OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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G-arrett Davis, was president of the Northern 

 Bank of Kentucky, and a leading member of 

 the bar of Bourbon County. His death is sup- 

 posed to have been caused by an overdose of 

 chloral used as an anodyne. 



Oct. 21. HUDSON, FREDERICK, formerly man- 

 aging editor of the New York Herald ; died at 

 Concord, Mass. He was born in Quincy, Mass., 

 in 1819, and received his education partly in 

 Concord and partly in Boston, where in 1830 

 he graduated in the Mayhew School. In 1836 

 he went to New York. In 1837, then a boy of 

 seventeen, he was employed by James Gordon 

 Bennett as an office factotum. He rose to be 

 a reporter, and then to the position of manag- 

 ing editor. He was connected with the Her- 

 ald nearly thirty years, retiring in April, 1866, 

 and thenceforth residing in Concord. In 1872 

 he published a " History of Journalism in Amer- 

 ica. 1 " It is a faithful and comprehensive chron- 

 icle of the rise and progress of newspaper 

 literature in the United States. In the spring 

 of 1875 he wrote an entertaining magazine 

 article on the " Concord Fight." 



Oct. 22. FILLMORE, ISAAC 0., D. D. ; died 

 at Green Island, N. Y. After completing his 

 studies at a theological seminary he was or- 

 dained pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 

 Cambridge, N. Y., in 1843. He labored in 

 Cambridge twelve years, during which the 

 church had several powerful revivals. He was 

 afterward pastor at Batavia and Syracuse, and 

 preached for a short time at Knowlesville, at 

 Jordan, N. Y., and at Green Island. Taking 

 a trip to California and Oregon for the recov- 

 ery of his health, he also preached in several 

 destitute places in those States. 



Oct. 22. HEBARD, WILLIAM; died in Chelsea, 

 Vt., aged 75 years. He was born in Windham 

 County, Vt., November 29, 1800 In 1842 he 

 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of 

 Vermont, and again in 1844. For several years 

 he represented his State in both branches of the 

 Legislature, and was a delegate to the Repub- 

 lican National Convention of 1860. He repre- 

 sented the Second District in the Thirty-first 

 and Thirty-second Congresses. 



Oct. 22. MEREDITH, General SOLOMON; died 

 at Cambridge City, Ind. He was born in Guil- 

 ford County, N. C., in May, 1810. In 1830 he 

 removed to Wayne County, Ind., and settled 

 in Cambridge City in 1840. For three terms, 

 beginning in 1846, he 'represented his county 

 in the State Legislature. In 1 849 he was United 

 States Marshal of Indiana. In the civil war 

 he led to the field, as colonel, the Sixty-ninth 

 Indiana Volunteers. He was afterward made 

 brigadier-general, and received the rank of 

 major-general at the close of the war. He was 

 popularly known as the commander of the 

 " Iron Brigade." During four years he fought 

 on many fields, and was dangerously wounded 

 at Gettysburg. At the close of the war he was 

 appointed Surveyor-General for Montana. Re- 

 tiring in 1868, he devoted his energies to rais- 

 ing blooded cattle. 



Oct. 24. CARRUTH, URI, journalist ; died at 

 Vineland, N. J. He was born in the State of 

 New York, studied law, and became editor of 

 the Vineland Independent. He was shot by 

 Mr. Charles K. Landis in March, 1875, and car- 

 ried the bullet in his brain until he died. 



Oct. 25. ATHON, Dr. JAMES S., physician 

 and politician, of Indiana ; died at Indianapolis, 

 Ind. He was born in Loudon County, Va., 

 April 1, 1811. His parents settled in that part 

 of Indiana Territory known as " Clark's Grant." 

 In early life he went to the common school in 

 the winter months, and worked on his father's 

 farm during the rest of the year. After he had 

 grown to manhood he studied medicine, grad- 

 uating at the Medical College of Louisville, Ky. 

 In 1846 he received the appointment of surgeon 

 of an Indiana regiment, to serve under General 

 Taylor in the Mexican War. He served first in 

 the Third and then in the Fifth Regiment. At 

 the close of the war he was elected State Sen- 

 ator. He was a member of the Constitutional 

 Convention of 1850, and was,, in 1853, appoint- 

 ed superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane. 

 On retiring from the hospital he was elected 

 Secretary of State, and filled the office for two 

 years. For many years he was an ardent Meth- 

 odist, but subsequently became a communicant 

 in the Episcopal Church. He was the father 

 of the poetess Hetty Athon Morrison. 



Oct. 27. ARTHUR, Rev. Dr. WILLIAM ; died 

 at Newtonville, near Albany, N. Y. He was 

 born of Scotch-Irish parentage, in Antrim, Ire- 

 land, in 1796, and was graduated at Belfast 

 College. While a young man he came to the 

 United States, and, after studying law for a 

 short time, was called to the Baptist ministry. 

 After preaching in Vermont and Western New 

 York, he settled as pastor of the Calvary Bap- 

 tist Church of Albany, N.Y., where he remained 

 from 1855 to 1863. He afterward removed to 

 Schenectady, where he published a magazine, 

 called the Antiquarian. A few years later he 

 published a work on the origin and import of 

 " Family Names," which was favorably received 

 both in this country and in Europe. During 

 the last ten years he had lived in retirement, 

 preaching occasionally, and giving much time 

 to literary pursuits. 



Nov. 1. YOUNG, Captain THOMAS G. ; died at 

 Augusta, Me. For the past four years he was 

 Assistant State Librarian. He was a veteran 

 whaleman, and sailed out of New Bedford for 

 forty years. He made quite a reputation, near 

 the close of the war, by his refusal to surrender 

 his whaling-vessel, the bark Favorite, to the 

 pirate Shenandoah, in the Arctic Ocean. The 

 commander of the Shenandoah admired the 

 old man's bravery so much that he did not fire 

 a shot at the craft, but with an armed boat's 

 crew brought him and his crew off. 



Nov. 4. BLODGETT, WILLIAM TILDEN, manu- 

 facturer ; died in New York City, aged 52 years. 

 By his taste, geniality, benevolence, and public 

 spirit, he won many friends. The fine begin- 

 nings of the New York Metropolitan Museum 



