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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

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DECEASED FROM JUNE, 1870, TO JUN]^, 1880.

PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETINGS OF
THE ALUMNI,

1870-80.

NEW HAVEN:

TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR
1880.

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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in July, 1 871 ,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JULY 12th, 18T1.]

[No. 1 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 30 of the whole Record.]

INDEX.

ClasB.

Page.

Class.

Page.

1842

Adam, John H.

1814

Huntington, Jedidiah

1817

Alden, Augustus

1863

Ives, WHbur

1823

Ashmun, George

1821

King, Asa H.

1794

Bacon, Bzekiel

1814

Tianman, Chas. J.

1826

Barber, E;dad

1829

Lathrop, John

1815

Barnes, Julius S.

1822

Lyman. Solomon

1845

Bibbins, Wm. B.

1835

McPhail, George W.

1863

Bishop, Edw. G-.

1815

Marshall, Thos. A.

1864

Booth. Chas. E.

1864

Mather, Edw. T.

1853

Bradley, Henry R.

1837

Mather, OHver W.

1820

Brockway, John H.

1825

Maverick, Samuel A.

1868 m

Brown, David B.

1853

Nicholas, Thos. P.

1809

Brown, Garrett G.

1864

Palmer, Wm. H.

1846 m

Candee, Judson

1819

Parsons, Samuel H.

1828

Carter, Wm.

1819

Payson, Joshua P.

1859

Catlin, Benj. S.

1818

Perkins, Thos. C.

1840

Chauvenet, Wm.

1816

Pierce, George B.

1817

Chesebrough, Robert J

r. 11

1840

Richards, George

1818

Chester, Alfred

1833 m

Rising, Henry H.

1824

Child, Linus

1867

Robinson, Ernest

1837

Clarke, Walter,

1812

Rumsey, Wm.

1808

Coe, Noah,

1832

Stone, Collins

1820

Collis, John T.

1855

Talcott, George

1869

Conkling. Frederick G.

1826

Thompson, Andrew

1815

Cook, George

1816 m

Tracy, Richard P.

1831

Cutler, Wm. W.

1863 m

Treadway, Frederick S.

1818

Davi?, Richard D.

1813

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah

1839

Day, Thomas

1826

Van Rensselaer, Philip S.

1841

Dean, Gilbert

1809

Ward, Samuel D.

1813

Elliot, George A.

1842

Welch, Henry K. W.

1845

Braigh, Ward

1809

Welles, Gaylord

1856

Fellowes, Francis

1858

Wells, Henry A.

1810

Fitch, Eleazar T.

1851

Wells, Henry D.

1797

Goodrich, Chas.

1844 m

Wells, John F.

1817

Grammer, John

1834

Wickes, Thos.

1816

Gridley, Frederick

1818

Wilkins, Gouvemeur M.

1848 Z

Hammond, George C.

W. 37

1840 m

Williams, Francke

1842

Hiester, Isaac E.

1850

Woodford, Oswald L.

1825 m

Holmes, Henry

1862

WoodhuU, George L.

1821 m

Holt, Hiram

1832

Wright, James L.

1819

Huntington, Asahel

1822

Wright, Luther

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OP YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in July 1871, inclu-
ding the record of a few who died previously^
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 12, 1871.]

[No. 1 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 30 of the whole Record.]

1794.

EzEKiEL Bacon, for nearly six years the oldest surviving grad-
uate of the college, died in Utica, 1^. Y., 18 Oct., 1870, aged 94.

In reply to a request made a few years since for a sketch of the
events of his life, he wrote as follows : —

"Ezekiel Bacon was born in Boston, on the 1st of Sept., 1776,
the only son of the Rev. John Bacon, then late pastor of the Old
South Church, and of Elizabeth his wife, who was the daughter of
Ezekiel Goldthwait, of Boston, and widow of the Rev. Alexander
Cummings, Mr. Bacon's predecessor in office. The family settled
in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass., and the son was educated
and graduated at Yale College of the class of 1794 ; read law at
Judge Reeve's law school in Litchfield, Ct., and practiced it in
Berkshire ; was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts in
1806 and 7 ; was a member of the House of Representatives of
the U. S. Congress from 1807 to 1813, serving on the committee of
ways and means, and during one year its chairman. He then held
the office of Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
for the Western District of Massachusetts, until he received the
office of Comptroller of the Treasury of the U. S. ; which owing
to ill health he soon after resigned, and removing into the State of
N. Y., settled in Utica, where except holding the offices of mem-
ber of the legislature for one year. Judge of the County Court of
Common Pleas for two years, and member of the Convention of
1821 for revising the Constitution of the State, he has since re-
sided in private life, having passed fully one-third of a long-pro-

tracted life in a condition of continued ill health and great depres-
sion of the vital and active powers of being. ' Sic itur ad astra.'''
He married Abigail, daughter of Dr. Reuben Smith, of Litch-
field, Conn., and had five children.

1808.

Noah Coe, son of Charles and Hannah (Bates) Coe, was born
in Durham, Conn., May 24th, 1786.

He pursued his theological studies in part at Andover,in 1809 and
10, as a member of the second class which graduated from that
institution. He was ordained July 3, 1811, and preached in Ches-
ter, N. Y., for two years. In 1814 he was installed over the Pres-
byterian church in New Hartford, N. Y., where he remained until
1835. In 1836 he commenced preaching in the 2d Congregational
church in Greenwich, Conn., where he was installed May 23d, 1837.
He was dismissed May 20th, 1845, and was not again a settled
pastor, though he preached and labored almost continuously until
over seventy years of age. From 1848 to 1854 he was engaged as
a city missionary in New York city, and in Williamsburg, L. I.
He then removed to New Haven, Conn., where he resided until his
death. From Nov., 1854, to Feb., 1856, he served as stated sup-
ply of the Congregational church in Northfield, Conn., and for the
succeeding year supplied the Congregational church at New Pres-
ton Hill, Conn. He died, suddenly, in Hartford, Conn., May 9th,
1871, aged 85.

His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Samuel Goodrich, (Y. C.
1783,) of Berlin, Conn., died in New Haven March 10, 1864.
Two of his sons, Frederick A. and Rev. Samuel G. Coe, graduated
at this college in 1837 and 1838 respectively, and died a little more
than a year before him. His daughter, the widow of Rev. Chaun-
cey Goodrich, (Y. C. 1837,) survives him.

1809.

Garrett Garnsey Brown, son of David and Philena Brown,
was born in Bethlehem, Conn., in 1784.

He was prepared for college under his pastor, the Rev. Azel
Backus, D.D., and at the Morris Academy, Litchfield ; and entered
('ollege in the second Sophomore term. After graduation he taught
in Milford, Conn., for one term, and then became a student in An-
dover Theological Seminary. He remained there until licensed to
preach by the New Haven East Association of Congregational
ministers, Sept., 1811.

The next fifty years of his life were spent in the Southern and
Southwestern States, where he taught in private families and in se-
lect schools, preaching also as opportunity oifered, though not or-
dained. During these years he had no fixed residence, and scarcely
remained for a year in any one place. In 1854 he visited the Sand-
wich Islands, and opened a private school, but returned the next
year to the South. After the breaking out of the late civil war, he
came back to his native town. The closing part of his life was
spent in the almshouse in Woodbury, Conn., where he died Oct.
1st, 1870. He was unmarried.

Samuel Dexter Ward was the eldest son of the Hon, Artemas
Ward (Harv. Coll. 1783), Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas in Boston, and grandson of Gen. Artemas Ward (Harv.
Coll. 1748), of Revolutionary fame. His mother was Catherine
M., daughter of the Hon. Samuel Dexter, of Boston.

He spent the first three years of his College course in Harvard
College. He was a lawyer in Boston, where he died unmarried,
of pneumonia. May 28th, 1871, aged 82 years, 7 months, and 4
days. He was a member of the Common Council during the first
years of the City Charter ; but his principles prevented him. from
further entrance into political life.

Gaylord Welles died from an attack of apoplexy, at the resi-
dence of his daughter, in Bristol, Conn., Sept. 24th, 1870, aged
82-^ years.

He was the youngest son of James and Abigail (Gaylord)
Welles, and was born in Wethersfield, Conn., April 15th, 1788.

He studied medicine and surgery with Dr. Everest, of Canton,
Conn., and in 1815 began practice in Hebron, but soon removed to
Harwinton, Conn. In 1842 he removed to Hillsdale, N. Y., con-
tinuing his practice there till 1855, when at the request of his
daughters he retired from his profession and removed to their res-
idence in West Hartford, Conn., and later to Bristol. An attack of
paralysis partially disabled him in Jan., 1869, but he continued to
employ himself in visiting the sick until the day before his sudden
death.

Dr. Welles married, June 16th, 1814, Electa, daughter of James
Brace, Esq., of Harwinton. Their eight children, five of whom
still survive, were born in Harwinton. Mrs. Welles died March
8th, 1836.

He was well known as a firm supporter of the Temperance and
Anti-Slavery causes, and of the American Peace Society in its
earlier and more active years.

1810.

Eleazar Thompson Fitch, a descendant in the fifth generation
from Rev. James Fitch, of Norwich, Conn., was the youngest
child of Capt. Nathaniel and Mary (Thompson) Fitch, of New
Haven, Conn., where he was born Jan. 1, 1791.

He early evinced a decided taste for learning, being quiet and
thoughtful in manner, and eager and diligent in study. He won
distinction in College, both for punctuality and scholarship. His
conversion occurred while an undergraduate, and it at once deter-
mined the character of his life work. After graduation he was a
teacher at East Windsor Hill, and subsequently of the New Haven
Hopkins Grammar School. In 1812 he entered Andover Theol.
Seminary, where after completing the regular course he remained
pursuing advanced studies, giving assistance in instruction, and
preaching, until his election in 1817, to succeed Pres. D wight in
the office of Professor of Divinity in Yale College. One branch of
his work was to teach Theology to graduates. In this he found
his classes so increase that he was led to urge upon the Corpora-
tion the founding of a Theological Department, which was organ-
ized in 1822. In this Department he filled the chair of Homiletics,
at the same time being College Preacher and Pastor, and giving
instruction in the Academical Department in Natural Theology
and the Evidences of Christianity. As Preacher he delivered to
successive classes a series of sermons in Systematic Theology.
Some of his doctrinal views thus presented becoming publicly con-
troverted, he was compelled to defend them as publicly ; and thus
for truth and conscience's sake he was willing to appear in print,
a thing which he was never prevailed upon to do on other grounds.

In 1852 his growing infirmities (he scarcely ever enjoyed even
from youth full bodily health) induced him to resign his office as
Professor; yet he retained his connection with the Theol. Semi-
nary as Lecturer until 1861, and with the Theol. Faculty as Pro-
fessor Emeritus until his death.

At his resignation he became a member of the " Circle of retired
Clergymen and Laymen," in whose weekly meetings he always
took an active part, and thus maintained his interest in all the liv-
ing issues of the day even to the last. He was never a mere

Theologian, but pushed his researches into matters of science, liter-
ature, and taste, and of public and social order. He possessed a
decided genius for music and its kindred fine arts, and in smaller
matters displayed great versatility and ready inventive powers.

He died January 31, 18 71, in his 81st year.

He was thrice married: Nov. 12, 1817 to Elizabeth Lucia, only
child of Joseph Lucius Wooster of ISTew Haven, a graduate of
1781, and a lawyer by profession. She died Aug. 30, 1821, hav-
ing lost a daughter in infancy, and leaving a son, now living : Sept.
5, 1822 to Susan Augusta Root of New Haven, who died Oct. 2,
1846 : and Jan. 6, 1848 to Mary Coffin Lunt of Newburyport,
Mass., who survives him.

1812.

William Rumsey was born in Kent County, Maryland, in 1792.
After graduation he studied medicine, and received the degree of
M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania ; in the meantime he
enlisted in the army during the war with Great Britain, and was
stationed at Camp Dupont in Delaware.

He settled in Philadelphia, where he continued to practice his
profession until April, 1869, when he removed to the home of his
sister, Mrs. S. C. Brinckle, near Wilmington, Delaware, where he
died of old age, April 23d, 1871, in his 79th year. Although born
in a slave-holding State, his attachment to the Union was warm
and decided during the late war.

Dr. Rumsey was married, in 1829, to Anna Rumsey Dunlap, of
Philadelphia, his second cousin, and the sister of his classmate,
Thomas Dunlap. She died in 1835, leaving one daughter, who
died in 1838.

1813.

George Augustus Elliot was born in Guilford, Conn., June
7th, 1792, and was the third son of William and Ruth (Rossiter)
Elliot, and a descendant in the fifth generation from Rev. John
Eliot, the " Apostle to the Indians."

He pursued the study of law with Seth P. Staples, of Kew
Haven, and being admitted to the bar in this city in the autumn
of 1815, started at once for the West. He selected Erie, Pa., as
the place of his residence, where he followed his profession suc-
cessfully until 1 855, when with somewhat impaired health he re-
tired from active business, and devoted his leisure to the improve-

ment of his farm. He died in Erie, July 23d, 1870, of paralysis,
at the age of 78.

He married, Nov. 12th, 1818, Miss Sarah M. Brown, eldest
daughter of Robert Brown, of Erie, who still survives him, with
one son, John Eliot, Esq.

Jeremiah VanRensselakr was born at the old family man-
sion, Greenbush, Rensselaer county, N. Y., Aug. 4th, 1793.

He studied medicine with his uncle, Archibald Bruce, M.D., and
in 1819 received the degree of M.D.

The three following years were passed in Edinburgh, London,
and Paris, in the prosecution of his medical studies. After this
course he returned to N". Y. city, and acquired an extensive prac-
tice. For many years he was Corresponding Secretary of the N.
Y. Lyceum of Natural History, and in 1825 he delivered a course
of lectures on geology before the N. Y. Athengeum; he had ac-
quired from Dr. Bruce a great love for the natural sciences.

In 1840 he visited Europe, and after three years spent abroad
resumed practice in N. Y. In 1852 he retired from active pur-
suits, and occupied the old mansion at Greenbush, having charge
of his estates. In 1867 he again visited Europe, and returned last
autumn in feeble health, and died in N. Y. city, of pneumonia,
March 7th, 1871, aged 77^ years. He leaves one son.

1814.

Jedidiah Huntington, eldest son of Deacon Jabez Hunting-
ton (Y. C. 1784) and Mary (Lanman) Huntington, of Norwich,
Conn., was born 15 Sept., 1794, and died in Norwich, 6 Dec, 1870,
from paralysis,

He spent his entire life in Norwich, engaged in business. At
the time of his death he was a vice-president and director of the
Norwich Savings Society.

He married, 2 July, 1834, Rebecca M. Snow, who died 3 Sept.,
1836. He married again, 24 Feb., 1841, Happy Kinney. Of his
three children, one daughter only is living.

Charles James Lanman died in New London, Conn., 25 July,
1870. He was born 5 June, 1795, the eldest of twelve children of
Hon. James Lanman (Y. C. 1 788), of Norwich, Conn., tJ. S. Sen-
ator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. His mother
was Mary Ann, daughter of Hon. Charles C. Chandler (Harv.
ColL 1763).

He studied law with his kinsman, Hon. Roger Griswold (Y. C.
1780), as well as with his father, and was admitted to the bar
early in 1817, in New London. Soon afterwards he decided to
seek his fortune in the Territory of Michigan, and joined William
Woodbridge, Esq., in his law office at Detroit. He soon settled
permanently in Frenchtown, now Monroe. There he held many
local offices, as Attorney for the Territory, Judge of Probate and
Colonel of the militia. Under Presidents Monroe and Adams he
was Receiver of Public Moneys for the District of Michigan.

In 1835 he returned to Norwich, and in 1838 was elected mayor
of the city. During the financial revulsion of 1837 he lost the
bulk of his property, all of which was located in Michigan. In
1862 he removed his residence to New London.

He married Mary Ghee, who survives him. His only son,
Charles Lanman, Esq., of Washington, and seven daughters also
survive.

1815.

Julius Steele Barnes, son of Jonathan Barnes (Y. C. 1784),
was born 23 Feb., 1792, in Tolland, Conn. His mother was Rachel
Steele, of West Hartford, Conn, adopted daughter of her maternal
uncle, Rev. George Colton (Y. C. 1756), of Bolton, Conn., under
whose instruction Dr. Barnes was fitted for college.

He graduated at the Yale Medical School in 1818, and shortly
after commenced practice in Southington, Conn., and there con-
tinued until his death, 12 Nov., 1870, in his 79th year. Besides
being a skillful practitioner, and devoted to his calling, he also la-
bored heartily for the social good of the community. He served
one term as State Senator, and held for a time the office of Judge
of Probate.

He married Laura Lewis, of Southington, who died two years
before him. Of their nine children, seven survive them ; 'one son
graduated at this college in 1847.

George Cooke, son of John and Anne (Lyon) Cooke, was born
in New Haven, Conn., March 30th, 1796, and died in the same city,
May 30th, 1871.

He taught school at the south for two or three years after his
graduation ; and was then engaged in business for a few years in
New Canaan, Conn. He then entered into the carriage business in
N. Y City with his father and brother, superintending also the ex-

tensive manufactory of the firm, in New Haven. About 1849 he re-
moved to New Haven, and continued in the same business with
his brother for many years.
He was never married.

Thomas Alexander Marshall was born in "Woodford county,
Ky., Jan. 15th, 1794. His father, Humphrey Marshall, was a U. S.
Senator, and his mother was a daughter of Col. Thomas Mar-
shall, of Virginia, and a sister of Chief Justice Marshall.

He studied law at home, and in 1817 began the practice of that
profession in Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky. Family consid-
erations induced him to move to Paris, Ky., in 1819, where he
closely pursued his practice until his election to Congress in 1831.
He served for two Congressional terms, and was then (March 18th,
1835,) commissioned a Judge of the Court of Appeals. He re-
tired to private life in August, 1856. During 1836, he moved to
Lexington, and was soon after appointed a professor in the Law
School of Transylvania University; he thus continued until 1849
or 1850. In 1857 he removed to Frankfort, and in 1859 to Louis-
ville. In 1866 he was appointed to complete the unexpired term
of Judge Sampson, and he served as Chief Justice for six months :
thus making twenty- two years of service on the bench of the Court
of Appeals — for seven years as Chief Justice. In 1866 this col-
lege conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He died in
Louisville, April 17th, 1871, aged 77.

In Nov., 1816, he married Miss Price, of Lexington, a niece of
Mrs. Henry Clay.

1816.

Frederick GRiDLEY,son of Rev. Uriel Gridley (Y. C. 1783) and
Susannah (Norton) Gridley, wan born in Watertown, Conn., Febr.
29th, 17P6, and died in Stratford, Conn., Febr. 21, 1871.

After completing his College course, he was for two years
Principal of the Academy in Monson, Mass. During this time
he studied theology with Rev. Dr. Alfred Ely, and afterwards
pursued his studies for a short time with Professors Fitch and
Goodrich in New Haven.

He was licensed to preach by the Hampden (Mass.) Association,
March, 1819, and was ordained as pastor of the Congregational
Church in Ellsworth (in the town of Sharon), Conn., June 7th,
1820, where he remained until dismissed at his own request in
March, 1836. He was installed, Oct. 5th, 1836, over the Congre-

gational Churcli in East Lyme, Conn., and after twenty years'
pastorate, took a dismission, chiefly on account of declining
health. His home was afterwards in Newington, Conn., and later
in Stratford.

Mr. Gridley was twice married: first, to Miss Elizabeth,
daughter of Major Wm. Clark, of N'orth Wilbraham, Mass., and
again to Miss Mary Edwards Ely, daughter of Eli Ely, of Hart-
ford, Conn. He had three children, one of whom, the widow of
David P. Judson (Y. C. 1831), of Stratford, survives him.

George Edmond Pierce was born in Southbury, Conn., Sept.
9th, 1794. His father was Samuel Pierce, and his mother Martha,
daughter of Robert Edmond, from Ireland.

After graduation, he taught in Fairfield (Conn.) Academy for
two years, and was for the next three years a member of Andover
Theol. Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational
Church in Harwinton, Conn., July 10th, 1822, and continued so
until June, 1834, when he was dismissed to accept the Presidency
of the Western Reserve College, in Hudson, Ohio. He entered on
his new duties in the next month, and remained in office twenty,
one years. After his resignation his residence continued in Hud-
son, till his sudden death. May 27th, 1871.

Dr. Pierce was married, Dec. 1st, 1824, to Miss Susan Rockwell,
daughter of Martin Rockwell, of Colebrook, Conn., who now sur-
vives him. They had five sons and one daughter : one son died
in infancy, and three of the other sons graduated at Western Re-
serve College.

Dr. Pierce received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Mid-
dlebury College in 1838.

1817.

Augustus Alden, second child and eldest sen of the Rev.
Abishai and Betsey (Parker) Alden, was born in Willington,
Conn.

After leaving College, he taught one year in Richmond, Va.,
and thence went to Georgia, where he spent the rest of his life as
a teacher. He married, in 1823, Miss Ann S., daughter of Gov.
Wilson Lumpkin, and had nine children.

He died at Cave Spring, Ga., Sept, 14th, 1870, aged 73.

Robert John Chesebrough, eldest son of Robert and Content
(Rathbone) Chesebrough, was born in jN'ew York City, Jan. 18th

1798.

He resided during his life in his native city, first studying law
and practicing it for a few years, and then going into business
Avith a brother, in the firm of Chesebrough, Satterlee, & Co.,
Pearl street. The firm met with great loss in the disastrous fire
of 1835, and Mr. Chesebrough returned to his profession, in which
he continued till his death, being especially entrusted with the
management of many estates, as executor or trustee. He died, of
Bright's disease, Dec. 30th, 1870.

His wife, to whom he was married in 1839, survives him, with
six daughters, out of a family of eight children.

John Gbammer died at Halifax Court House, Va., March 5th,
1871, aged 73. He was born in Petersburg, Va., where he began
the practice of law some two years after leaving College. He
married, in Dec, 1819, a Miss Barton, of Frederick County, Va.,
but his wife dying in Oct., 1823, he withdrew from the bar and
removed to a farm in Dinwiddle County, Va. In Jan., 1824, he
joined the Episcopal Theol. Seminary at Alexandria, Va., and on
July 15th, 1826, received Deacon's orders. For the next ten years,
his life was that of a missionary. He' lived upon his estate, and
preached in eight or ten of the neighboring counties. In Oct.,
1835, his dwelling house was burnt down, and he removed to Law-
rence ville, Brunswick County. In 1838 he accepted a call to the
parish of Halifax Court House and removed there, where he con-
tinued to reside till his death. In Sept., 1832, he married a Miss
Meade, of Brunswick County, and by her he had six children.
Washington College, Va , conferred on him in 1853 the degree of
Doctor of Divinity.

1818.

Alfred Chester, the second child and only son of Thomas
Chester (Y. C. 1780) and Esther (M. Bull) Chester, of Hartford,
Conn., was born March 17th, 1798.

The year after leaving College was spent in the Andover Theol.
Seminary, and the two succeeding years in Princeton Seminary.

After three years' service as a Home Missionary in South Caro-
lina, he was ordained over the Presbyterian Church in Rahway,
N. J., in July, 1826. He left his charge in 1829, and for the next
14 years was the principal of a classical school in Morristown, N.
J., where his residence continued until about 1 858. During the
latter part of his life he resided in Elizabeth, "N". J., and for the
last nine years was chaplain of the County Prison. He died in N.
Y. City, July 2d, 1871.

Mr. Chester married, Aug. 24th, 1826, Mary Ann Frances Chet-
woocl, of Elizabethtown, N. J. By this marriage he had two
children.

Richard David Davis, a native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., died
very suddenly at his home in Waterford, N. Y., June 17th, 1871.

He studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie
in 1821. He was a Representative in the U. S. Congress, for two
terms, beginning with 1841. He subsequently removed to Water-
ford.

Thomas Clap Perkins was bom in Hartford, Conn., July 29th,
1798. His father was Enoch Perkins, Esq. (Y. C. 1781), of Hart-
ford, and his mother, Anna Pitkin, was a daughter of Rev.
Timothy Pitkin (Y. C. 1747), of Farmington, Conn. His brother,
Rev. George W. Perkins, graduated in 1824.

After graduation he studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., in
ISTew Haven, and in 1820 was admitted to the bar in Hartford,
where he practiced his profession for half a century, with distin-
guished success. He was several times elected to the State Senate
and House of Representatives, and was once elected a Judge of the
Supreme Court, but declined the position. He died in Hartford,
Oct. 11th, 1870, at the age of 72.

Mr. Perkins married in 1827 Mary, daughter of the Rev. Lyman
Beecher, D.D. (Y. C. 1797). She survives him, with two sons and
two daughters : the elder son being a graduate of this College in
the class of 1850.

Go'uvERNEUR MoRRis WiLKiNS was bom Nov. 4th, 1799, and
died in New York City, Febr. 7th, 1871, aged 71 years.

He studied law, but never practiced. He was an attache of
the U. S. Legation in Paris in the reign of Louis Philippe, who
was during most of his exile in this country, while Duke of Orleans,
the guest of Gouverneur Morris, whose nephew and adopted son
Mr. Wilkins was. Mr. Wilkins mingled but little in public life,
preferring the private station which he so becomingly adorned.
The record of some of his various services is found in the following
pamphlets which he published.* "A Letter to the Trustees of
Columbia College, from a Citizen," 1856; " In the matter of the
Extension of Central Park," 1861; "A Project for the Relief of
Broadway," 1866.

His first wife was Mary, daughter of John Wood, Esq., of
Charleston, S. C. One daughter survived this marriage, and has
just deceased. Subsequently he married Catharine, eldest daugh-
ter of Gen. Stephen YanRensselaer, of Albany, N. Y.

1819.

AsAHEL Huntington was born in Topsfield, Mass., 23 July,
1798, and died in Salem, Mass., after a brief illness, 5 Sept., 1870.
His father was the Rev. Asahel Huntington (Dartmouth Coll.
1786), and his mother was Alethea, daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord,
of Pomfret, Conn.

After leaving College, Mr. Huntington commenced his legal
studies at Newburyport, and after some interruptions completed
them at Salem, Mass., where he was admitted to the bar in 1824.
He continued in practice in Salem until 1851, when he was ap-
pointed clerk of all the courts in the County : this office he held
till his death. He served the State repeatedly in the Legislature,
and in the Constitutional Convention of 1853: and in the same
year was mayor of the city of Salem.

He was married, 15 Aug., 1842, to Mrs. Caroline (Deblois)
Tucker, of Boston, who survives him, with a son and daughter.

Samuel Holden Parsons, second son of Enoch and Mary
Wiley (Sullivan) Parsons, was born in Middletown, Conn., Aug.
11th, 1800.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar of his native county in
April, 1822, and commenced practice in Middletown. In 1824, he
was appointed Attorney to the Branch of the U. S. Bank, loi^ated
in Hartford, and Pension Agent of the U. S. for Connecticut. He
accordingly removed to Hartford, and resided there until after the
expiration of the charter of the Bank and the winding up of its
affairs in 1847. During the rest of his life, his home was in Mid-
dletown. In 1851 he was made the first President of the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Savings Bank, and held that office for many years.

He died in Middletown, Febr. 23d, 187l', aged 70. He was un-
married.

Joshua Payne Payson, the son of John H. and Amaryllis
(Payne) Payson, was born in Abington, a parish of Pomfret, Conn.,
Aug. 15th, 1800.

He studied theology in the Andover Seminary, completing the
course in 1824. Although in delicate health, he preached, more or

less, for about six years, during the latter half of the time being
the stated supply of the Congregational churches in Chilmark and
Tisbury (Martha's Vineyard), Mass. He was ordained as an evan-
gelist at Falmouth, Mass., June 26th, 1828.

In 1830 he was compelled, by repeated attacks of bleeding at the
lungs, to relinquish preaching, and he retired to his native home-
stead. From about 1838 until his death he was a confirmed invalid,
and for the latter part of the time deprived of sight. He died in
Pomfret, Apr. 29th, 1871, in the 71st year of his age.

He was married, in Dec, 1840, to Miss Anna, daugter of Rev.
Joseph Steward, of Hartford. She survives him, without children.

1820.

John Hall Brockway, the oldest child of the Rev. Diodate
Brockway (Y. C. 1797) and of Miranda (Hall) Brockway, of Elling-
ton, Conn., was born, 31 Jan., 1801, and died in the same town,
where he had always resided, 29 July, 1870.

After he left College he taught in East Windsor for a few months,
but soon commenced to read law in the private school of Seth P.
Staples, Esq., and Judge S. J. Hitchcock, of New Haven. He was
admitted to the New Haven County Bar in April, 1823, and im-
mediately opened an office in his native town.

In 1832 and in 1838 he was a member of the State House of
Representatives, and in 1834 of the Senate. From 1839 to 1843 he
was member of Congress. In Aug., 1849, he was appointed State's
Attorney for Tolland County, and held the office until April, 1867,
when he resigned on account of his health.

He married, 12 Jan., 1829, Miss Flavia Field Colton, of Long-
meadow, Mass., who survives him, with her three daughters.

John Tucker Collis, the eldest son of Solomon and Hannah
(Howe) Collis, was born in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 8th, 1801.

For a number of years after leaving College he was engaged in
the banking business, and afterwards was connected with the-U.
S. Custom House, in his native city. In the latter years of his
life, he was made the curator and librarian of the New Haven
Colony Historical Society, upon its organization in 1863, and so
continued for several years. He was never married. He died in
Hartford, Conn., Aug. 8th, 1870, in his 7 0th year.

1821.

Asa Howe King, son of Rev. Asa and Eunice (Howe) King, was
born in New Haven, Conn., Apr. 5th, 1798, and entered College
from Killing worth, where his father was then pastor.

He attended a course of medical lectures in this College in 1824,
and subsequently in the same year at Bowdoin College, where he
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He commenced prac-
tice as a physician in Branford, Conn., in 1824. In 1827 he re-
moved to Essex, and in 1835 to Old Saybrook, Conn., where he re-
mained till his death, Nov. 20th, 1870.

In 1831 he was married to Miss Emily Starkey, of Essex. He
had four children, one daughter and three sons. His widow and
two sons survive him.

1822.

Solomon Lyman, son of Deacon Solomon and Lois (Janes)
Lyman, was born in Easthampton, Mass., Jan. 11th, 1795.

He worked on a farm until he was 21 years of age, when he re-
solved to be a minister and began to prepare for College, which he
entered as sophomore. After graduating, he studied theology
two years in N. Y. City, with Rev. Drs. Spring, Cox, and Baldwin,
and then spent three years in preaching at Pittstown, N. Y., being
ordained over the Presbyterian Church there, Jan. 4th, 1826. He
was afterwards pastor of the Congregational Church in Keeseville,
N. Y., for about 8 years; and was installed over the Congrega-
tional Church in Poultney, Yt., Febr. 26th, 1835, and dismissed
Nov. 16th, 1842. His aged parents needing his assistance, he
then removed to Easthampton, and for seven years supplied the
pulpit in West Farms, about four miles distant. He continued
to preach as occasion offered until past 70 years of age. He died
in Easthampton, Jan. 17th, 1871, aged 76.

In 1826, Mr. Lyman married Mary Curtis, of N. Y, daughter
of Reuben Curtis, of Danbury, Conn. She survives him, with two
of their three sons.

Luther Wright, son of Luther and Sarah (Lyman) Wright, was
born in Easthampton, Mass., Nov. 24th, 1796, and died in the
same place, Sept. 5th, 1870, in his 74th year.

He was principal of an academy in Maryland for two years, and
then began the study of theology in New Haven. From March,
1825, to Sept., 1828, he was a tutor in this College, and afterwards
taught in Middletown and in Ellington, Conn. From Sept., 1833,

to Oct., 1839, he was principal of the academy in Leicester, Mass.,
and from Dec, 1841, to July, 1849, the first principal of Williston
Seminary in his native town. After resigning this last position,
he continued his residence in Easthampton, giving instruction for
several years to private pupils.

He married, Oct., 1829, Emeline G., daughter of Samuel Colton,
of Longmeadow, Mass., who died suddenly, March 6th, 1863,
leaving two daughters and two sons : one of the sons has since
died.

Mr. Wright published an Address at the dedication of a new
Academy building at Leicester, in 1833 ; and an historical sketch
of Easthampton, in 1851.

1823.

Geoege Ashmun was born in Blandford, Mass., Dec. 25, 1804.
His father was Hon. Eli P. Ashmun, afterwards XJ. S. Senator, and
his mother was a daughter of Rev. John Hooker (Y. C. 1751), of
Northampton, Mass.

He studied law, and for a short time practiced in Enfield, Mass.,
but in 1828 established himself in Springfield, where he resided
till his death. From 1834 to 1851, when he retired from his pro-
fession, he was associated in business with Hon. Reuben A. Chap-
man, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mass. He was
elected to the State House of Representatives, in 1833, 1835, 1836,
and 1841, being in the last-named year speaker; and in 1838 and
1839, he was a member of the State Senate. He was three times
elected to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the U.
S., namely for the years 1845 to 1851. After Hon. Daniel Web-
ster delivered his famous speech, on the Vth of March, 1850, Mr.
Ashmun took up his defence in the ensuing political and personal
quarrels, and in consequence retired from public life. In 1860 he
was induced to attend the convention of the new Republican party
at Chicago, which nominated Mr. Lincoln, and to serve as chair-
man. From this relation to the nomination, he formed an intimacy
with President Lincoln, which caused his counsel to be sought and
accepted during the years of the rebellion.

For several years a palsy of the nervous system had been coming
over him, and confined him to his house for the last months of his
life. He died in Springfield, July IVth, 1870, in his 66th year.
His wife. Miss Martha E. Hall, of Springfield, whom he married
in 1828, died a few years before him. He left two daughters.
2

1824.

Linus Child was born in North Woodstock, Conn., Febr. 27th,
1802, being one of nine children of Rensselaer and Priscilla
(Cowles) Child.

He completed his preparatory studies at the Colchester Acad-
emy, and entered the College near the close of the Freshman year.

After studying with S. P. Staples, Esq., of this city, and Hon.
E. Stoddard, of Woodstock, he was admitted to the bar in Connecti-
cut in 1826. He then spent a year in the office of Hon. George
Tufts, of Dudley, Mass., and in 182'7 began the practice of law in
Southbridge, Mass., where he continued till 1845. In that year,
relinquishing his profession, he removed to Lowell, Mass., to take
charge of one of the large manufacturing establishments of that
city, in which employment he continued till 1862, when he re-
sumed the practice of the law in Boston in company with his son,
and so continued till his death. He died in Hingham, Mass., his
summer residence, suddenly, of congestion, on the 26th of August,
1870, in his 69th year.

In 1835 he was chosen a member of the state senate, and con-
tinued in that body for five years : as chairman of the Rail Road
Committee during that time, he had a large share in shaping the
railroad charters and policy of Massachusetts. He was for many
years a member of the Prudential Committee of the Amer. Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and of the Boards of Trus-
tees of Amherst College, Andover Theol. Seminary, and Phillips'
Academy at Andover : to these and kindred institutions he devo-
ted a large share of his time.

Mr. Child was married, in 1829, to Berinthia, daughter of
Oliver Mason, Esq., of Southbridge, and by her had two daugh-
ters and one son. The son graduated at this College in 1855.

1825.

Samuel Augustus Maverick was bom, July 28th, 1803, in
Pendleton, S. C, then the residence of his father, who had been a
leading merchant in Charleston : his mother was a daughter of
Gen. Robert Anderson.

He studied law with Henry St. George Tucker, of Winchester,
Va., and was admitted to the bar of his native state; but being
opposed to nullification (his principles having even led him into a
duel with Mr. Calhoun, in which Mr. Calhoun was wounded), he
emigrated to Alabama, and thence in 1834 to Texas, arriving at

San Antonio, his future home, in 1835. During the Texas war of
independence, he was taken prisoner by the Mexicans and
sentenced to be shot. He was a signer of the Dec laration of In-
dependence of the new Republic, March 2d, 1836, and after the
battle of San Jacinto, which secured the safety of Texas for a time,
he returned to Alabama, where he married, in August of the same
year, and in 1838 again arrived in San Antonio. In Sept., 1842, a
Mexican force entered San Antonio, and overpowered the few
Americans who attempted its defence : Mr. Maverick was carried
to Mexico, and only released in April, 1843, on the intercession of
the American Minister. He then visited South Carolina to look
after his property, which he converted into investments in Texas
lands, and in 1847 returned to San Antonio, where he resided
until his death, Sept. 2d, 1870. In 1860 he advocated secession
from the Union, but after 1861 took no part in public affairs. He
had frequently served in both Houses of the State Legislature.

1826.

Eld AD Barber, son of Eldad and Lois (Bissell) Barber, was
born in East Windsor, Conn , Sept. 24th, 1801 ; and died in
Florence, O., March 27th, 1871, in the 70th year of his age.

He completed his theological course in Yale College in the
summer of 1829, having spent the winter of 1828-9, under the
direction of the American Sunday School Union, in central and
southern Ohio. He was ordained as a missionary under appoint-
ment of the American Home Missionary Society, Aug. 26th, by the
Litchfield South Association, at Woodbury, Conn., and for the
next two years preached in the Presbyterian Church in Marion, O.
From Apr., 1832, to Oct., 1835, he had charge of the Huron Insti-
tute in Milan, O., supplying also neighboring churches. From
Milan he removed to Florence, O., and was pastor of the Presby-
terian Church in that place from 1837 until his death.

In Sept., 1831, he married Mary, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer
Ballentine (Y. C. 1777), of Marion, O., who died Sept. 15th, 1832,
leaving one son now living. In Apr., 1834, he married Mrs.
Hannah E. Crosby, formerly Miss Osborn, of East Windsor, Conn. ,
who survives him : by this marriage he had two daughters, one of
whom is still living.

Andrew Thompson, was the only child of William Thompson,
and was born in Orange County, N. Y., Feb. 22d, 1806. He
entered College in Sophomore year from Crawford, Orange County.

After graduation he studied law, first with the late James Smith,
of N. Y. City, and afterwards with the late Willard Crafts in
Oneida County, wh^re he married. Upon being admitted to the
bar, he began practicing law in Ithaca, whence he removed to
Oneida County. In 1838 he removed to N. Y. City, where he con-
tinued the practice of his profession until his death, which occurred
March 10th, 1871, at the age of 65.

He had four children, three of whom, with his widow, now sur-
vive him, the only son following his father's profession.

Philip Stephen Van Rensselaer, son of Gen. Stephen and
Cornelia (Patterson) Van Rensselaer (Harv. Coll. 1782), of Al-
bany, died in N. Y. City, very suddenly, June Ist, 1871, in his
65th year.

1828.

William Carter, son of Ebenezer and Rhoda Carter, was born
in New Canaan, Conn., Dec. 31st, 1803.

From 1830 to 1833, he was a Tutor in this College, and at the
same time a member of the Theological Seminary. In 1833, as one
of the " Illinois Association " formed in this Seminary, he went to'
Illinois, where the rest of his life was spent. He first had charge
of the Congregational Church in Jacksonville, being ordained by
the Schuyler Presbytery in Oct., 1834. In Oct., 1838, he removed
to Pittsfield, where he founded and ministered to the Congrega-
tional Church until March, 1866. His residence continued in
Pittsfield until his sudden death, of heart disease, Febr. 2d, 1871,

He was for many years a trustee of Illinois College, one of the
early directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and a Cor-
porate Member of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions.

He married, in Sept., 1833, Miss Elizabeth Bell, of Darien, Conn,
They had no children.

1829.

John Lathrop, son of Hon. Samuel Lathrop, M. C. (Y. C. 1792)
and Mary (Mc Crackan) Lathrop, born in West Springfield, Mass.,
March 6th, 1809, and died in Buffalo, N. Y., June 16th, 1870.

He was fitted for College at the Westfield, Mass., Academy,
then under the care of the Rev. S. M. Emerson.

After graduation he studied law in his father's office, for a year
or more, but not relishing the confined life of a student, he chose

the profession of a civil Engineer. One of his earliest engage-
ments was in the construction of the Chenango (N. Y.) Canal,
which occupied him from 1833 to 183Y. Soon after he was ap-
pointed Resident Engineer on a section of the Erie Canal, with his
headquarters at Jordan, N. Y. He remained in this position till
June, 1843, when he took charge of the laying out of a double
track on the N. Y. Central Railroad between Syracuse and Utica,
residing in Syracuse. In 1846 he was appointed Chief Engineer
of the Syracuse and Oswego Railroad, and held the place till the
completion of the work, about three years later. From July,
1849, to 1862, he resided in Buffalo, N. Y., as Division Engineer
upon the Erie Enlargement ; while he also superintended the con-
struction of an extensive breakwater and other important improve-
ments in the harbor of Buffalo. After a brief employment, till Dec.
1853, on the construction of a portion of the Chicago, Alton, and
St. Louis Railroad, he returned to his former position, which he
again resigned in the summer of 1855, to assume the charge of the
Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal. This important work was near
completion when interrupted by the breaking out of the civil war.
During the summer of 1862 he accepted a position on the Erie
and Pittsburgh Railroad, which occupied him for a year, and was
his last professional work, owing to his impaired health.

Mr. Lathrop married, in 1838, Elizabeth Miller, of Oxford, N. Y.,
and had a son and daughter. His widow and daughter survive
him.

1831.

William Ward Cutler, son of Hon. Pliny Cutler, was born
in Boston, May 21st, 1812. His mother was Phebe, daughter of
Rev. Ephraim and Mary (Colman) Ward, of West Brookfield,
Mass.

His preparation for College was made at the Boston Latin
School and at the Mt. Pleasant institution in Amherst.

After graduation he studied medicine in the Medical School of
Harvard University, receiving his diploma in 1838, and then
spent a year in further study in Paris. After his return from
Europe he practiced for a while in Boston, but not finding it con-
genial relinquished his profession, and removed to South Reading,
Mass., where he resided until the death of his first wife in 1850.
He subsequently resided in N'orthampton, Mass., New London,
Conn., North Andover, Mass., and finally in Norwich Town, Conn.,
where he died, Aug. 12th, 1870.

He was married three times: 1st, Febr. 4th, 1839, to Charlotte,
daughter of Phineas Upham, of Boston; 2d, May 4th, 1854, to
Mary, daughter of Maj. Thomas W. Williams, of New London ;
and 3d, Sept. 5th, 1865, to Isabel, daughter of Hon. Allen A. Hall,
of Nashville, Tenn., who survives him. He has left two children,
a son by his second, and a daughter by his last marriage.

1832.

Collins Stone, the second son of Timothy and Eunice (Parma-
lee) Stone, of Guilford, Conn., was born in that town, 3ept. 6th,
1812.

In 1833 he became a teacher in the American Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, Conn., and continued in that relation
until Oct., 1852, when he became Principal of the Ohio State
Asylum at Columbus. In 1863 he was recalled to the American
Asylum, as Principal, and .held that office at the time of his death.
He was killed, almost instantly, Dec. 23d, 1870, in attempting to
drive across the railroad track in Hartford, in front of an approach-
ing train.

Mr. Stone studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Hawes of Hart-
ford, and was ordained in Ohio as an evangelist, April 5th, 1853.
At the time of his death he was a deacon in the Center Church in
Hartford.

Mr. Stone left a widow, two sons, and three daughters: the
elder son graduated at this College in 1862, and has succeeded his
father in the charge of the American Asylum.

James Lockwood Wright, son of Joseph Wright (Y. C. 1804)
and Sarah (Lockwood) Wright, born May 12, 1810, in Glasten-
bury. Conn., died in Haddam, Conn., Jan. 18th, 1871, aged 60.

He spent the three years succeeding graduation in the Yale
Theol. Seminary, and then returned home. He preached occasion-
ally, and was ordained to the work of the ministry, June 4th, 1839.
He spent two or three years in Fair Haven, Conn., as a teacher,
and then taught in his native town for a somewhat longer time.
In 1848 he began to serve the Congregational Church in Burling-
ton, Conn., as a stated supply, and was installed pastor there,
March 7th, 1849. He laid down this charge at the close of the
year 1854, and was installed over the First Congregational Church
in Haddam, Conn., in May, 1855, where he continued till his death.

He married Lucy Ann North, of Middletown, Conn., May 30th,
1838, and had four children.

1834.

Thomas Wickes, the second son of VanWyck and Eliza (Herri-
man) Wiekes, was born in Jamaica, L. I, Oct. 31st, 1814.

He entered Princeton Theol. Seminary in Nov., 1834, and re-
mained there until Aug., 1836. He spent the succeeding year in
the Theol. Department of this College, and was licensed to preach,
in 1837, by the New Haven West Association. His first engage-
ment was as a supply in the First Presbyterian Church of Troy,
N. Y., during a fourteen months' absence of the pastor, Dr. Beman,
in Europe.

At the close of this service he was called in the spring of 1 840
to the pastoral charge of the First Congregational Church in
Marietta, O., and was installed, July 28th. He continued in this
charge during nearly the whole of his ministerial life, resigning in
the spring of 1 869. He was then installed over the Congregational
Church in Jamestown, N. Y., where he remained one year, resign-
ing in Aug., 1870.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wabash
College in 1864.

He was married to Mary A., daughter of Rev. Dr. Alexander
Gunn, of N. Y., Nov. 7th, 1838. She died in 1848. He married,
secondly, Lydia Frances, daughter of Wm. Rockwell, of N. Y.,
Aug. 28th, 1849, who survives him. He left at his death one son
and two daughters by his first, and one son and two daughters by
his second marriage.

Dr. Wickes died, of cancer of the stomach, Nov. 10th, 1870, in
Orange, N. J., while visiting at the house of his elder brother.

1835.

George Wilson McPhail, President of Davidson College,
Mecklenburg County, N. C, died there June 28th, 1871.

He came to College from Norfolk, Va.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman, and received the degree of
D.D. from Jefferson College, Pa., in 1857.

During the last five years, of his life he was President of David-
son College, and had formerly been President of Lafayette College,
in Easton, Pa., resigning in 1863.

1837.
Walter Clarke, son of Warner B. and Abigail A. Clarke, was
born in Middletown, Conn., April 5th, 1812, and entered College in
1834, from Farmington, where his father then resided.

During the year succeeding graduation he taught in the Water-
bury (Conn.) Academy, at the same time reading law. In 1839 he
taught in Mobile. He afterwards studied theology (for one term
in the Yale Theol. Seminary), and in May, 1841, was ordained pas-
tor of the First Congregational Church in Canterbury, Conn. From
this church he was called to the South Church in Hartford, over
which he was settled from June 4th, 1845 to Jan., 1859. He was
for the next two years pastor of the Mercer street Presbyterian
Church in N. Y. City, and for the remainder of his life was pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, N. Y., where he died,
greatly loved and respected, at the age of 59, May 23d, 1871.

He married, Aug. 26th, 1839, Mary A. Clark, daughter of Cyrus
Clark, of Waterbury. She died in Hartford, Febr. 4th, 1849. He
married, secondly, in 1850, Elizabeth G., daughter of Deacon Seth
Terry, of Hartford, who survives him. He leaves one son, Rev.
Samuel T. Clitrke, who graduated at Hamilton College in 1862, and
an adopted daughter.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams Col-
lege in 1 853.

Oliver Wolcott Mather, son of Ellsworth and Laura (Wol-
cott) Mather, was born in Windsor, Conn., Jan. 23d, 1815, and
died, in the room in which he was born, Nov. 7th, 1870.

He taught in South Carolina after graduation ; studied theolo-
gy in the Yale Theological Seminary (1839-41) ; and was after-
wards a settled minister (N. S. Presb., in Ohio, and from 1850 to
1860 in Michigan.

During his later years he was invalid, and resided in Windsor.

He leaves a widow (his second wife), and one daughter.

1839.

Thomas Day, fifth son of Koble and Elizabeth (Jones) Day,
was bom June 18, 1816, at New Preston, Litchfield county. Conn.
He was a grandson of Rev. Jeremiah Day of the class of 1756,
and nephew of the late President Day. His brothers, Henry N.
and Charles Day, graduated, the former in 1828, the latter in 1840.

After graduating he pursued his studies in the Yale Law School
and then removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered upon the
practice of his profession. He remained in that city till April,
1864, when in the hope of benefit to his health he removed to New
York city. In October, 1869, he went to Nevada on professional
business where he continued till his death, which occurred very

suddenly just before his intended return home. He died of pneu-
monia, at Hamilton, Nevada, October 17th, 1870. He never
married.

1840.

William Chauvenet, LL.D., ex-Chancellor of Washington Uni-
versity, St. Louis, died in St. Paul, Minnesota, Dec. 13th, 1870, at
a little more than fifty years of age. He had long been in poor
health, and on this account resigned his position in the University
in 1869. After traveling in the South without the benefit hoped
for, he returned to St. Louis in June, and in the autumn went to
St. Paul to try that climate ; his disease terminated in paralysis of
the cerebellum.

Chancellor Chauvenet was born in Milford, Pa., and removed at
at early age with his parents to Philadelphia. His father, Wm.
M. Chauvenet, was a grocer, and wished his son to succeed him in
business : he was with difficulty persuaded by his son's teacher to
develop the boy's decided mathematical turn by a college course.

Immediately after graduation he was employed in taking me-
teorological observations at the Girard College Observatory, but
accepted in 1841 the place of instructor in mathematics at the
U. S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia. Soon after, when it was pro-
posed to found a Naval Academy at Annapolis, the measure found
in him a strong advocate, and when the institution was established
in 1845, he was made one of the Board of Directors, Professor of
Astronomy and Mathematics, and Director of the Observatory.
For the next 14 years he was the chief agent in building up the
Academy. In 1859 he accepted the professorship of astronomy
and mathematics in Washington University, St. Louis. In 1862,
on the death of his classmate, Chanoellor Hoyt, the office of Chan-
cellor of the University was also given him.

Professor Chauvenet published several works of great merit,
viz.: — a text-book, entitled "Binomial Theorem and Logarithms"
(Philad., 1843, 8vo.), "A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigo-
nometry" (Philad., 1850, 8vo.), a "Manual of Spherical and Prac-
tical Astronomy" (Philad., 1863, 2 vols., 8vo.), and an Elementary
Geometry (Philad., 1870, 8vo.)

He married, Dec. 30th, 1841, Miss Catharine Hemple, of Phila-
delphia, who survives him with five of their six children.

George Richards, the fifth son and eighth child of Peter and
Ann Channing (Huntington) Richards, was born in New London,
Conn., Nov. 2d, 1816.

He taught school for a short time, and in 1842 entered Andover
Theological Seminary. A year later he removed to the Yale
Theological Seminary, and 1844 became a Tutor in this College.

He was ordained, Oct. 8th, 1 845, as associate pastor of the Cen
tral (Congregational) Church, in Boston, where he remained until
1859, having become sole pastor in 1851. After a visit to Europe, he
took charge of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Conn., in
Dec, 1860. Thence he removed at the close of the year 1865 to
Bridgeport, Conn., where he was installed over the First Con-
gregational Church, Jan. 3d, 1866. He was dismissed from this
pastorate, Aug., 1870. For a year or two previous, Mr. Richards
had been afflicted with a nervous disease, which was accompanied
with partial loss of sight and impaired reason, and which finally
resulted in his decease, at Bridgeport, Oct. 20th, 1870.

In July, 1868, Mr. Richards was chosen a member of the Cor-
poration of Yale College.

He married, in 1846, Miss Anna M. Woodruff, of Philadelphia.

She is still living with five children : of whom the eldest son is
now a member of the Junior Class in this College.

1841.

Gilbert Dean, son of Gilbert and Abigail Rogers Dean, was
bora in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 14 Aug., 1819, and
died of consumption at his summer-residence in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., 12 Oct., 1870.

After his graduation he studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in Litchfield Co., Conn., and afterwards (May, 1844) in N. Y.

From 1844 to 1855 he was a lawyer in Poughkeepsie, and for the
rest of his active life in N. Y. City. He was chosen Representa-
tive in Congress in Nov., 1850, and again in 1862; in June, 1854,
he resigned his seat, to accept the office of Justice of the Supreme
Court of N. Y. State, for the Second Judicial District, and served
in this office until Jan., 1856, being one of the Judges of the Court
of Appeals for the last year. In 1862, he was chosen Member of
the Assembly, and when the session began was the Democratic
candidate for Speaker.

Judge Dean married, Sept. 28, 1841, Miss Amelia Smith, of
Sharon, Conn. She died Sept. 6th, 1850, leaving one son and one
daughter. He married, July 11th, 1855, Mary, daughter of the late
Alvan Stewart, Esq., of N. Y., who survives him with her three
sons.

1842.

John Henry Adam was born Dec. 29th, 1822, and entered Col-
lege in 1839 from Salisbury, Conn.

He studied law in Litchfield, Conn., until admitted to the bar,
in the spring of 1844, when he began practice in Bridgeport,
Conn., with Hon. Henry Dutton. In Jan., 1846, he removed to
N. Y. City ; but was soon interrupted in the practice of his pro-
fession by ill health. After a short stay at his father's house, in Sal-
isbury, he removed to Pottsville, Pa., in the autumn of 1847. He
subsequently removed to Oyster Bay, L. I., where he was residing
at the time of his death, Aug. 24th, 1870.

He was married, Nov. 8th, 1848, to Miss Sarah Sampson, of N.
Y. City, who now survives him.

Isaac Ellmaker Hiestek, son of Hon. William Heister, was born
in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pa., May 29th, 1824.

He commenced the study of law in 1843 in Lancaster, Pa., was
admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced law until his death in
the same place. He held the office of Deputy Attorney General
for the county from 1848 to 1850, and was a member of the House
of Representatives in the 33d Congress, from 1853 to 1855. He
was elected as a Whig, but not being in accord with his party on
the Kansas and Nebraska Bill, was defeated at the election in
1854, as also in 1856 when he was the candidate of the Democratic
party.

He died in Lancaster, Febr. 6th, 3 871, in his 47th year. He was
unmarried.

Henry Kirke White Welch, the oldest child of Dr. Archi-
bald and Cynthia (Hyde) Welch, was born in Mansfield, Conn.,
Jan. 1st., 1821.

He taught in Brooklyn, Conn., from Oct., 1842, to March, 1843,
when an affection of the throat compelled him to desist. After a
few months passed in Wethersfield, Conn., where his father then
resided, he went to Georgia for his health. In the autumn of 1 844
he returned, but finding his throat still sensitive, went South agam,
and spent the next two years teaching in Montgomery, Ala., at the
same time studying law. During the winter of 1 846-7 he read law in
Brooklyn, Conn., with his uncle, Jonathan A. Welch (Y. C. 1813).
He afterwards spent two years in the Law Department of this col-
lege, and received the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the

bar in March, 1850, and in June opened an office in Hartford,
Conn., where he resided, engaged in the practice of his profession,
until his death. He was a member of the State Senate in 1862 and
of the House of Representatives in 1864 and 1865.

Mr. Welch married, March 24th, 1852, Miss Frances Louisa,
youngest daughter of Professor C. A. Goodrich, of Yale College.
His wife died Dec. 2d, 1855; and he married three years later,
Miss Susan L. Goodwin, of Hartford, who survives him with four
sons and a daughter. The sudden death of his youngest boy, Nov.
15th, is believed to have brought on the illness which caused his
own death, Nov. 25th, 1870, at the age of 49.

1845.

William Burr Bibbins, second and youngest son of Elijah
Bibbins, was born in Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 8th, 1823. His mother
was Eunice Burr, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Eliot, pastor of
the Congregational church in Fairfield.

For a few months after graduation he taught in the Academy in
Southport, a part of his native town, and spent the next three
years in the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, N. Y. city, where he graduated in 1849.

He served as Assistant Physician in BeUevue Hospital for one
year to May, 1850, and afterwards as Assistant Physician in the
Nursery Hospital on Randall's Island till April, 1852. He then
began the regular practice of his profession in N. Y. city. While
thus engaged he was, from Jan., 1852, to June, 1863, Visiting Phy-
sician to the Demilt Dispensary, and afterwards Attending Physi-
cian at the same institution until 1856. He was also from Jan.,
1868, till his death, the Secretary of the Third Avenue Savings
Bank, a responsible position of great labor, gratuitously bestowed.
He died in N. Y. city, Jan. 16th, 1871, of typhoid fever, contracted
in the discharge of his professional duties.

Dr. Bibbins was never married.

His will, made in 1858, provides that after the death of his
brother, the bulk of his property, including a Life Insurance Policy
for $10,000, shall go to Yale College.

Ward Emigh, son of George P. and Eliza (Prindle) Emigh, was
bom in Great Barrington, Mass., March ]4th, 1822, and died in
Fishkill, N. Y., Febr. 16th, 1869.

He studied law with Robert Barnard, Esq., of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., until his admission to the bar in 1847. He then began the

practice of his profession in Union Vale, Dutchess county, N. Y.,
but in 1851 was obliged by the state of his health to seek recrea-
tion in travel. In 1852 he settled in Fishkill, where he remained
until his death, never in good health, and for the last three years
of his life not able to attend to his profession.

Mr. Emigh married, March 14th, 1847, in Fishkill Landing, Helen
A. Champlin, who still remains his widow. Two of his five chil-
dren died before him, and one has died since.

1850.

Oswald Langdon Woodford was the son of Zerah and
Minerva (Potter) Woodford, of West Avon, Conn., where he w^as
born Oct. 31st, 1827, and where he died, of typhoid fever, Oct.
21st, 1870.

He was for two years a teacher in the Cherokee Male Seminary,
and then entered the Andover Theological Seminaryj- where he
remained till Febr., 1855, when he returned to the Cherokees, and
was principal of the Male Seminary until Aug., 1856. He then
came to New Haven, to attend Theological lectures, and in May,
1857, went to Kansas as a Home Missionary. He settled in Grass-
hopper Falls, organizing a Congregational Church there, April
19th, 1858, but in Aug., 1859, he was compelled by the failure of
his health to give up his chosen profession and return to his native
town. He spent his remaining years with his parents, engaged in
farming. In 1865 he was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives.

He was married, first, to Pauline Avery, of Conway, Mass., Nov.
18th, 1856. She died in Kansas, Febr. 26th, 1858. He married,
secondly. May 18th, 1859, Esther Butler, of Van Buren, Ark.
She survives him, with a daughter by the first marriage, and a
son and two daughters by the second marriage.

1851.

Henry Dorrance Wells died of disease of the heart in Charles-
ton, S. C, May 30th, 1870, aged 41 years. He was the son of
Joseph T. and Mary (Dorrance) Wells, and was born in Charles-
ton, Aug. 30th, 1829. He studied law at the Yale Law School
immediately after graduation, but never practiced the profession.

He was employed in mercantile business at Charleston until his
death.

1863.

Henry Roswell Bradley died in Southington, Conn., 22 July,
1870, aged 38. He was the youngest son of Roswell and Julia
(Newell) Bradley, and was born in Southington, 7 May, 1832.

After graduating, he studied law, first in the Law School at
New Haven, and then with Hon. W. W. Eaton of Hartford. From
1855 until his death, he practiced law in his native town. Though
laboring under great embarrassment from physical defects, he
became a prominent man in the town, holding successively the
ofiices of Town Clerk, Treasurer, Registrar, and Judge of Probate.
He twice represented the town in the State Legislature, and was a
member of the Senate in 1863.

Mr. Bradley was never married.

Thomas Prather Nicholas died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 27th,
1870, age(>35.

He entered College from Louisville, in the first term of Junior
year. His residence continued at Louisville until his death. Dur-
ing the civil war he was Colonel of the 2d Kentucky Cavalry, in
the Union Army.

1856.

George Talcott was born in West Hartford, Conn., in 1833,
and died at Niagara Falls, May 29th, 1871.

He was for a few months after graduation in Commission busi-
ness with his brother in N. Y. City. He then studied law, and
practiced his profession in N. Y. until Jan., 1869, when he joined
his brother in the wholesale drug business in Hartford, Conn. He
was thus engaged until his death. He married Miss Laura W.
Cone, of Hartford, in 1862. She died in 1863, and Mr. Talcott
was married a second time. May 16th, 1871, to Miss Eleanor S.,
daughter of Wm. S. Hurd, of Hartford. He died of pneumonia
while on his bridal tour.

1856.

Francis Fellowes, Jr., was born in Hartford, Conn., May 8th,
1830, and died in the same city, Febr. 18th, 1871, in his 41st year.

He studied law in his father's office until his admission to the
bar, 26 March, 1859. Soon after, he formed a partnership with
his father, which continued till his own death. He served as a
private in the Hartford Rifles, 1st Regiment Conn. Vols., for
three months in the summer of 1861.

He married, 23 Dec, 1862, Miss Annie T. Clarke, daughter of
Alexander Clarke, Esq., of N. Y. city.

1858.

Hexry Albert Wells, son of Albert and Emma (Hassert)
Wells, was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., May 23d, 1838 ; and died in
Peekskill, N. Y., May 27th, 1871, of disease of the heart, after con-
finement to his room for three weeks.

He studied law in Peekskill with his uncle, Edward Wells, and
was admitted to the bar, in May, 1862. From that time he prac-
ticed law in N. Y. City until July, 1865, when he temporarily left
his profession, to engage in the construction of some Oil Works,
in Brooklyn. He was engaged in this and other business enter-
prises in New York City until his death.

1859.

Benjamin Spencer Catlin, eldest son of Benjamin H. Catlin,
M.D., and Amelia D. (Spencer) Catlin, was born in Haddam,
Conn., Sept. 14th, 1837. In 1842 his parents removed to Meriden,
Conn., where they still reside.

After leaving College he studied medicine, and graduated from
the Medical Department of this College in July, 1862. He was
soon after appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 2d N. Y. Infantry,
and joined his regiment on the banks of York River. He was for
some time on duty in the hospitals in Washington, and was with
his regiment at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
His regiment being mustered out of service, he was appointed in
the autumn of 1863 Surgeon of the 21st (Griswold) N. Y.
Cavalry: and his Colonel being made Brigadier General, Dr.
Catlin was placed on his staff and became Surgeon in Chief of the
Brigade. At the close of the war the regiment was ordered to
the West, and his headquarters were at Denver. In Oct., 1865,
he was mustered out of service, and returned to his father's resi-
dence. In the following winter he attended lectures in two of the
Medical Colleges of N. Y. City, and in June, 1866, opened an
office in Troy, N. Y., where he remained till Oct., 1870, when he
returned home, prostrated by neuralgia. He so far recovered as
to leave in January on a visit to his brother, residing in Barton
County, Missouri ; but in twelve days after his arrival he became
delirious with marked symptoms of organic disease of the brain,
and his death occurred February 15th.

He was brevetted by Gov. Hoffman, March 4th, 1870, Colonel
for faithful and meritorious service during the war.

1862.

George Lee Woodhull, son of Richard and Fanny (Greene)
Woodhull, was born, Oct. 3d, 1832, at Ronkonkoma, L. I., N. Y.,
being the seventh of a family of eleven children. One of his
brothers graduated at this College in the class of 1850.

He studied theology for three years in the Theol. Department of
Yale College. While preaching for a few months as a Home Mis-
sionary in Hartland, Conn., he became interested in the new open-
ing for missionary labor in western Iowa, and was stationed by
the American Home Missionary Society in May, 1866, at Onawa
City, where he was ordained, July 18th, 1866. Besides doing the
ordinary work of a pastor, he superintended the building of a church
edifice (the first in that county), performing much of the work with
his own hands. Excessive care and labor brought on a fever, and
after an illness of four weeks, he died, Oct. 1st, 1870, among his
people.

He was married, Aug. 28th, 1867, to Miss Eleanor Bristol, of
New Preston, Conn., who survives him, without children.

1863.

Edward Gould Bishop, third son of George G. and Julia (Tay-
lor) Bishop, was born in Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 14th, 1838.

He was prepared for College at Phillips Academy, Andover^

In Sept., 1863, he entered the U. S. Navy, as paymaster, and
served in the west Gulf Squadron, on the steamer Arkansas, until
he resigned in Nov., 1865. He then entered the Law department
of Harvard University, where he graduated in June, 1867. In the
autumn of 1867, he commenced the practice of law in N. Y. City,
where he continued until May 16th, 1870, when he returned to his
father's house, hoping to recover from a severe hemorrhage of the
lungs. A removal to St. Paul, Minn., was proposed, as afibrding
the only hope of relief: but after a few weeks there he found him-
self rapidly sinking, and returned, reaching home but ten days
before his death,which occurred on the evening of Aug. 28th, 1870.

Wilbur Ives, son of Henry and Eliza Ives, was born in Hamden,
Conn., Jan. 3d, 1843.

In Oct., 1863, he entered the U. S. Navy, as Acting Assistant
Paymaster, and remained in the service until Jan., 1866. He then
commenced at once the study of medicine in the Medical Depart

ment of this College; but his failing health obliged him in the
spring of 186 Y to relinquish his studies. In May, 1868, he sailed
for Europe in hopes of recovery, but his disease — consumption —
was too deeply seated, and he returned only to die at his home in
New Haven, Dec. 27th, 1870, aged 28 years. He was unmarried.

1864.

Charles Edward Booth, son of Charles H. Booth, was born in
New York City, March 27th, 1843.

He left College early in Senior year, to enter into business as a
commission merchant in New York. In 1866 he received from the
corporation the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and was enrolled with
his class. He continued in business, as above, until the time of his
death. He died at his home in New York, after a few hours' ill-
ness, Sept. 18th, 1870.

Edward Taylor Mather, only son of Roland Mather, of Hart-
ford, Conn., was born in Hartford, Aug. 30th, 1841.

He pursued the study of the law after graduation, but finally en-
gaged in business. For more than a year from Sept., 1866, he was
in the Dry-goods bnsiness with John V. Farwell & Co., of Chicago.

In the spring of 1868 he formed a partnership for the lumber
business, in the same city, and was so engaged until the latter part
of July, 1870, when he started alone in a small row-boat on an ex-
pedition to Lake Superior. He rowed over Lake Michigan in safety,
and crossed by rail to Marquette on Lake Superior : thence he
started on Aug. 17th, with the intention of rowing along the lake
shore to the straits, and then returning by steamer to Chicago.

From this time no tidings of him reached his friends, until a
search was undertaken, and his body found, Oct. 26th, washed
ashore near the mouth of Fox River, about forty miles east of
Marquette. He was unmarried.

William Henry Palmer, son of Alexander Palmer, was born
in Stonington, Conn., Aug. 17th, 1840.

He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, in 1867, and settled in
Cleveland, O., where he was a practicing physician at the time of
his death. He died of consumption, in Hartford, Conn., June
19th, 1871. He was married in Oct., 1870, to Miss Frances Col-
lins, of Hartford.

1867.

Ernest Robinson, the youngest of eight children of Charles
Robinson (Y. C. 1821) and Nancy (Mulford) Robinson, was born
in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 20th, 1845, and died in the same city,
Nov. 18th, 1870, aged 25.

He remained in New Haven after graduating, studying medi-
cine during the first two years, and for the last year engaged in the
insurance business. His health had been gradually declining, and
an attack of inflammatory rheumatism in the region of the heart
and chest caused his death, after an illness of about three weeks.

1869. ^

Frederick Gray Conkling, the eldest son of Col. Fred'k A.
and Eleanora R. Conkling, of N. Y. City, died in New Orleans,
Apr. 3d, 1871, in his 22d year.

He was born in N. Y. City, July 18th, 1849.

He entered this College at the begining of the Sophomore year,
from Columbia College, N. Y. After graduation he spent a year
in Europe, and then entered the Law School of Columbia College,
of which he was a member at the time of his death.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1816.

Richard Proctor Tracy died at his residence in Norwich
Town, Conn., March 18th, 1871, aged 80. He was son of Dr.
Philemon and Abigail (Trott) Tracy, and was born March 26th,
1791, in the same house in which he died. His grandfather. Dr.
Elisha Tracy (Y. C. 1738), and his father, (M. D. Yale, 1817), were,
for 40 and 55 years respectively, leading physicians in Norwich.

The subject of this notice studied medicine with his father, as
well as in the Medical School, and settled in his native place, where
he was engaged in practice for nearly sixty years.

