OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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ShurtlclF possessed an nmplo fortune, and was 

 iln-rul. lie t-ndowod a college at Alton, 

 111., which took ita name of ShuitUff OoUtfll 

 from it* lii-iu -lac-tor. 



Oct. is. Siii-.iii'AV, Rev. SAMUEL 8., I). D., 

 an .-miii. i.m clergyman and ti-.-u-h- 



i-r; ilicil in Kahway, N. .1., aired 64 years. Ilo 

 i'oni in Northumberland County, I'a., 

 uiber l.'l, is id, graduated from Jefferson, 

 College, Pa., in 1832, and from Princeton Theo- 

 i Si-iiiiuary in 1834, was ordained in 1885, 

 ! tin- lir>t fifteen years of his ministerial 

 Williamsport, Muncey, and Warrior linn, 

 teaching most of thy time, as well aa maintain- 

 ing liis position as a preacher and pastor. In 

 be was called to the pastorate of the First 

 Presbyterian Church in Railway, N. J., where 

 lie remained till his death twenty-two years 

 and a half. Ho was a man of fine abilities 

 and considerable eloquence. Ho received the 

 degree of D.I), from Columbia College, New 

 York City, in 1864. 



Oct. 19. STEVENS, JOHN AUSTIN, a leading 

 merchant and banker of New York, for twen- 

 ty-seven years president of the Bank of Com- 

 merce, and long secretary of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and president of the Merchants' 

 Kxchange ; died in New York City, in the 80th 

 year of his age. He was a son of General 

 Ebenezer Stevens, an artillery - officer of the 

 I ution, and a brother of the eminent sur- 

 geon Alexander H. Stevens. He was born in 

 New York City, January 22, 1795, graduated 

 from Yale College in 1813, and with one of 

 his brothers became partner in his father's 

 business in 1818. He was president of the 

 Merchants' Exchange from its organization, 

 and for many years secretary of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, his son succeeding him in that 

 office. He was president of the Bank of Com- 

 merce from its organization in 1839 until 18(56, 

 when he resigned. He was chairman of the 

 Committee of Banks of New York, Boston, and 

 Philadelphia, which met in August, 1861, and 

 decided to take $50,000,000 of the Govern- 

 ment 7.30 loan ; $30,000,000 of this was as- 

 signed to New York, $15,000,000 to Boston, 

 and $5,000,000 to Philadelphia; but, as Boston 

 declined to take more than $10,000,000, at 

 Mr. Stevens's suggestion New York took $85,- 

 000,000, greatly to her advantage subsequent- 

 ly. During the late civil war Mr. Stevens was 

 an able, faithful, and far-seeing adviser of the 

 Government in all financial matters. 



Oct. 20. MONTGOMERY, Rev. HENRY EOLIN- 

 TON, D. D., an accomplished, hard-working, 

 and remarkably successful clergyman of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, rector of the 

 Church of the Incarnation in New York City; 

 died there, aged nearly 54 years. Ho was born 

 at Eglinton, near Tivoli, N. Y., December 9, 

 1820, and was the son of the late John 0. 

 Montgomery, Postmaster of Philadelphia in 

 1841. Dr. Montgomery graduated from the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1889, studied 

 law for two years, traveled in Europe, and 



then continued his studies in Nashota Tbcolo- 

 jrir.-il S iniiiary, Win., for two years, ami 

 pi. t. <1 his theological course in the General 

 '|ml Theological Seminary in New York 

 Ho was ordained by lii-hop Alon/< 

 :. und in 1846 assumed charge of All 

 Saints' Church of Philadelphia, then a small 

 organization. His labors wero very successful, 

 the church-membership rapidly increased, and 

 the pastor became highly respected and be- 

 loved. At the expiration of nine years he 

 received and accepted a call to the Church of 

 the Incarnation, of New Yoik City, which was 

 an offshoot from and dependent upon Grace 

 Church, and which worshiped in the edifice at 

 the corner of Madison Avenue and Twenty- 

 eighth Street. During the earlier years of his 

 minist/y in New York he was able to separate 

 his church from Grace Church, and BO efficient 

 and satisfactory was his work, that in 1864 the 

 new church-building at Madison Avenue ana 

 Thirty-fifth Street was erected. The church is 

 now reputed to bo one of the wealthiest and 

 most influential in the city. Dr. Montgomery 

 received his degree of 1). D. from the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. He was a man of ac- 

 knowledged ability, large pltytique, and of 

 more than ordinary endurance. He was al- 

 ways a hard worker; he had no assistant 

 in his ministry, and besides the constant de- 

 mands upon his strength made by a growing 

 church, he had for years been a prominent 

 member of nearly all the missionary and homo 

 societies for the advancement of the gospel. 

 His death was unquestionably the result of 

 overwork in his parish, in which he employed 

 more hours of the day and night than even his 

 strong constitution could endure. He was rec- 

 ognized as a Low Churchman and was strong- 

 ly opposed to ritualism. 



Oct. 21. DENNY, THOMAS, an eminent 

 New York merchant and banker; died in 

 New York City, aged 70 years. He was the 

 son of a distinguished manufacturer in Leices- 

 ter, Mass., and was born in 1804. He grad- 

 uated from Harvard College, with high honors, 

 in 1823, studied law in Boston under Hon. 

 Bradford Sumner, was admitted to the bar, but 

 soon removed to New York and engaged in 

 mercantile pursuits as an importer of goods in 

 the French trade, but in 1846 withdrew from 

 it to enter upon the business of a banker and 

 broker. In 1862 he became a member of tho 

 Stock Exchange, and in 1858 formed the exist- 

 ing banking-house of Thomas Denny & Co., 

 which has always maintained a very high repu- 

 tation. Mr. Denny retained his early literary 

 tastes throughout his life, and added to them a 

 deep interest in the promotion of education 

 and in every department of philanthropic and 

 Christian effort. He was school trustee in the 

 Fifteenth Ward, an active promoter of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, and of the Free 

 School for Girls, in Twelfth Street, New York 

 City. He was one of the founders of the So- 

 ciety for improving the Condition of the Poor; 



