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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Ireland, in 1828. At about eight years of age he 

 came with his father to New York, and settled 

 in the Sixth Ward, notorious for crime, where 

 he continued to reside till his death. He first 

 became a fireman, and then a policeman, being 

 rapidly promoted till he was made captain. 

 In 1857 he was legislated out of the depart- 

 ment, but was reappointed two months after, 

 and was soon appointed by Governor Seymour 

 to fill an unexpired term of one year as police- 

 justice. At the expiration of this term he was 

 elected for the full term of six years, and made 

 President of the board. He was reelected for 

 another term of six years, which he served out. 

 As a police-justice Judge Dowling was cele- 

 brated for his extensive knowledge of the 

 criminal classes, remarkable memory, and his 

 arbitrary and brusque manner on the bench. 



DREW, ROXANA MEAD, wife of Daniel Drew ; 

 died in New York, January 27th, aged 77. 

 She was born in Putnam County, N. Y., and 

 was married to Mr. Drew in 1820. 



DUDLEY, THOMAS U. ; died at Richmond, Va., 

 April 1st, in his 68th year. He held various 

 high masonic and official positions, and was 

 the father of Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, of 

 Kentucky. 



EDWARDS, WILLIAM W., the founder of the 

 Dime Savings-Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died 

 there, March 10th. He was born in Northamp- 

 ton, Mass., in 1796. In 1817 he went to Greene 

 County, N. Y., engaged in business of tanning, 

 and from about 1851 till 1859 was connected 

 with the insurance business in New York. 

 Jonathan Edwards was his great-grandfather. 



ELDRIDGE, Dr. EDWIN ; died in Elmira, N.Y., 

 December 16th, at the age of 65. He was an 

 extensive iron-manufacturer, owning a large 

 interest in several founderies in the State of 

 New York. He was identified with the Erie 

 Railway, and at the time of his death was 

 President of the Elmira Iron and Steel Com- 

 pany. He was noted for his liberality and 

 public spirit, having presented to the city of 

 Elmira a magnificent park, covering many 

 acres. 



ESTE, DAVID K., a well-known lawyer of 

 Cincinnati, and one of the early settlers of that 

 city, was born in Morristown, N. J., in 1785 ; 

 died in Cincinnati, April 1st. He graduated 

 .at Princeton College in 1803, was admitted to 

 the bar in 1808, went to Ohio in 1809, and 

 settled in Cincinnati in 1814. He became one 

 of the prominent lawyers of the bar, presiding 

 judge of the First Judicial Circuit, and later 

 judge of the Superior Court. On the expira- 

 tion of his judicial term he retired from pro- 

 fessional life, having reached the age of 62. 

 His estate was estimated at nearly $10,000,000. 



FALLS, M. N., an old citizen of Baltimore; 

 died on April 7th, aged 71. He was an acting 

 member of the firm of Stockman, Falls & Co., 

 who ran stage-lines from Baltimore to Wash- 

 ington and the West. For many years he was 

 president of the Bay Line steamers. 



FAWSITT, Miss AMY ; died in New York, De- 



cember 26th. She was born in London in 

 1836. Her debut on the stage was made at 

 Edinburgh, in 1865, and in 1869 she made her 

 first appearance in London, acting Flora Gran- 

 ger in the "Mistress of the Mill." After- 

 ward, in the same city, she appeared in " The 

 Two Roses" four hundred times; and on Sep- 

 tember 27, 1876, she appeared for the first 

 time in this country, at the Fifth Avenue The- 

 atre, New York. 



FAY, FRANCIS B. ; died at Chelsea, Mass., 

 October 6th, aged 83 years. He was born in 

 Massachusetts, and was a member of the State 

 Senate in 1842 and 1845, Mayor of Chelsea in 

 1857, and Representative in Congress in 1852- 

 '53. He took a prominent part in Massachu- 

 setts politics. 



FERRIER, Captain JOHN M. ; died in New 

 York, February 15th, at the age of 85 years. 

 He was born in that city ; was for many years 

 a sea-captain; was President of the Marine 

 Society, and one of the trustees of the Sailors' 

 Snug Harbor, on Staten Island. 



FIELD, Mrs. DAVID DUDLEY ; died in Balti- 

 more, April 19th. 



FORD, MARY A. ("Una"), the Catholic 

 poetess ; died in Brooklyn, in April, aged 35. 



FREEMAN, Mrs. ELLEN, born near Peekskill, 

 N. Y. ; died at Highland Falls, January 10th, at 

 the age of 101 years. 



FRENCH, Rev. MANSFIELD, popularly known 

 as " Chaplain French ; " died at Pearsall'e, 

 Long Island, March 15th. He was born r.t 

 Manchester, Vt., February 21, 1810. In his 

 youth he studied at the Bennington Seminary ; 

 and at twenty began his theological studies at 

 Kenyon College, divinity school, Gambier, 

 Ohio, and at the same time was principal of 

 the preparatory department of the college. 

 He founded Marietta College, in Ohio, and the 

 Granville Female Seminary, and was for a 

 time Principal of the Circleville Female Semi- 

 nary. In 1845 he joined the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, and entered the itinerant minis- 

 try in the North Ohio Conference. He was a 

 successful pastor for several years ; was, also, 

 President of the Xenia (Ohio) Female College, 

 agent for the Ohio Wesleyan University, and 

 then for Wilberforce University, tlie latter be- 

 ing the first college opened for the colored 

 race in America. In 1845 he became proprie- 

 tor of a religious monthly, The Beauty of Holi- 

 ness, which he removed from Ohio to New 

 York City in 1858. He was a strong anti- 

 slavery agitator, and, at the urgent solicitation 

 of Lewis Tappan and others, laid before Presi- 

 dent Lincoln his views of the nation's duties 

 toward "contraband" slaves. In 1862 he vis- 

 ited Port Royal, for the purpose of inspecting 

 the condition of the blacks ; returned to New 

 York, and through his efforts the "National 

 Freedmen's Relief Association " was organized. 

 He was made the general agent of this asso- 

 ciation ; and in March, 1862, again sailed for 

 Port Royal, with a large corps of teachers for 

 the blacks, and superintendents for the plan- 



