consin in 1857, was elected lieutenant-governor of the Noyes, Edward Follensbee, lawyer, born in Haverhill, O'Connor, James, clergyman, born in Queenstown, Ireland, Sept. 10, 1823; died in Omaha, Neb., May 27, 1890. He was a younger brother of Michael O'Connor, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburg, and came to the United States in 1838. He was educated in the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia and in the Urban College in Rome, Italy, and was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, in 1845. On his return to the United States he was engaged in missionary labor in the Pittsburg diocese for seven years, was appointed superior of St. Michael's Theological and Preparatory Seminary at Glenwood, near Pittsburg, in 1857, and, resigning this office, was appointed Director of the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in 1863. holding the latter office he was also Professor of PhiWhile losophy, Moral Theology, and Ecclesiastical History. In 1863 he became pastor of St. Dominic's Church in Holmesburg, Pa.; in 1876 was elected vicar apostolic of Nebraska and was consecrated titular Bishop of Dibona on Aug. 20. In 1885, when Nebraska was made the diocese of Omaha, he became its bishop. He founded Creighton College, Omaha, in 1879, and attended the Plenary Council in Baltimore in 1884. O'Reilly, John Boyle, journalist, born in Dowth Castle, County Meath, Ireland, June 28, 1844; died in Hull, Mass., Aug. 10, 1890. He was a son of William David O'Reilly, a noted mathematician and scholar, who was master of the Nettleville Institute, at Douth Castle, for thirty-five years. educated by his father, he learned the printer's trade After being carefully in the office of the Drogheda "Argus," and followed it for several years in various English cities. beginning of the revolutionary movement in 1863, he At the returned to Ireland, and enlisted in the 10th Hussars for the purpose of spreading disaffection among the soldiers. On June 27, 1866, he was arrested, tried for high treason, found guilty on five charges, and was sentenced to be shot, but the sentence was commuted to twenty years' penal servitude. He spent a year in the prisons in Chatham, Portsmouth, Portland, and VOL. XXX.-42 A 657 penal colony in Western Australia, in November, Dartmoor; was sent with 340 other convicts to the 1867, and reached his destination Jan. 10, 1868. He succeed till Feb. 18, 1869, and nine months afterimmediately began planning an escape, but did not ward landed in Philadelphia, penniless and friendless. From Philadelphia he came to New York city, where he began writing for the press and lecturing. In and in 1874 became part owner and editor-in-chief of 1870 he secured employment on the Boston "Pilot," death. He founded the Papyrus Club of Boston, and that paper, with which he was connected until his became president of it. He was the poet at the dedication of the Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Aug. 1, 1889. His publications include: "Songs of South(1878); "Moondyne" (1881); "In Bohemia" (1886); "The Country with ern Seas" (1873); "Songs, Legends, and Ballads" (1879): "Statues in the Block" à Roof"; and "The Evolution of Straight Weapons." public-school education, spent one year as a bank Osgood, Charles, painter, born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 25, 1809; died there, Dec. 26, 1890. He received a clerk, and began studying painting when seventeen years old. In 1827 he removed to Boston, soon afterward to New York city, and within a few years reder of his life. He attained high rank as a portrait turned to his native city, where he passed the remainpainter, and many of his works are in the libraries of bridge, and the Peabody Institute, Essex Institute, the historical societies in Boston, Worcester, and Camand the City Hall in Salem. Scotland, Jan. 6, 1810; died in New Harmony, Ind., Owen, Richard, scientist, born near New Lanark, Scotch philanthropist, and a brother of Robert Dale March 24, 1890. He was a son of Robert Owen, the Owen, the scholar and statesman, and David Dale chemistry and geology, and, on coming to the United Owen, the geologist. He received a scientific education in his native country, making a special study of began teaching. States, in 1828, settled in New Harmony, Ind., and business in Cincinnati, then returned to New HarShortly afterward he engaged in mony and conducted a stock farm till the beginning of the Mexican War. He served during the war as a captain in the 16th United States Infantry, and after geological survey of Minnesota, himself exploring its close was associated with his brother David in the the north shore of Lake Superior in 1849. The same year he was appointed Professor of Natural Sciences held the office till 1858, when the institute had become in the Western Military Institute of Kentucky, and the University of Nashville. On leaving the university he made a geological survey of Indiana as assistant State geologist. Volunteers, and he afterward raised the 60th Regiwar he became lieutenant-colonel of the 15th Indiana At the beginning of the civil ment and was commissioned its colonel. He was brief imprisonment served with Gen. Sherman and made a prisoner of war at Mumfordsville, and after a with Gen. Banks in the Red River expedition. In 1864 he resigned, from failing health, and the same year was appointed Professor of Natural Sciences in the University of Indiana, where he remained till meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, and published 1879. He afterward made important researches in valuable papers on those and allied subjects. He was the degree of M. D. from Nashville Medical College a member of many scientific organizations; received in 1858, and that of LL. D. from Wabash College in mistake for mineral water. 