He  labored  assiduously  and  persistently  in  the  cause
of  education.     For  many  years  a  faithful  Trustee  of
Dickinson   College.     From    1836   until   his  death  a
most  efficient  public  school  Director,  and  first  Secre-
tary of  the  Board.     In  1835  he  was  elected  a  ruling
elder  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  but  mod-
estly declined;  and  though  subsequently  elected,  in
1856,  he  was  still  unwilling  to  act.     He  was  one  of
the  original  Trustees  of  the  Second  Church,  and  first
Secretary  of  the  Board.     He  was  an  excellent  Bible-
class  teacher,  and.   for  years  before  his  death,  the
devoted  Superintendent  of  .the  Sabbath  School.     He
was  the   warm  supporter   of  prayer   meetings  and
revivals,  and  in  him  the  young  had  ever  a  true  and
earnest  friend.     He  was  a  man  of  ample  means,  and
very  generous    to  the  Church  and    to   our   several
Church  Boards,  contributing  largely  of  his  time  and
money  to  educational.  Ijenevolent  and  religious  pur-
poses,  and  was  through  all  his  life  a   friend  and
helper  of  the  poor  and  needy.     Somewhat  eccentric.
but  eminently  good,  and   modest,  and  useful,  and
worthy  to  Ije  had  in  grateful  remembrance.     A  few
years  after  his   death  his  former  pastor,  the  Rev.
