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As a philanthropist, he had no mean record. He left $5,000 
to Boston and Philadelphia respectively for the encouragement of 
young married mechanics, that had accumulated a total of $348,- 
000 in Boston in one hundred years. Another gift of £100 was 
made to provide silver medals to be given annually for meritori- 
ous scholarship in the public schools. 
To such a crowded life no worthy benediction can be written. 
His last words were “A dying man can do nothing easy.” The 
thought of service and usefulness occupied his mind to the last 
breath and he died as he had lived, the most versatile American. 
