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and skill, the sagacious merchants, the eminent clergymen and philanthropists; those who have brought our country to the prosperity and distinction it now enjoys. We have very few biographies of our eminent dead; eulogies, sermons, and obituaries are seldom found in our libraries; they are soon lost, and the men and their deeds are liable to pass from remembrance. It is hoped and believed that these annual collections of obituaries of men who make so much of our current history will prove grateful, salutary, and valuable.

Some of the difficulties in collecting the notices for this volume have been removed; and my facilities for obtaining the material for the next are so much increased and perfected that the volume for 1858 may be expected earlier in the year, and to be more correct, select, and valuable.

I propose to devote some fifty pages in each volume (as an appendix) to notices of men who have died in former years, and have been so identified with important events that a present notice would be a valuable contribution to history or general knowledge, and a deserved and proper tribute to the individual. Persons wishing to furnish notices for the appendix may at any time address me upon the subject.

To the kindred and friends of those whose names appear in this volume I may be allowed to say that I have taken great interest and received much satisfaction in this service. The name, the life, the influence of every man makes a part of the history of the times; and I am sure this contribution to our annals will be of service to the future historian, and a present consolation to the surviving relatives.

I am greatly indebted to the many gentlemen who have contributed individual obituaries; but I am most especially obliged to Messrs. James C. and Frederick Ayer, distinguished chemists and druggists in this city, for the use of their newspaper exchanges, and for the uniform courtesy and assistance of those gentlemen and their clerks in my almost daily visits to their office since I commenced this work.

LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 1, 1858.

NATHAN CROSBY.

OBITUARY NOTICES FOR 1857.

A.

ABBEY

[1857.]

ABBEY, Capt. Peter, Cleveland, O., | July 21, æ. 88. He was a native of Ct., and, having resided in Jefferson Co., N. Y., for many years, removed to Cleveland in 1831. He will be long recollected by a large number of the old residents of the Western Reserve, who, on their way from old to new Ct., landing at Cleveland, generally rested at Abbey's Coffee House, the Weddell of the city 25 years ago, before taking their departure for their newly-chosen homes in the far West.

ABBOTT, Mr. Eben, Camden, N. Y., Nov. 17, æ. 69, formerly of Ct.

ABBOTT, Mrs. Elizabeth, South Berwick, Me., Feb. 13, æ. 75.

ABBOTT, Mrs. Hannah, Glover, Vt., Jan. 15, æ. 87.

ABBOTT, Mr. Isaac, Wilton, N. H., Jan. 11, æ. 37. He was a man of high respectability, and universally beloved.

ÁBBOTT, Mrs. Phebe, Farmington, Me., April 18, æ. 83. She was the widow of the late Benjamin Abbott, Esq., of Temple. Mrs. Abbott was for 45 years a resident of Temple, where she and her excellent husband were extensively known for their liberal and efficient aid in supporting the institutions of the gospel, and where they were eminently successful and greatly blessed in the training and education of a family of 12 children. She possessed a constitution of unusual strength and vigor, and an energy and perseverance which yielded to no obstacle without a sharp and decisive conflict. God gave her a long life of active usefulness, and crowned its close with his gracious pres

ence.

ABEL, Mrs. Mary E., Sweden, Monroe

ADAMS

Co., N. Y., Dec. 11, æ. 26, wife of Rev. A. W. Abel, of the Genesee Conference.

ADAIR, William A., Esq., Marshall, Harrison Co., Tex., Feb. 15, æ. 35, son of the late Judge Adair.

ADAMS, Miss Catharine, Boston, Jan. 19, æ. 20, daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D. D.

ADAMS, Mrs. Deborah, Litchfield, Ct., June 28, æ. 84, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Adams.

ADAMS, Dr. Henry, Cohoes, N. Y., July 4, æ. 71.

ÁDAMS, J. I. Ira, Esq., Lawrence, K. T., æ. 31. Mr. Adams was a graduate of Yale College, and for a time was Principal of the High School at Holyoke. While in Ks., he was the correspondent of the Boston Traveller, over the signature of "Lightfoot," and of the Republican, over the nom de plume of “Izak.” He was a man of active mind, genial temperament, and thorough intelligence.

