sical seminary at Doylestown. Being selected by his Alma Mater to deliver the oration before the literary societies of Princeton College in 1873, he did so with marked credit on the topic, "The duty of the American scholar to become an active agent in American politics." He has in like manner been invited to deliver addresses to the graduates of our high schools at their annual commencements, and performed the duty with great acceptance.

It only remains to speak of Judge Ross as a man and a jurist. He is affable, courteous and social in an eminent degree,. with an utter absence of that hauteur so common to men in his position. He takes a deep interest in all political questions as they arise, and the necessary retiracy of his high position is rather enforced than voluntary. His mental and physical endowments indicate a predominance of nerve, giving quickness,. intrepidity, and decisiveness to every action. As a writer and speaker he uses language always concise, direct and forcible, and never confuses the hearer with mere verbiage. As an elocutionist he has learned what very few public speakers have,. that syllables, words and sentences are ideal pictures addressed as such to the understanding of the hearer, and which, from rapidity and indistinctiveness of utterance by many are misapprehended or lost. Judge Ross' deliverances from the bench,. therefore, sound to the unlearned listener very like a carefullydelivered law lecture. The perspicuity of his charges, also,. rarely if ever fail to give juries a clear idea of the cause in hand,. and his quick and analytic mind seldom errs in a ruling. Con-sequently his decisions do not often come back from the Su-preme Court for another trial. Few county Judges in a short period have presided over so many important cases as he, such as the murder trials of Curley, Pistorius, Whalen, and Sutton.

In his intercourse with the bar and the public he has escaped the imputation of favoritism and partiality, and his integrity and uniform inflexibility command the confidence of all. If the Judge's health and life are spared, he has a distinguished and useful career before him. Though not a member of any church, his affiliations and attachments are towards the Episcopalian..

JONAS M. HARLEY.

It is a serious thing to die; it is a more serious thing to live.-Schiller.

The modest, unpretending citizen whose name stands above, is recorded because, from considerations of patriotism and public spirit, he inscribed himself a patron of our book, which aims to rescue from forgetfulness departed public men of the county. He makes no pretensions, wants or needs no eulogies. He has a family record, however, which is here given.

Among the pious Germans who left the fatherland with Pastorius and settled at "ye Garmantown" was Rudolph Harley, who had a son, also named Rudolph, born to him in the old country in 1719, and a daughter married to a man called Graef, who moved West. This Rudolph of the second generation. married Mary Becker, daughter of Peter Becker, of Germantown, and had thirteen children, born as follows: Johannes (or John) in 1741, Johanna in 1743, Lena in 1745, Maria in 1747, Rudolph in 1749, Elizabeth in 1750, Jacob in 1752, Henry in 1754, Sarah in 1756, Samuel in 1758, Joseph in 1760, Maria Margreta in 1762, and Abraham in 1765. These numerous sons and daughters were thus intermarried: Maria with Frederick Diehl, Rudolph with Barbara Bach, Elizabeth with Christian Dettra, Henry with Elizabeth Groff, Sarah with George Price, Samuel with Catharine (daughter of Christopher Saur, of Germantown), Joseph with Catharine Reiff, Maria Margreta with Jacob Detwiler, and Abraham with Christiana Geisz.

We continue the genealogy in the fourth generation through Samuel, the fifth son of Rudolph. This Samuel had ten children, born as follows: Daniel in 1787, Samuel in 1788, Mary (the mother of Abraham H. Cassel, the antiquarian) in 1789, Sarah in 1791, John in 1792, Catharine in 1793, Joseph in 1795, Elizabeth in 1797, Jacob, and Abraham. The above named Joseph Harley married Sarah Markley, and they became the parents of ten children, as follows: Samuel, Ann, Philip, Joseph, Edwin, Deborah, Jonas M. (the proper subject of this notice), John, Sarah, and Daniel, all now (1879) living but Joseph.

Jonas M. Harley was born in Gwynedd township, Montgomery county, on the 18th of September, 1831, and received

a good common school education, partly under the instructions of his cousin, Abraham H. Cassel. At the age of fifteen years he was apprenticed to the cabinetmaking business with his uncle, which he learned and successfully followed for a period of ten years in Juniata county, where he continued (including his apprenticeship) thirteen years. About 1859 he returned to the East and located at Line Lexington, Bucks county, in the mercantile business, continuing there eleven years, when he removed to North Wales, where he has since been prominently engaged in the general storekeeping business.

