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JOHN KEELEY. 



At a meeting of the Trustees, held at Salem November 

 20th, 1874, Hon. George B. Loring made the following re- 

 marks on the death of John Keeley, Esq., of Haverhill, 

 one of the Vice Presidents of this Society, and offered resolu- 

 tions Avhieh, after further remarks by Messrs. Berj. P. Ware 

 and Josiah Newhall, were unanimously adopted : 



Mr. Presiderit : — I rise to make a painful and unexpected 

 announcement, and to discharge a duty which we as a Society 

 owe to a respected and esteemed, departed friend. Within a 

 few days Mr. JoHX Keeley, of Haverhill, one of our most 

 efficient members, long a Trustee, and lately one of our Vice 

 Presidents, has suddenly been summoned to another world. 

 This loss we all, I am sure, deeply deplore, conscious as we 

 must be that the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Keeley 

 cannot easily be filled. He was one of the best of our Essex 

 County yeomen, a careful and accurate farmer, a conscientious 

 observer, a prudent manager, a useful citizen. At a time 

 when the glittering temptations of more active business in- 

 duced so many of our young men to leave the occupation of 

 their fathers, and expose themselves to the risks, for the sake 

 of securing the possible rewards of the busy world, he chose 

 to discharge quietly and faithfully the duty which devolved 

 upon him in the community and occupation to which he was 

 born. His success may well encourage the young men of our 

 County to follow his example ; and the respect and esteem in 

 which his memory Avill be held by all who knew him should 

 teach them the value of honest and unassuming endeavor to 

 discharge well the duties of life. There is no legacy more 

 valuable than this. The glories which attend exalted position, 

 bedimned as they often are by the trials and conflicts which 

 surround them, can never outshine the mild and cheerful light 

 which stefidily illumines the path of simple and faithful duty. 

 To perpetuate the memory of a life thus wrought out, and to 

 pay a tribute of respect to a man thus animated, is a duty and 

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