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Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Princetoh Theological Seminary
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 6th, 1890.
By a Committee of the Association.
PRINCETON, N. J.
C. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. 1890
Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Princeton Theological Seminary
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 6th, 1890.
By a Committee of the Association.
PRINCETON, N. J.
C. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. 1890
NOTICE.
The Committee appointed by the Alumni Association to prepare a Necrological Report for the Annual Meeting of next year, for the more perfect attainment of its object earnestly solicit the aid of all the alumni of the Seminary. When an alumnus dies, newspaper obituary notices, funeral or memorial sermons — and information in any shape — will be gratefully received. Let these be sent as soon as possible after the death of the person to whom they relate, to
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Princeton, N. J.
OFFICERS
OF
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
FOR THE YEAR 1890-91
Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D.D, President.
Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., Vice-President.
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“ George C. Yeisley, D.D. “ Leighton W. Eckard,
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W. Henry Green, D.D., LD.D., Treasurer. William J. McKnight, D.D., "| Additional Members
of the
Executive Committee.
COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles
Henry C. Cameron, D.D. William E. Schenck, D.D. (2)
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
I. The name of this Association shall be The Alumni Association of Princeton Seminary.
II. All who have been students in the Seminary shall be regarded, if they please, as members of this Association.
III. The object of the Association shall be the promotion of brotherly love among its members, and the advancement of the interests of the Seminary.
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IV. The Professors, Directors and Trustees of the Seminary shall be regarded as ex-officio members of this Association.
V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary or Secretaries, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected annually, and continued in office until others are chosen to succeed them.
VI. The officers, with three other members, annually chosen, shall be an Executive Committee, with power to attend to the business of the Asso- ciation in the intervals of its meetings.
VII. The Stated Meetings of the Association shall be held annually, in Princeton, on the same day with the closing exercises of the Seminary, at the close of the Seminary year, at such hour as may be appointed from year to year.
VIII. Special meetings of the Association shall be called by the Presi- dent, on the written request of five members, notice thereof, and the object thereof, being given in two religious papers at least two weeks previous to its occurrence.
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ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Princeton, N. J., May 6, 1890.
The Alumni Association met in the Seminary Chapel at 11 a. m., and the chair was occupied by the Rev. Theo- dore L. Cuyler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., President of the Association. The Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, D.D., of Phila- delphia, being called upon, opened the meeting with prayer.
The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and approved. The Constitution was also read.
The following gentlemen, not alumni, were invited to sit as corresponding members, viz : Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, D.D., of Philadelphia ; the Rev. Principal T. C. Edwards, D.D., of Aberystwyth, Wales; the Rev. G. W. T. Birch, D.D., of New York; the Rev. James McLeod, D.I)., of Albany, N. Y.; the Rev. W. W. McKinney, D.D., of Ger- mantown, Pa.; and the Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, of Mt. Pleasant, N. J.
The Executive Committee reported the names of the following persons for officers of the Association during the ensuing year, viz:
President — Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D.D.
Vice-President — Rev. Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D.
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Secretaries— Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles.
Treasurer — Rev. William Henry Green, D.D., LL.D.
Additional Members of the Executive Committee — Rev. William J. McKnight, D.D.; Rev. George C. Yeisley, D.D.; Rev. Leighton W. Eckard.
The same Committee also reported as the subject chosen for discussion at this meeting the following, viz. : How shall preaching be made most effective ?
The Repoi't was approved, and the persons nominated for officers were unanimously elected.
The Report of the Committee on Necrology was pre- sented and an abstract of it read by the Rev. Charles A. Aiken, D.D., its chairman. It was accepted and approved, and was ordered to be printed and distributed as usual.
The Rev. Dr. Aiken and the Rev. Wr. H. Roberts de- clining to be reappointed, the following were appointed the Committee on Necrology for the next year, viz : Rev. Joseph H. Dulles; Rev. William E. Schenck. D.D.; and the Rev. Prof. Heurj' C. Cameron, D.D.
The Rev. W. H. Green, D.D., LL.D., Treasurer of the Association, presented his report, which was referred, with accompanying accounts and vouchers, to the Rev. Wendell Prime, D.D., and the Rev. James A. Worden, D.D., as a Committee of Audit; and they having afterwards reported that they had examined the same and found all the papers correct, the report was approved, with thanks to the Treas- urer for his valuable services. The report showed a cash balance of $392.42 on hand to the credit of the Necrological Fund ; and one of $4,882.57 to the credit of the New Testa- ment Fellowship Fund, or a total cash balance of $5,274.99.
The Association then took up the topic selected for discussion, viz : How to make preaching most effective ? and were addressed by the Rev. John Hall, D.D., LL.D., of New York; the Rev. George T. Purves, D.D., of Pittsburgh;
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the President of the Association, the Rev. Theodore L. Cuy- ler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and the Rev. James McCosh, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton, N. J., after which it adjourned to partake of dinner in Stuart Hall.
There a blessing was asked by the Rev. J. Addison Henry, D.D., of Philadelphia, and after the dinner, the As- sociation was addressed by the Rev. E. T. Jeffers, D.D., of Lincoln University; the Rev. T. C. Edwards, D.D., Princi- pal of the University College of Wales, at Aberystwyth, Wales; the Rev. James McLeod, D.D., of Albany, Y. Y.; the Rev. F. IJ. Wines, of Springfield, Illinois; the Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, D.D., of Philadelphia ; and the Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D.D., of Yew York City.
The Long Metre Doxology was then sung ; the Bene- diction was pronounced by the Rev. W. H. Green, D.D., and the Association adjourned.
WILLIAM E. SCHENCK, JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secretaries.
Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 6, 1890.
The Committee on Necrology report, for the year ending March 31, 1890, the deaths of three lay members of the Board of Directors, Robert Carter, Esq.; Hon. Bennington F. Randolph, and Hon. John T. Nixon, LL.D.; of one member of the Board of Trustees, Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D.D.; and of forty matriculated students of the Seminary.
They also report the deaths of ten Alumni, which should have been included in the reports presented in 1888 and 1889, hut had not then come to our knowledge, and of one which occurred within the first week of April, 1890. The entire number reported is therefore fifty-five.
Of the fifty-one Alumni included in the present report, eighteen had passed their eightieth year ; two had reached their ninety-second year ; while only fourteen had not yet reached the age of seventy. Nine died within the month of January last. The average age of the fifty-one was seventy-two years (wanting one day); an average exceeding a year and a half any previ- ously reported, and by five years the average of the last fifteen reports.
The Committee solicit the co-operation of the Alumni in their effort to make more complete and accurate the Necrological Record.
Charles A. Aiken,
Henry C. Cameron, William H. Roberts, William E. Schenck,
Committee.
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The Keport contains the following names :
DIRECTORS.
Robert Carter, Esq., Hon. B. F. Randolph, Hon. J. T. Nixon, LL.D.
TRUSTEE.
Samuel M. Hamill, D.D.
ALUMNI
1821. G. A. Smith,
T. D. Woolsey, D.D., LL.D.
1823. J. R. Boyd, D.D.
1824. P. Hassinger.
J. B. McCreary.
1825. A. W. Lyon.
1828. J. P. Hudson.
S. S. McRoberts.
S. Wilson, D.D.
1830. S. Brown, D.D.
P. T. Holley.
R. A. Nicoll.
J. O. Taylor.
1831. A. B. Cross.
T. W. Simpson, D.D.
1832. S. S. Howe.
1833. W. B. Deforest, M.D.
J. Denton.
1834. E. H. Nevin, D.D.
E. Quillin.
1835. J. Rosamond.
1836. J. R. Dundas, D.D.
E. B. Edgar.
1838. J. Cory.
1839. E. C. Bittinqer.
C. A. Evans.
C. E. Ford.
R. Owen, D.D.
W. S. Thompson.
1840. J. Green.
1841. S. H. Jagger.
1842. D. H. Pierson, Ph.D.
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1843. J. S. Heacock.
S. Mattoon, D.D.
C. Phillips, D.D., LL.D.
1844. J. A. Bogle.
1845. W. J. Brugh, D.D.
A. P. Silliman.
1848. G. W. Zahniser.
1849. J. H. Leps.
1854. P. deVeuve, D.D.
1858. J. H. Johns.
J. J. Pomeroy, D.D.
C. Salmon.
1859. W. Forsyth.
1862. W. W. Annan.
1864. W. H. Millham.
TV. H. PvElD.
1872. W. R. Frame.
1877. F. W. Archibald, Ph.D. 1888. J. Frazer, Jr.
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DIRECTORS.
ROBERT CARTER.
Son of Thomas and Agnes (Ewing) Carter, was born at Earles- ton, in Scotland, November 3, 1807. As a boy he is said to have shown great fondness for study, and great eagerness in seeking an education. In his 24th year he came to this coun- try, landing in New York in May, 1831. Alter teaching for a time he entered, in the spring of 1834, upon the business with which his name was so honorably associated for the remainder of his life; first as a bookseller, and afterwards as also a pub- lisher. In his work as publisher, both his republications and the works which he issued for the first time, were chosen with the greatest care and discrimination. His name upon the title page was always accepted as a guarantee of the pure character and healthful tendency of that which he had selected or accepted. Many of the works were of sterling value.
Mr. Carter was for thirty-three years a Director of Princeton Seminary, 1856-89, and was thoroughly devoted to its interests. As an elder, he was a Commissioner at seventeen General As- semblies. He was a Vice-President of the American Bible Society from 1878, having been from 1855 a member of the Board of Managers. He was for more than forty years a mem- ber of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 1843-89. He was one of the originators of the Sabbath Com- mittee, and an earnest friend of all good causes. He died, after a protracted illness, December 28, 1889, in the 83d year of his age.
H e was married, March 18, 1834, to Miss Jane Thompson, who died July 19. 1887. Three sons and one daughter survive him.
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BENNINGTON F. RANDOLPH,
Son of Francis and Phebe H. (Crane) Randolph, was born in Belvidere, N. J., December 12, 1817. He entered Lafayette College among its first students in 1832, but did not complete the full college course. He took uj) the study and entered in February, 1842, upon the practice of law. He established him- self in Freehold, N. J., where he remained until 1861. His later home was Jersey City. He was successful in his profes- sion from the first, his intelligence, industry and integrity being everywhere recognized and trusted. He was the Law Judge of Hudson County, 1867-75, and Judge of the First District Court of Jersey City, 1877-87. He rendered valuable service in the State Board of Education, and as one of the Riparian Commis- sioners of the State, as well as in religious, financial and business organizations. He was an elder in the churches of Freehold and Jersey City nearly thirty-five years, and a member of the Board of Directors of Princeton Seminary from 1875 to the time of his death. His health had been impaired seriously for the last two years. He died of apoplexy March 7, 1890, in the 73d year of his age. The public tril >utes of respect for his memory were general, sincere and emphatic.
He was married at Freehold, N. J., November 26, 1840, to Miss Eliza Forman, who survives him, with four of their eight children.
