at his home in that city, February 19th, 1901. He was elected to honorary membership in this society November 12th, 1894. After receiving a public school education he was in succession a compositor, state printer, editor and physician, graduating from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1859. He served during the Civil War as a surgeon of Pennsylvania volunteers. Since 1871 he became largely engaged in historical researches, and from 1887 to 1900 was the state librarian of Pennsylvania. During his administration, the library was removed from the capitol to a separate new building. He was editor of the Colonial and State Archives, second and third series; and was author and compiler of many important works of history, biography and genealogy.

CHARLES D. ELFELT was born in Millerstown, Pa., August 29th, 1828; and died in St. Paul, April 28th, 1899. He came to Minnesota, settling at St. Paul, in 1849, and during many years was engaged in the wholesale dry goods trade, in company with his brothers, for which they erected a large building at the corner of Third and Exchange streets. Mr. Elfelt had been a member of this society and actively interested in its progress during all its history. His name appears in the earliest published list of members, in the first issue of the society's Annals, dated 1850. He became a life member January 15th, 1856, and was a member of the Executive Council since 1889.

MAHLON N. GILBERT was born in Laurens, Otsego county, N. Y., March 23d, 1848. He was a student three years in Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; but at the beginning of his senior year, in 1869, was obliged to relinquish his studies because of ill health. In 1875 he graduated from the Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minn. After six years of pastorates in Deer Lodge and Helena, Montana, he was called to Christ Church in St. Paul, and this city was ever afterward his home. In 1886 he was elected assistant bishop of Minnesota. He became an annual member of this society in 1883, and a life member January 9th, 1888. He died at his home

after a short illness of pneumonia, March 2d, 1900. His earnest and noble life had deeply endeared him to all who knew him. An address which he delivered to this society had been printed before his death in the early part of this volume (pages 181-196).

WILLIAM WIRT HENRY, a grandson of Patrick Henry, was born at Red Hill, Charlotte county, Va., February 14th, 1831; and died in Richmond, Va., December 5th, 1900. He was elected a corresponding member of this society February 8th, 1897. He graduated from the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in 1853, and practiced law during many years; was president of the Virginia Historical Society, and of the American Historical Association; and was author and editor of the "Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry."

CHARLES J. HOADLY, during forty-five years state librarian of Connecticut, and since 1895 president of the Connecticut Historical Society, was born in Hartford, Conn., August 1st, 1828, and died at his home in that city October 19th, 1900. He graduated from Trinity College in 1851; and was appointed librarian of that college in 1854. The next year he was appointed state librarian, succeeding Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull He copied and edited, with valuable annotations, sixteen volumes of the Colonial and State Records of Connecticut. He was elected an honorary member of this society November 8th, 1897.

JOHN R JONES was born in Champaign county, Ohio, May 18th, 1828; and died at his home in Chatfield Minn., June 26th, 1900. He was one of the pioneers of Fillmore county, locating at Chatfield in 1854, as a young lawyer, and soon became the official county attorney. This position he resigned in 1857, having been elected to the State Senate. In the Sioux war of the years 1862 to 1865 he enlisted as a private, was mustered in as the captain of Company A in the Second Minnesota Cavalry, participated in several battles with the Indians, and was promoted to the rank of major. In the

ensuing years he built up a very extensive law practice. He became an annual member of this society in 1879, and was elected to life membership December 8th, 1884.

WILLIAM H. KELLEY was born in Boston, Mass., May 9th, 1819; and died at his home in St. Paul, April 3d, 1900. He came to Minnesota in 1855, and to this city in 1856, which was thenceforward his home, excepting an interval of five years' residence in the South. During many years he was the chief bookkeeper of the First National Bank of St. Paul; and he was connected with this bank, before and after his absence in the South, for more than thirty years. Mr. Kelley was much interested in the work of this society, and was its actuary, in care of the library and museum, in 1858 and 1859. December 26th, 1863, he was elected its secretary for the remaining month of the term left vacant by the resignation of Dr. Neill; and from 1864 to 1874 he was a member of the Executive Council. At the organization of the St. Paul Library Association, in 1863, Mr. Kelley became its secretary; and in 1882 he was elected secretary of the board of directors of the City Public Library, and continued in that position until about a year before his death. One of his recreations was the study of botany and the collection of a herbarium, which, after his death, was conditionally donated by Mrs. Kelley to this society's museum. It includes about 2,000 specimens, mostly collected in St. Paul and its vicinity.

