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was an exemplary member of the Methodist 

 Church. 



July 9. LOBDELL, DANIEL G. ; died at Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. He was about 65 years of age. 

 He was supervising special agent of the Treas- 

 ury Department. 



July 9. OSGOOD, Rev. SEWALL M., D. D. ; 

 died at Chicago, 111., aged 68 years. He was born 

 in Henderson, N. Y., March 2, 1803. He was 

 in 1834 appointed printer to the Baptist mission 

 at Maulmain, Burmah, where he was ordained 

 to the work of the ministry May 10, 1836. He 

 was associated with Adoniram Judson, Euge- 

 neo Kincaid, and other pioneer missionaries in 

 India, in planting there the first Baptist church- 

 es. His health failing, he returned to the 

 United States in April, 1846. He closed his 

 connection with the mission in 1849. Since 

 that time he had been for many years in the 

 service of . the Baptist Missionary Union as 

 agent or district secretary stationed, almost 

 always, at Chicago, 111. 



July 10. BENNING, General HENRY L., 

 Southern leader and judge; died in Columbus, 

 Ga., aged 60 years. He was born in Columbia, 

 in 1813, and commenced the practice of law 

 in that city as a partner of the noted Seaborn 

 Jones, and first distinguished himself in certain 

 bank cases. For some years he was Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of Georgia. He went into 

 the Confederate service as colonel of the Seven- 

 teenth Georgia Regiment, and became brigadier- 

 general of the historic Benning's Brigade. He 

 took part in every fight in Northern Virginia 

 until wounded in the battle of the Wilderness. 

 For his stubbornness and coolness in battle he 

 received the sobriquet of " Old Rock." 



July 10. HOLDEN, CHARLES, of Portland, 

 Me. ; died in that city. He was for three years 

 member of the State Senate, and was president 

 of that body in 1848. For three years he was 

 member of the Executive Council, and had also 

 held several other important offices. 



July 11. MASON, CHARLES KEMBLE, once a 

 well-known actor ; died in Brooklyn. He was 

 born in Peterborough, Eng., about 1800. He 

 first appeared on the stage in London in 1823. 

 He came to America in 1834. His final ap- 

 pearance on the stage was in 1869, in conjunc- 

 tion with his relative, Mrs. Scott-Siddons. 



July 11. MORIARTY, the Very Rev. Dr., 

 distinguished Catholic divine ; died at Villano- 

 va, Delaware County, Pa. He was pastor 

 of St. Augustine's Church, in Philadelphia, at 

 the time of the riots, when the edifice was de- 

 stroyed by fire. 



July 11. SIMS, HENRY A., architect ; died in 

 Philadelphia. He was born in Philadelphia, 

 December 22, 1834. He was originally a civil 

 engineer. He designed and constructed many 

 public and private buildings in Pennsylvania 

 and elsewhere. For a long time he was the 

 foreign correspondent of the American Insti- 

 tute of Architects. 



July 16. YARD, Rev. R. B. ; died at Eliza- 

 beth, N. J. He was graduated at Pennington 



Seminary, and entered the ministry in 1848. 

 Having served in various churches in Rahway, 

 Morristown, and Jersey City, he was chosen 

 chaplain of the First Regiment of the New 

 Jersey Volunteers, and obtained the sobriquet 

 of the "Fighting Chaplain." He was a Meth- 

 odist and also a member of St. John's Masonic 

 Lodge, Newark, N. J. 



July 21. HERSEY, SAMUEL F., a Represent- 

 ative in Congress from Maine ; died at Bangor, 

 Me. He was born in Sumner, Me., April 12, 1812. 

 He began as a bank clerk, but subsequently 

 engaged in the lumber-business in Maine, Min- 

 nesota, and Wisconsin. He was a member of 

 the Maine Legislature in 1842, of the Executive 

 Council of the State in 1851 and 1852, and of 

 the Legislature again in 1857, 1865, 1867, and 

 1869. He was a delegate to the National Re- 

 publican Conventions in 1860 and 1864, and a 

 member of the National Republican Commit- 

 tee from 1864 to 1868. Mr. Hersey was elected 

 in 1872 on the Republican ticket to Congress 

 from the Fourth District of Maine, composed 

 of the northern and northeastern sections of 

 the State, bordering upon Canada. In Septem- 

 ber, 1874, he was reflected to Congress. In 

 the House of Representatives, he was a mem- 

 ber of the Committee on Public Buildings and 

 Grounds. 



July 21. NOLAN, SAMUEL B. B. (C. E.), in- 

 ventor ; died in New York City. He was born 

 in Dublin, in 1808. In early life he served in 

 the British naval and land forces. In 1850 he 

 came to the United States for the purpose of 

 selling a patent-right for the ruling of paper 

 (the invention of his father), which he disposed 

 of for a considerable sum. He then directed 

 his attention to civil engineering, and was the 

 inventor of numerous plans for the construc- 

 tion of underground and elevated railroads, 

 rafts to be used in case of shipwrecks, im- 

 provements in pumps, valves, bridges, manu- 

 facture of paper, etc. He devoted a great deal 

 of attention to preparing designs for an under- 

 ground arcade-road, to connect the lower and 

 upper quarters of this city, and on two occa- 

 sions his plans embodied in a bill passed unan- 

 imously both branches of the Legislature, but 

 were vetoed by the Governor, on the ground 

 that the proposed route would interfere with 

 Central and other parks. Plans of Mr. Nolan 

 were before the Rapid Transit Commissioners 

 at the time of his death, and he left the world 

 expecting that his long-cherished ideas would 

 soon be carried into successful operation. 



July 23. SINGER, ISAAC MERRITT, inventor 

 of a sewing-machine, was born at Oswego, N. 

 Y., October 27, 1811, and died at Torquay, 

 England, aged 63 years. Being a machinist by 

 trade, Mr. Singer made himself thoroughly ac- 

 quainted with the manufacture of sewing-ma- 

 chines, and for several years he gave his undi- 

 vided attention to their improvement. Moving 

 from Boston to New York, he finished his ma- 

 chine which was known as a single- thread, 

 chain-stitch machine and opened a manufac- 



