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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



afterward, he was in delicate health, and as he 

 took no part in the struggle, he was regarded 

 as a Union man. In 1866 he was appointed 

 president of the Provost Court in Sumter, and 

 held that post until civil authority was re- 

 stored. When the reconstruction government 

 was organized he was unanimously elected by 

 the General Assembly Judge of the Third Ju- 

 dicial Circuit, was unanimously reflected upon 

 the expiration of his term of office, and was 

 still the incumbent of that office at the time 

 of his death. Judge Green was a Republican. 



Jan. 29. ROBEETS, Brevet Brigadier- Gen- 

 eral B. S. ; died at Washington, D. 0. He was 

 born in Vermont in 1811, graduated at West 

 Point in 1835, and was bre vetted second-lieu- 

 tenant in the old First Dragoons. In 1839 he 

 resigned, but reentered the army at the out- 

 break of the war with Mexico, in which he 

 served under General Scott in the march from 

 Vera Cruz to the capital. During part of the 

 civil war he was with the Army of Virginia, 

 and participated in the battle of Cedar Moun- 

 tain and the second battle of Bull Run. He 

 rendered efficient service in different capacities 

 during the remainder of the conflict, and was 

 rewarded with the rank of brigadier-general 

 by brevet in 1865. In June, 1866, he was ap- 

 pointed lieutenant-colonel of the Third Caval- 

 ry, and held that rank until December, 1870, 

 when on account of ill health he was placed 

 on the retired list. He was one of the oldest 

 officers in the army, having been in the mili- 

 tary service twenty-eight years. 



Jan. 30. LANGDON, LEANDEB W., inventor ; 

 died at Jacksonville, Fla. He was born at Joy, 

 N. Y., in 1833. He was widely known as the 

 inventor of the Florence sewing-machine, man- 

 ufactured at Florence, Mass. There are four 

 features of the Florence machine which are 

 the important products of his mind. The first 

 was the "knot-stitch," for which a patent 

 was issued October 30, 1855. The next was 

 the "take-up wheel," as it is known, and the 

 hook-pulley which holds the shuttle-thread 

 tight while the shuttle is passing on, and also 

 the rib in the shuttle-race, which prevents the 

 machine from skipping stitches. His patent 

 for this was granted March 20, 1860. His third 

 was the " shuttle-thread tension," which was 

 one of the neatest of his inventions. Previous 

 to that time the pressure on the bobbin had 

 been uniform, which did not produce an even 

 tension, as when the bobbin was full the thread 

 ran ^off more freely than when not full. By 

 his invention an even tension was produced. 

 The patent was given January 22, 1861. His 

 fourth invention was the celebrated " revers- 

 ible feed," which has been so much talked of, in 

 connection with the Florence machine. This 

 was patented July 14, 1863. 



Jan. 30. ROBERTS, JOHN WEIGHT, bishop 

 of the Methodist Church, Liberia ; died at Mon- 

 rovia. He was the son of "Aunty Robos," as 

 she was familiarly called in Petersburg, Va., 

 whence she and her three sons emigrated to 



Liberia forty-seven years ago. The eldest of 

 these sons was Joseph, who was elected the 

 first President of the Republic of Liberia, and 

 who is now again elected to the same office. 

 Next to him in age was the deceased bishop, 

 who entered the Liberia Annual Conference 

 as an itinerant, and, after serving as pastor and 

 presiding elder for twenty-seven years, was 

 chosen bishop by his conference, as the success- 

 or of Bishop Burns, and in the succeeding 

 summer (June 20, 1866) was consecrated to the 

 office in St. Paul's Church, New York City. 



Feb. 7. EDDY, Rev. Dr. ANSEL D. ; died at 

 Lansingburg, N. Y. He was successor to Rev. 

 Dr. Hamilton in the First Presbyterian Church 

 of Newark, N. J. He was afterward pastor 

 of the Park Presbyterian Church in Newark. 



Feb. 9. BAKER, Hon. OSMYN, lawyer and 

 congressman, of Northampton, Mass.; was born 

 May 18, 1800, at Amherst, Mass. He entered 

 Yale College at eighteen, and graduated in the 

 class of 1822, studied law in the law school at 

 Northampton, and commenced practice in Am- 

 herst in 1825. From 1833 to 1837 he repre- 

 sented Amherst in the Legislature of Massachu- 

 setts, and from 1839 to 1845 he served three 

 terms in Congress. In 1845 he removed to 

 Northampton. From 1853 to 1854 he was an 

 Executive Councilor. He was especially promi- 

 nent as the representative of eight towns in the 

 counties of Hampshire and Franklin in uphold- 

 ing the will of Oliver Smith, of Hatfield, and 

 thus saving the " Smith Charities " to the poor 

 of those towns. He early retained Daniel 

 Webster and Judge Forbes for the towns, op- 

 posed to Messrs. Choate, Chapman, and Hunt- 

 ington for the heirs-at-law. The will having 

 safely passed every ordeal, in organizing the 

 board of trustees under the will, Mr. Baker 

 was chosen president. After retiring from the 

 practice of law in 1860, he gave his undivided 

 attention to the management of this trust fund. 

 He lived to see the original gift of $400,000 

 expand to more than $1,000,000, while hun- 

 dreds of poor men, women, and children, were 

 fed by this munificent charity. He resigned the 

 presidency of this board of charities in 1870. 



Feb. 10. COLLINS, GEORGE 0., one of the 

 largest tea-importers of New York ; died in that 

 city, aged 65 years, having been born in 1810, 

 at South Hadley, Mass. At the age of twenty 

 he went to Mobile, Ala., as confidential secre- 

 tary to Mr. Burrett Ames, then the great cotton - 

 dealer of the South. He remained there three 

 years, and then returned North and went into 

 business on his own account. In 1860 he es- 

 tablished the house of Collins & Rayner at No.. 

 95 Front Street, New York, which afterward 

 became George C. Collins & Co. He was one of 

 the Union League Club. Although of retiring 

 disposition, he was brought into more public 

 notice by the "draft-riots," after which he 

 served on a committee for prosecuting the 

 claims of the families of the murdered negroes 

 against the city. He was also one of the largest 

 contributors to the fund' raised for the relief 



