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The following is a list of Dr. Ide's published writings :
Funeral Sermons .- On the death of Miss Sarah J. Fuller; Edmund I. Sanford ; Mrs. Hannah Miller; the Rev. David Long, Milford ; Dea. Daniel Wiley; Mr. James Partridge; the Rev. Charles Simmons; Mr. George Nourse; Mrs. Abigail Wright ; the Rev. Joseph Wheaton ; Miss Lydia C. Southwick.
Occasional Sermons .- On Intemperance, Dec. 14, IS17; at the ordination of the Rev. David Brigham, at Randolph, Dec. 29, ISIS; before the Norfolk Education Society, June 13, IS21 ; at the ordination of the Rev. Daniel J. Poor, at Foxboro, March II, 1840; on the fiftieth anniversary of the author's ordination and settlement, Nov. 2, 1864; at the ordination of the Rev. Sewall Harding, Waltham. Jan. 17, IS21 ; at the ordination of the Rev. George Fisher, at Harvard, Mass .; on the " Nature and Ten- dency of Balls, Seriously and Candidly Considered "; on Fast Day, April 9, IS29; on " Character of John the Baptist "; at the ordination of the Rev. Asa Hixon, Oakham, Oct. 7, 1829; at the ordination of the Rev. John M. Putnam, Ashby, Dec. 13, 1S20 ; at the ordination of the Rev. Samuel Hunt, Natick, July 17, IS39; at the installation of the Rev. Samuel Hunt at Franklin, Dec. 4, IS50; at the ordination of the Rev. Charles T. Torrey, March 23, 1837. One or two other discourses are lost.
Articles for the Christian Magazine.
Vol. I. "Fasting Explained," p. 111 ; Obituary of the Rev. M. Partridge, p. 376; Review of a sermon preached by the Rev. Wm. B. Sprague, before the Bible Foreign
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Missionary and Education Societies at Springfield, Aug. 28, 1823, p.'364; " Strange Thing," p. 266.
Vol. 2. Review of Dr. Pond's Concert Lectures, p. 107; " Ought a Wife to Refrain from Making a Public Profession of Religion in Consequence of being Forbidden by her Husband?" p. 137; " Total Depravity," p. 239.
Vol. 3. "A's Answer to Discipulus," p. 107; "Improper Instructions to an Awakened Sinner," p. 149; " Deception : or, Hypocrisy in Death," p. 58; Review. of the Rev. Mr. Whitman's Sermon, pp. 217, 243, 267, 309, 369; " The Criminality of Unbelief," p. 43; " Reply to Xanthus," p. 142.
Vol. 4. " Answers respecting Inquiries, Submission," pp. 50, 97.
Dr. Ide also edited The Works of Dr. Emmons, in seven volumes.
Dr. Ide retained to the last his characteristic dignity and gentle courtesy, thanking his attendants for the least service rendered. As he grew gradually weaker, he seemed conscious of the approaching end, and said to his oldest son, who had come from Mansfield for the final visit, with a tender pathos : "I am going away and shall be forgotten." The night but one before he died, when suffering from a sharp pain in his head, he arose and standing by his study desk, lifted up his hands and thus prayed with all the clearness of his pulpit utterance : " O Lord, when thou has kept us here on earth as long as .it is thy will, be pleased to take us home to thyself." One night more had passed and the sun had just risen, when with gentle breathings, as of an infant's peaceful sleep, the good man's spirit was released.
REV. JACOB IDE, D. D.
" A hoary herald of the truth,
Who'd struggled with disease from youth, But notwithstanding friendship's fears, Had lived almost a hundred years,
With mind well trained and running o'er With wisdom's wealth and learning's lore, With heart so tuned with Christ's to play, He never feared the face of clay,
But feared, one inch to bow or bend, If that would grieve his Heavenly friend. He preached the truth, without one thought, If it would give offense or not,
And yet so calm and kind 'twas said,
Which showed the heart that prompted bled, That guilt endowed with common sense, Had been ashamed to take offense.
A purer life has seldom been Passed in this world so stained with sin. He had his faults, as who has not? And yet I ne'er discovered what.
