OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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1813,.graduated at Hamilton College in 1881, 

 and in the following year removed to Indiana. 

 After teaching school tor some time, he began 

 the practice of law at Logansport in 1836. He 

 became a member of the Legislature in 1851, 

 and was reelected in 1853. In 1860 he was a 

 delegate to the Republican National Conven- 

 tion. In 1868 he was elected to succeed Schuy- 

 ler Coif ax as a Representative in Congress, but 

 before taking his seat he was in January, 1869, 

 chosen United States Senator. After the ex- 

 piration of his Senatorial term in 1875, he was 

 appointed, by President Grant, Commissioner 

 of Internal Revenue, which office he resigned 

 in July, 1876. 



PREDEGEAM, AUGUST, musical director and 

 conductor of the Gates Opera Troupe, died in 

 Wheeling, W. Va., December 4th. 



PRESTON, SEEPHANIAH, father of the Rev. T. 

 S. Preston, Chancellor of the Roman Catholic 

 Archdiocese of New York, died at Hartford, 

 Conn., May 19th. He was one of the founders 

 of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, and at the time of his death was its 

 vice-president. 



QUINCY, EDMUND, died in Dedham, Mass., 

 May 17th. He was born in Boston, Mass., 

 February 1, 1808, and graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1827. He was the grandson of 

 Josiah Quincy, the Revolutionary patriot, and 

 the son of the late Josiah Quincy, the Presi- 

 dent of Harvard University. He was one of 

 the early Massachusetts abolitionists, was a 

 constant contributor to the New York Anti- 

 slavery Standard, having at one time some 

 editorial supervision of its columns, and ho 

 was also for several years a Boston corre- 

 spondent to the New York Tribune over the 

 signature of " Byles." In 1853 he published 

 in Putnam's Magazine his novel of " Wensley, 

 a Story without a Moral," and in 1867 appeared 

 his Memoir of his father, Josiah Quincy, a se- 

 lection of whose speeches in Congress ho also 

 edited. His last public effort was a lecture 

 delivered at Dedham, Mass., in aid of the Old 

 South Preservation Fund, entitled "Glimpses 

 of Colonial Life." 



RAWSON, GEORGE W., died at Lyons, N. Y., 

 December 13th. He was born at Farmington, 

 Ontario County, N. Y., was admitted to tho 

 bar at Rochester, N. Y., in 1851. He was 

 elected Surrogate of Monroe County in 1859, 

 and Special County Judge in 1864, and was 

 twice reelected. In 1876 he was elected Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court for the Seventh 

 Judicial District. 



REDFIELD, HEMAN J., died at Batavia, N. Y., 

 July, aged 88 years. He was the agent of tho 

 Holland Land Company, and a pioneer settler 

 at Batavia. He was a member of the " Albany 

 regency," and one of the "immortal seven- 

 teen" State Senators. He was at one time 

 Collector of the Port of New York, and for 50 

 years was proprietor of tho Batavia Time*. 



REED, Rev. JOSEPH, died at Hartford, Conn. 

 He was born in Waterbury, Conn., ordained 



as Catholic priest at Troy, N. Y., May, 1869, 

 and after supplying a mission at Birmingham, 

 Conn., and serving as curate at the cathedral 

 in Providence, R. I., was appointed by the 

 late Bishop MacFarlund secretary and chan- 

 cellor of the Catholic diocese of Hartford. 



RICE, Rev. N. L., died in Kentucky in June, 

 aged 71 years. He was born in Garrard Coun- 

 ty, Ky., and was ordained a Presbyterian min- 

 ister, and after laboring in Kentucky he ac- 

 cepted a call, in 1844, from the Central Pres- 

 byterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. He af- 

 terward accepted a call from St. Louis and 

 Chicago, and finally succeeded Dr. Alexander 

 in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New 

 York. After resigning, he accepted a profes- 

 sorship in an educational institution at Fulton, 

 Mo., and was afterward Professor of Theology 

 in Danville Seminary. He published several 

 books, among which was u Romanism not 

 Christianity." 



ROGERS, Dr. DAVID L., died in New York 

 City, November 10th, aged 78 years. He gradu- 

 ated from the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, and he attained marked success in diffi- 

 cult surgical operations. He was the first in 

 America to remove the upper jaw, and the first 

 to remove an ovarian tumor. During the late 

 war he organized a volunteer corps of surgeons 

 from New York State, and served in the bat- 

 tles of Virginia, and afterward on the staff of 

 General Banks. 



Ross, SOBIESKI, died at Coudersport, Pa., 

 October 24th. He was born there in 1828. 

 In 1872 he was elected as a Republican to Con- 

 gress, and was reflected in 1874. 



RUGGLES, Prof. WILLIAM, LL. D., died at 

 Schooley's Mountain, N. J., in September. Ho 

 was born at Rochester, Mass., about 1800, and 

 graduated at Brown University. For over BO 

 years he was Professor of Mathematics at Co- 

 lumbia College, Washington, D. C. 



RYAN, GEORGE P., perished on board the 

 U. S. sloop man-of-war Huron, of which ho 

 was commander, and which was wrecked off 

 the coast of North Carolina, November 24th. 

 He was born in Boston, Mass., May 8, 1842, 

 was appointed midshipman September 80, 

 1857, and graduated as ensign at tho Naval 

 Academy at Newport, R. I., in 1860. Ho was 

 engaged on the blockade and active duty 

 throughout the war, received his commission 

 as lieutenant in 1862, and was promoted to the 

 rank of lieutenant-commander in ISCfl. From 

 1867 to 1869 he was Professor of Chemistry 

 and Physics at the Naval Academy nt Anna- 

 polis, was then ordered on special service on 

 the frigate Sabine, and was promoted to tlio 

 rank of commander in 1874. On June 7, 1874, 

 he accompanied tho American Commission to 

 take observations of the transit of Venus, 

 when he commanded the division at Kerguelen 

 Island. 



SABINR, LORENZO, an American author, WM 

 born in Lisbon, N. H., February 2, 1803, and 

 died in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1877. lie had 



