of New York and 

 Brooklyn, remarkable for the extent and saga- 

 city of his philanthropic labors ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, aged 66 years. He had been foremost in 

 numerous public enterprises, was president of 

 the Freedmen's Savings-Bank; and afterward 



