this State to the north or south of me; not one to the east, nearer than Mr. Steele, of Paris, in Oneida county.” On leaving the Cazenovia church, he moved to Pompey, and, in 1814, became preceptor of the Pompey Academy; occupying that position for eight years. Under his administration that Institution flourished, and had a wide influence. He still continued to accept the frequent invitations to fill the neighboring pulpits. He was a man of sterling integrity, untiring industry, of a fetterless independence and boldness, of very extensive reading, large and accurate acquirements, and a singular power of condensed expression. As, robed in a long flowing morning gown, with high hose and knee-buckles, staff in hand, he used to take his rapid morning walks through the village, he left an impression of dignity and goodness on the minds of the youth so vivid, that it has yet scarcely been dimmed by the half century intervening. He died at Auburn, at his daughter's, Mrs. Helen L. Williams, December 18th, 1843, aged 75 with faculties unimpaired, retaining his undiminished interest in all the literary and scientific progress of the day; Mrs. Leonard having died at Lincklaen, Chenango county, nineteen years previous. Of their nine children, six survive, and reside at Chicago, Ill. the youngest of whom is sixty-three years old; longevity being one of their characteristics, as if some of the iron of their manufacture had entered into their composition; a sister still surviving, at Raynham of the age of ninety-nine. LUTHER MARSH Must have come to Pompey sometime prior to 1812. Born, Walpole, N. H., October 14, 1782; died, Chicago, November 14, 1859, aged 77. He was son of Captain Elisha Marsh, (who subsequently removed from Walpole to Guilford, Vermont,) and grandson of Rev. Elisha Marsh, a graduate of Harvard, and the first minister at Westminster, Mass., from 1742 to 1757. This clergyman was arraigned for heresy, for saying that "obedience is the condition of salvation ;" and that "he would as soon worship the devil as worship such a being as requires more from his creatures than they are able to perform;" for saying that "if all that was required of a man was to believe, then the condition of salvation was easy and pleasant to fools." He was a spicy character. One morning, on meeting the sheriff from a neighboring town, who was on his way to sue the town, and who, pursuant to the custom to serve writ on some one of the citizens,served it on him; saying in a pleasant manner as he handed him the writ; "The grace of God, Mr. Marsh." "Yes, by the hands of the Devil," was the quick retort. He moved to Walpole, Cheshire Co., N. H., and became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Luther Marsh was the fifth, in direct line, from John Marsh, one of the first settlers of Hadley, Mass., and afterwards, 1639, of Hartford, Conn., where he married Anne, daughter of John Webster, Governor of Connecticut. Luther Marsh, June 24th, 1812, married Emma Rawson,daughter of Doctor Thomas Hooker Rawson, of Canandaigua, N. Y. She was the fourth from Rev. Grindal Rawson, of Mendon, Mass., the friend and classmate at Harvard, of Cotton Mather; who, in preaching his funeral sermon, (1715,) said, "We honored him for his doing the work of an Evangelist among our Judeans, of whose language he was a master that had scarce an equal, and for whose welfare his projection and performances were such as to render our loss herein hardly to be repaired. Such services are Pyramids." Grindal Rawson was the twelfth child of Edward Rawson, of Boston,who came over from England in 1636, and was, for thirty-six years, 1651-1686,Secretary of the colony of Massachusetts. Emma Rawson was also the sixth from Rev. Charles Chauncey, the second President of Harvard College. She died at Pompey, April 4th, 1820. By this marriage there were four children, of whom two survive; Luther Rawson Marsh, lawyer, New York city, and Elisha Azro Marsh, dealer in mines, California. Luther Marsh married, for second wife, Margaret Leonard, daughter of Rev. Joshua Leonard, of Pompey. She resides at Chicago. By this marriage there were two children, Alexander Marsh, lumber merchant, and Joshua Leonard Marsh, lawyer, both of Chicago, Ill. Luther Marsh was High-Sheriff of Onondaga county for two terms, 1823-6. NOAH PALMER, SR. Was born in Brantford, Conn.,in the year 1764. When he was seven years old his father died in Connecticut,about the beginning of the Revolutionary War. As early as 1790 he came from Brantford to Cazenovia, and bought a place with Col. Linclaen, in 1797, in Pompey, near Oran, now owned by his grand-son Daniel D. Palmer. Upon this farm he lived thirty-eight years. After he died his son Noah owned it thirty-six years. He was a nail maker, and worked for old Col. Linclaen at that business for five or six years. It is said he made the first nails that were used in building in the town of Pompey. He died in the year 1835, upon the land which he purchased in 1797, in Pompey; his son Noah succeeding him in the title to the estate. Two of his children, Noah and Martha, were born in Pompey, and these are both now (1874) dead. One daughter Mrs. Edmund Thomas, is living. Mr. Palmer was of that type of manhood whose stern and unyielding integrity bears fruit, in the years when his form lies silent in the grave, of whom it may be justly said, "Tho' dead he yet speaks." DR. SILAS PARK. Silas Park was born in Litchfield, Conn., December 1st, 1778. Having acquired a good education, he commenced the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Robt. Starkweather in Chesterfield, Mass. He moved to Pompey West Hill, in 1800, and commenced the practice of his profession,his ride extending from Liverpool, on the north, to Port Wat |