In Memoriam.

CAPTAIN DAVID CHALFANT.

CHALFANT.-In Uhrichsville, Ohio, May 19, 1875, CAPTAIN DAVID CHALFANT, aged 63 years, 8 months, and 27 days.

CAPTAIN CHALFANT was born August 22, 1811, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and when quite a small boy removed to Jefferson county, Ohio.

He was married on the 8th of September, 1837, and in the fall of 1838 he moved to Uhrichsville, Ohio, and followed the practice of medicine with great success until the year 1861.

In the spring of 1861, he visited Washington City for the purpose of witnessing the inauguration of PRESIDENT LINCOLN, and when the tocsin of war was sounded, he raised a company of volunteers and was chosen as its captain. His company was assigned to the Fifty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the head of his command he participated in the marches, trials, and pleasures of that regiment for two years, when, his health becoming impaired, he resigned his commission and returned to his home.

CAPTAIN CHALFANT's acquaintance was very extensive, and wherever he was known his company was sought by those around him, on account of his frank openheartedness, his genial disposition, and his peculiar aptitude of always interesting his auditors.

He probably enjoyed life as well, if not better, than any man of his acquaintance. Frequent trips to various sections of this

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country, and an extended tour through Europe, were indulged in, and legitimate pleasure sought and found wherever an opportunity for so doing presented itself.

He was one of the petitioners for the charter of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 194, F. and A. M., which was established in Uhrichsville in 1850, and likewise of Cyrus Chapter, No. 114, R. A. M., and Gebal Council, No. 56, R. and S. M., which were established at subsequent periods.

He was frequently honored by these various bodies with the highest positions in their power to bestow upon him.

He was also one of the charter members of Tuscarawas Lodge, No. 15, K. P., and up to the time of his death he held in the highest veneration and esteem the doctrines taught and principles inculcated by the various societies of which he was an honored member.

They have each lost a valuable co-laborer, a devoted, sincere, earnest, and steadfast friend. He has joined the mighty caravan which halts but a night-time in the vale of death, and in the morning of eternity strikes its white tents for the upward march. But his life and character will shine as beacon lights, and his memory will lovingly linger around his friends and associates like the dreamy fragrance of a long perished flower.