Stoddard B. Colby obituaries

Death of Hon. S. B. Colby

The Hon. Stoddard B. Colby, Register of the Treasury, died at Haverhill, N.H. on the evening of Saturday last, of typhoid diarrhea, after an illness of some five weeks. Mr. Colby was a native of Vermont; born in February, l8l6; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836, with distinguished honor, and had received the honorary degree of LL.D. just before his decease. He was a gentleman of eminent kindness of feeling, marked courtesy and urbanity of manners, and of high culture. In all the departments and relations of life he was highly beloved and esteemed, and possessed very rare talents both as a writer and speaker. He was intimately known to the writer from early childhood, and the latter scarcely remembers any one with whom he was so familiar of whom it would be just to say so much in praise and so little by way of abatement. He was a kind and considerate husband, a gentle and dutiful son, a forbearing parent, a warm and true friend, faithful and affectionate in his nature, and in all respects filling the highest ideal of the Christian gentleman. I.F.R. Washington, September 23.

Death of Hon. Stoddard B. Colby

We are pained to announce the death of Hon. Stoddard B. Colby, Register of the Treasury, which took place on Saturday last, while he was on a visit to Haverhill, NH He was the orator at the commencement of Norwich University, at Northfield, in August. Those who listened to his eloquence on that occasion little thought that his end was so near. He was a native of Derby Vt., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and was about fifty years of age. The earliest portion of his professional life was spent in Orleans County, but most of it at Montpelier, where Mr. Colby was associated with the late Hon. Lucius Beck, and engaged in an extensive practice at the bar of this and adjacent county; By the untimely death of Mr. Colby, the public have experienced a great loss. Before engaging in financial labors at Washington he was honorably known in this state as an able, dignified, and eloquent member of the Bar. The chief of one [end missing]