692 



OBITUAEIES, AMERICAN". 



of the State aggregates more than three mil- 

 lions of horse-power, exceeding that of all the 

 steam-engines of Great Britain or the United 

 States. More than 1,200 miles of railroad are 

 already built, and several hundred more pro- 

 jected. The climate corresponds with that of 



northern and middle Italy and southern and 

 middle France ranging, between its eastern 

 and western borders, as that from the Gulf of 

 Mexico to Canada. Its natural and agricultu- 

 ral productions are consequently of extraordi- 

 nary variety. 



O 



OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ALBERT, WIL- 

 LIAM J., born in Baltimore, August 4, 1816, 

 died in that city, March 29th. He was edu- 

 cated at Mount St. Mary's College, Maryland, 

 and became a merchant, but retired from busi- 

 ness in 1856. In 1864 he was president of 

 the Maryland Electoral College, which voted 

 for President Lincoln. He was one of the 

 founders of the First National Bank of Mary- 

 land, and a director in insurance companies, 

 savings banks, and manufacturing companies. 

 He was a Republican member of the Forty- 

 third Congress from the Fifth Maryland Dis- 

 trict, serving from December, 1873, to March, 

 1875. 



ANDERSON, RICHARD H., a lieutenant-general 

 of the Confederate army, born in South Caro- 

 lina in 1816, died in Beaufort, June 26th. He 

 entered West Point in 1838, and graduated in 

 1842. On entering the army, his promotion 

 was rapid until he reached the grade of cap- 

 tain of dragoons, which position he held until 

 1861, when he resigned and joined the Con- 

 federate army. He was at first commissioned 

 colonel of infantry. Owing to his bravery and 

 valuable services in many of the great battles 

 of that memorable period, he was promoted 

 step by step until he reached the grade of 

 lieutenant-general. Since the close of the 

 war, General Anderson led a life of retire- 

 ment. 



AVERT, Judge DANIEL DUDLEY, born at 

 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 12, 1810, died 

 at his residence on Petite Anse Island, June 

 8th. He entered Yale College in 1826. On 

 his return to Baton Rouge he studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1832. The same 

 year he was elected to the General Assembly 

 of the State, and served for four years. Ho was 

 joint commissioner with Mr. Maunsel White 

 in superintending the erection of the State 

 House in Baton Rouge. He was afterward 

 thrown out of politics by the breaking tip of 

 the Whig party. In 1860 he became Judge of 

 the Florida parishes. After the capture of 

 New Orleans in 1862 he resigned his judge- 

 ship and lived on his Petite Anse plantation. 

 The necessity of destroying the salt-works on 

 that island drew General Banks thither in 

 ( 1863, and Judge Avery went to Texas and re- 

 'mained there until the close of the war. 



BRADY, ALEXAKDER, a printer, born in 1795, 

 died in Brooklyn, New York, July 26th. He 

 was believed to be the oldest printer in the 

 country at the time of his death. He had been 



a member of the New York Typographical 

 Society more than sixty years, and connected 

 with the Methodist Book Concern for forty- 

 five years. 



BRINSMADE, HORATIO N., D. D , born at New 

 Hartford, Connecticut, December 28, 1798, 

 died at Roseville, New Jersey, January 19th. 

 He graduated at the College of New Jersey, 

 Princeton, in 1822. For nine years he was 

 an instructor in the Asylum for the Deaf and 

 Dumb at Hartford. In 1828 he was ordained 

 by the North Congregational Association, and 

 preached one year at Hartford. In 1831 he 

 went to Collinsville and established a church, 

 where he remained until 1834, when he went 

 to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he was pas- 

 tor until 1841. In that year he was called to 

 the pastorate of the Third Presbyterian Church 

 of Newark, New Jersey. In 1853 he resigned 

 on account of his wife's health, and went to 

 Beloit, Wisconsin, where he was pastor of the 

 First Congregational Church for seven years. 

 In 1860 he returned to Newark to take charge 

 of Wickliffe Chapel, and remained in charge 

 until his death. 



CRAVEN, ALFRED W., a civil engineer, born 

 in New York, where he died on March 29th. 

 Early in life he entered the profession of civil 

 engineer, and in 1837 he was engaged, in con- 

 nection with General George S. Greene, in the 

 construction of an important public work near 

 Charleston, South Carolina. In 1849, when 

 the law was passed organizing the old Croton 

 Water Board, Mr. Craven was made Engineer 

 Commissioner, which position he held until 

 1868, at which time he resigned for the pur- 

 pose of going to Europe. Among the many 

 important works projected and carried out by 

 Mr. Craven during his connection with the 

 Croton Water Board were the building of the 

 large reservoir in Central Park, which was 

 completed in 1867, the enlargement of the 

 pipes across High Bridge, and the construction 

 of the reservoir at Boyd's Corners, Putnam 

 County. He also caused to be made an accu- 

 rate survey of Croton Valley, with a view of 

 ascertaining its capacity for furnishing an ade- 

 quate water-supply, and was largely instrument- 

 al in securing the passage of the first law passed 

 by the Legislature establishing a general sewer- 

 age system for New York. He was one of the 

 original projectors and the first President of 

 the American Society of Civil Engineers, or- 

 ganized in 1852, and was also a commissioner, 

 with Allan Campbell, in the work of build- 