HON. JOHN THOMPSON NIXON, LL.D.,
Son of Jeremiah and Mary (Thompson) Nixon, was born at Fairton, N. J., August 31, 1820. His preparatory classical edu- cation was received at the Lawrenceville Academy. He entered the Soj^homore class of the College of New Jersey in 1838, and was graduated in 1841, in a class that has produced a large number of men distinguished in church and state. After grad- uation he studied law two years with ex-Governor Elias P. Seeley, of New Jersey, then taught in Virginia, and studied law with the Hon. J. S. Pennybacker, and was admitted to the bar in Virginia in May, 1844. Returning to New Jersey, he con-
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tinned his legal studies and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in October. 1845, and became associated with Judge Elmer in the practice of his profession, in which he soon rose to emi- nence. In 1848 he was elected by the Whigs a member of the General Assembly of the state. He was re-elected in 184!), and was chosen Speaker of that branch of the Legislature. In 1858 he was elected a member of the United States House of Repre- sentatives as an “ American,” and was re-elected in I860 as a Re- publican. He was thus a member of the National Congress at a most critical period in the history of the country, and rendered very important service, especially as a member of the Committee on Commerce. After retiring from Congress he continued the practice of his profession, achieving such eminence by his abil- ity, his knowledge of law, and by the two legal works which he published, an enlargement of a work originally published by Judge Lucius Q. C. Elmer, “ A Digest of the Laws of New Jer- sey,” and l' Forms and Proceedings under the Laws of New Jersey,” that in 1870 he was appointed by President Grant to succeed the Hon. Richard S. Field, LL.D., as Judge of the United States Court for the District of New Jersey. He was a member of the Loyalists’ Convention which met in Philadelphia in 1866. After his appointment as Judge, he of course, ceased to take an active part in political matters.
Judge Nixon was received into full communion in the First Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton, August 1, 1848, and was ordained an elder thereof, April 26, 1868. After he became Judge he removed to Trenton and united with the First Pres- byterian Church of that city, October 17, 1878. He was one of the most active founders of the Prospect Street Church, and was elected one of its elders April 29, 1875. He was frequently elected a member of the higher Church courts, and of their most important committees, and of the special committee on the National Council of Evangelical Churches, to which body he was appointed as a delegate of the Asssembly. He was also, on two different occasions, made a member of the special com- mittee on the Board of Put dication. In 1877, bv appointment of the General Assembly, he attended the meeting of the Pres- byterian Alliance, held in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1878, in
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connection with Hon. William Strong, LL.D., ol the Supreme Court of the U. S., Rev. E. R. Craven, I).D., and others, he was appointed a member of the committee to revise the Book ol Discipline. The fruit of their labors received the approval of the Presbyteries and constitutes the present Book of Discipline. He was a Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1883 until his death. He was also a Trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1864 until the close of his life. By appoint- ment of the American Whig Society, of which he was one of the most honored members, he delivered the address before the Lit- erary Societies of the College in 1863, his subject being, “ Endur- ance, Individual and National.” In 1877 his alma mater con- ferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He was one ol the Trustees of the John C. Green Fund, which lias done so much for the cause of education and religion in Princeton, Lawrence- ville and elsewhere. Excessive labor in the discharge of his judicial duties seriously impaired his health during the latter years of his life. He died September 28, 1889.
He married a daughter of the Hon. Lucius Q. C. Elmer, LL.D., Mary Hirst Elmer, September 24, 1851. She, with three daughters, survives him.
Judge Nixon was a man of great ability, elegant culture, and profound legal attainments, an upright citizen, a sincere friend, an honest lawyer, an impartial judge, an earnest, active Chris- tian, faithful in duty, spotless in life; his memory is blessed and abiding.
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TRUSTEE.
SAMUEL McCLINTOCK HAMILL, D.D.,
Son of Robert and Isabella (Todd) Hamill, was born in Norris- town. Pa.. July 6, 1X12. His preparatory education was re- ceived mainly at Norristown. Germantown and Easton, Pa. He was graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1834, and immedi- ately became an instructor in Latin and Greek in the High School at Lawrenceville, X. J.. then under the care of Mr. A. H. Phillips, a position which he held with great acceptance for three years. In connection with his brother. Hugh, he became joint principal of the High School in 1837, and in 1839 he pur- chased the property, thus becoming the proprietor and eventu- ally the sole principal of the new institution. The number of the students largely increased, new buildings were erected, the grounds were enlarged, and the course of study advanced and widened. In 1883, after forty-nine years of successful labor as an instructor, Dr. Hamill retired, and this institution became the Lawrenceville School, John C. Green Foundation, a monu- ment of the philanthropy and public spirit of him whose name it bears, the greater portion of whose estate has been devoted to the cause of education and religion. Dr. Hamill took a great interest in the matter of public education, and was connected with the movement that led to the appointment of a State Su- perintendent of Schools, and with the establishment of a State Normal School, for the training of teachers. He delivered many addresses and wrote numerous articles on the subject of educa- tion, and was often consulted in reference to framing the school laws of the state. He was one of the original members of the New Jersey Historical Society, very active in promoting its interests, and for some years before his death was its president. Dr. Hamill made a profession of his faith in Christ at the age of twelve. He was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Pres-
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bytery of Philadelphia, and was ordained sine titulo by the Pres- bytery of New Brunswick, at Freehold, October 4, 1853. His services in the High School were really those of a pastor, £ind on this ground he was ordained. He received the degree of D.D. in 1862. from Rutgers College, N. J., and also from Hano- ver College, Ind. He was a Trustee of the Princeton Theologi- cal Seminary from 1861 until his death, and was the Vice-Presi- dent of the Board. He was also President of the Board of Man- agers of the State Lunatic Asylum. After his retirement he erected a beautiful residence at Lawrencevile, which he had scarcely entered when it was destroyed by fire. He then re- moved to Trenton, and after a few years without sickness or suffering, he fell asleep, September 20, 1889.
Dr. Hamill was a polished Christian gentleman, of striking and propossessing appearance, of winning manners, of deep, serene and consistent piety; conservative in his temperament, but quick to see the path of progress and follow it; a tried friend, a wise counsellor, earnest in Christian work; broad in his charity, but strong in his attachment to the faith he pro- fessed, liberal in the use of his means, carrying a heart open to the appeals of the suffering and the needy, with great distinction as a teacher, with success which few have reached, crowned with the esteem and love of his brethren in the ministry, without ostentation or pride, he walked with God till he was not.
In 1838 he was married to Matilda, only daughter of Rich- ard M. Green, of Lawrenceville, who, with two sons and a daugh- ter, survives him.
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ALUMNI.
GEORGE ARCHIBALD SMITH,
Bon of Hugh and Elizabeth (Watson) Smith, was horn in Alex- andria, Ya., November 20, 1802 ; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1821 ; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and remained a few months ; his further studies for the minis- try were prosecuted in the Protestant Episcopal Seminary in New York, and that at Alexandria, Ya. He was the first stu- dent of the last named institution to be ordained. He was ordained by Bishop Moore, of Yirginia, to the Deacon’s office, Decern her 16, 1823, and to the priesthood, May 23, 1827. His first charge wras in Christ Church, Norfolk, Ya., in 1825 ; the next in Culpepper and Orange counties, Ya., 1826-31. He was the efficient and acceptable editor of the Episcopal Recorder , of Philadelphia, 1831-38: principal of Fairfax Institute, 1838—49; editor of the Southern Churchman , of Alexandria, Ya., 1847-55 ; wras engaged in teaching a few years subsequently, and in charge of churches in Amherst county, Ya., during the last years of the war. His later life was spent, with impaired health, at Alexandria, w'here he died June 28, 1889, in the 87th year of his age.
He was married at Fredericksburg, Va., February 14, 1825, to Miss Ophelia A. Williams, who died August 5, 1879. Seven of their nine children survive him. An interesting memorial of him was prepared by Rev. Dr. Slaughter, Historiographer of the Diocese.
THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of William W. and Elizabeth (Dwight) Woolsey, was born in New York City, October 31, 1801, and was graduated at Yale College in 1820. After spending nearly a year in the study of
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law with Charles Chauncey, Esq., of Philadelphia, he entered Princeton Seminary in 1821, and remained nearly two years. He was tutor in Yale College, 1823-25 ; was licensed to preach October 4, 1825, by the Association of New Haven (West) ; spent the years 1827-30 in Europe, and in 1831 was appointed Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Yale College. This chair he held for twenty years, having been in the mean- tune, in 1846, elected to the presidency of the institution, which office he resigned in 1871. He was ordained by the clerical members of the Corporation of Yale College, October 21, 1846. He continued to serve the college as a member of the Corpora- tion from 1871 until near the end of his life. He died July 1, 1889, after a prolonged period of infirmity, in the 88th year of his age.
During the period of his college professorship he edited with excellent judgment and skill, for text books, the Prome- theus of TEschylus, the Alcestisof Euripides, the Electa and Anti- gone of Sophocles and the Gorgias of Plato. He published in 1860 an Introduction to the study of International Law, which passed through several editions and was greatly enlarged ; in 1869 a volume on Divorce and Divorce Legislation ; in 1871 a volume of Sermons ; in 1877 a work of Political Science ; in 1879 a volume on Communism and Socialism, besides other smaller works, and many discourses, essays and reviews.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard Col- lege in 1847, and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan in 1845. He was President of the American Home Missionary Society, (1860-85), and a member of the American Bible Revision Com- mittee, in which he was the chairman of the New Testament Company (1871-81). His great dignity, symmetry and purity of character, his breadth and soundness of judgment, with his broad and ripe scholarship, and the simplicity and elevation of his piety, made him one of the foremost men of his time in our land.
He was married (1) September 5, 1833, to Miss Elizabeth Martha Salisbury, of Boston, who died November 3, 1852; (2) in September, 1854, to Miss Sarah Sears Prichard, who survives him, as do also five of his thirteen children.
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JAMES ROBERT BOYE, D.D.,
Son of Robert and Mary (Scott) Boyd, was born in Hunter, X. Y.. May 2. 1804 ; was graduated at Union College in 1S22 ; the following year entered Princeton Seminary and completed the regular course. He was licensed and ordained by the Presby- tery of Albany, October 31, 1820. After a brief missionary ser- vice in Wayne County, Ohio, he became stated supply at Brownsville and Sackett’s Harbor. X. Y.. 1827-30. After a period spent in Scotland for health and study, he became pastor, in 1832, at Watertown, X. Y., but remained only a year. His sub- sequent career was that of a teacher and literary man. He taught in Wheeling, Ya., 1833-35 ; was editor of the Albany Tel- egraph the following winter ; was Principal of the Jefferson County Institute, at Watertown, X. Y., 1836—48. and Professor of Moral Philosophy in Hamilton College the succeeding year. Then followed a number of years devoted to editorship and authorship at his home in Geneva, X. Y. He was Principal of Maplewood Institute at Pittsfield, Mass., 1857-60, and taught in Spingler Institute, Xew York City, 1860-63. After this his home was Geneva, but intervals were spent in European and other foreign travel. The number of text books and other works written or edited by him was very considerable and of great variety. Almost his last act was the sending of many hundred copies of one of his devotional books through the Tract Society to students in Theological Seminaries.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hamilton College in 1871.
He was married at Sacketts Harbor. Sept. 26, 1832, to Miss Elisabeth C. Camp, who died Aug. 6, 1889. Two daughters survived him. His own death occurred at Geneva, X. Y., Feb. 19, 1890, in the 86th year of his age.
PETER HASSINGER,
Son of Peter and Jane ( ) Hassinger, was born near Xew-
ark, Delaware, Xov. 24, 1801 ; pursued his preparatory studies in the academy which afterward grew into Delaware College at
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Newark; entered Princeton Seminary in 1825, and remained about two years and a half ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle in April, 1827, and ordained, Oct. 1, 1828, by the Presbytery of Erie, being installed over the Gravel Run Church. A portion of his time was given to the Waterford Church. He was dismissed in 1831 ; was pastor of the Evansburg, Harmons- burg and Northbank Churches, 1833-36; was pastor at Clays- ville, Pa., 1836-39; was pastor at Unity, Pa., 1839-44, at Waynes- burg and Newton, Pa., 1844—49, Somerset, .Tenner and Petersburg, 1849-53, at Edwardsville, Staunton, Rattan Prairie and Dry Point, 111., 1853-57, at Logan Creek, 111., 1857-60, and at Litch- field. 111., the year following. He afterward performed mission- ary service as opportunity offered, residing at Aviston, and later at Lewistown and Lebanon, 111. He died at Lebanon, Jan. 24, 1890, in the 89th year of his age.
