assented and they were married. She was a Miss Kaler, of German descent, and understood and spoke that language. She was of much personal beauty, of domestic habits and willing to live within the small income of her husband. She bore him two or three children, and she, with some of them, are now living at Waldoboro'. Mr. Starman was in person about six feet in height, in manners and address bland and courteous, stately and graceful in his movements-never losing sight of the Christian or the gentleman. The writer of this sketch has often listened to his preaching both in the German and English Languages. In the former he was eloquent and rapid in his delivery, in the latter he was somewhat embarrassed, owing to the difference of the idiom of the two languages. For example, in one of his English sermons he was speaking of the tongue, of its influence and power over the character and happiness of society, he said "like the helm of a ship it is." Mr. Starman made such advances in the English language, that for some years before his death, he was successively elected one of the superintending school committee of Waldoboro', and discharged the duties of the office with much acceptance. He carried out the principle, that kindness, gentlemanly treatment and good will to every one would ensure the same to him; and so it was—the most depraved and wicked respected him, verifying the truth of the axiom: vice always is tributary to virtue. The lives of settled village clergymen, lawyers or doctors are not attended by such great achievements or hairbreadth escapes as to render them very conspicuous among their fellows.

I have been thus particular in narrating events in the life of Mr. Starman, as he was the last of the German Lutheran preachers at Waldoboro'. Forty years ago that language

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was spoken by a majority of its inhabitants, none speak it now in social or business relations. English schools and English instruction have given that language the ascendancy. Mr. Starman having become aged and physically infirm, could preach only occasionally, and generally in the English language till within five years of his death, which took place Sept. 25, 1854, when he had attained to the age of 81 years and 5 months. The intelligence of his death was received by the people of Waldoboro' of all religious denominations with heartfelt sorrow. They could say of him—

and in the language of poetry

"When preachers die, what rules the pulpit gave
Of living are still preached from the grave,
The Faith and life which our dead pastor taught
Now in one grave with him we'll bury not.”

The people of Waldoboro', especially the men of wealth, with a liberality peculiar to them, erected a monument to the memory of Mr. Retz and Mr. Starman, in the German burying ground adjoining the meeting, house, where all that is mortal of them is buried. This monument is an obelisk of white marble, and erected at an expense of over $300. There is insculptured upon it the period of their births, duration of their ministry and time of their deaths.

NATH. GROTON.

ARTICLE IX.

LITHGOW FAMILY.