The Grandchildren of John More.

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er's house from near the time he was born until his death, when Duncan was 21 years of age. probably remembers him better than any other of his lineal descendants. While Mr. More does not engage in business he is very active and quite prominent in the care of the yard and garden and in greenhouse work.

Mrs. Lydia S. More Coville, his only surviving sister, now 74 years old, still occupies and directs her old home in Oxford, N. Y., where she seems very happy and enjoys the companionship of her niece, Miss Ellen Frisbie, who, has lived with her over five years. She spends part of each year in Washington, D. C, with her son, Frederick Coville, U. S. Botanist, and her youngest son, Dr. Luzerne Coville, at Ithaca, N. Y.

The youngest living grandson and grandchild of John More, Isaac Van Loan More, resides in Maysville, De Kalb County, Missouri. He has just attained to three score and ten, but is still vigorous in mind and body. He resides with his daughter, Mrs. Louis D. Ransom.

ently mentioned as a candidate for county judge of Delaware county, lacking but two votes of a nomination. He was a bright Mason, had been Worshipful Master of the Deposit Lodge and High Priest of the Deposit Chapter. He was a genial companion, steadfast to his friends, a kind and loving husband and father. There could no one have been taken from among us who will be more universally mourned than Arthur More. Throughout a long and painful sickness he bore himself with fortitude and without complaining.

The esteem in which he was held by his associates in the legal profession is shown by the action of the Delaware County Bar Association, at a meet

Arthur More.

Another of the cousins who was deeply interested in our family association and who gave one of the addresses at our first Reunion, has left us. How those regarded him who were best acquainted with him is shown by the following from the Deposit (N. Y.) Courier:

ARTHUR MORE.

One of our well known and respected citizens has been taken from our midst. Arthur More, Esq., died on the 15th inst. at 2 o'clock of chronic Bright's disease. He was born Nov. 18th, 1847, at Roxbury, Delaware county. He was a lineal descendant of John More, who settled in Roxbury in 1772, where the More family in after years became numerous and influential. Mr. More spent his boyhood with a grand-uncle, the death of his mother at an early age making such a step necessary. His literary education was obtained in the academies at Delhi and Franklin.

Coming to Deposit when a young man, he studied law with his father, Taylor More. who was a distinguished attorney practicing his profession in the various courts of the State and of the United States. Arthur was admitted to practice in the courts of this State thirty-one years ago. He has continued to practice his profession with an office in Deposit since that time, building up for himself a business and reputation second to none.

In 1877 he married Miss Ida Parker, daughter of J. O. Parker, Esq., of Deposit. who with three children, Edna B., Donald S. and Marion G, survive him. Mr. More was always identified with the Republican party in politics and was promin

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ing held in Delhi Feb. 17. A resolution was passed requesting the family of Arthur More to furnish a suitable portrait of Mr More to hang in the Courtroom. The following resolutions were also adopted:

WHEREAS, Death has removed from our number Arthur More it is fit and proper that we should place upon the minutes of this association resolutions expressive of the sentiment and feeling of this body. Therefore be it.

Resolved, That while we mourn his demise in the meridian of his manhood, we are conscious of the fact that in his brief career as a member of the bar he has left his impress upon those with whom he came in contact as a man of honor, honesty and unswerving integrity.

That as a lawyer in his intercourse with his fellows he impressed all with an honesty of purpose,

coupled with zealous and watchful care for the interests of his clients, worthy of emulation.

His research in the field of literature broadened and developed his intellectual grasp and made his opinions and observations upon the questions of the hour of more than passing interest.

Blessed with a saving common sense which led to correct conclusions and that independence of character which made him hold unflinchingly to the right, that strong sense of natural justice which led him to avoid the wrong, he was eminently fitted to adorn his chosed profession.

His qualities of heart and mind naturally led him to adopt the legal profession as his life's work. He loved to be among men, a sharer of their purposes and aspirations. His genial, kindly nature endeared him to all, and we tender this tribute of our respect and admiration to his memory.

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Resolved, That these resolutions be upon the minutes of this association and a copy sent to the family of the deceased.

Judge John W. Champlin.

Among the allied members of our Association there is scarcely another who seemed so really a born member as Judge Champlin As teacher in

the Roxbury schools he had many descendants of John More among his pupils, at the same time mingling socially as a young man among others of the family, and when the organization was effected he helped to perfect it and took part publicly in two Reunions and attended all that were held. He will be deeply missed and heartily mourned among us, especially when we shall meet in future Reunions. His honorable and useful life reflects credit upon our organization.

The Judze was born in Kingston, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1831, and so had just rounded out the allotted three score and ten years of earthly life. His parents moved to Harpersfield, N. Y., when he was one year old, and he grew to manhood in that community, receiving his education in the public schools and academies of Delaware County. In 1850 he taught the Winter school in More Settlement, and in 1852-3 the village school in Roxbury. In the Autumns of 1853 and 1854 he assisted Jay Gould in making the survey for the map of Delaware County. He at first purposed to be a civil engineer and studied for a time with that in view, but in 1854 he went to Grand Rapids, Mich., and began the study of law in the office of his brother, Stephen G. Champlin. He passed his examination in 1855 and was admitted to practice.