1871. He died from drinking embalming fluid by Paine, William H., civil engineer, born in Chester, 31, 1890. N. H., May 27, 1828; died in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. He received an academical education, northern Wisconsin, introduced new methods of enstudied civil engineering, became a land surveyor in gineering in the mining regions of California during the gold excitement, and in 1849 surveyed a wagon road across the Rocky mountains. In 1853 he surveyed a route for a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains from Sacramento to Utah, and he was after ward engaged in surveying in Wisconsin till the beginning of the civil war. He accepted an appointment of captain of engineers on the staff of Gen. McDowell, was afterward promoted colonel, and served till the close of the war on the general staff of the Army of the Potomac, performing valuable duty in making topographical surveys and maps. After the war he resumed his profession. In 1869 he was chosen one of the engineers of the East River Bridge; assisted John A. Roebling in the preliminary surveys, superintended the construction, placing, and sinking of the caissons; had charge of the building of the tower on the New York city side and the laying of the superstructure, and designed the system of cable traction that moves the cars across the bridge. After the prostration of Washington A. Roebling, Col. Paine had the active supervision of the entire work. On the completion of his work on the bridge he built cable roads in New York city, Denver, Omaha, and Kansas City, drew the plans for the proposed cable road in Third Avenue, New York, was consulting engineer on the great Port Huron Tunnel, and at the time of his death had just completed the cable road in Cleveland. He was deeply versed in botany, chemistry, and geology, had a passion for mathematics, and was familiar with choice literature. Pallen, Montrose Anderson, surgeon, born in Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 2, 1836; died in New York city, Oct. 1, 1890. He was graduated at the St. Louis University in 1853, and at its medical school in 1856, spent two years in study in London, Paris, and Berlín, and practiced in St. Louis till 1874. He was a medical director in the Confederate army in 1861-'63, medical commissioner to Canada to report on the condition of the Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Isl and in 1863, commissioner to Paris to obtain medical and surgical supplies for the Confederate army in 1864, and was a prisoner of war in New York city at the time of Gen. Lee's surrender. After the war he returned to St. Louis, and was Professor of Gynæcology in Humboldt's Medical College in 1866-'67 Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics in St. Louis Medical College in 1867-'68; Professor of Gynecology in St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1869-'70; and Professor of Anatomy in Missouri Medical College in 1870-'72. In 1874 he was appointed Professor of Gynecology in the University of the City of New York, and he held the office till his death. He was one of the founders of the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, Surgeon to the Charity Hospital, and, as an intimate friend of Sir Morell Mackenzie, was one of the consulting surgeons in the case of the late Emperor Frederick III of Germany. Palmer, Peter S., lawyer, born in Hampton, Washington County, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1814; died in Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1890. He removed to Plattsburg at an early age, was elected clerk of the village and admitted to the bar in 1836, spent several years in Macomb County, Mich., where he became judge of the Court of Probate, and, returning to Plattsburg, was president of the village for several years and county judge and surrogate of Clinton County from 1863 till 1868. He had been engaged since in private practice, and applied his leisure to historical research and writing. Among his valuable contributions to historical literature was a "History of Lake Champlain from 1609 to 1814.” Parker, Amasa Junius, lawyer, born in Sharon, Conn., June 2, 1807; died in Albany, N. Y., May 13, 1890. He passed the full-course examination in Union College in 1825, became principal of an academy in Hudson, N. Y., studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1828. In 1833 he was elected to the State Assembly as a Democrat, and in 1835 was elected a regent of the State University, being the youngest person ever chosen to that office. He was a member of Congress from 1837 till 1839, district