WILLIAM C. LAWRENCE.

In Memoriam.

WILLIAM CHARLES LAWRENCE was born in Boston, December 3, 1816, and died there December 5, 1902.

In his seventh year he entered the Boylston School on Fort Hill, and graduated in 1830, receiving a Franklin Medal. He began his business life with his father, who was a grocer; later for several years he was bookkeeper for Leopold Herman, a manufacturer of stoves and furnaces.

When but sixteen years of age he was a member of the Cataract Engine Company, and continued to serve in the Boston Volunteer Fire Department for many years. He was Treasurer of the Veteran Firemen's Association nearly to the end of his life.

He was a Custodian of the Bostonian Society for many years. He is best remembered for his enthusiastic devotion to the interests of the Old School Boys' Association, of which he was an organizing member and director, and from 1884 till near his death its Secretary and Treasurer. He was held in high esteem by all the members for his manly character, and was the grateful recipient of many substantial tokens of their sympathy during the long illness which ended his life.

"And may we through the coming years,
As yet to us unseen,

Remember all his kindly acts,

And keep his memory green.”