The Newtown bee., 1907-02-01

and designed chiefly to preparing boys for college, was widely and favOrably known and may still be remembered by some of the older inhabitants. He died in 1868.
 Nathaniel Rudd's mother was Mary Eliza CoggeshAll, born in Newport, R. l., in 1902, and died in Chelsea, Mass, in 1871. His eldest brother, William Henry, (the author of this sketch) was born in 1929. Another brother, Fred and died in 1856 His little grave is in the Huntington village churchyard. A sister, Emily Post Rudd, (named af- ter Emily Post of Huntington) was born there in 1887. Another sister, A Abigail, (named after a half-sister who Long Hill and who died in 1838) was born in Huntington, February, 1889, and both are still living in Chelsea, Mass, where, during the greater part of their lives they have been teachers in the public school.
 In 1840, the entire family moved from Huntington to Stratford, and in April, 1847, Nathaniel first came to Boston, and entered the employment of Crockett & Brewster, one of the old est and best publishing houses of that period. He was natural born artist, and in the late forties he began to de vote his little leisure to wood engrav- ing. In the early fifties he resigned his position with o. & B. and entered a leading wood engraving establish ment, to perfect himself in the art, after which he was for several years connected with the American Tract Society of Boston, in illustrating thelr various publications. When wood engraving was superseded by more modern methods, he devoted himself to oil painting, and quite suc- cessfully, producing many tide pie lures, and also giving instruction in the art.
 He first came to Chelsea in the fall of 1847, (the same year that he first came to Boston,. and in 1849 united with the Winnisimet Congregational church. In 1869, he purchased the house which he so long occupied. while it was yet in process of construction, and had 1t finished to suit himself and wife. Here he passed the remainder of his days and here all his children, (now HvinR) were born. In 1904. he met with a mishap which rendered him cripple for life, and he was ever after confined to crutches or canes. He was man of singular purity of life, and most consistent and exemplary Christian. His death was quiet and peaceful, and he passed away with an unfaltering trust in glorious immOr- taliJy.
 He leaves, besides the brother and two sisters already mentioned, five children, four grandchildren, and a large circle of friends to mourn his de- parture.
 The last letter which he sent to the Huntington Old Home Association, and which received such close atten- tion when read, was written, practi- cally, in his last illness, and when real ly too feeble to make the effort. Both he and 1 always entertained the strongest affection for the town of our boyhOod, which the busy cares of our long lives have never diminished or weakened, and among the delusive hopes of all these years, especially our latter ones, was the hope that some day we would both be permitted to visit again, together, those ''scenes of our childhood" so indelibly impressed upon our memories, that more than three score years and ten have not, fn the slightest degree, obliterated them
 Yours Very Truly,
 William Henry Rudd.