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Necrological Report

PRESENTED TO THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OF

PaiNCElDll THEOLOCICiL SEMINARY

I

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING

May 8th, 1906.

By the Secretary.

PRINCETON, N. J.

PRINCETON PRESS, UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. 1906

THE ALUMNI ALCOVE.

The attention of the Alumni is called to the Alumni Alcove in the Seminary Library. This Alcove was established some years ago, and is intended to contain the publications of all those vvho have been students in Princeton Seminary, and thus be a visible and enduring monument of the large literary activ- ity and influence of the sons of Princeton, who have done so much toward moulding and directing the Christian thought of this and other lands. It is believed that the Alumni will at once recognize the desirability of such a collection and the con- sequent desirability of making it as complete as possible. To this end they are earnestly requested to send to the Library their printed works, whether books, pamphlets or sermons. I'he receipt of these will be immediately and gratefully acknowledged, on behalf of the Library, by

J. H. DULLES,

Librarian

Necrological Report

PRESENTED TO THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Princetbh Theologiml Sehinurt

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING

May 8th, 1906.

By the Secretary.

PRINCETON, N. J.

PRINCETON PRESS, UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. 1906.

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 obitu- ary notices, funeral or memorial sermons — and information in any shape — will be gratefully received. Let these be sent, as soon as pos- sible after the death of the person to whom they relate, to

JOSEPH H. DULLES,

Princeton, N. J.

OF

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

FOR THE YEAR 1906-1907.

Rev. William L. McEwan, D.D., President. Rev. Paul van Dyke, D.D., Vice-President.

Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, Secretary.

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

Additional Members

of the

Executive Committee.

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SUCCESSION OF OFFICERS.

393

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.

1905- 06.

1906- 07.

PRESIDENTS.

Rev. 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 Musgrave, 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.

“ Theodore 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.

“ John DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.

“ William L. McEwan, D.D., of Pittsburgh, Pa.

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.

TREASURERS.

1872-85. Rev. William H. 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 1902.

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ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OF

PRINCETON THEOLOOICAL SEMINARY.

Princeton, N. J., May 8, 1906.

The Alumni Association met for dinner in Stuart Hall at 1.45 p. m., with the President, the Rev. Professor John DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., in the chair. A blessing was asked by the Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D.D. At the close of the dinner, the xA.ssocia- tion was called to order for a brief business session. 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 recommend the following officers of the Association for the ensuing year :

President — The Rev. William McEwan, D.D., of Pitts- burgh, Pa.

Vice-President — The Rev. Professor Paul van Dyke, D.D., of Princeton, N. J.

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. Howard Duffield, D.D., of New York City, the Rev. Herman C. Eox, D.D., of Freehold, N. J., and the Rev. Professor Wil- liam P. Armstrong, of Princeton.

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The report was received and the officers and other members of the Executive Committee nominated for the coming year were elected.

On motion the reading of the abstract of the Necrological Report and of the names of the alumni who had died during the year ending March 31 was omitted and the Report ordered printed and sent to the alumni.

The report of the Treasurer was presented by him, and having been received, was referred to the Rev. Edward B. Hodge, D.D., and the Rev. Professor Charles R. Erdman, as a committee of audit, who having examined the accounts and found them correct, the report was adopted. A collection was taken to reimburse the Treasurer for money advanced by him to the Association and for the printing of the Necrological Report. This collection amounted to $82.68.

The Treasurer’s Report follows:

WiLLi.Mi Brenton Greene, Jr., in account with the Alumni Associa- tion OF Princeton Theological Seminary.

1905. Dr.

Collection at Alumni Dinner, May 9, 1905, $ 61.00

Subscriptions since (58 in all) 89.00

$150.00

1905 Cr.

Sept. 30 — Postage for Report $ 30.00

Oct. 14 — Postage for Report 4.00

Jan. 12 — Printing Report 100.86

“ “ — Envelopes for Report 4.35

“ “ — Printing and pasting in Report Subscription Slips 8.75

“ “ — Enclosing the Report in envelopes i.oo

Advanced by the Treasurer last year and due him at last meeting.

May 9, 1905 45.14

Due the Treasurer May 8, 1906

$194.10

44.10

$150.00

William Brenton Greene, Jr.,

T reasurer.

May 8, 1906.

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At the conclusion of the business meeting after-dinner speeches were made by President Patton ; by the Rev. William W. Knox, D.D., of New Brunswick, representing the class of ’66 ; by the Rev. J. Ritchie Smith, D.D., of Harrisburg, Pa., representing the class of ’76; by the Rev. Charles Herr, D.D., of Jersey City, representing the class of ’81 ; by the Rev. James C. Russell, D.D., of Oneonto, N. Y., representing the class of of ’86, and by the Rev. Alfred H. Barr, of Detroit, represent- ing the class of ’96. The Association was adjourned with the benediction pronounced by the Rev. Wilson Phraner, D.D.

JOSEPH H. DULLES,

Secretary..

Necrological Report

PRESENTED MAY 8. 1905.

The Report for the year ending March 31, 1906, contains notices of a Director of the Seminary, the Rev. Robert Russell Booth, D.D., LL.D., and thirty-four former students. Two of the latter should have been included in former Reports, but the fact of their death did not reach the Secretary in time. The total number in the Report is thirty-five.

Of the thirty-four former students reported the oldest had reached the age of ninety-four years; another was but two months younger; another had passed his ninety-first year; four others, their eightieth; nine others their seventieth, and eight others their sixtieth. The young- est died at the age of twenty-six years and one month, the lamented young missionary, Peale. The average age of the thirty-four was sixty- five years and seven months. The average age at which thirty-one of those reported made a public confession of their faith was seventeen years and nine months.

JOSEPH H. DULLES,

Secretary.

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The Report contains the following names:

DIRECTORS.

Robert Russell Booth, D.D., LL.D., Died Nov. 24, 1905.

Francis Blanchard Hodge, D.D., May 13, 1905.

ALUMNI.

Matriculated.		Died.
1836.	David Lyon,	March	2,	1906.
1840.	Alfred Arthur Graley,	April	7,	190;.
1841.	Thomas Elcock,	Oct.	18,	1905.
1844.	Thomas Hughes Dinsmore, D.D.,	Sept.	21,	1905.
1846.	Frederick La Rue ’King,	Oct.	18,	1905.
1848.	Henry Weed Biggs, D.D.,	March	8,	1906.
1851.	William Elliott Baker,	Jan.	4.	1906.
	Andrew Hannah Barkley,	Dec.	9.	1905-
	Charles Jewett Collins,	March	19,	1906.
1852.	Francis Marion Symmes,	Sept.	16,	1905.
1854.	Robert Fleming Wilson,	May	24.	1905-
1855.	Hugh Samuel Alexander,	Nov.	27.	1905-
	Henry Willard,	June	24,	1904.
1858.	John Habersham Elliott, S.T.D., LL.D.,	Jan.	9,	1906.
	Joseph Littleton Polk, Ph.D.,	May	29,	1905.
	John Emory Wheeler, D.D.,	Nov.	22,	1905.
1859.	Francis Blanchard Hodge, D.D.,	May	13.	1905-
1862.	S. Stanhope Orris, Ph.D., L.H.D.,	Dec.	17,	1905-
1863.	Salmon Coles Paris, D.D.,	March	8,	1906.
1864.	Augustus Macdonald,	Jan.	27,	1906.
1866.	Adam Augustus Bookstaver,	April	24,	1905-
	Timothy Grenville D.\rling, D.D.,	Feb.	3,	1906.
1869.	Thomas Johnson Sherrard,	July	10,	1905-
	Albert Clark Titus,	May	I,	1905-
1870.	Isaac Baird,	Nov.	10,	1904.
1872.	Archibald Alexander Murphy,	May	19,	1905-
1874.	Thomas McKeen Boyd,	Jan.	25,	1906.
1880.	Hubert William Brown, D.D.,	Feb.	15.	1906.
1890.	William Deas Kerswill, D.D.,	Sept.	5,	1905-
1891.	William Littell Everitt,	April	5,	1905-
	Henry Walter Moore,	Nov.	19,	1905-
1893-	Thomas Hogett Medd,	April	8,	1905-
1902.	John Rogers Peale,	Oct.	28,	1905.
1904.	Herbert Augustus Wilcox,	July	16,	1905-

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DIRECTORS.

