alogy of the Chapman family, and to the former the compiler was greatly indebted for much material and substantial aid and encouragement in the preparation of that work. H. A. CHAPMAN.

EATON, Miss Emily, in Warren, Me., September 20, 1877, æt. 60. She was the youngest child of the late Cyrus Eaton, A.M., the historian of Warren, Thomaston and Rockland, Me. (ante, xxix. 222), and was born in Warren, Oct. 23, 1817.

She

"Miss Eaton," says the Rockland Gazette of Sept. 27, "was a woman of very much more than ordinary intellectual ability. From childhood her father took special pains with her education. She pursued a widely extended course of study, which was interrupted in early womanhood by the sickness which kept her almost a helpless sufferer during the remainder of her life. When her father lost his sight, her eyes and hand were of material service to him in the literary work he undertook." was a great admirer of our best poets, and was well read in the standard authors in prose as well as in poetry. She was also a gifted writer. In many autograph books are to be seen "verses traced with her trembling hand, almost always with some little personal allusion gracefully expressed, each bearing the stamp of originality, verses which for the future will be highly prized. We are sure that many will recall the hymn which she wrote for the centennial celebration of Warren, and in which she succeeded so well in attaining the sublimity of expression which befits the contemplation of a completed century, even in the life of a community." This spirited poem is printed in the new edition of the Annals of Warren.

She had a very fine appreciation of the beautiful in nature and art ;" and "was also possessed of artistic talent in no mean degree. Even in her last days, when her hands were fearfully cramped by rheumatism, she produced faithfully, in her crayon drawings, the scenery in her vicinity."

The death of her father, in January, 1875, was followed within a week by that of her elder sister, Angelina, to whose untiring care both she and her father had been indebted for their comfort. "After the first shock of this double bereavement, she wisely turned her energies to the execution of a task which her father had in contemplation at the time of his death, the continuation of his Annals of Warren,' through

the quarter of a century which had elapsed since its publication. That this was a great undertaking for one in her feeble health, will be readily understood; but how laborious it was can hardly be conceived by one who has not had some experience in similar work. Without the assistance of her niece, Laura E. Eaton, who has tenderly cared for her while sharing this labor with her, she could not possibly have accomplished it. This work she was privileged to finish before her death, and to receive a sample copy of her book from the press." Her labor upon this work was performed with conscientious fidelity, stimulated by a strong desire to make it worthy of the memory of her father, whom she loved and revered.

The Rockland Free Press, of October 3, also has an appreciative obituary notice of Miss Eaton, from which we make an extract :-" She entered with enthusiasm into the enterprises of her native town, especially those of education. Her heart was tender and opened to all worthy objects, and she had for each a kind and sympathizing word. None could be in her company long without feeling the influence of her noble nature, and becoming a delighted listener to her conversation."

EDES, the Rev. Richard Sullivan, was b. in Providence, R. I., April 24, 1810; and died at his home in Bolton, Mass., Aug. 26, 1877, aged 67.

He was the younger of the two sons of the Rev. Dr. Henry and Catharine (May) Edes. His early education was in public and private schools of Providence; with Rev. George Taft, afterwards of Pawtucket; with Mr. Steuben Taylor, a graduate of Brown in 1819 (among whose other pupils were Dr. Edwards A. Park, of Andover, and the late Gov. John H. Clifford, of New Bedford); and for a short time at the then newly-established Friends' School; afterwards with Rev. Benjamin Huntoon, at Canton, Ms., and with Mr. Daniel Greely Ingraham, of Boston, at which time his home was in the family of his uncle, the late Henry K. May. In 1826 he entered Harvard College, where he remained but one year, then transferring his connection to Brown University, where Dr. Wayland had become president, and was graduated there in 1830. He soon entered the divinity school at Cambridge, and was graduated in the class of 1834.

