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OBITUARIES. 



became the President of the Hartford Bank. 

 He represented the town of Hartford repeat- 

 edly in the Legislature, was a member of Con- 

 gress for two terms, from 1838 to 1842, and 

 was elected Governor of the State in 1849. 



Aug. 10. LYON, Gen. NATHANIEL. (/SeeLYON.) 

 Aug. 14. MANGUM, WILLIE PERSON. (See 

 MANGUM.) 



Aug. 14. FARNHAM, Col. NOAH L., born at 

 Haddam, Conn., June 6, 1829. At 18 years of 

 age he became a member of the New York 

 " City Guard," and was on active duty at the 

 time of the " Astor Place Riot." In 1857 he 

 was elected second sergeant in the " Seventh 

 Regiment," in which he was a recruit. When 

 the " Seventh " left for Washington, Farnham 

 was acting as first lieutenant, but upon Ells- 

 worth's arrival at Washington with his regi- 

 ment, he prevailed upon Farnham to accept the 

 office of lieutenant-colonel of the Zouaves, and 

 upon the death of Ellsworth he became colonel. 

 When his regiment received orders to move on 

 to Manassas he was confined to a sick bed, but 

 rose, and, placing himself at the head of his 

 men, hastened to the scene of action. Col. F. 

 fought gallantly, but early in the engagement 

 received a wound in his head, which, in his ex- 

 hausted state, soon terminated fatally. 



Sept. 10. LOWE, Col. JOHN WILLIAMSON, of 

 the Ohio Volunteers, killed at Carnifex Ferry. 

 He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 

 15, 1809. When the Mexican war broke out, 

 having some military knowledge, and feeling 

 that his country needed his services, he accept- 

 ed the command of the Fourth Ohio Regiment 

 and went to the seat of war, serving until it 

 was disbanded in 1848. When the rebellion 

 began, he once more offered himself to his 

 country. The Twelfth Regiment was organized 

 and he was unanimously chosen its colonel, 

 and, united to the Cox Brigade, they advanced 

 up the Kanawha River. The only battle neces- 

 sary to clear the Kanawha valley of the rebels 

 was fought by the Twelfth, under Col. Lowe's 

 command. 



Sept. 12. BRIGGS, GEORGE NIXON. (See 

 BRIGGS.) 



Sept. 15. WASHINGTON, JOHN A., colonel in 

 the Confederate army, shot in a skirmish. He 

 \vas a collateral descendant of the Washington 

 family, and had been the proprietor of Mount 

 Vernon, but sold it for $200,000 to the Mount 

 Vernon Association. 



Sept. 17. JOHNSTON, Col., an officer of the 

 Confederate army, killed in battle in Mis- 

 souri. 



Sept. 28. BROWNELL, J. SHERMAN, a promi- 

 nent leading politician of New York City, and 

 for some years a judge of the Police Court. 



Oct. 5. BINGHAM, KINSLEY S. (See BING- 

 HAM.) 



Oct. 8. HOUSTON, SAM., Governor of Texas. 

 (See HOUSTON.) 



Oct. 8. IVES, ELI, M. D., an American phy- 

 sician born in New Haven, Feb. 7, 1779. He 

 graduated at Yale College in 1799, was rector 



of the Hopkins Grammar School for the next 

 two years, studying his profession meanwhile 

 with his father, who was a physician, and Dr. 

 Eneas Monson, and in 1801 commenced practice , 

 with his father. Two or three years later he 

 attended medical lectures at Philadelphia, and 

 received the private instruction of Drs. Rush 

 and Wooster, of that city. His intimacy with 

 Dr. Monson, as well as his own tastes, led him 

 to cultivate the study of medical botany, and 

 he early became more thoroughly familiar w r ith 

 the Materia Nedica, and especially with our 

 native vegetable remedies, than any physician 

 of the time. In every department of medical 

 study and practice he was a hard student and a 

 keen and careful observer. At an early age he 

 was more extensively called in consulting prac- 

 tice than any physician of his native city, and 

 in the constantly widening circle of his prac- 

 tice, he had the reputation of a remarkably 

 skilful and successful practitioner. In 1813, in 

 connection with Prof. Silliman, he secured the 

 establishment of the medical department of 

 Yale College, and upon its organization became 

 Professor of Materia Medica.' He filled this 

 chair from 1813 to 1829, when, on the death 

 of Prof. Nathan Smith, he was chosen profes- 

 sor of the theory and practice of medicine, and 

 discharged the duties of that professorship till 

 1852, when he resigned on account of his ad- 

 vanced age. During the lecture session of 

 1841-'2, after the resignation of Dr. Tully, he 

 delivered the lectures on theory and practice, 

 and also those on Materia Medica. Dr. Ives was 

 greatly honored and esteemed by the members 

 of the medical profession throughout this coun- 

 try and Europe. He was President of the State 

 Medical Society and of the National Medical 

 Association, and received diplomas in abun- 

 dance from foreign medical and scientific socie- 

 ties. He was active, also, in his advocacy of 

 temperance, education, emancipation, and other 

 causes of active benevolence. He was ex- 

 tremely fond of horticulture, and not only did 

 he have an almost infinite variety of plants and 

 fruits in his own garden, but encouraged others 

 to cultivate fruits and plants. He was the 

 founder and for many years the president of 

 both the Horticultural and Pomological Socie- 

 ties. Rare as his attainments were, he pub- 

 lished very little, less than his friends desired. 

 A few essays and pamphlets were all the print- 

 ed records he left behind him. 



Oct. 15. DTJGGAN, PETER PAUL, an Ameri- 

 can artist born in New York. He early devel- 

 oped a taste for high art, and qualified himself, 

 though very young, for an art professorship in 

 the New York Free Academy soon after its 

 opening. For ten years before his death he 

 had been an invalid, suffering from hemorrhage 

 of the lungs, and had resided for some years in 

 the vicinity of London. In May, 1861, he re- 

 moved to Paris, and was for a time in better 

 health, but was attacked by an inflammation 

 of the lungs early in October, which soon 

 proved fatal. 