I've met him oft for many a year, In many a phase of his career, At home, abroad, and by the way, Among the grave, among the gay, When sweet repentance came to sue, For one to tell it what to do,
Where sickness tossed its weary head, And death was hovering o'er the bed, Where guilt was suffering bitterer pangs Than sickness shoots, from conscience's fangs,
In these and countless ways beside, He was the same kind friend and guide, And then his gems of wit would throng, In places where such gems belong, And make the moments spent, so sweet, You'd wish such meetings to repeat, And when Brown's fresh triennial came, And brought me that old veteran's name, And bore me to my native shore And set me down before his door, He wore the same mild gentle mien, That I for years and years had seen. But those purer powers, that made him strong, And that he'd used so well and long, The Master had in kindness come, And picked them up to carry home, And soon will come the happy day When re-attuned they'll ever play.
"O! if we ever are forgiven, And by God's kindness enter heaven, We shall behold close to his side, That grand old veteran, Jacob Ide."
CHARLES THURBER.
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A Hymn sung at the Funeral of Mrs. Mary Ide, July 3, 1880.
The hands that wrought for man and God Are folded on the breast of peace ; From toils for want, at home, abroad, These busy hands have sweet release.
The heart that beat is pulseless now, The heart that beat for human woe; No more this heart will beat, or bow, Or pray for sufferers here below.
Her prayer to praise, her toil to rest,
Is chang'd within the "Better Land," Where sorrow ne'er afflicts the breast, Nor sin defiles the heart or hand. .
Earth gives her up, though with a tear ;
Heaven greets on high the sainted one; While living weepers round the bier Gather-TO TELL WHAT SHE HATH DONE !
W. M. T.
REV. AND HON. JACOB IDE.
JACOB IDE, son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob and Mary (Emmons) Ide, was born Aug. 7, IS23, in West Medway. He pursued his preparatory studies in the academy, Leicester, and graduated in IS4S from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. He was a teacher of ancient and modern languages in Bos- ton, and afterward taught two years in the academy, Leicester, Mass. He studied theology under his father's instruction, and after commencing to preach was one year a resident licentiate in the Theological Seminary, An- dover, Mass. He was ordained to the Gospel ministry and installed March 26, 1856, pastor of the Congregational Church in Mansfield, Mass., and is now filling out the thirtieth year of a useful ministry in that place. The Rev. Mr. Ide married March 24, IS59, Ellen M. Rogers, daughter of the Hon. John and Eliza Ann (Williams) Rogers, of Mansfield, Mass. They had one son, John Emmons Ide, who was born Aug. 2, IS6S. The Rev. Mr. Ide traveled in IS60 through the different countries of Europe. In IS64 he was a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1866 a member of the Senate of the State of Massachusetts.
REV. ALEXIS WHEATON IDE.
ALEXIS W. IDE, son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob and Mary (Emmons) Ide, was born Oct. 10, 1826, in West Medway. After a few years of business life he studied theology under the instruction of his father, the Rev. Dr. Ide, who fitted many young men for the Christian ministry. He was ordained July 7, 1859, at Stafford Springs, Conn., where he fulfilled a successful pas- torate of eight years. He resigned July 2, 1867, and returned to his father's. house, and with great fidelity and filial devotion he cared for his aged parents while they lived. The Rev. Mr. Ide was a member of the Legisla- ture in IS72, and elected in 1874 Chaplain of the State Senate of Massachu- setts. Since the death of his revered parents at very advanced ages, in ISSo, the Rev. Mr. Ide has continued to reside in the old homestead, giving him- self to labors of beneficence and usefulness and preaching the Gospel as his services were demanded.
E. C. Jameson.
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REV. E. O. JAMESON.