He was married (1) in Philadelphia, June 10,1829, to Miss Anna S. Hyde, who died March 26, 1855 ; (2) in Carondelet, Mo., March 8, 1859, to Mrs. Cordelia W. Waters, who survives him, with one daughter, born of the first marriage.
JAMES BLACK McCREARY,
Son of Robert and Anna (Black) McCreary, was born at Tarrey- town, Md., July 28tli, 1797. His early education was acquired at Gettysburg and Reading, Pa., under the tuition of the Rev. David McConaughy, D.D., and the Rev. J. Greer, D.D. He was never connected with or graduated from any college. At the age of 27 years he became a member, by profession of his faith, with the Presbyterian Church at Piney Creek, Md. From the Academy at Reading he went in the Spring of 1825 to the Theological Seminary at Princeton, where he remained three years, leaving two months before the graduation of his class in 1828.
Mr. McCreary was licensed by the old Presbytery of Phila- delphia, April 17, 1828. He labored as a missionary on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1828 ; as stated supply at Laws- ville and Great Bend, Pa., in 1829-30; at Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y., in 1831 ; at Deposit Church, Delaware Co., N. Y.,
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1832-33; Lewisburg, Pa., 1834; Bald Eagle Church, Lycoming Co., Pa., 1<835; and in Northumberland Church and County, Pa., 1837.
Having received a call to the church at Great Bend (now Halstead), Pa., he accepted it and was installed as pastor Nov. 8, 1838. Here he continued to labor faithfully, being greatly beloved by the people of his charge, nearly twenty-seven years, when he was obliged to resign because of a serious affection of the throat which disabled him from preaching. He was released from His charge by his Presbytery, April 12, 1865. He then received an appointment in the War Department of the govern- ment and spent the next seventeen years of his life in Washing- ton City. But he always regarded Great Bend as his home, and there he spent the last years of his life, enjoying a happy old age and ministered to with tender care. In person he was tall and erect, with a finely marked benignant face and flowing white hair. His health gradually declined, and with no special disease he died in Christian peace and hope at Great Bend (now Hal- stead), Jan. 3, 1889, in the 92d year of his age.
Mr. McCreary was twice married ; (1) to Miss Catherine Du Bois, daughter of Abram DuBoi3, Esq., of Great Bend, Pa., Oct. 1, 1831. She died at Great Bend, Aug. 6, 1850. (2) to Frances Fernald, daughter of William Badger of Badger’s Island, Maine, and widow of Nathan Munroe of Concord, Mass., on March 29, 1855. She still lives. Mr. McCreary had seven sons and one daughter, all by his first wife. Of these, four sons and the daughter survived him. S.
AAEON WOODEUFF LYON,
Son of Aaron and Joanna (Hatfield) Lyon, was born at Eliza- bethtown, N. J., July 11th, 1797, and received his preparatory education at an Academy in his native place. He united with the Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown in 1817, in the twentieth year of his age. He was graduated from Union Col- lege, N. Y., in 1824; then taught a year in North Carolina, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1825, where he studied until Sept., 1828.
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Mr. Lyon was never either licensed or ordained, but devoted his life to teaching. He first taught at the Dwight Mission, among the Cherokee Indians, about four years. In Nov. 1833 he removed to Batesville, Arkansas, where he took charge of a school, and where he resided 49 years. At Batesville he was largely instrumental in establishing the First Presbyterian Church in that town, and also the first Sabbath-school, of which he was for many years the Superintendent. In 1882 he removed to Fresno City, Fresno County, California, where he resided until his death, which occurred Oct. 23, 1888, in the 92d year of his age. He had been, with the exception of a slight bronchial trouble, very strong and vigorous until he was taken with an attack'of pneumonia, of which he died in a few days.
Mr. Lyon was ordained a ruling elder in Little Rock, Ark., about 1836 ; was elected to the same office at the organization of the church in Batesville in 1842 ; and having served there for 40 years, afterwards was instrumental in organizing the First Pres- byterian Church in Fresno City which he also served as a rul- ing elder until his death. He was universally loved and respected by all who knew him as the highest type of the true Christian gentleman.
Mr. Lyon was twice married: (1) to Elizabeth Agnew at Princeton, N. J., in 1829; and (2) in Batesville, Ark., June 25, 1862, to Caroline Hutchins, daughter of Israel Hutchins. He leaves a widow, with one son and two daughters, Miss Marie C. Lyon and Miss S. W. Lyon. S.
JOHN PARIS HUDSON,
Son of Charles and Mary (Paris) Hudson, was of English and Huguenot ancestry, and was born near Staunton, Ya., March 14, 1804. He was prepared at the Staunton Academy, for the junior class in Washington and Lee University. At the close of his junior year in college, he was elected Professor of Mathe- matics, in Staunton Academy, a position which he filled with great acceptance for one year. In April, 1824, he returned to college, entered the senior class, and was graduated with the classical honors April 15, 1825. Immediately after graduation,
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lie was appointed Adjunct Professor of Languages (Latin and Greek), and remained a member of the faculty four years, 1825- 29. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1829. His health failed after one year’s residence at Princeton, and he was persuaded by Dr. Alexander, to accept the situation as Principal of Union Academy, at Snowhill, Ind., for one year. He was licensed to preach the gospel, hy the Presbytery of Lexington, at Harrisonburg. Va., Oct. 30, 1830. and was graduated in the full three years course at Princeton Seminary in 1S32. After graduation he remained one term at the Seminary as a resident graduate. He accepted the invitation to the church at Blooms- burg, Pa., in November, 1832. was ordained by the Presbytery of Lexington, at Lexington. Va., April 2, 1833. He served the church at Bloomsburg as pastor six years, 1832-1838, when he accepted a call from, and was installed pastor of the First Pres- byterian Church, Williamsport, Pa., where he remained until 1841. He served the First Church, Shamokin, six years, 1841- 47. At the organization of the church at McEwensville, he was called and remained pastor twenty-one years, 1842-1863. He was released from this charge, January, 1863, and served the church at Mifflinburg, until he received and accepted a call from the Lick Run Church at Jacksonville, Pa.. Nov. 11, 1865; here he was pastor. 1865-1870. In 1870 he removed to Wil- liamsport, Pa., which was his residence until his death; and served the Linden Church, as stated supply, thirteen years, 187 1— 1884, the first four years in connection with the churches of Montoursville and Pennsdale. A serious accident while serving this church disabled him for regular pastoral work ; but he con- tinued preaching as his strength would permit, until January, 1884. when the partial loss of sight compelled him to resign the work he so much loved.
He was a man of cultivated literary taste, distinguished as a classical and mathematical instructor, and prepared a large number of young men for advanced classes in college, many of whom entered the ministry. He retained his student habits through life, and kept up his daily readings of the Scriptures in the original languages. He was greatly beloved in his pas- toral charges, where his influence will long be felt. He will be
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remembered as a beautiful type of a Christian gentleman, and a consecrated minister of Christ. A striking personal appearance, dignified demeanor, fine voice, and careful preparation rendered his ministrations attractive and his labors successful. He was positive in his convictions, ready in debate, and warmly at- tached to the doctrine and government of the Presbyterian Church. He waited for the Master’s call in the calm assurance of faith, and after a few days’ illness from influenza entered upon the rest that remaineth to the people of God, at his residence in Williamsport, Pa., on January 24, 1890.
He was married on February 13, 1838, to Miss Hetty Bry- son, youngest daughter of Rev. John and Jane (Montgomery) Bryson, of Warrior Run, Pa. She died at Williamsport Febru- ary 25, 1876. Of the seven children of Mr. Hudson four sur- vive him, one son, and three daughters.
SIDNEY SMITH McROBERTS,
Son of John and Malinda (Jackman) McRoberts, was born in Lincoln County, Ky., May 24, 1807 ; was graduated at Centre College in 1827 ; after teaching some months entered Princeton Seminary in 1828, and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in Feb., 1831, and ordained by the Presbytery of Clinton, (Miss.), in the Autumn of the fol- lowing year ; was stated supply at Vicksburg, Miss., 1832-36. The next four years his ministerial work was interrupted by poor health. He was stated supply at Bardstown, Ky., 1841-42, and editor of the Presbyterian Herald. He also taught in Bards- town for four years. He returned to his old home at Stanford, Ky., where (with one or two intervals) he acted as stated supply 1850-77, being also engaged at times in teaching. He 'was stated clerk of Transylvania Presbytery and of the Synod of Kentucky for about 30 years, until 1884. He died at Stanford, Jan. 26, 1890, in the 83d year of his age.
He was married at Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 28, 1838, to Miss Ellen Rizer, who survives him, with five of their children.
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SAMUEL WILSON, D.D.,
Son of John and Margaret (Fleming) Wilson, was born near Belleville, Pa., Sept. 20, 1804; was graduated at Jefferson Col- lege in 1828 ; entered Princeton Seminary the same year, and remained two years and a half; was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, April 5, 1831, and ordained by the same body, Nov. 14, 1832. He was stated supply at Alexandria and Havers Creek, Pa., in 1831-32, pastor at Alexandria, 1832-37, giving part of his time to the Pine Grove Church ; was stated supply at McClellantown (1837-40) and stated supply and pastor at Dunlaps Creek, 1840-69. He was stated supply at El Paso, 111., 1869-72, and at Normal, 1872-75. In infirm health, he spent the last years of his life at the homes of sons in Fairfield, 111., and Streator, 111. He died at Streator, Sept. 1, 1889, in the 85th year of his age.
His qualities were admirable as a man, a pastor, and a preacher, and he was held in high esteem in every place of his residence and every sphere of his activity. He received the honorary degree of D.D. in 1850 from Jefferson College.
He was married at Mt. Pleasant, Pa., April 21, 1834, to Miss Anna M. Rogers, who survives him, with two sons.
SAMUEL BKOWN, D.D.,
Son of Rev. Samuel and Mary (Moore) Brown, was born in Rockbridge Co., Va., Jan. 28, 1806; was graduated at Washing- ton College, Va., in 1830 ; enterered Princeton Seminary the same year and spent there two years; was licensed by Lexing- ton Presbytery Oct. 20, 1832, ordained by the same body April 26, 1833, installed in 1835 as pastor of the Windy Cove and Warm Springs Churches in Bath Co., Va., a region in which he had been preaching after licensure; after some years was released from his relations to the Warm Springs Church, and became connected with the Lebanon Church; in this double charge con- tinued until March, 1862; then became pastor of the New Mon- mouth Church in Rockbridge Co., where he remained a little more than two years, until May 1, 1873. In consequence of
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impaired health he rendered only occasional service after this time, his late residence being at Millboro Springs in Bath Co., where he died May 3, 1889, in the 84th year of his age.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Washington and Lee University in 1886.
He was married Oct. 10, 1833, to Miss Ellen R. Moore of Fairfield, Rock bridge Co., Va., who survives him. Their only child, a daughter, died a few years before him.
He was greatly revered thoughout the region in which his whole ministerial life was spent. Four brothers of this family were Alumni of the Seminary. Only the youngest survives, Rev. William Brown, D.D.
