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quent advocate of our time ; and, still more recently, over those of the 

 popular author, who down to the close of a long and most honorable 

 life continued to adorn, by important works, that American literature 

 to the formation and general recognition of which he had, even in early 

 years, contributed more than any other writer. 



The earliest loss from our immediate ranks was that of the Hon. 

 Thomas Graves Gary, which followed within a month our last an- 

 niversary. Mr. Gary was born at Chelsea in 1791 ; was graduated at 

 Harvard Gollege in 1811, and admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. 

 After a residence of several years in Brattleborough, Vermont, in the 

 practice of his profession, and afterwards in New York, where he 

 engaged in commerce, he returned to Boston, where he passed the 

 rest of his useful and honorable life in various business pursuits, and in 

 the occupation of many important trusts. He died on the 3d of July 

 last. Mr. Gary was a man of refined literary taste, a lover of art, and 

 a careful student of moral, political, and economical science. His 

 numerous published articles, lectures, and reviews upon these subjects, 

 and his more elaborate Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, show 

 him to have been a vigorous writer and speaker, in a pure and idio- 

 matic style. His sterling integrity and good sense, and unaffected dig- 

 nified manners, his active interest in educational and social questions, 

 and his efficient administration as President for many years of the 

 Boston Athenajum, and in other responsible trusts, are well remem- 

 bered by his associates in this and in other institutions. 



Rev. Samuel Willard, D. D., was born at Petersham, Mass., on 

 the 19th of April, 1776, was graduated at Harvard Gollege in 1803, 

 became Assistant Preceptor in Exeter Academy in 1804, and a Tutor 

 in Bowdoin Gollege the following yeai*. He was ordained over the 

 Unitarian Ghurch in Deerfield, Mass., in 1807, elected a Fellow of the 

 Academy in 1816, resigned his pastoral charge on account of loss of 

 sight in the autumn of 1829, and died at Deerfield on the 8th of October, 

 1859. These few data indicate all the principal epochs of an unevent- 

 ful, but a valuable and useful life. They suggest no title to celebrity ; 

 but they present a modest and valid claim to that respect which justly 

 attaches to intelligence, virtue, and piety, and to a faithful and exem- 

 plary devotion to his sacred calling. His publications were few ; but 

 they are creditable to his learning, good sense, and Ghristian temper. 

 Among them is a collection of hymns, many of which were of his own 

 composing, and prepared with reference to an original theory, which is 



