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 Hon. Josiah Quincy.

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��year's income to charitable and benev- olent objects connected with his denom- ination. This was probably correct. At any rate, he always contributed very liberally after this to charitable and benevolent objects.

After a few years he was elected one of the trustees of the academical and theological institution at New Hampton, N.H., and was soon made president of the same, which place he held for some sixteen years. This school, though it had a large attendance of pupils, was at the time largely in debt. This debt of several thousand dollars Mr. Quincy was obliged to provide for, and become personally responsible for at the banks. After a time a decided effort was made to pay the debt, and a subscription was started in the denomination, which was successful in raising the larger part of the debt ; and Mr. Quincy finally paid the balance himself, amounting to some fifteen hundred dollars, giving it to the institution, and then resigned the office of president and trustee, and left it free of debt and in prosperous circum- stances, exhorting them to keep clear of debt in the fiiture. But this they did not do ; and, when they became in- volved in debt again, he advised its removal to Vermont, vchich was accom- plished, and the buildings were pur- chased by the Free-will Baptists, who have had a school there ever since. He spent much time and money in its behalf; but he never regretted it, as he believed it was the means of doing great good. Mr. Quincy was also one of the trustees of Newton Theological Institution at Newton, Mass., and at- tended several meetings of the trustees in Boston. He was also a member of the Baptist home and foreign mis- sionary societies.

In 1837 he was again elected a mem-

��ber of the House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1S38, 1839, and 1840. During these years he took a leading part in the business of the House. It was during this time that the State Asylum for the Insane was founded. Mr. Quincy was active in procuring such legislation as was necessary for its estabhshment. He was one of the locating committee, who finally fixed upon its present favorable location, and was one of the first board of trustees of the institution, and always took a deep interest in its prosperity.

During this time also a controversy arose in regard to the management of the affairs of the State-prison by the late warden, Major Abner P. Stinson, which excited great interest through the State. Also an Act was passed, sometimes known as the students' voting- law, which excited much interest at Dartmouth College, and the several academies and literary institutions in the State. In all these controversies Mr. Quincy was the champion of his party, and sustained himself well as a debater, a tactician, and a leader.

In 1 84 1 Mr. Quincy was elected a member of the New-Hampshire Senate, and was re-elected in 1842, and was chosen president of that body for both of these years. It was under his pres- idency, in 1842, that the revised stat- utes of the State were enacted. He was aftenvards returned as a member of the House of Representatives in 1850, also in 1859 and in i860; making nine years in all that he was a member of the House, and two years of the Senate.

After the charter of the Boston, Con- cord, and Montreal Railroad was granted in 1844, a large meeting was held at Plymouth, to take measures for an organization under the charter, at which Mr. Quincy presided. A committee

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