and performed what he found to do. His ministry in Portland was a success. Scarce a communion season occurred at which some persons were not received into the church, and, as the fruits of one revival, he was permitted to gather into the church more than one hundred souls.

“In the fall of 1833, the Theological Institute of Connecticut was founded, and he was appointed President, and Professor of Christian Theology. It need not be said that now for a season, his mind was deeply moved. He could not dismiss this call without deliberation, urged upon him as it was, by men who were his tried friends from his youth, with whom he had been accustomed to take counsel. He was happily laboring in a field where the blessing of God had been with him, and the prospect for the future, seemed only fair and promising. The institution to which he was invited was new-unprovided with funds-an experiment. He would leave a certainty for an uncertainty as regards support. The result is known. He decided to come to Connecticut; and in this place it should be recorded that he never saw an hour after this decision was formed, in which he felt any distressing doubts as to its correctness. So he has recently written. On the question touching the wisdom of the course pursued by him in taking the stand he did, and connecting himself with the Theological Institute, men will form a different judgment, according to their positions and sympathies in the theological world. It is just that the writer (who knows) should say in his behalf, that it was not only his conviction that the seminary was needed at the time he assumed the duties of a professor, but that he believed to the last that it had been instrumental of great good to the church, by the check it had given to the progress of dangerous errors.

"Of his merits as a preacher, of his theological opinions, of his writings in the form of books, sermons, tracts, &c., the writer will not speak, His relatives and friends cheerfully trust his memory to posterity. They respected him for his talents and wisdom, his zeal and ardent, though safe, enthusiasm in every work in which he engaged; but for large and generous charity, for his paternal interest in their welfare, they loved him with a love that can never die. He was the Christian grandfather to the children of his own sons and daughters; and not only so, but grandfather to all children that knew him. Though his final sickness was brief and distressing, yet his mind was clear to the last mo

ment, and he died with words of kindness on his lips to all that came near his bedside, and with peace in his own soul.

"Who shall live his life again."

"In some accounts which have been printed, errors appear in relation to his family. He was the father of twelve children, six of whom, with a widow of 72 years, survive. Rev. J. E. Tyler, now resident at East Windsor Hill, with whom he has lived since he resigned his place in the Seminary; Mrs. Greely, widow of the late Hon. Philip Greely, Jr., Boston; Mrs. Goddard, widow of Rev. John Goddard; Edward Tyler, Esq., Cashier of the Suffolk Bank, Boston; Mrs. Prof. Gale, and Rev. Josiah Tyler, Missionary in South Africa."

HON. ISAAC TOUCEY.

Isaac Toucey was the son of Thomas Toucey, one of the founders of the ecclesiastical society of South Britain, in Southbury. He lived in a house a little easterly from the present residence of Bethuel Russell. Thomas Toucey afterwards removed to Newtown, Conn., where the subject of this sketch was born, Nov. 5, 1795; so that he was a grandson of Ancient Woodbury. He studied law with Hon. Asa Chapman, of Newtown, afterwards a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of this State. Mr. Toucey commenced the practice of his profession in Hartford, in 1818, and soon obtained a high rank at the bar. He held the office of State Attorney for Hartford County from 1822 to 1836. In the latter year he was elected a representative to Congress, and continued to represent his district in that capacity for four years. In 1846, he was elected Governor of the State. During the latter part of President Polk's administration, Mr. Toucey filled the office of Attorney General of the United States. In 1850, he was a member of the Senate of his native State. In 1951, he was elected to the Senate of the United States, and held that office through his term of six years. When Mr. Buchanan became President of the United States, Mr. Toucey went into his cabinet, and held the office of Secretary of the Navy during that administration, at the close of which he went back to private life. In addition to the public stations which he filled during his long life, there were others which he was offered and declined. Among these was a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States.

From his admission to the bar till his election to U. S. Senate, in 1851, Mr. Toucey was constantly devoted to the duties of his profession, with the exception of the four years during which he represented his distrct in the lower house of Congress.'

ARTHUR B. WARNER,

Son of Sherman B. Warner, Esq., of Southbury, where he was born. He was educated in Woodbury; studied law with Hon. James Huntington, and was admitted to the bar of Litchfield County, in the spring of 1872. He continues in the office of Judge Huntington, as his assistant, and is also Clerk of Probate for the District of Woodbury. He thus casts in his lot with us, “for better or for worse."

COL. SETH WARNER.

On page 411 of the last edition, the author criticised the inhabitants of Roxbury, for the shameful neglect in which they had allowed the remains of Col. Warner to lie. It is not to be supposed that that criticism had any effect. But the fact is so, that a movement was soon after set on foot, which resulted in an appropriation by the State of $1,000, on certain conditions to be performed by the inhabitants of Roxbury, which were fulfilled, and a beautiful monument of Quincy granite was erected on the Centre Green, in Roxbury, April 30, 1859, to the memory of the brave deceased. To this place the remains had been removed, from their ancient resting place in the "Old Burying Ground," about a mile from the center, on the 20th of the preceding October. There are historical inscriptions on each of the four raised panels of the die. Some of the dates differ from those given in the former edition of this work, which were those given by Mr. Chipman, of Vermont, in his work. But the matter of dates was carefully investigated by Ex-Gov. Hiland Hall, of Vermont, George W. Warner, Esq., of Bridgeport, Conn., a descendent of Col. Seth Warner, and the writer, and the dates put upon the monument are believed to be correct.

On the east (front) side is inscribed :-" Col. Seth Warner, of the Army of the Revolution, born in Roxbury, Ct., May 17, 1743,

1 Hon. Wm. D. Shipman, U. S. District Judge.

a resident of Bennington, Vt., from 1765 to 1784; died in his native parish, Dec. 26, 1784." On the north side appears :-"Captor of Crown Point, Commander of the Green Mountain Boys in the repulse of Carleton at Longueil, and at the battle of Hubbardton, and the associate of Stark in the victory at Beunington." On the south side is inscribed:-"Distinguished as a successful defender of the New Hampshire Grants, and for bravery, sagacity, energy and humanity, as a partisan officer in the War of the Revolution." On the west side appears:-" His remains are deposited under this monument, erected by order of the General Assembly of Connecticut, A. D., 1859."

HON. WARREN W. GUTHRIE.

Mr. Guthrie was born in South Britain, Southbury. He is a great-grandson of Judge William Edmond, late of Newtown. After receiving an Academic education, he entered the law office of William Cothren, where he pursued his studies with diligence and fidelity for three years, when he was admitted to the Litchfield County bar, in 1855, and immediately opened a law office at Seymour, Conn. He remained there a year, and had more than the ordinary success of a young lawyer. Desiring a wider field, he removed to Kansas, where he has since remained, and is now in a large and lucrative practice, at Atchison, Kansas. Soon after his settlement in Kansas, he was elected to the office of Attorney General, and held it for four years.

Thus the just criticism of the former volume is removed. And here we close our list of the worthy ones whom Woodbury deights to honor.

HE recording of the history

of the generations of men

is always an interesting,

though most laborious, work. It recalls us to all that is tender and affecting in the several relations in life. The man who does

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care who his father was," and has no curiosity to know from what branch or stock he has derived his existence, in the line back towards Adain, is a confessed boor, who should be closely watched in all the transactions with which he is connected. The views of the writer on this interesting branch of human inquiry, were fully given in the first volume of this work.

Doubtless many, in looking through this part of the work, will wonder why their family histories have not been recorded. The answer is brief. Though the author has importuned them for