He was unmarried.

[1821.]
Hiram Holt was born Jan. 31st, 1798, in that part of the
ancient town of Windham, Conn., which is now Chaplin. He was
the son of Neheraiah and Mary (Lamphear) Holt, and the seventh

of fourteen children. After he became of age he began the study
of medicine with Dr. Brewster, of Hampton, Conn., aud after-
wards continued his professional studies with Dr. Thomas Hub-
bard, of Pomfret, Conn., who became at a later date Professor of
Surgery in the Medical Department of Yale College. He also
attended two courses of lectures in this Medical School, but did
not receive his degree until 1834, honoris causd. He established
himself on the completion of his studies in Pomfret, Conn., where
he continued in the active practice of his profession for almost
fifty years, until his death, Nov. 30th, 1870.

Dr. Holt was twice married: Feb. 21st, 1828, to Marian, daugh-
ter of Major John Wilkes Chandler, of Pomfret, who died March
16th, 1857 ; and March 30th, 1858, to Mrs. Martha Colton, daugh-
ter of Eleazer Mather, of Brooklyn, Conn., who survives him. He
left two daughters and one son : the son a graduate of this College
in the Class of 1866.

1825.

Henry Holmes, oldest child of Hon. Uriah Holmes (Y. C. 1784)
and Esther (Austin) Holmes, of Litchfield, Conn., was born in
Litchfield, 14 Febr., 1795. His brother Uriah graduated at this
College in 1816.

He settled in Durham, Conn., as a physician, where he remained
until 1833, spending the winter of 1830-31 as a student at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. City. The rest of his
life was passed in Hartford, Conn., as a practicing physician. He
was also for many years city coroner. For the last few months of
his life he was an inmate of the Retreat for the Insane, where he
died 31 July, 1870, at the age of 75. He was unmarried.

1833.

Henry Harmon Rising, son of Nathaniel and Lydia (Spencer)
Rising, was born in Sufiield, Conn., in 1807, and died in Westboro',
Mass., Aug. I7th, 1870.

He studied his profession in his native town with his brother,
Dr. Aratus Rising, and attended three sessions of the Medical
Department of this College. In 1834 he commenced practice in
Westboro', Mass., where he remained until his death. In addition
to his regular practice, he was the physician at the State Reform
School, located in Westboro', from its establishment, in 1847.

The winter and spring of 1869-70 he spent in Florida, for the
benefit of his health. His sudden death was the result of injuries

received the same day by being thrown from his carriage as he
was about to visit a patient.

Dr. Rising married Joanna F., daughter of Charles Parkman, of
Westboro', who survives him. He left no children.

1840.

Francke Williams died, May 23d, 1871, at Montmorenci Park,
Aiken, S. C, in the 56th year of his age. He was the youngest
son of Rev. Samuel P. Williams (Y. C, 1796), of Newburyport,
Mass., and of Mary (Hanford Wells) Williams, and was born in
Mansfield, Conn., Aug. 31st, 1815.

He entered the Freshman class in this College in 1836, but was
obliged by ill-health to leave before the close of the year. Upon
the completion of his medical studies he settled in N. Y. City,
and in 1844 removed to Newburyport, where he continued his
practice. He was obliged by feeble health to give up his profes-
sion, and in 1854 he removed to Yonkers, N. Y. In 1856 he went
to Hartford, Conn., and about four years before his death removed
to West Haven, Conn. He married Caroline H., daughter of Hon.
Wm. Bartlet, of Newburyport, and had 7 children. One son is a
graduate of this College in the Class of 1869.

1844.

John Freme Wells, second son and fourth child of James H,
and Anne (Watkinson) Wells (both natives of England), was born
in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 11th, 1810.

He studied medicine with Dr. Wm. Pierson, of Windsor, Conn,
previous to entering this medical school.

Soon after graduating he succeeded to the practice of Dr. Hub-
bard of Bloomfield, Conn., and remained there until 1852, when he
removed to Hartford, where he continued in the uninterrupted
practice of his profession until his death, in Hartford, May 4th,
1871, of rheumatism of the heart, after three days' illness.

He married, Apr. 30th, 1834, Rebecca Colt, daughter of the late
Elisha Colt, of Hartford, by whom he had five children, four sons
and one daughter, who with their mother survive him.

1846.

JuDSON Candee was born in Oxford, Conn., in 1821. He
taught school for several years near his home and in New Jersey,
and in 1843 began the study of medicine in New Haven.

He settled in Pompey Center, Onondaga Co., N. Y,, in the spring
of 1846, and remained there, in successful practice and greatly re-
spected, until his sudden death, by being thrown from his carriage?
11 July, 1870.

He was married, in 1851, to Miss Hale, of Oran, N. Y., who sur-
vives him, with two children.

1863.

Frederic Starr Treadway, died at New Haven, Conn., June
27, 1870, aged 36 years.

He was the son of George and Minerva (Merwin) Treadway,
and was born in Norwalk, Conn., Aug. 10, 1833.

He entered the three months' service in 1861, as a private in
Company C, 2d Regiment Conn. Militia, under Col. Terry ; but
was at once detailed as hospital steward and served thus until
mustered out. He then began the study of medicine, but before
graduating, passed an examination and entered the nine months'
service as Assistant Surgeon of the 27th Regiment. He returned
to graduate with his class, and immediately thereafter was appoint-
ed Assistant Surgeon in the 75th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers. At
the close of the war, he married and settled in Williamsport, Pa.,
where he soon secured a large practice. While testifying in court,
he was seized with apoplexy, from which he rallied, only to be
stricken down by a second attack. From this he recovered suffi-
ciently to permit his being brought to New Haven, where he had a
third attack which proved fatal.

LAW DEPARTMENT.

1848.

George Charles Wilcox Hammond was born in Bolton, Conn.,
Oct. 3d, 1824, and removed to Ohio when nine years of age. He
graduated at Western Reserve College in 1846, and after leaving
New Haven, practiced law for a short time in Cleveland, O. He
then went into the drug business in Cleveland, with Mr. E. F. Gay-
lord, whose daughter he had married. About 1863 he removed to
Chicago, as General Freight Agent of the Alton and St, Louis
R. R., and was so occupied until the early summer of 1870, when

he was compelled by illness to resign. He died, of congestion of
the brain, at the residence of his parents, in Richfield, Ohio, Aug.
12th, 1870.

1868.

David Beveridge Brown, died of typhoid fever, in Independ-
ence, Kansas, Aug. 18th, 18V0, aged 21 years. He was the son of
David B. and Alice H. Brown, and was born July 6th, 1849.

After receiving his degree, he returned to his home in Washing-
ton, D. C, was admitted to the bar and remained there until the
following Spring, when his health being impaired he started for
the West. From May to December, 1869, he was in Osage
Station, Kansas, and then removed to Independence, a new settle-
ment, in Montgomery County, where the hardships of the first
few months told on him severely, and exposed him to an attack of
typhoid fever which in ten days ended his life. He was un-
married.

Intelligence of the following death is received, too late for inser-
tion elsewhere.

1797.

Charles Goodrich, the last survivor of his class, died at the
residence of his son-in-law, in Penn Yan, IST. Y., June 16th, 1871,
aged 93.

He was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Apr. 2d, 1778, where his
father, Hon. Charles Goodrich, died in the 96th year of his age.

Immediately after graduation, he married Amelia, daughter of
Isaac Jones, of New Haven, and returning home took charge of
his father's farm. He was soon after led by a sense of duty to
commence theological studies, but postponed entrance into the
ministry until after the death of his aged father. In 1822 he was
licensed to preach, and in June, 1824, was ordained as an Evan-
gelist by the Berkshire Association of Congregational ministers.
He preached in various parts of Massachusetts and New York,
without being settled; until in 1831 he removed to Havana, N. Y.,
where three of his children were living. For many years he con-
tinued to preach in destitute neighborhoods, generally under com-
mission from the Home Missionary Society, until disabled by in-
firmities. In 1852 he removed to the house of his daughter, in
Penn Yan, where he resided until his death.

He was the father of eight children.

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class. Name and Age.

1794 Ezekiel Bacon, 94,

1797 Charles Goodrich, 93,

1808 Noah Coe, 85,

1809 Garrett G. Brown, 86,
1809 Samuel D. Ward, 82,

1809 Gaylord Welles, 82,

1810 Eleazar T. Fitch, 80,

1812 William Rumsey, 78,

1813 George A. Elliot, 78,

1813 Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 77,

1814 Jedidiah Huntington, 76,

1814 Charles J. Lanman, 75,

1815 Julius S. Barnes, 78,
1815 George Cooke, 75,

1815 Thomas A. Marshall, 77,

1816 Frederick Gridley, 75,

1816 George E. Pierce, 76,

1817 Augustus Alden, 73,

1817 Robert J. Chesebrough, 73,

1817 John Grammer, 73,

1818 Alfred Chester, 73,
1818 Richard D. Davis, 72,
1818 Thomas U. Perkins, 72,

1818 Gouverneur M. Wilkins, 71,

1819 Asahel Huntington, 72,
1819 Samuel H. Parsons, 70,

1819 Joshua P. Pay son, 70,

1820 John H. Brockway, 69,

1820 John T. Collis, 69,

1821 Asa H. King, 72,

1822 Solomon Lyman, 76,

1822 Luther Wright, 73,

1823 George Ashmun, 65,

1824 Linus Child, 68,

1825 Samuel A. Maverick, 67,

1826 Eldad Barber, 69,
1826 Andrew Thompson, 65,
1826 Philip S. Van Rensselaer, 64,

1828 William Carter, 67,

1829 John Lathrop, 61,

1831 William W. Cutler, 58,

1832 Collins Stone, 58,
1832 James L. Wright, 60,

1834 Thomas Wickes, 56,

1835 George W. McPhail, 55,
1837 Walter Clarke, 59,
1837 Ohver W. Mather, 55,

1839 Thomas Day, 54,

1840 William Chauvenet, 51,

1840 George Richards, 54,

1841 Gilbert Dean, 51,

1842 John H. Adam, 47,

i'lace and
Utica, N. Y.,
Penn Yan, N. Y.
Hartford, Conn.,
Woodbury, Conn.,
Boston, Mass.,
Bristol, Conn.,
New Haven, Conn.,
Wilmington, Del.,
Erie, Pa.,
New York City,
Norwich, Conn.,
New London, Conn.,
Southington, Conn.,
New Haven, Conn.,
Louisville, Ky.,
Stratford, Conn.,
Hudson, 0.,
Cave Spring, Ga.,
New York City,
HaHfax C. H., Va.,
New York City,
Waterford, N. Y.,
Hartford, Conn.,
New York City,
Salem, Mass.,
Middletown, Conn.,
Pomfret, Conn,,
Ellington, Conn.,
Hartford, Conn.,
Old Saybrook, Conn.,
East Hampton, Mass.,
East Hampton, Mass.,
Springfield, Mass.,
Hingham, Mass.,
San Antonio, Tex.,
Florence, 0.,
New York City,
New York City,
Pittstield. 111.,
Buffalo, N. Y.,
Norwich, Conn.,
Hartford, Conn.,
Haddam, Conn.,
Orange, N. J.,
Davidson Coll., N. C,
Buffalo, N. Y.,
Windsor, Conn.,
Hamilton, Nev.,
St. Paul, Minn.,
Bridgeport, Conn.,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,
Oyster Bay, (L.I.) N.Y.,

Time of Death.
Oct. 18, 1870.
June 16, 1871.
May 9, 1871.
Oct. 1, 1870.
May 28, 1871.
Sept. 24, 1870
Jan. 31, 1871.
April 23, 1871.
July 23, 1870.
March 7, 1871.
Dec. 6, 1870.
July 25, 1870.
Nov. 12, 1870.
May 30, 1871.
April 17, 1871.
Feb. 21, 1871.
May 27, 1871.
Sept. 14, 1870.
Dec. 30, 1870.
March 5, 1871.
July 2, 1871.
June 17, 1871.
Oct. 11, 1870.
Feb. 7, 1871.
Sept 5, 1870.
Feb. 23, 1871.
April 29, 1871.
July 29, 1870.
Aug. 8, 1870.
Nov. 20, 1870.
Jan. 17, 1871.
Sept. 5, 1870.
July 17, 1870.
Aug. 26, 1870.
Sept. 2, 1870.
March 27, 1871.
March 10, 1871.
June 1, 1871.
Feb. 2. 1871.
June 16, 1870.
Aug. 12, 1870.
Dec. 23, 1870.
Jan. 18, 1871.
Nov. 10, 1870.
June 28, 1871.
May 23, 1871.
Nov. 7, 1870.
Oct. 17, 1870.
Dec. 13, 1870.
Oct. 20, 1870.
Oct. 12, 1870.
Aug. 24, 1870.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1842

Isaac B. Hiester, 46,

Lancaster, Pa.,

Feb. 6, 1871.

1842

Henry K. W. Welch, 49,

Hartford, Conn.,

Nov. 25, 1870.

1845

William B. Bibbins, 47,

New York City

Jan. 16, 1871.

1845

Ward I'.migh, 47,

Fishkill, N. y.,

Feb. 16, 1869.

1850

Oswald L. Woodford, 43,

West Avon, Conn.,

Oct. 21, 1870.

1851

Henry D. Wells, 41,

Charleston, S. C,

May 30, 1870.

1853

Henry R. Bradley, 38,

Southington, Conn.,

July 22, 1870.

1853

Thomas P. Nicholas, 35,

Louisville, Ky.,

Jan. 27, 1870.

1856

George Talcott, 38,

Niagara Falls, N. Y.,

May 29, 1871.

1856

Francis Fellowes, 40,

Hartford, Conn.,

Feb. 18. 1871.

1858

Henry A. Wells, 33,

Peekskill, N. Y.,

May 27, 1871.

1859

Benjamin S. Catlin, 33,

Barton County, Mo.,

Feb. 15, 1871.

1862

George L. WoodhuU, 38,

Onawa, Iowa,

Oct. 1, 1870.

1863

Edward G. Bishop, 32,

Norwalk, Conn.,

Aug. 28, 1870.

1863

Wilbur Ives, 28,

New Haven, Conn.,

Dec. 27, 1870.

1864

Charles E. Booth, 27,

New York City,

Sept. 18, 1870.

1864

Edward T. Mather, 29,

Lake Superior,

August, 1870.

1864

William H. Palmer, 30,

Hartford, Coun.,

June 19, 1871.

1867

Ernest Robinson, 25,

New Haven, Conn.,

Nov. 18, 1870.

1869

Frederick G. Oonkling, 21,

New Orleans, La.,

April 3, 1871.

Medical Department.

1816

Richard P. Tracy, 80,

Norwich, Conn.,

March 18, 1871

[1821] Hiram Holt, 12,

Pomfret, Conn.,

Nov. 30, 1870.

1825

Henry Holmes, 76,

Hartford, Conn,

July 31, 1870.

1833

Henry H. Rising, 63,

Westborough, Mass.,

Aug. 17, 1870.

1840

Francke Williams, 55,

Aiken, S. C,

May 23, 1871.

1844

John F. Wells, 60,

Hartford, Conn.,

May 4, 1871.

1846

Judson Candee, 48,

Pompey, N. Y.,

July 11, 1870.

1863

Frederick S. Treadway, 36,

• New Haven, Conn.,

June 27. 1870.

Law

Department.

1848

George C. W. Hammond, 45.

Richfield, 0.,

Aug. 12, 1870.

1868

David B. Brown, 21,

Independence, Kansas, Aug. 18, 1870.

The whole number of deaths reported as occurring during the past year is 82,
and the average age of the graduates of the Academical Department is nearly 61
years.

Of the deceased, from the Academical Department, 19 were Clergymen, 24
Lawyers, 10 Physicians, 10 in Business, 6 Teachers, and 1 Engineer.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in Connecticut, 33; N. Y., 19; Mass., 7;
Ohio, 3; Ky., Pa., S. C, 2 each; and the remaining 14 in as many diflferent
States.

The surviving graduates of the past century are.
Class of 1796, Timothy Bishop, New Haven, Conn., born Oct. 29, 1777.
Class of 1800, Rev. Thomas Williams, Providence, R. I., bom Nov., 1779.

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in July, 1872,

including the record of a fe"w who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JULY 10th, 18T2.]

[No. 2 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 31 of the whole Record.]

INDEX.

ClMt.

Page.

OlaM.

Pi»«e.

1852

Bannan, Douglass R.

1864

Haughee, Thomas

J826

Baraes, Josiah

1823

Haxall, Robert W.

1828

Beardsley, Sheldon

1816

Hill, George

1825

Belden. Joshua

1815

Hmsdale, Charles J.

1843 m

Betts, Wm. C.

1857

Holmes, John M.

1811

Board. Charles H.

1849

Hough, Edward C.

1812

Boardman, "Wm. W.

1822 m

Isham, Oliver K.

1862

Boies, Wm.

1847

Jessup, Edward

1824

Bulkeley, Eliphalet A.

1831

Jones, Elisha C.

1821

Bulkley, Henry D.

1855m

Keese, Hobart

1861

Bulkley, Milton

1824

Leonard, Frederick B.

1642

Buttles, Albert B.

1813

Longstreet, Aug. B.

180t

Champion, Aristarchos

1850

Lyman, Joseph B.

1641

Champlin, Louis D.

1810

Morse, Samuel F. B.

1870

Chapin, Charles H.

1811

Morse, Sidney E.

1838

Clark, Perkins K.

1831m

Peabody, Jeremiah N.

1848

Colton, Henry M.

1804

Pluramer, George

1846

Conyngham, John B.

18711)

PoweU, Ferdinand B.

1870

Cope, Orlando

1808

Robbins, Silas W.

1812

Day, Benjamin

1870

Robinson, George A.

1843

Dean, Philotus

1820

Sanford, Peleg P.

1814

Dickson, Samuel H.

1841

Schott, Guy B.

1863

PJramons. Julius

1863

Scott, Henry W.

1858

Evans, Lemuel R.

1868 J)

Stone, Lewis B.

1828

Foster, Lemuel

1820

Tudor, Wm. W.

1816

Garfield, John M.

1864

Tyler, James B.

1820

Goddard, George C.

1837

Whelpley, James D.

1840

Gregory, Samuel

1853

Whittelsey, Charles H.

1821

Griswold, John F.

1864

Wilson, Harry

1831

Hart, John C.

1846 m

Winter, Enoch T.

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending July^ 18Y2, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hitherto unreported.

fPBESENTED AT THE MEETING OP THE AlUMNI, JuLT 10, 1872.]

[No. 2 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 31 of the whole Record.]

1804.

George Plummbr, a native of Glastenbury, Conn., the son of
Isaac and Abigail E. (Mills) Plummer, was born 7 Dec, 1785.

He studied law with his uncle, Judge Mills, of New Haven,
until his admission to the bar in March, 1807. He then settled in
Glastenbury, and continued in the practice of law, until the death
of his father, in April, 1812, obliged him to choose between the
abandonment of the farm which he inherited and his profession.
He decided on the life of a farmer, and never returned to the law.
During the summer of 1814 he was in active service in the war
with Groat Britain. In 1844 and 1861 Mr. Plummer represented
the 2d District in the State Senate, and during both years was
ex officio a member of the Corporation of Yale College. He was
chosen a Deacon of the Congregational Church in Glastenbury, in
1827, and held that office until his death, which occurred on the 2d
of June, 1872.

He married, 7 May, 1807, Anne, eldest daughter of Rev.
William Lockwood (Y. C. 1774) of Glastenbury. She died 26
Dec, 1869. Of their three children, two daughters died in early
married life, and one son (Y. C. 1832) survives.

1807.
Aristarchfs Champion, son of Gen. Henry Champion, and
Abigail (Tinker) Champion, was born in Colchester, Conn., 23
Oct., 1784.

He at first studied law in New London, Conn., but soon became
the manager of his father's interest in the " New Connecticut "
lands and in lands in Western New York, and in 1826, took up
his residence in Rochester, where he invested largely in real estate,
while the place was as yet a mere village. There he spent the rest of
his life, occupied with the care of his lands, and in labors of local
and public benevolence. His systematic munificence toward
religious and philanthropic objects has rarely been equaled in this
country. He died at his residence, outside the city limits, in the
township of Gates, 18 Sept., 1871, aged nearly 87. He was un-
married.

1808.

Silas [Webster] Robbixs, son of Jacob and Eunice (Webster)
Robbins, of Rocky Hill, in Wethersfield, Conn., was born 24 Aug.,
1785.

Immediately after graduation, he entered the Law School at
Litchfield, under Judge Reeve, and in 1811 emigrated to Kentucky
and began the practice of his profession in Winchester. In the
following year he was married, in Litchfield, to Caroline, youngest
daughter of the late Uriah Tracy (Y. C. 1778), at the time of his
death (in 1807) U. S. Senator from Conn.

Mr. Robbins soon became prominent in his profession, and was
appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of his adopted State ; as
such he was conspicuous as an " Old Court Judge " in the severe
political struggle in Kentucky, in which the judges so named
were finally successful.

Having lost his wife in 1837, Judge Robbins removed in 1838
to Springfield, 111., where he resumed the practice of law. In 1858
he retired from active life to his farm in the township of Spring-
field, about four miles from the city, where he died, 19 June, 1871,
aged nearly 86.

He was married twice after the death of his first wife, and left
a widow. His only surviving child is a daughter.

1810.

Samuel Finlet Breese Morse, who died of paralysis of the
brain at his residence in N. Y. city, Apr. 2, 1872, was the eldest
son of Rev. Jedediah Morse, D.D. (Y. C. 1783) and Elizabeth
Ann (Breese) Morse. He was born in Charlestown, Mass., Apr.
27, 1791.

Having developed a decided talent for painting, he went to
England in 1811 with Washington Allston, to study under his

tuition and that of Benjamin West. By Allston's advice lie also
devoted himself to sculpture, and in 1813 received the gold medal
of the Adelphi Society of Arts for an original model of a Dying
Hercules.

In 1815 Mr. Morse returned to America, settling at first in
Boston. Thence he went to Concord, N. H., in 1818, and thence
to Charleston, S. C, and about 1822 he opened a studio in N. Y.
city. It was chiefly by his exertions that in 1826 the National
Academy of Design, of which he was the first president, was
established.

In 1829 he went to Europe to prosecute art studies, and dur-
ing his absence he was elected Professor of the literature of the
Arts of Design in the University of the city of N. Y. While return-
ing, in the autumn of 1832, to till this professorship, Mr. Morse, who
had always been interested in scientific studies, learning of recent
discoveries in the science of electro-magnetism, conceived the idea
of conveying intelligence by electricity. Circumstances prevented
the completion of the first telegraphic recording apparatus until
1835. In 1837 Professor Morse had constructed two instruments,
and began to exhibit the operation of his system ; and in 1838 he
applied to Congress for aid in erecting an experimental line. Fail-
ing in this, he visited Europe in the hope of securing patents from
the various governments, but was unsuccessful. In 1843, after
great effort, he obtained a grant of $30,000 for the construction of
a telegraph from Washington to Baltimore. This work was com-
pleted in 1844, and satisfactorily demonstrated its value. The
history of the Morse system of telegraphs since that date is sufii-
ciently well known.

In 1846 this College conferred the degree of LL.D. on Professor
Morse ; and he received, within a few years after, a most gratify-
ing number of testimonials from foreign governments. Not the
least pleasing, however, of the honors paid to him was the erection
of his statue in bronze in the Central Park in N. Y. city, in June,
1871, from the free contributions of the telegraphic fraternity.

Professor Morse seems also entitled to the credit of having laid
the first telegraph lines under water, in 1842, and of having sug-
gested the ocean telegraph in 1843.

His first marriage was in Oct., 1818, to Miss Lucretia P., daugh-
ter of Charles Walker, of Concord, N. H., by whom he had one
daughter. His wife died Feb. 7, 1825, aged 25. He married
again, Aug. 9, 1848, Miss Sarah E. Griswold, of New Orleans.

Professor Morse was a liberal benefactor of this College, and
especially to be mentioned are his recent gifts of $10,000 to the
Theological building fund, and of a painting by Allston, pur-
chased at a cost of $7)000,

1811.

Sidney Edwards Morse, the second son of Rev. Jedidiah
Morse, D.D. (Y. 0. 1783), and of Elizabeth Ann (Breese) Morse,
was born on the battle*field of Bunker's Hill, in Charlestown,
Mass., Feb. 7, 1794.

In 1806, when but eleven years old, he passed the examination
for admission into Yale College, but did not actually enter until
two years later, and graduated the youngest in his class.

He studied law in the Litchfield Law School, and from that
occupation was invited to Boston, to become the first editor (in
Jan., 1816) of the Boston Recorder^ "the oldest religious news-
paper in the world." His connection with the Recorder was a brief
one, and he subsequently spent more than two years (1817-20) in
the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1823, in connection with
his younger brother, Richard C. Morse (Y. C. 1812) he established
the N&m York Ohservet^ of which he remained chief editor and
proprietor until 1858, when he retired to devote himself to scien-
tific pursuits. He had already, in 1817, in connection with his
elder brother, Samuel F. B. Morse (Y. C. 1810), patented a newly
invented flexible piston-pump ; and in 1839 had invented a new
mode of engraving which he styled cerography. After leaving
the Observer^ he was especially interested in perfecting a new
bathometer, on which he had been engaged during the evening of
his fatal illness. He died of paralysis, at his residence in N. Y.
city, Dec. 23d, 1871, in his 78th year.

Mr. Morse was married, Apr. 1, 1841, to Catharine, eldest child
of Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, D.D., of Philadelphia, who sur-
vives him, with one son and one daughter,

1812.

William WnirrifG Boardman, the eldest child of Hon. Elijah
Boardman (U. S. Senator from Ohio) and Mary Ann (Whiting)
Baardman, was bom in New Milford, Conn., where his parents
then resided, 10 Oct., 1794, and died in New Haven, Conn., 27
Aug., 1871.

The youngest member of his class at graduation, he spent a
yeaf" at Harvard College, as a resident graduate, and then read

law in New Milford and at the Litchfield Law School. He settled
as an attorney in New Haven, in 1819, and for the five following
years was clerk of the State Senate. For the next five years he
served as Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven. In
1830 he was sent to the State Senate, and was twice re-elected.
In 1836 and for three succeeding years he was elected to the
House of Representatives, serving for the latter half of the time as
Speaker. In 1840 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in
the U. S. Congress, and in the next year was elected for the next
session. He was also a member of the State Legislature in 1845,
1849 and 1851, and for the first of these terms the Speaker of the
House. He was prominently engaged in many of the successful
business corporations of the city, and had large influence in the
councils of the Episcopal Church in this diocese. The degree of
Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Trinity College in 1863.
Judge Boardman was married, 28 July, 1857, to Miss Lucy
Hall, of Poland, 0., who survives him without children.

Benjamin Day died in Springfield, Mass., 13 May, 1872, aged
81. He was the fourth son of Heman and Lois (Ely) Day, of
West Springfield, where he was born, 9 Nov., 1790.

He studied law, but early abandoned the practice of it for busi-
ness. He was for several years cashier of the Springfield Bank,
and then a merchant in the same city. From 1824 to 1827 he
was cashier of a bank in Geneva, N. Y., but returned to business
in Springfield. He was afterwards superintendent of the factories
at Chicopee Falls, Mass., and for a short time a broker in N. Y,
city. He then retired from active business, and for the rest of his
life resided in Springfield.

He married, 3 Dec, 1 820, Frances, daughter of James Dwight,
of Springfield, who survives him, with two of their four children.

1813.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, son of William Longstreet,
was born in Augusta, Ga., Sept. 22, 1790, and died in Oxford,
Mpi., Sept. 9, 1870.

He studied in the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, and settled in
his native State. In 1821, he represented Greene County in the
State Legislature, and the following year was made Judge of the
Superior Court of the State. Declining reelection after one term,
he resumed practice, and became especially distinguished in
criminal cases. During the Nullification excitement, he established

the Augusta Sentinel. In 1838 he entered the ministry of the
Methodist P^piscopal Church, and from 1839 to 1848 was President
of Emory CoUeaje, in Oxford, Ga. He was then for a short time
President of Centenary College, Jackson, La., and from ] 849 to
1856 President of the University of Mississippi. Still later he
was President of South Carolina College. After the outbreak of
the late civil war he lived in seclusion in Oxford, Mpi.

He was a frequent contributor to Southern periodicals, and
published many separate works. Among the best known is his
humorous collection of " Georgia Scenes." He received the degree
of LL.D. from this College in 1841.

1814.

Samuel Henry Dickson, who died in Philadelphia, 31 March,
1872, was born in Charleston, S. C, 20 Sept., 1798.

He studied medicine in Charleston with Dr. P. G. Prioleau, and
practiced there during the prevalence of the yellow-fever in 1817.
He subsequently attended a course of lectures at the University of
Pennsylvania, and received the degree of M.D. in 1819. He
returned to Charleston, and opened an office in July of the same
year. Through his instrumentality a Medical College was es-
tablished in Charleston in 1824, and he was called to the chair of
the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, which he filled until 1832.
He then withdrew, but on the reorganization of the institution in
1833, as the Medical College of the State, resumed his position.
From 1847 to 1850 he occupied the corresponding chair in the
University of the city of N. Y., but his health obliged him to
return to his former post in Charleston. In 1858 he was called to
the chair of Practice of Medicine in Jefferson College, Philadelphia,
where he continued till his death. He received the degree of
LL.D. from the University of the City of N. Y. in 1853.

Dr. Dickson was the author of several successful professional
works, the chief of which was his Elements of Medicine, published
in 1855. He was also a ready writer on miscellaneous subjects.
An oration delivered by him before the Phi Beta Kappa Society
of this College in 1842, was published.

1815.
Charles James Hinsdale, son of Epaphras and Elizabeth
(Bowen) Hinsdale, was born in New York city, 12 Feb., 1796.
When four years old, his parents removed to Newark, N. J., from
which place he entered college.

49'

He pursued a theological course for over two years in Andover
Seminary, and finished his studies at Princeton Seminary in 1819,
In 1820 he went on a missionary tour to the South, remaining
about two years. On his return he was invited to Meriden, Conn.,
w^here he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Churchy
15 June, 1823. This charge he retained until Dec, 1833. Im
1835 he was called to the Congregational Church in Blandford„
Hampden County, Mass., where he was installed, 20 Jan., 1836..
He continued the settled pastor of that church until 1863, and
performed occasional ministerial service until his death. His-
residence remained in Blandford, where he was instantly killed, by-
being thrown from his carriage, 17 Oct., 1871, in the 76th year-
of his age.

He married Mrs. Catharine Banks Chittenden, daughter of
David D. Crane, Esq., of Newark, N. J., who died 26 Apr., 1865..
They had seven children, of whom three died in infancy, and two-
sons and two daughters survive.

In Nov., 1866, he married Mrs. Mary A. Lloyd, of Blandford^
who is still living.

1816.

John Metcat.p Garfield, eldest son of Timothy and Euinice
(Pond) Garfield, was born 21 July, 1790, in Grafton, Mass.

After graduation he began the study of law with Seth P. Staples
of New Haven. At the close of his second year, he became a
teacher in the Lansingburgh (N. Y.) Academy, and after a' year
spent there, took charge of the Grammar School in Troy, N. Y.

In 1819 he established a Female Seminary in New Haven, which
he conducted successfully until 1831, where he was appointed
Principal of the Albany Female Seminary. During this time he
pursued theological studies, and was ordained deacon in the Prot.
Episc. Church by Bishop Brownell, in Hamden, Conn., 11 Aug.,
1822, and was admitted to the priesthood, by the same prelate, in
Meriden, 4 June, 1823. From this time he regularly officiated in
neighboring towns until his removal from the State.

Mr. Garfield continued in his position in Albany until 1849,
when he returned to New Haven. Here he resided until his
death, and for the greater part of the time had charge of a church
of colored people in the city.

He married, 22 Nov., 1816, Ann, eldest daughter of Nathaniel
Lyon, of New Haven, and had two sons and six daughters. He
died 10 March, 1872, and his wife two days later.

George Hill, the youngest son of Judge Henry and Leah Hill,
was born in Guilford, Conn., 29 Jan., lYQe.

After his graduation, he was employed in Washington, in the
U. S. General Land Office, and in 1827 was appointed teacher of
mathematics in the navy, in which capacity he was attached to
the Mediterranean squadron till 1831. On his return he was made
librarian of the State Department, with which office and other
kindred duties he was occupied until 1839. He was then ap-
pointed consul in Turkey in Asia, but soon returned to Wash-
ington on account of ill health, and was employed in the State
Department until his resignation in 1865. The remainder of his
life was spent chiefly in his native town.

He died in St. Vincent Hospital, N. Y. city, 15 Dec. 1871.

Mr. Hill was married in 1817 to Miss Elizabeth S. Hamilton, of
New Haven, Conn., and in 1833 to Miss Mary K. Greer, of Wash-
ington. By the latter, who died in 1836, he had a son and a
daughter, both of whom died before him.

Mr. Hill published in 1839 a volume of poems, an earlier edition
of which had appeared anonymously in 1831.

1820.

George Calvin Goddard, son of Hon. Calvin Goddard (Dart-
mouth Coll., 1786), was bom in Norwich, Conn., in November,
1799. His mother, Alice Cogswell Hart, was the daughter of Rev.
Levi Hart, D.D. (Y. C. 1760), of Preston, Conn.

Immediately upon graduation he entered on the study of the
law with Hon. James Broome, of Philadelphia, and continued in
that city for some years. In 1828 he removed to N. Y. city, and
formed a partnership with his father-in-law ; he remained in the
practice of his profession in N. Y. until compelled by ill health to
retire in 1 867. He then removed his residence to Norwich, Conn.,
where he died on the morning of July 4th, 1871.

Mr. Goddard married, in 1825, Catharine Susan, eldest daughter
of Seth P. Staples (Y. C. 1797). She survives him, with one son
(a surgeon in the U. S. army) and one daughter, the only children
living of a large family.

Peleg Phei^s Sanford, son of Peleg and Esther (Phelps)
Sanford, was bom in New Haven, Conn., 15 Nov., 1801.

After graduation he was engaged in mercantile business in New
Haven until 1827. He then removed to Painesville, O., where he
became a manufacturer of iron and stoves, from which business

he retired in 1866. In Oct., 1870, he was rendered helpless by a
fall, and continued so until his death at his residence in Paines-
ville, 13 Nov., 18V1.

He was twice married: first, to Elizabeth Mary Phelps, of New
Haven, Conn., and again in 1829, to Elizabeth Ann Phelps, of
Painesville, who died two years before him. He had six children,
of whom two sons and one daughter survive him, one son being a
graduate of this College of the Class of 1850.

William Watson Tudor died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 25,
1872, in his 72d year. He was the elder son of Samuel and Mary
(Watson) Tudor, and was born in Hartford, Conn. He married
Mary, daughter of Dr. Barwick Bruce, of Hartford, who survives
him with children. His residence was in Brooklyn.

1821.

Henry Daggett Bulkley, son of John and Amelia Bulkley,
was born in New Haven, Conn., Apr. 20, 1803. His mother was
a daughter of Judge Henry Daggett, of New Haven.

He was engaged in mercantile pursuits in N. Y. city for six or
seven years after graduation, and then returned here to study me-
dicine under Dr. Knight. He received the degree of M.D. in 1830,
and soon after went to Europe for further advantages, and spent
some time in the hospitals of Paris studying cutaneous diseases.

He began practice in N. Y. city in Nov., 1832, and remained in
extensive practice until his decease. He was especially an au-
thority in cutaneous medicine, and one of the first in the country
to lecture on these disorders, and the first to establish a dispensary
in N. Y. city for their treatment. Besides his connection with
several other dispensaries, he was appointed in 1848 attending
physician to the N. Y. Hospital, which position he held until his
death. He occupied at difierent times the presidential chairs of
the N, Y. Academy of Medicine, the N. Y. County Medical So-
ciety, &c In 1846 and in 1852, he published editions of Cazenave
and Schedel on Diseases of the Skin, and in 1851 edited Gregory
on Eruptive Fevers.

Dr. Bulkley visited Europe for his health in June, 1871, return-
ing much benefited in October. He died of pneumonia at his resi-
dence in N. Y. city, Jan. 4, 1872, after an illness of four days.

In 1 835 he mamed Juliana, daughter of Wheeler Barnes, Esq.,
of Rome, N. Y. He had four daughters and two sons ; his widow
survives him, with two daughters, and both sons, one of whom
graduated here in 1866 and follows the profession of his father.

John Flavel Griswold, son of Theophilus Griswold, of
Greenfield, Mass., was born 14 Apr., 1795.

He took a three years' course at Andover Theol. Seminary,
graduating in 1824, and was ordained 8 Nov., 1825, at Shelbume,
Mass., as an Evangelist. He passed the next three years in home-
mission work in New Hampshire, and was installed pastor of the
Second Congregational Church in South Hadley, Mass., 3 Dec,
1828. This charge he relinquished in 1832. On 10 Apr., 1834,
he was installed over the Congregational Church in Newfane, Vt.
(Fayetteville parish), where he remanied until 31 July, 1839.
He was pastor of the Church in Hartland, Vt., from 15 Sept.,
1839, to 13 Feb., 1844, and stated supply of the Church in Wash-
ington, N. H., from 1 July, 1844, until the spring of 1866. His
home was afterward in Brooklyn, N. Y., and during the summer
months at Bernardston, Mass. He died in Brooklyn, 15 Feb.,
1872, in his 77th year.

Mr. Griswold was first married in 1830 to Catharine Gillet, of
South Hadley, who died in 1832. He was subsequently twice
married.

1823.

Robert William Haxall died in Richmond, Va., during the
last week of the month of March, 1872, aged about 69.

He graduated from the Medical School of the University of
Maryland in 1826, and was a practising physician in Richmond.

1824.

Eliphalet Adams Bulkelet, son of John C. and Sarah
(Taintor) Bulkeley, was bom in Colchester, Conn., in June, 1804.

He studied law with Wm. J. Williams, of Lebanon, and began
to practice his profession in East Haddam, Conn. After serving
as Judge of Probate Court, County Judge, and member of the Leg-
islature, he removed in 1847 to Hartford, where he resided till
his death, from paralysis, 13 Feb., 1872. While in Hartford he
was Judge of the City Court and State Senator. He was also
prominently connected with the insurance business of Hartford.
He was the first president of the Conn. Mutual Company, which
he assisted in organizing; and subsequently in 1850 organized the
^tna Life Company, and held its presidency till his death. He
was alsp the first president of the JEtna Bank.

He married, Jan. 31, 1830, Lydia S., daughter of Col. Avery
Morgan, of Colchester, who survives him, with three of their six
children. One son, who graduated at this College in 1856, died in
the late war.

Fredeeick Baldwin Leonard, second son of Timothy and
Mary (Baldwin) Leonard, was born in Sharon, Conn., 13 July,
1804. His parents removed to Lansingburgh, N. Y., in 1807.

He returned to New Haven in 1826 to study medicine, and re-
ceived the degree of M.D. in 1828. He then established him-
self in Troy, N. Y., but his widowed mother needing his care, be
soon removed to Lansingburgh, and for a time relinquished his
profession. In 1834 he attended another course of medical lec-
tures in Philadelphia, and on his return began practice in Lansing-
burgh. In 1851 he retired from practice, and became engaged in
banking. He died suddenly, 9 Feb., 1872.

Dr. Leonard married, 25 May, 1835, Margaret C, daughter of
John Nicholas, Esq., of Geneva, N. Y., and by her had four sons
and three daughters, of whom the daughters and one son are still
living. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Anna
M. Stewart, who survives him.

1825.

JosiAH Barnes, son of Hon. Jonathan Barnes (Y. C. 1784) and
of Rachel (Steele) Barnes, of Tolland, Conn., died in Buffalo,
N. Y., June 1, 1871, 'aged about 67. His older brothers
graduated at this college in 1810 and 1815.

Dr. Barnes received the degree of M. D. at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1829, and was for many years a practising
physician in Buffalo.

A son graduated at this college in 1860.

Joshua Belden, son of Dr. Joshua Belden, Jr. (Y. C. 1787), was
born in Newington Parish, in Wetherstield, Conn., Aug. 3d, 1802.

He settled in St. Louis, Mo., in 1828, but being unsuccessful in
business, removed in 1830 to Howard county, in the same State,
where he engaged in farming. His residence continued in or near
Glasgow, in that county, until his death, March 2d, 1870, in his
68th year.

Mr. Belden married, June 10th, 1834, Mrs. Agnes Graves,
daughter of Judge Henry Lewis. He survived his wife many
years, buried two sons and left an only daughter. At the time of
his death he was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

1828.
Sheldon Beardsley, son of Stephen and Catharine (Beardsley)
Beardsley, was bom at Long Hill, in Trumbull, Conn., in the
year 1803.

On leaving College he entered the Yale Medical School, from
which he received the degree of M.D. in 1831.

Having practiced a year or more with Jehiel Williams, M.D.,
of New Milford, Conn., he removed to North Branford, Conn.,
where he spent the remainder of his life in the practice of his pro-
fession. He died of heart disease, Jan. 26, 1872.

He leaves one son, who graduated from this College in the
Class of 1857.

Lemuel Fostee, son of Phineas and Hannah (Kilborn) Foster,
was born in Hartland, Conn., Nov. 24, 1799.

For the three years following graduation he studied theology
in the Yale Theol. Seminary. Having been commissioned by
the Home Missionary Society, he left for Illinois in Sept.,
1832, and there remained until his death, occupied as preacher
and teacher, gathering churches and establishing academies,
with great devotion and with great success. He was ordained
by the Sangamon Presbytery, in Sept., 1833, having labored
for the preceding year in that county. He was then stationed at
the following places, in succession : at Bloomington for five years,
at Bethel for seven years, at Alton for eight years, at Atlanta for
six years, at Onarga for four years, and at Blue Island, where he
formed a church, April 1, 1863, for six years.

He died at Washington Heights, April 1, 1872, aged 72.

He married in May, 1831, Miss Lydia Cowdery, of Hartland,
who survives him. They had no children.

1831.

John Clark Hart was born in Cornwall, Conn., 10 Dec,
1804, the eldest of twelve children. He was fitted for college
at Goshen Academy, and spent the first year of his course at
Amherst College.

He pursued his theological studies chiefly in Philadelphia,
being employed for a part of the time as City Missionary. In
Jan., 1 835, he was ordained and installed over the Presbyterian
Church in Springfield, N. J. Here he labored for nine years.
He then took a dismission on account of illness in his family, and
in the spring of 1844 became pastor of the Congregational Church
in Hudson, O. This position he held for eight years, and for the
next two years edited the " Ohio Observer" at Hudson. He was
then for six years pastor of the Congregational Church in Ravenna,
next for two years pastor of the churches of Edinburgh and Charles-

town, and for the four following years pastor in Kent. For the
live remaining years of his life he was supplying the pulpit of
other destitute churches in the same part of Ohio. He died in
Mantua, O., in Oct., 1871, in his 67th year.

Elisha Cowles Jones was born July 14, 1807, in Barkhamp-
sted (Hartland Society), Conn., where his youth was spent upon
his father's farm.

After graduating he was for nearly two years a teacher in New
London, Conn. From May, 1833, till August, 1835, he studied
theology in Yale Seminary, also filling, for the last year of this
period, the office of tutor in the College. He was licensed to
preach. May 26, 1835, and was married to Miss Julia Chappell, of
New London, Conn., Sept. 17, 1835. The health of his wife re-
quired him to seek a southern climate, and he spent the next six
months in Union Theol. Seminary, Virginia.

After his return to Connecticut, early in 1836, he supplied
various churches, and declined a call to the Second Congregational
Church in New London. In March, 1837, he received a unani-
mous call from the Congregational Church in Southington, Conn.,
which, after some hesitation, he accepted, and was accordingly
ordained June 28, 1837. He died in office March 9, 1872, after
an illness of eighteen days. He was a member of the Corpora-
tion of Yale College, from 1862, and one of its Prudential Com-
mittee from 1867. In all the relations of life he was greatly be-
loved and honored.

His first wife died July 4, 1842, and he married Miss Jane R.
Barnes, of Middletown, Conn., Apr. 14, 1844, who survives him.
Of the four children by his first marriage, one son and one
daughter are now living — the son a graduate of this College, in
the Class of 1857.

The discourse delivered at the funeral of Mr. Jones, by Presi-
dent Porter, has been published.

1837.

James Davenpoet Whelpley was born in N. Y. City, 23
Jan., 1817. His father was Rev. Philip M. Whelpley, pastor of
the 1st Presbyterian Church in N. Y. City, and his mother was
Abigail Fitch Davenport, a descendant of the first minister of
New Haven.

After graduation he acted as assistant in Rogers' Geological
Survey of Penn., for two years, and then entered the Medical
Department of this College, where he graduated in 1 842.

He remained in New Haven until 1846, engaged in the study
of the sciences, and in literary pursuits. He then went to Brook-
lyn, N. Y., and began to practice his profession, but was soon
obliged to relinquish it from ill-health. In 1847, he removed to
N. Y. City, and became the editor and one of the owners of the
" American Whig Review," to which he had been a frequent con-
tributor from 1845. While thus engaged, in 1849, he formed a
project of establishing a commercial colony in Honduras, and in
furtherance of this enterprise, spent two years in San Francisco,
purchasing and editing one of the daily papers there. His
arrangements were disturbed by the presence of the filibuster
Walker in Honduras, and on going thither he was detained by
Walker for nearly a year, enduring great privation, and being
impressed into service as a surgeon. Escaping to San Francisco,
he returned early in 1857 to the East, and again devoted himself
to literature, and to scientific studies. For the last ten years of
his life he was a great sufferer from asthma, which gradually de-
veloped into consumption of the lungs, of which disease he died,
at his residence in Boston, 15 April, 1872.

Dr. Whelpley's publications show a most original mind, and
his unpublished papers are even more remarkable. He was a
member of the American Academy. His scientific researches
were chiefly in physics and in metallurgy.

He married first, in Jan., 1848, Miss Anna M. Wells, of Rox-
bury, Mass., who died 29 July, 1859, leaving one daughter, still
living. His second wife was Miss Mary L. Breed, of Virginia,
whom he married in the autumn of 1861, and who survives him,
with her three children.

1838.

Perkins Kiekland Clark, son of Enoch and Abigail (Kirk-
land) Clark, was born in Westfield, Mass., Dec. 8, 1811.

After graduation, he spent a year or more in Savannah, Ga., as
a teacher, and in 1 840 entered the Theol. Seminary at Andover,
Mass. In 1841 he transferred himself to the Yale Theol. Semi-
nary, where he finished the course in 1843. In the meantime he
entered, in 1842, on the ofl[ice of tutor in the College, which he
occupied until 1845. The next year he taught in the Normal
School in Westfield, Mass., and resigned this position to engage
in the work of the ministry, having been licensed to preach in
August, 1842, by the Hampden Association.

He supplied the pulpit of the Congregational Church, in Ches-
ter village (now Huntington), Mass., from his ordination, August

26, 1 846, until the spring of 1852. He then accepted a call to Hins-
dale, Mass., where he was installed over the Congregational
Church, June 16, 1852, and where he remained until compelled by
ill-health to resign, October 2, 1855. Having partially recovered,
he began in May, 1856, to supply the First Church in South Deer-
field, Mass., (though not installed until June 29, 1859) where he
remained until Sept 26, 1865, when the church of which he had
been pastor was united with the other Congregational Church in
the village. He was installed over the Congregational Church
in Mittineague (West Springfield), Mass., Jan. 16, 1866, and was
dismissed from this charge April 18, 1871, to accept a call to the
First Church in Charlemont, Mass., where he was installed, Aug.
16, 1871, A bronchial difficulty, from which he had sufiered for
many years, was aggravated by the labor of removal, and his
health, which all his life had been very far from vigorous,
gradually failed until he died, at Charlemont, Jan. 4, 1872.

Mr. Clark married, Nov, 20, 1845, Hannah S, Avery, of Spring-
field, Mass., and she, with three of her four children, survives him.
The only son is a graduate of this College, in the Class of 1870.

1840.

Samuel Geegory was bom in Guilford, Yt., Apr. 19, 1813,
and died in Boston, Mass., of consumption, March 23, 1872.

For several years after graduating he was engaged in teach-
ing, lecturing, and writing, on educational and sanitary
subjects.

In 1847 he began the special work which engrossed his
attention for the rest of his life, — the medical education of women
and their introduction into the profession. In 1848 he was prom-
inent in starting the New England Female Medical College, in
Boston, said to be the first institution of the kind in the world.
He continued to be the secretary of this institution until his death,
and had the satisfaction of seeing it firmly established.

He was unmarried.

1841.

Louis De Onis Champlin, son of Matthew F. and Sally A.
Champlin, was born in Elbridge, N. Y., 22 Jan., 1822. His
parents removed in his childhood to Beaver Co., whence he
entered college, having first spent nearly a year in Marion
College, Mo.

He studied law in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was admitted to
the bar in 1844 ; but in the same year he removed to Cincin-

nati, and in the spring of 1845 began practice in that city. He
continued there, in the profession of the law, — with the exception
of one year (1853-4) passed in San Francisco — until his death.
He died of jaundice, 15 Oct., 1871, aged 49.

He married, in Nov., 1848, Miss Isabella Carter, of Cincinnati,
who survives him.

Guy Bryan Schott, son of James Schott, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
w-as born Feb. 11, 1822.

He studied medicine for a year after graduation, and then law
for two years. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, but
soon gave up practice. He continued to reside in or near Phila-
delphia, and died in that city, of consumption, Sept. 6, 1871.

He married Miss Marion Gray, of Boston, Mass., who survives him.

1842.

Albert Barnes Buttles, the son of Joel B. and Lauretta
Buttles, was born 25th Apr., 1822, in Columbus, O.

He entered Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1837, and having passed
through the Junior year in that institution, entered the Junior
Class in this College, in Sept., 1840. On graduation, he im-
mediately entered the Yale Law School, and studied until the
Spring of 1844, when he received his degree, and was admitted to
the bar in this State. He then returned to his native city, where
he resided till his death. In the summer of 1845 he was admitted
to the bar in Ohio, and practised law (with intervals spent in hor-
ticultural pursuits, on account of imperfect health) until Oct.,
1854, when he was elected Clerk of the County Court of Common
Pleas, and ex officio Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State.
After retirement from these offices, in Febr., 1858, he devoted
himself chiefly to private business, filling various local offices of
trust.

He died in Columbus, 27 Jan., 1872, in his 50th year. He
married, 27 Nov. 1849, Miss Mary E. Ridgway, of Columbus, who
survives him.

1843.

Philotus Dean, fourth son of Amos and Nancy (Kempton)
Dean, was bom in South Glastenbury, Conn., 29 Oct., 1822.

After graduating, he remained at home in consequence of ill-
health, until Nov., 1844, whenhe entered the theological seminary
in Oberlin, O. He was licensed to preach, 18 June, 1846, by the
Lorain County Congregational Association. From Nov.j 1846,

to April, 1849 (with the exception of one summer spent in preaching
in Penfield, O.), he taught in Selma, O. In Dec, 1849, he was
appointed principal of Avery College, Allegheny City, Pa., where
he remained until September, 1855, when he was elected to the
chair of Natural Science in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Central High
School. Three years later he became principal of the school, and
held these two positions until his death. He was also from Nov.,
1863, to Sept., 1867, director of the Allegheny Observatory, and
spent his leisure time in astronomical calculations, and in editing
a series of arithmetics.

He died of dysentery, Aug. 30, 1871, at his residence in
Wilkinsburg, after an iUness of two weeks. His physicians were
confident that he could have recovered, if his constitution had not
been greatly weakened by excessive devotion to his ofiicial duties.

Professor Dean was married 16 Aug., 1852, to Miss Grace P.
South may d^ of Middletown, Conn., who survives him, as do two
of their three children.

1846.

John Butlek Conyngham, second son of Judge John N. and
Ruth A, (Butler) Conyngham, was born in Wilkes Barre, Pa.,
29 Sept., 1827.

He studied law for three years in Wilkes Barre, and there began
practice, but in Dec, 1851, removed to St. Louis, where he con-
tinued in his profession.

On the breaking out of the war he enlisted at the first call for
three months' volunteers in the 8th Pa. Infantry, and was chosen
2d Lieut, of his company. At the close of this service he re-
enlisted as Major of the 5 2d Pa. Infantry, was immediately
promoted to be Lieut.-Col., and held the rank of Col. when mus-
tered out in July, 1865. He afterwards went to Montana, and in
March, 1867, entered the regular army as Captain of the 38th
Infantry. Near the l)eginning of 1871, while stationed at Fort
Clark, Texas, he suffered from apoplexy, followed by Bright's
disease. He lived to reach Wilkes Barre, where he died 26 May,
1871. He was unmarried,

1847.

Edward Jessup died in Vevay, Switzerland, April 2, 1872, in
the 46th year of his age. He was a native of Southwick, Mass.

Upon graduation he began his theological studies in the Berke-
ley Divinity School in Connecticut, being a member of the first
class. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Brownell, at Hartford

Dec. 22, 1850, and immediately took a position as assistant minis-
ter of St. John's Church, Waterbury, Conn. After remaining
there for two years, being in the meantime advanced to the Priest-
hood by Bishop Williams, March 7, 1852, he took charge of a
parish in Chicopee, Mass. In 1854 he became rector of Grace
Church, Bath, Me., where he remained until the autumn of 1859,
when he accepted the rectorship of the Church of the Redeemer,
in Brooklyn, N. Y. This position he held at the time of his
death. Exhausted by the labors of his ministry, he sailed for
Europe in July, 1871, and at first improved in health ; but grad-
ually his strength failed, and he sought Vevay at the beginning
of the winter.

Mr. Jessup married in 1859, and leaves a wife, with two
daughters and three sons.

1848.

Henry Martyn Colton was born in Royalton, Niagara
county, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1826. He was the fifth of six brothers
who graduated at this College, the sons of Rev. George Colton
(Y. C. 1804) and Lucy (Cowles) Colton.

He remained at the College for one year after graduation, as
Berkeley Scholar, pursuing a select course in philosophy and
language. The next three years were spent in the Yale Theo-
logical Seminary, and in Nov. 1852, he was ordained pastor of the
First Congregational (^hurch in Woodstock, Conn. This charge
he resigned in Jan., 1855, and he removed to East Avon, Conn,
where he supplied the pulpit of the Congregational Church until
April, 1857. In May, 1857, he established a classical school in
Middletown, which he continued for eleven years. In Sept., 1858,
he opened the " Yale School for Boys," in N. Y. City, which he
was still conducting at the time of his death.

Mr. Colton died, after a short illness, in Middletovm, June 2,
1872, aged 45| years.

He married Lucy, daughter of Ezra Tuttle, of New Haven,
Conn., Oct. 25, 1852. His wife survives him, with children.

1849.

Edward Clement Hough, second son of Rev. Joseph and
Lavinia P. (Wightman) Hough, was bom in Bloomfield, Conn.,
Sept. 10, 1827. While he was in College, his family residence
was in Hawkinsville, Ga.

During the year 1850, he taught in a private family in South
Carolina, and in 1851 he began the study of law in Waynesboro',

Ga. He was admitted to the bar May 8, 1852, but did not
engage in the profession. He remained in Georgia, first as assis-
tant treasurer of the Central Road and Banking Company for one
year, then for four years in the Railroad Bank of Savannah, and
from 1857 as teller in the Bank of Savannah. He died in Savannah
of heart disease, June 11, 1872, in his 45th year.

1850.

Joseph Bard well Lymai^- was born in Chester, Mass., Oct. 6,
1829.

He taught in Cromwell, Conn., during the winter after gradua-
tion, and subsequently in Adams County, Miss. From June, 1853,
till Jan., 1855, he was studying law and teaching in Nashville,
Tenn. He then went to the New Orleans Law School, and there
graduated in 1856, in August of which year he was admitted to
the bar. He practised law in New Orleans until the beginning of
the late war, when he removed to Stamford, Conn. After a few
years, during which he was a frequent contributor to the N. Y.
press, he went to N. Y. city as agricultural editor of the World,
After two years in this position, he became managing editor of
Hearth and Some, and soon after agricultural editor of the
Tribune, which place he filled for the last four years of his life.
He died, of the small-pox, at his residence in Richmond Hill, L. I.,
Jan. 28, 1872.

Mr. Lyman married, in Nashville, July 14, 1858, Miss Laura E.,
daughter of Rev. Charles Baker, of Somerville, Mass. She sur-
vives him, with six children.

1852.

Douglass Ridgway Bannan, son of John Bannan, was born in
Schuylkill County, Pa., March 6, 1832, and died in Charlestown,
Mass., Nov. 16, 1871, of typhoid pneumonia.

He studied medicine in the Medical Department of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, receiving his degree in 1856. He afterward
spent two years in Paris, and then established himself in Phila-
delphia. On July 22, 1861, he entered the IT. S. Navy, as
Assistant Surgeon, and subsequently rose to the rank of Surgeon.
He held this position at the time of his death. He was unmarried.

William Boies, son of Justus Boies, was born in Northampton,
Mass., March 21, 1828, and died of heart disease in Troy, N. Y.,
June 17, 1872.

He studied law with Hon. Henry Hogeboom (Y. C. 1827), in
Hudson, N.Y., and subsequently became his law-partner there,
and later at Albany, until April, 1855, when he removed to N. Y.
city and entered into partnership with Judge Sutherland. A few
years ago he returned to his native town, and there practised his
profession until March, 1871, when he removed to Troy, where he
was in extensive practice at the time of his death.

Mr. Boies married in 1859 Susan K, daughter of Judge Hoge-
boom, who survives him with two children,

1853.

Charles Henry Whittelsey, only son of Charles B. and
Jane (Mulford) Whittelsey, was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct.
2, 1832.

A hemorrhage of the lungs during the latter part of his Senior
year obliged him to give up all study, and have perfect rest for
several months. After the recovery of his health, he was in
business in N. Y. city until the beginning of the late war. He
entered the volunteer service in March, 1862, as a Lieutenant in
the 1st Conn. Artillery, but was soon appointed Assistant Ad-
jutant General on the Staff of General R. D. Tyler, and in 1864
assumed the same position on the staff of Maj.-Gen. H. G. Wright.
In 1 865 the rank of Brevet Brigadier General was conferred on
him. In July, 1866, he accepted an appointment as Captain in
the U. S. Army, and served until his death in the Department of
the Platte.

He died at Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, Oct. 18, 1871, of
typhoid fever, after an illness of several weeks.

In 1865, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him,
and his name was enrolled with his class.

1857.

John Milton Holmes, the son of Rev. Wm.* Holmes, was bom
in the Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England, 23 May, 1831. He was
hardly four years of age when his parents emigrated to this
country.

From college he went to Oak Ridge, 111., where he taught until
April, 1859. The next two years were spent in the Andover
Theological Seminary. He was called from the Seminary to the
First Congregational Church in Jersey City, N. J., of which he
was ordained the first pastor, 23 May, 1861. His labors in
building up this church, and in the cause of the country during

the war, so impaired his health that in April, 186 7, he was sent to
Europe by his parish. He returned in June, 1868, but with
renewed labors came renewed symptoms of pulmonary, disease,
and he was obliged to remove to Minnesota for the winter. With
great reluctance, his church consented to his dismission, 5 May,

1869. The following summer was spent in Andover, Mass., and
the winter in Duquoin, 111. After visiting other western States in
the hope of checking his disease, he returned to Jersey City to die
among his people. His death occurred on Sept. 20th, 1871.

He married, 3 July, 1861, Miss Fanny L. Tyler, of Trenton,
N. Y. His widow survives him, with three children.

A volume of his Sermons is just published by 0. C. Chatfield
& Co., New Haven.

1858.

Lemuel Relet Evans, son of Onesimus and Eliza E. (Wallace)
Evans, was bom in Fayetteville, Ark., 12 Jan., 1838, and entered
college from San Antonio, Tex.

After graduation he studied law in San Antonio, with some
interruption from ill-health, until the secession of his State. Early
in 1861 he was appointed private secretary to the Governor of
Texas, and served until the latter part of the year, when he
entered the military service, in which he continued till the end of
the war. From March, 1866, till Aug. 1869, he was deputy-col-
lector of Internal Revenue in San Antonio. He then came north
for the benefit of his health, and returned to Texas about May,

1870. In August he started for Arkansas on business, and while
on the steamboat Erie on the Red River, near Shreveport, La., fell
overboard, 27 Sept., and was drowned.

1861.

Milton Bulkley was born July 14, 1840, in Southport, Conn.
His death took place in San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 25, 1872.

The winter after graduation he spent in N. Y. city, studying
medicine, and in 1862, during a part of McClellan's Peninsula
campaign, he was in the service of the Sanitary Commission on
board of a hospital ship. While thus employed, he was prostrated
by malarial fever, and instead of being able to resume his studies,
was advised to try a sea voyage. Accordingly he embarked, in
the autumn of 1862, for San Francisco in a sailing vessel. The
voyage proved of great benefit, and finding the climate of Cali-
fornia invigorating, he decided to remain, and became a member
of the firm of Sherwood, Bulkley & Co., shipping and commission

merchants in San Francisco. In this business he continued until
his death.

His health remained good until the winter of 1866-67, when he
was suddenly attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs. From this
time he was more or less of an invalid, although until the last few
months of his life able to attend to his business.

He married, Feb. 12, 1868, Miss Kate A., daughter of W. R.
Wheaton, Esq., of San Francisco, who remains his widow, with
one son.

1863.

Julius Emmons died of quick consumption at his father's resi-
dence in Colchester ("Westchester Society), Conn., 4 Dec, 1871, at
the age of 31.

The son of Aaron E. and Mary N". (Kellogg) Emmons, he was
born in "Westchester, 8 Dec, 1840, and was fitted for college at
East Hampton, Mass.

After graduation, he was for about six years occupied chiefly
in teaching ; — first in Bacon Academy, Colchester, for two terms ;
afterward in East Haddam, Conn. ; and after Sept., 1866, in Cale-
donia, Minn.

In the spring of 1870 he undertook a journey, as agent for a
business firm in Boston, through the States and Territories lying
along the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific Coast. A year
was spent on this trip, and he was about beginning another when
fatal illness overtook him.

Henry Whitney Scott, only child of Henry "W. and Susan
(Fenn) Scott, was born in SouthWy, Conn., May 1, 1841^

The first year after graduation he was Principal of an academy
in Cohoes, N. Y. Removing to Philadelphia in the autumn of
1864, he took charge of the Chestnut Hill Academy, and con-
ducted it for five years with remarkable success. He then became
associate principal with Mr. R. H. Chase of an English and Clas-
sical School for boys in Philadelphia, and so continued until his
death.

In June, 1871, he sailed for Europe. While traveling in Ger-
many, he became conscious of a failure of health,, which developed
so speedily that it was only by a great effort that he reached
home. He left Liverpool Oct. 12, and arrived at New York on
the 23d. He finally reached Southbury Nov. 3, and after linger-
ing with varying symptoms of congestion of the lungs, he died
Dec 6, 1871, aged 30.

Mr. Scott testified his affection for his Alma Mater by creating
in his will a fund of $1000 for Academical premiums for excellence
in Modem Languages, and by leaving the bulk of his earnings
(about $2500) as a teacher to constitute a fund for the College
Library.

1864.

Thomas Haughee was born in Longford, Ireland, in 1836. He
prepared for College in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he studied medicine in the medical depart-
ment of this College, receiving his degree in 1868. He subse-
quently spent some time in hospital practice in Hartford, Conn.,
and in New Haven, and then went to Laramie, Nebraska, as
assistant surgeon in the Union Pacific R. R. Hospital. While
there he received an offer of partnership with an experienced phy-
sician in Lincoln, Nebr. This he accepted, and after several
months of successful practice, he went on a visit to Ireland, where
he married.

He left Liverpool for America on the steamship "Oceanic,"
Dec. 20, 1871. On Jan. 6, 1872, he was on deck when a heavy
wave breaking over the bulwarks swept him off his feet, fractur-
ing his arm and otherwise injuring him : congestion of the lung&
set in, and he died Jan. 8, 1872. He was buried at sea.

James Braineed Tyler, son of Ralph and Sarah Ann (Lay)
Tyler, was born at Brainerd Station, Jamaica, W. I., March 23y
1842, where his father was then a missionary.

After graduation, he spent four years in teaching in Millbury,
Mass., and then entered the Yale Theol. Seminary, where he com-
pleted the course, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity,
in May, 1871.

He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in
Groton, Conn., Sept. 27, 1871, where he died suddenly, of rheu-
matic fever. May 28, 1872.

He was unmarried.

Harry Wilson, son of James Wilson, was born at Jersey
Shore, Pa., Sept. 3, 1841, and died there after a short illness
August 9, 187L

He had been a practising lawyer in Forest City, Minn.

1870.
Charles Hosmer Chapin, son of Charles Chapin, was bom in
Champlain, N. Y., 27 June^ 1848, and entered College from
Whitehall, N, Y.

He died in Natchez, Mpi., where he was a teacher in the public
schools, 5 Nov., 1871, of yellow fever.

Orlando Cope, born 10 March, 1843, died at Jasper, Ind., of
bilious fever, 2 July, 1871. He entered this College at the begin-
ning of Sophomore year, from Indiana State University. At the
time of his death he was with an engineer corps, surveying a route
for the Rockport and Cincinnati railroad.

George Alexander Robinson, son of Jeremiah M. Robinson,
was born in Baltimore, Md., 31 Jan., 1848.

His residence at graduation was Philadelphia, and he returned
thither to pursue a course of study, with the intention of entering
the medical department of the U. S. Navy. When near the com-
pletion of his second course of lectures in Jefferson Medical Col-
lege, he died of apoplexy, 28 Nov., 1871.

1871.

Charles Howell Board died in Edenville, Orange County,
N. y., Aug. 8, 1871, less than four weeks after his graduation.
He was born in Edenville, Sept. 5, 1848, and was left an orphan in
early childhood. He was prepared for College at Williston Sem-
inary, East Hampton, Mass.

He was unwell for some time before graduation, without any dis-
tinctly marked disease. Probably too close application, with insuffi-
cient exercise, produced general debility. He left for home on the
day after Commencement, and seemed to rally, but only for a brief
period. Typhoid fever attacked him, and in his weak state he
sank rapidly and died after being confined to his bed less than a
week.

In his will, which was made a few months before his death, he
left the sum of $2,500 to the Library of Yale College, the annual
income to be devoted to the purchase of books on political
economy and social science.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1822.
Oliver Kingsley Isham, son of James and Mary Isham, was
born in Tolland, Conn., March 22, 1798, and died in the same
town, of consumption, March 10, 1872.

He studied medicine with Dr. Silas Fuller, of Columbia, Conn.,
before entering this Medical School.

He entered on his profession as partner of the late Dr. Nathan
Howard, of ^outh Coventry, Conn. He remained in this place
three years, and then removed to Tolland, where he resided,
fulfilling the duties of his profession till within a few months of
his decease.

He married Minerva Griggs, of Tolland, and had five children.

1831.

Jeremiah Nathaniel Peabody., son of John N. and Mary
(Mason) Peabody, was born in Lebanon, Conn. 26 Aug., 1809.

After practicing his profession in Montville, Conn., and else-
where at the East, Dr. Peabody removed in 1848 to St. Clair,
Mich., where he continued in extensive practice until 1867, when
on the failure of his health he retired from his profession and
removed to Detroit, where after five years of extreme bodily suf-
fering, he died, 10 Febr. 1872.

1843.

William Colet Betts died in Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1871,
aged 56 J years.

He had been for more than twenty years a practising physician
and druggist in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was also specially interested
in the subject of ventilation, and had obtained several patents for
inventions in that connection.

1845.

Enoch Tenney Winter, the fifth son and tenth child of Ben-
jamin Winter, a captain in the Revolution, and of Hannah (Searle)
Winter, was born in Danbury, N. H., Sept. 19, 1806.

