36 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Ex-Mayor Huntington, an ex-President who had served 

 four years, died September 5, 1870. Kesolves were 

 passed, and Judge Lord was invited to prepare a memoir, 

 which he read before a meeting of the Institute, Septem- 

 ber 5, 1871. 



Your committee believe that the Institute can not do 

 better than to continue the precedent so wisely established, 

 and they recommend that the testimonial of regret here- 

 with submitted, be spread upon the records and trans- 

 mitted to the family of the late President Willson, and 

 that a memorial be prepared, to be presented to the Essex 

 Institute at a meeting to be held in October next. 

 By the committee, 



Robert S. Rantoul. 

 Thomas F. Hunt. 

 Charles S. Osgood. 



Resolves. 



Edmund B. Willson, the fifth President of the Essex 

 Institute, died after a brief illness at his home in Salem, 

 June 13, 1895. He was born at Petersham, August 15, 

 1820. He was the son of a clergyman and teacher of 

 youth. He was a student at Yale College and at the 

 Harvard Divinity School and received from Harvard, in 

 1853, the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He began 

 his ministry at Grafton, January 3, 1844, and, after 

 preaching there with acceptance, was called to West Rox- 

 bury as the successor of Theodore Parker, July 18, 1852. 

 He became pastor of the North Church in Salem, June 5, 

 1859, and was stricken down in that pulpit at the close of 

 his thirty-sixth anniversary service, on Sunday, June 2, 

 1895. 



In addition to the pastoral duties to which his life was 

 given, Mr. Willson assumed others imposed upon him by 



