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thirty years, with varying fortunes and success, but always 

 with honor and integrity, never too busy to foster and cul- 

 tivate the studies aud tastes of his earlier life, or to 

 engage in those works, which in all communities are 

 required and expected at the hands of men of public 

 spirit, and enlarged views, he came back here, but little 

 less than one year ago, to a new generation to die in his 

 native and beloved town, and to be here gathered to his 

 kindred and fathers. Although suffering from disease 

 and infirmity he was still the same genial companionable 

 and enthusiastic man as ever, in all good words and works, 

 and betook himself at once, with all the zeal of his youth, 

 to the care, culture and growth of this child of his earlier 

 days, as one of the departments and functions of the 

 Institute. How he labored to extend its means and use- 

 fullness, and to enlarge its boundaries ; and how he com- 

 mended it to the regards, support and encouragement of 

 our people we are all this day his witnesses. He had 

 performed the same work on a larger scale, many years 

 ago, for the Historical Society of New York, by present- 

 ing with great attractiveness, and in his fervent and 

 glowing manner, its objects and labors to the culture and 

 wealth of that city, thus greatly augmenting its means, 

 and largely aiding it in entering on that career of useful- 

 ness and renown for which it has since been so much 

 distinguished. The hand of our friend and associate was 

 strongly in that earlier work of revival and reconstruction 

 and it was only in renewal of similar labors, years before, 

 in the formation of the Essex Historical Society. It is an 

 affecting incident, that his very last days and thoughts 

 were employed in preparing illustrative memorials of the 

 first meeting house of the First Church in Salem (and the 

 first Congregational Church founded on the Western Con- 

 tinent,) the frame of which is now being reerected arid 

 covered for preservation on the grounds of the Salem 

 Athenaeum, in the rear of Plummer Hall, under the direc- 

 tion of a committee of the Institute, a work which he had 

 undertaken, as a labor of love, and in which he was 

 engaged at the very moment of the fatal attack. 



Besolved, That a man of a character so strongly marked 

 as that of our deceased friend, and who has so impressed 



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