He finished his studies in the New Hampton (N. H.) Lit. and
Theol. Institution, and was ordained over the first Baptist Church
in Bradford, N. H., in March, 1831. From 1832 to 1835 he was a
pastor in Henniker, N. H. ; from 1835 to 1838 in Cavendish, Ver-
mont, and then accepted a call to a church in Fredericksburgh,
Va. While here his voice gave out, and he turned his thoughts to
the medical profession.

After receiving his degree, he settled in N. Y. city as the
superintendent of the N. Y. Orphan Asylum, which place he
occupied until 1848. From that date until within a year of his
death he was a practising physician in N. Y. city. He died

Apr. 27, 1871, in Harlem, K. Y., at the house of his only child, a
daughter.

1855. ^

HoBART EtEESB, SOU of Rev. Wm. Linn Keese (Columbia Coll.,
1823) and of Mary Matilda (Drake) Keese, was born in Albany^
N. Y., Sept. 18, 1831.

He practised his profession in New Haven for about two years,
and then made an extended foreign tour. About 1859 he opened
an office in N. Y. city. His professional career was much inter-
rupted by disease. He died of consumption in N. Y. city, Nov.
7, 1871, aged 40.

DEPARTMENT 01' PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS.

1868.

Lewis Bridge Stone, son of the late J. Cameron Stone, of
N. Y. city, died in Paris, Erance, Nov. 10, 1871, aged 24.

He Was returning from a visit to California, Japan, China, and
Europe. During the summer of 1871 he contracted the malarial
fever in Rome, from the effects of which he never recovered.

1871.

Ferdinand Eugene PoWell was bofn in Lyonville, tJwchlan
Township, Chester County, Pa., June 3, 1849.

After graduating at the Sheffield Scientific School, he entered
Columbia College Law School. He died, of a kidney disease, in
"N. Y. City, May 20, 1872.

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class. Name and Age.

1804 George Plummer, 86,

1807 Aristarchus Champion, 87,

1808 Silas W. Robbins, 85,

1810 Samuel F. B. Morse, 81,

1811 Sidney E. Morse, 77,

1812 Wm. W. Boardman, 76,

1812 Benjamin Day, 81,

1813 Augustus B. Longstreet, 80,

1814 Samuel H. Dickson, 73,

1815 Charles J. Hinsdale, 75,

1816 John M. Garfield, 81,
1816 George Hill, 76,

1820 George C. Goddard, 71,

1820 Peleg P. Sanford, 70,

1820 William W. Tudor, 71,

1821 Henry D. Bulkley, 68,
1821 John F. Griswold, 76,

1 823 Robert W. Haxall, 69,

1824 Eliphalet A. Bulkeley, 67,

1824 Frederick B. Leonard, 67,

1825 Josiah Barnes, 67,
1825 Joshua Belden, 67;'
1828 Sheldon Beardsley, 68,
1828 Lemuel Foster, 72,
1831 John C. Hart, 66,
1831 Elisha C. Jones, 64,

1837 James D. Whelpley, 55,

1838 Perkins K. Clark, 60,

1840 Samuel Gregory, 59,

1841 Louis D. Champlin, 49,

1841 Guy B. Schott, 49,

1842 Albert B, Buttles, 49,

1843 Philotus Dean, 48,

1846 John B. Conyngham, 43,

1847 Edward Jessup, 45,

1848 Henry M. Colton, 45,

1849 Edward G. Hough, 44,

1850 Joseph B. Lyman, 42,
1852 Douglass R. Bannan, 39,

1852 Wm. Boies, 44,

1853 Charles H. Whittelsey, 39,

1857 John M. Holmes, 40,

1858 Lemuel R. Evans, 32,
1861 Milton Bulkley, 31,
1863 Julius Emmons, 31,

1863 Henry W. Scott, 30,

1864 Thomas Haughee, 35,
1864 James B. Tyler, 30,
1864 Harry Wilson, 30,

Place and
Glastenbury, Conn.,
Gates, N. Y.,
Springfield, 111.,
New York City,
New York City,
New Haven, Conn.,
Springfield, Mass.,
Oxford, MpL,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
Blandford, Mass.,
New Haven, Conn.,
New York City,
Norwich, Conn.,
Painesville, 0,,
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
N. Y. City,
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Richmond, Ya.,
Hartford, Conn.,
Lansingburgh, N. Y..
Bufialo, N. Y.,
Glasgow, Mo.,
North Branford, Conn.,
Washington Heights, 111
Mantua, 0.,
Southington, Conn.,
Boston, Mass.,
Charlemont, Mass.,
Boston, Mass.,
Cincinnati, 0.,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
Columbus, 0.,
Wilkinsburg, Pa.,
Wilkes Barre, Pa.,
Yevay, Switzerland,
Middletown, Conn.,
Savannah, Ga.,
Richmond HiU, N. Y.,
Charlestown, Mass.,
Troy, N. Y.,
Ft. Bridger,Wyom. Terr.
Jersey City, N. J.,
Red River, La.,
San Francisco, Cal.,
Colchester, Conn.,
Southbury, Conn.,
At sea,

Groton, Conn.,
Jersey Shore, Pa.,

Time of Death.

June 1, 1872.

Sept. 18, 1873.

June 19, 1871.

April 2, 1872.

Dec. 23, 1871.

Aug. 27, 1871.

May 13, 1872.

Sept. 9, 1870.

March 31, 1872.

Oct. 17, 1871.

March 10, 1872.

Dec. 15, 1871.

July 4, 1871.

Nov. 13, 1871.

June 25, 1872.

Jan. 4, 1872.

Feb. 15, 1872.

March, 1872.

Feb. 13, 1872.

Feb. 9, 1872.

June 1, 1871.

March 2, 1870.

Jan. 26, 1872.
,, April 1, 1872.

October, 1871.

March 9, 1872.

April 15, 1872.

Jan. 4, 1872.

March 23, 1872.

Oct. 15, 1871.

Sept. 6, 1871.

Jan. 27, 1872.

Aug. 30, 187L

May 26, 1871.

April 2, 1872.

June 2, 1872.

June 11, 1872.

Jan. 28, 1872.

Nov. 16, 1871.

June 17, 1872.
, Oct. 18, 1871.

Sept. 20, 1871.

Sept. 27, 1870.

Jan. 25, 1872.

Dec. 4, 1871.

Dec. 6, 1871.

Jan. 8, 1872.

May 28, 1872.

Aug. 9, 1871.

1870 Charles H. Chapin, 23, Natchez, Mpi., Nov. 5, 1871.

1870 Orlando Cope, 28, Jasper, Ind., July 2, 1871.

1870 George A. Robinson, 23, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28, 1871.
18ri Charles H. Board, 23, EdenviUe, N. Y , Aug. 8, 1871.

Medical Depaetment.

1822 Oliver K. Isham, 74, Tolland, Conn., March 10, 1872.

1831 Jeremiah N. Peabody, 62, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 10, 1872.

184.^ William C. Betts, 56, Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1871.

1845 Enoch T. Winter, 64, Harlem, N. Y., April 27, 1871,

1855 Hobart Keese, 40, N. Y. City, Nov. 7, 1871.

Department op Philosophy and the Arts.

1868 Lewis B. Stone, 24, Paris, France, Nov. 10, 1871.

1871 Ferdinand E. Powell, 23, N. Y. City, May 20, 1872.

The whole number of deaths reported as occurring during the past year is 60,
and the average age of the graduates of the Academical Department is 56^ years.

Of the deceased, from the Academical Department, 10 were Clergymen, 8
Lawyers, 9 Physicians, 6 in Business, and 7 Teachers.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in N. Y., 15; Conn., 13; Mass. and
Pa., 6 each ; Ohio, 4 ; 111. and Mpi., 2 each ; Europe, 2 ; and the remaining 10 in as
many diflferent States and Territories.

The surviving graduates of the past century are.
Class of 1796, Timothy Bishop, New Haven, Conn., bom Oct. 29, 1777.
Class of 1800, Rev. Thomas Williams, Providence, R. I., bom Nov. 5, 1779.

DEC 31 1937 I

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in June, 1 873,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 25th, 18T3.]

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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending June, 1873, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting op the Alumni, June 25, 18T3.]
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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1796.

Timothy Bishop, son of Daniel and Louisa (Hotchkiss) Bishop,
was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 29th, 1777.

Upon leaving college he engaged in business in this city, and
after a long life of business activity, during which he held in a
high degree the esteem of his fellow-citizens, lived in his native
city in retirement until his death, March 6th, 1873, at the age of
95 years and 4 months. Since October, 1870, he had been the
oldest surviving graduate of the college, and for some five years
the only survivor of his class.

He married, April 3d, 1800, Louisa, daughter of William Wal-
ter, of New Haven, who died about a month after her marriage.
His second wife, Esther Huggins, of New Haven, died in Feb.,
1845, and his third wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Beers) Huggins, in 1854.
Of his children, only one son, by his second marriage (Y. C. 1826),
survives him.

1803.

Thomas Davies Burrall, second son of Jonathan Burrall (Y. C.
1781) and of Charlotte, daughter of Rev. Thomas Davies (Y. C.
1758), was bom in Canaan, Conn., June 2d, 1786.

In " Memoranda for my Children," written when over 83 years
of age, he says, "At 13 I entered college, a mere boy, a round-
faced, red-cheeked, curly-headed boy, in a round-about jacket, open

collar with ruffles over my^ shoulders, with my head tolerably
well filled with Latin and Greek, but unconscious of art or guile, —
a veritable Freshman."

Soon after graduation he entered the office of Hon. Sherman
Boardman, in New Milford, Conn., as a student at law, but subse-
quently removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and there began prac-
tice. After a year or two his health failed, and he passed one
year at the South. After his return he removed to Geneva, N.
Y., in Sept., 1812, where he resumed practice, but in a short time
finding his strength unequal to the labors of his profession, he
abandoned it, and purchased a farm near by, where he resided for
more than forty years ; the last twelve years of his life were spent
at his residence on the banks of the Seneca Lake, in Geneva, where
he died after a three weeks' illness, June 24th, 1872.

For more than forty years he gave most of his time and
thoughts to the invention and improvement of agricultural imple-
ments, having erected foundries and shops for that branch of
manufacture, and having accomplished much in the way of lighten-
ing the labors of the farmer.

He was one of the founders and original trustees of the Geneva
Academy, now Hobart College, and took the deepest interest in
its welfare, remaining a trustee till his death.

He married Miss Charlotte, daughter of William and Polly
Da vies, of Poughkeepsie, Aug. 25th, 1813, who died, without
issue, in Geneva, Sept. 14th, 1820. In Jan., 1822, he married Miss
Sarah J. Mann, of Hudson, N. Y., who died in Geneva, April 12th,
1831, leaving two sons, still surviving. In March, 1837, he
married Mrs. Margaret W. Mott, widow of Samuel Mott, who,
with one son by this marriage, is still living.

1806.

Frederick Marsh, son of Jonathan and Damans (Pitkin)
Marsh, was born in New Hartford, Conn., Sept. 18th, 1780.

After graduation he studied theology with Rev. Asahel Hooker
(Y. C. 1789), of Goshen, Conn., and was licensed to preach by
Litchfield North Association, Sept. 30th, 1806. He spent the
following year in preaching in North Goshen and New Preston,
Conn., and in Newark, N. J. In the course of the next year he
declined calls to Simsbury and Branford, Conn., on account of ill
health. In Dec, 1808, he accepted an invitation to settle over the
Congregational Church in Winchester, Conn., and was ordained

pastor Feb. 1st, 1809. He occupied the house which he entered
at this date until his death, Feb. 6th, 1873, in his 93d year. He
continued sole pastor until Feb. 1st, 1846, when he relinquished
his salary and asked for a colleague. Oct. 1st, 1851, he was dis-
missed from the pastorate, and for the next ten years, until his eye-
sight failed, he preached for neighboring churches as he was
needed. At the time of his death he was the oldest Congrega-
tional clergyman in the State. From 1836 to 1870 he was trustee
of the " Theological Institute of Connecticut."

He married. May 22d, 1809, Pamal, daughter of Joseph Merrill,
of New Hartford, who bore him eight children, of whom four sons
and a daughter survive him. She died March 11th, 1860.

1807.

Gut Richards died in New York City, March 26th, 1873.

He was the son of Guy and Hannah (Dolbeare) Richards, and
was born in New London, Conn., January 8th, 1788. After
graduation he began the study of law, but soon left this profession,
and for several years followed the sea, rising in a short time to the
position of Master. In 1820 he commenced business in New York,
to which he devoted himself with great zeal, and from which he
retired many years since with the ample rewards of an industrious
life.

He was twice married, but had no children.

Ely Warner, son of Jonathan and Hephzibah (Ely) Warner,
was born in Chester (then a parish in Saybrook), Conn., May 24th,
1785.

After graduation he taught school for a year or more, and then
entered the Law School at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to
the bar at Middletown about 1811. So untiring was his industry
while pursuing his professional studies, that he wrote from his own
stenographic notes the entire course of lectures, making three
manuscript volumes, said to be the only correct copy of the lec-
tures of Judges Reeve and Gould now extant.

Settling in Haddam in 1816, he afterwards represented that
town in the State Legislature for two sessions, in 1825 and 1831.
In 1828 he was appointed chief judge of the Middlesex County
Court, and was re-appointed for several terms. Subsequently he
became cashier of the East Haddam Bank, but removed to Chester
in 1837, where his farm was situated, and where he resided during

the remainder of his life. In 1855 he was appointed County Com-
missioner, and held office for two terms. He was also for more
than fifty years actively engaged as County Surveyor. He died
of paralysis, at his residence in Chester, Oct. 23d, 18V2,inhis 88th
year, being at that time the oldest lawyer in the State.

Judge Warner was married, Nov. 11th, 1817, to Sarah H.,
eldest daughter of John Warner, of Chester, who survives him.
Of their eight children, three sons and three daughters are now
living. One son, Jared C. Warner, graduated at this college in
1854, and died Aug. 9th, 1855, in East Saginaw, Mich., where he
was engaged in teaching.

1808.

Joseph Harvet, a native of East Haddam, Conn., the son of
Deacon Ithamar and Electa (daughter of Rev. Joseph Fowler, Y.
C. 1743) Harvey, was born March 1st, 1787.

After graduation he studied theology with Rev. Ebenezer Por-
ter, D.D., of Washington, Conn, (afterwards Professor in Andover
Seminary), and was licensed to preach by the Litchfield County
Association in June, 1809. Accepting a unanimous call, he was
ordained and installed over the Congregational Church in Goshen,
Conn., in Oct., 1810. During the early part of his pastorate he
was married to Qatharine D. Selden, his companion for more than
fifty years. Of their seven children, one son and two daughters
survive him.

In Sept., 1825, he resigned his pastorate, to accept the position
of Secretary of the American Education Society, whose office was
in Boston. Disappointed with the nature of his work, he returned
after a short experience to the place of his birth, in impaired
health. On his recovery, he was installed pastor of the Second
Congregational Church, in Colchester (Westchester Society),
Conn. He remained here until Dec. 13th, 1835. In the last
named year the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him
by Amherst College. During his last two years in Westchester,
he edited the " Evangelical Magazine," and for the next three
years a weekly paper called the " Watchman." Meanwhile he
removed his residence to South Windsor, Conn., in 1836, and
supplied the Congregational Church in that place for one year.

In the latter part of 1838 he was engaged to preach statedly in
Thompsonville, a village in Enfield, Conn. Here his labors soon
led the people to desire a church organization, and as they pre-
ferred connection with the Presbyterian body. Dr. Harvey was

installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church formed in
Connecticut, on the 10th of July, 1839. He held this charge until
his resignation at the age of seventy, April 28 th, 1857. In the
spring of 1858, he removed to the upper peninsula of Michigan,
where he continued for 16 years, preaching and teaching from
time to time, as he was enabled by the bracing influence of that
climate ; and where he died in the village of Harvey, on the shore
of Lake Superior, Feb. 4th, 1873, wanting 24 days of 86 years
of age.

Ralph Isaacs Ingbrsoll, son of Hon. Jonathan and Grace
(Isaacs) Ingersoll, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8th, 1789.
His father graduated at this college in 1766, and his grandfather.
Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll, in 1736.

He studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New Haven, and
was admitted to the bar in Dec, 1810. He immediately entered
on the practice of his profession in his native city, and was thus
successfully employed, with the exception of the time spent in the
public service, until his last illness. In 1818 he became prominent
in State politics, allying himself with the Democratic party in the
movement for a new Constitution. From 1819 to 1825, he was a
representative of New Haven, in the General Assembly, and for
the last two of these years Speaker. In 1825, he was elected a
Representative in Congress, where he remained until his resigna-
tion in 1833. During this period he served for one year (1830-31)
as Mayor of New Haven. On retiring from Congress he was
appointed State's Attorney for New Haven County, and held that
office until 1845, when he declined further re-appointment. Presi-
dent Polk, who had been intimate with Mr. Ingersoll while in
Congress, nominated him, in August, 1846, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. to the Court of Russia.
The nomination, which was unanimously confirmed by the Senate,
was entirely unsolicited and unlooked for. Mr. Ingersoll accepted,
and was recalled in Sept., 1848, at his own request.

Mr. Ingersoll was severely disabled by a fall in the street, in the
early summer of 1872, and gradually lost strength until his death,
Aug. 3l8t, in the 84th year of his age.

His widow survives him. One of his sons graduated at this
college in 1840, and is at present the Chief Magistrate of this
State.

James Hill ParMelee, Bon of Capt. Ezra and Sybil (Hill)
Parmelee, was born in Newport, N. H., on the 16th of May, 1783.
His parents were natives of Killingworth, Conn.

After his graduation he taught in New Berne, N. C, for two
years or more, and subsequently in 1812 joined the first class
which was formed in Princeton Theol. Seminary. In the year
1813-14 he was employed as a tutor in the College of New Jersey,
and in the spring of 1815 Was licensed to preach by the Presby-
tery of New Brunswick. From 1815 to 1819 he taught in Balti-
more with unusual success. In 1816 he was married in Baltimore
to Priscilla Horn, a lady of English birth, who assisted him in
maintaining a school for young ladies. Mrs. Parmelee's health
obliged them to give up this school in 1820, and they removed to
Zanesville, Ohio, where she died in 1822. ^

He was ordained by the Presbytery of Lancaster, and spent
several years in pastoral service, and in the work of a home-mis-
sionary and colporteur. During this time he removed to Duncan's
Falls, O., where his residence continued till his death. In 1836
he was married to Catherine F., daughter of Col. Barker, of
Duchess Co., N. Y. She died in 1844, and he afterwards married
Miss Hannah Wilson, who survives him. His only child, a son by
his first wife, died in opening manhood.

Mr. Parmelee died, of pneumonia, at Duncan's Falls, on the 6th
of April, 1872, in his 89th year. t

1809.

William Hctngerford, the son of Robert and Olive (Ely)
Hungerford, was born in Hadlyme parish, in the town of East
Haddam, Conn., Nov. 22d, 1786.

For six months after graduating, he taught at West Chester, in
the town of Colchester, Conn., and then entered on the study of
law with Hon. Matthew and Ex-Gov. Roger Griswold, at Lyme,
ConH., and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

He pursued his profession in his native town until 1829, when
he came to Hartford, where he resided (in full practice until 1860)
until his death, Jan. 15th, 1873.

For his legal attainments, this college gave him the degree of
Doctor of Laws in 1856. He represented both East Haddam and
Hartford in the Legislature, but beyond this declined to accept
public office. He was never married.

1811.

Selah Brewster Strong, eldest child of Judge Thomas S.
and Hannah (Brewster) Strong, was born in Brookhaven (L. L),
N. Y., May 1st, 1792, and died at his country-seat, in Setauket,
L. I., Nov. 29th, 1872.

He studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar
in November, 1814. He subsequently removed his office to his
father's house, and in 1821 was appointed District Attorney of
Suffolk County, and held the position (with the exception of one
interval of nine months) for twenty years. In 1 842 he was elected
to Congress, and served for one term. In 1847 he was elected,
under the new constitution. Judge of the Supreme Court of the
State of N. Y. for the Second District, drawing the short term of
two years. Two years later he was re-elected, and served for the
full term, until Jan., 1860. He was also a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1867.

Judge Strong married, Aug. 14th, 1823, Cornelia, daughter of
Dr. Richard Udall, of Islip, L. I., who survives. They had six
sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest son graduated at this
college in 1855, and the next two surviving sons in 1864.

1812.

George Bliss, eldest son of Hon. George Bliss (Y. C. 1784),
by his first wife, Hannah, daughter of Dr. John Clark (Y. C.
1749), of Lebanon, Conn., was born in Springfield, Mass., Nov.
16th, 1793.

Upon graduation he entered his father's law-ofiice as a pupil,
and on being admitted to practice, in Sept., 1815, established him-
self in Monson, Mass., where he remained for 7 years. He then
returned to Springfield, entering into partnership with Mr. Jona-
than Dwight, Jr., whose daughter Mary he married in April, 1825.
In 1827 he entered public life as a member of the House of Repre*
sentatives of Mass., and was re-elected in 1828, 1829 and 1853,
serving in the last instance as Speaker ; he was also chosen a mem-
ber (and President) of the State Senate in 1835. Among many
public enterprises which occupied his attention, the chief was his
bringing the Western Railroad, between Worcester and Albany,
to a successful completion. On retiring from the Presidency of
this road, in 1846, he visited Europe, and after his return became
interested in other railroad schemes, chiefly at the West, in con-
ducting which he gained an enviable reputation. In May, 1860,

he withdrew from all active business. He died in Springfield,
April 19th, 1873, in his 80th year. His wife died a few years
before him. Of their three children, one died in infancy, and a
son and daughter are still living.

1813.

Zedekiah Smith Baestow, the youngest child of Deacon John
and Susannah (Smith) Barstow, was born in Canterbury, Conn.,
Oct. 4th, 1790.

Having previously prepared himself in the mathematics and the
higher English branches, while working on his father's farm, he
commenced the study of the classics at the age of 19, with Rev.
Erastus Learned, of Canterbury, and after 6 months of persevering
study, was admitted to college in 1811. After graduation he
pursued his theological studies under the direction of President
Dwight, and was licensed to preach in New Haven in 1814. For
two years he was tutor and college chaplain in Hamilton College,
where he received the degree of A.M. {ad eundem) in 1816, and
was invited to accept a professorship, but declined, preferring to
devote his life to pastoral work.

He was settled over the Congregational Church in Keene, N.
H., July 1st, 1818. July 1st, 1868, he resigned his charge, after
50 years of pastoral service, during which long period he had
failed to preach but 8 Sabbaths. After his resignation he still
continued to preach for destitute parishes in the vicinity until
within a year of his death, which occurred in Keene, March 1st,
1873, in the 83d year of his age.

Dr. Barstow's influence as a pastor, a scholar, and a public man,
will long be felt not only in the town where he lived, but through-
out the State. For 37 years he served as trustee of Dartmouth
College (never missing attendance on a single meeting of the
Board during his term of service) ; he was secretary for many
years of the Gen. Association of N. Hamp., a corporate member
of the A. B. C. F. M., trustee of Kimball Union Academy, trustee
and secretary of Keene Academy until his death, and prominent
in all the educational and religious movements of the day. He
was also member of the N. H. Legislature, and chaplain of that
body in 1868 and '69. He received the degree of Doctor in
Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1849.

Dr. Barstow married, Aug., 1818, Elizabeth Fay Blake, eldest
daughter of Elihu Blake, of Westborough, Mass., who died Sept.
15th, 1869. Two sons only of their five children survive them.

1814.

John Mulliken Atwood, the eldest son of Moses and Mary
(Tenney) Atwood, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 4th, 1795.
One of his sisters was the well-known missionary, Harriet
Newell.

He studied law one year in Haverhill, but then decided on a
mercantile life. After a single year's clerkship in Boston, he es-
tablished himself in Philadelphia, in 1816, in partnership with a
relative, and the firms of " Atwood & Co.," and " Atwood, White
& Co.," are names honored in Philadelphia and among Western
merchants. He withdrew from business in 1864.

He gave to public interests much of his time, and was connected
with many beneficent efforts. He was one of the formers of the
American Sunday School Union, and on its committee of publica-
tion for more than forty years. He was one of the founders, and
for fifteen years the president of the Merchants' Fund, a noble
charity for the relief of decayed merchants.

He died suddenly in Hartford, Conn., May 29th, 1873, at the
house of his son-in-law. His wife, a Miss Coffin, of Gloucester,
Mass., died many years before him.

Joshua Leavitt, eldest child of Roger and Chloe (Maxwell)
Leavitt, was born in Heath, Mass., Sept. 8th, 1794. His grand-
father. Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, of Charlemont, Mass., graduated
at this college in 1758.

After teaching awhile, he studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in Northampton, Mass., in 1819. He then practiced as an
attorney in Putney, Vt, until 1823, when he returned to New
Haven, and pursued theological studies with the first class in the
newly-organized Theological Department. In August, 1824, he
was licensed to preach, and on February 23d, 1825, was ordained
pastor of the Congregational Church in Stratford, Conn. While
in this place, he became interested in the Temperance movement,
and served for four months as an agent of the American Temper-
ance Society. In 1828 he was appointed secretary of the Ameri-
can Seamen's Friend Society, and removed to N. Y. city, being
dismissed from his pastoral charge Oct. 22d. In his new posi-
tion he took charge of the " Sailor's Magazine," and the rest of his
life was devoted to editorial service. In 1831, he became editor
and proprietor of the " N. Y. Evangelist," and so continued until
the financial crisis of 1837 obliged him to dispose of the paper.

Meantime he had been a pioneer in the Anti-Slavery cause, and
now gladly seized the opportunity of devoting his whole time to
it, as editor of the " Emancipator," from 1837 to 184 7. In 1848 he
became office editor of the "Independent," and retained this position
until he reached the age of 70, when he relinquished the manage-
ment, and took a place of less labor, which he occupied till his
death. He died of an apoplectic stroke, while at the residence of
his son, in K Y. city, Jan. 16th, 1873, aged 78.

Besides his conspicuous connection with the Anti-Slavery move-
ment. Dr. Leavitt was active in many other directions. He was
a diligent writer in behalf of Free Trade, and in 1869 received
from the Cobden Society of England a gold medal for an essay.
He was also a vigorous advocate of cheap postage. He received
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wabash College in 1854.

He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Solomon Williams (Y. C.
1770), of Northampton, Mass. One of his sons graduated at this
college in the class of 1840.

John Titswoeth, a native of Deckertown, N. J., died in that
place in the spring of 1873, aged nearly 80.

He studied medicine in New Haven, receiving his degree in
1818, and immediately establishing himself in this city. He re-
mained here as a physician and apothecary for about eight years,
and then retired and spent the rest of his life upon a farm in his
native town.

Dr. Titsworth married Abigail A., daughter of Deacon Nathan

Beers, of New Haven. She died before him, as did two of their

four children.

1815.

Edward Harleston, son of Edward and Annabella (Moultrie)
Harleston, was born in Charleston, S. C, 25th Dec, 1794, and died
11th Feb., 1871, aged 76 years.

Most of his life was passed as a planter of rice and cotton. He
served in the State Legislature several years. He married, 26th
Jan., 1826, Ann Isabella Huger, who survives him.

Andrew Huntington, ninth son of Capt. Andrew and Ruth
(Hyde) Huntington, of Lebanon, Conn., was born May 31st, 1791.

Soon after graduating he began to teach in the academy in
Greenville, N. Y., and while there he married, May 1st, 1819, Mary,
daughter of Barnabas Chipman, of Shoreham, Vt. In 1 822, he

removed to N. Y. city, where he continued to teach, at the same
time studying theology and reciting with a class to Rev. Drs.
Spring and Cox, and Rev. Mr. Whelpley. In 1825, he was
licensed to preach by the North River Presbytery. About 1830,
he became principal of an academy in Pompey, N. Y., and while
there supplied during most of the time vacant churches of the
neighborhood. He afterwards taught and preached in various
places in N. Y. State, and was ordained as a Presbyterian clergy-
man, Feb. 19th, 1852. From 1850 to 1862, he preached in
Chenango County, N. Y., but refused all offers of settlement. In
1862 he retired from his professional labors. He died in Milan,
Ohio, June 5th, 1872, aged 81. His widow survives him, with
three of their four children. One son graduated at this college in
1843, and is now a clergyman.

1817.

Robert Haktshoene was born March 14th, 1798. On his
return from college he took up his residence at his family home,
the Highlands, in Portland, N. J., where he lived until his death,
July 18th, 1872, at the age of 74. He was foremost in all public
improvements in his neighborhood, and thus a benefactor to the
community. His wife was a Miss Minton of N. Y. city. He
leaves a family.

1818.

Caleb Day died in Catskill, N. Y., June 6th, 1873, of paralysis.
He was the son of Ira Day, of Catskill, and born April 7th, 1798.

He studied law in Catskill, and there practised from 1821 till
his retirement in 1850. For more than forty years he was an
elder in the Presbyterian church. He married, Jan. 18th, 1826,
Lucretia, daughter of Moses Lyman, of Goshen, Conn., and had
five children, of whom three are still living, with his widow.

Ralph Randolph Gijrlet was born in Lebanon, Conn., May
26th, 1797. His father, the Rev. John Gurley (Y. C. 1773), was
the first pastor of the Congregational Church in Exeter Parish, in
Lebanon. His mother was Mary, daughter of the Rev. David
Porter, D.D., of Catskill, N. Y.

After graduation he studied theology, and was licensed to preach
by the Baltimore Presbytery. In 1822 he was appointed Agent
of the American Colonization Society, and from that time till his
death devoted himself to its service. He resided in Washington,

D. C, and thougli never ordained performed much labor as a
preacher and pastor among the poor of the city. He thrice visited
Liberia ; for the first time in 1824, when he originated the plan of
goverament under which the colony has been successfully con-
ducted. He edited the " African Repository," the monthly organ
of the Society, prepared the annual reports, and published several
volumes, of which the most important were a life of Ashmun, the
Agent at Liberia, a life of Rev. Sylvester Larned, and an account
of his own mission to England. In 1864, on account of declining
health, he was made honorary secretary. His death took place in
Washington, July 30th, 1872.

His wife, Eliza McLellan, whom he married in 1827, died April
27th, 1872. Eleven of their children died before them.

James Starr Huggins, son of Samuel and Martha D. (Starr)
Huggins, was bom in New Haven, Conn., May 1st, 1799.

After some eighteen months spent in teaching in North Caro-
lina, he began the study of law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New
Haven, and subsequently completed his preparation in the office of
Ludlow Ogden, Esq., of N. Y. city, where he was admitted to the
bar. He entered into partnership with Mr. Ogden, and afterwards
continued in practice by himself until the time of his death. He
was especially trusted in the administration of estates and in the
drawing of wills.

In the spring of the year 1872 he suffered from a severe attack
of pneumonia, after which he never recovered his full strength.
About the first of September, he was rendered unconscious by
paralysis of the brain, and he died at his residence on Sept. 4th.

He married, about May, 1839, Helen, daughter of Mr. Richard
Arden, of Putnam County, N. Y., who died a few years before
him. Of their seven children, one son and two daughters are still
living.

1820.

Philip Gadsden, son of Philip and Catharine (Edwards)
Gadsden, of Charleston, S. C, and grandson of Gen. Christopher
Gadsden, of Revolutionary fame, was born in Charleston, Sept.
13th, 1798.

The means of the family being at the time greatly reduced, he
was educated entirely at home, and was prepared for college by
his brother, the Rev. Christopher E. Gadsden (Y. C. 1804), after-
wards Bishop of South Carolina.

On his return to Charleston in 1820, he engaged for a short time
in teaching, but entered the General TheoL Seminary, in N. Y.
city, in 1822. There he remained for a little over two years, when
pecuniary circumstances obliged him to withdraw. He continued
his studies at home under his brother's supervision, and was
ordained deacon by Bishop Bowen, Feb. 6th, 1825. He was sub-
sequently ordained to the priesthood by the same prelate, April
14th, 1830. The earlier years of his diaconate were spent in
arduous missionary work in the lower counties of the State, and
in 1827 or 1828 he accepted a call to the Church of St. Paul's,
Stono. The church lay in the unhealthy region contiguous to the
Edisto river, and was attended in the winter season by the plan-
ters whose plantations were situated in that section. Mr. Gadsden
immediately devoted himself to the erection of a chapel at Sum-
merville, the summer resort of his parishioners, and thus in the
service of this community passed his active life. His health was
always delicate, and in the autumn of 1863 failing strength and
the loss of an eye from paralysis of the nerve compelled him to
resign his charge. He retired to the up-country, still laboring as
he had strength in the work of the ministry. In 1869 he accom-
panied his eldest son to Charleston, and there died on Dec. 26th,
1870.

In 1831, he married Miss Susan B. Hamilton, daughter of ex-
Gov. Paul Hamilton, by whom he had six children, four sons and
two daughters, all of whom survived him.

1821.

JosiAH Brewer was bom June 1st, 1796, in Monterey, then a
part of Tyringham, Mass.

He began the study of theology at Andover Seminary in 1822,
but in 1824 transferred himself to New Haven and finished his
studies with the first class which received instruction in the Theo-
logical Department of Yale College. He was also for nearly two
years, from 1824 to 1826, a tutor in the college.

He was ordained at Springfield, Mass., May 10th, 1826, as a
missionary, and in the following September embarked for the
East, under the direction of the " Boston Female Society for the
promotion of Christianity among the Jews." He spent about two
years in laboring in Smyrna and Constantinople, and then returned
to the U. S. While here he published a volume descriptive of his
residence in Turkey, and was married, Dec. 1st, 1829, to Emilia

A., daughter of * Rev. D. D. Field (Y. C. 1802), of Stockbridge,
Mass. In 1830 he went back to Smyrna, where he remained for
eight years as a missionary of the " Ladies Greek Association " of
New Haven, Conn. After his final return to this country, in 1838,
he was for three years chaplain of the Connecticut State Prison,
at Wethersfield, and for a short time afterwards agent of the
Anti-Slavery Society, and editor of an anti-slavery paper in Hart-
ford, Conn. In 1844 he opened a Young Ladies' Seminary in
New Haven, Conn., which was afterwards removed to Middletown,
Conn., and which occupied him until 1857. , He then took up his
residence in Stockbridge, Mass., and after serving for nine years
as stated supply of the Congregational Church in the neighboring
town of Housatonic, lived in retirement until his decease (preceded
by a few months of severe suffering), Nov. 19th, 1872.

His first wife died Dec. 16th, 1861, and he was married in May,
1863, to Miss Lucy T. Jerome, of New Hartford, Conn., daughter
of the late Rev. Amasa Jerome. Two sons (graduates of this
college in 1852 and 1856), and four daughters, by his first wife,
survive him, his youngest son having died of fever contracted in
the late war.

1822.

Francis Hiram Case, son of Titus and Sarah (Egleston) Case,
was born in West Simsbury, now Canton, Conn., Oct. 1st, 1797.

He entered the Yale Divinity School immediately upon gradua-
tion, being a member of the first class and continuing for a three
years' course. Feb. 1st, 1826, he was ordained pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Goshen, Conn. From this charge he was
dismissed, Sept. 30th, 1828. He was then for 18 months an agent
of the American Tract Society in the Southern States. Returning
to Connecticut, he was installed pastor of the Congregational
Church in Avon, Dec. 22d, 1830. He was dismissed, April 28th,
1840, and soon after removed to Whitewater, Wise, where he
supplied the pulpit from 1842 to 1844, and where he resided until
1863. He then returned to his native town, but in 1868 went
again to Wisconsin, and there died, in the town of Cold Spring,
Dec. 20th, 1872, aged 75.

He married, Oct. 26th, 1825, Lucinda, daughter of Uriah Case,
and had four children, of whom two sons survived him.

Harvey Prindle Peet, son of Richard and Joanna (Prindle)
Peet, was bom in Bethlem, Conn., Nov, 19th, X794.

He began to teach a district school at the age of 16, and perse-
vered until he had earned money enough for a two years' course
at Phillips Academy, Andover. On leaving college his intention
was to devote his life to the Christian ministry, but an invitation
to teach in the " American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb," at
Hartford, Conn., gave him the opportunity to discover and
develop his rare fitness for what was then a new profession. His
life was thenceforwards devoted to the cause of deaf-mute educa-
tion. For nearly nine years he continued in Hartford, and was
then appointed Principal of the " N. Y. Institution for the Instruc-
tion of the Deaf and Dumb," in N. Y. city. Entering on this
office in Feb., 1831, he fulfilled its duties for more than thirty-six
years, — for fourteen of them being President of the Board of
Directors. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him in 1849
by the Regents of the University of the State of N. Y., and that
of Ph.D. by the National Deaf-mute College in 1871. Under his
care the N". Y. Institution rose to be much the largest of its kind
in the world, and one of the most successful. He published a
series of elementary text-books for the use of deaf-mutes, and wrote
numerous papers on deaf-mute education and kindred topics.

In 1867, Dr. Peet retired from the active labors of his position,
retaining the title of Emeritus Principal, and serving as one of the
Board of Directors until his death. For the last few years of his
life he suffered from rheumatic affections, which finally reaching
the region of the heart induced congestion of the lungs. He died
within two hours after the opening of the New Year, 1873.

Dr. Peet was thrice married. His first wife, Margaret Maria
Lewis, daughter of Rev. Isaac Lewis, D.D. (Y. C. 1794), to whom
he was married Nov. 27th, 1823, died Sept. 23d, 1832, leaving
three sons, who became able and accomplished teachers of the
deaf and dumb. The two younger, Edward and Dudley (the
latter a graduate of this college in 1852), died in 1862 ; and the
eldest (Y. C. 1845) has succeeded to his father's office. Dr. Peet
married, in 1835, Miss Sarah Ann Smith, a daughter of Matson
Smith, M.D., who died Dec. 30th, 1864. His third wife, Mrs.
Louisa P. Hotchkiss, to whom he was married Jan. 15th, 1868,.
survives him.

The number of the " American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb " '
for April, 1873, is a memorial of his life and services.
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1823.

Milton Badger was born May 6th, 1800, in Coventry, Conn.,
and died March 1st, 1873, in Madison, Conn.

After spending a year in teaching in New Canaan, Conn., he
began his theological studies in Andover Seminary, but in 1826
removed t6 New Haven to become a tutor in Yale College (a posi-
tion which he held for a little more than a year), and to finish his
preparation for the ministry in the Yale Divinity School. He was
licensed to preach in 1827 by the New Haven East Association,
and was ordained, Jan. 3d, 1828, pastor of the South Congrega-
tional Church in Andover, Mass. From this promising field of
labor, he was called in May, 1845, to be an associate secretary of
the American Home Missionary Society. He was dismissed from
his pastoral charge, Oct. 4th, and removed to New York, and
entered on his duties during the following month. His faithful
service in this work ceased four years before his death, when he
was obliged by disease to retire to his residence at Madison. He
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Middlebury College
in 1844.

His widow and two sons survive him.

Handel Gershom Nott, son of Josiah and Sarah (Williams)
Nott, and great-grandson of the Rev. Abraham Nott (Y. C. 1720),
was born in Saybrook, Conn., Nov. 10th, 1799.

After a three years' course in Yale Theol. Seminary, he received
a unanimous call to the First Congregational Church in Nashua,
N. H., in 1826, where he began his labors in August, and was
ordained Nov. 8th. His health failing after four years, he was
absent from his people for nearly a year. Becoming a Baptist
from conviction of duty during the eighth year of his pastorate,
he left Nashua, and was engaged as agent of the Amer. Bethel
Society, and as Bethel chaplain in Buffalo, N. Y., from Oct., 1834,
to Sept., 1837. After an interval of a few months, he became
pastor of the Federal (now Clarendon) Street Baptist Church, in
Boston, in May, 1838, but resigned a year later, the field proving
discouraging from the formation of new churches and the encroach-
ment of business houses. From Oct., 1839, to July, 1847, he was
settled over the Baptist Church in Bath, Me. Then, after supply-
ing the church in Waterville, Me., for several months, he became
pastor of the church in Kennebunkport, Me., in July, 1848, and
remained there for 12 years. Suffering from bronchial and lung

difficulties, and hoping for benefit from a change of climate, he
accepted a call from the Baptist Church in Avon, N. Y., in July,
1860, where he continued until Aug., 1864. Physical infirmities
then compelled him to give up active service, and after a few
years spent in Avon, in Champaign, 111., and at the South, he
resided in Rochester, N. Y., from the summer of 1868 until his
death. May 3d, 1873, after a short but very distressing illness.

Mr. Nott was married, July 11th, 1827, to Lydia C, daughter of
Dea. Abner Kingman, of Providence, R. I. She died in Bath, Feb.
9th, 1844, leaving six children, of whom one son and four daughters
are still living. Mr. Nott married a second time, Jan. 29th, 1846,
Sarah L. Smith, of Bath, who survives him. Of the children of
this marriage, one son is still living.

William Starling Sullivant died at his residence in Colum-
bus, O., April 30th, 1873. He was the eldest son of Lucas Sulli-
vant, a noted surveyor of the " North Western Territory," and
was born, Jan. 15th, 1803, in Franklinton, then a frontier settle-
ment, near the site of the present city of Columbus.

The death of his father, occurring in the year of his graduation,
frustrated his plans for studying a profession, and obliged him to
occupy himself with the care of the family property. He became
a surveyor and practical engineer, and was actively engaged in
that business during the larger part of his life. His residence
being established near Columbus, in a rich floral district, his inter-
est was excited in botany, and he began a careful study of the
plants of central Ohio. After giving special attention to the
grasses and sedges, he turned to the mosses, and by his diligent
study in this department for thirty years, because the most accom-
plished bryologist of America. Several elaborate works, mostly
printed at his owm expense, have laid the foundation for the study
of mosses in this country. The degree of LL.D. was given him
by Kenyon College in 1864.

In January last. Dr. Sullivant was prostrated by an attack of
pneumonia, from the efiects of which, after a seeming convales-
cence, he died on the last day of April. His first wife, Jane Mar-
shall, of Kentucky, a niece of Chief Justice Marshall, died a few
years after marriage. His second wife, Eliza G. Wheeler, died of
cholera, in 1850 or 1861. His third wife, Mrs. Caroline E. (Sutton)
Sullivant, survives him, as do several children.

1824.

Joel Talcott, son of Deacon Phineas and Hannah (Kellogg)
Talcott, and grandson of Rev. Ebenezer Kellogg (Y. C. 1757),
was born in North Bolton, now Vernon, Conn., Oct. 12th, 1797.

He pursued his theological studies at Auburn (N. Y.) Theol.
Seminary, and was licensed to preach by the Hartford North
(Congregational) Association, June 3d, 1828. He was ordained
at Hartford, Conn., as an evangelist, July 1st, 1828, and went
directly to Wellington, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he was settled as
pastor for ten years. He afterwards preached for different periods
in Sullivan, Brighton, and Norwalk, Ohio. In consequence of im-
paired health and weakness of the eyes, he relinquished preaching
during the last ten or twelve years of his life, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits in the town of Wakeman, Ohio, where he
died, Dec. 28th, 1871, aged 74 years.

He was twice married ; first, in 1829, to Lois Twining, of Tolland,
Mass., by whom he had three children, and who died in 1836.
He then married, in 1838, Sarah Ann Cummings, of Sullivan, O.,
who survives him, as does one of her four children ; one son hav-
ing lost his life through service in the army in 1865.

William Patterson VanRensselaer, son of Gen. Stephen
VanRensselaer, the Patroon of Albany, and of his second wife,
Cornelia (Patterson) VanRensselaer, was born in 1803.

He studied law, and after traveling in Europe settled at
Rensselaerwyck, across the river from Albany. When the anti-
rent difficulties broke out, he removed to Norwalk, Conn., and
subsequently to the village of Portchester, in Rye, N. Y., where
he resided for most of the time until his death, which occurred in
N. Y. city, Nov. 13th, 1872.

He married Miss Eliza Bayard Rogers, who died at Matanzas,
March 20th, 1835. He subsequently married a sister of his first
wife. He left several children.

1826.

Isaac Closson Beach was born in New Milford, Conn., March
2d, 1802.

He studied theology in private, and after being licensed to preach
by the Litchfield South Association in 1828, preached in Washing-
ton, Conn., and in Bethel, Conn. His health failing, he engaged
as an agent of the American Bethel Society in Ohio, in 1820-'30.

He was then ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in New
Paltz, Ulster County, N. Y., where he remained for about five
years. Thence he removed to a small church in Chester, Orange
County, N. Y., where he continued about eleven years. After
about eighteen months' service as pastor of a church in Newburgh,
InT. Y., he removed in 1848 to Northern Illinois, where he labored
for three and a half years as a home missionary. His next
remove was to Southern Ohio, where he had charge of the church
at North Bend for about three years ; thence he went to Cincin-
nati, and spent between three and four years as pastor of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church. His health again failed, and in Sep-
tember, 1858, he settled in Kansas, residing first at Wyandotte,
and afterwards at Olathe, where he died, Feb. 23d, 1873. Until
1862 he was the general missionary of the Presbyterian Church
for the Territory, and traveled largely over the southern portion,
engaged in organizing churches.

In 1829, he married Miss Emily A. Wheeler, of New Haven,
Conn., who survives him. They had eight children, of whom three
sons and two daughters are living.

Edwix Eleazar Clark died in Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 1st,
1873, aged 66 years.

He was born in Belchertown, Mass., and after studying law in
his native town with Hon. Mark Doolittle (Y. C. 1804), and prac-
ticing for a short period, he removed to Ann Arbor in 1837, and
resided there for the rest of his life. In his latter years he aban-
doned his profession. He was never married.

George James Pumpellt, son of James and Mary (Pixley)
Pumpelly, was born in Owego, N. Y., Dec. 11th, 1805, on the
same estate where his life was spent, and where he died May 9th,
1873.

Afier completing the course at the Litchfield Law School, he
entered the office of Judge Wm. Kent, in New York city, and in
1829 was admitted to the bar. He then entered his father's land
office, where he found an opportunity of putting his legal knowl-
edge in practice. About 1835 he also began to devote himself
largely to agricultural improvements and to the breeding of choice
stock. In these pursuits he passed his honored and useful life.

In April, 1832, he married Susan I. Pumpelly, by whom he had
four sons and a daughter. His second son graduated at this col-
lege in 1858. Mrs. Pumpelly died in 1864.

1827.

Albert Gallatin Bristol, son of Hon. William Bristol (Y.
C. 1V98) and Sarah (Edwards) Bristol, was born Dec. 22d, 1808,
in New Haven, Conn.

After his graduation he studied medicine with Dr. Jonathan
Knight, receiving his doctor's degree from the college in 1830, and
then supplemented his professional course by spending two years
in the hospitals in Paris. On his return to this country he estab-
lished himself in Canandaigua, N. Y., where he married. He soon
afterwards removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he continued the
practice of his profession for some years, finally relinquishing it
on account of ill health and spending the remainder of his life in
manufacturing pursuits.

He died in Rochester on the 9th of Jan., 1873, at the age of
64. His widow survives him.

Philip Rogers Hoffman entered college from Baltimore in
the Junior year.

Upon graduation he entered the Yale Medical School, and con-
tinued medical studies also in Baltimore, but afterwards studied
law. He married Miss Emily L, Key, of Maryland, and spent
many years abroad, settling in Dresden, Saxony. On his return
to this country, about 1860, he made N. Y. city his home, but was
not obliged to rely upon the active pursuit of his profession for
the support of his family. He died in N. Y. city, June 12th, 1873,
aged about 66. He had three children. A son graduated at this
college in the class of 1863.

Henry Hogeboom was the son of John C. and Margaret
(Styck) Hogeboom, of Ghent, Columbia Co., N. Y., and was born
at Claverack in that county, Feb. 25th, 1809.

After completing his academical course, he began the study of
law in the office of his brother-in-law, Abraham Van Buren, in
Ghent, where he continued until the following spring, when he
entered for one year the office of Powers & Day, in Catskill. He
was afterwards in the office of Campbell Bushnell, of Hudson, N.
Y., and was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1830. From
that date he practiced his profession in Hudson until elected a
Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1857, which office he
held at the time of his death. In 1836 he was appointed by Gov.
Throop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for his native county,

and served for two or three years, when he resigned. In 1839, he
was a prominent member of the General Assembly of the State.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Rutgers College in 1870.

Judge Hogeboom married, in Nov., 1832, Miss Jane Eliza,
daughter of Col. James Rivington, of Poughkeepsie, N". Y. She
died March 25th, 1858.

He died Sept. 12th, 1872, at his residence in Hudson. He had
been failing in health for some months, from over-work.

1828.

Edward William Casey was born in Middletown, Conn., Oct.
3d, 1809, the son of James and Susan (Chandler) Casey.

After graduation he studied law in Philadelphia. He removed
to Chicago about the time of its first settlement, and practiced his
profession there from 1833 to 1838. His health then failed, and
he was never afterwards able to resume work. He returned to the
Eastern States, purchased a farm in North Charlestown, N. H.,
and there remained until 1853, when he moved to New Bedford,
Mass. (where several relatives of his wife resided), and lived there
until his death, of diabetes. May 3d, 18*72.

He married, Jan. 1st, 1842, Susan Hilliard, of Claremont, N.
H., who survives him. Their four children are also all living.

John Erskine Edwards died at Longwood, Brookline, Mass.,
April 3d, 1873, of paralysis of the brain. He was born in Hart-
ford, Conn., July 4th, 1809, a great-grandson of President Edwards,
and son of Jonathan Walter Edwards, Esq. (Y. C. 1789), a dis-
tinguished lawyer of Hartford, and of Elizabeth, his wife, daugh-
ter of Capt. Moses Tryon, of Wethersfield, Conn. He was the
first to die of a family of six brothers, all graduates of this col-
lege, one in the same class with himself, and the others in the
classes of 1819, 1820, 1832, and 1839.

He studied theology at Andover, graduating in 1836. His first
settlement was in Stonington, Conn., where he was ordained pastor
of the Second Congregational Church, April 6th, 1840. In April,
1843, he resigned his charge, and removed soon after to Lancaster,
Mass., where he settled upon a farm. Here he remained for many
years, preaching only occasionally. In 1862 he began to preach
statedly to the Congregational Church in Blackstone, Mass., where
he continued until failing health compelled him to retire, about a
year before his death. He then removed to Brookline, and sank

gradually to rest. His character was remarkable for conscien-
tiousness, sincerity, and purity.

He married, in May, 1840, Elizabeth Lucretia Weir Hubbard,
of Worcester, Mass., who died May 23d, 1841. In Oct., 1841, he
married Mrs. Ann Phelps, widow of Charles P. Phelps, of Ston-
ington, and daughter of Mr. Hammond, of Newport, R. I. By
his second marriage he had two daughters, who with their mother
survive hinu

1829.

Alexander Chakles Robinson was born in Baltimore, Md.,
where his father was a merchant, Aug. 29th, 1809, and died after
a lingering illness, Nov. 10th, 1871. His early studies were pur-
sued in St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and in Columbia College,
N. Y. city, whence he entered Yale in 1827.

On his return home, he selected medicine as his profession, and
after the usual course of study, graduated with distinction at the
Medical School of the University of Maryland. He established
himself in practice in Baltimore, and was soon in the foremost
rank of his profession. For one or two years he took part in the
instruction in the Medical College where he had graduated, but
finding the tax upon his time too great, he devoted himself solely
to active practice, in which he continued until obliged by failing
health to retire a few years before his death. He was especially
earnest in efibrts for the relief of the unfortunate classes and for
institutions established for their benefit. He was also keenly alive
to his convictions in regard to political affkirs.

At an early age Dr. Robinson married Rosa Wirt, a daughter
of the distinguished William Wirt. Of six sons and five daugh-
ters born to them, only four are now living. His wife died in
1849, and he married, in 1857, M. Louisa, daughter of C.oL R. W.
Hall, a veteran of the war of 1812. A son and two daughters by
this marriage are all living.

1830.

Benjamin Duffield Neill died in Philadelphia, Pa., in Sept.,
1872, aged 60.

He was a native of Philadelphia, and entered college in Sopho-
more year. He became after a few years hopelessly insane, and
was the inmate of an asylum until the time of his death.

1831.

Hugh Thompson Harrison was the son of Hall Harrison, Esq.,
of Baltimore, Md. He was born in 1809, in Easton, Md., where
his father was then living.

After taking his degree he studied theology at the Theol. Sem-
inary of Virginia, and became a clergyman of the Protestant Episc.
Church. Shortly after his ordination he became Rector of Christ
Church, Queen Caroline Parish, and of St. John's Church, Howard
County, Md. In a few years he resigned the former charge. The
latter he retained (living near Ellicott city) until 1866, when
growing infirmity of health compelled him to give up regular min-
isterial work. He then removed to Baltimore, where he resided
until his death, which occurred June 21st, 1872, in the 63d year
of his age.

He was married in 1834, and left a widow and four children.
He was regarded as specially versed in German theology, and had
collected a library of German, Dutch and Latin theological
writers quite unusual for a country clergyman.

Ephraim Dod Saunders, who died suddenly at his residence
in W. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 13th, 1872, was the son of Ephraim
and Sarah (Rodgers) Saunders, and was born near Mendham,
N. J., Sept. 30th, 1809.

After graduation he remained in New Haven for several months
for the purpose of theological study. In the autumn of 1832 he
went to Virginia to fill the position of tutor in a family in Cum-
berland County, and after a year spent in teaching and study, he
was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of East Hanover, in
session at Nottoway, Oct. 18th, 1833. After four years of pastoral
work, during which time he collected money to build two churches,
he opened a school for boys in Cumberland County, which he sub-
sequently removed to Goochland County. In 1843 he became
principal of the Classical Institute at Petersburg, Va., and held
this position for four years. In 1848 he visited Europe, and on
his return established a church in Pottsville, Pa., collecting the
funds needed for the purchase and repairing of a church-building.
In 1851 he removed to West Philadelphia, and founded a school
for boys, which was afterwards chartered as a college. During the
late war a military department was established, the pupils being
styled the " Courtland Saunders Cadets," in honor of the founder's
only child, who was killed in battle in September, 1862. After

the death of his son, Dr. Saunders was made chairman of the
" Bounty Fund Commission " of Philadelphia, and rendered very-
efficient service in securing the quota of men necessary to save the
city from a draft.

In 1871, he offered to give his real estate in W. Philadelphia,
valued at $160,000 (reserving a life-annuity of $4000), to the Pres-
byterian Alliance for the purpose of founding a hospital. The
offer was accepted, and the property was publicly transferred on
July 1st, 1871. Dr. Saunders also obtained subscriptions, to the
amount of $100,000, towards the endowment of the hospital.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Lafayette
College.

He was married, Nov. 13th, 1833, to Miss Ann P., daughter of
Halsey Guerin. She is still living.

1832.

Henry Eddy, second son of Thomas and Abi (Lewis) Eddy,
of New Britain, Conn., was born in New Britain, Oct. 1st, 1805,
and died in North Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 23d, 1872, aged 67.

He studied theology for one or two years after graduiating, at
Andover Theol. Seminary, and then continued his studies in the
Yale Seminary. He was ordained, Feb. 16th, 1836, pastor of the
Congregational Church in West Granville, Mass., from which
charge he was dismissed, Sept. 25th, 1839. He was installed over
the Congregational Church in Stoughton, Mass., Nov. 4th, 1840,
and dismissed in 1844. He then supplied for two years the pulpit
of the Congregational Church in Turner, Me., and was next settled
for two years over a church in Kennebunkport in the same State.
At this time, finding that his voice was failing, he thought it best
to prepare himself for another profession, and while supplying the
Congregational Church in North Guilford, Conn, (from Jan., 1849,
to March, 1851), studied medicine in New Haven and received the
degree of M.D. from this college in 1851. From that date until
his death he resided in North Bridgewater, Mass., at first practic-
ing medicine, but after a few years engaged in farming and in
business growing out of inventions of his own, and the patent-
rights connected with them.

He married, first. Miss Conielia, daughter of Rev. Luke Wood,
of Clinton, Conn., Jan. 25th, 1836. She died Feb. 6th, 1842, leav-
ing one daughter, who is still living. He married, secondly, Miss
Sarah H. Torrey, of N. Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 23d, 1843, who

survives him, with two sons, graduates of this college in 1867 and
1870.

1833.

RuFus Abbot was born in Wilton, N. H., Apr. 17th, 1807 ; the
second son of Zebadiah and Elizabeth (Hale) Abbot.

For two years after graduation he taught school and stud-
ied medicine in Greensburg, Ky., and then attended a course
of lectures in the Medical School in Lexington, Ky. He began
practice in the spring of 1836, but subsequently, in the winter of
1838-39, attended lectures in Louisville, Ky., and received the
degree of M.D. He then established himself in Jefferson City,
Mo., where he practiced until 1856, when he removed to Fulton,
Mo. In 1867 he removed to Pleasant Hill, Mo., where he died
Jan. 12th, 1873. Dr. Abbot married, Apr. 5, 1838, Mary B.,
daughter of Joseph Aikin, of Greensburg, Ky., who died on the
12th of the following October. He again married, October 21st,
1840, Mary R. Hart, of Jefferson City, who survives him, with
their three children.

Edward Anthony Bradford was born in Plainville, Conn.,
Sept. 27th, 1813, the son of Henry and Lois (Eaton) Bradford.

He began the study of law at the Harvard Law School in 1834,
graduating in 1837 ; and in the winter of 1837-8 established him-
self in practice in New Orleans. He pursued his profession there
with eminent success until 1869, when he was attacked by an in-
curable disease which forced him to give up all business. The
winter of 1869-70 he spent at Pau, France, and in June went to
Berlin for medical treatment. The war prevented his intended
removal to Paris, and he passed the two years from Sept., 1870, to
Aug., 1872, in Torquay, England. He then was taken to Paris,
where he died Nov. 22d, 1872.

He married Sarah E. Fanning, of K Y., Sept. 14th, 1848, who
survives him, with two sons.

John Henry Southard, son of Zebulon and Catharine (Van
Yoorhies) Southard, was born in Fishkill, N. Y., Jan. 10th, 1812,
and died in the same place, Dec. 19th, 1872, aged nearly 61 years.

He studied law, after graduation, in N. Y. city, and was in
practice there until the time of his death. He was never married.

1835.
Xehemiaii Bushnell was born in Westbrook, Conn., Oct.
9th, 1813.

Shortly after graduation he began the study of law, at the Law
School in Cambridge, Mass., where he remained for one year. In
1837 he was admitted to the bar in Middletown, Conn., and im-
mediately removed to Quincy, III, where he associated himself in
the practice of his profession with Hon. O. H. Browning. Mr.
Bushnell soon became identified with some of the most important
public improvements in the western part of the State. In 1851
he became President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.
Co., and held that position till 1861, when he retired, and was
appointed attorney for the road, which ofiice he held until his
death. He was elected in the autumn of 1872 to represent the
city of Quincy in the General Assembly of the State. While in
Springfield in attendance on this duty, he contracted a severe cold,
which superinduced an attack of erysipelas, which terminated
fatally, Jan. 31st, 1873.

In Oct., 1840, he married Miss Eliza H. Benedict, of Millbury,
Mass. They had seven children, of whom four are now living, one
son being a graduate of this college in the Class of 1865.

George Peter Prudden, son of Peter and Charity (Davis)
Prudden, was born in Orange, Conn., Feb. 13th, 1816.

After graduating he taught in Lockport, N. Y., for one year.
He studied theology at the Yale Divinity School for two years
(1837 to 1839), and was licensed to preach by the New Haven
West Association, in May, 1 838.

In May, 1839, he was called to the pastorate of the First Pres-
byterian Church in Medina, N. Y., and was ordained there on the
25th of Sept. following. From this charge he was dismissed in
Nov., 1844. From Dec, 1845, to March, 1851, he served as stated
supply for the Congregational Church in Middlebury, Conn., his
health not permitting him to settle. For the next four years he
supplied the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Southbury,
Conn., and was then obliged by ill -health to cease from profes-
sional labor for a year. From Nov., 1856, until 1861, he was
acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Watertown, Conn.,
and for the two following years sustained a similar relation in
Monroe, Conn. In 1864 he removed to New Haven, Conn., but
was not able to engage in active labor again. He died in Brattle-
boro, Vt., Aug. 20th, 1872, after a depressing illness continued
through many years.

Mr. Prudden was married, Nov. 4th, 1839, to Miss Eliza A.
Johnson, of Southbury, Conn., who survives him, with four of

their five children. Two of his sons have received degrees from
this college.

1836.

Henry Champion Deming was born in Colchester, Conn., May
23d, 1815, the son of Gen. David and Abigail (Champion) Deming.

He studied law at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated
in 1839. He then opened an office in New York city, but devoted
himself rather to literature than to his profession. At this time he
was engaged with Park Benjamin in editing the " New World,"
a literary weekly, and at this time also he published a translation
of Eugene Sue's "Wandering Jew." In 1847 he removed to
Hartford, Conn., and opened a law-office. In 1850 he married
Sarah, daughter of Laurent Clerc, the first deaf-mute instructor in
this country. In 1849, 1850, 1859 and 1860, he was a member of
the State House of Representatives. In 1854 he was elected
Mayor of Hartford, and served until 1858, and again from 1860 to

1862. At the close of the year 1861, he was appointed Colonel of
the 12th Connecticut Volunteers, and accompanied Gen. Butler's
expedition to New Orleans. After the capture of that city he was
detailed mayor, and sei-ved with tact and ability until January,

1863, when he resigned both military and civil position, on ac-
count of his own health and the health of his wife. In the spring
of the same year, he was elected to Congress, and represented the
First District of Connecticut fiDr four years. In 1868 he wrote a
life of General Grant, which had an extensive sale. In the follow-
ing year he was appointed by the President, Collector of Internal
Revenue, and this office he held until his death, which occurred at
his residence in Hartford, Oct. 9th, 1872. His wife died in July,
1869, leaving three sons, of whom two graduated at this college in
1872. In June, 1871, he married Mrs. Annie Putnam Jillson, a
great-granddaughter of Gen. Putnam, who survives him.

Besides his Congressional speeches. Col. Deming published a
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln, delivered before the General As-
sembly of Connecticut, in 1865 ; an Oration delivered at the com-
pletion of the Monument to Gen. Wooster, at Danbury, in 1854,
and many other public addresses. These with his unpublished
writings abundantly attest his great fertility of intellect; his
personal power as an orator was equally remarkable. He received
the degree of LL.D. from Trinity College in 1861.

Hexry Hatch Dent was born in Maryland, on Feb. 11th,
1815.

He studied law under the late Hon. Felix Grundy, at Washing-
ton, D. C, and began practice as a partner with the distinguished
jurist under whom he had completed his professional studies.

He married Miss Adlum, of Georgetown, D. C, on Sept. 14th,
1841.

After having fulfilled all his duties with honor and fidelity, he
departed this life in the city of Baltimore, Nov. 19th, 18V2.

1837.

Thomas Tallman, son of Eleazar and Susan Tallman, was born
in the parish of Middle Haddam (in Chatham), Conn., June 12th,
1816.

He studied theology in Yale Theological Seminary for three
years after leaving college, and was ordained pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Scotland, Conn., March 20th, 1844. From
this charge he was dismissed, June 26th, 1861. From July, 1861,
to Nov., 1863, he supplied the pulpit of the Congregational Church
in Groton, Conn. In 1864, he removed to Thompson, Conn., and
there resided until his death, in the interval preaching in West-
minster (in 1864-65), and in East Putnam (from April, 1868, to
Nov., 1869). He was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives in the sessions of 1866 and 1867. He died, after great
sufferings, Oct. 9th, 1872, from the effects of a cartilaginous tumor,
which had been forming in the abdomen for more than three
years.

Mr. Tallman was married, May 17th, 1842, to Frances M.,
daughter of Simon Hazleton, of Haddam. She died July 30th,
1860. He was again married, April 27th, 1864, to Hannah C.
Graves, of Thompson, who survives him. His children were a son
and a daughter by his first, and a son and a daughter by his
second marriage. The elder son graduated at this college in
1867.

1841.

Jackson Jones Bushnell was born in Old Saybrook, Conn.,
Feb. 19th, 1815, and died after a week's illness, of typhoid pneu-
monia, in Beloit, Wisconsin, March 8th, 1873.

He entered Andover Theol. Seminary in December, 1841, but
after a few months there, became a tutor in Western Reserve Col-
lege, Ohio. After a tutorship of two years, during the latter of
which he was licensed to preach, he was appointed financial agent
of the college, and served in that relation, and as an agent of the

Western College Society, until April, 1 848. He was then appointed
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Beloit Col-
lege, and entered on his office as the pioneer instructor of the new
institution. In 1858 he resigned, and devoted himself to business
in Beloit, but in 1863 was re-appointed and continued in office
until his death. Besides his proper work as a professor, he was
the financier of the college, and its prosperity, as well as the growth
of the business interests of the town, is largely due to him.

Professor Bushnell married in 1854 Miss Sarah E. Lewis, of
Southington, Conn. She survives him, with their three children.

1842.

James Hadley, son of James Hadley, was born in Fairfield, N.
Y., March 30th, 1831, where his father was then Professor of
Chemistry in the Medical College. After a boyhood peculiarly set
apart to study by an accident which early disabled him, he entered
this college at the beginning of the Junior year, and graduated
the foremost of his class.

After living in New Haven one year as resident graduate, he
entered the Theological Department, where he remained two years,
except a few months, from Sept., 1844, to April, 1845, during
which he acted as tutor in Middlebury College. In Sept., 1845,
he became a tutor in Yale College, and held that office three years,
until Aug., 1848, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of
Greek. In July, 1851, when President Woolsey resigned the Pro-
fessorship of Greek, he was appointed to succeed him in that place.
He died, after an illness of about a month, in New Haven, Nov.
14th, 1872, aged 51 years. The discourse delivered at his funeral
by President Porter was printed in the " New Englander " for Jan.,
1873, and has also been published separately.

Professor Hadley published a Greek Grammar in 1866, and an
abridgment of the same in 1869. Since his death a volume of
essays selected from his papers has been published, and also a
volume of Lectures on Roman Law.

He was married, Aug. 13th, 1851, to Miss Ann Twining, daugh-
ter of the late Stephen Twining, Esq. (Y. C. 1795), of New Haven,
who survives him, with one son, now a member of the Freshman
Class in this college.

1844.

Edward Artemas Raymond, only child of Robert Raymond,
was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., Jan. 27th, 1826. He entered

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college from the Canandaigua Academy in the third term of Fresh-
man year.

After leaving college he remained at his father's residence, then
in Lima, N. Y., for two years, for the purpose of recruiting his
health. In 1846 he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He entered into part-
nership with Wm. S. Bishop, Esq., and in 1854 was elected Dis-
trict Attorney, which office he held for several years. He con-
tinued in successful practice in Rochester until his final illness.
For a year or more before his death, he suffered from a pulmonary
difficulty, which steadily undermined his vital powers. He died
at his residence in Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, May 12th,
1873, leaving a widow, with five sons and one daughter.

Mr. Raymond was an elder in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church,
in Rochester, and had held many positions of official trust in the
community.

1847.

Andrew Tully Pratt, eldest child of Wm. T. and Eliza H.
(Steele) Pratt, was born at Black Rock, near Buffalo, N". Y., Feb.
22d, 1826. During his college course, his family resided in Ber-
lin, Conn.

He taught for a few months after graduation in Southport,
Conn., and spent the next year in the Union Theol. Seminary,
N. Y. city. He then began the study of medicine in New Haven,
was also connected with the Yale Theol. Seminary for two years,
and graduated M.D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
N. Y., in 1852.

In pursuance of the plan which had been in his mind from the
time when he began to study in the academy at Berlin, he was
ordained as a missionary and physician of the American Board,
at New Haven, Aug. 8th, 1852 ; and, having been married on the
same day to Miss Sarah Frances Goodyear, of New Haven, sailed
with his wife, Dec. 22d, for his mission field in Syria. His first
station was at Aintab, but he removed to Aleppo in 1856, and to
Marash in 1859. In 1868, he was transferred to the Western
Turkey Mission, and stationed at Constantinople, where he was
engaged on the revision of the Armeno-Turkish Bible, until his
death in that city, Dec. 5th, 1 872.

