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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



contributed several valuable papers, which have 

 not yet been published in collected form. ^At 

 the time of his death he had in process of print- 

 ing a large work in one volume entitled "Man's 

 Record of his own Existence," pronounced by 

 Dr. Asa Gray to be " a monument of wonder- 

 ful industry?' As the work appears to have 

 been completed in manuscript, it is to be hoped 

 that it will soon be published. 



PILLOW, General GIDEON J., died in Arkan- 

 sas in October, 1878. He was born in Wil- 

 liamson County, Tenn., June 8, 1806. He 

 graduated at Nashville University in 1827, and 

 began the practice of law at Columbia, Tenn. 

 He was a delegate to the National Democratic 

 Convention held in Baltimore in 1844, and 

 was instrumental in securing the nomination 

 of Mr. Polk. He entered the Mexican war as 

 a brigadier-general of volunteers, and after 

 serving under General Taylor took part under 

 General Scott in the siege of Vera Cruz. He 

 was wounded while commanding the right wing 

 at the battle of Cerro Gordo, April 18, 1847, 

 and was soon after made major-general. He 

 subsequently joined General Scott, and took 

 part in the battles of Churubusco, Chapultepec, 

 and Molino del Rey. After the wnr, he was 

 tried by court martial on charges of insubor- 

 dination made by General Scott, but was ac- 

 quitted. He then resumed the practice of the 

 law. On the breaking out of the civil war, he 

 joined the Confederate army, commanded at 

 the battle of Belmont, Mo., November 7, 1861, 

 and was second in command under General 

 Floyd at Fort Donelson in February, 1862. 

 When surrender became inevitable, General 

 Floyd transferred the command to General 

 Pillow, who handed it over to General Buck- 

 ner. The two former escaped with some of 

 their soldiers, and the fort was surrendered by 

 General Buckner. General Pillow was now 

 removed from command, but he afterward 

 served under General Beauregard in the South- 

 west. 



PRENTISS, Mrs. ELIZABETH PAYSON, wife of 

 the Rev. George L. Prentiss, D. D., of Union 

 Theological Seminary, and daughter of the late 

 Rev. Dr. Edward Payson, was born in Port- 

 land, Ale., and died at Dorset, Yt., August 

 13th, aged 55 years. She was the author of 

 " Flower of the Family," " Only a Dandelion, 

 and other Stories," " Henry and Bessie," " Su- 

 sie's Six Birthdays," " Little Susie's Six Broth- 

 ers," " Little Susie's Little Servants," " Little 

 Threads," "The Percys Fred, Maria, and 

 Urban and his Friends," "Hymns and 

 Songs of the Christian Life," and " Stepping 

 Heavenward." The last named has had a sale 

 of 50,000 copies in the United States alone 

 rul of her books have been repub- 



and 



lished in England and translated into German 

 and French. 



IYTNAM, the Rev. GEORGE, died at Roxhury, 

 JtaM., April llth. He was born at Sterling, 

 Mass., August 16, 1807, graduated at Harvard 

 College m 1826, and at the Divinity School in 



1830, in which year he became pastor of the 

 First Unitarian Church of Roxbury. In 1853 

 he was a member of the State Constitutional 

 Convention, and in 1864 was a Presidential 

 elector on the Republican ticket. In 1870 and 

 1871 he was a member of the State Legislature. 

 In 1873, after a pastorate of forty-three years, 

 he offered his resignation in consequence of 

 failing health. The church did not accept the 

 resignation, but gave Dr. Putnam a vacation, 

 and chose an assistant pastor. Dr. Putnam 

 then went to Europe. He preached in his pul- 

 pit occasionally until November, 1877, when 

 he gave up his pastorate. 



RAYMOND, JOHN H., died in Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., August 14th. He was born in New 

 York City in 1814, graduated at Union Col- 

 lege in 1832, and was admitted to the bar, but 

 did not engage in practice. In 1838 he com- 

 pleted a course of theological study in the Lit- 

 erary and Theological Institute (now Madison 

 University) at Hamilton, N. Y"., and then became 

 a tutor there. He was soon appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, and 

 afterward of English Literature, in that insti- 

 tution. He was a professor in Rochester Uni- 

 versity from 1851 to 1853, when he became 

 President of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute. He continued in this position till 1864, 

 when he was chosen President of Vassar Col- 

 lege, which office he held at the time of his 

 death. 



ROBSON, Dr. BENJAMIN R., died August 18th 

 in New York, where he was born in 1785. He 

 was the oldest physician in that city, and one 

 of the oldest surviving veterans of the war of 

 1812. He became a practicing physician in 

 1804, was a surgeon in the war of 1812, and 

 was very active in fighting the cholera when 

 it prevailed in New York in 1832. Besides 

 being one of the original incorporators of the 

 County Medical Society, he was for many years 

 one of the ablest members of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. He retired from prac- 

 tice in 1866. 



ROOSEVELT, THEODOEE, died in New Y^ork, 

 February 9th. He was born in that city in 



1831, and shared in the inheritance of consid- 

 erable wealth left by his father. From early 

 manhood till 1876 he was a member of the firm 

 of Roosevelt & Co., glass-importers. He then 

 became the head of the banking firm of Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt & Son. He contributed largely 

 to the success of the Newsboys' Lodging House ; 

 was identified with the Young Men's Christian 

 Association ; was one of the founders of the 

 Orthopedic Hospital, and of the Bureau of 

 Charities, which was afterward merged in the 

 State Charities Aid Association ; and was a 

 liberal supporter of the Children's Aid Society 

 and numerous other charities. At the time 

 of his death he was one of the members of the 

 State Board of Charities, and a commissioner 

 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the 

 Central Park Museum of Natural Sciences. 

 He rendered valuable service in reorganizing 



