scarcely to have
been realized. The removal of one of the professors to another
institution, devolved upon him an amount of labor which he had not
anticipated, and he found it impossible to attend to the business of
instruction, and at the same time to be abroad among the churches
soliciting pecuniary aid. At length, finding that the public mind was
greatly divided as to the expediency of making any further efforts to
sustain the institution, he recommended that its operations should,
for the time being, be suspended; though he considered it as only a
suspension, and confidently believed that it had yet an important work
to perform. He held himself ready after this to give private
instruction in Theology, whenever it was desired.

"In 1848, Dr. Cogswell suffered a severe domestic affliction in the
death of his only son,--a young man of rare promise, at the age of
twenty. This seemed to give a shock to his constitution from which he
never afterwards fully recovered. He acted as a stated supply to the
First Church in Gilmanton until the early part of January, 1850, when
he was suddenly overtaken with a disease of the heart that eventually
terminated his life. He preached on the succeeding Sabbath (January
13), but it was for the last time. He performed some literary labor
after this, and read the concluding proof sheet of a work that he was
carrying through the press for the New Hampshire Historical Society.
When he found that death was approaching, though at first he seemed to
wish to live, that he might carry out some of his plans of usefulness,
not yet accomplished, he soon became perfectly reconciled to the
prospect of his departure. He died in serene triumph,--connecting all
his hopes of salvation with the truths he had preached,--April 18,
1850. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Daniel Lancaster of
Gilmanton, and was published.

"Dr. Cogswell was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of
the American Antiquarian Society, and of the New England Historic and
Genealogical Society. He was also an Honorary Member of the Historical
Societies of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, and a Corresponding Member of the
National Institution for the Promotion of Science at Washington.

"The following is a list of Dr. Cogswell's publications 'A Sermon on
the Nature and Extent of the Atonement,' 1816. 'A Sermon containing
the History of the South Parish