A Memorial of Henry D Gilpin

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Philadelphia, February 15, 1860. Madam: At a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, held on the 13th inst, the following resolution, offered by Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, was unanimously adopted:? Resolved, That the Historical Society of Pennsylvania performs a mournful duty in recording its expression of respect and esteem for the memory of Henry D. Gilpin, its late valued member. It pays a just tribute to his varied merits, by exhibiting his life and conduct as a never dying lesson, while his body sleeps in death. That it is characteristic of history to teach by bright examples the pure lessons of its peculiar philosophy; and a grateful sense of what it owes to a departed associate is manifested in the delineation of hischaracter. The example afforded by his active life will