OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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DRESSER, HORACE, died January 27th. He 

 graduated at Union College in 1828. He be- 

 came a lawyer, was noted for his defense of 

 fugitive slaves, and wrote much on constitu- 

 tional questions. 



DRIGGS, JOHN F., died at East Saginaw, 

 Mich., December 17th. He was born at Kin- 

 derhook, N. Y., in 1813, removed to East Sag- 

 inaw in 1856, and after serving two years in 

 the State Legislature was elected to Congress 

 in 1862. He was twice reflected. 



DUNHAM, Dr. CARROLL, died at Irvington- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y., February 18th. He was 

 President of the American Institute of Homoe- 

 opathy, and for many years was Dean of the 

 New York Homoeopathic Medical College. The 

 high standing of that institution was largely 

 due to his efforts. His great labors in connec- 

 tion with the "World's Homoeopathic Conven- 

 tion held in Philadelphia, Pa., were the means 

 of hastening his death. 



EASTMAN, Colonel MACARTHUR EASTMAN, was 

 born in Gilmantown, N. H., June 8, 1810, and 

 died at Manchester, N. H., September 3d. His 

 grandfather, Ebenezer Eastman, served with 

 distinction as lieutenant at the battle of Bunker 

 Hill, and his wife, Mary Butler, was the heroine 

 of one of the most romantic stories of the Revo- 

 lution. While engaged in the manufacture of 

 woolen goods at Roxbury, Mass., he acquired 

 an interest in a patent spinning- jenny, which 

 he introduced into England, and in 1856, after 

 the breaking out of the Crimean War, he se- 

 cured the patent of a breech-loading cannon 

 and sold it to the British Government. With 

 the proceeds of these ventures he purchased 

 the estate known as Riverside, in Manchester, 

 N. H., which is the most elegant country-seat 

 in the State. At the breaking out of the late 

 civil war he contracted for the manufacture of 

 a large number of carbines, and subsequently 

 furnished firearms to the United States and for- 

 eign governments. In 1869 he planned the 

 direct (ocean) cable, an enterprise which re- 

 quired a capital of $6,500,000 in gold, and 

 which was met, from the first, by a powerful 

 corporate opposition. He secured the needed 

 legislation after nearly five years of effort, and 

 the cable was laid, the American end being 

 landed at Rye Beach in July, 1874, amid much 

 national rejoicing. 



EATON, AMOS B., the father of Prof. Eaton, 

 of Yale College, died at New Haven, February 

 21st. He was born in New York, and gradu- 

 ated at West Point Military Academy in 1826. 

 He took part in the Seminole War, was ap- 

 pointed chief commissioner of subsistence of 

 General Taylor's army at the breaking out of 

 the Mexican War, and was brevetted major af- 

 ter the battle of Buena Vista. He was depot 

 commissary and purchasing commissary in 

 New York from 1861 to 1864, when he was 

 appointed commissary-general of the Subsist- 

 ence Bureau in Washington. Having been pro- 

 moted to the ranks of lieutenant-colonel, colo- 

 nel, and brigadier-general, he was appointed 



brevet major-general in 1865, and was placed 

 on the retired list in 1874. 



ELLIOT, JAMES HABERSHAM, D. D., died at 

 Charleston, S. C., June 18th, aged 67 years. 

 He was born in Beaufort in 1819, and was a 

 graduate of the South Carolina College. For 

 a few years he practised law in Charleston, but, 

 after studying for the Episcopal ministry, he 

 was ordained at Beaufort and became Rector 

 of the Episcopal Church at Grahamville, S. 

 C., where he remained several years. He 

 was elected assistant minister of St. Michael's 

 Church, Charleston, where he remained until 

 the close of the war, when he became rector of 

 a church at Greensboro, Ga. While filling the 

 pulpit of the Episcopal Church at Brookline, 

 Mass., he had charge for four years of the 

 Christian Witness, a religious paper published 

 by the Episcopal Church, in Boston, Mass. In 

 1871 he was called to the pastorate of St. 

 Paul's Church in Charleston, S. C., where he 

 remained until his death. In 1871 he received 

 a large vote for bishop of the diocese. He was 

 elected a delegate from this diocese to the last 

 general convention, and a delegate-elect to the 

 general convention which met in Boston. 



EVE, PAUL F., a distinguished physician and 

 surgeon, died at Nashville, Tenn., November 

 3d, aged 71. He was born in Augusta, Ga., 

 and received his medical degree from the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1828. He held pro- 

 fessorships at different times in the Medical 

 College of Georgia, Louisville University, Mis- 

 souri Medical College, University of Nashville, 

 and was a surgeon in the Confederate army. 

 He had successfully performed many difficult 

 operations in lithotomy. 



FISH, Rev. HENRY C., died at Newark, N. 

 J., October 2d. He was born in Halifax, Vt., 

 January 27, 1820, and graduated from the 

 Union Theological Seminary in New York City, 

 and from the Theological Seminary, June 25, 

 1845, and the next day was ordnined pastor of 

 the Baptist Church at Sornerville, N. J. In 

 December, 1850, ho was installed as pastor of 

 the First Baptist Church in Newark, N. J. 

 The degree of D. D. was conferred on him in 

 1858, by the University of Rochester, N. Y. 

 Among his numerous works was " Bible Lands 

 Illustrated," the fruits of an eight months' 

 journey abroad. 



FORHYTH, Colonel JOHN, editor of the Mobile 

 Pegieter, was born in Georgia, and died at 

 Mobile, Ala., May 2d, aged about 66 years. 

 He was the son of John Forsyth, Secretary of 

 State under Jackson and Van Buren. He was 

 appointed Minister to Mexico by President 

 Buchanan, in 1856. In 1861 he. in comjmny 

 with Martin J. Crawford, appeared in W ash- 

 ington as Commissioner to the Government of 

 the United States from the Confederate States 

 of America. 



Fox, GEOROK L., pantomimist, died at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., October 24th, aged 52 years. He 

 was first conspicuous many years ago at the 

 old Chatham Street Theatre, New York, where 



