OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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TILGHMAX, RICHARD COOKK, born in 1807, 

 died f pneumonia in Baltimore, March 14th. 

 He graduated at tin- West Point Military Acad- 

 emy in 1H28, and was appointed second lieu- 

 tenant of the 1st Artillery, and first lieutenant 

 in 1834. In 1836 he resigned his commission 

 and served as civil engineer for the State of 

 Maryland until the following year, and during 

 the next nine years was employed by the Gov- 

 ernment in surveying sites for fortifications 

 on Lake Chain plain, locating and constructing 

 roads in the Indian reservation in Iowa, making 

 military reconnaissances of the approaches to 

 New Orleans, and superintending harbor im- 

 provements on Lakes Erie and Michigan. In 

 1846 he took possession of his father's place, 

 "The Hermitage," one of the finest estates in 

 Maryland, and from that time devoted his mind 

 much to agriculture. From 1857 to 1867 he 

 was a colonel of Maryland militia, and subse- 



Siently Quartermaster-General of the State, 

 ne of thd incidents of Judge Tilghman's life 

 was acting as groomsman at the marriage of 

 General Robert E. Lee. 



VANATTA, JACOB, a lawyer of distinction, 

 born near Hackettstown, New Jersey, in 1825, 

 died in Morristown, April 30th. His father 

 was a poor farmer, and in early life the son 

 was taught the trade of a tailor. Having fin- 

 ished his apprenticeship, he started for the 

 West ; but happening to lose his trunk on the 

 first day, by which misfortune he was made des- 

 titute, he returned. Subsequently he went to 

 Licking County, Ohio, where he taught school 

 and became a clerk in the post-office. After a 

 year he returned to Morristown, and by the 

 assistance of friends read law and was admitted 

 to practice in 1843, became counselor in 1853, 

 and soon occupied a prominent position in the 

 front ranks of his profession. He held only 

 two important political posts during his life 

 one as a member of the State Legislature, and 

 the other as Attorney-General of the State from 

 1875 to 1877. In his pleadings in court he was 

 slow, deliberate, and cautious, seeking to carry 

 his point by a purely legal argument. An ill- 

 ness, the result of overwork, after two weeks 

 terminated in his death. His career is remark- 

 able as indicating what energy and ability can 

 accomplish. Few probably started from a hum- 

 bler position and gained greater political and 

 legal prominence. 



WOODS, JACOB A., a physician, born in Han- 

 cock, New Hampshire, in May, 1810, died in 

 New York, March 22d. He had resided in New 

 York about twenty-one years. His specialty 

 was the treatment of spinal diseases. 



WOODWARD, Judge WARREN J., born in 

 Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in 1820, died at 

 Hampton, New York, September 28d. He was 

 admitted to the bar in August, 1842, and began 

 hia career as a lawyer in Columbia County. 

 In 1856 he was elected Judge of the new Twen- 

 ty-sixth District, composed of the counties of 



Colombia, Sullivan, and Wyoming, and was 

 subsequently commissioned President Judge 

 for ten years. In 1861 Judge Woodward was 

 elected to the bench in Berks County, compos- 

 ing the Twenty-third Judicial District, and at 

 the end of his term was refilected for the en- 

 suing term of ten years. In August, 1874, he 

 was nominated by the Democratic State Con- 

 vention for Associate Justice of the Supremo 

 Court, and was elected under the minority 

 clause in the new Constitution. Judge Wood- 

 ward, during all his career on the bench, bore 

 out the reputation gained in the early days of 

 his judicial career as painstaking and careful, 

 possessing the judicial quality in a remarkable 

 degree, and as giving decisions rarely overruled 

 in the court of last resort. 



WOODWORTH, Dr. JOHN M., born in Chemung 

 County, New York, August 15, 1837, died in 

 Washington, D. C., March 14th. Studying 

 medicine, he acquired prominence in his pro- 

 fession, devoting himself especially to conta- 

 gious diseases. He served in the Union army 

 during the war, and was Medical Director dur- 

 ing Sherman's march to the sea. In 1871 he 

 was appointed Supervising Surgeon-General of 

 the Marine Hospital service, which he elevated 

 and made very efficient. In 1878 he organized 

 a commission to examine into the yellow fever 

 then raging at the South, and its report was 

 made the basis for sanitary legislation by Con- 

 gress. Under a law passed a few weeks before 

 his death a National Board of Health was or- 

 ganized, of which he was a member, and he was 

 preparing for the press a report on the yellow- 

 fever epidemic which would, had he completed 

 it, have been of great value. 



WYMAN, LUTHER BOYNTON, bora in Woburn, 

 Massachusetts, in 1805, died in Brooklyn, New 

 York, July 27th. He became well known in 

 Boston as a singer previous to his removal to 

 Brooklyn in 1840. There he became promi- 

 nent in music, and in 1857 with others organ- 

 ized the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, of 

 which he was president until his death. He 

 was one of the chief movers in building the 

 Academy of Music. During the war he was 

 active in organizing regiments, and gave a 

 number of brilliant concerts, the proceeds of 

 which were devoted to patriotic purposes. He 

 was also one of the organizers of the Mercan- 

 tile Library in Brooklyn. Four years ago he 

 was stricken with paralysis, which resulted in 

 his death. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. ANTONUOCI, AN- 

 TONIO BENEDETTO, an Italian cardinal, born 

 September 17, 1798, died January 28th. He 

 received his early training for the priesthood 

 from the Benedictine monks of his native town 

 Snbiaco, and afterward went to the Roman Col- 

 lege to complete his studies. In 1833 he was 

 sent as charg6 d'affaires and vice-superior of 

 the Catholic missions to Holland. His mis- , 

 sion proving successful, he was rewarded in 

 1840 with the bishopric of Montefeltre, whence 

 he was translated two years later to the see 



