hat of James
Horrocks, who was born in 1744 and died in 1844. His father was born in
1657, one year before the death of the Protector, and had issue in
early life. He married again at eighty-four to a woman of twenty-six,
of which marriage James was the offspring in 1744. In 1844 this man
could with verity say that he had a brother born during the reign of
Charles II, and that his father was a citizen of the Commonwealth.

Among the Mission Indians of Southern California there are reported
instances of longevity ranging from one hundred and twenty to one
hundred and forty. Lieutenant Gibbons found in a village in Peru one
hundred inhabitants who were past the century mark, and another
credible explorer in the same territory records a case of longevity of
one hundred and forty. This man was very temperate and always ate his
food cold, partaking of meat only in the middle of the day. In the year
of 1840 in the town of Banos, Ecuador, died "Old Morales," a carpenter,
vigorous to his last days. He was an elderly man and steward of the
Jesuits when they were expelled from their property near this location
in 1767. In the year 1838 there was a witness in a judicial trial in
South America who was born on the night of the great earthquake which
destroyed the town of Ambato in 1698. How much longer this man who was
cradled by an earthquake lived is not as yet reported. In the State of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, as late as 1893 a man died at the age of one hundred
and thirty-seven. The census of 1864 for the town of Pilaguin, Ecuador,
lying 11,000 feet above the level of the sea and consisting of about
2000 inhabitants, gives 100 above seventy, 30 above ninety, five above
one hundred, and one at one hundred and fifteen years.

Francis Auge died in Maryland in 1767 at the age of one hundred and
thirty-four. He remembered the execution of Charles I and had a son
born to him after he was one hundred.

There are several other instances in which men have displayed
generative ability in old age. John Gilley, who died in Augusta, Maine,
in 1813, was born in Ireland in 1690. He came to this country at the
age of sixty, and continued in single blessedness until seventy-five,
when he married a girl of eighteen, by whom he had eight children. His
wife survived him and stated that he was virile until his one hundred
and twentieth year. Baron Baravicino de Capelis died at Meran in 1770
at the age of one hundred and four, being the oldest man in Tyr