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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



married Dr. Henry S. Le Vert, of Mobile. She 

 was an extensive traveler, and numbered among 

 her friends many eminent men, among whom 

 were Lamartine and Washington Irving. She 

 published " Souvenirs of Travel " and other 

 works. 



LINDSAY, THOMAS N., was born in Campbell 

 County, Ky., December 22, 1807 ; died in New- 

 port, Ky., November 22d. He began the prac- 

 tice of law in that city, where he resided 43 

 years, and attained a front rank at the bar. He 

 was President of the Branch Bank of Kentucky 

 and the Farmers' Bank ; member of the State 

 Senate in 1853-'55, and was a representative 

 from Franklin County in 1857 -'59. He also did 

 service in the Constitutional Convention which 

 framed the present Constitution of Kentucky. 



LOED, Rev. JOHN 0., died at Buffalo, N. Y., 

 January 21st. He was born in Washington, 

 N. H., August 9, 1805, and was a graduate of 

 Hamilton College. He went to Buffalo in 1825, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He dis- 

 continued the practice of the law, and in 1833 

 graduated from the Auburn Theological Sem- 

 inary, and became pastor of the Presbyterian 

 Church in Geneseo, N. Y. In 1835 the Pearl 

 Street Presbyterian Congregation was organ- 

 ized in Buffalo, and he accepted the call to fill 

 the pastorate ; the relations thus formed con- 

 tinued for 38 years. 



LOPEZ, Captain P. M., died in New Orleans, 

 April 10th. He was born in Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela. In 1851 he accompanied his unfortunate 

 uncle, General Narciso Lopez, as captain of a 

 company in the military expedition organized 

 by the former against the Spanish Government 

 in Cuba. General Lopez was executed at Ha- 

 vana, and Captain Lopez was sentenced to hard 

 labor for life, but was released from imprison- 

 ment through the intercession of the wife of 

 the then minister of Madrid. 



LYONS, Rev. J. J., died in New York City, 

 August 12th. He was for forty years rabbi 

 of the oldest Hebrew congregation in Amer- 

 ica, that of Shearith -Israel in New York. 



MAOY, R. H., died at Paris, March 29th, 

 aged 60 years. He was born in New England 

 and served for a number of years in the navy, 

 but finally engaged in the dry -goods business 

 in Boston, Mass. In 1857 he opened a small 

 dry-goods store on Sixth Avenue and Four- 

 teenth Street, on the site of the present im- 

 mense establishment. He began with four 

 assistants, and at his death nearly four hundred 

 persons were in his employment. 



MABVIN, ENOCH M., D. D., LL. D., Bishop of 

 the M. E. Church South, died in St. Louis, 

 December 3d. He was born in Warren County, 

 Mo., in 1823, and at the age of 19 he entered 

 the itinerant ministry in the Missouri Confer- 

 ence. During the war he was settled in Tex- 

 as, but remained a member of the Missouri 

 Conference till 1866, when he was elected to 

 the episcopal office by the General Conference 

 which met in New Orleans. In 1876 he was 

 chosen by the College of Bishops to go to 



China and Japan to examine the missionaries 

 there and ordain a number of native preachers. 

 He returned in August, 1877. 



MATSELL, GEORGE W., died in New York 

 City, July 25th. He was born in England in 

 1806, and came to this country in 1812. In 

 1845 he was appointed Chief of Police hold- 

 ing the position until 1857. With the support 

 of Mayor Havemeyer he raised the standard 

 of discipline and soon had a regularly uni- 

 formed force. In 1873 he was again made 

 Superintendent of Police, and was afterward 

 appointed President of the Board of Police 

 Commissioners, from which position he was 

 removed. He was also editor of the Police 

 Gazette. 



MoCAETHY, Rev. PATRICK, was born in New 

 York City, and died there August 9th. In 

 1850 he was ordained priest at St. Patrick's 

 Cathedral. His first mission was at Perth 

 Amboy, where he remained for two years. He 

 was then called to St. Peter's Church in New 

 York, and finally he took charge of the parish 

 of the Holy Cross, where he remained for 22 

 years. 



McCooK, GEORGE W., died December 28th. 

 He was born at Carrollton, Ohio, in 1822, 

 studied law, and became reporter of the Su- 

 preme Court of Ohio in 1852, and afterward 

 Attorney-General of the State. On the break- 

 ing out of the war he entered the Union ser- 

 vice, was appointed State commissioner by 

 Governor Denison, and afterward became colo- 

 nel of volunteers. In 1871 he was an un- 

 successful candidate for Governor of Ohio, 

 General Noyes being elected. 



MCELROY, Rev. Father JOHN, died in Fred- 

 erick, Md., September 12th. He was born in 

 Inniskillin, Ireland, in 1782, came to America 

 in 1803, and was ordained priest at George- 

 town, D. C., in 1817. He built the Church 

 and College of the Immaculate Conception in 

 Boston, where he was stationed for some years, 

 and also built the elegant church at Frederick. 

 He was one of the two chaplains who accom- 

 panied the American army in Mexico, and at 

 the time of his death he was the oldest Catho- 

 lic divine in the United States. 



McGRAW, , died May 4th, aged 62 years. 



He was extensively engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness in Wisconsin and Iowa, and was the head 

 of the well-known Michigan lumbering firm of 

 McGraw & Co., whose saw-mill at Saginaw 

 is one of the largest establishments of the kind 

 in the world. He was one of the original 

 trustees of the Cornell University, and erect- 

 ed at his own expense, at a cost of $150,000, 

 the McGraw Building, for the accommodation 

 of the extensive library and museum of the 

 university. 



McViCKAB, Rev. Dr. WILLIAM A., was born 

 April 24th, 1827, and died in New York City, 

 September 24th. His grandfather, Dr. Sam- 

 uel Boree, was one of the founders of the City, 

 Hospital, and his father was the Rev. Dr. John 

 McVickar, a prominent Episcopal clergyman, 



