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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



and prestidigitateur, died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 January 28th. He was born in the town of 

 Deal, Kent, England, in 1810. When he was 

 in his thirteenth year, he began his public ca- 

 reer in Hamburg, and in 1834 came to the 

 United States. 



BLODGKTT, FOSTER, died in Atlanta, Ga., No- 

 vember 12th. He was born in Augusta, Janu- 

 ary 15, 1826. He was elected mayor in 1859, 

 reflected in 1860, and was an unsuccessful can- 

 didate in 1861. From 1856 to 1861 he was Or- 

 dinary of Richmond, and during the war he was 

 captain of the Blodgett Artillery from Augusta; 

 but after the war he joined the Republican 

 party, and was appointed postmaster in 1865, 

 was removed in 1868, and reinstated in 1869. 

 He was President of the Union Republican 

 Club of Augusta in 1867; the same year was 

 again appointed mayor, remaining in office un- 

 til December, 1868. In 1867 he was elected a 

 delegate to the Constitutional Convention. In 

 1870 he was chosen to the United States Sen- 

 ate, but was not admitted. 



BOABDMAN, Rev. Dr. GEOEGE S., one of the 

 oldest pastors of the Presbyterian Church, 

 died at Cazenovia, N. Y., February 7th, aged 

 88 years. 



BRADY, Mrs. ROSA, was born in the county 

 of Cavan, Ireland, in 1774, and died in New 

 York City, May 4th, being 103 years old at the 

 time of her death. 



BBOOKS, JOSEPH, died at Little Rock, Ark., 

 April 29th. In 1874 he was arrayed against 

 Baxter in the exciting struggle for the govern- 

 orship of Arkansas, a full account of which is 

 given in the ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1874, 

 under the title ARKANSAS. 



BROOKS, LEWIS, died at Rochester, N. Y., 

 August 9th, aged 84 years. He settled in 

 Rochester when he was 29 years old, and 

 first engaged in the manufacture of woolen 

 cloth, and later in the mercantile business, 

 but retired from active business forty years 

 ago, devoting his time chiefly to investing 

 his money and looking after his real estate. 

 He made various charitable bequests, among 

 which was $10,000 to the Rochester City Hos- 

 pital, a like sum to St. Mary's Hospital, and 

 $5,000 each to the Industrial School and the 

 Female Charitable Society. He also bequeathed 

 $120,000 to the University of Virginia, $31,000 

 alone being expended on the work of collect- 

 ing a cabinet. Numerous other gifts were 

 made to several societies, and in no case was the 

 name of the generous giver' known. 



BROWN, DAVID S., died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 July 6th, aged 77 years. He was the head of 

 the house of David S. Brown & Co., and was 

 the founder of some of the most important in- 

 dustrial enterprises in Philadelphia. 



BUDD, Dr. C. A., died in New York City, 

 May 17th. He held two important professor- 

 ships in the University of the City of New 

 York. 



BUGBEE, S. C., a prominent architect in San 

 Francisco, Cal., died there September 1st. He 



was born in New Brunswick, in 1812. He prac- 

 tised his profession several years in Boston, 

 Mass., and in 1854 removed to San Francisco. 



BFBLEIGH, JOHN H., died December 6th. He 

 was born in South Berwick, Me., in 1822, served 

 several years in the State Legislature, and was 

 twice elected to Congress. 



CALDWELL, CHARLES H. B., died at Wal- 

 tham, Mass., November 30th. He was born in 

 Massachusetts, in 1838 was appointed to the 

 navy from Connecticut, in 1844 was promoted 

 to passed-midshipman, and in 1852 was com- 

 missioned lieutenant. From 1855 to 1857 he 

 was lighthouse inspector, afterward served on 

 board the Vandalia in the Pacific Squadron, 

 and in 1858 he defeated a tribe of cannibals at 

 Irega, one of the Feejee Islands, and burned 

 their town. During the late civil war he 

 served on the steamer Keystone State in 1861, 

 and on the West Gulf blockading squadron in 

 1862, besides taking part in the bombardment 

 of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and Chalmette 

 batteries, and the capture of New Orleans. 

 He was made commander in 1862, captain in 

 1867, chief of staff of the North Atlantic 

 Fleet in 1870, and was commissioned commo- 

 dore in 1874. He served in all parts of the 

 world, and was in service 38 years. 



CAMPBELL, THOMAS COOPER, the only son of 

 Allan Campbell, died at Alexandria Bay, 

 Thousand Islands, August 16th. He was born 

 in New York City in 1846, and graduated at 

 Columbia College in 1865, and from the Co- 

 lumbia Law School in 1868. He was a consis- 

 tent Democrat, and in 1871 worked energeti- 

 cally to overthrow the Tweed Ring. In 1874 

 he became connected with Tammany Hall, was 

 a member of the General Committee, and in 

 the fall of that year was elected to the Legis- 

 lature, where he worked vigorously for all re- 

 form measures. He introduced the bill for the 

 organization of the Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Children, and advocated that in 

 relation to the fund for the Catholic Protect- 

 ory. He supported Governor Tilden in his ef- 

 forts to break np the Canal Ring, was one of 

 the first to advocate him for President, work- 

 ing zealously to further his interests at the St. 

 Louis Convention, and organized the Tilden 

 and Hendricks Central Association, at the 

 Hoffman House, New York. 



CARLISLE, JAMES MANDEVILLE, died at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., aged about 65 years. He was 

 a leading member of the old Bar of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, also of the Supreme Court 

 of the United States, and was counsel for sev- 

 eral foreign governments. 



CARPENDEB, Commodore EDWARD W., died 

 at Shrewsbury, N. J., May 16th, aged 81 years. 

 He was born in the State of New York, and 

 entered the United States Navy July 10, 1813, 

 when about seventeen years of age. Ten 

 years later he received his commission as 

 lieutenant, and was attached to the Mediter- 

 ranean Squadmn in 1827. He was an officer 

 of the sloop Falmouth, of the West India 