attorney of Delaware County from 1840 till 1844, circuit judge and Vice-Chancellor of the 3d Judicial Circuit from 1844 till 1847, and a judge of the New York Supreme Court from 1847 till 1855, when he was defeated for re-election. He was defeated as Democratic candidate for Governor of the State in 1856 and 1858, and declined the office of United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1859. In 1864 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention, and in 1867 to the State Constitutional Convention. He was an active " peace "Democrat during the civil war. He was a founder of the Albany Law School, and one of its professors for twenty years; a trustee of Cornell University and Union College; custodian of the Harmanus Bleecker legacy, which formed the nucleus of the Public Hall fund of the Young Men's Association of Albany; and President of the Board of Trustees of Albany Medical College. He received the degree of LL. D. from Hobart College. Judge Parker was among the foremost advocates of the abolition of the Court of Chancery, and of various reforms in judicial procedure. Among the important cases in which he was engaged were those involving the right to tax national banks, and the title to the Trinity Church property in New York city, the Levy will case, the controversy between the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Pennsylvania Coal Companies, and the boundary-line question between the States of New York and New Jersey. He published six volumes of law reports (Albany, 1855-69). Paynter, John Henry, lawyer, born in New York city, in 1838; died in Laurel, Del., June 21, 1890. He was graduated at Newark Academy and at Union College in 1858, was admitted to the bar in Sussex County, Del., in 1861, and was appointed soon afterward Deputy Attorney-General of the State. In 1866 he was elected a member of the State Senate as a Democrat; in 1869 was appointed Attorney-General, but soon resigned on account of inelegibility because as a State Senator he had voted to increase the salary of that officer; in 1871 was appointed Secretary of State and held the office four years. In 1885 he was again appointed Attorney-General; and in March, 1887, he resigned to accept the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, which he held until his death. He was also editor of the "Delaware Democrat" of Georgetown from 1881 till 1887. Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, born in New York city, Nov. 13, 1834; died there, Sept. 17, 1890. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city, removed to Cleveland, Ohio, on the death of his father, in 1847, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He practiced his profession and wrote political articles for the Cleveland "Plaindealer" till 1866. During his residence in Cleveland he became Grand Saar or Master of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and was instrumental in securing the erection of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He returned to New York city in 1866 for a few months, and in 1867 removed to San Francisco to practice. In 1870 President Grant appointed him United States consul at Bucharest, Roumania. The civilized world had just been aroused to indignation by the reports of a massacre of Jews in Roumania, and of the subsequent persecution of that people there, and a wide interest was excited as to how a Jewish representative of the United States would be received in that country. Mr. Peixotto hastened to his post, was received with marks of unusual consideration, and during the five years he held the office was able to accomplish much toward ameliorating the condition of the Jews in the Balkan states. He returned to the United States in 1876, was offered in 1877 the office of United States consul- general at St. Petersburg, which he declined, and then accepted the office of United States Consul at Lyons, France, and held it till 1885, when he returned to New York city and resumed practice. Pepper, George Seckel, philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 11, 1808; died there, May 2,1890. He was graduated at Princton; was admitted to the bar in 1830, but never practiced, and spent his life in managing a vast estate left by his father. He was connected with the principal financial institutions of Philadelphia, and had been President of the American Academy of Music, President of the Rittenhouse Club, President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and a director of the Investment Company and of the United Security and Trust Company. fortune amounted to several million dollars. He His bequeathed a total of $854,000 to relatives and personal friends, and the remainder of his estate to local charitable and educational institutions. His public bequests were as follow: $150,000 to the trustees of a public library to be established in Philadelphia, east of Schuylkill river and south of Market Street; $60,000 to the University of Pennsylvania for the endowment of a professorship; $50,000 to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; $50,000 to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; $50,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital; $50,000 to