lived in South Boston for the last half century will be more sincerely missed and lamented.

His membership in this society is from Aug. 8, 1853.

JARVIS MALTIAH HATCH, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y., a corresponding member, was born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., July 24, 1810, and died in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1862, aged 52.

He was the son of John Hatch, who was born at Stockbridge, Mass., Dec. 25, 1784, a descendant of Thomas Hatch, of Yarmouth, Mass., the early generations of whose descendants, prepared by our deceased member, is printed in the REGISTER, χίν. 197-9.

Jarvis M. Hatch married at Hamilton, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1836, Julia Anna Shapely, who survives him and resides in Rochester, N. Y. They had two sons and one daughter. The daughter and younger son have died since their father. The early education of Mr. Hatch was in the common school of the town of Brighton, Monroe Co., N. Y., and being a diligent scholar he made good progress. At the age of seventeen he taught the district school in Brighton. Soon after, he was employed as clerk in a dry goods store in Utica, N. Y. The business not being congenial to his taste, and having a decided inclination for books, he entered a law office, where he made rapid progress in his studies, and was admitted to the bar after the shortest period of study which the rules of the court allowed.

He entered upon and continued the practice of law in Utica with reasonable success. Among his professional duties were those of examiner in chancery, city attorney, and other city offices. As a politician he also edited a democratic paper in Utica.

In 1850, he removed to Rochester, N. Y., taking into partnership a younger brother who had been his student in Utica. Here also he was active in politics, and with another, started the first daily democratic paper in that city. In Rochester, as in Utica, his many offices of trust showed the confidence of his fellow citizens in him. Having entered upon a work which he counted right and just, he pursued it with an indomitable will, and a perseverance which was generally successful. But he was not obstinate when occasion called for change of views. A short time previous to the opening of our civil war, becoming dissatisfied with the course his party were taking on the slavery question, and other principles he considered of vital importance, he abandoned them, took up the republican cause, and ever after supported that party.

Mr. Hatch belonged to the Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons, and the Encampment of Knight Templars. In religion he was a member of the presbyterian church. As a student in history and genealogy, he left a large amount of manuseript, which, " had he lived, would no doubt have been printed." He was admitted, March 18, 1861.

The Hon. GEORGE THOMAS DAVIS, LL.B., of Portland, Me., a corresponding member, was born in Sandwich, Mass., Jan. 12, 1810; died in Portland, June 17, 1877, aged 67 yrs. He was a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1829, studied law at Greenfield, and at Cambridge, and began the practice of his profession at Greenfield in 1832, where he rapidly rose to eminence. In 1833 he established the Franklin Mercury, which he conducted with ability for three years, when he sold it, but was interested in the leading Greenfield newspaper, and a contributor to its columns for many years. He was one year a representative in the Massachusetts legislature from Greenfield; and in 1839 and 1840 was chosen to the Senate from Franklin County. From 1851 to 1853 he represented the old Connecticut River district in the Congress of the United States, as the successor of Mr. Ashmun. While a member of Congress he pronounced an eulogy upon Daniel Webster, which was one of the most brilliant of the many orations delivered upon the life of that distinguished man, for whom he entertained the highest appreciation. He was honored by that great statesman with his friendship and confidence.

Mr. Davis had no special desire for public life. He was successful in his profession, and held, for many years, the first place at the bar in the county of Franklin. His chief distinction was in his literary culture, and social gifts. As a conversationalist he was so brilliant and well informed, that in many respects he had no superior. For a generation he made life in Greenfield famous by his presence, his social and literary leadership, and the circle of brilliant people that he drew out and around him at home or from abroad. He was not distinguished as an author, though he contributed much to the press, and occasional articles to magazines, etc. A memoir of Lieut. Gov. Cushman, by him, appeared in the REGISTER for October, 1864. Mr. Davis was twice married. Early to Miss Russell, of Boston, two of whose children survive-James C. Davis, an honored lawyer of Boston, and Wendell T. Davis, who resides at New Bedford. A few years since he was again married to Mrs. Little, the widow of the Hon. Josiah S. Little, of Portland, Me., where he has since resided. She survives him.