E. O. JAMESON, son of Daniel and Mary (Twiss) Jameson, was born Jan. 23, 1832, in Dunbarton, N. H. He pursued his preparatory studies in Gilmanton Academy, and graduated in 1855 from Dartmouth College, N. H. At the age of seventeen years he united, March 6, 1849, with the church in Chester, N. H. While a student he taught school in Dunbarton, Mont Vernon, Claremont, and Bristol, N. H. Mr. Jameson graduated in 1858 from the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. He was licensed to preach, Dec. 29, 1857, by the Middlesex South Association, in Framingham, Mass., and supplied the pulpits temporarily in Kennebunk, Me., Dracut, East Randolph, and Concord, Mass., and Concord, N. H. He was ordained and installed March 1, 1860, pastor of the East Congregational Church in Concord, N. H. In 1865 he was called to the Union Evangelical Church of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., where he was installed Nov. 9, 1865. He resigned and was installed Nov. 15, 1871, pastor of the First Church of Christ in Medway, now the Church of Christ, Millis, Mass. The Rev. Mr. Jameson married Sept. 20, 1858, Mary Joanna Cogswell, daughter of the Rev. Dr. William and Joanna (Strong) Cogswell. He was the author of a Memorial Sketch of the Rev. William Cogswell, D. D., which was pub- lished in the first volume of Memorial Biographies of Deceased Members of the New England Historical Genealogical Society. In ISS4 he pub- lished The Cogswells in America, a volume of more than seven hundred pages, the results of many years of careful genealogical inquiry. He was chosen the editor and prepared for the press The History of MMedway, Mass. Mr. Jameson pursued lines of historical research for recreation as some clergymen follow the trout brook, and a discovered name, date, or fact, was to him a thing of joy as much as the nibble of a hungry trout, or the living fish dangling at the end of a line to some of his professional friends.
ARTHUR ORCUTT JAMESON, A. B.
ARTHUR ORCUTT JAMESON, son of the Rev. E. O. and Mary Joanna (Cogswell) Jameson, was born Nov. 25, 1859, in Concord, N. H. He entered, in 1873, the Roxbury Latin School, Boston Highlands, Mass., and completed the course of study in four years, under the instruction of Wil- liam C. Collar, A. M. He took the first rank in the Latin School, and gradu- ated in ISSI, the first scholar in his class, from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. After graduation he received an appointment as the teacher of classics and mathematics in the Arnold School, New York City. But a few days before he was to assume this position he was taken suddenly ill, and died Sept. 30, 1881, at the age of twenty-one years. His burial took place Oct. 5, ISSI, in the Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N. H. The spot overlooks the place of his birth and the Merrimac River, on whose banks much of his boyhood was spent. He was a young man as noble in character as he was brilliant in scholarship. He made a public confession of Christ at the age of sixteen years and united Nov. 7, 1875, with the church of which his father was the pastor. His early death was widely lamented, not only as a private affliction but as a loss to the world of one who gave promise of distinguished influence and usefulness. The following letter, received
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among many others by the afflicted family, from the Rev. George A. Gordon, then of Greenwich, Conn., and since pastor of the Old South Church, Bos- ton, Mass., shows in what estimation Mr. Jameson was held by his fellow students :
" GREENWICH, Oct. 8, ISSI. " MR. AND MRS. JAMESON.
" Dear afflicted, though unknown friends: I have just learned with deep sorrow of the death of my admired and much respected classmate, Arthur Orcutt Jameson. I am so much pained and shocked at the sad news that I. cannot forbear offering you my sincere and sorrowful sympathy in your great grief. Mr. Jameson and myself had in part the same elective studies for two years, and from what I saw of him in the class- room and elsewhere, I had acquired a profound admiration for his scholarship, and an affectionate appreciation of his elevated and manly character. I was always deeply in- terested in him and so knew him much better than he knew me. His memory is and will be to me a constant inspiration in thought, principle, character, and devotion. In accuracy and comprehensiveness of intellect, and in natural power of acquisition, I never knew his superior, scarcely his equal. At this moment as I think of his massive and serene face, now still in death, I am burdened with a personal sorrow, and cannot but feel, ' How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod.'
" Yours, with great respect and true sympathy, " GEORGE A. GORDON."
NATHAN JONES, ESQ.
NATHAN JONES, son of Nathan and Sarah (Clark) Jones, was born Nov. 2, 1786, in East Medway. He was a farmer and lived at the corner of Main and Plain streets. Mr. Jones was called to fill many public offices. He was appointed in 1837 a Justice of the Peace, elected in 1836 and IS47 a Repre- sentative to the General Court, and for more than twenty years served as the Deputy Sheriff for Norfolk County. He was appointed June 22, IS41, special commissioner for five years, and as County Commissioner in IS47, holding the office for seven years. He removed in IS5S, to Medfield, Mass., where he died Dec. S, IS70, at the age of eighty-four years.
