The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
THE LATE HORACE DAY.
THE PAPER IN FULL CONCERN : ING THIS BELOVED MAN
And Highly Useful Citizen Read by Bishop- Elect Lines Before thc New Haven Colony Historical Society Last Monday Evening.

thppen Goiony hist0Eisai SocAosy Aess
 Monday Evening.
 Following is the paper in full con- corning the late Horace Day, prepared by loving hands for the New Haven Colony Historical society and read by Bishop-elect E. s. Lines before the so- ciety at it's meeting last Monday night. It will give great pleasure to many, es- pecially to the old, surviving friends and associates of the late MT. Day who are advanced in years and infirm. in health, and were unable to be present at the meeting: . ..... ....
 Horace Day, the younger of the two sons Of Cad and Roxana (Rice) Day was born in Pittsfield, Mass, November 5, 1916. He was descended on his fla thers side from Robert Day, one of the first settlers of Hartford, and on his mothers side from Thomas Yale, the uncle of Elihu Yale, the beneefactor of Yale university.
 When he was five years old his pa rents removed to New Haven, which had been his mothers home in her youth. He was a pupil of MT. John Lowell, at the Lancasterian school, and afterward attended the Hopkins Gram- mar school, where he was fitted for col- lege. He graduated at Yale college in 1886, taught for year or two, and then studied at the Yale Theoogical senina- ny, but did not graduate, on account of ill health. He was at one time editor of the New Haven Journal and Courier, and was subsequently assistant editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, but for more than forty years he was one of the off, cials of the public school system in this city, being superintendent of schools for five years and secretary of the board of education for more than thirty-five years. His death occurred on the 22d of July, 1902, and was due more to gradual decay of the system than to any specific disease. His age was eighty-five years.
 MT. Day was especially well known to us by reason of his deep interest in and extensive acquaintance with all matters pertaining to the early history of New Haven He was an authority on whom we could rely-Who was not led away by enthusiasm or by any feeling that things must be so because they ought to be so. He investigated historical statements with patience and impartial ity, and with but one desire-to know the truth so far as it could be known after so long an interval of time.
 Antiquarian tastes differ from other intellectual aptitudes in that they are generally developed in the later years of mans life, and are usually pro- duct of circumstance and environment. Occasionally however, they seem to be hereditary, and like all hereditary tastes, they find food and stimulus in whatever they approach.
 Much of the tendency of our lives we owe to the example and influence of those who trained us in our childhood. It is the parent or nurse or teacher to whom most of us assign at least the suggestion of the direction of our later years. In the case of MT. Day, whose zeal for antiquarian pursuits is so we'll remembered, the directing influence was primarily neither that of parent or teacher, but of an elderly physician, Dr. Joseph Darling, whose family, three generations ago, was one of great prom thence insthe place.
 IAAS O4 ALI t|ctJ ? oSlAoOtillebISso III ilio boyhood, and later, one of his class mates at Yale, was Thomas Darling, whose parents were not living, and whose home was with his grandfather, Dr. Joseph Darling. Dr. Darling was a physician of celebrity, who lived in the house now occupied by the Quinnipiac club, east of the New Haven House. He was also the proprietor of drug store and after school hours the two lads were often in the place. pr. Dar- ling was a man of high standing in his profession, and of very remarkable scrupulousness and integrity, besides of very unusual kindliness and geniality of manner. He took an interest in this playmate of his grandson, who felt so deep an interest in the early days of New Haven, and who asked so many in-