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AIKEN, Martha (dau of William Aiken) died May 4, 1749, aged 14 yrs ; Wil- liam died Oct 16, 1745, aged 54 yrs.
HOME OF MRS. MARY J. TENNEY, GEN. STARK'S GRANDDAUGHTER. Situated near the Hill Graveyard, Londonderry .- Winter scene.
William and Alice Boyd) died Jan 9, 1777, aged 22 yrs ; William died Nov 24, 1785, aged 70 yrs 3 mos.
CAMPBELL, Jannet (wife of Henry Campbell) died Sept 28, 1778, aged 46 yrs.
CLARK, Eleanor (a child), no dates ; Esther (a child), no dates; Esther (a child), also no dates.
CRAIGE, Jean (a child) ; John died Oct 2, 1758, aged 61 yrs ; Mary (dau of John Craige) died Nov 25, 1760, aged 4 yra ; Mary ( wife of John Craige) died April 27, 1753, aged 92 yrs ; Samuel (a child).
DICKEY, Elias died Feb 27, 1755, aged 57 yrs ; Elizabeth ( Mrs) died Sept 21, 1748, aged 70 years; Joseph died Nov 26, 1745, aged 9 yrs ; Martha (wife of Samuel Dickey) died ()ct 15, 1775, aged 72 yrs ; Martha died aged 3 mos ; Mary died aged 3 weeks : Sarah died aged 2I mos ; William died Oct 9, 1743, aged 60 yrs.
DUNCAN, Hannah (wife of John Duncan ) died Jan 5, 1789, aged 50 yıs ; John died Nov 15, 1799, aged 70 yrs; Letitía (wife of Deacon George Duncan) died May 5, 1767, aged 52 yrs; Naomi (wife of Wil- liam Duncan) died Sept I, 1807, aged SS yrs ; Robert (son of John Duncan) died Feb 10, 1759, aged 26 yrs 4 mos; Samuel (son of Deacon George and Leti- cia Duncan) died Nov 5, 1753, aged 2 yrs ; William (son of Capt William and Naomi Duncan) died March 29, 1793, aged 55 yrs ; William died Feb 22, 1795, aged $2 yrs 6 mos ; William died Oct 23, 1764, aged 20 yrs.
ELA, Sarah (dau of David and Hannah Ela) died Sept 29, 1778, aged 17 mos 22 dys.
FINLAY, Jenet (wife of Joseph Finlay) died Dec 23, 1768, aged 57 yrs.
ALEXANDER, Agnes (dau of William and Eliza- beth Alexander) died Jan 10, 1771, aged 15 mos; Agnes (wife of John Alexander) died Sept 4, 1769, aged 71 yrs ; John died Feb 14, 1771, aged 92 yrs ; John (son of William and Elizabeth Alexander) died May 3, 1784, aged 10 yrs 5 mos 5 dys.
ANDERSON, Janet (wife of Robert Anderson) died Nov 15, 1777, aged 54 yrs.
BELL, Elizabeth (wife of John Bell) died Aug 30, 1771, aged 82 yrs ; Ebenezer (son of John and Mary Ann Bell) died July 22, 1805, aged 20 yrs ; James (son of John and Mary Ann Bell) died March 31, 1787, aged 19 yrs 5 mos 21 dys ; Jane (dau of John and Mary Ann Bell) died Aug 11, 1785, aged 13 yrs 3 mos 8 dys ; Jean (wife of Joseph Bell) died Nov 22, 1777, aged 82 yrs ; John died July 8; 1743, aged 64 yrs ; Joseph died Oct 14, 1779, aged 83 yrs.
BOYD, Alice (wife of William Boyd) died Nov 25, 1790, aged 65 yrs ; John (son of William Boyd) died Dec 28, 1764, aged 15 yrs ; Letice (dau of William and Alice Boyd) died Aug 14, 1772, aged 15 yrs ; Robert (son of
FISHER, Agnes (wife of Samuel Fisher ) died March 12, 1755, aged 27 yrs; Elder Samuel died April 10, 1806, aged 84 yrs ; Sarah ( wife of Elder Samuel Fisher) died Feb 3, 1813, aged 80 yrs ; William (son of Elder Samuel Fisher) died Oct 25, 1775, aged 14 yrs.