He was admitted, May 10, 1847.

The Hon. OTIS WILBOR, of Little Compton, R. I., a corresponding member, born in Little Compton, January 12, 1803; died in that town, January 15, 1856, aged 53. He was a son of Joseph and Hannah (Brown) Wilbor, and a descendant in the sixth generation from William Wilbor, of Portsmouth, R. I., who died in 1710; through Joseph, by wife Anna Brownell; Joseph, by wife Emeline Champlin; Walter, by wife Catharine Davenport; and Joseph, his father.

He was town clerk and treasurer of his native town from 1840 to 1856, and also probate and town clerk for the same period. For three successive years he was a senator in the Rhode Island legislature. In 1819 he joined the United Congregational Church, and was chosen deacon in 1836. He married Mary Shaw, November, 1837.

He left in manuscript an extensive genealogy of the Wilbor family, which has been deposited by his nephew, Albert Gallatin Wilbor, of Boston, in the library of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society. While town clerk, he put the records of Little Compton into a fine condition. He copied the records of births, marriages and deaths, gleaning from every source within his reach; and so admirably did he arrange them that half the time of those who use them is saved.

His membership in this society dates from Nov. 9, 1847.

JOHN GOULD ANTHONY, of Cambridge, a resident member, was born in Providence, R. I., May 17, 1804. He died in Cambridge, Oct. 16, 1877, aged 73 yrs. 5 mos. He was a descendant of John Anthony, who emigrated to this country in 1634, through Abraham, William, James, Daniels and Joseph, his father, who was born in North Providence, R. I., May 24, 1765, and who married Mary Gould. She was born Oct. 24, 1765, at Middletown, R. I.

His opportunities for education were limited. In acknowledging his election as a member of our Society, dated Feb. 10, 1877, he says on this point: "No other education than the public schools of Providence gave me from 1809 to 1816. The rest I picked up. "My earliest occupation," he says, "was as a druggist, followed by study of medicine and practice, afterwards a book-keeper, bank clerk, book publisher, and insurance agent." Mr. Anthony resided in Cincinnati for thirty-four years. While in business he made quite a collection of shells, for the study of which he had a fondness from his youth, and was recognized as authority, especially on fresh water shells. At one period he was quite blind for five or six years, and even then could tell the nature of every shell by the feeling, better than most persons with their sight. Mr. Anthony was also a good botanist, and was a prominent member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. For the last fourteen years he has been an assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College at Cambridge, induced by Agassiz, a warm friend of his, to accept this office. While discharging his duties as conchologist, he had an extensive correspondence with scientists at home and abroad. He collected, during his residence in the West, a very fine cabinet of shells, which is now in the Museum at Cambridge. He published quite a number of articles in scientific periodicals and transactions. He accompan nied A Agassiz on his scientific expedition to Brazil. Mr. Anthony married Anne Whiting, born Oct. 19, 19, 1810, daughter and Lydia (Keene) Rhodes, Oct. Rhodes, 16, 1832, at Providence, R. eight child children. Mrs. Anthony, three sons and two daughters survive him. He died on the forty-fifth anniversary of his wedding day.

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BENJAMIN BAKER DAVIS, Esq., a resident member, of Brookline, where he was born, Feb. 4, 1794, and where he died. Aug. 23, 1877, aged 83 yrs.

Mr. Davis was the son of Benjamin, born in Brookline, March 20, 1765, and Elizabeth (Baker) Davis, born in Roxbury, March 7, 1770. His grandfather Benjamin, and his grandmother Sarah (Winchester) Davis, were also born in Brookline.