PATRICK H. KELLY was born February 2d, 1831, in County Mayo, Ireland, and died at his home in St. Paul, October 23d, 1900. He emigrated to Montreal, Canada, at the age of sixteen years, and remained there about one year. Next he was a clerk and merchant nine years in the village of Mooers, N. Y. In 1857 Mr. Kelly, with his brother Anthony, came to Minnesota. The two brothers were in the grocery business at St. Anthony during the next six years. In 1863 Mr. Patrick Kelly removed to St. Paul, and was here engaged as a wholesale grocer during the ensuing thirty-seven years, until his death. He was a most public-spirited citizen, and in many ways contributed greatly to the advancement of the commercial, edu

cational, and political interests of St. Paul and of Minnesota. He was elected a life member of this society March 12th, 1877.

JOHN JAY LANE, of Austin, Texas, who was elected a corresponding member of this society February 8th, 1897, died in that city July 17th, 1899. He was a resident of New Orleans before the Civil war. During the last twenty years of his life he resided in Austin, being engaged in journalism as correspondent of several newspapers. He was secretary of the board of regents of the University of Texas during many years, and in 1891 published a history of that university (322 pages).

EDWARD GAY MASON was born in Bridgeport, Conn., August 23d, 1839; and died at his home in Chicago, December 18th, 1898. He graduated at Yale college in 1860, studied law in Chicago, and became prominent in the practice of law in that city. He was elected a corresponding member of this society May 14th, 1883. He became a member of the Chicago Historical Society in 1880, and was its president during the last eleven years of his life, being elected to that office in November, 1887.

FRANK BLACKWELL MAYER, artist, was elected a corresponding member of this society at a very early date, probably in 1851. He was born in Baltimore, Md., December 27th, 1827; and died at his home in Annapolis, Md., July 28th, 1899. After studying with celebrated painters in Paris, he made a tour of the western frontier of the United States, and was present at the treaty made by Governor Ramsey with the Sioux Indians at Traverse des Sioux, July 23d, 1851. A picture of the scene of the treaty, which he painted for this society, is displayed in its library.

DELOS A. MONFORT was born in Hamden, N. Y., April 6th, 1835; and died in Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 26th, 1899. He first visited Minnesota in 1854, and three years later came here to reside, settling in St. Paul, which was ever afterward his home. He was first engaged with the banking firm of Edgerton and Mackubin, and afterward was cashier of

the People's Bank. From 1864, the date of organization of the Second National Bank, he served during nearly thirty years as its cashier and a part of the time as vice president. In 1893 he succeeded the late E. S. Edgerton as president of this bank, which position he held to the time of his death. He was elected a life member of this society January 13th, 1890, and was a member of its Executive Council since January 19th, 1891.

AMOS PERRY, who was elected a corresponding member of this society December 10th, 1894, was born in South Natick, Mass., August 12th, 1812. He graduated at Harvard College in 1839, and afterwards taught in New London, Conn., and Providence, R. I. He visited Europe several times, and from 1862 to 1867 was United States consul at Tunis. He was secretary of the Rhode Island Historical Society since 1873. and its librarian since 1880. His death occurred during a visit to New London, Conn., August 10th, 1899.

JOHN THOMAS SCHARF was born in Baltimore, Md., May 1st, 1843; and died in New York City, February 28th, 1898. He was elected an honorary member of this society February 12th, 1877. He enlisted in the First Maryland Artillery of the Confederate Army, June 1st, 1861, and served two years, being wounded in several battles; and afterward was a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. He was admitted to the Baltimore county bar in 1873, and practiced law in Baltimore, and since 1897 in New York City. He was the author of many historical works on Maryland, Delaware, the cities of Philadelphia and St. Louis, the Confederate States Navy, etc., the earliest being "Chronicles of Baltimore," published in 1874.

ISAAC STAPLES was born in Topsham, Maine, September 25th, 1816; and died at his home in Stillwater, Minn., June 27th, 1898. At the age of eighteen years he began work on his own account in lumbering on the Penobscot river. In 1853 he came to Minnesota, locating in Stillwater, and was engaged there, and on the St. Croix river and its branches, in extensive and prosperous lumbering, farming, and manu