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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



was born at Soutliport, Conn., March 24, 1802, 

 entered the service of R. & L. Reed, grocers, 

 in Front Street, in 1821, and became a partner 

 in 1828, when the firm name was changed to 

 Reed& Sturges, and it so continued till 1843. 

 It was then changed to Sturges, Bennet & Co., 

 and again in 1865 to Sturges, Arnold & Co. In 

 1868 Mr. Sturges retired from active business 

 with an ample fortune and a reputation for 

 probity and honor which is better than earthly 

 riches. He had come to be regarded as the 

 foremost man in the tea and coffee trade, 

 which he had followed for so many years, and 

 was recognized as a wise counseler and a warm 

 and steadfast friend. The good example which 

 he lived doubtless did much to impart to the 

 whole body of traders, of which his house was 

 a conspicuous member, that character for in- 

 tegrity and upright dealing which it has al- 

 ways borne, which it still maintains. The fol- 

 lowing extract from the letter addressed to 

 him by his brother merchants on December 30, 

 1867, when he was about to retire from the 

 firm with which he had been so long con- 

 nected, exhibits the feeling that prompted them 

 in their invitation to meet them at dinner: 

 ' Your life among us of nearly half a century, 

 in the same locality in Front Street, we can 

 only say has been such as commends itself to 

 every one, both old and young, who regards 

 that which is true and noble in mercantile 

 character.' Mr. Sturges was a promoter of 

 many important undertakings, as well as an 

 able coadjutor in all, and in the discharge of 

 his various and responsible duties he was al- 

 ways governed by rectitude of purpose and an 

 unswerving fidelity to his trust. Good sense 

 and a sound judgment were the distinguishing 

 characteristics of his great work in all corpo- 

 rate bodies. As one of the founders and di- 

 rectors of the Bank of Commerce, as director 

 and acting-president of the Illinois Central 

 Railroad, as one of the proprietors and direct- 

 ors of the New Haven Railroad Company, 

 and as vice-president of this Association, he 

 was widely known and held in high regard. 

 Nor was it in the walks of business, in the 

 counting-room, and in the Exchange, that he 

 was chiefly honored and beloved. He was a 

 recognized patron of art. In the Church he 

 manifested the virtues of the Christian ; in so- 

 ciety, the unostentatious attributes of a gentle- 

 man ; in the service of his country, the de- 

 voted zeal of a true patriot ; as a citizen, the 

 love of the philanthropist, never forgetting his 

 obligations to the poor, the sick, and the crip- 

 pled, but extending to all the benefactions of 

 a warm heart and of an open hand. The hom- 

 age we paid the good man when living, we 

 desire to perpetuate in hallowed memories; 

 and to this end we inscribe on our minutes the 

 sentiments that are graven on our hearts of 

 gratitude for this life of uncommon beauty, of 

 sincere sorrow for our own great loss, and of 

 our sympathy for the family of the bereaved." 

 Nov. 29. BUCHANAN, WILLIAM JEFFERSON, 



a lawyer, Confederate officer, and litterateur, 

 of Baltimore ; died in that city, aged 42 years. 

 He was the oldest son of Hon. James M. Bu- 

 chanan, U. S. minister to Denmark from 1858 

 to 1861 ; he graduated from Princeton College 

 in 1853, studied law, and was admitted to the 

 Baltimore bar, where he practised till his fa- 

 ther's appointment to Denmark, when he ac- 

 companied him as secretary of legation. At the 

 commencement of the late civil war he went 

 south and joined the First Maryland Artillery as 

 a private. Narrowly escaping death from an 

 attack of typhoid fever, on his recovery he 

 entered the secret service of the Confederacy, 

 and was intrusted with delicate and dangerous 

 .duties on both sides of.the Atlantic. While 

 thus in the Confederate service, he wrote and 

 published two pamphlets, "Maryland's Hope," 

 and " Maryland's Crisis," which attracted con- 

 siderable attention. He was a brilliant and 

 logical writer, and after the war was for a time 

 correspondent of the New York Herald and 

 New York Tribune, as well as some of the 

 magazines. His death was occasioned by con- 

 gestion of the spine, and he had been a great 

 sufferer for many months. 



Nov. 29. TALBOT, CHARLES N., a distin- 

 guished merchant of New York City, in the 

 China trade for many years ; died in New York 

 City, aged 72 years. He was a grandson of 

 Commodore Talbot. When a very young man 

 he went to China, where, some years later, he 

 became a member of the house of Olyphant & 

 Co. in China. Upon his return to this country 

 he became a member of the American firm of 

 Talbot, Olyphant & Co., a connection which 

 he retained until 1849, when he retired from 

 business. Since that time he had been espe- 

 cially active in charitable works in New York 

 City. As a business man Mr. Talbot attained 

 to much success, was given to no display, but 

 adhered through life to the strict business 

 principles which he laid down for himself in 

 his youth. He was noted among his associates 

 for his great purity of character, integrity of 

 purpose, and careful business habits, and in 

 his later life he carried all these qualities into 

 his labors of benevolence. 



NOD. . BULLOCK, ANDREW D., M. D., print- 

 er, preacher, journalist, and physician ; died 

 in Wyoming Territory, aged about 56 years. 

 He learned the printer's trade in his boyhood, 

 and worked at the case for some time; he was 

 then educated for the ministry in the Baptist 

 Church, and preached acceptably to Baptist 

 congregations in Leighton, Palmer, and other 

 places in Massachusetts. He next entered the 

 editorial profession, and was on the editorial 

 staff of the Fall River News, the Springfield 

 Union, and the Fishkill (N. Y.) Recorder ; dis- 

 satisfied with journalism, he studied medicine 

 at Pittsfield, Mass., graduated M. D., and prac- 

 tised medicine for several years in Rhode Isl- 

 and, whence he emigrated three or four years 

 since to Wyoming Territory. 



Dec. 1. LINEOEOUM, GIDEON, M. D., a 



