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him for aid in vain ; and it was his habit to seek out intelligent young 

 American mechanics of good character, and lend them money to begin 

 their trade. As a citizen he was a model man. He took a warm in- 

 terest in all public matters, national and state ; he was more thoroughly 

 informed about municipal affairs than most born Americans. From 

 the first outbreak of the war he did all he could to help the national 

 cause. He thought that every good citizen should serve his country 

 as far as he could in person, and showed his sincerity by joining a mili- 

 tary organization and drilling with the zeal of the youngest recruit. He 

 went with his company into camp, where he was eager to do all the 

 drudgery of a common soldier ; and it was a sore trial to him that when 

 the company went into service he was rejected on account of his age. 

 The universal respect in which his lofty integrity and simplicity were 

 held was touchingly attested at his death, which was mourned by the 

 citizens as a great public calamity. 



Mr. George Livermore died at his residence on Dana Hill, in 

 Cambridge, on Wednesday, August 30, 1865, of a disease of the veins, 

 followed by paralysis. 



He was a son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Gleason) Livermore, and 

 was born in Cambridge, July 10, 1809, being therefore at the time of 

 his decease in his fifty-seventh year. He had been shortly before 

 chosen Treasurer of the Academy, glad, as he said, — with that pleasing 

 modesty which was one of the most winning traits of his attractive 

 character, — to prove his interest and good-will as a Fellow, in an office 

 which did not require the high scientific qualities displayed by his 

 brethren. To all his associates in literary pursuits, and to all who met 

 him in the walks of trade and business, he was known (as only in the 

 more private circles of affection he could be fully appreciated) as a man 

 of rare excellence of native disposition, of lofty integrity, ardent patri- 

 otism, and fulness and depth of Christian principle and culture. There 

 was a charm in his gentle bearing, and a grace in his speech and man- 

 ners which made him a most delightful companion, and impressed all 

 who were brought into contact with him. There was something sinsru- 

 larly engaging in his refined simplicity and quietness of spirit, and in 

 the almost feminine delicacy of his nature. Indeed, perhaps even his 

 nearest friends would not have fully known what energy and almost 

 passionate earnestness were latent in that nature, had they not been 

 called out by the perils and struggles of his country during the last 

 four years of his life. An all-absorbing patriotism stirred him to the 



