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and Children. She was highly successful in 

 the best sense. 



May 18. HAYEK, Rev. LEONARD (O. S. B.), 

 of Newark, N. J. ; died in Newark. He was 

 a native of Wittenberg, Germany, and came to 

 the United States in 1848. When ordained 

 to the priesthood he stood high as a musician, 

 being at one time Musical Director of St. Vin- 

 cent's College, Pa. During the civil war he 

 was pastor of a German church in Richmond, 

 Va. His labors among the Confederate troops 

 greatly impaired his health. He was not only 

 Superior of the Benedictines of High Street, 

 Newark, but also pastor of St. Mary's Roman 

 Catholic church in that city. 



May 20. BRIGHT, Hon. JESSE D., lawyer 

 and Senator of Indiana; died in Baltimore, 

 Md., aged 63 years. He was born in Nor- 

 wich, Chenango County, N. Y., December 18, 

 1812. Removing to Indiana, he received an 

 academic education, studied and practised law ; 

 was Circuit Judge of the State, State Senator, 

 United States Marshal, and Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor; was United States Senator from 1845 

 to February, 1862, at which time he was ex- 

 pelled on the charge of disloyalty. During 

 the war, or soon after, he removed with his 

 family to Carrollton, Ky., and thence to 

 Covington, in each of which cities he prac- 

 tised his profession. Within the past year the 

 deceased had made Baltimore his home. At 

 the time of his expulsion from the Senate 

 party spirit ran high, and some of the best le- 

 gal authorities then in the Senate, among 

 whom was the late Judge Harris, of Albany, 

 N. Y., defended his claim to a seat in that 

 body. 



May 27. MORGAN, Rev. GILBERT, D. D. ; 

 was born in Central New York in 1791. Ear- 

 ly in the present century he was active in the 

 organization of Presbyterian churches and 

 academies in the western sections of New 

 York State. Removing to Pennsylvania in 

 1836, Dr. Morgan became President of the 

 Western University at Pittsburg. At the 

 request of a committee of the Pennsylvania 

 Legislature, he prepared a report which be- 

 came the basis of the educational system in 

 that State. He became connected with the 

 Hampden Sidney College in Virginia. He ren- 

 dered important educational services in North 

 Carolina, where he lived several years. Sub- 

 sequently he made South Carolina his home, 

 having purchased the Bradford Springs, an 

 estate on the hills of the Santee River, about 

 fifteen miles from Sumter, which he retained 

 until his death. He was a favorite preacher, 

 and contributed largely to theological jour- 

 nals. In 1870 the University of New York 

 conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of 

 Divinity. His latest public sermon was at the 

 opening of the services in the Rev. Dr. John 

 Hall's new church on Fifth Avenue. 



May 27. WELLS, DARIUS, the inventor of 

 wood type ; died in Paterson, N. J., aged 75 

 years. Before he made his discovery, job- 



printers had, for three centuries, relied on 

 metal type, which, by reason of cost of the 

 metal, forbade the use of very large letters. 

 Mr. Wells had to invent his own tools in order 

 to make his large wooden type. These tools 

 have since been of great service to wood-en- 

 gravers. He had served as postmaster of Pat- 

 erson. 



May 29. BAKER, WILLIAM H., a well- 

 known American artist; died in Brooklyn. 

 He began to practise his art in New Orleans^ 

 where he became known as a very successful 

 portrait-painter. About ten years ago he set- 

 tled in Brooklyn. One of his most successful 

 portraits is a life-size painting of Bishop 

 Quintard, of Tennessee, which he painted for 

 the Episcopal General Convention. For sev- 

 eral years he was the principal of the Free 

 School of Design of the Brooklyn Art Associ- 

 ation. 



June 4. BALCH, Rev. LEWIS P. W., D. D. ; 

 died at Detroit, Mich. He was born at Lewis- 

 burg, Va., in 1814, was three years at West 

 Point and afterward at Princeton. He became 

 rector of St. Andrew's, Philadelphia, and in 

 1847 rector of St. Bartholomew's, in New 

 York City. Next he became rector of Christ 

 Church, Baltimore, and then successively at 

 Newport and Bristol, R. I., and at Middletown, 

 Conn. Subsequently he was made President 

 of Helmuth College and Archdeacon of Kent, 

 in Canada. In November, 1874, he became 

 rector of Grace Church, Detroit. For thirteen 

 years he was secretary of the House of Bish- 

 ops. He received during his life thirty-four 

 calls. 



June 4. MCKENNA, Rev. MICHAEL, first pas- 

 tor of the Roman Catholic Church of St: Rose 

 of Lima, in New York City ; .died at the rec- 

 tory. He was born in Greencastle, County 

 Donegal, Ireland, in 1820. In 1860 he visited 

 the United States. He returned to Ireland, 

 whence he was soon after affiliated to the arch- 

 diocese of New York, where he was assigned 

 in turn to assist at the parishes of St. Peter's, 

 in Barclay Street, the Transfiguration, in Mott 

 Street, and St. Mary's, in Grand Street. The 

 last-named parish was divided by the then 

 Archbishop (now Cardinal) McCloskey into the 

 parishes of St. Mary and St. Rose of Lima, 

 with Father McKenna as pastor of the latter. 

 The parish was a very poor one. A temporary 

 frame-building was at first used for a church, 

 but his zeal and energy enabled him soon to 

 erect a church. He was engaged in the erec- 

 tion of schools for his parish at the time of his 

 death. Father McKenna was a scholar, being, 

 so well versed in philosophy and theology that 

 his opinions in all such matters were regarded 

 as authoritative. 



June 9. JAMES, Rev. HORACE ; died at Wor- 

 cester, Mass. He was formerly chaplain of 

 the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and 

 in 1864 was superintendent of freedmen in the 

 Department of North Carolina. 



June 11. RYERSON, Judge MARTIN; died at 



