640 



OBITUAKIES, AMERICAN. 



He was three times reflected, and served on 

 important committees. 



HOTCHKISS, JULIUS, died in Middletown, 

 Conn,, December 23d. He was born there in 

 1810, was Mayor of Middletown, was twice 

 elected to the State Legislature, and in 1867 

 and 1869 was chosen a member of Congress. 



HULL, Rev. JOSEPH HERVEY, a veteran of the 

 war of 1812, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Decem- 

 ber 28th. He received a pension for his parti- 

 cipation in the exciting events that occurred 

 in 1814 on Manhattan Island and in Brook- 

 lyn. He was the author of several philological 

 works. 



HUNT, Rev. SAMUEL, died in Boston, Mass., 

 July 23d. He was born at Attleboro, Mass., 

 March 18, 1810; graduated at Amherst Col- 

 lege in 1832 ; was teacher at academies at 

 Southampton, Mass., and Southampton, L. I. ; 

 was ordained pastor of a Congregational Church 

 at Natick, Mass. ; and became connected with 

 the American Missionary Association in 1864, 

 with which he labored to establish schools 

 among the freedmen. In 1868 he became Sec- 

 retary of the Hoc. Henry Wilson, aided him 

 in writing the "Rise and Fall of the Slave 

 Power in America," and completed the work 

 after Mr. Wilson's death. He also prepared 

 and arranged for publication the latter's papers, 

 and left unfinished a work entitled " Religion 

 in Politics, or Christian Citizenship." 



INGLIS, JOHN A., died August 26th in Balti- 

 more, Md., where he was born August 25, 

 1813. He graduated at Dickinson College; 

 practiced law at Columbia, S. C. ; became Judge 

 of the Court of Common Pleas and General 

 Sessions and of the Supreme Court of Appeals 

 of that State, and was subsequently appointed 

 Chancellor. He was the author of the ordi- 

 nance of secession, and president of the Conven- 

 tion that adopted it. His house and library 

 were destroyed by the Federal troops when 

 they entered Columbia under General Sher- 

 man. In 1868 he removed to Baltimore and 

 accepted a professorship in the law depart- 

 ment of the University of Maryland, in 1874 

 was appointed Judge of the Orphans' Court, 

 and in 1875 was elected to the same position. 

 He had been recently appointed Judge of the 

 new Court of Arbitration by the Board of 

 Trade. 



ISAACS, Rev. SAMUEL M., the oldest Jewish 

 rabbi in the United States, died in New York 



ity, May 19th. He was born in Holland in 

 He was for forty years minister of the 

 Elm Street (New York) congregation, and of the 

 congregation Gates of Prayer, which seceded 

 from the former thirty years ago. In 1866 he 

 founded the " Jewish Messenger," of which he 

 was the senior editor. 



JOHNSON, ALEXANDER S., died at Nassau, Ba- 

 hama Islands, January 26th. He was born 

 m Utica, N. Y., July 30, 1817. After pursu- 

 ing a course of study at Yale College, he was 

 admitted to the bar. He was elected a Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court in 1846, and a Judge 



of the Court of Appeals in 1851. After hold- 

 ing the latter position for nine years, he re- 

 sumed the practice of law in Utica. In July, 

 1864, he was appointed United States Commis- 

 sioner for the settlement of the Hudson Bay 

 and Puget Sound Companies' claims, and to 

 his judgment and sagacity was accredited the 

 peaceful settlement of difficulties which threat- 

 ened to produce serious results. He was one 

 of the Regents of the University of New York 

 State. In 1873 he was appointed a Commis- 

 sioner of Appeals by Governor Dix. After 

 Judge Ward Hunt was made a Justice of the 

 United States Supreme Court, Judge Johnson 

 was appointed a United States Circuit Judge 

 for the Second Judicial District, which position 

 he held at the time of his death. 



JONES, J. GLANCT, died at Reading, Pa., 

 March 24th. He was born on the Conestoga 

 River, in 1811. He studied law, and became 

 Deputy Attorney-General of the State. Ex- 

 cepting for a part of the Thirty-third Congress, 

 he was a member of Congress from 1850 to 

 1858. He served on the Committee on Claims, 

 and was the author of the bill creating the 

 Court of Claims. He was also at one time 

 chairman of the Committee on Ways and 

 Means. In 1856 he was a Presidential elector. 

 In 1858 he was appointed by President Bu- 

 chanan Minister to Austria, having previously 

 declined the Berlin mission. 



JONES, OWEN, died in December, aged 60 

 years. During the late war he was colonel 

 of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry. He repre- 

 sented the Fifth Pennsylvania District in the 

 Thirty-fifth Congress. 



KEELT, GEORGE W., died at Waterville, Me., 

 June 13th, aged 73 years. He was formerly 

 Professor of Mathematics at Colby University, 

 and had been connected with the United States 

 Coast Survey. 



KELSO, THOMAS, died in Baltimore, Md., on 

 July 26th. He was born in Ireland in 1784, 

 came to the United States in 1791 and engaged 

 in business in Baltimore. He was a director in 

 the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore 

 Railroad Company for thirty-seven years, was 

 President of the Equitable Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany, vice-president and director in the First 

 National Bank of Baltimore, President of the 

 Preachers' Aid Society of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, and a member of the Board of 

 Directors of the Male Free School. He was 

 a member of the City Council several terms. 

 Besides making many charitable gifts he found- 

 ed several years ago the Kelso Orphan Home 

 for the orphans of members of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, at a cost of $120,000, in- 

 cluding the endowment. 



KERR, JOHN BOZMAN, died in Washington, D. 

 0., January 27th. He was born at Easton, Md., 

 in 1809, graduated at Harvard' College in 1830, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1833. From 

 1836 to 1838 he was a member of the Maryland 

 Legislature. He was a member of Congress 

 from 1849 to 1851, when he was made Charg6 



