Excerpt from Memorials, Messages of Condolence and Press Notices

The subject of this memorial, born in Armagh, Ireland, March fourth, eighteen hundred thirty-six, passed from earth on the seventh of May, nineteen hundred four, at Altadena, California. Funeral services were held at the family residence in Chicago at ten o'clock on the fourteenth of May.

Friends and admirers from every walk in life thronged the rooms to pay their last respects to the kindly, genial, unaffected man who was one of the city's most honored pioneers. Sturdy, stalwart, and self-reliant in character, he was likewise humane and generous, and throughout a long life of almost unexampled activity was a helper of all good causes in the city of his adop tion where he will ever be held in grateful remembrance.

Flowers of rare loveliness were seen everywhere in the greatest profusion. The casket was buried beneath a wealth of fragrant roses and lilies, and innumerable superb floral offerings, beautiful and appropriate in design, bore mute yet eloquent testimony of the love and esteem inspired by an unblemished private life, and by a long and honorable public career marked by unswerving integrity of purpose.

The services, characterized by extreme simplicity, were a beautiful and dignified tribute to the departed. The Rev. Frank du Moulin of St. Peter's read the simple yet solemn and impressive ritual of the Episcopal Church, following with a number of passages from the Bible.

Then at the close he briefly spoke as follows of the life and character of the dead: Great were the worldly achievements of this our friend who has passed from among us; great are the bequests in material things he leaves to the world; but far greater, far more enduring, is the example of true. Honest manhood, of broad and sympathetic love of fellow-man, and of a. Heartfelt desire to live a noble and useful life, which he has set.

For almost three-score years this master spirit sowed among his fellow-men the seeds of virtue, and the influence he exerted for good, widening with the years, has been felt and will continue to be felt through out the world. The impulse given by his endeavors to the cause of humanity will not cease, for moral force is indestructible, and, far reaching and imperishable, the influence of his life will still live on. He has left a living monument which will edify generations to come.

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