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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



nomination for Congress in the Seventh Mas- 

 sachusetts District in 1874, but was defeated 

 bv Mr. Tarbox, the Democratic nominee. 



BAOHE, HENRY W., died at Bristol, R. I., 

 November 7th, aged 39 years. He was a de- 

 scendant of Sarah Bache, the only daughter 

 of Benjamin Franklin, and son of the late Pro- 

 fessor ' Henry Bache of the Coast Survey, in 

 which service he was himself engaged at the 

 time of his death. 



BARD, SAMUEL, ex-Governor, died at Baton 

 Rouge, La., September 18th. He was for a 

 long time very prominent in Southern politics. 

 During the administration of President Grant 

 he was removed from charge of the Atlanta, 

 Ga., Post-Office by Postmaster-General Jewell. 



BARKER, GEORGE W., Superintendent of the 

 New York division of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road, died in Jersey City, September 26th. 

 He was born in New Hampshire in 1812. 



BASHFORD, COLES, died at Prescott, Arizona, 

 April 25th. He was born at Alden, Erie 

 County, N. Y., January 24, 1816, was admit- 

 ted to the bar in -1842, and was elected Dis- 

 trict Attorney of Wayne County in 1847. He 

 resigned in 1850 and removed to Wisconsin, 

 and was chosen to the Senate of that State 

 in 1852. After being reflected he resigned 

 in 1855, and in 1856 was elected Governor. 

 From 1864 to 1866 he was Attorney-General 

 of Arizona, was a member and also President 

 of the Territorial Council, and in 1866 was 

 elected Delegate from that Territory to the 

 Fortieth Congress. He was appointed Secre- 

 tary of Arizona in 1869, and served several 

 years in that office. 



BAXTER, STACY, Professor of Elocution at 

 Harvard College, was drowned at Cape May 

 Point, N. J., August 15th. 



BECK WITH, TRUMAN, died in Providence, R. 

 I., May 2d, aged 95 years. He was the oldest 

 merchant of that city. 



BIRD, WILLIAM A., died in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 August 19th, aged 82 years. He was a member 

 of the Legislature in 1842 and 1852, and was 

 largely interested in Black Rock improvements. 

 He had been President of the Erie County 

 Savings Bank since its organization in 1854. 



BLUNT, GEORGE W., died in New York City, 

 April 19th. He was born in Newburyport, 

 Mass., March 11, 1802. From fourteen till 

 nearly twenty-one years of age he was em- 

 ployed as a sailor. From 1822 to 1866 he was 

 a publisher of charts and nautical books in 



lew York. From 1819 to 1826 he was en- 



WBdffi marine surveys on the Bahama Banks 



New York Harbor, neither of which had 



sen recently surveyed. In 1834, seeing the 



t imperfection of our lighthouses and the 



y of those of the French, he called 



the attention of the Government to this fact, 



his brother Edmund did in 1838 ; and the 



t was the establishment in 1856 of the 



lent Lighthouse Board, and the adoption of 



French system of lights. In 1845 he was 



Hi as one of a committee to organize the 



present system of pilotage for New York, 

 which has been of signal advantage to its com- 

 merce. He was appointed a Pilot Commis- 

 sioner, and continued to be one, except during 

 six months, to the time of his death. In 1857 

 he was made a Harbor Commissioner to pro- 

 tect the harbor of New York. He was for five 

 years a trustee of the Seaman's Retreat, and 

 two years a Commissioner of Emigration. In 

 his autobiography, under date of December 31, 

 1872, he says : "I have held public offices for- 

 ty-nine years, all without pay excepting seven 

 years." His father was Edmund W. Blunt, a 

 well-known publisher of marine works and 

 maker of nautical instruments, who lived to be 

 over ninety years old. 



BODISCO, WALDEMAR, died at Jordan Alum 

 Springs, Va., July 31st. He came to this 

 country at an early age, and graduated from 

 Georgetown College. For nearly twenty years 

 he was Secretary of the Russian Legation at 

 Washington, and a part of the time from 1866 

 and 1869 acted as Charge 1 d'Affaires. He was 

 appointed Russian Consul-General at New 

 York in 1871, and held that position at the 

 time of his death. 



BOLLES, JOHN A., died in Washington, D. 

 C., May 25th. He was born at Eastford, 

 Conn., April 16, 1809. In 1829 he graduated 

 at Brown University, in 1833 was admitted to 

 the bar in Boston, and in 1843 was Secretary 

 of State under Governor Marcus Morton. He 

 was a member of the Harbcr and Back Bay 

 Commission in 1852. From 1862 to 1865 he 

 was Judge- Advocate on the staff of his brother- 

 in-law, General John A. Dix. In 1865 he was 

 made a brevet brigadier-general, and in the 

 same year was appointed Naval Solicitor. 



BONNEVILLE, General BENJAMIN L. E., the 

 oldest officer on the retired list of the United 

 States Army, died at Fort Smith, Ark., June 

 12th, aged 85 years. In 1837 Washington 

 Irving made his name famous by the publica- 

 tion of "Adventures of Captain Bonneville, 

 U. 8. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far 

 West. 1 ' 



BOWERS, GEORGE VINING, an actor, died in 

 New York, August 18th. He was born at 

 Philadelphia, Pa., April 23, 1835, began his 

 theatrical career as call-boy in that city, and 

 after playing comedy parts in several cities he 

 made his first appearance as a star at Wheel- 

 ing, Va., in " Paul Pry " and the " Wandering 

 Minstrel." He won considerable reputation at 

 the South, playing many engagements at New 

 Orleans, Mobile, Galveston, and other cities. 

 He made his first appearance in New York as 

 Green Jones in "The Ticket-of-Leave Man." 

 He played engagements at Booth's and at Nib- 

 lo's, and his last appearance in that city was 

 at the Broadway Theatre and the Grand Opera 

 House, where he represented the Judge in 

 Joaquin Miller's play of " The Danites." 



BREESE, SYDNEY, died at Pinckneyville, 111., 

 June 27th. He was born at Whitesboro, 

 Oneida County, N. Y., July 15, 1800, and re- 