ItOEEET EUSSELL BOOTH. B.B., LL.B.,

Son of William Agur and Alida (Russell) Booth, was born May i6, 1830, in New York City. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Rivington Street Presbyterian Church, New York, at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Grammar School of New York University and he graduated from Williams College in 1849. He studied theology in Auburn Seminary, 1849-52, graduating in the lat- ter year. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Cayuga, June 4, 1851, and ordained by the Presbytery of Troy, Nov. 30, 1853, being at the same time installed co-pastor of the First Church of Troy, N. Y. He was released from this charge Jan. 13, 1857. His other pastorates were; First Church, Stamford, Conn., from March 4, 1857, to Feb. 18, 1861 ; Mer- cer Street Church, New York, from March 6, 1861, to Oct. 30, 1870, when it was united with the University Place Church, New York, of which he was the pastor from that time until June II, 1883, and the Rutgers Riverside Church from Nov. 8, 1886, until Dec. 9, 1896, when his health required the giving up of regular pastoral work. He was pastor emeritus of the last church from 1896 until his death. The interval between 1883 and 1886 was spent in rest and travel on account of his health. He died Nov. 24, 1905, in New York City, in the 76th year of his age. He was buried in the Woodlawn Ceme- tery, New York. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from New York University in 1864 and that of LL.D. from Lafayette College in 1895. Dr. Booth was a Director of Princeton Seminary from 1882 until his death. He was a director of Union Seminary, New York, from 1861 to 1892; trustee of Williams College from 1866 until his death; a mem-

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ber of the New School Committee of Foreign Missions from 1864 until 1870, and thereafter a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the united Church until his death. He was moderator of the Synod of New York and Brooklyn in 1871 and Moderator of the General Assembly at Pittsburgh in 1895. He was also a trustee of the Christian College of China in Canton, a member of the first revision committee, a member of the Kai Alpha Society from 1847 until his death; a member of the American Tract Siciety, of the Union League, Century and Colonial Clubs. From 1863 to 1869 he was the chaplain of the Twenty-Second regiment of National Guards of the State of New York. He published “ The work of foreign missions in relation to Christianity,” 1865 ; “ Christian union and denominational loyalty,” 1896; “History of the Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian Church,” 1898.

He was married Oct. 26, 1853, in Auburn, N. Y., to Emma Louise Lathrop, who survives him. •

FRANCIS BLANCHARD HODGE, D.D..

Son of the Rev. Dr. Charles and Sarah (Bache) Hodge, was born Oct. 24, 1838, in Princeton, N. J. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Prince- ton at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Edge Hill School of Princeton under the Rev. T. W. and the Rev. W. C. Cattell, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1859. Entering the Seminary at Prince- ton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1862. He continued his theo- logical studies in Princeton for a fourth year as a resident graduate. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick, Feb. 4, 1863, and ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle, May 9, 1863, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Oxford, Pa. He was released from this charge Dec. 22, 1868, that he 'might accept a call to the First Presby- terian Church of 'Wilkes Barre, Pa., over which he was installed

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Feb. 23, 1869. This was his only other charge, from which he was released April 22, 1902, on account of ill health, after the long period of more than thirty-three years. He was made pastor emeritus. He continued his residence in Wilkes Barre until his death, which occurred there. May 13, 1905, after a long illness, in the 67th year of his age. He was buried in Princeton. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Princeton College in 1883. Dr. Hodge was a Director of Princeton Seminary from 1892 until his death, and a trustee of Princeton University from 1887 until his death. During the civil war he served for a short time under the Christian Commission, while pastor in Oxford.

Dr. Hodge was married, June 2, 1863, in Princeton, N. J., to Mary Elizabeth Alexander, who died May 8, 1883. Two sons and three daughters survive him.

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ALUMNI.

DAVID LYON.

Son of Stephen and Nancy (Hill) Lyon, was born April 27, 1812, at Basking Ridge, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Basking Ridge at the age of sixteen. His preparatory education was received in the academy at Basking Ridge, under the teaching of the Rev. H. R. Perrine, Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. R. D. Van Vleek, and J. P. Alward. He entered the sophomore class of Prince- ton College, graduating therefrom in 1836. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course, and graduated in 1839. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, April 18, 1839, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Albany, Feb. 17, 1841. He was stated supply of the church at Knox, N. Y., from 1839 to 1840. In the latter year he became stated supply of the church at Northampton, N. Y., continuing to serve it as such until installed its pastor. Sept. 3, 1845. The pastoral relation was dissolved Oct. 31, i860. Following this he was pastor of the church at Mariaville, N. Y., from Dec. 19, i860, to March 19, 1876. He then served the church at Northville, N. Y., as pastor-elect from April, 1876, to April, 1879. At this time he took up his residence at Sloansville, N. Y., and continued to reside there until his death. He supplied the churches at Esperance and West Milton, 1880-85, the church at Esperance alone 1891-92. During the following year he preached in the Baptist Church of Sloansville. Early in 1905 he became seriously paralyzed, and he died March 12, 1906, at Sloansville, of cerebral hemorrhage, in the 94th year

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of his age. He was buried at iMariaville, N. Y. Mr. Lyon was moderator of his Presbytery several times, and was a commissioner to the General Assembly seven times.

He was twice married: (i) Jan. 19, 1841, at Knox, N. Y., to Sarah Ann Williams, who died July 28, 1875; (2) April 24, 1877, at Johnstown, N. Y., to Mrs. Sarah Ann (Dock- stader) Mosher, who died July 12, 1899.

ALFRED ARTHUR GRALEY,

Son of John and Anne (Greenwood) Graley, was born Aug. 12, 1813, in London, England. He came to this country with an elder brother at the age of nineteen. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Wamps- ville, N. Y., at the age of twenty-five. He never enjoyed the advantages of a college course, but studied before coming to the Seminary under the direction of the Rev. W. A. Cooper, of Wampsville. Before entering the Seminary he had been employed as a shoemaker in Wampsville. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1840, remaining two years. He was licensed Sept. 4, 1844, by the Presbytery of Onondaga (now Syracuse) and ordained by the same Presbytery, Dec. 25, 1844. He at once took charge of the Congregational Church at Lenox, N. Y., serving it as its pastor until June 12, 1856. After this he was stated supply of the following Presbyterian Churches ; Pompey, N. Y., 1857-63; Manlius, N. Y., 1863-69; Medina, N. Y., 1869-70; Knowlesville, N. Y., 1870-72; and stated sup- ply and missionary at Clarkson, N. Y., 1872-78. At this time he was honorably retired from the active work of the ministry, and resided at Clarkson until 1903, when he moved to Brock- port, N. Y., where he died, April 7, 1905, of bronchitis, in the 92nd year of his age. He was buried at Manlius, N. Y. Mr. Graley furnished material, both words and music, for several Sabbath-school song books, among these being Happy Voices. Echo to Happy Voices, and Happy Hours.

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He was married three times : ( i) June 21, 1843, Geneva, N. Y., to Alley Maria Van Eps, who died Sept. 23, 1843; (2) May 21, 1849, De Kalb, N. Y., to Margaret Ann Dies, who died May 24, i860; (3) July 17, 1861, at Pompey, N. Y., to Catherine Melita Jerome, who died March 10, 1891. Three sons and one daughter by his second wife survive him.

THOMAS ELCOCK,

Son of Richard and Mary (Wagoner) Elcock, was born Oct.- 16, 1811, in York County, Pennsylvania. He made a public confession of his faith in the Monaghan Presbyterian Church at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in the preparatory department of Lafayette College, from which institution he graduated in 1841. Entering the Semi- nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1844. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Newton, April 26, 1843, for a time after his licensure he preached in the colored Presbyterian church of Princeton. He was ordained Sept. 18, 1845, by the Presbytery of Sidney and at the same time installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of Covington, O. This relation was dissolved June 8, 1852. He was stated supply of the churches of Gettysburg and Mt. Jefferson, O., from April, 1845, fo April, 1852; of the church of Delphos, O., during the follow- ing year. He was pastor of the Van Wert and Delphos churches from April 18, 1854, to June 12, 1861. After this he was stated supply of the following churches : Decatur, Flat Rock, and New Salem, O., 1861-66; Shanesville, O., 1866-70; Shanesville, Harrison, and Centre, O., 1870-86. After this he resided in Van Wert, O., doing evangelistic work as his strength permitted until his death there, Oct. 18, 1905, two days after the completion of his 94th year. His death occurred instantly after his return from a small supper party with his friends, when he sat down in his chair to rest, and instantly his spirit departed. He was buried in Van Wert.

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Mr. Elcock was married April 7, 1846, in Piqua, O., to Elizabeth Howard Moody, who died March 27, 1890. One son and four daughters survive him.

