Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-12-31
The Dead Of 1868.

Our obituary record has contained
during the past year the announce
ments, from time to time, of the dealh
of many well-known and respected citi-
zens, who were identified with the local
history of our own city. The list en-
braces the nan es of the venerable Paul
Revere, Watson Freeman, Enoch Train,
Oliver Brewster, Joel Thayer. George
II. Gray, Charles Emerson, James Toll
man, Samuel Nicholson, Alonzo c.
Jackson, William +. Whitney, James
Charles S. Burgess, Robert Hooper,
Co. e. d. Brigham, DR.. John Romans,
George M. Soule, Amos Cummings,
Luther Ham, Henry A Drake, w. H.
Seavey, Franci X. Fisher, James w.
Pal e, William d. Sober, Sheldon
Crockett, A. G. Wyman, w. II. G. Nor
ton, Thomas A. Goddard, Thomas Pow
er Addison Gage, and Samuel Neal.
] The deaths in literary and artistic cir
cles have not been numerous, though
some of the shining lights have gone out
We may mention the names Of Hon. AL
bert q. Greene, who wrote sol Grimes"
and o.hor equally well known pieces !;
Professor G. G. Jewett, the Superinten-
dent of the Boston Public Library, a
man distinguished in this department !;
Ball Hughes, the well known sculptor !:
Loutz, the artist; Seba Smith. whose
Jack Downing letters received such gen
eral approval years ago; the cratic but
brilliant writer, Charles G. Halpine
Elliott the artist, and Professor Adler !;
two we'll known editors, William M.
Swain, formerly Of the Philadelphia
Ledger, and Moses Beach, the editor of
the New York ,Sat,, while the art preser-
vatve lost one of it's ablest members
in the death of John Wilson of Cam
bridge.
Several distinguished members of tho
clergy have departed. Those best known
are tle Right Rev. John H. Hopkins,
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Vermont; Rev. DR., Burroughs
and Rev. Phineas Stowe of Boston.
Among other well known names now
erased from the r cord of the living are
tn os of Captain j. 5; Comstock, Rear
| Admiral b IL. General, Colonel J. II. d.
Nj. Bell and Kit Carson.
Among the theatrical profession death
has removed many who had won dis
tinctiOn. There have passed away,
during the year, Miss Ju ia Dean, a
name celebrated by many dramatic
triumphs w. c. Forbes, the actor and
manager; Mrs. Crammer, and actress
of merit Madame Isaacs MenKen John
Seton. and others.
Many distinguished men who have
rendered to the nation and the differ
ent States great service by the wisdom
of the councils, have died. Prominent
among these are Thaddeus Stevens: eX-
Gov Lincoln; eX-Lieut. Governor Geo.
Hull; eX-Goy. Ellsworth; Judge Chas.
=. Huntington ;eXGOvernors Ford and
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Vermont; eX-Lieut. Gov. Childs Hon.
Robert B. Hall, Hon. W. c. Rives, OF
Virgil MA Hon. Jonathan e. Field ex-
President Buchanan Peter Cagger
eX-Gov. Wells, of Maine l rancis Gran
ger eX-GOv. Seymour of Connecticut ;
and Hon. Nehemiah Boynton.
Among those who have died in for
eign lands, whose names are familiar to
American ears, we may enumei ate NJ.
Athause Laurent COquerel, the emf
nent pastor of the French Protestant
Church in Paris; Charles Kean, the
celebrated actor and artistic manager,
who produced tie works of Shakespeare
in manner unprecedented [; Sir David
Brewster, the philosopher and man OF
science. the great Lord Brougham, the
statesman and scholar; Samuel Lover,
the poet, author and artist; Sir Edw ard
deau, the aulI OF MaroCHelIi, tne elHi-
nent sculptor; Thon as Darcy MCGEE,
the eminent Irishman who was xii ed
in Ottawa Dean Milman Rossini, the
composer Baron James Rothschild,
the great banker, and Berger, the great
French advocate, have passed away,
with host of Others less known on IT, is
side of the water, but distinguished for
high attachments in the varied walks OF
life. though an imperfect record of the
ravages of the Reaper, the list en-
braces the more prominent of the dead
of the year diaYing to a close, Boston
Journal.
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