ADAMS, Mrs. Melinda S., Bangor, Me., Mar. 26, æ. 54, wife of B. F. Adams.

ADAMS, Mrs. Sarah, Northampton, Ms., Jan. 29, æ. 67. She was daughter of the late Seth Wright; greatly endeared to her friends from her Christian character and kindness.

ADAMS, Mrs. Orra, Westhaven, Vt., June 16, æ. 72, wife of Horace Adams, Esq. Although she had lived beyond the measure of days attained by the great majority of mankind, her whole life has been one of practical piety and benevolence. Charity was not a profession with her it was her practice; and many who are now called to mourn her loss, have been made to rejoice as the recipients of her sympathy and liberality.

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ADAMS, Hon. Stephen, Memphis, Tenn., May 11, æ. He was a native of Pa., and was a Senator in that state. Removing to Miss., he took an active part in public affairs, was a member of the state legislature, and elected a judge of the Circuit Court, and from 1852 to 1857 was senator in Congress from Miss. His senatorial term having just expired, he had removed to Memphis with the intention of practising the law.

ADRAIN, Jane, Mt. Pleasant, Mohegan Lake, near Peekskill, Feb. 25, æ. 32, widow of the late Robert Adrain, LL. D.

AITKEN, James, M. D., Baltimore, Md., Jan. 22, son of the late Dr. Andrew Aitken.

ALABAUGH, Dr. James S., Illinois, Jan. 1, æ. 29.

ALBAUGH, Lewis, Philadelphia,

21, æ. 34. Died from the effects of a wound received in the battle of Cherubusco, Mexico.

ALBAUGH, Zachariah, Licking Co., O., Nov. 8, æ. 109. He was born in Maryland in 1748, where he resided until the commencement of the revolutionary war, when he entered the army as a private soldier, and remained in it until its close. ALBERTSON, Elijah, White Co., Tenn., May 23, æ. 105, a soldier of the revolution.

ALBRAY, Susannah, Willington, Ct., March 12, æ. 99.

ALDERMAN, Daniel, near Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 25, æ. 83. All the constituents of an honest, just, and worthy citizen, of a faithful husband, of a tender father, of a conscientious master, and, for many years a laborious, economical, and successful man, were concentrated in him. Death has removed from a large and very respectable circle of relations him who has long been its counsellor, its guardian, and its comforter, and especially so to his own deeply-afflicted family.

ALDERSON, Mrs. Mary, Lewisburg, Va., April 13, æ. 88, widow of the late Joseph Alderson, Esq. She was born in Rockingham, raised near Fincastle in Botetourt Co., and was married and removed to Greenbrier in 1789, only a few months after the last Indian depredations in the neighborhood in which she settled. As an historical fact, we may mention that in the year 1790, she was called to Lewisburg, at a criminal trial, where she heard Patrick Henry defend the accused, and such was the influence of his elo

quence, that although a plain case of murder, the criminal escaped with simply being burned in the hand. She also remembered the firing of cannon in Fincastle, on the reception of the news of the battle of Bunker's Hill.

ALDIS, Rev. Charles, New York city, April 1, æ. 38, son of Charles J. Aldis. ALDRICH, Adin, Sherburne, Chen. Co., N. Y., æ. 73. He was one of the early settlers in the town of Sherburne. At the age of 19, he emigrated here from Rhode Island, and for 53 years sustained the reputation of being a good citizen, an industrious man, and an exemplary Christian.

ALDRICH, Mrs. Mary A., Fall River, Mass., Dec. 18, æ. 41, wife of Dr. J. M. Aldrich. Unassuming in her manners, of frank and amiable disposition, she won the hearts of all around her, and none knew her but to love her.

ALEXANDER, Mrs. Catharine, Fort Washington, June 11, æ. —.

ALEXANDER, Dr. John, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 1, æ. 63.

ALEXANDER, Mr. Daniel, Rutherford Co., Tenn., Oct. 20, æ. 85, a native of Pa., but emigrated to Tenn. in 1800. He was the first settler in Alexandria, in De Kalb Co., which was named in honor of him. He removed to Rutherford Co. in the year 1824, and resided there till his death. He was honest and upright in all his dealings, industrious and energetic in the prosecution of his business, an affectionate husband, indulgent father, and kind master.

