OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 627 



T 5, 1816. Ho first appeared on the 



at the Park Theatre in New York in 



as Albert in "William Tell," and for 



several years continued to act in juvenile parts. 



name favorably known in New York and 



Philadelphia tor his excellent representations 



of Doricourt in "The Belle's Stratagem," 



in u Wild Oats," Captain Absolute in 



" The Rivals," Claude Melnotte in the " Lady 



of Lyons," Henri de Legardere, and of many 



other characters. He was associated in the 



in m.i^MiH'nt of the Arch Street Theatre in 



Philadelphia from 1853 to 1861, and was 



lessee of Niblo's Garden in New York from 



1865 to 1868, during which time the famous 



" Black Crook " was first produced and had 



its long run. 



WHEELER, Rev. Dr. AMOS D. ; died in Tops- 

 ham, Me., June 28th, aged 72 years. He 

 graduated at Williams College, Mass., in 

 1827. In 1835 he was ordained over the Uni- 

 t.irhn Church in Standish, and in 1839 was 

 settled over the Unitarian Society in Topsham. 

 In 1867 he became Secretary of the Maine 

 Conference of Unitarian Churches. He was a 

 member of the Maine Historical Society and 

 of its Stand ing Committee, was connected with 

 Bowdoin College, and received from it the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Divinity in 1860. 



WHIPPLE, Rev. GEORGE, D.D. ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., October 6th. He was born in 

 Albany, N. Y., June 4, 1805. He graduated 

 at tho Lane Theological Seminary, and, after 

 being ordained as a Congregational clergyman, 

 he became professor in Oberlin (Ohio) College. 

 Subsequently he was chosen Secretary of the 

 American Missionary Association, which posi- 

 tion he held nearly thirty years. 



WILLIAMS, A. ; died in San Francisco, Jan- 

 uary 20th, aged 79 years. He was formerly 

 Mayor of Oakland, Cal. 



WILLIAMS, JOHN S. ; died in New York, 

 November 14th. He was born in New York, 

 in 1814. He became engaged in the commis- 

 sion-business with Stephen B. Guion, under 

 the firm-name of Williams & Guion, who for 

 many years have been favorably known as the 

 owners of a line of passenger-steamers be- 

 tween New York and Liverpool. About 

 twenty-five years ago Stephen B. Guion took 

 charge of the business in Liverpool. His 

 brother, William II. Guion, became a member 

 of the firm, and devoted his attention to the 

 New York branch of the business. Mr. Wil- 

 liams was a prominent member of the New 

 York Produce Exchange. 



WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; died at Buffalo, N. Y., 

 September 10th. He was born at Bolton, 

 Conn., September 6, 1815, and in 1839 removed 

 to Buffalo. For fifteen years he was a director 

 of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, 

 and at the time of its consolidation with the 

 J/ike Shore Railroad Company was president 

 of the Erie division of the latter. He was also 

 for a time second vice-president of the Lake 

 Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. 



In 1878 he was chosen managing director of 

 the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railroad. 

 II.- was a prominent Democrat, and wag elected 

 to the State Assembly in 1860 and 1867, and 

 to Congress in 1870. 



WILSON. JOHN; died in Washington, Janu- 

 ary 10th, aged 68. He was Commissioner of 

 the General Land-Office from 1852 to 1856, and 

 in 1864 became Third Auditor of the Treasury, 

 which position he held for several years. 



WINSLOW, HENRY C., a well-known ship- 

 owner and commission-merchant of Buffalo, 

 N. Y. ; died there, December 14th. 



YOUNG, Rev. JOHN II., D. D., formerly pas- 

 tor of the Congregational Church at Laconia, 

 N. H. ; died there, January 29th, at the age 

 of 75. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. ACERENZA-PIG- 

 NATELLI, JOHANNA MAKIA, Duchess of, born in 

 1783; died April 14, 1876. She was the last 

 surviving daughter of Peter, the last Duke of 

 Courland. In her seventeenth year she mar- 

 ried the Neapolitan Duke Acerenza, of the fam- 

 ily Belmonte Pignatelli, with whom she lived 

 an unhappy life. She was known and beloved 

 by all who knew her for her great goodness 

 of heart. During her long life she counted 

 among her intimate friends some of the great- 

 est minds of Europe, among them Goethe, and 

 Louise, Prussia's great queen. 



AMBERLEY, JOHN, Viscount, a British states- 

 man, the oldest son of Earl Russell, born De- 

 cember 10, 1842 ; died January 10, 1876. He 

 was educated at the University of Edinburgh, 

 and was in Parliament for Nottingham from 

 1866 to 1868, where he acted with the Liberals. 

 He was married in 1864 to Catharine Louisa, 

 daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley, who 

 died in 1874. He had been engaged for some 

 time previous to his death upon a work en- 

 titled " An Analysis of Religious Belief," 

 which was published shortly after his death, 

 and created considerable excitement. As his 

 publisher states, the work beyond about three- 

 fifths of its first volume has not had the bene- 

 fit of the author's final correction, either as to 

 thought or style. The idea of the work is to 

 trace out and compare the various external 

 manifestations of the religious sentiment among 

 the various races of mankind ; and then to in- 

 quire what common element, if any, they ex- 

 hibit. After giving, in the first part, an ex- 

 amination of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, 

 Parseeism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity, 

 with short sketches of the founder of each of 

 these religions, his life, work, and doctrines, 

 Lord Amberley asks himself these three ques- 

 tions : 1. Are there in the several religions of 

 mankind any common elements? 2. If so, are 

 those common elements a necessary and there- 

 fore permanent portion of our mental furni- 

 ture? And, 3. If so, are those elements the 

 correlatives of any actnal truth, or not? To 

 each of these questions Lord Amberley returns 

 an affirmative reply. 



ANDLAW, FRANZ XAVEB VON, a German di- 