In 1856

he was chosen to prepare a revision of the charter of Grand Rapids, and the results of his work have formed the basis for all charter legislation for the city ever since. He held at different times the offices of City Recorder and City Attorney, and in 167 was chosen Mayor of Grand Rapids.

In 1883 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan. He occupied a seat on the bench from 1884 to 1891, the last two years being Chief Justice. In 1887 he was made a Doctor of

Laws by the University of Michigan, and in 1892 the Regents appointed him Professor in the Department of Law, in which capacity he delivered lectures to the students until his resignation in 1896. From that time until his death he was engaged in the practice of law in Grand Rapids.

The Grand Rapids Evening Press says of him: "In politics the Judge was a staunch Democrat, but during the Civil war he refused to follow that portion of the party which opposed the con flict and in 1896 he declined to accept the tenets of free silver and remained with the Gold Democrats. Of late years, however, he had taken part in public affairs only as one who would not shirk his duties of citizenship. Judge Champlin was a familiar figure as chairman or toastmaster at public meetings and banquets, for which posts his flood of ready reminiscence and anecdote especially fitted him.

In business Judge Champlin was president of the Grand Rapids Fire Insurance company. He was also president of the Grand Rapids Historical society, in the work of which he took the greatest interest, and of the Ex-Firemen's association. The Michigan Political Science association had honored him with the vice presidency of that body and he was a member of the historical committee of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical society. He was prominent in Masonic circles, having reached the thirty second degree, Scottish Rite, and in 1872 he was grand master for the state of MicLigan. He had served as master of Grand River lodge and as high priest of Grand River chapter and in Knight Templary had been commander of De Molai commandery of this city.

In 1856 he married Miss Ellen Mo:e, from which union three children were born, Kate, now Mrs. William M. Butts, Frederick M., and Estelle. He and his family were members of St. Mark's church. In both private and public life Judge Champlin was a man of quick sympathy, firm in his friendships and loved and trusted as it is given to but few men to be."

On the announcement of his death the Mayor called a meeting of the Common Council and action was taken to suitably express the deep sense of the loss which the city experienced in his death, and on the following day all the Courts in the city adjourned out of respect for his memory, and his funeral was attended by a great concourse of people. Business was suspended and in every way the people of Grand Rapids gave expression to their sense of the great bereavement they had sus tained and of the truly noble, honorable and useful life that had just closed

Willard Payson Smith, of Buffalo, N. Y., spent a month in Porto Rico this Spring. He called on Alex. Marvin, at Ponce. He also visited Paris about a year ago, and while at his hotel in that city Hon. Charles More Preston and his party called at the place.

George Ogden More.

Among those who were in attendance upon our first two Reunions there was no one more interested in all that transpired nor more ready in all that was to be done than our cousin, George Ogden More, of Elizabeth, N. J. Not only did he attend these gatherings, and would have been present at our last Reunion had he not been prevented by ill health, but he took time from his pressing business engagements to attend the meeting of the Program Committee of the Second Reunion held at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., several weeks before that occasion. The Daily Journal, of Elizabeth, N. J., speaks of him as follows:

George O. More, for many years residing at Cor. Second and Franklin Sts., in this city, died this

ferry house. When the company opened its road through to Jersey City by way of Newark Bay bridge, Mr. More was appointed the freight agent for New York and Jersey City, which position he held until his resignation.

Mr. More was for more than forty years esteemed as a citizen of this city. He was a man of sterling qualities, modest and retiring in disposition, and by all held in the highest regard. He was a faithful man, in the best sense of the term. He was an attendant of the Greystone Presbyterian Church, of which his wife and two daughters are members. Although Mr. More was not a member of a church he had many times confessed his faith, and this faith was a simple childlike trust in Christ He was always very proud of being a "More" and interested in everything connected with our family.

morning at Montclair, where, with his family, he recently removed in the hope of benefitting his health.

Mr More was about seventy-five years of age, and was a veteran official of the Central Railroad until his retirement about four years ago, because of failing health. For nearly fifty years he was connected with the railroad company and was associated with the late Hiram P. Baldwin, from the early years of the company's existence all through its history, his department being the freight transportation, while Mr. Baldwin's was in the passenger service.

Early in his railroad career Mr. More was the station agent at Elizabethport freight warehouse and

Mrs. Liberty P. More.

Mrs. Ruth A. Vandyke More, widow of the late Liberty P. More, of Stamford, N. Y., was suddenly called away on October 20th, 1901, through a paralytic stroke, this being the third and fatal one, the others having occurred one two years and the other three years before.

