VOL. III.

PART 5.

SEE THIRD AND FOURTH PAGES OF COVER.

Necrological Report

PRESENTED TO THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Primtoh. Theological Seminary

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING

May ioth, 1904.

By the Secbetary.

PRINCETON, N. J,

C. 8. ROBIN8ON & CO., UNIVER8ITY PRINTER8. I 904.

Necrological Report

PRESENTED TO THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OF

Princeton Theological Seminary

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING

May ioth, 1904.

By the Secretary.

PRINCETON, N. J.

C. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. I 904.

NOTICE.

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The preparation of the Necrological Report has been committed by the Association to the Secretary, who earnestly solicits 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 grate- fully 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

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

FOR THE YEAR 1904-1905.

Rev. Edward B. Hodge, D.D., President.

Rev. John DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., Vice-President. Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, Secretary.

Rev. W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D. D., Treasurer.

Rev. J. Stuart Dickson, Rev. John B. Laird, Rev. Samuel C. Hodge,

Additional Members of the

Executive Committee.

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SUCCESSION OF OFFICERS.

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1873- 74.

1874- 75.

1875- 76.

1876- 77.

1877- 78.

1878- 79.

1879- 80.

1880- 81. 1881-82.

1882- 83.

1883- 84.

1884- 85.

1885- 86.

1886- 87.

1887- 88.

1888- 89.

1889- 90.

1890- 91.

1891- 92.

1892- 93.

1893- 94.

1894- 95.

1895- 96.

1896- 97.

1897- 98.

1898- 99.

1899- 1900,

1900- 01.

1901- 02.

1902- 03.

1903- 04.

1904- 05.

PRESIDENTS.

Key. John C. Backus, D.D., of Baltimore.

“ Charles K. Imbrie, D.D., of Jersey City.

“ E. P. Rogers, D.D., of New York City.

“ George Musgrate, D.D., LL.D., of Philadelphia.

“ Samuel Irenaeus Prime, D.D., of New York City.

“ James R. Graham, D.D., of Winchester, Va.

“ Henry H. Welles, of Kingston, Pa.

“ Wm. M. Paxton, D.D., LL.D., of New York City.

“ William C. Cattell, D.D., LL.D., of Easton, Pa.

“ William P. Breed, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ Henry J. Van Dyke, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.

“ Talbot W. Chambers, D.D., of New York City.

“ William Irvin, D.D., of Troy, N. Y.

“ Everard Kempshall, D.D., of Elizabeth, N. J.

“ Elijah R. Craven, D.D., LL.D., of Newark, N. J.

“ George Alexander, D.D., of New York City.

“ Thodore L. Cuyler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.

“ Charles L. Thompson, D.D., of New York City.

“ Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.

“ J. Addison Henry, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ George D. Baker, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ Howard Duffield, D.D., of New York City.

“ William Edward Schenck, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ John Fox, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.

“ Wallace Radcliffe, D.D., of Washington, D. C.

“ Henry van Dyke, D.D., LL.D., of New York City. “ J. Frederick Dripps, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ John R. Davies, D.D., of Philadelphia.

“ George T. Purves, D.D., LL.D., of New York City. “ *Samuel M. Studdiford, D.D., of Trenton, N. J.

“ Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.

“ A. Woodruff Halsey, D.D., of New York City.

“ Edward B. Hodge, D.D., of Philadelphia.

SECRETARIES.

1872-97. Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D., of Philadelphia.

1885-87. “ William H. Roberts D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.

1887- “ Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.

Honorary Secretary — Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D., 1897-1903.

TREASURERS.

1872-85. Rev. William Harris, of Princeton.

1885-93. “ William Henry Green, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.

1893- “ W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., of Princeton.

'Succeeded to the presidency, owing to the death of Dr. Purves, and presided in 1802.

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ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OF

PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

Princeton, N. J., May 10, 1904.

The Alumni Association met in Miller Chapel at 12.15 P. M., the President, the Rev. A. Woodruff Halsey, D.D., in the chair. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Edward B. Hodge, D.D., of Philadelphia. On motion the reading of the minutes of the last meeting was omitted.

The report of the Executive Committee was read by the Secretary and is as follows :

The Executive Committee would call to the attention of the Association the loss it has sustained in the death of its Vice-President, the Rev. Dr. William C. Stitt, whom it would have been glad to recommend for the office of President for the ensuing year. The Committee nominates for officers for the coming year :

President — The Rev. Edward B. Hodge, D.D., of Phila- delphia.

Vice-President — The Rev. Professor John DeWitt, D.D., of Princeton.

Secretary — The Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.

Treasurer — The Rev. Professor W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., of Princeton.

Additional members of the Executive Committee — The Rev. J. Stuart Dickson, of Philadelphia, the Rev. John B. Laird, of Philadelphia, and the Rev. Samuel C. Hodge, of Trenton.

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The report was received and the officers and other mem- bers of the Executive Committee nominated for the ensuing year were elected.

The Necrological Report was presented by the Secretary and a brief summary of it read (see page 257). The report was approved and ordered printed and distributed among the alumni. After the reading of the list of those who had died during the year, the Rev. Professor Henry C. Cameron, D.D., led the Association in prayer.

The report of the Treasurer, Professor W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., was presented by him, and having been received was referred to the following committee of audit, the Rev. L. C. Baker, and the Rev. A. A. Murphy, who having examined the accounts and found them correct, the report was adopted. On motion of the Rev. Dr. William L. McEwan, of Pittsburgh, the Treasurer was authorized to send out circulars calling for subscriptions to meet the expense of printing the Necrological Report, if he think it best to do so.

The Treasurer’s report is as follows :

William Brenton Greene, Jr., in account with the Alumni Associa- tion of Princeton Theological Seminary.

1903. Dr.

Subscriptions (see lists) $213.75

1903. Cr.

May 12. — Due the Treasurer May 5, 1903 $ 52.57

“ 12. — Stamped envelopes for circulars 21.20

“ 13.— “ “ “ “ .53

“ 27. — Addressing circulars 4.00

“ 27. — Postage for Necrological Report 27.00

Oct. 7. — Printing and enclosing Necrological Report 97.58

$202.88

Balance on hand May 10, 1904 10.87

$213.75

William Brenton Greene, Jr.,

Treasurer .

May 10, 1904.

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At this point the Association took a recess to meet at 1 P. M. in Stuart Hall for the Alumni Dinner, when its session was resumed, Dr. Halsey presiding. A blessing was asked by the Rev. William B. Bodine, D.D., of Philadelphia. At the close of the dinner speeches were made by President Patton ; by the Rev. Dr. Samuel J. Niccolls, of St. Louis ; by the Rev. E. P. Cowan, D.D., of Pittsburgh, representing the class of ’64; by the Rev. W. J. Holland, D.D., of Pittsburgh, repre- senting the class of ’74 ; by the Rev. C. A. R. Janvier, of Philadelphia, representing the class of ’84, and by the Rev. A. J. Weisley, of Trenton, representing the class of ’94. After singing one verse of the hymn, “Blest be the tie that binds”, the benediction was pronounced by Professor DeWitt and the Association adjourned.

JOSEPH H. DULLES,

Secretary.

Necrological Report

PRESENTED MAY 10, 1904.

The- Report for the past year includes notices of the President of the Board of Directors of the Seminary, the Rev. George Danielson Baker, D.D., an alumnus of the Seminary ; of another member of the same Board, also an alumnus, the Rev. William Edward Schenck, D.D., for many years the Secretary of the Board and for twenty-five years Secretary of the Alumni Association; of the Rev. John Dunlap Wells, D.D., a member of the Board of Trustees and an alumnus ; of the Vice-President of the Alumni Association, the Rev. William Christie Stitt, D.D., and of sixty-two other former students of the Seminary, making a total sixty-six. The notice of five of these should have been included in former Reports, but the fact of their death did not reach the Secretary in time. The number of deaths is the largest since 1875, when the Reports were first printed. The next largest was sixty-two in 1902, seven of whom died in previous years.

Of the sixty-six reported the oldest had reached the age of ninety-three years and eight months ; one other had passed his ninety-first year ; nineteen others their eightieth ; twenty -two others their seventieth, and eleven their sixtieth. The youngest died at the age of twenty-nine years and six months. The average age of the sixty-six was seventy years and eleven months. This age has been surpassed but twice, in 1890, seventy-two years, and in 1901, seventy-three years. The average for the past thirty years is sixty-seven years and two months. The average age at which sixty-three of those reported made a public confession of their faith was seventeen years.

This Report is remarkable for its long pastorates. Two lasted fifty- three years ; two others more than fifty years, with the relation of pastor emeritus for ten years more ; one continued forty-four years ; another, thirty- nine years ; another, thirty-eight years, and another, thirty-seven years.

JOSEPH H. DULLES,

. Secretary.

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The Report contains the following names :

DIRECTORS.

George Danielson Baker, D.D., President of the Board, Died.

Dec. 17, 1903.

William Edward Schenck, D.D., Dec. 14, 1903.

TRUSTEE.

John	Dunlap Wells, D.D.,	Oct.	31, 1903.
	ALUMNI.
Matriculated.		Died.
1833.	Thomas March Clark, D.D., LL.D.,	Sept.	7, 1903.
1835.	Parke Godwin,	Jan.	7, 1904.
1836.	James Augustus Platt,	March	6, 1899.
	Joseph Platt,	Jan.	11, 1904.
1838.	William Neill McHarg, D.D.,	March	30, 1904.
1839.	William Edward Schenck, D.D.,	Dec.	14, 1903.
1840.	Joseph Buck Stratton, D.D.,	Oct.	11, 1903.
	Joseph Dunlap Wells, D.D.,	Oct.	31, 1903.
1841.	Thomas Fraser, D.D.,	Oct.	25, 1903.
	J. Peter Lesley, LL.D.,	June	1, 1903.
	Nathan Grier Parke, D.D.,	June	28, 1903.
1842.	Joseph William Wallace,	Feb.	8, 1904.
1844.	James Gallaher Shinn,	Oct.	27, 1903.
1845.	Francis Braddock Dinsmore,	Feb.	21, 1904.
	Jonathan Osmond,	July	10, 1903.
1846.	Henry Alson Booth,	July	27, 1903.
	Alexander Dickson, D.D.,	Jan.	1, 1904.
	Richard Riley Evans,	July	2, 1903.
	Ambrose Yeomans Moore, D.D.,	Jan.	28, 1904.
1847.	Samuel Alexander Gayley, D.D.,	May	15, 1903.
	Joseph Menagh Rittenhouse,	July	20, 1903.
1848.	John Alexander Annin,	June	4, 1903.
	Robert Perry Farris, D.D.,	Aug.	28, 1903.
	Stuart Mitchell, D.D.,	Dec.	3, 1903.
	William Bell Stewart, D.D.,	April	6, 1903.
1849.	Hallock Armstrong,	March	12, 1904.
	Elias Schreyver Bronson, M.D. ,	Sept.	10, 1902.

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1852.	John Alexander Buckner,	Oct.	22, 1903.
	Henry Michael Giltner, D.D.,	April	7, 1903.
	Everard Kempshall, D.D.,	March	31, 1904.
	John Watt Montgomery,	Jan.	23, 1904.
	James Franklin Taylor,	Oct.	1, 1903.
1853.	Francis Bloodgood Hall,	Oct.	4, 1903.
	Samuel Cunningham Kerr,	Jan.	27, 1904.
1854.	Jeremiah Smith Gordon,	March	25, 1904.
	Arch. Alex. Edward Taylor, D.D., LL.D.,	April	23, 1903.
1855.	William Charles Roberts, D.D., LL.D.,	Nov.	27, 1903.
	Julius Spencer,	July	1, 1903.
	John Caldwell Thompson, D.D.,	June	6, 1903.
1856.	David Melville Heydrick,	Feb.	15, 1904.
	William LeRoy Kennedy,	Jan.	17, 1904.
1857.	William Christie Stitt, D.D.,	Jan.	2, 1904.
1858.	John Stottoff Beekman,	July	11, 1901.
	Robert Campbell McKinney,	June	17, 1903.
1860.	George Danielson Baker, D.D.,	Dec.	17, 1903.
1861.	Charles Fueller,	Jan.	8, 1904.
	Robert Maurice Luther, D.D.,	Sept.	28, 1903.
1862.	Philip Sidney Jennings, D.D.,	April	10, 1903.
1864.	William Matthew Hersman, D.D. ,	April	4, 1903.
	Charles Knepper,	April	3, 1903.
1866.	Samuel Valentine McDuffee,	Feb.	28, 1904.
1874.	William Laurence Ledwith, D.D.,	Feb.	28, 1904.
1875.	Charles Sydney Converse,	June	28, 1903.
1876.	Israel Wistar Hathaway, D.D.,	June	16, 1903,
1877.	John Wesley Cline,	March	11, 1904.
1878.	Edward Kirk Donaldson,	July	10, 1903.
	Clearfield Park,	Jan.	14, 1904.
	John Fremont Williamson,	Dec.	4, 1903.
1880.	Joseph Stonestreet Van Meter, D.D.,	March	8, 1904.
1881.	George Kerr,	Feb.	9, 1903.
1884.	William Thomas Parsons,	April	28, 1903.
1886.	William Hayes Moore,	Feb.	6, 1904.
1890.	George Hooper Bigelow,	Dec.	20, 1903.
1891.	William Alexander,	Nov.	15, 1897.
1892.	Charles Warner McCleary,	June	20, 1903.
1902.	Richard Franklin Powell, Jr.,	Aug.	8, 1903.

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DIRECTORS.

GEOP.SE DANIELSON BAKED, D.D.,

Son of Josiah Whitney and Abigail (Bates) Baker, was born Nov. 30, 1840, in Watertown, N. Y. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Washington Square Reformed (Dutch) Church of New York City at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Mt. Washington Collegiate Institute in New York and he graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1860. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1863. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York, Oct. 14, 1862, and ordained by the Presbytery of Watertown, June 29, 1864, being at the same time installed pastor of the Second (now Stone Street) Presbyterian Church of Watertown. He was released from this charge Nov. 1, 1867, that he might accept a call to the church at Oneida, N. Y. He was pastor of this latter church from Dec. 3, 1867, to July 28, 1871. His next pastorate was over the First Church of Detroit, Mich., from Oct. 3, 1871, to Dec. 12, 1884, when he left his large and successful work there to accept an urgent call to the First Church of Philadelphia. He was installed Jan. 18, 1885, and labored there with his accustomed whole-hearted zeal the rest of his life. He died suddenly of heart failure in his home in Philadelphia, two days after his return from the Presbyte- rian Hospital, where he had undergone an operation with apparent success, and from which it was hoped he would recover. His death occurred Dec. 17, 1903, a little more than two weeks after the completion of his 63d year. He was

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buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New York City. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Olivet College, Mich., in 1875. Dr. Baker was in many respects an ideal minister, being a good preacher, a wise administrator and a faithful pastor. He was prominent in the general affairs of the Church. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Princeton Seminary from 1888 until his death, and its president from 1899 until his death. He was president of the Board of Edu- cation from 1889 until his death. He was corresponding secretary of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, and president of the Christian League of Philadelphia. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Historical Society, and was also a member of the New England Society. He was prominently identified with the judicial case of Dr. Briggs, being chairman of the Assembly’s committee, having that case in charge. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Chicago in 1871; at Brooklyn in 1876; at Saratoga Springs in 1883; at Philadelphia in 1888; at Washington in 1893 and at Phila- delphia in 1901. He declined an election to a secretaryship of the Board of Foreign Missions, as well as that of the Board of Education. While in Detroit he was instrumental in founding the Helping Hand Society and the Farrand School for Nurses. He was successful in the attempt to raise a fund of $100,000 as an endowment for the First Church of Phila- delphia, thus assuring its continuance as a down-town church. During the Civil War he was the chaplain of a three months’ regiment. He wrote occasionally for the religious press. His services as a Director and as President of the Board of Direc- tors were of very great value, and he took an active interest in the affairs of the Alumni Association of the Seminary, of wdiich he was the president for the year 1893-94.

Dr. Baker was married Nov. 30, 1864, in New York City, to Gertrude Frelinghuysen Magie, who died Dec. 26, 1889.

