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document section:  d, where he lived until his death. He was for
a time a director of the National Bank of Commerce, Boston, a
trustee of the Medford Savings Bank, and selectman in 1872-73.
Descended from Quaker stock, he was an earnest and active anti-
slavery man, being one of those who went to Harper's Ferry to
procure the body of John Brown and remove it to North Elba, N.
Y. He took a prominent part in recruiting colored men for the
54th and 55th regiments. He was treasurer of the Colored School
at Calhoun, Ala., and to his interest and endeavor much of its
success was due. Two letters to the Boston Herald, March 1 and
26, 1903, afterwards printed by him under the titles, Why the
Negro was Enfranchised, and Negro Suffrage Justified, testify to
his life-long interest in the colored people. He was a zealous
advocate of woman s