at once of intelligence, vivacity and great benignity; he was quick in his movements, pleasing in his address; and in all regards suited to secure respectful attention, whether at home or away among strangers. He was in conversation frank and social; somewhat fond of argumentation; quick at repartee; had a liking for pleasant jokes, but was considerate in the use of them; and like our lamented Lincoln had a large store of anecdotes ever at hand, and told a story well. He remained bright and pleasant to the last. His mental faculties seemed not to be impaired in the least by the bodily infirmities which it was his lot to endure.

But the crowning excellency of his character was his genuine, heartfelt and all-pervading piety. It was this especially which made him the man he was during his public ministry-so active, energetic and successful; and in his retirement so sweet in word and spirit, so fervent in prayer, so strong in faith, and at all times so admirably resigned to the will of God.

JOHNSON, DANIEL-The son of Thomas and Mary (Lathrop) Johnson, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 5, 1783. He was led to the Saviour in early life, and with the ministry in view he entered Brown University, Providence, R. I., where he was graduated in 1805, and pursued In 1808 he was orhis study of divinity under his pastor, Rev. Dr. Reed.

dained and installed by a Congregational Association pastor of the church in Orleans, Barnstable county, Mass., where he remained for twenty years. In 1822, with Dr. Storrs of Braintree, Mass., and others, was formed the . second missionary society in Massachusetts.

In 1829 he removed to the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., and became a member of Rochester Presbytery, remaining in that connection the rest of his life. He preached in many places in the State, beginning at Victor, In 1857 he retired from then East Palmyra, Sweden and Parma Centre.

his ministerial work and settled in Fairport N. Y., upon a small farm, among a number of families to which he was related. He at once identified himself with the Congregational church, and was distinguished for the fidelity of his attendance upon all the meetings, and for his liberal pecuniary support of the various objects of benevolence. In seasons of revival and of declension he was alike faithful, always ready (but never obtrusive) to give his counsels or to lead the congregation in their petitions. In May, his vital Christian powers began rapidly and without any apparent disease to fail. peace, joy and hope were his constant attendants, and without a pang or any suffering through all the days and months of his decline, like the lamp whose oil is wasted, he breathed out his mortal life.

Thus ended a useful, symmetrical, beautiful life in a beautiful and triumphant death, Oct. 11, 1867.

He married in 1809 Miss Maria A. Sampson, a lineal descendant of Miles Standish, the great Puritan; she died in 1859.

He survived all his family with the exception of one widowed daughter, Mrs. A. J. Boughton, who with true filial solicitude has for years steadied and guided his faltering steps, and smoothed the pillow on which he drew his expiring breath. Three of his sons died in a Southern clime, and one, a promising young man, about closing his studies in Auburn, preparatory to the gospel ministry, was drowned in the Owasco Lake with two other students. Rev. Thomas F. Bradford of Waterford, Pa., is a nephew. Rev. C. E. FURMAN of Rochester, N. Y., writes:

"He had ability sufficient to make him universally respected; he had goodness and piety sufficient to make him universally beloved. May many be found equally faithful with the talents committed to their trust.

KERR, LL.D., GEORGE-The son of Robert and Mary (Buchanan) Kerr, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, Dec. 18, 1814. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1823, and settled upon a farm in Greene county, N. Y., where his son labored with the other members of the family. He was early called to the foot of the cross, and set his heart upon the ministry: he struggled with poverty heroically, and entered Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., where he was graduated with the first honor in 1839. He studied theology in Union Seminary, New York City. He was licensed and ordained by Columbia Presbytery, at West Durham, N. Y., in 1844. He began his labors as pastor of the Reformed (Protestant Dutch) church, Conesville, Schoharie county, N. Y., where he remained until April, 1846, and then yielded to the plain indications of Providence in taking charge of the academy at Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y. This he soon raised from a depressed to a highly prosperous condition. Here was most of his labor as instructor expended, and from this secluded village there went out, through his extraordinary power over his pupils, an influence which is now blessing many communities and churches. He very reluctantly relinquished the pastoral office, for which his earnest and sympathetic nature peculiarly fitted him. For many years he preached nearly as much as if he had been a pastor, his services being greatly sought and highly appreciated by neighboring churches. For nearly sixteen years he made Franklin the centre of his wide-reaching influence. Then he spent a year and a half as professor in the State Agricultural College at Ovid, N. Y., then three years as principal at Watertown Academy, N. Y., and finally closed his life at Cooperstown, N. Y., after two years of as vigorous effort in the seminary there as he ever put forth.

Dr. Kerr was a man of work; his characteristics were prominent and clearly defined; all through life he was intellectually on the alert; everywhere, on all worthy subjects, analytical, independent, discriminating. He was a thorough scholar, especially in Greek literature, and a marvel of enthusiasm and power as a teacher. The weariness of school drill and painstaking with minds only commonly receptive did not exhaust the fiery fervor and keen delight with which he taught; and as his mind wandered in his last hours, his occupation was still teaching Greek with waning energy and whispering voice to the very end. He died at his residence, Cooperstown, N. Y., March 27, 1867, of inflammation of the lungs.

