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Rh a member of the Warren family, and a cup and saucer that were used at a banquet held many years ago to celebrate the Boston Tea Party. A lover of the fine arts, the Doctor possesses native talent as a painter, and her home on Main Street, Maiden, is adorned with several pleasing and well-executed pictures in oil from her own brush.

Dr. Russell has not accumulated for herself any considerable amount of this world's goods, but her deeds of charity and benevolence, both in the bestowal of personal service and the giving of money, have laid up for her a wealth of gratitude in the hearts of the many recipients and in her own the reward that comes to those who have learned that it is "more blessed to give than to receive." Her natural kindness is shown in the adoption of two daughters, one some twenty years ago and the other within the last five years, and both under circumstances that show a mother's devotion and love. Dr. Russell is a member of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, and various local medical societies. She attends the Protestant Episcopal church of Maiden.

ARY J. PRESCOTT FADES, the subject of this sketch, is a daughter of sturdy old New England blood, coming from Scottish ancestry.

In the year 1608 was born in Scotland Deacon John Leavitt, who came to America in 1628 and settled in Hingham, Mass. Of his descendants among the best known are Moses Leavitt, his son, and Dudley Leavitt, his great-great-grandson, who was so named from Governor Thomas Dudley, to whom his family was related. The life of Dudley Leavitt was silent in the (at that time not inconsistent) occupations of teacher and farmer. Though in all he had not more than three months' schooling, he was a student by nature and spent every leisure moment in study, so that at the age of twenty he was well grounded in all the science of that day, especially in mathematics, and able to give instruction in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, gunnery, astronomy. and philosophy. For this instruction he received from each pupil the generous tuition fee of three dollars a Quarter. At the age of twenty-two he married Judith Glidden, of Gilmanton, N.H. They resided in that town until 1806, when he removed to Meredith, N.H., which was his home for the remainder of his life.

With all his teaching and other work, he found time to make practical use of his scientific attainments in the compilation of a farmers' almanac. His first edition of this was published in 1797, his last in 1858. He died in 1851, leaving one edition in the press and six others in manuscript, a total of sixty-two continuous issues. He taught some portion of every year until he was seventy-four, and at the same time carried on his farm. After his marriage he studied Greek and Latin, and later in life Hebrew and several of the modern languages. He made the calculations for the New Hampshire and Free Will Baptist Registers, and was the author of several school text-books, having at the time of his death a work on astronomy nearly ready for the press. He was the "most robust style of scholar," thinking that whatever was to be known he must know, And as Prof. Agassiz said, should be painted with a book in his hand, others filling his pockets, and knowledge sticking out all over his tall head. In the only portrait of him in existence his head and face are very remarkable for intellectuality and a certain childlike yet noble dignity. One of his pupils expresses her impression of him as a man who loved knowledge and reverenced God.

He had eleven children, five boys and six girls. the daughter, Jane, .married the Rev. John L. Seymour, who was a missionary among the Indians from 1832 to 1846. Another, Judith, married the Rev. John Taylor Jones, a missionary at Bangkok, Siam. One son, Dudley, who was fitted for college by his father, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1889, and studied divinity at Andover Theological Semi- nary, but died suddenly before graduation. A younger child, Mary, was no exception to the rest of the family in her ambition to obtain knowledge, and, after she became a devoted wife and mother, always found time in the