In Memoriam-Mrs. W. C. Gildersleeve. [The following sketch is published at this time as Rev. Dr. Parke was in Europe when Mrs. Gildersleeve's death occurred.-ED.]

Mrs. W. C. Gildersleeve, whose death oocurred at Cape May Point, N. J., on the 23d of August, 1888, was born in Philadelphia in August, 1802. She was the daughter of Jacob Mitchell, a ma ogany merchant of Philadelphia. In 1827 she was married to Rev. Jacob Beecher and with him removed to Shepherdstown, Virginia, where he was pastor of the German Reformed Church. Four years after her marriage Mr. Beecher died, leaving her with two little boys to care for. She then returned to her father's house in Philadelphia, where she remained with her children until her marriage to Mr. Gildersleeve, Oct. 8, 1856, when she came to Wilkes-Barre, where she resided until the death of her husband.

A few years after the death of her husband, which occurred Oct. 4, 1871, she returned to Philadelphia. For the past few years she has resided in Woodbury, N. J., with her sister, Mrs. Susan Roe.

Mrs. Gildersleeve was one of a company of active christian workers in the old Pine Street church of Philadelphia when the Rev. Esra Stiles Ely, D. D., was its pastor, and through one of her associates in said church, Miss Mary Gardiner, she became acquainted in Wilkes Barre. Miss Gardiner was the sister of Mrs. Laura Brower, and by invitation of Mrs. Brower Mrs. Gildersleeve (then Miss Mitchell) and her sister, Miss Susan Mitchell, visited Wilkes-Barre and spent some time here.

One of the first Sabbath schools in the county was taught by these young Philadelphia ladies at what is now known as Parsons, in connection with Miss Mary Bowman, a sister of Bishop Bowman. In this school Prof. John Hart, whose father worked for the father of Calvin Pareons, Esq., was a promising scholar, and largely through the influence of these ladies he secured a collegiate education and entered on the way to the position of usefulness and distinction that he attained.

Mrs, Gildersleeve, from her first visit to Wilkes Barre in the family of Mrs. Brower, kept up her acquaintance here, and when she came here as the wife of Mr. Gildersleeve, she made herself felt in the First Presbyterian Church as an efficient helper in every good work. In the Home for Friendless Children also she took a deep interest so long as she resided in the city, and

she did not forget it after she removed to Philadelphia.

The Wilkes-Barre of 1888 is not the Wilkes-Barre she knew fifty years ago. Neither is it the Wilkes-Barre to which she came when she married Mr. Gildersleeve, thirty-two years ago. The men and women with whom she was associated in "the early days" sbe remembered with great interest. They were among her choicest friends, and while her associations were largely with the First Presbyterian Church, she delighted to make friends with all who loved the Lord Jesus Christ. She was one of the links that united us with the past. Her first visit to Wilkes-Barre was made when the Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve was a missionary in Wyoming Valley. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Murray, D. D., and Rev. John Dorrance, DD., she knew when they were in the seminary in Princeton, N. J. The pastors who succeeded Dr. Dorrance, viz.: Dr. A. A. Hodge, Rev. Samnel Dod and Rev. F. B. Hodge, DD., were her pastors. There are those still in Wilkes-Barre who remember her with affeotionate regard and with a measure of admiration. She was a woman who would attract attention and commanded respect in any circle of cultivated christian people.

With the noble christian men and women of Wilkes-Barre who have finished their work and rest from their labors, Mrs. Gildersleve rests-but her influence as an attractive, generous, cultured, earnest, elegant christian woman abides and will abide. N. G. P.

From a Former Resident. In a letter from Mrs. N. Shephard Lawrence, 168 Second Avenue, Asbury Park, N. J., ordering the RECORD, she says:

Dear old Wilkes Barre. How well I remember the "borough" from 1829 to 1837. In those days we not only knew every man, woman and child, but the very cattle which belonged to them. Then the stranger came in and woke up the inhabitants! What a vast change has taken place in the staid old town and in its people. The strangers brought new ideas. Coal was more largely developed. Sarah and Gould Parrish went to school to Lydia Trott, the mother-in-law of the Hon. G. W. Woodward, in her kitchen at the northwest corner of the Square and Market Street. I was also one of the pupils, I have just met my old friend, Mrs. Daniel Brodhead, from Sugar Notch, and we have been talking Wilkes-Barre. She has a knowledge of some of my old associates there. To me 'tis a great treat. My brother-inlaw, E. B. Worthington, used to edit the Advocate and my uncle Lynch was cashier of the Wyoming Bank for nearly 40 years.