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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Jan. 10. JANES, 

 Rev. EDWIN L., born at Sheffield, Mass., April 

 27, 1807 ; died at Flushing, L: I. ; a distin- 

 guished clergyman of the Methodist Church, 

 and for six years a secretary of the National 

 Temperance Society. He had been pastor 

 in Philadelphia, in New York, in Brooklyn, in 

 Bridgeport, and elsewhere. He was a brother 

 of Bishop Janes. He was the author of sev- 

 eral works, among which were " Wesley his 

 Own Biographer," published about five years 

 ago; "Incidents in the Life of Bishop As- 

 bury," and "Recollections in the Life of the 

 Rev. Dr. Edward Payson." 



Jan. 11. MAGILL, Mrs. ANN T., formerly 

 Principal of the Valley Female Seminary at 

 Winchester, Ya. ; died at Staunton, Va. For 

 the last two years she was connected with the 

 Augusta Female Seminary, Staunton. She 

 was the widow of the late Prof. Magill, of the 

 University of Yirginia. 



Jan. 12. BEAMLETTE, Hon. THOMAS J., ex- 

 Governor of Kentucky ; died at Louisville. He 

 was an able lawyer, a short time Judge of the 

 Federal Court. He was Governor of Ken- 

 tucky during the closing years of the civil war. 



Jan. 13. McMiLAN, Hon. GARNET; died at 

 Atlanta, Ga. He was member of Congress 

 elect from one of the districts of Georgia. 



Jan. 14. HORSFORD, Colonel JEDEDIAH, an 

 early settler in the Genesee Valley, N. Y. ; 

 was born in Charlotte, Vt., March 8, 1791 ; 

 died in Lavonia, Livingston County, aged 83 

 years. In the War of 1812 he participated in 

 the defense of Burlington, went into the Gen- 

 esee Valley in 1814, taught a mission-school 

 among the Seneca Indians at Squakey Hill, 

 settled in Moscow where he resided forty- 

 eight years, and was a representative in the 

 New York Legislature, and a member of Con- 

 gress. 



Jan. 14. TRACY, FREDERICK U., for nearly 

 twenty-five years City Treasurer of Boston, 

 Mass. He was born at Burlington, Vt., Janu- 

 ary 3, 1811. For some years he resided in 

 South America, and on his return he formed a 

 partnership with Mr. S. H. Russell. This firm 

 was dissolved in 1843. He afterward managed 

 the Northfield woolen-mills in Vermont. He 

 was elected City Treasurer in 1852. 



Jan. 15. WEBBER, Captain JOHN, a veteran 

 of the War of 1812 ; died at Ossining, West- 

 chester County, aged 84. He was also well 

 known as one of the heirs presumptive of the 

 supposed estate of Anneke Jans. 



Jan. 17. Fox, CHARLES KEMBLE, was born 

 in Boston, August 15, 1833. He was well 

 known as the performer of Pantaloon. He 

 went upon the stage at the age of six years. 

 His first appearance in New York was made 

 at the old National Theatre, July 18, 1853, as 



Cute, in a play on " Uncle Tom's Cabin." In 

 1858 he was a member of the company at the 

 Old Bowery, and in 1859 he joined the New 

 Bowery. Afterward he appeared at the Olym- 

 pic, in pantomimes. His last appearance on 

 the local stage was macfe at the Globe Theatre, 

 May 16, 1874, in " Humpty Dumpty at Home " 

 . that house being then under Mr. G. L. Fox's 

 management. Mr. Fox was the author of the 

 pantomime in which his brother and himself 

 won popularity and fortune. 



Jan. 17. NEWTON, Rev. BENJAMIN B., well- 

 known Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn ; died 

 in that city, aged 66 years. He was born at 

 St. Albans, Vt., and was graduated at Ver- 

 mont University, Burlington, in 1831, and sub- 

 sequently studied at Andover, Mass., and New 

 Haven, Conn. He was settled at Plattsburg, N. 

 Y., in 1835, and afterward in Chelsea, Vt. He 

 came to New York City in 1863, and was en- 

 gaged at different periods as assistant minister 

 of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn. 



Jan. 19. QUINOY, Hon. JOSIAH; died in 

 Rumney, N. H., aged 81 years. He was a native 

 of Lenox, Mass., but had resided sixty years in 

 Rumney, where he had practised law until 

 lately. He had served in both branches of the 

 State Legislature, and was President of the Sen- 

 ate in 1841. 



Jan. 20. TENNEY, Rev. SAMUEL GILMAN; 

 died at Springfield, Vt., aged 81 years. He was 

 a native of Rowley, Mass., and a graduate of 

 Dartmouth College, in the class of 1823. He 

 was ordained at Lyndon in 1825, and subse- 

 quently preached in Bakersville, Waitsfield, 

 Wadsborough, Springfield, Hillsborough, and 

 Alstead, N. H. 



Jan. 27. GREEN, Judge JOHN T. ; died in 

 Sumter, S. C. He was born at Mechanicsville, 

 S. C., October 18, 1827. He was the son of 

 Rev.. Henry D. Green. At an early age he en- 

 tered the South Carolina College, where he re- 

 mained for three years. He subsequently en- 

 tered the law-office of Mr. F. J. Moses, Sr., 

 the present Chief-Justice of the State, and after 

 a course of study was admitted to the bar in 

 1849, when he had just passed his twenty-first 

 year. In 1852 Judge Green was elected to 

 the State Legislature on the Cooperation ticket, 

 and, being reflected, served for six successive 

 years. Being again put forward in 1858, he 

 declined to be a candidate, and continued to 

 practise his profession in Sumter until 1864, 

 when he was again elected a member of the 

 Legislature. There having been some irregu- 

 larity in the preceding election, a new one was 

 held in 1865, and he was once more nominated 

 and elected. In the following year he ran 

 against John N. Frierson, for State Senator 

 from Sumter County, and was beaten by sixty- 

 six votes. During the war, and for some years 



