Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-14
IN NHENGORI-ANH-

DIED, Mt Oakley, his late residence, near
Brookerille, in this county, on the 2lst day
of January, 1873, DR.. WILLIAM b. MAGRU-
DER, in the lst year of his age.
1t is eminently due to the memory of DR..
Magruder that some expression should be
gwen Of the high appreciation of his character
and career, entertained by the large circle of
his kinsmen friends and acquaintance. Both
affection for the departed, and regard for those
whom he has left behind prompt to such ut
terance. For it is not only pleasure TO cher
ish his memory with reverent love, but duly
to review his pure and earnest life, and draw
thence lessons for our guidance and cheer
His life was one of practical, indefatgnble Toll ;
and his aim the daily performance OF the duties
that lay next before him.
He was a native Of this county and passed
his whole life here, except the time requisite
for completing his medical education. lie re-
ceived his literary education chiefly at the
Rockville Academy, where he was a careful
and successful student, and he always REQUIRED
10 his school life with pleasure, and with
gratitude to his Instructors.
lie studied medicine with the cider DR..
Tyler, of Frederick City, and graduated al
the University of Maryland. Having adopted
this noble profession, he practiced the healing
art in our midst, for about forty-fve years,
with eminent skill, Judgment and success. In
the delicate and almost sacred relation Of
family physician, in his always extensive prGc-
tee he so acted, that he has left an enduring
monument in the affectiona:e regard of hun
dreds of homes, where dwell the recollection
Of his kindness aud self-sacriire his cheerful
endurance of fatigue and his manly sympathy.
Though ways busy he was never hurried
aud no household was too humble to claim his
services, unrequted though they might be,
save by gratitude and by his own conscious
ness of duty fulfilled.
The capacity for labor Of most men would
have been exhausted by the demands Of snch
professional life. But it was not so with
DR.. Magruder. By strict adherence to meth
cd, he found time to supervise in detail, his
large and admirably conducted farm, to plant
orchards Of choice fruit of almost every varie-
y, and TO keep abreast with his most enterpris-
ing neighbors in agricultural and horticultu-
raj knowledge and improvements And al
though he vas emphatically practical man,
he exhibited the refinement of his tastes in the
study, selection and the personal care of the
voried and rare flowers with which he adorned
grounds.
DR.. Magrnder was philosophical citizen,
and was active and efficient as Trustee of the
Brookeyille Academy; as Director Of the Pub
lie Library as Festryman Of his Church, and
indeed in every enterprise for the general
good
lie was man of remarkable sincerity, Of
answering rectitude, of indomitabe euergy,
of decided and independent opinions, of fine
literary taste and cultivation, and of extensive
and accurate general information; and yet
eminently modest, cheerful, social, hopiable
and courteous: and though natural aud UNI
studied in manner, we do not believe that he
ever Intentionally wounded the feelings Of n
single human being. He was no conrtier of
deceitful smiles and false outside, lacquered
polish, but manly man and true gentleman
as ever lived.
Having been during his whole life, scrupu-
lousy moral, always attentive TO the outward
claims OF religion, the experience of his latter
years was beautiful tribute to Christianity
Finding in the maturity of his powers, upon
determination, that his spiritual condition
was unsatisfactory, he sought with character
istic energy, and with deep humility, forgive
ness of his sins; and upon profession of per-
sonal faith in Christ, became a communicate
in the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which
communion he died, leaving indubitable evil
dence that he had passed into 1.-THE rest that
remains for the people of God"
The attendance at Dr.. Magruder's funeral
was an eloquent token of the respect and es-
TEEN of his neighbors. Though more than
two years before his death he had been sfrick-
en- with paralysis, and thereby almost entirely
secluded from society, the interest of the COM
munity in him had not abated, and though
the day of his burial was probably the most
Indictment of the present severe winter, the
Church was filled with saddened friends. from
far aud near, comprising the representatives of
all the families of :he community as well as his
former servants, TO whom he had been just
and kind master
His remains were deposited in their final
resting place by loving hands, after the last
offices of the Church had been performed, and,
the comfany feeling that each had lost a
friend, quietly separated, to recall, in kindly
conversation their varied experiences attest
ing the worth Of the departed
| May the present and the rising generation
take him as a model for imitation, that we
may realize it is a fact in our lives. that "Hc
being dead yet slcepeth." Z. B. H1