. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XII.—Window Head from Elias Haskett Derby Mansion, andother woodwork preserved at the Essex CO 23 CM ^ c ^ go ^ o(u o w Samuel and the other Mclntires One likes to look into the face of such a man andread his character as his life has written it there, butunfortunately no painting or other portrait ofMclntire is known to exist. The most illuminatingpicture of him is found in the written words of hiswarm friend, wise counselor, and stanch advocate,Rev. William Bentley, pastor of the East Church,Salem, who, on Feb
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XII.—Window Head from Elias Haskett Derby Mansion, andother woodwork preserved at the Essex CO 23 CM ^ c ^ go ^ o(u o w Samuel and the other Mclntires One likes to look into the face of such a man andread his character as his life has written it there, butunfortunately no painting or other portrait ofMclntire is known to exist. The most illuminatingpicture of him is found in the written words of hiswarm friend, wise counselor, and stanch advocate,Rev. William Bentley, pastor of the East Church,Salem, who, on February 7, 1811, the day afterMclntires death, wrote in his diary as follows : This day Salem is deprived of one of the mostingenious men it had in it. Samuel Mclntire, , in Summer street. He was descended of a familyof Carpenters who had no claims on public favorand was educated at a branch of that business. Byattention he soon gained a superiority to all of hisoccupation and the present Court House, the Northand South Meeting houses, and indeed all the im-provements of Salem for nearly thirty years pasthave been under his eye. In Sculpture he had norival in New
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