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are due, in great part, to bis liberality and 

 energetic exertions. He was also a generous, 

 but discriminating, patron of American art. 



Nov. 7. ANTHON, General WILLIAM HENRY, 

 a prominent lawyer of New York City. He 

 was commonly known as General Anthon, a 

 title conferred on him by his position of Judge 

 Advocate-General on Governor Morgan's staff 

 during the late war. He was admitted to the 

 bar in 1848. For one term he was a member 

 of the State Legislature. He was as a lawyer 

 engaged in several remarkable caseSj one of 

 which was the Brinckly divorce case. In 1858 

 he defended the rioters who burnt the Quaran- 

 tine buildings on Staten Island. He purchased 

 and laid out the Jerome Park and race-course 

 for Mr. Jerome. He was a son of the late John 

 Anthon, president of the Law Institute of New 

 York, and a nephew of the late Prof. Charles 

 Anthon, of Columbia College. 



Nov. 9. TICE, ISAAC P., aged 42 years. He- 

 was a prolific inventor, having taken out letters- 

 patent for more than sixty inventions. 



Nov. 13. MILES, Eev. JAMES B., D.D.; died 

 at Worcester, Mass. He was corresponding 

 secretary of the Peace Society, and, as such, 

 took a leading part in a series of annual con- 

 gresses for the reform and codification of inter- 

 national law, especially with a view to secure 

 the settlement of contentions among nations 

 by the arbitration of commissioners. 



Nov. 17. FAR WELL, SAMUEL, of Utica, N.Y. ; 

 died at Saginaw, Mich. He was known through- 

 out the United States, for fifty years, as a lead- 

 ing contractor for the building of public works. 

 He began to work on the Erie Canal in 1825. 

 He completed contracts for the slackwater 

 navigation in the Lehigh River in 1835, the 

 Croton Aqueduct in 1838, and in subsequent 

 years the Boston Water-Works, New York & 

 Erie Railway, Great Western Railway of Cana- 

 da, Utica & Black River Railroad, Brooklyn 

 Water- Works, and the Flint & Pere Marquette 

 Railway. Of the railway last mentioned he 

 was the vice-president and principal stock- 

 holder. 



Nov. 23. FOSTER, JOHN ; died in Jacksonville, 

 Ala. He was born in Rowe, Mass., February 

 7, 1817, was graduated at Williams College, 

 Mass., in 1834, and read law at Troy, N. Y. 

 In early life he settled in Jacksonville as a law- 

 yer, and in the course of his practice rose to 

 the first rank of his profession. He was elected 

 Chancellor in 1856, and was reflected in 1862, 

 serving until 1865. Mr. Foster was a member 

 of the Constitutional Convention of 1865, and 

 was on the " Committee on the Constitution." 



Nov. 23. WELLS, JOHN, Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court of Massachusetts. He was born 

 at Rowe, Franklin County, Mass., 1818, and 

 was graduated at Williams College in 1837. 

 Completing a course of law at the Harvard 

 Law-School, he commenced practice at Chico- 

 pee. He was afterward Probate Judge of 

 Hampden County. He was appointed to the 

 Supreme Bench in 1868. 



Nov. 30. AVERT, BENJAMIN P., United 

 States minister to China ; died aged about 47 

 years. He was a native of the city of New 

 York. He embarked for California in 1849, to 

 engage in mining. But it was as a journalist 

 that he gained his reputation, particularly dur- 

 ing his ten years' connection with the San 

 Francisco Bulletin. For a year he was the 

 Washington correspondent of that journal. 

 He became editor of the Overland Monthly in 

 January, 1874, and continued his connection 

 with that periodical until his departure for 

 China, in August of the same year. He suc- 

 ceeded Mr. Low as United States minister at 

 Peking. As the United States has been at 

 peace with China, Mr. Avery had no oppor- 

 tunity for displaying his diplomatic skill. 



Dec. 2. STROUD, REUBEN W., Canal-Commis- 

 sioner ; died at Syracuse, aged 34 years. He 

 was elected Canal-Commissioner in 1872, on 

 the ticket with Governor Dix. He had charge 

 of the middle division of the canals. 



Dec. 3. ARMSBT, JAMES H., M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician of Albany, N. Y. ; died in that 

 city. He was born in Sutton, Mass., December 

 31, 1809. His early years were spent on his 

 father's farm and in the common school, ex- 

 cept a brief period at the Worcester and Mon- 

 son Academies. In 1830 he went to Albany, 

 and studied medicine in the office of Dr. Al- 

 den March, and in 1833 he graduated at the 

 Vermont Academy of Medicine. Returning 

 to Albany, he became a teacher in a private 

 medical school. In 1834 he was appointed 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the 

 Vermont Academy of Medicine. He retained 

 this position about six years, and then devoted 

 himself to the founding of a university in 

 Albany. He raised $10,000 for that object, 

 and delivered in that city the first American 

 course of medical lectures that was illustrated 

 by dissections of the human body. In 1839, 

 and again in 1845, he visited Europe for the 

 purpose of inspecting the principal medical 

 institutions of the Old World. In 1861 he was 

 appointed United States consul at Naples. He 

 was a warm and intelligent friend of the fine 

 arts and of young artists. He was very popu- 

 lar as a lecturer on anatomy and physiology, 

 and gave lectures on these subjects not only 

 in various parts of the State of New York, 

 but in Naples, while residing in that city. He 

 was one of the originators of the Young Men's 

 Christian Association, was one of the founders 

 of the Albany Medical College, and for many 

 years one of its principal professors, and was 

 instrumental in founding the Dudley Observa- 

 tory. He also had an extensive practice, and 

 was highly esteemed by the leading residents 

 of the State capital. 



Dec. 4. DENIN, Miss SUSAN, a well-known 

 American actress ; died at Bluffton, Ind., from 

 injuries caused by a fall upon the stage, while 

 playing in Indianapolis. She was born in Phil- 

 adelphia, March 22, 1835. She had much 

 ability, and was at one time a favorite in New 