ORVILLE R. KELSEY, M. D.
ORVILLE R. KELSEY, son of Robert and Judith (Batchelder) Kelsey. was born Nov. 17, IS41, in Danville, Vt. He married March 11, 186S, Abbie Augusta Shattuck, daughter of Samuel Farley and Abigail B. (Mears) Shattuck. Mr. Kelsey was a Union soldier. He enlisted Aug. 4, IS62, in Battery A, First Artillery, 11th Regiment Vermont Volunteers. He was in thirteen battles, and wounded Sept. 19, 1864, in the battle of Winchester, Va. He received his discharge June 24, 1865. Mr. Kelsey after the close of the war pursued his studies and received March 6, IS7S, the degree of M. D. from the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Kelsey was Medical Examiner for the Norfolk Lodge, No. 635, R. A., for the Eureka Council, No. 5, the Mount Nebo Council, No. 707, R. A., and for Medway Lodge, No. 42, A. O. M. W. He was District Deputy Grand Regent in the twenty- fourth R. A., District Massachusetts. and member of the Committee on Re- turns in the Grand Council, R. A. of Massachusetts. Dr. Kelsey was a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the Massa- chusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society. The children were : George W., born April 24, 1869 ; Samuel R., born Dec. 4, IS70. He resided in
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Medway several years, but removed in January, ISS3, to Waterbury, Conn., where he had an extensive practice.
REV. CALEB KIMBALL.
CALEB KIMBALL, son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Hammond) Kimball, was born June 3, 1798, in Ipswich, Mass. His father died when he was young, and at fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to a blacksmith in a neigh- boring town, where he remained until he was twenty-one years old. At the age of nineteen he became a Christian, with a strong desire to preach the Gospel. Failing in his effort to purchase his remaining time from his master, he toiled on till he was twenty-one, and the second day after started for Phillips Academy, Andover, to prepare for college. This was in 1819. He entered Dartmouth College in IS22, and graduated in 1826. In his pre- paratory course he was aided by the American Education Society, which aid he refunded after entering the ministry. In college his patron was a gentleman of his native town, who sought him out, and paid all his bills. In the autumn of 1826 he entered the Theological Seminary in Andover. Near the close of his first year there his eyes began to fail from a disease of the retina, attended with severe pain, and in the beginning of the second year, he was entirely disabled for study. In December, 1827, he entered the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, where he remained six months, and ob- tained some relief. He returned to Ipswich, where he was confined to his room more than two years, and became totally blind. At the close of this period his eyes were free from suffering. and his heart so set on the work of the ministry, that he ventured to take a license to preach, and labored con- siderably in the revivals of IS31. Being too feeble to take charge of a parish, he was ordained in 1832. and under commission from the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society he labored in Gloucester Harbor, South Dennis, and Harwich, Mass. In the latter place he preached two years. Then his eyes again failed. He remained in Harwich four years, confined to a dark room and suffering intense pain. These four years of physical suffering were years of great spiritual enjoyment, and he spoke of them afterwards as among the shortest and happiest of his life. Then he returned to Ipswich, stopping in Boston three months at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he learned to write on the system of the blind, an invaluable blessing to him, as it enabled him to do his own writing. He soon began to labor again in revivals of religion, and some time after went to Portland, Me., to assist the Rev. Dr. Chickering in the great revival with which that city was blessed at that time. There he labored three months, amidst scenes of the deepest interest. On his return home, he stopped to preach one Sabbath at Bidde- ford. At the request of the people he consented to remain three months, if his health permitted, and he staid two years. On returning to Ipswich, at the request of a neighboring minister. he commenced writing and publish- ing some small books on religious subjects. With these he canvassed about half of New England, selling over one hundred and twenty thousand. In 1854 he married and came to Medway for a permanent home. Soon his health again failed, and he spent another year in a dark room. The last eleven years of his life he seldom left home. He died June 19, 1879. Mrs. Kimball survives him and resides in Medway.
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REV. STEPHEN KNOWLTON.
