Our eldest daughter, Mary, is the wife of Dr.William S.Cheeseman, an eminent physician in the beautiful city of Auburn, the County-seat of my native County of Cayuga.

It is the site of one of our principal Theological Seminaries, from which have graduated many of the foremost ministers in our Presbyterian denomination.

One of the earliest professors of that institution was the revered Dr.Henry Mills, who baptized me in my infancy.

Auburn is also well known as the residence of our celebrated statesman William H.Seward, who was Secretary of State under President Lincoln.

From the window of my daughter's home I look over at the summer house in which that illustrious patriot meditated some of his state papers; and just beyond is the bronze statue reared to his memory.