His marriage with Ruth WOODCOCK (daughter of John WOODCOCK Sr., and sister of John, Josephus and Lucius ), in 1826,founded a family life of great happiness and unity for more than 50 years. When they celebrated their golden wedding, Jan 8, 1876 "we saw then" said Rev. Mr. COOLIDGE, " standing together, a spectacle rarely witnessed, an unbroken family," parents, children and grandchildren, a circle which death had then never entered. But in September of that year Mrs. BISCO died, with little warning; and Mr. BISCO suffered the severest loss which could possible happen to him. He had become vey deaf and her loss was the more severe. Their children who are all living are: Emily A., Charles D., George, John W., William, Henry and Frederick A.; all married but William. Mr. BISCO died Dec. 7, 1882. He was repeatedly a selectman of the town; director of the Leicester Bank for 11 years; treasurer of the Pine Grove Cemetary Company for 40 years; treasurer of the Unitarian Congregational Society as long, and a deacon of that church. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1847 and 48. In a notice of him in the "Christian Register", Mr. Abraham FIRTH wrote of " his marked faithfulness in all these relations, and in every sphere of life in which he moved. He was always found on the side of virtue, and of political and spiritual freedom. Brought up under the teaching of Calvinism, it never satisfied him." One who was long in daily business association with him wrote, in the Worcester Spy " he was known among his associates as an honest, upright man of superir sense and judgement." His pastor, during his later years, wrote of him, " I have never known a truer man, nor one of greater strength of character." His first minister,at the funeral services, paid a warm tribute to his character and life. " No man in Leicester, said a fellow citizen " has a better record than Dwight BISCO." A memorial book of Mr. and Mrs. BISCO has been printed. THE END