STEPHEN KNOWLTON, (Stephen, Smith, Jacob, Jacob, Thomas,) son of Stephen Smith and Sally (Atwood) Knowlton, was born June 20, IS31, in Stockbridge, Vt. He prepared for college in the academies of Randolph and Ludlow, Vt., and graduated in 1857 from Middlebury College, Vermont. After graduation he taught for five years the Young Ladies' Seminary, in Castleton, Vt., which has since become the Castleton Normal School. Mr. Knowlton graduated in 1865, from the Andover Theological Seminary, and was settled Nov. 2, IS65, as colleague pastor with the Rev. Jacob Ide, D. D., over the Second Church of Christ in Medway. Vid. THE CHURCHES. He resigned this pastorate Nov. 20, 1872, to accept a call to settle with the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vt., where he remained nine years. He was again installed in ISSI in Greensboro, Vt., where he is still laboring in the Gospel. The Rev. Mr. Knowlton married, Aug. 25, IS5S, Frances L. Kent, daughter of the Rev. Cephas Henry and Mary Abbie (Clark) Kent. Their only child was Kent Knowlton, born Aug. 14, IS72.
WILLIAM LA CROIX, ESQ.
WILLIAM LA CROIX, son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Cobb) La Croix, was born May. 1787, in Wrentham, Mass. His father came to this country in 1775, from the island of Gaudaloupe. The immediate occasion of his im- migration was an insurrection of the slaves on the island. While here he married and after a few years returned to Gaudaloupe with his family, but soon died very suddenly. Mrs. La Croix then embarked for this country, and on the passage gave birth to a son, whom she named Frederick for her
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lamented husband. William La Croix went with his parents to Gaudaloupe and returned to Wrentham, Mass., with his mother. When a young man he learned the trade of carriage making, and established himself in business in Dedham, Mass. He married IS15, Lois Bullard, daughter of Adam and Lois (Richardson) Bullard, of East Medway, to which place he removed in ISIS, and settled on the place of his father-in-law, Mr. Bullard. The house stood near the site of the residence of the Rev. Mr. Bucknam, the old min- ister. Mrs. Lois La Croix died February, 1825. Mr. La Croix married an elder sister, Jemima Bullard, and continued to carry on the farm, now known as the La Croix Fruit Farm, also doing something at his trade. Mrs. Jemima La Croix died February, 1857, and Mr. La Croix survived but a few years, and died suddenly, February, 1860. He was a man of generous im- pulses, and his life was upright and useful. Mr. La Croix possessed in com- bination an amiable and cheerful disposition, the sturdy virtues of a true New Englander, and the sprightly qualities of the French. He was an exemplary citizen, and his death was universally lamented.
JAMES LA CROIX, ESQ.
JAMES LA CROIX, son of William and Lois (Bullard) La Croix, was born Nov. 30, 1823, in East Medway. After his school days he went to North- ampton and learned the tailor's trade, but his health being poor, having ful- filled his apprenticeship, he returned home and worked with his father on the farm. He married Mary Skinner Hodges, daughter of Willard and
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Hannah Smith (Pond) Hodges, of Franklin, Mass., and settled down on the old homestead. Upon the death of his father he purchased the interests of the other heirs and established the business of manufacturing refined cider and vinegar. Subsequently he added the manufacture of canned corn, fruits and vegetables of various kinds. By careful and able management he devel- oped a large business. The production of the first year was but five barrels of vinegar and some five thousand cans of fruits, while in ISS2 the produc- tion reached three thousand barrels of refined cider and vinegar and some three hundred and seventy-five thousand cans of various fruits and vegetables.
THE RESIDENCE AND MANUFACTORY OF JAMES LA CROIX, ESQ.
In 1883 the manufacture of catsup was taken up successfully. The enter- prise and courage of Mr. La Croix in establishing and enlarging this industry was a great benefit to the whole community. Not only was employment furnished to a large number of laborers, but the farmers in the vicinity were provided with a market for their products at home, and many thousands of
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dollars were thus distributed annually. Mr. La Croix was a man of great executive ability, naturally a leader among men, and for many years was a power in political circles and in the public affairs of the town. His health became broken by business cares, and being worn out by overwork he took a sudden cold and fell a prey to pneumonia, from which he died Sept. 6, 1883. Mr. La Croix was a citizen of prominence, a man of public spirit and of large business capacity, and his death was regarded as a great public loss.
