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attention to the members and their friends during one oi 

 our earlier field meetings in Manchester, will be long remem- 

 bered with gratitude. 



6th. ALONZO LEWIS, son of Zachariah and Mary (Hudson) 

 Lewis, born in Lynn, Aug. 28, 1794, educated at the schools 

 in Lynn, a teacher by profession, well known as the historian 

 of Lynn, died in the place of his nativity, Jan. 21, 1861. 

 A memoir of him read by Mr. A. C. Goodell, at an even- 

 ing meeting, has been printed in the Historical Collections, 

 vol. 3, page 34. 



7th. JOHN SHAW SIBLEY, son of Joseph and Dorcas 

 (Abbot) Sibley, born at Salem, June 15, 1815, died on 

 Thursday, Feb. 21, 1861. 



8th. DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, our respected President. 

 He was son of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White, and 

 was born at Methuen on the 7th of June, 1776 ; a graduate 

 of Harvard in 1797, and tutor in the Latin department from 

 1799 to 1803. He resided for many years at Newburyport, 

 and came to Salem in 1817, where he has since resided ; died 

 on Saturday, 29th March, L861 an appropriate notice has 

 been taken at a meeting held during the week after his 

 decease, and the Rev. Dr. Briggs having consented to pre- 

 pare a memoir for publication in the doings of the society, 

 a more extended notice is not necessary. 



Of the corresponding members we may notice the death 

 of four : three of them were natives of Salem and spent their 

 early years in our schools, but pursuits in after life called 

 them elsewhere. 



1st. PROF. JOSIAH GIBBS, LL.D., son of Henry and 

 Mercy (Prescott) Gibbs, born at Salem, April 30, 1790, a 

 graduate of Yale in the class of 1809 ; Tutor in Yale from 



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