Brookline Town (part 4 of 4)

Mr. Blake had nine children, of whom the first two died in infancy, and the seventh, Henry Jones Blake, died Oct. 11, 1880. He served as lieutenant in the United States navy during the war of the Rebellion, and had an exceilent record in the important engagements in which he participated.

The other children, three sons and two daughters, are still surviving in the year 1884, and all the sons were for years partners in their father's firms in Boston, New York, and London.

Mr. Blake, after leaving the firm of Edward Clarke & Co., formed a copartnership for the importation of dry-goods with Mr. William Almy, under the firm-name of Almy, Blake & Co., and during this time, and subsequently, he continued his frequent passages to Kurope, having crossed the Atlantic upwards of eighty times during his life.

He next formed a copartnership with the late David Nevins and Edward H. R. Lyman, under the firmname of George b. Blake & Co., also importers of Mr. Lyman still survives, being a resi- dent of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has recently retired from active business after a long and most successful mercantile career in connection with the well-known firm of Messrs. A. A. Low & Brothers, of New York, in the China trade.

About the year 1846, Mr. Blake's health, which had always been delicate, failing him, he was obliged to retire from active business, and in the spring of 1847 he bought an estate in Brookline, near Boston, where he resided during the remainder of his life, excepting the winters of the last few years; these were passed at his home in Boston.

During this three or four years' interval in his active business career, Mr. Blake became a director in the Boston and Worcester Railroad Company, and took a most active interest in the affairs of that corporation, giving much of his time and energy to the development of its growing business. He was one of the very earliest to favor and promote the joining of this railroad with the Western Railroad.

The first steps taken by this corporation towards a rail connection with Hast Boston were chiefly instigated by Mr. Blake, at a time when few foresaw the

Originally a Whig in politics, and voting for Henry Clay in the Presidential election, Mr. Blake early sympathized in the views of Garrison, Sumner, and the others who looked upon African slavery in the United

In 1850, Mr. Blake associated himself with Mr. Addison Gilmore, president of «the Western (now Boston and Albany) Railroad, and Mr. George Cabot Ward, son of Thomas G. Ward, Boston agent of

At this time his brother, John Rice Blake, came from Brattleborough and joined him as a partner, the firm-name being later changed to Blake Brothers & Co., the three eldest sons joining as partners about the year 1860.

One of the leading aims of Mr. Blake throughout his business career was to advance in every possible way the commercial interests of Boston. He was largely instrumental in securing and maintaining the regular visits of the Cunard steamers to that port.

With many other law-abiding citizens of Massachusetts, his sense of justice was shocked by the enforcement of the fugitive-slave law in Boston in returning Anthony Burns to servitude. He endeavored to prevent this, by offering, through a friend, to buy Burns of his owner, who then refused to sell his property at any price.

When the State of Massachusetts was rapidly forwarding troops for the suppression of the Rebellion, and was incurring a large debt for bounties and other war expenses, the money market had become exceedingly active, so that the State, for providing money on their notes having a few months to run, paid as high as twelve per cent. per annum.

At this time it became necessary for funding its indebtedness that the State should promptly secure some three or four millions of dollars. This was finally done by a sale to Mr. Blake's firm, by Governor Andrew and his Council, of three millions of dollars of five per cent. sterling bonds, and Mr. Blake was appointed by the State authorities agent for the State, with authority to domiciliate the loan with either of several London banking firms selected by him, foremost among whom were the Messrs. Baring and Rothschild.

Mr. Blake went at once to London on this mission, but found the time most unfavorable for such negotiations, the Bank of England having suddenly advanced the rate of interest to ten per cent. He, however, finally succeeded in making arrangements with the Messrs. Baring, through whom the loan was successfully negotiated.

Mr. Blake always felt that the deserved high credit of Massachusetts was largely due to the high integrity and strong sense of Governor Andrew, in insisting upon gold for the payment of both principal and interest of the funded debt of the State throughout the general suspension of specie payments in the United States during the Rebellion.

tively aided, both with his purse and by personal service, the Sanitary Commission and other organizations for the relief and welfare of the soldiers.

educated during his long business career all testify to the warm interest which he took in lending a helping hand to those who needed his assistance. Devoted and affectionate in his family, it was perhaps in the home circle that his character appeared

Reverent and devout by temperament, he was a_ regular attendant upon religious services, and, although he never identified himself with the church by active membership, his whole life testified to his sincere and earnest belief in the truths of Christianity.

