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Rev. Samuel Il. HILL, IL. ~, died al
Brow ningron, Orlenm- unity, June 9th
aged 81 years aud : months lie was born al
Croydon, \ H., in | -, and was educated
at the kimball Academy in Meriden. IIC
commenced preaching at Concord, Vt, in
lS22. and was subsequently engaged a,
teacher at Audovcr, Mass, and Plymouth,
y. H., Tor ten years. In 1910, be WAS in-
stalled pastor Of the Congregational church,
IN Bloomington, and afterwards preached in
various places. lie was a prolific writer,
and among his works were geography and
history of Vermont, the 1" Alphabet of Geo-
logy, Lectures on School-keeping," ''The
Childis Instructor, " the Arithmetical
ManualI' " Practical Lectures, and a
e School History Of the United States, -
besides many other smaller volumes In
1865, he received the degree of Doctor of
Shws from the University of Vermont, and
that of A NJ. from Dartmouth College in
1880.
Two notable deaths have occurred recently
deaths of men the very antipodes of char
acter, education and the conduct of life, but
each in his way representative Ameri-
can. The first was that of Robert Dale
Owen, who died, last week, at his residence
near Lake George, at the ripe old age of
seventy-six. lie was son of the famous
Scottish philanthropist, Robert Owen, and
having been educated in Switzerland, &C
eompanied his father to this country in
1925, and became 4 member of the colony of
Socialists, which was set up at; New liar
mony, Indiana. lie subsequently became an
active Democratic politician, and after ser
vice in the Indiana Legislature was elected
to Congress in 1913, where he remained
lour years. lie was chairman of the In
diana Constitutional Convention in 1919,
and four years later was sent by President
Pierce to represent our government at Ma
pies. He was one of the earliest in the
movement to secure to women property
rights that are nov almost universally
conceded, was prominent in the organization
of the Smithsonian Institute, and during the
war he occupied important positions under
the administration of Abraham Lincoln. lie
wrote well, and his - FOOTBALLS on the Boun-
daries of Another World, =. The Debatable
Land Between this World and the Next"
and other works, attracted considerable
attention. His views of marriage were
those OF the Socialists, and when he
tired of his wife he separated from her,
and no entreaties on her part could induce
him to resume the marital relation. His
belief in the Katie King manifes-
tations enlisted his interest to such an extent
that the shock of finding himself the victim
of humbug unsettled his mind and prob
ably gradually led up to his death. He was
much esteemed in refined literary circles,
and the vacancy caused by his death is no
one.
The second death is that of Peter Harvey,
Of Boston. lie was born in the town of
Barnet, in this State, in 1910. When
eighteen months old his father died, and he
was early thrown upon the world to seek
his own fortune. lie soon went to Boston
and engaged in business there and was one
Of the first treasuTers of the Rutland Rail |
road. What gave Mr.. Harvey his chef
prominence was without doubt his intimacy
with Daniel Webster Probably. no man
Turing the lifetime of Webster had more of |
his confidence. Mr.. Harvey was genial,
noble-hearted man, possessed Of large, re-
tentive memory, which rendered him an in
helpmate to Mr.. Webster in the
more trying circumstances in which he was |
placed. They were constantly in each |
others company, and when all others seemed |
to fail Mr. Webster, Peter Harvey stood by |
him. true friend. He was present at Mr.. |
W ebster's death in Marshield and OF the |
distinguished personages present at that sad |
scene, which has - often been graphically
described. no person enters more into promi- |
nence that Mr.. Harvey. Mr. Harvey for |
some months since had been engaged in pre-
pairing a book containing his personal |
of the life of Webster but |
,wing to his approaching illness the work
was somewhat interlered with. 1t is under
stood, however, that all the facts intended |
or the work have been collected, and that
Is publication is assured within short time.