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the peculiarites of his mind. He was generally reserved and serious, 

 yet neither indifferent nor severe; unbending easily and gracefully 

 when harmless gayety was reasonable, yet always with an innate un- 

 affected dignity ; always polite, yet so far removed from affectation or 

 obsequiousness, that no one could be blind to the motives which, 

 loftier than fear of offence or desire of praise, ruled his conduct: in no 

 way, perhaps, has Mr. Reed more benefited the community in which 

 his whole life was spent, than by the example which he has set them, 

 how a proper conception of the principles of Christianity begets the 

 virtues and the adornments of a gentleman. 



But when we have looked upon Mr. Reed as a teacher, as a scholar, 

 and as a gentleman, we have yet but an imperfect knowledge of his 

 character; the true life of Mr. Reed was with his family ; to them he 

 always felt was his chief duty; with them was always his greatest 

 pleasure. There, in the company of those he transcendently loved; 

 with those who sustained and bettered him by their sympathies, all 

 inducements to goodness around him, and all temptations to evil shut 

 out with his house door; there he found the quintessence and the re- 

 ward of his life. But into this holy ground we cannot follow him ; 

 let us confine ourselves to the attempt to express how valuable and 

 how dear he was to us. 



In 1834, he married Miss Elizabeth Bronson, a grand-daughter of 

 the late Bishop White, who, together with three children, survive 

 him. 



He was elected to the American Philosophical Society, January 19, 

 1838, and chosen as a member of its council, January 3, 1851, 



Mr. Trego read an obituary notice of Wm. H. Dillingham, 

 Esq., a deceased member, prepared at the requCxSt of the So- 

 ciety, by Dr. William Darlington. 



The subject of this notice presented, in his life, one of those striking 

 and exemplary instances, in which the descendants of the pilgrim 

 fathers of New England — under their admirable system of educational 

 training, and by their persevering energies — are so often enabled to 

 elevate themselves to a distinguished position among their contempo- 

 raries; and when their course is run, to leave their 



" Foot-prints on the sands of time." 



The immigrant Puritans, and the earlier posterity of those who 

 landed on the Plymouth rock, were indeed a peculiar people. The 

 history of our race furnishes no parallel to their character and career. 



