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OBITUARIES. 



General Theological Seminary at New York. 

 In 1821 he was appointed professor of Biblical 

 Learning and Interpretation of the Scriptures in 

 the same. seminary, and continued to fulfil the 

 duties of these professorships, and, since 1831, 

 the added labors of professor of Hebrew in Co- 

 lumbia College, until his death. He was also 

 the author of a number of commentaries and 

 other works illustrative of the subjects of his 

 instructions, which were highly esteemed for 

 their critical scholarship and their catholic 

 spirit. 



Dec. 22. SCOTT, Rev. WILLIAM M., D. D., pro- 

 fessor in the N. W. Theological Seminary of the 

 Presbyterian Church at Chicago, died at Prince- 

 ton, N. J. He was born in Ohio in 1817, grad- 

 uated at Jefferson College, Penn., studied law 

 in Kentucky for a year, and then entered 

 Princeton Theological Seminary, where he gra- 

 duated in 1846. In 1847 he was elected pro- 

 fessor of languages in Centre College, Danville, 

 Ky., and subsequently pastor of the First Pres- 

 byterian church in that place. In 1856 he was 

 called to the pastorate of the Seventh Presby- 

 terian church in Cincinnati, and on the organi- 

 zation of the new Theological Seminary in the 

 Northwest in 1859, was chosen by the General 

 Assembly one of its professors. 



Dec. 26. COCKE, Gen. PHILIP ST. GEORGE, 

 an officer of the Confederate army, died in 

 Richmond, Ya., aged 53 years. Holding the 

 State rights views of some of the leading men 

 of Virginia, at the commencement of the pres- 

 ent war he volunteered his services in the Con- 

 federate army of the Upper Potomac, and 

 served as captain, colonel, and general. Upon 

 the field of Bull Run he was commander of the 

 Fifth Confederate Brigade. After a campaign 

 of eight months he returned to his home, shat- 

 tered both in mind and body, and in a parox- 

 ysm of insanity put an end to his life. 



Dec. 26. VAN WYCK, THEODOKE 0., an emi- 

 nent New York physician, died at his residence 

 in Bloomingburgh, N. Y., aged 74 years. 



Dec. 27. McCujRE, WILLIAM B., a distin- 

 guished Pennsylvanian jurist, born at Carlisle, 

 but removed to Pittsburgh, where he died. 

 For ten years past he had been President Judge 

 of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter 

 Sessions of Alfeghany Co., Penn. Few men in 

 the State were more widely known or re- 

 spected. 



Dec. 28. LEGRAND, JOHN C., late Chief-Jus- 

 tice of Maryland, died in Baltimore. 



. RUSSELL, DAVID, a native of Massa- 

 chusetts, died at his residence in Salem, Wash- 

 ington County, N. Y., in the 81st year of 

 his age. He was appointed District Attorney 

 of the northern district of the State in 1814, 

 and was elected to the Assembly the next year, 

 and subsequently reflected. He was a member 

 of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twen- 

 ty-sixth Congresses, where, during several ses- 

 sions, he was Chairman of the Committee of 

 Claims, and has fulfilled many other important 

 public trusts. 



. SCRANTON, GEORGE W., died at his 



residence in Scranton, Luzerne County, Penn., 

 aged about 50. He was a native of Madison, Con- 

 necticut, but removed to New Jersey and after- 

 wards to Pennsylvania, engaging in his business 

 of iron manufacturer in the heart of the coal 

 and iron region, where a large town has grown 

 up which will perpetuate his name. In 1858 

 he was elected to Congress by a large majority, 

 and being reflected in 1860, served until his 

 death. 



. WATMOUGH, JOHN G., died at his resi- 

 dence in Philadelphia. He was born in Dela- 

 ware Dec 6, 1793, and educated at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. He served in the army 

 as a lieutenant of artillery in the war of 

 1812-14, and was wounded at the battle of 

 Erie. He afterwards served as aid to General 

 Gaines, whom he accompanied to the Southern 

 frontier. In 1830 he was elected to Congress, 

 and served for two terms as the representative 

 of the then third district of Pennsylvania. He 

 was subsequently high sheriff of Philadelphia 

 City and County, and surveyor of the port in 

 1841. 



. TILTON, Commander EDWARD G., of 



the United States navy, died in Washington. 

 He entered the service in 1822 as a midship- 

 man, and was commissioned as a command- 

 er in 1853. His last cruise was in command 

 of the sloop-of-war Saratoga, in the home 

 squadron, from which he returned in April, 

 1857. Subsequently, he was assigned to duty 

 as a member of the Light-house Board, in 

 which capacity he was engaged at the time of 

 his death. 



. MAY, WILLIAM, commander of the 



United States navy, died at his home in Mary- 

 land, aged 46 years. He was a native of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. In May, 1831, he entered the 

 navy. He was an officer of the exploring ex- 

 pedition to the South Sea, and was wrecked at 

 the Navigator Islands while surveying its dan- 

 gerous reefs, narrowly escaping with his life. 

 Com. May was engaged in the battle with the 

 Fiji Islanders after the murder of our seamen 

 and navy officers. He was the executive offi- 

 cer of the brig Porpoise during the Mexican 

 war, and saved the vessel, when thrown upon 

 its beam ends by a violent storm off Vera Cruz. 

 He was at the capture of Tobasco by Com. Per- 

 ry in the Mexican war, and from his wounds, 

 received at that time, never entirely recovered. 

 His last cruise was as first lieutenant, of the 

 frigate Congress, and through his arduous du- 

 ties in midwinter he contracted a fatal disease 

 of the lungs. 



. CONDICT, SILAS, died in Newark, N. 



J., aged 84. He held, during the course of 

 his life, numerous offices of importance, having 

 been a member of the State Legislature, a Rep- 

 resentative in Congress from 1831 to 1833, and 

 a member of the Convention which formed the 

 present Constitution of New Jersey, and an 

 elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1856. He was 

 a man of unblemished private character. 