Of his ten children, four survive him.

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1848. '

Edmund Denison Stanton was born in Stonington, Conn.,
April 15th, 1829, and died in N. Y. city, May 29th, 1873.

The first three years after graduation were spent at home and
in European travel. He then entered a brokef's office in N. Y.
city, and continued in that business until the brief illness which
preceded his death.

He married, Oct 11th, 1863, Louise, daughter of the late Court-
landt Babcock, Esq., of N. Y, city, who survives him.

1849.

George Anderson Gordon was born in Savannah, Ga., Sept.
26th, 1830, and died in Huntsville, Ala., Oct. 5th, 1872, aged 42.

He entered the Sophomore Class in Sept., 1846, and after grad-
uation remained for a year, engaged in the study of law, in the
Law Department. In Nov., 1850, he began the practice of his
profession in Newark, N. J., but in the following summer returned
to Savannah, where he continued in practice till the close of the
year 1860. During this period he was, successively, U. S. District
Attorney and Member of the House of Representatives, In 1860
-61 he was a member of the State Senate, and then entered the
Confederate military service, as captain in the Ist Regiment of
Georgia Volunteers. He subsequently became major and colonel.
After the close of the war, he removed to Huntsville, where he
engaged in the practice of the law until his last illness.

He married Carolina B. Steenbergen, of Virginia, June 6th,
1850. She died July 16th, 1851, leaving one son. He was again
married, Jan. 12th, 1854, to Ellen C. Bevine, of Huntsville, Ala.,
who died Aug. 15th, 1867, leaving six children.

John Waties, the son of Thomas Waties, was born in States-
burg, Sumter County. S. C, in March, 1828. His mother was a
sister of Bishop Rutledge (Y. C. 1820), of Florida.

For four years succeeding graduation he was employed in civil
engineering. Afterwards he studied law, serving meantime from
1854 to 1859 as Clerk of the Court of Appeals of his native State.
From 1857 until his death he practiced his profession in Columbia,
S. C, except that during the civil war he served as a lieutenant
and captain of artillery in the Confederate service. In his military
career were sown the seeds of the disease which, after a long and
painful illness, closed his life, on the 29th of April, 1873.
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Mr. Waties was married, Dec. 18th, 1853, to Miss Fannie C.
Parker, of Columbia, S. C, who survives him, with several
children.

Erasttjs Hay Reiser was born in York, Pa., Jan. 28th, 1826.
After a course of legal study in his native place, he was admitted
to the bar, June 1st, 1851, and began the practice of his profes-
sion, at first in partnership with Hon. Daniel Durkee, of York.
After Judge Durkee's death, in 1854, he continued in practice
alone until his death, July Uth, 1872. He was for a number of
years before his death an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

He married, Oct. 12th, 1852, Miss Anne Franklin, of York, and

had one child.

1851.

William Pitt Riddell, fifth son and ninth child of Professor
John L. and Lephe (Gates) Riddell, was born in Preston,
Chenango Co., N. Y., Oct. 1st, 1828. He entered this college
from Amherst College in the Sophomore year.

He went to New Orleans in 1851, studied chemistry at the
University of Louisiana, and was afterwards appointed Professor
of Chemistry.

He spent his life as a teacher in the South. He is reported to
have been killed in Houston, Texas, in the month of June, 1872.

Richard Cresson Stiles was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 3d,
1830.

He pursued the study of medicine with Dr. Joseph Carson, in
Philadelphia, attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania,^
and received the degree of M.D. in 1854. After a short service as
Assistant Physician at the Kings County Hospital, Flatbush, L. I.,
he went to Europe where he continued his studies, chiefly in Paris,
until 1857.

In the year of his return to this country, he was appointed pro-
fessor of Physiology in the University of Vermont. Although he
had faithfully prepared himself for such a position, on his appoint-
ment he returned immediately to Paris, and spent several months
in the review of physiological studies, before entering on his course
of lectures. In 1858 he accepted also the chair of Physiology in
the Berkshire (Mass.) Medical Institution. In 1 860 he established
with Dr. W. H. Thayer the Berkshire Medical Journal, a monthly
publication ; but the absorption of all interests in the war was
unfavorable for the enterprise^ and it was discontinued at the close
^f the first year.

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In 1862, Dr. Stiles was impelled by patriotic motives to enter
the U. S. Service. Passing his examintion as Surgeon of Volun-
teers, he was ordered to the charge of a General Hospital at Pitts-
burgh, Pa. The next year his desire for field-service was gratified
by his transfer to the Army of the Potomac as Surgeon-in-chief of
CaldwelPs Division, Hancock's Corps, in which position he parti-
citated in all the movements of the arduous campaign of 1863.

In 1864 he left the service, and coming to Brooklyn, N. Y., was
appointed Resident Physician of the Kings County Hospital.
His connection with the Berkshire Med. Institution terminated
with his entering the army, but he retained his position in the
Univ. of Vermont until 1865. In 1865, also, he removed to
Brooklyn to practice medicine ; and at the formation of the Metro-
politan Board of Health, in 1866, accepted the office of Deputy
Registrar of Vital Statistics, that is, Registrar for Kings County.
In 1868 he was made Assistant Saintary Superintendent, and held
the two positions until the Board of Health was dissolved in 1870.
In the summer of this year his mental powers, which had been
severely overworked in his professional studies, gave way. After
a few months' residence in an Insane Asylum, his health improved
and he engaged again in general practice. In 1872 he traveled in
Europe, but in the fiDllowing spring his mental disease grew more
serious, and towards the close of March he left Brooklyn for his
mother's home in West Chester, Pa. There he was attacked with
pneumonia, and after ten days' illness he died on the 16th of
April, 1873.

Dr. Stiles married in 1856, in Leghorn, a daughter of Dr.
Thomas Wells, of New Haven, Conn. His widow survives him,
with one son.

1852.

James Harrison Dwight was born on the island of Malta,
Oct. 9th, 1830. His father was Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, D.D., late
missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., and his mother (Elizabeth Bar-
ker) was from North Andover, Mass. His early years were spent
at Constantinople and Broosa, in Turkey. At the age of 1 7 he
came to this country and entered Williston Seminary, Easthamp-
ton, Mass.

From 1852 to 1855 he was a member of the Union Theol. Sem-
inary, in N. Y. city. He was licensed to preach in May, 1855, by
the 4th Presbytery of N. Y., and in the following September
married Miss Susan E., daughter of Rev. Benjamin Schneider,

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D.D., of Turkey. He then attended medical lectures at the 23d
St. Medical College, N. Y. city, finishing the required course
though not taking the degree. He now engaged with his next
younger brother (Y. C. 1854) in maturing plans for opening a
college in Constantinople, and meanwhile, after receiving ordina-
tion. May 24th, 185Y, supplied for one year the Presbyterian
Church in Cherry Valley, N. Y. Returning to N. Y. city in
1858, he spent nearly a year in developing the college enterprise ;
but at the last moment found himself confronted with unforeseen
obstacles, which caused the transfer of the whole scheme to other
hands. Disappointed in what he had looked forward to as the
work of his life, he removed to the new town of Englewood, N.
Y, where he organized a Presbyterian Church, and was installed
pastor. Just after his installation, he suffered another bitter trial
in the death of his wife, Feb. 13th, 1860.

In the autumn of 1861, under leave of absence from his church,
he accepted the appointment of chaplain of the 66th N. Y. Vols.,
and served for 18 months with the Army of the Potomac.

In March, 1866, he was attacked with hemorrhage from the
lungs, and in May, 1867, was obliged by his health to resign his
pastoral charge. He continued to reside in Englewood, content-
ing himself with occasional work of various kinds. He was for a
time associate editor of the " Church Union," now the " Christian
Union," and subsequently had charge of special departments of
that paper and of the " Independent." His last work was the task
of raising funds for the Palestine Exploration Society, and of pro-
viding for the equipment of the expedition. When after many
weary months of labor, he saw the expedition sail out of the har-
bor of New York, he felt that his work was over, and sank so
rapidly that he died within about three weeks. After a final ill-
ness of a very few days, he passed away, Dec. 2d, 1872.

Mr. Dwight married for his second wife, in 1865, Miss Josephine
C. Wilder, daughter of the late S. V. S. Wilder. She survives
him, as does one son by his first marriage.

Reginald Heber Hall died in Menphis, Tenn., Feb. 16th,
1872, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the son of Robert
C. Hall, and was born at Muncy Farms, Lycoming Co., Pa., June
1st, 1832.

After studying law in Williamsport, Pa., he was admitted to
the bar in Nov., 1854, and in the following month settled in In-

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dianapolis, Ind., where he remained in full practice until his death.
He left home early in February, 18Y2, on a journey for the benefit
of his health, and after a few days of exposure to severe cold, was
seized while in Memphis with a paralytic attack, from which he
never rallied.

Major Hall married, July 29th, 1859, Sarah L., daughter of Dr.
George W. Mears, of Indianapolis, who survives him.

Nathaniel William Taylor Root, son of Rev. Judson A.
Root (Y. C. 1823), and of Emily M. (Peck) Root, was born in
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 24th, 1829.

He was connected with college only during the Freshman year,
but in 1864 received the honorary degree of M.A., and was subse.
quently enrolled with his class.

After leaving college he spent several years in teaching in New
Haven and elsewhere. He afterwards pursued theological studies,
in the Berkeley Divinity School, in Middletown, Conn., and was
ordained Deacon by Bishop Williams, at Middletown, May 25th,
1859. A year later he removed to Rhode Island, where he was
advanced to the priesthood, and took charge of the parish of
Lonsdale. This charge he relinquished in May, 1861, to become
chaplain of the Ninth Regiment of R. I. Volunteers. After three
months' service, he returned to his parish, and early in 1865 re-
turned to Newtown, L. I., as rector of the Episcopal Church. This
charge he resigned in 1868, and he then went to Portland, Me.,
where he served as rector of St. Paul's Church until his death, of
small-pox, Dec. 14th, 1872. A few months previous to his death
he was appointed instructor in drawing in Bowdoin College.

Mr. Root married, Jan. 1st, 1855, Charity E., daughter of Capt..
Burr Nash, of New Haven, who survives him, with two sons and
one daughter.

. 1853.

Samuel Adams Lyons Law Post was born in Meredith,.
Delaware County, N. Y., June 10th, 1829. His parents were
Stephen and Amanda W. (Burchard) Post, who emigrated from
Bozrah, Conn., in 1818.

He was early obliged to provide for himself, beginning by teach-
ing a district school, in the winter of 1842-43, when he was not
yet 14 years old. These necessities delayed his entrance inta
college, and determined also his subsequent work.

After graduation he taught for a year in an academy in
Mamaroneck, Westchester County, N. Y., and then took charge

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of a classical school in Derby, Conn. In 1856, he removed to
Ulster County, N. Y., as principal of the Ellenville High School.
Two years later he became also the proprietor of the school, and
conducted it successfully until 1868, when having been admitted
to the bar he began the practice of law. In the autumn of 1871
he was prostrated by a disease of the lungs, which prevented his
further pursuit of his profession. He now undertook the editor-
ship of the " American Odd-Fellow," published in N. Y. city, but
strength was soon exhausted, and he came back to Ellenville to
die. His death occurred Jan. 8th, 1873.
He married, Dec. 6th, 1854, Miss Laura Judd, of Lockport, N.

Y., who survives him, with children.
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1855.

Emil Spanier, son of Louis and Rosalie L. (Meyer) Spanier,
was born in Hanover, Germany, March 21st, 1836.

He came with his parents to this country when three years of
age, and resided at Albany, N. Y., until he entered the Junior
Class in this college.

His health failing, at the time of his graduation, he was com-
pelled to abandon his intention of studying law. He visited
Europe with his mother in 1857, and consulted eminent physicians,
but his tour was without benefit, and for years he was confined to
his room, yet without losing his marked literary tastes and his
innate gentleness of disposition. In May, 1864, he removed with
his parents to N. Y. city, and become a partner in a manufactur-
ing house. He remained in this business until the time of his
death, and found leisure for the prosecution of his favorite studies,
and also for the cultivation of his poetical talent, so that he left a
manuscript volume of poems nearly ready for publication.

He died after five months of intense suffering, on the 13th of
October, 1872, a true and zealous believer in the Jewish faith.
He was unmarried.

1858.

Samuel Caldwell, son of William and Sarah (Lindsay) Cald-
well, was born in Salem, Mercer County, Pa., April 14th, 1834.
His parents removed to Farmington, 111., from which place he en-
tered this college at the beginning of the Junior year, having
spent the two preceding years in Knox College.

On graduating, he edited a paper in Rock Island, 111., during
the State campaign of 1858, and then spent some time in the study

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of law and in teaching. In April, 1861, lie enlisted as a private
in the 8th Illinois Infantry, and remained in service until May,
1866; from February, 1864, with the rank of captain. In Jan.,
1867, he formed a law-partnership with his classmate Robison, in
Peoria, III., whose sister, Mary J. Robison, he had married, Jan.
5th, 1865. lu 1870 he was elected to the lower House of the
State Legislature, and contracted while at the Capitol a malarious
disease, which after distressing physical and mental weakness
ended his life, on the 13th of Sept., 1872.

His wife survives him, with one of his two daughters.

1860.

Edgar Augustus Finkey, son of James and Harriet Finney,
was born in Norwalk, Conn., March 27th, 1836.

After graduation he studied law for two years, — during the
first year in N. Y. city, and then in Norwalk. He was about to
be admitted to the bar when he enlisted for nine months in the
31st New Jersey Volunteers, in which regiment he was soon after
chosen captain. At the battle of Chancellorsville, in May,
1863, he was taken prisoner, and was confined for two months in
Libby Prison.

After his return to the North, he was engaged in business for a
short time in New York, but soon retired to his native place,
where he died of consumption, Sept. 21st, 1872, in the 37th year
of his age.

Mr. Finney was married, March 5th, 1867, to Mary, eldest
daughter of John Van Cleef, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who remains his
widow. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy.

1862.

William Russell Kimbeely, son of Henry and Julia A.
(Fratt) Kimberly, was born in West Troy, N. Y., Sept. 19th,
1840.

In the winter of 1862-63, he was a student in Bryant and Strat-
ton's Commercial College at Troy, N. Y., and in that institution
he taught during the year 1863. He was then for a year a
teacher in the Hudson River Institute at Claverack, N. Y., and in
1865 was employed in Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College
in N. Y. city. In October, 1865, he purchased a half-interest (and
subsequently the entire interest) in the Philadelphia establishment
of the same firm. The position of principal in this institution he
retained until his death.

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In the summer of 1872 he visited a sister in Wisconsin, and was
there attacked with intermittent, afterwards changing to typhoid
fever. His anxiety to return home was so great that his physi-
cian consented ; but the journey exhausted his strength, and he
died four days after reaching Philadelphia, Aug. 26th, 1872.

He was married at Williamsburgh, N. Y,, April 19th, 1866, to
Miss Mary Harding, who with an only daughter survives him.

1864.

Thomas Kast Boltwood, seventh son of Hon. Lucius and
Fanny H. (Shepard) Boltwood, was bom in Amherst, Mass., Feb.
16th, 1844.

He entered college, from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in
Sept., 1859, but at the end of the first term of his Sophomore year
was obliged to go away on account of illness. A year later he
joined the next class.

He studied law, receiving the degree of LL.B. from the Albany
Law School in May, 1866, and in April, 1867, he began to practice
his profession in Toledo, O. In 1869 he suffered from mental
disease, and was obliged to give up his profession. He subse-
quently resided in Castleton, N. Y,

He died in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 25th, 1872, in the 29th year
of his age.

He married, June 6th, 1867, Miss M. Matilda Van Hoesen, of
Castleton, N. Y., who survives him.

Alfred Eastman Walker, youngest son of Alfred and Eunice
(Minor) Walker, was bom in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 6th, 1842.

He studied medicine in New York and New Haven, receiv-
ing the degree of M.D. from this college in 1867. Intending to
devote himself to the study of nervous diseases, he became Assis-
tant Physician at the Insane Asylum in Worcester, Mass., in May,
1868, but a short experience cast a depressing influence over his
mind, from which, perhaps, he never entirely recovered. He sub-
sequently went to Washington Territory, and then established
himself in practice in Chicago. After the fire in that city, in Oct.,
1871, he returned to New Haven for a permanent residence, but
the state of his health made him a great sufferer, and he found
relief in death, March 5th, 1873.

He leaves a wife and child.

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1868.

John Marvin Chapin, son of Marvin Chapin, was born in
Springfield, Mass., May 15th, 1844.

Already of mature years at graduation, and with experience in
the charge of a mission-church, he labored as an evangelist in
North Blandford, Mass., for the most of the time from February
to November, 1869. At the latter date he entered the Theologi-
cal Seminary at Hartford, Conn., where he graduated in June,
18V2. On the 19th of the same month, he was ordained pastor of
the First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Mass., and
labored untiringly through the hot summer months which followed.
His health declined, and at the end of the summer he took a vaca-
tion, from which he returned at the beginning of October, much
refreshed: but after preaching two Sundays he grew rapidly
worse, and symptons of typhoid fever were developed. He was
removed to his father's house in Springfield, where he died on the
evening of the 26th of October, aged 28 years. He was not
married.

1869.

John Eliason, son of Thomas W. Eliason, was born in Ches-
tertown, Md., July 29th, 1848. He was a student in Washington
College, Md., before entering this college.

The first year after graduation he spent in teaching in Easton,
C'Onn. He then returned home and studied medicine, completing
his preparation by attending lectures at Jefierson Medical College,
Philadelphia, where he received the degree of M.D., March 12th,
1873. He died, at his father's house, of typhoid fever, on the 4th
of the following month. He was unmarried.

1870.

Henry AuGUSTtrs Cleveland, the youngest son of Henry and
Charlotte A. Cleveland, was bom Aug. 27th, 1848, in Batavia, N.
Y. His preparation for college was conducted in the New Haven
Hopkins Grammar School.

After his graduation he visited St. Louis in October, and in
November sailed for Germany, with the purpose of spending a
year or more in study and travel. Soon after settling in Dresden
his health began to decline. The change did not appear serious
to himself, and his physician gave him no reason for anxiety until
the first of June, 1871, when he was ordered to a consumptive-
>cure. By advice he returned home in August, and in September

his mother and sister went with him to Italy and Egypt for the
winter. He remained abroad for ten months, but with no mater-
ial benefit. The winter of 1872-73 was despairingly begun in
Perry, Wyoming County, N. Y., but as spring opened he seemed
to be gaining, and plans were hopefully made for the summer,
when fatal symptoms suddenly appeared in the night of April
21st, and before noon of the following day he was dead.

1872.

RoBBRT Elmbr Coe, second son of Rev. David B. Coe (Y. C.
1837), and of Rebecca (Phoenix) Coe, was bom in New York city,
Dec. 13th, 1850.

He was prepared for college at the private school of Mr. Morris
W. Lyon (Y. C. 1846), in N. Y. city. While an undergraduate,
he showed scholarship of a high order, and unusual promise as a
writer. After the summer vacation, he returned to New Haven
to pursue his studies privately, and while thus engaged was at-
tacked with typhoid fever. The disease terminated fatally on the
12th of November, 1872.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,

1824.

Kelson Carpenter, eldest child of Joseph T. and Huldah
(Davidson) Carpenter, was born in Eastford, Conn., Jan. 12th,
1801.

By his father's early death, he was obliged from the time he
was nine years old to provide for himself; but he persevered in
obtaining a good education, and in 1822 entered the Medical
School, as a resident of Willington, Conn.

On April 1st, 1824, he established himself as a physician and
Surgeon in Warren (then called Western), Mass., where he re-
mained in successful and extensive practice until his death, at the
age of 71, Aug. 21st, 1872»

Dr. Carpenter was married, in Jan., 1829, to Miss Eliza S.,
daughter of Harvey Sessions, of Warren, by whom he had two
daughters and three sons ; the daughters and one of the sons are
still living. His wife died Sept. 16th, 1839, and he was again
married, June 6th, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Wm.
McCray, of Ellington, Conn., who survives him.

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1828.

Thomas Belden Butler was born in Wethersfield, Conn., Aug.
22d, 1806, the son of Frederick Butler (Y. C. 1Y85) and of Mary
(Belden) Butler. His father, a man of literary tastes, gave him a
classical education. After attending two courses of lectures in
this Medical School he received his degree, and he then spent an
additional year in professional study in Philadelphia. On his
return he settled in Norwalk, Conn., where he continued in prac-
tice for nearly eight years. Finding that the strain of his profes-
sion upon him was too severe, he decided to abandon it, and after
studying law with Hon. Clark Bissell (Y. C. 1806) he was admitted
to the bar in 1837.

He formed a partnership almost immediately with Hon. Thad-
deus Betts (Y. C. 1807), of Norwalk, and after the death of Mr.
Betts, in 1840, entered into partnership with George A. Davenport,
Esq. At a later period he associated with himself O. S. Ferry,
Esq. (Y. C. 1844), and still later, in 1847. J. M. Carter, Esq.
(Y. C. 1836). The firm of Butler & Carter continued until Judge
Butler was raised to the bench. He served in the Conn. House
of Representatives in 1832, 1833, 1837, 1843, and 1846, and in the
State Senate in 1848, 1852, and 1853. In 1849 he was elected to
Congress, and served for one term. In May, 1855, he was elected
a Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and served until
1861, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court, of which he
was made Chief Justice in 1870. On account of continued ill
health he resigned his position May 20th, 1878, and rapidly sink-
ing died at his residence in Norwalk, June 8th, in his 67th year.

Judge Butler won deserved respect in his professional career.
His active mind also led him to an uncommon degree of interest
in other affairs, especially in agriculture, mechanics, and meteor-
ology. He was the author of " The Philosophy of the Weather,"
published in 1856, and of "The Atmospheric System developed:
a Weather Book for practical men," published in 1870.

He married, March 14th, 1831, Mary Phillips Crosby, of Xor-
walk, who survives him. They had no children.

1829.

Ira Gregory was born in Wilton, Conn., Jan. 31st, 1804, and
died at his residence in Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 2d, 1872.

He began the study of medicine under Dr. David Willard, of
Norwalk, and after receiving his degree settled in Moriches, L. I.,

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where he practiced his profession for some twelve years. He then
removed to Norwalk, where he continued in practice until within
a few weeks of his death. He was also especially influential in
in all the educational interests of the town, being for many years
chairman of the Board of Education. He often represented Nor-
walk in the State Legislature. At the time of his death he was
the President of the Medical Society of Fairfield County, and the
Vice-President of the State Medical Society.

Dr. Gregory married soon after his removal to Norwalk. One
son graduated at this College in 1865, and follows his father's
profession.

1846.

JosiAH Hall Beechee was born in Barkhamsted, Conn., about
1825, and died in New Haven, Conn., March 14th, 1873. His
medical studies were pursued under David A. Tyler, M.D. (Y. C.
1844), of New Haven. On receiving his degree he settled in East
Haven, Conn., and married in 1847 Susan J., daughter of Hoadley
Bray, of that town. He practiced in East Haven and Fair Haven
until 1866. He then moved to N. Y. City, but after an interval
of about eighteen months returned to New Haven, where he con-
tinued until his death. During the war he served for six months
in the 1st Conn. Artillery. In the fall of 1867 his wife died, and
he afterwards married again. He leaves a widow but no children,

LAW DEPARTMENT.

1846.

James Montgomery Woodward died in Wolcottville, Conn.,
Jan. 11th, 1873, at the age of 46. He was a son of Thomas G.
Woodward, founder and editor of the Herald, the first daily paper
printed in New Haven.

He was admitted to the New Haven bar, and practiced law in
this city until 1851, when he became the principal editor of the
New Haven Daily Journal and Courier. This position he occupied
until the breaking out of the late war, when he was elected lieu-
tenant colonel of the Second Conn. Militia, and had charge of the
camps in this vicinity during the organization of the nine-months
troops. He afterwards resumed editorial work, at first in the
office of the Waterbury (Conn.) American, and afterwards at his
old post in New Haven. He was obliged to cease work about
1869, on account of failing health. He was unmarried.

SUMMARY

Academical Department,

ClasB.

Name and Age.

Place and

1T96

Timothy Bishop, 95,

New Haven, Conn.,

1803

Thomas D. Burrall, 86,

Geneva, N. Y.,

1805

Frederick Marsh, 92,

Winchester, Conn.,

1807

Guy Richards, 85,

New York City,

Ely Warner, 87,

Chester, Conn.,

1808

Joseph Harvey, 86,

Harvey, Mich.,

((

Ralph I. Ingersoll, 83,

New Haven, Conn.,

James H. Parmelee, 89,

Duncan's Falls, 0.,

1809

William Hungerford, 86,

Hartford, Conn.,

1811

Selah B. Strong, 80,

Setauket, L. I.,

1812

George Bliss, 79,

Springfield, Mass.,

1813

Zedekiah S. Barstow, 82,

Keene, N. H.,

1814

John M. Atwood, 77,

Hartford, Conn.,

Joshua Leavitt, 78,

New York City,

John Titsworth, 79,

Deckertown, N. J.,

1815

Edward Harleston, 76,

Charleston, S. C,

Andrew Huntington, 81,

Milan, 0.,

1817

Robert Hartshorne, 74,

Portland, N. J.,

1818

Caleb Day, 75,

Catskill, N. Y.,

R. Randolph Gurley, 76,

Washington, D. C,

James S. Huggins, 73,

New York City,

1820

Phihp Gadsden, 72,

Charleston, S. C,

1821

Josiah Brewer, 76,

Stockbridge, Mass.,

1822

Francis H. Case, 75,

Cold Spring, Wise,

Harvey P. Peet, 78,

New York City,

1823

Milton Badger, 72,

Madison, Conn.,

Handel G. Nott, 73,

Rochester, N. Y.,

WiUiam S. Sullivant, 70,

Cincinnati, 0.,

1824

Joel Talcott, 74,

Wakeman, 0.,

WiUiam P. Van Rensselaer, 71, New York City,

1826

Isaac C. Beach, 71,

Olathe, Kan.,

Edwin E. Clark, 66,

Ann Arbor, Mich.,

George J. Pumpelly, 67,

Owego, N. Y.,

1827

Albert G. Bristol, 64,

Rochester, N. Y.,

Philip R. Hoffman, 66,

New York City,

Henry Hogeboom, 63,

Hudson, N. Y.,

1828

Edward W. Casey, 62,

New Bedford, Mass.,

J. Erskine Edwards, 63,

Longwood, Mass.,

1829

Alexander C. Robinson, 62,

Baltimore, Md.,

1830

Benjamin D. Neill, 60,

Philadelphia, Pa*,

1831

Hugh T. Harrison, 62,

Baltimore, Md.,

Ephraim D. Saunders, 63,

W. Philadelphia, Pa.,

1832

Henry Eddy, 67,

N. Bridgewater, Mass.

1833

Rufus Abbot, 65,

Pleasant Hill, Mo.,

Edward A. Bradford, 59,

Paris, France,

John H. Southard, 61,

FishkiU, N. Y.,

1835

Nehemiah Bushnell, 59,

Quincy, 111.,

Greorge P. Prudden, 56,

Brattleboro, Vt.,

1836

Henry 0. Deming, 57,

Hartford, Conn.,

Time of Death.
March 6, '73.
June 24, '72.
Feb. 6, '73.
March 26, '73.
Oct. 23, '72.
Feb. 4, '73.
Aug. 31, '72.
April 6, '72.
Jan. 15, '73.
Nov. 29, '72.
April 19, '72.
March 1, '73.
May 29, '73.
Jan. 16, '73.
'73.
Feb. 11, '71.
June 5, '72.
July 18, 72.
June 6, '73,
July 30, '72.
Sept. 4, '72.
Dec. 26, '70.
Nov. 19. '72.
Dec. 20, '72.
Jan. 1, '73.
March 1, '73.
May 3, '73.
April 30, '73.
Dec. 28, '71.
Nov. 13, '72.
Feb. 23, '73.
Feb. 1, '73.
May 9, '73.
Jan. 9, '73.
Juno 12, '73.
Sept. 12, '72.
May 3, '72.
April 3, '73.
Nov. 10, '71.
Sept., '72.
June 21, '72.
Sept. 13, '72.
Sept. 23, '72.
Jan. 12, '73.
Nov. 22, '72.
Dec. 19, '72.
Jan. 31, '73.
Aug. 20, '72.
Oct. 9, '72.

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Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1836

Henry H. Dent, 57,

Baltimore, Md.,

Nov. 19, '72.

1837

Thomas Tallman, 57,

Thompson, Conn.,

Oct. 9, '72.

1841

Jackson J. Bushnell, 58,

Beloit, Wise,

March 8, '73.

1842

James Hadley, 51,

New Haven, Conn.,

Nov. 14, '72.

1844

Edward A. Raymond, 47,

Rochester, N. Y.,

May 12, '73.

1847

Andrew T. Pratt, 46,

Constantinople, Turkey,

Dec. 5, '72.

1848

Edmund D. Stanton, 44,

New York City,

May 29, '73.

1849

Greorge A. Gordon, 42,

Huntsville, Ala.,

Oct. 5, '72.

((

John Waties, 45,

Columbia, S. C,

April 29, '73.

Erastus H. Weiser, 46,

York, Pa.,

July 11, 72.

1851

William P. Eiddell, 43,

Houston, Tex.,

June, '72.

R. Cresson Stiles, 42,

West Chester, Pa.,

April 16, '73.

1852

James H. Dwight, 42,

Englewood, N. J.,

Dec. 2, '72.

((

Reginald H. Hall, 39,

Memphis, Tenn.,

Feb. 16, '72.

N. W. Taylor Root, 43,

Portland, Me.,

Dec. 14, '72.

1853

Samuel A. L. L. Post, 43,

EUenville, N. Y.,

Jan. 8, '.73.

1855

Emil Spanier, 36,

New York City.

Oct. 13, '72.

1858

Samuel Caldwell, 38,

Peoria, 111.,

Sept. 13, '72.

1860

Edgar A. Finney, 36,

Norwalk, Conn.,

Sept. 21, '72.

]862

William R. Kimberly, 32,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

Aug. 26, '72.

1864

Thomas K. Boltwood, 29,

Hartford, Conn.,

Dec. 25, '72.

Alfred E. Walker, 31,

New Haven, Conn.,

March 5, '73.

1868

John M. Chapin, 28,

Springfield, Mass.,

Oct. 25, '72.

1869

John Eliason, 24,

Chestertown, Md.,

April 4, '73.

1870

H. Augustus Cleveland, 24,

Perry, N. Y.,

April 22, '73.

1872

Robert E. Coe, 22,

New Haven, Conn.,

Nov. 12, '72.

Medical Department.

1824

Nelson Carpenter, 71,

Warren, Mass.,

Aug. 21, '72.

1828

Thomas B. Butler, 66,

Norwalk, Conn.,

June 8, '73.

1829

Ira Gregory, 68,

Norwalk, Conn.,

Sept. 2, '72.

1846

Josiah H. Beeeher, 48,

New Haven, Conn.,

March 14, '73.

Law Department.
1846 James M. Woodward, 46, Wolcottville, Conn.,

Jan. 11, '73.

The whole number of deaths reported above is 80, and the average age of the
graduates of the Academical Department is 61-J- years.

Of the Academical graduates, 25 were Lawyers, 23 Clergymen, 7 Physicians,
and 7 in Business.

The deaths are distributed as follows : — in New York, 19 : Connecticut, 1 8 ;
Massachusetts, 7.; Pennsylvania, 5 ; Maryland and Ohio, 4 each; New Jersey
and South Carolina, 3 each ; Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Europe, 2 each ;
and the remaining 9 in as many different States.

The only surviving graduate of the last century is (class of 1 800) Rev. Thomas
Williams, Providence, R. I., born Nov. 5th, 1779.

INDEX

Class. Page.

1833 Abbot, Rufus, 95

1814 Atwood, John M., 19

1823 Badger, Milton, 86

1813 Barstow, ZedekiahS.,..- 78

1826 Beach, Isaac C, 88

1846 m Beecher, Josiah H., 112

1795 Bishop, Timothy, 71

1812 Bhss, George, 77

1864 Boltwood, Thomas K.,;.- 108

1833 Bradford, Edward A., _._ 95

1821 Brewer, Josiah, 83

1827 Bristol, Albert G., _ 90

1803 Burrall, Thomas D., 71

1841 Bushnell, Jackson J.,_.. 98

1835 Bushnell, Nehemiah, 95

1828 m Butler, Thomas B., Ill

1858 Caldwell, Samuel, 106

1824m Carpenter, Nelson, 110

1822 Case, Francis H.,__ 84

1828 Casey, Edward W., 91

1868 Chapin, John M., 109

1826 Clark, Edwin E., 89

1870 Cleveland, H. Augustus, 109

1872 Coe, Robert E., 110

1818 Day, Caleb, 81

1836 Doming, Henry C, 97

1836 Dent, Henry H., 97

1852 Dwight, James H., 103

1832 Eddy, Henry, 94

1828 Edwards, J. Erskine, __. 91

1869 Eliason, John, 109

1 860 Einney, Edgar A., 107

1820 Gadsden, Philip, 82

1849 Gordon, George A., 101

1829 m Gregory, Ira, 111

1818 Gurley, R. Randolph,... 81

1842 Hadley, James, 99

1852 HaU, Reginald H., 104

1815 Harleston, Edward, 80

1831 Harrison, Hugh T, 93

Class. Page.

1817 Hartshorne, Robert, 81

1808 Harvey, Joseph, 74

1827 Hoffman, Philip R,, 90

1827 Hogeboom, Henry, 90

1818 Huggins, James S., 82

1809 Hungerford, Wm., 76

1815 Huntington, Andrew, 80

1808 Ingersoll, Ralph I., 75

1862 Kimberly, Wm. R., 107

1814 Leavitt, Joshua, 79

1805 Marsh, Frederick, 72

1830 Neill, Benj. D., 92

1823 Nott, Handel G.,._ 86

1808 Parmelee, James H., 76

1822 Peet, Harvey P., 84

1853 Post, Samuel A. L. L.,._ 105

1847 Pratt, Andrew T.,. 100

1835 Prudden, George P., 96

1826 Pumpelly, George J., ... 89

1844 Raymond, Edward A.,.. 99

1807 Richards, Guy, 73

1851 RiddeU, Wm. P., 102

1829 Robinson, Alex. C, 92

1852 Root, N. W. Taylor, 105

1831 Saunders, EphraimD.,.. 93

1833 Southard, John H., 95

1855 Spanier, Emil, 106

1848 Stanton, Edmund D., 101

1851 Stiles, R. Cresson, 102

1811 Strong, Selah B., 77

1823 SuUivant, Wm. S., 87

1 824 Talcott, Joel, 88

1837 Tallman. Thomas, 98

1814 Titsworth, John, 80

1824 Van Rensselaer, Wm. P., 88

1864 Walker, Alfred E., 108

1807 Warner, Ely, 73

1849 Waties, John, 101

1849 Weiser, Erastus H., 102

1846 I Woodward, James, M.,.. 112

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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in June, 1 874,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 24th, 18T4.]

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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending June^ 1874, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hitherto unreported.

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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1805.

Gardiner Spring was the third child and second son of Rev.
Dr. Samuel Spring (Coll. of N. J. 1771) of Newburyport, Mass.,
where he was born, Feb. 24, 1785. His mother was Hannah, the
daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Y. C. 1749), of Hadley,
Mass. He entered college in 1800. but on the failure of his health
at the end of the first year, withdrew for a time, and then entered
the next class.

He remained in New Haven after graduation, studying law
with Judge Daggett, and supporting himself by private teach"
ing. Subsequently he passed fifteen months in the Bermudas,
where he established a school, and continued his legal studies.
Meantime he was married, May 25, 1806, to Susan, daughter of
Capt. Hanover Barney, of New Haven. He again returned to New
Haven, was admitted to the bar in Dec, 1808, and began practice.
In September, 1809, he listened to a powerful sermon by Rev.
Dr. John M. Mason, of New York, in the College Chapel, on the
duty of preaching the gospel ; and urged by an irresistible con-
viction , immediately closed his office, hastened to the Theological
Seminary just opened at And over, and applied himself to prepa-
ration for his new calling. Early in the following summer he
received a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of the Old Brick
Presbyterian Church in Beekman street (since removed to Murray

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Hill), N. Y. City, where he was ordained on the &th of August,
1810. With this church, although frequently called to posts of
honor and responsibility elsewhere— among others to the presi-
dencies of Hamilton and Dartmouth Colleges — he remained until
his death, which occurred in N. Y. City, Aug. 18, 18V3. During
the last twelve years, successive colleagues were associated with
him in the pastoral office.

Dr. Spring published more than a score of volumes, chiefly in
the line of his pulpit ministrations, several of which attained a wide
circulation. His latest work, entitled " Personal Reminiscences,"
appeared in 1866. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Hamilton College in 1819, and that of Doctor of Laws
Irom Lafayette College in 1853. He was twice married, and out-
lived eight of his fifteen children. His second wife died but a
few days before him.

1807.

James Fowler, eldest child of Samuel Fowler (Y. C. 1768)
and Jemima (Lyman) Fowler, was born in Westfield, Mass., in
1788, and died in the same town, October 18, 1873, aged 85.
He was the last survivor of his class.

He studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, but mainly
followed agricultural pursuits in his native town. From 1820 to
1830 he was successively a member of both houses of the State
Legislature. He was also one of the Governor's council, and filled
a number of local offices. He was especially interested in educa-
tion, and was from 1826 to 1838 one of the trustees of Amherst
College.

He married, first, Feb. 9, 1820, Lucy L., daughter of Major T.
J. Douglas, who died July 16, 1840. He married, secondly, Oct.
6, 1841, Charlotte, daughter of Capt. Silas Whitney. He leaves
one son, a graduate of this college in 1839, and one daughter.

1809.

Philo Judson, the second son of Philo and Emma (Minor)
Judson, was bom in Woodbury, (>onn., Jan. 14, 1782, and died in
Rocky Hill, Conn., March 12, 1874, aged 92 years.

He studied theology for about two years with Rev. Charles
Backus, D.D., of Somers, Conn., and was ordained Sept. 11, 1811,
pastor of the First Church in Ashford, Conn., where he continued
until March, 1833. He was installed over the Congregational

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Church in Hanover Society, in Lisbon, Conn., June 6, 1833, and
dismissed in July, 1834. He was settled over the church in Willi-
mantic. Conn., in December, 1834, and remained until March, 1839.
He afterwards supplied the church in North Stonington, Conn.,
from April, 1841, to April, 1845 ; and in 1846-7, for a little more
than a year, preached in Middle Haddam, Conn. Afterwards he
established himself in Rocky Hill, and for eight or nine years con-
tinued to preach as opportunity offered. The remaining portion
of his life was spent in retirement on his farm.

His first marriage was to Currence, daughter of David Curtiss,
of Woodbury. After her death, he married, March 15, 1866, Mrs.
Aulemia Barnard, of Hartford, Conn., who survives him.

1810.

Elias Hubbard Ely, son of Elihu and Anne Ely, was born in
Old Lyme, Conn., June 26, 1790.

After his graduation he studied law in the city of New York,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1814. He immediately
entered on the practice of his profession in that city, and was
thus continuously and successfully employed until 1864, a period
of half a century, when he retired from active pursuits. He
died at Portland, Me., Feb. 8, 1874, in the 84th year of his age.

Mr. Ely married, Nov. 5, 1832, Eliza, daughter of Henry Nichols,
of East Haddam, Conn., and had four children, two sons and two
daughters.

Ammi Linsley, was bom March 12, 1789, in North Branford,
then a part of Branford, Conn.

He was the son of Rufus and Abigail Linsley, the sixth child in
a family of nine children. The same year he graduated, he began
the study of theology with the Rev. Mr. Pinneo of Milford, and in
the fall of 1811 removed to Washington in this State, and prose-
cuted his studies with the Rev. Ebenezer Porter. When Dr.
Porter was invited to a professorship at Andover in 1812, Mr.
Linsley went to reside in the spring of that year with the Rev.
Bennet Tyler, in South Britain, and continued his studies with
him until October, when he was licensed to preach. After preach-
ing in several churches in New York and Conn., he was ordained
and installed pastor, July 1.9, 1815, of the Congregational Church
in East Hartland, Conn., where he remained until ill health and
inadequate support compelled him to resign his pastorate, in 1835.

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He continued to preach in the winter of 1836 and 1837 in
Wolcott, Conn. For two years and a half (1837 to 1839), he
supplied the Church in Prospect, Conn. Still preaching occa-
sionally, and teaching school, he resided from 1839 to 1842 at
North Haven, Conn., and devoted himself to the education of
his children. In 1865 he removed to New Haven, but returned
again to North Haven in 1857, where he remained until his death,
which occurred in that town, December 21, 1873, at the age of 84
years.

He was married, Aug. 23, 1815, to Abigail Minor, of Milford,
who died in North Haven, Feb. 20, 1868. They had four chil-
dren, two sons who graduated at this college in 1843, and two
daughters. One of the sons and the two daughters are now living.

1813.

Sherman Converse was born in Thompson, Conn., April 17,
1790.

Soon after graduating he settled in New Haven, and became
proprietor and editor of the Connecticut Journal, and the head of
the largest publishing house in New England. He published,
among other works, the Christian Spectator, Silliman's Journal,
and Swift's Digest; and in 1828 Noah Webster's American
Dictionary, the first quarto edition in two large volumes, from the
original manuscript, and under the supervision of the author. This
last was a work of great magnitude, requiring a heavy outlay of
means and labor, and making a notable event in the history of
the American press.

Mr. Converse removed to the city of New York in 1828, and
was for several years actively engaged in business of various kinds,
both in this country and in Canada. About the year 1850 he
became crippled by a severe attack of rheumatism, which made
him an invalid for the rest of his life, and for ten years before his
death he never left his room. Besides suffering from disease, he
was sorely tried by grave financial embarrassments, but he bore
all his trials with the patience and resignation of a true Christian.

He was married, in 1820, to Ann Huntington Perkins, daughter
of Samuel Perkins (Y. C, 1785), of Windham, Conn., who, with an
infant child, died in the summer of 1821. In 1824 he married
Eliza, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Nott, D.D., of Franklin, Conn.
She died in 1845, leaving one son, a graduate of this college, in
1850.

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Since the spring of 1863, Mr. Converse has resided with his son
in Boston Highlands, Mass. He died, Dec. 10, 1873, after an
illness of three days.

1814.

David Shelton Edwards, son of Hezekiah and Martha Ed-
wards, was born in Trumbull, Conn., June, 22, 1794, and died at
his homestead, on Chestnut Hill, in Trumbull, near Bridgeport,
March 18, 1874.

He studied medicine at this College, receiving his diploma in

1817, and entered the U. S. Navy, as Assistant Surgeon, July 30,

1818. He was promoted Surgeon, May 6, 1825, and remained in
that position until his death. At the beginning of the Mexican
war he was attached to the army and accompanied General Scott,
as Medical Director of the 4th Division. During the war of the
rebellion he was stationed at New Bedford, Mass., at the U. S.
Naval Rendezvous. In 1869, he was appointed President of the
Naval Medical Board of Examination. For several years before
his death he was retired from active duty, and spent his summers
at Chestnut Hill, and his winters in Washington.

John Law was bom in New London, Conn., Oct. 28, 1796; he
died in Evansville, Ind., Oct. 7, 1873. He was a great-grandson
of Governor Jonathan Law, of Connecticut, who graduated at
Harvard College in 1695 ; while his grandfather, Hon. Richard
Law, and his father, Hon. Lyman Law, were graduated at Yale.
His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Amasa Learned (Y. C.
1772).

He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Con-
necticut bar in 1817. But the West proved more attractive, and
in October, ] 817, he left home for the new State of Indiana. He
was admitted to practice in December, and settled at Vincennes.
He was appointed prosecuting attorney for the circuit court within
two months, and rose rapidly into prominence at the bar. As
early as 1824 he was a member of the State legislature, and in
1830 was elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, an office
which he held by re-elections for eight years, and finally resigned.
In 1851, he removed to Evansville, where he resided until his
death. He was appointed by President Pierce in 1855 Judge of
the Court of Land Claims, and in 1860 and in 1862 was elected a
Representative in Congress. His public career, as well as his
private life, gained the cordial respect of all who knew him.

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Judge Law was married, Nov. 24, 1822, to Sarah, daughter of
Gov. Nathaniel Ewing, of Vincennes.

1816.

Henry Kellogg, the youngest child of Daniel and Mercy
(Eastman) Kellogg, was born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 10, 1794.
At the age of about 9 years he was placed in the family of a sister
in Newfane, Vt., where he was prepared for college.

After graduation he returned to Newfane and studied for the
legal profession, and, being admitted to practice, settled in Ben-
nington, Vt., in 1818, where he resided for half a century. He
here made the acquaintance of the family of James Hubbell, Esq.,
and married, Jan. 27, 1825, his daughter, Margaret V,, and after-
wards (Oct. 16, 183 1 ) her sister Anne Maria Hubbell, who survives
him. Of his nine children but four are now living.

During his residence in Bennington, Mr. Kellogg, in addition
to an extensive practice in the law, held the offices of Postmaster
and of Clerk of the Supreme and County Courts. In later years
he removed to the residence of his son, in Troy, N. Y., where he
died, Nov. 4th, 1873.

James Henry Mitchell, son of James and Maty (Fosdick)
Mitchell, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., Feb. 26, 1796.

After graduation he left home for Ohio, settling first in Lebanon,
where he taught school for some five years, and thence removing
to Dayton, where after a residence of 53 years he died, on
the 13th of Oct., 1873. He was a civil engineer by profession.

While in Lebanon he married Miss Martha Skinner, of that
place, who died March 5, 1 866. Of their nine children six are
still living.

1816.

William Abbott Moseley, son of Dr. Elizur Moseley (Y. C,
1786), was bom in Whitesboro', Oneida County, N. Y.,in 1799.

He studied law at home, and began practice in Bufi*alo in 1822.
In 1834 he was drawn into political life by being elected to the
State Legislature. Again, in 1837, he was returned to the State
Senate, for the term of four years, and believing his duties as
Senator (and one of the Court of Appeals) somewhat incompatible
with his professional employments, he relinquished his practice,
which he did not again resume.

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Declining a re-election, he made an extended tour in Europe,
and the week after his return (in 1842) was nominated for Con-
gress, and served in that body for four years. He spent the rest
of his life in Buffalo and abroad, and died at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, N. Y. city, Nov. 19, 1873. He was twice married.

1817.

Samuel Huntington Perkins, son of Samuel Perkins (Y. C,
1786) and Anna (Huntington) Perkins, was born in Windham,
Conn., Feb. 17, 1797, and died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 22,
1874.

He spent a year in teaching in a private family in North Caro-
lina, and then settled in Philadelphia, teaching and studying law
with Josiah Randall. He was admitted to the bar, December 13,
1820, and continued in full practice until a few years before his
death. Outside of his professional labors, he was active in many
benevolent enterprises. He was also one of the Directors of the
Girard College from its organization in 1847 till 1861.

Mr. Perkins was twice married. He leaves one son, who
graduated at this college in 1848, and one daughter.

1820.

Jared Foote, son of Dr. Joseph Foote (Y. C. 1787) and Mary
(Bassett) Foote, was born in North Haven, Conn., Jan. 2, 1800.

On the evening after his graduation, he was married to Re-
bekah Beecher, of New Haven, who survives him. They had six
children, five sons and one daughter, all of whom are now living,
excepting the eldest, a son, who died in 1841.

After spending a short time in teaching in his native State, Mr.
Foote settled in North Haven, and became a partner in a manu-
facturing enterprise, which did not prove successful. His subse-
quent life was spent chiefly on his farm in Hamden, Conn., where
he died, July 28, 1873, after an illness of only a single day.

1821.

Ornan Eastman, fifth son of John and Hephzibah (Keyes)
Eastman, was bom in Amherst, Mass., March 27, 1796. He was
prepared for Yale at the Academy in that town, afterwards char-
tered as Amherst College.

He studied theology at Andover, Mass., graduating in 1824, and
served for the following year in organizing auxiliaries to the Amer-

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ican Board for Foreign Missions, in New Hampshire. He then
entered on his life-long work in the service of the American Tract
Society, and after employment as Secretary of the New England
Branch in Boston (where he was ordained as an evangelist, Aug.
27, 1828), and as General Agent for the Mississippi Valley^ was
elected May, 1832, Financial Secretary. In this work he labored
untiringly until May, 1870, when he voluntarily laid down his
heavier responsibilities, and thenceforward as Honorary Secretary
attended only to such lighter duties as his growing years permitted.
After less than a week's illness, he died at his home in New York
City, April 24, 1874.

Mr. Eastman was married in Marblehead, Mass., in November,
1832, to Mary, daughter of Benjamin T. Reed. She survives him,
with two sons (one of whom graduated at this college in 1854)
and three daughters.

Edwabd Rockwell was the eldest child of Deacon Alpha and
Rhoda (Ensign) Rockwell, of Winsted, Conn., and was bom in
Colebrook, Conn., June 30, 1801.

He studied law in New Haven, under Seth P. Staples, Esq., and
Judge Hitchcock, and was admitted to the bar in 1825. A year
or two later he removed to Youngstown, Trumbull County, Ohio,
where he practiced his profession until 1834, when he became
interested in mercantile affairs and in the manufacture of iron.
From 1855 to 1867 he served as Secretary of the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh Railroad Company. In the latter year, the condition
of his health induced him to resign and to accept a responsible
position in a large commercial house in New York City ; but con-
tinued ill health obliged him soon to retire. The next few years
were spent in foreign travel, and he finally returned in increased
feebleness to Winsted, where he died at the house of his sister,
Feb. 25, 1874.

Mr. Rockwell was married, in 1828, to Matilda du Plessis Salter,
of New Haven, who died about 1846. Of their five children, three
are still living.

John Smith, son of James and Sarah (Hanmer) Smith, was
born in Wethersfield, Conn., Sept. 2, 1796, and died of pneumonia,
at the house of his son, in Stamford, Conn., Feb. 20, 1874.

He studied theology for two years at Andover, Mass., and then
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the Fairfield (Conn.) East Association, April 24, 1824. He was
ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, N. J.,
March 8, 1826, and resigned in August, 1828. He was installed
over the 1st Congregational Church in Exeter, N. H., March 12,
1829, and dismissed at his own request, Feb. 14, 1838. After a
year spent as an agent of the American Tract Society, he was
settled in Feb., 1839, over the Congregational Church in Wilton,
Conn., where he continued until June, 1848. From July 26, 1848,
to Sept. 18, 1850, he was pastor. of the Congregational Church in
Kingston, N. H., and on the 9th of October, 1850, took the pas-
toral charge of the First Church in York, Me., which office he
resigned early in 1855. He then came to Stamford, Conn., to live
with his children, and after this preached but little, his most con-
tinuous service being in the supply of the pulpit of the church in
Long Bridge, Stamford, from 1856 to 1858.

Mr. Smith was twice married; first, in Trenton, N. J., Sept. 11,
1 826, to Esther Mary, daughter of Hon. Dickinson Woodruff. She
died in Wilton, in 1841, after the birth of her sixth child; and he
married, two years later, Louisa Gridley, of Middletown, Conn.,
who died without children.

1822.

JuDAH Lee Bliss, son of Dr. Judah Bliss, was bom in North
Wilbraham, Mass., March 16, 1803, and died in N. Y. city, June
4, 1873. His mother was Lucy, daughter of Rev. Dr. Andrew
Lee (Y. C. 1766), of Lisbon, Conn.

In accordance with the desire of his father, that his son should
follow his own profession, he studied medicine at the Berkshire
Medical School, and graduated in 1825. He, however, never
practiced his profession, but entered into mercantile life in Blen-
heim, Canada, and subsequently in N. Y. city. Satisfied by his.
losses that this was not his calling, he went in 1830 to Adams ;
County, Mississippi, where he remained as a teacher in private
families in or near Natchez, for twenty years, and succeeded in
accumulating a considerable property, which was afterwards
seriously diminished by the outbreak of the war. The rest of his
life was spent in retirement, chiefly in N. Y. city. He visited
Europe in 1851, and again a few years later.

Mr. Bliss married, Oct. 20, 1854, at Copake Iron Works,
Columbia County, N. Y., Aurelia Hollister, widow of Lemuel
Pomeroy, of Pittsfield, Mass. She survives him. They had no
children.

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Elizur Goodrich Smith, son of Rev. Dr. David Smith (Y.
C. 1Y95), was born in Durham, Conn., where his father was then
pastor. May 30, 1802. His mother was Catharine, daughter of
Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich (Y. C. 1752). He entered Middlebury
College in 1817, but' on the removal of President Davis, came to
New Haven the following year.

After graduating, he taught a year at Bacon Academy, Col-
chester, Conn., and in 1824 entered Yale Theological Seminary,
where he graduated in course in 1827. He was licensed to preach
Aug. 29, 1826, and was ordained to the ministry, in New Haven,
May 7, 1829. He had charge of the church in Ogdensburgh,
N. Y., for the next three years, and married, Sept. 13, 1830,
Adeline Denny, of that place, who died Nov. 4, 1831. On the
failure of his health, he returned to New Haven, and was from
1833 to 1838 the editor of the "Quarterly Christian Spectator,"
and a large contributor to its pages. He married June 7, 1837,
Susan C. Wadsworth, of Durham, who survives him. From 1838
to 1842, he was engaged in literary pursuits in New York City.
He then, in the winter of 1842-43, went to Washington, as tem-
porary clerk in the Patent Office. After a year's service, he was
appointed in June, 1844, chief clerk, and a year later, agricultural
clerk and librarian. 'During these years (until 1850) he accom-
plished a useful work in the formation of the Patent Office Library
and in the preparation of five successive Agricultural Reports of
the Commissioner of Patents. From 1850 to 1857, he was clerk
in the General Land Office, and was then, after the election of
President Buchanan, dismissed for political and religious reasons.
He continued to reside in Washington, employing himself in
various literary labors, and in 1860 was reinstated in a clerkship
at the Patent Office, which he held until his death. He died in
Washington, after an illness of about three weeks, from a disease
of the heart, Aug. 26, 1873, at the age of 71. His children, one
by his first, and two by his second marriage, died before him.

Aside from the thoroughness with which his official duties were
performed, the scholarly tastes and habits which he carried through
life were specially noteworthy. He accumulated a library of about
14,000 volumes, said to have been one of the best, if not the
largest, of the private libraries in the city. By his will a valuable
portion of this library, numbering some 1800 volumes, was given
to the Divinity School of Yale College.

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John Todd, youngest child of Dr. Timothy and Phebe (Buel)
Todd, was born in Rutland, Vt., October 9, 1800. In his child-
hood his father died, and it was only by his own exertions that he
was able to secure a liberal education.

From college he went to Andover Seminary, where he com-
pleted the three years' course, and afterwards remained for nearly
a year engaged in advanced study.

On the 3d of Jan., 1827, he was ordained first pastor of the
Union Church in Groton, Mass., and in the following March was
married to Mary S., daughter of Rev. Joab Brace (Y. C. 1804), of
Newington, Conn. He resigned his charge at Groton, Jan. 8,
1833, and on the 30th of the same month was installed over the
Edwards Church, Northampton, Mass. Here he remained until
Nov. 4, 1836, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he was
installed pastor of the First Congregational Church, on the 1 7th
of the same month. This position he resigned in Nov., 1841,
and soon after removed to Pittsfield, Mass., where he took charge
of the First Congregational Church, Jan. 1, 1842, and was in-
stalled, Feb. 22. In 1870 he proposed to the church to lay down
the active duties of pastor, but at their request his resignation was
deferred, until in March, 1872, impaired health enforced his retire-
ment. He died in Pittsfield, after an illness of three months
Aug. 24, 1873, in his 73d year. His widow survives him, with
five of their nine children, one of whom graduated at this college
in 1855.

In 1845 Mr. Todd received the degree of D.D. from Williams
College, and was elected one of the trustees of that institution,
which ofiice he held until 1872.

Dr. Todd was remarkably successful as a pastor, and also wielded
a powerful influence as an author. He published over thirty
volumes, besides many sermons and pamphlets. His most widely
known book, "The Student's Manual," was first published in
1835.

Thomas Tileston Waterman died August 2, 1873. He was
the son of Rev. Elijah (Y. C. 1791) and Lucy (Abbe) Waterman,
and was born in Windham, Conn., Sept. 24, 1801.

In 1806, Bridgeport, Conn., became his home. Here he was
prepared for college in a private school kept by his father, with
whom, after graduating, he pursued a course of theological study.
He was licensed to preach by the Fairfield East Association, June
1, 1825, and was ordained pastor of what afterwards became the

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Richmond Street Congregational Church, in Providence, R. I.,
Dec. 13, 1826.

In Jan., 1837, he removed to Philadelphia, Pa., the change being
made necessary by the state of his health, the result of a severe
sickness. Here he remained until early in 1843, as pastor of the
Fifth Presbyterian Church. Returning to Providence, he was
instrumental in organizing the Fourth Congregational Church,
and continued with them until the spring of 1852. He then
removed to Galena, 111., and on Dec. 15, was installed pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church. Leaving Galena early in 1856,
he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Winona,
Minn., and was active in securing the building of the house of
worship upon which was raised the first spire north of Dubuque,
and west of the Mississippi river.

In 1857 he returned to the East, and became pastor of the
Congregational Church in Danielsonville, Conn. In 1861 he
removed to Spencer, Mass., and was installed pastor of the Con-
gregational Church there, June 5, closing his labors in Dec, 1862.
In 1863, he removed to Monroe, Conn., of which place he was a
resident until his death. He acted as pastor of the Congregational
Church there until the latter part of 1868. During this time and
afterwards, he assisted in establishing churches in Springfield, 111.,
and Marshall, Mich. In the last three years of his life, he was
prostrated several times by severe attacks of a chronic complaint,
but continued to preach occasionally, until very near the end of
life. He died in Stratford, Conn., at the residence of his daughter,
which he had made an occasional and temporary home for a year
or more previous.

He married, Dec. 11, 1827, Delia, daughter of Dan Storrs, of
Mansfield Center, Conn. His widow, a daughter and four sons
survive him. One son was graduated at this college in 1855;
another at Beloit College in 1856.

William Leeds Wight, third son of Hezekiah L. and Nancy
(Leeds) Wight, was born in Richmond, Va., March 17, 1802.

He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, receiv-
ing his diploma in 1825, and remained for some time in attendance
at the Philadelphia almhouse. After a year in Europe, he settled
as a practicing physician in Goochland County, Va., where he died
(near Dover Mills) suddenly, Oct. 2, 1873.

He married, Dec. 7, 1834, Grace M., daughter of Samuel Hughes,
of New Haven. She died in New Haven, May 19, 1874. One of
their two sons is still living.

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1823.

Edward Dickinson was the eldest son of Hon, Samuel F. Dickin-
son (Dartmouth Coll., 1195) and .Lucretia (Gunn) Dickinson, and
was born in Amherst, Mass., Jan. 1, 1803. He entered college
from Amherst Academy, at the beginning of the Sophmore year.

He studied law for two years with his father, and for a third
year in Northampton, Mass., and then established himself in his
native place, where he remained in practice until his death. As
early as 1835 he was elected the treasurer of Amherst College,
and held the position until the present year ; having by his judi-
cious management proved himself one of the most efficient friends of
that institution. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Amherst in 1863.

In 1838 and 1839 he was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives, and in 1842 and 1843 of the State Senate.
In 1846 and 1847 he was one of the Governor's Council, and from
1853 to 1855 a Representative in Congress. As the leading citi-
zen of the town, he was elected in 1873 as a member of the State
Legislature, for the main purpose of securing to the town the
advantages of the Massachusetts Central Railroad ; and after a
careful speech in the House, on the morning of June 16, 1874, in
the interests of this railroad in connection with the Hoosac Tun-
nel, he was attacked with apoplexy, and died at his hotel before
evening.

He married, May 6, 1828, Emily, daughter of Joel Norcross, of
Monson, Mass., who survives him. One son and two daughters
are also livinof.

Gordon Hayes was born in Granby, Conn., April 24, 1798.
He took a full course at the Andover Theological Seminary,
graduating in 1827, and after supplying for a time the church in
Castleton, Yt.^ was ordained over the Presbyterian church in
Cambridge, N. Y., July 30, 1828. He remained there but a.
single year, preferring to be connected with the Congregational
denomination, and in July, 1829, he was called to the church in
Washington, Conn., where he preached until 1851. He then took
charge of a seminary in Bennington, Yt., for two or three years,
and then supplied for one year the church in Pownal, and for three
years the church in East Arlington, in the same State. In 1860
he removed to Iowa, whither all his children had preceded him.
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was spent with his son in Muscatine, where he died after an
ilhiess of several months, May 26, 1874.

While settled in Cambridge, he was married to Mary D. Fassett,
of Bennington, who did a few years before him. Of their children
four sons and one daughter are still living.

Edwards Johnson, son of Samuel William Johnson, and
Susanna, daughter of Pierpont Edwards, was bom in Stratford,
Conn., Feb. 20, 1804.

After his graduation, he studied law at the Litchfield Law
School, but never applied for admission to the bar. He carried on
a farm in his native town for a number of years, and afterwards
was engaged in the iron business.

He married, Sept. 29, 1830, Ann Johnson Dowdall, daughter of
George R. Dowdall, who survives him. They had four children,
three of whom are now living. He died, June 24, 18V3, at his
residence in Stratford.

Addison Hayes White, youngest son of Hon. Asa and Zilpah
(Hayes) White, of Williamsburg, Mass., was born in that town,
Aug, 23, 1 803.

He studied law and practiced for several years in Tennessee,
residing principally in Covington, Tipton County. In 1839, he
returned to the family homestead in Williamsburg, where he
resided, engaged in farming and in the practice of his profession,
until his death, which occurred in that town, Feb. 2, 1873.

He married, first, Feb. 27, 1 833, Matilda J», daughter of Rev.
Samuel Brown, of Tipton County, Tenn. She died Dec. 10, 1837.
He married secondly, April 30, 1840, Clarissa, daughter of Ariel
Taylor, of Williamsburg. His only child, a son by his second
marriage, is still living.

1824.

William Hayden Rockwell, son of Charles and Sarah (Hay-
den) Rockwell, was bom in South Windsor, Conn., Feb. 15, 1800„
the only son in a family of eight children.

He entered college in the Junior year, and after receiving his
degree taught school for two years in Dudley, Mass. He then
attended a course of medical lectures in this college, and entered
the office of Dr. Thomas Hubbard, of Pomfret, Conn, (afterwards
professor). But almost immediately (in July, 1827) he was ap-
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Insane, where he pursued his studies under Dr. Eli Todd. In the
winter of 1830-31 he attended a second course of lectures at the
Yale Medical School, and received the degree of M.D. He began
practice in Durham, Conn., but in 1833 was recalled to his former
position at Hartford, which he held until appointed, in June, 1836,
Superintendent of the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, at Brat-
tleboro'. This relation he sustained until his death, at Brattle-
boro,' Nov. 30, 1873.

Dr. Rockwell was married in 1835 to Mrs. Maria F. Chapin,
daughter of Peter Farnara, Esq., of Salisbury, Conn., and had by
this marriage one daughter and two sons.

1826.

James Fitch Bunnell, third son of Rufus Bunnell (Y. C. 1797)
and of Diantha (Fitch) Bunnell, was born in Bloorafield, N. Y.,
March 27, 1807. He came to college from New York city, to
which place his father removed in 1817.

He studied law in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the
bar in New York, but did not pursue the profession. He was
engaged in banking until 1832, when he began the manufacture
of woolen goods, near Bridgeport, Conn. He retired from busi-
ness in 1846, on account of the failure of his health, and continued
to reside in Bridgeport. He died in Middletown, Conn., April 9,
1874, aged 67. He was unmarried.

William Poetee Bueeall, son of Hon. Wm. M. and Abigail
(Porter, Stoddard) Burrall, was born in Canaan, Conn., Sept. 18,
1806.

Immediately upon graduation he began the study of the law
with his father. After one year, he entered the office of Hon.
Samuel Church (afterwards Chief Justice of the State), in Salis-
bury, and subsequently attended a course of lectures at the Litch-
field Law-school, and was admitted to the bar of Litchfield County
in April, 1829. He practiced law in his native town until October,
1838, when he removed to Bridgeport, Conn., to undertake the
Presidency of the Housatonic Railroad Company, then just organ-
ized. He held this office until 1852 or '53, when he resigned in
consequence of the pressure of other engagements. He was also
connected with the N. Y. and N. H. Railroad during its construc-
tion and the earlier years of its operation, and at the same time,
and later, with the Illinois Central Railroad, first as Treasurer,
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and afterwards as President. In 1862 he was chosen Vice-Presi-
dent of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, and at the death
of the President in 1 868, succeeded to the vacant office, and finally
became Vice-President of the New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford Railroad, upon the consolidation of the companies. This
position he retained with distinguished credit until his sudden
death, from apoplexy, in Hartford, March 3, 1874. He had re-
moved his residence from Bridgeport to Salisbury, Conn., in 1859,
and had subsequently represented that town several times in the
General Assembly, and had also been a member of the State
Senate.

In May, 1831, he married Miss Harriet Holley, daughter of
John M. Holley, of Salisbury, who is left his widow. Five of his
six children are also living.

Sidney Mills, son of Gardner and Mary (Skinner) Mills, was
bom in Canton, Conn., March 29, 1799.

He studied theology with Rev. Grant Power, at Goshen, Conn.,
and with Rev. George E. Pierce, of Harwinton, Conn., and was
licensed to preach by the Litchfield South Association, in 1831.
His life was occupied with the duties of his profession, and in in-
struction. He was connected with the Presbyterian denomination.

He died at his residence in Clifton, Va., March 25, 1874. He
married Miss Laura P. Fuller, and had four children.

1827.

Robert Kerr Richards, son of Abraham and Sarah (Arnold)
Richards, of N. Y. city, was born in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 5, 1806 ;
and died of consumption, at the residence of his son in Brooklyn,
N. Y., March 5, 1874.

Soon after leaving college he entered the Law School at Litch-
field, Conn., and after a year or more removed to Rhode Island,
where he studied in the office of Attorney-General Greene for
about a year longer. He then established himself, in the autumn
of 1830, in St. Louis, where he practiced his profession and
became connected with the press of the city.

While in New York on a visit, he married, Oct. 30, 1832, the
daughter of Gen. Anthony Lamb. In 1833 he removed from St.
Louis to New York, thence in 1834 to Chicago, and in 1836 went
southward, spending some time in Washington, D. C, and in
Florida, and finally settling in Brooklyn, N. Y. Owing to a

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severe malady, he was advised to try the effect of a long sea-
voyage, and in Jan., 1849, embarked for San Francisco. A few
years' residence there nearly restored him to health, and he again
returned, in 1858, to New York.

His wife died many years before him. Two sons and a daughte r
are still living.

1828.

John Cleveland Palmer, son of William and Dorothy Palmer,
was born in East Haddam, Conn., Nov. 17, 1807: died in Hart-
ford, Conn., Aug. 12, 1873, after a brief illness.

After graduating, he entered the Yale Law School, and in 1831
began the practice of law in his native town, which he repre-
sented several times in the Legislature. He served for two years
as Bank Commissioner, and in 1846 was chosen Judge of the County
Court. He was appointed School Fund Commissioner in 1850,
and again in 1853.

Having been elected President of the Sharp's Rifle Company,
he removed to Hartford in 1855, and retained an official connec-
tion with the company during the rest of his life.

He married, in 1831, Mary Ann, daughter of David Hoadley, at
that time a leading architect of New Haven, who survives him ,
with two of their three children.

1829.

Edwin Randolph Gilbert, son of Hon. Peyton R. and Anna
(Porter) Gilbert, was born in Gilead, a parish of Hebron, Conn.,
Feb. 10, 1808.

