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Wm. F. Goodrich, of Newbury, died April 27, 1887, at 

 the age of 54. He was both farmer and trader in early 

 life. Twenty or more years ago he purchased the Moody 

 Farm, so called, near the Byfield Factory, and there lived 

 and died. He joined this Society in 1865. 



Isaac H. Boardman, of Newburyport, died July 10, 

 1887, age 77 years, was one of her wealthiest and most 

 honored citizens. Early fatherless, he was called to the 

 active duties of life in his very boyhood to assist a widowed 

 mother in the support of her family ; and once in the battle 

 of this busy world, he has been unremitting in its duties, 

 cares and labors, till the conflict is now ended. For forty 

 years he was interested in the fisheries, especially the 

 Labrador Cod fishery, sending the last one in 1880, having 

 declined from seventy sail to that one. As the fisheries 

 receded he became interested in freighting ships, chiefly 

 cotton carriers, for which Newburyport was famous. Thus 

 he passed from the smaller to the greater in his enterprises 

 as he did in his personal influence, character and the 

 esteem of his fellow men. 



He was an officer of the town, and when a city served it 

 in 1851 and 1852 in its councils; in 1853 as an aldermen, 

 and in 1863 as Mayor, declining re-election. He served in 

 the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1842, 1844 

 and 1852, and in the Senate in 1855, and held important 

 offices in prominent financial and charitable institutions 

 and was very patriotic in his feelings toward his town, his 

 state and his country. 



Charles Dole, of Rowley, who became a member in 

 1871, died during the past year. 



Volney C. Stowe died in Salem, Oct. 26, 1887, from 

 heart disease, at the age of 74 years. He was well known 

 in Salem from his long connection with the bakery busi- 

 ness, and the service rendered as a member of the city 

 government. Mr. Stowe was a member of the Common 

 Council in 1848, '54, '55, '57, '70, '71 and '72, and of the 

 Board of Aldermen in '75 and '76. He was also an over- 

 seer of the Poor and in the Fire Department. 



