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Fisher, and also assisted in the capture of the 

 rebel iron-clad Atlanta. His earlier service 

 was in the West Indies and on the African and 

 Pacific coasts. After the war he was appoint- 

 ed to the command of the Mackinaw, and went 

 to the Bay of Fundy to protect the fishing in- 

 terests. He made his last cruise in 1866, and 

 was retired on his return, after a long and 

 faithful service. He was then appointed by 

 Governor Ward a Pilot-Commissioner, and re- 

 appointed by successive State administrations. 

 For the past two years he was president of the 

 board. 



Aug. 4. VAN ANDEN, ISAAC, proprietor of 

 the Brooklyn Eagle, and long an enterprising 

 and public-spirited citizen of Brooklyn ; died 

 at Poughkeepsie. He was born in the last- 

 named city, in 1813. He had taken an active 

 interest in the affairs of Brooklyn for over 

 forty years. 



Aug. 7. MADDEN, Judge JOHN B. ; died at 

 Long Island City, N. Y., 1875. He was born 

 in the county of Galway, Ireland, in 1823, 

 and at the age of twenty-three came to the 

 United States. He was member of the State 

 Assembly for several years from Queens Coun- 

 ty. He was City Justice of Long Island City 

 at the time of his death. 



Aug. 15. MOEBIS, GEORGE U., commander 

 in the U. S. Navy ; died in Virginia. He was 

 a native of Massachusetts, and was appointed 

 to the Navy from that State. He entered the 

 service August 14, 1836, and remained in it 

 over twenty-six years, and had over fourteen 

 years of active duty. He was commander of 

 the Cumberland when she was sunk by the 

 Merrimac in Hampton Roads. He received his 

 commission as commander, July 25, 1866. His 

 residence was in Georgetown, D. 0. 



Aug. 17. PARKER, Prof. JOEL, L.L. I)., an 

 eminent jurist; died at Cambridge, Mass. He 

 was born at Jaffrey, N. H., January 25, 1795, 

 and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 

 1811, becoming afterward Professor of Medi- 

 cal Jurisprudence in that institution. He was 

 a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 

 shire in 1833, and became Chief- Justice in 

 1838. He was Eoyal Professor of Law at 

 Cambridge University from 1847 to 1868. He 

 was the author of more than twenty publi- 

 cations, most of which were contributions to 

 the volumes of the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society. 



Aug. 17. WELLER, JOHN B. ; died in New 

 Orleans ; was a native of Ohio, and represent- 

 ed a district of that State in Congress, from 

 1839 to 1845. He was the first U. S. Commis- 

 sioner to Mexico under the treaty of Guada- 

 lupe Hidalgo. Afterward settling in California, 

 he was, in 1851, sent to the U. S. Senate from 

 that State. In December, 1860, he was ap- 

 pointed minister to Mexico, and in 1864 he was 

 a delegate to the Democratic Convention at 

 Chicago. 



Aug. 23. EDWARDS, JONATHAN; died in 

 New Haven, Conn., aged 77 years. He was 



a grandson of the famous theologian, Jona- 

 than Edwards ; graduated at Yale College in 

 1819 ;' he studied law at Judge Gould's law- 

 school at Litchfield, and commenced practice 

 in Troy, N. Y., of which city he was at one 

 time mayor, and several times a member of 

 the Legislature of New York. 



Aug. 23. GROVER, Judge MARTIN ; died at 

 Angelica, N. Y. He was a resident of Alle- 

 ghany County, where he gained a good repu- 

 tation as a lawyer. He was nominated Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals in 1865, to fill the un- 

 expired term of Judge Henry R. Selden. He 

 was a Democrat of the Silas Wright school, 

 and acted with the party until the passage of 

 the Kansas-Nebraska bill, when he became a 

 Republican. He was firmly opposed to legis- 

 lative corruption. For years he went by the 

 name of the " ragged lawyer," on account of 

 his appearance in court with his garments torn, 

 or sadly the worse for wear. He was very 

 popular in Alleghany, Wyoming, and adjacent 

 counties. He was some years since elected by 

 an overwhelming majority Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court of the Eighth Judicial District. 

 His term did not expire until the close of De- 

 cember, 1867. Unlike some judicial officers, 

 he studiously avoided taking an active part in 

 political gatherings and campaigns. 



Aug. 23. NUTT, Rev. CYRUS, D. D., late 

 president of the University of Indiana ; died at 

 Bloomington, Ind., about 64 years of age. He 

 was a native of Western Pennsylvania. He 

 graduated at Meadville, overcoming the diffi- 

 culties of poverty in the gaining of his edu- 

 cation. He came to Indiana in 1838, and 

 was the first president of Asbury University, 

 Greencastle, organizing that college with three 

 scholars in a small room twelve by fifteen feet, 

 which is yet standing. He remained president 

 until the election of Bishop Simpson, in 1839, 

 and then took the place of Professor of Greek. 

 He continued in that relation, and as vice- 

 president of the university, until the retire- 

 ment of Dr. Curry from the presidency again 

 placed him in charge for a period of eighteen 

 or twenty months, the presidency being then 

 filled by Bishop Bowman. In 1860 Dr. Nutt 

 was elected president of the State University, 

 and remained at its head until July, 1875. As 

 an evidence of his devotion to the educational 

 work, and especially to Asbury University, it 

 may be mentioned that during the first three 

 years of the history of that institution he did 

 not receive money enough to pay the postage 

 on his correspondence ; but he remained at his 

 post, and had the satisfaction of seeing the uni- 

 versity become known and honored through- 

 out the country. 



Aug. 29. WHITE, FRANK J., brigadier-gen- 

 eral ; died in San Francisco, aged 33 years. In 

 1861, when only nineteen, he contributed to 

 the raising of the Tenth New York Regiment. 

 The same year he was placed in command of 

 the Union outposts near Hampton. He served 

 as a member of General Fremont's staff while 



