OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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learned and accomf>lished but somewhat eccen- 

 tric idiysician and scientist; died in lircnhain, 

 Washington County, Texas, aged 88 years. 

 !! was a native of Georgia, of Scotch ancestry, 

 and in 1812 was a member of General Floyd's 

 liriirade of dragoons. Though actively engaged 

 in tin- jinn-tiro of his profession lor many 

 years, he very early gained a reputation as an 

 accurate, painstaking, and skillful ol>s<-rvur in 

 natural si-ii-nrr. lie iU- voted his leisure for 

 fourteen years to tlie study of the habits of tbo 

 I-.--! ant, and his monograph on that subject is 

 - .-ill to bo as interesting as Huber's on the bee. 

 Ho was a member of the loading scientific 

 societies in this country and Europe, and was 

 :i frequent and valued correspondent of the 

 I '.an in von llumboldt, Prof. Liebig, Charles 

 Darwin, and other distinguished scientists 

 abroad. Ho had contributed numerous articles 

 <>f importance to the "Transactions" of the 

 natural history societies, the Journal of the 

 Franklin Institute, and the Smithsonian " Re- 

 jinrts." One of his eccentricities was said to 

 M, that every Christmas morning, at daylight, 

 lor fifty-three years, he stood in the door of 

 his house, barefoot and in his night-clothes, 

 and played the Scotch air of " Killiecrankie " on 

 a fiddle made specially for him in Paris in 1820. 



Dec. 1. TYLER, Lieutenant - Colonel and 

 Brevet Mojor-General ROBERT O., U. S. Army, 

 Chief of the Second Military District of the 

 Department of the Atlantic, a gallant officer in 

 the late civil war, born in New York City, 

 about 1882, but a resident of Hartford, Conn., 

 from boyhood. He graduated from the Hart- 

 ford High School in 1849, and immediately 

 entered the Military Academy at "West Point, 

 whence he graduated in 1853 as brevet second- 

 lieutenant of artillery, and in December fol- 

 lowing received his commission as second- 

 lieutenant of the Third Artillery. He was on 

 frontier duty for several years, and in Septem- 

 ber, 1856, had been promoted to a first-lieu- 

 tenancy. He was mustered out of the volun- 

 teer service January 15, 1866 ; and on August 

 17th of that year was appointed chief-quarter- 

 master of the Department of the South, having 

 the full rank of lieutenant-colonel. At the 

 battle of Cold Harbor he was severely wound- 

 ed in the leg. and it is related of him that, as a 

 surgeon was about to amputate the limb, he 

 drew a pistol and threatened to shoot any one 

 who should attempt amputation. He saved 

 his limb thereby, though he suffered much 

 from the wound, and was made permanently 

 lame. After his assignment to the South, with 

 headquarters in Louisville, in 1866, he went to 

 San Francisco, and then made a voyage around 

 the world, on completing which, he was or- 

 dered to New York, and last year was assigned 

 to duty in Boston, where he died of neuralgia 

 of the heart. 



Dec. 2. COWLES, EDWARD PITKIN, an emi- 

 nent New York jurist, who was for two terms 

 one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of 

 New York ; died at Chicago, 111., on his way 



homeward from California, from gangrene, fol- 

 lowing a slight injury of the foot, in the 60th 

 year of his age. He was born at Canaan, 

 I.itelifielil County, Conn., in January, 1815. 

 luduated from Yale College in 1880, and 

 almost iiiniu iliatoly afterward began the Html y 

 of law in Hudson, Columbia County, N. V., 

 with Killian Miller, and afterward studied 

 under the direction of Ambrose L. Jordan. 

 In 1889 he was admitted to the bar, ami en- 

 : into practice at Hudson, with his broth- 

 er, the late Colonel Cowles, of the Ono 

 Hundred and Twenty-eighth New York Vol- 

 unteers, who was killed at Port Hudson. 

 He continued in practice at Hudson for some 

 years, and came to New York in 1858. Ho 

 was soon after appointed Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court by Governor Clark, and, at the 

 end of his first term, was reappointed to fill a 

 vacancy created by the death of Judge Morris. 

 His first appointment was made without so- 

 licitation on his part or that of hi* friends, and 

 was entirely unasked for. On leaving the 

 Supreme Court, he engaged in private practice 

 with Chief-Justice Barbour, afterward of the 

 Superior Court, and had since that time en- 

 joyed a large counsel business. 



Dec. 6. KIMBALL, Rev. JOSEPH, D. D., an 

 able and eloquent clergyman of the Reformed 

 (Dutch) Church ; died at Newburg, N. Y., of 

 apoplexy, in the 55th year of his age. Dr. 

 Kimball was born in Newburg, August 17, 

 1820, graduated from Union College in 1839, 

 and was ordained to the ministry from the 

 Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church, 

 in 1844. He was first settled as pastor of the 

 Presbyterian Church of Hamptonburg, Orange 

 County, and was afterward settled at Brock- 

 port, N. Y., and at Fishkill, N. Y. In 1865 he 

 accepted a call to the pastorate of the First 

 Reformed Church of Brooklyn, and remained 

 in that position until the time of his death. 

 He received the degree of D. D. in 1871. 



Dec. 10. COLAHAN, STEPHEN J., a young but 

 brilliant political leader of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

 died in that city of albnminuria, aged 33 years. 

 At the time of his death he was Clerk of the 

 City Court and Assemblyman-elect from the 

 seventh Assembly district. He had served 

 one term in the Legislature, was a member of 

 the State Constitutional Convention of 1867, 

 and the Democratic candidate for Congress 

 from his district in 1872. 



Dec. 10. MARSHALL, THOMAS "W., a young 

 landscape and genre painter of great promise ; 

 died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in the 24th year of 

 his age. Though his opportunities for art-study 

 hod been limited and his training desultory, he 

 had produced some very beautiful landscapes 

 and interiors. His " A Late Afternoon in the 

 Forest at Keene Flats, Adirondacks," his 

 " L'Abbaye do Villiers," and his " Interior at 

 Barbison, France," were among his best. He 

 was a member of the American Society of 

 Painters in Water-Colors. 



Dec. 11. CATB, ABA P., a New Hampshire 