For eleven years Mr. Davis had the advantages of the education then given in his native town. He had a great taste early developed for music, and in 1816 directed the singing in the church of the First Parish in Roxbury. The same year he became a member of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, and at his death was one of its oldest members. About the year 1817 he connected himself with the church in Brookline of which Dr. John Pierce was pastor, and for thirty-eight years was its chorister. He also belonged to other musical organizations. In 1815 he united with the Washington Lodge of Free Masons in Roxbury. About 1839-40 he was for two years one of the Selectmen of Brookline. He was also, in early life, enrolled in the Massachusetts Militia, and in 1817 joined the "Munroe Association," Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn, president, for military drill. In a brief sketch of his life, dated March 13, 1869, when he was admitted a member of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society, he says, "In 1814, I leased a stall in Faneuil Hall Market, and through the blessing of my Heavenly Father, have been permitted to go and return from my place of business three hundred times a year for fifty years." His death was suitably noticed by the occupants of Faneuil Hall Market, and resolutions of heartfelt sympathy transmitted to his family. See Brookline Chronicle, Sept. 1, 1877. In 1835 he became a member of the Total Abstinence Society, and in 1862 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Mr. Davis was twice married:-1st, to Susannah Robinson Clapp, daughter of Dea. John Clapp, of Roxbury, July 8, 1818; by her he had three children. 2d, to Elizabeth Seaver, daughter of Hon. Ebenezer Seaver, Jan. 24, 1839.

The Hon. SILAS NELSON MARTIN, a life member and the honorary vice-president for North Carolina, was a son of Silas Hosmore and Margaret (Crawford) Martin, and was born in Castine, Me., Jan. 15, 1828. He died at Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 22, 1877, aged 49.

While a boy, he went to Miquelon, an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where he lived about one year. He then went to the island of Guadaloupe, and remained there about two years, as clerk in the office of the American consul. In May, 1846, he went to Wilmington, N. C., and entered the service of Potter & Kidder, where he remained until January, 1853, when he became partner in the new firm of Kidder & Martin. In January, 1868, he retired from this firm with an ample

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He was mayor of the city of Wilmington from Jan. 1, 1870, to May 13, 1872, and a member of the board of county commissioners four years, from August, 1870, to 1874, serving as chairman of the board. His official action in both these positions received the general commendation of his fellow citizens.

He was also president of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad; and on the reorganization of the company under the title of the Carolina Central Railway, he was chosen a director and vice-president.

He was president of the Wilmington Trust Company and Savings Bank, for two years, and for a time one of the trustees of the Freedman's Bank.

He visited Europe several times, and studied its ancient monuments and its galleries of the fine arts, as well as its improvements in many of the practical departments. In early life he mastered the French language, and was well read in its literature and history. He was much interested in this Society, as well as in the history of his adopted state; and a short time before his death, he assisted in forming a society for the preservation of historical materials relative to North Carolina.

A sketch of the life of Mr. Martin which did not give a record of his great services during the terrible ravages of the yellow fever in Wilmington would be incomplete. The disease was brought there in 1863 by the British steamer Kate, a blockade runner from Nassau. During that summer the town was the resort of large numbers from all the southern states who were in various ways engaged in that business. The usual precautions for health not being observed, owing to the absence of most of the officials and prominent citizens, the atmosphere was charged with unhealthy matter, so that the infection brought by the Kate soon spread in the city. When this fact was known, a perfect rush took place among the ten thousand inhabitants. A large portion, both black and white, were however forced to stay, as they had no place to which they could flee. A terrible fright possessed them. At this crisis Mr. Martin, rising above the selfish idea of personal safety, drew up and signed a paper agreeing to form what he styled a Howard Society. His own example enabled him to obtain the signature of many persons who could be relied on to devote themselves entirely to the aid of the sick and dying, as well as to assist the helpless by food and clothing. Having previously had the disease at Gaudaloupe, he thought it not likely that he should again take it, while his knowledge of its symptoms and treatment was of the greatest value in this emer

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gency. He opened a correspondence with the physicians of Charleston and Savannah, who had more experience, and they came to the aid of Wilmington and were of the greatest service in staying the course of the disease.

