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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



been a merchant and bank officer, and was for 

 some time Secretary of the Boston Board of 

 Trade. He was three times elected to the Maine 

 Legislature from Eastport ; was an agent of the 

 United States Treasury Department in Massa- 

 chusetts, and was a member of Congress from 

 that State in 1852-'53. He published a " Life 

 of Commodore Preble " (1847) ; "Biographical 

 Sketches of the Loyalists of the American 

 Revolution" (1847; enlarged edition, 2 vols. 

 8vo, 1864) ; a " Report on American Fisher- 

 ies " (1853) ; " Notes on Duels and Duelling " 

 (1855); and an "Address on the One Hun- 

 dredth Anniversary of the Death of General 

 Wolfe " (1859). 



SOHMITZ, GUSTAVUS, died in New York City, 

 April 6th. He was born in Westphalia, Ger- 

 many, in 1833 ; came to this country at the age 

 of 15 years, and began his musical studies with 

 Wallenhaupt. He was the organist of St. Pat- 

 rick's Cathedral in New York ; was a member 

 of the Philharmonic and Liederkranz Societies, 

 the Catholic Union, and musical director of the 

 Xavier Union, and of the Sodality connected 

 with the Church of St. Francis Xavier. For 

 16 years he was Professor of Music at the Con- 

 vent of Mt. St. Vincent. His compositions in- 

 cluded eight masses, one of which was dedi- 

 cated to Cardinal McCloskey. 



SEARS, GEOEGE B., was born at Danbury, 

 Conn., and died in Newark, N. J., November 

 17th. He was Superintendent of Public Schools 

 in that city lor 19 years. 



SEYMOUR, EDWARD, died at Bloomfield, N. 

 J., April 28th, aged 43 years. He graduated 

 at Yale College in 1860, was employed for a 

 number of years on the New York Times, and 

 in 1868 he entered the employ of the pub- 

 lishing firm of Scribner, Armstrong & Co., of 

 which he became a member two years later. 

 He edited and condensed the memoirs of Canon 

 Kingsley, and frequently contributed critical 

 articles to Scyibner's Monthly. 



SHANNON, WILSON, died at Lawrence, Kan- 

 sas, August 31st. He was born in Belmont 

 County, Ohio, in 1802. He became a lawyer; 

 was elected Governor of Ohio in 1837, and 

 again in 1842 ; went as minister to Mexico in 

 1844, and was a member of Congress in 1853- 

 '55. In 1855 President Pierce appointed him 

 Governor of Kansas Territory, which office he 

 held from September of that year till August, 

 1856. 



SHEPHERD, Dr. THOMAS PERKINS, died May 

 5th, aged 60 years. He was born in Salem, 

 Mass. ; graduated at Brown University in 1836, 

 and afterward at the Harvard Medical School. 

 He pursued his studies in Europe, and on his 

 return settled in Providence, R. I., where he 

 passed the remainder of his life. In 1848 he 

 was elected a member of the Common Council 

 of that city ; in 1850 was chosen its president, 

 and in 1853 was elected to the State Senate. 

 He was the president and one of the founders 

 of the Rhode Island Hospital, a member of the 

 corporation of Brown University, also on the 



committee for constructing its laboratory, and 

 was on the commission for the erection of a 

 new court-house. He also engaged in the 

 manufacture of chemicals with eminent success. 



SMITH, CYRUS PORTER, was born at Han- 

 over, N. H., April 5, 1800, and died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., February 13th. In 1824 he 

 graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1827 

 was admitted to the bar, and in the same year 

 became a resident of Brooklyn. From 1833 

 to 1835 he was clerk of the village board of 

 trustees, and from 1835 to 1839 corporation 

 counsel of the city. He was chosen mayor by 

 the aldermen, in 1839, and reflected by the 

 people in 1840, holding the office until 1842. 

 In 1836 and 1837 he was Supervisor, and in 

 1848 the organization of Brooklyn's first gas 

 company was largely due to his efforts. For 

 20 years he was President of the Board of 

 Education; in 1856 and 1857 he represented 

 the city in the State Senate, and since 1855 he 

 was Managing Director of the Union Ferry 

 Company. In 1869 he was appointed the Act- 

 ing President of the Brooklyn City Railroad 

 Company. During his first term as mayor he 

 established a city hospital, which under his 

 fostering care became the present Brooklyn 

 City Hospital. 



SMITH, JOSEPH, rear-admiral, died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., January 17, 1877. He was born 

 in Roxbury, Mass., March 30, 1790 ; appointed 

 a midshipman from his native State January 

 16, 1809; commissioned as a lieutenant July 

 24, 1813; and served with distinguished gal- 

 lantry at the battle of Lake Champlain, Sep- 

 tember 11, 1814, and at the capture of Algerine 

 vessels in 1815. In 1827 he was promoted to 

 the rank of commander, had control of the 

 Boston Navy Yard until 1830, when he was or- 

 dered to the command of the frigate Guerri^re, 

 then attached to the Mediterranean Squadron. 

 In 1834 he was again in command of the Bos- 

 ton Navy Yard, when he was commissioned 

 as captain in 1837, and placed in charge of 

 the Ohio, then with the Mediterranean Squad- 

 ron. He was appointed Chief of the Bureau of 

 Yards and Docks in 1847, and retained that 

 position until 1869, when failing health com- 

 pelled him to resign. On July 16, 1862, he was 

 promoted to the rank of rear-admiral, and was 

 on special duty for some time at the Navy De- 

 partment, Washington, until relieved by act of 

 Congress upon his retirement, when he stood 

 at the head of rear-admirals, until his death. 

 During the late war his son was commander of 

 the Congress, and was killed at the engage- 

 ment which ended in the Monitor defeating 

 the Merrimac. 



SMITH, Prof. NATHAN R., M. D., died in 

 Baltimore, Md., July 3d. He was born at Con- 

 cord, N. H., May 21, 1797, graduated at Yale 

 College in 1817, studied medicine under his 

 father at Yale College, and graduated in 1823. 

 In 1824 he began the practice of surgery at 

 Burlington, Vt., in the following year was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Surgery and Anatomy in 



