l!S81.J -'l'^ tPliillips. 



Treasurer. 



J. Sergeant Price. 



Councillors for three years. 



Daniel B,. Goodwin, W. S. W". Ruschenberger, 



Henry Winsor, William A. Ingham. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



Obituary Notice of Peter McCall. By Henry Phillips, Jr. 

 {Bead before the American PhilosopMeal Society, January 7, 1881.) 



The life of a lawyer whose heart was not hardened by the arduous 

 duties of his career, but which, through tlireescore years and ten, never 

 failed to respond to the calls of humanity ; who passed along earth's path- 

 way from the cradle to the grave, untainted by sordid ambitions or ignoble 

 aims ; in whose footsteps it would be an honor to tread, whose approba- 

 tion would be a hall-mark to those fortunate enough to win it — the life of 

 such a man is not written in sand. Such a man is an honor to his profes- 

 sion and to his city. Such a man was Peter McCall. 



Peter McCall was born in the city of Philadelphia, on the 31st day of 

 August, A. D . 1809, and departed this life at his summer residence, Over- 

 brook, near Philadelphia, on the 30th day of October, A..D. 1880. He was 

 descended from one of the oldest families in Pennsylvania, an account of 

 whose genealogy is given in the Shippen Papers, edited by Mr. Thomas 

 Balch. His father, also named Peter McCall, intermarried with Sarah 

 Gibson, of whom were born John Gibson (born 1804, married at Tampico, 

 Dona Josefa Beccerra), Charles Archibald (born 1806), Anna Maria (born 

 1807), and Peter, the subject of the present sketch. 



Mr . McCall's education was commenced in Philadelphia, and completed at 

 Princeton, where he graduated with distinction in the class of 1836. He then 

 began the study of the law in the office of Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, sur- 

 rounded by fellow students, who all in later years rose to high legal 

 eminence, and some of whom have occupied the judicial station. Pursuing 

 his studies with zealous assiduity, he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar 

 on the first day of November, A. D. 1830, and from that day, until a few 

 months since, when increasing infirmities compelled him to relinquish the 

 practice of his profession, his career of usefulness was untiring and unceas- 

 ing. Had he lived but one day longer, he would have completed a full half 

 century of active work, an event which the Law Association of this city, of 

 which he had been for years a prominent member, and in which he had held 

 the office of Chancellor from 1873 to the day of his death, was preparing 

 to celebrate in an appropriate manner. Upon the walls of its library hangs 

 an excellent portrait of Mr. McCall, painted by TJble, which a few years 

 since was presented to the Association by the Chancellor's former office 



