Connecticut western news., 1884-11-26
OBITUARY.
WILLIAM ADAM.

Died at his late residence in the town of North Canaan, on Friday, Nov, 21, 1884, William Adam, Esq, in the Seth
 year of his age.
 1 Mir Adam was born in this town, where
 his ancestors have lived for several gen.
 erations. He has spent his whole life
 in this community, where he has been read and known of all men. He was
 great-grandson of Samuel Forbes, Esq, familiarly known as Square Forbes, '
 who was the father of the iron business
 of this town; but Mir Adam himself
 came of Scotch ancestry, of which he
 was very proud, and was passionately
 fond of the Scotch literature, particu-
 larly of the poems of Robert Burns,
 with which he was familiar.
 He was the father of three children
 son and two daughters who survive
 him.
 His long and temperate life reaches
 back to the time of the Fathers of the
 Republic, he having been born the year that Washington died, in 1799. The soldiers of the Revolution were not as old when he was born as the soldiers of the last war are now. His life embraces almost the entire history of the nation, bringing the Scenes of the past very near to those of the present. Thus he had his birth midst the old gentilities, the odor of which was in his garments and that now past, though delightful grace, clung to him during his whole life. In his family, which was his king dom, he had some of the courtly man. ners of '76. No man was ever more po- lite, genial and care taking in his own family. His children and relatives, par ticularly the young, revered and loved him and rose up and did him reverence. At the same time he had a practical sympathy for the honest, poor and af fcted and like a good Samaritan he poured in the oil and the wine. No man ever saw the beauty of honesty more impressively that he. With him it was both passion and a pride. In his thoughts, separations and business relations, he undoubtedly put honesty above success, and he gave his views of honesty wide scope, applying them to all the relations of being, seeking to be honest to his God as we'll as to man. One of his marked characteristics was an entire absence of ambition for places of public trust, profit or honor. Ills family, friends and church comprised the circle in which he moved, the sea of all his pleasures
 His married life was a model. He lived in delightful harmony and fond affection with the wife of his youth for more than half a century, loving as de- votedly at the last as at the first. The strength and deep rootedness of his husbandly attachment appeared in the decay of his mental faculties after his companion had left him. He still seem- ed to be living with her, but often com plained that she did not speak to him. Liberated from those physical infrmi- ties, which came upon him in his old age, he has no doubt found his compan- ion In a more congenial cline and has found that she can now speak to him. It Is thrilling thought that they have renewed their friendship and entered into it's immortal fruition.
 A long life has thus come to an end among us. The form familiar to the oldest from childhood will be seen no more on these streets; but although he did not formally belong to the church militant, yet we think of him as walk ing the golden streets of the church triumphant, and long will the fragrance of his gentle life remain in this commu- nity.