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The resolutions were adopted as presented and ordered 

 spread on the record of the Academy. 



WILLIAM HENRY PULSIFER. 



William Henry Pulsifer was born at Boston in 1831, the 

 eighth in descent from Benedict Pulsifer, who settled at 

 Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1662, and who is the first of the 

 name of Pulsifer known to have lived in America. 



Mr. Pulsifer attended the Grammar and High Schools of 

 the City of Boston. Upon leaving school he engaged in 

 mercantile business in Boston and resided there with occa- 

 sional extended business visits to the West until 1859, when he 

 removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became engaged in 

 the manufacture of white lead and other chemical products. 

 He continued to reside in St. Louis until 1890, when he re- 

 tired from active business and returned to the East, residing, 

 in the winter, at Newton Centre, Mass., and at Washington, 

 D. C, and passing the summer at his country place at 

 Nonquitt, on Buzzard's Bay, Mass. 



During his residence in St. Louis, Mr. Pulsifer was promi- 

 nent in many business and financial enterprises. He was for 

 many years president of the St. Louis Lead and Oil Co. ; 

 treasurer of the American Central Insurance Company ; 

 a director of the National Bank of Commerce and of several 

 corporations. He was a fellow of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science ; a member of the Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis ; of the Anthropological Society of 

 Washington; of the American Folk-Lore Society; of the 

 National Geographic Society ; of the American Forestry 

 Association; of the New England Historic-Genealogical 

 Society ; of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- 

 tion; and of the Bostonian Society. 



Mr. Pulsifer was a member of the Union Club of New York 

 and of the Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs of Washington, 

 D. C. 



Mr. Pulsifer died April 9, 1905, at Washington, D. C, 



