about this time, although the earliest formed Temperance Club is said to have been at Skibbereen in Ireland in 1818. Mr. Baldwin says that Mr. Lincoln declined to give him a copy of the poem, but I find pasted into the record of the meeting a printed copy of a poem which may be by Mr. Lincoln, entitled: "A very Temperate song about Cold Water."

There are seven verses of which the following is the sixth :

The old Bachelor, cross grained and crabbed may twine
The wreath of the muses around the gay wine,

But no father among you would give him a daughter
Unless he confined his potations to water.

The exercises of the day ended with a "splendid party made in the evening by the lady of His Excellency Governor Lincoln."

Our chronicler goes on to say:

The time was spent by such as had a taste that way, in dancing cotilions, and very few, old or young, who had an opportunity, failed of improving it. The oldest one that I saw dancing was the Hon. Daniel Davis, Solicitor General of the Commonwealth, who is now very near eighty years old. The supper prepared for the company was very grand indeed, and worthy of the accomplished and intelligent lady who gave it. It was the happy conclusion of a very happy day to all who had a part in it. The Ladies were all very pretty and many of them very handsome. And most of them, old as well as young, joined in the dance. It was indeed a singularly odd spectacle to see all the grave and learned judges of our highest judicial tribunal "tripping on the light fantastic toe." The Chief Justice weighs at least two hundred and fifty pounds. It is customary for these "reverend seniors" to join occasionally in such diversions and Mr. Solicitor Davis never omits any opportunity of the kind. Even the Chief Magistrate himself mingled in the mazes of the dance, and acquits himself as happily in the business as in the management of the more weighty concerns of government.

There is appended to this report, which is in Mr. Baldwin's handwriting, the history of the Company of Cadets from Boston who honored the occasion with their presence, an autograph letter from Chief Justice.

Shaw giving some account of himself and of his ancestry and a copy of the Prayer delivered by Dr. Bancroft at the Meeting House.

We venture to suggest the propriety of printing this account of the Centennial Anniversary of 1831, in the Proceedings of the October meeting of 1931.

Judge Ira M. Barton presenting the report of the Council in April, 1855, begins as follows:

The munificient founder of this Society in one of his earliest communications made to it in 1813, congratulated the members upon the safe location of their Library and Museum "forty miles distant from the nearest branch of the sea, in the town of Worcester, Mass., on the great road from all the Southern and Western states to Boston, the capital of New England." This location of our institution in the country, upon so extensive a thoroughfare was, no doubt, a wise arrangement. May it not be regarded less so, since the quiet town of Worcester has become a city of twenty-five thousand souls and since its "great road" has given place to a star of railways radiating in every direction from its centre.

The solicitude of our fellow members of an earlier day, now, after the passage of nearly seventy years, seems to have been without foundation, and great material changes have followed in quick succession without menace to our cherished institution. This may well encourage us to believe that it will continue to flourish, in its present secluded location, and will be safe in the hands of future generations who may, perhaps, turn to our records with the same respectful interest with which we to-day have examined some of the transactions of the past.

CHARLES G. WASHBURN,
For the Council.

OBITUARIES

LEWIS WINTERS GUNCKEL

Lewis Winters Gunckel, of Dayton, Ohio, who died July 16, 1916, was born June 2, 1869, the son of Hon. Lewis B. Gunckel, a leading attorney-at-law in Southern Ohio, and Katherine Winters. He was graduated with the degree of Ph.B. from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1891. He then studied law in his father's office, but soon resigned to purchase an interest in the Seybold Machine Company, of Dayton, of which he was treasurer for five years. He then retired from business to follow pursuits which had engaged his attention for many years previous.

Always interested in the study of American antiquities and the ethnology of the prehistoric races, he joined an expedition in 1892, under the leadership of Warren K. Moorehead, to explore the cliff dwellings of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The next few years he spent in travel to Europe, Mexico and Egypt, to study in his favorite subjects, and in writing communications to various learned journals. He belonged to several archaeological societies and enjoyed a correspondence with many scholars. On November 7, 1895, he married Ella Harries Lowe, niece of Gen. Gates P. Thurston, author of the "Antiquities of Tennessee." He was stricken with illness comparatively early in life and spent his last few years in seclusion, unable to enjoy the work which he had planned to undertake. Mr. Gunckel was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in April 1898.

C. S. B.

LINCOLN NEWTON KINNICUTT

Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt, son of Francis Harrison and Elizabeth Waldo (Parker) Kinnicutt, was born in Worcester, March 14, 1849, and died here, December 13, 1921. Educated in the public schools of his native city and in Europe, at the age of seventeen he entered the hardware store of his father and, on coming of age, became a member of the firm. Although a profitable and successful business, it did not appeal to him, and in a few years he sought a more congenial pursuit. In 1877 he entered the office of George T. Rice, banker, where he served a seven years' apprenticeship which stood him in good stead in later years. In 1884, he formed a partnership with Alexander DeWitt and under the name of Kinnicutt and DeWitt the new firm rose rapidly in favor and for many years conducted the largest banking and brokerage business in the county.

Mr. Kinnicutt was a director in a number of the banking institutions of Worcester, was for several years treasurer of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and treasurer of the Worcester Art Museum from its incorporation until his death. The financial prosperity of this important institution was largely due to the wisdom which Mr. Kinnicutt exercised in the management of its extensive interests. He was connected with and actively interested in a number of the benevolent and charitable organizations of Worcester in each of which his influence was strongly felt. He was a member of many clubs in Boston and Worcester and was largely responsible for the establishment of the Bohemian Club in this city, for the selection of its name and for the success of its annual "Christmas Revels."

Somewhat reserved in manner, Mr. Kinnicutt often gave the impression on the street of ignoring those whom he met, but this was due to preoccupation, not intent, and was never the case with children of whom

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he was passionately fond, and who often lay in wait for him to secure the small gift which his pocket always contained. This fact reveals his true character, a lover of the young and helpless-both human and animal-and the book in which he gathered verses in praise of the animal he loved best- "Terry"-was entitled: "To my Dog and to your Dog." true life was led on his beloved farm "Woonasako" on the slopes of Asnebumskit, and on the border of that river of long ago which filled the valley now occupied by the city of Worcester. Here he lived and moved and had his being. He was no gentleman farmer, but a lover of nature. He covered the hills with white pine shoots; he knew where to find not merely the earliest but the most perfect wild flowers, and he loved to watch, in the Sanctuary which he established, the coming and going of the wild birds which knew by instinct that in that tract was safety. It was but a step from this love of nature to a study of the legends of bird and flower and tree and finally of that child of nature, the Indian, who haunted these regions in the years gone by.

This interest led to careful study and resulted in his writings on "Indian Place Names in Worcester County" "Indian Place Names in Plymouth County," and "The Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Indians, the last read before the Massachusetts Historical Society, April 19, 1920. His knowledge of nature was of great value in this study and his conservatism gave to his writings a distinct reputation and the stamp of authority. The work which he left unfinished was undertaken because he became convinced during these investigations that Sir Ferdinando Gorges played a more important part in the colonization of New England than he has been given credit for and had really instituted measures for bringing the Pilgrims of the Mayflower into his territory of Massachusetts. His arguments were sound and his array of facts convincing and the fact that he did not live to

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