OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



ministry in tho Methodist Episcopal Clinroh in 

 and was highly esteemed as n preacher 

 nnd pastor till April, 1840, when he formally 

 announced his withdrawal from tho Methodist*, 

 nnd gave back his ordination-papers to tho 

 pre-idin;,' elder. In the same month he united 

 with tin- Uaptist Church, and in August, 1840, 

 was ordained as a Baptist minister. Ho was 

 .iiently pastor at Pontiac, Mich., from 

 to 1848; edited the Michigan Christian 

 I from 1843 to 1845; was pastor of the 

 I-'ir-t Baptist Church, Chicago, from 1845 to 

 1847; at Kast Boston and at Gloucester, Mass., 

 from 1847 to 1853; and from 1858 to 1871 at 

 North Adams, Mass. After a year's service of 

 tin- American Bible Union, undertaken to re- 

 store his failing health, he again became pastor, 

 at Salem, N. J., where he remained till bis 

 death. He was an active, energetic man, of 

 great ability and endurance, and most winning 

 manners, yet of very positive convictions. He 

 was a zealous temperance man at North 

 Adams, and carried his town with him in favor 

 of prohibition ; he was also a strong Union- 

 ist, and served as chaplain during the early 

 part of the war. Few men have been more 

 universally loved and esteemed than was Dr. 

 Sandford. At the news of his death, the town 

 of North Adams was in mourning, though he 

 had been three years absent from them. Ho 

 had published several occasional sermons and 

 small volumes of a religious character. Ho 

 received the degree of D. D. from Madison 

 University in 1809. 



Nov. 2. PAF.MER, Mrs. PIIOZBE, wife of Wal- 

 ter 0. Palmer, M. I)., a woman of remarkable 

 piety and energy, an evangelist and missionary, 

 and author of several works on the subjects 

 of Holiness, Entire Sanctification, and the 

 Higher Life; died in New York City, in the 

 67th year of her age. Possessing an ample for- 

 tune, and with every temptation to a life of fash- 

 ion and aimless enjoyment, she chose rather a 

 life of active religious effort and of serious labor 

 I'<T the conversion of others. Beginning as a 

 Bible-class teacher in the Allen Street Method- 

 ist Episcopal Church in 1832 or 1833, she had 

 with each successive year devoted herself more 

 exclusively to religious work, and had, as she 

 believed, experienced the blessing of entire 

 consecration to the service of God. Many 

 years ago she opened a meeting on Tuesdays 

 at her own house, for the assembling of Chris- 

 tians of every denomination, and this meeting 

 was not omitted for any cause. If she and 

 her husband (who sympathized fully in her 

 views) were absent, the meetings still went on, 

 usually presided over by some clergyman, but, 

 when she was present, often addressed by her. 

 She had the gift of direct, forceful speech, and 

 of great concentration on a few leading truths. 

 She and her husband had traveled extensively 

 as evangelists, traversing every part of the 

 United States and Canada, and spending four 

 years in Great Britain and Ireland, among the 

 Primitive Methodists, New Connection, and 

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Wesleyan*. In twelve weeks of this time, 

 while they were laboring in tho north of 

 England, 8,444 members wore added to the 

 churches, and during their stay abroad between 

 16,000 and -JiHioO professed convention through 

 their labors. Mrs. Palmer had written several 

 works on her favorite themes, which have had 

 a largo circulation; the most important were 

 "Tho Way of Holiness" (1864), oft, n n-print- 

 ed in Kn-rland and America; "Faith and its 

 Effect* " (1856) ; "Devotion to God," many 

 editions (1867, et seq.); "The Useful Di.Hcij.K-. 

 or, A Narrative of Mrs. Mary Gardner" 

 (1857) ; " Pioneer Experience " (1868) ; " The 

 Altar and Sacrifice" (1870). The tost named 

 had a very large circulation, and provoked 

 much controversy; but she adhered to the 

 viqws there expressed till her deatn. She had 

 been also a frequent contributor to The Guide 

 to /Mints*, a monthly periodical, as well as to 

 the other papers of the Methodwt Church. 



Not. 6. SCOTT, Captain DUNLAP, an officer 

 in the Confederate army, lawyer, political 

 leader, and legislator; died at Rome, Ga., in 

 the 44th year of his age. He was born in 

 Madison County, Ga., June 20, 1881 ; was ed- 

 ucated at the University of Georgia, moved 

 to Floyd County in 1858, studied law, and was 

 admitted to the bar at Rome in 1860. He was 

 from the first an ardent secessionist, and en- 

 tered the Confederate service as a lieutenant 

 in the Eighth Georgia Infantry, in which he 

 afterward became captain, and served till the 

 close of the war. Returning to Rome in 1865, 

 he resumed the practice of his profession, in 

 which he was very successful, took an active 

 part in politics, was elected to represent Floyd 

 County in the Legislature in 1868, and was 

 from the first an influential and prominent 

 member, and at the second session the ac- 

 knowledged leader of the Democratic minority. 

 He waged a fierce warfare against Governor 

 Bullock and the plunderers of the State, and, 

 though he refused a reelection, yet, by the 

 death of his elected successor, he was com- 

 pelled to serve, and was chosen by a large 

 majority. He had been very active in ferreting 

 out and defeating the frauds which were at- 

 tempted by the State officials, and his sudden 

 death was greatly lamented. 



Nov. 9. HEAD, Colonel JOHN W., member- 

 elect of the Forty-fourth Congress from the 

 fourth congressional district of Tennessee ; 

 died in Gallatin, Tenn., aged 55 years. He 

 was educated for the law, and had won great 

 distinction as a jurist, and in 1855 or there- 

 abouts was elected Attorney-General, and Re- 

 porter of the Supreme Court of the State, 

 which offices he filled with great acceptance for 

 several years. He was colonel of a Confeder- 

 ate regiment during the war, and at its close 

 resumed the practice of his profession, in 

 which he regained his former distinction. He 

 had been elected to Congress only six days be- 

 fore his death. 



Nor. 1 3. HASKELL, DANIEL N., a Boston jour- 



