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The present immljer oi' subscribing members are threo 

 hundred and sixty eight ; corresponding, seventy one ; hon- 

 orary in virtue of their connection with the Essex Historical 

 Society, eleven ; total, four hundred and fifty. During the 

 yeai' fiftj-four have been admitted ; fourteen have removed 

 from the county ; ten have retired, and four have died. Of 

 these last, it is appropiate that some triliute should bo paid 

 to their memory. 



One of this number was active in the early incipient 

 stages of the formation of the Historical Society, and, from 

 that time to the union in 1848, was successively elected to 

 various oiSces ; since then he has been one of the Vic e Pres- 

 idents of the Institute, the Hon. John Glen King, whose 

 decease was announced at the meeting in Manchester, on 

 Tuesday, xiugust 4, 1857. He was the son of James and 

 Judith (Norris) King, and wi'.s born ill Salem, March 19, 

 178T. He graduated at Harvard College in 1807, and was 

 the youngest of that corps of scholars and gentlemen, who 

 gave tone and character to the Essex Bar, in the generation, 

 which is now rapidly passing away. He was a man of great 

 |)rivate worth, and has been called, by his fellow citizens, to 

 posts of honor, all of which he filled witli great a1)ility and 

 •dignity. He devoted much of his leisure from professional 

 duties to history and literature, and was conspicious among 

 the lovers of both. He died at his residence in Salem, after 

 .a long and lingering illness, on Sunday morning, July 26, 

 1857^ 



2. Hon. Stephen Clarendon Phillips, whose sudden 

 death, by a shocking and terrible disaster, in which hundreds 

 of others also suffered, was announced to us on Saturday June 

 27, 1857. His death was considered a great public calamity 

 to this city. The public offices municipal, state and na- 

 tional, which he has filled with so much ability and distinc- 

 tion ; his services in the cause of education, philanthrophy, 

 and morals ; his mercantile energy and enterprise ; his pub- 

 lic merit and far seeing sagacity, liave made their mark upon 



