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OBITUAKIES, AMERICAN. 



100 marines, rendered timely service in extin- 

 guishing the fires and burying the dead lying 

 about the streets. 



Olney, Edward, an American mathematician, 

 born in Moreau, Saratoga County, N. Y., July 

 24, 1827; died in Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 16, 

 1887. His father removed to Oakland County, 

 Mich., in 1833, but finally settled in Weston, 

 Wood County, Ohio. Although bred to a 

 farm-life, and having merely the educational 

 advantages of a log school-house, the son. de- 

 veloped an early passion for mathematics and 

 natural history. The only blackboards used in 

 his schooling were the plow-beam and the cyl- 

 inder of a fanning-mill, yet with these he mas- 

 tered Day's " Algebra " in six weeks. When 

 nineteen years old he began teaching in the 

 district school, devoting his evenings to the 

 study of Latin. At twenty-one he engaged to 

 teach in a school in Perryville, the county-seat, 

 and a year later became principal of the newly 

 established union graded school. As he had 

 to teach Latin as well as the higher English 

 branches, the greatest diligence in private 

 studies accompanied his work in the school- 

 room. He remained with this school as prin- 

 cipal and superintendent over five years. In 

 the autumn of 1853 he was called to the pro- 

 fessorship of Mathematics in Kalamazoo Col- 

 lege, where he taught till September, 1863, 

 when he entered upon similar duty in the aca- 

 demic department of the University of Michi- 

 gan, and remained until death. He was the 

 author of a complete series of mathematical 

 text-books in general use, and one of the best- 

 known educators in the West. 



Palmer, Alonzo B., an American physician, 

 born in Richfield, Otsego County, N. Y., Oct. 

 4, 1815; died in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 23, 

 1887. He was educated in medicine in New 

 York city and Philadelphia, and became C'>n- 

 nected with the medical department of' the 

 University of Michigan in 1852, when he was 

 appointed Professor of Anatomy. In 1854 he 

 was appointed Professor of Materia Medica, 

 and in 1860 Professor of Pathology and the 

 Practice of Medicine, holding the latter chair 

 continuously till his death. He was elected 

 vice-president of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation in 1860, and president of the United 

 States Medical Society in 1872. He received 

 the degree of A. M. from the University of 

 Nashville in 1855, and that of LL. D. from the 

 University of Michigan in 1873. 



Palmer, George Washington, an American law- 

 yer, born in Ripley, Ohautauqua County, N. Y., 

 in 1835 ; died in New York city, Jan. 2, 1887. 

 He was graduated at the Albany, N. Y., Law- 

 School in 1857, and had just established him- 

 self in practice when the civil war broke out. 

 Hastening to Washington, he volunteered his 

 services, received a commission, and was em- 

 ployed in the field, at the national capital, and 

 in the West till the close of the war, retiring 

 from the army with the rank of brigadier-gen- 

 eral. From 1865 till 1868 he was Commis- 



sioner-General of Ordnance of New York 

 State. He was appointed Appraiser of the 

 Port of New York by President Grant, and 

 Deputy-Collector, in charge of the seventh or 

 law division of the Custom-House, in March, 

 1879, holding the latter office till after the ap- 

 pointment of Collector Hedden by President 

 Cleveland. He then resumed the practice of 

 law in New York city. 



Palmer, Ray, an American clergyman, born 

 in Little Compton, R. I., Nov. 12, 1808; died in 

 Newark, N. J., March 29, 1887. He began 

 life as a clerk in Boston, Mass., at the age of 

 thirteen, but attended school at the same time. 

 Two years later he went to Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, to prepare for college, and in 1826 

 entered Yale College, where he was graduated 

 in 1830. His first occupation after leaving col- 

 lege was that of teaching in a fashionable pri- 

 vate school on Fulton Street, New York city. 

 In the latter part of 1831 he returned to New 

 Haven, and was associated with Prof. E. A. 

 Andrews in founding the New Haven Young 

 Ladies' Institute. Ever since he left Yale he 

 had looked longingly toward pastoral work, 

 and been preparing for it by theological study. 

 His desire was fulfilled in 1832, when he was 

 licensed to preach by the New Haven West As- 

 sociation of Congregational Ministers. Shortly 

 afterward he accepted a call to the Central 

 Congregational Church of Bath, Me., and was 

 ordained there in 1835. Fifteen years of earn- 

 est pastoral labor followed, and he then made 

 a tour of England, Scotland, and the Continent. 

 On his return he accepted a call from the First 

 Congregational Church of Albany, N. Y., and, 

 removing to that cityin 1850, he remained there 

 fifteen years and a half. At the end of this 

 period he was urged by his ministerial brethren 

 to accept the office of Secretary of the Con- 

 gregational Union, and he performed its re- 

 sponsible duties for twelve years, during which 

 time six hundred Congregational churches were 

 built by the aid of the association. While thus 

 actively engaged as a pastor and in official work 

 he produced numerous works, besides pam- 

 phlets and contributions to religious periodicals. 

 Among his books are: "Spiritual Improve- 

 ment; or, Aid to Growth in Grace" (1839); 

 "Closet Hours" (1851); "Remember Me" 

 (1855) ; " Hints on the Formation of Religious 

 Opinions " (1860) ; " Hymns and Sacred Pieces " 

 (1865) ; " Hymns of My Holv Hours " (1866) ; 

 "Home; or, The Unlost Paradise" (1868); 

 "Earnest Words on True Success in Life" 

 (1873); "Complete Poetical Works" (1876); 

 and "Voices of Hope and Gladness" (1880). 

 While teaching in New York city he composed 

 a poem of four stanzas, which has been trans- 

 lated into more than twenty languages and sung 

 the world over, beginning with, "My faith 

 looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary." 

 Next to this, his chief productions in hymnology 

 were: "Fount of Everlasting Love" (1832); 

 "Thou who roll'st the Year around" (1832); 

 " Away from Earth my Spirit turns" (1833); 



