184 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



Oliver Stevens Townsend. 



Amasa Fisk Pepperell. 



Archibald M'Intosh Townsend. 



David Kemp Groton. 



Stephen Foster Groton. 



The list comprised thirty-one persons, of whom twenty had 

 died at the date of the newspaper, including all those men- 

 tioned above. Captain Walker died on August 15. 



DEATH OF HON. JOSIAH KENDALL BENNETT. 



It is a painful duty for us to record this week the death of this 

 most estimable man. 



Friday afternoon, Jan. 23, at about a quarter of five o'clock. 

 Judge Bennett breathed his last. Friday preceding his death he 

 attended to his court duties, and Saturday he was prompt at his post 

 at the usual hour of opening of court in the morning. Saturday he 

 was much weaker than on the preceding day, and from that time he 

 grew weaker and weaker until death ended his suffering. For nearly 

 a year previous to the death of the Judge he could not speak above 

 a whisper, which was an indication that the disease of which he died, 

 consumption, had become fairly seated. For a number of years 

 previous to this he had not enjoyed good health. 



Mr. Bennett was a graduate of the class of 1853, of Harvard Col- 

 lege. The junior year of his collegiate studies was spent at Yale 

 College, in New Haven, Conn. While attending to his studies at 

 Harvard College he held the prominent position of Professor of 

 Latin, Mathematics and the Classics at Mystic Seminary, in Med- 

 ford ; and at the close of his usefulness in this institution of learning, 

 he became Principal of the Hopkins classical school in Cambridge, 

 and taught one year, when it was, by special act of the legislature, 

 discontinued. This classical school was under the supervision of the 

 trustees of Harvard College. 



During his stay in Cambridge he attended the Law school, and 

 when he closed his law studies he moved to Boston and practised 

 law on Court street, in the office of Lyman Mason. He also had 

 offices at Groton and Groton Junction. 



