OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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teacher, for several years after hid graduation, 

 in \ < r^Miues, Vt., and Plattsbur^, N. Y. ; 

 volunu-. ml at tlai latter place in tho War of 

 1S1-J, mill took part in tho l.attlo of 1'latts- 

 burjr, Si-pti-mluT 11, 1814. After tho war ho 

 was admitted to tho bar, having previously 

 studied l.-iw, :ind practised his profession in 

 iTmtnn Count v, N. Y., till 1839. In 1820, 1827, 

 and IN-.'S Mr. Kd^rton was a member of tho 

 Ni\v , islaturo, at a period when it 



numbered among its members tho ablest men 

 in tin- State, most of whom attained national 

 i'a 1 1 K< in after yonf s. Among these ho was rec- 

 ognized as a peer of the best, and had much 

 to do with shaping the legislation of the State. 

 Though an ardent friend of Daniel D. Tomp- 

 kins, and of course an onti-Clintonian, ho re- 

 ported on the day after Do Witt Clinton's 

 funeral, as chairman of a special committee, 

 a bill to givo the children of Clinton, who had 

 died poor, a sum, nominally in payment of un- 

 expired salaries, of about $10,000, and defended 

 his report in a very able and eloquent speech. 

 lie originated many other important bills which 

 have passed into the statutes as permanent 

 laws. Declining further political preferment, 

 Mr. Edgerton continued in the practice of his 

 profession till his removal to Ilicksville, Ohio, 

 in 1889. when ho engaged in farming. Somo 

 years later, after the death of his wife, he re- 

 sided in the family of his eldest son, and sub- 

 sequently removed with him to Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., where he died. 



Sept. 14. VANDERVOOET, CHARLES, Grand- 

 Master of the Independent Order of Odd-Fel- 

 lows of the State of New York ; died at Har- 

 lem, N. Y., aged 54 years. He had been a 

 prominent member of the Order for many 

 years, and was elected Grand-Master in 1872. 



Sept. 18. FEANKLIX, Commander CHARLES 

 L., U. S. N., a gallant young naval officer, dis- 

 tinguished in the late civil war ; died at Pensa- 

 cola, of yellow fever, aged about 36 years. He 

 was a native of Ohio, and entered the Naval 

 Academy in 1854. After graduation, he was 

 assigned to duty on the Mediterranean Squad- 

 ron in 1860, and in the autumn of 1861 re- 

 turned and took part in the naval movements 

 of the war, being present at the capture of 

 Forts Ilattoras and Clark, and in 1864-'65 at the 

 two attacks on Fort Fisher. His zeal and 

 efficiency caused his rapid promotion, and in 

 April, 1872, he was commissioned commander. 



Sept. 19. MAOCAFEREI, Signer, a noted op- 

 eratic tenor ; died in New York City, aged 52 

 years. He came to this country in 1858, and 

 was actively engaged in operatic pursuits until 

 1871. Since that time he had been giving con- 

 certs with a company through tho South and 

 We* 



Sept. 20. STEVENS, A. S., a venerable citizen 

 of Attica, Wyoming County, N. Y. ; died there, 

 aged about 80 years. He had resided in Attica 

 fifty-two years ; was sheriff of old Genesee 

 County (from which Wyoming County was 

 taken) in 1830, and some years later Judge of 



the Court of Common Pleas for the county. 

 He was one of the founders of the I 

 School at Attica, and for many years provident 

 of its Board of Trustee*. 

 Sept. 22. WILLIS, Kev. NATHAN ELLIOT, 

 ' clergyman and teacher, 



killed by a railroad accident on the route to 

 Marion, Ala. His age was about 85 years. 

 He was a graduate from Amherut College in 

 1802, and after his graduation was for several 

 rears a teacher in the English High-School, 

 Boston. Ue was ordained and settled, in 1870, 

 at Bridgewater, Mass., but for a year previous 

 to his death had been acting as an agent of tho 

 American Missionary Association at Marion, 

 Ala., and was bringing his wife and son thither 

 when he was killed. 



Sept. 26. LEE, Right Rev. HENBY WASH 

 TON, D. D., LL. D., late Bishop of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Diocese of Iowa ; born in Hamden, 

 Conn., July 29, 1815 ; died at Davenport, Iowa, 

 September 26, 1874. He was fitted for college 

 at the Cheshire Academy, and graduated from 

 Trinity College in 1885, and from the General 

 Theological Seminary in New York in 1838, 

 and received deacon's orders the same year. 

 He was assistant minister for some time in New 

 York, and was chosen rector of St. Luke's, 

 Rochester, in 1843. He was greatly esteemed 

 and beloved by his parishioners, and, on his 

 elevation to the bishopric, was consecrated, 

 October 18, 1854, in the church of which ho 

 had been for eleven years rector. He had 

 been an efficient and hard-working bishop 

 for twenty years, and, under his labors, the 

 Church in Iowa had grown and become a very 

 efficient body. His death was the result of a 

 fall on the stairs of his house in Davenport, 

 which was followed by gangrene and eventu- 

 ally death, with extreme suffering. He was 

 universally esteemed and beloved. He received 

 the honorary degree of D. D. from Trinity 

 College, and that of LL. D. from the University 

 of Cambridge, England, at the time of the Pan- 

 Anglican Council. 



Sept. 27. BUCKHOUT, ISAAC CBAIG, C. E., 

 an able and energetic American civil-engineer; 

 died at White Plains, N. Y., in the 44th year 

 of his age. He was born in 1831, on tho old 

 Gouverneur Morris estate, of which his father 

 was manager. During his boyhood he showed 

 a great love for study, and at an early age 

 chose the profession of engineer. After leaving 

 school in 1848, he was employed on the Har- 

 lem Railroad as a rodman under Allen Camp- 

 bell, who was afterward president of the road. 

 Hero ho attracted the attention of his employers 

 by his intelligence and quickness. Later he 

 was employed in surveying in Paterson, N. J., 

 under the direction of Colonel J. W. Allen, civil- 

 engineer, and then became engineer and su- 

 perintendent of the water-works of that city. 

 Returning to New York he obtained the posi- 

 tion of City Surveyor, and associated himself 

 with Mr. Southard. He resumed his connec- 

 tion with the Harlem Railroad Company, and 



