34 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



[The funeral was at the North Church on Saturday, June 

 16th. George H. Allen, Ezra D. Hines, Ross Turner, 

 George M. Whipple and Alden P. White, were requested 

 by the Executive Committee of the Institute to attend 

 and represent the Society.] 



On motion of Mr. Thomas F. Hunt it was 



Voted: That a Committee of three be appointed by 

 the Chair, of which the Chairman shall be one, — with full 

 powers, — to take some action in regard to the death of 

 the late President, the Rev. Edmund B. Willson. 



Voted: That the thanks of the Essex Institute are due 

 and are hereby tendered to Mrs. Sarah Goodhue King of 

 New York City, the great granddaughter and last lineal de- 

 scendant of Benjamin Goodhue of Salem, for an admirable 

 portrait in oil, just received, of her distinguished ancestor. 

 A native and life-long citizen of Salem, born September 

 20, 1748, at the Goodhue homestead, now standing near 

 Goodhue street and numbered 70 on Bostorf street, Ben- 

 jamin Goodhue took his degree at Harvard at the early 

 age of eighteen and also received an honorary degree from 

 Yale in 1804. He embarked in commerce, and at the out- 

 break of the Revolution became engaged in public afiairs. 

 He represented Essex County in the Senate of Massachu- 

 setts for 1784-9, when, under the new Federal constitu- 

 tion, he filled for three terms the seat of Congressman for 

 this district, and with the aid ol a single colleague, framed 

 the system of revenue laws, which has proved a monu- 

 ment to his skill, assiduity and foresight. He became a 

 United States senator for Massachusetts in 1796, upon 

 the resignation of George Cabot, and acted as chairman 

 of the Senate committee on commerce, but retired to pri- 

 vate life four years later, and died July 28, 1814, at the 

 mansion on Essex street now numbered 403, which he 

 erected and occupied most of his years. The portrait, so 