Mr. Blake died at his residence in Brookline, Aug. 6, 1875, his death resulting from an attack of paralysis at his office in Boston two days previous. He was interred in the family burial-lot at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Extracts From Obituary Notices Published In The Boston Newspapers

"The announcement of the death of George Baty Blake, the senior member of the firm of Blake Brothers & Co., bankers, will cause a wide-spread feeling of sorrow in the business and social circles of Boston. It is not often that we are called upon | to record the death of a Boston merchant who has quietly and unostentatiously promoted the substantial interests of this city

... George Baty Blake was a strong man, one whose clearlydefined individuality and indomitable will would have made his power, nerve, and brain felt in any walk in life which he might have chosen.

was very successful, although through nearly his whole life he labored with the disadvantage of a physical infirmity which would have paralyzed the efforts of men with a weaker will or a less active brain.

"What he has done for Boston can hardly be summed up in a few words or particularized in any special manner, since | one of the leading aims of his life has always been to advance her interests. He was early a director in the Boston and Albany | Railroad, where his ripe judgment and eminent business quali- | ties were utilized to advance the interests of the road and of

He was also largely instrumental in securing the regular visits of the European steamers to this port, and in numer- | ous ways used his utmost influence to promote Boston's welfare.

Union would be preserved intact, and he was, in those trying times, ever self-sacrificing, patriotic, and generous in upholding the cause he believed in so thoroughly.

have dealt with and associated with him more or less for a quarter of acentury, or more, speak in the highest terms of his busi- | ness capacity and fidelity to principle, fairness, and justice.

«. . . Boston has certainly lost in Mr. Blake one of her most positive, self-reliant, and enterprising business men, - one who achieved where many others failed, and one whose integrity, industry, and perseverance may well be copied by the younger business men of this city who are coming into the places he and others like him are vacating as the weeks, months, and years pass on."

"The recent removal by death of Mr. George Baty Blake from business circles will turn back the memories of many men over the last fifty years of the commercial history of Boston.

"The youngest of nine children of a highly respectable family in Brattleborough, Vt., he came to Boston in 1821, with nothing but his own exertions to depend upon.

acted as director of the Boston and Worcester Railroad his judgment, energy, and decision were such as to command the respect of his associates in an unusual degree.

"During an acquaintance of nearly thirty years, of which seventeen were passed in close and daily intercourse, the writer of this notice never received from him a harsh or unkind word.

"Without theological bigotry, Mr. Blake was decidedly a religious man. His attendance at church was regular, and quite as much from pleasure as duty. He has often been heard to speak with emotion of sermons which especially pleased him. His reverence for sacred things, though unostentatious, was real, and any man who acted from conscientious motives was sure of respectful treatment from him.

"We are quite sure that his descendants will attach less value to the pecuniary inheritance which devolves upon them than to the memory which they can thus cherish and hold in honor."

Jeremiah Gridley

Jeremiah Gridley, or " Jeremy," as he was familiarly known, or " Uncle Jerry," was born in Roxbury about 1703, and was a brother of Col. Richard Gridley, the famous engineer during the Revolutionary war. It has been a source of dispute as to where he died. 'Tudor, in his life of Otis, says he was a Boston inhabitant and died there. Dr. Eliot, in his biography, says he died in Boston, and further, ' that his legal knowledge was unquestionable," and adds that '"he died poor because he despised wealth." studied theology and became a preacher of the gospel ; afterwards studied law, and became one of the | most distinguished lawyers of his day. He had a very accurate and extensive knowledge of his profes- | sion, of great ability, an easy and graceful writer, | and was fully imbued with the spirit of classical literature. He had a very extensive and well-selected library of classical works, and was familiar with their contents. He acquired a great reputation in his profession, and is now alluded to as the "' Webster of his day." He had a powerful, clear, and discriminating mind. Asa speaker, he was exceedingly rough, un- - graceful, hesitating in his manner, but energetic and | impressive in his peculiarly emphatic use of language, and when addressing the court his manner is said to have been rather magisterial than otberwise. The records of Brookline bear witness of the fre- - quency with which her citizens called him into positions of trust and importance, and from 1755 to the | year of his death he was often moderator of their town-meetings, and was their representative to the | General Court in 1755-57 and 1767. He was | elected selectman and assessor in 1760-61 and 1767.

In 1742 he was chosen attorney-general of the province for one year, and in 1767 he was appointed to the same office by the Governor and Council.

