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. CHAPTER XXX.

Poor CI., i-'les Leupp, who died suddenly not long
ago, belongc I to the hide and leather merchants, whose
sphere of f :tion is called " The Swamp." Alluding
upon one oc jasion to the great men from that locality —
such as Jacob Lorillard, Abraham Bloodgood, Israel
Corse, David Bryson, Gideon Lee, Peter McCartee,
AVilliam Kumbel, Abraham Polhemus, Richard Cun¬
ningham, Hugh McCormick, Shepherd Knapp, P'homas
Everett, Jonathan Thorne, the Brookses, James George
and Thomas, Peter Bennett, Ilenrj^ Orttery, Daniel
P'ooker, and other lights, the lamented Charles— (who
was also a great leather merchant, and had been at one
time a partner and son-in-law, of Gideon Lee and Shep¬
herd Knapp) said:

" The Roman mother Cornelia, when asked to display
her jewels, jiointed to her sons. So can we, to these
(leather and hide) fathers and claim them as ours. Let
us cherish their example, and emulate their noble quali¬
ties, so that hereafter our successors may, in like manner,
be not ashamed of any of us, but exciaim :
*'He, too, Tvas a Swamper !'*