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minister and soldier, tracing back an honoured ancestry from betore 

 the settlement of Penn. He was a Quaker to the very last, without a 

 particle of schismatic bitterness, but pertinacious in his adherence to 

 his patrimonial faith and forms. 



He occupied a very large space in this community of ours, and held 

 many positions of trust. He was a contented man, who had per- 

 suaded Price Wetherill to be the executor of his will, or the guardian 

 of his children. He had the confidence of all classes. When a bank 

 had just been proclaimed insolvent, and in spite of the police, an ex- 

 cited crowd of small creditors was threatening violence at the coun- 

 ter, a promise from him that " he would see into the matter" made 

 every thing quiet. He was fairly borne down by public offices. Pie 

 was an indefatigable Guardian of the Poor, a Manager of the Girard 

 estates, chairman of the Watering Committee of Philadelphia for a 

 great many years, and latterly the President of our Select Council. 



He was a scientific manufacturing chemist; a theorising, but also 

 a practical agriculturist; a thorough and successful business man; 

 yet a zealous politician, public spirited beyond any one of his place 

 and time, liberal to profusion for the relief of want, the encourage- 

 ment of toil, the advancement of science; his whole life devoted to all 

 he believed to be good; and his death that of a humble, almost timo- 

 rous, but hopeful Christian. 



He had some eccentricities; but they were none of them repulsive; 

 he was careless of his personal appearance, and took pride in leading 

 with his own hands the operations of his laboratory and his farm. 

 Still, he liked the society of the eminent and refined, and had many 

 warm friends among the political leaders of the country. He was a 

 vice-president in the Academy of Natural Sciences, and a member of 

 the Wistar Club. 



Plis hospitality was without stint, and embraced almost all classes 

 in its range. His charities were still more diffusive ; those, who 

 have ministered to the poor and suffering during the inclemencies of 

 this winter, have found out how large and pervading were his bene- 

 factions, and how carefully screened from the public eye. I myself 

 know more than one thriving and happy household, that can refer 

 back its comforts and its hope to his well devised and equally well 

 masked bounty. 



This is about all that need be said of our friend. He performed 

 his part in life well ; and it was a laborious and responsible one ; and 

 he carried with him to the grave the regrets of many poor, and the 

 esteem of all the worthy. 



