Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . sed and then ably advocated. His laborsceased six months afterward. On the 4th of February, 1830, he wrote a longand interesting letter to a Western friend, and immediately afterward his wholoright side was smitten with paralysis. Ho died on the 27th of the same month,aged eighty-two j^ears. During his ministry, ho travelled almost ten thousandmiles, and delivered at least one thousand discourses.^ 1. Bayards colleagues were John Quincy Adams, Henr
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . sed and then ably advocated. His laborsceased six months afterward. On the 4th of February, 1830, he wrote a longand interesting letter to a Western friend, and immediately afterward his wholoright side was smitten with paralysis. Ho died on the 27th of the same month,aged eighty-two j^ears. During his ministry, ho travelled almost ten thousandmiles, and delivered at least one thousand discourses.^ 1. Bayards colleagues were John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert ( of (ireat Britaiu were Lord Gambier, Henry Goulbourn, and William Adams. 2. An anecdote is told which illustrates his conscientiousness. He was informed by his son-in-lawthat a man who owed them both had become a bankrupt, but, said the son, he lias secured Iheeand me. Has he secured all? inquired the old man. On receiving a reply in the negative, he said, That is not right; and he insisted upon the creditors placing him and his son-in-law on the samefooting with others. COUNT RUMFOED. 269. ^^^y^^/g/f t>-9^\^ COUNT RUMFOKO. BY industry, perseverance, and integrity, working in harmony with genius anda truly benevolent spirit, Benjamin Thompson, a humble New Hampshireschoolmaster, became a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, and a companionof kings and philosophers. He was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, on the28th of March, 1753. His widowed mother was in comfortable circumstances,and the common school furnished him with an elementary education. He wasa merchants clerk, at Salem, for awhile, and then commenced the study ofmedical science in his native town. He attended lectures at Cambridge, in 1771,and employed a portion of his time in teaching schools, first at Wilmington, andthen at Bradford. He was finally invited to take charge of a school at Rum-ford (now Concord), in New Hampshire. The flime of his philosophical experi-me
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