powers, and to become absorbed at once and fully with concerns that are of eternal consequence.

On the tenth day of February, 1858, Mr. Boker breathed his last; quietly passing away from those active scenes in which he had performed so important a part, leaving a good name, and honorably acquired wealth, to two sons. One of them, Mr. George S. Boker, is greatly distinguished in American literature; and the other, Dr. Charles S. Boker, is a well-educated physician. Leaving behind him many who remember, with gratitude, the favors which he conferred upon them; leaving to the young and the enterprising the encouraging example of a life of successful industry and mercantile honor. Such men constitute a part of a city's boast, as they are true public benefactors.

Of Mr. Boker, it may be said, that while he was ever indifferent to distinction, he seemed foremost in whatever he undertook.

We should fail in one object of these papers were we to omit a reference to the encouragement which the position of Mr. Boker suggests to any young man aspiring to take rank with the business men of the community in which he resides. An honorable ambition, like that, is to be indulged and encouraged; and the success of others, and the means whereby they did ascend, are to be regarded as encouraging and instructive.

Mr. Boker owed none of his success to any accident of trade; and none of his possessions are due to parsimonious uses of his earnings. He took the regular channels of business, and navigated them in the regular way, and has used the superfluities of profits in a mode to promote domestic comforts, and consistent with social proprieties.

There are incidents of his commercial life in which considerable additions have been made rapidly to his capital; but these were always governed by established mercantile uses, and needed no concealment to insure success.

Economy undoubtedly made the first earnings a means of future profit; and mercantile taste, and mercantile pride, applied all the results of success to the enlargement of continued operations.

With a grateful sense of early favors, Mr. Boker often referred back to instances of confidence and kindness in the wealthy and established, by which his business scope and means were enlarged.

It is, however, well for the young to understand that such instances are not sporadic; they come with cause and await at all times an object. Such acts are not the mere arbitrary exercise of a sudden impulse of kindness,-they denote good feeling, indeed, and liberality of view, but they are due to the habits and character of those whom they aid, and it should be understood that the liberalizing spirit of trade leads the established business man to inquire out those whom his favors may assist, with almost as much earnestness as the wants of the aspirant suggests the necessity of a patron.

And we may safely say, while we do justice to the good wishes of those who encouraged the early efforts of Mr. Boker, that their confidence was won by his good sense, his business habits, and his promptness and punctuality in all his transactions. These qualifications are beyond pecuniary capital, for they cannot be lost by speculation, and they command for their possessor all that the speculation of others had acquired.

THOMAS BOND.

THOMAS BOND, a distinguished physician and surgeon, was born in Maryland, in 1712. After studying with Dr. Hamilton, he spent a considerable time in Paris. In 1734, he commenced practice at Philadelphia. The first clinical lectures in the Pennsylvania Hospital, were delivered by him. He assisted in founding the College and Academy. In 1743, he was a member of a literary society, composed of Franklin, Bartram, Godfrey, and others, and an officer of the American Philosophical Society from its establishment. The Annual Address before the Society was delivered by him in 1782, on "The Rank of Man in the Scale of Being." He died in 1784, aged seventy-two years. He published, in the "London Medical Inquiries and Observations,” Vol. I, an account of a Worm in the Liver, 1754; on the use of Peruvian Bark in Scrofula, Vol. II.

PHINEAS BOND.

MR. BOND, British Consul at Philadelphia, at the close of the last century and at the beginning of the present, was an American by birth. He was a loyalist during the Revolutionary troubles, and for his loyalty he received the appointment of Consul at Philadelphia. He filled the position for a number of years, and resided, for a considerable period, in Chestnut Street, above Fifth, on the north side.

Mr. Bond was an uncle of the late General Thomas Cadwalader, of this city, and consequently a grand-uncle of Judge John Cadwalader and General George Cadwalader. Mr. Bond was also connected with the noble family of the Erskines. He died in London, December 29th, 1815.

HENRY BOND, M.D.