He entered the Yale Divinity School in 1829 and completed the
course in 1832. On the 3d of Oct., 1832, he was ordained over the
Congregational Church in Wallingford, Conn., and retired as
pastor emeritus, Jan. 1, 1874. His long pastorate was marked by
great fidelity and judiciousness. He died of pneumonia at his
residence in Wallingford, April 17, 1874, after an illness of eight
days. The sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Dr.
Leonard Bacon, who also preached the sermon at his ordination,
is to be published. From August, 1849, until his death, Mr.
Gilbert was a member of the Corporation of Yale College.

He was married. May 7, 1833, to Ann S. Langdon, of Hartford,
Conn., by whom he had four children. She died Feb. 13, 1841.
His second marriage was with Dorcas S., daughter of Rev. Aaron.

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Dutton (Y. C. 1803) of Guilford, July 26, 1842. She died July 10,
1849, having had three children. He married again, Sept. 7, 1 852,
Clara, daughter of William Baldwin, of New Haven, who died
Aug. 19, 1864. Pie was again married, Oct. 16, 1865, to Henrietta
M. Carrington, of Wallingford, who survives him. Two sons, one
by his first and one by his second marriage, are also living, the
younger of whom is a graduate of this college.

1832.

James Madison Bunker was born in Nantucket, Mass., March
5, 1811, and died at the same place, Nov. 19, 1873.

He was educated as a lawyer at the Cambridge (Mass.) Law
School, where he graduated in 1835. He practiced his profession
in his native town, and also taught school there for some years.
He afterwards removed to New Bedford, Mass., where he con-
tinued to practice law. He again returned to Nantucket, and at
the time of his death was Judge of the Probate Court. He left
several children.

Edwakd Osborne Dunning, son of Capt. Luman and Elizabeth
(Osborne) Dunning, was born in New Haven, Conn., March 12,
1810, and died in the same city, March 23, 1874.

He studied theology in the Yale Divinity School, where he
graduated in 1835. In June, 1840, he was ordained pastor of the
First Congregational Church in Rome, N. Y., but was dismissed
in the next year. From 1842 to 1846 he was settled over the
Reformed Church in Canajoharie, N. Y. He was afterwards for
many years employed by the American Bible Society as an agent
in the Southern States, his family residence being in New Haven.
During the late civil war he entered the service as a chaplain, and
was stationed at the hospital in Cumberland, Md. In the last
few years of his life he became interested in the exploration of
ancient mounds in various parts of the South.

He married, in 1839, Miss Catharine Bent, of Middlebury, Vt.,
who survives him, with four of their five children.

Henry Lawrence Hitchcock was born in Burton, Geauga
County, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1813. His father, Hon. Peter Hitch-
cock, a native of Cheshire, Conn., graduated at this college in
1801, and emigrated to Burton in 1806, becoming afterwards a
member of Congress and Chief Justice of the State. His mother
was Nabby, daughter of Elam Cook, of Cheshire.

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On his graduation he returned home and for two years had
charge of the Burton Academy, at which he had been prepared
for college. He remained in town a year longer, engaged partly
in teaching privately, and partly in studying theology. In the
autumn of 1835 he entered Lane Theological Seminary, then under
the care of Dr. Lyman Beecher, where he spent two years. In 1837
he was licensed to preach, in Burton, and during the same year
was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Morgan,
Ashtabula County, where he labored for two and a half years. In
1840 he was called to Columbus to take charge of the Second
Presbyterian Church, then recently formed. Here he continued,
and with ' remarkable success, until elected President of Western
Reserve College, May 31, 1855. He found the college in a lan-
guishing condition, and by his untiring energy relieved it of debt
and placed it on a firmer foundation. Besides his duties of Pre-
sident, he was the College Pastor, and instructed in the depart-
ment of Natural Theology and the Evidences of Christianity.
Under this burden of labor, his health declined, and he spent the
winter of 1867 in Europe, remaining abroad until June. For
three years longer he continued at the head of the college, and then
insisted on retiring, retaining only the duties of pastor and pro-
fessor. He died at Hudson, after two weeks' illness, of typhoid
fever, July 6, 1873, in the sixtieth year of his age. He received
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1855.

President Hitchcock was married in Dec, 1837, to Miss Clarissa
M., daughter of Stephen Ford, of Burton, Ohio. He had eleven
children, of whom five, with their mother, are now living. Two
of their sons were graduated at Western Reserve College in
1859 ; the elder of whom is a clergyman, and the younger was
killed at the battle of Stone River, in Tennessee, Dec. 31, 1862.

[1833. For notice of E. D. Gaednee, see p. 155.]

1834.

Churchill Coffing was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Salisbury,
Conn. He was the son of John C. and Maria (Birch) Coffing.

He studied law at the Yale Law School, and settled, in 1839, in
Peru, III, where he resided until the spring of 1870, when he
removed to Chicago, where he died. May 17, 1873, of an attack of
rheumatism, inducing dropsy around the heart.

Mr. Coffing was married July 8, 1841, to Asenath C, daughter
of Daniel Brewster, of Salisbury. She survives him with a son and
a daughter.

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Thomas Henry Totten was born in New Haven, Conn.,
March 4, 1815. He was the youngest son of Gilbert Totten and
Mary (Rice) Totten.

After his graduation, he pursued his medical studies three years
under Dr. Eli Ives, of the Yale Medical School.

On receiving his degree he settled in Pottsville, Pa., remain-
ing there till ill health compelled his returning to his native air,
where he was obliged to remain some months. A second trial of
the climate of Pottsville convinced him that it was impossible for
him to remain there, or even to endure the fatigue and exposure
of his profession. He therefore returned to New Haven and
relinquished practice, except occasionally among friends. He
never regained his health and died at his family residence, March
26, 1874. He was unmarried.

1835.

Samuel Ware Fisher, son of Rev. Samuel Fisher, D.D., a
distinguished Presbyterian clergyman, and of Alice (Coggswell)
Fisher, was born in Morristown, N. J., April 5, 1814.

He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1836, and after
nearly two years there went to the Union Seminary in N. Y. city,
where he graduated in 1839. Before leaving the Seminary, he was
called to the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian Church in West
Bloomfield, now Mont Clair, N. J. He was ordained its first
pastor in April, 1839, and remained there three years and a half.
He was next installed, Oct. 13, 1843, pastor of the Fourth Presby-
terian Church in Albany, N. Y. While here, he was called,
Oct. 26, 1846, to the Second Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati,
Ohio, the charge of which had lately been laid down by Dr.
Lyman Beecher. Over this church he was installed in April,
1847. He resigned July 19, 1858, to accept the Presidency of
Hamilton College. This office he held until 1866, when he was
installed (Nov. 15) pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Utica, N. Y., where he continued until May 11, 1870, when he
was stricken down by paralysis. In this enfeebled state, physi-
cally weak, and powerless in speech, bat mentally strong, he
lingered until Jan. 18, 1874, when he died suddenly, without a
moment's warning, at College Hill, near Cincinnati, where the
last years of his life had been spent.

Dr. Fisher was first married, October 20, 1839, to Miss Annie
C. Johnson, of Morristown, N. J., who died Aug. 31, 1840. He

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was afterwards married, May 18, 1842, to Miss Jane Jackson, of
Newark, N. J., who with four of their eight children survives
him.

He received the degree of D.D. from Miami University in 1852,
and that of LL.D. from the University of New York in 1866.

Ethelbekt Smith Mills was born in N. Y. city in 1816, and
was drowned at Coney Island, N. Y., July 15, 1873.

After graduation he studied law in N. Y. city, and entered into
practice in partnership with Hon. Ebenezer Seeley (Y. C. 1814).
Subsequently he became better known as a member of the firm of
Bradford, Mills, and WoodhuU, and continued in practice until
1868.

On the 27th of June, 1849, he married Miss Ellen S. Low, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, and became a resident of that city. At the time
of his death he was President of the Brooklyn Trust Company.
He was also President of the Brooklyn Art Association, to the
objects of which he had devoted himself with a characteristic
energy and enthusiasm.

His wife and two sons survive him.

1836.

Frederick Buel was born in Sheffield, Mass., Jan. 4, 1813.
Three years later the family removed to Litchfield, Conn., where
his childhood was spent. Later, he came to New Haven as a
merchant's clerk, and while thus engaged became a Christian at
the age of 16, and resolved to devote himself to the gospel min-
istry.

After graduation, he taught for a while, and then studied theol-
ogy under Rev. Dr. Hickok, at Hudson, O. In 1840, having by
continued study seriously impaired his sight, he was advised to try
sea-life, and spent seven years on ship-board. Then returning to
Connecticut, he was licensed to preach, and for a time served as
general agent of the American Bible Society in that State. In
August, 1849, he was sent by the Bible Society to California, and
remained actively and untiringly engaged as its agent for the
Pacific Coast, until a few months before his death. He was
ordained to the ministry by the San Francisco Presbytery, in
Benicia, Aug. 7, 1851. He died at his residence in Oakland,
Cal., of consumption, Oct. 27, 1873. He left a wife and children.

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Charles Backus McLean was born in Simsbury, Conn., Aug.
23, 1815. His father was the Rev. Allen McLean (Y. C. 1805),
for more than fifty years pastor of the Congregational Church in
that place.

After graduation, he taught for a few months in North Stam-
ford, Conn., and in 1837 began the study of theology, which he
pursued for four years, spending the first in Andover, Mass., the
second in Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. city, another in
New Haven, and the fourth under the tuition of his father at home.
On the Yth of February, 1844, he was ordained pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Collins ville. Conn., which office he con-
tinued to fill until failing health compelled him to resign it, in
May, 1866. He now removed to Wethersfield, Conn., and sank
gradually until his death, in Wethersfield, Oct. 29, 1873.

He married Miss Mary T>, Williams, of Wethersfield, who sur-
vives him.

Joseph Forman Sabine^ died in Syracuse, N. Y., of pneumonia,
June 4, 1874, at the age of about 60 years. He was a native of
Onondaga, N. Y.

He studied law with James R. Lawrence, of Camillus, N. Y,,
whose daughter Margaret he afterwards married. She remains
his widow, with one daughter. On being admitted to the bar he
settled at first in Camillus, but soon removed to Syracuse, where
he continued in successful practice until his death.

1838.

Joel Grant, son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Phelps) Grant, was
born in Colebrook, Conn., Jan. 24, 1816, and entered college
in the Sophomore year.

After his graduation, he taught school for one year in Berlin,
Md., and then served for nearly three years as Professor of Mathe-
matics on the U. S. ship of war Potomac, cruising about the coast
of South America. He then entered the Theological Seminary at
Andover, and a year later removed to the Seminary at New Haven,
where he completed his course in 1846. Having received a com-
mission from the American Home Missionary Society, he was
ordained an Evangelist by the North Consociation of Litchfield
County, at South Cornwall, Conn., Sept. 29th, and was married to
Miss Abigail F. Cowles, of Norfolk, Conn., Oct. 12th, 1845. He
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the Congregational Church until June, 1847, when he returned to
Connecticut to regain his health. In December, he began to sup-
ply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in West Avon, and
was installed there, June 14, 1848. His health being re-estab-
lished, he resigned this charge, Oct. 11, 1852, and went bacJi to his
people in Lockport, where he remained until Oct., 1858. He then
went to Bristol, 111., where he preached from Dec, 1858, until
April, 1860, and then returned again to his parish in Lockport.
In August, 1861, he became chaplain of the 12th Illinois Volun-
teers, and served until July, 1865. He was then, from Oct., 1865,
to April, 1866, the chaplain of the 113th U. S. Colored Infantry.
In these years he was especially identified with the work of the
Freedmen's Bureau.

The most of the year 1867 he spent in his native town, caring
for his aged father, and acting as pastor of the church. Return-
ing to Illinois and to the missionary work to which he devoted his
useful life, he supplied the pulpit in Bristol until 1870, when he
became stated pastor of the Congregational Church in Cambridge.
In May, 1873, he took charge of the church at Downer's Grove,
and while in this service died suddenly, in Chicago, of heart dis-
ease, Dec. 31, 1873.

His wife survives him, with his only son, a graduate of this col-
lege in the class of 1869.

1839.

Elt Whitney Blake, son of Philos and Esther (Hotchkiss)
Blake, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 28, 1819.

He studied medicine in the Yale and Harvard Medical Schools,
graduating at the former in 1842. For the next six months he was
Assistant Physician at the city institutions in South Boston, and
then began general practice in Boston. In 1863 he removed to
New Haven, and continued in full practice, until his death, of
typho-malarial fever, Nov. 19, 1873.

He was married, Oct. 17, 1842, to Frances T., daughter of Sid-
ney Babcock, of New Haven. She survives him, with one son, who
graduated at this college in 1872 ; three other children having
died in childhood.

Charles Astor Bristed was born in N. Y. city, Oct. 6, 1820,
and was the only son of the Rev. John Bristed, an Episcopal
clergyman, of English birth, and of his wife Margaret B., the eld-
est daughter of John Jacob Astor,

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He remained for a year in New Haven as a resident graduate,
attending some exercises at the Law School, and pursuing classi-
cal studies. In the autumn of 1840, he went abroad, and entered
Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he graduated B. A.
in 1 845, having been much interrupted by ill-health. In the spring
of 1846 he returned to New York, and married, Jan. 14th, 1847,
Laura, daughter of Henry Brevoort. In 1849 he edited selections
from Catullus, and in 1851 wrote "Five Years in an English Uni-
versity," besides contributing numerous articles in the meantime
to various American periodicals, and a series of papers to Fraser's
Magazine, afterwards published under the title of " The Upper Ten
Thousand: Sketches of New York Society." In 1851 he went
abroad on account of his wife's health, and until her death, in
August, 1861, passed most of his time in Paris and Baden. In
October following he returned to New York, enfeebled in health,
but with the purpose, nevertheless, of devoting himself to the
service of his country in the civil war. A recurrence, however, of
a dangerous illness, aggravated by the severity of the climate,
completely broke down his health, and made him for the remainder
of his life a confirmed invalid. In 1867 he published "The Inter-
ference Theory of Government," and in 1873 a revised edition of
his " Five Years in an English University." While in Baden he
printed, in 1858-9, a collection of his miscellanies, in four volumes,
whimsically entitled " Pieces of a Broken-Down Critic, picked up
by himself."

He was married a second time, to Miss Grace Sedgwick, who
survives him, with several children. He died in Washington, D.
C, which had been his later winter residence, on the 15th of Jan-
uary, 1874.

By far the largest share of Mr. Bristed's published writings was
in the^form of contributions to the periodicals of the day, and in
this way he did much for the cause of literary culture in America.
In the same direction were his benefactions to this college. In
1848 he established the " Bristed Scholarship," on a foundation of
11,300, and in 1871 he gave $500 for the purchase of books on
classical philology for the Library.

Daniel Gordon Estes was born in Maiden, Mass., June 6,
1819. In the autumn of 1839 he entered the Andover (Mass.)
Theol. Seminary, but was obliged to leave on account of ill-health
early in 1 840. For the next two years he was engaged in a
mercantile house in Boston, but in 1842 he joined the middle class

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in the General Theol. Seminary, N. Y. city, where he graduated in
June, 1844. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, July 12, 1844, and soon after took charge of St.
James's Parish, Amesbury, Mass. On the 30th of July, 1845, he
received priest's orders, in Salem, Mass., from Bishop Eastburn.

On account of impaired health he left Amesbury in 1851, and
removed to Missouri. While in that State, he officiated in several
places, but principally in St. Louis as rector of St. Paul's Church.
Having returned to his residence in Amesbury, in 1857, he soon
took charge again of his first parish, with which he remained con-
nected until his death, Aug. 9, 1873.

He was married, Oct. 14, 1846, to Hannah M., daughter of
Paul Moody, of Lowell, Mass., who survives him. They had no
children.

In 1861 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him
by St. Paul's College, Missouri.

1841.

Charles Henet Clakk was born in Saybrook, Conn., June 11,
1818. He taught in the academy in Clinton, Conn., for a year
after graduating ; and then studied law, first in Saybrook, and sub-
sequently in Rochester, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar in
October, 1845, and was for many years a successful lawyer in
Rochester. In 1858 he was mayor of the city, and in June, 1863,
was appointed Colonel of the 64th Regiment of the N. Y. State
National Guard.

He died in Rochester, Nov. 20, 1870, aged 52, having been
affected for nearly a year with an organic disease of the heart,
which was apparently complicated with a disease of the brain.

He married, March 8, 1848, Miss Maria B. Viele, of Saratoga
County, N. Y., who with his two sons is still living.

1842.

Robert T. Gill was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in July,
1821, and died in Hillsdale, Mich., of aneurism of the aorta, July
1, 1873.

He studied medicine at home and in Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1846. He then
began practice in New York city. In 1849 he went to California,
and in 1853 returned to Spring Brook, near Poughkeepsie, where
he resided for many years, engaged chiefly in farming and milling.

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1846.
William Woodruff Atwater, third son of Ira and Roxanna
(Buckingham) Atwater, was born in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 4,

1824.

After taking his degree, he taught for a year in Goldsborough,
N. C, and then retiurned to New England, and spent a year in
Andover and two years in New Haven, pursuing theological
studies. He was licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Conn.)
Association, Aug. 7, 1849, and was ordained Dec. 3, 1850, at Lima,
Mich., where he was stationed as a Home Missionary for about
two years. Two other engagements succeeded, each of two years,
with the churches at Niles and Hudson, in the same State. He
then preached at Elkhart, Ind., for three years, and in 1860
returned to Connecticut, and was installed over the Congrega-
tional Church in Prospect, on the 31st of October. He was dis-
missed from this charge, Jan. 31, 1865, and in December began to
preach in the West parish in Avon, Conn., where he continued
until 1868. His last regular employment in the ministry was in
South Killingly, where he settled in August, 1869. The state of
his health led him to resign in 1873, and he removed to New
Haven, where he died March 15, 1874. At the time of his death
he was the Librarian of the Yale Law School.

He married, Sept. 27, 1847, Mary Elizabeth Olmstead, of
Bridgeport, Conn. His wife survives him, with several children.

1847.

George Gideon Webster was born in West Hartford, Conn.,
March 14, 1824, and died very suddenly, of congestion of the
brain, in San Francisco, Cal., June 1, 1874. He was the fifth son
of Ira Webster (Y. C. 1802) and Ann (L. Francis) Webster.

He graduated at the Yale Law School, in 1850, and was ad-
mitted to the bar. He joined one of the pioneer companies for
California, and was for a few years engaged in mining. Hethen
became a banker, and agent of Wells, Fargo & Co., at Forest Hill,
Placer County, Cal., for ten years. For the remainder of his life
he was a broker in San Francisco.

He married, in Sept., 1856, Annie E. Soule, of Fall River, Mass.,
who survives him, with one of his two sons.

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1849.

David Peck was born in Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 16, 1825, and
entered college in the Sophomore Year.

From college he passed directly to the Yale Divinity School,
where he finished the course in 1852, having been licensed to
preach by the New Haven West (Congregational) Association, in
July, 1851. He was ordained as the first pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church in Orange, Mass., Oct. 13, 1852, where he labored
until May 25, lS5l. For six months from Dec. 15, 1857, he sup-
plied the pulpit in Woodbridge, Conn., and was then installed
(June 23, 1858) pastor of the 2d Congregational Church in Dan-
bury, Conn. He resigned this charge, Jan. 2, 1861, and his next
settlement was over the Evangelical Congregational (Church in
Barre, Mass., from April 16, 1861, to Nov. 25, 1867. He then
went to Sunderland, Mass., where he was pastor from Dec. 18,
1867, till his death, in that place, Jan. 31, 1874.

He married, Sept. 8, 1852, Miss Frances M. Jocelyn, of New
Haven, Conn., who is still living.

1860.

Joel Sherland Blatchley, the eldest child of Samuel and
Mary (Robinson) Blatchley, was born in North Madison, Conn.,
March 8, 1829.

After graduation, he taught for a year in New Orleans, and
then went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he studied law, was admitted
to the bar, and practiced until the autumn of 1863. At that date,
having lost several children, whose deaths were attributable, as
he thought, to the climate, he removed to San Francisco, where
he continued in his profession until early in 1870, when his health
failed. He returned to his father's residence in Connecticut, and
died suddenly in Fair Haven, Jan. 8, 1874.

He was married in Feb., 1859, to Mrs. Marion Hall, of Monroe,
Mich. His widow and three children survive him.

1861.

Evan William Evans, son of William and Catharine (Howell)
Evans, was born Jan. 6, 1827, near Swansea, South Wales. His
parents removed to Bradford County, Pa., in 1831, where he ob-
tained his early education.

He studied theology at New Haven for about a year, and then
became principal of the Delaware Literary Institute, in Franklin,

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N. Y. From this position he was called to a tutorship in this
college, which he resigned, however, after one year's service
(1855-6). In 1857 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philoso-
phy and Astronomy in Marietta College, Ohio, and filled that
place until 1864. He was then for three years occupied in Mining
Engineering, and spent a fourth year in European travel. He was
the first professor appointed in Cornell University, N. Y., and
from the opening of that institution, in the fall of 1868, until 1872,
filled the chair of Mathematics. He resigned on account of failing
health, and after an absence of a few months at the South, re-
turned to Ithaca, and gradually sank, until his death of consump-
tion. May 22, 1874. Professor Evans was a general scholar, and
while excelling in mathematics, was perhaps the most thorough
Celtic student in this country.

He was married, Aug. 6, 1856, to Helen E., daughter of Rev.
Dr. Tertius S. Clarke (Y. C. 1824), then of Franklin, N. Y. She
is still living, with several children.

George Granbery Hastings, son of George and Mary L.
(Granbery) Hastings, was born in New York city, Feb. 8, 1830.
He entered college at the beginning of the Sophomore year, and
remained for two years. His degree was granted him in 1854.

After an interval of travel, he studied commercial law in New
York city, and in 1853 took a partial course at the Harvard Law
School He then devoted himself to his profession, in New York,
until the autumn of 1861, when he raised a company of the 1st U.
S. Sharpshooters, was commissioned captain, and joined the Army
of the Potomac. He was soon after commissioned Major of his
Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, and
on recovering was appointed to the staff of Gen. Meade as Judge-
Advocate of the Army of the Potomac. The Brevets of Lt.
Colonel and Colonel were conferred on him for gallantry in the
field.

After the close of the war he devoted a few years to his private
business, and then entered the civil service. About the close of
1871, he was stricken with paralysis, from which he never fully
recovered. He died at Sing Sing, JST. Y., Oct. 20, 1873.

He was married in 1856 to Laura Helen, daughter of James L.
Curtis, of New York. His only child, a daughter, survives him.

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1852.

Christopher Dicran Seropyan was born in Constantinople,
Turkey, Aug. 16, 1825.

After graduation he studied in the Yale Divinity School, and
was licensed to preach the gospel, July 12, 1854. Meantime he
was also pursuing studies in chemistry. In Sept., 1854, he entered
on the study of medicine and attended lectures in New Haven
and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
receiving the degree of M.D. from this college in 1856. In Oct.,
1858, he left America, and for eighteen months continued his medi-
cal studies in Paris. In July, 1860, he arrived at Constantinople,
and began the practice of his profession. His chemical knowledge
was a means of service to the Turkish Government, and he was
soon appointed a member of the Imperial Mining Council. He
died, of paralysis, about the middle of May, 1874.

Dr. Seropyan was married, Feb. 16, 1864, to Miss Mugerdich,
the daughter of an Armenian banker of Constantinople.

1853.

Samuel Mills C apron was bom in Uxbridge, Mass., May 15,
1832, and was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.

Immediately upon graduation he became principal of the Hop-
kins Grammar School, constituting the Classical Department of the
Public High School, in Hartford, Conn. In this position he re-
mained until the summer of 1863, when he went to Europe for
the benefit of his health. He returned in Nov., 1864, and in May
of the next year added to his duties the principalship of the High
School, and continued thus engaged with singular success until
his death, at Hartford, after ten days' illness, of pneumonia, Jan,
4, 18V4.

He married, Nov. 23, 1854, Miss Eunice M. Chapin, of Whitins-
ville, Mass., who survives him, with three of their five children.

1854.

Albert Haller Tracy, son of Hon. Albert H. and Harriet F.
Tracy, was bora in Norwich, Conn., Oct. 29, 1834. He came to
college from Buffalo, N. Y., and resided there until his very sud-
den death, Jan. 23, 1874. He studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in May, 1856, but retired from practice after a few years.

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Elizur Wolcoti\ son of Guy and Annis (Porter) Wolcott, was
born in Tallmadge, O., July J 4, 1833. His early years were spent
on his father's farm. He entered Western Reserve College in
1860, where he remained two years. In 1852 he entered the
Junior Class in this college.

He remained a year in New Haven after his graduation, pursu-
ing the study of philosophy and modern languages. In 1855 he
was appointed tutor in Western Reserve College, where he taught
three years. In 1858 he began the study of theology at Andover,
Mass., but his health soon gave way, and he abandoned study for
a time, hoping, after a period of recreation, to resume it and enter
the Christian ministry. He did not recover from his disease, and
at length, in 1860, he married and settled down upon a farm in his
native town. On the night of Dec. 20, 1873, he retired in his
usual health, but was found in the morning dead in his bed, hav-
ing probably suffocated in an epileptic attack. He was a man of
more than ordinary ability and scholarship, and was very useful
and active in all the public affairs of the church and town where
he lived.

He was married, Nov. 29, 1860, to Mary L. Pierce, of Tallmadge,
who survives him, with four daughters.

1866.

Lafayette Washington Groves, son of David Groves, was
born in Sumner County, Tenn., April 11, 1834. His father emi-
grated to Lafayette County, Mo., in 1836, and the son spent three
years in the Masonic College in Lexington, in the same county,
before entering Yale in the Junior year.

Returning home after graduation, he studied law in the office of
Judge John Ryland, of Lexington, was admitted to the bar in
1857, and began practice in St. Joseph, where he remained about
eighteen months. He then went to Mississippi, and took charge
of a High School, in C-ayuga, Hinds County, and was thus engaged
at the beginning of the war. He then returned to Missouri, and
entered the Southern army, under the command of Gen. Sterling
Price. After the close of the war he spent some time at home,
and in 1868 was elected Professor of Languages in Richmond
College, at Richmond, Mo., where he continued until 1870. In
the spring of 1871 he purchased the " Lexington Intelligencer," and
was its editor until his death. He was assassinated, on the streets
of Lexington, on the 8th of Nov., 1872, by Edwin Turner, the

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publisher of a rival paper, who had been severely denounced by
Mr. Groves for printing a slanderous personal attack upon him.

1856.

John C. Morehead was born in Frankfort, Ky., March 4, 1837,
and died at his plantation near Greenville, Mississippi, about the
26th of October, 1873, of heart disease.

He entered college at the beginning of the Junior year, from
Frankfort. After graduating he returned home and studied law
and was admitted to the bar.

Oliver Starr Taylor was born in Brookfield, Conn., March
14, 1832, and died in Kittaning, Pa., April 5, 1874.

He spent two years in the Yale Divinity School, and was first
settled in Simsbury, Conn., where he was ordained over the Con-
gregational Church, Sept. 21, 1859. He resigned this charge,
Aug. 1, 1865, and from Jan. 1, 1866 to Feb., 1867, preached in
Essex, Conn. The next six months were spent in European travel,
and after his retuan he spent some time in the West. He was
ordained Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, April 6,
1870, and advanced to the priesthood Oct. 18, 1871, on which day
he was also instituted Rector of St. Paul's Church, in Kittaning.
In this position he continued until his death.

He married, July 6, 1858, Miss Lottie Baldwin, of Bridgeport,
Conn., and had several children.

1857.

John Thomas Croxton was born, Nov, 20, 1837, in Bourbon
County, within a few miles of Paris, Ky., the eldest son of a far-
mer. He was prepared for college at home, and entered as
Sophomore.

Selecting the law as his profession, he studied under Gov. James
F. Robinson, at Georgetown, Ky., acting also as a teacher in his
family, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1 858. The
next year he spent in teaching in Mississippi, and in Aug., 1859,
began practice in Paris. He was married, April 10, 1860, to Miss
Carrie A., daughter of Nathaniel P. Rogers, Esq., of Bourbon
County.

The war found him busily engaged in his profession. He was
one of the first to enter into the movement for raising Union
troops in Kentucky, and was very active in recruiting men for the
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4th Ky. Infantry, becoming its Lieutenant-Colonel, at its organiza-
tion in June, 1861, and succeeding to the command of the regi-
ment in March, 1862. He was promoted Brigadier-General, Aug.
16, 1864, for gallant conduct at Chickamauga, and subsequently
brevetted Major-General. After a conspicuous share in the ex-
ploits of the war, its close found him at Macon, where he remained
until Dec, 1866, in command of the District of Southwestern
Georgia. Resigning his commission, he spent part of the year
1866 in reviewing his professional studies, and in 1867 returned to
his farm near Paris, and resumed the practice of law. Subse-
quently he became chiefly instrumental in establishing the Louis-
ville Commercial as a Republican journal. His health was
greatly injured by exposure during the war and by subsequent
overwork, and in 1873, while absent in Colorado for relief, the
position of U. S. Minister to Bolivia was ofiered him by President
Grant. He accepted the oifer, for the sake of his health ; but the
relief came too late, and he died of consumption, at La Paz, April
16, 1874, leaving a widow and two children.

1858.

Benjamin Franklin Penny, son of Robert and Sarah (Christ-
mas, Burns) Penny, was born in Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 17,
1836.

Soon after graduating he entered the New Orleans Medical
School, where he received the degree of M.D. in March, 1861. On
the death of an older brother, who was a physician in Greenville,
Washington County, Miss., he inherited in June, 1861, his brother's
property and succeeded to his well-established practice. During
the war, after the town was burned he remained near by, and
when it was partially rebuilt returned to it. He died, in Greenville,
of consumption, after two years' illness, July 4, 1873.

Dr. Penny was married, in April, 1861, to Miss Amelia E.
Charnley, a native of Providence, R. L, who survives him. Of his
three children, two daughters are still living.

1860.

John Moses Morris, son of Moses and Laura W. Morris, was
born in Wethersfield, Conn., April 27, 1837.

In Nov. 1 860, he entered the Divinity School of Yale College,
and remained there until February, 1862. On the 25th of the
following April he was ordained in New Haven as an Evangelist?

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and accepted an appointment as Chaplain of the 8th Connecticut
Volunteers. In this position, which he occupied until Sept., 1863,
he shrank from no service or exposure, however severe. On his
resignation he returned to New Haven and conducted the " Con-
necticut War Record " until the close of the war. He then began
the compilation of a " History of Connecticut during the Civil
War," which was completed in conjunction with Mr. W. A.
Croifut, and was published in 1868 (pp. 891, 8vo.) In the mean-
time he became in 1865 assistant clerk of the Connecticut House
of Uepresentatives, and in 1866 clerk of the same body. In 1867
he was clerk of the State Senate, and at the close of this service
went to Washington as private secretary to Senator Ferry. In
Oct, 1868, he established the Charleston (S. C.) " Weekly Repub-
lican," which he conducted as editor for two years, it becoming a
daily paper after Aug., 1869. In March, 1869, he was elected
executive clerk of the Secretary of the United States Senate,
which position he held until his death. During the winter of
1870-71 he purchased the "Washington Chronicle" and continued
as principal stockholder and editor-in-chief until June, 1872, when
he withdrew from the management on account of declining health.
He died in Washington, of consumption, Nov. 27, 1873, aged S6^
years.

He married, Dec. 31, 1863, Miss Augusta R. Griswold, of
Wethersfield, who survives him.

1862.

Robert Galbraith Woods was born in Salem, O., Nov. 2,
1836, and died in New Lisbon, O., after an illness of several weeks,
Oct. 13, 1873. He entered college in 1857, but left at the end of
Sophomore year, and a year later joined the next class, with which
he graduated.

He studied law at home with his brother, Thomas S. Woods,
and after being admitted to the bar was taken into partnership
with him. He found the practice of his profession uncongenial,
and upon his brother's death, in March, 1869, succeeded him as
editor and publisher of the " Ohio Patriot," a weekly Democratic
paper of New Lisbon. In this occupation he continued until his
death. He was unmarried.

1863.

Adrian Voorhees Cortelyou, son of Adrian V. and Mary A.
Cortelyou, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept, 17, 1841, and died
in the same city, Sept. 25, 1873.

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He studied law at the Columbia College Law School, where he
graduated in May, 1865. From that date he was a practicing
lawyer in Brooklyn.

Charles Rowland Wesson was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on
the 14th of January, 1840 : he was the eldest son of David Wesson
and Alice G. Rowland.

Immediately upon graduation, he entered the Columbia College
Law School, and after taking his degree, in May, 1865, practiced
his profession in the city of New York with great diligence until
May, 1873, when he went to Europe, in the*ope of benefitting his
health. After travelling on the continent, he sailed by the advice
of Paris physicians for Vera Cruz. He was thence taken to
various places in Mexico, and finally to the capital, where he died
on the 21st of November. A post-mortem examination revealed,
what his physicians had not suspected, that he died of a disease
of the heart.

Mr. Wesson married, June 8, 1869, Miss Emma M. Leland, of
Brooklyn, who survives him.

1864.

Gilbert John Raynor was born in East Moriches, L. L, Oct.
9, 1842. In September, 1864, he received an appointment as
clerk in the office of the Commissary General of Pensions, in
Washington, which he resigned in Jan., 1866, to accept a similar
position in the office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury.
Meantime he pursued his studies, and graduated at the Law De-
partment of the Columbian College, in June, 1866. He afterwards
left Washington and obtained a clerkship in the Court of Appeals,
in Albany, which he resigned in order to enter on the practice of
law in Sag Harbor, L. I. ; but in 1871 he was obliged by the state
of his health to retire and to devote a year to rest at his father's
house. On regaining strength, he obtained a clerkship in the
State Department of Public Instruction, and filled that position
at the time of his death. He contracted a severe cold, early in
the month of January, 1874, by exposure after a hemorrhage from
the lungs, and sank rapidly until his death, at Albany, on the 29th
of the same month. He was unmarried.

1866.

Harry Ward Foote, the youngest child of Hon. Samuel E.
and Elizabeth (B. Elliott) Foote, was born in Cincinnati, O., Aug.

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5, 1844, and died in New Haven, Conn., June 28, 1873. He was
prepared for college in Xew Haven, where his family then re-
sided.

During the winter of 1866-67, he attended lectures in the Co-
lumbia College Law School, but early in the following summer
an unsuspected disease of the lungs manifested itself, and he sailed
for Europe in October. After a prolonged struggle for life, he
returned to his home in Xew Haven in the spring of 1873, to
die. By his will, a bequest was made to the college of twenty-
five thousand dollars, for the endowment of graduate scholarships.

1868.

Russell William Ayres, son of James R. and Eliza Ayres,
was born in Peekskill, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1844. His father removed
to Waterbury in 1848. While preparing for college he enlisted
(in August, 1862) in the 23d Connecticut Infantry, and served for
a year. Upon his return, he completed his preparatory studies at
the Academy in Wilbraham, Mass.

Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in
Judge Gillett's office in Waterbury, and after remaining there for
a year and being admitted to the bar, spent a year in the Harvard
Law School, where he graduated in June, 1870. In the meantime
he had become so enfeebled in health that he was obliged to
defer entering on the active duties of his profession. He rallied
at length, and in the spring of 1872 removed to the town of Mil
ford. Conn., and took a great interest in building up a new
settlement there, to which he gave the name of Woodmont.
His hope was to make this his residence, and to practice his pro-
fession in New Haven. Meantime he spent the winter of 1872-
73 in Florida, with benefit to his health. But on his return from
a business visit to the west, he took a severe cold, and while
struggling to reach home was attacked with pneumonia at Syra-
cuse, N. Y., and died there, Dec. 14, 1873. He was unmarried.

1869.

George Edward Hand, son of J. M. and Caroline W. (Allen)
Hand, was born in Durham, Conn., Aug. 9, 1847, and died in
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 28, 1874.

In the winter of 1869-70 he attended medical lectures at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. city ; and spent the
ensuing summer in the care of his health. Having changed his

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mind as to a profession, he then entered the General Theological
Seminary of the Episcopal Church, in New York city, and studied
for one year. Failing health then interrupted his plans for nearly
two years ; at the end of which time he went to Memphis, in the
hope that the climate would prove beneficial, but he died soon
after his arrival, of typhoid fever.

Frederic Peet Terry, son of John T. Terry, was born in *
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 14, 1847.

He was engaged in business in New York city from the time of
his graduation, except while absent on a trip around the world,
from May, 1870, to February, 1871.

He was married, Feb. 5, 1873, to Miss Nellie M., daughter of
Hon. Bobbins Battell (Y. C. 1839), of Norfolk, Conn. He died
at his residence in Mont Clair, N. J., May 12, 1874. His death
was caused by a malignant pustule. His wife survives him, with
one son.

1872.

James Stone Jones, the son of Newland and Mary Jane Jones,
was born in Madison County, Ky., near the town of Richmond,
Sept. 21, 1852. He was prepared for college in Richmond.

After graduating he returned home in poor health, and
by October consumption was fully developed. For the next six
months he was closely confined to his room, and much of the time
to his bed. In the spring of 1873, he seemed to rally, but the
approach of the autumn brought on the disease in a severer form,
and he died at his father's house on the first of October.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1823.

Timothy Dimock died in South Coventry, Conn., April 29,
1874. He had practiced medicine in Coventry since taking his
degree. In 1846 he was a member of the State Senate, and ex
officio one of the corporation of Yale College.

Benjamin Welch, son of Dr. Benjamin Welch, was born in
Norfolk, Conn., May 24, 1798. His mother, Louisa Guiteau, was
the daughter of Dr. Ephraim Guiteau, of Norfolk.

He was licensed to practice medicine and surgery in 1820. The
following year he spent in Canton, Conn., with Dr. Everest, at

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that time one of the most eminent surgeons of the State. After
receiving his degree, he entered the Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia, in order to pursue still further the study of anatomy
and surgery. Having received in 1824 a diploma of honorary
membership in the Philadelphia Medical Society, he entered upon
the practice of his profession in Norfolk.

In 1842 he removed to Litchfield, Conn., where he remained
four years, and in 1846 to Salisbury, Conn., where the remainder
of his life, a period of twenty-seven years, was spent. After an
arduous and successful practice of fifty-four years, he died, in Salis-
bury, Oct. 9, 1873, of typhoid fever, believed to have been induced
by his untiring efforts during an epidemic of the fever then pre-
vailing in the community.

Dr. Welch, although highly successful as a physician, was
especially eminent in the practice of surgery, for which his me-
chanical skill and thorough knowledge of anatomy fitted him.

In 1835 he read the annual dissertation before the State Medical
Society on the " Vitality of the Blood ; " and in 1853 he delivered
the annual address at the Commencement exercises of the Medical
Department of Yale College, which was published.

He married. May 12, 1829, Sarah, daughter of James Beebe,
Esq., of Winchester, Conn., who survives him.

1835.

Benjamin Bacon Spalding died in Brooklyn, Conn., May 7,
1874. His residence had been in Brooklyn during the greater part
of his life.

1836.

Samuel Thurber Salisbury died in Plymouth, Conn., March 1,
1874. He was born in Providence, R. L, March 14, 1814. He
was at one time a student in Brown University, and also began
theological studies, but the state of his health rendered a change
of profession advisable. He became interested in medicine, and
settled in Plymouth, where he began to practice as a botanical
physician about 1 834. After taking his degree, he returned to
Plymouth, and continued a resident of that place until his death.
He was obliged by his disease (locomotor ataxia, terminating in
paralysis and apoplexy) to retire from practice during the last
four or five years of his life.

Dr. Salisbury married, in 1836, Miss Harriet Fenn, of Ply-
mouth ; by whom he had two daughters, who died in 1848, their

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mother dying also in 1850. In 1862 he married Miss Amelia P.
Morse, of Cheshire, Conn., by whom he had three sons, who sur-
vive him.

1847.

John Lumax Wakefield, eldest son of Dr. Luman and Betsey
(Rockwell) Wakefield, was born in Winsted, Conn., May 25,
1823.

After graduation he returned to Winsted and remained in the
practice of his profession until 1849, when he went to California.
There he continued in practice until 1854, when he was severely
attacked with the cholera, and upon partial recovery and a visit
home settled in Shakopee, Minnesota, for the sake of his health.
In 1861 he was appointed physician to the Upper Agency for the
Sioux Indians, and was there at the time of the massacre of Aug.
18, 1862, when he succeeded in escaping, while his wife and ehildren
were captured. After their release in October, he settled at St.
Paul, being stationed at Fort Snelling, in medical charge of the
friendly Indians. In 1863, after a brief visit to Missouri in the
same capacity, he resigned his appointment, and returned to Sha-
kopee, where he was a practising physician until his sudden death
on Feb. 11, 1874, of congestion of the brain.

Dr. Wakefield was married, in 1836, to Sarah F. Brown, of
Providence, R. I., who survives him, with two sons and two
daughters.

1849.

Moses Harrison Perkins, son of Moses and Mary (Harrison)
Perkins, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 12, 1823, and died
in Columbia, Conn., Feb. 17, 1874.

After receiving his degree, he was employed for about a year
in New Haven, as a druggist, and then undertook the practice of
his profession in Waterbury, Conn. About 1858 he removed to
Columbia, and remained in practice until the time of his death.
He had been for a long time a Sufi*erer from Bright's disease.

During the late war he enlisted as Assistant Surgeon of the
15th Conn. Infantry ; but the failure of his health prevented his
continuance in the field. He leaves a widow and two sons.

1859.

John William Lawton died suddenly in Syracuse, N. Y.,
June 3, 1874. He was the son of Rev. Sanford Lawton (Y. C.
1 825), of Longmeadow, Mass.

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He entered the volunteer service in August, 1862, as the assis-
tant surgeon of the 2d Connecticut Artillery, and the next year,
having attained the rank of surgeon, transferred himself to the
regular service. Soon after the close of the civil war, he settled
in Syracuse, where he practiced until his death. After a visit to
Europe in 1872, which he spent in professional studies, he held the
position of professor in the Syracuse Medical College, devoting
himself to diseases of the eye and ear.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.
1871.

Daniel Hobart Pierpont was the son of Rufus and Harriet
Pierpont, and was born in North Haven, Conn., May 8, 1851.

Almost immediately after graduation he was employed by the
IT. S. Coast Survey, under Mr. R. M. Bache, in the survey of the
region about New Haven, and was thus engaged until near the
time of his death. His health began to fail in the spring of 1873,
and he died of a pulmonary affection, at his father's residence in
North Haven, May 17, 1874. He was unmarried.

Intelligence of the following deaths has been received too late
for insertion elsewhere :

1833.

Robert Dixon Gardner was born in Bast Haddam, Conn., March 16, 1805 j
the son of Nicholas and Sarah (Wright) G-ardner.

For the two years succeeding graduation he taught in Wheeling, Va., and East
Hampton, L. I. For the next three years he was a student of theology in East Wind-
sor, Conn. From March 31, 1841, to Sept. 30, 1861, he was pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Monroe, Conn. He was next for five years a teacher in Lyme,
Conn. His last settlement as pastor was in Ellsworth, Conn., from June, 1858, to
1865. He then removed to Sharon, Conn., and in 1871 to East Hampton, L. I.,
where he died June 4, 18*71, of a disease of the face, resulting in necrosis of the
bone of the jaw. After his retirement from pastoral duties, he had occupied him-
self with teaching a few pupils, and also since his removal to East Hampton with
the care of a small farm.

He was married, Sept. 5, 1838, to Phebe G., daughter of Samuel Miller, of East
Hampton. She died July 7, 1840. He was married a second time, Aug. 25, 1842,
to Louisa M. Ely, daughter of Elisha Ely, of Huntington, Conn. He leaves one
son, by his first marriage.

1872.

Richard Dana Willson, son of George and Mary Ann (Watson) Willson, was
born in Canandaigua, N. Y., July 20, 1848, and died in New Haven, Conn., June
21, 1874.

He entered the Yale School of the Fine Arts, after his graduation, and continued
there until his last illness. An epileptic affection had for years made him a
partial invalid, and finally caused his death.

SUMMARY

Academical DEPABTiaasrT.

€Smm. THaine and Age.

1805 Q-ardiner Spring, 88,

1807 Jamee Fowler. 85,

1809 Philo JudBon. 92,

1810 EliaE H. Ely, 83.

" A-m-mi LinsleT. 84,

1813 Sherman Converse, 83,

1814 David S. Edwards, 79,
" John Law. 77,

1B15 Henry Kellogg. 78,

" Jamee H. Mitchell, 77,

1816 "William H. Moseley. 74,

1817 Samnel H. Perkins, 77,

1820 Jared Foote, 73,

1821 Oman Eastman, 78,

" Edward Rockwell, 72,

" John Smith, 77,

1822 J. Lee Bhss, 70.

E. Goodrich Smith, 71,

John Todd. 72,

" Thomas T. Waterman, 71,

♦' William L. Wight, 71,

1823 Edward Dickinson. 71,
'' Gordon Hayes. 76,

" Edwards Johnson. 69,

" Addison H. White, 69,

1824 William H. Eockwell. 73,

1826 James F. Bunnell. 67,

" William P. Biirrall, 67,

** Sidney Mais, 75,

1827 Robert K. Eichards. 67,

1828 John C. Palmer, 65,

1829 Edwin R. Gflbert. 66,
1832 Janaes M. Bunker, 62,

" Edward 0. Dunning, 64,

" Henry L. Hitchcock, 69,

183:^. Ec.bert D. Grardner, 69,

1834 Churchil] Ooffing, 59.
Thomas H Totten, 59,

1835 Samuel W. Fisher, 59.
^ Bthelbert 6. Mills. 57.,

lia€ Frederick Buel, 60.

Charles B. McLean, 58,

" Joseph F. Sabine, 60,

1838 Joel Grant, 58,
18B9 E. Whitney Blake, 54,
Charles A* Hristed, a,
D. Gordon Estes. 54,

1841 Charles H. Clark, 52,

1842 Robert T. Gill. 51.
1846 William W. Atwatter, 4»,
IM^ GMcge G. Webster, 59.

Place and
S. Y. City,
Westfield. Mass.,
Rocky Hill. Conn.,
Pordand. Me.,
North Haven. Conn..
Boston Highlands, Mass.
Bridgeport, Conn.,
EvansvOle, Ind.^
Troy, K. T-,
Davton, 0.,
N.*r. City,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
Hamden, Conn.,
N. T. City,
Winstead, Conn^
Stamford, Conn.,
N. T. City,
Washington, D. O,
Pittsfield, Mass.,
Stratford, Conn.,
Dover Mills, Ta.,
Boston. Mass..
Muscatine, Iowa,
Stratford, Conn.,
WilliamBburg, Mass.,
Brattleboro. Tt.,
Middletown. Conn.,
Hartford, Conn.^

Chfton, Ta.,
Brooklyn, N. T.,
Hartford. Conn.,
Wallingford, Conn.,
Nantucket, Mass.,

Isew Haven, Corai.,

Hudson, 0.,

East Hampton, L. L,

Chicago, HL,

New Haven. Coim.,

Cincinnati, 0.,

Conev Island, N. Y-,

Oakland, GaL,

Wethersfield, Camu,

Syracuse, N. T.,

Chicago, HL,

Isew Haven, Coxm^

Washington, D. C,

Amesbury. Mas&^

Rochester, N. T.,

Hillsdale, Mich.,

K ew Haven, Ooim.,

San FranoiBOo, OiL,

TimeafBesfih.
Aug. 18, "TX
Oct 18, ^73.
March 12, *74-
Feb. 8, ^4.
Dec. 21, '73u
Dec. 10, *73.
March 18, ^74.
Ocst 7, ^73.
Nov. 4, 'T3u
Oct. 13, "73.
Nov. 19. ^71.
May 21, '74.
July 28, *73.
April 24, ^74.
Feb. 25, '74.
Feb. 20, ^4.
June 4, TS.
Aug. 26, "'Ta.

Aug. 24, '71.

Aug. 2, "n,
Oct 2, 13.

JiBU 1«, ^4.

May 26, 14.
June 24, 73.

Feb. 2,'73-

Nov. 30, ^73.

April 9, '74.

Marcli 3, 14.

March 25, '74.

March 5, '74.

Aug. 12, '73.

April 17, '74.

Nov. 19, '73.

March 23, '74.

July 6, '73-

June 4, '74.

Mav 17, '73-

Marcii 26, '74.

Jan. 16, '74.

July 1&, '73.

Oct. 27, 13.

Oct. 29, 13.

June 4, 14.

Dec. 31, 13.

Nov. 19, 13.

Jan. 15, 14.

Aug. 9, 13.

Nov. 20, '73.

Julv 1, '73.

March 15. 14.

June L 14.

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INDEX.

ClaBs. Page.

1846 Atwater, Wm. W., 142

1868 Ayres, Russ W., 151

1839 Blake, E. Whitney, 139

1860 Blatchley, Joel S., 143

1822 Bliss, J. Lee, 126

1839 Bristed, Charles A., 139

1836 Buel, Frederick, 137

1832 Bunker, James M., 134

1826 Bunnell, James F., 131

1826 Burrall, Wm. P., _. 131

1853 Capron, Samuel M., 145

1841 Clark, Charles H., 1 41

1834 Coffing, Churchill, 135

1813 Converse, Sherman, 120

1863 Cortelyou, Adrian V.,.._ 149

1 857 Croxton, John T. _ 147

1823 Dickinson, Edward, 129

1823 m Dimock, Timothy 152

1832 Dunning, Edward 0.,.._ 134
1821 Eastman. Oman, 123

1814 Edwards, David S., 121

1810 Ely, Elias H., v- - - - 119

1839 Estes, D. Gordon, 140

1861 Evans, Evan W., 143

1835 Fisher, Samuel- W., 136

1866 Foote, Harry W., 150

1820 Foote, Jared, 123

1807 Fowler, James, 118

1833 Gardner, Robert D., 155

1829 Gilbert, Edwin R., 133

1 842 Gill, Robert T., _ 141

1838 Grant, Joel, 138

1856 Groves, Lafayette W., _ . 146

1869 Hand, George E., 151

1851 Hastings, George G., _.. 144

1823 Hayes, Gordon, __ 129

1832 Hitchcock, Henry L.,_.. 134

1823 Johnson, Edwards, 130

1872 Jones, James S., 152

] 809 Judson, Phiio, _ 118

1816 Kellogg, Henry, 122

1862 Woods, Robert G.,

Class. Page

1814 Law, John, 121

1859 m Lawton, John W., 164

1810 Linsley, Ammi, 119

1836 McLean, Charles B., 138

1835 Mills, Ethelbert S., 137

1826 Mills, Sidney, 132

1815 Mitchell, James H., 122

1856 Morehead, John C, 147

1860 Morris, John M., 1 48

1816 Mosely, Wm. H., 122

1828 Palmer, John C, _ 133

1849 Peck. David, 143

1858 Penny, Benj. F., 148

1849 m Perkins, Moses H.. 154

1817 Perkins, Samuel H., 123

187 1 p Pierpont, D. Hobart, 155

1 864 Raynor, Gilbert J., 150

1827 Richards, Robert K., .. _ 132

1821 Rockwell, Edward, 124

1824 RockweU, Wm. H., 130

1836 Sabine, Joseph F., 1.^8

1836 m Salisbury, Samuel T.,._. 153

1852 Seropyan, Christopher D., 145

1822 Smith, E. Goodrich, 126

1821 Smith, John, 124

1835 m Spalding, Benj. B., 153

1805 Spring, Gardiner, 114

1856 Taylor, Oliver S., 147

1869 Terry, Frederic P., 152

1822 Todd, John, _. 127

1834 Totten, John, _ 136

1854 Tracy, Albert H., 146

1847 m Wakefield, John L., 164

1822 Waterman, Thomas T., J. 127

1847 Webster, George G., 142

1813 m Welch, Benj., _ 152

1863 Wesson, Charles H., 150

1823 White, Addison H., 130

1822 Wight, Wm. L., 128

1872 Willson, Richard D., 155

1854 Wolcott, Elizur, 146

. 149

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending in June, 1 875,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 30th, 1875.]
[No. 5 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 84 of the whole Record.]

.^\

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OP YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academical year ending June^ 1875, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously^
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, June 30, 1875.]
[No. 5 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 34 of the whole Kecord.]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1804.

Jacob Adrien VanHeuvel was born in Maestricht, Holland,
Jan. 14, 1787, the son of John C. and Justina H. F. VanHeuvel.

He was admitted to the bar in N. Y. City (where his father
then resided), in 1808, but never practiced. Soon after, he removed
to Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where, or in the
neighboring town of Heuvelton (named from him), he lived, in-
dulging his literary tastes, until about 1 860, when he went to
Oneida County, and subsequently to Syracuse, and in that neigh-
borhood lived, until his death, in Syracuse, May 3, 1874. He was
the last survivor of his class.

1806.

James Root, second son of Ephraim Root (Y. C. 1782) and
Eunice (Buell) Root, was born in Hartford, Conn., April 23, 1787.

At the time of his graduation his father met with reverses of
fortune, and gave to this son, as his patrimony, a lot of land in
the distant west. He made his way thither alone, and for about
thirty years was the only settler in what became Rootstown, near
Cleveland, Ohio. While there he engaged in the Indian warfare,
and underwent all the other hardships of pioneer life. After a
time his land began to appreciate in value, and after he returned
to Hartford, in middle life, he became by this means very wealthy.

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On his return he married Lucy Olrastead, of New Hartford,
Conn., who died not long after, leaving one daughter, who is also
deceased. Mr. Root died in Hartford, April 17, 1875.

1808.

Joseph Delapield, second son of John and Ann (Hallett) Dela-
field, was born in N. Y. City, Aug. 22, 1790.

He studied law in the oifice of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, of New
York City, and was admitted to the bar in 1811. While still a
student, he received a commission as Lieutenant in the 5th Regi-
ment of the State Militia, and on Feb. 4, 1812, was appointed to
the rank of Captain. When war was declared, in the spring of
that year, he raised a full company of volunteers, and joined the
command of Col. Hawkins. After being quartered at Sandy
Hook for a year, Capt. Delafield helped to recruit a regiment for
the regular army, of which he was commissioned Major in 1814.
The regiment, however, did not see active service. After the
close of the war. Major Delafield was appointed on the commis-
sion for settling the North-Western boundary, and in this capacity
was employed (and ultimately as the sole commissioner) until
1828. During this period, in his excursions to the border, he be-
gan a collection of minerals, which subsequently occupied much of
his time. For the rest of his life he resided in New York, not en-
gaged in active business. He was interested in scientific pursuits,
and was at one time President of the Lyceum of Natural History.
He died in New York, of pneumonia, Feb. 12, 1876.

He married Julia, daughter of Maturin Livingston, who sur-
vives him, with their two sons.

1812.

William Platt BuFFETT, son of Isaac and Hannah (Hedges)
Buffett, was born in Smithtown, L. I., April 1, 1793. He was
fitted for college by his uncle. Rev. Platt Buffett, of Stanwich,
Conn.

During the second year after graduation he studied in the
Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, and was subsequently,' for two yearp,
in a law office in N. Y. City, and in 1817 was admitted to practice.
He remained in N. Y. until the death of his partner (Ezra L'Hom-
medieu) in 1820, when he returned to his native place, where he
resided, engaged in the practice of his profession and in agricul-
tural pursuits, until his death, on the 7th of October, 1874. He

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was honored with various professional trusts, and in 1851 was
elected County Judge and Surrogate. For many years he was an
Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

He was married, in 1825, to Nancy, daughter of Jarvis Rogers,
of Islip, L. I., who with five children survives him.

Edward Delafikld died at his residence in New York City,
Feb. 13, 1875, in the 81st year of his age. He was the fifth son
of John Delafield, of New York, and was bom in that city, May
1 7, 1794. The death of his elder brother has been noticed on the
preceding page of this pamphlet.

On graduating here, he entered the office of Dr. Borrowe, of
New York, .and in 1816 obtained his medical degree from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his regular
term of service in the N. Y. Hospital, and then spent a year abroad,
chiefly in London, where he was a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper and
Dr. Abernethy. After his return, he established, in Nov., 1820, in
connection with Dr. J. Kearney Kodgers, the N. Y. Eye and Ear
Infirmary, of which he continued to be an attending surgeon until
1850, when he was elected consulting surgeon; in 1870, he was
made vice-president. Much of the success of this important
enterprise is justly due to his care. Soon after the foundation of
the Infirmary, he became a partner of Dr. Borrowe, and was early
introduced into a large and lucrative practice. In 1834 he was
appointed one of the attending physicians to the N. Y. Hospital.
In 1825 he was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of
Women and ChildrcD in the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and continued to fill the chair with signal ability until 1838,
when his increasing private practice obliged him reluctantly to
resign both his professorship and his position at the Hospital. In
1842 he founded the Society for the relief of the Widows and
Orphans of Medical Men, of which he was the first president, and
to the management of whose aflairs he devoted much time. In
1858 he was elected President of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, a position which he held until his death. He thus be-
came oflicially a member of the Board of Governors of the
Roosevelt Hospital, and, as chairman of its Building Committee,
gave himself unsparingly to the details of the building and the
organization of the institution.

Dr. Delafield married, first, Oct. 12, 1821, Elinor E. L., daughter
of Thomas L. Elwyn, Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H., and secondly.

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Julia, daughter of Col. Nicoll Floyd, of Mastic, L. I. A son, by
his second marriage, graduated at this college in 1860.

The disease which caused his death was pneumonia, of which he
had been sick for nearly a year and a half.

1813.

Abram Dixon, son of Major Joseph and Mercy (Raymond)
Dixon, was born in Manchester, Vt, in July, 1787, and died, after
a very brief illness, of pneumonia, at his residence in Westfield,
Chautauqua County, N. Y., April 19, 1875. His father removed
to Sherburne, N. Y., in 1 795, and from that place he entered college.
A brother graduated in 1 807.

He studied law with Judge Foote of Hamilton, N. Y., and in
1817 removed to Westfield, and began the practice of his profession.
He continued in active practice until enfeebled by age, and was
highly respected as an honest lawyer. From 1840 to 1844 he was
a member of the State Senate.

He was married, just before his removal to Westfield, to Miss
Caroline Pelton, who died Sept. 10, 1837, leaving four children.
He was afterwards married to Mrs. Eliza Higgings, daughter of
Gen. Holt of Bufialo, who died March 10, 1858, leaving a daughter
and a son. Of his children, two daughters and a son survive him.

John Austin Stevens, the youngest of the four sons of Gen.
Ebenezer Stevens, who were graduated at this college, was born
in N. Y. City, Jan. 22, 1795. His mother was Lucretia Ledyard,
widow of Richardson Sands.

In 1818 he became a partner in his father's business-house, in
N. Y. City, and was associated with that firm (Ebenezer Stevens'
Sons) in its long and honorable career. He was from 1820 a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, and was the first President
of the Merchants' Exchange. From its organization in 1839 until
1866, when he voluntarily retired on account of the approaching
infirmities of age, he was the President of the Bank of Commerce.

At a critical moment in the history of the late civil war, Mr.
Stevens, as the chairman of the Committee of the Banks of N. Y.,
Boston, and Philadelphia, strongly advocated the loan of money
($160,000,000 in all) to the U. S. Treasury, and by his prompt
and bold action was largely instrumental in preserving the credit
of the Government.

He married, in 1824, Abby, daughter of Benjamin Weld, of

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Brunswick, Me., and left a large family of children, one of whom
bears his father's name. He died in his native city, Oct. 19, 18'74,
in his 80th year.

John William Weed was born in Darien, Conn., Feb. 21, 1792.
His parents were Benjamin and Mary Weed.

Previous to entering college in 1809, he was principal of a
select school in New York City, where, after graduation, he studied
medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, being an
office-student of Dr. Alexander H. Stevens. He practiced his pro-
fession in the same city for nearly fifty years. The last ten years
of his life were spent in Metuchen, N. J., where he died, after a
brief illness, from pneumonia, Jan. 7, 1875. For a long series of
years he was a Ruling Elder in the Central Presbyterian Church,
New York, and on removing to Metuchen, filled the same office in
the 1st Presbyterian Church there.

On Sept. 5, 1825, he was married to Miss Margaret M. Mix, of
New Haven. She, with two daughters and four sons, survives
him.

1814.

Lucius Wooster Leffingwell, son of William Leffingwell,
Esq. (Y. C. 1786), was born Sept. 25, 1796.

In 1817 he went to Ohio, and settled upon a farm in Ellsworth,
in the north-eastern part of the State, where he continued to reside
until about 1850. He then removed to Cleveland, where he was
engaged for some years in business. His last days were spent in
New Haven, where he died, of paralysis, Feb. 1, 1875.

He married, in 1819, Olive Douglas Starr, of Norwich, Conn.,
who died in 1830. In 1832 he was married again to Catharine
D. Scott, of Warren, Ohio. She died in 1842, and he afterwards
married Emily Gay lord Ward, of Hadley, Mass. Of his nine
children, eight are still living.

Joseph Clay Stiles, second son of Joseph Stile^, Esq., and
Catherine Clay, and elder brother of Hon. William Henry Stiles,
was bom in Savannah, Ga., December 6th, 1795.

After graduation he studied law in the law school of Judge
Gould, in Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in the office of Senator
Berrien, of Savannah. For some years he practiced law with
success in that city in partnership with Col. W. W. Gordon.

Under the pressure of deep religious convictions he abandoned

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the practice of the law, in opposition to his father's remonstrances,
and began to preach, principally to the colored people on his
father's plantation, and in the neighborhood.

By his father's consent and advice he went to Andover to
pursue theological studies, and spent part of two years with the
class of 1825, but owing to the failure of his eyes, was unable
to complete the course. Returning to Georgia, he was ordained
evangelist by the Hopewell Presbytery, and spent several years
in preaching in Georgia and Florida, and in establishing churches
in those States.

In the winter of 1834-6 he went to Central Kentucky, preach-
ing first for a short time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterwards at
Versailles, Harmony, Midway, &c., in Ky., at times taking a
prominent part in the public theological discussions then common.

In 1844 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Shockoe Hill
(now Grace St.) Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., where he
labored until 1848, when he became pastor of the Mercer St. Church,
in New York City. His health becoming impaired, he resigned
that charge, and was appointed General Secretary for the South
of the American Bible Society. He spent the years 1850-51
advocating that cause and preaching in the Southern States. In
October, 1852, he accepted the charge of the South Church in
New Haven, to which he devoted a portion of his time until Nov.,
1857.

In Oct., 1853, he was appointed General Agent to the Southern
Aid Society, and labored in that office until the spring of 1861.

Upon the outbreak of hostilities he went South and during the
war preached as evangelist under appointment of the Synod of
Va., principally to the soldiers in the Southern armies. After the
war he preached in Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and
Missouri, closing an unusually long, steadily sustained, and suc-
cessful ministry with his last sermon in June, 1874.

He died at Savannah, Ga., March 27th, 1875, in the 80th year
of his age.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Transyl-
vania University in 1846, and that of Doctor of Laws from
Oglethorpe University in 1860.

He was twice married, first to Mary, daughter of Capt. Gad
Peck of New Haven, and afterwards in 1828 to Caroline Clifford,
daughter of James Nephew, Esq., of Mcintosh Co., Ga., who
survives him, with five children. One son graduated at this col-
lege in 1859.

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1815.

Erasmus Norceoss was born in Monson, Mass., in 1794, and
was prepared for college at the Academy in that town.

He studied law with Hon. George Bliss, of Springfield, Mass.,
and was admitted to the bar in due course. After practicing his
profession in his native town, he retired from active business in
1833, and removed to N. Y. City, where his residence continued
until his death, with the exception of the years from 1842 to 1852,
which he spent in Boston. He died of apoplexy, Aug. 23, 1874,
in Stratford, Conn., where he was passing the summer.

He was married in Springfield, in 1822, to Eliza Holbrook, who
survives him, with an only son.

1816.

Harvey Freegrace Leavitt was born in Hartford, Vt., Dec.
1, 1796, the only son of Freegrace and Jerusha (Loomis) Leavitt.
The first three years of his college course were spent in Dartmouth
College, which he left during the troubles consequent on the
attempt to change it into a State University.

He had the ministry in view at graduation, but foimd obstacles
to that course and instead entered the Law School at Litchfield,
C-onn., under Judges Reeve and Gould. After a year there, he
completed his legal studies in Granville, N. Y., and was admitted
to practice in Jan., 1820. He was married, Feb. 6, 1821, to
Minerva S. Shipherd, of Granville. After practicing law in
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and in Hartford, Vt., for about ten years,
he concluded that it was his duty to give up his profession and
enter the ministry. The Congregational Church in Strafford, Vt.,
invited him to become its pastor, and he was ordained there. May
18, 1830, remaining until called to the Congregational Church in
Vergennes, Vt., where he was installed, Aug. 31, 1836. Here the
wife of his youth died, in Oct., 1843, and he was again married,
in August, 1845, to Nancy Miranda, widow of Rev. Lamson
Miner. In 1856 his wife took charge of the Seminary in Vergennes,
and in 1860 they removed to Middlebury, where they became the
principals of the Female Seminary. In 1866, ]\lrs. Leavitt's
health failed, and their school was closed. After a season of
travel in the West and South, they settled in Ferrisburgh, Vt.,
where Mr. Leavitt supplied the pulpit of the Congregational
Church for a year or two. He then returned to Middlebury,
where his wife died, Feb. 20, 1873. He was subsequently married

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to Mrs. Elizabeth Chatterton, of Grinnell, Iowa, who survives
him. His children, two by his first marriage and one by his
second, died before him. He died in Grinnell, after a very brief
illness, of pneumonia, Nov. 11, 1874. From 1839 until his death
he was a member of the Corporation of Middlebury College.

Fleming Bowyer Miller, son of John and Priscilla (Bowyer)
Miller, was born in Fincastle, Va., Oct. 8, 1792, and died in
Staunton, Va., Aug. 10, 1874.

He graduated at Washington College, Lexington, Va., in 1813,
and then entered this college. After graduation here, he studied
for two years in the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In the fall of
1819 he was admitted to the bar in Nashville, Tenn., and practiced
there for a year, but then returned to Virginia and settled in his
native place, where he resided until Jan. 1, 1874, when he removed
to his son-in-law's house in Staunton. From 1825 to 1838, he
represented his county in the State Legislature, either in the
Senate or the House, and again in 1852, and 1867, he was returned
to the State Senate. In 1835, he was the unsuccessful candidate
of the Democratic party for the U. S. Senate. In 1836 the
nomination for Governor was declined by him, owing to the severe
illness of his wife. In 1853 he was appointed U. S. Attorney for
the Western District of Virginia, and held the office until the
breaking out of the war ; and upon the organization of the Con-
federate Judiciary, he was appointed to the same position under
that Government.

1817.

George Marvin was born in Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 23, 1798,
the elder son of Barnabas and Hannah (Richards) Marvin. On
leaving college he took charge of an academy in Brookville, Md.,
for six months ; after which he studied medicine, and received the
degree of M.D. in 1821 from the University of Pennsylvania.

In July, 1821, he settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he practiced
until 1828, when on account of his wife's health he removed to Nor-
walk, Conn. ; then to New York City, and in 1831 to Brooklyn,
N. Y., where he continued in the active practice of his profession
until his death, which occurred Dec. 23, 1874, in his 77th year.

In 1824 he was married to Agnes, daughter of Joseph Piatt, of
Westport, Conn., who died May 29, 1870. Of their twelve chil-
dren, two sons and two daughters survive him.

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1818.

Samuel Griswold, third child and eldest son of Sylvanus and
Mary (Denison) Griswold, was born in East Lyme, Conn., Oct.
25, 1795.

