young man of active
habits, and during the trial of the Whites, at Salem, for the murder of
Joseph White, in 1830, at which Mr. Webster made one of his most
powerful efforts as a lawyer and advocate, Edwin reported the
proceedings. He drove down to Salem in the morning, and back at night
with the proceeds of his daily labor, over the cold and foggy marshes of
Lynn. Then he took a cold, from the effects of which he never recovered.
He used the severest remedies, and, in October, 1832, he sailed for
Smyrna; after spending some months there in a home where friendship and
kindness did all that nature and skill could accomplish, and finding all
means ineffectual, he started for home to die; but a few days before
reaching his native land he breathed his last. His remains were
committed to the deep in May, 1833. A cenotaph at Mt. Auburn
commemorates his birth and death. It bears the inscription of being
placed there by "Boston Mechanics." Edwin believed in the mechanic arts,
and in what are called laboring men. He had himself been of them. It was
fitting also his monument should be reared at Mt. Auburn; it was one of
the first stones erected there. He had been himself greatly instrumental
in carrying to success the project of turning "Sweet" Auburn, as it had
been called, into a cemetery where the ashes of the loved and
illustrious might be gathered for a final resting-place.

The Magazine started well, and may be said to have been wholly
successful, compared with other literary undertakings of the day, and
with the just expectations of the proprietors. My father and brother had
capable, willing, illustrious helpers. The first article of the first
number was by Dr. Frothingham, of Boston, than whom no more elegant
scholar, no finer writer was to be found in New England; Hon. Edward
Everett contributed a playful article of some length to the same number.
Hon. George S. Hillard, long known also in Boston for his fine
scholarship, contributed a long review of the "Chanting Cherubs," a
greatly admired piece of sculpture by Horatio Greenough then on
exhibition in Boston. Hon. William Austin of Charlestown contributed a
most ingenious and interesting story, not surpassed by fiction of the
present day. Among the contributors to the first number were also Dr.
Samuel G. Howe, and Hon. Timothy Walker of Cincinnati; Rev. Leonard
Withington of Newbury, Mass., a gentleman who lived long and quietly in
that secluded village, but wielded a