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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



support of a portion of the Republican party. 

 He was reflected as a Republican to the Thirty- 

 seventh Congress. 



March 26. BYENES, Rev. REID PATBICIO ; 

 died at Rochester, N. Y., aged 42 years. He 

 was born in Montevideo, South America, in 

 1833. Father Byrnes was ordained about 

 sixteen years ago, and served in Corning, 

 Jamestown, Lockport, and Rochester. He 

 died pastor of the Church of the Immaculate 

 Conception, in Rochester. 



March 27. STILES, Rev. JOSEPH C., a well- 

 known Presbyterian minister; died at Savan- 

 nah, Ga., aged 79 years. He was for some 

 years pastor of the Mercer Street Church, 

 New York City. 



March 28. STEMMLEE, Judge JOHN A. ; died 

 in New York City, aged 69 years. He was 

 born in the Palatinate of Bavaria in 1806, and 

 was educated in the Universities of Munich and 

 Heidelberg. Having, while a student, espoused 

 ultra-liberal opinions, he opposed the consti- 

 tuted authorities, and as a consequence had to 

 flee the country. He came to New York in 1829, 

 and entered the office of Judge Brady's father, 

 and afterward practised on his own account. 

 He was for some time American correspond- 

 ent of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, and 

 once owner and editor of the New York Staats- 

 Zeitung. In 1863 he was elected Judge of the 

 Seventh District Court of New York City, and 

 was reflected in 1869. He held his seat on the 

 bench until recently,, when sickness compelled 

 him to abandon his judicial duties. 



April 5. HENDEBSON, Dr. A. A., medical 

 director of the U. S. Navy. He was a native of 

 Pennsylvania, and entered the Navy from that 

 State in 1841. He was made medical director, 

 with the relative rank of captain, in 1871, and 

 since that time had been stationed in New 

 York or Brooklyn, where he died. 



April 6. PAGE, Colonel JAMES, a venerable 

 member of the Philadelphia bar, and for many 

 years commander of the State " Fencibles ;" 

 died in Philadelphia. From 1833 to 1841 he 

 was postmaster of Philadelphia. He joined 

 the " Fencibles" in 1814, and was elected cap- 

 tain in 1819, and held the command until 1861, 

 a period of forty-two years. In the Kensing- 

 ton riots he was engaged in a conflict in which 

 several persons were killed and wounded. Col- 

 onel Page was also a prominent member of the 

 Masonic Order. 



April 9. ATOCHA, Judge A. A., of New Or- 

 leans ; died in that city. He was Judge of the 

 Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans, and 

 formerly provost-marshal under General But- 

 ler. 



April 9. WILLEES, CALVIN, deputy Secre- 

 tary of State of New York ; died at Albany, 

 aged 34 years. 



April 10. HAMILTON, General ANDEEW J. ; 

 died at Austin, Texas. About thirty years ago 

 he migrated to that State from Alabama. He 

 practised law many years at Austin, served 

 several terms in the Legislature, and, after be- 



ing Attorney-General, represented a district 

 from 1859 to 1861 in Congress. He was a 

 Unionist, and made speeches against accession 

 at Brenham and Galveston, in November, 1861. 

 He remained North during the early part of 

 the war, but subsequently accepted the com- 

 mission of major-general in the Union Army, 

 and was sent to Matamoros, where, having no 

 troops to command, he remained inactive. In 

 1865 he returned to Texas as Provisional Gov- 

 ernor, and retained that office until the election 

 of Governor Throckmorton in 1866. When 

 Throckmorton was afterward deposed by the 

 military, General Hamilton was made a Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court. General Hamil- 

 ton was an independent candidate for Gov- 

 ernor in 1869, but was defeated by ex-Gov- 

 ernor Davis. 



April 10. HAMILTON, Father GEOEGE A., of 

 St. Mary's (Catholic) Church, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. ; died in that city, aged 57 years. He was 

 a native of Kentucky, and a relative of Bishop 

 Spalding, of Baltimore. He had had charge 

 of St. Mary's Church since 1862. He was of 

 the party of one hundred who last year made 

 a pilgrimage to Rome and various other parts 

 of Europe. 



April 10. SLADE, Hon. JAMES M. ; was born 

 at Middlebury, Vt. ; died there, at the age of 

 60. He was the son of Hon. W. M. Slade, 

 fifteenth Governor of Vermont; was a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress from 1831 to 1834, and 

 Lieutenant-Governor from 1856 to 1858. 



April 13. McJiLTON, Rev. JOHN N. ; died in 

 New York City. He was born in Baltimore, 

 in 1805. He was educated in the Protestant 

 Episcopal faith, and having been ordained priest 

 was placed in charge of St. James's African 

 Church, Baltimore. He was for some time 

 editor of the Baltimore Patriot. He was also 

 prominently identified with several scientific 

 and charitable societies. For some years he 

 had resided in the city of N>w York, in order 

 to assist Mr. John Hecker in his various reli- 

 gious, educational, and charitable enterprises. 

 He was for some time rector of the Madison- 

 Street Mission Church, New York City. 



April 13. WELLS, SAMUEL, a well-known 

 professor of phrenology, and proprietor of the 

 Phrenological Journal; died in New York 

 City, aged 55 years. 



April 14. QUAETLEY, FEEDEEICK W., well- 

 known engraver ; died in New York City. He 

 was born in Bath, England, in 1808, and came 

 to the United States twenty-four years ago. 

 For twelve years he was employed by the 

 publishers of Harper's Weekly. Afterward 

 he was induced by the Appletons to work ex- 

 clusively for their Journal and for their book 

 entitled " Picturesque America." 



April 15. SHANLY, CHAELES DAWSON ; died 

 at Jacksonville, Fla., aged 50 years ; was author 

 of many essays and descriptive articles in the 

 Atlantic Monthly, and many poems and bal- 

 lads. He was also a contributor to the New 

 York Leader, New York Weekly Review, the 



