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and nephew of Dr. Charles Anthon, of Colum- 

 bia College, from which he graduated in 1839. 

 He was admitted to the New York bar, but 

 soon began teaching in New Orleans. He was 

 connected for a short time with the Univer- 

 sity of the City of New York, and in 1854 he 

 founded the Anthon Grammar School in that 

 city, of which he became principal. 



ANTHONY, ALLAKD, died at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., August 12th. He was a member of the 

 Dutchess County bar, and was twice elected 

 District Attorney, and once as County Judge. 

 ANTHONY, Prof. JOHN G., died at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., October 16th. He was born 

 in Providence, R. I., in 1804, and for 35 

 years was engaged in business in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. In 1863 the late Prof. Agassiz induced 

 him to take charge of the conchological de- 

 partment of the Agassiz Museum in Cambridge, 

 Mass., which position he held at the time of 

 his death. He accompanied Prof. Agassiz on 

 his scientific expedition to Brazil, and was a 

 frequent contributor to scientific journals. 



BADGEE, Dr. GEORGE, son of the late Rev. 

 Dr. Badger, of New York City, died at Aspin- 

 wall, June 16th. He was surgeon of the steam- 

 ship Bienville, which was destroyed by fire 

 on her passage from New York to Aspinwall, 

 and he contributed greatly to the safety of the 

 passengers by his firmness and courage. 



BAILEY, GEOBGE A., died at Deering, Me., 

 December 26th, aged 57 years. He was pub- 

 lisher of the Congressional Globe. 



BAIRD, MATTHEW, a well-known citizen of 

 Philadelphia, for many years connected with 

 the Baldwin Locomotive Works, died May 

 19th. 



BAKER, Rev. GARDNER, an eminent and aged 

 minister, died at Thousand Island Park, N. Y., 

 August 12th. 



BALOH, THOMAS, died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 

 April. He was born in Leesburg, Va., July 28, 

 1821, was graduated at Columbia College, New 

 York, and admitted to the Philadelphia bar, of 

 which he was for several years a leading mem- 

 ber. For twenty years he was occupied on his. 

 work "Les Francais en Amerique." In Sep- 

 tember, 1876, he read before the Social Science 

 Association, at Saratoga, a paper in favor of a 

 double standard in coinage, and, before a simi- 

 lar organization in Philadelphia, read an essay 

 on "Free Coinage and a Self -Adjusting Ratio." 

 BANGS, GEORGE S., was born in Milan, Ohio, 

 February 22, 1825, and died at Washington, D. 

 0., November 16th. At the age of 9 years 

 he entered the office of the Akron (Ohio) Bea- 

 con, as a " printer's devil," and, after working 

 for several years as a jonrney-man printer, in 

 1850 he went to Chicago. After spending 

 some time at farming he finally purchased a 

 number of local papers and consolidated them 

 in the Aurora (111.) Beacon. President Lincoln 

 appointed him postmaster at Aurora in 1801 ; 

 he was made Assistant Superintendent of the 

 Railway Mail Service in 1864, and General 

 Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service 



in 1869. In 1875 he succeeded in establishing 

 a fast^mail train system between the East and 

 the West, which was a great convenience to 

 business men, but after several months' trial it 

 was finally abandoned. In 1876 he was ap- 

 pointed Assistant United States Treasurer at 

 Chicago, and after holding that position about 

 a year he resigned and became connected with 

 the American Express Company. 



BARGER, Father, died at Bloomington, 

 111., January 5th. He was born in Culpepper 

 County, Va., in 1801, and went West in 1882, 

 where he was noted for his early experience 

 in Methodism. He was one of the oldest di- 

 vines living since the death of Peter Cart- 

 wright. 



BEACH, ex-Judge ELIAS J., was born at 

 Woodbury, Conn., and died at Glen Cove, N. 

 Y., May 18th. He was a prominent Democrat 

 and was twice Judge of Queens County. 



BEATON, Mrs. RUTH, alias FANNY WALLACE, 

 died at Vernon County, Wis., June 1st, aged 

 45 years. She was seven feet four inches in 

 height, and weighed 585 pounds. 



BEEKMAN, JAMES W., died in New York 

 City, June 15th. He was born on November 

 22, 1815, and graduated at Columbia College 

 in 1835. He was chosen State Senator from 

 that city in 1850 and served two terms. In 

 1861 he went to Washington as a delegate of 

 the Peace Convention. He was Vice-President 

 of the New York Hospital, President of the 

 Woman's Hospital, and a director of the New 

 York Dispensary. He was also a member of 

 the Historical Society, of the Century Club, 

 and President of the St. Nicholas Society. 



BENEDICT, Mrs. J. T., died in New York 

 City, March 26th. She was for many years 

 identified with the education of women in that 

 city. She began teaching at Leroy, N. Y., in 

 her fifteenth year. At the Albany Female 

 Academy, where she graduated, she gained 

 the gold medal in French and mathematics. 

 From the Academy at East Bloomfield, N. J.. 

 where she spent several years, she was called 

 to the school of Prof. J. T. Benedict in Unr- 

 lington, Va., where she was married in 1849. 

 In 1850 she and her husband opened a private 

 school in New York City. 



BLAIR, Mrs., died near Silver Spring, Md., 

 July 5th. She was the wife of the late Fran- 

 cis P. Blair, Sr., and mother of the Hon. Mont- 

 gomery Blair and the late Francis P. Blair, Jr. 

 BLANCHARD, J. W., died at Syracuse, N. Y., 

 September 14th. He was a brigadier-general 

 in command at New Orleans during the civil 

 war. 



BLANCHARD, WYATT, a lawyer and politician 

 of Baltimore, Md., died there August 2'Jth, 

 aged 48 years. 



BLEDSOR, Dr. A. T., died at Alexandria, Va., 

 December 8th, aged 69 years. Ho was a dis- 

 tinguished minister, editor of the Southern t~ 

 ietr, and was formerly a professor of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, 

 BLITZ, Signer, the well-known ventriloquist 



