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It was voted that meetings be held on the second and 

 fourth Monday evenings of each month until otherwise 

 ordered, and that all persons interested be invited to attend. 



The President, from a committee appointed at the last 

 meeting, reported that the Hon. C. W. UPHAM had con- 

 sented to prepare a memoir of Mr. Ward, and was desirous 

 of receiving any contribution that would aid in its prep- 

 aration. After a few additional remarks, in which he 

 stated that Mr. Ward was born at Salem, March 29, 1793, 

 and died at Salem on Thursday evening, September 22, 

 1864, he submitted the following resolutions : 



Resolved, that the members of this Institute received 

 with deep and unaffected sorrow intelligence of the recent 

 and very sudden death of our friend and associate, GEORGE 

 ATKINSON WARD; and desire, by these proceedings, *to ex- 

 press our high appreciation of his character and worth as 

 a man and citizen, and our very great respect for his 

 memory. As one of the original and prominent founders 

 of the Essex Historical Society, in whose behalf he early 

 enlisted with all his accustomed energy and enthusiasm, 

 and to whose interests he was strongly committed, and as 

 the last survivor of the founders of that institution, since 

 merged in our body, it is especially fit and becoming, that 

 we who have thus entered into these his early labors, 

 should mark, with suitable testimonials of regard and 

 respect, the event of his death, so sudden and startling to 

 his friends arid to this community, and so much deplored 

 by us all. Descended from one of the most ancient and 

 honored families of Salem, he was always ready and pre- 

 pared, by his accurate and full knowledge of her annals 

 from the earliest days of the Colony, to vindicate her 

 character and good name ; and whether at home or abroad, 

 he was ever steadfast to the traditions, memories, and 

 principles of the place of his birth. Endowed with the 

 most genial qualities, with high executive ability, and 

 with large practical and business capacities, he early 

 sought a fitting sphere for .their exercise and developement 

 in the commercial metropolis of the country ; and after 

 walking in the high places of commercial life for more than 



