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filled until the year 1850, and during his long term of office, he discharged his duties in such a manner as to gain for himself, with the members of all the judicial tribunals of the county, as well as the citizens thereof, the reputation of an honest, impartial, faithful, and efficient officer. In 1852 he removed to Pettis Co., Mo., and though he had lived there but a short time when he died, he had secured to himself a large circle of devoted friends, who most sincerely join his family in lamenting his death. In the year 1830, Mr. Barrett joined the Baptist church in Booneville, Ky., and was one of its most prominent and exemplary members, until his removal to Missouri, where he joined the Georgetown Baptist church, of which he was an elder when he died.

BARRITT, Ezra L., North-East, Dutchess Co., N. Y., æ. 83. BARRITT, Mrs. A. D., Gainsville, Ala., , æ., daughter of Col. Benjamin Temple, a distinguished revolutionary officer.

BARRITT, Joseph, Lapton's Mills, Hampshire Co., Va., Feb. 10, æ. 83.

BARRINGER, Jacob P., Troy, N. Y., March 30, æ. 70.

ants, settled immediately previous to the revolutionary war. His father removed from the place of his nativity while he was yet in early childhood, and settled in Chenango Co., N. Y. At the age of sixteen- to use his own words he "was left without health, without money, and without patronage." By dint of stern resolve, self-reliance, and persevering effort, he succeeded in acquiring a good business education, and then turned his attention to the profession of law as the vocation of his life. He pursued his professional studies under the instruction of the late Hon. Victory Birdseye, then a prominent member of the bar of Onondaga Co. In the autumn of 1814, having finished his preparatory legal studies, he came to Trumansburgh, and commenced that lifelong professional career which has been rewarded with wealth and distinction. His mind was distinguished by a marked individuality. He was himself, and instinctively rejected all overtures to take to himself, either by imitation or assimilation, the idiosyncrasies of others. This feature in the structure of his mind was the secret of his success, where most would have yielded to the force of opposing obstacles. Thoughts and opinions, elaborated in such a mind as his, impressed with so strong an individuality, would be boldly expressed and adhered to with the pertinacious fidelity of a martyr. Such was the distinguishing feature of his mind, underlying his success, the secret of his wide-spread influence, and that strong original force which made him a leader of public sentiment, rather than an obsequious retailer of the opinions of others. Opinions formed by such a mind are not easily relinquished. Hence he was eminently conservative in his character. In those days when he pursued his profession, the legal talent in his county was distinguished by unusual ability. Johnson, Woodcock, Bruyn, Humphrey, and others, constiIn Trumansburgh, Tompkins Co., N. tuted an array of talent far above meY., Feb. 22, 1857, Hon. HENRY D. diocrity. It was among such men that BARTO, aged 67 years, 6 months, and 12 he moved. In point of exact legal days. He was born in Rupert, Ben- knowledge, sound judgment, and pracnington Co., Vt., Aug. 10, 1789, where tical good sense, he was their acknowla branch of the family of Gen. Barteau, edged equal. He gained the entire a Huguenot, who fled from his native confidence of his professional brethren, land on the revocation of the edict of and by their suggestion and recommenNantes, granting toleration to Protest-dation, was elevated to the first place

BARRON, Joseph, Logansport, Ind., March 25, æ. 44, the oldest resident settler of the vicinity at the time of his death, he having removed from Fort Wayne with his father's family to a spot on the "Barron Reserve," in the fall of 1827. He was known for a mildness of disposition and honesty of purpose which endeared him to all who

knew him.

BARROWS, Reuel, M. D., Fryeburg, Me., July 18, æ. 66, was a native of Hebron, and a resident of Fryeburg for

nearly 40 years. He had long been known throughout the state as a skilful and successful practitioner, and as an active and useful citizen.'

HON. HENRY DISBRO BARTO.

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on the bench of the county courts, a position which he honored by ability and integrity. He took high views of his profession. He regarded the law as a minister of justice, to protect men in their rights, not to vex and oppress the innocent. Nor did he regard his profession simply as the means of a livelihood. Where his counsel and services as a lawyer were sought, his first effort was to restore peace between the contending parties, and he often volunteered his services to go to the opposing party and effect if possible a reconciliation. In this way friendship was often restored and litigations were prevented, while he received nothing but the reward of the peacemaker. Though he was frequently elevated by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens to places of honor and trust, yet he was never anxious for that kind of preferment. Judge Barto was emphatically one of the people; he a sprung from their bosom, and with them he ever remained in the stronger sympathies of his nature. Though for many years possessed of large wealth, yet in all the appointments of his home and its surroundings, he retained a most rigid republican simplicity. In this respect his example has been greatly useful in his neighborhood. The humblest of his neighbors were as kindly and courteously received by him as those upon whom fortune had conferred wealth and honors. In papers of advice to his children, written at various times through his life, are found sentiments which illustrate this noble feature of his character. "The experiences of my life," says he, "have taught me not to despise poverty. Nothing will serve you in life, nothing will serve you in death, nothing will serve you in eternity, but virtue; pursue her then, for the wise man says, 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." In a paper of later date, he says, "it is the opinion of the writer of this that the virtuous poor man is by far more happy than the man with any thing beyond a competency, and especially with overgrown wealth." Six

