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Haverhill ; removed to Salem about 1807 ; Clerk of the 

 Courts for Essex for upwards thirty years ; died in 1846. 



DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, President of Essex Histor- 

 ical Society, 1837-48, and President of Essex Institute, 

 1848-61 ; born in that part of Methuen now Lawrence; 

 graduate of Harvard in the class of 1797 ; commenced 

 the practice of the law in Newburyport ; removed to 

 Salem in 1815 ; Judge of the Probate Court of Essex 

 for more than forty years ; died in 1861 ; a fine classical 

 scholar. 



ANDREW NICHOLS, President of Essex County Natural 

 History Society, 1833 to 1845, a valued physician ; born 

 in the rural part of Danvers he early imbibed a taste for 

 the study of nature, which continued through life. He 

 was very conversant with the local natural history of this 

 vicinity, and took a great pleasure in guiding his young 

 friends to the rural retreats, in quest of some rare floral 

 gems. He lived in South Danvers, now Peabody, and 

 died March 31, 1853. 



JOHN LEWIS RUSSELL, President of Essex County Nat- 

 ural History Society, 1845-48, Vice President Essex 

 Institute 1848-61, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 

 1828, and of the Theological School in Cambridge in 1831, 

 distinguished as a botanist, and especially conversant with 

 our cryptogamic flora. He was also an able and instruc- 

 tive lecturer on the various departments of Natural His- 

 tory, especially in his favorite one, Botany. 



ASAHEL HUNTINGTON, President of Essex Institute 

 1861-65, born in Topsfield ; a graduate of Yale in 1819 ; 

 commenced the practice of the law in Salem ; District 

 Attorney, and for many years preceding his death, which 

 occurred Sept. 5, 1871, was the genial and efficient Clerk 

 of the Courts for Essex. 



FRANCIS PEABODY, President of Essex Institute 1865-7 ; 



