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Judge Brown was in the best and fullest sense of the word a country 

 gentleman. Delighting in all the aesthetic influences of country life, with 

 a nobleman's love of a tree and a girl's love of a flower, he gave the 

 energies of a cultivated mind to all matters of research and improvement. 

 His bearing was always dignified and gentle. His language never dropped 

 below the line of strict refinement. His greeting was kindly for all, but 

 particularly cordial and hearty for his many friends. 



No man opened a more hospitable door than he ; or invited to a 

 family circle governed by a sweeter spirit, or overflowing with gentler 

 courtesies. 



Though preferring the seclusion of his farm-life to any positions of 

 public service or honor, yet he was called to many offices of responsi- 

 bility. He was from its organization a trustee of our State Industrial 

 University, and no man gave it more intelligent or faithful service. He 

 was for the usual term a president of this Society j and no man ever con- 

 ferred more honor on the office. He was three times elected to the 

 county judgeship of his adopted county, and no truer man has sat upon 

 the bench. 



Judge Brown died on the 27th of June of this year. He had suffered 

 for several months from a very painful disease with uncomplaining forti- 

 tude, saying to his wife as the final hour drew nigh, "N'ow I will rest r^ 

 He has gone away full of honors, and has left us all bereaved. I believe 

 I express the feeling of many members of this Society, when I say that 

 this event brought to me a deep sense of personal loss. The world 

 seemed poorer ; life was robbed of some of its sweetness. He has gone 

 away, but the good works of the true life remain. The community and 

 the State he lived in will for generations be the richer for the life he lived 

 among us. The influences of such a life will go on blossoming and 

 bearing sweet fruits in the years that are to be. For may we not believe 



" That not in Heaven alone, 

 But here on earth we live when we are gone, 

 And learn the helpful lesson of to-day: 

 The world goes on when we are gone away. 



" The world goes on ; and happiest is he 

 Who in such wise wins immortality, 

 That should he sleep forever in the grave 

 His work goes on and helps the world to save." 



LETTERS, GREETINGS, ETC. 



Mr. MiNKLER inquired if any other State Society in the West is in 

 session this week; and upon the announcement that the Ohio Society 

 was in session moved that the Secretary be requested to send greetings by 

 telegraph to that Society. 



The Secretary said : I have lately received a very cordial letter 

 from Dr. J. A. Warder, the president of that society, (which unfortu- 



