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Men Who Led 4 143 ' In the spring of 1859 he moved to Fairfield, and in the fall of 1861, to Stamford, Conn., for better school facilities for the younger children. "About 1863 he moved to New York and about 1866 to Newport, Khode Island. " I n the fall of 1868 he moved back to New York City, where he bought for his wife, with the proceeds of her dower section, at the West,—recently sold,—a house in which they both lived quietly down to the time of their death. In summer, when his wife and family went to some place in the country, they could hardly ever persuade him to leave with them, as he said he preferred the run of the house with the air circulating through it, and bathing facilities, to a cramped room in some country hotel or boarding house. "About 1879 he again took charge of his lands at the west which his oldest son had meantime had almost entirely broken up, ditched and rented out; and thereafter for a number of years, he insisted on going West and spending his summer at Odell and Pontiac, Illinois, to look after his lands, and in winter returned to New York." " I n 1904 his wife died, and as all his children were married, they persuaded him, about a year later, to have an attendant, who most kindly and faithfully took care of him during the six remaining years of his life. Her thoughtful and efficient care and judicious management undoubtedly prolonged his life several years. He died on January 10th, 1911, at the ripe old age of 93 years, the same age at which his faithful friend Turner had died. "He always retained a lively interest in the University of Illinois, down to the time of his death. "He never held public office, his father, who had had some experience along that line, having filled, among other offices, that of President of the Board of Health of New York City during the cholera epidemic, when a chain had to be stretched across the city at Canal street to prevent communication between the upper and lower part of the city, and people sprinkled red pepper in their stockings to escape the dire de-
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