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142 and Squier Bishop, Jr., a brother. of Amy (Mrs. Pullen), enUsted in the Continental army and served in the Revolutionary War.

Mrs. Carver, after receiving her education in the public schools of Waterville, took a three years' course at Coburn (then Waterville) Classical Institute, under the well-known educator. Dr. James H. Hanson. She subsequently spent one year there as teacher of Greek and Latin, being special assistant to Dr. Hanson in his department, and then entered Colby University for a full collegiate course. She was graduated from that institution with the high- est honors in the class of 1875, being one of the first women in a New England college to take the full prescribed classical, mathematical, and scientific course. After graduation she taught in different high schools and academies of the State. The marriage of Mary Caffrey Low and Leonard Dwight Carver took place in 1877.

Two children have been born of their union, namely: Ruby Carver, now a student at Colby College; and Dwight Carver, who died in 1889. Since leaving college Mrs. Carver has been active in religious and intellectual work. She is a member of Colby Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa; of Koussinoc Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; of the Unity Club of Augusta; and a life member of the American Unitarian Association. She has written much in the form of essays, lectures, and papers for special occasions, the most notable being her lectures on the "Beauty of the Psalms" and on the "Literature of the Old Testament," which she has read to appreciative audiences in several States. Mrs. Carver is now fully occupied in cataloguing and in special work in the Maine State Library.

ANNY CLIFFORD BROWN, in the closing years of the nineteenth century one of the best known, most active, and influential club women and philanthropists of Portland, Me., died in California, December 20, 1900. She was born at New- field, Me., May 11, 1834, daughter of the Hon. Nathan Clifford and his wife Hannah, daughter of James Ayer.

Nathan Clifford was born in 1803 in Rumney, N.H. Son of Deacon Nathan, Sr., and Lydia (Simpson) Clifford, he was—as shown in Dow's History of Hampton, N.H.—a lineal descendant in the sixth generation of "George Clifford, descended from the ancient and noble family of Clifford in England" (dating back seven hundred years and more), who came from Nottinghamshire, England, to Boston in 1644, and later removed to Hampton, N.H. Nathan Clifford as a young lawyer settled in York County, Maine. He was Attorney-General of the State, 1834-38; in Congress, December, 1839, to March, 1843; in 1846 he was Attorney-General of the United States in the cabinet of President Polk; in 1848 was sent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico; in 1858 was appointed by President Buchanan Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; and in 1877 served as President of the Electoral Commission. He died in 1881.

Fanny Clifford married at the age of seventeen years the late Philip Henry Brown, of Portland, Me., a manufacturer and banker and a man of much culture. Eight children were born of this union. The father died October 25, 1893. The surviving children are: Philip Greeley Brown; Nathan Clifford Brown, Mrs. Linzee Prescott, Boston; Mrs. F. D. True; of Portland; and Helen Clifford Brown.

Of a strongly religious temperament, Mrs. "Brown early became a member of the High Street Congregational Church, and was always prominent in its activities. She also felt much interest in charitable work, and took such part in it as her home duties, permitted throughout her early married life. It was not, however, until her children had grown to maturity that she became the leader in local philanthropic work which she continued to be to the end of her life. She was also in her later years an enthusiastic club woman, was president of several organizations and a member of many others. She had a judicial mind, inherited, no doubt, from her father, and, having made a careful study of parliamentary law, was a tactful and popular presiding officer. Some of the clubs and charities of which she was a member are as follows: the Volunteer Aid Society, of which she was president,