In 1836 he was settled in Eastport, Me., as pastor of the Unitarian church,

and remained there six years. In May, 1843, he was installed pastor of the First Church in Bolton, Mass., as colleague with the Rev. Isaac Allen, whose death occurred shortly after. He resigned the pastoral office in 1848, partly owing to his impaired sense of hearing, but more to his constitutional diffidence and love of quiet study and pursuits. The dissolution of his ministerial relations with the Bolton people was but partial. Frequent calls were made upon him, even to the end of his life, to do the work of both preacher and pastor, and to these he always responded cheerfully. As a member of the school committee, as one of the managers of the town library, and especially as town clerk, which office he held for twenty-four years, he rendered great and valuable services to Bolton. In the last named office, he carefully revised the entire records of the town, supplementing their deficiencies, searching out and adding all possible facts and dates which could add to their accuracy and value. It was through these pursuits that the interest in historical and genealogical research was awakened, which so largely occupied his later years; a valuable and permanent memorial of which exists in the Address pronounced by him on the 4th of July, 1876, by request of the people of Bolton, and which was published in pamphlet form.

Mr. Edes edited the "Journal and Letters of Col. John May, of Boston, relative to two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and '89;" to which he also prefixed a brief memoir of Col. May, who was his maternal grandfather. This work was published in an elegant volume of 160 pages, 8vo., by the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. [Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1873.] He had also previously prepared for this journal, an account of the "Letters and Journal of Col. John May." [See N. E. Hist. and Genealog. Reg., January, 1873.] Three years later, he added a more full account of Col. May's second journey, as above, the journal of which had then unexpectedly come to light. [See REGISTER of January, 1876.]

But the work which most deeply absorbed his attention, and to which he gave himself with a zeal and patience to which it would be difficult to do adequate justice, was a genealogy of the descendants of JOHN MAY, who came from England to Roxbury, Mass., in 1641. This work was nearly complet

ed at the time of Mr. Edes's death, and will probably soon be published.

Mr. Edes was married April 19, 1857, to Mary Cushing, of Dorchester, dau. of Jerome and Mary Cushing. Of their children, seven are living, the oldest being Dr. Robert Thaxter Edes, of Roxbury. We have no space suitably to characterize the large and generous nature of our friend, his kindly spirit, his broad culture and sympathies, his deep interest in all subjects of thought and progress of the day. Honored and loved in the circle of his friends, with a tenderness seldom felt probably for a man, he sought no public fame, and kept the quiet path of a just and useful life.

KELLOGG, Mrs. Harriet Walter, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1877. She was a dau. of John and Harriet (Walter) Odin, of Boston, Mass., and married in September, 1841, Day Otis Kellogg, Esq., of whom a memoir will be found in the REGISTER, vol. xxx. pp. 116-18.

QUINT, Dea. George, in Dover, N. H., Oct. 22, 1877, æt. 75. He was born in Parsonsfield, Me., but in early manhood removed to Dover, and for fifty-one years resided there, during which time he was connected with the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. Throughout these years no one in that community was more deservedly respected, and no one was more diligent in business or faithful in every duty. Though unassuming and retiring in his habits, never seeking self-preferment, he was a man of strong convictions, unswerving where he clearly saw his duty, and shrinking from no responsibility or personal sacrifice in its performance. He was a member of the First Parish Church, and since 1874 had been one of its deacons. In 1856 and 1857, he represented his ward in the New Hampshire legislature. He had since been an alderman and filled other important trusts. The Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, D.D., is his only child.

WAITE, Miss Mercy, in North Brookfield, Mass., Sept. 14, 1877, a. 85 years, 5 mos. 6 days. She was a daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy Waite, and a gr. dau. of the Rev. Jonathan Jenks, of Providence, R. I., who m. Freelove, dau. of the Rev. Samuel Winsor, whose father, another Rev. Samuel Winsor, m. Mercy, dau. of Roger Williams. She was one of the original members of the Baptist church of East Brookfield, 1818.