nine years being a partner in the firm. Mr. Adams was
active in State and national politics, and served seventeen years at the
State House in various capacities, as member of the Legislature, Senate,
and Council, and as State Treasurer from 1870 to 1875. He was married
May 8, 1834, and on May 8, 1884, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
the marriage. Of late years he has given his attention to genealogical
and historical matters connected with the town of North Brookfield. Mr.
Adams was an upright, honest man, enjoying the highest confidence of the
community in which he lived.

* * * * *

April 22.--Deacon Nathaniel Hatch, of Bradford, Mass., died suddenly of
heart disease. He was a graduate of Bowdoin, class of 1844; had been a
teacher and a business man.

* * * * *

April 23.--Hon. John Phelps, who was born in Hubbardston, Mass., in
1824, died at New Orleans. He went South at the age of twenty-two; was
one of the founders, and became President of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, and later President of the National Cotton Exchange.

* * * * *

April 24.--Death of Maj. Albert L. Richardson, for thirty years
postmaster of Montvale, in Woburn, Mass.

* * * * *

April 24.--Mrs. Wendell Phillips died at her home on Common Street,
Boston. She was married to the great abolitionist orator about fifty
years ago, but before that time she had espoused the antislavery cause.

* * * * *

April 25.--Hon. Edmund Wilson, of Thomaston, Me., died. He had been
prominent in the political affairs of his section, and was also for the
past ten years a member of the Democratic National Committee.

* * * * *

April 26.--Joseph Weld Morrison died at Campton Village, N. H., at the
age of sixty-nine. He was an extensive dealer in lumber.

* * * * *

April 27.--Henry H. Richardson died at his residence in Brookline,
Mass., at the age of 48. Mr. Richardson had achieved a wide reputation
as an architect, his rank in that profession being variously estimated
from that of one of the first in this country to that of the first in
the world or the age. Probably the most conspicuous example of his
genius is Trinity Church in Boston.

* * * * *

April 29.--Col. Ezra J. Trull, a well-known c