In the long

line of the Bolton ancestry the name of Robert is rarely without a bearer. A number of these were distinguished for their learning and i)iety. A Robert, born in 1572, was noted at Lincoln and Brazen Nose Colleges, Oxford, for his varied accomplishments, and afterward as a divine. A Robert, born iu England in 1688, became a prominent merchant in Philadelphia. His son Robert, born in 1722, was a merchant in Savannah, Georgia. His son Robert, born in 1757, became a very prominent merchant of Savannah, and the owner of muih valuable real estate- His son Robert, born in 17S8, in Savannah, became a merchant in Liverpool, England, afterward the rector of Christ Church, P( I- ham, Westchester County, and subsequently chaj)- lain to the Earl of Ducie, at Tortworth, in Gloucestershire. His son Robert is the subject of this sketch.

Mr. Bolton and his four brothers became clergymen in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was ordained a deacon in October, 1868, and a presbyter in June, 1869. He was rector of St. John's Church, South Salem, at the time of his death.

His brother, William Jay, at the time of his death, was rector of St. James', Bath, England, and an author of note; John is rector of Trinity Church, Westchester, Pa. ; Cornelius Winter is rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Pelhamville, Westchester County; and James was the incumbent of St. Paul's Chapel, Kilburu, London. All of Mr. Bolton's sisters who survived youth achieved distinction in teaching, in literature or in art.