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eye and steady hand, and friendly zeal. Human learning- 

 is valuable in its plaee ; but there is a wisdom of a better 

 kind, and more enduring. This and that were both his. 



Social traits of a superior character were his ornament 

 among his fellows. His glance was upon life's sunny 

 side. He was of generous temperament, buoyant in good 

 nature, companionable, courteous, modest, kind. In ad- 

 dition to his personal elements of popularity, his ancestral 

 ties bound him to the community. His great-grandfather 

 was good old Governor Treadwell, and his grandfather 

 the Honorable Timothy Pitkin, both of Farmington, the 

 residence of his own honored father, and where he 

 himself had come to die. A large circle of friends, espe- 

 cially in Farmington, Albany, and New Haven, will love 

 to cherish his memory in mourning his loss. 



The ways of Providence are mysterious, but not the less 

 wise ; often, rather be it said, therefore the more wise. 

 " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his 

 saints." There is no better time to die than the appoint- 

 ed time. God had been preparing his young servant for 

 heaven by afflictions in the death of a child and his own 

 failing health. The soul learns rapidly the lessons of re- 

 ligious experience, when Providence and the Spirit are its 

 associate teachers. Being ready to go why should any 

 wish him to stay ? and having gone why wish him back 

 again? The 5th of September, 1852, is as good a time 