Mrs. More was the daughter of Patrick L. Vandyke, and was born in More Settlement, Roxbury, N. Y., March 28th. 1842, and was therefore past 59 years of age. She was married to Mr. More in 1864, in Roxbury, where they lived for a time, and where their first child was born, but in 1866 they purchased a fine farm a few miles east of Stamford village, where they resided until his death in 1889, and where their other five children were born. In 1869 the death angel visited them and bore away in the same month their first boru, Frank L., a beautiful boy, four years old, and Patrick Henry, a lovely child, only a year and a half old They are survived by three sons-William Preston, with the Pullman Parlor Car Co.; George L., formerly connected with a granite company in Vermont, and Clyde, who is living on the old homestead, and one daughter, Rosa Vandyke, who resides in Stamford village in the home which the family has occupied since her father's death, in 1889.

Mrs. More was a consistent and faithful member of the Baptist Church and was highly respected in the community in which she dwelt. From her father she inherited an abundance of energy and executive ability, which was early developed, when at the age of nine years her mother died, leaving her as the oldest of a family of five children, and for several years nobly did she fulfill the part of a mother to them, thus prematurely fitting her for the household duties which she so ably performed during the rest of her active life.

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Miss Susan Preston was graduated from Wells College with the class of 1902.

George Chauncey Preston.

Another of the stirring and sterling business men of our clan has been called away. When we met in Reunion at Roxbury in 1900 there was no one present more active and more interested than Mr. Preston He thoroughly enjoyed every part of that gathering. There was no one present who seemed to have a fairer prospect of long life than he, and in fact he had written a friend since then that he expected to live to be a hundred years old. While at Leavenworth, Kansas, last November, he had an attack of acute indigestion. He recovered sufficiently to return to his home at Kingston, N. Y., but gradually failed until his death, on May 2d, despite the care and attention of the very

for the Equitable Securities Company of New York, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. In 1901 he was transferred to Leavenworth, Kansas, to look after a large territory in the same capacity. While at Leavenworth, as heretofore stated, he was taken ill. He was a Pastmaster in the Masonic Order, Knight Templar and member of Abdallah Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Leavenworth, Kansas, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows.

In 1864 Mr. Preston married Cynthia M. Powell, daughter of the late Hiram Powell, of Roxbury, N. Y., by whom he is survived, together with his mother and the Hon. Charles M. Preston, brother and two sons, William Chauncey and Charles Liberty Preston, and two daughters, Mary More and Frances Eaton Preston.

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His experience emphasises the divine injunction, "There is but a step between me and death."

best physicians. Mr. Preston was born in Roxbury, N. Y., on May 8th, 1844. He was a son of the late Otis M. Preston and Susan A. More. He was a man of rare integrity and exceptional business ability. For years he had been indentified with a number of important enterprises. Besides conducting a large insurance and real estate agency he was engaged in the ice business on the Hudson River, and previous to that was engaged in a wholesale grocery business, and later on General Adjuster for the United States for the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York In 1895 he accepted the position of Southern Manager

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Gilbert Ezekiel Palen, M. D.

Gilbert Ezekiel Palen, of Philadelphia, passed away on July 28th, 1991.

He was the son of Rufus Palen, a descendant of a Protestant Englishman, who fled to Holland from the persecution of "Bloody Mary." He was born in Palensville, N. V., May 1st, 1832. He secured his education at Canandagua Academy, College Hill at Poughkeepsie, Brown University and Yale College, graduating from Yale in 1853 Though well versed in the classics, chemistry was his favorite study, which he purposed pursuing farther in Germany, but being disappointed in that he took a course in medicine, first in New York University and later in Albany Medical College, where he took his degree in 1855. Circumstances however soon after turned his attention to business affairs, but in :877 when he became a member of the firm of Starkey & Palen he began the stated practice of his profession. He succeeded his father and grand-father in the tanning business and built tanneries at Canadensis, Pa., and at Tunkhannock.

He was so outspoken in his loyalty during the Civil War that he incurred the displeasure of the copperheads among whom he dwelt and it was necessary for him to be armed constantly. He was equally fearless in his temperance work along all the lines in which he engaged and was later a member of the Prohibition party. He was a member of Ocean City Association and did all in his power to keep saloons out of it and to preserve a quiet Sabbath. He was a thorough Christian and an ardent Methodist. He built a church in Canadensis, Pa, and aided very liberally in rebuilding and enlarging the church at Tunkhannock. Before he came to Germantown and for some time thereafter he was frequently called upon to preach. He was made a deacon in 1874 and an elder in 1876. He was for several years Superintendent of the Sabbath School of the Haines Street M. E. Church. During most of the years of his connection with the First Church he was a member of the Board of Trustees and he served the church at large for many years on the Board of Church Extension.

On Sept. 19th, 1860, he married Elizabeth Gould. Their union was blessed with four children, two of whom, Miss Anna Palen and Dr. Gilbert Joseph Palen, together with their mother survive him.

Mr. Palen was a successful physician, a strong, ardent and liberal Christian, a patriotic citizen and an affectionate husband and father. He was ever ready for life's duties and just as ready to depart and be with Christ which is far better.