The following extract in taken froma Califormia. paper and_wil te of Interest to many residents of Word has been received from Polo. Alto, California, of the death of. Nelaon Elliott" Bryant, on December 16. Funeral services were Held "at 3 otlock on. the. after oon Of December 18, in the "Uni tarian Church. "The service. Was feudisted by the "Rev. Laila. Thompson and the Rev, Willard Thorp, ministers respectively of the Unitarian and. Congregational churches. Interment was private.
Mr, Bryant was born in Plymptor, Massachvetts, on. August 22, 1861.
tended the schools of that town, and the high school of the neigh: boring town of Kingston, and came to California around Cape Horn in 2 sailing vessel (the "Annie Weston, "Capt, Justus ©. Bailey, master) in. the autumn of 1868. In the following year he returned to Massachusetts and took a. commercial outed in Boston, March. 1870, Air. Bryant went to China and joined the American firm of Helge & Coy and, inter, transferred tothe Bi teacexporting house of John Foster Cor of Foochow and Shanghai, rth fom he remained three years. In October, 1875, at the Of the late Hon. Geo
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