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TRIBUTE TO MR. FAY. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Essex Agricultural Society, 

 in Lawrence, the subjoined resolutions, in memory of the late 

 Richard S. Fay, Esq., offered by Hon. Allen W. Dodge, 

 were unanimously adopted. Mr. Dodge introduced the reso- 

 lutions with the following remarks : 



Mr. President : — Since the last meeting of this Society, we 

 have sustained a great loss in the death of one of its most 

 active members, its efficient and worthy President, and an 

 Honorary Trustee — Richard S. Fay. 



Mr. Fay was born in the county of Middlesex. He was a 

 son of the late Judge Fay, of the Probate Court of that county. 

 After receiving a college education he established himself in 

 Boston as a lawyer, and there practised in this profession for 

 many years in partnership with Jonathan Chapman, one of 

 the early Mayors of that city. Quitting the law, he engaged 

 in the manufacturing business and afterward largely in bank- 

 ing. About twenty years since he purchased a tract of land 

 bordering on one of the beautiful ponds in Lynn, which he 

 n^med Linmere, and which he made at first a summer resi- 

 dence, and afterwards his permanent home. The land was of 

 a hungry gravelly soil, overgrown with brush-wood — neglected 

 and in a most forlorn and unpromising condition. To make 

 the spot still more forbidding and unsightly, a bog pond stood 

 near the house. This was drained at a lar^e expense, and the 

 whole place put in a state of progressive improvement, and 

 forest trees in great numbers and of many varieties were plant- 

 ed out and well cared for, so that it is now, and has been for 

 years past, one of the most charming rural places in the coun- 



