Biographical Notice 



his sympathetic and competent in- 

 tellectual companion. On his part, 

 he began as a " mother's boy " — best 

 of all beginnings ! — and as a mother's 

 boy, maintaining still in undiminished 

 fervor and unstained purity the filial 

 reverence and affection of childhood, 

 he ended — best of all endings ! 



His early years were spent at New- 

 port. At about thirteen he entered 

 the High School at Hartford, Conn. 

 He had already shown the character- 

 istic qualities of physical strength and 

 activity ; love of nature and the nat- 

 ural sciences (exercised in hunting, 

 fishing and botanizing during summer 

 vacations in the Green Mountains) ; 

 an almost equal passion and appre- 

 ciation for literature and art ; great 

 powers of entertaining conversation ; 

 singularly quick observation and won- 

 derful memory, and (as the poet Sted- 

 man lately said of him) " the gift of 

 friendship" — a gift which Mr. Gard- 

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