XXVIII.

BRIEF MEMOIRS

OF

HORACE BURR, M.D.,

REV. CHARLES E. MURRAY, D.D.

AND

HENRY R. BRINGHURST,

DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.

BY

PENNOCK PUSEY,

HISTORIOGRAPHER.

Read before the Historical Society of Delaware, December 22, 1899

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE,

WILMINGTON.

BRIEF MEMOIRS BY THE

HISTORIOGRAPHER.

TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE:

I beg respectfully to report that no practical duties seem heretofore to have been required of the Historiographer of this Society. The province or functions of such an office, never perhaps very well defined, have been in this case. purely nominal from the practice, long followed, of finding suitable expression upon the decease of members through appointed committees or by the volunteer services of personal friends. But since the last annual meeting of this Society the death of three of its prominent members seems to afford a specially fitting occasion for a definite record or report from its Historiographer, so far, at least, as to arrange and summarize here what has been properly said by others elsewhere.

Dr. Horace Burr died on the 10th of January, Rev. Dr. Charles E. Murray on the 26th of the same month, and Henry R. Bringhurst on the 25th of October, all in the year 1899.

Of course, brief sketches must here suffice for detailed or elaborate biographies, while there will be attempted no adequate tribute to the character and services of our departed members.