University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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f-v RECENT LEVI LEWIS BARBOUR

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The Song Tbatnls Heard. There's seven that sing in the village choir, But six of 'em might be missin', And the song would go to heaven as sure Where the angels are still to listen. Seven singers there are in the village choir, And all who look see seven? Six voices are dead when the song reaches me, So only one voice can reach heaven. Strong and firm as a goodly stream That along by its meadows rushes, Her voice goes bearing my soul in a dreamg Its very sounds seem hushes. And further than ever my soul has been borne From this earth towards thevBountiful Giver, The might of that song has gone throbbing along With never a start nor a quiver. And so I am sure, if aught from this sphere Reaches God who kindly 's a listenin', lt's the song of our choir which starts the tear .'l hat down my old cheek goes a glistenin'! 'l'here's seven that sing in the village choir, But six of 'em might be missin', And the song would go to heaven as sure, Where the angels are still to listen. RAYMOND WEEKS

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Regent Levi Lewis Barbour. I-IE CASTALIAN has been pleased to request a sketch of a prominent member of the present Board of Regents. The invitation conveys a compliment by no means undervalued, and had it fallen to an accustomed pen, there would have been little chanceffor hesitation. It is certainly true that the writer's relations to the regent are such as to excite a desire to comply, but even a sense of this friendly partiality serves to implant a tinge of diffidence. But nothing being now left but submission, we may come directly to the subject. ' The purpose of this paper is to present a brief memoir of Honorable Levi Lewis Barbour. His father, John Barbour, and his mother, Betsy Morton Bar- bour, were residents of Monroe, in this State, in 1840, and their son was born there in that year. The father though a life-long sufferer from ill health, was a man of vigorous sense, marked business capacity and most winning manners. He had too, a fine sense of humor. He was frequently chosen to offices of trust, and in 1846 sat in the legislature through the session rendered memorable by the sale of our railroads and the adoption of the last revision of our stat- utes. He died in Detroit. The mother, now a venerable woman, is residing with her son. Notwithstanding the infirmities which age has brought to a frame never robust, her mind is as clear and her heart as tender and as much alive to sympathy and charity as in the morning of her life, and this is saying much. Born with an admirable understanding and blessed with many love- able qualities, she has lived an example of the noblest type of American womanhood. Surely our expectations would be strangely disappointed were the son of such parents to go through life without making society thankful for his having lived. In 1841 the family removed to the vicinity of Battle Creek, and in 1843 the writer first saw the future regent. He was then in petticoats, and his father brought him into church in his arms. His appearance at the time is distinctly remembered, and the circumstance is not forgotten .that the solem-