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called by the President to so high and honorable a 

 position as that of Secretary of the Treasury, it is be- 

 lieved that in performing the duties of this high office, 

 he will not only show that he has the ability to perform 

 them, but will gain new honors for himself, and reflect 

 credit upon the great State he represents and the town 

 in which he was born. 



Anna Gardner. 

 Anna Gardner, who was born at Nantucket Jan. 25, 

 1816, is a descendant of Thomas Macy, and connected 

 with other families prominent in the history of the 

 island. She very early in life identified herself with 

 the antislavery movement. At the age of twenty-five 

 she was instrumental in calling an antislavery conven- 

 tion upon the island. It was at this convention that 

 Frederick Douglass made his d6but as a public speaker. 

 She has always been foremost in every so-called re- 

 form of the day, and was one of the first teachers of 

 freedmen at the South, teaching in North and South 

 Carolina and Virginia. In 1878, after her return 

 North, Miss Gardner met with a severe accident 

 from which she has ever since been a sufferer. In 

 1881 she published a volume of her fugitive pieces in 

 prose and verse, entitled u Harvest Gleanings. n and 

 dedicated to another lifelong reformer, Mrs. Charlotte 

 Austin Joy. 



Fhebe A. Ilanaford. 

 This estimable lady was born at the little village of 

 Siasconset, on the island of Nantucket, May G, 1829. 

 She was the daughter of George W. and Phebe Ann 



