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OBITUARIES, .AMERICAN. 



York ; died at Englewood, N. J., December 23d. 

 He was born in New York in 1809. He joined 

 the Seventh Regiment in 1832, and was a mem- 

 ber of the Veteran Association at the time of 

 his death. He became captain in 1842, major 

 in 1843, and colonel in 1844, and was also 

 colonel of the Veteran Association. In the 

 three months' compaign of 1862 he enlisted as 

 a private in the Eighth Company. He was a 

 director in various corporations, was a mem- 

 ber of the Board of the American Bible Soci- 

 ety, and of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign 

 Missions, and President of the Greenwich Sav- 

 ingSrBank. 



VORIES, HENRY M. ; died at St. Joseph, Mo., 

 October 30th. He was Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of Missouri. 



WAKREN, EDWARD J. ; died at "Washington, 

 N. C., December 10th. He was born in Ver- 

 mont, December 23, 1826. In 1846 he gradu- 

 ated at Dartmouth College, and was subsequent- 

 ly admitted to the bar of Beaufort County, 

 N. C. In 1866 he served as a member of the 

 State convention, and was for several terms a 

 representative in the Legislature. He was 

 Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina 

 from the close of the war until 1868, and 

 Speaker of the Senate in 1871-'72. 



WARREN, Colonel HENRY J., a prominent 

 ship-builder of Pownal, Me. ; died August 12th. 



WASHBURN, ISRAEL; died at Livermore, 

 Me., September 1st, nearly 92 years old. He 

 was the father of ex-Governor Israel Wash- 

 burn, of Maine, Elihu B. Washburn, minister 

 to France, and ex-Governor Cadwalader C. 

 Washburn, of Wisconsin. 



WATKINS, General N". W. ; died at Morley, 

 Mo., aged 81 years. He was a half-brother 

 of Henry Clay. He was considered the oldest 

 practising lawyer in the United States, and 

 had served in the Missouri Legislature. 



WEBSTER, General J. D. ; died in Chicago, 

 111., March 12th. He was born at Old Hamp- 

 ton, N. H., August 25, 1811. He graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1832. In 1838 he was 

 appointed a lieutenant of topographical engi- 

 neers. After serving in the Mexican War he 

 resigned from the army in 1854, and went into 

 mercantile business in Chicago. He reentered 

 the army in 1861, and had charge of the forti- 

 fications at Cairo, 111. He became colonel of 

 the First Regiment Illinois Artillery, and took 

 part in the capture of Forts Henry and Donel- 

 son. He had charge of all the artillery at Shi- 

 loh, was made chief of staff to General Grant 

 and afterward to General Sherman, and was 

 brevetted a major-general of volunteers. 



WEIR, Colonel THOMAS B., of the Seventh 

 Cavalry, better known as General Ouster's 

 regiment ; died in New York, December 9th, 

 aged 38 years. He graduated at the Michigan 

 University, and on the breaking out of the 

 late war served as an officer of the Third 

 Michigan Cavalry. At the close of the war 

 he accepted a commission in the regular army. 

 His participation with General Custer in the 



campaign against Sitting Bull impaired his 

 health, and he was ordered to take charge of 

 the cavalry recruiting-office in New York. 



WEST, Captain STEPHEN W. ; died at Staple- 

 ton, S. I., March 5th. He was born in New 

 Bedford, Mass., November 26, 1794. He was a 

 veteran of the War of 1812, and was connected 

 with the American squadron on Lake Erie. 

 During the latter part of the war he was in- 

 carcerated in Dartmoor Prison, England. After 

 the close of the war he became attached to 

 various merchant- vessels plying between New 

 York and Liverpool and between New York 

 and Savannah, and about 1830 he retired from 

 sea - life. During the Revolution in Spain, 

 Captain West had charge of an American ves- 

 sel loaded with grain for the Spanish Govern- 

 ment, bnt upon entering port he was seized by 

 the revolutionists, cast into prison, and con- 

 demned to death, but the intervention of an 

 English frigate, which arrived before the time 

 of the execution, saved his life. He became a 

 stevedore and rigger in New York, superin- 

 tended the launching of the Washington, thirty 

 years ago, and assisted in building the bridge 

 over the Harlem River. He retired from active 

 business-life about fifteen years ago. 



WETMORE, PROSPER MONTGOMERY ; died at 

 Great Neck, L. I., March 16th. He was born 

 in Stratford, Conn., in 1798. While engaged 

 for several years in mercantile pursuits in 

 New York City, he wrote for magazines, and 

 published " Lexington, with Other Fugitive 

 Poems," in 1830. In 1832 he delivered a poem 

 on " Ambition " before a literary society in 

 New York, and in 1888 edited a volume of 

 poems of James Nack. He also published in 

 1847 " Observations on the War with Mexico." 

 He became Regent of the Ur.iversity of the 

 State of New York in 1833, and was also a 

 member of the New Engl and Society. In 1 834 

 and 1835 he was a Representative in the State 

 Legislature, and chairman of the Committee 

 on Colleges and Academies. He founded the 

 Merchants' Clerks' Savings Institution, was a 

 member of the New York Historical Society, 

 and became President of the American Art 

 Union, a position he held until 1.850. In 1838 

 he was elected a member of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, in 1843 was chosen secretary, and 

 in 1849 was made vice-president. He was 

 largely instrumental in the formation of the 

 Union Defense Committee in 1861, and was 

 elected its secretary, which position he held 

 until the close of the war. 



WHALLEY, WILLIAM H. ; died in New York, 

 April 7th, about 40 years of age. He came to 

 this country from Ireland, and became an 

 actor. He acted frequently in the South and 

 West. For about five years he held a leading 

 position in the Boston Museum, and afterward 

 in the Bowery Theatre, New York. He was 

 a favorite in such characters as Othello, Mac- 

 leth, William Tell, and others. 



WHEATLEY, WILLIAM ; died in New York, 

 November 3d. He was born in that city, De- 



