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death of his father, he went to the boarding-school of 

 Samuel Smith, in Wilmington, Delaware. The following 

 winter was spent at the school of Benjamin Hallowell, at 

 Alexandria, Virginia, and upon his return he made his 

 home with his brother, John, who founded Sharon Boarding- 

 school. At the age of nineteen he commenced teaching 

 school, an occupation he continued for several years. 



In 1846 he married Caroline Hoopes, daughter of 

 Thomas and Eliza Hoopes, of West Goshen, Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania. In 1846 he was chosen Principal of Friends' 

 Institute in the City of New York ; this position he held 

 for five years. While there he met with a sad bereavement 

 in the loss of his wife, leaving him with one son. In 1854 

 he married Emily Hoopes, sister of his first wife. Return- 

 ing from New York he continued teaching until 1 863, when 

 his health became impaired, and in order to have the 

 benefit of out-door life, he purchased a farm near West 

 Chester, where he lived until 1881, when he removed to the 

 town. 



In the summer of 1883 he spent some time in the 

 mountains of Western North Carolina, and most of the 

 winter of 1884-85 in Florida, studying the botany and 

 zoology of that region. He had a large herbarium, 

 acquired by personal collection and by exchange. Dr. 

 Darlington mentions him frequently in the " Flora Cestrica." 

 He also had considerable collections of algae and fungi. 

 He owned one of the first microscopes made by Zentmayer, 

 of Philadelphia, and during the last few years of his life 

 devoted much time to microscopy, studying especially 

 cryptogamic botany. His collection of plants was depos- 

 ited at Swarthmore College after his death, which occurred 

 August 6, 1887. 



