DIARY AND NOTES 355 



In the beginning of June, 1877, while cashier in a lead- 

 ing local bank there, began a new era for our 

 author whose happy matrimonial venture was accom- 

 panied by the earnest wishes of his many true friends. A 

 wedding trip to Europe was heartily enjoyed by both, 

 alter which they founded a home where happiness 

 reigned supreme for fully eleven years, when suddenly an 

 attack of paralysis compelled our author to bid farewell 

 to all activities and resign himself to the will of his God. 

 Great were his sufferings and privations, but greater was 

 his faith and his hope in the Divine Mercy, which sus- 

 tained and comforted him to the end. 



Purified by fourteen years of untold agonies, his beau- 

 tiful soul entered into the realms of Eternal Peace on the 

 seventeenth of January, nineteen hundred and one, in 

 the seventy-second year of his well spent life and the 

 fiftieth year of his California citizenship. 



THE END. 



