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He was well acquainted with the medicinal qualities of herbs, and had 

 considerable knowledge of chemistry and medicine. 



In person he was short, spare, and stooped with age, brisk in his 

 movements, and walked usualty with a cane.* 



He was a life-long member of the First Baptist Church. Uniting 

 with that congregation when he first came to the city, he continue I ■ 

 constant attendant till his death. He was licensed by his church in 1842, 

 and has more than once served in the capacity of preacher. He never 

 obtruded his religious opinions upon any one. He was a simple- 

 hearted believer in Christianity, who "looked through nature up to 

 Nature's God,'' and saw in the humblest flower " the revelation of His 

 love." To one who visited him in his last illness, he said that with 

 St. Augustine he could say, (i Spes mea Christus" In this hope he 

 died. With us he still lives in memory as a man whose love for 

 nature was pure and childlike^a^dOSeypm} any expectation of gain. 

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* His favorite walking stick'was a woody stem of Artemisia. 



