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OBITUARIES. 



Alex. Hamilton. He took a deep interest in all 

 public improvements, and was the projector of 

 the Erie Railroad. 



Feb. 4. MURRAY, Rev. NICHOLAS, D. D. (See 

 MURRAY.) 



Feb. 8. FRANCIS, JOHN WAKEFIELD, M. D. 

 (See FRANCIS.) 



Feb. 11. ROCKWELL, JOHN ARNOLD, died 

 at Washington, (D. 0.,) aged 59. He graduat- 

 ed at Yale College in 1822, and in 1837 repre- 

 sented his native State, Connecticut, in Con- 

 gress. In the recent presidential campaign 

 he was an active friend of Bell and Everett. 

 Of late years he has practised law in "Washing- 

 ton, and was employed in the New Almaden 

 Quicksilver Mine cases. 



Fel>. 13. WRIGHT, JOHN C. He was a resi- 

 dent of Ohio, and had been a member of Con- 

 gress from 1823 to 1829. He was selected 

 by Gov. Dennison as one of the commissioners 

 from Ohio to the Peace Congress in Washing- 

 ton in Feb. 1861, and though in his 78th year, 

 accepted the appointment, but was taken sick 

 soon after his arrival in that city and died in 

 about a week. He waft much respected and be- 

 loved in Ohio. 



Feb. 15. ADAMS CHARLES, died at Burling- 

 ton, Vt., aged 74 years. He was the historian 

 of the " Patriot War." 



Feb. 20. LAWRENCE, CORNELIUS VAN WYCK, 

 a prominent citizen of New York, born at 

 Flushing, Feb. 28, 1791. He was a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress from 1832 to 1834, May- 

 or of New York from 1834 to 1836, Presi- 

 dent of the Electoral College in 1836, an'd for 

 20 years President of the Bank of the State of 

 New York. In 1856 he retired to his estate in 

 Flushing, where he died. 



March 21. ITURBIDE, Madame HECATE DE. 

 (See ITURBIDE.) 



March 21. WHITTEMORE, Rev. THOMAS. 

 (See WHITTEMORE.) 



March 25. GIBBS, Prof. JOSIAH WILLARD. 

 (See GIBBS.) 



March 26. ROBBINS, Rev. ROYAL, D. D., a 

 native of Connecticut, born in 1788, educated 

 at Yale College, and settled as a Congregation- 

 al clergyman for nearly 50 years in Kensington 

 parish, in the town of. Berlin in that State. Dr. 

 Robbins was a man of high intellectual culture, 

 and was the author of several works of high 

 reputation. His " World Displayed " was a 

 very successful attempt at popularizing the 

 general facts of history, and his " Outlines of 

 History " has long been a popular text-book. 



March. 30. SHAW, LEMUEL, Chief- Justice 

 of Massachusetts. (See SHAW.) 



March 30. WHITE, DANIEL APPLETON, 

 LL. D., was born at Methuen, Mass., Jan. 7, 

 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1797. He 

 commenced the practice of law in Salem, Mass., 

 and was for many years Judge of Probate for 

 Essex Co., and for a term a Representative of 

 that county in Congress. He died in Salem. 



April 10. BUCKINGHAM, Hon. JOSEPH T., a 

 distinguished printer, editor, and antiquarian, 



born at Mansfield, Conn., Dec. 21, 1779. H 

 learned the printing business at Walpole, N. 

 H., and went to Boston in 1800, where he pub- 

 lished successively " The Polyanthos." " Or- 

 deal," "New England Galaxy," and "Boston 

 Courier," editing the last from 1821 to 1848. 

 During this period he also published the "New 

 England Magazine." He published two volumes 

 of " Reminiscences '' of his own life and times. 

 He was a member, at different times, of both 

 Houses of the State Legislature, and one of the 

 most eminent laborers for the completion of the 

 Bunker Hill monument. 



April 13. HUMPHREY, HEMAN, D. D., late 

 president of Amherst College, born at Simsbury, 

 Conn., March 26, 1779. He graduated at Yale 

 College in 1805 ; was pastor of Cong, church in 

 Fairfield, Conn., 1807-17, pastorof Cong, church 

 Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-23 ; president Amherst 

 College, 1823-45 ; and resigned and returned to 

 Pittsfield the latter year, where he resided till 

 his death. He was the author of "Tour in 

 France, &c.," 2 vols., "Domestic Education," 

 " Letters to a Son in the Ministry," " Life and 

 Writings of Prof. W. Fiske," "Life, &c., of T. 

 H. Gallaudet," and " Sketches of the History of 

 Revivals." 



April 13. EVANS, Dr. JOHN. (See EVANS.) 



April 14. McLEAN, Hon. JOHN. (See MC- 

 LEAN.) 



April 30. ONDERDONK, BENJAMIN TREAD- 

 WELL, D. D. (See ONDERDONK.) 



May 24. ELLSWORTH, Col. E. E. (See ELLS- 

 WORTH.) 



May 27. BALLOU, Rev. HOSEA, 2d, D. D. He 

 was a native of Massachusetts and a relative of 

 the Rev. Hosea Ballon, distinguished as one of 

 the fathers of Universalism in this country. He 

 was educated at Brown University, and subse- 

 quently entered the ministry in the Universalist 

 Church. He early distinguished himself as a 

 preacher and writer, and in 1844 received the 

 honorary degree of D. D. from Harvard Uni- 

 versity. He was active in the establishment of 

 Tufts College, at Medford, Mass., the principal 

 collegiate institution of his denomination, and 

 in 1853, a year after its organization, was elected 

 its President, which office he filled with decided 

 ability till his death. He edited for several 

 years the " Universalist Quarterly Review." 



June 3. DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD. (See 

 DOUGLAS, S. A.) 



June 5. GARLAND, Gen. JOHN. (See GAR- 

 LAND, JOHN.) 



June 10. GREBLE, JOHN T. (See GREBLE.) 



June 10. WINTHROP, THEODORE. (See WIN- 

 THROP.) 



June 14. STRONG, Rev. Dr., a clergyman of 

 the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 



June . ROORBACK, ORVILLE A., a pub- 

 lisher and bookseller for many years in New 

 York and Charleston. In 1852, he published 

 the Bibliotheca Americana, a work intended to 

 give the title, and, so far as known, the author, 

 publisher, price, and date of publication of every 

 American work published from 1820 to 1852. 



