Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1883-06-01
Obituary.
Death of MIR. Samuel Brace.

Death of Mr. Samuel Brace.
The death of Mr.. Samuel Brace, of the
firm of o. B. North & Co., of this city, which
occurred at his residence on Norton street
yesterday morning at quarter before eleven
o'clock, has removed from us the familiar
face and form of one who has long been
known in business circles as man of in
tense devotion to business, and remarkable
system, method, precision, integrity and
honor in the conduct of it. Only the few
who have known him more intimately have
been able fully to appreciate him, He was
the youngest but one of the six children of
Rev. Joab and Mrs. Lucy Collins Brace,
formerly of Newiugton, Conn, and was
born in that village February "a, 1917, and
was therefore sixty six years of age at the
time of his death. He graduated at Yale col
lege in the class of 1S41, taking the highest
honors. He then pursued a course of theo-
logical study at Andover Theological semin-
airy, but was prevented by ill
health from entering the ministry.
For four years he was tutor
at Yale and then was obliged to abandon the
opening path to more important academical
positions on account of i'll health After a
few years spent in lighter pursuits he con-
nected himself with the manufacturing COM
pany of which he has ever since been mem
Der, devoting all his energies and talents to
its service and contributing in no small de-
gree to its prosperity. For twenty-eight
years he has been always at his post from
daylight to dark, seldom allowing himself a
day of absence and never until last Saturday
failing to pay off the workmen himself
From early life he has been subject to dis
order of the nervous system, which in
creased upon him until at last it caused his
death. It was this which produced the Pc
culiarities of character which those noticed
who were brought into business connection
with him. And 1t was this which led him to
shrink from society, in which no one was
better qualified to shine, and which no one
was more fitted to enjoy, and to shut himself
up In MS beautiful home. It was this which
compelled him, against the circumstances of
his friends, and against his own better iudo
ment, to devote himself SO necessarily to his
work He was under the cempulsion of a
nervous force which he was powerIess. IN re-
sist, so that those who really knew him pit.
led and did not blame. They were the more
touched, that they were familiar with tbo
brilliant talents, the stores of information
the sound judgment, the fearless independ-
ence, the keen wit, the merry humor, the
kind heart, the patient courage, which struo-,
gled with varying success with the tortures of
nervous disease. Few have realized what
life of pain his has been, or how ready he
was for the rest which has at last come. He
was married early in life to Sarah Rogers
North, sister of o. B. North, who survives
him. Their two sons, who died in infancy,
sleep in the cemetery at New Britain, and his
remains will be laid beside them. He leaves
two sisters, Mary s., widow of Rev. John
Todd, d. D., of Pittsfeld, Mass, and Martha
widow of Rev. Thomas n. Shepard, of Madi-
son, Conn. One brother, Rev. s. Collins
Brace, of Philadelphia, remains, Two 9TH
ers, Rev. Edward Joab and John W., died
while they were young men.