THOMAS HUGHES DINSMOEE, D.D.,

Son of Moses and Irenaea (Braddock) Dinsmore, was born Aug. 15, 1819, in Richhill Township, Greene Co., Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Wolf Run, Pa., at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued at West Alexandria, Pa., under the Rev. John McCluskey, D.D., and he graduated from Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College with the first honors of his class in 1843. He spent a year in teaching in the Grove Academy, Steubenville, O., and in the academy at West Alex- ander Pa. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1844, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1847. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 28. 1847, 3.nd supplied the churches at Washington and Walnut Creek, la., during the following year. He was ordained an evangelist July 3, 1850, by the Presbytery of Iowa (O. S.). He was professor of mathematics and the natural sciences in the Des Moines College, la., from May, 1849, to May, 1853. During a part of this time he supplied the church at Lowell, la., 1849-52. He was pastor of the church at Washington, la., from Oct., 10, 1854, to October, 1858, and of the church at Liberty, la., from 1855 to 1859, giving each one-half of his time. Returning to the work of teaching, he became the prin- cipal of the Van Rensselaer Academy at Pidgeon Creek, Mo., 1859 to 1864. He then became stated supply of the church at St. Francisville, Mo., 1864-68, being at the same time principal of St. Francisville Academy. He supplied the church at Athens, Mo., 1868-71, and was agent of the Highland Univer- sity, Kan., from December, 1870, to June, 1872, being acting president of that university from December, 1871, to Decem- ber, 1872. He was professor of mathematics in the same in-

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stitiition, 1872-75. During the following year he engaged in missionary work at Walthena, Doniphan, and Severance, Kan. From May, 1878, to December, 1879, was president of Con- cordia College, Kan., and for a second time served Highland University as its financial agent, 1879-82. He was stated sup- ply at Olathe, Kan., 1883-84, at Perry, Kan., 1884-88, and at Auburn and Wakarusa, Kan., 1888-90, when the increasing infirmities of age compelled him to give up active ministerial work. He died Sept. 21, 1905, at Muskegon, Mich., of pneu- monia, in the 87th year of his age. He was buried at High- land, Kan. He received the honorary degree of D.D., from Highland University in 1890.

Dr. Dinsmore was married Sept. 14, 1847, West Alex- ander, Pa., to Elizabeth McConaughey, who died July 24, 1874. Four sons and three daughters survive him.

FREDERICK LA RUE KING,

Son of Frederick and Abigail La Rue (Perrine) King, was born Jan. 2, 1823, in Morristown, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Rahway, N. J., at the age of twenty-one. His preparatory studies were pursued in Elizabeth, N. J., under the Rev. John T. Halsey, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1844. He then spent two years in teaching. He entered the Semi- nar}" at Princeton in 1846, remaining two years. While a student at the Seminary he was tutor in Latin and Rhetoric in the college at Princeton, and continued in this work until 1855. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, Oct. 3, 1850, and ordained, Oct. 16, 1855, by the Classis of Bergen of the Reformed church. He supplied the Reformed church in Hudson City, N. J., from September, 1855, to September, 1857, and the Presbyterian church at Wyoming, Pa., from May to December, 1858. His only pastorate was that of the North Haverstraw Presbyterian Church, N. Y., from Nov. 2, 1859, to Oct. 9, 1866. During all of his life he was much

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hindered by ill health which prevented any long continued settlement in any one field. He went abroad on account of his health in 1875 and remained there until 1894. He returned to this country in the latter year, taking up his residence in Xew York City, where he died Oct. 18, 1905, of asthma, in the 83rd year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, X’. J. Mr. King was unmarried.

HENRY WEED BIGGS, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Jacob and Rebecca ( Xeff) Biggs, was born March 15, 1828, at Frankford, Philadelphia. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, O.. at the age of nineteen. His prepara- tory studies were pursued in the prei)aratory de])artment of the Cincinnati College, from which institution he graduated in 1845. He then spent one year in graduate studies and the two following years as clerk in a hardware store in Cincinnati. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848, taking the full three years’ course, and grailuating in 1851. He was licensed June 18. 1851, by the Preslwtery of Cincinnati, and ordained an evangelist April 10. 1852. by the Presbytery of Crawfords- ville. He engaged in mission work in Lebanon. Ind., from September. 1851, to iMarch, 1853. at which time he became stated supply of the Presbyterian church at Princeton, Ind. He served this church in this capacity until June, 1855. He was pastor of the church at IMorgantown, W. \’a.. from July 6, 1855, to Aug. 16, 1864. His only other pastoral charge was over the First Church of Chillicothe, ( )., from Aug. 18, 1864, to Sept. 14. 1892, a period of twenty-eight years. At this time he was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry on account of advancing years and was honorabl}' retired by his Presbytery. He continued to reside in Chillicothe until his death, which occurred March 8, 1906, at Chillicothe. of kidne}' troubles, within one week of the completion of his 78th year. He was buried in the Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe.

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He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wooster Uni- versity in 1877. Dr. Briggs was a memljer of the Board of Examiners of teachers for Ross County and Chillicothe for over twenty years. He published several sermons and a mem- orial of the Rev. J. R. Moore, and also of Noah S. Wilson, and the history of the First Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe, Ohio. During the course of his ministry he performed 1126 marriage ceremonies.

He was married Aug. 18, 1853, in Cincinnati, O.. to Cor- nelia Spaulding Poinier, who died March ii, 1903. Thev had no children.

WILLIAM ELLIOTT BAKEE,

Son of John Osgood and Frances Adeline (Fabian) Baker, was born Feb. 20, 1830, in Liberty County, Ga. He made a public confession of bis faith in the Presbyterian Church of Wilkesbarre, Pa., at the age of sixteen. He pursued his pre- paratory studies in that city under Mr. John Sterling, and graduated from Princeton College in 1850. He then spent the first year of his theological course in the Columbia Theological Seminary. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1851 and completed his theological course there, graduating in 1853. was licensed June 23, 1852, by the Presbytery of Luzerne, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey, May 18, 1853, being at the same time installed pastor of the Second Presby- terian Church of Bridgeton, N. J. He was released from this charge Nov. 19, 1855. After this he was stated supply of the church at Sacramento, Cal., from January, 1856, to April, 1857, and of the church at Staunton, Va., from November, 1857, until installed its pastor, April 23, 1859. He was released from this charge Feb. 20, 1884, having served this church dur- ing the long period of twenty-seven years. He supplied the church at Roswell, Ga., from January, 1890,' until his death, which occurred Jan. 5, 1906, at Roswell, of heart failure, in the 76th year of his age. He was buried at Roswell.

Mr. Baker was married July 7, 1856, in Roswell, Ga., to Catherine Evelyn King, who with three sons and four daugh- ters survives him.

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ANDREW HANNAH BARKLEY,

Son of Daniel and Margaret (Hannah) Barkley, was born July 25, 1829, in Jonesboro, Tenn. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Presbyterian church of his native place at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in the Martin Academy in Jonesboro under Messrs. Her- rick, Dwinell and Jones, and he graduated from Washington College, Tennessee, in 1851. After spending three months in teaching he entered the Seminary at Princeton, taking the full three years' course there and graduating in 1854. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1854, and during the next two years engaged in missionary work in Tennesee, supplying for a time the church at Holsten. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Knoxville, Sept. 13, 1856. and at the same time installed pastor of the church at Madisonville, Tenn., which he had been serving for a year and from which he was released April 13, 1861. He was installed pastor of the Bethel and Mount Zion ( afterwards Crawfordsville) churches. Miss., (.)ct. 20, 1861, and released from these charges April II, 1873, and was made evangelist for the Presbytery of Tombeckbee. He engaged in evangelistic work for about a year. After this he supplied the following churches in Miss- issippi: Crawford. 1877-87; Macon, 1880-85; Knox, 1881-82; Enterprise, 1882-83; West Point. 1885-87; Hamilton in i8go; Unity, 1890-93; Lauderdale, 1892-96; De Kalb, 1892-95; iVIer- idian Second, 1893-95 1 Houston and Buena \hsta, 1896-1901 ; Friendship and Oak Grove, 1898-99. His residence had been at a place seven miles from Crawford since 1861, when he first served the Crawfordville church, and he continued to reside there until his death, which occurred Dec. 9. 1905, of uratic poisoning in the 77th year of his age. He was buried in the Hairston Cemetery, near Crawford.

Mr. Barkley was married March 26, 1873, near Crawford, Miss., to Sallie Alice Hairston, who with one son survives him.

