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TYLER, Dr. JOHN E., died at Somerville, 

 Mass., March 8th. He was Superintendent of 

 the Insane Asylum at that place, and was one 

 of the most prominent physicians in that branch 

 of the profession in the country. 



UPJOHN, RICHARD, died August 16th. He 

 was born in England in 1802, and came to this 

 country in 1829. After remaining several years 

 in New Bedford and Boston, Mass., where he 

 became known for his fine architectural skill, 

 he went to New York in 1835, where his great- 

 est achievements were executed. Besides plan- 

 ning a great number of private residences and 

 bank buildings, he designed the present Trin- 

 ity Church, the Trinity Building, St. Thomas's 

 and Grace Churches in New York, Christ 

 Church and the Church of the Pilgrims in 

 Brooklyn, and the Cathedral at Baogor, Me. 

 At one time he was President of the American 

 Institute of Architects. 



VAN DYKE, JOHN, born in New Jersey, died 

 at Wabashaw, Minn., December 24th, aged 73 

 years. For many years he was a prominent 

 member of the legal profession of New Jersey, 

 was formerly President of the National Bank 

 of New Jersey, and afterward was elected 

 Mayor of the city of New Brunswick. He rep- 

 resented his district in Congress from 1847 to 

 1851, during which time he made a determined 

 effort against slavery. He was a Judge of the 

 New Jersey Supreme Court from 1860 to 1867, 

 when he removed to Minnesota. There he was 

 elected a member of the State Senate, and was 

 made Judge of the Third Judicial District by- 

 special appointment. 



VEDDER, Dr. ALEXANDER M., died in New 

 York City, December 29th. He was born in 

 Schenectady, N. Y., January 15, 1814. He was 

 the senior representative of the Vedder family, 

 one of the oldest Dutch families of New York ; 

 graduated from Union College in 1833; for a 

 short time was Principal of the Hudson Acad- 

 emy, and in 1839 graduated from the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania with the degree of Doctor 

 of Medicine. For several months he was Resi- 

 dent Physician to the Blockly Hospital of Phil- 

 adelphia, when he finally established himself 

 permanently in Schenectady. In 1840 he be- 

 came Lecturer at Union College ; for twenty 

 years was Professor of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology in that institution, and in 1856 was elected 

 Mayor of Schenectady by the Republican party. 

 During the war he held the office of Examining 

 Surgeon of the Eighteenth Congressional Dis- 

 trict and in 1873 became one of the Curators of 

 the Albany Medical College. Besides being con- 

 nected as founder, director, or trustee, with 

 every institution of note in Schenectady, he 

 was an active member of the Phi Beta Kappa 

 Society, and was for many years its Corre- 

 spond ing Secretary and Treasurer. He was 

 elected a delegate to the International Medical 

 Congress held in Philadelphia in 1876. As early 

 as 1838 he wrote an interesting paper on " Mor- 

 bus Brightii" for the "Medical Intelligencer," 

 which was the first American contribution to 



the literature of Bright's disease, and in 1875 

 wrote three important articles entitled "Em- 

 bolism of the Axillary Artery," "Embolism 

 of the Central Artery of the Retina," and 

 " Tracheotomy in Diphtheria," all of which were 

 published in the reports of the State Medical 

 Society. He gained a wide reputation in dis- 

 eases of the chest, and was one of the first 

 physicians in the United States to acquire a 

 comprehensive knowledge of auscultation and 

 percussion. 



WALKER, JONATHAN, died at Muskegon, 

 Mich., May 1st, aged 79 years. From 1845 

 to 1850 he delivered lectures throughout the 

 country on slavery. In 1844 he was captured 

 in Florida for attempting to free some slaves, 

 and was branded with a hot iron on the right 

 hand with the letters " S. S.," meaning " slave- 

 stealer." He was the subject of Whittier's 

 poem, " The Man with the Branded Hand." 



WARDELL, DANIEL, died in Utica, N. Y., 

 March 27th. He was born at Bristol, R. I., 

 in 1791, graduated from Brown University in 

 1811, and was admitted to the bar at Rome, 

 N. Y., where he afterward practiced law. He 

 was elected to the State Assembly four terms ; 

 was County Judge for several years, and a Rep- 

 resentative in Congress from 1831 to 1837, 

 when he served as chairman of the Commit- 

 tee on Revolutionary Pensions. 



WARREN, General FITZ HENRY, died at Brim- 

 field, Mass., June 21st. He was born in that 

 town in 1816. In 1844 he emigrated to Bur- 

 lington, Iowa, where he became interested in 

 journalism and politics. He was appointed 

 Second Assistant Postmaster-General in 1849 ; 

 afterward served as First Assistant ; was a 

 member of the Iowa State Senate in 1866 ; 

 Minister to Guatemala in 1867 and 1868, and 

 was a Presidential elector on the Iowa Demo- 

 cratic ticket in 1872. During the war he was 

 in command of the First Iowa Cavalry, and in 

 1862 was promoted to be brigadier-general, 

 and afterward major-general by brevet. In 

 journalism he was connected with the " Bur- 

 lington Hawkeye " (Iowa), of which he was 

 for a time the editor, and with the New York 

 "Tribune" and "Sun." 



WELLS, HENRY, died in Glasgow, Scotland, 

 December 10th. He was born in New Hamp- 

 shire, December 12, 1805. In early manhood 

 he started the express business, and associ- 

 ated with himself Crawford Livingston. Af- 

 ter the death of his partner, he with others 

 founded the American, Express Company, of 

 which he was President for a number of years. 

 He was one of the founders of the transcon- 

 tinental company known as Wells, Fargo & 

 Co. 1 s Express. Several years ago he founded 

 and endowed Wells Female College at Aurora, 

 N. Y., and about ten years ago he retired from 

 business. 



WELLS, Miss MARY, an actress, died at Rock- 

 away, N. Y., July 16th. She was born in 

 Lincoln, England, December 11, 1829. She 

 made her first appearance on the stage at Al- 



