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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



to New York, where he received the thanks of 

 the Legislature for gallant and meritorious con- 

 duct, and was made brevet brigadier-general 

 of New York Volunteers. He also received 

 other marks of high appreciation of his serv- 

 ices while in Mexico. He was occupied for 

 some time in public duty in the Philadelphia 

 and Brooklyn Navy- Yards. In 1853-'54 he was 

 Chief -Engineer of the Brooklyn Water- Works, 

 for which he made new plans. In 1856 he 

 went to Norfolk, Ya., and took charge of the 

 water-works there, and from 1858 to 1860 he 

 was United States Surveyor-General of Kan- 

 sas and Nebraska Territories. Gen. Burnett 

 was an invalid during the latter years of his 

 life, and gave up all active duty. He was bur- 

 ied at West Point. 



Cary, Joseph C., an American inventor, born 

 in Brockport, N. Y., in 1829; died in Martha's 

 Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 7, 1884. He was the 

 inventor of Gary's steam rotary force-pump. 

 About 1860 he built two steam fire-engines, to 

 which his pump was applied, for use in New 

 York city. These engines propelled them- 

 selves through the streets by steam-power, and 

 were capable, with ten men, of doing the work 

 of five hundred with the hand-engines at that 

 time in use. They proved to be very efficient 

 at several large fires, and helped to save many 

 millions of property. Mr. Cary entered Wall 

 Street as a speculator about twenty years ago, 

 and was also successful in connection with the 

 Central Cross-town road in New York. 



Channing, William Henry, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Boston, Mass., in 1810; died in 

 London, England, in December, 1884. He was 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1833, and was 

 ordained as a Unitarian minister in May, 1839. 

 He held several posts of prominence in his pro- 

 fession in various cities and towns of his 

 native country, and subsequently became the 

 successor of James Martineau in Liverpool, 

 England. Mr. Channing was an author of con- 

 siderable repute, and contributed largely to 

 religious papers and reviews. In 1840 he pub- 

 lished a translation of Jouffroy's " Ethics.'* 

 In 1848 he compiled the memoirs of his uncle, 

 the distinguished Unitarian theologian and 

 controversialist, Dr. W. E. Channing. He also 

 published the life and writings of J. H. Per- 

 kins, in two volumes, and the memoirs of the 

 Marchioness Ossoli (Margaret Fuller). 



Chirk son, Robert Harper, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 1826 ; 

 died in Omaha, Neb., March 10, 1884. He 

 was graduated at Pennsylvania College in 1844, 

 studied theology at St. James's College, Mary- 

 land, and was ordained deacon in 1848, and 

 priest in 1851. He became rector of St. 

 James's Church, Chicago, in 1849, and served 

 for sixteen years. He was consecrated Mis- 

 sionary Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, Nov. 

 15, 1865, and entered at once upon his work. 

 Bishop Clarkson was distinguished for earnest 

 devotion to the duties of his office, was very 

 successful in promoting the interests and ad- 



vancement of the Episcopal Church in the 

 Northwest, and was an able and effective 

 preacher. 



Clemmer, Mary (Hudson), an American author, 

 born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839 ; died in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., Aug. 18, 1884. She was educated 

 at Westfield (Mass.) Academy, and when very 

 young began to write for the " Springfield Re- 

 publican." Afterward she became a regular 

 contributor to the " New York Independent," 

 in which appeared for many years her " Wom- 

 an's Letter from Washington," by which she 

 was best known in the literary world. At an 

 early age she married the Rev. Daniel Ames, 

 from whom she was afterward divorced. She 

 was an intimate friend of Alice and Phoebe 

 Cary, whose biography she wrote. She also 

 published monographs on Charles Sumner, 

 Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Emerson, and 

 Longfellow. She wrote two novels, "Eirene" 

 (1870) and u His Two Wives" (1874), "Ten 

 Years in Washington" (1871), "Outlines of 

 Men, Women, and Things " (1873), and a vol- 

 ume of poems (1882). With the earnings of her 

 pen she bought a house in Washington, which 

 was a social as well as literary center for many 

 years, and in 1883 she married Edmund Hud- 

 son, editor and proprietor of the "Army and 

 Navy Register." She was thrown from a car- 

 riage in 1878, and received injuries that made 

 her somewhat of an invalid ever after. A 

 complete edition of her works is announced 

 for publication in 1885. 



Dnganne, Angnstine J. H., an American author, 

 born in Boston, Mass., in 1823 ; died in New- 

 York, Oct. 20, 1884. While quite a young 

 man he contributed to the journals a number 

 of patriotic songs and poems, which speedily 

 became very popular throughout the country. 

 These were subsequently gathered and pub- 

 lished in a volume entitled "Hand Poems," 

 which met with a large sale. A few years later 

 he issued a tragedy, " The Lydian Queen," 

 "Parnassus in Pillory," etc., and in 1852-'54 

 three other poems, " The Mission of Intellect," 

 " The Gospel of Labor," and " The True Repub- 

 lic." Mr. Duganne wrote several prose works, 

 and was connected for years with the daily 

 press. On the outbreak of the civil war he went 

 to the front with the One Hundred and Seventy- 

 sixth Regiment of New York Volunteers. He 

 did good service as colonel of the regiment, 

 was captured by the enemy and confined in 

 a Southern prison for several months, and on 

 his return to New York gave an interesting 

 account of his experiences, in a volume en- 

 titled "Twenty Months in the Department of 

 the Gulf." Colonel Duganne resumed edito- 

 rial and literary work after the war, but for 

 the last few years of his life was compelled by 

 ill health to forego active work. His latest 

 production was a satire on the well-known 

 skeptic, R. G. Ingersoll, entitled " Injure Soul." 



Emott, James, an American jurist, born in 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1821 ; died there, Sept. 

 11, 1884. He was educated at College Hill 





