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Between the years 1836 and 1844 he was three 

 times a member of the State Legislature, and in 

 1844 was an elector at large on the Polk and 

 Dallas presidential ticket. In 1846 he served 

 as captain in the Mexican War, and on the bat- 

 tle-field of Buena Vista was promoted by the 

 unanimous vote of his regiment. In 1847 he 

 was elected by the Democrats a Represent- 

 ative in Congress from Illinois, and continued 

 a member of the House until 1856, when he 

 resigned. In 1857 he was appointed by Pres- 

 ident Buchanan Governor of Nebraska, but 

 he resigned the following year. In 1860, he 

 reluctantly consented to serve as member of 

 Congress, but, before his term ended, he was 

 elected United States Senator to succeed 

 Stephen A. Douglas. Of late he took but lit- 

 tle active part in public affairs. 



Dec. 27. WHITE, Eev. ISAAC P., D. D., 

 rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. I. ; 

 died in that city, aged 27 years. lie was bom 

 in Sunderland, Eng., July 17, 1818. Educated 

 at Cambridge, he was prepared for the minis- 

 try by the Dean of Peterborough. He began 

 his ministry in the Isle of Jersey, where he 

 preached alike in French and English. Sub- 

 sequently he moved to Canada, where he had 

 a parish twelve miles from Montreal. He was 

 next called to the Cathedral of Montreal, where 

 he held the office of canon at the time he was 

 called to Newport. He accepted the charge 

 of Trinity Church in 1866, and remained there 

 just nine years. He promoted church exten- 

 sion in Newport, and had the reputation of 

 being a good pastor, but his High-Church faith 

 and preaching were offensive to those who 

 belong to the "evangelical" branch of the 

 Episcopal Church. His death was occasioned 

 by exposure to inclement weather while hi at- 

 tendance at the funeral of Mrs. Chanler, who 

 also died from a cold caught at the funeral of 

 her grandfather, W. B. Astor. 



Dec. 28. BOEHM, HENEY, Methodist preach- 

 er and itinerary ; died near Richmond, S. I., 

 aged 100 years. He was born in Conestoga, 

 Lancaster County, Pa., June 8, 1775. His 

 grandfather, Jacob, born in Switzerland in 

 1693, and having become a disciple of the Bap- 

 tist Menno, came to America in 1715, and set- 

 tled in Lancaster, Pa., then a colony of Men- 

 nonites. Martin, the father of Henry, was in 

 early life a licensed preacher among the Men- 

 nonites, but afterward joined the Moravian 

 Brethren, and finally became a Methodist. The 

 family spoke the " Pennsylvania German," but 

 a Hessian soldier taught him to write and speak 

 the German language correctly. In 1791 the 

 Methodists built a chapel on land given by 

 his uncle. In this meeting-house, known as 

 Boehm's Chapel, Henry first heard Bishop As- 

 bury preach in 1799. His own life as an itin- 

 erant began in 1800, on the Eastern Shore of 

 Maryland. In 1803 he made a short tour with 

 Bishop Asbury as his traveling companion, 

 and in 1808 he was chosen to journey with 

 the bishop continually. For five years he ac- 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



companied him in all his travels, South and 

 West, East and North, as far as Canada. Bish- 

 op Asbury, being sixty-three years old, was 

 feeble, rheumatic, and at times almost helpless. 

 In acknowledgment of Boehm's ministrations 

 to him he says, "He served me as a son; he 

 served me as a brother ; he served me as a ser- 

 vant ; and he served me as a slave." Speaking 

 the German as well as the English language, 

 Boehm often preached to the German colonists 

 in various parts of America. He traveled 

 about 40,000 miles with Bishop Asbury, and 

 during his entire itinerary he traveled on 

 horseback over 100,000 miles. He was one 

 of Bishop Asbury's executors. He also made 

 tours with Bishops Genge and McKendree. Mr. 

 Boehm was seventy-four years in the ministry, 

 and at the time of his death was the oldest 

 Methodist preacher in America. A special 

 service was held June 8, 1875, in celebration 

 of his hundredth birthday. In 1865 he pub- 

 lished a volume of " Reminiscences," a new edi- 

 tion of which was published in 1875, with ad- 

 ditional chapters and notes by Rev. Dr. J. B. 

 Wakeley and others, with a preface by Mr. 

 Boehm himself, dated July, 1875.. This auto- 

 biography shows that he was a personal ac- 

 quaintance of all the leading American Meth- 

 odists of the first half of the present century. 



Dec. 28. SHELDON, GAYLOE, formerly a well- 

 known merchant of Albany, N. Y. ; died in 

 New York City, at the age of 77 years. He 

 was a native of Montgomery County, N. Y., 

 and was long distinguished for his integrity, 

 piety, enterprise, benevolence, and public spirit. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. ADALBERT, WIL- 

 LIAM GEORGE Louis, Prince of Bavaria, born 

 July 19, 1828 ; died September 21, 1875. He 

 was a son of King Louis I., and an uncle of the 

 present King. On August 25, 1856, he was 

 married to Princess Amelia of Spain, daughter 

 of the late Infante Francis de Paula, cousin of 

 ex-Queen Isabella, and sister of the Infante 

 Francis de Assisi (the husband of ex-Queen 

 Isabella), by whom he had two sons and three 

 daughters. He was a lieutenant-general in the 

 German Army.* 



AGUIAE, LTTIZ H. FEEREIEA, Consul- General 

 of Brazil in New York City ; died August 6th, 

 aged 62 years. He was born in Rio Janeiro, 

 October 8, 1812. His father was the court- 

 physician of Dom Pedro I. of Brazil. When 

 very young he was appointed an attache to the 

 Brazilian legation at Washington, under Dom 

 Calvacanti de Albuquerque, and was trans- 

 ferred to New York, as consul-general, on 

 the 1st day of February, 1843. In the years' 

 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1854, he was absent from 

 that city on special mission to Uruguay, visiting 

 Europe in the last-mentioned year, after which 

 he returned to his post. In 1843 he married 

 Emeline, daughter of James Wilkie, who died 

 some years subsequently, leaving two sons. 

 During the late war Mr. Aguiar, through his 



* See the Genealogy of the House of Bourbon, in ANNUAL 

 CYCLOPAEDIA for 18T4, p. 804. 



