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from chapel to church; from the church the Seniors and Juniors 
of the college by turn bore him the half mile to the cemetery; and 
there, gathering about the grave, while flowers were dropped upon 
the casket from the hands of students, and soldiers, and children, 
with hushed breath and upturned faces we looked whither he had 
gone for higher thought and larger service. A great citizen of 
the republic of letters, a great citizen of our commonwealth, 
a loyal citizen of the kingdom of G-od, has passed out of the 
life of our state and become a part of its enduring memory and 
wealth. 
Edward D. Eaton. 
Beloit , Wis. 
GEORGE P. DELAPLAINE. 
George P. Delaplaine was born in Philadelphia, September 23, 
1814. His father, Joseph Delaplaine, projected and in 1815 had in 
part executed an extensive work, “Repository of the Lives and 
Portraits of Distinguished American Characters. ” This enter¬ 
prise seems to have been undertaken at too early a date to secure 
the needful patronage, and only three volumes of it were issued. 
His lineage was traceable to Nicholas de la Plaine, a Huguenot 
who came from France to New York about 1672. His mother was a 
Livingston, and connected with the Jay family so prominent in 
early New York and in making the first treaty between the 
United States and Great Britain. 
At the death of his father in 1824 he was separated from his 
mother either at school or when employed as a store-boy. But 
his vacations of all sorts were spent among his Jay kindred at 
the Jay mansion in Bedford, Westchester Co., New York, where 
Chief Justice Jay was still surviving. His death was in 1829. 
Through contact there with people of such high culture and re¬ 
finement his ideals of life and scholarship were elevated, and he 
was roused to life-long aspirations and endeavors for self-im¬ 
provement. The names Ann Jay and Blanche Livingston which 
he gave his daughters show how fondly he remembered those 
early haunts. 
