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OBITUARY.

Samuel May '29.

Rev. Samuel May '29 died at his home in Leicester on Friday at the age of eighty-nine. Born in Boston, April 11, 1810, he there received his early education. In 1825 he entered Harvard, graduating in the class with Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Freeman Clarke and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was secretary of his class. In 1833 he graduated from the Divinity School, of which he became senior alumnus in 1898. In 1834, Mr. May was ordained and installed in the Second Congregational Church of Leicester, where he continued to preach up to the time of his death. He early became deeply imbued with the anti-slavery spirit and his efforts were widely known and highly appreciated.

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