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OBITUAKIES, AMERICAN. 



of the Free Congregational Society in Florence, 

 Mass., and for one year preached in Bloom- 

 ington, 111. Among his published works are 

 u Thoughts on the Death Penalty" (1845), and 

 a tract on the Sabbath, enforcing strong anti- 

 Sabbatarian views. 



" CAPRON, SETH M., died at Maiden, N. Y., 

 November 30th, aged 75 years. He graduated 

 at West Point, July 1, 1821, served first ^ on 

 frontier duty, then as instructor at West Point, 

 and afterward was on topographical and com- 

 missary duty until May 31, 1827, when he re- 

 signed. He was engaged in woolen manufac- 

 ture at Maiden. 



CARLILE, JOHN S., died at Clarksburg, W. 

 Va., October 24th. He was born in Winches- 

 ter, Va., December 16, 1817, was admitted to 

 the bar in 1840, and in 1842 began practice 

 in Beverly, Randolph County, was a State 

 Senator from 1847 to 1851, and was a member 

 of the State Constitutional Convention of 1850. 

 He was elected to Congress from Virginia in 

 1855 and served one term. He was again 

 chosen to Congress in 1861, but soon after en- 

 tered the Senate, where he served on the Com- 

 mittees on Public Lands and Territories. He 

 continued a Senator until 1865. He took an 

 active part in the formation of the new State 

 of West Virginia. 



CHALLEN, Rev. JAMES, died in Cincinnati, 

 O., December 9th. He was a leading clergy- 

 man among the Campbellites, and editor of the 

 " Christian Annual." 



CHAMBERLAIN, JACOB P., died at Seneca 

 Falls, N. Y., October 5th. He was born in 

 Massachusetts. In 1859 he was a member of 

 the New York State Assembly, and he repre- 

 sented the Twenty-sixth New York District in 

 the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the 

 Committee on Agriculture. 



CHAMBERLAIN, NATHAN B., died at Newton- 

 ville, Mass., June 14th, aged 69 years. He was 

 widely known as an inventor and manufac- 

 turer of philosophical instruments. 



CHAPIN, HENRY, died at Worcester, Mass., 

 October 13th. He was born at Upton, Mass., 

 May 13, 1811, graduated at Brown University 

 in 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1838. 

 After practicing at Uxbridge, Mass., till 1846, 

 he removed to Worcester, where he became a 

 partner of the late Rejoice Newton. He rep- 

 resented Uxbridge in the State Legislature in 



H5, was Mayor of Worcester in 1849 and 

 I860, and in 1853 he was a member of the 

 Constitutional Convention. In 1858 he was 

 appointed Judge of the Court of Probate and 

 Insolvency, was at one time a Commissioner of 

 Insolvency, and in 1855 was made a Commis- 

 sioner under the personal liberty law." For 

 ninny years he was a member of the State 

 Ijoiml of Education ; was one of the trustees of 

 the State Lunatic Asylum at Worcester, and a 

 director of the City National Bank. He was 

 for several terms President of the American 

 Unitarian Association, and a member of the 

 Council of the National Conference 



CHURCH. ALBERT E., died at West Point, N. 

 Y., March 30th. He was born in Connecticut, 

 graduated at West Point Academy, and was 

 commissioned second lieutenant in the Third 

 Regiment of Artillery, July 1, 1828. After 

 serving as Assistant Professor and Acting Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics at West Point, he was 

 made full Professor in 1838, which position he 

 held up to the time of his death. He published 

 "The Elements of Differential and Integral 

 Calculus," and " Elements of Analytical Geom- 

 etry." 



CLEVELAND, Dr. EMELINE HORTON, died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., December 9th, aged 50 years. 

 She was a member of the Faculty of the Wo- 

 man's Medical College of that city, and a prom- 

 inent practitioner. 



CLINTON, Dr. ALEXANDER, died in New York 

 City, February 16th. He was born in Little 

 Britain, Orange County, April 7, 1793, was a 

 grandson of General James Clinton and a neph- 

 ew of De Witt Clinton, and graduated from the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1819. 

 After practicing some years in his native coun- 

 ty, he returned to New York in 1832, where 

 he continued in practice until advanced age 

 obliged him to discontinue it. During the war 

 of 1812 he was an officer in the army, and at 

 the time of his death was the oldest member 

 of the Society of Cincinnati. 



COBB, STEPHEN A., died in August. He was 

 born in Madison, Maine, June 17, 1833, gradu- 

 ated at Brown University in 1853, and in 1859 

 removed to Wyandotte, Kansas, where he be- 



fan the practice of law. In 1862 he was a 

 tate Senator, and entered the army. He 

 served through the war, and rose to the rank 

 of lieutenant-colonel. In 1869 he again be- 

 came a member of the State Senate. In 1871 

 he was elected to the House, and in 1872 was 

 Speaker of that body. He was Mayor of Wy- 

 andotte in 1862 and 1868. He was elected to 

 Congress in 1872, and served on the Commit- 

 tees on Post Roads and the State Department. 

 He was renominated in 1874, but was defeated 

 by John R. Goodin by 713 votes. 



COLBURN, JUSTIN E., United States Consul- 

 General to the city of Mexico, died there on 

 December 2d, aged 33 years. He was born in 

 Vermont. In 1869 he became private secreta- 

 ry to Senator Sprague at Washington, and sub- 

 sequently served as Washington correspondent 

 of the " New York Times." 



COLLINS, EDWARD K., died in New York City, 

 January 22d. He was born at Truro, Cape Cod, 

 Mass., August 5, 1802. He was the founder 

 of the Collins Line of steamships between 

 New York and Liverpool, the first steamer of 

 which sailed from New York on April 27, 

 1849. In 1858 the line was discontinued, and 

 he engaged in mining enterprises. He had 

 previously superintended the running of a line 

 of packets between New York and Vera Cruz, 

 another known as the New York and Louisiana 

 Packet Line, and in 1836 started the Dramatic 

 Line of sailing packets to Liverpool. 



