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141 are Judge LeBaron Colt, United States District Judge, and Samuel
142 Pomeroy Colt, who was for several years Attorney General of Rhode Island,
great grandsons of Capt. Charles, and grandsons of George, De Wolf."
Hon. John (127), son of Capt. Mark Anthony and Abigail (Potter)
143 De Wolf, was the father of the late Professor John De Wolf, " who devoted
himself to literature and science, and was for many years Professor of
Chemistry in Brown University." Professor De Wolf was twice married :
first, to Elizabeth James, called the " Goddess of Beauty ;" and, secondly,
to Sylvia daughter of Rt. Rev. Alexander Viets Griswold. Of our valued
144 correspondents, Dr. John James De Wolf of Providence is a son of the
145 first marriage ;
Mrs.
Robert Shaw (Eliza Viets) Andrews of Bristol is a
146 daughter of the second marriage ; and Mr. John De Wolf of New York,
147 a son of Algernon Sidney De Wolf, is a grandson of Professor De Wolf
by the second marriage.
"PROFESSOR JOHN De WOLF," says his son Dr. J. J.
De Wolf, "was born in Bristol, R. I., 26"^ February 1786, and died in the
same town 23*^ February 1862. He entered Brown University in 1802,
but did not graduate. His chemical education was mostly obtained from
Dr. Robert Hare of Philadelphia. He was appointed Professor of Chem-
istry in 1 81 7, and for more than twenty years pursued a course of brilliant
success as a lecturer and experimenter. .
. . During
the later years of
his Hfe he resided upon his farm in Bristol, occupied in the pursuits of
agriculture. He gave much time to reading and study. He became a dis-
tinguished scholar in the English, Latin and Greek classics, and was a
proficient in the Hebrew also. His works of history, poetry and belles-
lettres he read ; those of science he stiidied.
" In the course of his life he was frequently called upon to officiate
as orator at public anniversaries and before literary associations. His
addresses were always distinguished for their finished rhetoric and their
sparkling wit. . . .
" Prof. De Wolf possessed decided poetical talent, and in his earlier
years composed many fugitive pieces, which appeared in print from time to
time, but few of which have been preserved. Among the latter may be
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