WILLIAM EDWARD SCHENCK, D.D.,

Son of John Conover and Ann Brookes (Hutchinson) Schenck, was born March 29, 1819, in Princeton, N. J. He made a

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public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton at the age of twenty. He pursued his prepara- tory studies in the Princeton Academy under the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D., and then at the Edge Hill Seminary, Princeton, under Prof. Robert B. Patton. He graduated from Princeton University in 1838, and then studied law for a year with James S. Green, Esq., in Princeton. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1839, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1842. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 27, 1842, and ordained by the same Presbytery, Feb. 28, 1843, being at the same time installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Manchester (now Lake- hurst), N. J., from which he was released April 23, 1845. Previous to this pastorate he had for six months in 1842 engaged in missionary work in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, at Port Clinton, Tamaqua, Summit Hill and other places. After giving up his pastoral charge at Manchester he imme- diately began supplying the Hammond Street Church in New York City, and was installed its pastor May 16, 1847. This relation was dissolved Feb. 21, 1848. His next only other pastorate was over the First Church of Princeton, from May 7, 1848, until March 30, 1852. In the latter year he was induced to accept an invitation to become the superintendent of Church Extension in the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and labored as such for two years. In 1854 he was elected secre- tary of the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian Church, whose offices were in Philadelphia. This determined his work and his residence for the rest of his life. From May, 1863, until June, 1870, he was also editor of this Board. In 1870, at the reunion of the two branches of the Church, in the division of the work of the Board he became its Corresponding Secretary and continued as such until May, 1886, when he resigned, owing to the increasing infirmities of age. He resided in West Philadelphia until within a few years before his death, when he made his home with a son at Oakmont, Pa. There he died, Dec. 14, 1903, of general debility and heart failure, in the 84th year of his age. He was buried in the Princeton Cemetery. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from

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Jefferson College in 1859. Dr. Schenck was one of the most widely known ministers in the Presbyterian Church and was a frequent attendant at the General Assembly, because of his connection with one of its Boards, and often addressed that body. He was the permanent clerk of the Old School General Assembly from 1863 until 1870. He was a Director of Princeton Seminary from 1865 until his death, thirty-eight years, and was the secretary of that Board from 1870 until 1899. He was an earnest and untiring friend of the Seminary and was one of those who founded its Alumni Association in 1872, of which he was the first secretary. This office he held for twenty-five years, resigning in 1897 and being elected Honorary Secretary for life. For many years he prepared most of the sketches of the deceas- ed alumni for the Necrological Reports. Early in his career he declined a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster, Pa., and a little later one to the First Church of Brooklyn. Dr. Schenck travelled extensively in Europe and in the western part of his own country. Among his published writings are : — “Chil- dren in Heaven ; or The Infant Dead redeemed by the Blood of Jesus ” ; “ Nearing Home. Comforts and Counsels for the Aged ” ; “Aunt Fanny’s Home ” ; “ Historical Account of the First Pres- byterian Church of Princeton, N. J.”; “The Parting Commen- dation ’’ ; “ God our Guide ”, a sermon afterwards published as a tract ; “ The Faith of Christ’s Ministers ”, a sermon commem- orative of the Rev. Benjamin H. Rice, D.D.; “A memorial sermon on the Life and Labors of the Rev. Phineas D. Gurley, D.D.”; “ The Fountain for Sin and Uncleanness”; “Nearing Home,” and other sermons and addresses. He edited the Gen- eral Catalogue of Princeton Seminary, issued in 1881, and pre- pared the annual reports of the Board of Publication for thirty- one years, and the Biography of the Class of 1838 of Princeton College (1889). He was also a frequent contributor to the Princeton Press, the New York Observer, the Presbyterian, and other secular and religious journals. He was a member of the Reunion Committee of the Presbyterian Church from 1867 to 1870 and was a trustee of the General Assembly from 1865 to 1887.

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Dr. Schenck was twice married : (1) April 18, 1843, in Man- chester, N. J., to Jane Whittemore Torrey, who died March 9, 1856 ; (2) April 3, 1862, in Elizabeth, N. J., to Mary Blake Kittle, who died May 12, 1900. Two sons and four daughters by his first wife survive him.

See Sketch by Col. H. W. B. Woodhull in “ Biography of the Class of 1838 of Princeton College,” pp. 128-135.

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TRUSTEE.

JOHN DUNLAP WELLS, D D.,

Son of Solomon and Marion (Dunlap) Wells, |was bom Oct. 25, 1815, in Whitesborough, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Whitesborough at the age of seventeen. From the age of fifteen to eighteen he was a clerk in the office of the Oneida Cotton Factory at York- ville, N. Y. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Washington County Academy at Cambridge, N. Y., and also in the Mt. Pleasant Academy, Sing Sing, under the Rev. N. S. Prime, D.D. He entered Union College, Schenectady, in the sophomore year and graduated from that institution in 1838. He left college early in that year to take charge of the Greene Academy at Huntsville, Ala., but was given his diploma with the class of ’38. He closed his connection with the Greene Academy in the summer of 1840 and entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of that year. He was soon obliged to leave, however, on account of ill health and engaged in teach- ing in Philadelphia. He re-entered the Seminary in 1841, taking the full three-years’ course and graduating in 1844. He was licensed by the Presbytery of North River, Nov. 10, 1843. Immediately after leaving the Seminary he took charge of the private chapel of Mr. James Lenox at New Hamburgh, N. Y., serving it until November, 1844. The next month he began services in tbe “ Lenox ” Chapel on Madison Avenue and 29th Street, New York, and continued to serve it until 1847. From December, 1847, until the summer of 1849, he was principal of the parish school of the First Presbyterian Church of New York. He was ordained by the Presbytery of New York, Jan. 20, 1850, and at the same time installed pastor of the South

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Third Street Church of Williamsburg (now a part of Brooklyn). This, his only regular pastoral charge, he held until his death, a period of nearly fifty-four years. He died Oct. 31, 1903, in Brooklyn, of heart disease, six days after having completed his 88th year. His death was most peaceful. He was visiting a parishioner, and having asked her a question, quietly closed his eyes, laid one hand upon the other, and was at rest. He was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union College in 1864. Dr. Wells was a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Foreign Missions from 1854 and of the Board as now con- stituted since 1869, and its president from 1885 until his death. He was a trustee of Princeton Seminary from 1875 until his death. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Philadelphia in 1861, at Chicago in 1871, and at Springfield in 1882. Since 1881 he had the assistance of his son, Rev. Newell W. Wells, an alumnus of the Seminary, as co-pastor. This unusual relation continued harmoniously until broken by the father’s death. The golden jubilee of his pastorate was cele- brated in January, 1900. Dr. Wells published “ The Last Week in the Life of David Johnson, Jr.,” 1860 ; re-issued as “ Saved by Grace,” 1888; “Little Walter of AVyalusing,” 1862; “The Pastor in the Sick Room,” 1893 ; “ Fruits and Flowers,” a poem, beside many sermons. He was a most ardent friend of the Seminary and attended with the utmost regularity to his duties as a Trustee.

Dr. Wells was married May 1, 1849, in New York City, to Jessie Henderson, who died Dec. 23, 1871. Two sons and three daughters survive him.

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ALUMNI.

THOMAS MAECH CLASH, D.D., LL.D.,

Son of Thomas March and Rebecca (Wheelwright) Clark, was born July 4, 1812, at Newburyport, Mass. He made a public confession of his faith in the Yale College Church at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued under A. W. Pike in Newburyport and in the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and he graduated from Yale University in 1831. He spent the next two years in teaching, and entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1833, remaining two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Newburyport in May, 1835, but having deter- mined to enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church, he was ordained a deacon, Feb, 3, 1836, and a priest on Nov. 6, of the same year, in Grace Episcopal Church, Boston, by Bishop Gris- wold. He was rector of Grace Church, Boston, 1836-43; of St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia, 1843-47 ; assistant minister of Trinity Church, Boston, 1847-50; rector of Christ Church, Hart- ford, Conn., 1850-54. He was consecrated Bishop of Rhode Is- land, Dec. 6, 1854, with his residence at Providence. From 1854 to 1856 he was rector of Grace Church, Providence. In 1899 he became the presiding Bishop of the House of Bishops on the death of Bishop Williams, and was the first constitutional Presid- ing Bishop on the creation of that office in 1901. He died Sept. 7, 1903, in Middletown, R. I., suddenly of general debility, in the 92d year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery connected with St. Mary’s Church, South Portsmouth, R. I. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1851, and that of LL.D. from Brown University in 1860 and from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1867. Bishop Clark was a frequent lecturer, as well as a very popular

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one. He published many books, among which may he mention- ed : Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of Character, 1852 ; Primary Truths of Religion, 1872; Readings and Prayers for Aid in Private Devotions, 1887 ; Reminiscences, 1894; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher, and several hundred sermons, lectures, reviews, charges, essays, etc. He also made a long series of contributions to the New York Public Ledger.

He was married, Oct. 2, 1838, in Boston, Mass., to Caroline Howard, who died, Aug. 15, 1884. Two sons and one daughter survive him.

PARKE GODWIN,

Son of Abraham and Martha (Parke) Godwin, was born Feb. 25, 1816, in Paterson, N. J. He pursued his preparatory studies in Kinderhook, N, Y., and graduated from Princeton University in 1834. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1835, remaining somewhat more than a year. Having abandoned his intention of entering the ministry he began the study of law in Paterson, N. J., and was admitted to the Bar in St. Louis, Mo. He never settled in the practice of this profession. He was for a time in Louisville, Ky., but because of his strong opposition to slavery did not remain there. Returning to New York City he met William Cullen Bryant and through his influence devoted him- self to journalism, and was employed as temporary assistant on the Evening Post, holding this position from 1837 to 1843. From this latter date until 1886 he was the owner of the paper and its editor from 1843 to 1866. From 1866 to 1886 he was editor of the Commercial Advertiser. For a time he was connected with the old Democratic Review, founded by John L. O’Sullivan, and wrote for it many important articles. He was interested in the socialistic experiment at Brook Farm and for a time edited its newspaper, The Harbinger. He resided in New York City from his return from Louisville, until his death, which occurred Jan. 7, 1894, of old age, in his 88th j^ear. He was buried at Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. Mr. Godwin was deputy collector for the port of New York from 1844 to 1849. He took part in the movement which resulted in the organization of the Free Soil Democrats, and was a member of their convention held in Syracuse. Among

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his principal publications may be mentioned : — Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier, New York, 1844; Construc- tive Democracy; Vala, a mythological Tale, 1851 ; A Hand-Book of Universal Biography; Cyclopaedia of Biography, 1871; His- tory of France; Out of the Past, 1870; he edited a new edition of Bryant’s prose and poetical works in 6 volumes, New York, 1883-84, and published a New Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 1900.

He was married in 1842 in New York City to Fanny Bryant, daughter of William Cullen Bryant, who died June 23, 1893. One son and three daughters survive him.

JAMES AUGUSTUS PLATT,

Son of James and Eliza (Floyd) Platt, was born July 25, 1816, in Utica, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Albany, N. Y., at the age of nineteen, during the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Sprague. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Utica Academy, and at Kingsley and Bailey’s Select School in Utica, and he graduated from Hamilton College in 1835, being the valedictorian of his class. He studied law in an office in Utica for six months, and entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of 1836, remain- ing two years. As he himself stated, he left the Seminary, following in the footsteps of two of his classmates, after reading Sandeman’s Letters, holding the belief therein inculcated, that a special order, such as the clergy, was not needed in the Church of Christ. In accordance with these views he was never licensed or ordained. After leaving Princeton he studied medicine in Boston during the winter of 1838-39. He then lived for a time in New York City. Soon after his marriage in 1852 he went to Mineral Point, Wis., where he was engaged in farming and min- ing, until a few years before his death, when he returned east and made his home in Norristown, Pa., and later with one of his sons atPineville, Pa. He died in Norristown, March 6, 1899, of paralysis and the infirmities of age, in his 83rd year. He was buried in the Friends Burying Ground, Darby, Pa. He was, during all his life, much interested in religious and scientific subjects and frequently contributed articles to the public press.

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He was married, April 10, 1852, in Upper Darby, Delaware Co., Pa., to Elizabeth Sellers, who died Feb. 20, 1899. Two sons and one daughter survive him.

JOSEPH PLATT,

Son of Samuel and Jane (Duncan) Platt, was born May 8, 1810, in Londonderry, Ireland. He came to this country in his boy- hood. He united with the Presbyterian church of Springfield, Ky., at the age of eighteen. He was prepared for college in Danville, Ky., by the Rev. Dr. Rice and graduated from Centre College, Danville, in 1834. He then spent two years in teaching- in a classical school. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1836, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1839. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Transylvania, Oct- 29, 1839, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, Dec. 10, 1840. During the earlier years of his ministry he sup- plied the churches of Winchester, Ky., La Grange, Tenn., and Paris and West Urbana, 111. He suffered from infirm health, 1845-47, and engaged in teaching, 1848-49. After this he was stated supply of the following churches : Palestine, Shiloh and Robinson, 111., 1850 ; Rossville and Dayton, Ind., 1851 ; Ross- ville alone, 1852; Rossville and Lexinton, Ind., 1853; Lebanon, Prairieville and Hopewell, Ind., 1854 ; Indiana and West Salem, residing at Vincennes, Ind., 1855-56 ; Farmington, 111., 1857-59; Camp Creek, 111., 1860-62 ; Pittsfield, 111., 1862-64 ; Lennox and Shiloh, 111., 1864-66 ; Virginia, 111., 1867 ; labored as domestic • missionary in Franklinton, N. C., 1868-70; stated supply at Sugar Creek and Kirkland, Ind., 1870—73 ; at Rock Creek, Ind., 1873-74 ; Bardolph, Ind., 1874-78. At this time the growing infirmities of years caused him to withdraw from the active duties of the ministry. He resided thereafter in Kansas City, Mo., from 1879 to 1892, and, an honorably retired minister, in Davenport, la., from 1892 until his death, which took place in Davenport, Jan. 11, 1904, of old age, in his 94th year. He was buried at Davenport.

Mr. Platt was married three times : (1) June 13, 1843, in Waveland, Ind., to Elizabeth Catherine Fullenwider, who died (2) Oct. 18, 1870, in Crawfordsville, Ind., to Dorcas Haynes Wilson, who died July 8, 1898 ; (3) Sept. 23,

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1891, in Kansas City, Mo., to Eliza Hamilton, who with one son and one daughter by his first wife survives him.

WILLIAM NEILL McHARG, D.D.,

Son of William and Sophia (King) McHarg, was born Oct. 1, 1816, in Albany, N. Y. He united on confession of his faith with the First Presbyterian Church of Albany at the age of eighteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Albany Academy under Principal T. Romeyn Beck, and graduated from Union College in 1838. Entering the Seminary at Prince- ton in the fall of the same year, he spent two years there and then took the third year of his theological course in the Yale Divinity School. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Albany (N.S.),Sept. 9, 1841, and ordained by the Presbytery of Niagara, Oct. 27, 1842, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Albion, N. Y. He was released from this charge Nov. 6, 1850. During the year before his ordination he sup- plied the Congregational church at Ridgebury, Conn., from September, 1841, until March, 1842. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ithaca, N. Y., from Dec. 18, 1850, until April 29, 1857, and of the church at Lyons, N. Y., from Oct. 19, 1858, to Aug. 10, 1862. He was then professor of Latin in Ham- ilton College from September, 1862, until August, 1869; supplied the Congregational church at Hamilton, N. Y., 1871-72, and the Presbyterian church at Albion, N. Y., 1872-73. At this time he moved to Blue Rapids, Kan., and supplied the Presby- terian church there from 1877 to 1896. Being then eighty years old, he was obliged to cease from active work, but con- tinued his residence in Blue Rapids until October, 1891. From that time until his death he lived in Pueblo, Colo. He died there March 30, 1904, of the infirmities of age, in his 88th year. He received the degree of D.D. from Highland University, Kans.

Dr. McHarg was married June 10, 1846, in Buffalo, N. Y., to Selima Storrs, who with two sons survives him.

WILLIAM EDWARD SCHENCK, D.D.

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JOSEPH BUCK STRATTON, D.D.,

Son of Nathan Leake and Hannah (Buck) Stratton, was born Dec. 24, 1815, in Bridgeton, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, under the Rev. Dr. Boardman, at the age of twenty-four. His preparatory studies were pursued in the High School at Lawrenceville, N. J., under the Rev. Isaac N. Brown, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1833, being but eighteen years old. After leaving Princeton he engaged in the study of law and was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia in 1837. He practiced law for the next three years. His conversion and identification with the Church of Christ as an avowed believer led to his dedication of himself to the service of his Master in the Christian ministry, and he entered the Seminary of Prince- ton in 1840, taking the full three years’ course there and gradu- ating in 1843. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadel- phia Jan. 6, 1843, and ordained by the Presbytery of Mississippi Dec. 31, 1843, being at the same time installed pastor of the church of Natchez, Miss. This was his only pastorate and con- tinued more than fifty years, the relation being dissolved April 14, 1894, after which Dr. Stratton was pastor emeritus until his death. Thus his connection with the church as pastor and pastor emeritus covered a period of sixty years. He died at Natchez Oct. 11, 1903, of paralysis, in the 88th year of his age. He was buried in the city where he had labored so long. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Princeton University in 1856. Dr. Stratton was one of the most prominent ministers in the Southern Presbyterian Church. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly that met in Baltimore in 1868 ; in Columbus, Miss., in 1874, and in Lexington in 1883. He was elected Professor of Church Government and Pastoral Theology in Danville Seminary in 1858, but felt obliged to decline. He was sent by the Southern Assembly as a delegate to the Northern Assembly to announce the consummation of fraternal relations between these bodies, which duty he performed at Saratoga Springs in 1884. Among other writings he published “ Truth in the Household,” 1857 ; “ Memorial of a Quarter Century Pastorate,” 1869 ; “Anniversary Discourses,” 1869 ;

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“A Plea for the Rights of Christ’s Body,” 1870; “Confessing Christ,” 1880; “Following Christ,” 1884; “Prayers for Fam- ilies,” 1888. Beside these, many sermons and other discourses were published, and he wrote many articles for the religious press.

Dr. Stratton was married twice : (1) Oct. 8, 1844, in Phila- delphia, to Mary Vanuxem Smith, who died Dec. 22, 1848; (2) Nov. 16, 1852, in Natchez, Miss., to Caroline M. Williams, who with one son by his first wife survives him.

See Article by J. W. Henderson in the Southwestern Presbyterian, Nov. 26, 1903.

JOHN DUNLAP WELLS, D.D.

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THOMAS FRASER, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Thomas and Margaret (McKnight) Fraser, was born Nov. 18, 1820, in Dalkeith, Scotland. He was brought to this country in early life and on June 29, 1839, at the age of eighteen he made a public confession of his faith in the Re- formed (Dutch) Church of Sharon Springs, N. Y. He was pre- pared for college by his father and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1841. In October of the same year he entered the Seminary at Princeton, withdrawing at the close of April, 1842. He spent the following year in private study, returning to Princeton in the fall of 1843, completing his course there and graduating in 1845. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York, April 7, 1845, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, May 8, 1846. He engaged in home missionary work in Wisconsin from 1845 to 1852, explor- ing the destitute regions of that state and founding churches. He was then stated supply at Newbern, N. C., 1852-53, and at Little Rock, Ark., 1854-60. From 1860 to 1867 he engaged in home missionary work at Santa Rosa, Bodega, Tomales, Bloom- field and Two Rocks, Cal. During the year following he sup- plied the First Church of Portland, Or., and then from October, 1868, to October, 1883, was the synodical missionary for the Synod of Pacific. He was professor of systematic theology in ' the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1886-92. During six months of the year, 1893, he supplied the Makawo Church

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at Maui, Hawaiian Islands. He resided during latter years of his life in Oakland, Cal., where he died, Oct. 25, 1893, of pneumonia, within a few weeks of the completion of his 84th year. He was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Oak- land, Cal. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union College in 1887. Dr. Fraser was moderator of the first Synod of Wisconsin. He organized more than one hundred churches in the states of Wisconsin, California and Oregon. It was his special pleasure to engage in such pioneer work.