PLATT TYLER HOLLEY,
Son of Isaac and Samantha (Reynolds) Holley, was born in Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 20, 1806 ; was graduated at Yale College in 1828; after two years spent in the study of theology at New Haven, and in teaching, entered Princeton Seminary in July, 1831, and spent one session ; was licensed by Fairfield Associa- tion East, May 24, 1831, and ordained by the Berkshire Associa- tion, Mass., Dec. 12, 1832, and installed at Sandisfield, Mass., where he remained a little more than eighteen years, 1832—51 ; was stated supply at Backhampstead, Conn., 1853-55, meanwhile was teaching in Winstead Female Seminary, Conn., 1850-55; taught subsequently in Sharon, Conn., 1855-58, in Fairfield, 1858-60, and in Bridgeport, 1861-62 ; was stated supply at Riv- erton, Conn., 1863-69, and 1873-75, and once more at Backhamp- stead, 1875-77. The last years of his life were spent in the home of a daughter at Bridgeport, Conn., where he died, April 12, 1889, in the 83d year of his age.
He was married in Danbury, Conn., Nov. 20, 1832, to Miss Julia A. Whittlesey, who died April 16, 1860. One daughter survives him. His character was one marked especially by attractiveness and gentleness, and his closing years particularly, after he had withdrawn from active employments, abounded in acts of beneficence.
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ROBERT ALEXANDER NICOLL,
Son of Alexander and ( ) Nicoll, was born in
New York City, July 12, 1808; was graduated at Yale College in 1829; entered Princeton Seminary in 1830, and remained two years, after which impaired health required him to seek a milder climate. In the autumn of 1832 he removed to Mobile, Ala., and engaged for a few years in teaching, and afterward in business with a brother-in-law, they being for many years com- mission merchants in the cotton trade. Mr. Nicoll was an elder in the Government Street Presbyterian Church of Mobile. He died at Mobile, June 28, 1887, in the 79th year of his age.
He was married Feb. 8, 1836, to Miss Mary Minton of Dal- las Co., Ala., who survived him, with one son and one daughter. All have since died.
JOHN ORVILLE TAYLOR,
Son of Edward and Eunice (Curtis) Taylor, was born in Charl- ton, N. Y., May 14, 1807 ; was graduated at Union College in 1830, and entered Princeton Seminary the same year. He remained however but a few weeks, and accepted an attractive offer to teach in Philadelphia where he remained two years. This change turned the course of his life work for some fifteen years toward education and educational reform. This period was devoted mainly to writing, lecturing, and working with the legislature in behalf of educational interests. He was elected in 1837 Professor of Popular Education in the University of the City of New York. He published for four years a monthly, the Common School Assistant, which was widely circulated. His enthusiasm in the work made his labors mainly gratuitous.
Impaired health obliged him to leave this field for a busi- ness life in New York, in which he had marked success until the financial crisis of 1873. In 1879 he removed to New Bruns- wick, N. J., where he spent the remainder of his life, employing his pen for the local papers and otherwise. He died Jan. 19, 1890, in the 83d year of his age.
He was married in 1836, to Miss Jane Agnew of New Bruns- wick, N. -J., who survives him, with the widow and daughter of his only son.
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ANDREW BOYD CROSS,
Son of William Stuart and Jane (Boyd) Cross, was born in • Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12, 1810. He united with the Second Presbyterian Church in his native city, with a large number of other young persons, in May, 1827, in an awakening which occurred under the ministry of the Rev. John Breckinridge, D.D. One year he attended school at Nottingham, Md., the remainder of his preparatory education was obtained in Dr. Craig’s Acad- emy in Baltimore. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1881 ; then spent over two years in Prince- ton Theological Seminary, which he left in the fall of 1883, with- out graduating ; and was licenesed by the Presbytery of Balti- more, Jan. 10, 1834. In 1835 he united with the Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D.D., in establishing a periodical called The Balti- more Literary and Religious Magazine, chiefly for the discussion of Romanism, which magazine enjoyed an enviable reputation and the articles of Mr. Cross were distinguished by marked ability. His connection with this periodical continued until 1841. Hav- ing accepted a call from Bethel Church, Harford Co., Md., he was there ordained and installed as pastor, Aug. 31, 1837, and there labored until the pastoral relation was dissolved, June 17, 1845, in connection with mission stations at Belair, Deer Creek (now North Bend), Franklinville, Long Green (now Chestnut Grove), Hereford, Middleton, New Market, and other places. From 1845 to 1849 he was editor of the Maryland Temperance Herald, acting also as Corresponding Secretary and Agent of the Maryland State Temperance Society. He also preached as stated supply from 1848 to 1863 at Ashland, Phoenix, Whitehall, Here- ford, Parkton, New Market, and other places. Out of his unwearied toils grew the Broadway Church in Baltimore, as well as flourishing congregations with settled pastors in most of the places above mentioned. During the latter part of the civil war, Mr. Cross, as a member of the Christian Commission, ren- dered valuable service. In the camps and hospitals, at Gettys- burg, Point Lookout, near Petersburg, and many other places, his labors were abundant and incessant. His tract, “ the War and the Christian Commission,” is a work of permanent historic value. Since 1865 he continued to reside in Baltimore, de-
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voting himself to missionary work in the city and its vicinity, especially along the railway lines ; preaching, gathering Sabbath- schools, and distributing tracts and books wherever he could secure an opportunity. His latest labors resulted in the build- ing of Faith Church at an important point in north-eastern Baltimore.
Mr. Cross was a copious writer, and wrote and published a long list of tracts, pamphlets, essays, etc., on a wide variety of topics. He was a man of decided character, of clear and strong convictions, which he was ever ready to maintain in the face of any opposition. He was scrupulously faithful to every obliga- tion; careful of the welfare of his family; yet ever ready, with a tender heart, at the cost of great self-denial, to help and com- fort the poor and the distressed ; a man of strong faith, high resolves, and abundant toil : a decided friend of negro education and for many years a Trustee of Lincoln University. He died of bronchitis at his home in Baltimore on Sept. 6, 1889. in the 79th year of his age.
Mr. Cross was twice married. 1st, May 12, 1836, to Miss Margaret Irvine Dickey, daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Dickey. D.D„ of Oxford, Pa. She died in Baltimore, May 2, 1882, and of that marriage five children survive him, one of whom is the Rev. John Miller Cross of the Seminary class of 1870, and another the Rev. Craig Boyd Cross of the class of 1879. The others are, E. D. Cross of Chicago ; W. Irvin Cross of Balti- more. Md., and Miss Janet M. Cross of the same city. 2d. May 27. 1885. Mr. Cross married Miss Marion L. Ramsay of Balti- more, who survives him. S.
THEODORE WILLIAM SIMPSON, D.D..
Son of John N. and Mary ( ) Simpson, was born at
Baskinridge. N. J., March 1. 1807 : was graduated at Rutgers College in 1828. and after three years spent in teaching in Vir- ginia entered Princeton Seminary, where he remained sixteen months. His father’s death made it necessary for him to resume teaching for the support of the family. He was licensed bjr the Presbytery of New Brunswick. Oct. 7, 1834. and ordained sine
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titulo by the same body in October, 1835. He labored as a mis- sionary in Lancaster Co., Pa., for a time (1835-36), and held the Professorship of Language in Newark College, Del., for a short time. He served the church at Charleston, Va., as pastor elect in 1836-41, after which he was called to the Monokin and V icomico churches in Maryland, where he served nearly eight years (pastor, 1842-49). He taught in Georgetown, D. C., 1849- 57, preaching at the same time at Blad'ensburg, Md. He was pastor of the Mt. Paran and Springfield churches in Maryland, 1857-61. In 1862 he became Chaplain of a U. S. A. hospital in Baltimore, where he remained four years. He served the Mount Paran church again in 1866-69, and then removed to George- town, holding a clerkship in the Treasury Department, and preaching as opportunity offered (at Hyattsville, 1871-76, and elsewhere). His later residence was Rockville, Md., where he died suddenly, April 4, 1890, in the 84th year of his age.
He was married in Frederick Co., Va., Sept. 26, 1837, to Miss Mary Stephenson, who survives him, with three sons and two daughters.
SAMUEL STORES HOWE,
Son of Job Lane and Deborah (Barrows) Howe, was born at Shoreham, Vt., June 20, 1808, and passed through his prepara- tory studies at Castleton, Vt., under the tuition of his eldest brother. He was graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in August, 1829, having previously united with the Congregational Church at Shoreham, Jan. 6, 1822, in the 14th year of his age.
Much of Mr. Howe’s earlier life was devoted to teaching, partly in connection with his theological studies. He was prin- cipal of Castleton Academy, Vt., from Sept., 1830, until Apr., 1831; he taught for his brother in Canandaigua Academy, N. Y., from May to August, 1831 ; at Princeton, N. J., he taught for Prof. Robert B. Patton, principal, in the Edgehill Seminary for Boys, from May, 1832, to May, 1833 ; and was a Tutor in Middlebury College for one year, 1835-36. Mr. Howe entered Andover Theo- logical Seminary in the fall of 1829 ; was absent (teaching) 1830-
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31 ; then returned and remained at Andover until 1832 ; then studied, from May, 1833, to August, 1834, in Princeton Theolo- gical Seminary ; then returned to Andover Seminary, whence he was graduated in September, 1834.
Mr. Howe was licensed by Middlesex North Association, Mass., Sept. 2, 1834, and was ordained and installed as pastor by the Presbytery of Chemung at Painted Post. N. Y., May 6, 1841. He successively ministered to the following churches : — Centreville Presbyterian Church, as stated supply while teach- ing, one year ; West Dresden, N. Y., as stated supply, 1838-39; Painted Post, X. Y., Presbyterian Church, as supply, 1840-41, then as past'or, 1841-Dec. 2 ), 1842; the Congregational Churches of Ticonderogaand East Stockholm, X. Y., as supply from 1843- 45; Brasher Falls, X. Y., as supply, 1844-45, and as pastor, was installed, Dec. 25, 1845, and released, Dec. 20, 1848, by St. Law- rence Presbytery ; was Secretary of the Western Education Soci- ety at Auburn, 1848-49 ; then began to preach to the Constitu- tional Presbyterian Church at Iowa City, Iowa, in November, 1849 ; was installed there as pastor, April 22, 1850, by the Pres- bytery of Des Moines, and released, Sept. 16, 1851. In after years he served as an occasional supply, various feeble churches and destitute places in Iowa and Nebraska, but his home to the end of his life continued to be in Iowa City. He was for a short time editor and proprietor of the Ioiva Temperance Journal , and afterward editor of the Literary Advertiser.
Mr. Howe was never married. He was a restless and eccen- tric, but a truly good man. The last years of his life, during which he was “ Honorably Retired ” from the ministry, were spent in feebleness and poverty. He was persuaded to become for a tune an inmate of the “ Presbyterian Minister’s Home ” at Perth Amboy, N. J., but he was not happy there and soon returned to Iowa City. There Christian friends kindly looked after his needs and obtained him admittance to the City Hos- pital, where he was well taken care of, and where he died in the peaceful hope of “ a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” on Oct. 24, 1888, in the 81st year of his age. S.
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WILLIAM BRINTNAL DE FOREST, M.D.,
Son of De Lauzun and Lydia (Brintnal) De Forest, was born at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 3, 1811 ; was graduated at Yale College in 1831 ; went immediately to the Yale Divinity School, where he spent two years ; entered Princeton Seminary in 1833, and remained one year ; was licensed by the New Haven East Asso- ciation in 1833, and ordained, Jan. 21, 1835, by the Litchfield South Association at Y atertown, Conn., where he was installed pastor. Chronic bronchitis obliged him to resign his charge, and he was released, June 7,1837. He studied medicine, and was graduated from the Yale Medical School in Jan., 1840. He pursued the practice of his profession in Colebrook, Conn., 1840- 45 ; in New York City, 1846-60, and in New Haven, Conn., from that time until he gradually withdrew from active labor. In New York he was connected with the Board of Health, and in New Haven with the municipal government and City Court. He died, Sept. 21, 1887, after prolonged and complicated illness, in the 76th year of his age.
