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OBITUAKIES, AMERICAN. 



Jane 2d, aged 39 year's. At the age of 19 he 

 graduated at Yale College, and was for 10 

 years editor of the Insurance Chronicle. He 

 represented the Hartford Life and Accident 

 Insurance Company, and was a general agent 

 of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. 

 He was a member of the New York Press Club, 

 the Liberal Club, the Astor Lodge of Masons, 

 and the Knights of Pythias. He delivered an 

 address at Atlanta, Ga., before the Under- 

 writers' Convention of the South. 



HONE, Mrs. ELIZA, died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 April 29th, aged 81 years. She was the widow 

 of Mr. Isaac S. Hone, and daughter of Chan- 

 cellor Kent. 



HOPKINS, JAMES C., died at Madison, Wis., 

 September 4th. He was born at Pawlett, Vt., 

 in 1819, began the practice of law at Gran- 

 ville, N. Y., and was elected to the State Sen- 

 ate in 1853. He removed to Madison in 1856, 

 and in 1870 was appointed Judge of the United 

 States District Court. 



HORN, EPH., minstrel, was born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1818, and died in New York City, 

 January 3d. He went to that city in 1854, 

 and made his first appearance as "end man" 

 at Burton's Olympic Theatre, and afterward 

 became manager of various combinations. In 

 1871 he went to England, playing in London 

 and Liverpool, and after his return to America 

 was associated with Dan Bryant's, Kelly & 

 Leon's, and Horn & Bray's minstrels. 



HOSMEB, WILLIAM H. C., was born at Avon, 

 N. Y., in 1814, and died there May 23d. He 

 was educated at Temple Hill Academy and at 

 Geneva College, and received the degree of 

 A. M. both from Hamilton College and the 

 University of Vermont. He practised law at 

 Avon until 1854, when he was appointed to a 

 position in the Custom House in New York 

 City. In 1836 he traveled in Wisconsin, and 

 in 1838 in Florida, for the purpose of discover- 

 ing the manners and customs of the American 

 Indians. His principal works are " The Fall 

 of Tecumseh: a Drama" (1830), " The Themes 

 of Song" (1834), "The Pioneers of Western 

 New York" (1838), "The Prospects of the 

 Age " (1841), " Yonondio, or the Warriors of 

 the Genesee" (1846), "The Months" (1847), 

 ' Bird Notes," " Legends of the Senecas," and 

 " Indian Traditions and Songs " (1850), and his 

 complete " Poetical Works," collected in one 

 volume in 1853. 



HUGEB, General BENJAMIN, died in Charles- 

 ton, S. C., in December. He was born in that 

 city in 1805. He graduated at West Point in 

 1825, during the Mexican War was chief of ord- 

 nance to General Scott's army, and, with Gen- 

 erals McClellan and Mordecai, was a commis- 

 sioner to report to the Government on military 

 operations in the Crimean War. Soon after 

 the civil war was begun, he entered the Con- 

 federate service, was appointed a brigadier- 

 general, and assigned to a command in Vir- 

 ginia, where he soon became major-general, 

 and took part in the Peninsular battles. He 



also participated in the early battles around 

 Richmond. At the close of the war he was on 

 duty in the trans-Mississippi department. 



HrLL, WILLIAM HOPE, a prominent lawyer 

 of Augusta, Ga., died in New York in Sep- 

 tember, aged 57. He was appointed Assistant 

 Attorney-General of theUnited States by Presi- 

 dent Buchanan. 



INGLIS, Rev. DAVID, D. D., LL. D., died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., December 15th. He was 

 born in Scotland in 1842, graduated from the 

 Edinburgh University, and before he had at- 

 tained his majority came to this country, and 

 was installed pastor of the Washington Heights 

 (New York) Church. He became pastor of a 

 church in Montreal in 1857, and after holding 

 a pastorate for 17 years at Hamilton, Canada, 

 he was appointed Professor of Theology in the 

 Theological Seminary of Toronto. He was set- 

 tled over the Henry Street Church, Brooklyn, 

 in 1872. 



IRVING, J. BEAUFRAIN, painter, died in New 

 York City, April 20th, aged nearly 50 years. 

 Losing his fortune during the late civil war, 

 he turned to painting as a profession, art hav- 

 ing been the pastime of his youth. His work 

 soon attracted the attention of several art- 

 patrons, and " The End of the Game " secured 

 the beginning of his reputation. 



JACKSON, ISAAC W., LL. D., was born at 

 Cornwall, N. Y., in 1805, and died at Sche- 

 nectady, N. Y., July 28th. He graduated at 

 Union College in 1826, and remained in that 

 institution from that date as tutor and profes- 

 sor. He was the author of works on conic 

 sections, optics, mechanics, and trigonometry, 

 which were highly esteemed by scientists, and 

 some of them were adopted in foreign univer- 

 sities. He was the means of developing the 

 art of landscape gardening and horticulture; 

 and, through his famous garden, he contributed 

 largely to the introduction, perfecting, and dis- 

 tribution of the choicest fruits and flowers. He 

 was an earnest and devoted educator of the 

 youths under his charge. 



JACQUES, Dr. D. H., died near Fernandina, 

 Fla., August 28th. He was the author of sev- 

 eral works on agriculture, and the late editor 

 of The Rural Carolinian. 



JANNEY, ASA M., was born in Virginia, and 

 died in June, aged 74 years. Like his brother, 

 Samuel M. Janney, the philanthropist, he was 

 prominent in the Society of Friends, and was 

 engaged in work with the Indians for many 

 years. 



JEWETT, Colonel EZEKIEL, died at Santa Bar- 

 bara, Cal., May 18th. He was an eminent scien- 

 tist, and for many years curator of the State 

 Museum at Albany, N. Y. 



JONES, Dr. JOSEPH S., died in Boston, Mass., 

 December 30th, aged 68 years. Early in life be 

 became an actor, and was at different times 

 proprietor and manager of the old National, 

 Tremont, and other theatres in Boston. In 

 1843 he graduated from the Harvard Medical 

 School, and held the office of city physician for 