His eminence in his profession rendered his office a favorite place of resort for students, and some of | the most distinguished lawyers in Massachusetts received their professional education under his instruc- | tion, among whom may be mentioned Chief Justice | Pratt, James Otis, Oxenbridge Thacher, and William | Cushing.

Mr. Gridley was ranked with the Whig party of | that day, but having argued the cause of Writs of Assistance, he lost the confidence of his political friends.

John Adams was presented to the court at Boston for admission to the bar, and, on the motion of Mr. Gridley and his recommendation, he was admitted.

Capt. Rufus George Frederick Candage

| Me., July 28,1826. The name of Candage was originally "Cavendish," and later '' Candish," and now Candage. Among the early settlers of Massachusetts we find John Candage a ship-carpenter and landed proprietor at Charlestown, Mass., in 1660, afterwards at Marblehead, Salem, and Lynn, in all of At Marblehead, Mass., in 1691, Thomas Candage was engaged in the All of this name are descendants of the early name of Cavendish, of good old English blood. In 1766, James Candage, Jr., first settled in Blue Hill, Me. His father, James, and wife, Elizawhich towns this name appears.

who also settled at Blue Hill in 1762. He died in 1818; she died in March, 1851. He, with Joseph Wood, and their families, all of Beverly, Mass., became the first white settlers of Blue Hill. The children of James, Jr., and Hannah (Roundy) Candage were: (1) Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1775; (2) Gideon, born March 17, 1778, died Oct. 26, 1782; (3) Samuel Roundy, born Jan. 15,1781; Phebe Weir Parker; (4) Gideon, born Aug. 18,1783; (5) Sarah, died Aug. 1, 1798; (7) Azor, born April 8, 1791; (8) John, born Dec. 21, 1793, died Dec. 20, 1798. Samuel Roundy Candage, the father of Capt. Candage, married, Feb. 29, 1816, Phebe Weir, daughter of Simeon and Mary (Perkins) Parker, and granddaughter of Hon. Oliver Parker, of Castine, Me., a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1800 to 1815, who was a native of Worcester, Mass., 1728. The children of this marriage were: (1) Simeon the only one living. Seven of these children grew to manhood, and became commanders of vessels in the merchant service. Capt. R. G. F. Candage married, first, Elizabeth Augusta, born Jan. 17, 1829, daughter of Elijah, Jr., and Mary (Richards) Corey, of Brookline, Mass., May 1, 1853. The wife died Nov. 18, mer and two or three months in the winter. arriving at the age of twelve, his father requiring his services in the mill and on the farm, he had to content himself with three months' schooling in the year for five years, to which were added two terms in

He has made three voyages around the world; eight voyages round Cape Horn to the westward, and five to the eastward, making thirteen times both ways that he has doubled that cape. He has made several voyages to San Francisco, three to Callao and the Chinchas, three to China, two to Australia, three to In all he has sailed over three hundred thousand miles of ocean.

The following vessels are some he has sailed in: Sloops, '' Fame," " Pink," and " Credit ;' schooners, '"' Passamaquoddy,"' " Edward," '"' Zodiac," and " Zulette;" half-brigs, '' Curagoa," ' Delhi," ' Tavella," and '* Hquator ;" square-rigged brig, " Pioneer ;" bark,

Other Ports in United States. - New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Alexandria, Va., Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Charleston, 8S. C., Mobile, and New Orleans, and Sisal, in Yucatan.

education. His father having been a mariner in his early life, and all his older brothers following the sea, he chose the same occupation, and determined on seeing the world. When he arrived at eighteen he started on his career for life as a mariner, sailing between Boston and ports of Maine, and gradually going farther from home, all along the whole coast of the United States, visiting all the principal ports. We soon find our young friend engaging in longer voyages, and to foreign countries, and in course of time his old friends built a vessel for him, a brig, named the '""Kquator." It was while at home at this time that his mother died quite suddenly. The first voyage of our young captain was from Blue Hill to Boston, with

Many of these ports were visited several times. The last voyage made at sea as commander was in the ship '" National Hagle,' of which he was part owner, arriving in Boston from Liverpool, England, in May, 1867. He gave up seafaring life and_became a resident of Brookline, June 1, 1867, where he now resides.

