656 WILLIAM BOWER TAYLOR. 



office, for rest and recreation. An attack of the grippe in 1894, how- 

 ever, seemed to enfeeble him and he never regained his former vigor. 

 His last illness was brief. After much suffering from an incurable 

 malady, and submitting to a surgical operation, he died in Washington 

 on February 25, 1895, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and his 

 remains were buried in Woodlawu Cemetery, Philadelphia, his native 



city. 



" O, good old man ! how well in thee appears 

 The constant favour of the antique world, 

 When service sweat for duty, not for meed! 

 Thou art not for the fashion of those times, 

 Where none will sweat hut for promotion." 



