of the late Rev. J. T. Brown creeping in. For many, many years Mr. Brown and Miss Hearn were close friends.

"At times," she says, "I have been at my wits' ends for a subject for my next article or verses. But the attending at one of his services always afforded me a topic. I remember Jonathan Whittimore, who, by-the-way, was a Baptist Minister, and the founder of the Christian World, telling me that Mr. Brown 'prayed like a seraph and preached like a poet.' For fifty years he was pastor of College Stree Baptist Church. And when he resigned, his people made him a present of one thousand guineas. Here Mr. Brown was long known as 'the Nonconformist Bishop of Northampton. We were highly favored to have such a pastor for so long a time."

Every day friends come to pay a visit, and a visit to 12, Watkin Terrace, Northampton, is a thing to be remembered.

PHILIP MORTON.

As a matter of interest I insert a list of Hearn's and Hearne's as found in London Directory, Sept., 1899.

There are thirty (30) of the name of Hearn, occupations range from wholesale stationers, auctioneers, car men, contractors, manufacturing agents, silversmiths, butcher, fruit and potato saleswoman, cab proprietor, and three publicans. There are only eight (8) Hearnes--merchant, physician, furniture dealer, bootmaker, bus proprietor, dealer in circulating goods, and two publicans. This list was furnished me by James Clarke and Co., Publishers, 13 and 14 Fleet Street, London, E. C.

In New York city, one of the largest dry goods houses is under the firm name of James A. Hearn & Son, 22-24-26-28-30 West Fourteenth Street and 21-23-25-27-29 West Thirteenth Street; cable address, Portcullis, New York. The father of James A. Hearn, George Hearn, left England May 20, 1821 ( when forty-three years of age), and came to America and settled in Montgomery Co., Pa.; he removed to New York city 1834, and died there June 6, 1851.

The following is the genealogy, collateral branches omitted, copied from a family tree in the library of George A. Hearn at his residence, 46 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York city. This is one of the few families I have found on the continent who do not trace their genealogy back to one of the three brothers who came to

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