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witnessed the rescue of East Tennessee from the Rebel forces, and 

 forthwith devoted himself to the collection of a fund of a hundred thou- 

 sand doHars for the relief of that afflicted and devastated region. He 

 witnessed, still later, the capture of Savannah by the Federal arms, 

 and allowed no considerations of health or of private business to pre- 

 vent his unitinof with his fellow-citizens at Faneuil Hall in makin"; ar- 

 rangements for sending food to her starving people. On this occasion 

 his admirable and forcible appeal proved too much for his strength. 

 He returned home greatly exhausted, and after a few days of suffering 

 was struck with apoplexy on the morning of January 15th, 1865, and 

 died without a struggle. 



The highest public honors were paid to his remains. A statue of 

 him was at once ordered by the citizens of Boston, and his memory will 

 be cherished by scholars and by patriots to the latest generation. 



Mr. Everett was elected into the Academy in 1820, being then in 

 his twenty-sixth year. He served first as Recording and afterwards as 

 Corresponding Secretary from 1822 to 1828 inclusive, and was its 

 Vice-President from 1846 to 1851. In 1843 he contributed to the 

 Transactions a " Report on the Discovery and Name of an eighth satel- 

 lite of Saturn." 



The Hon. Josiah Quincy closed a long life, for the most part spent 

 in public service, and honored with high distinctions, on Friday evening, 

 July 2, 1864, at his country seat in Quincy, Mass. Born in Boston, 

 February 4, 1772, he had nearly half completed his ninety -third year. 

 His family history is an honorable and distinguished one through the 

 whole period of our American annals. He was in the fifth generation 

 of descent from his ancestor Edmund Quincy, who, with six servants, 

 marking him as a man of consideration for the time, emigrated to Bos- 

 ton with the Rev. John Cotton's company in 1633, and occupied lands 

 in Braintree, now Quincy, a portion of which have to this day remained 

 in the possession of his descendants. 



Our late associate was the only child of the honored and lamented 

 young patriot, Josiah Quincy, Jr., who, having shown his fidelity and 

 ability by valuable services to his country just previous to the opening 

 of hostilities in our Revolutionary war, was lost to our cause by his 

 death on his homeward voyage from England, April 24, 1775, at the 

 age of thirty-one years. His son was thus left, when but three yeai's 

 old, to the care of the widowed mother, daughter of William Phillips, 

 an eminent merchant of Boston. She was every way qualified for the 



