Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . essing hard upon the venerable prelate, an assistant bishop was he continued his labors until the last, as presiding bishop of the church in,the United States. In 1835, when the church sent missionaries to China, he|prepared instructions for them; and that paper shows that his mental vigor wasunimpaired, although the hand that wrote it was eighty-eight j^ears old. It wasamong the last official labors of his long and useful life. In June
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . essing hard upon the venerable prelate, an assistant bishop was he continued his labors until the last, as presiding bishop of the church in,the United States. In 1835, when the church sent missionaries to China, he|prepared instructions for them; and that paper shows that his mental vigor wasunimpaired, although the hand that wrote it was eighty-eight j^ears old. It wasamong the last official labors of his long and useful life. In June, the followingyear, that devoted patriarch preached his last sermon; and on the 17th of thenext month, his spirit ascended to the New Jerusalem. In his writings, and inhis example, Bishop White still lives, and the church yet feels his conservativeinfluence. 1. It has been erroneously staed that he was the first chaplain of the Continental Congress. Thathonor belongs to Rev. Jacob Duche. 2. The other was Rev. Patrick AUisoa, minister of the Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. They werechosen on the 2ad of December, 1776. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 55. OKOROE WASHINQTON, FIRST IN War—first in Peace—first in the hearts of his Countrymen—was a just sentiment uttered half a century ago by the foster-son of theGreat Patriot, when speaking of the character of his noble guardian. And thehand of that son was the first to erect a monumental stone in memory of ThePathcr of his Countrj, upon which was inscribed: Here, the IItii of Febru-ary [0. , 1732, George Washington was born. That stone yet lies on thesite of his birth-place, in Westmoreland county, Virginia, near the banks of thePotomac. The calendar having been changed, 2 we celebrate his birth-day onthe 22d of February. George Washington was descended fiom an old and titled famil}- in Lan-cashire, England, and was the eldest child of his father, by Mary Ball, his secondwife. He died v/hen George was little more than ten years of ag
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