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Pliiladelphia, and, in 1777, he married Mary, the eldest 

 daughter of Henry Woodrovv, a man of Scotch ances- 

 try, a whig in poHtics, of great purity of character and 

 uprightness of Hfe. Dr. Barnabas Binney was a man 

 of liberal education, and a graduate in 1774 of Brown 

 University, where he attained the highest distinction in 

 his class. Thence he came to this city, and attended 

 medical lectures at the University, in due time re- 

 ceiving from it a degree. He was an accomplished 

 " belles-lettres " scholar, and acutely sensitive to the 

 beauties of English literature. He wrote with ease 

 and elefjance, and he cherished both the taste and the 

 talent for poetical composition. Withal his intellectual 

 powers were fine, and he had a strength of principle, 

 a decision and energy of action, and a sensibility and 

 tenderness of feeling that commanded the respect of 

 all who knew him, and greatly endeared him to the 

 circle of his domestic friends. 



Dr. Binney's wife, the mother of Horace, was also a 

 superior person. In many points her intellectual traits 

 and those of her husband were much alike. She had 

 besides a keen perception and taste for wit and 

 humor, and a remarkable faculty for catching and imi- 

 tating personal peculiarities of manner, voice, and 

 almost of look. In the character of her mind there 



was a lar«-e element of the dramatic. Her manner 

 was impressive, and she had that rare union of dignity 

 and ease which woman alone possesses, without the 

 appearance of effort, and which she only can teach. 