LOUIS LA CROIX, ESQ.
LOUIS LA CROIX, son of James and Mary S. (Hodges) La Croix, was born Sept. S, IS51, in East Medway. His education was obtained in the schools of Medway, and he gained the reputation of being an apt scholar and a thorough student. He was for some time engaged in business with his father, but abandoned manufacturing pursuits to become one of the tillers of the soil. He carried on quite an extensive farm in the northern portion of the town. Mr. La Croix was chosen, in ISS5, the first Town Clerk and Treasurer of the town of Millis, Mass.
G. J. LA CROIX'S STUDIO, NO. 34 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
GEORGE JAMES LA CROIX, son of James and Mary LACA S. (Hodges) La Croix, was born Oct. IS, IS54, in East Medway. He was educated in the public schools of Med- way and Worcester, Mass. Mr. La Croix early betrayed a gift for sketching, and having completed his education he devoted himself to learn the art of wood engraving. For some years he was in the office of Mr. William J. Dana, Tremont Temple Building. Boston. Mr. La Croix went into business for himself February, ISS4, on School Street, Boston. He has won a good reputation and is constantly occupied in the work of engraving, the excellent quality of which is abundantly illus- trated in this volume.
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HON. WARREN LOVERING.
WARREN LOVERING, son of Amos and Lucy (Day) Lovering, was born Feb. 21, 1797, in Framingham, Mass. In 1798, when Warren was about a year old his parents removed to Medway, Mass., where his life was spent, and his death occurred Aug. 21, 1876, in his eightieth year. Mr. Lovering was educated and fitted for college in the schools of Medway. At the age of sixteen years he entered Brown University, from which he graduated in 1817 with high honors, being one of the first six in his class. His classmate, Gov. Charles Jackson, of Rhode Island, referring in earlier years to his life in col- lege, said : "Mr. Lovering lived an exemplary, moral life, and was a true gentleman ; he was a born gentleman." After graduation he returned to Med- way where he studied law, and was duly admitted to the bar by the County Court in Dedham, Mass. He opened an office in Medway Village in 1820. He soon acquired a high reputation as a lawyer in the county of Norfolk, which drew to him both clients and pupils. He was possessed of unusually varied acquirements in literature and history. Before he was thirty years of age he was chosen to represent the town of Medway in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and between 1826 and 1835 he was a member of six legisla- tures, and was afterwards a member of that of 1846. As a representative he soon attained an enviable position, and did much toward moulding and shap- ing the legislation of the State. In the years 1836-37 and '38 he was chosen by the people of the county, as the law then provided, a member of the Executive Council. The Hon. Edward Everett was at this time the Governor ·of Massachusetts, and with him he was in intimate personal relations. In IS39 he received from Governor Briggs an appointment as a member of the Board of Bank Commissioners for three years, an appointment which was renewed in 1842. He was also one of the commissioners for adjusting the boundary line between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He was among the founders of the Whig party in Massachusetts, a member for many years of the State Central Committee, and one of the ruling spirits on that committee. He was chosen to represent his Congressional District in the National Whig convention which nominated Gen. William Henry Harrison for the Presi- dency, the other prominent name before the convention being that of the Hon. Henry Clay. It was said that to no one did Mr. Harrison owe more for his nomination than to the influence of Mr. Lovering in the convention. Subse- quently Mr. Lovering visited Mr. Harrison in his home in North Bend, O., traveled with him through the West and was an intimate friend to the Presi- dent, and had Mr. Harrison lived, Mr. Lovering would have filled some office under his administration. But with President Harrison's death the hopes of the Whig party were blasted, and Mr. Lovering's political influence com- menced to wane. He was well entitled to a seat in Congress, and his name was frequently brought forward in the local conventions of the party, but he never secured a nomination. These repeated disappointments at length gave rise to a morbid melancholy, to which he is said to have been predisposed by his temperament, and this, though interrupted by occasional intervals of health and cheerfulness, at length blighted his prospects, both political and professional, and destroyed his happiness. He lost his interest in his pro-
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