Poe continued to reside in the cottage until June, 29, 1849, when he started forth on the journey which terminated in his death. Before leaving, he arranged his papers and instructed Mrs. Clemm as to what disposition to make of them in case he died. After spending some time in Richmond he started on his return to New Y'ork, but got no farther than Baltimore when he was lakeu ill, and died in an infirmary on the 7th of October, 1849, at the age of thirty-eight.

Rev. Daniel Curry, D.D.,the clergyman and author, was born near Peekskill, November 26, 1809; graduated from the Wesleyan University in 1837, and in the same year became principal of the Troy Conference Academy, at West Poultney, Vermont. In 1839 he became a professor in the Georgia Female College at Macon, and in 1841 entered the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He filled pastoral charges at Athens, Savannah and Columbus, and in 1844 was transferred to the New

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York Conference where he continued to engage in pastoral work until 1854, when he was chosen president of the Indiana Asbury I'liiversity, at Greencastle, Indiana. After three years he returned to New York and in 1864 was elected editor of the Christian Advocate, at New York. He was re-elected in 18()8 and 1872, and in 187(5 became the editorofthe jAidifs:' Jiejiositort/ of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Curry has written much for the periodicals of his church in addition to the articles which he gave to his regular editorial work. He has published a "Life of Wyckliff," "The Metropolitan City of America," and a " Life of Bishop Davis W. Clark," and has edited the writings of the late Rev. Dr. James Floy, and an edition of Soutliey's " Life of Wesley."