John Wesley Stiles

           OBITUARY.
         JOHN W. STILES.
 Col. John W. Stiles died at his home, at
No. 281 Fourth-avenue, at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning, at the age of 70 years. He had been ill
for some time with a disease of the heart. Pre-
vious to 1861 Col. Stiles had been engaged in the
ship chandlery business with Marshall O.
Roberts on West-street, and in the same busi-
ness alone at Coenties-slip and South-street. He
left New-York on May 27, 1861, for the seat of
war as Colonel of the Ninth New-York Regi-
ment of Volunteers. He was in the second battle
of Bull Run, but owing to illness was compelled
to resign his command in January, 1863. Since
then he had been engaged in inventions, princi-
pally those pertaining to steam gauges. He re-
ceived the first medal for steam gauges at the
American Institute Fair last year. Col. Stiles
had been a widower for many years. He leaves
one daughter, Mrs. Horace J. Fairchild, wife of
the foreign partner of the firm of H.B. Claflin
& Co. The funeral will be held at the house of
Col. Stiles's sister, Mrs. Phelps, at No. 49 East
Twenty-third-street, on Friday morning, at 11
o'clock.