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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Warren was elected to the Thirty-third Con- 

 gress from the Second District of Arkansas, as 

 a Democrat. He was also a member of the 

 Thirty-fifth Congress. During his service as a 

 Representative he was a member of the Com- 

 mittee on the Militia, and Railroads and Ca- 

 nals. 



July 3. FLOEENCE, THOMAS B., ex-member 

 of Congress from Philadelphia ; died at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. In earlier life he was captain of 

 the Independent Rifle Company, which was ac- 

 cepted for service in Mexico. He was elected 

 to Congress by the Democratic party, his rival 

 being Mr. Lavin, the "National American" 

 candidate. 



July 6. IVES, ROBERT H., senior partner in 

 the firm of Brown & Ives ; died at Providence, 

 R. L, aged 77 years. The firm of which he 

 was the senior partner at the time of his death 

 was the largest cotton-manufacturing firm in 

 New England. For many years it has taken 

 an active interest in the general welfare of 

 the State, and aided largely in promoting the 

 industrial prosperity of Rhode Island. The 

 firm owned or was interested in cotton-mills 

 at Blackstone, Mass., and Ashton, Lonsdale, 

 and Scituate, R. I., and other places, in the 

 successful management of which great wealth 

 was amassed. Liberality was shown toward 

 the employes of the firm in the payment of 

 wages, and every effort was made for their 

 improvement. Libraries were established at 

 the several factories, and educational opportu- 

 nities were afforded the employes. The com- 

 pany's mills at Lonsdale were perhaps the most 

 complete of their kind in the country. The 

 firm of Brown & Ives. exercised a controlling 

 influence in the Republican party of the State. 



July 7. BAEEY, General HENBY W. ; died 

 at Washington, D. C. He was born in New 

 York City, and was self-educated. He taught 

 school in Kentucky, and afterward became a 

 lawyer at Washington. He entered the Union 

 army as a private early in the war ; organized 

 the first regiment of colored troops raised in 

 Kentucky ; commanded a brigade and for a 

 time a division of the army, and was brevetted 

 twice for gallant and meritorious conduct, the 

 last brevet being for the rank of major-gen- 

 eral. He was a member of the State Constitu- 

 tional Convention of Mississippi in 1867, a 

 State Senator in 1868, and the same year was 

 elected to Congress in the Third District. He 

 was reflected to the latter position in 1870 

 and 1872. General Barry was chairman of 

 the Committee on Postal Expenditures in the 

 last Congress. He was an Administration Re- 

 publican, and owed his political success to the 

 support of the colored people. He had been 

 a member of Congress from Mississippi since 

 1868. 



July 7. PIZABBO, Chevalier Don JOSE A. ; 

 died at Baltimore. He was many years con- 

 sul of Spain and Mexico for the State of Mary- 

 land, and Professor of the Spanish Language 

 in St. Mary's College. 



July 8. BLAIE, FEANCIS PEESTON, Jr. ; died 

 at St. Louis. He was born at Lexington, Ky., 

 February 19, 1821, and graduated at Prince- 

 ton College in 1841. Returning to Washing- 

 ton, where his father had charge of the Admin- 

 istration organ, the Globe, he studied law and 

 then went to Kentucky, where he was admitted 

 to the bar in 1843. He commenced practice 

 at St. Louis, but, his health failing, he made a 

 journey with a party of trappers to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Being in New Mexico when the war 

 broke out he enlisted as a private soldier under 

 Sterling Price, and engaged in all the battles 

 of the war until 1847, from that of Palo Alto 

 to Bueoa Vista. In 1848 he returned to St. 

 Louis and resumed the practice of law. He 

 attached himself to the "Free-Soil" branch 

 of the Democratic party, and from 1852 to 

 1856 served two terms in the Missouri Legis- 

 lature. He entered the House of Representa- 

 tives in 1857, and from that year until 1865 

 represented the St. Louis district. When the 

 civil war broke out he secretly enrolled one 

 thousand volunteers; he took command of the 

 force as colonel, and captured Fort Jackson. 

 He afterward left his place in Congress, and 

 with the rank of major-general he joined the 

 army of General Sherman. He took part in 

 the one hundred days' siege of Vicksburg. In 

 the march from Memphis to Chattanooga he 

 commanded the Fifteenth Corps, and led his 

 men in the battles of Lookout Mountain and 

 Missionary Ridge. In December, 1863, his 

 corps having gone into winter quarters, he re- 

 sumed his seat in Congress. But at the open- 

 ing of the campaign in the subsequent fall he 

 again took command, and led the Seventeenth 

 Corps in General Sherman's army in "the 

 march to the sea." In 1866 he was nominated 

 by President Johnson as collector of internal 

 revenue at St. Louis, but was rejected by 

 the Senate. He was also among the nominees 

 as minister to Austria, but he was again de- 

 nied confirmation. Becoming dissatisfied with 

 the policy of the Republicans, he returned to 

 the Democratic party, and was in 1868 its can- 

 didate for the vice-presidency on the ticket 

 with Mr. Seymour as President. In January, 

 1871, General Blair entered again the State 

 Legislature of Missouri, and in the same month 

 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the United 

 States Senate. He took his seat January 25th, 

 and retired at the end of the term in 1872. 

 Resuming his residence in St. Louis, he was 

 appointed State Superintendent of Insurance, 

 and held that position at the time of his death. 



July 8. PAPY, MAEIANNO D., an eminent 

 lawyer of Tallahassee, Fla. ; died in that city. 

 Born in St. Augustine, he studied law in Talla- 

 hassee, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. 

 In 1846, he became Clerk of the Court of Ap- 

 peals and continued in that office until 1850. 

 He was member of the Legislature in 1852, 

 when he was elected Attorney-General. He 

 was twice reflected, and held the office until 

 1860, when he declined another reelection. He 