He married Miss Lucia M., daughter of Hon. Henry Hamilton, of Schoharie county, N. Y., who with eight children survives him.

Rev. CHARLES K. MCHARG, of Cooperstown, N. Y., writes: "He was a man of remarkably vigorous and active intellect, of indomitable persistence and of unceasing industry. A passion for work in all that he undertook seemed ever constraining him. He therefore became a most competent and successful teacher. He was a very thorough classical scholar, and rarely gifted with the power of rousing the intellect of his students to enthusiasm in that branch of study. His recitations were lively and interesting scenes, from his manner of conducting them and the onset which he made upon intellectual torpor. He was a large-hearted man, impulsive, frank even to bluntness, sympathetic, tender and ardent in feeling. Numbers of his pupils found in him a wise counsellor, a generous helper and a true and abiding friend. The force of his character and his earnest efforts to do good are felt in the lives of a large class of educated persons.

"He was a Christian of strong faith, glowing zeal and prompt sensibility to all that concerned the cause of the beloved Master. He followed the leadings of Providence in becoming a teacher, when his heart was very much

set upon being a pastor. As he became eminent in the first vocation, so he had qualities adapted to make him eminent, useful and of wide influence in the latter.

"He was a fine biblical scholar, an evangelical and scriptural preacher. Preaching generally without notes, he was always earnest in manner, sometimes vehement, in style forcible rather than elegant, making clear, strong points, powerful in reasoning, pathetic and close in appeal, and not failing to keep well the attention of his hearers. The Church and the cause of education have lost by his death a most efficient laborer."

SUSQUEHANNA SYNOD, at its annual session in September, 1867, records its high regard for him as a man and as a Christian minister, holding in remembrance his purity of life, his zeal, his unceasing toil, his implicit trust in God, and his warm, generous heart; making mention of his great ability, popularity and success as a teacher, in which vocation he was singular and eminent for the power with which he awakened the energy of his pupils and inspired them with zeal and love for learning. He was enthusiastic in the work, and yet made it but a means of advancing the cause of Christ and meeting the wants of the Church in regard to an educated and pious ministry.

KEYS, JOHN-The son of John and Lucy (Hale) Keys, was born at Wilton, N. H., Aug. 28, 1778. He was of English descent; his ancestors emigrated to this country in 1660, settling in Tolland county, Conn.; his grandfather and father were born in Boylton, Mass., and were both in the Continental army at Boston, the grandfather dying from fever contracted on Dorchester Heights near Boston. His father was at the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, and remained in the army until the close of the Revolutionary war. He was graduated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., in 1803, and removed to New York City, and taught school for several years; thence to Morristown, N. J., where he studied theology under James Richards, D.D. He was licensed by New York Presbytery at Orangedale, N. J., Oct. 3, 1805, and Aug. 4, 1807, he was ordained by the same Presbytery; the following year he was installed as pastor of the church at Sand Lake, near Albany, N. Y., where he remained four years, when he removed to Albany, and for two years preached as he had opportunity, and also supplying the almshouse with missionary labor. In 1814 he accepted a call from the Congregational church of Wolcott, Conn., where he remained ten years: highly blessed years they were. In 1824 he removed to Tallmadge, Ohio, a Congregational church, though he became connected with Portage Presbytery; in this church he remained until April 16, 1833. During his services with this church he was blessed with two revivals of religion. He preached in Dover, Newburg, Parma, Ohio, and at Peoria, Ill., where his wife died in 1850; at St. Louis, Mo., at Cedar Rapids and Elkador, Iowa: he at last re turned to Ohio and settled in the family of his son-in-law, Dr. M. Moore, of Dover, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where the last years of his life passed gently away, amid the comforts of home and the affectionate regards of his children. He died Jan. 27, 1867, of a gradual decay of nature.

He married on April 25, 1806, Miss Mary Carmichal, of Morristown, N. J.; they had eleven children. Mrs. Keys died 1850; their children survive. He was an industrious, hard-working man, though to labor in the cause of Christ was delightful to his soul. He was a prayer-loving Christian, making many matters subjects of special prayer that are often merely referred to in general terms; owing to the weight of years reducing the tone of his system, he was at times despondent, but his last end was peace, his last words

