IOI OR eC EOLOGy 
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EDWARD ORTON. 
EpwaRD Orton, born Deposit, Delaware county, N. Y., 
March g, 1829, was descended from old New England stock on 
both sides of the house. His father, Thomas Orton, a Presby- 
terian clergyman, whose memory is still cherished in north- 
Western News York, moved) to! Ripley; Ney) on: the lake 
Erie shore soon after his son’s birth. There the son grew up 
amid an agricultural population, sharing their work and their 
amusements and gaining an intimate knowledge of their needs 
which affected his whole course in life. Asa lad, he is said to 
have been somewhat shrinking and sensitive to ridicule ; always 
courteous, always considerate of the feelings of others and 
sternly conscientious. 
His father prepared him for college and, at what appears to 
Hspthevearly age ot miteen,, he’ entered) the Sophomore year at 
Hamilton with the class of 1848. The college course of fifty 
years ago was narrow, carefully avoiding more than very super- 
ficial treatment of the inductive sciences and dwelling chiefly 
upon classics, elementary mathematics and certain philosophical 
studies. Edward Orton pursued the course faithfully, though 
there was little in it attractive to one of his tastes, and at gradua- 
tion he had a well trained mind with a good stock of such 
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