years since he made a profession of religion, going back over a period of twenty years as the beginning of those experiences which were his support in life and in death. At a meeting of the members of the bar, held at the office

of Caleb B. Drake, Esq., in Ithaca, Feb. 25, 1857, Caleb B. Drake was called to the chair, and S. P. Wisner appointed secretary. The following resolutions were adopted:

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Resolved, That we have heard with regret of the death of Henry D. Barto, of Trumansburgh, the 22d instant. As a citizen, he was patriotic, watchful of the people's rights, and ready to resist what he deemed wrong. As a man, eminently honest, frank, and virtuous, and, while his health and strength lasted, industrious and devoted to his business. Possessed of strong feelings, and decided in his opinions, he was yet extremely social in his character. One of the pioneers of our country, by his labor, frugality, and prudence, he had secured a competence for his old age, and never were the means thus acquired employed to the injury of any one.

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lawyer, he was prudent, cautious, and always desirous of avoiding litigations, but firm in the maintenance of principle, at whatever expense; yielding implicit obedience to valid laws, but uncompromising in his hostility to those laws he believed unconstitutional, when the people's rights were affected. As a judge, kind, courteous, and indulgent, only anxious to hold the scales of justice true.

"Resolved, That in his character as a citizen, a man, a lawyer, and a judge, there is much worthy our admiration, remembrance, and imitation.

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Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the family of the deceased, and that as an expression of our feelings a copy of these resolutions, signed by the chairman and secretary, be presented to them in our behalf.

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Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the papers of this county.

"C. B. DRAKE, Chairman. "S. P. Wisner, Sec'y."

BARTON, Rev. Morris, Romulus, N.
Y., , æ. 58, formerly pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Romulusville.
BARTON, Jacob, Newtown, L. I., N.
Y., July 14, æ. 76.
BARTON, John,
.- of Her-
kimer, N. Y.

BARTLETT, Mrs. Lydia, Northampton, Ms., May 10, æ. 93. She was the daughter of Cornelius Higgins and Sa

rah Hawes, of Haddam, Ct., who were the parents of nine children, all of whom were professors of religion. She retained her faculties in her old age, and was a woman of eminent faith and piety. BARTLETT, Charles, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 24, æ. -, principal of the Collegiate School.

BASFORD, Jona., Belfast, Me., June 2, æ. 82, formerly of Chester, N. H. BASKERVILLE, Mrs. Mildred, Burt Creek, near Lynchburg, Va., June 12, æ. 95. She was the widow of John Baskerville, a revolutionary soldier, and the sister of the late Micajah Pendleton, so long identified with the temperance reform. She was a Christian by profession about sixty years.

BASS, Maj. George, Westford, Ms., of Boston, Sept. 6, æ. 78.

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BASYE, Hon. Thomas, Granada, Niæ., Judge of the First Instance Oriental Department of Nicaragua, of cholera. He was a native of Northumberland Co., Va., and represented that county three years in the Virginia legislature. He emigrated to Nicaragua in June.

BATCHELDER, Dr. Josiah, Falmouth, Me., March 5, æ. 82, formerly of Beverly, Ms.

BATCHELDER, Mrs. Sarah, Falmouth, Oct. 19, æ. —, widow of the late Josiah Batchelder.

BATES, Caleb, Boston, Ms., æ. -, left, we learn, to the Third Congregational church in Hingham, of which he was a member, the handsome bequest of $2000. Numerous worthy individuals were also made recipients of his bounty, he leaving to various persons small legacies.

BATES, Mrs., Townsend, Washington Ter., Oct. 8, æ. —, wife of Lieut. Francis H. Bates, U. S. A., and daughter of Peter Swain, Esq., of New York.