The heroism and sympathy of Mr. Martin as a leader were invaluable, and doubtless saved many lives, while the diary which he kept, if printed, would show a frightful record of disease and death, probably the most terrible ever experienced in this country.

The Wilmington Post, of January 26, 1877, closes an obituary of Mr. Martin with these remarks:

"Few men have filled a more honorable space in the business of the city for so long a time, and no one can leave behind a more unquestioned name for careful industry, for integrity, for honor or for success. Whatever trust was reposed in him was always fulfilled with the most excellent judgment, either in private or in public affairs. There was no question of interest to our city or state or country, which did not engage his attention, and while peculiarly a business man, he was constantly attentive to the duties and responsibilities of elevated citizenship. Nor was he indifferent to that personal culture which comes from letters and the arts. Not many among us had brought to the prime of manhood more of the culture of travel and observation."

He was admitted a member, April 20, 1868. Resolutions on his death, passed by the Society, are printed in this number of the REGISTER, ante, p. 99.

WILLIAM EDWARD WARREN, Esq., a corresponding member, of Newburgh, N. Y., was born in that part of Woodbridge now Bethany, Conn., March 20, 1817; he died in New York city, Jan. 13, 1877, aged 59 years.

From a manuscript memorial by his brother, the Rev. Isaac Perkins Warren, D.D., of Portland, Me., and notices in the New York Times of Jan. 16 and 17, 1877, in our archives, we prepare our sketch of Mr. Warren. He was the son of Isaac and Leonora (Perkins) Warren; the second in a family of five sons and two daughters. He received in his boyhood only a common school education, and about the age of seventeen found employment in a woollen manufactory in Waterbury, Conn., where, by his activity and good character, he was soon promoted to the countingroom, and entered upon that occupation which in various forms he subsequently pursued through life, and in which he became eminent, that of professional accountant. Some two or three years later he went to Newburgh, N. Y., and served as clerk and then as book-keeper in the large mercantile house of David Crawford & Co. In January, 1842, he removed to New York, where he was for six years employed as accountant and confidential agent in the firm of Doremus, Suydam & Nixon. Subsequently, in other important positions he was gaining knowledge and reputation, fitting him, in 1859, to fill the office of Deputy Comptroller of the city of New York, the office being created specially for him, in order that he might straighten out the tangled accounts of the city and county, which had fallen into confusion. In 1864, he was chosen the first president of the International Fire Insurance Company. In the last eleven years he held no office, but devoted himself to the profession of general accountant and adjuster of complicated accounts. He employed as such by by many m merchants, banks, and other corporations. In all these laborious undertakings ngs he was eminently successful. His long experience, and high reputation for integrity, gained for him the entire confidence of his employers, and he was, at the time of his death, per perhaps the most eminent accountant in the United States. The science of book-keeping and accounts was as open to him as the stony book of geology was to Lyell, or as the starry leaves of the sky could have been to Tycho Brahe.

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Mr. Warren married in Newburgh, March 25, 1840, Miss Lydia Riggs Birdsall, by whom he had two children: Mary Cushman, born March 15, 1841, who married Rev. George Dent Silliman; and Lydia Birdsall, born Nov. 19, 1842, died August, 1850. His wife died at their home in Newburgh, less than twenty-four hours after him. Their remains were laid in the same grave in the cemetery at Newburgh.

For more than twenty years Mr. Warren was a communicant in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was one of the founders of St. Paul's Church in Newburgh, and long held the office of warden in it.

He contributed an artitle on the Belknap family, from which he was descended, to the REGISTER, for January, 1859, vol. xiii. pages 17 to 19. His membership dates from January 3, 1859.

ALVIN ADAMS, Esq., of Boston, a life member and benefactor, was born in Andover, Vt., June 16, 1804, and died in Watertown, Mass., September 1, 1877, aged 73 years.

