THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



SAMUEL LEWIS PENFIELD. 



In the recent death of Samuel Lewis Penfield, the mineralo- 

 gist, science in America has lost one of its best representatives, 

 his chosen Held of work its ablest exponent and investigator 

 and the community in which he lived a man of the highest 

 type of character. His loss is a heavy blow to his profession, 

 to his University and to his friends. Men of his attainments 

 come but rarely, and when they pass, the place they have made 

 can never be exactly filled. 



Attacked some three years since by a very serious malady 

 which occasioned great anxiety, his unwearying and patient 

 fidelity to the regimen prescribed for him and the devotion 

 and care of his family enabled him to resist the disease, and it 

 was hoped that his life might be prolonged for years to come. 

 His trouble took, however, a sudden and unfavorable turn, and 

 after a very brief illness he passed peacefully away on Aug. 

 12th, at the little village of South Woodstock, among the hills 

 of eastern Connecticut, where he was spending the summer. 



Penfield was born Jan. 16th, 1856, in the town of Catskill 

 on the Hudson River, where his father, Greorge H. Penfield, 

 who was engaged for many years in a mercantile and shipping 

 business, was a prominent, useful and highly esteemed citizen. 

 His mother, whose maiden name was Ann A. Cheeseman, was 

 of Connecticut stock ; she was a notable woman in her com- 

 munity and family, and from both his parents Penfield had a 



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