BATES, Moses D., Marion Co., Mo., Aug. 18, æ. 65. Mr. Bates was born in Louisa Co., Va., from thence he removed to Louisville, Ky., when that was yet a forest, and the savages were yet roaming the "dark and bloody ground." From thence he soon after removed to St. Louis, and was appointed sheriff of St. Louis Co. by the late Gen. Clarke. There he took an active part in business and politics, and by his prompt business habits and qualifications soon laid the foundation to amass a large for

tune, of which he availed himself, and was the richest man in Marion Co. A year or two after he went to St. Louis he commenced the business of transporting goods in keel boats up the Mississippi River, which he followed for several years. It was Mr. Bates and the late Mr. Rector, the then surveyor general of Mississippi, that laid off the present town site of the city of Hannibal, and he was the man that built the first log cabin ever built in Hannibal. Although Mr. Bates had never attached himself to any church, yet for several years previous to his death he often spoke of a hereafter, and it was his daily practice to admonish those around to prepare themselves to meet him in a brighter and better world, and especially did he admonish his children to make themselves worthy and useful members of society.

BATES, Maj. J. C., Montgomery, Ala., editor of the "Journal." Maj. Bates was born in Vermont, and educated at Middlebury College, of which his father (now deceased) was the president for many years. Maj. Bates came south about 1839, and soon took charge of the whig paper at Wetumpka. year or two he removed to Montgomery, where he married the only daughter of the late Gen. Taliaferro. His connection with the Journal was continuous for fifteen to seventeen years. We suppose his age to have been about forty-five.

After a

BATES, Phineas P., Ontario, N. Y., æ. 75. He was a native of Granville, Ms., but came to this town at the age of nine years, and has lived ever since on the place then purchased by his father. Coming thus early, his individual history has been intimately associated with that of the town and county, of which he was one of the oldest and most respected residents. It was his lot to witness the settlement and mark the growth of the "Genesee country," and to share largely with its hardy pioneers the privations, toils, and hardships, by which an unbroken wilderness was transformed to cultivated fields, and the haunts of savage beasts to the abode of industrious, orderly, and thriving communities. Taking the impress and imbibing the spirit of surrounding scenes and influences, his own character was moulded to a kindred type of ener

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BAYLEY, Mrs. Livonia S., Portland, Me., Jan. 5, æ. 50, wife of C. T. Bayley, Esq., (Supt. of the Sailors' Home,) and daughter of the late Rev. Moses Sawyer, formerly of Henniker, N. H.

BAYLEY, Capt. Christopher, ∞.-. Capt. B. was the master of the Seamen's Home, a gentleman highly respected and very useful.

BEACH, Maj., Catskill, N. Y., æ. 72. He ran the last line of stages from Albany to New York.

BEACH, Roswell, Washington township, Belmont Co., O., May 1, æ. 102. He was a soldier of the revolution, and engaged in several battles.

BEAL, Mrs. Elsa, Lowell, Ms., Nov. 14, æ. 79, widow of Mr. Benj. Beal, of Hingham.

BEARCE, Jacob, Hanson, Ms., June 24, æ. 83 yrs. 3 ms. He had voted for governor for 63 years in succession, and voted for Thomas Jefferson for president.

BEARD, Major, N. Orleans, Aug. 20,

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A celebrated auctioneer. BEARDSLEE, Eli, Marshall, Michigan, Sept. 10, æ. 89. Mr. B. was a native of Conn. In early life he removed to Saratoga Co., N. Y., where he served the people in the capacity of sheriff. He subsequently resided in Rochester, Clarendon, and has just closed a long and useful life in this village. His funeral was numerously attended at the Christian Church, under masonic orders. He had often served the public in a fiduciary capacity, and for honesty and integrity his name stands without reproach.

BEARDSLEY, Hon. John, Auburn, N. Y., May 10, æ. 74.

BEARDSLEY, Hon. Levi, New York, March, .. He once filled a large space in the politics of the state, but latterly has been off the public stage. The N. Y. Express states that Mr. B.

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was born at Hoosic, in this county, and from thence, in 1789, the family emigrated west, - that is, to the then west,-in Otsego Co., N. Y., Cherry Valley. He was admitted to the bar in 1812, and soon took part in politics as an active democratic republican. The well-known Jabez Hammond was his law partner, the author of the Life of Silas Wright. In 1825, he was elected member of the State Assembly, and in that year, for the first time, in opposition even to Gen. Erastus Root, it was resolved to dispense with the "Dark Lantern" democratic caucuses, and to hold them with open doors. In 1830, Mr. B. was elected to the Senate for four years, and in 1834 he was reelected, and in the last term of his eight years' service there, he was elected president of the Senate. He took a very active part in the politics of the day, and made his mark.

In 1832 the two houses of the legis-. lature united by concurrent resolution with the city authorities, to hold a centennial celebration of Washington's birthday, Mr. B. being chairman of the committee of arrangements, which coasisted of members of both houses.