HOG, John died Aug 13, 1755, aged 23 yrs; Thomas died Jan S, 1748, aged 42 yrs
IlOGG, Mary {wife of Thomas Hogg) died May 1, 1790, aged 24 years. MACK, John died April 12, 1753, aged 55 yrs.
MCALLESTER, William died March 10, 1755, aged 55 yrs.
MCCLEARY, Capt David (son of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died at Bennington Aug 16, 1777, aged 31 yrs ; Elizabeth (dau of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died Oct 15, 1782, aged 30 yrs ; John (son of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) . died Sept 3, 1751, aged 3 yrs ; Mary (dau of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died April 7, 1778, aged 21 yrs ; Thomas died Oct 5, 1787, aged SI yrs.
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M. CLENCHE, Elizabeth (dan of John and Martha) died Nov 12, 1788, aged 20 yrs ; John died March 24, 1820, aged 76 yrs; Martha (dan of John and Martha MeClenche) died May 20, 1787, aged 20 yrs ; Martha (wife of John McClenche) died July 27, 1801, aged 69 yrs.
McCOLOM, Alexander died July 4, 1781, aged 79 yrs ; Archibald died April 10, 1761, aged 23 yrs ; Janet (wife of Alexander McColom) died Oct 11, 1773, aged 69 yrs ; Jannet, died Ang 27, 1744, aged 12 yrs ; Martha (wife of Lient Robert McColom) died Sept 15, 1822, aged 74 yrs ; Lieut Robert died June 13, 1792, aged 56 yrs ; William died Sept 17, 1794, aged 23 yrs.
MCGREGOR, Alexander, died June 27, 1804, aged 37 yrs ; John P'. died Sept 27, 1819, aged 22 yrs ; Mary (wife of Alexander McGregor) died May 244, 1799, aged 31 yrs.
MESSER, Cyrus died April 2, 1837, aged 65 yrs ; Mary (wife of Cyrus Messer) died June 18, 1866, aged 92 yrs 9 mos; Moses W. dicd March 10, 1814, aged 18 yrs.
MITCHELL, Watt (son of Francis and Margaret Mitchell) died Sept 24, 1775, aged Io mos.
MOORE, Elizabeth (dau of Capt William and Martha Moore) died March 6, 1775, aged 3 weeks ; Sibbil (dau of Capt William and Martha Moorc) died Aug 15, 1776, aged 9 mos ; Hugh (son of Capt William and Martha Moore) died March 16, 1775, aged 6 yrs.
OUGHTERSON, James died March 3, 1761, aged 64 yrs.
PATTERSON, Elizabeth (wife of Peter Patterson) died June 22, 1786, aged 23 yrs.
PINKERTON, Elizabeth (dau of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died March 18, 1789, aged 17 yrs 6 mos 17 dys ; David died March 8, 1808, aged 75 yrs ; John (son of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died June 4, 1795, aged 17 yrs 7 mos 22 dys ; John died Feb 10, 1780, aged 80 yrs ; Major John died May 1, 1816, aged SI yrs ; Mary (wife of Major John Pinkerton) died Feb 19, 1844, aged 94 yrs ; Rachel (wife of Major John Pinkerton) died Sept 13, 1781, aged 36 yrs 3 mos 2 dys ; Rachel (dau of John and Mary Pinkerton) died Nov 17, 1796, aged 47 yrs ; Mary (dau of John and Mary Pinkerton) died Sept 23, 1807, aged 67 yrs ; Samuel (son of John and Mary Pinkerton) died March 16, 1780, aged 34 yrs ; Mary (wife of John l'inkerton) died Sept 10, 1754, aged 44 yrs ; Naomi (dlau of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died May 4, 1790, aged 20 yrs 3 mos 22 dys.
SCOBEY, Martha, died Oct 6, 1754, aged 30 yrs ; Matthew died July 2, 1764, aged 31 yrs ; Samuel died Jan 20, 1737, aged 3 yrs.
SMITH, Jane (wife of John Smith and dau of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died March 5, 1779, aged 29 yrs.
