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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Q C ^ 3. HEGEMAN, WILLIAM, senior partner 

 in the firm of Hegeman & Co. ; died in the 

 city of New York, where he was born, in 1816, 

 his father being Judge Adrian Hegeman. He 

 was a man of versatile talents and of a genial 

 disposition. At one time he had under his 

 control several drug-stores, in various parts of 

 the country and in New York City. With all 

 his business cares, Mr. Hegeman found time to 

 attend to several other pursuits. He was for 

 many years president of the College of Phar- 

 macy, and an active member of the Century 

 Club, of the IJnion League Club, and of the 

 St. Nicholas Society. Well versed in chemistry 

 and kindred sciences, he was a painter and 

 musician for his own amusement. He was also 

 a good critic and liberal patron of the fine arts 

 and literature. 



Oct. 4. CHATFIELD, ANDEEW G. ; died at 

 Belle Plain, Minn. He was Judge of one of the 

 District Courts of Minnesota. He was ap- 

 pointed to the office of Territorial Judge by 

 President Pierce. 



Oct. 5. HATNES, General J. M. ; died at 

 Charlestown, Mass. He was formerly Adjutant- 

 General of New Hampshire, and took a promi- 

 nent part in enrolling and equipping the troops 

 of that State during the civil war. 



Oct. 6. PLUNKETT, JAMES LYSAGHT, master 

 in U. S. Navy ; died in Brooklyn, aged 34 years. 

 He was born in Berkshire, England, and entered 

 the U. S. Navy, as a master's mate, in 1858, 

 and served throughout the war, winning his 

 position as a master by meritorious service and 

 signal bravery. He commanded the naval part 

 of the parade when medals were distributed 

 to the veterans of the army and navy, in Brook- 

 lyn, at the close of the war. Afterward he 

 served for a short time as a commissioned offi- 

 cer of the Peruvian Navy. He had been re- 

 cently engaged in the merchant service. 



Oct. 9. McKiNNEY, Judge ROBEET J. ; died 

 at Knoxville, Tenn. He was -for many years 

 one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and 

 one of the most eminent jurists of the State. 



Oct. 11. JOHNSON, WILLIAM H. ; died at 

 Seneca Falls. He had represented the Twenty- 

 sixth Senatorial District for the last four years. 

 He was born in Yolney, Oswego County, in 

 1820, and was for many years engaged in manu- 

 facturing at Seneca Falls. He was an active 

 member of the Democratic party. 



Oct. IS. PEESCOTT, Dr. WILLIAM ; died in 

 New Hampshire, aged 86 years. He was born 

 in Gilmanton, December 29, 1788. At the 

 age of sixteen he was indentured to a farmer, 

 who was so parsimonious that he compelled the 

 boy to spend the hours usually devoted to rest 

 in gathering chestnuts with which to purchase 

 his school-books. At the age of twenty-one he 

 had such an education as he could receive by at- 

 tending the common school two months in the 

 year. He then learned mathematics, naviga- 

 tion, and surveying, under the private instruc- 

 tion of two clergymen, afterward taught school, 

 studied medicine, and graduated, in 1815, from 



the Dartmouth Medical College. He practised 

 medicine in Gilmanton and Lynn. He repre- 

 sented Gilmanton in the Legislature, and the 

 Sixth District in the State Senate. He was a 

 member of a great number of Jiterary and 

 scientific societies, and was connected with 

 the Masonic fraternity, having received the 

 council degrees at Concord, in 1869. He was 

 an enthusiastic collector of minerals, shells, etc. 

 He wrote the " Prescott Memorial," a history 

 of the Prescott family in the United States. 

 In faith he was a Methodist, but in charity of 

 the " Church universal." 



Oct. 19. ANDEESON, HENBY JAMES, M. D., 

 LL. D., a distinguished man of science, was 

 born in New York, January 6, 1798 ; died at La- 

 hore, Northern Hindostan, aged 77 years. He 

 was graduated at Columbia College, N. Y., in 

 1818, at the age of twenty, and at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons in 1824. He became 

 a Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at 

 Columbia College in 1826 and emeritus pro- 

 fessor in 1866. After discharging the duties 

 of his professorship for more than twenty-five 

 years, he was obliged to resign in consequence 

 of the serious illness of his wife, with whom 

 he visited Europe. While in France he became 

 acquainted with the celebrated French astron- 

 omer Arago, and at this time entered the 

 Catholic Church, of which at the time of his 

 death he was one of the most distinguished 

 American laymen. He was one of the band 

 of pilgrims who left the United States in 1874 

 on a visit to Lourdes, in the south of France, 

 and who were received with special marks of 

 favor by Pius IX. Leaving the fellow-pil- 

 grims after they had accomplished their pil- 

 grimage, he joined the American Scientific Ex- 

 pedition appointed by the Government of the 

 United States to witness the transit of Venus, 

 and in the performance of the duties connected 

 therewith visited Australia. He next pro- 

 ceeded to India, where, after ascending and 

 descending one of the highest peaks of the 

 Himalayas, he died of diarrhoea at Lahore. 

 Dr. Anderson was held in high regard by his 

 fellow-Catholics throughout the United States 

 and by the Pope, who on more than one occa- 

 sion alluded in terms of praise to his services 

 in the cause of religion. He was for many 

 years president of the Society of St. Vincent 

 de Paul. He was also one of the early mem- 

 bers and founders of the Catholic Protectory 

 in Westchester, N. Y. To Dr. Anderson the 

 Catholic Union of New York is mainly indebt- 

 ed for its origin. He was an ardent and de- 

 voted student in the natural sciences, and it is 

 thought his death was hastened by his exces- 

 sive exertions in his last scientific exploration. 

 He was the author of two works : " Geology 

 of Lieutenant Lynch's Expedition to the Dead 

 Sea," and " Geological Reconnoissance of Part 

 of the Holy Land," 1848, published by the 

 United States Government. 



Oct. 21. DAVIS, R. T. ; died at Louisville, 

 Ky. He was the eldest son of the late Senator 



