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year furnishes ample evidence of continued prosperity'- and a 

 sure guaranty that the public will not suifer the Institution to 

 decline. It is now six years since the Essex Institute was 

 formed out of the Essex County Natural History Society and 

 the Essex Historical Society. A gradual increase of interest, 

 as well as of specimens, books, periodicals and MSS., has been 

 perceptible, and these several collections have attracted the 

 curious and investigating inquiry in the history of society or of 

 Nature. 



But no year can pass without reminding us of the departure 

 of some cherished or honored individual, more or less distantly 

 connected with us. The obituary record of the year speaks of 



Col. Charles White, of Haverhill, by profession a merchant, 

 and highly respected as a citizen, who died on the thirtieth day 

 of December, 1853. The following memorandum was furn- 

 shed by the Hon. D. A. White, President of the Institute : 



Charles H'/^Ve, Esq., late of Haverhill, Mass. Eorn Nov. 12, 1780— 

 died Dec. 30, 1853. Merchant — wealthy bachelor — magistrate— Rep- 

 resentative to General Court, &c. lie was the son of 



John White, of said Haverhill, and Susannah White, (daughter of 

 the late Samuel White, Esq..) who was born June 20, 1752, graduated 

 at Harvard College, 1771— died June 6, 1816, — son of 



John White, of sa'd Haverhill, Merchant ; born Dec. 26, 1725 — grad- 

 uated at Harvard College, 1751 — died Feb. 19, 1800 ; son of 



Samuel White, of said Haverhill, (and Ruth Phillips) born Dec. 23, 

 1693— died Feb. 1777 — married in 1718, — son of 



John W/i2/e, of said Haverhill, (and Lydia Gilman) born March 8, 

 1663_4_married Oct 24, 1687,— died Nov. 20, 1727,— merchant— mag- 

 istrate of County Court — Representative to General Court. &c., — son of 



John White, (and Hannah French) born 1649— married Nov. 25, 1662 

 — died Jan. 1, 1668-9, aged 29, son of 



William White, (and Mary his wife) first settlers of Haverhill, about 

 1641. 



Israel Ward, of Salem, (son of Andrew W. and Martha Bab- 

 bage, representatives of old and respected Salem families,) died, 

 after a very long and lingering illness, March 19, 1854. aged 

 54. To the last he maintained a lively interest in the objects 

 of the Institute. 