From college he went to the Theological Seminary at Andover,
Mass., where he completed his course in 1821. He was licensed
to preach by the Haverhill Association, Aug. 8, 1821, and labored
until 1829 as an evangelist among the Connecticut churches.
Meantime, he was ordained, Oct. 14, 1828, at Farmington, by a
council of the North Hartford Consociation. In 1830 he was
employed as an editor of the " N, Y. Evangelist," and after another
interval of evangelistic work in Connecticut, removed to Western
N. Y. in 1833, first as editor of the "Rochester Observer," and
afterwards, until 1843, as an evangelist. From Oct., 1845, to Sept.,
1848, he served as stated supply of the Congregational Church in
Hamburg, Conn., and was subsequently for a year the chaplain
of the State Prison at Wethersfield. He was later employed, for
brief periods, as an evangelist or as a stated supply, in various
places in Connecticut and New York, and retired from active
labor, May 1, 1856, removing to Old Saybrook, Conn., where he
resided until his death, Jan. 18, 1875.

He was first married to Miss Maria Cobb, with whom he lived
for fifteen years. After her death he married Miss Amelia Ayer,
May 4, 1853, who survives him. He had no children.

Joseph Hurlbut was bom in New London, Conn., Aug. 22,
1799, and died very suddenly, of a disease of the heart, in the
same place, June 5, 1875.

After pursuing theological studies at Andover and Princeton
Seminaries, he served the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn,
N. Y., as stated supply, for a year, and was then ordained, Oct.
25, 1823, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Albany,
N. Y. The failure of his health obliged him, in 1829, to give up the
responsibilities of that charge. He resided in New York City
until 1833, and then returned to New London for the remainder of
his life. He took a leading part in the formation of the Second
Congregational Church in New London, and for the first part of
its existence, from April, 1835, to March, 1837, served it gratui-
tously as its stated supply. As a chaplain in the late war, he
officiated at Fort Trumbull in New London harbor.

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He was married, June 16, 1824, to Mary C. Hattrick, of New
York. She, with seven of their twelve children, survives him.
One son graduated at this college in 1849, and died in 1855.

David Kimball was born in Hopkinton, N. H., March 18, 1791.
When he was eight years old, his mother was left a widow with
five children to support. This second son was apprenticed to a
printer in Concord at 14, and on gaining his majority started for
Phillips Academy, at Andover, to prepare for college.

The three years succeeding his graduation he spent in Andover
Theological Seminary, and thence went directly to Martinsburg,
N. Y., where he was ordained and installed over the Presbyterian
Church, June 27, 1822. In August, 1822, he was married to Miss
Elizabeth E. Carter, a native of Newburyport, Mass., who survives
him. Besides his diligent labors in Martinsburg, he formed
a church in Lowville, of which also he had the pastoral charge.
From this field he removed to Plainfield, Mass., in 1831, where he
was settled as colleague pastor of the Congregational Church,
March 2, and remained until Jan., 1835, when he assumed the
editorship of the " New Hampshire Observer" (afterwards the 'Con-
gregational Journal"), published in Concord. Nine years later, he
removed to Hanover, N. H., with a view to the education of his
sons. Here he remained until 1866, having charge of the Dart-
mouth Press, and the college printing, and also for most of the
time preaching to neighboring churches. Three of his five sons
graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1852, 1855, and 1858,
respectively. At the age of 76 he removed to Rockford, 111., in
poor health, and there resided until his sudden death, Feb. 8, 1875.

1820.

Garnett Duncan, son of Henry and Nancy Shipp Duncan, was
bom in Louisville, Ky., March 2, 1 800.

He returned to Louisville after graduation, studied law, was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practiced successfully, until elected to Con-
gress as the Whig candidate in 1847. At the expiration of his
term in 1850, he removed to New Orleans, and resumed the prac-
tice of law with abundant success ; but upon the death of his sec-
ond wife, Caroline, daughter of Elias Shipman, of New Haven,
Conn., in 1854, he relinquished his professional pursuit, and re-
tired to a plantation on the Mississippi. In July, 1863, he went to
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France, and then establishing his residence in France. A few
months since, his heaUh began to fail ; and his physician apprised
him that denutrition of the stomach, resulting in cancer, left no
hope of his recovery. Yearning to die in his native place, he re-
turned to Louisville, and on the 2.')th of May, 1875, about a fort-
night after arriving at the house of his only son, he passed
quietly away.

1821.

Peter Fleming Clark died at his residence in New York
City, May 15, 1875, aged 74 years.

He entered college from Milford, Conn., and in 1827 established
himself in New York City in the practice of medicine. In 1830
he was married to Ann Maria Goodwin, of New York, by whom
he had two sons and four daughters. For many years before his
death he was in business as a druggist.

1822.

OsMYN Baker, son of Enos and Dorothy (Smith) Baker, was
born in Amherst, Mass., May 18, 1800.

He studied law in Northampton, Mass., and in 1825 began
practice in Amherst. In 1833, '34, '36, and '37, he represented
the town in the State Legislature, and from 1839 to 1845 served
three terms in Congress. In 1842 he formed a copartnership with
Charles Delano, Esq., which continued until his retirement from
practice in 1859. In 1845 he removed to Northampton, where his
residence continued until his death, Feb. 9, 1875. During the
latter part of his life his time was devoted to the management of
the estate of Oliver Smith of Hatfield (a large bequest for
charitable purposes), and other financial trusts.

He was married, in Aug., 1832, to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry
Olmstead, of Norfolk, Conn. Mrs. Baker died in Aug., 1833,
leaving a daughter, who is still living. He was married in Oct.,
1838, to Cornelia, daughter of Alpha Rockwell, of Winchester,
Conn., who died in Feb., 1840, leaving a son, who was killed at
the battle of Antietam.

1823.

Richard William Dickinson, the eldest son of Charles Dick-
inson, of New York City, was born Nov. 21, 1804.

He entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., in
December, 1823, where he remained until May, 1826. After

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additional private study, he was licensed to preach by the Second
Presbytery of New York, March 5, 1828, and was ordained as an
evangelist by the same Presbytery, Oct. 24, 1828. His first
settlement was over the Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, Pa.,
where he was installed Oct. 18, 1829, From over-exertions during
a revival of great power, loss of voice ensued, and he was obliged
to resign his charge in November, 1833. Having spent the fol-
lowing winter in Florida, and the next season in foreign travel, he
resumed preaching on his return to New York City, where he
supplied the pulpit of the Market Street Dutch Reformed Church,
from December, 1834, to September, 1835. In April, 1836, he
was called to the Bowery Presbyterian Church, of which he was
installed pastor, Nov. 2, but utter failure of health compelled him
to resign in the April following. After a period of comparative
rest, he was installed over the Canal St. Presbyterian Church,
Oct. 22, 1839. His health again proved inadequate to the con-
stant pressure of pastoral duty, and he resigned his charge in
January, 1844, with little prospect of ever preaching statedly
again. He received in 1842, from the University of the City of
New York, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1858 he was
elected by the General Assembly a Professor in the Western
Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., but declined the position.
In November, 1859, he was invited to take charge of the Mount
Washington Valley Church, New York, and acted as its pastor
for about thirteen years, residing at Fordham. In the summer of
1873 his health entirely broke down. He died in Fordham, Aug.
16, 1874, leaving the record of an eminently useful life. His
widow and two daughters survive him.

A brief Memorial of Dr. Dickinson has been published by
Robert Carter & Brothers.

1824.

Tebtius Strong Clarke, second son of Jonathan and Jemima
(Lyman) Clarke, of Westhampton, Mass., was born in that town,
Dec. 17, 1799, and died in Neath, Pa., April 12, 1875. He was
fitted for college by Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, Mass.

He studied theology at Auburn (N. Y.) Theological Seminary,
and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in South
Deerfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1827. In 1833 he was invited to become
Secretary of the Western Agency for Home Missions, at Geneva,
N. Y., but though dismissed from his charge at Deerfield, April 1,

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for the purpose of accepting that office, he finally declined it, and
in April, 1834, began to preach in the Congregational Church in
Haddam, Conn. June 15, 1837, he became pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Stockbridge, Mass., and remained until 1860,
when he took charge of the Congregational Church in Penn Yan,
N. Y. From Penn Yan, he removed in 1852 to the 2d Congrega-
tional Church in Franklin, N. Y., which he served until 1858.
His last ministerial settlement was in Cuyahoga Falls, O., and he
was able to preach to destitute churches in the neighborhood of
his residence until near the close of his life. He received the
degree of D.D. from Hamilton College in 1856. His ministry, in
the various places of his service, was crowned with marked success.
He married, Sept. 10, 1828, Almira A. Marshall, of Granville,
Mass., who died Sept. 23, 1856. He married, Nov. 9, 1858, Mary
Rattle, of Cuyahoga Falls. Of his five children, by his first wife,
two daughters only survive him. A son graduated at this college
in 1850.

Bennett Fairchild Northrop was born in Brookfield, Conn.,
Oct. 16, 1801, and was prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass.

After graduation he taught in the Fairfield (Conn.) Academy
for six months, and then entered the Theological Seminary in
Auburn, N. Y, where he remained for two years. His first
employment as a stated preacher was in Tolland, Hampden County,
Mass., for a year. He was ordained the pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church in Manchester, Conn., Feb. 4, 1829, and labored in
this field with fidelity until compelled by declining health to
resign his charge in Oct., 1850. For two years he was employed
as a collecting agent for the American Sunday School Union,
and having in a measure recovered his strength, was installed
pastor of the First Church in Griswold, Conn., July 1, 1853. His
ministry here continued until, enfeebled by disease, he retired from
active service, July 3, 1870. He died of softening of the brain,
at the residence of his son-in-law, in Griswold, March 4, 1875.

Mr. Northrop was married in 1827 to Martha Stillman, of
Wethersfield, Conn. Of the children by this marriage, three
daughters are still living. His second wife, Elizabeth C. Bull, of
Hartford, also survives him.

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1825.

Moses Raymond, son of Moses and Rebecca (Bouton) Ray-
mond, was born in Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 9, 1798.

After graduation he studied theology under the direction of Rev.
Benj. F. Stanton, of Bethlem, Conn., and was ordained as an
Evangelist by the South Association of Litchfield County in
Oct., 1830. As a missionary of the Presbyterian Assembly's
Board he went to Hampshire County, (now West) Virginia, in
1833, and after thirteen years of this service, was installed pastor
of Mt. Bethel Church, July 17, 1846, and continued uninterrup-
tedly that connection until Sept. 12, 1872, when at his own request,
by reason of age and bodily infirmity, it was dissolved. Continu-
ously during that period he had several other churches and places
of stated preaching under his charge, which he regularly filled.
The last sermon he delivered was in June, 1873. He was married,
Feb. 17, 1835, to Sarah Walker, of Green Spring Valley, in Hamp-
shire County, where he settled upon a farm and resided during his
life. His wife and their children, two daughters and one son, sur-
vive him.

During the late war he suffered many severe losses, but contin-
ued preaching from Sabbath to Sabbath, although the military
control of the neighborhood was frequently changed by the ad-
vancing and retreating of the contending forces.

Before his death he became totally blind from paralysis and the
infirmities of age. His death occurred May 19, 1875, in his 78th
year.

1826.

AuRELius DwiGHT Parker was born in Princeton, Mass., April
23, 1802, the son of Ebenezer and Mary (Binney) Parker.

He began the study of law in the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School,
and completed his preparation for admission to the bar in the office
of Hon. Samuel Hubbard, of Boston, Mass. Li 1830 he began
the practice of law in that city, and though owing to some bodily
infi unities he seldom appeared in the court room, was mu6h em-
ployed as a chamber counsellor, and much trusted in drafting im-
portant papers. He was for many years a member of the city
school committee, and repeatedly elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives. He died in Boston, June 18, 1875, after an illness of
some four months, occasioned by a cancer of the throat. He was
never married.

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William Preston, the youngest son of Nathan Preston (Y. C.
17V6), was born in Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 26, 1801. His mother
was Sally Benjamin Preston, widow of Rev. Philo Perry (Y. C.
1777).

He entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year. After
graduation he was first a clerk in New York City, then studied
theology in Alexandria, Va., was tutor in Kenyon College for a
year, and Oct. 12, 1828, was admitted to Deacon's orders by
Bishop Chase of Ohio. He began his ministry in the town of
Worthington, where the Bishop then resided, but soon removed
to Trinity Church, Columbus, where he remained for twelve years.
In 1841 he accepted a call from the parish of St. Andrew's in
Pittsburgh, Pa., where he continued ten years. He was then re-
called to his former parish in Columbus, but owing to the ill-health
of his family he removed some four years later to Christ Church,
Bridgeport, Conn., where he labored until in 1 856 he went back
to his old charge in Pittsburgh. In 1873, he resigned this post to
younger hands, and after a time removed to Bedford, Pa., where
he was rector of St. James' Church up to his decease. He died in
Bedford, April 25, 1875, and was buried in Pittsburgh, with de-
monstrations of the most sincere respect.

In 1860 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Kenyon College.

He married, about 1836, Sarah Maria, widow of James K. Corey,
and daughter of Wm. K. Lainson, of Woodbury, Conn., who died
in 1841, leaving a son and daughter, both still living. He married,
in 1842, Miss Caroline Scoville, of Waterbury, who died before
him, as did also her two children.

1827.

Henry Durant was born in Acton, Mass., June 18, 1802, the
son of Henry and Lucy (Hunt) Durant. He was prepared for col-
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

After receiving his degree, he had charge of the Garrison Forest
Academy, Baltimore County, Md., for two years, until in-
vited to the tutorship in this college. From 1829 to 1833
he served as tutor, pursuing also, for the first three years,
the regular course in the Theological Seminary. April 9,
1833, he was licensed to preach by the Association of the
Western District of New Haven County. He was ordained pas-
tor of the Congregational Church in Byfield Parish, in Newbury,
Mass., December 25, 1833. In April, 1847, he was invited by the
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trustees of the Dummer Academy in By field, to take charge of that
institution. He accepted the position, but although he offered the
resignation of his pastorate on the 15th of the following Sep-
tember, he was not dismissed until March 31, 1849, two councils
of ministers having been held before his church was willing to
give him up.

He was subsequently led into a business venture which resulted '
unfortunately, and in May, 1853, he went to California, to start
anew. Early in June, he began in Oakland, across the bay from
San Francisco, a collegiate school, which under his shaping hand
became the College of California. On the formal opening of the
new institution, in 1859, he took the chair of Greek, and continued
in that position until, with his aid, the college was merged in the
University of California. Of the university, so largely the result
of his wise foresight, he was the first president, from 1870 to 1872,
when a long and critical illness compelled him to retire to
private life. After the return of health and energy, he was elected
Mayor of the city of Oakland, in 1873, and while still in office,
died, after a few hours' illness, January 22, 1875.

Mr. Durant was married in Stanwich, Conn., December 10, 1833,
to Miss Mary E., daughter of Rev. Piatt Buffett, of Stanwich, who
survives him. Their only child, a daughter, died in early youth.

The degree of LL.D. was given him by the University of Ro-
chester, in 1871.

Samuel Howe, fourth son of Isaac and Keziah (Mead) Howe,
was born in Greenwich, Conn., March 27, 1802, and pursued his
preparatory studies with Rev. Piatt Buffett, of Stanwich, Conn.

He entered the Yale Divinity School in 1827, and remained for
three years, spending also part of a subsequent year in Princeton
Seminary. Receiving a license to preach from the New Haven
West Association, he was engaged for some months in missionary
work on Cape Cod, thence going to New York State for similar
labors. He was ordained July 25, 1835, as pastor of the Presby-
terian Church in Hopewell, Ontario County. This church having
been greatly weakened by emigration to the West, Mr. Howe
was dismissed in January, 1837, and was installed, March 16,
over the Congregational Church in Ridgeville, Oneida County,
where he remained until 1840, when he removed to North
East Center, Duchess County, where he was pastor of the
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charge was in South Tyringham, now Monterey, Mass., where
he was installed in May, 1844. Here he was usefully and
happily employed until February, 1854, when an affection of
the throat obliged him to desist for a while from preaching. He
spent the next four years in New Haven, and then labored from
1858 to 1866 as stated supply of the Congregational Church in
North Madison, Conn., and for the three succeeding years as stated
supply in Willington, Conn. In 1869 he was constrained by im-
paired health to cease from ministerial work, and removed to
Bricksburg, N. J,, where he busied himself with horticulture A
heart disorder, with which he was afflicted for several months,
terminated his life, September 28, 1874.

Mr. Howe married, August 20, 1 835, Elouisa L., eldest daughter
of Rev. Piatt Buffett, who, with one of their four children, sur-
vives him. A son graduated at this college in 1860, and died in
1863.

Ralph DunnIx\g Smyth was born in Southbury, Conn., Oct.
24, 1804. He was the son of Richard and Lovine (Hebert)
Smith. He was fitted for college under John H. Lathrop, at the
Weston (now Easton) Academy.

On the completion of his collegiate course he began the study
of law with Hon. Edward Hinman, of Southbury, and Heman
Birch, Esq., of Brookfield, finishing his course in the Yale Law
School, then under the care of Judges Daggett and Hitchcock. He
was admitted to the bar in 1831, and immediately settled in Guil-
ford, Conn., where he spent the rest of his life. In January, 1 844, he
was appointed judge of the Probate Court. In 1859 he represented
his adopted town in the General Assembly. From 1848 to 1854
he was engaged in chartering, constructing, and conducting the
New Haven and New London, and the New London and Stoning-
ton railroads. He earned the reputation of a thorough office lawyer,
conscientious in the performance of his professional duties. His
favorite outside studies were in the departments of history and
genealogy, and of English literature. His collection, in manu-
script, of genealogies of the families of Guilford, and of their
ramifications in the Connecticut Valley, is very large and valuable.
The lives of the early graduates of the college also claimed much
of his spare time, and he left in manuscript a series of more or
less complete biographical sketches of these, from the begin-
ning to the class of 1767. The sketches of the graduates of the first
eight years were printed in the College Gourant in 1868.

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During the spring of 1874, he began to lay aside his favorite
pursuits, retaining, however, to the last, his ardent attachment to
the college, whose Commencement exercises he attended in June.
After this date, his health began to fail rapidly, until death
released him from his sufferings, September 11, 1874.

Mr. Smyth was married, October 1 8, 1837, to Rachel S., daughter
of Amos Seward, of Guilford, who, with a married daughter, sur-
vives him. Their two sons, graduates of this college in 1863 and
1866, died in 1863 and 1868.

1828.

George Perkins, son of Hon. William Perkins (Y. C. 1 792)
and of Mary, daughter of Rev. Andrew Lee, D.D. (Y. C. 1766),
was born in Ashford, Conn., December 2, 1803.

Upon graduation he went to Norwich, Conn., as a law student
in the office of Hon. Calvin Goddard, and there he remained for
the rest of his life. He died in Norwich, after a protracted ill-
ness, October 13, 1874. During his long life Mr. Perkins filled
many important and official business positions with fidelity and
acceptance. He was for some years Judge of Probate, and later
in life was the trustee of many large estates. He was an efficient
member and officer of the Second Congregational Church. Oct.
4, 1837, he was married to Maria H., youngest daughter of
General Ebenezer Huntington (Y. C. 1775). She survives him,
with two daughters.

1829.

Warren Backus Dutton, son of Hubbard and Abigail
(Backus) Dutton, of Lebanon, Conn., was born in that town,
April 16, 1803. He learned a trade and attained his majority be-
fore he began to prepare for college.

After some time employed in teaching in the Edge Hill School,
in Princeton, N. J., finding that his frail health required a milder
climate, he entered, in 1832, the Union Theological Seminary at
Hampden Sidney, Va. On leaving the Seminary, he was employed as
financial agent in its behalf, and as a preacher in various neighboring
churches. While acting as an assistant to the pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church in Farmville, Prince Edward County, he was called
to the care of the Presbyterian Church in Charleston, (West) Ya.,
and began preaching there in December, 1841. He was there or-
dained and installed, Nov. 20, 1842, and this relation continued
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of ill-health. After two years' rest, he undertook, as his strength
permitted, to reorganize the Presbyterian Church in Harper's
Ferry, W. Va., which the fortunes of war had nearly desolated ;
while engaged in this labor, the disastrous flood of the Shenan-
doah River, in October, 1870, swept through the town, and Dr.
Dutton narrowly escaped alive. His health was entirely shattered
by this event, and he returned to Charlestown to await the end.
He died at his residence there, Sept. 5, 1874, aged Vl.

As a preacher and as a man he was greatly beloved and revered.
The degree of D.T>. was conferred on him by Union College in
1857. He left a wife, but no children.

Joseph Eldeidge, son of Joseph and Deborah Eldridge, was
born in Yarmouth, Mass., July 8, 1804.

From college he immediately entered the Yale Theological Sem-
inary, where he finished the prescribed coui-se in the spring of
1832. While still in the Seminary, he received a call (Jan. 23,
1832) to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Norfolk,
Litchfield County, Conn., and there he was ordained on the 25th
of April. In this relation he continued until November, 1874,
when at his own desire he laid down his office, leaving the record
of a singularly beneficent and wise pastorate. He died in Nor-
folk, after a brief illness, March 31, 1875. He was a member of
the Corporation of this college from 1847 until his death. The
degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Marietta
College in 1856.

He was married, April 1, 1832, to Rachel C. Purple of New
Haven, who died childless, March 6, 1833. He was again married,
Oct. 12, 1836, to Sarah, daughter of Joseph Battell, Esq., of
Norfolk, who survives him, with five daughters and one son.

1830.

Elijah Phelps Gran^t, son of Deacon Elijah and Elizabeth
(Phelps) Grant, was born in Norfolk, Conn., August 23, 1808.

In his infancy his parents removed to Colebrook, Conn., from
which place he entered college. He studied law with Hon. John
Boyd (Y. C. 1821), of Winsted, Conn., and subsequently in the
Yale Law School, and began practice in Winsted in 1833. In
1 836 he removed to Canton, Ohio, where he continued the practice
of his profession until 1849. He then became cashier of the
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until 1868. During the remainder of his life he was not engaged
in active business. He gave much attention to the question of
labor reform, and kindred subjects, upon which he was an able
writer. He died in Canton, December 21, 1874.

He was married, September 7, 1836, to Miss Susan B. Boyd, the
sister of his law instructor, who survives him, with four of their
seven children.

1831.

Isaac Stockton Keith Legare died of paralysis, on his farm
near Orangeburg, S. C, July 29, 1874. He was of Huguenot
descent, the twelfth of thirteen children of Thomas and Ann Eliza
(Berwick) Legare, and born in Charleston, S. C, Dec. 24, 1 808.

After a course in theology at the Columbia (S. C.) Theol. Sem-
inary, he was called to the mission chapel in Orangeburg, which
he subsequently organized as a Presbyterian Church, and for
many years served as pastor. By reason of the failure of his
voice, he was induced, in 1848, to establish the Orangeburg Female
College, resigning in consequence his pastorate. With his peculiar
talents for teaching, this enterprise proved very successful, until
broken up by the civil war. At the close of the war, Mr. Legar6
entered the service of the American Sunday School Union, and in
that employment labored with enthusiasm until obliged by weak-
ness to give up work, in the spring of 1 874.

His first wife. Miss Emma C. Matthews, by whom he had two
sons and a daughter, died some years before him ; and in 1872 he
was married to Miss Eliza C. Palmer, an adopted daughter of
Hon. Richard Yeadon, who survives him, with an infant daughter.

John Line Mayer died suddenly of heart disease at his resi-
dence in York, Pa., Aug. 16, 1874, at the age of 63. He was the
son of Rev. Dr. Lewis Mayer, and was born in Jefferson County,
Va., but during his youth his father removed to York, from which
place the son entered college at the end of Junior year.

He studied law with John Evans, of York, and was admitted
to the bar in February, 1834. He continued in full practice, with
growing distinction, until his death.

About 1860 Mr. Mayer married Miss Line of Virginia, who
survives him, with several children.

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1834.

Davis Smith Brainerd was born in Haddam, Conn., Oct. 12,
1812, the son of Heber and Martha (Tyler) Brainerd.

He spent the first year after graduation in Princeton Theol.
Seminary, and the two succeeding years in the Theol. Department
of this college. He was ordained, June 30, 1841, pastor of the
Congregational Church in Lyme, Conn., where he died in office,
after a short illness, April 30, 1875. In 1861 he was elected a
Fellow of Yale College, and this office he filled until his death ;
being also since 1867, as one of the Prudential Committee of the
Corporation, especially intrusted with the oversight of its affairs.

He was married. May 24, 1842, to Miss Anna Maria Chad wick,
of Lyme, who survives him, with their four children.

Henry Chalker was born in Saybrook, Conn., Aug. 5, 1812,
the son of William and Amitte Chalker.

After graduation he spent a year in Texas, and then removing
to N. Y. State, taught school in Sag Harbor, and afterwards at
Hunt's, Livingston County. He studied law in Geneseo, and about
1845 established himself in Nunda, where he continued in the suc-
cessful practice of his profession until the failure of his health.
He spent the winter of 1872-3 at the island of Nassau, and the next
winter in Florida. From Florida he was brought home to Nunda,
where he died about two weeks after his return, on the 24th of
May, 1874.

Mr. Chalker married, June 26, 1860, in Nunda, Miss Adeline
Nicholds, who survives him. They had no children.

William Leverett was born, July 8, 1813, in Windsor, Vt.,
the son of John and Elizabeth (Salisbury) Leverett, and a lineal
descendant of Sir John Leverett, the early Governor of Massa-
chusetts.

He began the study of law in the Yale Law School, continued
his preparation in New York City, and completed his course in
the office of Willard Crafts, Esq., of Utica, N. Y., where he was
admitted to the bar in 1839. In the same year he established
himself in Plymouth, N. H., where he remained in successful
practice, until laid aside by declining health. He died in Ply-
mouth, Sept. 18, 1874, of consumption of the lungs, which had
confined him to his house for the most of the two or three years
preceding.

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Mr. Leverett married, Oct. 5, 1851, Miss Catharine R Spaulding
of Kumney, N. H. She survives him, with two of their three
daughters.

1835.

John Edward Seeley, eldest child of John B. and Nancy
(Harger) Seeley, was bom in Ovid, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1810.

He was prepared for college at the Ovid Academy, and after
graduation returned home and studied law with Hon. John
Maynard. Being admitted to the bar, he began practice in Mon-
roe, Mich., but after a few months returned to his native place,
where he continued to reside until his death. He served as County
Judge and Surrogate from 1851 to 1855, was a Presidential elector
in 1860 and 1864, and elected to Congress in 1870. In the sum-
mer of 1871 he was stricken with paralysis, and a second stroke
supervening in the following year left him a permanent invalid.
He died, on the farm on which he was born, March 30, 1875.

Judge Seeley married, January 20, 1846, Cornelia, daughter of
Peter DeForest, of the city of New York, and was the father of
four sons and one daughter. His widow and all his children but
the youngest son survive him. He enjoyed in a high degree the
confidence of the community in which he spent his life.

1836.

Charles Pumpelly Avery, son of John H. and Stella (Hinch-
man) Avery, was born in Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., in July,
1817, and died at his residence in the same village, Aug. 31, 1872,
aged 55 years.

Upon graduation he entered the office of his brother-in-law,
Hon. Thomas Farrington, of Owego, as a student of law, and was
admitted to practice in the courts of the State, at Albany, in 1840.
He immediately began the practice of his profession in his native
village, and soon attained a prominent position. At the age of
thirty he was elected County Judge and Surrogate ; a position
which he filled by re-election until January, 1856. Soon after the
close of his judicial term. Judge Avery removed to Flint, Mich-
igan, where he applied himself to the active practice of his pro-
fession. The climate, however, afiected his health unfavorably,
and by degrees his constitution was so much weakened, that in
the spring of 1872 he was forced to return to his native air. But
his return had been too long deferred, and he continued to sink
gradually until his death.

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Edwabd Pitkin Cowles, son of Rev. Pitkin Cowles (Y. C.
1800) and Fanny (Smith) Cowles, was bom in North Canaan,
Conn., January, 1815.

Early in 183Y he began the study of law in the office of the late
Hon. Ambrose L. Jordan, of Hudson, N. Y. Two years later he
was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Hudson, where his
younger brother, David S. Cowles, was subsequently associated
with him. He had attained a prominent position in the bar of
Columbia County when, in 1853, he removed his office to the city
of New York. In the spring of 1855 he was appointed Judge of
the Supreme Court of the State. He resigned the appointment in
the following winter, but was reappointed to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of Judge Morris. Subseqently, a claim having been
made to the seat by Hon. Henry E. Davies by virtue of an elec-
tion. Judge Cowles retired in his favor, and was for several
years occupied mainly in hearing cases as referee, but at length
resumed general practice. He continued to reside in New York
until about 18Y1, when he removed to Rye, Westchester County,
where he was living at the time of his death. He left home in
October, 1874, for a visit to California, and there met with a
slight injury, which resulted, while on his return, in his death, at
Chicoga, from gangrene, on the 2d of December.

Judge Cowles married, in November, 1852, Sarah, daughter of
Justus Boies, Esq., of Northampton, Mass., by whom he had four
sons, all of whom, with their mother, survive him.

1838.

Joseph Bradley Vaenijm was born in the city of Washington,
D. C, April 4, 1818. He came of a distinguished Massachusetts
family, his grandfather. Gen. Joseph B. Varnum, of Revolutionary
fame, being a member of Congress and of the U. S. Senate for
over twenty years. James M. Varnum, the father of the graduate,
settled in Washington and died suddenly there, at the age of 35,
Sept. 11, 1821, the same day Gen. Yarnum died in Massachusetts.

Mr. Varnum studied for two years in the Yale Law School, and
afterwards in the office of Chief Justice Taney, in Baltimore,
where he was admitted to the bar and practiced for a few years ;
but thence removed to N. Y. City and entered on a successful
practice, which he continued until the time of his death. As one
of his uncles, bearing the same name as himself, was also a resi-
dent of New York, the nephew added the affix " Junior " to his

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name, which he continued to use until his uncle's death in 1867.
In 1843 he married Miss Susan M., daughter of Nathan B. Graham,
Esq., of N. Y. City. Mr. Varnum soon became prominent in
professional, social, and artistic circles, and also took an active part
in politics, at first as a Whig, and afterwards as a Republican.
He was elected to the State Assembly in 1849, 1850, and 1857,
and in 1851 served as speaker. He was a candidate for Congress
in 1852, and declined a similar nomination in 1858. In 1871 he
was one of the leaders in the movements for the overthrow of the
Tweed Ring, and devoted much time and labor to the object.
He was one of the original members of both the Century and
the Union League Clubs, and was a prominent member of the
N. Y. Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, and
other similar institutions.

He retained considerable real estate in Washington, and showed
his continued interest in his native city by two volumes which he
published, entitled, "The Seat of Government of the U. S.," and
" The Washington Sketch Book." He was through life a frequent
contributor to the newspapers and magazines of the day.

His first wife died in 1857 (leaving one son, who was graduated
at this college in 1868), and in 1863 he married Miss Helen M.,
daughter of Robert L. Taylor, Esq., of N. Y. City. She died in
July, 1874, leaving one son and three daughters. Mr. Varnum
died in Astoria, L. I., Dec. 31, 1874, after a month's illness.

Charles Ciiaitncet Whittlesey, son of Chauncey and Sarah
(L. Tracy) Whittlesey, was born in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 5,
1819, and died March 10, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., where he had
spent his life as a lawyer.

1840.

Horace James was bom in Medford, Mass., May 6, 1818, the
eldest child of Deacon Galen and Mary Rand (Turner) James. He
came to college from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

On graduating he returned to Andover for theological study,
pursuing there the first and third years of the course, and passing
the intermediate year in the Yale Seminary. He was settled as
colleague pastor of the First Congregational Church in Wrentham,
Mass., Nov. 1, 1843. He left this charge to become the pastor of
the First Congregational Church in Worcester, Mass., where he
was installed Feb. 3, 1853. When the civil war broke out he left

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this position to become chaplain of the 25th Regiment Massachu-
setts Volunteers. After the term of three years' service had ex-
pired, he was commissioned assistant quartermaster, with the
rank of captain, and placed in charge of the Freedmen in North
Carolina. He was mustered out of service in January, 1866, and
remained a year longer at the South, planting cotton and organiz-
ing labor among the Freedmen. On his return to the North, he
was at once invited to settle over the First Congregational
Church, in Lowell, Mass., where he was installed, Oct. 31, 1867.
Three years later he was elected District Secretary of the Ameri-
can and Foreign Christian Union, for New York and vicinity, and
for family reasons accepted the appointment, being dismissed
from his church, Dec. 13, 1870. A year later he became the
active pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich,
Conn. He left his post for a year's travel abroad in 1872-3, and
during his journey so far overtasked his strength that he broke
down with a bad hemorrhage from the lungs almost immediately
on his return. The next winter was spent at the South, and he
then settled in Boylston, Mass., waiting for the end. He died
there, June 9, 1875. Besides his other labors, he was from 1867
one of the proprietors and an associate editor of the Congrega-
tionalist.

He was married, in September, 1843, to Helen, daughter of
David Leavitt of Boston, who survives him, with one daughter, of
their seven children.

1841.

Maunsell Beadhukst Field was born in New York, March
26, 1822, and died in the same city, after a lingering illness, Jan.
24, 1875.

He was the eldest son of Moses Field and Susan Kittridge,
daughter of Hon. Samuel Osgood, first Commissioner of the U. S.
Treasury.

After his graduation he began the study of law in New Haven
and New York. From March, 1843, till November, 1845, he
spent in European and Asiatic travel, and then resumed his stud-
ies in N. Y., where he was admitted to the bar in Jan., 1848, and
was for several years in partnership with his cousin, Hon. John
Jay. His health having failed, he visited Europe again in the
spring of 1848, and a third time in the autumn of 1854, when he
was solicited to fill the position of Secretary of the U. S. Legation

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at Paris, which he accepted. He was also subsequently for a short
time attached to the U. S. Mission in Spain. In 1 855, Gov. Sey-
mour having appointed him a Commissioner for the State of New
York, he was made President of the Board of U. S. Commissioners
to the French Universal Exposition ; and at the Exposition's close
was designated by the late Emperor with the cross of Knight of
the Legion of Honor, for his eminent services. In August, 1861,
he was appointed Deputy Sub-Treasurer of the U. S. in N. Yi
City. In Oct., 1 863, he was appointed Asst. Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington, which office he resigned June 15, 1865,
on the failure of his health. He was then appointed Collector of
Internal Revenue for the 6th district of N. Y., which position he
held until 1 869, when he resumed the practice of the law. In
Dec, 1873, Gov. Dix appointed him to fill a vacancy in the judge-
ship of the 2d District Court in N. Y. City. He retained this
office until Jan. 1, preceding his death.

In 1851, he wrote, with G. P. R. James, a romance called
"Adrian," which was published. In 1869 he published a small
volume of poems, and in 1873 a volume entitled "Memories of
Many Men and Some Women," which was very favorably received.
He was also a frequent contributor to various magazines.

Judge Field manifested his interest in the college by serving as
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Woolsey Fund,
from its organization in 1871 until his death.

He was married, Jan. 7, 1846, to Julia, daughter of Daniel Stan-
ton, of New York. By this marriage he had four sons.

George Whitepield Ives, son of Jason and Phebe Freeman
Ives, was born in Hamden, Conn., Aug. 22, 1819, and died in N. Y.
City, after a brief illness, of pleuro-pneumonia, Dec. 6, 1 874.

He taught for two years in Virginia and North Carolina, and
then began the study of medicine in the Medical Department of
this college. After attending one course of lectures, he was em-
ployed for a year as assistant physician in the Hartford Retreat for
the Insane, and then returned to New Haven, and received the
degree of M.D. in January, 1846. In the following month he
began the practice of medicine in N. Y. City, and continued thus
engaged until his death. He was for two years physician to the
N. Y. Lying-in Asylum, and in 1848 became one of the physicians
of the Eastern Dispensary. He was one of the original members
of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, and a member of the County
Medical Society.

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Dr. Ives married Miss Frances S. Smith, of Stratford, (^.onn.,
Dec. 20, 1848. His only child is a physician in N. Y. City.

1842.

Hugh Brodie Gardiner, son of Alexander and Mary Gar-
diner, was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, March IT, 1820. His
parents removed to this country in his infancy, and he was fitted
for college at the Academy in Fort Covington, Franklin County,
N. Y. He entered the Junior class here, after having spent one
year in Middlebury College.

After graduating he taught for three years in an academy in
Austerlitz, Columbia Co., N. Y., and contracted a serious throat
difficulty, which obliged him to remain at home (in Dundee,
Canada) for a year. He then took the three years' course in
Princeton Theological Seminary, on the completion of which he
went immediately to Galena, 111., in response to a call from the
South (Presbyterian) Church, over which he was ordained in Sept.,
1849. He resigned this charge in the spring of 185 1, and removed
to Madison, where he was instrumental in organizing the First
Presbyterian Church, of which he continued the pastor until Nov.,
1855. In March, 1856, he became the pastor of the Reformed
Dutch Churches of Coeymans and NeVr Baltimore in Albany
County. He removed in 1860 to Herkimer, where he was for four
years pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church. He then took
charge of the Congregational Church in Bergen, where he re-
mained for three years, when impaired health led him to seek a
change, and he was appointed District Secretary of the American
Tract Society for Northern and Eastern N. Y., in which work he
continued until the spring of 1869, when he resumed the regular
duties of the ministry. In July, 1870, he was called to the pas-
torate of the Presbyterian Church in Perry, where he remained a
little more than two years. The rest of his life was spent in
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was engaged in teaching until the
failure of his health in Jan., 1874. He died in Brooklyn, July 23,
1874. Mr. Gardiner was married, Oct. 14, 1850, to Miss Mary E.
Niles, of Spencertown, N. Y., who survives him, with three
daughters.

John Webb Platts, son of John Platts, was born in Deep
River, Conn., January 22, 1 821, and died in Princeton, Oal., in the
early part of 1874.

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He studied law in Connecticut, and established himself as a
lawyer in Milwaukee, Wise, as early as 1847. In 1848 he was
married to a lady residing in Lyme, Conn., who died a few
months after in Milwaukee. In the spring of 1850 he left Mil-
waukee for California, where the rest of his life was spent.

1843.

William Austin Benton, the second son of Deacon Azariah
and Presenda Ladd Benton, was born in Tolland, Conn., October
11, 1817.

The first two years of his undergraduate course were spent in
Williams College, and in 1841 he entered the Junior class at
Yale. He spent some part of the first year after graduation in
teaching, and then began his theological course in the semi-
nary in East Windsor, where he remained until 1846. Having
given himself to the foreign missionary work, he was ordained
in his native town, May 18, 1847, and in connection with the ordi-
nation services was married to Miss Loanza Goulding of Worces-
ter, Mass. On the 21st of the following month they sailed from
Boston, as missionaries of the American Board, for Syria and
Palestine. Arriving in Beirut in October, he spent the winter in
the study of Arabic, and in April, 1848, went to Aleppo, where
he labored with zeal and success until February, 1851, when, in
consequence of the failure of his health, he left Aleppo, and in a
few months returned to this country. Re-embarking for Syria,
in January, 1853, he established in April a missionary station at
Bhamdun, on Mount Lebanon, where he continued until the spring
of 1869.

The remaining years of his life were spent in America. He
died, very suddenly, in Barre, Mass., August 23, 1874, and was
buried in Tolland. His widow survives, with three sons, of whom
one graduated at this college in 1874, another graduates at this
Commencement, and the third is a member of the present Fresh-
man class.

William Henry Goodrich, youngest son of Prof. Chauncey
A. Goodrich (Y. C. 1810), was bom in New Haven, Conn.,
January 19, 1823. His mother was Julia, daughter of Noah
Webster (Y. C. 1778).

After leaving college, he spent a year in Ncav Haven, as a resi-
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then began the study of theology in the Divinity School, and fin-
ished the course in 1847. Pie was immediately appointed to a
tutorship in this college ; but receiving a severe injury while in
the discharge of his duty as an officer, in December of the same
year, he was obliged to relinquish all mental occupation, and con-
sequently resigned his position, and in April sailed for Europe.
He returned with improved health in January, 1849, and was
ordained over the First Congregational Church in Bristol, Conn.,
March 13, 1850. He remained in Bristol until invited to the
Presbyterian Church in Binghampton, N. Y., where he was in-
stalled December 6, 1854. From this church he was dismissed,
July 4, 1858, and on the 12th of the next month was installed
associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, O.
From April, 1861, until August, 1872, he was the sole pastor, and
at the latter date, an associate having been installed, Dr. Good-
rich left home for a visit to Europe, with the hope of renewing
his impaired strength. After a long succession of deferred hopes
of improvement, and a rapid decline at the last, he died in Lau-
sanne, Switzerland, July 11, 1874.

He was married, April 23, 1850, to Miss Mary Pritchard of
New Haven. She sui-vives him, with five children.

A memorial volume has been published by his church.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by
Western Reserve College in 1864.

Alexander Johnston was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pa.,
in the year 1 822. His father was Alexander W. Johnston and his
grandfather was Colonel Francis Johnston of the Fifth Penns.
Regiment in the Army of the Revolution.

He returned to Philadelphia and studied law in the office of St.
George Tucker Campbell, Esq., and was admitted to the bar,
Sept. 5, 1848, but never practiced. He devoted his time chiefly to
foreign travel, especially in the Orient, and to the literature of the
dramatic school. He was an active and valued member of the
Shakespeare Society instituted in Philadelphia in 1851, and was a
cultivated and admirable reader, which added much to his inimit-
able acting as an amateur in the legitimate drama.

In January, 1855, he read before the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania a well prepared paper from original unpublished
material, entitled " An Account of the Society of the Cincinnati,"
of which he was a member in right of his grandfather. This

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monograph was published by the Society, in the sixth volume of
its Memoirs.

In May, 1874, he made another visit to Europe, accompanied by
his sister and sister-in-law, and after a year's absence was return-
ing home in the steamship Indiana, when he was lost overboard
on the afternoon of May 10, 1875, at or near Bombay Hook,
Delaware Bay ; his body has not been recovered. He was never
married.

1847.

Martin Van Buken Wilcoxson, of Kinderhook, N. Y., was
born March 4, 1829, and died in London, England, Oct. 17, 1874.

He studied law in New York City, and practiced there for a
time. The latter years of his life were spent mainly in Europe.

1849.

Stephen Fenn was born in Plymouth, Conn., October 6,
1824.

The two years after his graduation were spent in teaching in
Norwich and Stonington, Conn., and he then entered on the pre-
paration for the ministry in the Yale Divinity School ; two years
later he removed to Andover, Mass , where he completed his theo-
logical course in 1854. He was ordained pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church in Torringford, Conn., November 16, 1854, and dis-
missed on account of ill-health, September 14, 1857. After a year
of rest in his native town, he took charge of the First Congrega-
tional Church in (South) Cornwall, Conn., where he was installed,
May 18, 1859. From this pastorate he was dismissed, January 18,
1868, and a few months later began preaching in Watertown,
Conn., where he was settled over the Congregational Church, Sep-
tember 16, 1868. His feeble health obliged him again to resign
his charge April 1, 1872. He afterwards supplied the pulpit in
Vernon, Conn., and later in Wapping (South Windsor), Conn.,
where he resided until his death.

He was married, December 6, 1854, to Miss Sarah Roberts of
Vernon, who died February 11, 1876. Her husband, who was ill
of typhoid pneumonia at the time of her sudden death, sank
rapidly under his bereavement and died eight days later. They
had no children.

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1851.

Timothy Campbell Downie was born in Frankfort, Herkimer
County, N. Y., January 15, 1829.

At the age of sixteen he had completed the course of prepara-
tion at the Herkimer Academy, and being considered too young to
enter college at once, was placed in a machine shop to learn a
trade ; but after a few months his natural abilities secured him
the position of foreman of the shop. He entered this college in
May, 1849.

After graduation he taught at the West, and then in the Western
Military Institute, Tyree Springs, Tenn., where he remained sev-
eral years. At the breaking out of the civil war he was employed
as a private tutor in the family of Col. Plant of Macon, Ga. He
was averse to entering the Southern service ; but his refusal was
overborne by the officers who knew of his technical skill, and who
obliged him to take an important position in the Engineers Corps
and Ordnance Department, in which he served till towards the close
of the war, when he escaped to the JSTorth with the loss of all his
property. He was afterwards employed for a time in collecting
natural-history specimens for the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains. Later he settled in Delavan, Wise, and found employ
ment as book-keeper and master mechanic in a factory for the
construction of pumps and windmills. He died in Delavan, May
13, 18Y5. He was never married.

Edwin Burr Trumbull was born in Stonington, Conn., June
5, 1830.

After graduation he studied law in Norwich with Hon. L. F. S.
Foster; was admitted to the bar at Norwich in November, 1853 ;
was clerk of both branches of the General Assembly. After
practicing law for some years, he engaged in mercantile life in con-
nection with the Union Manufacturing Company of Norwich. He
soon after resumed his profession again and continued in it until
his last sickness.

He was married. May 17, 1864, to Miss Ellen P. Hakes of Nor-
wich, and died in Stonington, February 16, 1875.

1854.

Jacob Brown Harris, son of Reuben and Rowena (Wood-
bury) Harris, was bom in Winchendon, Mass., Jan. 24, 1830.
The year after graduation he spent in Strasburgh, Pa., studying
13

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law and teaching. After an interval of more than a year, caused
by severe illness, he resumed the study of law in June, 1837, with
Hon. Giles H. Whitney, of Winchendon. In 1859, he removed to
East Abington (in that portion which is now Rockland), Mass.,
and won for himself a leading position in the Plymouth County
Bar. He was for two sessions a member of the Legislature. A
few years ago he removed to Boston, where he died, after many
months of suffering, of Bright's disease of the kidneys, F'eb. 6^
18V5.

He married, Dec. 31, 1862, Miss Mary M. Knight, of Boston,
who survives him, without children.

1855.

Augustus DeBerkeley Hughes was born in New York City,
Oct. 28, 1834, and died in St. Louis, Mo., May 3, 1875.

He studied law in the office of H. C. Van Vorst, Esq., of New
York, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He practiced his
profession in New York until December, 1862, when he removed
to New Orleans, where he resided until his death. He was a
captain in a Louisiana Regiment during a part of the Civil War.

1857.

Geokge Pratt was born in East Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 12,
1832.

After graduation he taught for a year in Blooming Grove, N.
Y., pursuing legal studies at the same time, and then entered the
law office of Hon. John T. Wait, in Norwich Town, Conn., and
was admitted to the bar in April, 1859. While studying with
Mr. Wait, his residence was in Salem, Conn., where he had mar-
ried, July 31, 1858, Miss Sarah V., daughter of Hon. Oramel
Whittlesey. He was elected to represent the town in the General
Assembly in 1860, and in the same year removed to Norwich,
where he opened a law office, and resided in the practice of his
profession until his death. In 1864, '65, and '69, he represented
Norwich in the General Assembly, and in that capacity was the
author of several important measures. Meantime he rose steadily
in his profession, and in the city where he was best known was
more extensively employed and trusted than any practitioner of
his years. He was for some years City Attorney, and was Cor-
poration Counsel at the time of his death.

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On a visit to Hartford in the middle of May last, he contracted
a cold which developed into typhoid pneumonia, subsequently
followed by paralysis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, which ended,
after a painful struggle, in his death at Norwich, June 4, 18'75.

His widow survives him, with children.

Nathan Willey was born in South Windsor, Conn., Aug. 24,
1831, and died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a very
brief illness, Dec. 31, 1874.

He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Minnesota in
Oct., 1858. After practicing his profession in St. Paul for two
years, he returned in poor health to Hartford, Conn., where he
became editor of the "Post." In August, 1862, he enlisted in the
25th Connecticut Volunteers, and served for nine months in
Louisiana. He remained in Louisiana until the close of the war,
and was next employed as night editor of the " Boston Journal."
During the rest of his life he was engaged in life insurance, and
at the time of his death had charge of the " Insurance Law Journal,"
published in New York City. He published several volumes on
various topics connected with life insurance. He was never
married.

1860.

Daniel Riker Elder, youngest son of George and Hannah E.
Elder, of Stamford, Conn., was born in New York City, July T,
1838.

He remained at home until June, 1861, when he entered the
navy. From March, 1862, until near the time of his death he was
engaged in business in New York City. In June, 1874, he left
home for a trip round the world, and continued in good health
until his departure from Japan on the steamer City of Peking,
in April, 1875. He was taken seriously ill with dysentery, and
died on the 25th of that month, within three days' sail of San
Francisco.

William Fowler, son of Rev. Philemon H. Fowler, D.D., and
Jennette (Hopkins) Fowler, was born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 26,
1839, and entered college from Utica.

He graduated in the summer of 1861, with the degree of LL.B.,
at the Albany Law School, and in the autumn entered into part-
nership with his classmate, D. Cady Eaton, for the practice of

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law in New York City. In 1862 he was commissioned lieutenant
in the I'ZSd Regiment New York Infantry, and served with that
regiment throughout the siege of Port Hudson and Banks' Louisi-
ana expedition, sowing there the seeds of the disease of which he
finally died. In August, 1863, he was commissioned captain and
transferred to the 146th New York Infantry, and in his capacity
as line officer and afterwards as assistant adjutant general on the
staff of Gen. Charles Griffen of the 5th Corps, participated in all
the movements of the Army of the Potomac from this date
until the surrender of General Lee. At the conclusion of the war
he was commissioned as captain in the regular army, and at the
request of General Howard assigned to duty with the Freedmen's
Bureau, and placed in charge of the Land and Claim Division.
In 1868 he left the army and undertook the business of manufac-
turing turpentine in Newbern, N. 0. Not succeeding in this, he
returned to the practice of his profession, in Elmira, N. Y., where
his diligent efforts were beginning to bring success, when he was
prostrated by the long and painful illness which resulted in his
death.

He was married, Oct. 26, 1871, to Miss Laura A. Wentworth, of
Elmira, who survives him. He died in New York City, Nov. 26,
1874.

Jacob Wadswokth Kussell, son of Jacob and Mary H.
Russell, was born in Chicago, 111., Dec. 22, 1839.

After a year's study of law in his native city, he entered the
military service, as an attache of the Paymaster's Department,
and served until 1863, when he resigned and engaged in oil
speculations and subsequently in banking. From 1867 until his
death he was secretary of the Chicago Board of Health, and was
esteemed as a faithful and efficient public officer. He died sud-
denly of pleuro-pneumonia, in Chicago, May 29, 1875.

1861.

Charles Borland Hill, son of Nathaniel P. and Matilda
(Can-ford) Hill, was bom in Montgomery, N. Y., May ]6, 1836.

Upon graduation he began the study of law in New York City,
and after admission to the bar practiced his profession there until
his last illness. He died in the summer of 1873, of consumption,
having previously tried in vain the benefits of European travel
and of a trip to Minnesota. He was never married.

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1871.

Orville Justus Bliss, son of Aaron Bliss, was born at Chagrin
Falls, Ohio, May 17, 1849. He was prepared for college at Willis-
ton Seminary, East Hampton, Mass.

For six months after graduation, he was in the stationery busi-
ness in Chicago. His health not being firm, he spent the next
eighteen months in travel, visiting Colorado, Europe, and the East.
In September, 1872, he began the study of law in the Union Law
College, Chicago, and in March, 1874, entered the law office of
Isham & Lincoln. In December he was admitted to the Missouri
bar, and he was expecting to be admitted to the bar of Illinois
early in the present summer. On the 9th of March, 1875, he was
married to Miss Ella H. Rankin of Newark, N. J., and spent the
next ten days in a visit to Washington and the South. On reach-
ing Jacksonville, Fla., he was taken ill with typhoid fever, and
died in that place on the 9th of April.

Mr. Bliss had manifested considerable literary ability in college,
and had since been a constant writer for the press. He was in-
tending to devote himself to law or journalism.

John Wolcott Starr, younger son of John S. and Lydia A.
(Lay) Starr, was born in Guilford, Conn., March 9, 1848.

He entered the Yale Divinity School in September, 1871, and
on graduating in May, 1874, accepted an appointment to supply
for a year the Congregational Church in West Stewartstown, N.
H. He was ordained at his home in Guilford, June 18, and was
within a few days of completing his year of service when he died
in West Stewartstown, June 22. The untiring devotion with
which he had labored during the unusually severe winter, had
probably contributed to develop consumptive tendencies, so that
he fell a victim to an attack of lung fever, after about a week's ill-
ness. He was unmarried.

1872.

Lewis Greene Parsons, the son of Gen. Lewis B. Parsons
(Y. C. 1840) and Sarah Greene Edwards, was born in St. Louis,
Mo., Aug. 3, 1848. He completed his preparation for college at
the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven.

On leaving college he went into business in St. Paul, Minn.,
residing there so as to be with a sister who was in failing health.
After her death, in May, 1873, he took a position in a bank in

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St. Louis, with the expectation of continuing there permanently ;
but signs of consumption manifested themselves, and in December
he went to Southern California. There he remained until August,
1874, and then removed to Colorado. He died in Denver, Jan.
29, 1875, in his 27th year.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1819.

Benjamin Franklin Bowers died in New York City, Feb. 7,
1875, aged 78 years. He had long practiced homoeopathy in
New York. He was a native of Billerica, Mass., and son of
Benjamin and Silence (Stickney) Bowers.

1823.

Henry Sullivan Lee was born in New London, Conn., May
1, 1797. He was the son of Dr. Samuel H. P. Lee, of that city.

In early life he practiced his profession in Providence, R. I.,
and was subsequently engaged in the manufacture of cotton cloth
in Leesville, Conn., until 1843, when he removed to Boston, Mass.,
and resumed medical practice. In 1870, ill-health, consequent on
paralysis, compelled him to retire, and he removed to New York
City, where he died, March 25, 1875.

1829.

Denison Hale Hubbard was born in Bolton, Tolland County,
Conn., Sept. 1, 1805.

He began the study of medicine under Dr. Wm. O. Talcott
(Y. C. 1823), of Winsted, Conn. Upon receiving his degree he
settled in Glastonbury, Conn., but in 1832 removed to Bloomfield,
Conn., where he continued in active practice until 1844, when on
account of a failure of health, caused by intense professional labors,
he removed to Clinton, Conn., where the remainder of his life was
spent. In 1864, he buried his wife, and two of his three children ;
and this great sorrow, added to physical infirmities resulting from
over-work, brought on an illness from which he never fully
recovered, although he continued in practice until disabled in
March, 1874, by a second paralytic seizure, which teminated his
useful life, Aug. 12, 1874. At the time of his fatal illness, he was
the President of the Middlesex County Medical Society. His

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only surviving child graduated from the Medical Department of
this college in 1860.

1850.

Henry Wyllt Edmund Matthews was born on S. Simon's
Island, Ga., Dec. 10, 1827, nine days after the death of his father,
Rev. Edmund Matthews, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church.
His mother, a native of Cheshire, Conn., returned to that town in
a few years, and in due time the son was fitted for college in the
Episcopal Academy there. He graduated from Trinity College
in 1847, and then entered on the study of medicine here.

On receiving his degree, he began practice in this city, and
acquired a leading position among the younger members of the
profession. In November, 1872, he met with an accident which
in all probability hastened his death. While assisting in a post-
mortem examination, he became inoculated in the hand with the
virus of malignant erysipelas, and for some time his life was in
suspense, but he finally rallied, and was able in about a year to
make a trip to Cuba. He returned much improved, and resumed
practice. After a week's illness, of pleuro-pneumonia, he died
suddenly, in New Haven, Jan. 29, 1875. He was unmarried.

Dr. Matthews was especially skilled in obstetrics, and at the
time of his accident in 1872 had (besides a large general practice)
a more extensive practice in that department than any other
physician in the city.

1856.

Charles Clinton Latimer, son of Erastus and Seviah (Web-
ster) Latimer, was born in Newington, Conn., Oct. 17, 1831.

After a course of study at Williston Seminary, East Hampton,
Mass., he entered the Freshman Class in the Academical Depart-
ment of this college in 1850, but was obliged by ill health to give
up his studies after two years. A year later he entered the Medi-
cal Department, and on receiving his degree began practice in
Neponset, 111. In 1858 he removed to the neighboring city of
Princeton, 111., where he practiced successfully until obliged by
failing health to give up work, in 1873. During the war of the
rebellion he served, in the summer of 1864, as surgeon in the 139th
Illinois Infantry. He died Sept. 6, 1874, in West Bloomfield,
N. Y., where he had rejoined his family after a sojourn of six
months in Minnesota.

Dr. Latimer married, July 21, 1858, Miss Emily M. Peck, who
survives him, with two daughters.

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LAW DEPARTMENT.

1845.

Edward Zechariah Lewis, son of Zechariah Lewis (Y. C.
1794), was born in New York in 1824. He graduated in Arts at
Columbia College in 1843, and immediately entered this Law
School.

After practicing the law for some time in Binghamton, N. Y.,
he studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church
with Rev. Amos B. Beach, D.D., then Rector of Christ Church
in that place, and was ordained Deacon by Bishop DeLancey,
Aug. 14, 1855. He was assistant minister for a short time to
Dr. Beach, and then became rector of Christ Church, Corning,
N. Y., when he remained until 1860. He was next, until 1871,
the rector of Emmanuel Church, Norwich, N. Y. ; then in charge
of St. Paul's Church, Holland's Patent, N. Y., for a year; then
assistant minister of Grace Church, Utica, N. Y., in charge of
St. Luke's Mission; in 1873 and 1874 taking charge of St. John's,
Whitesboro', and the Mission of the Good Shepherd, East Utica.
He died in Utica, of pneumonia, after seven days' illness, Feb. 8,
1875.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1857.

Charles Harger, the second son of Alfred and Ruth Harger,
was born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 23d, 1834.

Soon after graduating he removed, with his brother Henry, to
Delhi, the county-seat of Delaware County, Iowa, where he has
since resided, engaged in land surveying and real estate business.
At the time of his death, and for nearly twelve years previously,
he was Deputy Treasurer of Delaware County. He died, after
about a week's illness, June 15th, 1875. He leaves a widow and
one son. *»

1866.

Alexander Ufford McAlister, son of Alexander and Susan
McAlister, and grandson of Rev. Hezekiah G. Ufford (Y. C. 1806),
was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 10, 1846. In his youth his
family removed to this city, where their residence has since
continued.

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After graduation tie adopted journalism as his profession, serv-
ing for a time on various New Haven papers. He was soon able
to make a practical application of his scientific training, by join-
ing the editorial staff of the " Scientific American," published in
New York City, with which he was connected for two years,
contributing also to other New York papers. He returned to
New Haven early in 1874 with failing health, and after five
months' illness, died on the 20th of October. He was married,
Oct. 19, 1874, to Nellie L., daughter of S. C. Decker, of New
York City.

SUMMARY

Academical Department.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1804

Jacob A. Van Heuvel, 87,

Syracuse, N. Y.,

May 3, '74.

1806

James Root, 88,

Hartford, Conn.,

April 17, '75.

1808

Joseph Delafield, 84,

N. Y. City,

Feb. 12, '75.

1812

Wm. P. Buffett, 81,

Smithtown, L. I.,

Oct. 7, '74.

((

Edward Delafield, 80,

N. Y. City,

Feb. 13, '75.

1813

Abram Dixon, 87,

Westfield, N. Y.,

April 19, '75.

John A. Stevens, 79,

N. Y. City,

Oct. 19, '74.

John W. Weed, 82,

Metuchen, N. J.,

Jan. 7, '75.

1814

Lucius W. Leffingwell, 78,

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 1, '75.

((

Joseph C. Stiles, 79,

Savannah, Ga.,

March 27, '75.

1815

Erasmus Norcross, 80,

Stratford, Conn.,

Aug. 23, '74.

1816

Harvey F. Leavitt, 78,

Grinnell, Iowa.

Nov. 11, '74.

Fleming B. Miller, 81,

Staunton, Ya.,

Aug. 10, '74.

1811

George Marvin, 76,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Dec. 23, '74.

1818

Samuel Griswold, 79,

Old Saybrook, Conn.,

Jan. 18, '75.

Joseph Hurlbut, 75,

New London, Conn.,

June 5, '75.

David KimbaU, 83,

Rockford, 111.,

Feb. 8, '75.

1820

Garnett Duncan, 75,

Louisville, Ky.,

May 25, '75.

1821

Peter F. Clark, 74,

N. Y. City,

May 15, '75.

1822

Osmyn Baker, 74,

Northampton, Mass.,

Feb. 9, '75.

1823

Richard W. Dickinson, 69,

Fordham, N Y.,

Aug. 16, '74.

1824

Tertius S. Clarke, 75,

Neath, Pa.,

April 12, '75.

Bennett F. Northrop, 73,

Griswold, Conn.,

March 4, '75.

1825

Moses Raymond, 77,

Green Spring Yalley,W.Ya., May 19, '75.

1826

Aurelius D. Parker, 73,

Boston, Mass.,

June 18, '75.

((

Wm. Preston, 73,

Bedford, Pa.,

April 25, '75.

1827

Henry Durant, 72,

Oakland, Cal.,

Jan. 22, '75.

((

Samuel Howe, 71,

Bricksburg, N. J.,

Sept. 28, '74.

Ralph D. Smyth, 69,

Guilford, Conn.,

Sept. 11, '74.

1828

George Perkins, 70,

Norwich, Conn.,

Oct. 13, '74.

1829

Warren B. Dutton, 71,

Charlestown, W. Ya.,

Sept. 5, '74.

Joseph Bldridge, 70,

Norfolk, Conn.,

March 31, '75

1830

Elijah P. Grant, 66,

Canton, 0.,

Dec. 21, '74.

1831

Isaac S. K. Legare, 65,

Orangeburg, S. C,

July 29, '74.

John L. Mayer, 63,

York, Pa.,

Aug. 16, '74.

1834

Davis S. Brainerd, 62,

Lyme, Conn.,

April 30, '75.

Henry Chalker, 61,

Nunda, N. Y.,

May 24, '74.

Wm. Leverett, 61,

Plymouth, N. H.,

Sept. 18, '74.

1835

John E. Seeley, 64.

Ovid, N. Y.,

March 30, '75.

1836

Charles P. Avery, 55,

Owego, N. Y.,

Aug. -31, '72.

Edward P. Cowles, 60,

Chicago, lU.,

Dec. 2, '74.

1838

Joseph B. Yarnum. 56,

Astoria, L. I.,

Dec. 31. '74.

((

Charles C. Whittlesey, 56,

St. Louis, Mo.,

March JO, '75.

1840

Horace James, 57,

Boylston, Mass.,

June 9, '75.

1841

MaunseU B. Field, 52,

N. Y. City,

Jan. 24, '75.

((

George W. Ives, 55,

u •^*

Dec. 6, '74.

1842

Hugh B. Gardiner, 54,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

July 23, '74.

((

John W. Platts, 53,

Princeton, Cal.,

'74.

1843

Wm. A. Benton, 56,

Barre, Mass.,

Aug. 30, '74.

((

Wm. H. Goodrich, 51,

Lausanne, Switzerland,

July 11, '74.

199

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1843

Alexander Johnston, 53,

Delaware Bay,

May 10, '75.

184Y

Martin V. B. Wilcoxson, 45,

London, England,

Oct. 17, '74.

1849

Stephen Fenn, 50,

Wapping, Conn.,

Feb. 19, '75.

1851

Timothy C. Downie, 46,

Delavan, Wise,

May 13, '75.

Edwin B. TrumbuU, 44,

Stonington, Conn.,

Feb. 16, '75.

1854

Jacob B. Harris, 45,

Boston, Mass.,

Feb. 6, '75.

1855

Augustus DeB. Hughes, 40,

St. Louis, Mo.,

May 3, '75.

1857

George Pratt, 42,

Norwich, Conn.,

June 4, '75.

((

Nathan Willey, 43,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Dec. 31, '74.

1860

D. Riker Elder, 36,

Pacific Ocean,

April 25, '75.

((

William Fowler, 35,

N. Y. City,

Nov. 26, '74.

Jacob W. Russell, 35,

Chicago, 111.,

May 29, '75.

1861

Charles B. Hill, 37,

N. Y.,

'73.

1811

OrviUe J. Bliss. 25,

Jacksonville, Fla.,

April 9, '75.

John W. Starr, 27,

West Stewartstown, N.

H., June 22, '75.

1872

Lewis G. Parsons, 26,

Denver, Col.,

Jan. 29, '75.

Medical Department.

1819

Benj. P. Bowers, 78,

N. Y. City,

Feb. 7, '75.

1823

Henry S. Lee, 77,

N. Y. City.

March 25, '75

1829

Denison H. Hubbard, 69.

Clinton, Conn.,

Aug. 12, '74.

1850

Henry W. E. Matthews, 47,

New Haven, Conn.,

Jan. 29, '75.

1856

C. Clinton Latimer, 42,

W. Bloomfield, N. Y.,

Sept. 6, '74.

Law Department.
1845 Edward Z. Lewis, 51, Utica, N. Y.,

Feb. 8, '75.

Sheffield Scientific School.

1857 Charles Harger, 41,
1866 Alex. U. McAlister, 28,

Delhi, Iowa,

New Haven, Conn.,

June 15, '75.
Oct. 20, '74.

The number of deaths reported above is 74, and the average age of the grad-
uates of the Academical Department is 62f years.

Of the Academical Graduates, 26 were lawyers, 2] clergymen, 8 in business,
and 5 physicians.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in New York, 23; Connecticut, 16;
Massachusetts, 5; Illinois and Pennsylvania, 3 each; California, Europe, Iowa,
Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey and West Virginia, 2 each ; and the re-
mainder in as many different States.

The only surviving graduate of the last century is Rev. Thomas Williams, of
Providence, R. I., who was born Nov. 5, 1779, and graduated in 1800.

INDEX.

Class. Page.

1836 Avery, Charles P., 180

1822 Baker, Osmyn, 169

1843 Benton, Wm. A., 186

18n Bliss, Orville J., 193

1819 m Bowers, Benj. R, 194

1834 Brainerd, Davis S., 179

1812 Buffett, Wm. P., 160

1 834 Chalker, Henry, 179

1821 Clark, Peter F., 169

1824 Clarke, Tertius S., 170

1836 Cowles, Edw. P.,. 181

1812 Delafield, Edward, 161

1808 Delafield, Joseph, 160

1823 Dickinson, Hichard W., _ 169

1813 Dixon, Abram,, 162

1851 Downie, Timothy C, 189

1820 Duncan. Garnett, 168

1827 Durant, Henry, 173

1829 Dutton, Warren B., 176

1860 Elder, D. Riker, 191

1829 Eldridge, Joseph, 177

1849 Fenn, Stephen,. 188

1841 Field, Maunsell B., 183

1860 Fowler, Wm., 191

1842 Gardiner, Hugh B., 185

1843 Goodrich, Wm. H., 186

1830 Grant, Elijah P., 177

1818 Griswold, Samuel, 167

1857 p Harger, Charles, 196

1854 Harris, Jacob B., 189

1861 Hill, Charles B,, 192

1827 Howe, Samuel, 174

1829 m Hubbard, Denison H., .. 194

1855 Hughes, Aug. DeB., 190

1818 Hurlbut, Joseph, 167

1841 Ives, Geo W., 184

1840 James, Horace, 182

Class. Page.

1843 Johnston, Alex., __ 187

1818 KimbaU, David, 168

1856 m Latimer, C. Clinton, 195

1816 Leavitt, Harvey F., 165

1823 m Lee, Henry S., ._ 194

1814 LeffingweU, Lucius W., _ 163
1831 Legare, Isaac S. K., 178

1834 Leverett, Wm., 179

1845 Z Lewis, Edw. Z.,__ 196

1866 ^ McAlister, Alex. U., 196

1817 Marvin, Geo., 166

1850 m Matthews, Henry W. E., 195

1831 Mayer, John L., 178

1816 Miller, Fleming B., 166

1815 Norcross, Erasmus, 165

1824 Northrop, Bennett F.,_.. 171

1826 Parker, Aurelius D., 172

1872 Parsons, Lewis G., 193

1824 Perkins, Geo., - 176

1842 Platts, John W., 185

1857 Pratt, Geo., 190

1826 Preston, Wm., 173

1825 Raymond, Moses, 172

1806 Root, James, 159

1860 Russell, Jacob W., 192

1835 Seeley, John E., 180

1827 Smyth, Ralph D., 175

1871 Starr, John W., 193

1813 Stevens, John A., 162

1814 Stiles, Joseph C- 163

1851 Trumbull, Edwin B., 189

1804 Van Heuvel, Jacob A., _ - 159

1838 Vamum, Joseph B., 181

1813 Weed, John W., „. 163

1838 Whittlesey, Charles C.,-. 182

1847 Wilcoxson, Martin Y. B., 188

1857 WiUey, Nathan, 191

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1876,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF TBE ALUMNI, JUNE 28th, 18T6.J

[No. 6 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 35 of the whole Record.]

