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FIELD, Dr. GEORGE R., died at sea, April 

 19th, aged 68 years. He was born in Con- 

 necticut, and was a descendant of the famous 

 Captain Cook. For the last twenty years he 

 had been engaged in the discovery of some of 

 the almost unknown islands of the Caribbean 

 Sea, and in the exportation therefrom of gua- 

 no, Trinidad asphaltum, and other products. 



FLAGG, W. 0., died at Mora, 111., April 5th. 

 He graduated at Yale College, and was for 

 many years horticultural editor of the " Prairie 

 Farmer." He was Trustee of the Industrial 

 University at Champaign, 111., President of the 

 Illinois Farmers' Association, and at the time 

 of his death was President of the National 

 Agricultural Congress, and Secretary of the 

 American Pomological Society. For a year 

 he had been engaged as one of the chief edi- 

 tors of the " American Encyclopaedia of Agri- 

 culture," to be published at St. Louis, and he 

 was one of the best pomologists of the day. 



FOOT, SAMUEL A., died in Geneva, N. Y., 

 May llth. He was born at Watertown, N. Y., 

 December 17, 1790, and graduated at Union 

 College in 1811. He was admitted to the bar 

 in 1813, and soon rose to distinction. In 1819 

 he' was made District Attorney for Albany 

 County. In 1825 he removed to New York 

 City, and entered into partnership with the 

 late Judge William Kent, a son of the Chan- 

 cellor. He became a member of the African 

 Colonization Society in 1831, of the New Eng- 

 land Society of New York in 1833, and subse- 

 quently of the American Bible Society, the 

 State Agricultural Society, and other well- 

 known organizations. In 1844 he removed to 

 Geneva, and soon after was appointed a Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals, which office he held 

 till 1852. In 1855 he was elected on the Re- 

 publican ticket to the State Assembly, where 

 he served two terms. He afterward resumed 

 the practice of his profession. No lawyer in 

 New York has been engaged in more impor- 

 tant causes than Judge Foot. His great ability 

 and excellent character were recognized wher- 

 ever his name was known. 



FRANKLIN, JOHN R., died in Worcester Coun- 

 ty, Md., January llth. He was Associate Judge 

 of the First Judicial District ; had been Speak- 

 er of the House of Delegates of Maryland, and 

 also member of Congress. 



FRIEDLANDER, ISAAC, the "Grain King of 

 California," died at San Francisco, July llth, 

 aged 54 years. He was born in Oldenburg, 

 Germany, emigrated to the United States when 

 a boy, and in 1849 sailed from New York to 

 San Francisco, where he was identified at an 

 early day with the agricultural interests of the 

 State. His operations in grain were on the 

 most extensive scale, but after his failure in 

 1877 his business was chiefly on commission. 

 He had been President of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and at the time of his death was on 

 the Board of Water-Rate Commissioners. 



FULLER, WILLIAM H., last survivor of the 

 family to which Margaret Fuller belonged, 



died in New York City, January 5th, aged 61 

 years. 



FULTON, EDINGTON, died in Baltimore, May 

 13th, aged 60 years. Until recently he was 

 managing editor of the " Baltimore American," 

 with which he had been associated for nearly 

 thirty years. He had been Surveyor of the 

 Port of Baltimore, and at the time of his death 

 was Superintendent of Public Stores. 



GARRISON, SAMUEL, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 June 25th. He was born July 4, 1804, and 

 was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn in 1840. 

 In 1860 he was elected a Judge of Kings Coun- 

 ty, holding the office for four years. He was 

 a director in the Mechanics' Bank and the 

 Mechanics' and Lafayette Fire Insurance Com- 

 panies. 



GARVIN, SAMUEL B., died in New York City, 

 June 28th. He was born at Butternuts, Otse- 

 go County, N. Y., in 1811, and was admitted 

 to the bar at Norwich, N. Y. In 1840 he re- 

 moved to Utica, where he practiced law, and 

 in 1850 was elected District Attorney of Onei- 

 da County. In 1856 he was appointed by 

 President Pierce United States District Attor- 

 ney for the Northern District of New York. 

 He resigned his office at the end of two years 

 and removed to New York, where he became 

 a member of the law firm of Schaeffer, Garvin 

 & Dodge. About 1862 he was elected Judge of 

 the Superior Court. He resigned this office 

 some years later, and was appointed District 

 Attorney by Governor Hoffman, to which office 

 he was afterward elected by the people. 



GENIN, JOHN N., died in New York City, 

 April 30th, aged 59 years. He was formerly 

 a leading hatter of that city, and gained noto- 

 riety as the buyer of the first seat sold for 

 Jenny Lind's first concert in this country, for 

 which he paid $225, and which proved to be a 

 highly profitable advertisement of his business. 

 In 1851, when Kossuth was in this country, 

 he gave $1,000 for the expenses of his recep- 

 tion and afterward sold many thousand "Kos- 

 suth " hats. He was once nominated for May- 

 or, but declined to run. 



GODEY, Louis A., the founder of "Godey's 

 Ladies' Book," died in Philadelphia, November 

 29th, aged 75 years. 



GOODWIN, Major JAMES, died at Hartford, 

 Conn., March 15th, aged 72 years. He was 

 the largest taxpayer in that city, and was Pres- 

 ident of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance 

 Company. 



GRAHAM, JOHN HODGES, died at Newbury, 

 N. H., March 15th, aged 84 years. He served 

 in the war of 1812, and in that year, while a 

 midshipman under Commodore Chauncey on 

 Lake Ontario, he was one of twelve officers 

 who took part in an expedition against the 

 British stronghold opposite Black Rock. In 

 the memorable conflict on Lake Champlain he 

 had command of the magazine of Commodore 

 McDonough's flag-ship. He held the rank of 

 commodore for twelve years. 



GEANNIS, THEODORE 0., was born in Oneida 