He was married, June 2, 1859, in Little Rock, Ark., to Mrs. Julia (McMillin) Beebe, who died June 18, 1882. He is survived by a daughter and a stepson.

See Pacific Presbyterian, Nov. 12, 1903.

J* PETER LESLEY, LL.D.,

Son of Peter and Elizabeth Oswald (Allen) Lesley, was born Sept. 17, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Phil- adelphia at the age of thirteen. His early studies were pur- sued at first for six years with William Craig Tucker on Arch St., Philadelphia, and then for three years in the school of Samuel W. Crawford of the same city. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838. After this he worked as an assistant on the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania from early in 1839 until 1841. It was while engaged in this work that his former plans of entering the minirtry revived and he entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of 1841, remain- ing somewhat more than two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 4, 1844. He declined ordination in 1844 because he wished to study in Europe > and again afterwards because he wished to devote himself to colportage in Pennsylvania. His license was withdrawn, May 5, 1848. He spent the jmar 1844—45 in Europe, chiefly with Tholuck, Erdmann and Ulrici at Halle, and on his return took up the work of a colporteur in northern and central Pennsylvania under the American Tract Society, visiting from house to house in the woods of that sparsely settled region.

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In October, 1847, he accepted a call to the Milton Congrega- tional Church, n6ar Boston, and continued to preach there as an unordained minister until 1850, when he settled in Phila- delpia as a professional geologist. At this time his theologi- cal views had become less strictly orthodox and more in har- mony with unitarianism. In 1855 he became secretary of the American Iron Association and in 1858 secretary and libra- rian of the American Philosophical Society. He continued to be librarian until he resigned in 1884, and secretary until elected vice-president in 1887, which latter office he held until 1897. During his official connection with the Society he was the editor of its Proceedings and Transactions, and contributed sixty-five papers to them. In 1873 he became professor of geology in the University of Pennsylvania and the year following the state geologist of Pennsylvania. In 1878 he was obliged to cease his teaching work in the Univer- * sity, on account of the stress of his other duties, and in 1886 he received the title of professor emeritus for the rest of his life. In the summer of 1897 he gave up his residence in Philadelphia, on account of increasing ill health, and moved to Milton, Mass., the scene of his only pastoral charge. He died there, June 1, 1903, of apoplexy, in the 84th year of his age. His body was cremated, at his own desire. He published hed much. Among other works may be mentioned : Address to the Suffolk North Association, 1849 ; Manual of Coal and its Topography, 1856; Guide to the Iron Works of the U. S., 1858 ; Man’s Origin and Destiny, Lowell Lectures, 1868 ; Report, a Historical Sketch of Geological Explorations in Pennsyl- vania, 1876; Report P 4, a Dictionary of the Fossils of Penn- sylvania, 3 volumes, 1889-90, and many other geological me- moirs and reports. Of a lighter vein was his Paul Dreifuss, His Holiday Abroad, 1882. In 1884 he was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of many learned societies : of the National Academy of Science ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; of the Boston Natural History Society ; of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia ; foreign member of the Geolog- ical Society of London ; associate member of the Society ge-

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ologique du Nord ; member of the Moscow Imperial Society of Naturalists ; of the Emden and Neufchatel Academies ot Science ; and of the Lille Academy of Natural Science. The degree of LL.D. was given him by Trinity College, Dublin.

He was married, in January, 1847, to Susan Incees Lyman, who died Jan. 16, 1904. Two daughters survive him.

See Biographical Notice of J. Peter Lesley. By B. S. Lyman ; in the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. New York Meeting, October, 1903.

NATHAN GRIER PARKE, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Samuel and Patty (Grier) Parke, was born Dec. 16, 1820, at Slate Ridge, York Co., Pa. He united with the Presbyterian Church of Slate Ridge at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Slate Ridge Acad- * em}r under James D. Scott, Andrew Happer and Thomas Lewis, and he graduated from Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College in 1840. He spent the next year at home reading history with his father. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1841, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1844. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal, April 19, 1843, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Luzern, July 7, 1846. Soon after his gradu- ation from Princeton he set out on horseback for the Wyoming Valley and arrived at Wilkes Barre June 1, 1844. The next Sunday he began his labors in Pittston. This was the start- ing point of his ministry. The circuit of his ministerial labors included many other points for miles around, one of which was what is now the city of Scranton. June 6, 1847, he was installed pastor of the church at Pittston. At first Scranton was included in his pastoral charge. He had the unique ex- perience of having served only one church and that for fifty years. He was released from his charge, June 4, 1894, and was its pastor emeritus till his death. The event of his half century of service was duly celebrated. He died June 28, 1903, at Glen Summit, Pa., of pneumonia, in the 83rd year of his age. He was buried in the Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes Barre, Pa. He received the honorary degree of D.D.

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from Washington and Jefferson College in 1884. Dr. Parke was frequently honored by the Church with responsible posi- tions. In 1867 he represented the General Assembly before the Assemblies of the Free and the United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at New Orleans in 1858, at Albany in 1868, at De- troit in 1872, at Saratoga Springs in 1890, and at Winona Lake in 1898. He was a frequent contributor to the various discussions that engrossed the Church from time to time, writing many articles for the religious press. He also published “ Slavery as it is a “ History of the Presbytery of Luzern”, and a “ History of the Pittston Presbyterian Church”.

He was married, June 8, 1847, in Wilkes Barre, Pa., to Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve, who died May 9, 1900, three years after the celebration of their golden wedding. Three sons and one daughter survive him.

See History of the Presbytery of Luzern. By J. Osmond. Pp. 145-162.

JOSEPH WILLIAM WALLACE,

Son of John and Elizabeth (Dunlap) Wallace, was born Nov. 29, 1821, in Fayette County, Ivy. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Danville, Ky., at the age of eighteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in Fayette County under Rev. S. D. Stuart, Prof. Thomas Nichols and Rev. Jared INI. Stone, successively, and graduated from Centre College, Ky., in 1840. He then spent two years in teaching and study. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1842, taking the full three years’ course there and gradu- ating in 1845. He was licensed by the Second Presbytery of a New York, April 16, 1845, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Lexington (O. S.), Oct. 14, 1846, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Mt. Sterling, Ky., from which he was released Sept. 4, 1850. From October, 1850, until October, 1856, he was stated supply of the Versailles and Clear Creek churches, Ky., and then engaged in missionary work in Jackson County, Mo., from 1857 to 1858. He was stated supply of the Salem and High Grove churches, Mo., 1858-61 ; engaged in teaching in Fulton, Mo., 1863-65 ; labored as mis-

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sionary in Jackson County again, 1866-07; was"*stated supply at Lee’s Summit, Mo., 1868-84, and of the Central Prairie Church, now named Wallace in his honor, 1873-93. He was at this time compelled to abandon continuous and regular work on account of increasing years. While at Fulton he had been professor of the English School in Westminster College, 1863-64, and teacher in the Female School 1864-65. He resided in Independence, Mo., from 1883 until his death there, Feb. 8, 1904, of malnutrition of the nerve centers, in the 84th year of his age. He was buried at Independence. Mr. Wallace was a commissioner to the southern General Assem- bly which met at Dallas, Tex., in 1895.

He was married twice : (1) Jan. 11, 1848, in Clark County, Ky., to Ann Elizabeth Hockady, who died Aug. 10, 1851 ; (2) Sept. 17, 1855, in Fulton, Mo., to Mrs. Jessamine (Young) Ryley, who with four sons by his first wife and three by his second survives him.

JAMES GALLAHER SHINN,

Son of Col. John and Mary (White) Shinn, was born April 13, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Academy on Fourth St. near Arch, Philadelphia, under Thomas McAdam ; and under the Rev. Samuel W. Crawford, D.D., and Henry H. Gregory, D.D., Philadelphia, and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1844. Entering the Seminary at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course and graduated in 1847. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 7, 1847, and ordained by the Presbytery of Iowa, Nov. 3, 1848, being at the same time installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Burlington, la. He was released from this charge Dec. 22, 1851. He was then pastor of the Richmond Church, Philadelphia, from Jan. 5, 1853, to Oct. 1, 1861, when he entered the service of the U. S. Government as chaplain of the 23rd regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, con- tinuing such until 1864. During the next year he served as chaplain at the Satterlee Heights Hospital in Philadelphia.

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From 1866 to 1873 he was principal of a Classical and English Academy in Philadelphia, and during five years of this time the chaplain of the Soldiers’ Home in the same city. He supplied the missionary churches of Waterford, Atco and Berlin, N. J., from 1873 to 1878, and after this was pastor of the Waterford church from May 14, 1878, until Nov. 30, 1880, and from 1877 to 1880 maintained a Home Boarding School for Boys. He then moved to Atlantic City, N. J., where he engaged in teaching until 1900, and where he resided until his death, Oct. 27, 1903, of chronic diarrhoea and dropsy, in the 82d year of his age. He was buried in the South Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.

Mr. Shinn was twice married : (1) Aug. 1, 1848, in Philadel- phia, Pa., to Eliza Louisa Davis Hill, who died March 29, 1867 ; (2) Sept. 19, 1887, in Philadelphia, to Mary Cecilia Shoemaker, who with two sons and three daughters by his first wife survives him.

FRANCIS BRADDOCK DINSMORE,

Son of Moses and Irenaea (Braddock) Dinsmore, was born April 22, 1817, in Greene County, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Wolf Run, Pa., at about the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in the West Alexander Academy, Pa., under the Rev. John McCloskey, D.D., and he graduated from Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College in 1843. He then taught for six months in the Hickory Academy, Washington County, Pa., and after that for thirteen months with Dr. McCloskey in the West Alexander Academy. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1845, as a middle year student, and remained nearly two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Wash- ington, April 22, 1847, and ordained by the Presbytery of Iowa, June 20, 1849, being at the same time installed pastor of the Mt. Pleasant and Trenton churches, la. He was released from these churches May 24, 1852. For the next year he was pro- fessor of Latin in Des Moines College, la. In 1854 he began serving the Unity Church, la., as pastor elect and was in- stalled over it the following year, and continued in this charge until 1859, with his residence at Morning Sun, where he lived

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a year longer. He was then stated supply at Mt. Pleasant, la., 1860-62, and at Trenton, la., 1862-63, where he further resided in infirm health until 1872. With health somewhat restored he supplied the church at Pisgah, Mo., 1873-74; but his health again giving way, he moved to Hopkins, Mo., where he resided until 1S77. His last ministerial labors were as stated supply of the church at Long Branch, Mo., from 1878 to 1883, in which latter year he was honorably retired from active duty. After this he resided in Gaynor City, Mo., until January, 1904, when he moved to Maryville, Mo., and died there, Feb. 21, 1904, of pneumonia, in the 87th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery at Long Branch, Mo.

Mr. Dinsmore was twice married: (1) June 3, 1847, in Washington County, Pa., to Jane Patterson, who died Feb. 6, 1895 ; (2) Oct. 28, 1898, to Louisa C. Hopkins, who with three sons and one daughter by his first wife survives him.

JONATHAN OSMOND;

Son of William and Elizabeth (McClurg) Osmond, was born Dec. 13, 1820, near Oxford, Chester Co., Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Oxford at the age of twenty-two. He studied in the Hopewell Academy, Pa., under Thompson Hudson, and then pursued advanced studies in the New London Academy. Chester Co., Pa. He never enjoyed a collegiate education, but studied the classics and philosophy while engaged in teaching in the New London Academy. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1845, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1848. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April 12, 1848, and ordained by the Presbytery of Luzern, May 4, 1849, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Newton, Pa., which he had been serving as supply since May, 1848. He was released from this charge in September, 1857. During its con- tinuance he engaged also in teaching. He was then stated supply of the Eckley and White Haven churches, Pa., from November, 1857, to August, 1863 ; of the Fairview, Solon and Unity churches, Iowa, from August, 1863, to May, 1868 ; at Osceola and Afton, la., 1868-71 ; pastor at Osceola from Oct. 24, 1871, to Oct. 15,

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1874 ; stated supply of the Russel Church from April, 1875, until installed its pastor, Nov. 14, 1878. He was released from this church, May 14, 1882. After this he was stated supply of the New Sharon and Mariposa churches, la., 1884-87, being, during this time, the Presbyterial missionary for the Presbytery of Des Moines. He engaged in missionary work in North Dakota, 1887-88, and in Washington Territory in 1889. During five months of this year he supplied the White River and Renton churches. From July, 1889, to July, 1891, he was stated supply of the Third (now Calvary) Church, Tacoma, Wash., after which he engaged in irregular missionary work until September, 1892. After this he was pastor at large for the Presbytery of Olympia, with his residence in Tacoma, until his death, which occurred there, July 10, 1903, of paralysis, in the 83rd year of his age. He was buried at Tacoma. When supplying the Fairview, Solon and Unity churches, he was principal of an Iowa City school for one year and superintendent of the County schools for two jTears. He was permanent clerk of the Presbytery of Luzern for three years ; stated clerk of the Presbytery of Des Moines for eight years, and of the Presbytery of Olympia for three years. He was a member of the Iowa State Historical Society and a trustee of Parsons College, Iowa. He published a “ History of the Presbytery of Luzern,” 1897.

He was married, Oct. 24, 1848, in Oxford, Pa., to Margaret Francina Murdagh, who with one son survives him.

HENRY ALSON BOOTH,

Son of Abram Seabury and Lucinda (Sanford) Booth, was born July 13, 1817, in Newtown, Conn. He united with the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, Mo., at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pursued in John Anderson’s Select High School in New Albany, Ind., and he graduated from Miami University in 1846. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1849. He was licensed by the Presbytery of St. Louis, June 21, 1849. and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, Oct. 21, 1849.

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From June, 1849, he supplied the church at Feefee, Mo., until installed its pastor, Jan. 16, 1854. This relation was dissolved Oct. 10, 1857. During a part of this time he was also stated supply of the church at Des Peres, Mo., 1849-53. From Dec. 25, 1853, until Dec. 25, 1872, he was pastor of the church at Bonhomme, Mo. After this he was stated supply of Peverly, Washington and Maline, 1873-74; of Jennings in 1874, and of Des Peres a second time, 1875-76. He then resided for a time at Price, Mo., doing evangelistic work as oppor- tunity offered. His last pastoral charge was the church at Bonhomme, of which he had previously been the pastor for nineteen years, and to which he ministered again from 1883 to 1885. At this time ill health compelled him to cease from the active duties of the ministry. He resided in Santa Ana, Cal., from 1885 until his death, which occurred there, July 27, 1903, of old age, two weeks after he had completed his 86th year. He was buried at Santa Ana.

Mr. Booth was twice married: (1) July 11, 1850, in St. Louis County, Mo., to Clarissa Jane Barber, who died Feb. 2, 1865 ; (2) Oct. 24, 1867, at Carondelet, Mo., to Mrs. Sophronia (Bates) Hammond, who survives him, with one son and one daughter by his first wife and one son and one daughter by his second.

ALEXANDER DICKSON, D.D.,

Son of Alexander and Margaret (Herron) Dickson, was born Dec. 25, 1825, in Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland. Pie came to this country when a boy. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Lansingburg, N. Y., at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Lansingburg Academy under the Rev. Ebenezer Maltby, and he graduated from Union College in 1846. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining somewhat more than two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 26, 1848, and ordained by the Classis of Watervlietof the Reformed Church, May 16, 1849, being at the same time installed pastor of

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the Reformed church at Waterford, N. Y. This relation was dis- solved April 21, 1852. He was then pastor of the Third Reformed Church of Albany, N. Y., from Nov. 20, 1853, to June 24, 1860. This was his only other settled pastorate. He supplied the Dudley Reformed Church of Albany from 1860 to 1862. The remainder of his life was spent in Lansingburg, N. Y., in literary work and occasional preaching. He died there, Jan. 1, 1904, of bronchial pneumonia, one week after the completion of his 78th year. He was buried in the Rural Cemetery, Waterford, N. Y. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union College in 1877. Dr. Dickson was the author of “ All about Jesus,” 1875, which was translated into several foreign languages and had a very great sale. He published “ Beauty for Ashes ” in 1878, which also had a large sale.

He was married, Dec. 18, 1850, in Lansingburg, N. Y., to Alida Lansing, who died Dec. 31, 1903, only twelve hours before her husband.

RICHARD RILEY EVANS,

Son of Ephraim and Catherine (Lamberson) Evans, was born June 4, 1818, in Smith (now De Kalb) County, Tenn. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Somerville, Tenn., at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Mountain Academy, Tipton County, Tenn. r under James Holmes, D.D. He taught school for two years before going to college, and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1846. Entering the Seminary at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1849. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Western District, July 21, 1849. For six months after this he was the agent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Western District, Sept. 8, 1850, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Salem, Tenn. On Oct. 5 he was installed over the Germantown Church. He had this double pastorate until Sept. 10, 1870, when he was released from the Salem Church ; but continued to be the pastor of the Ger- mantown Church until his death, the long period of fifty-three years. During this pastorate he supplied several other churches,

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devoting to them a part of his time. He preached his first and last sermon in the same church, that of Carmel, near Covington, after an interval of sixty years. He died July 2, 1903, in Cov- ington, Tenn., of fever and old age, in his 86th year. He was buried in the Elwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.

He was married, Feb. 14, 1861, in Shelby County, Tenn., to Margaret Jane Wilson, who died May 2, 1901.

