[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] His sudden death took from the arena of public life one who was single-minded, sincere, upright and one of the very kindest-hearted of men from West-chester County, an intelligent and faithful citizen and a kind neighbor. The soil of New Castle is chiefly a clay loam. There is very little of a sandy or gravelly nature within its limits. Owing to its broken surface, the town is par-ticularly well watered with springs and streams. The Kisco River flows northerly through the eastern part of the town into the Croton, which forms the northern boundary for nearly a mile, and again touches the town at the western extremity. Roaring Brook tum-bles down through a notch in the Chappaqus Hills just west of the Harlem Railroad track, midway be-tween Mount Kisco and Chappaqua, and finds its way into the Kisco. Three of the principal streams of the county, the Bronx, the Saw-Mill River and the Pocantico, take their rise in New Castle — the first in Dark Hollow, about two miles east of Chappaqua, near the North Castle line; the Saw-Mill River, a mile or more west of Chappaqua; and the Pocantico, in the val-ley cast of Merritt's Corners. Near the last-named