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erary, soci.il, and political distinction, in which his characteristic mod- 

 esty did not prevent him from taking an active part. He had a re- 

 markably pleasant voice and distinct utterance, and could read aloud 

 an indefinite time without fatigue to his auditors or himself. 



He was a man of most amiable disposition, pleasing manners, and 

 lively wit, without poignancy or sarcasm ; a devoted and enduring 

 friend, admired and confided in by all, and never knowing what it was 

 to have an enemy. He never unduly urged his pretensions, nor had 

 he need to, for during his life he was surrounded by those who knew 

 his worth. 



George Rapall Notes, the son of Nathaniel and Mary (nee Rapall) 

 Noyes, was born in Newburyport, March G, 1798. While a pupil in 

 the public schools of his native town, he manifested a taste and aptness 

 for study which attracted the attention of his pastor, the late Rev. Dr. 

 Dana, who encouraged and aided him, both by advice and by the loan 

 of money. In 1814 he entered Harvard College, where he maintained 

 his place as a faithful and successful scholar, graduating in 1818. He 

 had defrayed a portion of his expenses by teaching country schools in 

 the winter, and immediately on leaving college he took charge of the 

 Framingham Academy, thus securing a sufficient income to clear him- 

 self from debt, and to start with some small savings on his proposed 

 course of more advanced study. In 1819 he entered the Cambridge 

 Divinity School, and in 1822 was licensed as a preacher. But he had 

 become too much engrossed in the literature of his profession to forsake 

 the university for the active duties of the ministry. He continued at 

 Cambridge for eight years longer, holding at first the duties of a proc- 

 tor, with some private pupils whose tuition-fees eked out his frugal 

 means of living, and for the last two years employed as a tutor in the 

 classical department. By this time it had become quite generally 

 known that he had been devoting himself with great assiduity and 

 singleness of purpose to the Hebrew language and scriptures. In 

 1827 he became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Brook- 

 field. Though the leisure which so small and retired a parish might 

 give him for study had no inferior place among his motives in accept- 

 ing the invitation, he yet was conscientiously faithful in his ministerial 

 charge, and established life-long relations of mutual respect, affection, 

 and gratitude with his parishioners. Shortly after his settlement he 

 published his translation of Job, which gave him at once a foremost 

 place among distinguished scholars in that department of learning. In 



