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hand, and then, without telling any one, walked home to undergo 
the operation from the effects of which he succumbed ten days later. 
He died upon the 9th of October 1894, and he may literally he said 
to have died in harness, — a good man, whose chief characteristics 
were strong faith in the Christian verities, great simplicity of 
character and unselfishness, extreme warm-heartedness and charity, 
indomitable pluck, and an undeviating devotion to whatever he 
conceived to he his duty. 
In 1870 he married the widow of his late partner, Mr Murray, 
and is survived by her. He left no family. 
