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 68 Asqnani Lake and its Environs.

worth $16, It does not appear that Matthew Harvey was active in va-

Matthew Harvey ever tilled a field, rious civil enterprises. He was one

though he owned a pasture. of the earliest trustees of Hopkinton

In 1850, Matthew Harvey moved academy, founded in 1827. He was

to Concord, where he died in 1866. many years connected with the New

A single circumstance is of social in- Hampshire Historical society, being

terest in this connection. In Hop- its vice-president from 1829 to 1831,

kinton he had outlived most of his and its president from 1832 to 1834.

old local, public confreres. A new He enjoyed judicial prominence. In

generation had come upon the scene. 1830 he was made a United States

The former reserve, dignity, and district judge, from which fact he

stateliness of the leaders in Hopkin- was widely recognized as " Judge

ton society had almost entirely passed Harvey."

away. Familiarity and freedom were Matthew Harvey's grave is in the

becoming characteristics of the in- old city cemetery at Concord, by that

creasing social common-place. De- of his wife, who survived him a few

prived of his accustomed social op- years. The remains of their daughter

portunities, Matthew Harvey became were removed from Hopkinton to

lonesome. He sought a new home. Concord, her monument also being

It is said he remarked, in substance, transported. Frederick, only son of

that dignity had ceased to abide in Matthew and Margaret Harvey, died

Hopkinton, and he was therefore go- in Louisiana in 1866. He was a phy-

ing awa}'. It was an impulsive remark, sician. There is no living descendant

suggested by unavoidable and unsat- of Matthew Harvey, jsfactory change

��ASQUAM LAKE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

By Fred Myron Colby.

" I felt the cool breath of the north of idvlHc books, poems like the Gcor-

Uefween me and the sun : • • i-i

O'er deep, still lake and lidsy earth gics and the OdvSSCV, StOrieS like

1 saw the cloud shades run. ' " . ", - . ,,

Mrs. Stowe s "Ministers Wooing

" Before me, stretched for glistening miles, n ,, k

Lay mountain-girdled Squam: and the old romaUCC Ot " AUCaSSlU Like ereen-wineed birds the leafy isles, .-.. , ., ,, t ^ t j-

Upon its bosom swarm.'^ and Nicolettc, and deeper studies

- unrifiier. j. j,^ ^ ^ ^^^^ Country By- Ways " and the

Reader, have you ever been at Lake "Letters of Cicero and Atticus," and,

Squam? If not, then let me invite of course, fish lines and reels,- —

you, when lengthening days bring for, like gentle Isaak Walton, you

thoughts of summer vacation, and will thank heaven for leisure to go-a-

Leo's heats suggest the fiannel shirt fishing; and, when there, you will

and wide straw hat, to hasten thither enjoy yourself as you can just in no

by the nearest route, with a trunk other spot. He who has once been

packed for a month's stay, a number there will have no need to be asked

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