Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . allant Charles Stewart. Rear-Admiral Stewart died at his residence near Bordentown, on Sunday,the 9th of November, 1869, in the ninety-second year of his age. In hisnative city (Philadelphia) imposing funeral honors were awarded him. Hisbody lay in state in Independence Hah, and thousands of citizens looked for thelast time on the face of the hero. For five hours there was a continued streamof persons passing the casket in which the body lay. Tlier
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . allant Charles Stewart. Rear-Admiral Stewart died at his residence near Bordentown, on Sunday,the 9th of November, 1869, in the ninety-second year of his age. In hisnative city (Philadelphia) imposing funeral honors were awarded him. Hisbody lay in state in Independence Hah, and thousands of citizens looked for thelast time on the face of the hero. For five hours there was a continued streamof persons passing the casket in which the body lay. Tliere was an immensefuneral procession—naval, military, and civic; the city was draped in mourning,and minute guns were fired. ROBERT TRK^^T r»AINJE. Neer was a nobler spirit born,A loftier soul, a gentler heart;Above the worlds ignoble the reach of veual art. THUS sung a genial friend, at the tomb of Robert Treat Paine, aNew England bard. He was born at Taunton, Massachusetts,on the 9th of December, 1773, and was the second son of Robert TreatPaine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He ROBERT TREAT PAINE. 441. ^^ ^ ? was named Thomas, but on the death of his eldest and unmar-ried brother, Robert Treat, in 1798, he assumed his name, and hadIds choice legally confirmed by an act of the legislature, in was educated at Harvard, where his poetic genius was earlydeveloped.^ He was intended for the profession of tbe law, but soonafter leaving college he became a merchants clerk. He was quiteii-regular in his habits, and became greatly enamored of tlie obtained a medal for a prologue, spolien at the opening of thenew theater in Bo.^ton, in 1793;-^ and the following year he assumedthe editorial control of a newspaper called the Federril Orerry. Itwas an unsuccessful enterprise, for the editor was idle, and it ex-pired for want of proper food, m 1796. Paine had married the have given his signature, written before the death of his
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