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��the last of his life, he found it recrea- tion to cultivate and improve, when weary with the thought and work of his busy life. He spent every spare moment to good advantage, — a life- long characteristic of this industrious man. He spent no time lounging about the street corners, nor meddling with the affairs of his neighbors. When a young man he was noted as an early riser, and much enjoyed taking an early morning walk.

He saw life from its true stand-point, and knew its real philosophy. He was a pronounced man, and would ac- complish what he undertook, cost what it might. He was pre-eminently a self-made and self-educated man ; learning from every scene and circum- stance of life somelhing to be remem- bered. Socially, he was a central fig- ure in the best circles, and the delight of his friends ; possessing that store of knowledge, added to personal powers of wit and humor, which good society always appreciates and appropriates. In domestic life he made his home one of the happiest. He brought to its altar the strongest of his powerful emo- tions, and the purest and best of his noble thoughts and generous nature.

Mr. Small was supported by the masses, because he supported what was dearest to them and their interests ; he was honored because he honored

��all, — a certain and invariable conclu- sion.

At the close of his life he was en- gaged professionally in a great number of the most important causes in the courts of the state, and spent whole nights in their study, refreshed occa- sionally by a cup of coffee, his only stimulant. Though at that elevation where he could set his price and com- mand it, he was never guilty of de- manding unreasonable fees, and in numberless cases, where clients were poor but worthy, and with worthy causes, he worked with equal fidelity and earnestness for little or nothing ; he did not encourage litigation, but frequently advised parties to settle their disputes without recourse to law. He always gave his honest opinion, whether it would be to the advantage of his pocket or not ; and the lawyer who does that is alway? the gainer in the end, and this man surely was.

As a lasting memorial to his career as a lawyer, there stands upon the records of the Rockingham Bar, with which he was associated for so many years, a series of resolutions passed by the bar association at his death, which testify to the high appiecia- tion in which his talents and ser- vices were held by its members, and to the value they placed upon his personal qualities as a man and friend.

��NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN IN MICHIGAN.— No. 3.

��James F. Joy, of Detroit, was born at Durham, N. H., December 2, 1810. His father, a manufacturer of agricul- tural implements, was a man of iron muscles, large brain, and great mental and moral power. Like most of the strong men of New England he placed great value on education, and moral and religious training for his children ; consequently he labored earnestly that they might enjoy those privileges which honest poverty had denied to him. He not only practiced himself all the

��virtues of the New England calendar, but carefully trained his children in them.

Having fitted himself for college, with such aid as his father could afford him, James F.Joy entered Dart- mouth, from which he graduated in 1833, having the rank of first scholar of his class, and winning the valedic- tory assigned him as such. From Dartmouth, with all its inspiring asso- ciations and memories, as the school of Webster and Choate, Joy went to

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