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trust, and she devoted herself with absorbing fidelity to the oversight 

 of the physical, moral, and intellectual training of her charge. He 

 was sent at the age of six to the then newly established academy at An- 

 dover, and after eight years of preparation entered Harvard College in 

 1786, at the age of fourteen, to graduate in 1790 with the highest hon- 

 ors of his class. He studied law in Boston with the Hon. Winiam Tu- 

 dor, and in 1793 was admitted to the bar (and entered upon practice), 

 though from the first it seemed as if he was intended rather for a pub- 

 lic than a professional career. In the high party strife which marked 

 the period of his maturity, he gave his whole-hearted devotion to the 

 Federalists, and accredited himself through his long life to that fellow- 

 ship and its succession. During a visit to New York and Philadelphia 

 in 1795, he was presented to Washington, and made tlie acquaintance 

 of the leaders of the Federal party. In 1797, he married Eliza Susan 

 Morton of New York, living in the happiest domestic relations with 

 her for a period of fifty-three years, which was terminated by her death 

 in 1850. He lost his mother in 1798. He was elected a member of 

 the State Senate in 1804, and was elected to the House of Represent- 

 atives at Washington in December, 1805, having previously been un- 

 successful as the Federal candidate for Congress from his District. 

 For this latter honor he was afterwards a successful competitor with 

 his former rival, and retained his seat by four successive elections, 

 until 1813, when he voluntarily withdrew. His years of this service 

 were years of intensest political excitement, his party being in a small 

 minority, and he himself on a marked occasion having the privilege of 

 proving his fidelity to conscience by voting in a minority of one. During 

 the seven years following he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, 

 and then for two years Speaker of the House of Representatives, which 

 office he resigned to become Judge of the Municipal Court of Boston. 

 On the second year after Boston had received its City Charter, Mr. 

 Quincy was chosen Mayor. He discharged his trust so faithfully, and 

 with such unsparing hand and voice against abuses, that, after five re- 

 elections, he was superseded. He was inaugurated as President of 

 Harvard College, June 2, 1829, and resigned the office after Com- 

 mencement in 1845, to retire to private life, but by no means to abate his 

 activity or interest in all matters of the public welfare. His lofty and 

 earnest patriotism in the civil war which agitated without clouding his 

 closing years, was but the concentration of the sterling qualities wliich 

 he had manifested through his whole life. He was an example of the 



