Katurally  verj'  sensitive  to  misappreciation  and  opposition  and  obloquy,  he  yet  de-
lighted in  defending  and  promoting  everywhere,  as  opportunity  offered,  whatever
seemed  to  him  to  be  truest  and  best,  no  matter  what  were  t^e  odds  against  him.
He  was  a  man  of  quick  perceptions,  strong  memory  and  philosophic  habits  of
thought,  with  fine  logical  powers  of  reasoning.  He  was  also  a  close  student,  and
much  addicted  to  literary  occupations.  He  had  dark  hair  and  eyes  and  a  florid
complexion.  He  m.,  July  15,  1832,  Francis  Delia  Seymour;  b.  June  9,  1804  (dau.  of
Ira  Seymour,  of  Victor,  N.  Y.,  and  Betsey  Morehouse,  afterward  of  Webster,
Mich.)

1910.  i.  CHARLES  TILLINGHAST,  b.  at  Scio,  Mich.,  Jan.  16,  1834,  en-
listed May  II,  1861,  in  the  Third  Mich.  Regt,  and  joined  the
army  of  the  Potomac  under  General  McClellan.  The  regimental
color-bearer  having  been  killed  at  the  battle  of  Williamsburgh,
the  colonel  asked  the  regiment,  "Who  will  take  the  colors?"
No  one  else  offering  to  take  such  a  risk,  he  slipped  forth  from
the  ranks,  after  a  brief  delay,  and  said:  "I  will  take  them;  they
shall  not  go  a  begging."  He  bore  them  into  the  next  battle  at
Fair  Oaks,  May  31,  1862,  knowing  that  he  was  marching  to  cer-
tain death,  and  was  shot  in  the  left  side  of  the  neck.  He  held
fast  to  the  dear  flag  after  he  had  fallen,  and  said  with  his  last
breath:  "Let  some  one  take  the  colors."
igii.  ii.  FRANCES  (Fanny),  b.  at  Ann  Arbor,  Dec.  19,  1842;  m.,  April
18,  1864,  Albert  Eugene  Cowles;  b.  May  14,  1S38,  at  Chardon,  O.