He was married (1) May 3, 1836, to Miss Mary Lucretia Abernethy, of Torrington, Conn., who died, April 3, 1877; (2) Jan 24, 18/ 8, to Miss Cornelia Lynds of New York, who survives him, as do also a son and daughter born of the first marriage.
JONAS DENTON,
Son of Michael and Catherine (Moffatt) Denton, was born at Chester, Orange Co., N. Y., August 11, 1807, and was prepared for college in a school at Goshen, N. Y. He united on profes- sion of his faith with the Presbyterian church of his native place when about twenty years of age. He was graduated from Williams College, Mass., in 1833, and in the same year entered Princeton Theological Seminary, whence he was regularly grad- uated in 1836. He then taught for some time at Hill Top Aca- demy at Mendham, N. J., under Ezra Fairchild, and was licensed by Hudson Presbytery at Milford, N. Y., in 1837. Having received and accepted calls "to the churches of Chippewa and Newman’s Creek in Ohio, each for one-half of his time, he was
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ordained and installed as their pastor by the Presbytery of Wooster, Nov. 15, 1838. He was released from the pastorate of Newman’s Creek church, Jan. 1, 1843, and from that of Chip- pewa, April 18, 1843, at the latter date becoming stated supply of the newly organized church of Canal Fulton, to which he probably continued to minister until April, 1847. From the latter date until 1859, he resided on a farm at Mendham, N. J., preaching as he found opportunities, and was a member of the Presbytery of Elizabethtown. He next labored as a missionary in Tioga County, X. Y., for three years ; then as a missionary in Michigan for eight years until 1867, preaching at Greenwood, Forest City, Muskegan and other places, and being a member of the Presbytery of Grand Rapids. From Michigan he removed to Cuba, Mo., where he spent the remainder of his life in the home of his son, Mr. John Leddell Denton, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of that place. Here the infirmities of age slowly but surely came upon him, while he was ministered to with tender and affectionate care by his children. And here, at Cuba, Mo., he died, May 10, 1888, in the 81st year of his age. His bodily condition had long been one of great feebleness, but to the last his mind was clear, and his expressions indicated a full, and trustful apprehension of the work of Christ as the sin- ner’s only Saviour.
Mr. Denton married, July 13, 1838, Miss Frances Wells Leddell, daughter of John W. Leddell, M.D., of Mendham, N. J. She died at Mendham, Dec. 6, 1873. They left one son, John Leddell Denton of Cuba, Mo., and three daughters, Miss Mary Esther and Miss Frances Augusta Denton, now of Mendham, and Mrs. Sarah Louisa Roddis, wife of William H. Roddis of Milwaukee, Wis. S.
EDWIN HENRY NEVIN, D.D.,
Son of David and Mary (Peirce) Nevin, was born at Shippens- burg, Pa., May 9, 1814 ; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1833 ; after spending one year at the Western Theological Sem- inary entered Princeton Seminary in 1834, and remained two
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years ; was licensed by the 1st Presbytery of Philadelphia, Oct. 20, 1836, and by the Presbytery of Mahoning, June 25, 1839. (The confused condition of ecclesiastical relations and records at this time of the disruption of the Church makes the exact statement of facts in detail peculiarly difficult.) Mr. Nevin was stated supply for a time at Portsmouth, O., 1837 sq. ; in 1839—11 at Poland, O. ; in 1840-45 he was President of Franklin College at New Athens, 0.; he served subsequently in the ministry in Mt. Vernon, 1845, and Cleveland, 0., in the Plymouth Congre- gational Church, 1851 sq. ; in Walpole, Chelsey and Edgartown, Mass., 1854—61, and at Lancaster, Pa., 1855 sq. His last pas- torate was in the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia in 1870-75. He was a ready writer and speaker, and had great facility in poetical composition. Some of his hymns are found in the collections in common use in our churches. He died in Philadelphia, June 2, 1889, in the 76th year of his age.
He was married at Portsmouth, O., July 6, 1837, to Miss Ruth C. Little, who survives him, with seven children.
EZEKIEL QUILLIN,
Son of James and Martha ( ) Quillin, was horn in
Scott Co., Va., March 30, 1808; studied at Greenville College, Tenn., hut was not graduated ; clothed in a suit made by Andrew Johnson he started on foot on a journey of 700 miles, and entered Princeton Seminary in 1834, and took the full course; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in Feb., 1837, and ordained by the Presbytery of Redstone in Oct. 1838. He was pastor at Clarksburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 1838-52; was stated supply at French Creek a few months (1852), and at Wellsburg, Va., 1852- 58. He then removed to Sparta, 111., where he was stated sup- ply, 1858-69, and pastor, 1869-84. While at Clarksburg he had also done important work as a teacher, and in Illinois was a Director of Monmouth College. He preached memoriter about 4,600 sermons, and was an active helper of all good causes, maintaining himself and working without remuneration as far as possible. He died June 8, 1889, in the 82d year of his age.
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He was married at Chester, X. J., Sept. 28, 1837, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Hedges, who survives him, with four daughters and one son.
JOHN RANKIN DUNDAS. D.D.,
Son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Glover) Dundas, was born in Erie C'o., Pa., June 30, 1815 ; was graduated at Washington Col- lege, Pa., in 1836 ; after a few months spent in the tutorship at his alma mater entered Princeton Seminary early in 1837, and spent two years ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Northum- berland in October, 1838, and ordained by the Steubenville Pres- bytery in April, 1840, at which time he became pastor of the churches of Richmond and Annapolis, 0., where he remained five years. He was pastor at Mingo, Pa., 1845-55. He returned to Richmond, where he was stated supply (1855-57) and then pastor of the Homeworth Church, 1857-68. He was pastor elect of the Bethesda and Hanover Churches to 1871, then for a short time District Secretary of the American Tract Society. He returned to Homeworth, O., and from that tune onward rendered occasional service as stated supply, evangelist, or otherwise as he was able. In several of the places of his residence he was engaged in educational work. He died, June 27, 1889, a few days before the completion of his 74th year.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Jefferson College in 1861.
He was married near Richmond, 0., Nov. 17, 1840, to Miss Julia A. Cunningham, who survives him, with two daughters and a son.
EDWARD BLANCHARD EDGAR,
Son of Matthias B. and Catharine ( ) Edgar, was
born in New York City, Dec. 21, 1816; was graduated at the College of New .Terse}- in 1835 ; entered Princeton Seminary the following year and remained four years ; was licensed by the 1st Presbytery of New York, April 23, 1840, and ordained by
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the Presbytery of Hudson, May 3, 1842, at which time he was also installed pastor of the church at Mount Hope, N. Y. Here he remained nearly eight years. His next pastorate was at West- field, N. J., 1850-73, after which time he resided with impaired health at Plainfield, N. J., where he died, Jan. 10, 1890, in the 74th year of his age.
He was married (1) at Newark, N. J., May 1, 1844, to Miss Mary A. Foote, who died June 1, 1856; (2) at Metuchen, N. J., April 2, 1861, to Miss Mary J. Ross, who died May 7, 1873. One daughter survives him.
JAMES ROSAMOND,
Son of Samuel and Sarah (Hodges) Rosamond, was born in Pendleton, S. C., Sept. 6, 1806 ; was graduated at Miami Univer- sity, 0., in 1833 ; alter teaching in Alabama in Union Academy entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1834, and remained two years ; was matriculated as a student in Princeton Seminary in Aug., 1836, and remained somewhat more than a year ; the next year he spent at Columbia Seminary ; was licensed by Harmony Presbytery, April 8, 1838, and ordained by the Pres- bytery of Flint River, Oct. 22, 1849 ; meanwhile had been engaged in missionary service at various places : at Ripley and Farmington, Miss., 1838-41; at Waynesville,'Ga., 1841-42 ; at Aleovia and Ebenezer, 1842-47 ; was engaged in teaching at Monroe, McDonough, Jackson and Fayetteville, Ga., and sub- subsequently in teaching and preaching at Raleigh, Tenn., in 1850-51, in Kosciusko, Miss., in 1852-55 ; at Stackville, Big Spring, Unity, Miss., Hebron, and New Hope, Ala., until the breaking out of the war. He afterward taught in Union City, Tenn., in 1868, and later at Huntsville College, and Waverly, Tex. He was Professor and acting President in Austin Synod- ical College, Austin, Tex., in 1872 sq. His later residence was in Tenn., at Collinville, and afterward in Memphis, where he died, , 1889, in the 83d year of his age.
He was married at Rienzi, Miss., Nov. 26, 1836, to Miss Elsie Taylor.
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JONATHAN CORY,
Son of Benjamin and Susanna ( ) Cory, was born at
Westfield, N. J.. Jan. 3. 1812; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1838; entered Princeton Theological Seminary the same year, and remained about a year and a half. The next twenty-five years (1840-65) he devoted to teaching. He was never ordained or licensed. The years immediately following the close of the Civil War he devoted to missionary work among the freed men at the South. The last twenty years of his life he spent in farming in his native place, where he died. Oct. 16, 1888. in the 77tli year of his age.
He was married. Oct. 31, 1840, at Westfield, N. J.. to Miss Catherine C. Scudder. who survives him. with two sons and three daughters.
EDMUND COSEERY BITTINGER,
Son of John and Mary Bittinger. was born at Waynesboro, Franklin Co.. Pa.. March 20, 1819, and received his earlier educa- tion under the tuition of the Rev. James McVean, at George- town. D. C. He was graduated from Columbian College at Washington. D. C\, in 1839, having previously united with the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown. Immediately after his graduation he ’entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and after a full course of three years was regularly graduated in 1842.
Mr. Bittinger was licensed by the Presbytery of Baltimore, July 11. 1841 : and was ordained by the Presbytery of Orange at Washington. N. C., December 11. 1843. He supplied the Presbyterian Church at Warrenton, Va., 1842-43; was called to the church at Washington. X. C., in April, and was ordained and installed as its pastor Dec. 11. 1843. and was released there- from August 28, 1846. On account of ill health he remained without charge, but preached the gospel in New York and Vir- ginia until he entered the U. S. Naval service, September 30, 1850. He was chaplain in that service in the waters of the East Indies, of China, of Japan, and around the world, on board the
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U. S. frigate Susquehanna, 1850-55 ; was on duty at the l\ S. Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, 1855-58; was chaplain of the U. S. frigate Macedonian in the Mediterranean, 1859-61 ; was on duty at the U. S. Navy Yard at Philadelphia, 1861-67 ; was chaplain of the U. S. frigate Delaware, flagship of the U. S. squadron in the East Indies, China and Japan, 1868-72; and finally again on duty at the U. S. Navy Yard in Philadelphia from 1872 until, in declining health and strength, he was trans- ferred to the U. S. Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, in which he died August 2, 1889.
Mr. Bittinger was never married. He was a man of a social and genial temperament and a warm heart, and was much loved by his many friends. As he had opportunity he preached the gospel faithfully and earnestly. The Rev. B. F. Bittinger, D.D., of Washington City is his younger brother. S.
CHARLES ALEXANDER EVANS,
Son of Charles and Catherine (Wells) Evans, was born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, July 7th, 1816. He received his preparatory education at Fairview Academy, near his native place, under the Rev. James Morell, its principal; and was graduated from The Royal Belfast College (now Queen’s College), at Belfast, Ireland, in April, 1839. He had united with the First Church of his native place, on profession of his faith, in the thirteenth year of Iris age.