AMBROSE YEOMANS MOORE, D.D.,

Son of Burrowes and Elizabeth (Reed) Moore, was born Feb. 8, 1823, in Danville, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of White Pigeon, Mich., at the age of nineteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Milton Academy, Pa., under David Kirkpatrick, and in the White Pigeon Branch of the University of Michigan. He took a part of his collegiate course in the University of Michigan, but went from there to Princeton College, graduating from the latter in 1846. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1849. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 26, 1848, and ordained by the Presbytery of Lake, Indiana, Jan. 23, 1850. In October, 1849, he began serving the church at South Bend, Ind., and was installed its pastor, Nov.'lO, 1850. This relation was dissolved, Aug. 4, 1861. He was then principal of the Valparaiso Collegiate Institute, Ind., from August, 1861, to August, 1862. He spent the next three years in hospital ser- vice as chaplain in the U. S. Army, at Evansville, New Albany and Madison. At the close of the war he engaged in missionary work as presbyterial missionary of the Presbytery of Lake, from November, 1865, to March, 1866. He was pastor of the church at Crown Point, Ind., from May 15, 1866, to April 10, 1869, and then of the Bloomington First Church, Ind., until its union with the Second Church (N. S.), April 19, 1870, the united church being called the Walnut Street Church. He -was installed its pastor, April 27, 1870, and released from it, June 1, 1877. After this he was stated supply of the Upper Indiana Church from Feb. 1, 1878, until installed its pastor, May 18, 1879, the relation being dissolved, Nov. 1, 1883. He further served the following

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churches in Indiana, in which state all his ministerial career was passed: Lexington, as pastor elect from November, 1883, to May, 1884; Bethlehem and West Union, as pastor from June 10 1884, to April 30, 1886, and Hanover and Sharon Hill, as pastor from May 1, 1886, to May 26, 1896, with his residence at Hanover. In 1887 he was made treasurer of Hanover College, and during the rest of his life served the college faithfully as treasurer and trustee. He died in Hanover, Jan. 28, 1904, after a brief illness, within a few days of the completion of his 81st year. He was buried in the Hanover cemetery. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hanover College in 1892. Dr. Moore was stated clerk of the Presbytery of New Albany for sixteen years. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Indianapolis in 1859, at Saratoga Springs in 1883, at Detroit in 1891, and at Philadelphia in 1901. He published a “History of the Presby- tery of Indianapolis,” and the “ Life of Schuyler Colfax.”

He was married, Jan. 7, 1849, in Troy, N. Y., to Julia Frances Rogers, who with an adopted daughter survives him.

See A Blessed Memory. By Pres. D. VV. Fisher. 1904.

SAMUEL ALEXANDER GAYLEY, D.D.,

Son of Daniel and Anne (Fife) Gayley, was born at Castleberg, Ireland, Dec. 11, 1822. He united with the Associate Presby- terian Church of his native place at the age of sixteen. Coming to the United States, he landed at Wilmington, Del., June 9, 1842, and was prepared for college there in the Classical Institute of Wilmington, under his uncle, the Rev. Samuel M. Gayley. Before coming to America he had been under the tuition of a catholic priest in Castleberg. He entered the sophomore class of Lafayette College in 1844 and graduated from that institution in 1847. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1850. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April 11, 1849. For a year after his leaving the Seminary he engaged in missionary work within the bounds of the Presbytery of Luzern at White Haven and Weatherly, Pa., and vicinity. He organized a church at White Haven. He was ordained

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by the Presbytery of Northumberland (0. S.), May 28, 1851, and on June 3rd installed pastor of the Great Island Church, Lockhaven, Pa., from which he was released, April 15, 1856. His only other pastoral charge was that of the Lower West Nottingham Church, Md., from June 18, 1859, to June 4, 1893. The relation had been dissolved by Presbytery, April 19. He served this church during the unusual period of thirty-seven years. He was its pastor emeritus after his formal release from it until his death. In the course of this pastorate he was for a time, from April 1866, until June 1872, principal of the West Nottingham Academy, and from it sent a number of young men to the Theological Seminary. He resided at Wayne, Pa., after the dissolution of the pastoral relation, yet was frequently called to the scene of his former labors, to supply the pulpit, bury the dead, baptise the children and marry the youth of his beloved people. ( He died May 15, 1903, in Kensington, Md., of apoplexy, having been stricken on the 11th of the same month, in the 81st year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of the Lower West Nottingham Church. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lafayette College in 1884. Dr. Gay ley, with his classmates, Dr. Logan of Scranton, Dr'. Childs of Washington, Dr. Graham of Winchester, Va., Dr. Simonton of Washington, Pa., and Dr. Tully of Media, Pa., came to Princeton in 1900 to celebrate with them the semi-centennial of their graduation from the Seminary. This was the first formal observance of such an anniversary in the history of the Seminary. Three of those present were in the active pastorate at the time.

Dr. Gayley was married twice : (1) Feb. 26, 1852, in Balti- more, Md., to Agnes Malcolm, who died Dec. 17, 1889; (2) Jan. 28, 1892, in South Boston, Mass., to Mary Jane Fenelly, who died January, 1901. Five sons survive him.

JOSEPH MENAGH RITTENHOUSE,

Son of Elijah and Anna fMenagh) Rittenhouse, was born June 8, 1825, in Ringwood, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of his native place, Dec. 8, 1844, at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies were pursued at Easton, Pa., under the Rev. John Vanderveer, D.D., with

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whom he engaged in teaching for a year before going to college. He graduated from Princeton College in 1847. After this he again taught in Dr. Vanderveer’s school for nearly a year. He matriculated in the Seminary at Princeton, April 18, 1848, spending two consecutive years there and parts of two other years, his course being interrupted by illness. His last connec- tion was with the class graduating in 1852. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Raritan, Oct. 8, 1851, and ordained by the Presbytery of Donegal, Nov. 10, 1853, being at the same time installed pastor of the Middle Octorara and Strasburg churches, Pa. He was released from the latter, Oct. 5, 1859, and continued pastor of the former until Sept. 23, 1873, when ill health com- pelled him to cease from ministerial labor for a time. He resided at Nottoway Court House, Va., from 1873 to 1879. With returning health he engaged in missionary work among the negroes under the Board of Missions for Freedmen, particularly at Nottoway Court House and Burkville, where, after much opposition, he succeeded in establishing churches, as he did later at Jetersville and Crewe. He was obliged to retire from active work in 1901, and took up his residence in Crewe, Va., where he remained until his death, July 20, 1903, of paralysis, soon after the completion of his 78th year. He wras buried at Nottoway Court House, Va.

He tvas married, Dec. 29, 1852, in Barbertown, N. J., to Sarah C* Hand, who with one son and one daughter survives him. They had had thirteen children.

JOHN ALEXANDER ANNIN,

Son of William and Sarah (Kirkpatrick) Annin, was born Sept. 29, 1824, at Liberty Corner, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N. J., at the age of eighteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Greenbrook Family School in Plainfield, N. J., and graduated from Princeton College in 1846. During the next twro years he engaged in teaching with Mr. Woodbridgeat Perth Amboy, N. J. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848, taking the full

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three years’ course and graduating in 1851. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, April 18, 1850, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, Oct. 8, 1851. He was stated supply of the church at Franklin, O., 1851-52, and then of the church at Cedarville, N. J., until his ordination as its pastor, May 17, 1853. He was released from this charge, June 19, 1866. After this he was stated supply at! Red Wing, Minn., 1866-67 ; pastor of the church at Lake City, Minn., from June 25, 1868, to Oct. 1, 1869 ; engaged in home missionary work at Las Vegas, N. Mex., at first under the care'of the Foreign Board and then of the Home Board, from 1869 to 1880 ; and finally supplied the church at Rolla, Mo. from 1880 until installed its pastor, Dec. 12, 1881, in which relation he continued until July 19, 1900. During this pastorate he supplied the church at Cuba, 1880-1900, and also the church of Elk Prairie, 1883-1900. In the latter year he was honorably retired from the active duties of the ministry. He died June 4, 1903, in Rolla, Mo., after a long illness and much suffering, of softening of the brain and kidney disease, in the 79th year of his age. He was buried at Rolla.

Mr. Annin was married Sept. 25, 1851, in Boston, Mass., to Elizabeth Dyer Fisher, who with one son and two daughters survives him.

ROBERT PERRY FARRIS, D.D.,

Son of Robert Pattishall and Catharine Ann (Cross) Farris, was born Sept. 6, 1826, in St. Louis, Mo. He made a public confes- sion'of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, at the age of twenty-one. He attended the St. Louis University two and a half years, and was graduated from St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, in 1844. Both of these institutions were controlled by the Jesuits. He then entered the sophomore class of Yale University, graduating with the class of 1847. For a year after this he read law with the Hon. Trusten Polk in St. Louis. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848, remaining two years. He studied theology a third year with the Rev. Dr. N. L. Rice and James Hoge in the Cincinnati Theological Seminary. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of St. Louis (O. S.),

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May 21, 1851, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, Nov. 14, 1852. Prior to his ordination he had supplied the church at Bonhomrae, Mo., for a year, 1851-52. He was then stated supply of the Park Avenue Church, St. Louis, 1852-53. Going to Peoria, 111., he founded the Second Church of that city in 1853 and served it as supply until Aug. 12, 1855, when he was installed its pastor. This relation was dissolved April 16, 1859. At this time his health becoming impaired he abandoned, tem- porarily, the pastorate and acted as agent for the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, now McCormick, for a year, 1859- GO. In the latter year he assumed charge of the church at St. Charles, Mo., which he served as pastor elect until 1868. This was his last pastoral charge, as the nervous strain of the work proved too severe for his system. He acted as secretary of missions for Old School Synod of Missouri from 1866 to 1874. But his chief work was done in connection with the religious press. He was editor of the St. Louis Presbyterian from 1866 to 1895, nearly thirty years. This paper was later absorbed by the Christian Observer. During a part of 1902 Dr. Farris supplied the Cook Avenue Church of St. Louis. He died Aug. 28, 1903, in St. Louis, of a stricture of the aesophagus, within nine days of the completion of his 77th year. He was buried in the Belle- fontaine Cemetery of St. Louis. He received the honorary degree of D.D., from Westminster College, at Fulton, Mo., in 1866. Dr. Farris was connected with the southern branch of the Presby- terian Church and was one of the best known of its ministry. He was the permanent clerk of the southern Assembly from 1885 until his death. He was moderator of the southern Assembly which met at Staunton in 1881.

Dr. Farris was married Aug. 3, 1848, in Cincinnati, 0., to Eliza Seymour Bowen, who with 'one son and one daughter survives him.

See article by Rev. J. A. Quarles, D.D.,in the Southwestern Presby- terian, Sept. 17, 1903.

STUART MITCHELL, D.D.,

Son of Daniel and Letitia (Bailey) Mitchell, was born in Bucks County, Pa. His parents died when he was an infant and he

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did not know certainly the date of his birth. The probable time was November, 1824. He was adopted by James Stuart and Martha Ann (Mitchell) Stuart, his aunt, and brought up by them. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1842, at the prob- able age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in Philadelphia under Prof. Caspar R. Gregory, D.D., and he gradu- ated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, being the valedictorian of his class. He entered the Seminary at Prince- ton the same year, taking the full three years’ course and gradu- ating in 1851. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 5, 1850, and ordained by the Presbytery of Wyoming (now Genesee), Oct. 22, 1852, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Warsaw, N. Y., which he had been supplying since May. He was released from this charge, May 3, 1855. He then supplied the churches of Newport and Kilbourn City, Wis., from July, 1855, to March, 1863, and the church at Groveland, N. Y., from the spring of 1863 to the summer of 1864. From this time until the fall of 1868 he labored as a district missionary in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He then returned to Philadelphia in ill health and spent the next two years mainly in travel in Europe and the East. From Sept. 10, 1870, to May 22, 1871, he supplied the Second Church of Altoona, Pa. In March, 1872, he began serving the church at Bloomsbury, Pa., and was in- stalled its pastor, Oct. 17 of that year. He was released from this charge June 5, 1888, that he might accept a call to the church at Mt. Carmel, Pa., over which he was installed July 11, 1899, and from which he was released April 15, 1901, being made pastor emeritus. He continued his residence atMt. Carmel until his death there, Dec. 3, 1903, after having suffered for many years from rheumatism, soon after the completion of his 79th year. He was buried at Muncy, Pa. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hanover College, Indiana, in 1878. Dr. Mitchell was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Nash- ville in 1855, at Columbus in 1862, at Madison in 1880 and at Portland in 1892. He published “Jonah, the Self-willed Prophet,” 1875 ; “ The Church, its Constitution and Govern- ment,” 1860; a tract, “The Healing Spring,” and a pamphlet,

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“ The Day of Small Things,” beside sermons and newspaper articles.

He was married twice: (1) Oct. 16, 1854, in Warsaw, N. Y., to Jane Frank Patterson, who died March 13, 1864; (2) April 6, 1875, in Muncy, Pa., to C* Janet Patrikin, who with one daugh- ter survives him.

WILLIAM BELL STEWART, D.D.,

Son of William Bell and Isabella (Craig) Stewart, was born Oct. 10, 1818, in Venango Township, Butler Co., Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Washington, Pa., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Preparatory Department of Washington College, under Rev. David Ferguson, D.D., and he graduated from Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College in 1844. He then spent nearly two years in the Western Theolog- ical Seminary at Allegheny. From the spring of 1846 until the fall of 1848 he engaged in teaching, first in the Cumberland Academy, Md., and then in Greencastle, Pa. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848, remaining nearly a year. He left just before the Commencement as he was not allowed to graduate by the existing rule which required student residence for more than one year. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1849, and ordained by the Presbytery of Baltimore, July 28, 1850, being at the same time installed pastor of the Govane Presbyterian Church, which he had been serving as stated supply for a year. This relation was dissolved April 15, 1852. From 1852 to 1855 he was principal of the Govanstown Female Seminary, and during part of this time, 1753-54, he supplied the Chestnut Grove and Bethlehem churches, Md. He was then principal successively of the following schools : the Mt. Washington Female College, 1855-57 ; Raymond Colle- giate Institute, N. Y., 1857-59 ; the Peekskill Academy, 1859-60. From Oct. 1, 1860, until May 8, 1864, he served the First Church of Pottstown as pastor elect. From June 1, 1864, to April 1, 1870, he was district secretary of the American and Foreign

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Christian Union. He then served the Congregational church of Spencerport, N. Y., as pastor elect from April, 1870, until April, 1873 ; and the Presbyterian church at Port Henry, N. Y., also as pastor elect, from 1873 to 1876. He was pastor of the Presby- terian church at Fort Edward from July 11, 1876, until Aug. 9, 1878 ; and pastor elect of the Second Congregational Church of Coventry, N. Y., 1879-80, and of the Presbyterian church at Batchellerville, N. Y., 1882-83. After this he resided at Moreau, Saratoga County, N. Y. (p. o. Fort Edward). He was secretary of the Pennsylvania branch of the American Tract Society from 1884 until 1893. He died at Fort Edward, N. Y., April 5, 1903, of the grippe, followed by heart failure, in the 85th year of his age. He was buried at Fort Edward. He received the honor- ary degree of D.D. from the Highland University, Kans., in 1878. Dr. Stewart published a number of sermons and news- paper articles.

He was married Oct. 28, 1847, in Greencastle, Pa., to Cath- erine Mitchell, who died Jan. 5, 1901. Two sons and one daughter survive him.

HALLOCK ARMSTRONG,

Son of James Thompson and Ruth (Hallock) Armstrong, was born Oct. 31, 1823, at Minisink, Orange Co., N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Wantage, N. J., at the age of fourteen. Before going to college he studied at home with such assistance as he could get from several Presbyterian ministers. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1848. He then taught a select school at Friendsville, Pa., for one year. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1849, he remained somewhat more than two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Susquehanna, Feb. 5, 1851. He was stated supply of the church at Nanticoke, Pa., 1851-53, teaching in the Wilkes Barre Academy at the same time. During the next three years he supplied the church at Portage, N.Y., and taught in the Bethany Presbyterial Academy of that place. He was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Susquehanna, April 14, 1857. He engaged in teaching at Laporte, Pa., 1856-59, and in missionary work in Sullivan County

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from 1856 to 1862. During the hist three years of this time he was superintendent of the schools of that county. He was stated supply and teacher at Monroeton, Pa., 1862-64; chaplain of the 50th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers of the United States army, 1864-65. Returning to Monroeton after the war, he was pastor of the church there from September, 1865, to September, 1881, teaching also during this pastorate. For the next ten years, 1881-91, he was stated supply of the Wells and Columbia churches, Pa. ; and of the Beecher’s Island Church, Nelson, Pa., from 1891 to 1901, after which he was honorably retired from the active work of the ministry. In April, 1902, he took up his residence in Athens, Pa., and died there, March 12, 1904, of the infirmities of age, in his 81st year. He was buried in the Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens, Pa. As seen above Mr. Armstrong combined teaching with pastoral work during nearly all of his ministry, in the course of which he wrote about one thousand sermons.

He was married, Sept. 2, 1851, in Harford, N. Y., to Mary Matilda Bronson, who died March 12, 1890. Four sons and two daughters survive him.

