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thropic undertaking, as when he was strong 'as a lion and swift as an eagle'."^

"The petitioner has objects in view. He would appropriate a part of what Congress would allow him, for educational pur- poses in the land of the freedmen, and a part for the founding of a benevolent institution in the manufacturing village of Three Rivers, to be called The Widows' and Orphans' Horne'."^

Thus to the last his spirit of altruism persisted, and he died as he had lived, a philanthropist at heart. One day his accus- tomed rotmd of visits was not made ; and he was found lying on the floor of his little house, stricken with paralysis. He soon became tmconscious, and on the following evening, Janu- ary 20, 1874, his troubled life came to an end.**

24 Colonisation of Oregon, 4.

25 SettUmtnt of Oregon, i.

26 Springfield Daily Vmon and Springfield Daily Republican. January 23, i}J74.