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, CHARLES JEWETT COLLINS,

Son of Oristus and Nancy (Jewett) Collins, was born June 25, 1825, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes Barre at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in Lancaster, Pa., under the Rev. Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D., and he graduated from Williams College in 1845. He then engaged in teaching in the Episcopal High School of Fairfax, Va., 1847-48, and in Williams College. 1848-50. He spent a few weeks of the year 1850-51 in Cnion Seminary. New York. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1851 he remained there three years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Luzerne. June 21, 1853. After leaving the seminary he was for a time principal of the Eemale Institute of Wilkes Barre. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Northumberland, Dec. 31, 1856. being at the same time installed pastor of the Grove Church of Danville, Pa. He was released from this, his only pastoral charge, April 19, 1865. During the rest of his active life he was engaged in teaching. He was superintendent of the pub- lic schools of Wilkes Barre from 1866 to 1874: princijial of the Princeton College Preparatory School at Princeton, N. J., from 1874 to 1880: and principal of the Bradford Mansion School at Rye, N. Y.. from 1880 to 1884. .\fter this he re- sided in New York until his death, which occurred IMarch 19, 1906, in New York, from a gradual breaking down due to “ length of days," in the 8ist year of his age. He was buried in Wilkes Barre, Pa.

Mr. Collins was twice married: (i) June 15, 1859, in Washington Heights, N. Y., to Annie Rankin, who died May 12. 1884; (2) Dec. 12, 1890, in Chicago, 111., to Ida Van Emberg Martin, who with three daughters by his first wife survives him.

FRANCIS MARION SIMMES,

Son of Daniel Tuthill and Lucinda (Gaston) Symmes, was born Nov. 18, 1827, near Hamilton, O. He made a public con-

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fession of his faith in the Rossville (now Hamilton) Presbyte- rian churchy O., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Farmers' College near Cincinnati, O., under Free.nan G. Cary, and he graduated from Hanover College, Ind., in 1852. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining all but two months of the full three years' of the course. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Oxford (O. S.) April ii, 1854, and ordained by the Presbytery of Madison (O. S.) Nov. 14, 1856. In 1855 he became stated supply of the churches of Jefferson and Pleas- ant, Ind., serving the former in this capacity until 1861. At the time of his ordination he was installed pastor of the church at Pleasant, and continued in this relation until July 31, 1861. He was then pastor of the church at \'ernon, Ind., from Aug. II. 1861, to IMay I, 1864. He was stated supply of the church at Brazil. Ind., from October, 1864, to March, 1865 ; of the church at Bedford, Ind., from IMarch, 1865, to April, 1867 : and of the churches at Lebanon and Hopewell, Ind., from Novem- ber, 1887, to October, 1872. After this he engaged in home mission work, making his headquarters at Crawfordsville, Ind., and supplying a number of the neighboring churches. He thus served the church at Alamo, 1872-75 ; the church at Romney, 1872-77; the churches at Dayton and Kirklin, 1875-77; churches at Paoli and Orleans. 1877-83 ; the church at Bedford. 1880-81. Early in the year 1883 he moved to the state of Kansas and was stated supply at Pittsburgh from April, 1883, to October, 1885 ; at Florence from November. 1885, to April. 1887; and of the church at Derby from April, 1887. until in- etalled its pastor April 11, 1889. He was released from this charge April 12. 1894, when the increasing infirmities of age obliged him to relinquish regular pastoral work. He died Sept. 16, 1905, at Pittsburgh, Kan., of kidney trouble, in the 78th year of his age. He was buried at Pittsburgh.

Mr. Symmes was twice married; (i) March 15. 1856, in Crawfordsville, Ind., to Alary J. Dunn; (2) April 5, 1877, at Bedford. Ind., to Alartha S. Sears, who, with two sons and one daughter by his first wife, survives him.

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ROBERT FLEMING WILSON,

Son of George and Nancy (Taylor) Wilson, was born April 22, 1825, at West Kishacoquillas, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of his native town, at the age of twenty-four, while he was a student in col- lege. His preparatory studies were pursued in the preparatory department of Jefferson College, and he graduated from that institution (now Washington and Jefferson) in 1850. He then engaged in teaching in the Classical and Commercial High School at Lawrenceville, N. J., for two years. The first two years of his theological course were spent in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1854 as a senior, graduat- ing in 1855. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June 14, 1854. He supplied the New Bloom- field and Ickesburg churches. Pa., from May to August, 1855, and was called to the pastorate of these churches, but declined. He then supplied the church at Marion, la., from December, 1855, to April, 1856, receiving a call to this pas- torate which he also declined. He was ordained by the Pres- bytery of Redstone, Nov. 20, 1856, being at the same time in- stalled pastor of the First Church of McKeesport, Pa. He was released from this charge May 14, 1867. From October, of the latter year until April, 1868, he supplied the .church at Logan’s Valley, Pa. He then served the church of Bedford, Pa., as pastor-elect from March, 1868, until April, 1877, and further, giving it a part of his time, until April, 1878 During this period- he also served the Everett (Bloody Run) Church from May, 1874, to December, 1877. He was stated supply of the church at Port Royal, Pa., from April, 1878, until installed its pastor May 27, 1879, and continued in this relation until Oct. 5, 1886. After this he took up his residence in Lewis- town. Pa. He died i\Iay 24, 1905, near Reedsville, Pa., of heart disease, in the 81 st year of his age. His body was found lying across the railroad track near the place at. which he had alighted from a train by mistake. There were no signs of

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injury upon the bo'dy and it was evident that death had re- sulted from heart disease, to which he was subject. He was buried in the Presbyterian cemetery at Mifflintown, Pa. Mr. Wilson was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Huntingdon for thirteen years, his service being terminated by his death. He was also for several years permanent clerk of the Synod of Harrisburg. He edited the Historical Memorial of the Cen- tennial Anniversary of the Presbytery of Huntingdon, 1795- 1895 ; Philadelphia, 1896.

He was married Sept. 24, 1856, at Canonsburg, Pa., to Elizabeth Carothers McCullough, who with three daughters survives him.

HUGH SAMUEL ALEXANDER,

Son of Samuel Edmiston and Mary (Alexander) Alexander, was born Jan. 27, 1828, in Little Valley, near Lewistown, Pa. In early life he made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Little Valley. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Miller Academy, Washington, O., and at the Tuscarora Academy, Academia, Pa. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1855. In the fall of the same year he entered the Seminary at Princeton, but withdrew almost im- mediately, on account of a throat trouble, and engaged in teaching. He entered the junior class of Princeton Seminary again in 1858, taking the full three years’ course and gradu- ating in 1861. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Phila- delphia, April 5. i860; but was never ordained. He supplied the churches of Aurora and Bensalem, Pa., in 1861, and the church at Newark, O., in 1862. In this same year he entered the service of the U. S. Christian Commission, for which he labored for a time during the civil war. Erom 1864 to 1874 he was principal of the Columbia Classical Institute, Pa. After this he resided in infirm health near Culpeper Court House, Va., where he had purchased the Wheatdale farm, moving later to Eastern View. In 1885 he established the Eastern View Academy, of which he was the principal until 1900. The

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exposure to which he was subject during*the war aggravated the throat trouble, from which he had earlier suffered and pre- vented his preaching regularly. He was run over and instantly killed by a railroad train at Culpeper, Nov. 27, 1905, in the 77th year of his age. He was buried in the Fairview Ceme- tery. Culpeper.

Air. Alexander was married, April 22, 1857, in Washing- ton. (_)., to Nancy McCurdy, who survives him.

HENRY WILLARD,

Son of John Dwight and Laura (Barnes) Willard, was born Sept. II, 1830. at Troy, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Troy at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in Troy and Delhi. N. Y.. and at South Williamstown, Mass., and he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851. He then studied medicine for one year and after this engaged in teach- ing for one year, being the principal of the Orange County Grammar School of Randolph, AT. The first and second years of his theological course were spent in the .Andover Theologi- cal Seminary. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1855 as a senior he spent one year there, graduating from that institu- tion in 1856, and then returning to .Andover for a further year of graduate study. He was licensed by the New York and Brooklyn Congregational .Association in Alay, 1856, and ordained by the Cleveland Congregational .Association at Pitts- field, O., Oct. 20, 1858. From September, 1859. to September, 1869, he was stated supply of the Presbyterian church at Alonroeville, O. During the next four years he supplied the Congregational church at Zumbrota, Alinn., and then for seven- teen years served the Congregational church at Plainview, Alinn., as its pastor. From June to December of 1880 he labored as general missionary for the American Home Mis- sionary Society in North Dakota. He supplied the Congre- gational church at Alantorville, 111., from December, 1881, to

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October, 1884. aiVl the Congregational church of Crystal Lake, 111., for a year thereafter. After this he resided in Chi- cago, 111., until his death, which occurred there, June 24, 1904, of arterial sclerosis, in the 74th year of his age. He was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery of Troy, N. Y.

Mr. Willard was twice married : ( i ) Dec. 6, 1858, in Mount \"ernon. O., to Jeannie Wells, who died Feh. 18, 1902; (2) April 15. 1903, in Prospect, Conn., to Marion Josephine Phipps who with three sons and three daughters by his first wife sur- vives him.