ELIAS SCHRYVER BRONSON, M.D.,

Son of the Rev. Asahel and Mary (Tompkins), Bronson, was born Oct. 22, 1825, in Yorktown, N. Y. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Clintonville, N. Y., at the age of seventeen. He studied under various teachers in Clintonville, but never had the advantage of a college education. Before coming to Princeton he taught in a private academy and in the public schools of New York state. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1849, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1852. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Columbia (now Albany), April 8, 1851. After leaving the Seminary he engaged in missionary work in Fairfax County, Va., 1852-53, and as colporteur of the Board of Publication, 1853-54. At about this time he deter- mined to study medicine and graduated from the Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1859. During the next three years he prasticed medicine in New York state, engaging

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at the same time in evangelistic work. From 1863 to 1865 he was acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, serving at Vicksburg, Miss., in the hospital at Yorktown, Va., and was in charge of the smallpox general hospital at Point Lookout, Md. In the latter, there being no chaplain attached to it, he held religious services and performed the main duties of a chaplain. After the war he engaged in the practise of his profession in West Virginia, at first at Buckhannon, and then at French Creek. He was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of West Virginia, April 20, 1874, that he might more freely engage in such evangelistic work as offered. He preached for ministers of all evangelical denominations, and engaged in Sabbath School work and Bible class teaching as circumstances and his health per- mitted. Injuries received during the war interfered with his health during all the subsequent years. His ministerial labors were performed in Upshur, Lewis and Brayton Counties, W. Va. From the fall of 1878 till the spring of 1880 he resided in Elk City, W. Va., and then two years in Peel Tree, W. Va. During the remaining years of his life he lived and practised his profession at French Creek, W. Va., where he died, Sept. 10, 1902, of chronic diarrhoea and malarial poison, in the 77th year of his age. He was buried in the French Creek Cemetery. Dr. Bronson was medical examiner of the National Life Insurance Company of Washington, D.C., in 1869, and was vice-president of the West Virginia State Medical Society in 1871.

He was married, Aug. 28, 1873, in Frenchton, W. Va., to Mrs. Nancy (Smith) Smallridge, who with two sons survives him.

COL. JOHN ALEXANDER BUCKNER,

Son of Henry M * and Ethelina Elizabeth (Conn) Buckner, was born Aug. 15, 1832, in Burlington, Ky. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Danville, Ky., at the age of nineteen. He attended schools in Covington and Dan- ville and graduated from Centre College, Ky., in 1852. In the fall of the same year he entered the Seminary at Princeton, re- maining somewhat more than a year. He then took a partial

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course in medicine in New York City, in preparation for work in the mission field, to which he had dedicated himself. During the year 1854-55 he studied theology in Union Seminary, New York. He was neither licensed nor ordained, on account of ill health. He went to Brazil, engaging in missionary labor in Rio Janeiro until the fall of 1856, when he returned to his Kentucky home. After a short stay there, he went to Carroll Parish, La., and purchased a plantation, becoming a successful planter. In September, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army at Hop- kinsville, Ky., and was madecaptain ofCompany A, 8th Kentucky regiment. In July, 1862, he was selected to succeed Major Pickett as assistant adjutant general upon General Breckinridge’s staff. He was later promoted to the rank of major and subsequently brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry in battle. At the close of the war he returned to his plantation in Louisiana, where he continued to reside near Illawara, until his death, Oct. 22, 1903, at “ The Mounds ”, of intussusception, in the 72d year of his age. He was buried in the Highland Cemetery, Kenton Co., Ky. He was for a time president of the Board of Commissioners of East Carroll Parish, La.

Col. Buckner was twice married : (1) April 7, 1859, in Carroll Parish, La., to Melinda Mason, who died Sept. 9, 1863 ; (2) May 7, 1866, in New Orleans, La., to Sue A. Covington, who died June 27, 1880. One daughter by his second wife survives him.

HENRY MICHAEL GILTNER, D.D.,

Son of Abraham and Nancy (Liter) Giltner, was born Dec. 30, 1827, in Clark Countjq Ind. He united with the Indiana Creek Presbyterian Church (0. S.), at the age of eighteen. His prepar- atory studies were pursued in the Preparatory Department of Hanover College, from which institution he graduated in 1852. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1855. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Madison, May 23, 1855, and ordained an evangelist by the same body two days later. He then went as the first missionary of the Board of Domestic Missions to the Territory of Nebraska. He organized the First Church of Nebraska City in the same year, serving it as stated

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supply until his installation as its pastor, June 17, 1860. He was released from this charge, April 8, 1864. For a year there- after he engaged in work as a district missionary in S. W. Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. He was stated supply of the church at Pawnee City, Neb., from 1865 till installed its pastor, Oct. 10, 1869, and was released, April 10, 1871. After this he was the pastor of the Summit and Ebenezer churches, Neb., from October, 1872, to September, 1875; stated supply of the Thornton and Otis churches, 1876-78, and during the same time, of the Aurora and Unity churches, of which two he was the pastor from 1878 to 1884 ; stated supply of Verona, Union and Thornton, 1884-87, and of Marquette and Unity, 1887-90. All of these churches were in the state of Nebraska, where his entire ministerial life was spent. From 1890 until 1895 he engaged in evangelistic work in Logan and Hamilton counties, and was then honorably retired from the active duties of the ministry. He resided during the last years of his life in Aurora, Neb., and died, April 7, 1903, in the 76th year of his age. He was buried in the Aurora cem- etery. He received the degree of D.D. from Hastings College, Neb., in 1895. Dr. Giltner was the pioneer of the Presbyterian Church in Nebraska. He organized its first church and erected its first house of worship. He organized the second Sunday School in the territory, and was the chaplain of its second legislature.

He was twice married : (1) May 23, 1855, in Hanover, Ind., to Susan Esther Gregg, who died Jan. 19, 1893; (2) June 8, 1897, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Mrs. Lois M. Eckerson, who survives him, with two sons and four daughters by his first wife.

EVERARD KEMPSHALL, D.D.,

Son of Thomas and Emily (Peck) Kempshall, was born Aug. 9, 1830, in Rochester, N. Y. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Rochester High School, of which the Rev. Chester Dewey, D.D., was the principal. He graduated from Williams College in 1851, and about this time, when twenty years of age, he made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Rochester. After graduating

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from college he spent a year in a somewhat desultory fashion and entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1852, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1855. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York, April 18, 1855, and ordained, Jan. 15, 1856, by the Presbytery of Buffalo, being at the same time installed pastor of the Delaware Street Pres- byterian Church of Buffalo. He was released from this charge in November, 1857, on account of ill health. He was not long idle, for on Dec. 20, 1857, he began work as stated supply of St. Peter’s Church, Rochester, N. Y., and served this church until May 16, 1858. He spent the next five months in Europe and on his return became stated supply of the church at Batavia, N. Y., ministering to it from Oct. 31, 1858, until May 5, 1861. He had but one other pastorate, being installed pastor of the First Church of Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 18, 1861, and released from this charge Nov. 15, 1899, after having served it thirty- eight years. He was then honorably retired and continued his residence in Elizabeth until his death, which occurred March 31, 1904, in Elizabeth, of heart failure caused by an acute attack of indigestion, in the 74th year of his age. He was buried at Rochester, N. Y. During his long pastorate in Eliz- abeth Dr. Kempshall acquired a wide influence in his state and beyond its borders. He was President of the New Jersey State League and took an active part in the warfare against race track gambling in New Jersey, and it was largely through his influence that horse racing in the state was abandoned. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Princeton Uni- versity in 1870. Dr. Kempshall was moderator of the Synod of New Jersey in 1877 ; he attended the General Assembly at Rochester in 1860, as a commissioner, and at Newark in 1864; at St. Louis in 1866; at Brooklyn in 1876; at Pittsburgh in 1878 ; at Saratoga Springs in 1883 ; at Philadelphia in 1888 ; at Saratoga Springs again in 1890, and at St. Louis in 1900. He was a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian Council at Belfast in 1884. From 1879 to 1900 he was a Director of Princeton Seminary, and was a director of the American Bible Society. For a long time he was the President of the Alumni Associ- ation of Williams College. He was President of the Alumni

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Association of the Seminary in 1886-87. He published a number of sermons.

He was married, June 14, 1859, in Troy, N. Y., to Miss Charlotte Augusta Eaton, who died Nov. 7, 1894. An only son died a year before his father.

See New York Observer, April 28, 1904, pp. 523-525.

JOHN WATT MONTGOMERY,

Son of David and Jane (Watt) Montgomery, was born Oct. 24, 1825, in Caswell, N. C. He united with the Presbyterian church at Gilead, N. C., at the age of nineteen. He studied at Cedar Grove, N. C., under Samuel Hughes, but never enjoyed a college career. After engaging in teaching for four years he spent two years in Union Theological Seminary, Va. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1853 as a senior, he took the third year of his course there. He was licensed by the Pres- bytery of Orange, July 2, 1852, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery the day following. He engaged in mis- sionary work with the Antioch and Pacolet churches, S. C.; 1853-54; began supplying the church at Bethesda, S. C., June 19, 1854, and was installed its pastor, Aug. 26, 1855, the relation being dissolved, June 2, 1866; was stated supply at Occala, Fla., 1866-70; at Flemington and Walthourville, Ga., from 1870 until installed pastor in 1873, being released in 1890, and stated supply at Dorchester, Ga., 1890-93. Moving to Texas, he served the La Grange church for one year ; Tanglewood and Dime Box for three years, then Dime Box and Winchester for four years, until 1900. He served the church at Giddings, where he had his residence, from 1892 until his death, retaining charge of the Winchester church also until his death. He died at Giddings, Jan. 23, 1904, of cystitis, having been in feeble health for some time, in the 79th year of his age. He was buried at Giddings.

Mr. Montgomery was twice married : (1) Dec. 20, 1856, in Oaks, N. C., to Annie Jean Bingham, who died May 4, 1881 • (2) Aug. 9, 1887, in Walthourville, Ga., to Mrs. Matilda (Fleming) Walthour, who with one son and two daughters by his first wife survives him.

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JAMES FRANKLIN TAYLOR,

Son of William and Margaret (Coleman) Taylor, was born Nov. 4, 1824, in Penn Yan, Gates Co., N. Y. He united with the Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan on confession of his faith at the age of fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Franklin Academy, Pittsburgh, Pa., under Seth B. Cole. He entered Amherst College in 1848 and leaving it went to Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., from which he graduated in 1852. Before his graduation he studied theology for one term at the Associate Reformed Seminary in Newburgh, N. Y. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1852 in the middle year and remained two years. He was licensed by the Ontario Congregational Association, N. Y., June 29, 1853, and ordained by a Congregational council of ministers at Pekin, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1855. From November, 1854, until the same month in 1856 he supplied the Congregational church at Pekin, N. Y. During the winter of 1856-57 he attended lectures in Yale College and Divinity School. After this he supplied the Congregational church at Newark, 111., from December, 1857, to October, 1859, and engaged in missionary work at South Bend, Ind., from January to October, 1860. He then supplied the following Congregational churches : — Chelsea, Mich., from October, 1860, until October, 1867 ; Saugatuck, Mich., from April, 1868, until April, 1877 ; Ganges, Mich., from 1877 to 1879. After this he retired from continuous ministerial work, although he supplied various churches for a few months at a time on several occasions, taking up his residence at Lake Ridge Farm, two miles from Douglas, Mich., where he died, Oct. 1, 1903, of Bright’s disease, in the 79th year of his age. He was buried in the Saugatuck village cemetery. He received the degree of A. M. in course from Union College. Mr. Taylor was a member of the County Board of School Examiners of Allegan County, Mich., from August, 1881, until August, 1891, and was for twenty years the superintendent of the Sunday School of the Congregational church at Douglas.

He was married, Oct. 14, 1858, in Penn Yan, N. Y., to Mary L. Porter, who died Nov. 19, 1896. One son and two daughters survive him.

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FRANCIS BL00DG00L HALL,

Son of Nathanael Nye and Margaret Eliza (Bloodgood) Hall, was born Nov. 16, 1827, in New York City. He united with the First Presbyterian Church of Schenectady, N. Y., June 27, 1847, at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Albany Academy, N. Y., and then for a year with the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proudfit in Schenectady, and he graduated from Union College in 1852. After leaving college he studied for one year with the Rev. Dr. Trumbull Backus in Schenectady. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1853, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1856. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Albany, May, 12, 1856, and ordained by the same Presbytery, Feb. 17, 1862, being at the same time installed pastor of the Rockwell’s Falls Presbyterian Church, with his post office at Luzerne, N. Y. Oct. 17, of the same year, he was elected by the officers of the 16th N. Y. Volunteers, 6th corps of the army of the Potomac, their chaplain, and went with them to the field. He procured a supply for his church, with the consent of his session. He was mustered out of the national service, May 22, 1863 ; his substitute supply continued his labors in the Rock- well’s Falls Church and he went to Plattsburgh, N. Y. In July, 1863, he was engaged as supply by the First Church of Platts- burgh for four months. In January of the year following he was asked to continue as supply for a year longer. This invitation he declined. Feb. 24, 1864, the Peristrome Pres- byterian Church was founded, and to it he ministered from that time until his death. The church was an independent organization, at no time connected with the General Assembly, although its pastor was a member of the Presbytery of Champlain. Mr. Hall, being a man of independent means, served the church without salary and declined all fees for marriages or other ceremonies. His pastorate covered nearly forty years. He died Oct. 4, 1903, of bronchial pneumonia, in Plattsburgh, in the 76th year of his age. He was buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh. While a chaplain Mr. Hall received a medal from the government for distin- guished bravery during the battle of Salem Heights, Va. He

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refused all compensation from the government for his services as chaplain. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly which met in Cincinnati in 1885.

He was married, May 15, 1856, at Hartford, Conn., to Frances De Lord Webb, who survives him.

SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM HE RE,

Son of James Elder and Nancy (Cunningham) Kerr, was born, March 5, 1828, in Buckship Township, Ross Co., O. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Greenfield, O., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Greenfield Academy, under Professors Blair and McFarland, and at South Salem, O., under Prof. J. A. I. Lowes, and he graduated from Miami University in 1853. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining two years. He spent the next year in the Theological Seminary at New Albany, Ind. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Chillicothe, June 4, 1856, and then served, as stated supply, the following churches : Sigourney, la., 1856- 57 ; Amanda, la., 1857-58, and Dunlapsville, Ind., 1859-60. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Oxford, Nov. 4, 1862, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Harrison, 0. This relation was dissolved April 5, 1865. His further pastoral labors were as stated supply of the following churches : Wil- liamsburg, O., 1867-68; St. Mary’s, O., November, 1869, to November, 1871 ; Bloomville, 0., from Nov. 15, 1871, to Nov. 15, 1872, and Mt. Sterling, 0., from June, 1873, to June, 1876. After this he was engaged in literary and evangelistic work, residing at Lyndon, 0., until his death, which occurred at Lyndon, Jan. 27, 1904, of old age and general debility, in his 76th year. He was buried at South Salem, 0. Mr. Kerr pub- lished, among other writings, “The Jewish Church in its Rela- tions to the Jewish Nation and to Gentiles,” “ The Primary Ideas of Biblical Science,” “ Seventy Questions and Answers,” and “The Facts Fundamental as Terms to the Gospel.”

He was married, Dec. 2, 1856, in Oxford, 0., to Charlotte Ann Harrison, who with two sons and one daughter survives him.

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JEREMIAH SMITH GORDON,

Son of Alexander and Joanna (Fullerton) Gordon, was born Aug. 18, 1829, in Greencastle, Pa. He made a public confession of bis faith in the Presbyterian Church of Greencastle at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the West Jersey Academy at Mount Holly, N. J., of which the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., was the principal. From September, 1848, until August, 1850, he assisted Dr. Miller in the work of the school. He graduated from Princeton College in 1853 and then spent sixteen months as a tutor in the family of the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer of Burlington, N. J. Entering the Seminary at Princeton at 1854, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1857. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle, June 17, 1857, and ordained by the same Presbytery, June 17, 1858, being at the same time installed pastor of the Lower Path Valley and Burnt Cabins churches, Pa., which he had been serving as stated supply since November of the preceding year. This was his only pastorate, and was terminated by his death, after a service lasting more than forty-four years. He died March 25, 1904, in Fannettsburg, which had been his residence during his long pastorate, of diabetes in the 75th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery near Fannettsburg. He wa4 for a time chairman of the Committee of Aid for Schools and Colleges of Carlisle Presbytery.

Mr. Gordon was twice married : (1) Dec. 12, 1860, in Fannettsburg, Pa., to Mary Catherine Montgomery, who died Oct. 23, 1864; (2) May 29, 1867, in Fannettsburg, to Margaret Beatty Kyle, who survives him, with one son by his first wife and two sons and two daughters by his second.

ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER EDWARD TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D,,

Son of Edward Taylor, M.D., and Penelope Virginia Gordon, was born Aug. 27, 1834, in Springfield, O. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Bain- bridge, O., at the early age of ten years. His preparatory studies were pursued in the school of Mr. E. S. Brooks, in

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Cincinnati, 0., and he graduated from Princeton University in 1854. Entering the Seminary at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course and graduated in 1857. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Cincinnati (0. S.), June 17, 1857, and ordained by the Presbytery of Louisville (O. S.), May 6, 1858, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Portland, Ky., which he had been serving as stated supply since Sept. 13 of the previous year. This relation was dissolved Sept. 1, 1859. He was then pastor, successively, of the First Church of Dubuque, Iowa, from Nov. 11, 1859, to April 15, 1865 ; of the Bridge Street Church, Georgetown, D. C., from May 6, 1865, to May 25, 1869, and of the Mt. Auburn Church, Cincinnati, 0., from July 23, 1869, until August, 1873. He was editor of “Our Monthly” from 1870 to 1871. He gave up pastoral work to accept a call to the presidency of Wooster University, and held this office from September (he was inaugurated Oct. 7th), 1873, until June 20, 1883. After retiring from the presidency he had charge of the post-graduate department for some time. He was professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic and dean of the post-graduate depart- ment from June, 1885, until June, 1887. He became editor of the “ Midcontinent ” of St. Louis, in March, 1888, and continued such until October, 1891, and also served the church at Fer- guson, Mo., as stated supply from Oct. 13, 1889, until May 17,

1891. His last regular ministerial labor was as stated supply of the Westminster Church of Columbus, O., from Nov. 13,

1892, until installed its pastor, April 25, 1893, and then in this more intimate relation until his release from his charge, April 11, 1899. He continued his residence in Columbus thereafter until his death, April 23, 1903, after a lingering illness, of paresis, in the 69th year of his age. He was buried in the Spring Grove, Cemetery, Cincinnati, 0. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wooster University in 1872, and that of LL.D. from both Wooster and Princeton Universities in 1883. Dr. Taylor was a member of the Presbyterian Board of Edu- cation at one time, and of the Board of Church Erection. He was also a director of McCormick Seminary and of the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny. He had the

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unusual experience of being five times the moderator of his Synod. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly that met at Newark, N. J., 1864; at New York City, 1869; at Cin- cinnati, 1885, and at St. Louis, 1900. Dr. Taylor published : Our fallen leader, 1865 ; Remarks at the funeral of Carrie Peck, 1869; Social problems, 1871; Proper love of self, 1872; In memoriam : Samuel S. Fischer, 1874 ; Secular education, 1876; God’s hour in the week; The Soul’s only refuge; Public worship a divine ordinance ; Claudia Procula and other verses, 1899. He was also a frequent contributor to the religious press, aside from his editorial work.