being, "Oh, wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

LOUNSBURY, D.D., THOMAS-The son of James and Rebecca (Schofield) Lounsbury, was born in Florida, Orange county, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1789. His parents soon after his birth removed to Newtown, now Elmira, N. Y., where his father died whilst he was quite a youth. Under the training of his pious mother he was early led to seek his Saviour, and in his sixteenth year he was the subject of renewing grace. About this time he formed the acquaintance of Mr. Wisner, now Wm. Wisner, D.D., of Ithaca, N. Y., who was then a young lawyer in the town, and who was also a recent convert to Christ; their mutual influence contributed in a great measure to determine the mind of each to a personal consecration to the work of the ministry. Mr. Lounsbury was early taught in the school of necessity habits of self-reliance and persevering industry: by dint of hard work he entered Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., where he was graduated with the highest honors of his class in 1817. He began teaching on leaving college, which he continued nearly two years. He studied divinity in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in 1821, and was soon after licensed by Hudson Presbytery, and entered upon his Master's services as a domestic missionary in Sullivan county, N. Y. Subsequently he preached at Painted Post-now Corning, N. Y., and the regions round about. In April, 1823, he was called to Ovid, N. Y., the field of his life-work, and was ordained and installed by Geneva Presbytery, Sept. 4, 1823. The church grew under his ministry, many being added thereto. At the end of twenty-six years he resigned, and was appointed agent for the American Bible Society; he was very efficient in this toilsome work. He preached as a supply for the churches of Homer, Hector and Romulus, and also for two years in his old pulpit in Ovid; but his health gradually declined, and for several years the indications of paralysis were quite marked, and with his house set in order he submissively waited for the Lord's coming.

He died at his residence in Ovid, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1867, of paralysis.

He married Miss Mary J. Woodward; they had seven children, three of whom survive. One, Rev. Henry A. Lounsbury, is a Congregational minister of Boston, Mass.

SAMUEL H. GRIDLEY, D.D., of Waterloo, writes:

"For many years he was the Stated Clerk of his Presbytery-an office for which his thorough knowledge of the proper methods of ecclesiastical business, as well as his own rigid regard for order, eminently fitted him. A son of Princeton, of the Alexandrian school, his influence contributed not a little to the sound theological character and Christian order of the churches of the mother Presbytery of Western New York; and no man has ever more manfully sustained the reputation of these churches when it has been assailed. In 1837 and 1838, the period of his Synod's great trial, he stood shoulder to shoulder with his exscinded brethren in the unwavering conviction that time would vindicate their fidelity to the standards of the Church.

"In spirit, and in intercourse with his brethren, Dr. Lounsbury was eminently genial and fraternal. To those who differed with him simply in things non-essential he cheerfully extended the right hand of fellowship. Yet when enlisted in behalf of fundamental truth, he was a strong man armed,' and his blows fell upon what he deemed essential and dangerous error like the blows of the sledge-hammer upon heated iron.

"His last public service was rendered about two weeks previous to his

death. The occasion was the installation of Rev. C. E. Stebbins over the congregation which he had himself so long loved and served. In compliance with the wish of his brethren, he pronounced, though with trembling and faltering voice, the constitutional form of words which sealed the relation of pastor and people. The manner and whole appearance of the veteran minister of God, while significant of his own conviction that he was doing his last work for his people, added greatly to the solemnity of the scene and drew tears from many eyes.

"It is our solace in the departure of our brother that his memory remains, and in the churches to which he ministered, in the Presbytery of which he was an ornament, and in the hearts of the hundreds whom he led to Christ, that memory will be held as a sacred and precious treasure.' Rev. CHARLES E. STEBBINS of Ovid, N. Y., writes:

"He was a man of strong will and great industry, seldom undertaking anything which he did not carry through with a strong hand. He was, however, a man of large heart and unaffected spirituality. Though he was honest and outspoken, all who knew him loved him not the less, and no one doubted his sincerity and heartfelt piety. He united fearless courage with genuine humility. Age did not chill him; a long and painful illness did not render him morose or gloomy. He seemed to grow younger as he neared the end of life, and could adapt himself to circumstances with all the ease and much of the enthusiasm of youth. A faithful minister, an humble Christian, an affectionate and wise husband and father, a true and noble and thoroughly reliable man."

MILLS, D.D., HENRY-The son of John and Chloe (Wines) Mills, was born at Morristown, N. J., March 12, 1786. He prepared for college in his native town, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1802. For several years he gave himself to study, without direct reference to the Christian ministry, though early in life he devoted himself to the service of God and made a profession of his faith. For a considerable time he was a teacher of the academy in Morristown, and afterward in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was also tutor for two years in his Alma Mater. All this time he was acquiring the best discipline and culture for that which was to be the great work of his life. After studying theology with Rev. James Richards, D.D., he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of New Jersey, and in 1816 was ordained by the same body, and installed as the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Woodbridge, N. J. He remained there, highly esteemed and eminently useful, until 1821, when he was called to the Professorship of Biblical Criticism in the Thelogical Seminary at Auburn, N. Y., which was just then established. He at once entered this new field of labor, being associated in the work of instruction with James Richards, D.D., his theological teacher, and M. La Rue Perrine, D.D. For thirtythree years he performed the duties of this station with eminent ability. In 1854 he resigned the office on account of physical infirmities, and was made age of eighty-one. Professor Emeritus. He died June 10, 1867, at the

He was married to Miss Maria Barkins, who survives him. They had seven children-two sons and five daughters. Four of their daughters were married to clergymen. The names of these sons-in-law are, Russell S. Cook, Claudius B. Lord, Henry A. Nelson and Frederick Starr, Jr.

JONATHAN B. CONDIT, D.D., Professor in Auburn Seminary, New York, writes: In its uniformity and complete"The life of Dr. Mills was not eventful. ness it affords no striking incidents to be inserted in this sketch. Yet a just