He was the son of Jonas, born Aug. 18, 1758, at New Ipswich, N. H., and Phebe (Hoar) Adams, born March 1, 1765, at New Ipswich. His grandfather, Stephen Adams, son of Thomas, of Chelmsford, was born in 1715, in that town. (See Kidder's History of New Ipswich, p. 293.) Alvin was the ninth of eleven children of his parents, who died when he was eight years old, within a week of each other, Feb. 19 and 26, 1813, at Andover. After the death of his parents, Alvin remained on the farm, with his eldest brother Jerry, until he was fifteen, acquiring that taste for agriculture which was a source of gratification to him in after life. For four or five years he was in the employ of Robert Barker, of Woodstock, Vt., when, in his twentieth year, he came to Boston, where for a number of years he was engaged in trading. Not being successful as a dealer in produce, his attention was directed to the express business, which had been started on a limited scale by Mr. William F. Harnden, and on the 4th of May, 1840, he began to pass from Boston to New York, for the carrying of money and small packages. Harnden's express at first had a monopoly of the business, but Mr. Adams kept patiently journeying to and fro, with carpet-bag in hand, until his fidelity, promptitude and reliability attracted the attention of business men, and he was rewarded by success.

Such was the small beginning of an enterprise, with a capital of fifty dollars, now known the world over as "Adams & Company's Express," or by its corporate name, the "Adams Express Company." "As a friend Mr. Adams was respected by many who have felt his kindness and experienced the gratification of enjoying his confidence. But it was within the circle of his own home that he developed those traits of character which made him the light of his own household, the affectionate husband and the most indulgent of parents."

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Mr. Adams married in Boston, Nov. 10, 1831, Ann Rebecca Bridge, who was born in Boston, Nov. 1, 1809, the daughter of John and Rebecca (Beals) Bridge, by

whom he had nine children.

He was admitted a member of this society, Dec. 31, 1870.

Dea. PHILO MALLORY TROWBRIDGE, of Woodbury, Ct., a corresponding member, was born in Roxbury, Ct., Aug. 4, 1810; died in Woodbury, Ct., Jan. 11, 1874, aged 63 years.

From a memorial tribute by the Hon. William Cothren, A.M., a corresponding member of our society, published in the Waterbury American, Ct., of January, 1875, we select the following sentences as expressive of the loss to the community in the death of Dea. Trowbridge, and as prominent traits in his character.

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"The death of this good man, so well and favorably known in all this region, has filled the hearts of every class and condition in this community with feelings of sadness and a sense of great loss. The word on every lip is, 'A good man has fallen.' He was the sincere friend of the poor, the erring, the distressed; the indefatigable and successful laborer in every good work; the firm, consistent, and prudent christian gentleman. There is no one left to fill his place." He was singularly modest and unobtrusive in all his ways, and thoroughly understanding the varied phases of human nature, he was able to speak the acceptable word at the right time, and carry conviction of the right to the most reluctant mind. In his efforts to do good he was tireless." "He was an ardent lover of music. For many years he gave instruction in singing schools, and was the leader of church choirs and musical societies, having amid his other duties found time to perfect himself in the theory and practice of music. As a teacher, visitor and superintendent in district and Sunday schools, he was largely useful in his influence for good. As an antiquary he greatly aided the authors in the histories of Woodbury and of Waterbury, Ct., particularly on the genealogical portions.

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"At the age of eighteen his mind was turned to the subject of religion, and soon after he joined the congregational church in Roxbury, then under the pastoral care of his uncle, the late Rev. Fosdick Harrison. In 1849 he removed to Woodbury, and joined the First Congregational Church, of which for the last nine years of his life he was the senior acting deacon. His christian life was one of love, labor and conciliation. He was active in every good enterprise, visiting the sick and the poor, advising with those in trouble, and endeavoring to heal all differences among breth• Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God." " He was admitted, April 16, 1853.