INDEX

Class. Page

1821 Adams, Geo. E., 210

1861 Arnold, Hubbard, 226

1844 Barrett, Myron, 220

1847 Bassett, Benj. R, 223

1816 Bird, Isaac, 207

1872 Blake, Frank W.,. 232

1868 Boardman, Herbert, 230

1818 Bronson, Oliver, 209

1817 Brown, Nehemiah, 207

1812 Brown, Solyman, 204

1864 Browning, Robert M., 228

1823 Buck, David, 211

1863 Bull, Cornelius W., - 228

1827 Bushnell, Horace, .213

1808 Chandler, John, 203

1868 Chapman, Timothy P., ... 230

1829 Church, John B., 214

1874 t Danforth, Wm. B., 234

1817 Dickinson, Baxter, 208

1830 Dorsey, Samuel W.,. 215

1814 Dulles, Joseph H., 205

1819 Edwards, Jonathan, 209

1847 EUsworth, Stukely, 223

1821 Esty, Isaac,. 210

1844 Perry, Orris S., 220

1849 Ford, Rufus A., 223

1841 Gillett, Ezra H., 219

1875 Grinnell, Frank L., 232

1853 Hall, T. Dwight, 224

1 875 f Harris, George, 234

1836 Hart, Edward L.,... 218

1835 Hequembourg, Charles L., 217

1847 m Hunt, Isaac S., 233

Class. Page

1867 Johnston, Alex., 229

1840 Lamont, Geo. D., 218

1 824 Lowrey, James, 212

1 849 Miles, James B., 224

1835 Mills, Geo. L 217

1874 t Morris, James W., 233

1857 Nolen, Geo. A., 225

1826 Parker, Edward W., 212

1861 Perkins, Geo. C, 227

1831 Polk. Trusten, .216

1873 p Pomeroy, Benj., 233

1858 Porter, Edward C, 226

1826 Pratt, Mark, 213

1 841 Raymond, Henry H., 220

1809 Rice, John P., 203

1849 Richardson, Walker, 224

1823 Riddel, Samuel H., 211

1826 Ritter, Thomas, 213

1866 Roberts, Henry, 229

1857 Sandys, Edwin P., ..225

1866 Schroeder, Ernest, 229

1837 Self ridge, Wm. W., 218

1865 Sharp, John, 228

1846 Sherwood, Thomas D., ... 222

1865 Smith, Walter B., 229

1815 Sprague, Wm. B., 205

1 844 Taylor, Nath'l W. , 221

1846 Thompson, AbijahH., ... 222

1825 Topliff, Stephen, 212

1862 Weeks, Robert K.,.. 227

1869 Williams, Orin M., 231

1868 Wood,Wm. C, i... 231

1830 Woodruff, Lewis B., 216

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending June^ 187H, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously^
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meetinq of the Alumni, June 28, 1816.]
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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1808.

John Chandler, the eldest child of John and Mary (Campfield;
Chandler, was born in Elizabethtown, N. J., Dec. 30, 1784. He
at first entered the college of New Jersey, but spent the last three
years of the course here.

After a short period of study at Andover Theological Seminary,
he began to preach, but his delicate health and feeble vocal power
kept him from active work in the ministry. He was one of the
oldest and most devoted members and ofiicers qf the Third Pres-
byterian Church of Newark, N. J., in which city he passed the
greater part of his life.

He married, Sept. 16, 1818, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Chap-
man, of Elizabethtown (and widow of James C. Mulford), whom
he survived fourteen years, and by whom he had four children,
three of whom are still living. He died at the residence of his son-
in-law, in Brooklyn (E. D.), N. Y., Dec. 1, 1875, aged nearly 91
years. Of a class of fifty members, he was the last survivor.

1809.

John Parker Rice was born in Princeton, Mass., Sept. 24, 1786,
the only son of Soloman and Mary (Binney) Rice. He assumed a
middle name (by act of the state legislature) about 1816, in com-

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pliment to his mother who had married Mr. Ebenezer Parker, of
Princeton, as her second husband. His only half-brother, Aurelius
T>. Parker, was graduated at this college in 1826.

Soon after leaving college, Mr. Rice went to Salem, Mass., and
engaged in teaching. He was married to Sarah, daughter of
George Crowninshield, Esq., of Salem, Nov. 18, 1816, when here-
moved to Philadelphia, at the same time giving up his profession
as a teacher. In the summer of 1818 he settled in Boston, where
the greater part of his married life was spent. Here he became
actively interested in the politics of the day and in various benev-
olent and public enterprises. For a few years he was in business
in Boston as a merchant, removing his residence, however, to Ded-
ham a few years after his wife's death, which occurred Feb. 5, 1847.

He finally gave up business, and in 1856 removed to his native
town, where he resided in honored retirement until his death, Sept.
20, 1875, at the age of 89. His only child, a daughter, survives
him.

1812.

SoLYMAN Browx, son of Nathaniel and Thankful (Woodruff)
Brown, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Nov. 17, 1790.

He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Litch-
field North Association, Sept. 30, 1813, and for seven or eight
years combined the duties of teacher and preacher, until a severe
hemorrhage of the lungs obliged him to relinquish almost entirely
public speaking. In 1821 he removed to New York city, to pursue
his vocation as a classical teacher, and there he embraced the doc-
trines of Emanuel Swedenborg, and was constituted a regular
preacher of the New Jerusalem Church. He continued to teach,
however, until 1832, when he took up dental surgery as a profes-
sion, and for many years followed his calling in New York city.
He showed his enthusiasm for his art by publishing two poems
(" Dentologia," in 1833, and "Dental Hygeia," in 1838) and sev-
eral essays, elucidating its principles. He also published in 1818
" An Essay on American Poetry," and was for many years a fre-
quent contributor to the periodical press, and especially to the
columns of the New York " Mirror."

Dr. Brown married in 1834 Elizabeth, daughter of Amos Butler,
for many years editor and proprietor of the New York " Mercan-
tile Advertiser." In 1874 they removed to Minnesota, where he
continued at the residence of his son-in-law, Judge C. D. TuthilL

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in Dodge Center, until his death, which occurred Feb. 13, 1876, in
the 86th year of his age. His mental faculties continued clear and
vigorous until his last illness, which was very brief. His wife, five
daughters and one son survive him ; two sons having died in early
manhood.

1814.

Joseph Heatlt Dulles, son of Joseph and Sophia (Heatly)
Dulles, was born in Charleston, S. C, Febr. 7, 1795.

Almost immediately after graduation, he entered on a mercan-
tile career in Philadelphia. Although he had in large measure
the talents which lead to success in business, from the beginning
he never forgot what was due from a liberally educated man to
the promotion of public interests. He was one of the founders of
the Academy of Natural Sciences and of the Mercantile Library,
and one of the earliest and most efficient friends of the Franklin
Institute. He was also one of the organizers and for over fifty
years one of the managers of the American Sunday School Union.
Of the Presbyterian Church he was an earnest working member.
In business enterprises he was equally active, and in his maturer
years was especially interested in the development of the coal and
iron interests of his adopted state. He died at his residence in
Philadelphia, March 12, 1876, in his 82d year. He married, in
1819, a daughter of John Welsh, Esq., of Philadelphia, who sur-
vives him, with four sons and four daughters. Of his sons three
were graduated at this college, in 1839, 1844, and 1852. One of
his daughters is the wife of Charles J. Stille, LL.D. (Y. C. 1839.)

1815.

William Buell Sprague', the youngest son of Benjamin and
Sybil (Buell) Sprague, of Andover, Conn., was born in that town,
Oct. 16, 1795, and died in Flushing, N. Y., May 7, 1876.

For a year after graduating, he was a private tutor in the family
of Major Lewis, a nephew of Washington, at Woodlawn, Va.
In the fall of 1816 he entered the Theological Seminary at Prince-
ton, N. J., and was graduated in the regular course. He was set-
tled, Aug. 25, 1819, over the Congregational Church in West Spring-
field, Mass., as colleague pastor with Kev. Dr. Joseph Lathrop (Y. C.
1754), who died in the following year. Here he remained until
1 829, when he accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian Church
in Albany, N. Y., and was installed as their pastor on the 26th of

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August. His settlement in Albany continued for a period of forty
years, and until he had reached the age of 74. In the fall of 1869
he resigned his pastoral charge, and in May, 1870, removed to
Flushing, L. I., where he spent the remaining years of his life.

In 1828 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Co-
lumbia College, and in 1848 the same degree from Harvard
University. In 1859 Princeton College conferred on him the
degree of Doctor of Laws.

The principal literary work of his life was the " Annals of the
American Pulpit," of which nine volumes are published, and a
concluding volume is complete in manuscript and will probably be
brought out at some future time. Among other published writings
may be mentioned, "Letters to a Daughter," "Letters from
Europe," " Lectures to Young People," " Lectures on Revivals,"
" Contrast between True and False Christianity," " Life of Dr. E.
D. Griffin," " Life of Jedidiah Morse," " Life of President Dwight "
(in Sparks's " American Biography "). The number of his pub-
lished sermons, addresses and orations is about 175. Among
them are the Phi Beta Kappa address at this college in 1843, and
the oration before the Alumni in 1860.

One of the principal recreations of his life was the collection of
autograph manuscripts. He began this at an early day, and suc-
ceeded in accumulating a great quantity of interesting material.
A considerable portion of Gen. Washington's private correspond-
ence was presented to him by one of the members of the Wash-
ington family, and his collection includes two complete sets of the
autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a
complete set of the generals of the Revolution commissioned by
the Continental Congress (the only set in existence), all the
English sovereigns from James I, all the Frencli sovereigns from
Louis XIV, together with such individual names as St. Augustine,
Calvin, Bunyan, Melanchthon, Erasmus, the Emperor Charles V,
Henry IV of France, Henry VIII of England, and most men and
women of note in this country or abroad during the 18th or 19th
centuries. The collection fills four large cases.

Dr. Sprague was first married, Sept. 5, 1820, to Charlotte,
daughter of Gen. Wm. Eaton, of Brimfield, Mass. She died June
25, 1S21. He was married, secondly, Aug. 2, 1824, to Mary,
daughter of Hon. Samuel Lathrop, of West Springfield. She
died Sept. 16, 1837, and he was again married. May 13, 1840, to
Henrietta B., daughter of Hon. Samuel Lathrop, who is still living.

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All the children of the second and third marriages who sni'vived
infancy, are still living: they are two sons and one daughter by
the second marriage, and two daughters and one son by the third.

1816.

Isaac Bird, son of Isaac and llhoda (Selleck) Bird, was born
in Salisbury, Conn., June 19, 1793.

He spent the year after graduation as a teacher in the academy
in West Nottingham, Md., and in Nov., 1817, entered Andover
Theol. Seminary. His three years there were passed in close com-
panionship with his classmates, William Goodell and Daniel Tem-
ple, the associates of his future missionary life, and the three friends
together offered themselves on graduating to the American Board
for work among the heathen. Mr. Bird spent two years in the
service of the Board in this country, and was ordained, w^ith Mr.
Temple, at North Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 31, 1821. He was
married, Nov. 18, 1822, to Ann, daughter of Capt. Wm. Parker,
of Dunbarton, N. H., and they embarked the next month with
Mr. and Mrs. Goodell for Malta. He passed the succeeding
winter in Jerusalem, and the next 13 years in or near Beirut,
Syria. In the summer of 1836 he returned to the United States,
on account of the long continued ill-health of his wife, and was
for the next two years employed as an agent of the American
Board. In Sept., 1839, he began to give instruction in the Theol.
Seminary in Gilmanton, N. H., where he remained for six years,
during the last part of the time serving as Professor of Sacred
Literature. From 1846 to 1869 he conducted a family school in
Hartford, Conn., and then removed to Great Barrington, where he
died at the residence of his son, June 13, 1876, at the age of 83.
His wife survives him. Of their ten children four died in infancy.
One son graduated at Dartmouth College in 1844, and another at
this College in 1848. The eldest son is a missionary on Mount
Lebanon, and the eldest daughter is the wife of Rev. Dr. Van
Lennep, so long a missionary in the Turkish Empire.

1817.

Nehemiah Brown was born in Canterbury, Conn., June 11,
1791, and died in New York City, Jan. 5, 1876, in his 85th year.

After leaving College he studied divinity with Rev. James M.
Mathews, D.D., of New York City, and taught in his family as
private tutor about three years. He was then, for about the same

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length of time, principal of Clinton Academy, in East Hampton,
L. I.

He was ordained and installed eighth pastor of the Fii-st Pres-
byterian Church in Huntington, L. I., Oct. 18, 1824. In conse-
quence of failing health he resigned this charge June 25, 1 832, and
removed to New York City. Here he was for several years prin-
cipal of the Pickett School, and he afterwards taught a collegiate
school in Washington, D.C., but returned to New York to pass
his later years.

He married Henrietta Conklin, of Huntington, who died some
years before him. Of their three sons and four daughters, one son
and two daughters survive him.

Baxter Dickinson, youngest son of Azariah and Mary (East-
man) Dickinson, was born in Amherst, Mass., April 14, 1*795.

He spent a year in teaching in Virginia, and in 1818 entered
Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary, where he completed the
course in 1821. He was ordained and installed pastor of the
Congregational Church in Longmeadow, Mass., March 5, 1823, and
there remained until called to the 3d Presbyterian Church in
Newark, N. J., where he was installed Nov. 17, 1829. He labored
successfully for six years in that relation, and then accepted an
invitation to the Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral
Theology in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. After four years of
active devotion to the interests of that institution, he accepted an
appointment to the corresponding chair in the seminary in Auburn,
N. Y , and held the position eight years. For ten years he served
the American and Foreign Christian Union as one of its District
Secretaries at New York and Boston, and then removed with his
family to Lake Forest, near Chicago, where with them he opened
a Young Ladies' Seminary, which was puccessfuUy maintained
until 186'7. The infirmities of age rendering necessary a retire-
ment from all labor, he removed in 1868 to Brooklyn, N. Y,
to spend his closing years, and died in that city, Dec. 5, 1875.

In 1838 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Amherst College. He was the author of the paper known as the
" True Doctrines," which was adopted in 1 837 as the exponent of
the doctrinal beliefs of the New School branch of the Presby-
terian Church, and received the endorsement of both branches at
the late Reunion. In 1839 he was the moderator of the New
School General Assembly. He published several sermons, and

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some of these, as well as a volume of " Letters to Students," were
republished in England.

Dr. Dickinson was married, June 4, 1823, to Martha Bush, of
Boylston, Mass., who survives him. Of their nine children, one
son and three daughters are living. Two of the sons graduated at
Amherst College, in 1844 and 1848 respectively.

1818.

Oliver Bronson died at Richfield Springs, N. Y., after a short
illness, July 21, 1875, in the 76th year of his age.

After graduating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
1825, he was long a resident of New York City, and had for many
years made St. Augustine, Florida, his winter home, becoming
thus a liberal benefactor of the educational and religious interests
of that State. His widow, Mrs. Joanna Bronson, died in Balti-
more, Md,, Feb. 13, 1876.

1819.

Jonathan Edwards was born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 27,
1798, and was the eldest son of Jonathan Walter Edwards
(Y. C. 1789), a distinguished lawyer of Hartford, and son of the
younger President Edwards. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter
of Capt. Moses Tryon, of Wethersfield, Conn,

After leaving college, he studied law with Chief-Justice Zeph-
aniah Swift (Y. C. 1778), of Windham, Corm., was admitted to
the bar in 1824, and was for a few years a practicing attorney in
Hartford. In 1830 he went to the island of Cuba to reside, but
the death of his father in April, 1831, changed his plans, and in-
duced him to return to his native city. In 1 835 he was appointed
by the state legislature judge of probate for the district of Hart-
ford, and held the office for one year. In 1836 he was nominated
by the whigs for secretary of state, but was defeated, with all his
associates on the ticket. He removed in 1838 to Troy, N. Y.,
where he was subsequently mayor of the city, and for two years
(1854 and 1855) a mtmber of the s-tate legislature.

He was married, March 1, 1837, to Maria Champion, of Col-
chester, Conn. After her death he removed in the spring of 1867
with his son to New Haven, Conn., where he spent the remainder
of his life in invalid retirement. He died in this city, quite sud-
denly, of a congestive chill, Aug. 23, 1875, in his 77th year. His
only son graduated at this college in 1863.

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1821.

Geokge Eliashib Adams, eldest son of Deacon Eliashib Adams,
was born in Worlhington, Mass., Oct. 27, 1801. His mother was
Anne, daughter of Rev. John Lei and, of Peru, Mass.

In 1803 the family removed to Bucksport, Me., and in 1813 to
Bangor, from which place the son entered college. He studied
theology in Andover Seminary, graduating in 1826, and in 1827
was appointed Professor of Sacred Literature in the Bangor
Theological Seminary, which position he retained until ordained
pastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick, Me., Dec. 30,
1829. At Brunswick the students in Bowdoin College were a part
of his regular congregation, and after forty years of successful
labor he was apprehensive that a younger man might be better
adapted to the place, and listened to an invitation to remove to
Orange, N.J. He resigned his pastorate in June, 1870, and was
soon installed over the Trinity Congregational Church in Orange.
Here, though at times quite feeble, he continued his ministry until
his resignation in March, 1875. He died after a long illness, in
Orange, Dec. 25, 1S75, aged 74 years.

He married, in 1826, Miss Sarah Ann Folsom, of Portsmouth,
N. H. They had no children, but adopted two daughters. About
1853, some years after the death of his first wife, he married a Miss
Root, who survives him with two daughters. He received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College in 1849.

Isaac Esty, son of David and Mercy Esty, was born in West-
moreland, Cheshire county. N. H., April 24, 1796.

He spent three years in Andover Theological Seminary, gradu-
ating in 1824, and was for some time employed as a home mis-
sionary in his native county. He was ordained, Jan. 29, 1829,
pastor of a Congregational Church at Cape Elizabeth, Me., where he
remained until 1831. He then removed to Bridgeton, Me., where
he preached until the spring of 1 832, when he returned to his
native place. Here he remained in feeble health, devoting him-
self to farming, for eight years. In the spring of 1840 he removed
to Westminster, Vt., where he resided until April, 1846, when he
accepted a call to the Congregational Churches in Bethlehem and
Franconia, N. H., preaching in each pulpit on alternate Sabbaths.
This arrangement continued until the spring of 1851, when he
returned to Westminster, where he lived until the spring of I 855,
acting during the last two years of this period as pastor of the

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Congregational Church. He then removed to Amherst, Mass.,
where he resided until his death, July 31, 1875, at the age of 79.
He was married, Feb. 1 1, 1829, to Nancy Goldsmith, daughter
of Asa Cole, of Westmoreland. She died Dec. 13, 1872. Of
their two sons, one died in infancy ; the other graduated at Am-
herst College in 1860, and is a Professor in that institution.

1823.

David Buck, eldest son of Gurdon and Susanna (Manwaring)
Buck, was born in New York city, Jan. 29, 1806.

The first year of his college course was spent in Columbia Col-
lege. He resided in Boston, where he married Matilda, daughter
of Henry Hall, Esq., by whom he had five children. He died at
his summer residence in Marblehead, Mass., Aug. 15, 1875.

Samuel Hopkins Riddel, eldest son of Rev. William Riddel
(Dartmouth College 1793), was born in Bristol, Me., where his
father was then pastor, Jan. 2, 1800. His mother was Lucy,
daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Y. C, 1749), of Hadley,
Mass.

He went from college to the Andover Theological Seminary,
and finished the course there in 1826. He was called to the pas-
torate of the Congregational Church in Glastonbury, Conn., April
23, 1827, and was ordained there on the 27th of the following
June. Having been in 1836 appointed an Agent of the American
Education Society, he was dismissed in February, 1837, from his
pastoral charge, and for the next two years devoted himself to the
interests of that Society as its agent for Connecticut and Rhode
Island and as Secretary of the Connecticut branch. In April,
1839, having been appointed editor of the " Congregationalist,"
a religious newspaper published in Hartford, Conn., he resigned
his agency, but two years later was recalled to the service of the
same society as its Secretary at its general ofllice in Boston. In
this position he continued until 1850. He was subsequently, from
1853 to 1858, an editor and proprietor of the " Puritan Recorder,"
and was installed, Aug. 15, 1860, over the Congregational ChurcK
in Tamworth, N. H. While in this ofiice his wife died, Febr. 4,
1866, and later the only remaining member of his family, an invalid
daughter, was taken away. Soon after this last affliction he
resigned his charge, July 12, 1871. In the fall of 1875 he went
to the West to visit, and was prevailed upon to pass the winter

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with friends in Des Moines, Iowa. In the spring he contracted a
cold which developed into pneumonia, of which disease he died,
June 1, 1876, in his 77th year.

1824.

James Lowrey, youngest child of Daniel and Anna (Munson)
Lowrey, was born in that part of Farmington which is now
Plainville, Conn., Sept. 10, 1802. •

He went to Wellsboro, Pa., as the principal of the academy,
and there studied law, and entered into partnership with Hon.
Ellis Lewis. He was at one time a member of the State Legisla-
ture. He retired from practice several years before his death, and
removed to Burlington, N. J., where he died, Nov. 30, 1875, aged
73 years.

He married, in 1830, Mary W., daughter of Hon. Samuel W.
Morris, of Pennsylvania, who is still living.

1825.

Stephen Topliff, son of Cyrus and Mary (Streeter) Topliff,
was born in Willington, Conn., Nov. 9, 1796.

From College he entered directly the Yale Divinity School, and
upon finishing the three years' course there was ordained as an
evangelist at North Branford, Conn., Oct. 15, 1828. His first pas-
toral charge was over the 4th Congregational church in Middle-
town, Conn., (Westfield society), from May 27, 1829, to Oct. 3,
1838. After serving as stated supply in Columbus, O., in 1839-
40, he returned to Connecticut and was settled over the Congrega-
tional Church in Oxford, from Sept. 1, 1841, to July 1, 1860. He
then retired to Cromwell, Conn., where he resided until his death,
of dysentery, Aug. 7, 1875, at the age of 78.

He was married, Oct. 14, 1838, to Almira, daughter of Seth
Wilcox, of Middletown, by whom he had two daughters.

1826.

Edward Waring Parker was bom in Charleston, S. C, April
13, 1806, and entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year
from Spartanburgh District, S. C.

After graduation he studied law in Edgefield, S. C, and was
admitted to the bar, May 15, 1828, but never practised. He
spent some years in travel, and in Jan., 1834, married Martha W.
Williamson, of Fairfield, S. C, and settled in Spartanburgh,

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where he remained until his death, after six months' illness, Dec.
11, 18*73, in his 58th year. He lived in the country, and devoted
himself to reading and to the education of his two daughters,
who died after they were grown up, within five days of each
other, in the year 1865. His wife survives him.

Mark Pkatt, son of Hopson and Delia (Skiff) Pratt, was bom
in Kent, Conn., April 15, 1804.

After graduation he taught school at home for a few months,
and was then for a time engaged in business. He finally studied
medicine, graduating at the Yale Medical School in 1831. For
the first two years he practiced his profession in Delhi, N. Y., but
in 1833 settled in Haverstraw, N". Y., where he remained until his
death, Jan. 23, 1876, in his 72d year.

In 1838 he was married to Miss Fanny A. Coggswell, of New
Preston, Conn., who survives him, with tw^o of their four children.

Thomas Rittee, son of David and Lydia (Bailey) Ritter, of New
Haven, Conn., was born in this city, April 28, 1806.

After leaving College he took charge of an academy in Una-
dilla, N. Y., but returned to New Haven in 1827 and entered the
Medical School, where he received his diploma in the spring of
1829. After an interval of further study in New York, he made
a brief trial of the practice of his profession in Longmeadow,
Mass., and in Wethersfield, Conn., but returned to New York,
where he entered upon the retail drug business, continuing also
his medical practice. He finally gave his whole attention to the
preparation of medical stores for vessels, and published a medical
work for the use of ships, of which over 30,000 copies have been
sold. Dr. Ritter was an active Christian, and the exertions which
he made in connection with the recent services of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey in New York contributed to shorten his life. He
died, after an illness of twelve days, of pneumonia, May 12, 1876,
at the age of 70.

In June, 1830, he was married to Miss Delia Maria Ayres, of
New Canaan, Conn., and had nine children, four of whom, with
his wife, survive him.

1827.

Horace Bushnell, son of Ensign and Dotha (Bishop) Bush-
nell, was born in Litchfield, Conn., April 14, 1802. At the time

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of his admission to college, his residence was in the parish of New
Preston, in Washington, Conn.

On graduating, he went to Norwich, Conn., as principal of the
Chelsea Grammar School, but in February, 1828, accepted a posi-
tion in the editorial office of the N. Y. " Journal of Commerce,"
which he held until the close of the year. He then returned to
New Haven as a law student, but was diverted from the prepara-
tion for his profession by the offer of a tutorship in college, in
which office he remained for two years, 1829-31. While then
looking forward to entrance on the legal profession, his religious
life received a special impulse, the result of which was that he
devoted himself to the study of theology in the Divinity School
of this college, and after two years of preparation was ordained
over the North Church in Hartford, Conn., May 22, 1833. With
this church he remained, until the loss of health obliged him to
resign, Nov. 22, 1859. He was then suffering from consumption,
which seemed to threaten a speedy decline ; but the strength of
his constitution so far prevailed that he was spared for nearly
twenty years more of unofficial residence among his former peo-
ple. He died in Hartford, Feb. 17, 1876, in the 74th year of his
age.

He married Miss Mary Apthorp, of New Haven, who survives
him w^ith three of their live children.

His principal publications were : in 1847, " Christian Nurture" ;
in 1849, "God in Christ"; in 1851, "Christ in Theology"; in
1858, "Sermons for the New Life," and " Nature and the Super-
natural" ; in 1 864, " Work and Play," and " Christ and His Salva-
tion" ; in 1865, "The Vicarious Sacrifice" ; in 1868, "Moral Uses
of Dark Things"; in 1869, "Woman Suffrage"; in 1872, "Ser-
mons on Living Subjects" ; and in 1874, "Forgiveness and Law."
In his repute and influence as an author he was unrivalled among
the graduates of the college of his generation. The degree of
Doctor of Divinity was given him by Wesleyan University in
1842 and by Harvard University in 1852 ; that of Doctor of Laws
by this college in 1871. v

1829.

John Barker Church, eldest son of Philip and Ann Matilda
Church, was born, Feb. 21, 1808, in Philadelphia, during a win-
ter's residence of his family in that city, their home being on a
large landed property in Allegany County, N. Y., near the village

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of Angelica, which was named from his paternal grandmother,
Angelica Schuyler.

Mr. Church began his college course in Geneva College, joining
the Sophomore class at Yale in January, 1827. The first year
after graduation he spent in the Yale Law School, but then de-
cided to devote himself to agriculture and the development of his
property adjoining his father's estate. After a residence of twelve
years in Allegany County, he removed to New Haven, passing
five years there, and thence to New York City, where or in the
vicinity he remained until his death. P^or several years his home
was on the Hudson river, near Scarborough, where he found the
greatest pleasure in the improvemen^t of his estate. He enjoyed
robust health during a long life, but during its last year declined
rapidly from failure of the digestive organs, and died, in Scar-
borough, July 23^, \815, in the OSth year of his age.

In 1831 he married Maria Trumbull, daughter of Professor
Benjamin Silliman of Yale College, who with seven children sur-
vives him.

1830.

Samuel Worthington Dorset, son of Hon. Thomas B. Dorsey,
chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland,
and of Milcah (Goodwin) Dorsey, was bom in Baltimore in 1811.

He studied law with John Glenn, Esq., in Baltimore, where he
was admitted to the bar and engaged in practice for two years, after
which he removed to Vicksburg, Miss., and there pursued his pro-
fession for about two years longer. During these last years he
was also occupied with cotton planting, and he now abandoned
his profession, and for the rest of his life was extensively engaged
as a planter in Louisiana. He went to Maryland for a visit in the
spring of 1875, intending also to be present in New Haven at the
meeting of his class in June. But the threatened overflow of the
Mississippi river called him home ; he sank under the exposure to
which he was subjected, and died, October 18, at his residence
in Tensas Parish, La. Mr. Dorsey enjoyed the confidence and
affection of a wide circle of friends for his high character. He
had been State Senator for several terms, and was a member of
the State Convention which passed the ordinance of secession in
1861, though he took no active part in the struggle which followed.

He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah A. Ellis, of Natchez,
Miss., who is still living. Mrs. Dorsey is extensively known in
the South as an author.

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Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff was bom in Litchfield, Conn.,
June 19, 1809. His father was Gen. Morris Woodruff, a judge of
the County Court, and his mother a daughter of Lewis Catlin, of
Harwinton, Conn.

In the fall of 1830 he entered Judge Gould's Law School at
Litchfield, and after completing the course there, was admitted to
practice in April, 1832. From Oct., 1832, till Jan., 1836, he was in
partnership with Hon. Willis Hall (Y. C. 1 824) in New York
City. He continued in New York in practice by himself for a
number of years, and was later associated with Richard Good-
man, Esq., and with George Wood, Esq. In the fall of 1849 he
was elected Judge of the City Court of Common Pleas, and held
the office for six years. He was then chosen a Judge of the Supe-
rior Court of the city, and at the close of his term of office, re-
sumed the practice of his profession, Jan. 1, 1862. He remained
for six years at the bar, in partnership with his elder son and
with Charles H. Sanford, Esq. (Y. C. 1847.) He was then, in
Jan., 1868, appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeals of the
State of New York, which office he held until Dec, 1 869, when
he was made Judge of the Circuit Court of the U. S., for the sec-
ond judicial circuit, embracing New York, Connecticut, and Ver-
mont. This office he held at the time of his death. Both at the
bar and upon the bench. Judge Woodruff was very highly es-
teemed and respected. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws
from Columbia College in 1860. For some years before his death
he was an elder of the Collegiate Reformed Church. He died at
his summer residence in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 10, 1875, from the
effects of a complicated disorder of the kidneys, which had con-
tined him to the house since early spring.

Judge Woodruff married, in Nov., 1835, Harriette B., daughter
of Chief Justice Joseph C. Hornblower, of Newark, N. J. She
died April 5, 1868. Their three children survive him, the two
sons being graduates of this college.

1831.

Trusten Polk, son of Wm. N. Polk, of Sussex County, Del.,
was born May 29, 1811. His mother was a sister of Gov. Peter
F. Causey, of Delaware.

Returning home after graduation, he began the study of law in
the office of the Attorney-General of the State, and a year later
came back to New Haven for a tw^o years' course in the law

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school. In 1835 he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and establishing
himself there in the practice of his profession rose by his own
exertions to eminence. He was in 1856 nominated and elected as
the Democratic candidate for Governor of the State. He held the
office until elected to the U. S. Senate, which he entered on March
4, 1857, for a term of six years. On the breaking out of the war
he cast in his fortunes with the Confederate Government and filled
various offices of responsibility. In 1864 he was taken prisoner,
and after his exchange occupied the position of Military Judge of
the Department of the Mississippi. After the close of the war he
returned to St. Louis, and devoted himself to the practice of his
profession, until his sudden death, April 16, 1876, in his 65th year.
Gov. Polk was married in 1837 to Elizabeth N. Skinner, of St.
Louis, who survives him with four daughters. Their only son died
in infancy.

1835.

Charles Lewis Hequembourg, a native of New Haven, Conn.,
died at Fort McPherson, Nebraska, Dec. 24, 1875, aged 64 years
and 5 months.

He graduated from Auburn (N. Y.) Theological Seminary in
1838, and preached for a year or more in the Presbyterian Church
in Fredonia, N. Y. He was ordained and installed over the Pres-
byterian Church in Dunkirk, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1841, from which
charge he was dismissed in 1 846. H e subsequently preached in
Jamestown, N. Y., and in Warren, Pa., and in July, 1870, was
appointed Chaplain in the U. S. army, and was successively sta-
tioned at various points in the Territories. In 1874 he was trans-
ferred to Fort McPherson, where he died.

His wife, who survives him with three children, was a daughter
of Dr. Ezra Williams, who emigrated from North ford, Conn., to
Dunkirk, N. Y.

George Lewis Mills was born in 1815, in Becket, Mass., where
his father, Rev. Joseph L. Mills (Union College 1802) was pastor
of the Congregational Church for over thirty years.

Aftei* graduation he taught in the academy at Bellport, L. I.,
for nearly tw^o years, and later in New England. In 1840 he went
to Ohio, and took charge of an academy in Windham, which place
had been settled by a colony from his father's parish. The
remainder of his life was devoted to the educational interests of
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his adopted State, where his influence as a teacher and a superin-
tendent of schools was widely felt. He died after a brief illness,
of congestion of the lungs, at North Liberty, O., March 2, 1^76.

He married, in Windham, in 1 842, Mary E. Raymond, who died
in 1865. Of their three children, one daughter is the only sur-
vivor.

1836.

Edward Lucas Hart, second son of Rev. Lucas and Harriet
(Morris) Hart, of Wolcott, Conn., was born Dec. 31, 1813, in East
Haven, Conn., the home of his widowed mother, to which she had
returned after the death of her husband, two months before.

Having decided on teaching as a profession, he opened a classical
school in New Haven, from which he removed to the charge of the
academy in Berlin, Conn., where he continued until he settled in
Farmington, Conn., as associate principal with his uncle, Simeon
Hart, (Y. C. 1823) in a boarding school for boys. He remained
in Farmington, occupied mainly in teaching, until his death, May
15, 1876.

He married, April 26, 1837, Nancy C, daughter of Wm. G.
Hooker, of New Haven. Of their six children, one son was grad-
uated at this college in 1872.

1837.

William Wilson Selfridge was bom in Kutztown, Pa., March
18, 1817. After graduation he was for three years in business in
AUentown, Pa., and after a succession of other business pursuits,
settled in South Bethlehem, Pa., where he died Sept. 10, 1875, of
inflammation of the brain, consequent on paralysis of over a year's
standing.

He was married, March 1, 1842, to Maria W. Wilson, and had
four children, of whom two survive him.

1840.

George Darwin Lamont was bom in Yates, Orleans county,
N. Y., Jan. 24, 1819, and entered College at the beginninj^ of the
Sophomore year from Gaines, in the same county. He left his
class in April of the Junior year, but received his degree in 1841.
He studied law with Hon. J. S. Curtenius, of Lockport, N. Y., and
being admitted to the bar in 1841, began practice in that place.
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public schools in Niagara county, and aftewards in 1850 he was
elected District Attorney of the county. In 1859 he was elected
State Senator from the 29th senatorial district, to fill a vacancy, and
in 1862 was appointed U. S. Attorney for the Provisional Court then
established in Louisiana, and performed the duties of that position
until the court was dissolved in the summer of 1865. Returning
to Lockport, he was elected in the autumn of 1865 County Judge,
and in 1868, while holding this office, was appointed a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State for the 8th Judicial District, to fill
a vacancy ; in 1871 he was elected to the same position for a full
term, and died in office, at his residence in Lockport, Jan. 15,
1876, of disease of the heart.

He married, in 1842, Mary, daughter of J. Cole, of Chili, N. Y.
She, with one son and two daughters, survives him.

1841.

Ezra Hall Gillett, the second son of Ely H. and Mary (Wil-
liams) Gillett, was born in Colchester, Conn., July 15, 1823, and
after thorough preparation at the Bacon Academy in his native
town entered College at the opening of Junior year.

After graduation he spent nearly four years in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, New York City, for the last year having charge
of the library. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church in Harlem, N. Y., April 16, 1845, and continued
in this relation for just 25 years. In the mean time he was
appointed in 1868 Professor of Political Science in the University
of the City of New York, and occupied the chair, giving instruc-
tion also in Moral Science and Ancient History, until his death.
He continued also to preach almost every Sunday. His publica-
tions include a translation of Luther's Commentary on Peter
and Jude (N. Y., 1859) ; Life and Times of Huss (Boston, 1863, 2
vols.); a History of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S (Phila-
delphia, 1864, 2 vols.) ; God in Human Thought (N. Y., 1874, 2
vols.) ; and The Moral System (N. Y., 1874). He was for more than
20 years before his death a frequent contributor to the religious
press ; hardly a number of the New York Evangelist for the last
15 years had failed to contain editorial or review articles from his
ready pen. His contributions to reviews include several exhaus-
tive articles which deserve to be counted as separate historical
monographs. In recognition of his thoroughness and zeal in his
chosen field of research, church history, the degree of D.D. was

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conferred on him by Hamilton College in 1864. His death, which
occurred at Harlem, Sept. 2, 1875, after an illness of three weeks,
was the result of a nervous fever, traceable to overwork.

He was first married, Oct. 15, 1851, to Maria H. Ripley, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., by whom he had no children. She died March
28, 1853. June 19, 1 854, he married Mary J. Kendall, of Saratoga
Springs, who with her two sons survives him.

Henry Hunter Raymond was bom July 2, 1822, in Charles-
ton, S. C, and entered College at the beginning of the Sophomore
year.

He studied law at home, and afterward in the Harvard Law
School, graduating there in 1 845. He settled in Charleston as a
lawyer, and his residence continued there until his death in that
city. May 31, 1876, in his 54th year. During the late war he was
a Major in the Confederate service.

He married, in 1849, Miss Taveau, who died about 1865. One
of their two children survives her parents.

1844.

Myron Barrett, third son of Ezekiel and Rhoda (Dakin) Bar-
rett, was born in North East, Duchess County, N. Y., Sept. 9,
1816.

He taught for four years in Columbus, O., and then studied
theology for two years in Union Seminary, New York City,. and
for one year in Princeton, where he graduated in 1851. The ensu-
ing fall he began preaching in Pontiac, Mich., and after six
months was invited to supply a pulpit in Detroit, where he con-
tinued for over a year, while the pastor was abroad. He was
ordained by the Presbytery of Detroit, March 9, 1852, and in
June, 1854, became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in New-
ton, N. J. He resigned his charge five years later on account of
impaired health, and after briefer terms of pastoral service else-
where returned to Newton, where he died. May 8, 1876, in his
60th year.

He was mariied, April 8, 1856, to Emma E., eldest daughter of
Hon. David Ryerson, of Newton, by whom he had three children.
His wife, with one son and one daughter, survives him.

Orris Sanpord Ferry was born in Bethel, Fairfield county,
Conn., Aug. 15, 1823, and died at his residence in Norwalk, in the
same county, Nov. 21,1 875, aged 52 years.

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He studied law and was admitted to the bar in August, 1846,
and settled in Norwalk, where he married in May of the following
year, Charlotte E., daughter of Governor Clark Bissell (Y. C.
1806). He retained his connection with the Norwalk bar until
his death. In 1849 he was appointed Judge of Probate, and in
1855 and 1856 served in the State Senate. In 1856 he was made
District Attorney for Fairfield county, and held this ofl&ce until
his election to Congress in 1 85 y. After one term's service as Repre-
sentative he was renominated, but was defeated, and in July, 1861,
was commissioned as Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Conn. Vol-
unteers, and served through the war. He was promoted to the
rank of Brigadier General, in April, 1862. In May, 1866, he was
elected to the U. S. Senate, and was re-elected in May, 1872. He
was prostrated by spinal disease in 1868, and for the rest of his
life was an invalid. For a few weeks before his death he had
been under medical treatment in Brooklyn, N. Y., and reached
home in a very feeble condition on Saturday, Nov. 20. The next
morning a severe attack of hemorrhage of the bowels supervened,
from which death in a few hours relieved him. His wife and only
daughter survive him.

Senator Ferry was recognized as a brilliant debater, conscien-
tious and independent in his public career," and gifted with abili-
ties which ranked him among the leaders of the Senatorial
Chamber.

Nathaniel William Taylor, son of Rev. Nathaniel W. Tay-
lor, D.D. (Y. C. 1807), Professor of Didactic Theology in Yale
College, and l^ebecca (M. Hine) Taylor, was born in New Haven,
Conn., July 27, 1823.

He graduated from the Medical Department of this college in
January, 1846, and then became a resident physician in Bellevue
Hospital, New York city. In March, 1 847, he returned to New
Haven, and continued there in the practice of his profession until
the summer of 1851. The next two years were spent in a voyage
to the Southern Indian Ocean for the benefit of his health. From
June, 1853, until March, 1855, he practiced his profession in
Springfield, Mass. After a trip to England he then returned to
New Haven, and in July, 1857, his health continuing feeble, he
sailed again for the Southern Indian Ocean, and was absent until
April, 1859. During the next two years he was occupied with
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1861, removed to Blandford, Mass., and resumed practice. In
August, 1862, he enlisted in the 27th Mass. Regiment, and con-
tinued in active service (mainly employed in hospital duty) until
October, 1864, when he was discharged. He returned to Bloom-
field, Conn., where he remained, engaged in farming, with the
exception of another Indian voyage in 1866-67, until his death.
He was married July 7, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of
Benoni Hubbard, of Bloomfield, who survives him without chil-
dren. He died in Bloomfield after a lingering illness, August 8,
1875, aged 52 years.

1846.

Thomas DuBois Sheewood, son of Samuel and Ruth (DuBois)
Sherwood, was born in Fishkill, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1823.

Immediately upon graduation he began the study of law in New
York city in the office of his brother, John D. Sherwood (Y. C.
1839), with whom soon after his admission to the bar (in 1853) he
entered into partnership. He continued in this partnership, doing
a successful and lucrative business, until 1865, when the firm was
dissolved by the retirement of his brother, on account of ill health.
He continued in practice by himself, until appointed, in October,
1873, one of the Police Justices of the city, under the new act of
the Legislature removing those offices from political control. In
this position he continued, performing its duties with remarkable
uprightness and impartiality, until his sudden death, after an
illness of a few hours, in New York city. May 26, 1875, in his 62d
year.

Judge Sherwood was married, Jan. 25, 1849, to Mary, youngest
daughter of Judge Samuel J. Hitchcock (Y. C. 1809), of the Yale
Law School, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1852, leaving
one son. In May, 1858, he married Fanny A., daughter of J. S.
Fitch, Esq., of Marshall, Mich. She died in New York city, Aug.
9, 1868, leaving one daughter.

Abijah Hull Thompson was born Dec. 14, 1825, and entered
College from Black Rock, N. Y., at the close of Freshman year.

His life was spent in business pursuits. He died after a very
brief illness, of erysipelas, at his residence in his native place,
June 19, 1876, in his 51st year.

He married Miss Bird, daughter of the President of the Niag-
ara Falls Railroad Company, and had seven children.

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1847.

BENjAMif^ Franklin Bassett, son of John Bassett, was born
in Derby, Conn., Jan. 23, 1825. While he was yet young, his
family removed to New Haven, and he entered college with the
class of 1846, but on account of ill health joined the next class.

He studied medicine in New Haven and New York city, and
received the degree of M. D. from this college in 1851. He prac-
ticed his profession in Brooklyn, N. Y., until May, 1868, when
owing to a failure of health, from the effects of a partial sun-
stroke, he removed to Wilton, Conn., where he occupied himself
with agriculture, in the hope of regaining his full strength. Con-
tinuing feeble, he removed to New Haven in 1 874, and while on a
visit in Warren, Conn., died of billions dysentery, Sept. 4, 1875,
aged 50 years.

He was married, Oct. 8, 1864, to Mrs. Mary L. Howe, the widow
of Lewis Howe (Y. C. 1852), of Greenwich, Conn., who with two
of their three children survives him.

Stukely Ellsworth, eldest son of Dr. Waterman Ellsworth,
was born Dec. 18, 1826, and entered college from Stockton, Chau-
tauqua County, N. Y. After teaching for a while, he studied law,
and after practicing in Stockton, removed in April, 1855, to
Eugene City, Oregon, where he continued in professional life until
near the close of his career. He died in LaGrande, Oregon, Jan.
28, 1876, at the age of 49.

He married, in July, 1856, Mary C. Stevens, from Cold Water,
Mich., and had five children.

1849.

RiTPus Austin Foiid was born in Natchez, Mpi., Feb. 27, 1827,
and entered college at the beginning of Junior year.

After graduating he studied medicine for a year at home, and
for two years in the Medical Department of the University at
Louisville, Ky., where he graduated in March, 1852. During
most of the time until 1858 he practiced his profession in Wilkin-
son County, Mpi., and was then occupied as a planter in the same
county until the year 1862, when he was obliged to enter the
Confederate Cavalry service. He served later as surgeon in the
army, and after the w^ar was over returned to his plantation. In
1868 he established himself as a physician in Kansas City, Mo.,
where he continued until his death, July 6, 1875, aged 48 years.
His death was attributed to the excessive use of tobacco.

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Dr. Ford was married, in June, 1854, to Miss Sarah B. Petti-
bone, of Wilkinson County, Mpi., by whom he had seven children.

James Browning Miles, son of Willard M. and Alice
(Browning) Miles, was bom in Rutland, Mass., Aug. 18, 1823.

He spent a year in teaching in North Fairfield, Conn., and then
entered the Yale Divinity school. He subsequently removed to
Andover Theol. Seminary, but on receiving the appointment of
Tutor in this college, returned to fill that position in Sept., 1852.
He left the tutorship in July, 1854, having in the meantime con-
tinued his theological studies, and was ordained pastor of the Ist
Congregational Church in Charlestown, Mass., Jan. 2, 1855. He
remained with this church until Oct., 1871, when he resigned and
removed to Boston, to accept the Secretaryship of the American
Peace Society. He threw himself into the work of reorganizing
this society with great vigor, and effected a cooperation between
its friends and those who were devoting themselves (largely under
his guidance) to the reform and codification of the law of nations.
In the pursuit of these objects he twice visited Europe to take
part in the Congresses of the International Code Association — for
the last time in July, 1875. The labor of this last Congress proved
too much for his strength, and on his way home he was attacked
with illness. With difficulty he reached his brother's house in
Worcester, Mass., where he died, of peritonitis, on the 13th day
of November, aged 52. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on him by Beloit College in 1873.

He was married, Aug. 7, 1856, to Miss Julia E., daughter of
Rev. Joseph Hurlbut (Y. C. 1818), of New London, Conn. She
survives him, with two of their three children.

Walker Richardson, son of Dr. Wm. N. Richardson, was
born in Elbert County, Ga., in 1825.

He was a planter in Glennville, Ala., from the date of gradua-
tion until his sudden death from apoplexy, Jan. 20, 1875. He
served in the Confederate army of Tennessee from Aug. 1, 1 863,
to May, 1865.

1853.

Timothy Dwight Hall, third son of Daniel and Philena
(Lyman) Hall, was born in Perry, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1830, and
entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year.

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After graduation he taught a school and studied law in Adams
county, Mpi., and in 1855 settled in Hudson, Wise, as an attorney
and dealer in real estate. Owing to poor health he abandoned
his profession in 1859, and in the spring of 1861 retired to his
farm a few miles out of town, and devoted himself to scientific
farming. Although remaining an invalid, there was no cause for
special alai-rn until a severe attack of congestion of the liver in
March, 1874. Recovering from this by main force of will, he
made two journeys to Colorado with hopes of improvement, and
purposed to remove thither with his family ; but the rapid pro-
gress of consumption ended his life, in Hudson, Oct. 19, 1875, at
the age of 45.

He was married, July 22, 1856, to Helen M., daughter of Col.
Alvah Jefferson, of Darien, N. Y. She survives him with two
daughters.

1857.

George Augustus Nolen was born in Sutton, Mass., Jan. 9,
1831. He remained in New Haven as a graduate student, until
he accepted a tutorship in the College in the summer of 1860. He
resigned this office in July, 1865, when he was appointed Assist-
ant Examiner in the U. S. Patent OflSce. He entered on his duties
in Jan. 1866, and at the time of his death held the position of
Examiner-in-chief, having been appointed to that rank by Presi-
dent Grant in April, 1875. A few weeks after this appointment he
was attacked with consumption, which first manifested itself by a
violent hemorrhage of the lungs, on the 13th of May. He failed
steadily and rapidly, and died in Washington, Aug. 17. His
wife, who had been struggling for three years with the same dis-
ease, survived him but a few hours. They left one son. In ability,
integrity and courtesy, no one in the Patent Office was his superior.

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Edwin Francis Sandys, son of Rev. Edwin and Mary Sandys,
was born at Lebanon Springs, N. Y., March 12, 1832. In 1847
his parents removed to Pittsfield, Mass., which was his home for
the remainder of his life.

He read law in Pittsfield with Judge Colt, and was admitted to
the bar in 1860. He did not follow his profession for any length
of time, but was for many years the Secretary of the Berkshire
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. After resigning this position,
he continued to the close of his life in business as a general insur-

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ance agent, so far as his health, which had long been poor, would
permit. He died in Pittsfield, July 30, 18V5, aged 43 years. He
was unmarried.

1858.

Edward Clarke Porter, eldest child of James B. and Susanna
(Parsons) Porter, was born in Old Hadley, Mass., Dec. 3, 1836.

For the first year after graduation, he studied in the Andover
Theological Seminary, and in the next year taught a parish school
in Louisville, Ky. In 1861 he taught in Iowa City, Iowa, and
later in Chicago. From July, 186-', he was instructor in meta-
physics and English literature in the Chicago High School. In
March, 1866, he was ordained by Bishop Clarkson, in Racine,
Wise, a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and resign-
ing next month his place as teacher, took charge of the parish of
St. James in Chicago. On Sept. 23, he was ordained a Presbyter,
by Bishop Lee, of Iowa, and in April, 1867, became rector of St.
Luke's Church, in Racine, in which office he continued until com-
pelled by ill-health to resign, Feb. 1, 1875. In 1873 he went
abroad and spent nearly a year, in the hope of recovering his
health, but on his return found himself not materially benefitted,
and after a long and very painful illness died in Racine, Jan. 8,
1876, leaving record of a singularly pure and winning ministry.

He was married, Oct. 10, 1866, to Julia, daugher of John H.
Foster, of Chicago. She survives him, with children.

1861.

Hubbard Arnold, son of Joseph and Clarinda (Hubbard)
Arnold, was born Jan. 5, 1 840, in Westfield, Mass.

The first year after graduation he spent in travel and study in
Europe. From Dec, 1862, to Sept., 1865, he was engaged in
teaching and in studying law, most of the time in New Haven.
He was admitted to the bar in this city, May 10, 1865, but never
practiced. During the remainder of his life he was in business in
New York City, and was for some time before his death a member
of the firm of D. Watts & Co., cotton-brokers. He had been in
delicate health for some years, and late in the past winter went to
Palatka, Fla., to seek relief from a serious inflammation of the
throat. Not improving, he afterwards removed to Aiken, S. C,
and thence to Charlotte, N. C, arriving there early in April. The
disease (consumption of the throat) progressed with great rapid-

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ity, and he died on the 9lh of April, aged 36 years. He was
unmarried.
George Clap Perkins, son of Henry A. and Sarah (Emmons)
Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., was born in that city, Aug. 8, 1839.
He was a descendant in the fourth generation from Rev. Thomas
Clap, President of the college from 1739 to 1V66.
After graduation he continued to reside in Hartford, during the
first year studying law, and then entering the banking-house of
George P. Bissell & Co., in which his elder brother, Edward H.
Perkins (for a time a member of the class of 1859), was a partner.
Here he remained until July, 1869, when he purchased a large
interest in certain patents for making matresses from woven wire,
and became the secretary and treasurer of a joint-stock company,
organized to prosecute this enterprise. The remainder of his life
was spent in developing the business of this company and devising
improvements in their processes of manufacture, in which he met
with great success.

He was married, Oct. 23, 18*73, to Mary, daughter of George
Roberts, of Hartford, who survives him with one son (born after
his decease) and one daughter. He died after a brief illness, in
Hartford, Sept. 23, 1875, aged 36 years.

1862.

Robert Kelley Weeks, eldest son of Edward C. and Emily
(Stephens) Weeks, was born in New York City, September 21st,
1840.

After graduating he became a member of the Columbia Law
School, where, at the conclusion of the course, in May, 1864, he
received the degree of LL.B. In the same month he was admitted
to the Bar of New York.

His tastes led in the direction of litei-ature, and turning from the
practice of la-vy, he devoted himself to reading and study.

In 1866 a small volume appeared, entitled, " Poems, by Robert
K. Weeks," and in 1870 a volume entitled, "Episodes and Lyric
Pieces," both published by Leypoldt & Holt. A third volume of
poems was in press at the time of his death. He also prepared for
publication a book of Extracts from English literature, and made
occasional poetical and critical contributions to the periodicals of
the day.

He died at Harlem, unmarried, of consumption, on April 13th,
1876, in the 36th year of his age.

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1863.

Cornelius Wade Bull, son of Jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull,
was born April 8, 1839, in Tallahassee, Fla.

After graduation he began the study of medicine in the Yale
Medical School, and in the following spring joined the U. S. Navy
as acting assistant paymaster, and was assigned to the Mississippi
squadron. He remained in this service until August, 1865, when
he returned to New Haven, and completed his medical course,
graduating in January, 1867. He was resident physician at the
State Hospital in this city until April, 1868, when lie established
himself as a practicing physician in Terryville, Conn. Some five
years later he gave up practice, on account of the state of his
health, and removed to Hartford, where he was employed as sten-
ographic clerk for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. He died
in Hartford, May 19, 1876, at the age of 37.

1864.

Robert Matlack Browning, son of Hon. Abraham Browning,
was born in Camden, N. J., June 5, 1844.

He studied law in his father's ofiice in Camden, and was admit-
ted to practice in the November term of 1867. From this date he
was actively engaged in his profession in his native place, until
May, 1874, when a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism dis-
abled him for four months. This was succeeded by other inroads
of disease which prevented his again attending to business. He
died, of organic disease of the heart, March 8, 1875, at his home in
Camden, in his 3 1 st year. He was unmarried.

1865.

John Sharp, only son of Jacob and Mary Sharp, was born in
Cherry Valley, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1844.

He graduated as Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons, and immediately in Jan., 1868,«entered on the
practice of his profession in Ottawa, 111. He remained there two
years, when his health began to decline, and he returned to -his home
in Cherry Valley, where he engaged in the drug business. After
three years in this employment, his lungs showed signs of weak
ness, and he attempted to ward off disease by a change of climate.
He spent the winter of 1873-4 in California, and the succeeding
wiuter in Florida. In the fall of 1875 he again left home, and
arrived in Charleston, S. C, the last of November, and there grad-

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Iually grew weaker until the evening of Dec. 23, when he quietly
passed away.
Walter Buchanan Smith, son of Isaac R. and Caroline E.
Smith, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29, 1844.
Shortly after his graduation he began the study of analytical
chemistry; but never possessing a strong constitution, his lungs
I were seriously affected by the fumes of his laboratory, and he
became the victim of a lingering consumption, so that he could
only pursue as a pastime what he had hoped to engage in as an
active profession. He died at his home in Philadelphia, Oct. 3,
1875, at the age of 3 1. Pie was unmarried.

1866.

Henry Roberts, son of Samuel Roberts, was born in Sharon,
Conn., Jan. 20, 1845. >

He entered this College at the beginning of the Junior year,
having spent the Freshman year in Amherst College, and a sec-
ond year in private study. After graduation he was for a few
months in the Columbia College Law School, and for two years
was employed as a surveyor and as a teacher in Illinois and Iowa.
He afterwards resumed the study of law, and entered on the prac-
tice in Middletown, N. Y., where he died, Aug. 28, 1873, aged 28
years.

He was married, in Albany, Dec. 30, 1869, to Mary Blackledge,
and left one daughter.

Ernest Schroeder was born in the city of New York, Aug. 4,
1845

After graduation, he was occupied as a teacher at St. Clement's
Hall, EUicott City, Md., until within a year of his death. He hoped
to enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and had begun the
study of theology. He died of consumption at his family resi-
dence in Red Bank, N. J., Sept. 24, 1874, aged 29 years. He was
unmarried.

1867.

Alexander Johnston, elder son of Frank Johnston (Y. C. 1835)
and Mary E. Johnston, was born in Alleghany City, Pa., Oct. 21,
1843.

He entered with the class of 1866, and at the end of the first

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year left college, to return a year later to the class of 1867. He
graduated at the Yale Divinity School in 1871, having lost one
year from ill health. He then spent a year in charge of the Con-
gregational Church in Quindaro, Kansas, and in the fall of 1872
removed to Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied for the following year
in the Theological Seminary. In May, 1873, he sailed for Europe,
and devoted himself for two years to the study of logic and meta-
physics in Berlin, hoping to spend his future life in studying and
teaching these branches. He returned to America in the summer
of 1875, and in November settled in Boston for the winter. But
his health broke down in February from overwork, and he was
removed to the McLean Asylum in Somerville, for what was
believed to be only a temporary loss of mental power. While
there he was attacked, in April, with diphtheria, which terminated
fatally on the 5th of May. He was not married.

1868.

Herbekt Boardman, son of Hon. Truman Boardman, formerly
State Senator of New York, died suddenly in Rochester, N. Y.,
July 4, 1875, in his 30th year.

He was born in Covert, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1845, and entered col-
lege from Trumansburg, N. Y., where his father still resides.
After graduation he spent some time in fruit-farming at home, and
was later a teacher in the Ithaca Academy. He then went to
Washington, D. C, and studied in the Medical Department of
Georgetown College, graduating in March, 1872. He also held a
clerkship in the General Land Office, and remained in Washington
till Nov., 1873, when he established himself in Rochester for the
practice of his profession. He died in the faithful discharge of his
duty, having contracted malignant diphtheria from a patient whom
he was attending the week before his death.

He was married, June 18, 1874, to Miss U. Louise Cole, of Covert,
who survives him.

Timothy Pitkin Chapman, the second son of Timothy P. and
Rachel (Hartwell) Chapman, was born in New Haven, Conn., June
24, 1848.

He graduated at the Columbia College Law School in May,
1870, and after an eighteen months' tour in Europe, entered the
law office of Seward, Griswold, Blatchford & Da Costa, in New
York City, in the spring of 1 872, — at first as a student and later

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as honorary chief clerk. In the spring of 1874 he became junior
member of the finn, and this position he held at the time of his
death, which occurred at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a
brief illness, Sept. 13, 1875.

He was married, Nov. 25, 1 873, to Leila Trescott Tisdale, of
Brooklyn, who with an infant daughter survives him.

William Curtis Wood, son of Rev. William Wood (Dartmouth
College, 1842) and Lucy Maria (Lawrence) Wood, was born April
20, 1849, at Mahabaleshwar, a health-resort about thirty miles from
Satara, India, where his parents were then stationed as mission-
aries of the American Board.

He was prepared for college at the Law^rence Academy, in his
mother's native town, Groton, Mass., and graduated with eminent
distinction. For the year 1868-9 he taught in the Hopkins
Grammar School of New Haven. From Sept., 1869, to April,

1870, he was a tutor in this college, but resigned his position on
account of apprehended disease of the heart. He remained in
New Haven until his death, with the exception of one year (May

1871, to April, 1872) spent in Ohio. During this time he was
employed in private teaching and in mathematical study, and was
looking forward to the profession of a civil engineer or to the
chance of a position in the U. S. Patent Office. His death, which
occurred in New Haven, July 15, 1875, was the sudden and unex-
pected result of long-continued ill-health and mental depression.
He was unmarried.

1869.

Grin Merwin Williams, the youngest of ten children of the
late Seth Williams, of Ledyard, Conn., was born in Ledyard, Nov.
17, 1845, and died in Winona, Minn., March 26, 1875, aged 29
years.

During his college course he was quite an invalid from rheuma-
tism, and when able to settle in professional life chose the climate
of Minnesota as most favorable to his state of health. He began
the study of law with Hon. Thomas Wilson of Winona, in Feb-
ruary, 1871. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1872, and
remained in the office of Judge Wilson until Jan. 1, 1874, when he
formed a partnership with A. Harry Bissell, formerly of the same
class in College. At the close of the year, Mr. Bissell withdrew,
Mr. Williams continuing in successful practice by himself. From
Jan. 1875, until his death, he was city attorney. An occasional

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recurrence of his old complaint, rheumatism of the heart, kept
him in delicate health ; and at the time of his very sudden death
he was apparently recovering from an attack which had confined
him to his room for about three weeks. He was unmarried.

1872.

Frank Whitney Blake, only surviving child of Eli Whitney
Blake, M.D. (Y. C, 1839) and Frances T. (Babcock) Blake, was
born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1850.

He was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and in the
Hopkms Grammar School, of New Haven ; and won a good posi-
tion in his class, notwithstanding the fact that during his college
course and for some time previous he was entirely unable to use
his eyes for reading or studying. The year after graduating he
spent at the Berkeley Divinitj^ School in Middletown, Conn., but
the condition of his health and especially a difficulty with the
throat made a change of climate necessary. Accordingly he fin-
ished his theological studies in the Divinity School at Faribault,
Minn., where he was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Whip-
ple, June 20, 1875. During all this period, however, his nervous
system had been gradually prostrated under the effects of close
study, rendered especially trying by the inability to use his eyes.
A few weeks after his ordination he went to Colorado, in hope of
being benefitted by that climate, and during the summer and fall
officiated regularly, most of the time at Idaho Springs. But while
he was still in feeble health an attack of typhoid fever ended his
life, at Denver, Nov. 11, 1875.

1875.

Fkank Lansing Grinnell, son of George B. and Helen Lan-
sing Grinnell, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 27, 1853, and
was prepared for college by a private tutor in New York City,
where his father then resided.

He graduated in June, 1875, and was spending the summer at
his father's house in Milford, Conn., when on Tuesday, September
7, he went to Bridgeport, by invitation, to play as a substitute in
the Milford Base Ball Club, of which, however, he was not a mem-
ber. Before the game had begun, while the players were prac-
ticing in the field, he was struck at the base of the skull by a ball.
He was taken to the residence of Hon. William D. Bishop, where
he died on Saturday evening, Sept. 11, having been conscious only
during a brief portion of the intervening time.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1847.

Isaac Shafer Hunt, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Turner)
Hunt, was born in Newton, Sussex county, N. J., Nov. 1, 1819.
His early education was acquired in Newton, and after receiving
his medical degree he returned to his native county, establishing
himself in Sandyston township. A malignant form of typhoid fever,
styled " Finch fever," was then raging in the vicinity, and after
some weeks of arduous professional labor he contracted the dis-
ease, and only recovered after a serious and prolonged illness. On
regaining health he secured an extensive practice in Northern
New Jersey, which he held for eighteen years, when he removed
to Port Jervis, N. Y., fourteen miles north of his former residence.
In his new field of practice he maintained himself with eminent
success, until October 23, 1875, when he was attacked with phle-
bitis, or inflammation of the veins of the lower limbs, which ter-
minated fatally on the 23d of November.

Dr. Hunt married, Nov. 1, 1848, Miss Sarah A. Fleming, of
Sandyston, who with two sons and three daughters survives him.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1873.

Benjamin Pomeroy, son of Mary J. and the late Benjamin
Pomeroy, died at his mother's house in Southport, Conn., Dec. 15,
1875, aged 23 years. His death was caused by a sudden congestion
of the lungs, resulting from exposure to the night air.

He was at the time of his death the cashier of the Arctic Fur

Company of New Haven.

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THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

1874.

James William Morris, the first student of African descent
who was ever graduated from the Theological School, was born
in Providence, R. I., Oct. 30, 1847. He graduated at Lincoln Uni-
versity in 1871, and after his graduation here engaged in preaching
and teaching in Beaufort and Aiken, S. C. He died in the latter
place, of consumption, Feb. 7, 1876, aged 28 years.
15

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William Burke Danforth was born in Barnard, Vt., Feb.
21, 1849, and entered this Divinity School on his graduation from
Dartmouth College in 1871.

He went from the Seminary to Gilead, a parish of Hebron,
Conn., w^here he was ordained over the Congregational Church,
July 8, 1874. His faithful labors here were terminated by a
tedious illness resulting in his death, July 4, 1875, aged 26.

1875.

George Harris, son of Joseph C. and Harriet H. Harris, was
born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1849.

He lost his sight in early childhood, and was thenceforth totally
blind. He was a pupil in the Perkins Institution for the blind
in South Boston, Mass., for seven years, and having determined
to enter the ministry, completed honorably the regular course in
the Divinity School of Harvard University, where he graduated
in 1874. He then entered the Senior class in this Divinity School,
and after graduating purposed to remain another year in advanced
theological study. But he was attacked with typhoid fever, and
after three weeks' illness died in New Haven, Nov. 8, 1875, at
the age of 26. In his attainments and his powers of impressing
himself upon others, he was already a remarkable instance of the
possibilities open to one of his peculiar infirmities.

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class. Name and Age.

1808 John Chandler, 91,

1809 John P. Rice, 89,
1812 Solymann Brown, 85,

1814 Joseph H. DuUes. 81,

1815 Wm. B. Sprague, 80,

1816 ^ Isaac Bird, 83,

1817 Xehemiah Brown, 84,
Baxter Dickinson, 80,

1818 Oliver Bronson, 75,

1819 Jonathan Edwards, 77,
1821 George E. Adams, 74,

" Isaac Esty. 79,

1823 David Buck, 69,

" Samuel H. Riddel. 76,

1824 James Lowrey, 73,

1825 Stephen Topliff, 78,

1826 Edward W. Parker, 67,
" Mark Pratt, 71,

" Thomas Ritter, 70,

1827 Horace Bushnell, 73,

1829 John B. Church, 67.

1830 Samuel AV. Dorsey,'

" Lewis B. Woodruff, 66,

1831 Trusten Polk, 64,

1835 Charles L. Hequembourg, 64,
" George L. Mills, 61,

1836 Edward L. Hart, 62,

1837 Wm. W. Selfridge, 58,

1840 George D. Lamont. 57,

1841 Ezra H. Gillett, 52,

" Henry H. Raymond, 54,

1844 Myron Barrett, 59,

" Orris S. Ferry, 52,

" Nathaniel W. Taylor, 52,

1846 Thomas D. Sherwood, 51,
" Abijah H. Thompson, 50.

1847 Benj. F. Bassett, 50,

" Stukely Ellsworth, 49,

1849 Rufus A. Ford, 48,

" James B. Miles, 52,

" Walker Richardson, 49,

1853 T. Dwight Hall, 45,

1857 Georke A. Nolen, 44,
" Edwin F. Sandys, 43,

1858 Edward C. Porter, 39,

1861 Hubbard Arnold, 36,

" George C. Perkins, 36,

1862 Robert K. Weeks, 35,

1863 Cornelius W. Bull, 37,

1864 Robert M. Browning, 30,

Place and
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Princeton, Mass.,
Dodge Center, Minn.,
Philadelphia. Pa.,
Flushing, N. Y.,
Great Barrington, Mass.,
New York City,
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Richfield Springs, N. Y.,
New Haven. Conn.,
Orange, N. J..
Amherst, Mass.,
Marblehead, Mass.,
Des Moines, Iowa,
Burhngton, N. J.,
Cromwell, Conn.,
Spartanburgh, S. C,
Haverstraw. N. Y.,
New York City,
Hartford, Conn.,
Scarborough, N. Y.,
Tensas Parish, La.,
Litchfield, Conn.,
St. Louis, Mo.,
Fort McPherson, Neb.,
North Liberty, 0.,
Farraington, Conn.,
Bethlehem, Pa.,
Lockport, N. Y.,
Harlem, N. Y. City,
Charleston, S. C,
Newton, N. J.,
Norwalk, Conn.,
Bloomfield, Conn.,
New York City,
Black Rock, N. Y.,
Warren, Conn.,
La Grande, Oregon,
Kansas City, Mo.,
Worcester, Mass.,
Glenville, Ala.,
Hudson, Wise,
Washington, D. C,
Pittsfield, Mass.,
Racine, Wise,
Charlotte, N. C.
Hartford, Conn.,
Harlem, N. Y. City,
Hartford, Conn..
Camden, N. J.,

Time of Death.
Dec. 1, '75.
Sept. 20, '75.
Feb. 13, '76.
March 12, '76.
May 7, '76.
June 13, '76.
Jan. 5, '76.
Dec. 5, '75.
July 21, '75.
Aug. 23, '75.
Dec. 25, '75.
July 31, '75.
Aug. 15, '75.
June 1, '76.
Nov. 30, '75.
Aug. 7, '75.
Dec. 1 1, '73.
Jan. 23, '76.
May 12, '76.
Feb. 17, '76.
July 23, '75.
Oct. 18, '75.
Sept. 10, '75.
April 16, '76.
Dec. 24, '75.
March 2, '76.
May 15, '76.
Sept. 10, '75.
Jan. 15, '76.
Sept. 2, '75.
May 31, '76.
May 8, '76.
Nov. 21, '75.
Aug. 8, '75.
May 25, '75.
June 19, '76.
Sep. 4, '75.
Jan. 28, '76.
July 6, '75.
Nov. 13, '75.
Jan. 20, '75.
Oct. 19. '75.
Aug. 17, '75.
July 30, '75.
Jan. 8. '76.
April 9, '76.
Sept. 23, '75.
April 13, '76
May 19, '76.
March 8, '75.