After his graduation at Belfast, Mr. Evans spent six months in travel; went to Princeton, N. J., and studied theology pri- vately, then was connected with the Seminary nearly two years, going over the entire course of study, with the class which was graduated in 1842. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New- ton (N. J.), April 28, 1841, and immediately after leaving the Seminary became stated supply to the two churches at Scranton and Northmoreland, Pa. He continued to supply the church at Scranton until 1844 ; but received and accepted a call to the Northmoreland church, where he was ordained and installed as pastor by the Presbytery of Luzerne, Nov. 13, 1843. Here he
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continued to labor faithfully and successfully until April, 1846, when he was released and soon after dismissed to the Reformed Dutch Church. In that connection he served as stated supply the R. D. Church at Durham, X. Y., 1847-48; was pastor of the R. D. Church at Moresville, N. Y., from April, 1848-52, where an extensive and powerful revival occurred under his labors ; then pastor of the Clove R. D. Church, X. Y., 1852-55 ; having returned to the Presbyterian Church, he was stated supply to the churches of State Line City and Lebanon, Ind., 1859-62 ; was Professor of Latin in the College of Northern Indiana, 1864—65; supplied the Second Church at South Bend, Ind., 1869-70 ; served as pastor-elect the First Presbyterian Church of Iberia, Ohio, and was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Ohio Central College (U. P.), 1870-73; then became a resident at South Bend, Ind., for the remainder of his life, but made excursions in different directions every now and then to perform missionary labor, even so far as Dakota. He was especially successful in organizing several new churches and providing buildings for them, often without any pecuniary compensation.
Mr. Evans was in poor health over three years before his death, having a complication of diseases, among which were supposed to be heart disease and ulceration of the stomach. Under these he gradually failed until his death occurred at South Bend, Ind., April 18, 1889, in the seventy-third year of his age. He retained his consciousness to the last. His end was peace. He died trusting entirely in the Redeemer’s right- eousness. He had been an earnest and successful Bible student, and was greatly beloved.
Mr. Evans married at Xorthmoreland, Pa., August 28, 1844, Miss Sarah Marshall Harris, daughter of Isaac Harris, of Duchess County, X. Y. She still lives, and resides at South Bend, Ind. They had eight children, only two of whom sur- vived their father, viz., Sarah, wife of John C. Wallace, M. D., residing at Alpena, Mich., and the Rev. Charles A. Evans, now pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church at Lebanon, Pa. S.
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CHARLES EBENE2ER FORD,
Son of Josiah and Margaret (Ross) Ford, was born in Wood- bridge township, Middlesex county, N. J., December 2, 1809. He received his preparatory education partly in a private class connected with the University t»f New York, and was afterwards two years at Geneva, N. Y., under the tuition of the Rev. J. French. He united, by profession, at 22 years of age, with the Dey Street Presbyterian Church in New York city, then under the pastoral care of the Rev. Joel Parker, D.D.
Mr. Ford was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, in the fall of 1839. Immediately afterwards he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, where he spent nearly four years in study. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and afterwards, by the Presbytery of West Jersey, was ordained and installed, July 18, 1843, as pastor of the church at Williamstown, N. J. Here he labored quietly and assiduously from his ordination until May 1, 1868, nearly twenty-five years. During a large portion of that time he was also stated supply at Fisherville (now Clayton), viz., from August, 1853, to November, 1866. During his pastorate at Wil- liamstown he also preached more or less frequently at what were then missionary points, viz., Malaga, Franklin ville, Glassboro, Bunker Hill, Longacoming (now Berlin), and Waterford. His faithful labors were used in starting the growth of several Pres- byterian churches now flourishing on what was then the wide field of his labors. Having retired from this field, he resided in Newark, N. J., one year, 1869 to 1870. Thence he removed to Philadelphia, where he continued to reside until the close of his life. He seemed to be in excellent health up to the time of his final illness, when he was stricken with paralysis, imme- diately became unconscious, and so continued until he died, on June 4th, 1889. He was a man of a remarkably humble, gentle, meek and quiet spirit, who was highly esteemed and warmly beloved by all who knew him.
Mr. Ford married, at Princeton, N. J., June 28, 1843, Miss Cornelia H. Van Arsdale, daughter of Mr. Philip Van Arsdale, of Pluckamin, N. J. She died of paralysis only eight days after his departure, on June 12, 1889. They were lovely and
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pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided. One son, Mr. Josiah P. Ford, and one daughter, Mrs. G. B. H. Swayze, both residing in Philadelphia, survived them. S.
REV. ROGER OWEN, D.D.,
Son of David and Jane Owen, was born in South Wales, Great Britain, Oct. 15, 1813, and united, on profession of his faith, with a Congregational church in his native place, at nine years of age, and afterwards, by certificate, with the Third Presbyte- rian Church of Baltimore, Md., in 1835. He came to this coun- try with his parents in 1828 ; passed through the Preparatory Department connected with Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pa.; was graduated from Jefferson College in October, 1839; went thence directly to Princeton Theological Seminary, and after a full course was regularly graduated thence in 1842, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Baltimore August 5, 1842.
Having accepted a call to become pastor of the First Church of Madison, Indiana, he was ordained and installed there by the Presbytery of Madison, Sept. 24, 1843. This relation was dissolved Sept. 20, 1844. While at Madison his labors were greatly blest, and in one revival forty were added to the church on profession. Having accepted a call to Columbia, Pa., he was installed there by the Presbytery of Donegal in November, 1844, and continued to labor there, greatly beloved, until Oct. 1, 1850. But feeling himself called of God to that undertaking, he removed to Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia, where there was at that time no Presbyterian Church, and began, May 25, 1851, to gather and preach to the people. His labors were eminently acceptable and successful, and before long a church was organ- ized. This he continued to serve as stated supply until Nov. 18, 1854, when he was installed as its pastor by the Second Presby- tery of Philadelphia. At the same time he began to preach at Chestnut Hill in 1851, he established an institution known as the “ Chestnut Hill Academy,” and continued to he its principal for five years, when his pastoral charge had so enlarged as to require his whole time. Here he continued to labor as pastor
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for thirty years, until his strength failed through increasing years, and about five years before his death he was lovingly retired with the title of Pastor Emeritus, and a comfortable sup- port for his remaining years with the entire use of the church manse.
Dr. Owen’s labors were incessant and most acceptable so long as his bodily strength lasted. Few pastors have held to the end of life more undividedly and strongly the warm affection of their congregations than did he. He was a man who combined in a rare degree simplicity of character, gentleness, tenderness, cheerfulness, clearness of judgment, firmness of decision, and purity of purpose. And all his powers were heartily and intel- ligently consecrated to the service of the Redeemer whom he loved. His health gradually declined until, without conscious- ness of the approaching event, he passed away at his home in Chestnut Hill, Jan. 8, 1890.
Dr. Owen was twice married : 1st. To Miss Mary M. Mc- Corkle, of Columbia, Pa.; she died Oct. 19, 1873. 2d. To Mrs.
E. L. McCorkle, of the same place; she survives him. He left no children. He was a younger brother of the Rev. Griffith Owen, who passed through Princeton Seminary two years before him and died in Baltimore, Jan. 14, 1871. S.
WILLIAM SHERIDAN THOMPSON,
Son of John and Mary ( ) Thompson, was born in
Northampton C'o., N. C., October 12, 1815; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1839; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the full course ; was licensed by the First Pres- bytery of New York, in January, 1842, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Hanover in May, 1843 ; was installed at this latter date over Trinity Church, comprising the congregations of Cartersville and New Canton, Va. In this charge he re- mained more than forty years, until November, 1883. He lived on, with health seriously impaired, until October 7, 1889, when he died suddenly of paralysis of the heart, a few days before the completion of his 77th year. His ministry was characterized by great simplicity and fidelity.
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He was married (1) December 28, 1843, to Hiss Caroline L. Gulick, of Princeton, X. J., who died after a few years, leaving two children, who still survive ; (2) October 11, 1853, to Miss Anna S. Fontaine, of Buckingham Co., Ya., who died in Nov., 1882, leaving two children, who are also still living.
JAMES GREER,
Son of James and Jane ( ) Greer, was born in Pleasant
Valley, Duchess county. N. Y., July 10, 1815; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1836, and after four years spent in teaching at Sykesville, Md.. and Fredericksburg, Va., entered Princeton Seminary in 1840, where he took the regular course. He was licensed by the Presbytery of North River, May 25,
1842, and ordained as evangelist by the same body, June 20,
1843. He was stated supply at Constantine, Mich., 1844-45; at Laporte, Ind., 1846-47 ; taught at Fort Wayne, Ind., 1847-51, and in Charlottesville, Va., 1851-53. He was principal of a Presbyterian academy at Brownsburg, Va., 1853-59, and the two following years taught at Christiansburg, Va. The years 1861-66 were spent in preaching and teaching in Georgia, in Rome, Atlanta, and in Newton county. In 1867-68, his home was in Taylorsville and Henderson, Ky., and in 1869 at Den- mark, Tenn. The years 1 869-77 he was principal of the Van Rensselaer Academy in Rollo county, Mo. He taught a private school at Lexington, Mo., after which he was President of Rich- mond College, at Richmond, Mo. The latter years of his life his home was again Lexington, where he served the Bible Society for a time, and preached occasionally. There he died suddenly of pneumonia, March 19, 1890, in the 75th year of his age.
He was married at Three Rivei's, Mich., Jan. 17, 1844, to Miss Emily S., daughter of Rev. Benjamin Ogden (Princeton, 1819), who survives him, with a son and three daughters.
SAMUEL HAMPTON JAGGER,
Son of Samuel and Deborah ( ) dagger, was born in
Southampton, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1816; was graduated at Amherst
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College in 1837 ; spent the next four years in teaching, as Prin- cipal of Southampton Academy, and in the private study ot Theology, and entered Princeton Seminary in 1841, where he remained about a year. He was licensed April 20, 1842, by the Presbytery of Long Island, and ordained August 16, 1842, by the Presbytery of North River, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Marlborough, N. Y. Here he remained until April, 1869, when chronic bronchial difficulties obliged him to seek release from his pastorate. After this time his ser- vice in preaching or teaching was only occasional, while he proved himself a faithful and valuable helper to every good cause in the place of his residence. He died in Xewburg, N. 5 Oct.' 17, 1889, in the 74th year of his age.
He wras married June 26, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth D. Fithian, of Southampton, wdio survives him, with one daughter and one son.
DAVID HARRISON PIERSON, Ph.D.,
Son of Elijah and Martha ( ) Pierson, was born in
Caldwell, X. J., March 8, 1818; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1840 ; after two years spent in teaching in Eliza- bethtown, X. J., entered Princeton Seminary in 1842, and remained somewhat more than two years ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, April 1 < , 1844 ; was ordained as an evangelist, Oct. 7, 1857, by the Presbytery ot Passaic. He was stated supply at Lyons Farms, X. J., 1857—59, and rendered occasional service to many other churches. His main work wras that of teaching, in which he spent twenty-five years as principal of a school long known as the Pearl Cottage Seminary, in Eliza- beth. The last years of his life he suffered seriously from organic disease, which unfitted him for steady and responsible work. He died in Elizabeth, of apoplexy, Oct. 30, 1889, in the 7 2d year of his age. He had received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1867.
Lie was married in East Orange, X. J., Sept. 22, 1844, to Miss Caroline Peck, who survives him, with five children.
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JOSEPH SMITH HEACOCK.
Son of Philander and Margaret (Smith) Heacook. was born in Gloversville, X. Y., Aug. 9, ISIS ; was graduated at Union College in 1843; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the regular course; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. Oct. 8. 1845, and ordained by Baltimore Presbytery. April 18. 1848, and installed as pastor of the Govane Chapel, where he had been laboring during the preceding year. His pas- torate continued about a year and a half, after which he was for a short time stated supply at Black Rock, N. Y., a position which he left in 1851. Failure of his health, which a year of rest and travel failed to restore, obliged him to return to his native place and devote himself to business. He was active and exceedingly liberal in the support and promotion of the religious interests of the community. He died June 1. 1889, in the 71st year of his age, of heart disease.