the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church; $50,000 to Pennsylvania Hospital; $50,000 to the Hospital of Jefferson Medical University; $25,000 to the Charity Hospital; $25,000 to St. Joseph's Hospital; $25,000 to the Children's Hospital; $25,000 to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children; $25,000 to the Maternity Hospital; $25,000 to the Academy of Natural Sciences; $25,000 to the Franklin Institute; $25,000 to the Rittenhouse Club for a library; $20,000 to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts; $15,000 to the Zoological Society; $10,000 to the Hospital and Dispensary of St. Clement's Church; $10,000 to the country branch of the Children's Hospital; $10,000 to the Wills Hospital; $10,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association; $10,000 each to the Church Home, Foster Home, Old Men's Home, and Old Women's Home; $10,000 to the Philadelphia Orphans' Society; $10,000 each to the Philadelphia, Commercial, and Apprentices' Libraries; $10,000 to the Philadelphia Club for a library; $5,000 each to the Art Club, Union League (both for libraries), Northern Dispensary, Southern Dispensary, Philadelphia Dispensary, Howard Dispensary, Christmas Fund for Disabled Clergymen, Southern Home for Destitute Children, seven soup societies, the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and to Animals (including the women's branch of the latter), the Day Nursery for Children, the House of Refuge for White Children, Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society, Union Benevolent Society, Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Ladies' Dispensary, Merchants' Fund, and the School of Design; and $8,000 each to the Mary Coles Home for Young Women, Association for the Alleviation of the Miseries of the Public Prisons, Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor, the Temporary Home for Friendless Children, the House of Refuge for Colored Children, the Philadelphia Lying-in and Nurse Society, the Young Men's Home, and the Sailors' Home-a total to be distributed within a year of $1,034,000. The residue of his estate was bequeathed to trustees, to be divided pro rata among the above-named institutions, and to be held by them in trust as endow ment funds. Peters, Christian Henry Frederick, astronomer, born in Coldenbuttel, Schleswig (then a part of Denmark), Sept. 19, 1813; died July 18, 1890. at the University of Berlin, where, in 1836, he took He was educated the degree of Ph. D., and then studied in Copenhagen. In 1838 he accompanied Baron Sartorius von Walthershausen to Sicily, where, until 1843, he was engaged in surveying Mount Etna. The death of Walthershausen brought this work to a close, and Dr. Peters entered the topographical survey of the Sicilies. This work he relinquished to join the revolutionists under Garibaldi, by whom he was made major in the artillery for bravery on the field of battle. When the insurrection was quelled a price was put upon his head, but after numerous hardships he escaped to Turkey, where he devoted himself to astronomy. There he met George P. Marsh, the United States minister, who persuaded him to come to the United States. He settled in Cambridge, Mass., and through the influence of Dr. Benjamin A. Gould was appointed in 1853 to work on the United States 659 Coast Survey. Subsequently he was transferred to Albany, N. Y., where his irregularities and his atticontroversy led to his retirement in 1857 from the tude toward Dr. Gould in the Dudley Observatory survey. Through the influence of friends in Albany to Hamilton College, he was called in 1858 of the Litchfield Obas the first director servatory in Clinplace he held until his death, as well as ton, N. Y., which that of Professor of Astronomy, to which he had been called work was the obserin 1867. His great stars and placing vation of the zone them on charts. At the time of Herschel not over 20,000 stars this number was inwere registered, and Lalande, while Dr. Peters proved and registered more creased to 50,000 by than 112,000, including stars as minute as the 13th magnitude in his scheme. While examining stars to stars, and the finding of nearly 50 asteroids has been determine their place he frequently discovered new placed to his credit, which is a larger number than any other astronomer can claim. His last discovery asteroid No. 287, which is probably the nearest one to was on the night of Aug. 25, 1889, when he found the sun yet discovered. The largest number of these found by him in a single year (1879) was 8, and a computation of the aggregate surface of 40 of them indicates an area of 266,978 square miles, or about locality of the zodiacal stars upon charts, which prethat of the State of Texas. Dr. Peters fixed the sent an accurate picture of their parts of the sky, and in 1884 20 of these "Celestial Charts" were published by him at his own expense. A second his death was unpublished. For ten years he made series was completed in 1888, but up to the time of nearly 14,000 spots, but these results are still unpuba daily observation of solar spots, making a record of lished. This is regarded as his most valuable work, spices of the regents of the University of the