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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



a director of the New York Juvenile Asylum, 

 trustee of the Society for the Relief of the 

 Ruptured and Crippled, one of the managers 

 of the City Mission, an elder in the Presbyte- 

 rian Church, and, withal, a man of singular 

 sweetness and purity of life, one of the few 

 whose life was a benediction and whose death 

 was more than a private calamity. 



Oct. 23. FLANIGAN, HARRIS, Governor of 

 Arkansas during the war; died at his resi- 

 dence in Arkadelphia, Ark. He was one of 

 the leading members of the last Constitutional 

 Convention of the State. 



Oct. 23. INMAN, WILLIAM, Commodore U. 

 S. Navy, a gallant and deserving naval offi- 

 cer, sixty-two years in the service ; died in 

 Philadelphia, aged about 77 years. He was 

 born in Utica, N. Y., entered the navy as mid- 

 shipman January 1, 1812 ; was promoted to be 

 lieutenant, April 1, 1818 ; commander, May 24, 

 1838 ; captain, June 2, 1850 ; commodore (on 

 the retired list), July 10, 1862. He served on 

 the lakes during the War of 1812, commanded 

 one of two boats which captured a pirate-vessel 

 of three guns on the coast of Cuba, in 1823 ; 

 commanded the steamer Michigan on the lakes 

 in 1845 ; commanded the steam-frigate Susque- 

 hanna, of the East India squadron, in 1851 ; 

 and the squadron on the coast of Africa from 

 1859 to 1861. At the time of his death he was 

 the senior officer of his rank on the retired list, 



Oct. 23. PAYNE, Right Rev. JOHN, D. D., 

 late Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church in Cape Palmas, Africa; died at 

 his residence in Westmoreland County, Va., 

 of paralysis, aged about 63 years. He was a 

 native of Virginia, educated at William and 

 Mary College and at the Fairfax Theological 

 Seminary ; was for some years rector of St. 

 Paul's Church, Alexandria, and was conse- 

 crated Bishop of Cape Palmas, in that church, 

 July 11, 1851. On the 21st of October, 1871, 

 having returned from Africa and his health 

 being seriously impaired, he resigned his juris- 

 diction, and had remained in his early home 

 until his death. 



Oct. 23. PENDERGBAST, Commander AUS- 

 TIN, U. -S. Navy, a gallant naval officer, twen- 

 ty-six years in the service ; died in Philadel- 

 phia, aged about 45 years. He was born in 

 Kentucky, was the son of Captain Garrett J. 

 Pendergrast, who died in 1862. He entered 

 the navy in October, 1848, and was active in 

 the service during the late civil war, being 

 promoted to be lieutenant-commander in 1862, 

 and commander in 1867. He was engaged in 

 the unfortunate action at Galveston Bay, but 

 his conduct on that occasion reflected no dis- 

 honor on him or the other officers of the com- 

 mand. 



Oct. 25. KERNOT, HENRY, a well-known 

 dealer in books in New York City, born in 

 London, October 20, 1806; died in New York 

 City, aged 68 years. He was of Huguenot 

 ancestry, received a good education, and was 

 apprenticed to Treuttel & Wiirtz, German 



booksellers and publishers in London. Before 

 his apprenticeship expired both members of 

 the firm died, and he entered another London 

 house, where he soon became manager. Sev- 

 eral years later he removed to Dublin, where 

 he was charged with the completion of the 

 different departments of the library of Trinity 

 College, a duty which required extensive bib- 

 liographical knowledge. In 1836 he came to 

 America. Soon after his arrival he obtained 

 a situation with Wiley & Putnam, booksellers, 

 in Broadway. After remaining with them 

 several years he engaged in business on his 

 own account. Not meeting with success, he 

 abandoned the attempt. Then he was with 

 Appleton & Co. for several years. When the 

 firm of Mohun & Ebbs was established he 

 found employment with them, and remained 

 there till 1868, when he went into house of 

 Scribner and Co. In his manner of life he was 

 quiet and unostentatious. He was remarkable 

 for his knowledge of books. He was probably 

 as well informed, especially in regard to old 

 books, as any man in the country, and his ex- 

 tensive knowledge was always at his com- 

 mand and readily used for the advantage of 

 others; He had compiled numerous catalogues 

 raisonnee, which showed his thorough acquaint- 

 ance with the contents as well as the titles of 

 books. A few months before his death he had 

 . published a "Bibliotheca Diabolica," or care- 

 fully arranged descriptive catalogue of works 

 relative to the devil, comprising over 500 titles, 

 and since its publication he had been laboring 

 to make it as nearly absolutely perfect as pos- 

 sible in a second edition, and had collected 

 about 800 more titles for that purpose. 



Oct. 29. ANTHON, JOHN II., an able law- 

 yer and philanthropist of New York City ; 

 died at Cooperstown, N. J., aged about 45 

 years. He was a member of the Anthon fami- 

 ly, of which so many members have attained 

 distinction in law, classics, and theology, a 

 graduate from Columbia College, and a student 

 of law under General Authon. He soon ac- 

 quired a large practice, but took especial pains 

 to defend the poor, the friendless, and the un- 

 fortunate. He was for many years an active 

 and useful officer of the New York Prison As- 

 sociation, a zealous member of the Citizens' 

 Association, and so thoroughly identified with 

 the People's Reform Party that he was their 

 candidate for mayor. He had been for years 

 very influential in the Masonic Order, and was 

 Grand-Master of the Order in New York State 

 in 1871 and 1872. His health having become 

 impaired, he visited Europe in 1873, and on 

 his return, in the early summer of 1874, went 

 to Cooporstown, where he remained till his 

 death. 



Oct. 31. SANDFORD, Rev. MILES, D. D., a 

 Baptist clergyman, journalist, and author ; died 

 in Salem, N. J., of apoplexy, in the 59th year 

 of his age. He was born in Litchfield, Conn., 

 February 13, 1816, removed to Ohio in 1832, 

 and, after suitable preparation, entered the 