JOHN HABERSHAM ELLIOTT, S.T.L., LL.D.,

Son of the Rev. Stephen and Anna Hutson ( Habersham) Elliott, was horn July 31, 1832. in Beaufort, S. C. He made a public confession of his faith in the St. Helena Protestant Episcopal church of Beaufort at the age of twenty-five. His preparatory studies were pursued in his native place under John Eielding and he graduated from South Carolina College in 1851. He engaged in the study of law during a part of the }ear 1852-53 in the University of \’irginia and then for two years in a private office. After this he spent a year or more in rest and travel on account of the state of his health. He was admitted to the Bar of South Carolina ; but did not engage in the practice of law. Having at this time become a professed follower of Christ he determined to devote his life to the min- istry and spent the year 1857-58 in the Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church near Alexandria, \"a. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1858 he spent one year there and then one year in the South Carolina Seminary at Camden. S. C. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, Jan. 27, 1861, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Davis, and a presbyter by the same, Eeb. 14, 1863. He supplied the Christ Church of Wiltown, S. C., 1861-62. and then was rector of Grace Church, Anderson, S. C., 1863-65, after which he had an interval of ill health. He was subsequently rector of the following churches: St. Paul's, Englewood, X. J.. 1867-68;

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St. John’s, Cincinnati, O., 1868-73, of Church of the Ascension, Washington, D. C.. from 1873 ontil 1902, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which caused him to give up the active duties of the ministry. He was rector emeritus of the last church from this time until his death, which occurred Jan. 9, 1906, in Washington, as the result of the paralytic stroke of three years previous, in the 74th year of his age. He was buried in Beaufort, S. C. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Columbia University, New York, in 1871, and later the degree of LL.D. from another institution. Dr. Elliott was president of the Standing Committee of the dio- cese of Ohio for some time ; was a deputy commissioner to the General Conventions of 1871, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889 and 1892. He became a member of the Standing Committee of the dio- cese of Maryland in 1878 and was made its president in 1891. He published a number of works of recognized merit, among them being; “Canonical forms and requisites for persons seeking holy orders,” 1872 ; “ Success of foreign missions,” an address, 1873 ; “ Powers and responsibilities of standing committees,” 1882; “The plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures,” a pamphlet, 1885, and “ Shall the name be changed, or, the name Protestant Episcopal not accidental,” 1887.

He was twice married: (i) June 12, i860, in Beaufort, S. C., to Mary Barnwell Fuller, who died May 23, 1863; (2) March 12, 1868, at Beaufort, to Rosa Stuart, who survives him.

JOSEPH LITTLETON POLK, PH.D.,

Son of Joseph Gillis and Imogen St. Dorval (Gilman) Polk, was born Aug. 12, 1837, in Washington, D. C. He made a public confession of his faith in the Charteris Church, Can- onsburg. Pa., which was connected with Jefferson College, at the age of seventeen, while a college student. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Washington Academy, Princess Anne, Md., and graduated from Jefferson (now Washington

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and Jefferson) College in 1856. He then engaged in teaching for two years ; one year as principal of the academy at East New Market, Md., and the other as assistant in the Washing- ton Academy at Princess Anne. He also studied theology during the latter j-ear with the Rev. A. C. Heaton of Princess Anne. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1858, re- maining there two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Lewes, May 16, i860, and ordained by the same Presby- tery, Xov. 28, i860, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Pitts Creek, i\Id. He was released from this charge Aug. i, 1877. During ten years of this time he sup- plied also the Rehoboth church, and was principal of the New- ton, Md., High School, 1866-70, and again, 1874-76. He was principal of the academy at Newark, Del., 1877-84, and during this time supplied the church at Glasgow, Del., one year, that at Delaware City, Del., one winter, and the Red Clay Creek church four years. He was then pastor of the church at Faggs Manor, Pa., from Oct. 21, 1885, to Oct. 9, 1904, and of the Doe Run church. Pa., from Nov. 16, 1904. until his death, which occurred at Mortonville, Pa., May 29, 1905, suddenly, of heart disease, in the 68th year of his age. He was buried at Doe Run, Pa. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Dela- ware College in 1880.

Dr. Polk was married Aug. 8, 1861, in Canonsburg, Pa., to Mary Wilson, who with four sons and six daughters sur- vives him. Two of his sons are graduates of Princeton Semi- nary : the Rev. Samuel W. Polk, of the class of ’90, and the Rev. Thomas McK. Polk, of the class of 1902.

JOHN EMOHY WHEELER, D.D.,

Son of Thomas and Hester Belle (Bryan) Wheeler, was born April 15, 1840, in Alexandria, Va. He made a public confes- sion of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Alexandria in •early life. His preparatory studies were pursued at William and Mary, Va., and he graduated from Randolph-Macon Col-

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lege in 1856. He then spent two years in teaching and in the study of law in the Yale Law School. He entered the Semi- nary at Princeton in 1858, where he remained a year. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Potomac, Oct. 23, i860. He was a chaplain during the civil war in Stephen D. Lee’s bri- gade from 1862 until the surrender of Vicksburg in July, 1863. He was ordained an evangelist, Oct. 21, 1865, by the Presbytery of East Mississippi. From May 20, 1866, to Xov. 7. 1868, he was pastor of the church at Rodney, Miss. Dur- ing the next four years he engaged in teaching in \'dckburgs. Miss. He was then stated supply of the church at Indepen- dence, Mo., 1875-86; pastor of the Westminster Church, Sacramento, Cal., from Nov. 14, 1886, to Aug. 22, 1890; acting professor of practical theology in the San Francisco Theological Seminary, then at San Rafael, Cal., 1891-92; stated supply of the church at Merced, Cal., 1892-95 ; stated supply of the Mt. Paran, Granite and Randallstown churches. Md., from 1897 until installed pastor of the first of these .\pril 14, 1898, and of the other two, June 23rd of the same year.. He was serving these churches when death overtook him, Nov. 22, 1905, near Harrisonville, Md., of acute heart disease, in the 66th year of his age. He was buried in the Druid Ridge Cemetery. Baltimore. Md. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. Dr. Wdieeler was at one time moderator of the Synod of Missouri.

He was married, Dec. 18, 1862, in Vicksburg, Miss., to Mary Emanuel, who with one son and three daughters sur- vives him.

FRANCIS BLANCHARD HOD&E, D.D.,

(See page 400.)

S. STANHOPE ORRIS, PH.D.. L.H.D.,

Son of Adam and Catherine (Shull) Orris, was born Feb. 19, 1832, near Ickesburg, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Lower Tuscarora, Pa.,

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at tlie age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pur- sued ill the Tuscarora Academy at Academia, Pa., and he graduated with honors from Princeton College in 1862. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1865. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June 20, 1865. For a year after his licensure he was tutor of Latin in Princeton College. He was ordained by the Presby- tery of Huntingdon, I\lay 30, i86(), being at the same time installed pastor of the Spruce Creek Church, Pa. This rela- tion was dissolved June 8. i86p. He spent the following year in study in Germany. Returning to this country he assumed charge of a mission chapel connected with the Collegiate Re- formed Church of New York City, which he served for one year. He was professor of the Greek Language and Litera- ture in Marietta College. C).. from 1873 *^0 1877, when he was called as an associate professor to a similar chair at Princeton. In the following year he was made full professor. Later this chair was named the Ewing Professorship of Greek Language and Literature, and its occupant was also called Instructor in Greek Philosophy. This chair he occu])ied until 1902, when the state of his health compelled him reluctantly to resign. He was made professor emeritus. While travelling in China in 1903. he was stricken with paralysis in the city of Hong Kong. L’pon his recovery from this stroke he returned to America and took up his residence at Harrisburg, Pa. There he suffered from a second stroke of paralysis in 1904. He died Dec. 17. 1905. in Harrisburg, of paralysis, in the 74th year of his age. He was buried at Newport, Perry Co.. Pa. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton in 1875, and that of L.H.D. from Lafayette College in 1889. Dr. Orris was Director of the American Classical School at Athens dur- ing the academic year 1889-90. He was a life-long student of Plato and left a manuscript on the Platonic and Aristotel- ian Philosophy and its Ijearing on Christianity and the Christ- ian Religion, which it is expected will be published. He was unmarried.