He was twice married : (1) Aug. 2, 1858, at Freehold, N. J., to Annie Vanderveer, who died Feb. 5, 1867 ; (2) May 21, 1868, at Munson Hill, Va., to Lucy Eleanor Munson, who with one son by his first wife and one daughter by his second survives him.

WILLIAM CHARLES ROBERTS, D.D., LL.D.,

Son of Charles Cross and Magdalene (Evans) Roberts, was born Sept. 23, 1832, at Alltmar, near Aberystwith, South Wales. He united on confession of his faith with the “ Tabernacle ” of the Calvinistic Methodist, or Welsh Presbyterian Church, at Aberystwith, at the age of fourteen. He pursued his prepara- tory studies at first in the Evans Academy of Aberystwith, and then, on coming to America in May, 1849, in the Pierson Classi- cal School of Elizabeth, N. J., under the Rev. Dr. D. H. Pierson. Before going to college he spent a year or two in business. He graduated from Princeton College in 1855. Entering the Semin- ary at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1858. During the two vacations of his seminary career he read law. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Passaic, April 22, 1857, and ordained by the Pres- bytery of New Castle, Oct. 13, 1858, being at the same time installed pastor of the First Church of Wilmington, Del. This relation was dissolved, Oct. 7, 1862. He was then pastor of the First Church of Columbus, 0., Nov. 1862, to Oct. 21, 1864; of the Second Church of Elizabeth, N. J., from Nov. 1, 1864, to Feb. 21, 1866, and of the Westminster Church of Elizabeth,

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from March 7, 1866, to June 25, 1881. He was called from this charge to become the Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Home Missions in New York City. He held this office until 1886, when he accepted a call to the presidency of Lake Forest University. In 1893 he resigned the presidency to again assume the duties of secretary of the Home Board. After five years of further useful service as a secretary of the Church, he was sum- moned to the presidency of Centre College at Danville, Ky., in 1898. At the time of his death he was president of Central University at Danville, a union of Central College of Richmond, Ky., and Centre College of Danville. He died in Danville, Nov. 27, 1903, of paralysis, in the 72d year of his age. He was buried at Elizabeth, N. J. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union College in 1871, and that of LL. D, from Princeton University in 1886. He was a trustee of Princeton University from 1866 to 1886, and for a time a trustee of Lafayette College. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Newark, 1864; New York, 1869; St. Louis, 1874; Pittsburgh, 1878; New York, 1889, and Saratoga Springs, 1890. He was moderator of the Synod of Columbus in 1864, of the Synod of New Jersey in 1875, and of the General Assembly in 1889. He was chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on the Revision of the Confession of Faith, 1890-93, and a member of the First, Third and Sixth Councils of the Reformed Churches at Edinburgh, Belfast and Glasgow'. He was a fellow of the American Geographical Society, a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and of the committee that established Wooster University. Dr. Roberts was an extensive traveller, having crossed the ocean many times. He published a series of letters from Europe, a translation of the Shorter Catechism in Welsh, many baccalaureate sermons, “ The New Testament Conversions,” and “ Great Preachers of Wales,” besides frequent contributions to the religious press on matters of current discussion.

He was married, Oct. 19, 1858, in Trenton, N. J„ to Mary Louise Fuller, who with one son and one daughter survives him.

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JULIUS SPENCER,

Son of Harlow and Theodosia (Cook) Spencer, was born March 21, 1831, in St. Louis, Mo. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis at the age of fifteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in Edward Wyman’s High School in St. Louis, and graduated from Amherst College in 1853. He then taught for one year in the St. Louis High School (not a public school), of which E. M. Avery was principal, and after this for five months in the Pres- byterian School of Washington, Mo. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1855, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1858. He was licensed by the Presbytery of St. Louis in 1857, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Potosi, April 19, 1863. Before his ordination he had served as stated supply the church at Atchison, Kan., from May, 1859, to May, 1860, and the church at Caledonia, Mo., from October, 1860, to October, 1863. During the next two years he preached in various places. In November, 1865, he gathered a congrega- tion at Irondale, Mo., which was regularly organized into a church, Feb. 2, 1868. He ministered to this church from its inception until April, 1875. While at Irondale he engaged in teaching until the spring of 1870 and was superintendent of the public schools of the county for ten years. Also during this time he had charge of the church at Marblehill in 1872. He served the West Okaw Church at Prairie Home, 111., as pastor elect from May 2, 1875, until Nov. 4, 1878. From 1878 to 1881 he resided in St. Louis. After this he was stated supply of the churches of Cherry Tree and Bethesda, Pa., residing at Grant, 1882-86; French Creek, W. Va., 1886-87 ; lived without charge in Grove City, Pa., 1888-92 ; supplied the church at Parma, O., 1892-96. After this he was laid aside by nervous prostration. He resided in Cleveland, O., from April, 1897, to November, 1899, when he moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., and lived there until his death. Early in the year 1900 he suffered two paralytic strokes, from which he never wholly recovered. He died at Hazlewood Station, Pittsburgh, July 1, 1903, of paralysis, in the 73rd year of his age. He was buried in the South Side Ceme-

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tery, Pittsburgh. Mr. Spencer published articles in various periodicals.

He was married, May 7, 1859, in Princeton, N. J., to Carrie Nelson, who with two sons survives him.

See Article by Rev. S. J. Nicolls, D.D., in the Presbyterian Banner, Aug. 20, 1903, p. 30.

JOHN CALDWELL THOMPSON, D.D.,

Son of Robert Thompson, M.D., and Sarah Grier, was born March 31, 1831, at Faggs Manor, Pa. He united with the Brandywine Manor Presbyterian Church on confession of his faith at the age of seventeen. He pursued his preparatory studies at Rockville, Pa., under Mr. James McClure, and he graduated from Lafayette College in 1855. Entering the Semi- nary at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1858. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April 14, 1857. In 1859 he supplied the Presbyterian Church at Natchez, Miss. He was ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle, May 3, 1860, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Smyrna, Del., from which he was released Oct. 4, 1864. After this he was pastor of the church at Pottstown, Pa., from Nov. 13, 1864, to Sept. 25, 1873 ; of the church at Hagerstown, Md., from July 24, 1873, to Jan. 1, 1879 ; of the First Church, Southwark, Philadelphia, Pa., from Feb. 11, 1879, to Oct. 10, 1880; of the South Broad Street Church, Philadelphia, from April 22, 1883, until June 28, 1885, when he was transferred and installed over the Scots Church, of the same city. He was released from this last charge March 6, 1893. Then for a time he supplied Grace Church, Jenkintown, Pa. Feb. 10, 1896, he was installed as one of the associate pastors of Bethany Church, Philadelphia, and as such continued until his death, which occurred June 6, 1903, in Philadelphia, of uremia, after only two weeks’ illness, in the 73rd year of his age. In his last pastoral work he had special charge of the Chambers Memorial Mission of the Bethany Church. He was buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila- delphia. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lafay-

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ette College in 1888. Dr. Thompson published “ In Memoriam, Abraham Lincoln ” ; “ History of the Scots Presbyterian

Church,” 1887, and “ Defence of the Christian Religion. A sermon,” 1892.

He was married June 5, 1860, in Concord, N. H., to Julia Cogswell Berry, who with one son and one daughter survives him.

DAVID MELVILLE HEYDRICK,

Son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wasser) Heydrick, was born Nov. 11, 1826, in Flowertown, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg, Pa., April 3, 1846, at the age of nineteen. Before going to college he studied under the Rev. B. F. Stead at Bridesburg. He learned the trade of carpenter and builder and was so engaged for six years before entering college. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1856. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1859. He was licensed by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, Aug. 12, 1859, but was never ordained. On the day of his graduation from the Seminary the work in Brooklyn was brought to his attention and his life’s career was determined. He at once began his labors in Brooklyn as a city missionary in connection with the Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society, and at the same time as a colporteur of the Presbyterian Board of Publication. In 1864 he became an agent of the United States Christian Commission and engaged in hospital service at Fredericksburg and City Point, Va., and Frederick City, Md., until the close of the war. He was released from this service in April, 1865. Returning to Brooklyn, he took up again his work as a city missionary, and ministered to the City Park mission from 1865 to 1868, and to the Bethlehem mission from 1868 until his death, which occurred Feb. 15, 1904, in Brooklyn, of heart disease, in the 78th year of his age. He was buried at Easton, Pa. Mr. Hey- drick wrote incidents in the “Annals of the U. S. Christian

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He was married June 2, 1859, in Easton, Pa., to Emily Louisa Hutchinson, who with two sons and two daughters sur- vives him.

WILLIAM LEROY KENNEDY,

Son of William Potter and Elizabeth Armstrong (Means) Ken- nedy, was born Sept. 15, 1831, near Clinton, Greene Co., Ala. He made a public confession of his faith in the Ebenezer Pres- byterian Church, Greene Co., Ala., at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Pleasant Ridge Academy under E. A. Archibald, and he graduated from the University of Alabama in 1855. He then spent ten months in teaching in a private school at Eutaw, Ala. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1856, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1859. He was licensed by the Pres- bytery of Tuscaloosa, June 23, 1859, and ordained by the same Presbytery, March 31, 1860. He was pastor of the churches of Bethsalem and Burton’s Hill, Ala., from May 27, 1860, to April 2, 1863, although during a part of this time, 1861-62, he was chaplain of the 11th Alabama Regiment of the Confederate army. He later served the following churches as stated supply : Hebron and New Hope, Ala., 1863-67 ; Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1868-70; Elyton and Birmingham, Ala., 1871-73; Indianola, Tex., 1874-75. He was pastor of the church at San Marcos and stated supply at Lockhart, Tex., 1876-82 ; stated supply of the Olivet, Carmel, Dry Sun and Hopewell churches, Miss., 1882-83 ; pastor of the church at Huntsville, Tex., from June 14, 1885, to April 21, 1893, and at the same time chaplain of the State Prison situated in Huntsville ; pastor of the church at Cotulla, Tex., from June 5, 1893, to 1894; stated supply of a mission church at San Antonia, Tex., 1894-95, and chaplain a second time of the State Prison at Huntsville from 1895 to the spring of 1899. He made his residence in Beaumont, Tex., from 1899 until his death, which occurred, Jan. 17, 1904, at Beaumont, of paralysis, in the 73rd year of his age. He was buried at Hunts- ville, Tex.

He was married twice : (1) Feb 26, 1863, in Greene County, Ala., to Pamela B. Hughes, who died July 3, 1873 ; (2) May 27,

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1876, in Victoria, Tex., to Willie Robertson Cooke, who with one son by his second wife and two daughters by his first wife survives him.

WILLIAM CHRISTIE STITT, D.D.,

Son of Alexander and Ann (Adams) Stitt, was born April 23, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued under the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller at Mount Holly, N. J., and he grad- uated from Princeton College in 1856. He then spent a year in teaching the classics at Montclair, N. J. He entered the Semin- ary at Princeton in 1857, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1860. He was licensed by the Presby- tery of Philadelphia, April 5, 1860, and for a year supplied the Market Street Chapel, Georgetown, D. C. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle, May 13, 1863, and on the 21st of the same month installed pastor of the church at Hagerstown, Md., which he had been serving since August of the preceding year. He was released from this charge Oct. 2, 1866. His next pas- torate was over the Yellow Frame Church, Johnsonburv, N. J., from May 14, 1868, until April 17, 1872. He was then pastor of the Reformed Church of Piermont, N. Y., from June 28, 1872, to Feb. 7, 1887, and of the Presbyterian Church at Hazleton, Pa., from May 2, 1887, to April 1, 1888. At this time he gave up the pastorate to accept a call to become secretary of the American Seamen’s Friend Society, whose headquarters were in New York City. He entered upon the work in April, 1888, and continued in its faithful discharge until his death, which occurred Jan 2, 1904, in New York City, suddenly of heart failure, in the 71st year of his age. He was buried at Piermont, N. Y. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Princeton University in 1889. Dr. Stitt was a commissioner to the General Assembly that met at Saratoga Springs in 1894. He was a devoted friend of Princeton Seminary, and showed his interest by an almost unfailing attendance at its annual commence- ments. He was a generous supporter of the Alumni Association and was its Vice President at the time of his death. He was a

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member of the Princeton and University Clubs, New York, and of the Presbyterian Union of the same city. From 1883 to 1888 he was the literary editor of the New York Evangelist. He was editor of the Sailor’s Magazine and of the Life Boat, in which capacity he wrote much. He was also a contributor to the New York Observer.

Dr. Stitt was married, Jan. 9, 1866, in Hagerstown, Md., to Mrs. Anna (McDowell) McKee, who survives him.

See New York Observer, Jan. 14, 1904, p. 35-36.

JOHN STOTTOFF BEEKMAN,

Son of Joseph B. and Sarah (Burniston) Beekman, was born Oct. 19, 1833, in Middlebush, N. J. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Second Reformed Church of Somer- ville, N. J., at the age of seventeen. He pursued his preparatory studies in Somerville under the Rev. E. R. Craven, D.D., and graduated from Princeton College in 1857. He then spent a year in Union Theological Seminary, New York. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1858 as a middler, remaining two years and graduating in 1860. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Passaic, April 18, 1860, and served the church at Livingston, Ala., from the fall of 1861 to the opening of the Civil War, when he came north. In 1862 he became stated supply of the church at Farmington, 111., and on June 10, 1863, was ordained by the Presbytery of Peoria (O. S.), and at the same time installed pastor of this church. This relation was dissolved in April, 1866. He was next pastor of the church at French Grove, 111., from April, 1866, to Novem- ber, 1869; engaged in home missionary work and as supply in Paola, Kan., in 1870; supplied the First Reformed (Dutch) Church, Somerset, Kan., 1871-74, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Amwell, N. J., from Feb. 16, 1875, until April 10, 1878. He resided in Princeton after this for several years. In the spring of 1887 he was ordained to the Epis- copal ministry at Federal Point, Fla., by Bishop Weed, and served the Episcopal church at Federal Point, 1886-1888 ; the church at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 1888-89, and subsequently

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supplied the churches at Gainsville and Sanford, and later, 1891-94, the church at New Smyrna, Fla., p. o. Halifax. After this he was able to do but little ministerial work, being a sufferer from asthma. He died, July 11, 1901, at Sea Breeze, Fla., of asthma and general debility, in the 68th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery at Sea Breeze. He contributed an article on “ The Development Theory ” to the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review in 1877, beside other articles.

He was married, June 13, 1860, in Rocky Hill, N. J., to Helen Baldwin Cruser, who with two sons and two daughters survives him.

ROBERT CAMPBELL McKINNEY,

Son of Col. James and Eunice (Orchard) McKinney, was born Dec. 7, 1832, in Livonia, Ind. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomington, Ind., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in the preparatory department of the Indiana Uni- versity, from which institution he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1858. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1861. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswich, April 16, 1861, and ordained an evangelist by the# Presbytery of Lake, April 6, 1862. He served the fol- lowing churches as stated supply: Union Mills, Ind., 1861-63; Coesse and Roanoke, Ind., 1863-64 ; Hebron, Salem and Tas- sinong, Ind., 1864-67 ; York and Walnut Prairie, 1867-69 ; Walnut Prairie and Marshall, 1869-70 ; Orleans, Ind., 1870-72 ; Orleans and Livonia, 1872-74; the church at Brownstown, Ind., as pastor from June 10, 1874, to Aug. 6, 1878; later as stated supply the churches at Scipio and Oak Grove, Ind., 1878-80 ; Norton, Kan., 1880-81 ; Idaho Springs, Colo., 1881-82. During the next year he was obliged, on account of infirm health, to forego work. He was then pastor of the churches of Auburn and Sharon, Kan., from October, 1883, to April 14, 1885 ; stated supply at Adrian, Kan., with residence at Topeka, 1885-87, and stated supply at Fort Bragg, Cal., 1887-89. He was at this

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time honorably retired from the active duties of the ministry and resided at Fort Bragg until his death, which occurred there, June 17, 1893, of general paralysis, induced by spinal curviture, in the 71st year of his age. He was buried at Inglenook, Cal.

He was married, Oct. 2, 1861, in Galesburg, 111., to Louisa Theodora Hauser, who died Dec. 28, 1899. One son survives him.

GEORGE DANIELSON BAKER, D.D.,

See page 260.

