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leading facts stated in said report, with a viow to point out 

 liow much Judge White had been identified with the educa- 

 vtional, benevolent and other reformatory movements in this 

 his adopted city, for nearly half a century and more than 

 the life of one generation. When called upon to aid in any 

 of the objects of the day he did not enquire what others had 

 done, but acted independently, upon his own sense of right 

 -and duty in the premises. 



Mr. H. also alluded to the reforms he was instrumental in 

 making in the probate business of this County. This sub- 

 ject was appropriately referred to at the previous meeting 

 by A. C. Goodell, Esq., the present Register of Probate. 



Mr. H. also described two interviews he had with Judge 

 White during his last sickness. The first was with a friend, 

 who was connected with Dartmoutli College, and the minute 

 :and graphic account he gave of the controversy between the 

 Trustees of Dartmouth College and President Wheelock, 

 which occurred some forty or fifty years since, was wonder- 

 ful. The Judge was appointed Chairman of the commission 

 to arrange the matters in dispute. The second interview 

 was on the Sunday preceding his decease. He then expressed 

 much mterest in the news of the day, and the political condi- 

 tion of the country awakened the fires of his patriotism, and 

 called out his ardent prayers for the Union of these States. 



Mr. H. closed his interesting remarks by reading the 

 accompanying report : 



REPORT. 



It having pleased Almighty God, in the dispensations of 

 His righteous Providence, to remove from these scenes of 

 his long and most useful life, our distinguished and venerated 

 fellow citizen, the Honorable Daniel Appleton White, it 

 is especially fit, that the members of the Essex Institute 

 should take such suitable and formal action, as to mark the 

 event, and to express upon their records, in perpetual 



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