In 1865 Jonas M. Harley was united in marriage to Emeline, daughter of Robert Stonebach, and there were born to them two children, Walter S. and Laura Amanda. Having lost his first wife by death some years ago, he was afterwards married to Hannah Cassel. Mr. Harley for a long time has been a member of the Baptist church of North Wales, and justly stands very high in that growing young borough as a. business man and useful citizen.

REV. HENRY A. HUNSICKER.

Mountains and hills may move,

But naught can set aside His power eternal

Nor change His truth and love.

O, soul afflicted, tempest-tossed, uncared-for!
Whilst His face can see

Thou needst not fear, for terror and oppression
Can never come near thee.-Mrs. M. J. Bittle.

Henry A. Hunsicker, of Freeland, Montgomery county, son of Rev. Abraham and Elizabeth Hunsicker, of that place, was born November 10th, 1825. His father was a farmer, and as usual with such the son had at first but the ordinary opportunities of common schools till well grown, when he was sent first to Washington Hall boarding-school, then under the careof Rev. Henry S. Rodenbough, and for a short time to Treemount Seminary, Norristown, then presided over by the Rev.. Samuel Aaron. These limited advantages, however, were so.

well improved by close application to hard study, rigid scholastic discipline, and a naturally inquiring turn of mind, added to great administrative abilities, that he was enabled in his twenty-second year, with the assistance of his father and friends, to erect buildings and open Freeland Seminary for the education of young men. This school, under his management, became eminent and very prosperous for a period of eighteen years, or from 1847 to 1865, when he sold it to Professor Fetterolf. During this long time about twenty-three hundred pupils were under his instruction. It is proper here to remark that Mr. Hunsicker was remarkable as a Principal for rigid yet mild, kindly management of the young, and pupils always left his school with pleasant recollections of their school-boy days.

In 1848, Mr. H., at the age of twenty-three, united with the Reformed Mennonites, of which his father, Rev. Abraham Hun sicker, was a Bishop and prominent leader. The son was very active with his father and others in organizing the present Trinity Church of Freeland about 1851, where he assisted in ministerial labors for some years afterwards. This church was the result of a schism which occurred in the Mennonite denomination growing out of the distrust of the latter body of a liberal training of the young and their opposition to secret societies. In 1849, shortly after joining the church, Mr. Hunsicker was married to Mary S. Weinberger, and there were born to them five children, Clement W., Joseph H., Abraham Lincoln, Flora G., and Howard Alvin. The first of the sons resides in Philadelphia. Abraham L. was accidentally shot, and died in 1872. The other children reside in Montgomery county. Mrs. Mary S. Hunsicker died May 7th, 1874, and on the 11th of May, 1876, Mr. Hunsicker married Annie C. Gotwals.

Mr. H. has been strongly anti-slavery and temperance in his moral and political views for a long time, acting first with the Free Soilers, and later with the Prohibitionists. In 1852 he supported Hale, Fremont in 1856, Lincoln in 1860 and 1864, and Grant in 1868. Since that time he has uniformly voted the Prohibition ticket. He never had any taste for politics, however, nor sought office, though he suffered his friends to

run him for Congress in 1874, as previously for State Senate and the Constitutional convention.

Although he was chosen by his christian brethren a minister and ordained as such, he never regarded himself a settled or a stated clergyman, and never received any pecuniary compensation for such service.

After closing a round of duty for twenty years as an instructor of youth, he spent nearly ten in mercantile pursuits, mainly in the lumber business in Philadelphia, from which he was obliged to retire by the commercial revulsion of 1873. Being of an active, industrious turn, his life has been a busy one. He made money in both of his leading pursuits, but being of a kindly, generous and sympathetic nature, has ever been willing to assist to the extent of his means in carrying forward schemes of public improvement or moral and religious reform. Accordingly his attainments in life are what he has accomplished for others rather than what he has secured for himself. During the life-time of his father he attended to his correspondence, being his constant amanuensis for several years before his death.

Mr. Hunsicker has been more recently employed in several valuable agencies of a public nature, especially in assisting emigrants from the East to secure good localities for settlement in Kansas and other Western States. He is in the prime of life, and doubtless has a future in prospect as real as his past.

JOHN W. LOCH, A. M., PH. D.

Sow seed for flowers eternal.-Apocrisis.

The career of the proprietor and Principal of Treemount Seminary, Norristown, is a remarkable instance of a young man by mere force of mental endowment, aspiring aims, and correct moral deportment, passing upward to a first-class social and business position without the advantages that wealth or family influence give at starting, or in fact without any adventitious