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inferred from a simple enumeration by their titles, as follows: he was a 
working member of the American Iron and Steel Association, from its 
origin to the close of his life; an active member of the African Coloniza- 
tion Society for more than a score of years; several years engaged in the 
management of our House of Refuge ; nearly twenty years a Director of 
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, whose Board of Directors, in a feeling 
notice of his death, say that, ‘““having been an active member of the Board 
from its organization, and having contributed very largely of his means, 
time and labor in the prosecution and completion of this work ; in many 
dark periods of this enterprise we could always look to Mr. Colwell for 
his matured judgment and able counsel.”’ 
He was a Director in the Reading and in the Pennsylvania Central 
Railroads, and for years held the office of a Trustee of the University of 
Pennsylvania; as also a similar position in the Princeton Theological 
Seminary. Simultaneously therewith, he was one of the Trustees of the 
Presbyterian General Assembly, and member of the Board of Education 
of the Presbyterian Church. After the close of the Rebellion he gave 
large pecuniary assistance, and his usual energy of service, to the Freed- 
man’s Aid Society, as during the Rebellion he had contributed with like 
liberality to the work of both the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 
Of his services in these great patriotic charities a gentleman well acquainted 
with their history says: ‘‘At the breaking out of the Rebellion he felt 
deeply for the distress in the camps and on the battle-field, and it was at 
his suggestion that the first man who left his home to assist the helpless 
and the wounded, took his way to the seat of war. He also contributed 
freely to supply comforts to those in the hospitals. To one of the active 
stewards he said, ‘Let nothing be wanting, and if the Government funds 
are insufficient I will see that the bills are paid.’’’ The same witness of 
his active benevolence to the suffering soldiers, and of his personal de- 
meanor in its administration, further says: ‘*Those who accompanied 
him on his visits to the Army of the Potomac, can never forget the kind- 
ness and respect with which he treated the humblest individuals.” 
In the patriotic services and sacrifices to which the country called its 
best citizens in the hour of its utmost need, he was in every form of duty, 
one of the earliest most constant, persistent and efficient of the men in 
private life who gave themselves unreservedly to the salvation of the 
Union. The Union League of this city in words which well might serve 
as 2 condensed memoir of his life and character, bears this testimony 
to his agency in the great work of their association: “ With an intelli- 
gent and thoughtful mind, fully convinced of the necessity and usefulness 
of such an organization, and a heart warmly alive to the encouraging in- 
fluences, it was peculiarly fitting that at the first formal meeting which 
Jed to the establishment of the Union League should be called upon, as 
he was, to preside, His name thus heads the list of signers of the con- 
stitution of the League ; and he grew with its growth, ever in the fore- 
front of whatever movement was planned for giving aid and comfort and 
