The Newtown bee., 1879-07-23

Gorernment Miaa stdmp-and yet this able financeer successfully .'w weathered the storm" while some of the oldest and wealthiest houses were wrecked and hopelessly ruined.
 In 1856 he retired from business with an ample fortune, but ,eing unaccustomed to a life of idleness, he soon grew weary of it, and accepted the Presidency of the North American Trust Co.,, an institution then being organized for banking pur- poses. In the stock he became interest ed to the amount of one hundred thous- and dollars, at par: but, as it's capital was based mainly upon real estate, (which depreciated fearfully during the great crisis in the following year., he lost the greater part of his investment and resigned the presidency, when the concern passed into the hands of re- ceiver. Hercules himself could not carry such a load as this Trust Company was. and how the old gentleman was canght in such c trdp has never appeared, except it was through hattery by designing men, to serve their own purposes.
 He again retired and devoted his time to the management of his property, mak- ing, now and then, excursions into the country, and visiting his old friends at length the first Great Exposition came off ill London, and never having been in Europe, he resolved upon seeing the T ylxl I, |, him, he embarked in a Cunar1er, which in few days landed him safely in Liver pool; from thence he proceeded immedi- ately to London, where he was the re- cipient of all the hospitalities that such old bankers as the Peabodys and Holferds could bestow.
 Although a busy man for the greater part of his life, he loved to sit down oc- casionally and converse with friend so- cially over the events which transpired during his early career: among these were the recital of anecdotes of one Myer Hard, a ''jack-of- -all-trades" and practi- | cal joker who hourished in Newtown, and died there, over fifty years ago; in relat- ing these the old gentleman would laugh l until the tears came into his eyes; nor was he devoid of wit or humor himself, though he rarely attempted it. remem. Der one instance, however. which may bt worth recording Southern gentleman with whom he was transacting business happened to mention that his partner il charge of his branch house, in Mobile Mir. Samuel S., was a very liberal man for he had given not only full set ot musical instruments to the band of . military company there, but had pre- sented a fine bell to a new church in TuS caloosa. The old gentleman replied
 That's just like Sam; he loves to give his money where he can hear it ring ; still, Sam was naturally liberal fellow nevertheless.
 Among the last few visits that he mad, to the country as his life was approaching it's close, was one to Newtown, his obiec
 being mainly, I believe, a pilgrimage t,
 hir birthplace in the lower part of tn township; thither your neighbor, MT. D
 B. Beers, accompanied him he was thel
 an octogenarian, and within four or fiv' years thereafter he died suddenly, at hi residence in Fourteenth Street, N. Y.
 and from old Trinity Church, near Wal
 street, (the scene of his lifelong labors) his remains were conveyed to Greenwood
 Cemetery and deposited in the buria
 plot to which, a few years before, he ha' removed other deceased members of hi:
 family. c.