religious emancipated slave, Sojourner Truth, was there, and spoke on several occasions. She touched the sympathies of all, and reached the deep fount of parental tenderness, when, after a few impressive remarks, she sang I pity the slave-mother, careworn and weary, Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast; As she thinks of her children about to be sold; A permanent organization was effected, and weekly and yearly meeting established. Joseph A. Dugdale was appointed their first treasurer. He served for several years. Isaac Mendenhall was next appointed and served until his son, Aaron, took his place. Isaac was Treasurer of the Chester County AntiSlavery Society from its organization at Coatesville, in May, 1838, until its labors closed at the termination of the war. After the downfall of slavery and the establishment of universal liberty by the Government, the great object which had brought them together, had cemented their hearts in the one grand design and impelled them with enthusiasm and unfaltering devotion toward the one great end, was accomplished; and with one accord they could offer up thanksgiving and praise to the Father of all, that four millions of human beings held as chattel slaves under our laws were now, henceforth, and forever FREE. After the close of the war, when the slavery question ceased to be a disturbing element, the Friends of Ken nett Monthly Meeting invited those back into the Society, whom they had disowned, without requiring of them the usual acknowledgment. Outside of their daily avocations and domestic duties, Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall were active and zealous workers whenever the cause of humanity needed earnest supporters. They were a firm and solid rock upon which the friends of progress and reform could ever rely. The earnest appeal for temperance, for the advancement of women, for the free expression of thought upon religion, found them strenuously, yet unostentatiously, working in the van. On the twelfth of Fifth month (May), 1881, their life of united honest toil and faithful devotion to each other, reached the rounded period of fifty years. This Golden Anniversary of their nuptials was celebrated at their home by the assembling of two hundred and twenty-five guests of all ages, from the little frolicking child to the friends whose advanced age and feebleness rendered it necessary for them to be lifted from their carriages. Yet to these, the happy commingling of oldtime friends, enlivened by the sprightliness and vigor of joyous youth, was like the balmy breezes and the fragrant blossoms of the return of spring. Fifteen of the seventy-two persons who signed their marriage certificate were present at this anniversary, and among them were the two first waiters on that occasion. Their eldest son Aaron, living on the old family estate, now known as Oakdale, was there with his wife and three children, one of whom bears the name of Isaac. This property was originally purchased of William Penn, by Robert Pennell and Benjamin Mendenhall, and the deed was signed by his deputies, Edward Shippen, Griffith Owen and James Logan, (Penn being then in England). The deed was dated Fifteenth day of June A. D. 1703, and was for six hundred acres of land, which according to present survey makes one thousand, and for which they were to "yield and pay therefor, yearly from the said date of survey, to me, my heirs and successors at Chester, at or upon the first day of March in every year forever thereafter, six bushels of good and merchantable wheat, to such persons as shall be appointed to receive the same." The estate afterwards passed into the hands of Benjamin Mendenhall's son Joseph, then to an Isaac. Since then it has passed alternately from an Isaac to an Aaron, and from an Aaron to an Isaac through four generations. It has descended from the possession of one occupant to the other by will-but one deed was ever given, which bears the date of 1703. Many testimonials of esteem and love were sent by persons who could not be present. Among these was one from John G. Whittier, who said, "I knew you in the brave old anti-slavery days, and have never forgotten you. Whenever and wherever the cause of freedom needed aid and countenance you were sure to be found with the noble band of Chester county men and women to whose mental culture, moral stamina and generous self-sacrifice I can bear emphatic testimony." Mary A. Livermore, in a letter addressed to their daughter Sallie, on that occasion says, "With what noble people have they been associated! How rich in reminiscences their memories must be! They have wit nessed the unparalled growth of the country, the downfall of slavery, the nation convulsed with civil war, which ended in the death of a colossal national sin and the freeing of four million slaves." Isaac and Dinah H. Mendenhall are living at the present writing. They have reached that summit in the upward progress of human existence, from which, in retirement, they can look down upon a beautifully diversified landscape, richly adorned with the fruits of their own labors. The sunset sky, toward which they are tending, is ruddy in its glow, while the sun of glory sends forth its effulgent beams from an unclouded sky, significant of the celestial brightness awaiting them around the Throne of eternal peace. [Since the above sketch was written, Isaac Mendenhall has passed away, dying at his home at Hamorton, "full of years and honors," in peace, after so many conflicts; in honor, after so much obloquy.] CHAPTER XVI. DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL.-Parentage.-Teaches Colored School in Maryland.-Studies Medicine.-Lydia Morris Fussell.-Influence of Charles C. Burleigh.-Incidents.-About Two Thousand Fugitives Passed.-Women's Medical College.-Death and Burial.Incidents Related by His Son.-JOHN AND HANNAH COX.-Incidents. Take Active Part in Anti-slavery Societies.-Golden Wedding Anniversary.-Greeting.-Death. DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL. (1794-1871.) Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, son of Bartholomew and Rebecca B. Fussell, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, and was by birthright, as well as by conviction, a member of the Society of Friends. His father, Bartholomew Fussell, Sr., was an approved minister in that denomination, but of remarkably liberal tendencies, his peculiar mission being frequently to hold meetings among persons of different beliefs and often in remote country districts where religious meetings of any kind were rare. To gather the lambs and the lost sheep into the fold, seemed to be, largely, the work to which he felt himself assigned. He was a man of genial and cheerful disposition, often saying that "he served a good Master, and he did not see why he should be sad." His conversation was remarkably entertaining and instructive, and he had the power of winning young people to an unusual degree. His mother, Rebecca Bond Fussell, was of a shy and self-distrustful nature, lacking in confidence, but selfforgetful and devoted to the welfare of others and, |