OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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OOLTON, JOHN S., assistant pastor of St. 

 Peter's Church, Staten Island, died there, 

 April 6th. He was born in New York, No- 

 vember 1, 1846, graduated at the College of 

 St. Francis Xavier in 1868, and was ordained 

 priest December 21, 1873. 



COMSTOOK, SAMUEL MEBRITT, of Centre 

 Brook, Conn., died January 18th, at Wilming- 

 ton, N. 0., aged 68 years. In 1847 he began 

 the manufacture of ivory goods, and at his 

 death left the largest establishment of its kind 

 in this country. 



CONRAD, CHARLES M., died in New Orleans, 

 February llth. He was born in Winchester, 

 Va., but when a child went with his father to 

 Louisiana, and began the practice of law in 

 New Orleans in 1828. He served several years 

 in the State Legislature, and sat, as a Whig, in 

 the United States Senate in 1842 and 1843. 

 In 1844 he was a member of the State Consti- 

 tutional Convention. He was elected to Con- 

 gress in 1848, and served till August, 1850, 

 when he was appointed Secretary of War by 

 President Fillmore. He was a member of the 

 Confederate Congress, and served as a briga- 

 dier-general in the army. 



COOMBS, NATHAN, died in California in Jan- 

 uary. He was a pioneer in breeding and rear- 

 ing stock. His stock farm in Napa County 

 contained many valuable animals, and no one 

 did more than he to improve the horse stock 

 in that State. 



CORNING, HANSON K., died in New York 

 City, April 22d, aged 68 years. For many 

 years he lived at Para, Brazil, from which 

 port he sent rubber to New York. He retired 

 from business about twenty-two years ago, 

 and was a large contributor to charitable and 

 educational institutions. 



CRONIN, EUGENE A., died at Portland, Ore- 

 gon, October 12th. As one of the electors on 

 the Democratic ticket in the Presidential cam- 

 paign of 1876, he was made widely known by 

 the controversy concerning the electoral vote 

 of Oregon. 



CUNNINGHAM, HARRY, a retired actor, and 

 President of the Liquor-dealers' Protective As- 

 sociation, died in New York City, May 16th. 

 He was born in that city in 1831, and at the 

 time of his death was vice-president of one of 

 the dramatic benevolent associations. 



CURRY, GEORGE L., was born in Pennsylva- 

 nia, and died in Portland, Oregon, July 28th. 

 In 1854 he was appointed Governor of Oregon, 

 holding the office until 1859, when the Terri- 

 tory was admitted as a State. 



DAKIN, THOMAS SPENCER, died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., May 13th. He was born in Orange Coun- 

 ty, N. Y.. in 1831. He established the firm of 

 Thomas S. Dakin & Co., commission agents, in 

 1858, continuing it until 1861, when he engaged 

 in the oil trade, and became the head of the 

 firm of Dakin & Gulick. In 1870 he retired 

 from business. In 1862 he became captain in 

 the Thirteenth Regiment, Brooklyn, and saw 

 service in the Virginia campaign. He was made 



major of the regiment in 1866 and became 

 its colonel in 1869. He was afterward made 

 brigadier-general of the Fifth Brigade, and 

 in 1875 was appointed major-general of the 

 Second Division, which commission he held at 

 the time of his death. He was widely known 

 as a member of the American Rifle Team. He 

 took part in the first international contest at 

 Creedmoor in September, 1874, when the Irish 

 team under Major Leech- was defeated by the 

 American team. In the following year the 

 Americans again defeated the Irish team at 

 Dolly Mount, Ireland, when General Dakin 

 made the remarkable score of 165 in a possi- 

 ble 180, and was afterward elected a member 

 of the Legion of Honor of France. He took 

 part in the international match in 1876, making 

 on the first day's shooting the highest score, 

 203. He also took part in the Irish-American 

 return match of the same year, and in the in- 

 ternational competition of 1877. He was a 

 director in the National and several other rifle 

 associations. In 1876 he was the Democratic 

 nominee for Congressman in the Third Con- 

 gressional District, but was defeated by a small 

 majority. 



DAUCIIER, Louis, died at Nancy, France, Au- 

 gust 16th, aged 41 years. He was born in that 

 country, and while still a young man came to 

 the United States. For over six years he was 

 organist of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, 

 New York, and at one time was proprietor of 

 a music-store in that city. He was the author 

 of "Daucher's Mass " and several other works, 

 and received the first prize for original compo- 

 sition at the Paris Conservatory of Music. 



DAVEY, CHALON F., died in New York City, 

 August 13th, aged 65 years. He was born at 

 Fairhaven, Vt. After graduating from the 

 University of Vermont, he was admitted to 

 the bar at Charleston, S. C. He held various 

 county and State offices at Burlington, Vt., 

 where he practiced law, and was Clerk of the 

 Assembly for several years. For twenty-five 

 years he was devoted to the insurance business 

 in New York City, contributed articles to the 

 press on that subject and other topics of pub- 

 lic interest, and was a member of the Union 

 League Club and a life member of the New 

 England Society. 



DAY, HORACE H., died at Manchester, N. H., 

 August 23d, at the age of 67 years. He had 

 been widely known in connection with the 

 India-rubber trade, having been a licensee 

 under the Goodyear patent for rubber manu- 

 facture. He became involved in much litiga- 

 tion with reference to this patent, the most 

 famous case being tried at Trenton, N. J., when 

 Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate appeared as 

 counsel on opposite sides. About 1862 Mr. 

 Day surrendered his license and transferred his 

 business to William Judson. One of the most 

 important of the many enterprises in which 

 Mr. Day was engaged was the scheme to util- 

 ize the water-power of Niagara Falls. About 

 1856 a company for this purpose was organ- 



