Biographical sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago . entered heaven with prayer. In all that has been said, it has not been designed to assert orimply that Mr. Brown was, in the ordinary sense, a popularman. He had a certain severity of manner, in his intercoursewith strangers, and sometimes with friends, that caused him tobe misunderstood and misjudged. He did not sufficientlystudy the amenities of life, an(i he paid the temporal penaltyof this neglect. Contrary to the common rule, he was most es-teemed and loved by those who best knew his inner life. Itwas necessary t
Biographical sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago . entered heaven with prayer. In all that has been said, it has not been designed to assert orimply that Mr. Brown was, in the ordinary sense, a popularman. He had a certain severity of manner, in his intercoursewith strangers, and sometimes with friends, that caused him tobe misunderstood and misjudged. He did not sufficientlystudy the amenities of life, an(i he paid the temporal penaltyof this neglect. Contrary to the common rule, he was most es-teemed and loved by those who best knew his inner life. Itwas necessary to get through the outer shell to the real man toappreciate the nobleness of his character. Those persons whodid this, will fully justify all that I have said of him. Mr. Browns memory will be blessed, not only by his ownfamily, but by many friends, who felt, when he died, that agood and really great man had fallen, and who will keep hisvirtues embalmed in their hearts, when the blander traits ofmany more pliant men who were more widely applauded in lifewill be ^5 ^iysuBMiiSi^amnSJf^^ BENJAMIN W. RAYMOND, ESQ. [From the Cliicago Magazine, April, Late in the seventeenth century, a few Huguenots, drivenfrom France by persecution to England, settled afterwards inNew England. The sulgect of this sketch is a descendantfrom these, on his fathers side. He was born in liorae, Oneidacounty, Xew York, in 1801; and was the son of Benjamin Ray-mond, who, as early as 1796, left his birth-place, Richmond,Berkshire county, Mass. His mother was a daughter of ThomasWright, one of the brothers of tliat name Avho, emigrating fromWeathersfield, Conn., were among the first settlers of Rome,which was long known as Wrights Settlement, in the wilder-ness of the then West. His father was engaged for some yearsin connection with the late Judge Wright, (afterwards chiefengineer of the Erie canal,) in surveying into townships thenorthern counties of New York: and which were then all awil
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