Stat as stellar photography makes possible the star charts upon which he spent so much time. Under the auof New York, he determined the longitude of several He had charge of a party that observed the solar places in this State, including the western boundary. eclipse of Aug. 7, 1869, at Des Moines, Iowa, and was United States Government to observe the transit of chief of an expedition sent to New Zealand by the Venus on Dec. 9, 1874. At that time he secured 237 photographs of the planet and his work then gained tions. Dr. Peters has accomplished all that was to be this praise: "There is no need of other observadone." The results of his various researches are tronomische Nachrichten." He was a member of scifound in scientific journals, but chiefly in the "Asentific societies, both in this country and abroad, and in 1876 was elected to the National Academy of Sci ences. Academy of Sciences, in Paris during April, 1887, and He attended the International Congress of Astronomers held, under the auspices of the French at that time was made a chevalier of the Legion of ried, and was a man of extremely simple habits. Honor by the French Government. He never marAmong the students at college he was known as "Twinkle," but he was a strict disciplinarian and alspected. His assistant, Charles A. Borst, aided him ways insisted that the dignity of his office be remately claimed that work as his own, in which opinin the preparation of his "Star Catalogue," and ultiion he was sustained by Profs. Simon Newcomb and Asaph Hall, of the United States Naval Observatory. 660 The case was referred to the courts and shortly before Phelps, Austin, educator, born in West Brookfield, two Philleo, Prudence Crandall, abolitionist, born in Hopkinton, R. I., in 1803; died in Elk Falls, Kan., Jan. 28, 1890. She was educated in the Friends' School in Providence, and became a teacher. In 1831 she settled in Canterbury, Conn., and established a boarding school for girls. She was ably seconded in her efforts to provide a higher grade of instruction for girls and young women than was elsewhere taught, and for years her school prospered and was recognized as a model institution. In 1833 she created intense excitement by admitting a colored pupil. Immediately the parents of her white pupils protested, and then threatened to withdraw them if the colored girl was not dismissed. Miss Crandall firmly declined to heed either protests or threats. A consultation with several of the antislavery leaders strengthened her determination, and led her to undertake the education of colored chilIn March, 1833, a circular which dren exclusively. she had had widely distributed was published in It announced that on the first the "Liberator." Miss Monday in April she would open her school for the Phillips, Richard Henry, educator, born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1811; died in Norfolk, Va., April 7, 1890. He was graduated at Yale College, and was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. After he had preached a short time his health became too much impaired for an active pastorate, and he applied himself to educational work, first in Maryland, and afterward in Staunton, Va. He was principal of the Virginia Female Institution for thirty-two years, resigning only when stricken with paralysis. Since 1886 he had lived in Norfolk. Pierson, Henry R., banker, born in Charleston, Montgomery County, N. Y., June 13, 1819; died in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1890. He spent his early years on a farm, was graduated at Union College in 1846, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 1849 he removed to Brooklyn, and he was in active practice there till 1860, when he was elected president of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company. He also served as a member of the Board of Education and as President of the Board of Aldermen, and was elected a State Senator in 1866. In 1869 he went to Chicago as financial agent of the Northwestern Railroad Company, of which be afterward became vice-president. In 1871 he was chosen resident executive director of the New York Central Railroad Company at Albany, in 1875 he established a banking house in that city, and in 1879 was a member of the State Assembly and chairman of its committees on cities and on railroads. He was elected a trustee of Union College, of the Albany Medical College, and of Dudley Observatory in 1870, a regent of the University of the State of New York in 1872, vice-chancellor of the university in 1878, and its chancellor in 1881. Pollock, James, lawyer, born in Milton, Pa., Sept. 11, 1810; died in Lock Haven, Pa., April 19, 1890. He was graduated at Princeton in 1831, and was elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket, though a Whig in politics, in 1842, 1844, and 1846. While in Congress he was one of the first Representatives to urge legislation for the construction of a railroad to the Pacific coast. In 1850 he was appointed judge of the 8th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and in 1854 was elected Governor of the State, declining a renomination. In May, 1861, he was appointed Director of the United States Mint at Philadelphia, and he held the