TAGGART, James (son of James and Jean Taggart) died May 25, 1752, aged 8 yrs ; Jean (wife of James Taggart) died March 6, 1770, aged 60 yrs ; Sarah, a child ; Rose (wife of Niel Taggart) died June 15, 1748, aged 48 yrs.
THOMPSON, Molly (dau of John and Martha Thompson) died June 9, 1778, aged 2 yrs ; Sarah (dau of Robert and Margaret Thompson) died Nov 18, 1776, aged 1 yr.
WALLACE, Ann (a child) no dates ; Barbara (wife of Thomas Wallace) died Sept 2, 1771, aged 95 yrs ; Annas (wife of John Wallace) died Jan 6, 1761, aged 63 yrs ; Ann died Aug 23, 1733, aged 20 yrs ; James died Oct 30, 1791, aged 80 yrs ; James (a child) no dates ; Elizabeth (a child) no dates ; Capt James died Dec 14, 1792, aged 71 yrs : John (son of James and Mary Wallace) died Nov 25, 1754, aged 10 dys ; John (husband of Annas Wal- lace) died March 29, 1777, aged 82 yrs ; (The stone bears the legend that John and Annas Wallace were the first couple married in Londonderry, May 18, 1721.) Mary (dau of James and Mary Wallace) died Oct 10, 1760, aged 8 yrs ; Naomi (wife of Capt Robert Wallace) died May 10. 1791, aged 80 yrs ; Capt Robert Wallace died Oct 10, 1782, aged 73 yrs ; Thomas (husband of Barbara Wallace) died Aug 22, 1754, aged 82 yrs ; William, M. A. (son of Thomas and Barbara Wallace) died March 27, 1733, aged 26 yrs (see cut on page 33) ; Thomas died May 7, 1789, aged 73 yrs ; Thomas (son of John and Annas Wallace) died Sept 22, 1734, aged 4 yrs I mo 12 dys ; Mrs Rebecca died Sept 22, 1804, aged 81 yrs ; Thomas died Jan 26, 1790, aged 46 yrs ; his wife died April 4, 1785, aged 31 yrs ; Samuel died July 29, 1778, aged 41 yrs ; William (a child) no dates.
WATTS, Peggy (wife of Moses Watts) died May 3, 1795, aged 64 yrs.
WIEAR, David (son of Adam and Margaret Wiear) died Feb 15, 1765, aged 25 yrs.
WILSON, Joseph ; Rebecca ( wife of Joseph Wilson) died May 25, 1770, aged 66 yrs.
WOODBURN, David died Oct 9, 1823, aged 85 yrs ; Margaret (wife of David Woodburn) died Oct 17, 1792, aged 39 yrs.
The complete inscription on the monument of Major John Pinkerton is appended as a tribute to the memory of his generosity and a reminder of the locality where his dust reposes :
In memory of John Pinkerton, Esq., who died May 1, 1816, aged 81 years. He was born in the county of Antrim, North of Ireland, and came with his parents when a child to this country. He was a man of strict integrity, active benevolence and ex- emplary piety. For many years he was a useful member and officer of the Church of Christ and a distinguished benefactor of the town. By prudence and industry he acquired an ample for- tune which he chiefly devoted to objects of public utility. He was the principal founder of the Pinkerton Academy in London- derry, and endowed each of the two religious societies in the place with a fund for the support of the Gospel Ministry.
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Also in memory of Mrs. Rachel, first wife of John Pinkerton, Esq., who died Sept. 13, 1781, aged 36 years.
NOTE .- The income of the Pinkerton fund given to the West Parish is to be appropriated to the sole purpose of sup- porting an orthodox Presbyterian minister of the Gospel in said parish agreeable to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
THE MAMMOTH ROAD, so named in deri- sion by those who opposed its construction, was built in the summer of 1831, and at once became a popular route between Concord and Boston. Large numbers of passengers were carried by the three lines of daily stages that travelled over the road, and the other traffic was also heavy. Great quantities of country produce were taken to Lowell and Boston over the Mammoth road, and the highway continued to be thronged with vehicles until the opening of the Concord & Nashua railroad in 1838. In 1832, the year after the Mammoth road was built, President Jackson and his cabinet passed over it on their way from Boston to Concord, and dincd at White's hotel in the northern part of Lon- donderry.