He was married April 25, 1853, at West Haven, Conn., to Miss Charlotte M. Smith, who survives him. with two of their four children, a son and a daughter.
STEPHEN MATTOON, D.D.,
Son of Gershom and Nancy (Sayre) Mattoon. was born at Cham- pion, Jefferson County, N. Y., May 5, 1815. and received his pre- paratory education at Geneva, X. Y., under Professor French. He united, by profession of his faith, with the Congregational Church of his native place at about 16 years of age ; was grad- uated from Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., 1842 ; then spent one year in teaching at Sandy Hill. Washington Co.. X. Y.: entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1843 ; was regularly graduated therefrom in 1846, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Troy, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1846.
Having early and solemnly devoted himself to the Foreign Missionary work, Mr. Mattoon was ordained as an Evangelist by Troy Presbytery. Feb. 11, 1846,
and sailed for Siam, July 20, 1846, arriving at Bangkok. March 22, 1847, after a journey of eight months. There he
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labored with earnest devotion, indefatigable perseverance and wonderful success in pushing forward the missionary work, for nearly twenty years. He was the first to translate the New Tes- tament into the Siamese language. While in that country he mainly resided and labored in Bangkok, where he was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in that city in 1860, and released in 1866. In the latter year, on account of the state of Mrs. Mattoon’s health, they returned to the United States. He soon after accepted a call to become pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ballston Spa, N. Y., over which he was installed, March 4, 1867, and from which he was released, Dec. 2, 1869, having been elected President of Biddle Institute at Charlotte, North Carolina (chartered as Biddle University in February, 1877), which position he continued to hold until 1885. He also filled a chair as Professor of Theology and Church Gov- ernment in the same institution from 1870 to 1889 ; at the same time laboring as stated supply of New Hope Church, 1870-71 ; of Charlotte Church, 1871-78, and of Caldwell, Hopewell and Good Hope Churches from 1879-89.
During the last year of his life his health failed rapidly, owing to organic disease of the heart. He had gone to Clifton Springs, N. Y., for a time, where he improved somewhat, then started for his home at Charlotte, N. C., pausing on his way at the home of his married daughter, Mrs. W. E. Thomas, in Marion, Ohio. There he rapidly grew worse, and at length died peacefully, Aug. 15, 1889, in the 75tli year of his age. The affection for him, far and near, especially among the colored people to whom, in Biddle University and its neighborhood, he had devoted the last twenty years of his life, was very strong. His remains were carried to Charlotte, N. C., and buried in the City Cemetery beside those of his wife.
Dr. Mattoon married at Cambridge, N. Y., June 3, 1846, Miss Mary Lowrie, daughter of George Lowrie. She faithfully shared his labors in Siam and afterward in Charlotte until her death, which occurred, Feb. 18, 1883. They left two daughters, one the wife of the Rev. W. E. Thomas of Marion, O., the other unmarried. S.
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CHARLES PHILLIPS, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of Rev. Dr. James and Julia (Vermeulen) Phillips, was born in Harlem, X. Y., July 30, 1822; was graduated in 1841, at the University ol North Carolina, where his father was more than forty years a Professor ; after two years spent in teaching and the study of medicine entered Princeton Seminary in 1843, and remained one year. From 1844 to 1853 was Tutor of Mathe- matics in the University of N. C., from 1853 to 1860 Professor of Engineering, and from 1860 to 1868 Professor of Pure Mathe- matics in the same institution. He was Professor of Mathematics and Engineering in Davidson College, N. C., 1869-75. after which he returned to the University of X. C., where he held the chair of Mathematics until compelled by ill health to resign it in 1879, retaining the title of Professor Emeritus. He was licensed by the Orange Presbytery, Dec. 12, 1857, and ordained sine titulo by the same body, April 14, 1866. He never held the pastoral office, although he frequently preached in the chapels of the institutions with which he was connected, and in the churches of the vicinity. For 35 years he held a very high rank among the educators of his state and of the South, and in ecclesiastical affairs. He took a very prominent part in the organization of the Southern Assembly.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. in 1868 from the University of North Carolina and that of LL.D. in 1876 from Davidson College.
He died in Columbia, S. C., May 10, 1889, in the 67th year of his age. He was married Dec. 8, 1847, at Chapel Hill, N. C., to Miss Laura C. Battle, who survives him with three sons and three daughters.
JOHN ALEXANDER BOGLE,
Son of William and Florinda (Boggs) Bogle, was born in Penn- sylvania, as his parents were on their way to a home at the West, Dec. 12, 1816; was graduated at Centre College in 1843; after a year spent in teaching entered Princeton Seminary in 1844 and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Tran-
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sylvania, April 2, 1847, and ordained by the same body, April 30, 1848, being installed as pastor at Hustonville, Ky., where he was already stated supply. In this charge he continued until 1873. When the Synod of Kentucky was divided in 1861 he became connected with the Southern Church, although the two churches, belonging to different Presbyteries, continued to meet as one congregation under his acceptable ministry. He was a man of unusual personal influence. After the failure of his health obliged him to give up the active discharge of the duties of the clerical office, he rendered very important service to the educa- tional interests of the community. He died after a short illness July 6, 1889, in the 73d year of his age.
He was married (1) Oct. 12, 1847, to Miss Nannie .J. Cowan of Boyle county, Ky., who died soon, leaving one child ; (2) April 22, 1851, to Miss Chloe C. Masterson, Lincoln county, Ky., who survives him, with five of their children.
WILLIAM IRWIN BRUG-H, D.D.,
Son of John and Rachel ( ) Brugh, was born in Milford,
N. J., June 30, 1816; was graduated at the College of New Jer- sey in 1843 ; after teaching two years at Hackettstown, entered Princeton Seminary in 1845, and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Raritan, , 1847, and
ordained May 17, 1849, by the Second Presbytery of Philadel- phia, being at the same time installed pastor of the Ben Salem and Centreville churches, with which he was connected about a year. He was pastor at Corinth and Chestnut Ridge, Ohio, 1850-60; stated supply at Frederickstown, Ohio (1861) ; at Bla- densburg, Ohio, (1861-63); at Amity, Pa. (1864-65), and at Butler, Pa., was stated supply and pastor (1868-71). In the meantime he had been Professor of Natural Sciences in Wash- ington College, Pa., 1863-65, and was principal of Witherspoon Institute at Butler, 1865-71. He was principal of Vermillion Institute at Hayesville, Ohio, 1871-76, and President of Rich- mond College, Ohio, 1877—78. He was stated supply and teacher in Paris, Pa., 1879-86, and was afterward, for shorter periods, at
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Suffolk. Ya., Bourbon, Ind., and Greenup, Ivy., at which latter place he died July '23, 1889, in the 74th year of his age.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. in 1875, from Washington and Jefferson College.
He was married in Princeton, N. J., Sept, 6, 1848, to Miss Mary H. Hicks, who survives him, with three sons and a daughter.
ALEXANDER PERRY SILLIMAN,
Son of John and Mary (Campbell) Silliman, was horn in York county, S. C., June 19, 1818; was graduated at the College of X ew Jersey, in 1845 ; entered Princeton Seminary the same year, and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presby- tery of New Brunswick, Feb. 2, 1848, and ordained April 15, 1850, by the Tuscaloosa Presbytery, by whom he was at the same time installed pastor of the churches of Ebenezer and Hebron, Ala. From 1859 to 1866 he gave his entire service to the church at Ebenezer. In 1867-68, and again in 1878-79, he was General Financial Agent of the Committee of Publication of the Southern Church, at Richmond, Ya. He was stated supply of the Rusk and Palestine churches, Texas, 1868-71, and pastor at Marshall, Texas, 1871-76. In 1877-78, was evangelist of the East Texas Presbytery, and from 1879 a Bible agent and missionary. He died after three days’ illness, at Charleston, S. C., Jan. 21, 1890, in the 72d year of his age.
He was married at Mobile, Ala., Oct. 20, 1851, to Miss Sarah Reed, who survives him, with three sons and two daughters.
GEORGE WRIGHT ZAHNISER,
Son of Jacob and Catharine (Wright) Zahniser, was bom at Mercer, Pa., March 19, 1823; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1846 ; after serving one year as tutor at his alma mater , and teaching one year at Lexington, Ivy., entered Princeton Seminary in 1848 and remained two years. He was licensed by the Pres-
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bytery of Erie, April 10, 1851, and ordained by the same body, Sept. 7, 1853, at which time he was also installed pastor at Con- neautville, Pa., where he remained until April, 1859. His next pastorate was at Huntingdon, Pa., 1859-75. He was stated supply for a short time at Conneautville, Pa., then of the Second Church in Mercer, Pa., 1877-80, after which time he resided at Mercer and rendered occasional service in the vicinity for longer or shorter periods, as stated supply and evangelist.
He was married (1) at Mercer, Pa., Dec. 28, 1853, to Miss Jane Forker, who died in 1859, at Huntingdon; (2) June 2,
1864, to Miss Kate Gaston, who died ; (3) July 5,
1866, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Sargent) McGill, who survives him. Four of his children are also living, a daughter born of the first marriage, and two sons and a daughter by the last.
JAMES HENRY LEPS,
Son of George and Elizabeth (Slone) Leps, was born May 23, 1823, in Hampshire county, Va. ; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1849; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Winchester in July, 1852, and ordained by the Presbytery of Greenbrier, July 19, 1853, being at the same time installed at Kanawha Salines, where he remained about four years. He was pastor at Parkersburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 1858-62. In 1862-65, he was chaplain in the Army of the Confederate States. He was stated supply at Frankford and Spring Creek, W. Va., 1866-68, and pastor 1868-83. Meanwhile he was principal of the Frank- ford High School, 1872-75. In 1884-85 he resided at Seguin, Texas, acting as an evangelist, and in 1886-89 was stated supply at Marlin, Kosse and Reagan, in the same state. He died at Roanoke, Va., May 4, 1889, in the 66th year of his age.
He was married May 12, 1857, at Kanawha Salines, Va., to M iss Mary I. Van Gilder, who died April 12, 1877. Three sons and three daughters survived him.
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PRENTISS DE VEUVE, D.D.,
Second son of Daniel De Veuve of the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and Julia M. Prentiss, was born on Staten Island, N. Y., July 28th, 1833. He was prepared for College at the High School of Lawrenceville, N. J., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1853. He studied theology in the Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the full course in 1856. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York, April 16, 1856, and ordained and installed pastor of the Church at Ewing, N. J., by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Oct. 15, 1857. Here he remained until May, 1864, when he became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Germantown. Pa. In 1867 he assumed the charge of the Second Presbyterian Church in Pottsville, Pa., and in 1868 he succeeded the Rev. Dr. Joel Parker as pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., where he remained until 1879; he resigned this charge on account of his health and spent more than a year in Europe. Shortly after his return he was called to the First Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio, in 1881. Here he continued as a suc- cessful and beloved pastor until his sudden death in the sad accident at Palatinate Bridge, N. Y., on the New York Central Railroad, Sept. 27, 1889. He had just visited the East to take part in the funeral services of his old preceptor, the Rev. S. M. Hamill, D.D., and was returning to his home when he was so suddenly called away, 3trange to say as he hoped the end might come — “suddenly.” He made a profession of his faith in Christ at the age of fourteen, and esteemed it his duty to devote himself at once to the ministry of reconciliation. Hence- forth he had but one object in life, and all his other pursuits were made subordinate to this end. The result was a minister thoroughly furnished and well qualified for his duties as pastor and preacher. He ivas a man of good talents and excellent scholarship, whose sermons gave evidence of careful study and thorough preparation and showed a familiarity with the current of thought and literature of the day. Genial in manner and sym- pathetic in nature, he won the hearts of his brethren in the min- istry and of the congregations committed to his charge. His last service was in honoring his old friend and preceptor. He
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took great interest in all the matters that affected the commu- nity in which he resided, so that his death wras a public loss. He received the degree of D.D. from Miami University in 1886.