Capt. Candage has frequently been elected to fill offices of trust and responsibility, and still holds several public positions. of Doric Lodge, F. and A. M., New York City, 1853 ; inspector of the " Record of American and Foreign Shipping." spector by the Boston Board of Marine Underwriters ; held that office ten years. of the school committee of Brookline for five years (three years chairman) ; also trustee of Public Library.

declined. in 1876, one of the managers of Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society ; resigned in 1883. In 1877 was elected a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society ; regent of the Sagamore Council, Royal Arcanum, of Brookline. In 1880-82, selectman of Brookline. In 1881, treasurer of Boston Seaman's Bethel Relief Society, and president of Boston Terra Cotta Company ; president of Massachusetts Safety Fund Association. In 1882- 83, representative to the General Court from Brookline; was on Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, and Committee on Rules. In December, 1882, he was appointed surveyor for the Bureau Veritas of Paris,

Col. Thomas Aspinwall

Col. Thomas Aspinwall, the son of Dr. William and Susanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, was born on the old '« Aspinwall homestead," in Brookline, Mass., - which has been in that family since 1650, - May 23, 1786. He received his early education at the common schools of that town, and fitted for college at Leicester Academy. He entered Harvard College as a sophomore in 1801, in the same class with his brother, Dr. William Aspinwall, Jr., who became a physician, but died when a young man, in 1818. He took his degree of A.B. in 1804, and received the high honor of Latin salutatory at commencement. Three years later he delivered the Latin oration on receiving the degree of A.M. Immediately upon graduating he entered the law-office of William Sullivan, Esq., in Boston, and in due time was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and became the law partner of Mr. Sullivan.

It was about this time he became a member of the '"'Tndependent Cadets' of Boston. This corps was in constant training, as war had been threatened long

Chaplain. He is now a member of the Thursday Literary Club. For seven years he has been a director of the Franklin Fire Inmation was issued, Col. Aspinwall, who was then adjutant with the rank of captain, applied for a commission in the army of the United States, and was soon appointed a major of the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, which he was largely instrumental in recruiting and With this regiment he entered the service, and served his country manfully, faithfully, and gallantly. He was in several actions. He was at Sackett's Harbor in 1813, and for his bravery there he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. On the 10th of August, 1814, when the British assaulted Fort Erie, Col. Aspinwall commanded '"'Scott's Brigade," and on the memorable 17th-of September following he led Miller's column at the It was on this occasion that he lost bis left arm.

regiment, and whenever any of the soldiers talked over the matters of the battles of that year and Col. Aspinwall's name was mentioned, their countenances would brighten, and all bore ample testimony to his bravery as a soldier and to his great ability as an officer. He outlived all the soldiers in his command.

British troops were veterans, and that, knowing Col. | Aspinwall's regiment and the other regiments were new levies, they determined to frighten them from their position taken in some new log barracks in an open space near the town, and for that purpose the British troops marched up to the new levies and made | desperate efforts to dislodge them, and the battle was fought for more than an hour by a portion of both | armies discharging their muskets in each other's faces. During this action neither Col. Aspinwall nor his men | budged an inch. 'The stentorian voice of their leader could be heard encouraging his men amid the roar of musketry almost in his face and eyes.

Peace was soon after declared, the army was reduced, but Col. Aspinwall was tendered a permanent position ; but considering the life of a soldier in time of peace an indolent life, and the only service being

Soon after he had re-established himself he was | appointed consul and agent of claims at London, in June, 1815, and immediately entered upon the duties of that consulate January Ist following. He continued to perform the duties of that office with exem- | plary fidelity and to the acceptance of all whose duties | required his agency, until the 2d day of August, 1853, when President Franklin Pierce called him home without assigning any reason, but which really was to make room for one of his political friends. During the interval of time in which he was in office it was |

In 1854 he returned to America and took up his | residence in Boston, where he resided till his death. Previous to his leaving London, Messrs. Baring | Brothers & Company, George Peabody, Nathan Meyer, | Rothschild & Sons, and thirty-three other firms and individuais presented Col. Aspinwall a token of their regard and respect in an elegant service of plate, accompanied by the following letter :

'" Dear Sir, - Having been informed that you are about to return to your native country, we cannot allow you to depart without offering you the expression of our sincere esteem and regard ; and we avail ourselves of the occasion to tender you our best thanks for your uniform courtesy and kindness in all our intercourse with you during a long period, in which you

"You have administered the arduous duties of your office with dignity, ability, and integrity unimpeached; you have lent a willing and patient attention to appeals for relief in all cases of distress, granting freely ycur counsel and your money, inviting others to aid you when needful. Wishing to mark our sense of your merits and of the efficiency with which you have any other member. He served the society on the standing committee for four years, and was one of the publishing committee during the publishing of three volumes of their collections. from 1862 to 1870. During his resident membership he made valuable contributions to the collections of the society's collections may be found a large collection of valuable material gathered during his residence in England, entitled 'The Aspinwall Papers," which will ever keep his name in fresh remembrance These were edited and annotated after he had reached his

Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861 he tendered his services to Gen. Scott, at the age of seventy-five, which were not accepted, but during the progress of the war he ever manifested a lively interest in, and kept himself informed of, all that was going on,- - the movement of the armies, ete.

"« Resolved, That in the death of the venerable Thomas Aspinwall this society has lost one of its oldest and most respected members, to whom we are indebted for important and valuable services, and whose memory is worthy of being cherished as that of a gallant soldier in his youth, a faithful publie servant abroad in his manhood, and a useful and patriotic citizen at

In January, 1873, Col. Aspinwall's health began to give way to infirmity, although he was seen daily on the streets of Boston for exercise, but recognizing scarcely any one outside of his family, and remembering but little or nothing of things of the past.

days and a half was he confined to his bed. His last hours were so calm and peaceful that one could hardly notice when he breathed his last. He died on Friday,

Hancock Street, Boston, aged ninety years, two months, and nineteen days. His funeral took place at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Brookline, on here be remembered that the first course of anatomical lectures ever given in this country were delivered only four years previous to that time, in that city, by Dr. William Shippen. The following certificate from Dr. Shippen shows the estimation of the ability of Dr. Aspinwall :

° : | in every other respect a useful and agreeable member of society. Immediately upon the conclusion of the | ee) sf een he Seeks ya a : ba

"He has, on these and many other occasions, given me so many proofs of his capacity, assiduity, and improvement in the healing arts, that I with pleasure give him this testimonial of my esteem and affection ; and do hereby recommend him, on my good faith, to the publick, as a judicious young physician and

The subject of this notice was the son of Thomas - _turned to his native town, and immediately comand Joanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, born in Brookline, May 23, 1743, on the farm where five generations of

Having completed his course of medical studies and attendance on lectures in Philadelphia, he remenced a course of successful practice at the age of twenty-six, which soon extended far and wide, often requiring a journey of forty miles to visit his patients. These he usually performed on horseback, carrying classmates we may mention Bishop Parker, Governor Strong, of Massachusetts, and Shearjashub Bourne, a member of Congress. Immediately upon leaving college, having decided on the medical profession as one for which he had a decided preference, he entered the office of, and pursued his studies with, the justly in Philadelphia, where he received the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania about 1768. tures in that city in the winter of 1768-69.

At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution an enthusiastic impulse seized upon the doctor to such a degree that all personal and professional considerations were lost or forgotten in that all-absorbing and patriotic sentiment which had led thousands to rally to the country's rescue. Being young, ardent, and patriotic, he went with the Brookline men, " not standing on the order of their going,' not by the road, but by the shortest way, as the bee flies, across fields, jumping fences, and over the river, and were soon in Cambridge, and joined those who saw the enemy safe in Charlestown. In the skirmish at Cambridge the doctor was actively engaged in the combat. In this skirmish Capt. Isaac Gardner was _ killed, On Dr. Aspinwall's return to Cambridge, he sought and found the body of Capt. Gardner, and had it carried finally decided to serve his country in the medical department. He was appointed surgeon in Gen. Heath's brigade, and very soon became deputy director in the hospital at Jamaica Plain.

president, and is dated at Watertown, June 28, 1775. On the 19th day of August, 1775, he was surgeon to St. Thomas' Hospital, otherwise known as '"' American Hospital."

The deep personal interest which he took in the war between the two nations acting upon a mind deeply imbued with a sense of his country's wrongs, bold and strong, his creed being that of a Democratic- Republican. In the unhappy scenes of party excitement he not only unwaveringly adhered to what he deemed original and fundamental principles, but he aimed to preserve a good conscience, and to do justice to the honest opinions, the pure motives, and undoubted integrity of his opponents. He was not a political persecutor, and when he was in the councils of the State resolutely declined acting with his coadjutors, who were disposed to drive from office incumbents whose only fault was what they deemed political heresy.

