heirs of Gen. Wadsworth and in looking after property left in trust for them. During many years of this same period of his life he was the agent and manager of other important interests.

In 1842, Mr. Janes was married to Philena E. Baker, a daughter of Timothy Baker, of the town of Livonia, N. Y., who died in April, 1874, leaving three children, who still survive, Mary A. and Laura L., who have always lived at home, and William S., who is now a resident of La Porte, Indiana.

Mr. Janes always took a deep interest in all public matters in his town and county, and faithfully served in many local offices of honor and responsibility. Mr. Janes was always a Republican since the formation of the republican party and a vigorous supporter of its policies and measures. In 1862, while still residing in Buffalo, he united with the Presbyterian Church, and was always a faithful attendant upon its services and took great joy and pleasure in his Christian duties. It made him happy to do a charitable act, and many a poor man and woman of Geneseo has had occasion to bless his bounty, but all of his acts of charity were done modestly, with no care for praise or display in doing them. He was amply satisfied with the consciousness of a duty done. Faithful in every duty to himself, his family, and his God, his was a well spent life.

Mr. Janes quietly fell asleep at his home, in Geneseo, April 12, 1899, surrounded by his surviving children, who, while they greatly missed his presence and loving words, could not but feel that he had lived out his life and had gone to his just reward. His mortal frame was laid away in Temple Hill Cemetery, to the care and beautifying of which he had devoted many years. There his remains lie near those of his associates in life, who had labored with him for the same ends and who had gone on before.

"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."

SUTLIEF TRUXTON SEWARD.

BY H. D. KINGSBURY.

The death of Sutlief Truxton Seward, at his home in Livonia village, May 17, 1899, at that time the oldest person in town, was like the crumbling away of a granite cliff that had stood so long its final collapse was a loss to the landscape. In a little more than four added years his life would have covered a century of time. He was born in Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y., June 28, 1803, one of the seventeen children of Isaac and Abigail Eunice Edwards Seward. Isaac was a native of New Durham, Connecticut, and was a first cousin to William H. Seward, of world-wide fame. In 1819, he brought his family to Honeoye, Pittstown, Ontario County, and engaged in his trade as tanner and shoemaker, training several of his boys to the same business. Truxton worked at his trade win

ters, and by the month on a farm summers, till he had saved enough to make the first payment on a farm, of 87 acres, from the land office, in Geneva, at four dollars per acre.

The following letter of introduction from one of the solid men of Richmond, is a historical record of honor:

RICHMOND, December 25, 1827. Messrs. Fellows & McNab-Gentlemen: The bearer, Sutlief T. Seward, wishes to purchase some land. Mr. Seward is a very industrious young man, and I have no doubt he would fulfill his obligations. I should be glad to have him accommodated.

Respectfully, yours,

GIDEON PITTS.

Mr. Seward got the land, gave his note for the balance, and paid it the day it was due. About this time, Mr. Seward got a job of shoemaking, of Elder Titus, a Christian Minister, who lived in East Avon, earning $100, and taking his pay in leather. The next year he raised a crop of hops on Mars Blair's farm in Mendon, which he took to Albany and sold for thirteen cents per pound.

In 1830, Mr. Seward married Antha, daughter of Captain Roderic Steele, of the war of 1812, who came from Connecticut, and was one of the 23 original settlers of Pittstown. The young couple settled on the 87 acre farm in Canadice, which they sold in 1835 and bought a tannery at Frost's Hollow, Richmond, and paid $900, with a balance left to pay every dollar Mr. Seward owed, and he never contracted another debt during his long business career. John Dixson was then a noted merchant and trader at Frost's Hollow, to whom Mr. Seward sold large bills of boots and shoes.

In 1854, Mr. and Mrs. Seward went to Iowa, where each had two brothers, then pioneers in that western country, with which Mr. Seward was so charmed that he bought over 400 acres with $1,600, now valuable property. In 1883, Mr. Seward bought a house in Livonia village, where he spent the balance of his life.

In politics Mr. Seward was an old-fashioned Democrat, in religion a life-long Universalist—a man of intense convictions on all subjects, joining a temperance society in 1822; he hated a wrong thing as he loved integrity and honesty. Behind a rugged manner, the outcome of a positive nature, throbbed a manly, generous heart, that prompted its possessor to search out and relieve want, often in a way that obscured the benefactor. The writer of this has never seen such a brave, strong, self-poised, happy old age. Mr. Seward left two sons and a daughter living in Iowa, and one daughter, Miss Edith C. Seward, of Livonia, whose tender care was the solace of all his declining years.