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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



proprietor and sole directing spirit of the Sac- 

 ramento Union, in which position he continued 

 till 1874, wielding an important influence for 

 good in the affairs and politics of the Pacific 

 coast and the nation. 



ARNOLD, AARON, born in the Isle of Wight, 

 in 1794; died in New York, March 18th. He 

 came to the United States in 1823, and in 1827, 

 with his nephew, George A. Hearn, established 

 in New York City a wholesale and retail dry- 

 goods store, under the firm-name of Arnold & 

 Hearn. IB 1842 Mr. Hearn was succeeded by 

 Mr. Arnold's son-in-law, James M. Constable, 

 and the name of the firm was changed to 

 Aaron Arnold & Co. In 1853 Mr. Arnold's 

 son Richard, and J. P. Baker, were admitted 

 to the firm, which then became known by its 

 present title, Arnold, Constable & Co. In 1869 

 Mr. Aaron Arnold left to his partners the ac- 

 tive management of the business, which had 

 now become one of the largest in the city. 



ASPINWALL, Colonel THOMAS ; died in Brook- 

 line, Mass., August llth, aged 90 years. He 

 was the oldest survivor of the War of 1812, 

 and his services were memorable as major of 

 the Ninth United States Infantry. From 1815 to 

 1853 he was United States consul at London. 



BABCOCK, GEORGE R. ; died September 22d, 

 in Dannemora, N. Y. He took a prominent 

 part in State politics, and was elected State 

 Senator in 1850. In 1875 his name was brought 

 forward for Controller, but he declined to be a 

 candidate. He was subsequently appointed 

 a member of the State-prison Commission 



BACON, Rev. Dr. GEORGE, was born at New 

 Haven, Conn., in 1836 ; died in Orange, N. J., 

 September 15th. He was a son of Dr. Leon- 

 ard Bacon, graduated at Yale College, and, 

 after a voyage to China for his health, re- 

 turned to this country and entered Andover 

 Theological Seminary. At the age of twenty- 

 four he received a call from the Orange Val- 

 ley Congregational Church, where he contin- 

 ued to minister during his life. 



BAGLEY, GEORGE R., resident engineer of 

 the Eads jetties ; died December 14th, aged 54 

 years. 



BAGLEY, Colonel JAMES, a sachem of the 

 Tammany Society, and an ex- Alderman of New 

 York, was born in Ireland in 1822; died in 

 New York, December 21st. He commanded 

 the Sixty-ninth Regiment from 1862 to 1866. 



BAKER, NATHANIEL B., born in Hillsbor- 

 ough (now Henniker), N. II., September 29, 

 1818; died in Des Moines, Iowa, September 

 llth. He graduated at Harvard College in 

 1839, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. 

 For three years he was joint proprietor and 

 editor of the New Hampshire Patriot. In 

 1845 he was appointed Clerk of the Court of 

 Common Pleas, and in 1846 Clerk of the Su- 

 perior Court of Judicature for Merrimac Coun- 

 ty. In 1851 he was elected to the Legislature, 

 was chosen Speaker of the House, and served 

 two terms. He was a presidential elector in 

 1852, and in 1854 was elected Governor of the 



State on the Democratic ticket. His term ex- 

 pired in 1855, and in 1856 he removed to Clin- 

 ton, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of law. 

 He was elected to the Legislature in 1859, and 

 acted with the Republicans in the session of 

 1860 and the extra session of 1861. In July, 

 1861, he was appointed Adjutant-General of 

 Iowa, which office he held until the time of 

 his death. 



BALDWIN, Judge CALEB ; died at Council 

 Blutts, Iowa, in December. He was one of 

 the judges of the Court of Alabama Claims. 



BALLOU, GEORGE C., an extensive cotton 

 and woolen manufacturer in Woonsocket, R. I. ; 

 died March 26th. 



BARLOW, SAMUEL BANCROFT, was born in 

 Granville, Mass., in April, 1798; died in New 

 York, February 28th. He was graduated from 

 the Yale Medical School in 1821. In 1841 he 

 removed to New York, and was for many years 

 a professor in the Hahnemann (Homoeopathic) 

 College. He was well known as an antiquarian 

 and philologist. 



BARRETT, Rev. MYRON ; died in Newton, 

 N. J., May 8th. He was born in Dutchess 

 County, N. Y., September 9, 1816, and grad- 

 uated from Yale College in 1844. He com- 

 pleted his education at the Princeton Theologi- 

 cal School in 1851, and became pastor of the 

 First Presbyterian Church of Newton in 1854. 



BARRY, Commodore GARRET R., pay direc- 

 tor of the United States Navy ; died in New 

 York, February 26th, at the age of 81. He 

 was in almost comtant service in the navy 

 from 1817 until his retirement in 1867. 



BARTLETT, General WILLIAM F. ; died at 

 Pittsfield, Mass., December 17th, at the age of 

 thirty-six years. He entered the army, in 

 1861, as a captain in the Twentieth Regiment 

 of Massachusetts Volunteers. He was engaged 

 in the battle of Ball's Bluff, October 21, 1861, 

 and made the official report of the engagement 

 for his regiment. He lost a leg at the battle of 

 Fair Oaks, Va., in May, 1862. He afterward 

 became colonel of the Forty-ninth Massachu- 

 setts Regiment, which became a part of Gen- 

 eral Augur's division, in Louisiana, in 1863, 

 and took part in several engagements. In 

 the assault on Port Hudson, Colonel Bartlett 

 was shot through the wrist and the heel. Re- 

 turning to Massachusetts he organized the 

 Fifty-seventh Regiment, and was again wound- 

 ed in the battle of the Wilderness. In the 

 summer of 1864 he was captured and confined 

 in Libby Prison. Soon after he was exchanged 

 he was brevetted major-general. He was an 

 Independent Republican, and in 1875 declined 

 the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Massachusetts. 



BARTLEY, Mrs., wife of Judge Bartley, and 

 sister of General Sherman ; died in Washing- 

 ton, January 10th. 



BENSON, SAMUEL P. ; died August 12th. He 

 was a member of the Maine Legislature in 1834 

 and 1836, and Secretary of State in 1838 and 

 1841. He was elected to Congress in 1858, 



