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endowments made ; the laying out of the additional land 

 which has been added to the grounds, and evincing the 

 greatest care and prudence ; the clerkship he resigned in 

 February, 1888 ; the office of treasurer he retained until the 

 close of life. He was a man of generous and charitable im- 

 pulses ; he had been a director in many enterprises in Salem 

 but took particular interest in the association for the relief 

 of the Aged and Destitute Women of which he was presi- 

 dent and whose inmates he entertained once a year at his 

 summer home, and in the Bertram Home for Aged Men 

 of which he was a trustee. He was the oldest surviving 

 member of the Salem Cadets in which he was enrolled in 

 1815, chosen ensign in 1824, and always took an active in- 

 terest in its affairs. Excepting his pay as cashier, his varied 

 duties were performed without compensation. He was a 

 very genial man, an interesting talker, possessed of a great 

 fund ot historic lore about old Salem, which he at times 

 committed to paper for the press, with a ready pen. He has 

 closed a useful and honorable life with a happy and serene 

 old age. 



Admitted to membership of Essex County Natural His- 

 tory Society, June 17, 1835. 



SAMUEL PAGE FOWLER died at his home in Danvers, 

 on Saturday morning, Dec. 15, 1888. He was born in 

 Danvers New Mills, now Danversport, Apr. 22, 1800 ; son 

 of Samuel and Clarissa (Page) Fowler. He had only the 

 limited education of the early country schools ; his tastes 

 were literary and scientific, he was a student and close ob- 

 server of nature. 



No person has held a more prominent place in the town 

 affairs of Danvers, social, literary, educational and paro- 

 chial, than Deacon Fowler. 



He was one of those who attended the early meetings 