While in the legislature, his votes were uniformly in favor of a liberal system of canal and public improvements, and, during his eight years' senatorship, he was for several sessions chairman of the judiciary committee, and sometimes on the canal committee, and committee of ways and means. Mr. B., in 1852, published "Incidents and Anecdotes" in his life, which is full of agreeable reminiscences of the prominent men in his state. To a N. York politician his book is invaluable. The older politicians of the state, in parting from him now, will recur with mingled pleasure and pain to their old associations with Mr. B., both at the bar and in the forum, but only with pain that they now part from him to meet no more.

BECKER, Mrs. Eliza P., Troy, N. Y., Oct. 18, æ. 45, wife of L. L. Becker, and daughter of the late Nathaniel Hopburn, of N. Y.

BECKWITH, Mr. John, Lyme, Conn., Jan. 23, æ. 76.

BEDELL, Benjamin, Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y., Jan. 18, æ. 81. He had been a resident of the county for the last 30 years of his life. His moral in

tegrity was such as to secure the confi- refer to a trying time during the war of dence of all his acquaintances. His 1812. After Hull's surrender, it was end was peaceful, the result of a long-reported that the British and Indians cherished confidence in a precious Saviour.

BEDIENT, D. N., Millport, N. Y., Jan. 22, æ. -. Mr. B. was well known throughout the county, and universally respected. He was for the two years previous to last year, superintendent of the Chemung Canal, which office he filled with great credit to himself, and with satisfaction to the state. BEEBE, Major David, Ridgeville, O., æ. 76. Major Beebe was one of the pioneers of Ridgeville. In April, 1810, he, in company with his father and brother Lowman, Lyman Root, Oliver and Philander Terrell, and Ira B. and Sylvester Morgan, left Waterbury, Conn., to seek homes in the then far distant west. They fixed upon Ridgeville, then an unbroken wilderness, for their future place of residence, and it is believed that Major B. cut the first tree in the township. Some time during the summer he was sent back to Conn. after the families, and on the 11th of Sept., he with his father's family, and his own, in company with Ichabod Terrell and his family, left the "land of steady habits," with ox teams bearing their families and such of their household goods as they could conveniently bring with them, and arrived in Ridgeville Oct. 27. The road was then cut from Cleveland as far as Rocky River, but west of the river the forest was unbroken. They were three nights and four days in travelling from Rocky River to Ridgeville, having to cut out the road as they proceeded. They found that Tillotson Terrell had arrived with his family some three months before them, having come from Columbia, where there was a small settlement. Mrs. Tillotson Terrell still survives, and is believed to be the first white woman in Ridgeville. Of this first company of settlers, Harry Terrell, Esq., and Ichabod Terrell, who were children at that time, still reside in Ridgeville, Oliver, their brother, and Ira B. Morgan, Esq., then young men, are living in Eaton. It would be exceedingly interesting to give a history of the early struggles of these pioneers. We are informed that a history of the township is in the course of preparation. We have only time to

had landed at the mouth of Black River, for the purpose of cutting off the settlements. The few settlers in Ridgeville buried part of their goods, and loaded the remainder, with their wives and little ones, on an ox wagon, to which they attached six yoke of oxen, and cut a road through Eaton Swamp to Columbia, where they got authority from some military officer at Cleveland, organized a company of militia, built a blockhouse, and put it in as good a state of defence as possible. Major B. was orderly sergeant in this company, and was ordered, with a file of six men, to the mouth of Black River, to reconnoitre. Carefully following the river somewhere in the neighborhood of the Stave Landing, they heard the sound of human voices coming up from the river. The major ordered his men to get on their hands and knees, and with cocked muskets to approach the river bank and look down. Reaching the river, he found but one man, Oliver Terrell, with him. The rest had fled, and the major has always declared that he could scarcely resist the temptation to fire at his retreating soldiers.

BEECKMAN, Mrs. Margaret G., June 2, æ. -, at the residence of her brotherin-law, Ex-President Tyler, Charles City Co., Va.

BEESON, Sally Ann, Niles, Mich., May 2, æ. 30, wife of Dr. W. B. Beeson. BELCHER, Hon. Hiram, Farmington, x.-. Formerly a mem

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ber of Congress from Me.

BELKNAP, Mrs. Ruth, Framingham, Ms., March 1, æ. 83, widow of the late Dea. Enoch Belknap.

BELL, Mrs. Elizabeth, Washington, Feb 10, æ. -, wife of Samuel P. Bell.

HON. JAMES BELL.

We can do no greater service to the character and memory of Mr. Bell than arrange the sentiments and opinions of his compeers and neighbors expressed at their meetings of respect and condolence after his death. The various events of his life, the marked features of his character as a citizen, a lawyer, a politician, a gentleman and a friend, are so fully and eloquently exhibited in

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