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the services to the Society which had been severally performed by 

 each of his fourteen predecessors in the Presidency, with all of 

 whom, excepting the first three, he had been personally acquainted, 

 and with the last six of whom he had been upon terms of intimate 

 friendship. On 3d November, 1882, he contributed to the Society's 

 Proceedings a minute upon the Bi-Centennial Celebration of that 

 year. On 21st November, 1889, he presided over the Society's 

 commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the occupation 

 of its present hall, and he delivered an instructive address, in which 

 he briefly commented upon the most important points in the history 

 of the Society. On 17th April, 1890, on the occasion of the Cen- 

 tennial Anniversary of the death of Benjamin Franklin, he eulo- 

 gized the illustrious founder of the Society. On 23d May, 1893, 

 the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the 

 Society, Mr. Fraley presided and delivered graceful speeches wel- 

 coming the guests of the Society. 



Mr. Fraley attended the meetings of the Society with, as he said, 

 "reasonable regularity" until, in his later years, physical infirmi- 

 ties deprived him of that pleasure. He had, from the time of his 

 admittance to the Society, a pride in its history and achievements, 

 a full appreciation of its lofty purposes, and a confident hope that 

 it will, as he expressed it in his speech of 1889, " Rouse itself up 

 with energy to the work that is demanded of it at the present time 

 and use the means and the influence that it has, and the power that 

 it ought to exercise, in the community for the promoting of every- 

 thing connected with usefulness to man — everything that will tend 

 to improve his moral and intellectual character, and everything 

 that will enable him to rise with higher appreciation to what is 

 good." 



Mr. Fraley said, in his address of 1889, "If I have had any 

 useful career in life, I owe much to what I have learned in the 

 Franklin Institute and in the American Philosophical Society." 

 In his earlier years his participation in the proceedings of the 

 Franklin Institute gave him a love of study and an interest in the 

 scientific and industrial progress of the world. In the years of his 

 maturity his mind w broadened by his association with the men 

 who then constituted the membership of this Society, and with 

 them he learned to "love truth for truth's sake." 



Mr. Fraley was for eighty years an active man of business. 

 After a preliminary training in a store, he was for fourteen years a 



