Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . has been his career as a businessman, he reached the most exalted place in the estimation of those who knew himthrough the singular purity and nobleness of his nature. His thoughts and im-pulses were always charitable. There was nothing unfair or small aliout him; hewas the honourable, courteous gentleman to all classes of men and scrupulouslygave every m
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . has been his career as a businessman, he reached the most exalted place in the estimation of those who knew himthrough the singular purity and nobleness of his nature. His thoughts and im-pulses were always charitable. There was nothing unfair or small aliout him; hewas the honourable, courteous gentleman to all classes of men and scrupulouslygave every man his due. If it was making a contract for the laying of brick hepaid a just price, never beating a man down to the lowest possible cent, preferringalways to deal liberally. High toned, conscientious, temperate, free from arro-gance, he was most honored and best loved by those who knew him best. Since his return from Europe a year or two ago, Mr. Converse had steadilydeclined in health until the fourth of October when he passed away. His j^earswere marked not so much by great events as by great deeds. Through a friendlygrasp of the hand and a cheery smile, which he knew so well how to give, as w^ell (509. ^r^s. JIarie Alberta (Converse)Dowues. as through his material gifts, he revealed his love forhis fellow-men. His well-spent, useful life drew gentlyto its close, as peacefully as the setting sun And all the glories of the west Are dark beside his dreams of rest. Children of Dexter Edgar and Helen Antoinette{Twichell) Converse: A Son, born 1871; died in ijifancy. Makib Axberta Converse, born in Cliarleston, S. C, 4 July1875; married, in .Spartanburg, 17 April 1901, Dr. Dowues. They resided in 1903 at The Iroquois,49 W. 44th St., New York City. One daughter:Helen Conveuse Downes, b. 8 Feb. 1903. 410. FRANCIS GAllDNER CONVERSE* {Orlin (23S), Pain, ,^ Pain,* Samuel, Serycant Samuel,- Deacon Edward), born 12 February1831; died iu Bridport, Vt., 28 Septeu
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