He died at Ottumwa, Iowa, on the 1st of June 1879.

OTTUMWA, a city and the county-seat of Wapello county, Iowa, U.S.A., on both sides of the Des Moines river, in the S.E.

Ottumwa is the headquarters of the Ottumwa Division of the Southern Federal Judicial District of Iowa, and terms of United States District and Circuit courts are held there.

Ottumwa was first settled in 1843, was incorporated as a town in 1851, and first chartered as a city in 1857.