318 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts, and Letters. 



In the summer of 1877 he felt the premonitions of the fatal disease to which 

 he finally succumbed. It appeared first as a paralysis of the right hand, 

 •which he naturally attributed to excessive use of his arm in writing, but the 

 steady advance of the paralysis soon left no doubt that the disease was seated 

 in the brain, and that no human agency could arrest its progress. For some 

 three weeks he attempted to carry on his work, but was then forced to cease 

 his labor in the hope that rest and quiet would restore his health; but disease 

 had too firm a hold upon his system, and he steadily failed. In January he 

 was removed to Fayette, Iowa, the residence of his wife's parents, in the faint 

 hope that a removal from the scene of his labor would lessen the irritation 

 that a man of his active temperament must have felt at being laid aside from 

 duty; and, that care and quiet and the constant medical attendance of his 

 wife's father might have a beneficial eflFect. But all was in vain, he failed; 

 struggled with disease, and rallied, only to fall back beaten by his powerful 

 antagonist. The disease of the brain steadily progressed, extinguishing one 

 after another of his faculties; his speech gradually failed; then his sight; 

 and at last he gave no signs of consciousness; and so life ebbed away, and 

 death bafiled all human effort. Love could not hold him, but Love can cher- 

 ish the memory of his life. 



His remains were brought for interment to Madison, where he wished to be 

 buried. On a bright spring-like day a large concourse of mourners, composed 

 of the Faculty and students of the University, and a large number of personal 

 friends, gathered at his late residence, and followed his remains to the Epis- 

 copal church, where the solemn but hopeful and impressive service of the 

 churce he so loved was held by Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, assisted by Rev. J. B. 

 Pradt, after which his body was laid to rest in Forest Hill Cemetery, in sight 

 of the city that he loved as his earthly home, and of the University, the scene 

 of the labors of his active life ; and there he rests, awaiting the resurrection of 

 the just. Bequiescat in pace ! 



Note. — It was Prof. Carpenter's iBtention to have completely re-written and extended the 

 above notice of the life and death of Dr. Fenling, and he had promieed the Secretary of the 

 Academy to do so, only a few dajs hefore he was Dimeelf seized with the illness which bo 

 suddenly terminated his own life. " In the midst of life we are in death." 



DEATH OP PEOFESSOR S. H. CARPENTER 



[From the State Journal (Madison) of Dec. 7, 1878.] 



Professor Stephen Haskins Carpenter, of the University of Wisconsin, died 

 at half-past five o'clock on the morning of December 7, 1878, at Geneva, N. 

 Y., of diphtheria, which had already proved fatal to his brother and nephew, 

 a few days before. 



Professor Carpenter's death is one of the saddest events we have ever been 

 called on to chronicle. He was widely and fuvoiably known, not only in 