CHARLES FUELLER,

Son of Carl and Franciska (Reinish) Fueller, was born March 19, 1836, in Steinschoenau, Bohemia. He was brought up in his early life as a Roman Catholic. When thirteen years of age he came to this country with his father, and lived for a time in Baltimore, New York City and St. Louis, successively. He made a public confession of his faith, as a Protestant believer, in the Pine Street Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, at the age of about seventeen years. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Preparatory Department of Westminster College at Ful- ton, Mo., from which institution he graduated in 1861. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the same year, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1864. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, June 14, 1864, and ordain- ed an evangelist by the Presbytery of Palmyra, Aug. 27, 1865. He was stated supply of the Presbyterian Church at Hannibal, Mo., from the summer of 1864 to the summer of 1868, when he took charge of the church at Mexico, Mo., and served it as stated supply until the summer of 1872. He then went to Oxford, 0., and was stated supply of the Oxford Church until installed its pastor May 31, 1873. This relation was dissolved Sept. 23, 1874. At this time he took part in the temperance crusade that began in Southern Ohio and swept over the United States. He next supplied the church at Hillsboro, 111., from 1874 to 1877, leaving this field when called to the pastorate of the church at Warrensburgh, 111., which he served as pastor

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elect from December, 1877, until installed June 18, 1878. He was released from this charge April 11, 1883. In the service of these churches it was his custom to preach three times each Sunday and conduct a Bible class. Such severe labor induced a throat trouble, which made it necessary for him to go to Colorado. In this state he served the church at Lake City as stated supply from July, 1883, to October, 1885, that at Gunni- son from October, 1888, to December, 1890, and that at Pitkin from 1890 till 1894. He resided at Gunnison from October, 1885. until March, 1894, and then at Lake City until 1898. After this he lived in Denver, and then for a brief time prior to his death in San Diego, Cal., in which place he died, Jan. 8, 1904, of peritonitis, in the 68th year of his age. He was buried in the Fairmount Cemetery, Denver. Mr. Fueller was county superintendent of the schools of Gunnison County, Col., for some years. He was for a time stated clerk of the Presbytery of Gunnison and the chairman of its Home Missions commit- tee. He was a commissioner to the General Assemblies that met in Buffalo in 1881, in Cincinnati in 1885, in Washington in 1893 and in Saratoga Springs in 1896.

He was married Nov. 15, 1856, in Hannibal, Mo., to Anna Rebecca McElroy, who with two sons and one daughter sur- vives him.

ROBERT MAURICE LUTHER, D.D.,

Son of Robert and Maria (Morrow) Luther, was born March 31, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Chambers Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, June 29, 1857, at the age of fifteen. Later he became a member of the Nicetown, Pa., Baptist Church, Dec. 4, 1859. He studied under the private tuition of J. R. Macadam, and graduated from the Philadelphia Central High School in 1857. He then spent two years in the study of Latin and Greek with a tutor, and entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1861, remaining there two years. He was licensed by the Nicetown Baptist Church, Dec. 17, 1860, and ordained April 4, 1864, by a council of Baptist churches of Philadelphia and vicinity for missionary service in Burmah,

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India. Before his ordination, during the civil war, in July, 1863, he was drafted into the array ; but at the time he was travelling in the west and knew nothing of it. On his return to Philadelphia he presented himself for service, but was exempted Nov. 6, 1863, on account of heart weakness, and honorably discharged. After this he for a time became engaged in hospital work and in teaching Freedmen’s schools in Wash- ington. Almost immediately after his marriage in April, 1864, he sailed for India and entered upon his missionary work in Rangoon, Burmah, remaining there until 1870. His work was largely educational. He had charge of the Normal School and Training Institute connected with the mission, and in addition taught a theological class, for whose use he translated the lec- tures he had had in Princeton. The climate proving too severe for both himself and his wife, he returned to America in 1870. He supplied the Presbyterian church of his childhood for two months and then the Fifth Baptist Church of Philadelphia for a year. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Benning- ton, Vt., from 1871 to 1880. In October of the latter year he was appointed district secretary of the American Baptist Mis- sionary Union, for its southern district, having his headquarters in Philadelphia. In 1891 he felt obliged to relinquish this work, and from that time until 1899 he was pastor of the South Baptist Church of Newark, N. J. For some years before his death he was professor of Church History in the Amity Theo- logical School of New York, and also preached nearly every Sunday until the end. His residence after 1899 was in South Orange, N. J. He died suddenly, Sept. 28, 1903, on a ferry boat, while crossing the North River to New York, of heart disease, in the 62d year of his age. He' was buried in the Cyprus Cemetery, Saybrook, Conn. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Bucknell University in 1887. Dr. Luther was one of the founders of the “ Brotherhood of the Kingdom,” was a member of the Camden Astronomical Society, and was for five years president of the Association of Baptist Mission- aries. Although connected with another denomination than our’s, he never lost his interest in Princeton Seminary or his sense of obligation to his former instructors there. He was a

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frequent visitor at the Seminary commencements and always its warm friend.

He was married April 7, 1864, in Philadelphia, to Celista Justitia Vinton, who with two daughters survives him.

PHILIP SIDNEY JENNINGS, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Carnahan and Emma (Passavant) Jennings, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in Temperanceville, Lower St. Clair Township (now West End, Pittsburgh), Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at Sharon, Allegheny Co., Pa., at the age of seventeen. He studied for college under his father and later under the Rev. J. C. Bry- son, of the United Presbyterian Church at Canonsburg, Pa., and graduated from Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) Col- lege in 1862. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1865. He then studied as a graduate student during part of a session in the Western Seminary at Allegheny. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 21, 1864, and ordained by the Presbytery of Ohio (now Pittsburgh), Dec. 26, 1865, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Temperanceville, Pa. He was released from this charge June 15, 1869. Partly overlapping this pastorate, he was pastor of the Mt. Washington Church, Pittsburgh, from May 10, 1866, until April 25, 1883. During this second pastorate he served the Mt. Pisgah Church, Pittsburgh, as stated supply from May 13, 1877, until installed its pastor, June 5, 1878. He founded the church at Crafton, Pa., and was its pastor from July 5, 1885, until Dec. 6, 1892, when he resigned that he might give the whole of his time to the Pisgah Church, which he served devotedly until his death. He died April 10, 1903, at Crafton, Pa., of cirrhosis of the kidneys, in the 64th year of his age. He was buried at Sewickley, Pa. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Franklin College, Athens, 0., in 1896. Dr. Jennings was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Balti- more in 1873, and at Detroit in 1891. He was twice moderator of his Presbytery.

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He was married June 25, 1900, in Mansfield, 0., to Alice Proctor, who survives him.

WILLIAM MATTHEW HERSMAN, D.D.,

Son of Joseph and Margaret (Scott) Hersman, was born April 28, 1841, at Middle Grove, Monroe, Co., Mo. He united with the Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church, Palmyra, Mo., at the age of twelve. His preparatory studies were pursued in Ashley, Pike Co., Mo., under the Rev. J. B. Poage, and he grad- uated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1864. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1867. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 18, 1868. He was professor of Latin and English in West- minster College, Missouri, 1868-69. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Palmyra (0. S.), Sept. 25, 1869, and at the same time installed pastor of the church at Memphis, Mo., from which he was released, April 23, 1870. He continued sup- plying this church two years longer. His next pastoral charge was over the Buckingham Church at Berlin, Md., from June 11, 1872, to Jan. 21, 1882. Going west at this time, he was stated supply of the St. John’s Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, 1882-83. In May of the latter year he began sup- plying the church at San Luis Obispo, Cal., and was installed its pastor in 1890. This relation was dissolved, Aug. 7, 1894. For the remainder of his life he was engaged in gratuitous evangelistic work throughout his Presbytery, with his residence in San Martin, Cal. While residing at Berlin, Md., he was for a time principal of its High School. He died at San Jose, Cal., April 4, 1903, of cancer, within a few weeks of the completion of his 62d year. He was buried in the West Nottingham Graveyard, Port Deposit, Md. He received the degree of D.D. from Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., in 1899. For a time Dr. Hersman was editor of the Occident.

He was married, Oct. 5, 1871, in Port Deposit, Md., to Mary Harvey Steel, who with one son survives him.

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CHARLES KNEPPER,

Son of Christian and Anna Mary (Lutz) Knepper, was born Dec. 3, 1834, in Albany, Berks Co., Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the German Reformed Church at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute of To wanda, Pa., under the Rev. David Croft, and at East Smithfield, Pa., under the Rev. C. C. Cross, and he graduated from Jefferson (now Wash- ington and Jefferson) College in 1864. He entered the Semi- nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year and remained there two years. After this he was for part of a session in the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa. He was licensed by the Mercersburg Classis of the Reformed Church (German), in May, 1866, and ordained by the Illinois Classis of the same Church, Dec. 29, 1867, being at the same time installed pastor of the German Reformed Church of Foreston, 111. He had sup- plied the Reedsburg German Reformed Church, 0., from June to August, 1867. He was released from the Foreston Church, May 25, 1870. After this he was pastor of the Reformed Church at Rimersburgh, Pa., from May, 1870, to April, 1872; principal of the Clarion Institute at Rimersburgh, from March, 1870, until November, 1871, resigning because of a heart affection. In February, 1872, he went to Mansfield Valley (now Carnegie), Pa., and set up a printing office, expecting to stay a few months. He then went to Mansfield, O., and spent a year under the care of a specialist. Returning to Mansfield Valley, somewhat im- proved in health, he was prevailed upon to start a paper. On Jan. 7, 1873, he began the publication of the Mansfield Item, now the Carnegie Item, of which he continued to be the editor until his death. During this time he was the pastor of the Reformed Church at Washington, Pa., for a year, 1877-78. In 1874 he established The Business Man, a monthly journal still issued. In 1879 he established the Burgettstown Enterprise, which he sold in 1881. He also established the Scio Herald, Ohio. He was an active member of the Carnegie Board of Trade and a member of the Pittsburgh branch of the United Typothe- tae of America. He died April 3, 1903, in Carnegie, Pa., of

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heart disease, in the 69th year of his age. He was buried in the Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie.

Mr. Knepper was married, Aug. 8, 1866, in Mansfield, O., to Maria McNary Crouch, who with one son and four daughters survives him.

See Carnegie Item, April 10, 1903.

SAMUEL VALENTINE McDUFFEE,

Son of Samuel and Emily (Way) McDuffee, was born Jan. 9, 1835, in Bradford, Vt. His preparatory studies were pursued in the academy at Barre, Vt., under Dr. J. Y. Spaulding, and he entered Amherst College with the class of 1865. While a stu- dent there he united with the college church on confession of his faith at the age of twenty-seven. He remained only one year at Amherst, spending the three years from 1862 to 1865 in the signal corps of the United States Army. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1866, staying a year. He then spent a year, 1867-68, in Union Seminary, New York. He studied in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Me., for a time. He was licensed by the Penobscot Association of Congregational minis- ters, July 14, 1868, and ordained by a Congregational ecclesias- tical Council at Crawfordsville, la., May 12, 1869. He served the Congregational church at Wayne, Ind., from January, 1869, until January, 1870, and thereafter the following Congregational churches: Ackworth, N. H., from June, 1870, to June, 1871; Barton, Vt., from October, 1871, to October, 1874; Ludlow, Mass., January, 1875, to 1882; Brimfield, Mass., 1882-84; Orange City, Fla., 1884-90, and Thetford, Vt., 1890-98. He was assist- ant to the pastor of Hope Church, Springfield, Mass., from 1900 until his death, which occurred, Feb. 28, 1904, at Springfield, in the 70th year of his age, of organic disease of the heart. He was buried at Springfield.

He was married, Sept. 15, 1868, in Bangor, Me., to Mary Alice Patterson, who with one son and three daughters survives him.

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WILLIAM LAURENCE LEDWITH, D.D.,

Son of William Medkirk and Jane (Bryce) Ledwith, was born March 14, 1850, in Brownsville, Pa. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Brownsville, Jan. 26, 1868, at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Brownsville public school, at the Tuscarora Academy, Pa., and in the University of West Virginia, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1874. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1877. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Redstone, April 26, 1876, and ordained by the Presbytery of Westminster June 27, 1877, being at the same time installed pastor of the Bellevue Church at Gap, Pa. He was released from this charge Sept. 26, 1883, that he might accept a call to the South Church, Philadelphia, over which he was installed, Nov. 22, 1883. This relation was dissolved March 7, 1892, on his accepting a call to the Tioga Church in the same city. This pastoral relation was formally constituted April 5, 1892, and continued most harmoniously and successfully until his death, Feb. 28, 1904, in Philadelphia, of pneumonia, within five days of the completion of his 54th year. He was buried in the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila- delphia. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Prince- ton University in 1894. Dr. Ledwith supplied the Greens- borough Church, Pa., during his first Seminary vacation, May- July, 1875, and the Central City Church, Colo., during his second, June-August, 1876. He was moderator of the West- minster Presbytery, and twice moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia. He was a member for many years of the Board of Publication and S. S. Work, a Director of the Ministers’ Fund, Philadelphia, and the most efficient librarian of the Presbyterian Historical Society. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly in Saratoga Springs, 1883, and in the same place in 1890 and 1896. He wrote frequently for the religious press, largely on subjects of a specially literary character. He was warmly interested in Princeton Seminary and rarely missed the annual meetings of its Alumni Association, of whose Execu- tive Committee he was at one time a member.

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Dr. Ledwith was married, Oct. 25, 1886, in Philadelphia, to Sarah Walker Cooper, who with one son and one daughter sur- vives him.

CHARLES SYDNEY CONVERSE,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Amasa and Flavia (Booth) Converse, was born Jan. 1, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Green Hill Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, at the age of ten. He studied, preparatory to col- lege, under the guidance of his father at Richmond, Va., and spent one year at Hampden-Sidney College, completing his college course in Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1868. He then taught for nine months in Prince Edward County, Va.; became the agent in charge of the Richmond office of the Christian Observer of Louisville ; read law, meanwhile, and having been admitted to the Bar practiced law in Rich- mond from June, 1870, until January, 1874. He then studied theology and Hebrew privately and took the second year of his theological course in Union Seminary, Va. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1875 as a senior, completing his course there and graduating in 1876. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1876, and ordained by the same Presbytery, May 8, 1876, being at the same time installed pastor of the United First Amwell Church, Ringoes, N. J. He was released from this charge Sept. 8, 1881. He then was stated supply of the Morris Memorial Church, Rawlins, Wy., from October, 1881, until November, 1883, under the Board of Home Missions, and after this under the same Board he supplied the Westminster Church, Devil’s Lake, N. Dak., from December, 1883, until July, 1886. Returning east, he became stated supply of the Connecticut Farms Church, Union, N. J., in October, 1886, and was installed its pastor, May 4, 1887. This relation was dissolved April 17, 1900, a few months after serious ill health had compelled him to give up work and go to Clifton Springs, N. Y., in hope of recovery. This hope, how- ever, was disappointed, and he died at Clifton Springs, June 28, 1903, of a cerebral tumor, in the 57th year of his age. He was buried at Union, N. J. Mr. Converse wrote a “ History of the

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Amwell United First Presbyterian Church, Ringoes, N. J.,” 1880, and a history of the Class of 1868, Princeton University, besides several class records.

He was married, Dec. 19, 1882, in Ringoes, N. J., to Charity Ann Burd, who survives him.

See Article by Rev. W. D. Roberts, D.D., in the Christian Observer, July 22, 1903, p. 8.

ISRAEL W* HATHAWAY, D.D.,

Son of Caleb and Rachel (Wood) Hathaway, was born March 20, 1838, in Milan, Erie Co., 0. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Norwalk, O., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Nor- walk High School ; but he did not have a collegiate education. After leaving the High School he spent three years in teaching, and then for ten years, 1861-71, he engaged in business in Chicago and in New York City. During this time he took up Christian work with Mr. Moody. He spent two years in private study and church work in Brooklyn, in connection with the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1876, remaining two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Brooklyn, April 2. 1877, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, March 4, 1879. He supplied the church at Millville, N. J., from May to September, 1877, the Seminary vacation; and the King’s Street Chapel, New York, from June to December, 1878. He became stated supply of the West- minster Church of Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 9, 1879, and was in- stalled its pastor, May 10, 1880. He was released from this charge April 20, 1897. He then accepted the position of secre- tary of the American Sabbath Union, and continued to discharge the duties of this office until his death. After leaving the Westminster Church he resided in East Orange the rest of his life, although he was much away from his home in the work of his secretaryship. He died June 16, 1903, in Pasadena, Cal., suddenly, after an operation for appendicitis, in the 66th year of his age. He was buried at Norwalk, O, He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Maryville College, Tenn., in 1892.

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Dr. Hathaway was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Springfield, 111., in 1882, and at Minneapolis in 1886. He was the accredited representative of the United States Government at the Sunday Rest Congress held in connection with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and was influential in securing the condition of the gift of the Government to the St. Louis Exposition that it should be closed on Sunday. While in California he was en- gaged in forming a State Sabbath Union. He wrote much for the press on the Sabbath question.

Dr. Hathaway was married, Nov. 15, 1858, in Norwalk, O., to Lucy Brownell Fay, who with one son and one daughter survives him. His' son is the Rev. H. W. Hathaway, an alum- nus of the Seminary.

JOHN WESLEY CLINE,

Son of Lewis and Sarah Martin (Hunt) Cline, was born July 7, 1832, in Harmony, N. J. He united with the Methodist Episco- pal church of Harmony. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Stewartsville Academy, N. J., under the Rev. Charles Kellogg and the Rev. John White, and he graduated from Lafayette College in 1858. After his graduation he engaged in teaching for some years. He entered Drew Theological Semi- nary at Madison, N. J., in 1868, remaining there a year, and spent the following year in the Boston Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church. He then engaged in preaching within the bounds of the Vermont Methodist Episcopal Conference for two years, 1870-72, and after that in the New Hampshire Con- ference and also in Boston, Pennsylvania and Canada. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1877 as a middle year student, remaining one year. He was licensed by the Presby- tery of Newton, April 10, 1878, and his license was recalled April 12, 1882. He never pursued the work of the ministry. He resided in Harmony, N. J., from 1878 to 1892, then in Phillipsburg, N. J., 1892-93, after that in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, for a time, and in the later years of his life in Belvidere, N. J., where he died, March 11, 1904, of the grippe, followed by pneumonia, in the 72d year of his age. He was buried in Har- mony, his birthplace. He was unmarried.

