To me, certainly, it was an uplifting thought, that, like the founder of the hall, belonging by birth to Pelham and New Kochelle, at the end of a century from the year of its completion and his departure, I was standing in the thronged edifice that memorialized his name, alive to the significance of the position, well assured that by every uttered word I was but voicing the ideas that ho loved, that he expressed in deeds more eloquent than words, and made his record a treasured legacy.

" This early colonial civilization, which we have traced from its beginning, w ith its style of culture so unique on account of its variety of elements fused into newly developed cliaractei^, ere long put forth a power of attraction that gathered to it and arouud it people of congenial tastes, appreciative of the social (iiialities and educational <ispirations recognized as a transmilted heritage. Long remembered among these who, at the close of the last century, sought a home in old Pelham, was a man of large fortune, an educated gentlemen, a bachelor just touching the border of mi<ldle life, of whom, as it seems, only one memorial can now be found, and that the marble slab at the head of his grave, hinting briefly at the beginning and ending of his lif'e-.story. A single sentence uttere its whole message, thus, -- In niemory of .Mexander Banqifleld Henderson, Esq., a native of Charleston, in South Carolina, but late of the town of Pelham and county of Westchester, who departed this life JGth December, I.S(i4, aged 47 yeai"s.