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land and Eii2.-laiid and America, and Salem amons; the 

 number, is dead, and that the products of the East will 

 hereafter find their way to Europe and America, not by 

 the Cape of Good Hope, but through other channels. 



REGULAE MEETING, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1870. 



The Presid(Mit iu the cliair. Recovds of preceding meeting read. 



After adopting a plan of arrangements for the annual Horticultural 

 ExhilMtion, and the transaction of some other business, the President 

 announced the death of our Ex-President, the Hon. Asahel Hunt- 

 ington, of Salem, which occurred at his sea-side residence in Beverly, 

 this forenoon, after a brief illness. 



Mr. H. was the second son of the Rev. Asahel Huntington, the 

 much respected pastor, for manj' j^ears, of the church in Topsfleld; in 

 that town the subject of our notice was born, Jul}' 23, 1798. He was 

 descended from the old Puritan stock which settled iu Connecticut in 

 the early period of our histor}^ both on the paternal and the maternal 

 side. His father was born' in Franklin, Conn., where the family re- 

 sided for several generations and tilled the same acres, and took a 

 prominent position in the church, performing the duties of some of 

 its most important offices. His mother, Alcthea, was the daughter of 

 Dr. Elislia Lord, a celebrated physician of Abingtou, Conn., and a 

 grand-daughter of Rev. Hezekiah Lord, a noted preacher of his time. 

 Inheriting the traits of character peculiar to these worthies of the 

 olden times, he became a very useful member of the Tabernacle soci- 

 etj^ in this city; to them his loss must be very great. 



He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Audover, and was a 

 graduate of Yale College in the class of 1819. He always took a 

 lively interest in those two institutions, frequently attending the 

 annual commencements, and ready to cooperate in all measures tend- 

 ing to the extension of their usefulness iu ever}^ direction. 



He commenced his legal studies in Newburj-port and completed 

 them in Salem, being admitted to the bar in March, 182i. He com- 

 menced pi-actice iu this citjs and his appearance in the courts has 

 alwaj's been marked by distinguished energy and abilitj\ He held 

 the offices of County Attoruej' and of District Attorney for many 

 years, and, since 1851, lias been the Clerk of the Courts for Essex 

 County. 



He was always ready for every good cause, and shrank from no 