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EDWARD KIRK DONALDSON,

Son of William Townsend and Mary (Thomson) Donaldson, was born, Aug. 28, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Central Presbyterian Church of Northern Liberties (now the Temple Church), Philadelphia, at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in Beverly, N. J., under the Rev. M. L. Hofford, and he passed his examination for entrance into Lafayette College, but was pre- vented from taking up his collegiate studies on account of the outbreak of the Civil War. After his return home from the army he pursued his studies privately for about a year and then engaged in business until 1877. During the next year he pre- pared himself for the Seminary and came to Princeton in 1878, remaining there three years. He was licensed by the Presby- tery of Philadelphia Central, June 28, 1880, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, March 17, 1881. From April until August, 1881, he served the churches at Delanco and Fairview, N. J., as pastor elect. He was then pastor of the fol- lowing churches : — Jacksonville and Providence, N. J., from Oct. 25, 1881, until April 13, 1886 ; the Amwell United First Presbyterian Church, N. J., from May 19, 1886, until April 10, 1888; the Titusville church from June 26, 1888, until June 8, 1891 ; the church at Shawnee, Pa., from Nov. 19, 1891, until Sept. 19, 1894; the church at Stanhope, N. J., which he served as pastor elect after leaving Shawnee until his installation as its pastor, Jan. 16, 1896, and from which he was released Oct. 2, 1900, the dissolution to take effect on Nov. 11th, and his last pastoral charge, over the church at Lower Merion, Pa., from Dec. 4, 1900, until his death. It will thus be seen that he en- gaged in an unbroken chain of service during his entire minis- terial life. He died July 10, 1903, at Gladwyne, Pa., of pneu- monia, in the 61st year of his age. He was buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.

Mr. Donaldson was married, Aug. 29, 1867, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Sarah Shelmire Kirk, who with one son and one daughter survives him.

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CLEARFIELD PARK,

Son cf Staats Nelson and Catharine (Willever) Park, was born Oct. 8, 1856, at Phillipsburg, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsbury, N. J., at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in Bloomsbury under the Rev. H. B. Scott, and he gradu- ated from Lafayette College in 1876. He spent the next two years in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1878 as a senior, remaining one year and graduating in 1879. He was licensed by the Presby- tery of Newton, April 10, 1878, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey, Nov. 19, 1879, being at the same time installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Millville, N. J. The relation was dissolved Oct. 17, 1894, on account of ill health. During his pastorate there of fifteen years the congregation erected a new church building at a cost of $40,000. He suffered from an attack of nervous prostration, which obliged him to rest for a year. After this he was pastor of the Reformed (Dutch) Church at Woodstock, N. Y., from March 10, 1896, until his death. He also supplied the West Hurley church from April, 1898, until his death. He died Jan. 14, 1904, at Woodstock, of pneumonia, in the 48th year of his age. He was buried at Woodstock.

Mr. Park was twice married : (1) August 23, 1881, in Mill- ville, N. J., to Ella Jane Garrison, who died July 10, 1888; (2) June 10, 1892, in Millville, N. J., to Clara Tucker McClure, who with one son and one daughter by his second wife survives him.

JOHN FREMONT WILLIAMSON,

Son of the Rev. Joseph Gilliard and Emeline (Stires) William- son, was born April 11, 1856, in Sidney, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, N. J., at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Peddie Institute at Hightstown, N. J., and he graduated from Lafayette College in 1878. Enter- ing the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he remained one year. He then spent two years in Union Theo-

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logical Seminary, New York City, from which he graduated in 1881. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, April 21, 1881, and ordained by the Presbytery of Nassau, Jan. 24, 1882, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Glen Cove, L. I., N. Y. He was released from this charge, July 7, 1888. His next charge was the Presbyterian church at King- ston, N. Y., from Oct. 10, 1888, to Oct. 3, 1899. For two years after this he resided without charge at Clinton, N. J. He was then called to the Reformed Church of Annandale, N. J., which he served as pastor from Feb. 12, 1902, until his death, which occurred at Annandale, Dec. 4, 1903, of erysipelas, in the 48th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of the Bethle- hem Presbyterian Church, N. J. Mr. Williamson was president of the Classis of Raritan at the time of his death.

He was married June 15, 1881, in Clinton, N. J., to Emma Warne, who with three daughters survives him.

JOHN STONESTREET VAN METER, D.D.,

Son of Solomon and Elizabeth Mason (Stonestreet) Van Meter, was born Sept. 13, 1845, near Louisville, Ky. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Lexington, at the age of fourteen. He was prepared for college in the private and select schools of Lexington and vicinity, under the Rev. Lewis G. Barbour, the Rev. Charles W. Price and George W. Cheeseman, Esq. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1869. After his graduation he studied law, at first in a private office during 1869-70, and then in the Law Department of Washington and Lee Univer- sity, 1870-71. From 1871 to 1878 he practiced law in Lexing- ton, Ky. He spent the next two years in the Danville Theo- logical Seminary, Ky., entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1880, as a senior, remaining a year and graduating in 1881. He was licensed by the Presbytery of West Lexington, April 23, 1880, and ordained by the same Presbytery, Oct. 30, 1881, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Cynthiana, Ky., from which he was released Sept. 29, 1885. Thereupon he immediately took charge of the First Church, Hot Springs, Ark.,

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being installed Nov. 30, 1885, and released Feb. 22, 1893. He then went at once to Richmond, Mo., and was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church there, March 28, 1893. He was released from this charge, Jan. 27, 1898. For a year after this he served as evangelist for the Presbytery of Arkansas. He was pastor of the church at Clinton, Mo., from April 30, 1899, to Dec. 9, 1901, and from that time until June, 1902, he was pastor elect of the church at Monrovia, Cal. At this time ill health compelled him to abandon the active work of the ministry. From September, 1902, until his death he resided in New York City. He was called to labor at Paris, Ky., in the summer of 1903, but his health would not permit his doing so. He died March 8, 1904, in New York City, of heart disease, in the 59th year of his age. He was buried at Lexington, Ky. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the Presbyterian College of Upper Missouri in 1896. Dr. Van Meter was a commissioner to the southern General Assembly at Houston. Tex., in 1885 ; at St. Louis in 1887, and at Memphis in 1896. During his semi- nary vacation in 1880 he assisted the Rev. G. H. Rout at Versailles, Ky. At the outbreak of the Civil War, when a boy of sixteen, he entered the Confederate army with General John H. Morgan, and was with him in most of his famous raids. He was taken prisoner while engaged in the Ohio raid and was con- fined at Indianapolis and Chicago.

He was married July 27, 1872, in Danville, Ky., to Eliza- beth Morrison Yerkes, who with one son survives him.

GEORGE KERR,

Son of Andrew and Eliza (Hartness) Kerr, was born Dec 22, 1856, in Grafton, Mass. He made a public confession of his faith in the United Presbyterian church of his native place, Sutton, Mass., at the age of sixteen. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Grafton High School, Mass., and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1881. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining only one year. He then spent three years in the United Presbyterian Hall of Edinburgh, Scotland, completing his theological course there. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, June 2,

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1885, and ordained by the United Presbytery of Boston, April 14, 1886. He began serving the United Presbyterian chilrch of Chicopee, Mass., in December, 1885, and was installed its pastor, April 12, 1887. This was his only pastoral charge, from which he was released by his death. He died Feb. 9, 1903, in Chico- pee, of consumption, in the 47th year of his age. His body was taken to his native town and there buried.

Mr. Kerr was married, Oct. 14, 1884, in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Maggie Sophia Annette Koford, who with two sons and one daughter survives him.

WILLIAM THOMAS PARSONS,

Son of John Stroude and Mary Matilda (Watts) Parsons, was born March 27, 1863, at Still Pond, Md. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church of Worton, Md., when quite a boy. His preparatory studies were pursued in the district school of Worton, and he gained a free scholarship in Washington Col- lege, Md., from which institution he graduated in 1882. He spent the next two years as professor of Physical Science and Latin in New Windsor College, Md. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1884 and took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1887. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April 20, 1886, and ordained an evangelist by the Presby- tery of Pembina, Oct. 12, 1887. He was stated supply of the Presbyterian church at St. Johns, N. Dak., 1887-88 ; of the churches of Ardoch and Greenwood, N. Dak., 1888-90; of the Tower City church, N. Dak., 1891 ; of the Buffalo and Tower City churches, until August, 1892. At this time the severity of the climate of the northwest compelled him to come east. In 1894 he began supplying the church at Union, N. Y., and was in- stalled its pastor, May 2, 1895. This relation was dissolved, Jan. 7, 1901. On Feb. 5, 1901, he was installed over the Broad Avenue Church of Binghamton, N. Y., and his pastorate was brought to an early close by his death, April 28, 1903, in Binghamton, of consumption, in the 41st year of his age. He was buried at Worton, Md.

Mr. Parsons was married Oct. 2, 1889, at Ardoch, N. Dak., to Effie Jane Warren, who with one daughter survives him.

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WILLIAM HAYES MOORE,

Son of George Washington and Esther Matilda (Hayes) Moore, was born April 19, 1861, in Colora, Md. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Lower West Nottingham Presbyterian Church, Md., at the age of nineteen. He pursued his prepara- tory studies in the West Nottingham Academy at Colora, Md., under George K. Bechtel, A. M., and graduated from West- minster College, Pa., in 1886. Entering the Seminary at Prince- ton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1889. He was licensed by the Pres- bytery of New Castle, April 17, 1888, and ordained by the Presbytery of Chester, June 5, 1889, being at the same time in- stalled pastor of the church at New London, Pa. He was released from this charge, Sept. 30, 1890, that he might accept a call to the church at Doylestown, Pa., over which he was installed Oct. 16, 1890, and from which he was released Nov. 9, 1897. He was obliged to go west on account of his health and sought a milder climate in New Mexico. He was pastor of the First Church of Santa Fe from Dec. 8, 1897, to Nov. 12, 1901, and again after a brief interval, from April 27, 1902, until his death, which occurred, Feb 6, 1904, at Pueblo, Colo., of con- sumption. in the 43rd year of his age. He was buried at Santa Fe, N. M. Mr. Moore was a tutor in Westminster College during a part of his course there, 1884-86. Earlier he had taught in the public school of Woodlawn, Md., 1880-83. His death cut short what gave every promise of being a most useful career.

He was married, Nov. 21, 1889, in Berlin, N. J., to Ada Stanley Peacock, who with three daughters survives him.

GEORGE HOOPER BIGELOW,

Son of George Homer and Susan Hooper (Jordan) Bigelow, was born Sept. 25, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal. He made a public confession of his faith in the Larkin (now Franklin) Street Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, at the early age of four- teen. His preparatory studies were pursued in San Francisco in the public schools, the Boys’ High School and the Westmin- ster Preparatory School under James Matthews, D.D. Before going to college he was for four years a book-keeper in a whole-

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sale charcoal firm in his native city. He graduated from Princeton University in 1890, and entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1893. At the close of his seminary course his financial situation made it imperative that he should engage in some business, so he went to Roxbury, Mass., and became manager of the Milton Exchange, New England Telephone Company, assisting at the same time the pastor of the Congregational church of Roxbury as he was able. In 1894 he resigned his position and went to California and supplied the pulpits of various California churches. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Sacramento, April 5, 1895, and ordained by the same the following day. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at lone, Cal., from April 24, 1895, to April 22, 1898, when he was obliged to resign on account of ill health. During the enforced rest following this pastorate he supplied the pulpits of several churches and held open air services during the summer months at Inverness, Cal. In April, 1900, he went to San Luis Obispo, Cal., to assist the Rev. J. C. Eastman, who was ill, in his pastoral duties. In the following August he was invited to supply the pulpit of this church, made vacant by its pastor’s death. This he did until January, 1902. In June of the same year he began supplying the church at Pleasanton, Cal., and in August took up his residence there. He was in- stalled pastor of this church, May 12, 1903, and as such con- tinued until his ministrations were suddenly cut short by his death, Dec. 20, 1903, in San Francisco, of nerve exhaustion and heart failure, in the 39th year of his age. He was buried at San Francisco. He was moderator of the Presbytery of Sacra- mento in 1897. He was unmarried.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER,

Son of the Rev. Samuel Crothers and Nancy Rebecca (Price) Alexander, was born Dec. 31, 1865, at Charlotte, N. C. He made a public confession of his faith in the Upper Path Valley Pres- byterian Church, Pa., at the age of twelve. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Dry Run Academy, Pa., under P. C. Richardson, and entered the sophomore class in Lafayette Col-

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lege in 1886, graduating therefrom in 1889. He engaged in teaching for two years after his graduation, first as principal of the Mifflintown Academy, Pa., for one year, and then as principal of the New Castle Academy, Va. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1891, he remained there only one year. He had gone to Nebraska to take charge of a church during his summer vacation. When the time came for his return to Princeton he was called to the chair of Latin in the Presbyterian College of the South West, at Del Norte, Colo. He accepted this call and remained there one year. After this he taught in the Harrison School, New York City, 1894-95; was professor in the Military Academy at Peekskill, N. Y., 1895-96, and then principal of an academy at Williamsport, Pa., which he opened at the earnest solicitation of many of the citizens of that city. His health failing, in December, 1897, he entered the service of the Century Publishing Company, selling their dictionary in the West. Subsequently he took charge of the state business of a large calendar publishing company. While engaged in this work he suffered a serious relapse in health and went to Buffalo, hoping to recuperate. This hope was disappointed and he died in Buffalo, Nov. 15, 1897, of double pneumonia, in the 32d year of his age. He was buried at Millerstown, Pa. He was unmarried.

CHARLES WARNER Me CLEARY,

Son of James Hill and Margaret (McCoy) McCleary, was born Nov. 22, 1867, in Crawfordsville, Iowa. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Crawfordsville at the age of sixteen. He spent four years in the Washington Academy, from which he graduated in 1890. He then entered Parsons College, Iowa, graduating therefrom in 1892. He came to the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in 1895. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Iowa City, May 28, 1895, and at the same time ordained an evangelist, having devoted himself to the cause of foreign missions. He sailed from New York for Africa, Nov. 12, of the same year, and reached his destination Jan. 1, 1896. He was at once assigned to a new station at Ebolewoe (now called Elat), where he arrived on the 31st of

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January. He immediately began building a house and was soon settled in the more serious labors of his field. The climate bore hard upon him and he came to America for rest in Novem- ber, 1901, remaining in this country until December of the following year. He reached his field again March 4, 1903, and once more took up him work. Early in June he was attacked by a severe case of haematuric fever and after an illness of about twelve days died of this disease, June 30, 1903, at Elat, Kame- run, West Africa, in the 36th year of his age. He was buried at Elat. Short as his day of toil had been, he had entwined himself about the affections of the natives, and for several days before his death many were constantly sitting in the yard of his house, stifling their sobs, while the tears ran down their faces. Mr. McCleary in conjunction with the Rev. Melvin Fraser, trans- lated one or two books of the New Testament into the Bulo language, and also wrote one or two primers in the same language. There is every reason to suppose, that his career as a missionary would have been a most useful one, had his life been prolonged.

He was married Oct. 1, 1902, in Fairfield, Iowa, to Myrtie Elizabeth Kirby, who survives him.

RICHARD FRANKLIN POWELL, Jr.,

Son of Richard Franklin and Sallie Fannie (Blevins) Powell, was born Feb. 20, 1874, in Rogersville, Tenn. He made a pub- lic confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at Eaton- ton, Ga., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Eatonton Academy and he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1899. He then spent two years in teaching. He took the first year of his theological course in the Columbia Seminary, 1901-1902, and in the latter year entered the Seminary at Princeton as a middler. At the close of his first year there he went south again to supply the Eatonton and Monticello churches, Ga., during the summer. While doing so he was smitten with typhoid fever and after three weeks’ illness died of this disease, Aug. 8, 1903, at Eatonton, in the 30th year of his age. He was buried at Eatonton. He was unmarried.

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INDEX

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Alexander, William, 330

Annin, John Alexander, 287

Armstrong, Hallock, • • 292

Baker, George Danielson, 260

Beekman, John Stottoff, 311

Bigelow, George Hooper, 329

Booth, Henry Alson, 281

Bronson, Elias Schryyer, 293

Buckner, John Alexander, 294

Clark, Thomas March, 267

Cline, John Wesley, 323

Converse, Charles Sidney, 321

Dickson, Alexander, • 282

Dinsmore, Francis Braddock : 279

Donaldson, Edward Kirk, 324

Evans, Richard Riley, • • • . 283

Farris, Robert Perry, 288

Fraser, Thomas, 273

Fueller, Charles, 313

Gayley, Samuel Alexander, 285

Giltner, Henry Michael, 295

Godwin, Parke, 268

Gordon, Jeremiah Smith, 302

Hall, Francis Bloodgood, 300

Hathaway, Israel Wistar, 322

Hersman, William Matthew, . 317

Heydrick, David Melville, 308

Jennings, Philip Sidney, 316

Kempshall, Everard 296

Kennedy, William LeRoy, 309

Kerr, George, .... 327

K*:rr, Samuel Cunningham, 301

Knepper, Charles, 318

Ledwith, William Laurence, 320

Lesley, J Peter, 274

Luther, Robert Maurice 314

McCleary, Charles Warner, 331

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McDuffee, Samuel Valentine, 319

McHarq, William Neill, 371

McKinney, Robert Campbell, 312

Mitchell, Stuart, 289

Montgomery, John Watt, 298

Moore, Ambrose^ Yeomans, 284

Moore, William Hayes, 329

Osmond, Jonathan, 280

Park, Clearfield, 325

Parke, Nathan Grier, . . . . 276

Parsons, William Thomas, 328

Platt, James Augustus, 269

Platt, Joseph, • 270

Powell, Richard Franklin, Jr., 332

Rittenhouse, Joseph Menagh 286

Roberts, William Charles, .... 304

Schenck, William Edward, 261

Shinn, James Gallaher, 278

Spencer, Julius, 306

Stewart, William Bell, 291

Stitt, William Christie, 310

Stratton, Joseph Buck, 272

Taylor, Archibald Alexander Edward, 302

Taylor, James Franklin, 299

Thompson, John Caldwell, 307

VanMeter, Joseph Stonestreet, 326

Wallace, Joseph William, 277

Wells, John Dunlap, 266

Williamson, John Fremont, 325

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