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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN". 



tice there for twenty years, occupying the chair 

 of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the To- 

 land Medical College of that city during a por- 

 tion of the time. Shortly before the great fire 

 of 1871 he ^removed to Chicago, and thence in 

 1878 returned to New Haven. In the follow- 

 ing year he was appointed Lecturer on Diseases 

 of the Nervous System in the Yale Medical 

 School, holding the office till early in 1887, when, 

 on account of failing health, he removed to 

 Brooklyn. While he had made a special study 

 of nervous diseases, he had also given much 

 thought to various branches of natural science, 

 particularly to ichthyology, on which he had 

 published many memoirs in the Proceedings of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History and of 

 the California Academy of Sciences. 



Babbitt, Klijali, an American lawyer, born in 

 Providence, R. I., in 1796 ; died in Erie, Pa., 

 Jan. 9, 1887. He received an academic educa- 

 tion in the States of New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in Erie, Pa., in 1824. He was prosecuting 

 attorney for his county in 1833, a member of 

 the State Legislature in 1836-'37, and a State 

 Senator in 1844-'45. In 1858 he was elected a 

 Representative in Congress, serving as a mem- 

 ber of the Committee on Revolutionary Pen- 

 sions, and in 1860 was re-elected. He was the 

 oldest lawyer in active practice in Pennslyva- 

 nia, and had survived every judge, attorney, 

 law-officer, physician, and surgeon that lived 

 in Erie when he settled there. 



Baldwin, Jesse Garrettson, an American aboli- 

 tionist, born in Meriden, Conn., March 17, 

 1804; died in Middletown, Conn., April 6, 

 1887. In 1827 he engaged in the " Yankee- 

 notion " business in Oxford, Conn., transferring 

 it to Middletown in 1832, and enlarging it by 

 the manufacture of silver spoons, plated ware, 

 and cotton goods. In company with several 

 other capitalists he built and managed a num- 

 ber of coasting-vessels. At the time of his 

 death he had been president of the Central 

 National Bank of Middletown for twenty-nine 

 years, and of the People's Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany for twenty-two, and was also president 

 of the Indian Hill Cemetery Association and 

 the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church. 

 Mr. Baldwin was specially noted for his early 

 and long activity as an abolitionist. In 1835 

 his residence was mobbed by 200 men, one of 

 whom was an officer in the U. S. Navy, be- 

 cause an anti- slavery prayer-meeting was being 

 held there. "Windows and chairs were broken, 

 the little company were maltreated, and a 

 bucket of water was poured upon Mrs. Baldwin 

 and the babe in her arms. During slavery 

 days Mr. Baldwin would neither use, buy, nor 

 sell any article that he knew to be the product 

 of slave-labor, nor would he permit any vessel 

 in which he held an interest to enter any port 

 in a slave-holding State, because the freight so 

 obtained would have been handled by slaves or 

 been the results of slave-labor. Although he 

 manufactured cotton-goods, he would only buy 



the raw material that was picked, handled, and 

 owned by free men ; and most of his cotton 

 was obtained from a plantation owned and 

 managed by Quakers. He was so grounded in 

 his convictions that when away from home he 

 carried lumps of loaf-sugar in his pockets, that 

 he might not be forced to use the slave holders' 

 production in his tea or coffee. He was once 

 the anti-slavery candidate for Lieuten ant-Gov- 

 ernor of Connecticut, and after the civil war, 

 besides aiding in forming the National Prohibi- 

 tion party, was its candidate for governor. 



Baldwin, Samuel, an American manufacturer, 

 born in South Orange, N. J., April 7, 1808; 

 died in Newark, N. J., April 10, 1887. While 

 a lad he removed to Newark, where he was 

 subsequently engaged for many years in the 

 manufacture of carriages. He was a member 

 of the Common Council in 1855-'56, holding 

 the offices of chairman of the committees on 

 finance and public grounds, and to his energy 

 in the latter the city is indebted for the im- 

 provement of South (now Lincoln) Park. He 

 had also served in the Board of Education. 

 More than fifty years ago he joined Engine 

 Company No. 1, and to the hour of his death 

 " Uncle Sammy " remained a fireman in spirit 

 and sympathy. In 1859 he was elected treas- 

 urer of the Fire Department Relief Fund, and 

 re-elected at each annual meeting thereafter. 

 Several times during this period he was given 

 costly testimonials of the esteem in which he 

 was held by the firemen. Mr. Baldwin was 

 an active member of the Presbyterian Church 

 from his youth. One of his sons, the Rev. 

 Theodore Baldwin, is now a missionary of that 

 denomination in Syria. 



Barnewall, Robert A) lamer, an American pub- 

 lisher, born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1818; 

 died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 14, 1887. He 

 was educated in London, arid came to the 

 United States at the age of twenty-one. Set- 

 tling in New York city, he found employment 

 in several newspaper offices in the publication 

 department, and afterward became publisher 

 of '' The Broadway Journal," which was under 

 the editorship of Edgar Allan Poe. From New 

 York he removed to Philadelphia, where he 

 was connected with " The Evening Argus " 

 and other newspapers for several years. In 

 1865 he was placed in charge of the advertising 

 department of " The Evening Telegraph," re- 

 maining there till 1882, when failing health 

 caused him to resign. Mr. Barnewall was well- 

 informed on poetry and the drama, and pre- 

 served to the last a keen appetite for gentle- 

 manly sports. 



Bartlett, Washington, an American publisher, 

 born in Savannah, Ga., in 1824 ; died in Oak- 

 land, Cal., Sept. 12, 1887. He removed to 

 California in 1850, settling in San Francisco, 

 where he published the first daily newspaper 

 issued in that city. In 1859 he was elected 

 County Clerk, in 1870 appointed Harbor Com- 

 missioner, in 1882 and 1884 elected Mayor of 

 San Francisco, and in 1886 elected Governor 



