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yer, and a member of Congress from Connecticut, an 

 estimable lady, still surviving, with a happy family of four 

 daughters and a son. Mr. Andrews has taken a high 

 stand in his profession, both at the bar and as a judge. 

 He served in one Congress ; but, not being pleased with 

 life in Washington and with life in Congress, he returned 

 to his profession in Cleveland. He is a learned and elo- 

 quent advocate, a man of great integrity and purity of 

 character, ardent and earnest in support of a good cause, 

 and not disposed to engage in one that is bad. His high 

 position and success in life have gratified me very much, 

 as I cherish towards him a paternal regard. The children 

 of Mr. Andrews are among our cherished and personal 

 friends. 



Benjamin Douglass Silliman was the successor of S. J. 

 Andrews. Mr. Silliman was graduated in Yale College in 

 1824. As the designated successor of Mr. Andrews, he 

 was more or less associated with him in the laboratory in 

 the last year of his College life, in order to become gradu- 

 ally initiated into the duties of the department. He also 

 aided Mr. Andrews in writing for me by dictation, or by 

 copying; and these gentlemen being persons of genial 

 temper and temperament, and congenial withal, they bright- 

 ened the laboratory by their wit and good humor. Mr. 

 Silliman, being the oldest son of my brother, Gold S. Sil- 

 liman, I may be presumed to have been^ partial to him ; 

 but I would not, on that account, fail to do him justice, 

 although he 'will, in this narrative, fill a much smaller space 

 than that allotted to Mr. Andrews. This is not merely 

 because he remained with me only one year, for that 

 brief period was sufficient to develop the interesting and 

 valuable traits of his character, but to delineate him as 

 he was, it would be necessary very nearly to repeat the 

 account of Mr. Andrews, for mutato nomine de illo, historia 

 non fabula narratur. He was equally kind, equally de- 



