OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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New York Albion, and the World. He was a 

 native of Ireland, and had lived in England 

 and Canada before he settled in New. York 

 City, where he resided about eighteen years. 



April 19. BLEEOKEB, RICHARD W. ; died in 

 New York City. He was born there, in 1821. 

 He was a generous patron of the arts and sci- 

 ences, and was an active member of the His- 

 torical Society and the American Institute, as 

 well as a corresponding member of several 

 other art and historical societies, both at home 

 and abroad. The literary receptions held at his 

 house were attended for many years by the 

 most prominent artists and authors of the 

 country. 



April 20. HODGES, Hon. S. H. ; died at 

 Washington, D. 0. He was born at Claren- 

 don, Vt., January 12, 1804. He practised law 

 in Rutland for many years, and was appointed 

 Commissioner of Patents by President Fill- 

 more. In 1861 he was appointed one of the 

 commissioners of a Board of Appeals in Pat- 

 ent Causes. 



April 20. MOULTON, JOSEPH W., historian 

 and writer on law ; died at Roslyn, Long Isl- 

 and, N. Y., aged 85 years. Mr. Moulton was 

 born at Stratford, Conn., in June, 1789, whence 

 the family to which he belonged moved to Troy, 

 N. Y., while he was young. He studied law, 

 and, after being admitted to the bar, moved to 

 Buffalo, and made a moderate fortune by in- 

 vestments in real estate. He afterward came 

 to this city. In 1824 and 1826, in conjunction 

 with J. V. N. Yates, he published " A History 

 of the State of New York," which, however, 

 was devoted entirely to the earlier history of 

 the State. His chief publications, besides 

 this, were " New York as it was Seventy Years 

 Ago," " View of the City of Orange as it was 

 in 1673," and "Chancery Practice." During 

 the later years of his life he lived in "Roslyn, 

 engaged in historical and legal researches. 



April 21. WHITMARSH, SAMTJEL, formerly 

 an enterprising manufacturer of Northampton, 

 Mass. ; died in that town, aged 74 years. He 

 formed a silk company at Northampton. This 

 proving unsuccessful, he went to the West In- 

 dies and introduced the growth of mulberry- 

 trees and silk-worms in the mountain-region 

 of Jamaica. While there his business was 

 so profitable that he sent about thirty thou- 

 sand dollars to Northampton with direction to 

 pay in full every dollar he owed there. His 

 agent informed him that twenty-five or fifty 

 per cent, would give entire satisfaction; but 

 that would not satisfy Mr. Whitmarsh, who 

 ordered the money to be justly distributed. 

 The consequence was that the money found its 

 way into the hands of almost every person in 

 town. Ultimately failing in Jamaica, he re- 

 turned to Northampton to end his days in de- 

 pendence. 



April 28. GALE, LEVIN, a distinguished law- 

 yer of Maryland; died in Baltimore, aged 51. 

 He was a native of Cecil County, Md. He was 

 a barrister as contradistinguished from an at- 



torney. He had a largo practice, and argued 

 many cases before the Court of Appeals of 

 Maryland. 



April 28. GREENE, JOHN C., prominent 

 merchant of New York City; was born in 

 New Jersey, and, when very young, entered 

 the mercantile house of N. L. & G. Griswold, 

 in South Street. He was employed as a clerk 

 in the counting-room, but, as he displayed un- 

 usual commercial sagacity, he was appointed 

 supercargo of the ship Panama, and other ves- 

 sels, and made many voyages to South Ameri- 

 ca and other parts of the world. In 1833 he 

 entered the house of Russell & Co., at Canton, 

 China, and laid the foundation of his rapidly- 

 accumulated and large fortune. In 1839, on 

 his return to New York, he married the daugh- 

 ter of the late George Griswold, and took a 

 prominent part in the social, business, and 

 public enterprises of the city. He had been 

 for many years a director of the Bank of Com- 

 merce, the Chamber of Commerce, and a man- 

 ager of several of the leading charitable and 

 public institutions. He took an active inter- 

 est in the University of New York, and more 

 especially in Princeton College, to which he 

 gave a large part of his fortune. 



April 30. CHAELIOK, OLIVER, politician and 

 railroad speculator; was born in New York 

 City, about the year 1810, and died at Bay- 

 side, near Flushing, Long Island. 



May 5. BUTTEEWORTH, SAMUEL F., lawyer, 

 politician, and speculator ; died in San Fran- 

 cisco. He studied and practised law in New 

 York City, and was at the head of the Sub- 

 Treasury in Wall Street during the Adminis- 

 tration of President Buchanan. He was af- 

 terward sent to California as Superintendent 

 of the New Amaden Mining Company. He is 

 said to have died worth $7,000,000 in lands 

 and other real estate. 



May 7. BIDDLE, THOMAS, United States 

 minister to Ecuador ; died in Guayaquil. He 

 was a nephew of the famous Nicholas Bid- 

 die. He had had much experience in diplom- 

 acy in British India, in Cuba, and in South 

 America. In 1857 he was appointed commis- 

 sioner to adjust the claims of the United States 

 upon the States of Columbia. Mr. Biddle held 

 the rank of colonel in the army. He served 

 his country abroad more than twenty years. 



May 9. DIMOCK, Dr. SUSAN, of Boston, 

 Mass. ; was lost in the Schiller, which was 

 wrecked off the coast of Cornwall, England. 

 She was born in North Carolina, in 1847. 

 When only twelve years old, she told her 

 father she wished to study medicine and be- 

 come a physician. During the war her family 

 came North, and twice she applied for admis- 

 sion into the Medical School of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and was twice refused. She went to 

 Zurich, in Switzerland, where she graduated 

 with honors. She afterward studied at Vi- 

 enna, where she made a very favorable im- 

 pression. Returning to Boston she became 

 resident physician of the Hospital for Women 