HON. WILLIAM C. CLARKE.
H JON. WILLIAM COGSWELL CLARKE, life. At the academy and in college he was prom- youngest son of Col. John B. and Susan (Moulton) Clarke, was born in Manchester March 17, 1856. Excepting the late ex-Gov. Weston, he is the only native of Manchester who was ever elected mayor of the city. He was chosen to that
inent in athletics, serving for two years as captain of the Dartmouth ball team and holding the cham- pionship of the ball throwing contest, with a record of 358 feet 11 inches. He was also winner of other athletic contests, including the 100-yard dash and hurdle race. Manchester people well remem- ber him as foremost in the early history of professional base- ball and as captain of one of the strongest local teams which represented New Hampshire. After so much active work on the diamond Mr. Clarke naturally be- came the efficient baseball editor of The Mirror. He is one of the best wing shots in the state, bagging probably more birds annually than any other man. He is the owner of the famous pointer Prince, who at ten years of age has had shot over him 2340 woodcock, quail, and partridge. Mr. Clarke was one of the organ-
office in 1894 by the largest vote ever given to a Republi- can candidate in the city and by a major- ity of 913, the caucus which nominated him having been the largest ever held in the state to name a mayoralty candidate. After graduating from the Manchester high school and tak- ing a preparatory course at Phillips Andover Academy, Mr. Clarke entered Dartmouth and was graduated in 1876, taking the first prize in the college com- petitive elocutionary contest in his senior year. Having served a two years' appren- ticeship in the late Col. Clarke's print- ing establishment, he HON. WILLIAM COGSWELL CLARKE. began reportorial work on The Mirror, soon becoming city editor izers and first president of the Hillsborough County and filling that position for eight years. Later he Fish and Game Protective Association ; for three years secretary of the New Hampshire Road and Trotting Horse Breeders' Association ; for a long time secretary of the Manchester Driving Park Company and one of its directors ; is now vice president of the New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, of the American League, and of the New England Agricultural Society. He was a member of the school board for seven assumed charge of special departments of the Daily Mirror and Weekly Mirror and Farmer, and as editor of the horse department won for himself and those papers a national reputation among horsemen. Over the nom de plume of "Joe English " he made the sporting department of the same papers widely known. His capacity for leadership in legitimate sports was marked early in
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years and of the legislature for two years. In the ter. Their children are: John Badger, aged 15, latter body he was chairman of the committee on fisheries and game. Ilis administration as mayor has been marked by his characteristic energy, the building of new schoolhouses, and the remodelling
CITY HALL, MANCHESTER.
of the old city hall into an architectural ornament to the city being but two of the many signs of new municipal life under his guidance. Mr. Clarke married Miss Mary O. Tewksbury, daugh- ter of the late E. Greene Tewksbury of Manches-
and Mitty Tewksbury, aged 14. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clarke are social leaders in Manchester, and are attendants at the Franklin-Street Congrega- tional Church. He is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, of the Derryfield, Calumet, and Press Clubs, the Board of Trade, the Gymnasium, Amoskcag Grange, and president of the Elliot Hospital board of trustees and of the board of water commissioners. His friends be- lieve that a political career which has begun so auspiciously as Mayor Clarke's must necessarily go on to still more brilliant achievements. .
H JORSES and other domestic animals were com- mon in Nutfield from the first settlement. During the first year Abel Merrill was paid twelve shillings by the town for horse hirc, and James Nesmith received eight shillings for the same rea- son. The selectmen frequently needed a horse to drive to Portsmouth with salmon and cloth for the state officials, and also, as the records state, in " going down for the clements of the Sacrament." Many of the people must have required the ser- vices of horses in going to church, on account of the long distances to be travelled. Deacon James Reid, father of General George Reid, lived in Kilrca, in the extreme southern part of Derry, but he always attended the West Parish church. The McClary family lived in the western part of Lon- donderry, near the present site of the Baptist church, and they were prominent members of the East Parish. It is not known at just what time oxen came into general use for farm work, but there were plenty of cows as carly as March, 1722, when it was voted in town meeting " that all per- sons shall have liberty to bring in cattle to the town, so as to make up the number of six, and no more, and those that have cattle of their own have the liberty to bring the number of ten if they bring a bull with them, otherwise to bring in no more." In the same year hogs had become so plenty and so troublesome, being allowed to run at large, that a by-law was passed compelling their owners to yoke them between the 20th of March and the last of October. No one was so poor that he could not keep a few sheep and some poultry.