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SALMON COLES PARIS, D.D.,

Son of John and Ann (Morrison) Paris, was born Dec. i6, 1831, in Triadelphia, W. Ya.. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Bellefontaine, O., at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in the preparatory department of Washington College. He spent the freshman and sophomore years in that institu- tion and his junior year in Wittenberg College. Springfield,

0. ; but he did not complete his college course. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1863. taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1866. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Feb. 7, 1866, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of West Virginia, July 17, 1866. From May, 1866, until January, 1868, he was stated supply of the Buckhannon and French Creek churches, W. Va. Soon after this he was appointed superintendent of city ihissions in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in this position he was the means of starting several churches, among these the South Side Church, Hazlewood, Pa. During this time he was the editor of the “ Pittsburgh Pulpit,” a Presbyterian paper for ministers. From May, 1874, until May, 1876, he was general agent for the Pennsylvania Bible Society. During the next two years he served the church at Apple Creek, O., as pastor elect, and then the church at Holmesville, O., as stated supply, 1878-79. He was pastor at Perrysville, O., 1880-82; prin- cipal of the academy and pastor at Frankfort, Pa., from June

1, 1882, to Dec. 10, 1884; president of the Richmond College, (J., 1886-88, and pastor of the Richmond and Pleasant Hill churches from May 7, 1886 to April 23 and April 21, 1890,. respectively; stated supply at Cameron, W. \'a., 1890-91; secretary of the American Sunday School Union in Tennessee, 1891-92. His health breaking down in 1893 he went to Stark, Fla., taking charge of the church there under the Board of Home Missions until 1897. After this^he engaged in similar work in Chandler, Fla. He was obliged to retire from the active work of the ministry in 1903, continuing his residence

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in Chandler until the summer of 1905, when he removed to Wilkinsburg, Pa. He died at Wilkinsburg, March 8, 1906. of acute bronchitis, in the 75th year of his age. He was buried in the Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Richmond College in 1889. He was made honorary fellow of the Society of Social Science, Literature and Arts of London in 1888, and a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1891.

Dr. Paris was married, Xov. 20, 1862, in Washington, Pa., to Amanda Fitz Allen Hayes, who with two sons and one daughter survives him.

AUGUSTUS MACDONALD,

Son of the Rev. Dr. James Madison and Lucy Esther (Hyde) Macdonald, was born Dec. 24, 1841, in Jamaica, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N. J., at the age of twenty, his father being pastor of the church at the time. His preparatory studies were pursued in Princeton under Air. J. S. Schenck, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1862. He then engaged in teaching. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1864 he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1867. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick, April 18. 1867. He preached as a supply in various churches, but allowed his license to expire, April 23, 1877, and gave himself to business. He lived all his life in Princeton, and was active and at times prominent in its political affairs. He was mayor of the borough from 1891 to 1893, and served it as collector of taxes and in other positions. During the political campaign of 1880 he edited “ The Other Side,” a Democratic paper. He died Jan. 27, 1906, in Princeton, after a brief illness, of arterial schlerosis with complications, in the 65th year of his age. He was buried in the Princeton Ceme- tery.

Mr. Macdonald was married Oct. ii, 1883, near Prince- ton, to Mary Evans, who with one son and one daughter sur- vives him.

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ADAM AUGUSTUS BODESTAVER,

Son of Alanson and Mary Eleanor (Barclay) Bookstaver, was born Nov. 29, 1842, at Crawford, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick, N. J., at the age of twenty-one, while a student in college. His preparatory studies were pursued in the IMontgomery Academy, Orange Co., N. Y., and he gradu- ated from Rutgers College in 1866. He entered the Semi- nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining two years. While a student in Princeton Seminary he employed his first long vacation in the summer of 1867 as an agent of the American Tract Society, in Martinsburg, \'a., and the vacation of the summer of 1868 as supply of the Congrega- tional church at Ducksburg, \'t. He took the third year of his theological course in the Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., graduating therefrom in 1869. He was licensed by the Classis of New Brunswick of the Re- formed Church, ^lay 21, 1869, and after his licensure he sup- plied the Presbyterian church at Islip, L. I., from October, 1869, to June, 1870. He was ordained by the Classis of Schenectad}- of the Reformed Church, in September, 1870. and at the same time installed pastor of the Second Reformed Church of Glenville. N. Y., which he served for two years. Ill health necessitated his giving up his work in this church. He labored in the organization of the Central Avenue Church, Jersey City Heights, N. J., in 1872. He was never again able to resume the active duties of the ministry. He resided at Searsville. N. Y.. 1872-84; at Willard, N. Y., 1884-1900; and in the Hillside Home, Clark Summit, Pa., from 1900 until his death, which occurred there April 24, 1905, of kidney trouble, in the 63rd year of his age. He was buried at Mont- gomery, N. Y.

Mr. Bookstaver was married Dec. 28, 1870, in Milltown, N. Y.. to Harriett Mott Fisher, who survives him.

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TIMOTHY GRENVILLE DARLING, D D.,

Son of Timothy and Lucy (Sargent) Darling, was born Oct. 5, 1842, in Nassau, N. P., Bahamas. His father was a Brit- ish subject. He made a public confession of his faith in the South Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the age of fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Willis- ton Seminary of Easthampton, L. I., N. Y., under Principal Clark.’ and he graduated from Williams College in 1864. The state of his health required him to spend the next two years largely in seeking its restoration. He entered the Seminary at ^Princeton in 1866. remaining there two years. He took the senior year of his theological course in Union Seminary, New York, from which he graduated in 1869. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Brooklyn (N. S.) in 1868, and was assistant to the pastor of the First Church of Baltimore, Md., from December, 1870, to June, 1873. was ordained by

the Presbytery of Albany, June 18, 1873, being at the same time installed pastor of the First Church of Schenectady, N. Y. He was released from this his only pastorate, Dec. 15, 1887. that he might accept a call to the chair of Sacred Rhet- oric and Pastoral Theology in the Auburn Theological Semi- nary. In 1890 he received a call to the chair of Theology in McCormick Seminary, which he was inclined to accept, as by taste and aptitude he was strongly drawn to the teaching of systematic theology ; but at this time this chair in Auburn becoming vacant by the death of Professor Welch, he received and accepted a call to fill it. It was while in the full discharge of its duties that he was stricken with a sudden and violent attack of appendicitis, and died after a fruitless operation, in Auburn, Feb. 3, 1906, in the 64th year of his age. He was buried in Auburn. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Williams College in 1879. He was unmarried.

THOMAS JOHNSON SHERRARD,

Son of Robert Andrew and Jane (Hindman) Sherrard, was born Feb. 25, 1845, Sugar Hill Farm, near Steubenville, O. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presby-

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terian Church of Steubenville, at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Dunlap’s Creek Acad- emy, Merrittstown, Pa., of which the Rev. D. H. Sloan was principal, and he graduated from Washington and Jeffer- son College in 1868. He spent the following year in the Northwestern Theological Seminary (now McCormick) at Chicago, entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1869 as a middler. He took the two remaining years of his course there, graduating in 1871. He was licensed by the Presby- tery of Steubenville, April 27, 1870, and ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June ii, 1872, being at the same time installed pastor of the Mifflintown and Lost Creek churches. Pa., which he had been supplying since January of the same year. He was released from the Lost Creek Church, April 13, 1875, upon the separation of these churches into two pastoral charges. He continued to serve the Mifflintown church as its pastor until his release therefrom April 14, 1880. After this he was pastor of the following churches : Brookville, Pa., from Nov. ii, 1880, to March 6, 1883; Honey Brook, Pa., from April 21, 1883, to July 15, 1889; and the Central Church of Chambersburg, Pa., from June 10, 1890, to Oct. i, 1902. He continued to reside at Chambersburg until his death, which occurred there, July 10, 1905, of heart disease, in the 6ist year of his age. He was buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg. Mr. Sherrard was a trustee of the Wilson Female College of Chambersburg. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Pittsburg, in 1878, at New York, in 1889, and at Los Angeles, in 1903. He edited “ The Sher- rard Family of Steubenville,” Philadelphia, 1890.

He was married Dec. 21, 1871, at Clarion, Pa., to Mary Rachel Campbell, who with two sons and two daughters sur- vives him.

ALBERT CLARK TITUS,

Son of Benjamin Westly and Elizabeth (Titus) Titus, was born Oct. 9, 1847, in Trenton, N. J. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Tren-

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ton at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pur- sued in the Model School of his native city and under the private tuition of C. S. Converse, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1869. Entering the Seminary at Prince- ton in the fall of the same year he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1872. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 10, 1872, and ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle, July 9, 1872, being at the same time installed pastor 6f the church at Newport, Pa., which he had been serving as pastor-elect since May 26 of the same year. He was released from this charge April 9, 1875. He then engaged in teaching for a few months, after this serving the Presbyterian Church of Andover, N. Y., as stated supply, 1876-81. At this time the death of his father made it incum- bent upon him to return to Trenton, to take care of the busi- ness interests of his father’s family. He connected himself with the Fourth Presbyterian Church of that city and was for a time the superintendent of its Sunday School. Later he connected himself with the Prospect Street Church, where he conducted a class for boys and young men in its Sunday School. He died in Trenton, IMay i, 1905, of dilatation of the heart, in the 58th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of the Ewing Presbyterian Church near Trenton.

