Should a stranger call there in the early morn, or Just before the close of day, in the season for it, and when the weather is propitious, and should he encounter a slender man, in shirt sleeves, with a sharp face, aquiline nose, bright, but fixed and cheery look, iron-gray beard and hair, the whole head General Jackson like, and should he receive frank and cordial reception, enlivened with some [ sportive remark, he may know that he is face to face with Owen T. Coffin, surrogate of Westchester County."

EDWARD WELLS.

Mr. Wells, a leading member of the bar of Westchester County, was born in Durham, Greene County, New York, December 2, 1818. His father, Noah Wells, was a native of Colchester, New London County, Conn., where he married Dimmis, daughter of David Kilbourne. Both families came from England, and their genealogies have been published by their members. The ancestry of Mr. Wells, on his father's side, has been very thoroughly traced in the " History of the Wells Family," by the late Albert Wells, of New York, a work of the greatest value, and embracing the results of extended research ; and his genealogy on his mother's side appears in the " History of the Kilbourne Family," written by Hon. | Payne Kenyon Kilbourne.

The children of Noah Wells were Eev. Noah H. ; Albert, who was thirty years principal of Peekskill

Military Academy ; Mary E., wife of Hiram Bell (deceased), of East Haddam, Conn. ; Francis H., a prominent lawyer of San Francisco, Cal. ; and Edward.