Three Score and Ten in Retrospect

"I have known Mr. Hooper for more than twenty-five years. During this time his work has been in the immediate vicinity of Syracuse, and I have seen him frequently, in school and out. He is not only a man of scrupulous veracity, who would cut off his right hand sooner than make an intentional mistatement, but he is also characteristically methodical and accurate, -as likely as any man I ever knew to be exact in his memory of incidents that happened even fifty years ago. "