Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Deaths of Prominent Men

Rev. George Bethune, D. D., of Brooklyn N. Y., died at Florence Italy, on the 28th ult., aged 58.  Dr. B. was a prominent minster of the Reformed Dutch Church, and was a poet and author of great merit.  Rev. Dr. Thomas Macauley, formerly a prominent Presbyterian minister died in New York city, on Sunday last, aged 85.  Charles J. Ingersoll, a prominent Democratic politician of Philadelphia, died in that city on the 14th inst. at the advanced age of eighty.  He was son of Jared Ingersoll, the Federalist candidate for Vice President in 1812, and again from 1841 to 1849.

Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 22, 1862, p. 2

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