calling and election sure. Probably it would be hard to name the man of his period who did more in politics for his friends, and did it in a more,effective and successful way, than he.

Representing his town in the legislature in 1872-3 was the only political office he ever personally indulged in.

NORMAN PAUL.

BY COL. T. O. SEAVER.

Norman Paul was born on the 29th day of February, A. D. 1832, the son of Ora and Abigail Paul; he died on the 13th day of March, A. D. 1894. He was a good son, a loyal brother and an honest man, faithful to every duty as his judgment enabled him to see it.

He has entered into his rest.

Were it his, to-day, to look down and dictate the words of his own obituary, I make little question but that something like the foregoing, bald and brief as the words are, would be all that his simple modesty would allow to be written. But when a good man's life is ended, and he has entered into that rest which is prepared for all living, it is entirely fit that we should gather the fruits of his life, and treasure its lessons.

Norman Paul was the son of sturdy, honest New England people, trained in the simple, frugal habits of the farming people among whom his early life was passed. Their virtues became an integral part of his character and remained with him to the end.

He fitted for college at Newbury Seminary, Vt., entered the University of Vermont in 1856, and graduated with his class in 1860. He studied law with Washburn & Marsh of Woodstock, Vt., and was admitted to the bar of Windsor county in December, 1862, and was thereafter active in his professional duties down to almost the last day of his life.

He was State's attorney for Windsor county for 1876– 1878, and State Senator in 1884-1886, and held various offices of public trust in the town of Woodstock and in Windsor county.

But to speak in this connection of any public honor or distinction that Norman Paul may or might have won seems almost to belittle the character of the dead.

If I were called to-day to name three features of Norman Paul's character most marked and worthy of imitation, I should unhesitatingly say that they were his persistent industry, his unflinching honesty, and his self-sacrificing loyalty and devotion to the members of his family.

His industry was the fruit of his training in early life; his sterling honesty was born with him, and all his life long directed his steps in the path of duty as his judgment enabled him to see it.

He was the stay, the support and comfort of his mother in her declining years; but of his loyalty and devotion to his family as son and brother there are few left to speak, but those few know and appreciate them, and that knowledge and appreciation make their loss all the harder to be borne.

And so I close as I began, by saying that he was a good son, a loyal brother, and an honest man, faithful to every duty as his judgment enabled him to see it. He has entered into his rest.

OSMORE BAKER BOYCE.

BY FRANK PLUMLEY.

Osmore Baker Boyce, son of Richard T. and Joanna Banfield Boyce, was born in Newbury, Vermont, November 24, 1841. Died June 1, 1895. He was a farmer's son and spent his minority at his father's home working upon the farm and enjoying such educational facilities as the district school afforded, when he could be spared to attend. He got in this way the educational foundation well laid, for he was a quick, active minded lad with a love for books and of scholarly tastes and aspirations. When he became of age he sought further opportunities for an education and gained the means in such avocations as were open to him, attending so far as his means would permit, the Barre Academy, then one of the strongest secondary schools in the State. He gave his attention to teaching as one of the means of obtaining money and alternately a student, then a teacher he worked his way along as many a sturdy Vermonter has done, achieving success in both lines. He chose for his life work the profession of the law, first reading with his brother, W. A. Boyce, and supplementing this with a full course at the Albany Law School, where he graduated in 1871. He located very soon after graduation at Guildhall, the shire town of Essex county, and was elected the State's attorney of that county in 1872. He added to his strictly professional work the duties of editing the Essex County Herald, published at the county seat.

In 1874 he sought a broader field, and coming to Barre he formed a partnership with his brother in the practice of the law, which co-partnership continued until his death.

The firm enjoyed a successful and profitable practice. As a lawyer Mr. Boyce was studious, painstaking and industrious, honest towards the court, true to his clients and earnest in the discharge of his professional duties. He had a fine command of good language, and was an able and forcible speaker. He despised meanness and chicanery with all the force of a strong soul, and on occasion voiced his sentiments in words that were clear and unmistakable. He stamped his individuality upon all his undertakings, and it will be many years before his memory will have faded from the bar of Washington county. He was a zealous friend of education; he loved his adopted town; he gave liberally of time and money in its behalf.

His religious affiliations were Methodist Episcopal. He was an attendant upon church and Sunday schools. He threw the weight of his influence upon the side of education, temperance, vigorous morality and the Christian faith. He was a member of the local lodge, I. O. O. F., and a member of the Knights of Honor. He served as Grand Dictator of the State Grand Lodge, and for four years was its representative in the National Supreme Lodge. He was an able, honest, earnest man; always espousing with zeal the cause he favored, and fearing no opposition, however strong or decided. He was a loyal, devoted friend, and if an enemy was one to be feared. He was married in June, 1871, to Amelia A. French, of Northumberland, N. H., who died leaving one child, a daughter, Edith A. In January, 1881, he was married to Louisa L. Dodge, of Barre, who, with the daughter, Edith A., survive him.

He was a good husband, an effectionate father, a worthy,