Soon after the death of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, also a native of Brookline, that eminent and distinguished physician and first inoculator of smallpox in America, Dr. Aspinwall established himself in that undertaking, and erected hospitals for that purpose on his own estate, one of which has been standing within the

Street and the same avenue. He was very successful in his treatment of cases of this disorder, and his fame soon spread to a great distance. His practice was the inoculation of the genuine article of smallpox virus, so as to bring about the disease by desigh, no physician in the United States who had inoculated so many persons as Dr. Aspinwall, and no one who had acquired such a celebrity in the treatment of this malignant disease. In 1788 the doctor was tice, and established what might have been justly deemed a sure foundation for prosperity when vaccine inoculation was first introduced. He well knew that if vaccination possessed the virtues ascribed to it his schemes of fortune and usefulness arising from inoculation were at an end, he should be involved in a loss, and his anticipations of a fortune be blasted. But asan honest man and faithful physician, he deemed it his duty to inquire into the efficacy of the novel substitute. With the utmost alacrity, therefore, he gave the experiment a fair trial, promptly acknowledged its efficacy, and relinquished his own establishment. An article published in the Medical Intelligencer from Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse well illustrates the honesty of Dr. Aspinwall, which is as follows:

"The late Dr. Aspinwall, a man of great sagacity, and uncommonly well grounded in the principles of his profession, gave evidence of it on the first sight of a vaccine pustule. I had invited all the elder physicians of Boston and the vicinity of Cambridge to see the first vaccine pustules ever raised in the New World. usual eruption on the skin; all but Dr. Aspinwall, whose atten-

They gave them the ordinary inspection of an untion was riveted on the pustule, its areola and efflorescence. He came a second time, and viewed the inoculated part in every light, and reviewed it, and seemed loath to leave the sight of it. edly, 'This pustule is so like smallpox, and yet it is not small-

He seemed wrapped in serious thought, and said repeatpox, that, should it, on seabbing, take out a part of the true skin, so as to leave an indelible mark or pit behind, I shall be

"He had been in the habit of examining the smallpox pimple and pustule through glasses, to see if it had taken, and he remarked that they were peculiar, unique, and unlike any eruption he ever saw, but this kine pock came the nearest to them. Some time after I gave him a portion of the virus, to make his own experiments and observe the progress of its inoculation and coincidence of the constitutional symptoms, when he observed that its progress, febrile affection, and mode of scabbing were very dike smallpox, and so of the indelible mark left on the arm, yet throughout the whole visible affection different. To crown the whole of his honorable conduct, he, some time after, took all those of my family whom I had vaccinated into his smallpox hospital, the only licensed one in the State, and there tested them to his satisfaction, and one to the verge of | rigid experiment, and then he said to me and to others, 'This | Asa man of humanity | T rejoice in it, although it will take from me a handsome annual teem and respect, and [ accordingly dedicate this effusion of gratitude to the memory of the Hon. William Aspinwall, M.D., a gentleman, respectable in public life as a counselor, and an | present at public worship, unless professional duties prevented. He was ever ready to impart religious as well as medical counsel at the bed of sickness, and for his holy faith he always had the most profound respect. | Under bereavement, infirmity, or sickness, his religious principles yielded him firm support and buoyed him above the vicissitudes of life. During a confinement | of several of the last years of his life, when deprived of his sight, the religion of Jesus Christ was his support and consolation. It was the theme of bis discourse, and he considered his testimony in its favor the best legacy he could leave to his children. Dr. Aspinwall was endowed with a strong intellect | and a resoluteness that shrunk from no labor or duty. He was an example of perseverance amidst untoward circumstances and of accommodating them to his peculiar situation. To young physicians his example | holds out encouragement, that economy, integrity, | constant industry, and unremitting study of his profession will finally succeed, and brine reputation and competence. few men in any profession have sacrificed so small a portion of their lives to pleasure or to inaction as he. His was a life of incessant toil. As an instance of his devotion to his professional business is the following anecdote by a friend. One day, on returning home from a round of visits, he found at his table one of his college mates, whom he | had not seen since they were at Cambridge together, |

"T have a clear recollection of my terror when, sixty-four | years ago, a very old man, with but one eye, - he seemed to be a very old man, though he was but fifty then, - came towards me, with a little glittering weapon in his hand, as I sat in my

Thad the promise of a cake of gingerbread if I , behaved well, and so I sat still and suffered him to make a | I had been carried from Boston to there, and there we were to remain for several weeks, until the affair was well over, when, after having been thoroughly smoked and purified, we were again to go forth into the world.