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Rh and polite as he rushed out to help them down from the farm carriage, to tie their horses, and to carry in their bundles. They appreciated his bright ways and bright words, knowing all the while that there were deeper depths of his nature, reserve forces, aptness and comprehension even in those formative days of young manhood.

It is wonderful how the memory of personality, of courtesy, of willingness to oblige, remains through the years, and comes down from one generation to another. Isaiah Williamson was working in the Gillingham Store eighty years ago, and yet Mrs. Rose Parsons Case, of Morrisville, remembers her mother speaking of Isaiah V. Williamson with admiration. Probably that mother went to the store in her early married days, and yet she talked to her daughter so enthusiastically about the Philadelphia philanthropist in his storekeeping days that Mrs. Case was able recently to quote her mother as having said: "He was a young man of sterling worth, prompt and deft in waiting upon customers, respectful and polite to all, an admirable clerk, as much