By BRANTZ MAYER. President of the Maryland Historical Society: PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SOCIETY, And read before its Annual Meeting , On Thursday Evening, February 7, 1867. Printed for the Maryland Historical Society, By JOHN MURPHY. Baltimore, 1867....

I T has been a sad but not entirely unpleasant duty to prepare, at the request of the Maryland Historical Society, a brief memoir of one of our earliest and most distinguished Honorary Members, the late Jared Sparks, LL.D. The duty, though sad, is not without a pleasant recompense, for the eulogium which a long-continued friendship and intercourse demand can be bestowed with cordial truth. Mr. Sparks was what we call, in America, a self-made man. Although his life is a fair illustration of what