THE death of this gentleman occurred at his residence, in Philadelphia, May 4th, 1859, suddenly, from disease of the heart, an affection of some years' standing. Though entitled to, and receiving, high consideration and respect as a physician of over forty years of successful practice in this city, Dr. Bond attained his widest reputation elsewhere, as the author of two large octavo volumes, entitled "Family Memorials," comprising a genealogical history of the early settlers of his native place. This book was published in the beginning of 1856. On the decline of his physical strength, ten or twelve years since, so much as to induce him to give up a share of his more active pursuits, he devoted himself with great industry to the preparation of a work on the personal history of New England families, and the two large volumes, which are the result of his labors, contain enough of history in the more general sense to constitute many ordinary volumes of the most valuable

character. The work is a credit to the literature of the country, without an equal among those which approach its peculiar character in this country. Two or three extracts from the Introduction of this valuable work will give the reader some idea of the man, and the extent of his labors.

“A desire to trace a lineage and to perpetuate its remembrance, seems to have been so prevalent among the enlightened and semicivilized people, and even among barbarians, of all ages, even the remotest to which either history or tradition extends, that it may be regarded as an instinct of human nature-an innate principle, implanted for wise and benevolent purposes. If so, ought it not to be cherished by the wise and the good?"

"When persons affect an utter indifference to their lineage, or a history of the past generations of their families, and deride any attention to them as a foolish weakness and vanity, they are contravening an innate principle, and it may be generally suspected that they have some knowledge of a lineage, which they would consign to oblivion, because it is untitled, and without a good renown. Some such persons build costly ostentatious monuments to procure present distinction, and a lasting memorial for themselves, while they never inquire for the burial-place of their ancestors, and leave their graves to utter and most disrespectful neglect."

"The first part of the work was put to press three years ago, 1852, when the writer had not the prospect of being able to prosecute it any further, when he was not able to digest and arrange all the materials in his possession, and when the field of research was, as it still is, very far from being exhausted. Yet it then seemed advisable to the writer, and to the friends whom he consulted, to print it, such as it then was, leaving additions and corrections to be made by others, rather than to leave such a mass of materials to be lost, or left to the care of those who might not appreciate or understand them."

Dr. Bond was a member of the historical societies of this country, almost without exception, and was held by all of them in high respect. He was also always a member, and until recently an active member of the various scientific and literary societies of this city, and a contributor to the "Transactions" of medical societies. Though suffering for a year past from a paralytic stroke, his literary

activity continued to the very day of his death. He was a native of Watertown, Massachusetts, a graduate of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and removed from Concord to this city in 1819. He died at the age of seventy.

ELIAS BOUDINOT.

MR. BOUDINOT, of one of the numerous Huguenot families, which, taking refuge in America, from persecutions in France, made its return in patriotic efforts when America was to be defended, was born in Philadelphia, May 2d, 1740. He studied law with Richard Stockton, and his first wife was a sister of that distinguished statesHe married, afterwards, a lady of New York, of the Beckman family, who survived him.

man.

Boudinot became distinguished as a member of Congress, of which body he was President in 1782, and was rewarded, by Washington, with the appointment of Director of the Mint, as the successor of Rittenhouse, in 1796. He was the first President of the American Bible Society, on its creation, in 1816. He took great interest in the cause of missions, particularly with reference to the Indians, the question of whose descent he endeavored to solve in his elaborate volume, "A Star in the West; or, an humble attempt to discover the long lost Ten Tribes of Israel, preparatory to their return to their beloved City, Jerusalem." This he published at Trenton, in New Jersey, in 1816. It is a curious work, which displays considerable diligence in the collection of facts and conjectures, and is written with an unaffected tone of sincerity. The writer evidently regarded the work as a religious duty. From his study of the sacred writings, his own observations of the Indian character, and the writings of Adair (who had taken this view), Colden, Brainerd, and others, furnishing facts, exhibiting similarity of customs, he established himself in the conclusion that the American Indians were the descendants of the lost tribes.

He also published, in 1790, “The Age of Revelation; or, the Age of Reason an Age of Infidelity;" an "Oration before the So