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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



guished citizen, lawyer, judge, and Governor, 

 of Indiana; died in Denver, Colorado, aged 

 GO years. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 

 in March, 1814, but removed to Indiana in 

 youth, and having been admitted to the bar 

 in Brookville, Ind., in 1835, commenced the 

 practice of his profession at Greenfield, Han- 

 cock County, Ind. He soon attained distinc- 

 tion as an attorney, and in 1840 removed to 

 Columbus, Ind., where he remained till 1846, 

 when with his partner he removed to Indian- 

 apolis, and the next year to Cincinnati. Dis- 

 satisfied with that city, they returned to Indi- 

 anapolis, and in 1850 Mr. Hammond was ap- 

 pointed the first Judge of the Marion County 

 Court of Common Pleas, and gave great satis- 

 faction in that position. In 1852 he resigned, 

 and went to California as the law-partner of 

 the celebrated Eufus Lockwood, but in 1854 

 returned to Indiana, and settled in Terre 

 Haute. In 1856 he was elected Lieutenant- 

 Governor, and, on the death of Governor Wil- 

 lard in 1860, became Governor. His health 

 commenced failing soon after, and for nearly 

 fourteen years he had been a great sufferer 

 from rheumatism and asthma ; he had visited 

 Denver in the vain hope of relief. 



Sept. 2. ORLANDINI, AGATHA GAYUOR 

 STATES, an operatic singer and prima donna, bet- 

 ter known by her stage name as " Madame Aga- 

 tha States; " died in New York City, of pleu- ' 

 risy. Her maiden name was Agatha Gaynor, 

 and she was a native of Dublin, but came in 

 childhood with her parents to the United 

 States, and settled in San Francisco. Evin- 

 cing fine talents as a vocalist, she was sent to 

 Italy, where she completed her musical educa- 

 tion, and made her debut in opera. After 

 achieving fair success in Europe, she came to 

 the United States, and was favorably received 

 in the Academy of Music in New York, and 

 subsequently sang in the principal cities of 

 this country, as well as in South America and 

 Australia. She had married when quite young 

 a Mr. States, who occasioned her much annoy- 

 ance by his boisterous conduct and his intem- 

 perate habits, leading eventually to some pain- 

 ful scenes in the police courts, and to her pro- 

 curing a divorce from him. About two years 

 before her death she married the baritone Sig- 

 nor Orlandini. She returned to San Francisco 

 from Australia, in the early summer of 1874, 

 and while coming from San Francisco to New 

 York contracted the pleurisy of which she died. 



Sept. 6. CONWAY, FREDERICK B., a well- 

 known actor and theatrical manager, born in 

 Clifton, England, February 10, 1819; died in 

 Manchester, Mass., in the 55th year of his age. 

 He early developed a taste for the stage, and 

 had won a fair position in his profession in 

 England, when he came to this country in Au- 

 gust, 1850, and soon formed an attachment for 

 Edwin Forrest, inmost of whose favorite pieces 

 he played the second part, 'being lago to his 

 Othello, De Mauprat to his Richelieu, etc. 

 After the death of his first wife, Mr. Conway 



married, in May, 1852, Miss Sarah Crooker, 

 then as now a leading actress, and sister to Mrs. 

 D. P. Bowers, and the two thenceforward acted 

 together in the Metropolitan and other theatres. 

 In 1859 they were engaged to open Pike's 

 Opera-House in Cincinnati with a first-class 

 company, Mr. Conway to be stage-manager and 

 leading actor ; but the engagement was not a 

 profitable one, and they returned East. In 1861 

 they visited England, and filled a short engage- 

 ment at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. On 

 their return they became star-actors, and made 

 an extensive and profitable tour. In 1864 Mrs. 

 Conway leased the Park Theatre in Brooklyn, 

 and subsequently the new Brooklyn Theatre, 

 in which for nine years Mr. Conway played 

 leading parts, seldom appearing at any other 

 theatres. Though naturally somewhat pomp- 

 ous and magniloquent in speech and manner, as 

 became one who had had a long training under 

 Forrest, Mr. Conway was a good actor, with a 

 fine personal appearance and a commanding 

 delivery. In private life he was much esteemed. 

 He died of disease of the heart. 



Sept. 8. BTJMSTED, WILLIAM II., a noted local 

 politician of Jersey City, and one of its most 

 enterprising citizens ; died there, aged 39 years. 

 He was born in Norfolk County, England, July 

 16, 1835, and emigrated with his parents to 

 this country in 1836, and had resided thence- 

 forward till his death in Jersey City. Be- 

 tween the ages of fourteen and twenty-four 

 ho had served four years' apprenticeship to 

 the furniture-business, three to civil engineer- 

 ing, and three to the mason's trade. At the 

 age of twenty-four he went into business 

 for himself in the firm of Bumsted & Robert- 

 son, in which capacity he did much for 

 the permanent improvement of Jersey City. 

 While South Bergen was a separate city, 

 he was for several times one of its aldermen. 

 After its consolidation with Jersey City he was 

 chosen to represent it in the city government, 

 and was conspicuous in the management of 

 its financial matters. When the Board of 

 Works was organized, he was appointed a 

 member, and remained so until the board was 

 indicted for some technical irregularities, for 

 which he and his associates were sentenced to 

 a term of nine months in the State-prison. He 

 was pardoned before the expiration of his term, 

 since which time he had remained in private 

 life. He was a shrewd politician, and was at 

 one time chairman of the Republican County 

 Executive Committee of Hudson County. He 

 left a fortune of more than a million dollars, 

 accumulated during the past ten years. 



Sept. 10. EDGERTON, BELA, a venerable 

 citizen of Fort Wayne, Ind., who had in early 

 and middle life been active in the politics of 

 New York ; died in Fort Wayne, aged 87 years. 

 He was born in Franklin, Conn., September 28, 

 1787, was fitted for college in his native town 

 by Rev. Dr. Samuel Nott, brother of the late 

 President Nott, and giaduated from Middle- 

 bury College, Vt., in 1809. He was a classical 