office till Oct. 1, 1866, when he resigned. Presi dent Grant reappointed him director of the mint in Powers, Horatio Nelson, clergyman, born in Armenia, 66 Prindle, Elizur H., lawyer, born in Newton, Conn., May 6, 1829; died in Norwich, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1890. He received an academic education, studied law, and settled in Chenango County, N. Y. He was district attorney of the county from 1860 till 1868, was a member of the State Assembly in 1863, and of the State Constitutional Convention in 1867-'68, and was elected to Congress from the 19th New York District as a Republican in 1870. He served as a member of the Committee on the Territories. Quackenbush, Stephen Platt, naval officer, born in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1823; died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1890. in the United States navy, Feb. 15, 1840; was proHe was appointed a midshipman moted passed midshipman, July 11, 1846; master, March 1, 1855; lieutenant, Sept. 14, 1855; lieutenantcommander, July 16, 1862; commander, July 25, 1866; 661 captain, July 25, 1871; commodore, March 18, 1880; rear-admiral, July 28, 1884; and was retired, Jan. 23, duty twenty-one years and six months; on shore or 1885. During his service in the navy he was on sea participated in the operations against Vera Cruz durother duty, nine years and eight months; and was unemployed eighteen years and seven months. He gress," the "Delaware," and the "Unadilla" in the ing the Mexican War; served on the frigate "Conarmy at Acquia Creek and at Roanoke Island; took early part of the civil war; covered Gen. Burnside's part in the battles at Elizabeth City and at Newbern, N. C.; fought the Confederate batteries and a regiment of flying infantry at Winton, N. C., and deshot on James river, at Malvern Hill. Subsequently stroyed the town. He lost his right leg by a cannonhe captured the "Princess Royal," loaded with maamining the obstructions in Charleston harbor lost his terials for a new Confederate ironclad, and while exship by the explosion of a submerged torpedo. Quimby, Elihu Thayer, educator, born in Danville, Vt., July 17, 1826; died in New York city, Feb. 26, 1890. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in my, New Ipswich, and served till 1864; was Professor 1851; was appointed principal of Appleton Acadeof Mathematics in Dartmouth College from 1864 till 1878; and was then engaged for many years in the Hampshire State Survey. His last important work United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the New mont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. was the resurvey of the boundary lines between Ver March 1, 1808; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 8, Radford, William, naval officer, born in Fincastle, Va., 1890. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States navy, March 1, 1825; was promoted passed midshipman, June 4, 1831; lieutenant, Feb. 9, 1837; commander, Sept. 14, 1855; captain, July 16, 1862; 1866; and was retired, March 1, 1870. During his commodore, July 24, 1863; rear-admiral, July 25, service in the navy he was on sea duty sixteen years and one month; on shore or other duty, twelve years and ten months; and was unemployed thirty-five he commanded the party that cut out the "Malokyears and eleven months. During the Mexican War time of the attack by the Confederate ram adel," a Mexican war vessel, at Mazatlan. At the mac" on the national squadron in Hampton Roads he "Merriwas in command of the sloop-of-war "Cumberland,' tempted to reach his ship while the fight was in progbut was on court-martial duty at Old Point. He atress, and arrived at Newport News just in time to see her sink. He commanded the frigate squadron in the two attacks on Fort Fisher, 1864 and sides" and the ironclad division of Admiral Porter's "New Iron1865; was commandant of the Washington Navy Yard in 1866-'68; and commanded the European squadron in 1869, after which he was on duty in Washington. land, Aug. 25, 1819; died in Hamilton, N. Y., Oct. Rambaut, Thomas, clergyman, born in Dublin, Ire15, 1890. He was of Huguenot parentage; received a preparatory education in the Portarlington Huguenot Dublin. He settled in Savannah, Ga., in 1840, and Academy; and studied four years in Trinity College, principal of Beach Island Academy, S. C., in 1843 he there began studying law. In 1842 he was appointed C., in 1848 he was called to the Baptist Church in became pastor of the Robertsville Baptist Church, S. Savannah, and in 1854 he labored with such zeal among the yellow-fever sufferers that the municipal authorities voted him a long and much needed vacation at the public expense. Resuming work in 1856, Cherokee Baptist College, Cassville, Ga., and was he was elected Professor of Ancient Languages in president of the college from 1857 till 1863, when the war closed it. He then became Professor of History stitute, and when, a year later, the war caused the and Roman Literature in Georgia State Military Ineral agent of the Baptist Home Missionary Society, closing of this institution also he was appointed genand as such preached in nearly every Southern State till 1867. In that year he was elected President of |