ALEXANDER, Hon. Ebenezer, Knoxville, Tenn., April 29, æ. —, one of the Circuit judges.

ALLEN, Dr. Abram M., Shelbyville, Ky., Jan. 7, æ. about 45. He was a gentleman of very high professional attainments, and much beloved by his numerous friends.

ALLEN, Mrs. Alvernon H., Bath, Morgan Co., Va., July 25, æ. —, wife of Dr. L. S. Allen.

ALLEN, Mrs. Betsey, Plymouth, Ms., Dec. 11, æ. 78, widow of the late Capt. Wm. Allen.

ALLEN, Col. Beverly S., Huntingdon, Tenn., Oct. 5, æ. —. A few days ago, he was in the enjoyment of his usual health, and actively engaged in the discharge of his professional duties; but he is gone from among us forever. His virtues alone survive him. He was a na

tive of N. C., but when he was very young, his parents emigrated to Carroll Co., Tenn., where he resided most of his life. Here he was reared and educated, and studied and practised his profession. It was in the midst of those who had known him longest and best that he breathed his last. His name stands intimately connected with the legislative, judicial, and political history of Tenn., attesting the confidence his fellowcitizens had in his capacity, integrity, and personal honor, and leaving a monument to his memory, of which his friends may well be proud. Tenn. Paper.

MRS. CAROLINE L. ALLEN, Medway Village, Ms., Aug. 11, principal of the Family School for Young Ladies, æ. 49. "The sudden death of this excellent lady has produced deep sensation in the community. The loss to families, to the youth, to the cause of education, and to the cause of Christ, is inexpressibly great. She was taken away in the midst of extended and extending usefulness. With a mind vigorous, active, energetic, and well stored, and with a large experience in teaching, added to a deep interest in the young, and a sympathy with the views and spirit of Mary Lyon, whose society and instruction she had enjoyed years ago, she commenced a course of teaching in Medway on the system of the family boarding school. This was the cherished object of her life. In order to engage in it, and with a desire to carry out her plans in a more direct, and thorough, and practical training of the young, she had left a desirable position in one of the largest female seminaries of New England. The enterprise was arduous and difficult, requiring strong faith, and much patience and perseverance; yet she seemed equal to the task. She at once secured the confidence of parents, won the hearts of the young, and drew around her an interesting group, who were led along with rapid progress in the paths of literature. Such was her success, that, with hardly a single printed notice, her school increased in less than four terms to a number nearly doubling her original design; and when, at the close of the fourth term, on her dying bed, applications came in from different directions to such an extent, that, had she lived, she would have been com

pelled to refuse many whose hearts were set upon coming to her school.

"No teacher seemed to be more happy in her profession, and none more devoted to the highest good of the pupils. While successful in their intellectual culture, she had special regard to their manners and morals, and all their relative and social duties. Her standard, in all respects, was high. For herself she aimed at high attainments, and sought to impress the same important lessons upon those under her charge.

"But her crowning excellence was in making the Bible the basis of all her teachings. She had imbibed its Heavenborn spirit. She loved its hallowed precepts, and sought to make them practical in the life of her beloved pupils. Every day they were invited to repeat portions of its sacred contents in such a manner as to interest and impress their tender minds. All this was accompanied with earnest desire and unceasing labor for their spiritual good. She looked upon her pupils as accountable, and with minds destined to exist forever; and it was the burden of her life that they all might share in the blessings of salvation. often was the intensity of her desires, that she would spend hours in the night pleading with her heavenly Father in their behalf. The result was, that during every term of her school, cases of hopeful conversion occurred, and during one of special interest, nearly one quarter of the entire number became hopefully the subjects of renewing grace.

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"This course was in perfect consistency with her whole Christian life. She felt her responsibilities, and labored as one in earnest for the salvation of souls. While a resident in the city, and at the head of a family, she was indefatigable in her efforts as a tract distributor and as a Sabbath school teacher. Her late husband was then a superintendent. With him she coöperated in unceasing labor and with most happy results. When left a widow, disconsolate and depressed, and with the care of two fatherless daughters, she did not cease her self-denying work for the good of others.

