OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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of these families. A member of St. Thomas's 

 Episcopal Church, it was principally by his 

 efforts that the new church edifice on Fifth 

 Avenue was erected. During the panic of 

 u Black Friday " he borrowed on his own credit 

 $80,000 to carry the new building through the 

 crisis. He was not only charitable to the des- 

 titute, but lenient toward the weak. 



Feb. 10. SPACEMAN, Rev. HENRY S., D. D., 

 Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, and chap- 

 lain of the Episcopal Hospital there ; died at 

 that institution, aged 64. He studied law and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1832. In 1834 he 

 was elected to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, 

 and, with the exception of one year, he was a 

 member of the Legislature for the next ten 

 years. He was ordained priest in 1847, was 

 rector of St. Mark's, Frankford, of St. Clem- 

 ent's Church, Philadelphia, and of Trinity 

 Church, Williamsport. From 1862 to 1868 he 

 was military chaplain, and in 1869 was ap- 

 pointed chaplain of the Episcopal Hospital. 

 Dr. Spackman organized a successful system 

 of " cottage lectures " during Lent, the object 

 of which was to carry the gospel to the homes 

 of the congregation. 



Feb. 12. GEOLDEN, Rev. JOHN BAPTIST, of 

 the Jeiuits' College, New Orleans. 



Feb. 26. BEDEL, General JOHN; died at 

 Bath, N. H., aged 52 years. He was the son 

 of General Moody Bedel, and was born in In- 

 dian Stream Territory, July 8, 1822. He en- 

 listed as a private in the Mexican War in 1847, 

 and became captain in 1849. He was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1850, and practised in Bath 

 until 1853, when he entered the Treasury De- 

 partment at Washington, and remained there 

 until the breaking out of the civil war. He 

 was then appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 

 Third Regiment of New Hampshire Volun- 

 teers, June 27, 1862 ; was wounded July 10, 

 1863, and captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 



1863. He was promoted to colonel of that 

 regiment, while a prisoner of war, April 6, 



1864, and paroled on the 9fch of December of 

 the same year. He was made a brigadier- 

 general of the U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, 

 dating from March 13, 1865, for gallant and 

 meritorious services, and was mustered out 

 of the service July 20, 1865. He represented 

 the town of Bath in the Legislature, and was 

 for two or three years the unsuccessful Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor. 



Feb. 26. MUEPHT, JAMES, the "Irish Gi- 

 ant ; " died at Baltimore, Md., aged 33 years. 

 He died of a bronchial disease. He was about 

 eight feet high, and weighed 350 pounds. He 

 traveled several years with a show, and was 

 exhibited in many parts of the United States. 



March 1. CHASE, HOBAOE; died in Hopkin- 

 ton, N. H., at the age of 87. He was born at 

 Unity, N. H., December 14, 1788, and was 

 graduated at Dartmouth College, in the class 

 of 1814. He read law with the late Judge 

 Matthew Harvey, and commenced practice in 

 the town of Goshen, in 1818, where he re- 



mained until 1821, when he removed to Hop- 

 kinton, and formed a law partnership with 

 Judge Harvey, and remained in that town to 

 his death. He served as representative from 

 Hopkinton in the Legislature of 1829, and was 

 Assistant Clerk of the House in the years 1830- 

 '32. He was postmaster from 1829 to 1850, 

 and Judge of Probate for Merrimac County 

 from 1833 to 1855. In 1845 he published the 

 " New Hampshire Probate Directory." 



March 2. THOMAS, General LOEENZO, U. S. 

 A., Adjutant-General of the Army; died in 

 Washington, D. C., aged 71 years. He was 

 born in Delaware. After completing his 

 course at the Military Academy, he entered 

 the army in 1823 as second-lieutenant, and 

 rose to the rank of brigadier-general in 1861. 

 He was Secretary of War a short time during 

 President Johnson's Administration. 



March 7. BTJFFINGTON, Hon. JAMES, M. C., 

 Representative from Massachusetts ; died at 

 Fall River, aged 59 years. He was born at 

 Fall River, March 16, 1817. He was educated 

 at the Friends' College, Providence. He 

 served for a season as a private soldier in a 

 Fall River regiment during the civil war. He 

 was elected to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, 

 Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-first, For- 

 ty-second, and Forty-third Congresses. 



March 12. LONGYEAR, Judge JOHN W. ; 

 died in Michigan. He was born October 22, 

 1820, in Ulster County, N. Y. In 1844 he 

 went to Michigan, where he was admitted to 

 the bar in 1846. In 1862 he was elected to 

 Congress, and reflected in 1864. In 1867 he 

 served as a member of the Constitutional Con- 

 vention. In 1870 he was appointed Judge of 

 the United States District Court for the East- 

 ern District of Michigan, an office which he 

 held until his death. 



March 16. LAURIE, JAMES, an able and 

 widely-known civil engineer ; died in Hart- 

 ford, Conn., aged 69 ; was a native of Scot- 

 land ; was the chief-engineer of a road in New 

 Jersey, another in New England, and another 

 in Nova Scotia. He was also consulting en- 

 gineer of the Hoosac Tunnel. 



March 19. ALEXIS, Sister ANN, the head 

 of the St. Vincent Orphan Asylum, Boston ; 

 died in that city. For forty-three years she 

 was devoted to the Roman Catholic orphans 

 of that city. For fifty-six years she was a 

 Sister of Charity. She went to Boston in 

 1832 from Baltimore. She gave her long life 

 to the welfare of the friendless and the for- 

 saken. 



March 23. HICKMAN, Hon. JOHN ; died at 

 West Chester, Pa., aged 65. He was born at 

 West Bradford, Pa., September 11, 1810; was 

 admitted to the bar in 1833. He was nomi- 

 nated in his district for Congress in 1844, but 

 was defeated. He was nominated again in 

 1854, and was elected. He secured the nomi- 

 nation of Mr. Buchanan for President hi the 

 Cincinnati Convention. In 1858 he was elect- 

 ed to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving the 