HON. CHARLES H. BARTLETT.
H ON. CHARLES HENRY BARTLETT for the New Hampshire distriet, which office he was born in Sunapce, Oet. 15, 1833, the held until 1883, when he resigned to accept a seat in the state senate to which he had been elected by an unprecedented majority. He was elerk of the senate from 1861 to 1864, and private secretary to Governor Smyth in 1865-66. In 1872 he was eleeted mayor of Manchester, but re- signed before the expiration of his term on account of the federal office he held. His last offi- eial aet was to turn over his salary to the Firemen's Relief Association. In 1881 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Upon the assembling of the senate of 1883 he was unanimously chosen by his party associates as their candidate for the presideney of that body, which offiec he held during his term of service. Hc was a member of the constitutional con- ventions of 1876 and 1889. Mr. Bartlett married, Dee. 8, 1858. HON. CHARLES HENRY BARTLETT. Miss Hannah M. Eastman of Croydon, by whom he had one son, Charles Leslie, who died at the age of four years, and one daughter. Clara Bell. Mrs. Bartlett died July 25, 1890. Mr. Bartlett might easily have attained the highest honors within the gift of his party and state, but he has persistently deelined all overtures for politieal or official pre- ferment. His reeent orations have been widely read and brought him great fame as a most elo- quent and accomplished orator. fourth son of John and Sarah J. (Sanborn) Bartlett. He is a lineal deseendant in the eighth generation of Richard Bartlett, who came from England to Newbury, Mass., in the ship Mary and John in 1634. Mr. Bartlett's early life was mainly spent on his father's farm, working in the summer season and attending sehool in winter. He early developed a decided taste for literary pur- suits, and from child- hood devoted a lib- eral share of his leis- ure moments to the perusal of such books as were accessible. He also contributed to the current litera- ture of the day and showed remarkable facility in both prose and poetie composi- tion. After attend- ing the academies at Washington and New London, he be- gan the study of law in the office of Met- ealf & Barton at Newport, studying subsequently with George & Foster at Concord and with Morrison & Stanley at Manchester, being admitted to the Hillsborough County bar in 1858. In that year he began the practice of his profession at Went- worth, and in 1863 removed to Manchester, where he has sinee resided. For about two years he was the partner of the late Hon. James U. Parker, the partnership terminating with the retirement of the latter from active business. In 1867 he was appointed clerk of the United States district court
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HON. EDGAR J. KNOWLTON.
ON. EDGAR JAY KNOWLTON, success- his election as mayor in 1890, when he received
H ful as newspaper man, as legislator, as 1460 of the 1517 votes cast in the Democratic nominating caucus, and carried the city by a plu- rality of 132 votes over Thomas W. Lane, admit- tedly the most popular Republican in Manchester at the time - and this too when the Republicans carried the city by over 600 plurality for their gubernato- rial candidate. Mr. Knowlton was the first mayor to devote his whole time to the duties of the position, and so hearty was the commendation of his administration felt throughout the eity that at the sue- eeeding municipal election, although the Republicans swept the eity by a large majority for every office save that of mayor, he was re- eleeted over the Re- publiean nominee by a majority of 1386, the largest ever given to any mayoralty ean- didate. His second administration was as brilliant as his first. He was instrumental HON. EDGAR JAY KNOWLTON. in the accomplish- mayor and as postmaster of Manchester, was born in Sutton Aug. 8, 1856, the son of James and Mary F. (Marshall) Knowlton. Being the eldest of eight children of a family in moderate circum- stances, he enjoyed but limited educa- tional opportunities, and at the age of six- teen went to Man- chester to seek his fortune. For two years he worked as apprentiee in the printing office of the Manchester Union, becoming then a re- porter and subse- quently eity editor of the paper. He re- mained in this posi- tion until 1880, when he went to Loekport, N. Y., and took edi- torial charge of the Daily Union of that place, conducting the journal with marked success until his re- turn to Manehester, in January, 1881, to accept a flattering offer from Col. John B. Clarke to take a position on the Daily Mirror and American. Here ment of reforms and enterprises which a less he remained until 1884, when he again beeame energetie