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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Minnesota, and in 1857 was elected a member 

 of the State Constitutional Convention. In 

 1861 he became colonel of the First Regiment 

 of Minnesota Volunteers, and for his services 

 at Bull Run was made a brigadier-general. 

 He was mustered out of the service in the 

 latter part of 1864, and resumed the practice 

 of law in St. Paul. He was elected City At- 

 torney in 1869, and continued in that office 

 till his death. 



Goss, Rev. WILLIAM, a prominent minister 

 of the New York Conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, and presiding elder of the 

 Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) district ; died in that 

 city, September 26th. 



GOVE, WILLIAM H. ; died at Weare, N. II., in 

 his 58th year. He was a pioneer of the Free- 

 State cause in New England, and known as 

 the ''silver-tongued orator of New Hamp- 

 shire." For several years he was a member 

 of the Legislature. 



GRAFTON, EDWABD C., commander in the 

 United States Navy ; died in New York, Juno 

 24th. He was born in Boston, Mass. ; entered 

 the navy in 1841, and was appointed lieu- 

 tenant-commander and assigned to the com- 

 mand of the Genesee in 1862. He served as 

 nag-officer of the Minnesota ; was engaged in 

 the battle of Hampton Roads, and also at the 

 bombardment of Fort Morgan. 



GRAHAM, JAMES LORIMER, Jr. ; died in Flor- 

 ence, April 30th. He was born in New York, 

 January, 1835. He was educated partly at 

 Amiens, France. About 1869 he was ap- 

 pointed consul-general of the United States for 

 Italy, and took up his residence in Florence. 



GRAHAM, JOHN LORIMER; died in Flushing, 

 N. Y., July 22d. He was born in London, 

 March 20, 1797. He was admitted to the bar 

 in 1821, and soon acquired a large practice in 

 New York. He held several prominent posi- 

 tions in the State militia. In 1834 he was ap- 

 pointed a Regent of the State University ; was 

 Postmaster of New York from 1840 to 1844, 

 and in 1861 occupied a confidential position in 

 the Treasury Department at Washington. 



GRAHAM, VAN WYCK, the first teller of the 

 Phoenix Bank, in which he had been employed 

 for nearly half a century ; died in New York, 

 January 22d. 



. GRAHAM, Lieutenant WALLACE ; died in 

 March. He was a native of New York ; en- 

 tered the United States Navy December 6, 

 1861, and was appointed lieutenant in 1869. 

 He had been for two years with the United 

 States steamer Michigan. 



GRAVES, RALPH H., principal of the Military 

 Academy at Hillsboro, N. C. ; died in that city, 

 May 10th. 



GRAY, Commodore ALFRED G. ; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., November 10th. He had 

 been in command of vessels for more than 

 thirty years. He was born at Norfolk, Va., 

 in 1818. He first went to sea when seventeen 

 years old, and at the age of twenty-seven be- 

 came a captain. In 1843, as lieutenant, he 



commanded the Texan sloop-of-war Austin in 

 the engagement with the Mexican war-steam- 

 ships Regenerador, Guadalupe, and Montezu- 

 ma, off Campeachy. For three years during 

 the late civil war he was captain of the army- 

 transport McClellan. He became a captain in 

 the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- 

 pany in 1865, by whom he was made commo- 

 dore in 1874. 



GREEN, HENRY, Jr. ; died at Trenton, N. J., 

 December 20th. He was born in 1804. He 

 graduated at Princeton College in 1820, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1825, was member of 

 the Legislature in 1842, Chief- Justice from 

 1846 to 1860, and in 1861 was appointed 

 Chancellor. 



GREENFIELD, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, well 

 known in the concert-room as the "Black 

 Swan ; " died in Philadelphia, at the age of 

 68. She was born a slave at Natchez, Miss. 

 At an early age she was manumitted by her 

 mistress, Mrs. Greenfield, who gave her a lib- 

 eral education. She became distinguished fcr 

 her vocal abilities, sang with success in Amer- 

 ica, and went to England, where the Duchess 

 of Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll be- 

 came her patrons. 



GUKTHER, JOHN CHARLES ; died in New 

 York, March 6th, at the age -of 53. He was 

 born in that city, and at the age of sixteen he 

 was sent to Paris, where he learned the art 

 of dressing and cutting furs. On his return 

 to New York he entered into partnership with 

 his father and his elder brother, ex-Mayor C. 

 G. Gunther, but retired from the fur-business 

 in 1868. 



HAILLE, ex-Governor WILLIAM, of New 

 Hampshire; died July 22d, aged 69. 



HALE, CHARLES B. ; died in Morrisania, 

 N. Y., February llth. He was born at Bal- 

 lington, England, June 23, 1819, and made his 

 first appearance on the stage at Hereford, 

 January 8, 1837. He made his first appearance 

 in America in 1852, and was a member of 

 Brougham's Theatre, New York, in 1869. He 

 played character parts and old men. 



HALL, Dr. WILLIAM H., editor of HaWs Jour- 

 nal of Health ; died in New York, May 10th, 

 aged 66. 



HAMMOND, General M. C. M. ; died near 

 Beech Island, S. C., January 23d. He gradu- 

 ated at West Point in 1836, and served in the 

 regular army until 1842, when he resigned, 

 but in 1846 he became paymaster in the army. 

 He served in the war with Mexico until 1847. 

 He was the author of several works, one of 

 them being a review of the Mexican War. 



HARDIE, General JAMES A.; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., December 14th. He graduated 

 at West Point in 1843, commanded the Fourth 

 Regiment of New York Volunteers in the Mex- 

 ican War, was aide-de-camp to Generals Mc- 

 Clellan and Wool during the late war, and in 

 1865 was brevetted major-general for services 

 in the inspector-general's department of the 

 army. 



