OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



635 



spirits of turpentine, 88,669 casks; rosin, 476,- tine, 72,070 barrels. The exports for the same 

 367 barrels ; tar, 72,654 barrels ; crude turpen- time were: 



Among the articles of export from Wilming- 

 ton the amount of peanuts is worthy of notice, 

 having reached 58,885 bushels. The estimated 

 value of the exports is $10,000,000. A compari- 

 son of the American tonnage of steamships and 

 sailing-vessels shows how rapidly the coasting 

 transportation has been absorbed by steamers. 

 The tonnageof Wilmingtonfor 1882 is asfollows: 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ALLEN, Pro- 

 fessor WILLIAM A., born March 27, 1808 ; died 

 August 29, 1882. After graduating from Bow- 

 doin College in 1833, he was called to teach 

 Latin and Greek in the Methodist Seminary at 

 Cazenovia, N. Y., remaining there about two 

 years, when he took charge of the High School 

 at Augusta, Me. In 1836 he went to Carlisle, 

 Pa., where he was Professor of Natural Philos- 

 ophy and Chemistry in Dickinson College, and 

 in a few years assumed that also of English 

 Literature and Philosophy. He remained there 

 about thirteen years. In January, 1850, he 

 was appointed President of Girard College in 

 Philadelphia, which position he held until the 

 end of his life, with the exception of a few 

 years spent in retirement, and as President of 

 the Pennsylvania Agricultural College. He was 

 a writer of considerable thought, and the long 

 and important office he held at Girard College 

 testifies to his great abilities as an instructor. 

 He at one time was President of the American 

 Bible Society ; this, however, did not interfere 

 with his college duties. His health had been 

 declining for some years, and for several 

 months before his death he was incapacitated 

 for active duty. 



COLEMAX, LYMAN-, D. D., born June 14, 1796, 

 in Middlefield, Mass.; died March 16, 1882, 

 at Easton, Pa. President Coleman graduated 

 at Yale College in 1817; he then held for 

 three years the post of principal in the Latin 

 Grammar School at Hartford, and was at the . 

 expiration of that time made a tutor in Yale 

 College, having among his pupils many who 

 subsequently became eminent. Mr. Coleman 

 studied theology, and for seven years was pas- 

 tor of the Belchertown (Mass.) Congregational 

 Church. After a year or two spent in foreign 

 travel, and study in Germany, he devoted him- 

 self to teaching, and was for five years Prin- 

 cipal of the Burr Seminary in Vermont, and 

 then held the post of Principal of the English 



Department of Phillips Academy in Andover. 

 Next, he was Professor of German in Prince- 

 ton College where he received the degree of 

 S. T. D. ; then he became Professor of Latin in 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and occupied 

 the position for twenty years. Mr. Coleman 

 was a man of great erudition and wide culture, 

 and few surpassed him in teaching. He was 

 the author of " Antiquities of the Christian 

 Church " (1841), "Ancient Christianity" (1852), 

 "Historical Text-Book and Atlas of Biblical 

 Geography " (1854), " Prelacy and Ritualism " 

 (1869), and other works. In all these books 

 is the print of conscientious and laborious re- 

 search ; their style is easy, and to the Biblical 

 student they are of much value, and are still 

 used as text-books. A short time before his 

 death, he presented to the pastor of the Bel- 

 chertown (Mass.) Congregational Church a 

 valuable Hebrew concordance compiled by 

 himself; accompanying the book was the fol- 

 lowing message to his first and only parish : 

 " Pity me, O my people ! for the hand of God 

 hath touched me." He had been stricken with 

 paralysis not long before. 



CROSMAN, GEORGE H., born in Taunton, 

 Mass., in 1798 ; died in Philadelphia, May 28, 

 1882. In September, 1819, he entered West 

 Point, and graduated in 1823. He served as 

 brevet second-lieutenant of the Third Infantry, 

 and was afterward promoted to the position of 

 full second-lieutenant, Second Infantry. In 1828 

 he was promoted to the position of first-lieu- 

 tenant of the Sixth Infantry, and in October, 

 1830, was made quartermaster. During the 

 period of the "Black Hawk" War he was en- 

 gaged in the hazardous and hard duty of quar- 

 termaster in the Indian country, and in 1837 

 was promoted to the position of captain in the 

 same regiment. He was also again made quar- 

 termaster, and placed on staff duty. During 

 the Mexican War he was in active service in 

 Texas, and at the storming of Palo Alto took 



