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Title: The boyhood and youth of Joseph Hodges Choate
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917 Choate, Caroline Sterling
Subjects: Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
Publisher: New York : Priv. print.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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elf-educated to instruct his own four sonsin navigation and other studies. They all followed the sea more or less. David(who was the father of Rufus) sailed to Spain andalso to southern ports when a young man. His sonWilliam went to sea eight or ten years before his re-moval to Derry. George was a captain before hecame to the island, and Job was a captain betweenEurope and America for twenty years. The lives of Captain William and his son Georgeappear to have been singularly alike—simple, quiet,and unobtrusive, following the sea at times and farm-ing for the rest, holding important local public of-fices, and employed by their fellow townsmen in themanagement of their affairs and enjoying their fullconfidence and esteem. George represented the town of Ipswich from 1814to 1817, and the new town of Essex after it was set offin 1819, and he held various other offices in the town.I transcribe from the notice which the Salem Ga-zette published of him at the time of his death, as fol-lows:
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(27) *Few men have so well discharged the duties ofhusband, parent and citizen as Mr. Choate. He wasfor many years a member of the Legislature from Ips-wich, and the first representative from Essex, and wasmuch employed by his townsmen in the managementof their concerns, deservedly enjoying their highestconfidence, respect and esteem. By them his useful-ness will be long remembered. To a strength and pu-rity of mind there was united a quiet, peaceful andamiable disposition, which greatly endeared him tohis friends and acquaintances. So mindful was he ofthe rights of others that, as he never made an enemy,so certainly he has not left one; and we cannot butadmire and wish to imitate that discipline of mindand feeling, which he so eminently manifested, andwhich enabled him to perform the duties and sustainthe fatigues and ills of life without a murmur or com-plaint. The virtues of honest fidelity and benevo-lence will not perish with the body. For the uprightand faithful there remaineth

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