He married Miss Emma Peters, daughter of H. N. Peters, Esq., of Madison, N. J., Dec. 15, 1874, who survives him.
JOHN HENRY JOHNS,
Son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Dougherty) Johns, was born in Baltimore, .Md., Oct. 13, 1830; and was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1856. After two years spent in teaching in a family in Alabama, he entered Princeton Seminary in 1858, and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April 10, 1861, and ordained by the same body, May 6, 1862, being installed at that tune as pastor of Rock and Zion churches, in Cecil county, Md., where he had been preaching for the preceding six months. He remained in this charge until 1883. Zion continued to be his home until his death, May 7, 1889, in the 59th year of his age. The last five years he had been seriously disabled by partial paralysis. He had been restricted almost wholly to signs in his intercourse with his friends. His patience, submission and faith bore bright testi- mony to the grace of God toward him.
He was married at Fair Hill, Md., May 16, 1861, to Ann E. Brokaw, who survives him, writh a daughter.
JOHN JAY POMEROY, D.D.,
Son of Thomas and Mary A. (Wilson) Pomeroy, ivas born at Roxbury, Pa.. Sept. 8, 1834; was graduated at Lafayette College in 1857 ; after teaching for a time entered Princeton Seminary the next year, and took the regular course; was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle, April 10, 1861, and ordained by the Pres- bytery of Lewes, Nov. 28, 1861, at which time he was installed pastor at Dover, Del. In October, 1862, he became Chaplain of the 32rd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and continued to serve them the remaining twenty months of their term, becom-
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ing three mouths later the Chaplain of the 198th Regiment, with whom he remained to the close of the war. He was pastor of the Upper Octorara Church, Pa., 1865-78 ; of the 1st Church at Rahway, X. J.. 1878-84, and of the Central Church at Cliambers- burg, Pa., from the Spring of 1884 until his death, which was caused by erysipelas, Dec. 1, 1889, in the 56th year of his age.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from his alma mater in 1885.
He was married at Danville, Pa., Jan 28, 1869, to Miss Mary H. Moore, who survives him, with two sons and four daughters.
CLARK SALMON,
Son of Isaiah and Sarah (McMurtrie) Salmon, was born at Light Street, Columbia County, Pa., Jan. 11, 1827 ; was graduated at Lafayette College in 1858, and after one year spent in teaching entered Princeton Seminary, where he completed the regular course in 1862. He was licensed by the 2nd Presbytery of Phil- adelphia, April 17, 1861. and ordained by the Presbytery of Susquehanna, Jan. 27, 1866. Meanwhile he had served for a time as stated supply at Wyalusing, Pa.. 1862-63, and had taught for a time at Lock Haven, Pa., in 1864. He was stated supply at Oswell and Rome, Pa., 1864-69, and pastor at Meshoppen, Pa., 1869-76, having for a part of this period the pastoral care of the Mehoopany Church, 1871-76. He was stated supply at Prairie City, 111., 1876-79, and at Webb City, Mo., 1879-83. The remaining years of his life he spent at Canton. Bradford County, Pa., where he died of progressive paralysis Jan. 28, 1890, in the 64th year of his age.
He was married at Rome, Pa., April 20. 1864. to Miss Harriet C. Gates, who died of heart disease about three weeks after his decease. She had known of the malady for years, but had kept it a secret, making it a daily prayer that she might live to care for him. They left no children.
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WALTER FORSYTH,
Son of Walter and Jean (Buchanan) Forsyth was born in Glas- gow, Scotland, Feb. 7, 1833; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1859 ; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the regular course ; was licensed by the Central Presbytery of Phila- delphia, April 3, 1861, and ordained by Lake Presbytery, May 11, 1864, being at the same time installed pastor at South Bend, Ind., where he had served already nearly two years as stated supply. Here he remained until Sept., 1871. The next month he began his work at Englewood, 111., where he was installed in May, 1873, and remained until 1885. After a period devoted to the recovery of his health he gathered a congregation in Chicago, in connection with which early in 1888 a church was organized which he supplied a year longer. He died Dec. 29, 1889, in the 57th year of his age. His ministry had been in every way a useful and efficient one.
He was married at South Bend, Ind., June 18, 1867, to Miss Mary Woolman, who survives him, with two daughters.
WILLIAM WIRT ANNAN,
Son of Rev. William and Ann E. (Hutchinson) Annan, was born at Kishacoquillas, Pa., Aug. 21, 1835 ; entered Washington College, Pa., but in consequence of feeble health did not com- plete the course then, or in the University of Western Penn- sylvania, with which he was connected for a time. He en- tered the Western Theological Seminary in 1859, and took its course in part. He entered Princeton Seminary in 1862 as a senior, but did not take the diploma. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Allegheny, April 14, 1863, but was never ordained. Seriously impaired health withdrew him entirely from the work of the ministry. He resided in Allegheny, Pa., and died there, July 15, 1888, in the 53d year of his age.
He was never married.
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WILLIAM HENRY MILLHAM,
Son of James and Harriet ( ) Millham, was born at
Charlton, X. Y., Xov. 3, 1840; was graduated at Union College in 1864; after teaching a few months in Lansingburgh, X. Y., entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the regular course; was licensed l))’ the Presbytery of Albany. June 13, 1866, and ordained by the same body, April 21, 1868. He was stated supply at Galway, X. Y., in 1867-68, and pastor of the same church in 1868-71 ; was pastor at Livonia, X. Y., 1871-8-5. From 1886 to the close of his life his home was Hillsdale, Mich., where he served for a brief period as stated supply, and after- ward resided without charge. He died, April 28, 1888, in the 48th year of his age, of tuberculosis.
He was married at Brainerd, X. Y., Sept. 12, 1867, to Miss Augusta T. Barbour, who survives him ; he left live children, one of whom has since died.
WILLIAM HENRY REID.
Son of John Henry and Malvina ( ) Reid, was born
at Johnstown, X. Y., June 5,1839; was graduated at Union College in 1864; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and remained one year, completing his course at Union Seminary, Xew York, in 1867 ; was ordained as deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, by Bishop Alfred Lee ot Delaware, June 20, 1867, and a priest, Dec. 6, 1867. He was assistant minister of St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, X. Y., 1867-69, and Rector ot the Church of the Mediator in the same city. 1869-74. In 1874 he became connected with the newly organized Reformed Episcopal Church, and within about two years and a half established in Xew 5 ork City the churches of the Incarnation, of the Atonement, of the Redemption, and of the Reconciliation. Xine or ten years later he returned to the Presbyterian Church, but did not again take a ministerial charge. The last eight months of his life were spent in foreign travel. He died at Cairo in Egypt, Dec. 26, 1888, in the 50th year of his age. He was never married.
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WALTER REUBEN FRAME,
Son of Rev. Reuben and Margaret (Stewart) Frame, was born in South Salem, X. Y., Jan. 26,1849; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1872; entered Princeton Seminary the same year and took the regular course. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Feb. 3, 1875, and ordained as an evangelist by the same body, Oct. 6, 1875. After supplying the church at Kingston, Pa., nearly a year (1875-76), he was installed pastor of the North Church at LaCrosse, Wis., in October, 1876, and remained there three years ; was pastor at Hudson, Wis., 1879-84, and at Stevens’ Point, Wis., from 1884 until the time of his death, which occurred, from pneumonia, Jan. 29, 1890, in the 42d year of his age. He was Stated Clerk of the Synod of Wisconsin, pro tempore , in 1883, and by election from 1884 to the close of his life. His services had become in many ways valuable to the Church at large, as well as to his own congrega- tions, and his early death was deeply lamented.
He was married Oct. 7, 1879, to Miss Ellen Stevens, of Trempealean, Wis., who survives him, with three children.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, B.D., Ph.D.,
Son of John E. and Martha (Dickey) Archibald, was born at Truro, X. S., August 23, 1854. He received the degree of B.A. from Dalhousie College in 1877, that of M.A. from the College of New Jersey in 1879, that of B.D. from Mount Allison, X. B., in 1883, and that of Ph.D. from Boston University in 1885. This record show's the scholarly tastes and ability of the man. He entered Princeton Seminary in 1877, and remained two years, after which he pursued his theological studies for a year at Edinburgh. He wras licensed by the Presbytery of Baltimore, April 9, 1879, and ordained Jan. 14, 1881, by the Presbytery of Wallace, X. S., being at the same time installed as pastor of the church at Amherst. After one very successful year, poor health obliged him to resign his charge. The next two or three years wrere devoted to the recovery of his health and to private study. He became pastor of the Knox Church, St. Thomas, Out., late
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in 1885, and held the place two years. The two years that remained to him were given to effort to regain health, hut with only partial and temporary success. He died suddenly, of heart disease, at his home in Toronto, Nov. 11, 1889, in the 36th year of his age. He was a man of unusual promise and attractive- ness, and his early death was deeply lamented.
He was married in Montreal, June 23, 1886, to Miss Florence A. Jordan, who survives him.
JOHN FRASER, JR.,
Son of John and Martha (Neilson) Fraser, was horn in Phila- delphia, June 17, 1861. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1888 and entered Princeton Seminary the same year. Before the close of his junior year his studies were inter- rupted by serious disease of the throat and lungs, which devel- oped rapidly as consumption, and caused his death at his home in Philadelphia, Oct. 31, 1889, in the 29th year of his age. His Christian earnestness and manliness had won for him great respect and esteem in hotli institutions at Princeton, and excited high hopes of usefulness in the ministry which it was not the Master’s will that he should enter.
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INDEX.
PAGE
Annan, William Wirt, 53
Archibald, Frederick William, 55
Bittinger, Edmund Coskery, 36
Bogle, John Alexander, 46
Boyd, James Robert, 18
Brown, Samuel, 24
Brugh, William Irwin, 47
Carter, Robert, 10
Cory, Jonathan, 36
Cross, Andrew Boyd, 27
DeForest, William Brintnal, . . . . • .... 31
Denton, Jonas, 31
De Yeuve, Prentiss, . 50
Dundas, .John Rankin, 34
Edgar, Edward Blanchard, 34
Evans, Charles Alexander, 37
Ford, Charles Ebenezer, 39
Forsyth, Walter, . . 53
Frame, Walter Reuben, 55
Fraser, John, Jr., 56
Greer, James, . 42
Hamill, Samuel McClintock, 14
Hassinger, Peter, . 18
Heacock, Joseph Smith, 44
Holley, Platt Tyler, 25
Howe, Samuel Storrs, 29
Hudson, John Paris, 21
Jagger, Samuel Hampton, 42
Johns, John Henry, 51
Leps, James Henry, 49
Lyon, Aaron Woodruff, 20
McCreary, James Black 19
McRoberts, Sidney Smith, 23
Mattoon, Stephen, ■ ... 44
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Millham, William Henry, 54
Nevin, Edwin Henry, 32
Nicoll, Robert Alexander, 26
Nixon, Hon. John Thompson, 11
Owen, Roger, 40
Phillips, Charles, 46
Pierson, David Harrison, . 43
Pomeroy, John Jay, 51
Quillin, Ezekiel, ... 33
Randolph, Bennington E., 11
Reid, William Henry, . . 54
Rosamond, James, 35
Salmon, Clark, 52
Silliman, Alexander Perry, . . 48
Simpson, Theodore William, 28
Smith, George Archibald, 16
Taylor, John Orville, 26
Thompson, William Sheridan, . . 41
Wilson, Samuel, 24
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 16
Zahniser, George Wright, 48
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