Frazer.] Ao'k [Feb. 7, 



A daughter, Fanny now Mrs. Herbert Welsh), was born on October 4, 

 1852. 



Almost at the same time in this year (18">2) Robert Frazer was elected 

 Secretary and Treasurer of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad, in the con- 

 struction of which road he had been previously engaged as consulting 

 engineer. 



In November, 1SG:>, he was elected President of the Company, which 

 office he retained till the fall of 1873. 



It will ever remain as a monument of his devotion, zeal and efficiency 

 in the management of this road that its stock advanced during his tenure 

 of the chief office from an almost unsaleable commodity to a position of 

 prominent favor for such a road. 



Upon his retirement from the Camden & Atlantic Railroad he was called 

 to the presidency of the Wilmington & Reading (afterwards known as the 

 Wilmington and Northern) Railroad, and while holding this position he 

 died suddenly of a stroke of apoplexy, on May 4, 1878, at 15 minutes 

 past G, p. M. 



On the 4th of May, 1878, he was apparently in the best health and in 

 buoyant spirits and attended to all his duties with ease. He was expected 

 at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Welsh, to tea, when a short time before 

 the hour a messenger arrived announcing that he had a severe headache 

 and would not be able to come. Very shortly after this he died. 



He was a man who was characterized by many salient traits, among 

 ■which none was so striking, by reason of its rarity, as his gentleness and 

 sweetness of disposition. No one ever observed him in his relations to 

 other men without envying him the kindly tone, the liberal view and the 

 winning manner with which he either opposed or endorsed the sentiments 

 of others. His normal condition of features was the border of a smile, 

 and his heart was full of sunshine, which his cheery words sprinkled like 

 drops of water on those about him. One is tempted to dwell on a charac- 

 ter like this, for the memory of it causes always an agreeable sensation : 

 yet it may be thought that the ties of consanguinity render the writer a too 

 partial witness. But it is not so. All who knew Robert Frazer, knew 

 him as a patient, forbearing, kind and cheerful friend, a model of content, 

 and a well-spring of pleasure to those by whom he was surrounded. 



His tastes were those of a cultured man, and his mind had that quality 

 of interest and curiosity which kept him actively seeking information and 

 au courant with the affairs of the day. Every new turn of the kaleido- 

 scope of the times which developed some new and beautiful idea, some 

 discovery, or some invention, delighted him whether it was or was not in 

 the direction of his professional work. 



He was one of those earnest soldiers of ideas who, whether they serve 

 religion, their country, or science, show alike their sense of the solemn 

 meaning of the march of events. He believed in the duty of man to labor 

 for and with that evolution of new forms of truth which is but the measure 

 of onward progress, even though the progress be in any case inevitable ; 



