Excerpt from In Memory of Gen. Henry H. Ross: Who Died at Essex, Essex Country, N. Y., On the 13th Day of Sept;, 1862 Arrived now at the age of manhood, thoroughly read in the profession he had chosen, he turned away from the excitements and allurements of the Metropolis, to the. More congenial quiet of his native village. It too often happens that the young man at whose feet fortune has cast her favors. And whom the accident of an inheritance has relieved from the necessity of exertion, fails to develop the higher qualities he possesses, and sinks beneath the very blessings he enjoys; but his was a character too strong and solid to be enticed into the stream of idleness, down which so many, in the morning of their lives, have drifted to oblivion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.