man would take a lifetime in bringing about. He was the first of Manchester's mayors to advocate the high service water supply, and under his administration this was realized at an expenditure of $250,000. Its necessity was evident in the winter of 1894-5, when but for the high pressure service the eity would have experienced all the hardships of a water famine. A war loan of $120,000, which had been bearing six per cent eity editor of the Union, resigning in February, 1890, to accept the office of secretary of the newly organized Manehester Board of Trade. His popu- larity in Manchester was emphatically shown by his election on the Democratie tieket to the state legislature in 1886, when he received a majority of seventy-six votes in a ward ordinarily Republican by 200. Still more emphatically was it shown by
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interest for thirty years, was paid off during his administration, although prior to his election no provision had been made for this. He also sccurcd the adoption of the beneficent plan of a sinking fund to liquidate obligations at their maturity ; did away with the discount on taxes, thereby making a large saving to the city ; se- cured a revenue to the city treasury in return for city deposits ; abrogated an electric light contract which was disastrous to the city, and exccuted a new one which savcd $22 per light per annum ; in- augurated an annual ex- penditure for the devel- opment of Stark and Derryfield parks ; erccted 1 the Hallsville, Rimmon, BESSIE GENEVIEVE KNOWLTON. and Pearl strcet school- houses, and built large additions to several other schoolhouses ; built the ward five wardroom, the Sccond-street steel and stone bridge, and the South Main street stone bridge, the Walter M. Fulton cngine house, the South Manchester hose- house, and strengthened the fire department in various ways. But space will not permit even the enumeration of all the enterprises and reforms in which Mayor Knowl- ton took the initiative. Suffice to say that a new era in the municipal life of Manchester was fairly begun with his adminis- tration. On May II, 1894, having resigned the office of mayor on the BELLE FRANCES KNOWLTON. preceding day, he took possession of the Man- chester postoffice, and his time has since been de- voted not only to maintaining the office at its high standard of efficiency, but to the inauguration of numerous reforms which have been particularly pleasing to the public. Mr. Knowlton is a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Patrons of Husbandry, and various other organizations. He was marricd, Nov. 2, 1880, to Miss Genevieve I. Blanchard of Nicholville, N. Y., and has two daughters: Bessic Genevieve, born April 2, 1885, and Belle Frances, born Oct. 3, 1887.
THE FOUNDERS OF LONDONDERRY,
remarkable themselves for thrift and energy, were not slow in transplanting their young and vigorous saplings to the fertile and promising soil of adjoining counties and states, as subsequent years have shown stalwart trees and powerful in- fluences for good, maturcd from developed saplings of the Scotch-Irish stock thus sent out.
Perhaps no more valuable illustration of the vitality and true worth of such transplanted stock has been found than in a sketch of the life of Rev. Charles E. Brown, a lineal descendant of the early Dickey importation from the north of Ireland. His mother was Betscy Dickcy, whose father, Joseph Dickey, settled early in Wcathersfield, Vt. Betsey marricd a Baptist minister, Rev. Philip Perry Brown, and Charles E. was a son born Feb. 23, 1813. Probably from an inherited disposition and an anxious desire to do good, he early entered the ministry and after spending a few years in New York state, in his chosen profession, he asked to be sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to the territory of Iowa. This was in 1841, and he thus enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer Baptist minister in the now great state of Iowa, and with the help of his noble young wife, Frances Lyon, he was largely instrumental in laying broad and deep in Iowa and the new country west of the Mississippi river the foundation of one of the great branches of the Christian Church, and now, in the sunset of life, at eighty-three years of age, he is waiting, with a cheerful heart and sunny smile, for the boatman to ferry him over the river. He is living with his son, Mr. W. C. Brown of St. Joseph, Mo., who is one of the most prominent and capable railroad managers in the West, and who, with his excellent companion, spares no pains to make bright and pleasant the pathway of his honored sire adown the hill of life.
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