[Pamphlets. American history]

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very erect position. The woodcut engraving which accompanies
this sketch represents Dr. Green at the age of fifty-five years,
and is a very perfect outline likeness. The steel engraved portrait is taken from a rather indistinct daguerreotype likeness when he
was one hundred years of age. Ile had a sound, vigorous constitution, strengthened and preserved by uniform temperate habits,
daily physical exercise, early hours
for retirement, and rising with the
opening day. At the age of 82
years he fell and broke his thigh
bone where it entered its socket;
- and little did he or his physician
believe that at his advanced age
it would ever unite, as it did after
several months confinement to his
bed; so that in the course of time,
_ ith the aid of crutch or cane, he
was enabled to hobble about his
1___*_ -___ house and garden, and occasionally
E___ __ gto attend church.
\__L_ Ten years more had nearly
elapsed, when another more serious
a___________ accident befel him. From an
early morning stroll in front of his,:_,/____-__ house, he came in doors, and stan'ding by the window reading, was
suddenly prostrated backward to the floor, seemingly, to him, by a
violent blow on his cranium, and so wrenching his spinal column, as
deprived him ever after of all power of locomotion. Happily this
accident was unattended with pain, and there in his cosey easy chair,
with books, papers, &c. around him, his days and years flew apace
without weariness or complaint, and with that sweet serenity of mind
and calm christian patience which won the most devotioned care and
affectionate love of his two only surviving daughters.
From his personal friends, he had frequent social visits, and from
strangers not a few, from far and near, attracted by his venerable
age, or a desire to hear him recount his varied experience during our
revolutionary war. Groups too of' merry children, for whom he had
a kindly fondness, came often with tasteful flowers to greet him.
Such indeed was his uniform gentleness of disposition, and lively
interest in all public and domestic affairs, that he left questionable evidence on the minds of not a few strangers, as to the extreme old
age attributed to him.
Here, in conclusion, I will add that, on learning my dear father's
indisposition, I hastened to see him, and found him suffering somexwhat, as it seemed, from the effects of a cold and cough. To gratify
me he took some homceopathic pellets I recommended, smilingly re