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the University of Vermont, and in 1827 was 

 called to the chair of surgery in the School of 

 Medicine in the University of Maryland. He 

 resigned in 1838, and accepted the chair of 

 the practice of medicine in the Transylvania Uni- 

 versity, Lexington, Ky., but in 1840 he again 

 resumed his chair in the Maryland University, 

 resigning for the second time in 1870. He in- 

 vented the instrument for the easy and safe 

 performance of the operation of lithotomy, 

 and also Smith's anterior splint for treatment 

 of fractures of the thigh. He published 

 " Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries," and a 

 treatise on the " Treatment of Fractures." He 

 also published, under the name of "Viator," 

 a small volume entitled " Legends of the 

 South." 



SPENCE, THOMAS A., died in Washington, 

 D. C., November 10th. He was Assistant 

 Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, 

 and had previously been Assistant Attorney- 

 General for the Post-Office Department. He 

 graduated at Yale College, in 1829, and was a 

 representative in Congress from Maryland, in 

 1843-'45. 



SPRING, Rev. SAMUEL, D. D., died at East 

 Hartford, Conn., December 13th, aged 85 

 years. He was the oldest Congregational 

 clergyman in the State. 



STEINWAY, ALBERT, died in New York City, 

 May 14th. He was born in Germany, in 1840, 

 came with his family to this country in 1850, 

 and was the youngest of the three brothers 

 comprising the prominent piano firm of Stein- 

 way & Sons. Early in the war he served with 

 the Seventh Regiment, afterward becoming a 

 captain in the Fifth, and colonel of the Sixth 

 Regiment, New York. He was also brigadier- 

 general on Governor Hoffman's staff. 



STEINWEHR, ADOLPH AUGUST, Baron von, 

 died in Buffalo, N. Y., February 25th. He 

 was born at Blankenburg, in the duchy of 

 Brunswick, September 22, 1822, and entered 

 the army in 1841, as a lieutenant. Six years 

 later he resigned, came to the United States to 

 offer his services to the Government in the war 

 with Mexico, but failing to receive a commis- 

 sion in the regular army, he returned to his 

 native country. In 1854 he again came to the 

 United States, and at the outbreak of the late 

 war he organized the Twenty-ninth Regiment 

 of New York Volunteers, and commanded it at 

 the battle of Bull Run. He was commissioned 

 a brigadier-general in 1861, served under 

 General Fremont in the Mountain Department, 

 and he became head of the Second Division 

 when General Sigel assumed command of the 

 corps. He also commanded a division at the 

 battle of Chancellorsville, and served until the 

 close of the war. After the war he prepared 

 a system of school geographies, which had a 

 large sale. 



STOCKTON, JOHN D., died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., October 8d, aged 41 years. At an early 

 age he was employed on the Philadelphia Press, 

 and became its manager under Mr. Forney. 



He obtained a position on the New York Trib- 

 une in 1866, assumed the editorship of the 

 Philadelphia Post in 1867, of which he be- 

 came one of the proprietors, but, surrendering 

 his interest in 1872, he became the dramatic 

 and musical critic on the New York Herald in 

 1873, which position he held until his death. 

 He wrote a comedy entitled " Fox and Geese," 

 for John S. Clarke, the comedian, which ran 

 for 100 nights in New York City, and over 

 300 nights in London. 



TENNET, Prof. SANBORN, died at Buchanan, 

 Mich., July 9th. He was born at Stoddard, 

 N. H., in 1827, graduated at Amherst College 

 in 1853, and was Professor of Natural History 

 in Vassar College until 1868, when he was 

 appointed to the same position in Williams 

 College. He had just started on a scientific ex- 

 pedition to the Rocky Mountains when he died. 

 He was eminently successful as a teacher and 

 as a lecturer, and for several years took a 

 prominent part in the Massachusetts Teachers' 

 Institute, and gave two series of lectures before 

 the Lowell Institute, in Boston. He was a 

 frequent contributor to periodicals, and the au- 

 thor of several text-books, among which were 

 " Geology for Teachers, Classes, and Private 

 Students " (1859), and a " Manual of Zoology " 

 (1865). 



TREAT, Rev. SELAH B., died in Boston, Mass., 

 March 28th. He was born at Hartford, Conn., 

 February 19, 1804; graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1824; practised law until 1833, and 

 graduated at the Andover Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1835. He became pastor of the Pres- 

 byterian Church, Newark, N. J., in 1836, re- 

 signed in 1840, when he was made editor of 

 the Biblical Repository and American Eclectic. 

 In 1843 he was Secretary of the American 

 Board, and was transferred to the correspond- 

 ing-secretaryship in 1847, continuing that work 

 until his death. 



TURNER, Rev. Dr. JOHN, died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., July 21st. He was born there, and 

 graduated at St. Mary's Academy, Emmets- 

 burg, Md. In 1856 he was ordained a Catholic 

 priest in Brooklyn by Bishop Laughlin, and for 

 the past fifteen years had been vicar-general 

 of the diocese. 



TUTHILL, JOSEPH H., died at Ellenville, N. 

 Y., July 27th. He was born in 1811. He had 

 been clerk of Ulster County, N. Y., and held 

 many important positions of trust. He was 

 active in raising troops during the war, and 

 was elected to Congress in 1870. 



VANDERBILT, JOHN, was born at Flatbuah, N. 

 Y., in 1819, and died there May 16th. Ho 

 graduated at Columbia College, was admitted 

 to the bar in 1842, and in 1844 he was appoint- 

 ed first Judge of the Court of Common Pleau 

 of Kings County. In 1852 he was elected to the 

 State Senate, and in 1853 he WBB nominated 

 for Lieutenant-Governor on the Democratic 

 State ticket, but was defeated. He projected 

 the old Coney Island plank-road, and was & 

 member of the Senatorial Commission which 



