Dr. Daniel Jerome Macgowan, the oldest foreign resident in Shanghai, and one of the best-known men in China, passed away ciuietly yesterday morning, at'his residence Boone Roud, in his 79th year. Born in 1 River, Mass., he first oime to Ningpo, a missionary doctor, tly fifty years During the Civil W ay in the United ates, he served as a sw on with the northern armies, and made himself inn respected at Washington, He returned to China in 1865 as the agent of a syndi that proposed to build a telegraph to China by of Bering Str and from that time made" SI his headquarters. His who equally popular with himself," died 1878, and he was never quite the same after her death, He leaves only one child, a daughter, the wife of Sir Chaloner Alabaster, whom Ko had intended soon to rejoin in England. Sir Robert Hart gave him an appointment in the Customs in Wenchow, at which latter port he had full Under the instructions of M. Kremir, the scope to natural Jiursuc his studies in folklore and} new Superintendent, native constables were history. He was a man of vast! drawn up on the steps leading to the Hall, and various information which he was always anxious to add to, and to i part to Jothers, and he was a contributor to our columns from the first, as well as to numerous other missionary, scientific, and literary publications. He was thoroughly gonial, kind-hearted man, at home in any company, and always with something fresh ito tell, '4 man of unfailing energy in the pursuit of knowledge, and who bore is years wonderfully, as his recent long and'arduous trip in howed. He only returned from a visit to Peking and Tientsin on Saturday last, and, 1 been ailing, but refused for some ne to consult a doctor. He was ex-from the Viceroy Li Hung.
letters of introduction to the Minister to the United to whom the Viceroy recom lunn for the post of adviser to the Ley Washington. "He took to his bed fon Tuesday and Dr. Jamieson was sent for, but on Wednesday he got up and dressed himself preparatory to going out. He was persuaded to return to bed, where he died quite quietly, just as milk was being given him, of exhaustion and old age, at 10.30 a-m, yesterday. A tele-an_-announcing his death was at once sent to Lady Alabaster in England. The funeral is to take place at the New Cemetery at 5.30 pam, to-day.
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