September 1.--In Cohasset, Mass., Charles Faulkner of the Boston and New
York firm of Faulkner, Page & Co.
September 6.--In New Bedford, Mass., William A. Wall, a well known
artist.
September 8.--In Hanover, N.H., Edward A. Rollins of Philadelphia,
ex-commissioner of internal revenue.
September 8.--In Haverhill, Mass., Rev. Raymond H. Seeley, D.D. a
prominent Congregational clergyman.
September 12.--Jonathan Cartland of Lee, Mass, died, aged seventy-six.
He was one of the leading old guard of abolitionists, an uncompromising
prohibitory advocate, and a bosom friend and co-worker of Wendell
Phillips. He held many important town and county offices. He was a warm
friend of the fleeing negroes from the South to Canada, his home being
the refuge for many, and often piloting them from there by night to the
Canadian border.
September 14.--The death of Hon. Oliver Warner occurred at Lynn, Mass.
He was the son of Oliver Warner of Northampton, where he was born on
April 17, 1818. He was graduated at Williams College in 1842, and
subsequently at Gilmanton Theological Seminary. He officiated as a
Congregational clergyman at Chesterfield from 1844 to 1846. In 1552 and
1853 he was a tutor at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. In 1854 and 1855
he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1856 and
1857 in the Senate. He occupied the position of secretary of state for
eighteen years, retiring in 1876. His majority in 1872 was greater than
any other on the Republican ticket. In 1875 considerable opposition was
made to his election, the effect of which was to lose him the Republican
nomination and the office. From 1876 to 1879 he filled the position of
librarian of the State Library. In September, 1882, he married Miss
Newhall of Lynn, and departed on a six months' tour in Europe.
September 16.--Rev. Benjamin F. Tefft, D.D., LL.D., a widely known
Methodist divine, died, aged seventy two years, from a shock of
paralysis received on Friday. He was one of the ablest pulpit orators in
the denomination, has been a president of the Genesee College, editor of
the Methodist Book concern and author of several works. He was a member
of the New York Geographical and Statistical Society, the Society of
Arts of London, etc. He was United States consul to Stockholm in 1862,
and acting minister to Sweden, and commissioner of emigration from
Europe to the state of Maine in 1864. He has been in poor health the
past two years. Dr. Tefft was the author of "Evolution and
Christianity," published last Spring, a veritable encyclopaedia of
Evolution-lore.
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