Adam Johnson, one of the benefactors of Amherst College, and for whom the “Johnson Chapel” is named. Dr. Israel Taylor, a leading physician in Amherst, Mass., until his death in 1890. Ithamar Conkey, for a number of years town clerk of Pelham, and in 1830 appointed judge of probate. His son, Ithamar F. Conkey, one of the leading lawyers of the Massachusetts bar, was a resident of Amherst, Mass., until his death. There are very few of the descendants of the original settlers living in the town of Pelham to-day. THOMAS FAWCETT, IRISH QUAKER, AMERICAN PIONEER. CONTRIBUTED BY THOMAS PLUNKETT, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO. The following article possesses sufficient historical interest, I think, to merit a place in the JOURNAL of the American-Irish Historical Society. The article was evidently written by some one well acquainted with the Fawcett family and appeared in the _Tribune_ of East Liverpool, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1900. It interested me and I thought it might also interest my fellow-members of the Society. I therefore send it to you.[39] There has just been erected and completed a granite memorial monument in Riverview Cemetery[40] an illustration of which is given below, which is worthy of mention in the _Tribune_. It will be found to the right of the main driveway, and about midway in the section which slopes gently to the south, and faces the city which was founded by Thomas Fawcett about 1800[41] just one hundred years ago. Here, in a beautiful lot, have been placed the remains of these old pioneers, which were buried in the old cemetery now going to ruin, and soon to be abandoned. The _Tribune_ takes pleasure in illustrating the memorial and giving the several inscriptions: SOUTH INSCRIPTION. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | =THOMAS FAWCETT=, | | A QUAKER, WAS BORN IN IRELAND IN 1747; DIED IN 1820. | | | | =ISABELLA SNODGRASS=, | | HIS WIFE, WAS BORN IN IRELAND IN 1754; DIED IN 1825. | | | | These two were married in Ireland in 1772. | | All their children (eight) were born in Pennsylvania. | | They emigrated to Ohio in 1795. | | This pioneer platted “Fawcettstown,” now East Liverpool, in 1798. | | ---- | | This memorial was erected by the fourth generation in 1900. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ NORTH INSCRIPTION.