IV OBITUARY NOTICES. 



accurate statement, and he never, to the knowledge of those who were 

 closely associated with him, made a mistake in mentioning a name 

 or a figure. This too must be said : Mr. Fraley was to his subordi- 

 nates the most delightful of chiefs. He was uniformly courteous 

 and considerate under circumstances pleasant or trying, and he was 

 always anxious to give to any one who served under his command 

 more than full credit for whatever was done. 



But neither the daily work of business, nor the delights of liter- 

 ature, nor active participation in the duties and the pleasures of 

 this Society could sufficiently absorb Mr. Fraley's energies. In 

 1824 Mr. Fraley was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute, 

 and for seventy-seven years he was an active member of that 

 Society of world-wide reputation and distinguished achievements, 

 whose doors have been always open to receive students of science 

 and the useful arts. In 1853 Mr. Fraley took his seat as a Trustee 

 of the University ot Pennsylvania, and during his forty-eight years 

 of service that great institution of learning has, by reason of the 

 earnest efforts of its successive Provosts, Trustees, and instructors, the 

 loyal support of its Alumni, and the generous gifts of money by the 

 broad-minded men and women who have written their names upon 

 the roll of the benefactors of the University, become the centre of 

 the intellectual life of Philadelphia and one of the foremost colleges 

 of the country. 



Dr. William Pepper, to whom this Society and the University 

 owe debts which never can be paid, said of Mr. Fraley, that during 

 more than forty years " he had been prominently engaged in all 

 the efforts which had brought the University to the prosperous and 

 powerful position she now commands. He enjoyed in a rare degree 

 the love and confidence of Trustees and Faculties, and no language 

 could convey an adequate sense of the value of his benignant influ- 

 ence, of his universal charity, of his wise counsels, and of his con- 

 stant loyal co-operation. I am confident the University never had 

 a truer friend, nor a more faithful and unselfish servant." 



Mr. Fraley was in 1833 a founder, and for sixty-eight years a 

 member, for sixty-seven years a Director, and for fourteen years the 

 President of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, which, under his 

 leadership, has devoted itself to the improvement of facilities for 

 transportation by land and water, to the increase of commerce, to 

 the growth of manufactures, to the maintenance of a solid financial 



