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OBITUAEIES, AMERICAN. (MussEY NEWBERRY.) 



a sister of Gen. Ely S. Parker, who became noted as a 

 civil engineer, and served in the civil war on the staff 

 of Gen.'Grant. She was the widow of John Mount- 

 pleasant, head chief of the Six Nations. She re- 

 ceived an academic education, and was well informed, 

 particularly in Indian history. She was married in 

 early life, and greatly aided her husband in his at- 

 tempts to educate the tribes under his chieftainship. 

 After his death she retained her residence with the 

 Tuscaroras, though dividing her time between her 

 own and her husband's tribes. She was a Christian 

 in belief and practice, was active in promoting the 

 interests of the reservation schools, made her home a 

 museum of Indian relics, and to the close of her life 

 opposed the division in severalty of the Indian lands 

 in New York State. Her home was visited every 

 season by large numbers of American and foreign 

 tourists, to whom she accorded a gracious reception. 



Mussey, Reuben Dimond, lawyer, born in Hanover, 

 N. II., May 30, 1833; died in Washington, D. C., 

 May 29, 1892. At the time of his birth his father 

 was a professor in the medical department of Dart- 

 mouth College, and after graduation there he removed 

 to Cincinnati, where he was engaged for a time on 

 the " Gazette," and in 1859-'60 was its correspondent 

 in Washington, D. C. In 1861 he was commissioned 

 captain in the 19th Ohio Infantry; was brevetted 

 colonel in 18(55, and resigned in I860, with the rank 

 of colonel. He was one of the first officers to volun- 

 teer for service with colored troops, and spent much 

 time at Nashville organizing such troops, and mus- 

 tered in 10 such regiments. He received 3 brevets 

 and 3 promotions for special bravery and for merito- 

 rious services during the war. After the war he was 

 private secretary to President Johnson, studied law, 

 was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Washington 

 till within a short time of his death. 



Mnzzey, Artemas Bowers, clergyman, born in Lexing- 

 ton, Mass., Sept. 21, 1802 ; diecl in Cambridge, Mass., 

 April 21, 1892. He was graduated from Harvard 

 University in 1824, and from the Harvard Divinity 

 School in 1828. He was ordained as pastor of the 

 Unitarian Society at Framingham, Mass., June 10, 

 1830, but resigned his pastorate three years later. He 

 was pastor of the Unitarian churches in Cambridge- 

 port for a number of years, and in March, 1854, be- 

 came pastor of the Unitarian church in Concord, N. H. 

 From Sept. 3, 1857, to May, 1865, he was in charge of 

 the Unitarian church at Newburyport. After the latter 

 date he resided in Cambridge, but supplied the pulpit 

 of the Unitarian church at Chestnut Hill, BrooKline, 

 Mass., for some ten or twelve years. He was twice 

 married, his first wife being Hepsibeth Patterson, of 

 Boston, who died in 1859 ; the second being Lucy J. 

 Moseley, of Newburyport, who died a few months be- 

 fore her husband. He published over two hundred 

 books, sermons, and essays, among which are the 

 following : " The Young Man's Friend " (Boston, 

 1836); "Sunday-school Guide" (1837); "Moral 

 Teacher" (1839); "The Young Maiden" (1840); 

 "Man a Soul" (1842); "The Fireside: An Aid to 

 Parents " (1849) ; " Sabbath-school Hymn and Tune 

 Book" (1855); "Christ in the Will, the Heart, and 

 the Life" (Boston 1861) ; " The Blade and the Ear : 

 Thoughts for a Young Man" (Boston, 1864); "The 

 Value of the Study of Intellectual Philosophy to the 

 Minister" (1869) ; "Leaves from an Autobiography" 

 (1870-'72) ; "The Higher Education" (1871); "Per- 

 sonal Recollections of Rev. Dr. Channing" (1874-'75); 

 " Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science " 

 (1876) ; "Personal Recollections of Men in the Battle 

 of Lexington' 1 ' (1877); "Truths Consequent upon 

 Belief in a God" (1879}; "Prime Movers of the 

 Eevolution known to the Writer" (1890), being 

 " Reminiscences and Memorials of the Men of the 

 Eevolution " (Boston, 1883) j " Education of Old Age " 

 (1884). He was greatly interested in educational 

 matters, and for some years was connected with the 

 State Board of Education. He also took a keen inter- 

 est in politics and all the topics of the time through- 

 out his long life. 



