But, compared to his life as a student and chronicler of State history, his public life was as a flicker beside a flame. When the one is almost forgotten, and when it would be entirely so but for his name being linked with it, his contributions to the career of the State and his delineations of the character of its men and women, will be growing brighter in a steadier, stronger light. When the one will be almost valueless save as a chronological fact, the other will be invaluable as a historical heirloom to all future generations of Jerseymen. By this work he will live in the association of men of renown; his work will be perpetual, because upon its merits it will deserve perpetuity. His patience in collecting data, his industry in the pursuit of information, his care and judgment in selection, his love of veracity and respect for fact, his clearness in detail and ability in setting the whole sum of his studies before the world, his modest and unpretentious concealment of himself- these are some, and only some, of the characteristics of Edwin Salter's life. Men of this stamp do not die and be forgotten. They are not ephemeral. They "still live" when the multiplying years have left their unrecognizable dust far behind. Students of history must pause to do honor to their memory and be grateful to them for the good they did with little hope of reward. Indeed, reward, beyond such as necessity may have entailed, did not enter into the consideration with Edwin Salter. He loved his chosen work, and gave of his means to it as freely as he would have lightened the burdens of a beggar at his door, giving all that he had. His private life was that of the Christian man- pure and undefiled. He was generous to a double fault, honorable to the breadth of a hair, mild and gentle as the village preacher whose life is perpetuated in undying verse, and true as the love that was beneficently given to him that he might share it with others. Thus we knew him, and here we lay this tribute to a beloved memory upon the bier of its departed shade.