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repartee. His eye was peculiarly bright and observing 

 and. he might sit a long time quiet, while others were 

 absorbing the conyersation, but nothing escaped his vigil- 

 ant eye. 



As years advanced his industry increased and his 

 judicial labors were very onerous, and he failed to take 

 the needed relaxation from these duties in social inter- 

 course and out-of-door exercise. Having been bred on 

 a farm, he was strong physically, but the mental spur 

 of literary work unfinished, kept busy with his private 

 studies and writing, the hours that should have been 

 devoted to leisure, his health failed and death claimed 

 him. 



To his friends and associates, he has left the memory 

 of a life well lived, a character unsullied, a heart filled 

 with kindness toward all and a soul that ever led the 

 way to the higher life. 