Neafie, Andrew Jackson, actor, born in New York 

 city in 1815 ; died there, May 1, 1892. He was appren- 

 ticed to the carpenter's trade ; made his first appear- 

 ance on the stage in the old Park Theatre, New York, 

 where he paid the manager $200 for the privilege, and 

 played " Othello," in 1839. Afterward he played at 

 Niblo's, where he won the friendship of Edwin For- 

 rest, and through the influence of that tragedian 

 secured an engagement at the National Theatre,. 

 Philadelphia, wnere he appeared as Falkland in the 

 "Rivals." In 1861 he made a professional viit to 

 England, and subsequently he appeared in various 

 American theatres till 1867, when lie retired. 



Nevin, William Marvel, educator, born near Shippens- 

 burg, Franklin County, Pa., Feb. 7, 1806; died in 

 Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 11, 1892. He was educated at 

 Princeton and at Dickinson College, being graduated 

 at the latter in 1827 ; studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar of Cumberland County, Pa., but never en- 

 gaged in practice. He then began the study of med- 

 icine, but as this, too, proved uncongenial, he decided 

 to apply himself to teaching. After being employed 

 in various educational institutions in Ohio, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Michigan, he was elected Professor. of 

 Latin, Greek, and Belles-lettres in Marshall College, 

 Mercersburg, Pa., in 1840. In 1853, when the college 

 was removed to Lancaster, Pa., and united with 

 Franklin College, he was re-elected to the chair which 

 he had previously filled, and remained there till 1872, 

 when he was elected the first professor of the newly 

 established professorship of English Literature and 

 Belle-lettres. In 1886 he was made professor emeritus, 

 and continued to direct his former department and to 

 lecture twice a week till within a few weeks of his 

 death. He received the degree of LL. D. from Dick- 

 inson College in 1881, and at the time of his death 

 was the oldest active college professor in the country. 

 He wrote much in verse and prose, and contributed to 

 religious publications. 



Newberry, John Strong, geologist, born in Windsor, 

 Conn., Dec. 22, 1822 ; died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 

 7, 1892. He was descended from early American an- 

 cestry, and as a boy ac- 

 companied his parents 

 to Onio. Determining 

 upon a professional ca- 

 reer, he was graduated 

 at Western Reserve 

 College in 1846, and at 

 the Cleveland Medical 

 College in 1848, after 

 which for two years he 

 followed special studies 

 in Europe. Returning 

 to the United States, he 

 settled in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, and early in 1851 

 began the practice of 

 medicine. For four 

 years he continued the 

 active pursuit of his 

 profession, but a fond- 

 ness for natural history led to his accepting, in May, 

 1855, the appointment of assistant surgeon in the 

 United States army, in which capacity and that of geol- 

 ogist he accompanied the exploring party sent under 

 Lieut. Robert S. Williamson to examine the country 

 between San Francisco and the Columbia river. Dr. 

 Newberry gathered information on the botany, geol- 

 ogy, and zoology of this territory, arid his reports ap- 

 pear in the " Reports of Explorations and Surveys to 

 ascertain the most Practical and Economical Route for 

 a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific 

 Ocean, made in 1853-'56," vol. vi (Washington, 1857). 

 While working up the material, he held, during 1856- 

 '57, the chair of Chemistry and Natural History in Co- 

 lumbian University, Washington, D.C. On the com- 

 pletion of his report he was assigned to the expedi- 

 tion under Lieut. Joseph C. Ives, for exploration and 

 navigation of Colorado river. . He entered the river 

 at its mouth and ascended tne stream by steamer 



