1840. Prentiss Mellen, chief justice of Maine, died at Portland, aged 77. The first eleven volumes of the Maine Reports are a monument of his legal discrimination, great familiarity with practice, and high sense of justice.

1846. James Cochran died at Batavia, Genesee co., N. Y., aged 83. To him the world owes the invaluable invention of making cut nails, yet he died poor.

1849. Hudson river rail road opened to Poughkeepsie.

1852. Amos Lawrence, a wealthy and leading Boston merchant, died, aged 77. His charities amounted to several hundred thousands of dollars.


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ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS.