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PRAYER /-//^ 



rPor 4« Absent FrienA) i 



O God of Understanding, I pray thee 

 Care for him whom Distance takes from 



Bless his coush with Rest, where'er he lies. 

 And close, with thy caressing peace, his 



Send some Guardian Angel from thy side 

 To keep the watch at night, lest 111 betide; 

 Greet with Joy and Strength his waking 



And lead him onward to some higher goal. 

 And when, at last, his jfootsteps homeward 



trend, | 

 Lord, guide him safely back to me— his 



friend. 



Georou Hexkt Galpin 



EDWARD HENRY WHORF 



Resident o£ Dorchester Wns for Some 

 Years Historlnn Gcncrnl of Society sit 

 Ma.vHoYTer Descendnnts 



From his home at 20 Hartford street, 

 Dorchester, the funeral of Bdward H. 

 Whort look place on Friday afternoon, 

 when the simplest service was conducted 

 by Rev. James De Normandie, D.D., min- 

 ister of the First Religious Society in 

 Roxbury. There was no singing. The 

 body was taken to Forest Hills Cemetery 

 for burial. 



Mr. Whorf was of Mayflower ancestry 

 a descendant of Henry Samson, who 

 among the famous passengers, and 

 was born in Winchester, Mass., on May 

 G, 1851, the son of Sylvanus Henry and 

 Henrietta (Faxon) Whorf. Mr. Whorf 

 was always deeply interested in genea- 

 logical and historical matters, and for 

 several years served as historian gen- 

 eral of the General Society of Mayflower 

 Descendants, declining reelection, on ac- 

 count of his health, at the last triennial 

 congress, held last September at Plym- 

 outh. His work in the Mayflower and 

 genealogical societies and in the collec- 

 tion of Vital Records is known by many 

 but what proves now to have been his 

 life work was done on the Tampico dl- 

 \lsion of the Mexican Central Railway 

 Jn 1SS2 Mr. Whorf was sent to Tampico 

 to undertake this piece of railroad build- 

 ing ni the Tampico Canyon. After some 

 years he was called to the co-manage- 

 ment of the whole Mexican railway sys- 

 tem, with headquarters in the City of 

 Mexico. His official position brought 

 him Into intimate business and personal 

 slations with the men who have made 

 the Mexico of today possible, and no 

 American was better known or more 

 highly esteemed. 