Mr. Titus was twice married: (i) Oct. 23, 1872, in Tren- ton, N. J., to Mary Johnson Whitehead, who died Feb. 15, 1895 ; (2) Oct. 14, 1896, in Norristown, Pa., to Rebecca Foster Johnson, who with two sons by his first wife survives him.

ISAAC BAIRD,

Son of James Dixon and Agnes (Miller) Baird, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Onslow, Nova Scotia, Canada. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Onslow at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Model and Normal schools of Truro, Nova Scotia. He attended the Presbyterian Seminary at Truro

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and Dalhousie College, Halifax, but did not take his de- gree. He then spent a year in editing and publishing two newspapers, “ The Mirror ” and “ The Bulwark ” at Truro. The next five years were spent in teaching at intervals in Nova Scotia. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1870. remaining there one year, and taking the other two years of his theological course in Union Seminary, New York, from which he graduated in 1873. He was licensed by the Pres- bytery of Westchester, April 16, 1872, and ordained an evange- list by the same Presbytery, March 3, 1873. He engaged in missionary work under the Rev. Dr. Phraner of Sing Sing, N. Y., during his vacations while a student of theology. Im- mediately after his ordination he went as a missionary under the Foreign Board to the Chippewa Indians, making his resi- dence at Odanah, Wis. He was thus employed from 1873 to 1884. He was stated supply of the church at Crystal Falls, Mich., from April, 1884, until April, 1885. In May of the latter year he began supplying the church at Ripon, Wis., and was installed its pastor November ist. He was released from this charge Oct. 30, 1886. He was then pastor of the Pres- byterian church at New Mills, Canada, from July i, 1887, to June 30, 1891. The rest of his life was spent in California, as stated supply of the church at Templeton from 1891 to 1899; of the church at Cayucos from 1899 to 1902, and during a part of this time of the church at Moro also ; as pastor of the church at Walnut Creek and stated supply of the church at Concord from Dec. 18, 1902, until his death, which occurred Nov. 10, 1904, at Walnut Creek, Cal., of acute dysentery, in the 64th year of his age. He was buried at Walnut Creek.

Mr. Baird was married Aug. 5, 1873, in Knowlton, Que- bec, Canada, to Mary Louise Tarbell, who survives him.

ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER MURPHY,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas and Anne (Salter) Murphy, was born Oct. 30, 1851, at Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. He made

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a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Frankford, of which his father was the pastor, at the age of fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued under the direction of Dr. H. D. Gregory in Philadelphia, and he gradu- ated from Princeton College in 1872. He entered the Semi- nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year and remained two and a half years, when ill health interrupted his course. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia North, Sept. 29, 1874. After leaving the Seminary early in 1875 he spent several years in reading and study and in helping his father in the Frankford Church. In the fall of 1878 he took charge of Grace Chapel, Jenkintown, Pa., an offshoot of the old Abington Church, and continued his labors there until the summer of 1880. Upon his ordination, June 13, 1881, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia North, he was installed pastor of the Leverington Church, Philadelphia, and was released from this charge June i. 1882. He was pastor of the First Church of Port Carbon. Pa., from June 21, 1882, to Jan. 5, 1886. After this he went to the Northwest, supplying the First Con- gregational Church of Huron, So. Dak., from February, 1886, until May, 1887. Returning east he was pastor of the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, from Jan. 24, 1888, to June 30, 1890, and of the First Church of Springfield, O., from Oct. 12, 1891, to June 18, 1894. He spent the next year in rest and travel, and his last pastorate was that of the Second Church of New Brunswick, N. J., from May 8, 1895, until June 28, 1904, when the state of his health made it necessary to give up, for a time he hoped, the active duties of the ministry. But in this hope he was disappointed. He died, May 19, 1905, in New Brunswick, of heart disease, in the 54th year of his age. He was buried in the old family burial ground at Blaw- enburg, N. J., beside the other members of his father’s family. He was at one time moderator of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and when in Springfield, O., had been a member of its Board of Trade, being the first clerical member of that Board in its history. He was unmarried.

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THOMAS McKEEN BOYD,

Son of William Henry and Mary Kennedy (Logan) Boyd, was born June ii, 1846, in Stewartsville, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the First Mansfield (now Washington) Presbyterian Church, N. J., at the age of six- teen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the school at Hightstown, N. J., under the Rev. J. E. Alexander and he graduated from Princeton College 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 New Brunswick, April 23, 1877, and ordained an evangelist three days later by the same Pres- bytery, as he had decided to engage in home missionary work in the far West. He served the church at Waitsburg, Wash., from 1877 to 1880, when he became stated supply of the church at Lewisburg, Ida. He was installed pastor of this church April 20, 1884, and released from it March 15, 1888. After this he was pastor of the church of Pendleton, Ore., from April 7, 1888, to Dec. 9, 1890. During the next two years he sup- plied Calvary Church, Seattle, Wash. He was pastor of the church of Watsonville, Cal., from Nov. 6, 1892, to Aug. 14, 1894; stated supply at Bloomfield, Valley Eord and Bodega, Cal., 1896-97; stated supply at Point Arena, Cal., 1898-99; at Oxnard, Cal., 1899-1902, and of the Olivet Church, San Eran- cisco, 1902-03. His last work was at Oceanside (Carville), one of the suburbs of San Erancisco. He also had a Sunday School class and conducted singing in the Howard Church, San Erancisco. In June, 1904, he suffered a stroke of par- alysis. He died Jan. 25, 1906, in San Francisco, of cerebral degeneration, in the 60th year of his age. He was buried in the Cypress Lawn Cemetery, near San Francisco. Mr. Boyd founded the Presbyterial Academy at Pendleton, Ore. He was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Idaho and of the Pres- bytery of East Oregon. He was at one time moderator of the Synod of Columbia, and was a commissioner to the Gen- eral Assembly.

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He was married, Oct. 4, 1882, in Tacoma, Wash,, to Mary Estelle McCarty, who with two sons and two daughters sur- vives him.

HUBERT WILLIAM BROWN, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Frederick Thomas and Charlotte Ann (White) Brown, was born Feb. 10, 1858, in Cleveland O. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Ann Arbor, Mich., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the High School of St. Paul, Minn., Major B. F. Wright, principal, and he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1879. During the fol- lowing year he was principal of the High School at Ypsilanti, Mich. He entered the .Seminary at Princeton in 1880, taking the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1883, and then took a fourth year of graduate study. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1883, ordained si)ie titulo by the Presbytery of Monmouth, April 9, 1884, having dedicated himself to the cause of foreign mis- sions. He supplied the church at Point Pleasant, N. J., fruin May, 1883, to July, 1884, having preached for that people also during the summer of 1882. He reached Mexico City, Aug. 6, 1884, and engaged in his missionary labors there from that time until his death. In 1892 he was appointed treasurer of the mission there, and to these duties he added those of a professor in the College and Theological Seminary at Coyoa- can, as well as editorial work as head of the Presbyterian Press in Mexico City. He preached every Sunday either in Spanish or English, beside making long missionary tours through the country. He was pastor of the Union Evangelical Church of Mexico City from some time in 1903 until May ii, 1905,, when increasing ill health made it necessary for him to relinquish his work and he went to Clifton Springs, N. Y., with the hope of finding restoration there ; but in this he was disappointed. He died at Clifton Springs, Feb. 15, 1906, five days after the

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completion of his 48th year. He was buried at Manasquan, N. J. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wash- ington and Jefferson College in 1902. Dr. Brown occupied the chair of Theology, Church History and Philosophy in the Presbyterian College in Mexico, with which he was closely identified during his entire missionary career, and which was located in various places during that period. In 1888 he be- came editor of El Faro, a religious paper, and continued to edit it many years. He translated into Spanish Fisher’s His- tory of the Reformation, Philadelphia, 1893. For a score of years he was a correspondent of the New York Observer. In 1900 while on a vacation he delivered the mission lectures on the students’ foundation in Princeton Seminary, repeating them at Auburn. These lectures were afterward published as a book named “ Fatin America,” New York, 1901.

He was married, Oct. 20, 1886, in Chicago, 111., to Mary Wulmar Jacobs, who with three sons survives him.

