OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Susquehwnna up toward its source, and exhib- 

 iting its ticuiitiful iind wonderful m-ncry to 

 his son, \vh.n they were- both drowned in its 



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Aug. 16. DICKINSON, Rev. RICHARD W., 



1>. 1.^ an emim-nt Presbyterian clergyman and 

 authtir; dird in Kordhain, N. Y., in tho 7<)th 

 year of his ago. Ho was a native of New 

 Jersey, graduau-d from Yale College in 1828, 

 and from I'rin>vtoM Theological Sominary in 

 ; was ordained in New York City in 1827, 

 hod fi>r .some titno in Philadelphia, and 

 in-tailed pastor at Lancaster, Pa., in 1829. 

 irs of faithful labor there, ho 

 ailed to tho Market Street Church in 

 New York, and subsequently he became pas- 

 tor of the Bowery and Canal Street Church. 

 Impaired health compelled him to resign this 

 charge, and he then resided at Fordham, and 

 performed pastoral duties at Inwood, on the 

 upper part of Manhattan Island. For some 

 years past he hod been unable to act as pas- 

 tor, but had devoted much time to literary 

 pursuits, and was a frequent contributor to re- 

 ligious periodicals and reviews. He had pub- 

 lished several volumes on religious subjects, 

 which gave evidence of his marked ability as 

 a writer. 



Aug. 17. CHASE, Rev. B. A., a Methodist 

 clergyman, a member of the Providence Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Conference ; died in Cumber- 

 land, R. I. Ho was a native of Maine, and 

 chaplain of the Fourth Maine Regiment during 

 tbe late civil war. 



Aug. 19. HARPER, Jonx, a well-known 

 horse-breeder and owner of numerous racing- 

 horses; died at Midway, Ky. He had for 

 many years taken an active interest in all mat- 

 ters connected with the turf, and acquired a 

 considerable part of his large fortune by rais- 

 ing superior horses. He was the owner of the 

 celebrated racer Longfellow. 



Aug. 21. SPRING, MARCUS, a well-known 

 reformer, business-man, and teacher; died at 

 Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, N. J., aged 64 years. 

 He was born in New York, in 1810, and began 

 business in that city as a commission-merchant 

 in 1831. Not long after, his brother died, leav- 

 ing a badly-complicated and heavily-indebted 

 estate. Mr. Spring nt once assumed the debts 

 of his brother, and began paying them ; and 

 after thirty years of arduous labor succeeded in 

 liquidating every dollar of them, and his broth- 

 ers' creditors testified their appreciation of his 

 disinterestedness by presenting him with a 

 massive silver pitcher, suitably inscribed. Ho 

 became identified with the antislavery move- 

 ment in 1886, and married a daughter of Ar- 

 nold Buffum, the first president of tho Ameri- 

 can Antislavery Society. He had frequently 

 visited Europe, and accompanied Margaret 

 Fuller (afterward Countess d'Ossoli) when eho 

 wrote her famous letters to the New York Tri- 

 'bu'M. He was long associated with the lato 

 Horace Greeley in cooperative movements, and 

 was named by him as an executor in one of his 



wills. At one time ho was president of the 

 :tu Insurance Company, and had been 

 otlicially connected with several insurance com- 

 panies and banks. During the late war ho 

 founded a military academy, known as the 

 Eagleswood Military Academy, and which dur- 

 ing six years educated many fine soldiers and 

 business-men. Ho lost $100,000 by the Chi- 

 cago fire in 1871, and that and more recent 

 business troubles hastened his death. 



Aug. 24. PKIME, Mrs. JULIA ANN (Ger- 

 tii<iiitc) t widow of the late Rev. Dr. N. 8. 

 Primp, and mother of Rev. Drs. 8. Irenojns 

 and Edward I). G. Prime, and of William C. 

 Prime, Esq. ; died at White Plains, N. Y., aged 

 nearly 86 years. She was born in Sag Harbor, 

 N. Y., January 81, 1789, received an excellent 

 education, married Rev. Nathaniel 8. Prime in 

 1808, and roared a family of seven children, of 

 whom five are living, and all have attained dis- 

 tinction. She was a lady of great force of 

 character, combined with remarkable gentle- 

 ness, purity, and dignity. 



Aug. 25. GAVIT, JOHN E., president of the 

 American Bank Note Company ; died at Stock- 

 bridge, Mass., in the 58th year of his age. He 

 was a native of New York City, received a 

 good public-school education, and engaged 

 early in life in steel-engraving in Albany, 

 where ho resided until, in 1858, he united his 

 business in that city with the American Bank 

 Note Company, which he had assisted in or- 

 ganizing. In 1866 he was elected president 

 of the latter, and retained that position until 

 his death. Mr. Gavit was formerly secretary 

 of the American Institute, and took an active 

 interest in the progress of science, being ac- 

 quainted with many leading inventors. Ho 

 was president of the Microscopical Society of 

 this city, and was an earnest promoter of the 

 branch of science which it was formed to de- 

 velop. He had made many friends by his 

 genial manners and zeal for tho diffusion of 

 knowledge. 



Aug. 26. BLOT. Prof. PIERRE, a distinguish- 

 ed cook and teacher of the culinary art, on 

 which he had written with great ability ; died 

 in Jersey City, N. J., aged about 56 years. He 

 occupied for several years, in New York City, 

 the prominence acquired in the same line by 

 Soyer in London. Making the culinary art his 

 special study, he practised it with great ear- 

 nestness and success. He aimed at popularizing 

 good cookery and effecting economy in the 

 preparation of food. Several articles were 

 contributed by him to the press, in which he 

 imparted practical information and discoun- 

 tenanced the consumption of such game and 

 fish as were out of season. He wrote a book 

 on cookery, and also lectured on that subject, 

 and established one or two schools of instruc- 

 tion in the art. Prof. Blot engaged in business 

 enterprises in Brooklyn and New York, partly 

 with the view of carrying into effect his views 

 on the preparation of food. 



Aug. 27. HAMMOND, ABRAM A., a distin- 



