Excerpt from Catalogue of the Silas Bronson Library of the City of Waterbury, Conn He also left twenty-five Thousand Dollars to the New York Hos pital, and the remainder of his estate, about a Million and a half of Dollars in all, to his brothers and sisters and their children. A friend says of him, Mr. Bronson's was not an eventful life. He commenced with nothing and through long years of patient industry and frugality accumulated a large fortune. He had a high and deserved reputation for commercial integrity and was never greedy of large profits either on merchandise or for the use of money, but he was most cautious in the bestowal of credits. He was by no means a miscellaneous aims-giver, and was sometimes considered to be penurious, but he was far from being wholly selfish. I have myself known several cases of liberal benefactions to his friends and to members of his family. He would never accept any favor or service for himself without at once offering compensation. 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.