WILLIAM LEAS KEESWILL, L.D.,

Son of Giles and Margaret (McNair) Kerswill, was born May 10, 1863, in Adelaide, Ont., Canada. He made a public confession of his faith in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Adelaide, at the age of twenty-one. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Collegiate Institute of Strathroy, Ont., whose headmaster was F. E. Embrie, and he graduated from Toronto University in 1890. Entering the Seminary at Prince- ton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1893. He was licensed, June 6, 1893, by the Presbytery of Toronto, Can., and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Chester, April 24, 1894. Dur- ing his Seminary course he made a special study of the Ori- ental languages, particularly of Hebrew, Syriac, and i\rme- nian, and in the summer of 1893 he was invited to visit Lincoln University with a view to the acceptance of the chair of Hebrew and History in that institution, to which he was

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elected by the unanimous action of its Board of Trustees. Impressed with the importance of the work to be done by Lincoln University for the Negro race, he accepted this call and entered upon the discharge of his duties in the fall of the same year. Later his work was limited by the action of the Trustees, to instruction in the Theological Seminary, and the teaching of history was assigned to another chair. He con- tinued in this work until his death, which occurred on Sept. 6, 1905, at Oakville, Ont., Canada, of valvular heart disease, in the 43rd year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery at Ox- ford, Pa. He received the honorary degree of D.D., in 1902, from the Presbyterian College of Montreal. While a college student he had employed his vacations in mission work in the destitute regions near Moskoka, Ont., Canada, and his Semi- nary vacations in preaching at Allandale, Ont., and as supply for the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of London, Ont. Dr. Kerswill was appointed an examiner in the Department of Oriental Languages in Toronto University in 1893. He was medalist in Mental and Moral Philosophy and Logic, in that university upon graduating. He published Old Testament Doctrine of Salvation, Philadelphia, 1904 ; and left a manu- script of a work on the Philosophy of History, which it is ex- pected will be published.

He was married June 19, 1895, at New London, Pa., to Harriett Duffield Strawbridge, who with two sons survives him.

WILLIAM LITTELL EVERITT.

Son of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Smith and Helen Caroline (Bate- man) Everitt, was born Nov. 8, 1869, at Montclair, N. J. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, N. J., of which his father was pastor, at the age of . fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the academy at Jamesburg, and later at the Peddie Insti- tute at Hightstown, N. J., and he graduated from Princeton College in 1891. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the

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fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1894. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Monmouth, April 12, 1893, and ordained by the same Pres- bytery, May 15, 1894. He was pastor of the churches of Meshoppen and Mehoopany, Pa., from Oct. 26, 1894, to April 20, 1897. His only other pastoral charge was over the Light Street Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Md., from May 18. 1897, until his death, which occurred April 5, 1905, in Balti- more, of peritonitis, after an operation that at first seemed successful, in the 36th year of his age. He had preached in his church only three days before his death. He was buried at Jamesburg ,N. J.

Mr. Everitt was married. May 27, 1895, in Jamesburg, X. J., to Margaret Cecelia Pownall, who died Sept. 12, 1905. One son survives him.

HENRY WALTER MOORE,

Son of George Washington and Esther M. (Hayes) Moore, was born Sept. 19, 1865, in Colora, Cecil Co., Md. He made a public confession of his faith in the Second United Presbyterian Church of New Washington, Pa., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued at New Washington and in the Preparatory Department of Westmin- ster College, Pulton, Mo., from which institution he gradu- ated in 1885. He spent the next six years in teaching lan- guages and literature in the Norfolk, Va., mission college for colored youth, and in the private study of theology. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1891, he remained Jthere two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Allegheny of the United Presbyterian Church, May 10, 1892, and ordained by the Presbytery of Caledonia of the same denomination, June 14, 1893, being at the same time installed pastor of the United Presbyterian church at Caledonia, N. Y. He was released from this charge Oct. 7, 1895. He then supplied the Presby- terian church of El Paso, Texas, from October, 1896, until his

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death, which occurred Nov. 19, 1905, at El Paso, of consump- tion, in the 41st year of his age. He was buried at El Paso. For two months in 1892 Mr. Moore supplied the Church of the Strangers, New York, and was afterward called to be the pastor of that church, but declined.

He was married July 9, 1902, in El Paso, Tex., to Lulu May Trumbull, who with one son survives him.

THOMAS HOOETT MEDD,

Son of Richard and Mary Hannah (Hogett) Medd, was born April 30, 1868, in Bowes, England. At an early age he came to this country and was confirmed a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His ^preparatory studies were pursued in Toledo, O. He attended Heidelberg University, Ohio, for four and a half years and then went to Ursinus College, Penn- sylvania, for the completion of his college course, graduating from that institution in 1892. He took the first year of his theological course in the School of Theology connected with Ursinus College. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1893 as a middler, he completed his course there, graduating in 1895. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 23, 1895, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey, Oct. 21, 1895, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at Atco, N. J. He was released from this charge Sept. 29. 1897. He spent the following year as a graduate student in Princeton Seminary, studying for and receiving the degree of B.D., in May, 1898. He was then pastor of the church at Gretna, Canada, from July 29, 1898, to Sept. 12, 1899, when ill health compelled him to seek a milder climate in the South, For a time he pursued graduate studies in Columbia Seminary, South Carolina, and in 1901 began supplying the churches of Easley, Pickens and Liberty, S. C. The former two he con- tinued serving until the fall of 1902, when his health compelled him to stop preaching. He went north and pursued special studies in the New Brunswick Seminary, N. J., later moving

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to Philadelphia, where he resided until his death, which oc- curred there April 8, 1905, of tuberculosis, in the 37th year of his age. At the time of his death he was serving the Bethany- Reformed Church in Roxboro, Philadelphia. He was buried at Collegeville, Pa.

Mr. Medd was married, June 25, 1895, Philadelphia, Pa., to Annie Landis Hunsicker, who with one son survives him.

JOHN ROGEES PEALE,

Son of Samuel Alexander and Elizabeth (Mclntire) Peale, was born Sept. 17, 1879, at New Bloomfield, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at New Bloomfield, at the age of twelve. His preparatory stud- ies were pursued in the academy of his native town, and he graduated from Lafayette College in 1902. Coming to the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1905. During his seminary course he was leader of the \"olunteer Band and manifested an intense interest in the cause of Foreign Mis- sions. He kept a map of the world hanging on the wall of his room that the claims of the heathen world might ever be before his eyes. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Car- lisle, April II, 1905. and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, March 15 of the same year, having dedicated him- self to the cause of foreign missions. He sailed for China Aug. 16, 1905, and proceeded quickly to his field of labor at Lien Chou. Just before his departure for China he expressed the wish that he might be allowed to serve his Master for forty years in that country. He had been in Lien Chou only four days when both he and his young wife were killed by a Chinese mob, Oct. 28, 1905. Their bodies were later recovered by Chinese officials and were given Christian burial by two Chinese Christians at Lien Chou. He was in his 27th year when he died.

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Mr. Peale was married June 29, 1905. at West Nottingham, Md., to Rebecca Gillespie, who perished with him.

HERBERT AUGUSTUS WILCOX.

Son of Samuel E* and Sophia (Johnson) Wilcox, was born Jan. 24, 1879, at North Adams, Mich. He made a public con- fession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Alma, Mich., at the age of sixteen. He jiursued his preparatory studies in the public schools of Alma, and in the preparatory department of Alma College, from which institution he graduated in 1904. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year. Having completed the first year of his seminary course, he was employing his first long vacation in supplying the churches of Gladwin and Pinconning, in the Presbytery of Saginaw, Mich., when he was stricken with typhoid fever, of which disease he died July 16, 1905, at Gladwin, Mich., in the 27th year of his age. He was buried at Alma, Mich.

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INDEX

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Alexander, Hugh Samuel, 413

Baird, Isaac 425

Baker, William Elliott 408

Barkley, Andrew Hannah, ... 409

Biggs, Henry Weed, 407

Bookstaver, Adam Augustus 422

Booth, Robert Russeli 399

Boyd, Thomas McKeen, ... 428

Brown, Hubert William, 429

Collins, Charles Jewett 410

Darling, Timothy Grenville 423

Dinsmore, Thomas Hughes, 405

Elcock, Thomas 404

Elliott, John Habersham, 413

Everitt, William Littell 431

Paris, Salmon Coles 420

Graley, Alfred Arthur 403

Hodge, Francis Blanchard, . . 400

Kerswill, William Deas, 430

King, Frederick La Rue, 406

Lyon, David 402

Macdonald, Augustus 421

Medd, Thomas Hogett 433

Moore, Henry Walter, 432

Murphy, Archibald Alexander, 426

Orris, S- Stanhope 418

Peale, John Rogers, 434

Polk, Joseph Littleton 416

Sherrard, Thomas Johnson, .... 423

Symmes, Francis Marion, 410

Titus, Albert Clark 424

Wheeler, John Emory 417

Wilcox, Herbert Augustus 435

Willard, Henry, 414

Wilson, Robert Fle.ming, 412

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