In early life Daniel engaged in mercantile pursuits in the village of West Farms and for half a century was one of the most prominent and successful business men in the southern portion of the county, amassing a large fortune, which he dispensed in the latter years of his life in acts of beneficence and charity, making liberal contributions to the educational institutions of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., Cornell University, and the Syrian College at Beirut. From his early youth he was noted for strictly temperate habits, to which he attributed his uninterrupted good health for more than four-score years.

He was for many years a useful and honored member of the Reformed Church at West Farms and manifested his attachment to it by his munificent gift of the Mapes Parsonage, as well as by his liberal contributions to its support. On the 20th of January, 1884, he fell asleep in Christ, full of years, riches and honors, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

LEOXARD MAPES.

Leonard Mapes, the fifth child of John Mapes, was born November 10, 1804, and married Mary, daugliter of William Archer. Their children were,-- first. Sarah, wife of Hampton Brown, of Ulster County; second, Daniel, a merchant and resident of West Farms, who married Evadna, daughter of Matson Arnow ; third, William, a merchant and resident of West Farms, who married Ida Arnow ; fourth, Mary A., wife of Edward Myers ; fifth, Henry C, who married Susan, daughter of Daniel Tier, and is now living in Westchester ; sixth, Harriet, wife of George Shepherd ; seventh, John S., who married