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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



of the first report of that battle to President 

 Lincoln, and was president of a board of offi- 

 cers appointed to revise the Army Regulations. 

 At the close of the war he was elected briga- 

 dier-general of the Fourth Brigade, N. G., S. 

 N. Y., and as senior officer was for some time 

 in command of the First Division. At the 

 same time he was President of the State Mili- 

 tary Association, and was active in establish- 

 ing the rifle-ranges as a part of the military 

 system of the State. He was one of the found- 

 ers of the Army and Navy Club, and was 

 elected its president in 1877. In 1880 Gov. 

 Cornell appointed him engineer-in-chief on his 

 military staff, which place he held throughout 

 that Governor's incumbency. 



Atchison, David It., an American lawyer, born 

 in Frogtown, Fayette county, Ky., Aug. 11, 

 1807; died in Clinton county, Mo., Jan. 26, 

 1886. He was educated for the bar, and, re- 

 moving to Missouri in 1 830, was admitted to 

 practice that year. In 1834 he was elected to 

 the Legislature of that State, and in 1838 was 

 re-elected. Three years later he was appointed 

 judge of the Platte County Circuit Court, and 

 while serving as such he was appointed United 

 States Senator to fill a vacancy in 1843. He 

 was twice elected to this office, serving at the 

 head of important committees, and for several 

 sessions was President pro tern, of the Senate. 

 This office made him President of the United 

 States during Sunday, March 4, 1849, as Gen. 

 Taylor was not sworn into office until the fol- 

 lowing day. During the slavery debates his 

 sympathies were on the pro-dlavery side, and 

 in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle his attitude 

 as a strong pro-slavery man made him con- 

 spicuous. In the latter years of his life he was 

 devoted to agriculture. 



Baker, William Bliss, an American painter, 

 born in New York city in 1859; died in Hoo- 

 sic Falls, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1886. He entered 

 the school of the National Academy of Design 

 in 1876, and won an Elliott medal in 1879. 

 He then studied under Albert Bierstadt and 

 M. F. H. de Haas, and developed marked quali- 

 ties as a painter of landscapes. He was equally 

 felicitous in black and white, water-color, and 

 oil. In 1884 his "Woodland Brook" was 

 awarded the third Hallgarten prize, by a vote 

 of his fellow-exhibitors in the National Acad- 

 emy. His most notable works were: "Hiding 

 in the Haycocks," "A Brook at Evening," "A 

 Pool in the Woods," " Sunrise in New York 

 Harbor," "Fallen Monarchs," "Bright Octo- 

 ber Morning," "In the Old Pasture," and 

 " Under the Apple-Trees." 



Baldwin, John Abed, an American clergyman, 

 born in New York city in 1810 ; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1886. He was graduated 

 at Yale College in 1829, and at Princeton in 

 1834 ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New- 

 ark, N. J., 1834; stationed at Flatbush, L. I., 

 in 1836-'52, at Lancaster, Pa., over a German 

 Reformed Church in 1852-'56, at New Provi- 

 dence, N. J , over a Presbyterian Church in 



1857-'63, and was subsequently employed as a 

 supply to vacant churches. He took a promi- 

 nent part in the trial of the Rev. T. De Witt 

 Talmage, D. D., before the Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Presbytery, and retired several years ago from 

 the cares of active pastoral labor. 



Baltes, Peter Joseph, an American clergyman, 

 born in Ensheim, Bavaria, April 7, 1827; died 

 in Alton, 111., Feb. 15, 1886. He was brought 

 to America when six years old by his parents, 

 who settled in New York State. Having de- 

 termined to devote his life to the ministry of 

 the Catholic Church, he pursued a classical 

 course of study in New York and at the Col- 

 lege of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., and 

 a theological course at the University of St. 

 Mary's of the Lake, Chicago, and the Sulpi- 

 tian Seminary, Montreal. He was ordained 

 May 24, 1853, and placed on mission duty at 

 Waterloo, from which he was transferred to 

 Belleville, both in the diocese of Quincy, 111. 

 On the death of Bishop Juncker, Oct. 2, 1868, 

 he was appointed administrator of the diocese, 

 and on Sept. 24, 1869, was chosen bishop. He 

 was consecrated Jan. 23, 1870, being the first 

 Catholic bishop consecrated in that State. The 

 religious orders already in the diocese were 

 largely developed under his administration, 

 and several others were introduced. 



Bartlett, John Russell, an American historian, 

 born in Providence, R. L, Oct. 23, 1805 ; died 

 there, May 28, 1886. In early life he was em- 

 ployed first in a dry-goods store, and then in 

 a bank, rising to the place of cashier in the 

 Globe Bank, Providence, which he held six 

 years. He was one of the founders of the 

 Athenaeum, and a member of the Franklin So- 

 ciety for the Cultivation of Science, before 

 which he occasionally lectnred. In 1837 he 

 removed to New York city, where he was en- 

 gaged in mercantile business until 1849. Fond 

 of literary pursuits, he took an active part in 

 the various learned societies of the city, was 

 corresponding ^secretary of the New York His- 

 torical Society for many years, and was Secre- 

 tary of the American Ethnological Society, of 

 which he was one of the founders. He was 

 also an honorary member of many of the 

 learned societies in Europe and America. In 

 1850 he was appointed commissioner to run 

 the boundary-line between the United States 

 and Mexico, in which work he was employed 

 for three years. While on this service he made 

 extensive explorations in Texas, New Mexico, 

 Chihuahua, Sonora, California, and the coun- 

 try now known as Arizona, and upon his re- 

 turn he published a personal narrative of the 

 places visited. In 1855 he removed to Rhode 

 Island, and was elected Secretary of State, to 

 which office he was annually re-elected until 

 1872. In 1867 he made a visit to Europe, on 

 which occasion he was chosen by the Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society a delegate to the In- 

 ternational Congress of Archaeology at Ant- 

 werp, and by the American Ethnological So- 

 ciety to the International Congress of Anthro- 