"On her return to her native town, Leominster, she took charge of a Bible class of young ladies. Öf the thirty comprising the class, twenty-two were without hope in Christ. Her instrumentality was blessed to the hopeful conver

sion of every one of that number. In the Seminary, at Burlington, Vt., where she resided for three years, she labored incessantly for the spiritual good of the young ladies. She was accustomed to make individuals the subjects of special effort and prayer. In almost every instance, she was permitted to see the anticipated result in their hopeful piety. Two or three such cases existed at a given time, when she united with those they brought in, to labor for others, until, in a single term, some twenty were brought to rejoice in the promised mercy of Christ.

"With this active, devoted, prayerful life, we should anticipate a peaceful death. Such indeed was hers. Although called suddenly, she was prepared to go. Her work was done. Truly did she set her house in order.' She gave directions respecting her funeral, entering into every particular, and expressing freely her desires respecting the disposal of her books and other articles, for the benefit of surviving friends. She selected and sent tokens of interest to her pupils, and desired each to be present when her remains should be borne to the grave. Her views of the Saviour were clear. Her hope in him was bright and joyous, and even triumphant. She had not a doubt of her acceptance. There was not a cloud in her spiritual horizon. She longed to depart and be with Christ. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of

his saints.'

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ALLEN, Mrs. Josephine E. M., Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 12, æ. 26, wife of Hugh Allen, Esq., and only daughter of Hon. S. H. P. Hall, of Binghampton, N. Y.

ALLEN, Col. Jesse, Memphis, Tenn., July 15, æ. 79. No higher eulogy can be bestowed by the living upon the departed than to say that the world has been the better and the wiser for their having lived in it, and this can truly be said of him whose death we record.

ALLEN, Hon. Judge, Goshen, Ocean Co., N. J., Aug. 1, æ. 63. Judge Allen will leave a wide vacancy in the society of the village of Tom's River, in the Co. of Ocean, where he has resided for several years. He was as generally known throughout that county, and a large part of Monmouth, as any gentleman of our acquaintance, and the influence acquired by his years and experience, and the po

sition he held at Tom's River, will make him not only greatly missed and lamented, but will lead a host of friends and acquaintances to stand appalled at this sudden mysterious providence.

ALLEN, Mrs. Lizzie, Davies Co., Ky., Dec. 31, .-, wife of Dr. N. B. Allen. ALLEN, Mrs. M., Smithfield, R. I., Oct. 24, æ. 67, widow of the late Seth Allen.

ALLEN, Nicholas, Harrington, Me., April 25, æ. 70, a worthy and respected townsman.

ALLEN, Mrs Rebecca, Jacksonville, Ala., March 22, æ. 56, wife of Maj. Matthew Allen. She was born in Spartanburg Dist., S. C., in 1800, and was mar ried in 1819. She joined the Baptist church in 1830.

ALLEN, Wm., Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, æ. 77. A highly respected merchant, a man greatly esteemed by those who knew him.

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ALLEN, Capt. Wm. H., Gifted by nature with more than ordinary talents, he had achieved, during his short life, a reputation as a writer of good promise, while, as a friend and companion, he was universally beloved by all who knew him.

ALLEN, Mrs. W. H., Philadelphia, Pa., wife of President Wm. H. Allen, of Girard College.

ALLEYNE, J. S., St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 10, æ. 56, formerly of Boston.

RUFUS BRADFORD ALLYN, Esq., Belfast, Me.,

æ. 63, son of the late Rev. John Allyn, of Duxbury, Ms., and the seventh in lineal 'descent from Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony, whom he was wont to call "the chiefest and foremost of the Pilgrims."

He was a graduate of Harvard University of the class of 1810, and although the youngest in his class, (having entered when he was but thirteen,) he was awarded its highest honors. He pursued the study of the profession of law in the office of Hon. Wm. Sullivan, of Boston, and having been admitted to its practice, he went to reside at Belfast in 1815.

He was a scholar of rare attainments, of profound learning, and great refinement of taste. As a lawyer, he probably had not his superior in this country. He was thoroughly versed in the authorities, and of memory so retentive and remarkable as to be able to make a brief

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