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and served two terms, becoming chairman of 

 tlu- Coinmittoo on Naval Affair-. 



|!U:I.M\NV t'vui., musician, born at Ebers- 

 bucli, Saxony, in 1821 ; died in New York, 

 August 10th. When the rebellion of 18-48 

 broke out, he came to New York, and in 1850 

 became the conductor of the Germania Socie- 

 ty, which position he held for two years. He 

 iir_rani/.eil imd conducted the great German 

 Musical Festival, hold in the Winter-Garden 

 Theatre, in 1855, and in 1850 he introduced 

 German opera at Niblo's Garden. He was 

 ai't.'i-ward the conductor of German and of 

 Italian opera in New York, and was for a time 

 tho leader of the Arion (Singing) Society. Mr. 

 Bergmann excelled as a player of the violoncel- 

 lo and the piano, and composed a number of 

 orchestral pieces. For several years preceding 

 his death he was conductor of the concerts of 

 the Philharmonic Society in New York. 



I !i v. ;i \ \i. SAMUEL, the oldest printer in tho 

 United States, was born at Hanover, N. II., in 

 1789 ; died in New York, May 7th. At the 

 age of eleven years he was bound to the trade 

 of a printer. He came to New York over 

 fifty years ago, and worked at a hand-press 

 for the Bible and Tract Houses, and Harper 

 & Brothers. He worked the first steam cyl- 

 inder-press introduced in this country. 



BISHOP, VICTOR, was born in Paris, France, 

 in 1819 ; died in New York, March 10th. 

 When about seventeen years of age he came to 

 New York, where for forty years he was an 

 imp >rter and wholesale dealer in diamonds 

 and precious stones. 



BIX&Y, JOHN Mr/xsoN, born in Fairfield, 

 Conn., 1800; died in New York, November 

 "2 -2 (I. After noarly thirty years' practice of the 

 l.iw in New York, he retirad in 18 i9 and mar- 

 ried Miss Poe, a cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, 

 tho poet. He was the author of two novels, 

 "Standish, the Puritan," and " Overing, or the 

 Heir of Wycherly." 



BLOSS, GEORGE, M. D., was born in Derby, 

 Vt., in 1826, and was killed, May 28th, by a 

 locomotive, while walking near his home at 

 Branch-Hill Station, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He 

 was for many years one of the editors of the 

 Cincinnati Inquirer, and was remarkable for 

 his wonderful mamory of political facts and 

 statistics. He was an earnest Democrat, wrote 

 a biography of George II. Pendleton, and two 

 years ago was an unsuccessful candidate for 

 Congress. 



BLUMENBURG, Major LEOPOLD ; died in Balti- 

 more, Md., August 12th, aged 49 years. Dur- 

 ing the war ho was major of the Fifth Regi- 

 ment Maryland Volunteers, and was severely 

 wounded at the battle of Antietam. From 

 1863 to 1865 ho was Provost-Marshal of Balti- 

 more. 



BOOTH, JAMES W., State Senator of New 

 York, born in New York City, 1822; died at 

 Nyack, N. Y., September 14th. He began life 

 as an apprentice to a dyer, and retired from 

 that business several years ago with a consid- 



erable fortune. From 1853 to 1870 he was a 

 roiiinioii-srliool trustee in New York City. 

 He was elected as a Republican State Senator 

 in 1873, and reflected in 1875. He was chair- 

 man of the Committees on Literature and 

 Public Health, and a member of the Commit- 

 tee on Affairs of Cities. In 1873 he was 

 elected one of the regents of the State Uni- 

 versity. 



BOOTH, WILLIAM CHATFIELD ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., at the age of 75. He was born at 

 Southold, L. I., of one of the oldest families 

 in the State. He spent many years in Suffolk 

 County, where he held numerous public offices. 

 During a large part of his life he was a teacher 

 and organized one of the first public schools 

 in Brooklyn. For twelve years he was a cus- 

 tom-house officer. His daughter, Miss Mary 

 L. Booth, is the well-known author, and tho 

 editor of Harper's Bazar. 



BOWLER, Mrs. ANNIE KEMP; died in Phila- 

 delphia, August 21st, of injuries received from 

 a fall while rehearsing at the National The- 

 atre. She was the wife of Brookhouse Bow- 

 ler, was a well-known singer, and formerly a 

 member of the Richings English Opera Com- 

 pany. 



BOYCE, Rev. JAMES, pastor of St. Teresa's 

 Roman Catholic Church, New York; died in 

 that city, July 9th, aged 50 years. He was 

 born in Ardagh, County Longford, Ireland, 

 and came to this country at an early age. 

 Having completed his ecclesiastical studies at 

 St. Joseph's Seminary, Fordham, N. Y., ho 

 was ordained priest in 1854, and for nearly 

 ten years was pastor of St. Mary's Church. 

 In 1863 he was installed as pastor over St. 

 Teresa's parish, and by his zeal made it one 

 of the best in the city. He founded a paro- 

 chial school for boys in Rutgers Street, and es- 

 tablished a convent for girls, under the direc- 

 tion of the Ursuline Nuns, in Henry Street. 



BRAGDON, CHARLES D., formerly editor of 

 Moore's Rural New- Yorker ; died at Port On- 

 tario, N. Y., November 30th. 



BRIGGS, Mrs. HARRIET HALL, wife of the 

 late Governor of Massachusetts, and mother 

 of General Henry S. Briggs, of Boston ; died 

 at Pittsfield, Mass., aged 82 years. 



BRIGGS, Captain JEREMIAH ; died at Rich- 

 mond Hill, L. L, May 28th, in his 84th year. 

 From early life he was connected with the 

 navy, and served in the War of 1812. After 

 the war he founded a transportation line of 

 sailing-vessels between New York, Philadel- 

 phia, and Baltimore, but it ceased operations 

 about two years ago. 



BROOKS, ELISHA, born in Rye, Westchester 

 County, N. Y., June 15, 1815 ; died in Octo- 

 ber. He was a member of the firm of Brooks 

 Brothers, who carried on in New York City 

 the extensive clothing business founded in 1818 

 by his father, Henry S. Brooks. Elisha became 

 a partner in 1833. Soon after his father died, 

 and the business was continued by his five 

 sons, of whom only Daniel and John now 



