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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ABBOTT, JO- 

 SEPH 0., was born July" 15, 1825, in Concord, 

 New Hampshire, and died in 1881. He received 

 his academic education at Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, Massachusetts. Afterward, for three 

 years, under private instruction, he pursued the 

 usual collegiate course, and then read law at 

 Concord and Manchester, and settled in the lat- 

 ter place May 1, 1852. He had for six months 

 previous been editor of the Manchester " Daily 

 American," which position he held until Febru- 

 ary, 1857. He was editor and proprietor of the 

 Boston " Atlas and Bee," from May 1, 1859, to 

 May 1, 1861. He was a member of the New 

 Hampshire State Council of the " Know-Noth- 

 ing" party, and chairman of the committee 

 which transformed the order into " Fremont 

 Clubs," and as such supported the State Com- 

 mittee that was formed in May, 1856, with E. 

 II. Rollins at its head. Mr. Abbott was early 

 identified with the State military force. Having 

 been appointed Adjutant and Quartermaster- 

 General of New Hampshire, he superintended, 

 with great energy and success, the raising and 

 fitting out of the First and Second Regiments 

 in the war. He also raised the Seventh Regi- 

 ment, taking the commission of lieutenant- 

 colonel. He was at the head of a brigade for 

 more than a year, and was ever foremost in 

 the engagements. For distinguished bravery 

 at Fort Wagner, he was brevetted brigadier- 

 general of United States Volunteers. In early 

 manhood he was a member of the commission 

 for adjusting the boundary-line between New 

 Hampshire and Canada. He took great inter- 

 est in literary and historical matters, and con- 

 tributed illustrated articles to magazines. After 

 the war, General Abbott removed to Wilming- 

 ton, North Carolina, and was for a time com- 

 mandant of the city. He was a member of the 

 Constitutional Convention of that State, and 

 was elected Republican United States Senator 

 for a partial term, which closed in 1871. He 

 was Collector of the Port of Wilmington under 

 President Grant, and Inspector of the Ports 

 along the eastern line of the Southern coast 

 under President Hayes. 



ADAMS, JOHN F., was born at Stratham, New 

 Hampshire, May 23, 1790; died in Greenland, 

 in that State, on June 11, 1881. Mr. Adams 

 was the oldest Methodist minister in New 

 Hampshire at the time of his death, and possi- 

 bly in New England. He began to preach in 

 1812, and joined the New England Conference, 

 which then embraced all the New England 

 States. Sent to the back settlements of the 

 then District of Maine, he endured many hard- 

 ships in the cause of religion, traveling on 

 horseback through ten or twenty towns, doing 

 good, and making himself beloved wherever he 

 went. His talents, judgment, and zeal soon 



made him a leader among his brethren. He 

 served churches which were regarded as the 

 best appointments, such as those in Boston and 

 Lynn, and had two terms, of four years each, 

 as presiding elder. He was one of the pioneers 

 in the anti-slavery cause, and was four times 

 chosen to represent his conference in the Gen- 

 eral Conference. 



BAEBOUB, JOHN M., was bora at Cambridge, 

 Washington County, New York ; died in New 

 York city, December 8, 1881. Mr. Barbour's 

 parents were humble and poor, unable to afford 

 him the education he desired, and his early days 

 were spent in occupations foreign to his taste. 

 When a very young man, he went to Michigan 

 and studied law; was first elected a justice of 

 the peace, and served with acceptance, then 

 was made Commissioner of Internal Improve- 

 ments, and after the expiration of his term 

 was elected County Judge, in which capacity 

 he served eight years with popular favor and 

 professional indorsement. In 1850 he moved 

 to New York. Although not a brilliant man, 

 his high character and professional worth soon 

 established for him an enviable reputation, and 

 in a short time he found himself the center of 

 a profitable circle of clients. He moved slowly 

 but surely to the front rank of his profession. 

 In 1861 he was nominated by the Democrats 

 as Judge of the Superior Court, and was aided 

 somewhat by the undeserved reputation of 

 being the author of " Barbour's Reports." He 

 was elected by a large majority. His six years' 

 experience on the bench secured him a renom- 

 ination in 1867, and he wns again elected by a 

 flattering majority. His judicial career was 

 characterized by a conscientious and unsensa- 

 tional endeavor to secure justice, which gained 

 for him the confidence and esteem of his breth- 

 ren of the bar, as well as of the people. This 

 was clearly shown at the death of Chief-Jus- 

 tice Robertson, when Judge Barbour was 

 unanimously chosen to preside in his place. 

 He was an able and well-read lawyer, oftener 

 excelling in the more quiet branches of the law 

 which formerly came under the cognizance of 

 the Court of Chancery, than in the active con- 

 tests which come before a jury. As an author- 

 ity in statutes he was considered expert and 

 reliable. In arguing cases before him, the 

 counsel were always certain that he gave the 

 case careful investigation, and that his decision 

 would be correct in its conclusions, as well as 

 honest and conscientious. His mind was very 

 deliberate, and not so rapid in its operation as 

 some of his colleagues. For this reason he 

 was better adapted to. that branch of the court 

 where cases are reviewed on appeal than where 

 he was required to determine questions in- 

 stanter, as in jury-trials. 



BARKSDALE, HARRIS, born in Holmes County, 