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Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

1865

John Sharp, 31,

Charleston, S. C,

((

Walter B. Smith, 31,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

1866

Henry Roberts, 28,

Middletown, N. Y.,

((

Ernest Schroeder, 29,

Red Bank, N. J.,

1867

Alexander Johnston, 31,

Somerville, Mass.,

1868

Herbert Boardman,

Rochester, N. Y.,

Timothy P. Chapman, 27,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

William C. Wood, 26,

New Haven, Conn.,

1869

Orin M. WilHams, 29,

Winona, Minn.,

1872

Frank W. Blake, 25,

Denver, Col.,

1875

Frank L. Grinnell, 22,

Bridgeport, Conn.,

Time of Death.
Dec. 23, 75.
Oct. 3, '75.
Aug. 28, '73.
Sept. 24, '74.
May 5, '76.
July 4, '75.
Sept. 13, '75.
July 15, '75.
March 26, '76.
Nov. 11, '75.
Sept. 11, '75.

1847 Isaac S. Hunt, 56,

Medical Department.

Port Jervis, N. Y.

Nov. 23 '76.

Sheffield Scientific School.
1873 Benj. Pomeroy, 23, Southport, Conn.,

Dec. 15, '75.

Theolo&ical Department.

1874 William B. Danforth, 26,
" James W. Morris, 28,

1875 George Harris, 26,

Gilead, Conn.,
Aiken, S. C,
New Haven, Conn.,

July 4, '75.
Feb. 7, '76.
Nov. 8, '75.

The number of deaths reported is 66, and the average age of the graduates of
the Academical Department is 55^ years.

Of the Academical Graduates, 16 were clergymen, 14 lawyers, 10 physicians,
8 in business, and 6 teachers.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in New York, 17; Connecticut, 15;
Massachusetts, 7 ; New Jersey, 5 ; South Carolina, 4 ; Pennsylvania, 3 ; Minnesota,
Missouri, and Wisconsin, 2 each ; and the remaining 9 in as many different states.

The only surviving graduate of the last century is (class of 1800) Rev. Thomas
Williams, Providence, R. I., born Nov. 5, 1779.

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLE^

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1877,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF TBE ALUMNI, JUNE 27th, 18T7.]
[No. 1 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 36 of the whole Record.]

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending June, 1877, iiiclud-

ing the record of a few who died previously,

hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting op the Alumni, June 27, 1817.]
[No. 7 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 36 of the whole Record.]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1800.

Thomas Williams was born in Pomfret, Conn., Nov. 5, 1779,
the son of Joseph and Lucy (Witter) Williams.

He entered the Freshman Class of Williams Collei^e in the fall
of 1795, and continued there until March, 1798. In the succeed-
ing fall he entered the Junior Class of this College.

Before graduation he had begun to teach, and after successive
engagements in Beverly, Mass., and in Woodstocl^ and Norwich,
Conn., he opened in the spring of 1803 in Boston a school for
colored pupils. While thus employed he was licensed to preach.
May 17, 1803, by the Windham County Association, in order that
he might officiate as chaplain in the almshouse in Boston, in con-
nection with his o>ther duties. Late in the same year he gave up
his school, and served for some weeks as a missionary preacher in
New York State. On his return, and after spending six weeks
with Rev. Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, Mass. (his entire course of
theological preparation), he was ordained as an evangelist, at
Killingly, Conn., May 16, 1804. Two other missionary tours to
New York succeeded, and in the summer of 1806 he supplied the
pulpit of the Congregational Church in Branford, Conn. In
Jan., 1807, without formal installation, he took charge of the
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continued until April, 1816. He was next installed pastor, Nov.
6, 1816, of the church in Foxborough, Mass., which he served for
about four years. In July, 1821, he returned to his former charge
in Providence, and remained with them until August, 1823. In
Dec, 1823, he began to preach for the First Church in Attle-
borough, Mass., and was installed there Sept. 29, 1824, Dr.
Emmons preaching the sermon, as well as at his former installa-
tion. From this church he was dismissed, Dec. 11, 1827; and at
the same time a new church was formed in Hebronville, in the
southern part of the town, of which Mr. Williams became at once
the pastor, without formal installation, and so continued until
April, 1830, when he removed to Providence, after which he was
employed for four or five years in occasional preaching through
the State. From May, 1835, to March, 1838, he preached statedly
to the Congregational Church in Barrington, R. I., his last regular
engagement. In 1839-40 he resided in Hartford, Conn., and then
for three years in East Greenwich, R. I., whence he returned to
Providence, where his residence continued until his death. Dur-
ing all these years, until extreme old age, he was restlessly em-
ployed in his calling, preaching as he found opportunity over a
wide circuit. His last appearance in the pulpit was in 1872, when
in his 93d year. He died in Providence, Sept. 29, 1876, aged 97
years, lacking 36 days, — of old age, with no indication of disease.
For upwards of 13 years he had been the last survivor of his class
and since March, 1873, the sole living graduate of the eighteenth
century.

He was married. May 20, 1812, to Ruth, daughter of Isaac and
Ruth (Jewett) Hale, of Newbury (old town), Mass. She died in
Providence, March 7, 1867, in her 79th year. They had seven
children, four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons sur-
vive, one of whom graduated at this College in 1842.

His published writings comprise some thirty sermons and dis-
courses. In his best days he was a remarkably pungent and
powerful preacher, and as such made a distinct mark on his
generation.

1805.

John Owex Pettibone, the last survivor of his class, died in
Simsbury, Conn., the place of his birth, Aug. 19, 1876, at the age
of 89.

He had spent his life in Simsbury, highly respected and honored.
He had repeatedly been a member of both houses of the State
Legislature.

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1806.

Phineas Lyman Tracy was born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 25,
1786, and died in Batavia, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1876, within three days
of 90 years of age. He was the eldest child of Dr. Philemon and
Abigail (Trott) Tracy, of Norwich, and the grandson of Dr. Elisha
Tracy (Y. C. 1738).

After graduating, he taught school for a year in his native
town, and then entered the law-office of the Hon. John Wood-
worth of Albany. In 1811 he was admitted to the bar in Utica,
and settled in Madison County, N. Y. After residing there
between three and four years, he removed to Batavia, where he
immediately entered on an extensive and lucrative practice.

In 1815 he was married to Harriet Lay, and soon after formed
a law partnership with her brother, the Hon. George W. Lay.
He continued in practice until the fall of 1827 when he was elected
to Congress (to fill a vacancy), and remained a member until 1833,
when his partner, Mr. Lay, was chosen to succeed him. In 1840
he was a Presidential elector, and in January, 1841, was appointed
First Judge of Genesee County, and held the office for five years,
at the expiration of that time retiring from public life. His resi-
dence continued in Batavia until his death. His wife died about
five years before him, and they left no children.

1812.

Samuel Lynson Edwards, son of Samuel and Jane (Shelton)
Edwards, was born in Fairfield, Conn., Feb. 14, 1789.

On graduation he settled in Manlius, Onondaga County, N". Y.,
where he died, — the last survivor of his College Class, — April 7,
1877, at the age of 88.

He studied law with Messrs. Wattles & Randall, and during
his clerkship secured the establishment of the first academy in the
town, of which he was the principal superintendent. He was
admitted to practice as an attorney, Oct. 26, 1815, and became a
partner with Mr. Randall. In 1823 and 1824 he was a member of
the State Assembly, and in 1831 was appointed first Judge of the
County Court of Common Pleas. On the expiration of his term
of office, in 1833, he was elected to the State Senate, where he
served for two terms, of four years each. On leaving the Senate,
he retired from public office, and confined himself until shortly
before his death to the practice of his profession. In all his pro-
fessional relations he was conscientious and industrious and highly
respected.

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He was married, May 12, 1819, to Harriet Bristol, of Clinton,
N. Y., by whom he had one daughter, who survives him, and one
son. The son was graduated at this college in 1850, and died in
1862. After the death of his wife, in 1832, he married Julia Gor-
ham, of Stratford, Conn., who died in 1864 without issue.

Samuel Coit Morgan, younger son of Captain Elisha and
Olive (Coit) Morgan, was born in the parish of Newent, in Lisbon,
Conn., Aug. 12, 1789.

He studied law with Hon. Thomas Day (Y. C. 1V97), of Hart-
ford, and Hon. Timothy Pitkin (Y. C 1785), of Farmington,
Conn., and in 1816 began practice in Jewett City, Conn., but being
elected in 1842 President of the Quinebaug Bank in Norwich,
Conn., he removed thither, where he continued to reside until his
death, which occurred Sept. 11, 1876, at the age of 87 years.
After accepting the appointment just referred to, which he held
for nineteen years, Mr. Morgan relinquished in great degree the
direct practice of his profession.

His first marriage in September, 1816, was to Maria B., daughter
of Rev. Edward Porter (Y. C. 1786), of Farmington. She died
Nov. 11, 1848, and he was married, Nov. 26, 1849, to Francis A.,
daughter of Gen. Moses Cleaveland (Y. C. 1777), of Canterbury,
Conn., the agent of the Connecticut Land Company, for whom
the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was named. She died Feb. 18, 1860,
and he was married again, June 12, 1861, to Mary C, daughter
of Dr. John C. Tibbits, of Jewett City. He left no children.

Tn his last will, he made liberal bequests in behalf of various
literary institutions and objects of benevolence.

1814.

John Daggett Meers was born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 28,
1794.

In his infancy his parents removed to New Haven, and thence
to the state of Georgia, where he was early left an orphan. At
the age of 1 3 he returned to New Haven, and was furnished with
the means of an education by his maternal uncle, Henry Daggett.

After graduation he taught for a little time in the Walling-
ford (Conn.) Academy, and studied medicine with Dr. Charles
Shelton of the adjoining town of Cheshire. In 1818 he was
licensed to practice by the Greene County (N. Y.) Medical Asso-
ciation, and for a few years practiced in New^ York city, but about

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1824 removed to what is now the town of Naugatuck, then Salem
Bridge, a parish in Waterbury, Conn. Here he continued in prac-
tice (with the exception of about two years, 1842-44, spent in
New Jersey) until enfeebled by old age. He died in Naugatuck,
May 19, 1877, aged 83 years.

Dr. Meers was twice married, first about 1822 to Mrs. Julia B.
Wickes, and again in 1835 to Miss Susan Bateman. He had three
children by his first marriage, and nine by his second. Five chil-
dren, with his widow, survive him. One son is a graduate of the
Medical Department of this College in the class of 1874.

Thomas Scudder Wickes, only son of the Hon. Eliphalet and
Martha (Herriman) Wickes, was born in Jamaica, L. I., April 18,
1795.

He studied theology in the Princeton Seminary, remaining for
nearly three years, but being prevented by ill health from com-
pleting the course. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery
of New York, April 21,1819. After spending some time in mission-
ary work in the South, he was ordained by the same Presbytery,
Sept. 9, 1822, and from this time until 1836 was employed in
preaching in various places, mostly at his own expense, as by
reason of ill health he would never consent to be installed over
any church.

He afterwards resided in Albany for three or four years, and
subsequently at Ballston, N. Y., and for the last quarter of a cen-
tury in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he died, of acute pneumonia,
Nov. 30, 1876, aged 81 years.

He was first married, Sept. 7, 1819, to Maria Pannett, of St.
Thomas, W. I., by whom he had one child. He married again,
Sept. 15, 1829, Julia Penniman, of Albany, by whom he had ten
children. She, with three sons and three daughters, survives
him. ,

1817.

John Beard, only son of Lewis and Susannah (Dunn) Beard,
was born in Salisbury, N. C, June 14,^1797, and died in Tallahas-
see, Fla., July 15, 1876, aged 79 years.

Keturning to his native place at graduation, he was elected the
next year, just after reaching his majority, and without opposition,
to the State Legislature, where he took at once a leading position.

In the winter of 1820 he married Miss Anna M. Kelly, and
settled on a plantation near Salisbury.

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In 1826 he was elected without opposition to the State Senate,
but declined a reelection for private reasons. In 1832, although
previously a Federalist, he espoused the Nullification theory, and
in the three succeeding years was again a member of the State
Senate.

His wife having died in 1830, he was married in the summer of
1838 to Miss Maria W. Anderson, of St. Augustine, Fla., and the
next year went there to reside. In 1840 he was appointed Clerk of
the U. S. District Court for East Florida, and in 1842, U. S. Marshal
for the same district, which office he held until Florida was ad-
mitted i^s a State three years later. In Jan. 1847, he was elected
Slate Register of Public Lands (and ex officio Superintendent of
Schools), and removed his residence to Tallahassee. This office
he resigned in the summer of 1850, on his reluctant acceptance of
the Democratic nomination for Congress. He was defeated, but a
few months afterwards was elected Comptroller of Public Ac-
counts, which position he resigned in 1854 to accept the agency of
the Apalachicola Land Company. He was a member of the
Florida Secession Convention in 1861, and during the war which
followed contributed all in his power to make the cause of the
South a success. He was again appointed to the Comptroller's
office in 1866. In 1869 he was attacked by vertigo, from which
combined with neuralgia he was a great sufferer until a few
months before his death. In all relations he maintained a spotless
character for personal and official integrity.

His first wife left two sons and three daughters, and by his
second wife, who survives him, he had two sons and a daughter.

Smith Clark died in Haddam, Conn., his native place, Sept.
12, 1876, aged 84.

He practiced law in Haddam during all his active life ; was at
different times a member of the State Legislature and Judge of
Probate. He left one son.

1820. V

Samuel Ktrby Sneed, only son of James and Catherine Sneed,
was born in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 16, 1798.

The plans formed by his father in sending him away from home
for an education were entirely overthrown by his choosing the
ministry as a profession ; and on his return from College he found
himself at once obliged to obtain means to pursue his studies.

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Accordingly he taught school in Louisville, and afterwards spent
a year at the Andover Theological Seminary,

He was ordained as an evangelist, at Middletown, Ky., May 10,
1826, and was installed pastor of the churches at Lebanon and
Springfield, Dec. 5, 1827. He remained in Kentucky until 1833,
when in order to emancipate the slaves which he owned he
removed to Indiana and was installed over the Presbyterian
church in New Albany. He spent some ten years with this church,
and was afterwards employed for shorter periods in various places,
until his removal in 1859 to Kirkwood, Missouri, a few miles from
St. Louis, where two of his daughters have charge of a Seminary,
and where the rest of his life was passed. He died in Kirkwood,
after a gradual failure of his powers, Aug. 30, 1876, aged 78
years.

His first wife, a sister of the Rev. Dr. Lewis Green, of Centre
College, Danville, Ky., died without leaving children. His second
wife was Miss Rachel Crosby, by whom he had three daughters
and one son. ^

1821.

Enoch Huntington was born in Middletown, Conn., March 8,
1801, and died in South Manchester, Conn., Sept. 4, 1876, aged 75
years. He bore the name of his grandfather, the pastor of the
Congregational Church in Middletown, and of his father, a lawyer
in the same town, who were graduates of this College, in 1 759 and
1785 respectively. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Grove
Ward, of Middletown.

He taught school and studied theology in Norwalk, Conn., and
was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop
Brownell, at Middletown, Kov. 4, 1823. He was for a short time
rector of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes Barre, Pa., and while there
was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop White, in Philadelphia,
March 20, 1825. In June, 1827, he took charge of St. John's
parish in New Milford, Conn., where labored faithfully for twenty
years. He next established a select school in Bridgeport, and in
addition to his duties there assisted in organizing in 1848 a new
parish at Nichol's Farms, in Trumbull, of which he continued in
charge until May, 1852, when he removed to Grace Church, in the
village of Broad Brook, in East Windsor, Conn. He resigned
this charge April 1, 1857, on account of a severe attack of bron-
chitis. A year later he removed to Pine Meadow, New Hartford,

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CoDD., and was rector of St. John's Church until the destruction of
the church edifice by fire in Dec, 1859. For about three years
from May, 1860, he had charge of St. John's Church, North
Haven, Conn., and thence removed to St. James's Church, West-
ville. Conn., where he spent nearly two years, and from which
he went to St. Mary's Church, Manchester, Conn., of which he
was rector at the time of his death.

He was married. May 19, 1828, to Charlotte, daughter of John
Taylor, of New Milford, and niece of Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor,
D.I)., Professor of Theology in this College. She survives him
with five children, one of whom was graduated at Trinity College
in 1 850, and is a Professor in that institution.

Isaac Peck, the only son of Isaac Peck, was bom at Round
Hill, in Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 7, 1802, and died at his birth-
place, April 29, 1877, in his 75th year.

He taught school for two years in Stratford, Conn., and then
entered the Theological Seminary in Princeton, N. J., with the
intention of becoming a Presbyterian minister; but after two
years in the seminary his views underwent a change, and he
became a candidate for orders in the Episcopal Church. He was
ordained deacon by Bishop Griswold in 1829, and his first regular
charge was in Gardiner, Maine, from 1830 to 1833. He was then
rector of St. Paul's Church, Troy, N. Y., until 1836, when he
became an assistant minister in Christ Church, New York city.
He relinquished this duty in 1844, and took charge of an academy
in New York. About 1850 he became the assistant minister of
Christ Church, Rye, N. Y., and when the mission chapel attached
to that church in Portchester was organized as a separate church,
he was its first rector. About 1860 his failing health obliged him
to retire to his patrimonial estate in Greenwich, where he ofliciated
without compensation for four years in Calvary Church. From
the autumn of 1865 until his death he was laid aside from all
active employment by paralysis.

He was married, Oct. 4, 1841, to Catharine C, second daughter
of Chief Justice Samuel Jones (Y. C. 1790), of New York city,
by whom he had two sons and two daughters. One son (a gradu-
ate of this College in 1865) and one daughter survive him.

Charles Robinson, youngest son of the Rev. William Robin-
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in Southington, Conn., where his father was for 41 years pastor of
the Congregational Church, Feb. 10, 1801. He was half-brother
of the distinguished Biblical scholar, Professor Edward Robinson.

For some years after graduating he resided on his father's farm,
and in 1832-33 took a course of study in the Yale Law School.
He removed soon after to New Haven, was admitted to the bar in
1834, and continued his residence and practice of his profession
here until his death, Oct. 1, 18'76, which was caused by a fall about
a week before from a ladder in his garden.

He was married, March 13, 1826, to Nancy Maria, daughter of
Hervey Mulford, of New Haven, and had five sons and three
daughters, of whom only one son survives him. His youngest son
was graduated at this College in 1867 and died in 1870. His first
wife died Feb. 5, 1863, aged 62, and he married in 1871 Mrs.
Ellen E. (Foote) Wilcox, who survives him.

1822.

John Stevens Law, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Law, was
born in Liberty County, Ga., March 21, 1800.

He entered college in the Sophomore year, and after graduation
spent a year at home in the study of medicine. He then entered
the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, in
Philadelphia, and graduated M.D. in 1825. For three years he
practiced his profession in his native county, and for about ten
years in Savannah. He then retired from practice, and in 1847
removed to Cincinnati, O., where for three years he kept a drug-
store. He then became the agent of the Royal Insurance Company
of Liverpool, which, with other English companies, he continued to
represent up to the time of his death, his eldest son being asso-
ciated with him, and latterly managing the business.

In 1861 he purchased a farm in Loveland, twenty-three miles
from the city, where he died, after a brief illness, Jan. 12, 1877,
in his 77th year. He had been for over forty years an elder and
an eminently useful member of the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Law married, jMay 1, 1828, Jane E., daughter of Hon. John
Elliott (Y. C. 1794), U. S. Senator from Georgia; she and her
infant child died in Dec, 1828. He married again, Nov. 24, 1831,
Elizabeth R., daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, a merchant of
Savannah, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. His
widow, five sons, and a daughter, survived him.

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Jabed Bell Waterburt was born in New York City, Aug.
11, 1799. He spent upwards of two years in the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary, and was ordained to the ministry by the Presby-
tery of N. Y., in Oct., 1825. The next winter was passed in the
South as an agent for the American Bible Society, and the follow-
ing summer in Massachusetts and on Long Island in a similar way.

From Jan. 10, 1827 to Feb. 24, 1829, he was the settled pastor
of the Congregational Church in Hatfield, Mass., and on March
18, 1829, took charge of the Pleasant Street Congregational
Church in Portsmouth, N. H. He was obliged by his health to
resign this charge in 1831, but a year later was able to resume
work, and was settled over the Presbyterian Church in Hudson,
N. Y., where he continued with great acceptance until he became,
Sept. 3, 1846, pastor of the Bowdoin Street Congregational Church
in Boston, Mass. In 1857 he retired from parish work, and after
two years spent in Stamford, Conn., removed to Brooklyn, N. Y.
While his health permitted, he was there engaged in city missions,
and was Secretary of the Brooklyn and L. I. Christian Commission
during the late war. He was stricken with paralysis about six
years before his death, which occurred in Brooklyn, Dec. 31, 1876,
at the age of 77.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union Col-
lege in 1841. He was the author of more than thirty larger
religious works, and of several published tracts and sermons.

He was married in 1827 to Eliza S., eldest daughter of Zechariah
Lewis (Y. C. 1794), of Brooklyn, who survives him with four
daughters and an only son.

1823.

Alexander Washington Marshall, son of Thomas Marshall,
M.D., and Mary S. (Chanler) Marshall, was born in Charleston,
S. C, Aug. 10, 1798.

He was graduated at the General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in 1828, and in the fall of that year
(Oct. 28) was ordained deacon, and took charge of St. David's
Church, Cheraw, S. C. He continued there (having been ordained
to the priesthood, March 14, 1830) until 1841, when he was called
to the organization and care of a city mission, worshiping in St.
John's Chapel (Hampstead), Charleston. Thirty-five years of
devoted and effective service in this field were interrupted only by
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which terminated in his death, in Charleston, Xov. 7, 1876, at the
age of 78.

In 1851 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Middlebury College.

In 1830 he married Elizabeth Maynard, who with two sons and
three daughters survives him.

Joseph Ripley, third son of D wight and Eliza (Coit) Ripley,
and brother of George B. Ripley (Y. C. 1822), was born in Nor-
wich, Conn., Sept. 14, 1804.

On leaving college he chose a business life, though he never
abandoned his interest in literature and science. He at first
entered into the dry goods business in New York City, in com-
pany with the late Horace Waldo. Disaster overtook the firm in
1836, when he returned to his native town, and became interested
in the manufacture of paper. In 1842 he went back to New
York, and from that time until his death was engaged in the wool
trade, during the greater part of the time as the head of the
extensively-known house of J. Ripley & Son.

He spent the last evening of the year 1876 at home, in his
usual health and among his usual occupations, and passed away
quietly in his sleep during the following night.

He was married in 1831 to Miss Catharine W. Andrews, of
New York City, who died in 1864, leaving five children.

1824.

Selah Burr Treat, son of Selah and Anna (Williams) Treat,
was born in Hartland, Conn., Feb. 19, 1804. When he was a boy
of ten, the family removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was fitted
for College.

After graduation he studied law at home and in Litchfield,
partly with Judge John T. Peters (Y. C. 1789), of Hartford,
whose daughter, Abigail T., he married, Dec. 25, 1827. Being
admitted to the bar in Dec, 1 826, he began practice in East Wind-
sor, Conn., but in 1831 removed to Penn Yan, N. Y., forming a
partnership with Henry Welles, afterwards a Judge of the Supreme
Court of the State. In the summer of 1831 he became a religious
man and united with the church, and two years later gave up his
profession, and entered the Theological Seminary in Andover,
Mass. He finished the course of study there in 1835, and was
ordained, March 23, 1836, over the Third Presbyterian Church in

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Newark, N. J. He was obliged by ill-health to resign his charge
in 1840, and became joint-editor of the Biblical Repository and of
the American Eclectic. After two years, he left these engage-
ments, with the intention of again becoming a pastor, but his
health was insufficient, and in 1843 he accepted an invitation to
remove to Boston and edit the Missionary Herald, and the Youth's
Dayspring, periodicals issued by the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions. From that time his life was devoted
to the American Board, and he proved himself eminently fitted
for his work. In the autumn of 1 843 he was made Recording
Secretary of the Board, and in 1847 was elected one of the Cor-
responding Secretaries, to have charge especially of the missions
among the American Indians. In 1859 his special duties were
made to include also the care of the Home Department. He con-
tinued also his editorial work until the autumn of 1856, when he
was for the second time obliged to go abroad on account of his
health ; and did not resume it until the end of 1876, when he was
released at his own desire from the duties of Secretary, to which
he felt no longer equal. After a few weeks' illness, he passed
away suddenly, at his residence in Boston, March 28, 1877, at the
age of 73.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was given him by Rutgers
College in 1852, but he declined the honor.

His wife survives, with three of their seven children.

1825.

William Brooks Bristol, son of Wm. Bristol (of the class of
1798) and Sarah Edwards, and the grandson of Simeon Bristol (of
the class of 1760), was born in New Haven, Conn., June, 1806,
and died in that city after a long illness, October 10, 1876.

Upon his graduation, Mr. Bristol entered upon the study of
law at the Law School in New Haven, and in the office of his
father, Judge Bristol, and on the completion of his legal studies
practiced law for one or two years in Painesville, Ohio. He then
returned to his native place and resumed practice there, and con-
tinued it successfully with the general public esteem and the
fullest confidence of those with whom he had relations of business
in his integrity, judgment, and ability, nearly to the close of his
life.

Mr. Bristol was twice married : first to Mary Bliss, of Spring-
field, Mass., Nov. 15, 1836, who died Feb. 15, 1849, by whom he

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had six children, of whom two sons survive him (both graduates
of this college), and secondly, Nov. 11, 1850, to Caroline Bliss, of
the same place, by whom he has had three children (one of them
a member of the graduating class of this year), who with their
mother are still living.

William McCkackan Lathrop, the second son of Hon. Samuel
Lathrop (Y. C. 1792) and Mary (McCrackan) Lathrop, was born
in West Springfield, Mass., Nov. 8, 1806. He was fitted for Col-
lege by Rev. Dr. T. M. Cooley, of Granville, Mass.

He studied law with his father, and settled in Enfield, Hamp-
shire County, Mass., but after a brief experience at the bar
removed about 1833 to New York City and became a commission
merchant. He was not successful in business, and about 1850
returned to his native State. He soon settled in Boston, first as
Cashier of the Eliot Bank, and from 1854 as Secretary of the
Eliot Insurance Company. He held the last-named office until in
consequence of great losses by the fire in Boston in November,
1872, the company became insolvent. He was made the Presi-
dent of the Commonwealth Insurance Company, which was organ-
ized as a successor to the Eliot, April 1, 1875, but the partial
relief from severe labor which he expected in his new position, he
was not long able to enjoy.

He attended the meeting of his class in New Haven on the 50th
anniversary of their graduation, July 1, 1875, and was greatly
interested. While visiting some old acquaintances on this occa-
sion, he was suddenly seized with hemiplegic symptoms, but
recovered sufficiently to staii, for his home the next day. On
reaching Hamilton (then the place of his residence, 22 miles north
of Boston), he had a renewed and more decided attack. From
that time he gradually declined until his death, Aug. 24, 1876, in
his 70th year.

He was thrice married, and left four children : two, a daughter
and a son by his first wife — Charlotte Elizabeth Belcher, of
Enfield— and two daughters by his last wife and widow — Eliza-
beth Rogers.

1827.
Robert Alexander Hallam, the son of Orlando and Lucy
(Christophers) Hallam, was born in New London, Conn., Sept. 30,
1807.

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After some time spent in teaching, he entered in October, 1829,
the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in the city of New York, where he finished the course in
June, 1832. On the 2d of August, 1832, he was ordained Deacon
in Hartford, Conn., by Bishop Brownell, and went to Meriden,
Conn., the next month, as rector of St. Andrew's Church, where
he was ordained priest by Bishop Brownell, Aug. 2, 1833. He
returned to New London, Jan. 1, 1836, as rector of St. James's
Church, a position which he held until his death, being however
incapacitated by infirmity from active duty during the last few
years, and relieved by the appointment of an assistant.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity Col-
lege in 1853. In 1836 he published a volume of Lectures on the
Morning Prayer, and a volume of Sermons ; also, in 1871 , a course
of lectures on Moses, and in 1873 a history of his parish church.

He died in New London, Jan. 4, 1877, aged 69 years.

He was married, Nov. 4, 1834, to Phebe Ann, daughter of Asa-
hel Curtis, of Meriden, Conn., who survives him without children.

1828.

Ebenezer White Arms, third son of Ebenezer and Mary
(White) Arms, was born in Greenfield, Mass., March 29, 1805.

On graduation he went at once to Geneva, N. Y., and entered
on the study of law in the office of the late Hon. James H.
Woods. He was admitted to the bar and remained with Mr.
Woods in Geneva until the autumn of 1833, when he was induced
to remove to Aurora, N. Y., by the persuasion of his friend Chris-
topher Morgan, whose death is noticed below. They formed a
copartnership which existed until Mr. Morgan removed to Auburn
in 1841, Mr. Arms continuing in Aurora for the rest of his days.
He was especially ti'usted in the care of estates, and universally
honored for his pure and upright life.

He was the chief contributor to the recent erection of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in the village of Aurora, w^hich is henceforth to
be called the Arms Memorial Church.

He died, after an illness of six weeks, of pneumonia, Jan. 15,
1877, in the 72d year of his age.

He was married, Nov. 12, 1835, to Lydia, daughter of Hon.
Daniel Avery, of Aurora, who survives him. They had no chil-
dren.

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Frederick William Chapman, elder son of Abisha and Mary
(Goss) Chapman, was born in Canfield, Ohio, Nov. 17, 1806.

He taught the academy in Sharon, Conn., for the year after
graduation, and spent the three succeeding years in the Divinity
School of Yale College. Hq was ordained pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Stratford, Conn., Sept. 5, 1832, and resigned
this charge, May 16, 1839, to accept a call from the Congrega-
tional Church in Deep River (in Saybrook), Conn., where he was
installed May 29. From this charge he was dismissed, Oct. 1,
1850, and on the 24th of the same month was installed over the
Congregational Church in South Glastonbury, Conn., where he
remained until Oct. 29, 1854. He then became the principal of
the high school in Ellington, Conn., and so continued until 1863,
supplying in the mean time the church in West Stafford, Conn,,
for four and a half years (1856-61), and afterwards the church in
Bolton, Conn., to which town he next removed. Leaving Bolton
in 1864, he supplied the pulpit of the Union Church in East
Hampton, Conn., for two years, and for five years had charge of
the church in Prospect, Conn. In 1871 he removed to Rocky
Hill, Conn., and devoted himself thenceforth to genealogical re-
searches. He had already published, in 1854, a genealogy of the
Chapman Family, and in 1 864 one of the Pratt Family. Four
more volumes compiled by him were printed, — the Trowbridge
and Buckingham genealogies in 1872, the Coit genealogy in 1873,
and the Bulkeley genealogy in 1875. In August, 1873, a stroke
of paralysis impaired his faculties, but he continued to work until
a second stroke, in October, 1875, which deprived him of speech,
and left him to pass the remaining months in feebleness of body
and mind, until his death, at his residence in Rocky Hill, July 20,
1876, in his 70th year.

He was married. May 6, 1833, to Emily, eldest child of Henry
Hill, of Westbrook, Conn., who died in South Glastonbury, of
apoplexy, March 30, 1854, aged 44 years. He married secondly,
Nov. 7, 1855, Caroline, widow of John Crooks, of East Long-
meadow, Mass., and daughter of Samuel Strickland, of Ellington,
Conn., who sui-vives him. Of the three children by his first mar-
riage, one son only survives.

Thomas Oliver Lincoln, eldest son of Ensign and Sophia
(Larkin) Lincoln, was born May 4, 1809, in Boston, Mass., where
he was fitted for college in the Public Latin School.

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He returned to Boston after graduating, and studied law in
the office of Richard Fletcher, Esq., until June, 1831. About this
time he began a religious life, and although his prospects of suc-
cess in the law were bright, he felt it his duty to abandon that
profession for the ministry. Accordingly he entered the Newton
(Mass.) Theological Institution, where he graduated in 1834. He
was ordained, Pec. 10, 1834, and soon became the pastor of the
Baptist church in Kennebunk, Me. In 1836 he resigned in order
to take charge of the new Free Street Baptist Church in Portland,
Me., where he labored successfully till 1841, when he was called
to Philadelphia. In the following years he exercised his ministry
in Manchester, N. H., Utica and Elmira, N. Y., Williamsport,
Pa., and other places. He received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Madison University in 1856. In 1871 he was called
to the pastorate of the Baptist church in Roadstown, N. J., which
he was obliged by failing health to resign in 1873. He then re-
moved to Bridgeton, N. J., where he died of paralysis, after a
lingering illness, Jan. 20, 1877, in his 68th year.

He was first married, March 11, 1835, to Malvina B., daughter
of Dr. Lemuel Wellman, of Piermont, N. H.,who died Nov. 10,
1847. He married, Feb. 20, 1849, Mrs. Jane B. Dykes, daughter
of James Buncher, of Lowell, Mass., who survives him. By his
first marriage he had six children, and by his second marriage
five ; of these, two daughters are still living.

Cheistopher* Morgan was the second of six sons of Chris-
topher and Nancy (Barber) Morgan, both natives of Groton,
Conn., and early emigrants to Aurora, Cayuga Lake, N. T. He
was born in Aurora, June 4, 1808, and died at his residence in
Auburn, N. Y., April 3, 1877, in his 69th year.

After graduation he read law in the office of William H. Seward
(afterwards Governor), in Auburn, and practiced for a few years
in Aurora. He was married, Oct. 24, 1832, to Mary Pitney, of
Auburn. In 1837 he was elected to the Congress of the ij. S.,
and in 1839 reelected. At the close of his term he removed to
Auburn, and entered into partnership with Gov. Seward, Hon.
Samuel Blatchford, and Clarence Seward. In 1 847, and again in
1849, he was elected Secretary of the State of New York, these
being the first elections by the people to that office. He was also
for the same time Superintendent of Public Schools. For many
years and up to his death he was a trustee of the State Lunatic

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Asylum, at Utica. He was also mayor of the city of Auburn
where his residence continued until his decease.

In the many positions of public trust to which he was called,
he enjoyed an enviable reputation for integrity and ability ; while
in social life his genial manners made him a great favorite.

By his marriage he had one son and three daughters; the
daugchters alone survive him.

1830.

James Knox, son of James and Nancy (Ehle) Knox, was born
in Canajoharie, N. Y., July 4, 1807.

He entered the Sophomore class of Hamilton College, Clinton,
N. Y., in 1827, and a year later entered the corresponding class
in this college, the former institution having been temporarily
broken up by dissensions. After graduation he studied law with
Wm. H. Maynard and Joshua A. Spencer, in Utica, N. Y., and
after Mr. Maynard's death became in 1833 the partner of Mr.
Spencer. In 1836 he emigrated to Knoxville, 111., with one of
his brothers, whose ill-health soon threw on him an extensive
mercantile business, so that his law-practice was abandoned. In
the winter of 1841 he was married to Miss Prudence H. Blish,
of Wetherstield, 111., whose death in 1846 so depressed him that
he undertook a variety of additional employments as a relief.
He became the proprietor and occasional editor of the village
newspaper, engaged extensively in farming, and established a
very thriving business in the manufacture of agricultural im-
plements. In 1 846 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress,
but in 1852 was elected and again in 1864. Owing to failing
eyesight he went to Europe in Oct., 1859, and after a successful
operation for cataract returned in Jan., 1861. In Sept., 1865, he
again visited Europe for an operation on his eyes, and remained
until May, 1869; and in 1872-3 made a third foreign visit. He
died in Knoxville, after an illness of two weeks, Oct. 9, 1876,
aged 69 years. He had no children.

From his ample estate he gave during his lifetime the sum of
810,000 to this college, '^520,000 to Hamilton College, and up-
wards of 130,000 to educational institutions in his adopted county.
He also left in his last will a further sum of money for the pro-
motion of education. The degree of Doctor of Laws was con-
ferred on him by Hamilton College in 1862.

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1832.

Allen Taylor Caperton was born near Union, Monroe County,
Va. (now West Va.), Nov. 21, 1810. His father, the Hon. Hugh
Caperton, was a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1815.

He first studied in the University of Virginia, and in 1830 came
to this college, entering the class of 1831, and finally graduating
in 1832. He studied law with Judge Briscoe G. Baldwin, in
Staunton, Va., and in 1834 was admitted to the bar, and began
the practice of his profession in his native town. In 1841 and
repeatedly afterwards, he was elected to the Virginia House of
Delegates, and in 1844 to the State Senate. In 1860 and 1861,
he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and
like many other prominent southern whigs, was a conservative
union man, and opposed secession until the actual beginning of
hostilities, when he felt it his duty to go with his State. He was
a member of the Confederate States Senate, from 1862 until the
close of the war, when he returned to his home and resumed the
practice of his profession, devoting much of his time and energies
to the development of the resources of West Virginia. In Feb-
ruary, 1875, he was elected almost unanimously to the U. S.
Senate, and took his seat on the fourth of March following. He
died in Washington, after a few days' illness, of angina pectoris,
July 26, 1876, in his 66th year.

He was married soon after graduating to Miss Harriet Echols,
who survives him, with children.

1833.

William Patrick Johnston, the son of Col. James and Ann
Marion (Houston) Johnston, was born in Savannah, Ga., June
11, 1812. He entered college in the third term of the Sopho-
more year.

After spending a winter in Georgia, he began the study of
medicine in 1834 in Philadelphia, and received the degree of M.D.
two years later from the University of Pennsylvania. He then
devoted himself to hospital service in that city until the fall of
1837, when he sailed for Europe, where he spent two years in
study in Paris, and another year in travel.

He was married, Dec. 3, 1840, to Mary E., daughter of Bernard
Hooe, Esq., of Alexandria, Va., and immediately after settled in
Washington, D. C, for the practice of medicine. Besides his ex-
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the Medical Department of the Columbian College (now the
National Medical College), for three years as Professor of Sur-
gery, and after that as Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases
of Women and Children. He also assumed a large responsibility
in the management of the Children's Hospital in Washington,
and was otherwise an active and public-spirited citizen. His
death, which was caused by fatty degeneration of the heart, oc-
curred in Washington, after a lingering illness of six months,
Oct. 24, 1876, at the age of (U. His wife survives him, with four
sons and one daughter.

William Newton Matson, son of William and Rhoda (New-
ton) Matson, was born in Colchester, Conn., Oct. 22, 1812.

He taught the Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford, Conn.,
for one year after graduation ; studied law in the same city, and
for many years practiced his profession there. He was for two
years Judge of the Probate Court, and from 1853 to 1857 Re-
porter of the Supreme Court. Subsequently he became interested
in the publishing business, and as a member of the firm of S. S.
Scranton & Co. amassed a fortune. He had for some time been
depressed in mind, and on Dec. 29, 1876, left home for New York
City, taking passage that night at Saybrook on board the steam-
ship Granite State ; he was last seen alive early the next morning
on the boat, and his body was found near Riker's Island, in the
East River, May 23, 1877.

Judge Matson married. May 20, 1840, Elizabeth C, daughter
of Lewis Strong (Harv. Coll. 1803), of IsTorthampton, Mass., who
died Jan. 29, 1867, aged 49 years. Besides two daughters wh©
died in infancy, they had one son, who is still living, a graduate
of this college in 1862.

George Lemuel Potter was born in New Haven, Conn.,
Nov. 10, 1812, the son of Samuel and Jemima (Scovil) Potter.

He studied law, immediately after graduating, in the Yale Law
School, and in the spring of 1837 entered on his profession in
Natchez, Miss.; in the spring of 1842 he removed to Jackson,
the capital, where he gained a large practice and became one of
the leading lawyers of the State. On Feb. 5, 1877, while attend-
ing Court in Lexington, Miss., he died suddenly, of an apoplectic
stroke.

He was married, in the autumn of 1845, to Cynthia Ann,
daughter of Judge Mayes, formerly of Louisville, Ky., who died

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some years before him. Of their five children, three sons and
one daughter are still living.

1834.

Eleazek KmGSBURY Foster was born in New Haven, Conn.,
May 20, 18J3. His father, Eleazer Foster (Y. C, 1802), was a
prominent lawyer of New Haven until his early death in 1819,
and his mother, Mary Pierpont, was a great-grandchild of Rev.
James Pierpont, one of the principal founders of Yale College.

He studied law in the Yale Law School, was admitted to the
bar in March, 1837, and settled in practice in his native city. He
represented New Haven in the General Assembly in 1844 and
1845, and again in 1865 when he served as Speaker of the House.
In 1845, 1846, 1848, and 1849, he was Judge of Probate for the
district of New Haven. In 1854 he was appointed State's Attor-
ney for New Haven County, and was nominated Register in
bankruptcy when that ofiice was created, and continued in both
these positions till his death. Besides his professional success.
Judge Foster's social qualities gained him the warm regard of a
large circle of friends. He died, in New Haven, after a brief ill-
ness, of pneumonia, June 13, 1877, aged 64 years.

He married Mary, daughter of William C. Codrington, a lady
of English birth, and formerly of Kingston, Jamaica, but then of
New Haven, Jan. 2, 1838. She died" Sept. 25, 1872. Of their
children, two daughters died before their parents, and three sons,
all graduates of this College, are still living.

Samuel St. John was born March 29, 1813, in New Canaan,
Conn., the fourth son and fifth child of Samuel and Hannah B.
(Richards) St. John, of New Canaan.

After graduation he studied law in the Yale Law School, and
was admitted to the bar in 1836. During the academical year,
1836-37, he was a tutor in the college, at the same time attending
lectures in the Medical Department. At the close of the year he
resigned his position on account of ill-health, and went to Europe,
where he continued his studies in Paris. In 1838 he accepted an
appointment as Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology,
in the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, in which ofiice he
remained until 1851. For the following year he held a similar
position in Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and was next for four
years principal of the Cleveland (O.) Seminary for young ladies,

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and Professor of Chemistry and Medical Jui'isprudence in the
Cleveland Medical College. In 1856 he visited Europe again, and
after his return entered in 1860 on the duties of Professor of
Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medi-
cal Department of Columbia College, New York City ; the sub-
ject of Medical Jurisprudence was added to his chair in IS'TO, and
he continued in the full discharge of his duties until his death, at
his residence in New Canaan, Conn., Sept. 9, 1876, aged 63 years.
He had been in poor health for several years.

He was married. May 26, 1840, in New York City, to Miss
Amelia P. C. Curtis. She died in Cleveland, O., Dec. 22, 1855.
Their children, a son and a daughter, are both living ; the son be-
ing a graduate of this college in 1866.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from
the Vermont Academy of Medicine, Western Reserve College,
and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and that of LL.D.
from Georgetown College, Kentucky.

George Tomlinson was born in that part of Derby which is
now the town of Seymour, Conn., Feb. 5, 1806, the son of Abijah
and Betsey Tomlinson. In 1808 his parents removed to New
Preston, in Washington, Conn., whence he entered college, not
however beginning his preparation until past his majority.

After graduation he spent three years in the Yale Divinity
School, and after brief engagements as a preacher in New Pres-
ton, and in St. Johnsbury, Vt., became in Jan., 1839, principal of
the academy in Bellport, L. I. While in this position he took
charge of the Presbyterian church in South Haven, a parish in
the town of Brook Haven, L. I., where he was ordained pastor,
Sept. 9, 1840. He remained here until October, 1852, and in Feb-
ruary, 1 854, he took charge of the Presbyterian Church in Pendle-
ton, Niagara county, N. Y., where he continued until his return
to New Preston, in March, 1 860. For two years he supplied the
pulpit of the First church there, and then on the death of his
father settled in the family homestead, in the village of Marble-
dale, where he resided till his death, July 16, 1876, aged 70. He
had been for some two years in poor health, and in the early
spring of 1876 was attacked with diabetes, after which he de-
clined gradually until still further prostrated by a fever a few
days before his death.

He was married, April 13, 1841, to Miss Anne M. Taylor, of
Warren, Conn. She died after a lingering illness, Sept. 17, 1865.
Their only son is still living.

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1835.
[For a notice of Ebenezeb B. Adams, see page 279.]

Edward Buck, fifth son of Gurdon and Susannah (Manwaring)
Buck, and a descendant of Gov. Gurdon Saltonstall, of Connecti-
cut, was born in New York City, Oct. 6, 1814.

He studied law in New York, and began practice in that city
in 1838. In 1843 he removed to Boston, where he continued
actively engaged in his profession until his death. Froni 1854 his
residence was in Andover, Mass., where he died, July 16, 18*76, in
his 6 2d year.

Mr. Buck was a frequent writer for the newspapers, and pub-
lished in 1866 an important volume on " Massachusetts Ecclesi-
astical Law" (Boston, 8vo, 316 pp.). As a prominent Christian
layman his interest in all educational and philanthropic matters
was always intelligent and active.

He married, June 8, 1841, Elizabeth Greene, daughter of Hon.
Samuel Hubbard (Y. C. 1802), of Boston, a Justice of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts. She survives him with their two chil-
dren, a son and a daughter. The son graduated at this college in
1870.

1839.

David Jitdson Burr, son of David J., and Arabella (Shedden)
Burr, was bom in Richmond, Va., Oct. 16, 1820.

After graduation he studied law (partly in the Yale Law
School), and was engaged in successful practice for a few years,
but finding it ill-suited to his temperament he abandoned the pro-
fession and became a merchant. Although disinclined to public
life, he served for several years at the urgent desire of his fellow-
citizens, in the Common Council of Richmond and in the State
Legislature. On the organization of the Richmond Chamber of
Commerce he was elected President, and continued in that ofiice
until he positively declined a re-election. His energies were di-
rected to the advancements of the commercial interests of his
native State and city ; and to facilitate those interests he assumed,
at the inception of the enterprise, the responsible and laborious
duties of President of the Virginia Steamship Company, which
he continued to discharge to the day of his death. He died in
Richmond, Aug. 3, 1876, from the efiects of a paralytic stroke in
1873. He sympathized entirely with the South in the late war,
and was one of the committee who surrendered Richmond to the
U. S. troops, April 3, 1865.

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He was married in New York, April 10, 1844, to a daughter of
Dr. H. W. Denison of Georgetown, S. C, and had six children,
four of whom are still living.

1840.

James Porter Hart, second son of Dr. John A. Hart, and
grandson of Dr. John Hart (Y. C. 1776), both of Farmington,
Conn., was born in Farmington, July 27, 1817. His mother was
Joanna, daughter of Samuel Porter, of Berlin, Conn.

He spent the three years after graduation in the Yale Divinity
School, and afterwards resided in New Haven, where he died Jan.
10, 1877, aged 59 years.

He was interested in the science of phonography, and pub-
lished several tracts on that subject. At an earlier period he
took a warm interest in the settlement of fugitive slaves in
Canada.

He was married, Feb. 11, 1846, to Mary E. Pierpont, of New
Haven, who survives him, with one son.

Chauncey Henry Hubbard, the only son of Mr. Boardman
Hubbard, was born in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 10, 1819. He
entered college from Springfield, Mass., where his father was for
many years inspector of the U. S. Arsenal.

He taught for a while at the South, and afterwards studied
theology, in part in the Yale Divinity School, and was licensed
to preach by the Litchfield (Conn.) South Association in 1845.
During the next year he supplied the pulpit of the Congrega-
tional church in Stanwich, a parish in Greenwich, Conn., and
from there went to the 1st Presbyterian Church in Sandlake,
N. Y.jWhere he was ordained pastor in February, 1848. In 1851
he removed to Bennington, Vt., where he served as acting pastor
of the 2d Congregational Church until Jan. 1, 1872. During this
time he had made two extended foreign tours, and his resignation
of his pastorate was caused by the impaired health of a relative,
which obliged him to spend the next two winters in the South,
and to cross the ocean again in the summer of 1873. His resi-
dence continued in Bennington, where he died Aug. 22, 1876,
aged 57 years. While in Philadelphia early in the preceding
June, he was thrown down by a passing wagon, and while weak-
ened by the injuries thus sustained he contracted a cold which
developed a latent disease of the kidneys, from the effects of
which he died.

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He was married, in April, 1854, to Martha E., daughter of Syl-
vester Norton, of Troy, N. Y., who survives him. Their only
child, a son, died in 1861.

1842.

Seth Bradley Stone, son of Seth and Abigail (Bradley)
Stone, was born in Madison, Conn., Sept. 30, 1817.

After teaching for some years in Williamsburg, L. I., he pur-
sued a course of theological study in the Union Theological Sem-
inary, from 1847 to 1850. In the latter year he was ordained to
the ministry, and sailed from New York, October 14, as a mis-
sionary from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, to the Zulus, in South Africa. He arrived at Port
Natal in January, 1851, and labored zealously, particularly in
preparing books for the natives in their own language, until 1871,
when he visited this country to provide for the education of his
children. In the summer of 1873 he returned with his wife to
Africa, but a year and a half later they were obliged to leave
their post on account of her failing health.

He died in Harlem, N. Y., January 27, 1877, from the effects of
a complicated disease of the kidneys, which had confined him to
the house for almost a year.

Mr. Stone married April 26, 1848, Katharine M. Arthur, of New
York city, who survives him with four sons and three daughters,
— two children having died in early childhood.

1843.

John Kendrick, only son of the Hon. Greene Kendrick (Lieu-
tenant-Governor of Connecticut in 1851) and Anna M. (Leaven-
worth) Kendrick, was born in Charlotte, N. C, May 27, 1825. In
1829 his father removed from Charlotte to Waterbury, Conn.

After a short business experience in New York City, he studied
law for a year with Norton J. Buel, Esq., of Waterbury, and for
the next year (1846-7) in the Yale Law School. He did not,
however, practice his profession with any regularity until a few
years before his death. His residence continued in Waterbury,
with the exception of a brief period (about 1859) during which he
was an assistant editor of the Daily Register in New Haven. He
represented Waterbury several times in the Legislature, was for
three tei-ms Mayor of the city, and through his life an active
democratic politician. In 1870 he was nominated for Congress,
but was not elected.

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He died in Waterbury, May 27, 1877, being on that day 52
years of age. He had been confined to his house for several
weeks by rheumatism, which so seriously affected the bones of
one leg that an operation was performed and some pieces of the
bone removed. Afterwards an artery in the leg burst, and he
lived but a few hours.

In October, 1849, he was married to Miss Marian Marr, of
Waterbury, who survives him with two of their three children.
One son graduated at this college in 1872.

1844.

Charles Foster, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Foster, was
bom in Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1823.
In 1836 his parents removed to Pompey, Onondaga County, where
he was prepared for College.

He studied law successively with Hon. Victor Birdseye, of
Pompey, Hon. B. D. Noxon, of Syracuse, and Hon. John Van
Buren, of Albany. In October, 1847, he was admitted to the bar,
but on account of health was advised to try a more active life,
and occupied himself in the cattle-trade, until January, 1853,
when he began practice as a lawyer in Cortland, N. Y., where he
remained until his death. He was in partnership with R. H.
Duell, from January, 1857, till 1874, when failing health com-
pelled him to give up his profession. He had been for some years
subject to pulmonary difficulties, and spent the three succeeding
winters in Washington, but without any marked improvement.
From November, 1875, to February, 1877, he was employed as an
examiner in the U. S. Patent Office. He died, of consumption, in
Cortland, May 23, 1877, aged 53 years.

Besides local offices of trust and honor, the only public position
.which he filled was that of member of the State Legislature in
1870. In his own village he was held in the highest esteem.

He was married, Oct. 13, 1853, to Jane M., daughter of Richard
G. Fowler, of Cortland, who survives him. They had no children.

1845.

Augustus William Lord, son of Reuben and Sarah Lord, was
born in Lyme, Conn., April 3, 1825.

He studied law in the Yale Law School, and began practice in
Colchester, Conn., which town he represented in the State Legis-
ture in 1850. Just after this date he removed to New York city,

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where he continued in the practice of law for about twenty years.
He then returned to Lyme, where he resided until his death. He
was missed from home on Thursday, October 21, 1875, and his
body was found in a lake in the neighborhood the next day. The
circumstances proved that he had committed suicide. He was
unmarried.

1846.

William Banfield Capron was born in Uxbridge, Mass.,
April 14, 1824, son of Deacon William C. and Chloe D. Capron.

The year after graduation he spent as a private tuter in Balti-
more, and then (Dec, 1847) became a teacher in the Hopkins
Grammar School in Hartford, Conn., and from 1848 its Principal.
This situation he resigned in July, 1863, to enter the Theological
Seminary in Andover, with the design of becoming a foreign mis-
sionary. He graduated at Andover in 1856, was ordained in his
native town, Sept. 3, and sailed under the appointment of the
American Board, for the Madura (India) mission, in November,
1856. He was stationed at Mana Madura, and except for one
visit to America (May, 1872 to Sept., 1874) continued his useful
ministry there until his death. He died very suddenly, of disease
of the heart, at Mana Madura, Oct. 6, 1876, aged 52| years.

He was married, Oct. 1, 1856, to ISarah B., daughter of Rev.
Henry B. Hooker, D.D., of Boston. Mrs. Capron survives him,
with two daughters. Their only son died in infancy.

1848.

Charles Condit, the son of Stephen and Phebe S. Condit, was
born in Orange, N. J., Dec. 8, 1827.

He studied law in Columbus, O. and in New York, was admit-
ted to the bar in New York in October, 1850, and from that time to
the day of his death, was engaged in the successful practice of the
law in Brooklyn. From 1859 his brother, Stephen Condit (Y. C.
1856), was in partnership with him. He died suddenly, of paral-
ysis of the heart, in Brooklyn, Oct. 19, 1876, in the 49th year oi
his age. He was unmarried.

Charles Theodore Cottox, born in Natchez, Miss., Dec. 21,
1825, died of consumption in Washington, D. C, March 15, 1877,
aged 61 years.

He entered College at the beginning of the Sophomore year,
and after graduation returned home to teach school. He after-

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wards studied law and began practice in St. Paul, Minn., in 1855.
At the time of the breaking out of the late civil war he was prac-
ticing his profession in Memphis, Tenn., and on a visit to Natchez
was driven North by a vigilance committee, on account of his loy-
alty to the U. S. Government. He came to Washington in 1862,
and was from that time until his death a clerk in the Interior
Department.

Charles Loweet, eldest child of Romeo Lowrey (Y. C. 1818)
and Elizabeth A. (Whittlesey) Lowrey, was bom in Southington,
Conn., Feb. 12, 1829.

He studied law with Judge Thomas B. Osborne, of Fairfield,
Conn., and subsequently in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was admitted to
the bar in October, 1850. He settled in Brooklyn, where he
became widely and favorably known as a lawyer, and a public-
spirited citizen. He was for a long time the secretary and counsel
of the Dime Savings Bank in Brooklyn. In 1868 he was a mem-
ber of the State Constitutional Convention.

He died in Brooklyn, of inflammation of the bowels, after ten
days' illness, Feb. 17, 1877, aged 48 years.

He was married in 1853 to Sarah, daughter of Obadiah W.
Jones, of Fairfield, by whom he had one son and one daughter.

1849.

Edward Parmelee Smith, son of the Rev. Noah Smith (Dart-
mouth Coll. 1818) and Laura (Parmelee) Smith, was born in South
Britain, a parish of Southbury, Conn., where his father was pastor,
June 3, 1827. On the death of his father, in Oct., 1830, he was
taken to the home of an uncle. Col. Ashbel Smith, of Hanover,
N. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1845, and this College
two years later.

After graduation, he taught school for three years in Mobile,
Ala., and then began the study of theology in the Yale Seminary.
In March, 1853, he removed to N. Y. City, and studied in the
Union Theol. Seminary, laboring also in connection with the Chil-
dren's Aid Society, until the fall of 1854, when he went to Ando-
ver Seminary for the closing year of theological study. After
another year spent in preaching in Rockville, Conn., and Pompey,
N. Y., he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in
Pepperell, Mass., June 11, 1856. In Jan., 1863, he offered his
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first as one of the General Field Agents and later as Field Secre-
tary, until the closing of the work of the Commission, in January,
1866. He had, meantime, resigned his pastorate in 1864, and
now entered the service of the American Missionary Association
(devoted especially to educational work among the Freedmen) as
District Secretary at Cincinnati. In 1867 he was called to N. Y.
City as General Field Agent of the Association, and in that
capacity performed a large share of the work of planting schools
for freedmen in the South. When President Grant in 1871 invited
cooperation in the work of Indian civilization, Mr. Smith resigned
his position in New York, and offered his services as Indian Agent.
He was appointed to the Chippewa Agency in Minnesota, and
remained there until unexpectedly offered the position of Commis-
Bioner of Indian Affairs of the U. S. Government in April, 1873.

This position he resigned in 1875, and was immediately elected
President of Howard University, in Washington. He accepted
the Presidency, and in the spring of 1876 sailed for Africa, on invi-
tation of the American Missionary Association, to survey and
report on the work of their missions in that country. He left
Sierra Leone in May in good health, but while on board the steam-
ship Ambric on his way from Monrovia (in Liberia) was taken
with the African fever, and was too ill to land at Accra, as he had
intended. He died on shipboard, in the Gulf of Guinea, near the
island of Fernando Po, on the night of June 15, and was buried
on the 16th at the Presbyterian Mission Station, Old Calabar.

He was married, June 3, 1856, to Hannah C, daughter of Levi
Bush, of Westfield, Mass., who survives him with one of their two
children.

1862.

Joseph Frederick Waring, son of William R. Waring, M.D.,
and Ann (Johnston) Waring, and brother of James J. Waring
(Y. C. 1850), was born in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 13, 1832.

He studied law in Philadelj^hia for a year and a half after
graduation, and then spent a year in European travel. After his
return he was a planter, and during the late war was in the Con-
federate service, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At the
time of his death he was living in Savannah as the head of the
forwarding department of the Central Railroad, and returned
from a Northern vacation to his post just as the yellow fever of
September, 1876, was reaching its height. His duties obliged
him to be in the part of the city most subject to the epidemic, and
he was attacked on Sept. 30, and died Oct. 4, at the age of 44.

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1855.

SiMEO^r Thomas Hyde, son of James N. and Mary Ann
(Thomas) Hyde, was bom in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 6, 1834.
One of his brothers, Rev. James T. Hyde, was graduated at this
College in 1847. He entered College with the class of 1854, and
remained with them until the Senior year.

He taught school and studied law for two years, and on being
admitted to the bar began practice in 1857 in Colchester, Conn.,
the home of his widowed mother. A year or two later he
removed to New York City, where and in Brooklyn he practiced
law until a short time before his death. He served in the late
war in the 13th Regiment N. Y. State National Guard, and as
1st Lieutenant of the 15th Conn. Volunteers. His health was
permanently impaired by his army experience and by injuries
received in the New York riots of 1863. He died in Hartford,
Conn., June 2, 1877, in his 43d year.

He married. May 3, 1859, Charlotte B., daughter of William A.
Morgan, of Hartford, who survives him with five children.

1856.

George Blagden Bacon, fifth son of Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon
(Y. C. 1820) and Lucy (Johnson) Bacon, was born in New Haven,
Conn., May 23, 1836.

He entered college as Freshman, but left in November of the
Sophomore year, on account of ill-health ; in 1866 he received a
degree and was enrolled with his class. In April, 1856, he ob-
tained a position as Captain's Clerk on the U. S. ship Portsmouth,
and in that capacity and as acting purser, spent two years in a
cruise in the East Indies and the China and Japan seas, and in
European travel. After his return he spent two years in the Yale
Divinity School, and on the completion of his course there re-
ceived a call to the pastorate of the Congregational church in
Orange Valley, N. J., where he was ordained March 27, 1861.
He retained this charge, though absent thrice for long periods on
account of the delicate state of his health, until his death, in
Orange, Sept. 15, 1876, at the age of 40. Hia disease was con-
sumption, and his death was preceded by eight months of enforced
absence from public duties ; but his character and attainments
had given him a remarkable hold on the affection and respect of
his people, and of a wide circle of friends. The degree of Doctor

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of Divinity was bestowed on bim by the University of the city of
New York in 1872.

He was married in Kent, Conn., May 28, 1862, to Miss Frances
Jane Mills, of Kent, who survives him with two daughters.

Ira Dunlap, son of Thomas Dunlap, was born, Feb. 22, 1832,
in Middleport, Niagara County, N. Y., and died in Boston, Mass.,
June 18, 1876, aged 44 years.

He spent the year after graduation in travel and in the settle-
ment of his father's estate. He then engaged in banking in
Rochester, N. Y., and was for several years cashier of the Roches-
ter Exchange Bank. The later years of his life were spent in
travel and in the pursuit of health.

1857.

Richard Henry Green, son of Richard Green, was born in
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 14, 1833.

After leaving College he taught school in Milford, Conn., for
about eighteen months, and then in the Bennington Seminary,
Bennington, Vt. While here he began the study of medicine,
which he continued at Dartmouth College, receiving his degree in
1864. In the meantime he entered the U. S. Navy, Nov. 5, 1863,
as Acting Assistant Surgeon, a position which he held until the
close of the war. He then settled in Hoosick, N. Y., and followed
his prolession there until March 23, 1877, when he died, of disease
of the heart, at the age of 43.

While in the navy he was married to Miss Charlotte Caldwell,
of Bennington, who survives him with one daughter.

William Arad Thompson was born in Middleboro', Mass.,
June 21, 1835.

He began the study of law in New Haven, and continued it at
Harvard University, where he received the degree of LL.B. in
1860. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1860, and
at once entered on the practice of his profession there. In 1869
he removed to his native town, but two years later returned to
Boston where he remained in practice until his death. He was
also engaged largely in real estate transactions, and the ill-success
of his ventures caused despondency to such an extent that he lost
control of himself and took his own life. He was found dead in
his rooms at Newton Highlands, on the morning of Sept. 5, 1876.

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He was married, Nov. 14, 1866, to Ella M., daughter of James
M. Williams, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., who died before him.
He left several children,

1858.

MoNTELiFS Abbott, son of James and Caroline (Montelius)
Abbott, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2, 1838.

He spent a year or two after graduation in France, and then
began the study of law in the Law School of Harvard University.
Subsequently he pursued his studies in Philadelphia, and received
the degree of LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in June,
1862, being admitted to the bar at the same time. He afterwards
practiced his profession in Philadelphia. His death, which
occurred in that city, May 18, 1877, w^as the result of ill-health
caused by a sun-stroke a few years since. He was unmarried.

Edwaed Payson" Batchelor, son of Deacon Stephen F. and
Mary Ann (Fletcher) Batchelor, was born in Whitinsville, Mass.,
Jan. 30, 1835.

He taught school in Litchfield County, Conn., for the most of
the time until he entered the Law School at Cambridge, Mass., in
Sept., 1860. In 1862 he graduated from Harvard with the degree
of LL.B., and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, Mass. On
the 1st of March in that year he sailed for San Francisco, where
he practiced his profession until his death in that city, of pneu-
monia, Dec, 28, 1876, in his 42d year. He was unmarried.

Edwakd Seymour, son of Rev. Ebenezer and Mary (Hoe)
Seymour, was born in Bloomfield, N. J., Apr. 1, 1835,

A few months after graduation he entered the ofiice of the New
York Times as a reporter. He was assistant-editor of the Times
from 1859 till Aug. 1, 1867, when he became connected with the
publishing-house of Messrs. Scribner & Co., of which two or
three years later he became a member. He so continued until his
death, at his residence in Bloomfield, Apr. 28, 1877, aged 42
years. He had been worn down by overwork, and was ordered
away for a vacation ; but on the night before he was expecting to
leave home, was attacked with congestion of the brain, which ended
his life within a week. Besides his proper work, Mr, Seymour
had written frequently for the periodicals of the day, and had
performed much literary labor in connection with the publications
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issued by his firm. For his industry, energy, and integrity, he
was very highly esteemed.

He was married, Sept. 22, 1859, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of
Rev. J. M. Sherwood, who survives him with their three children.

1862.

James Alfred Dunbak was born in Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 21,
1840.

After graduation he resided in Carlisle, studying and practising
law, until the summer of 1869, when he removed to Columbia^
S. C. He there formed a law-partnership with his classmate, Hon.
D. H. Chamberlain, then Attorney-General of the State, which
continued until Jan. 1, 1873, when he entered into a similar part-
nership with J. H. Runkle, Esq., of Columbia. He died in March,
1876, while in Aiken, S. C, for the benefit of his health.

He was married, in Sept., 1869, to Miss Anne Stringfellow, of
Carlisle.

Merrttt Cicero Page was born in Wyoming, N. Y., June 12,
1840, from which place he entered College.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Hon. J. W.
Edmonds of New York City for two years, and settled the next
year in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the practice of his profession.
Here he continued until May, 1868, when in consequence of the
continued prostration of business, he removed to Wyoming Terri-
tory, where in Laramie City and the mining camp of Sweetwater
he remained until January, 1871. He then removed to Raders-
burg, Montana, where he continued in the practice of law. He
was drowned in Madison River in that Territory, May 13, 1877.
From May, 1872, until his death, he was IT. S. District Attorney
for Montana.

1863.

Henry Edwards Cooley, son of Charles J. and Lucy B. (Ely)
Cooley, was born Apr. 5, 1838, in Norwich, Conn., where his
youth was spent. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., and entered from Newton, Mass., where his wid-
owed mother then resided.

He was engaged in teaching in Gen. Russell's Collegiate and
Commercial Institute in New Haven, for a year after graduation,
beginning in the mean time his theological studies, which he com-
pleted in the Yale Divinity School in 1866. He was ordained,

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Aug. 7, 1866, pastor of the First (Congregational) Church in
Plymouth, Conn., where he remained until Mch. 31, 1869. He
was subsequently for one year the acting pastor of the First
Church in Winsted, Conn., and again for a year the stated supply
of the Congregational church in South Weymouth, Mass. He
was installed, May 9, 1872, pastor of the Congregational church
in Littleton, Mass., and was dismissed Oct. 29, 1874, to accept a
call from the Congregational Church in North Leominster, Mass.,
where he was installed, Nov. 10. In this field he labored with
diligence until prostrated about the first of February, 1877, by an
attack of diphtheria of a very painful type, which terminated his
life on the 17th of the same month. He was married, Oct. 10,
1866, to Kate A., daughter of Charles H. Sedgwick, of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., who survives him with two children.

Thomas Clark Steele, son of Thomas C. and Jane Steele,
was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 5, 1838.

The three years after leaving college were spent in the study of
theology, for the first year in the Western Theol. Seminary,
in Allegheny, Pa., and for the last two years in the Union Semin-
ary, N. Y. City. He was married, Dec. 11, 1866, to Kate B.
Corbin, of New Rochelle, N. Y., where and in Pittsburgh, the
next few years of his life were passed. He was ordained, June
20, 1871, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in White Plains,
N. Y., but resigned in 1873 on account of ill-health. He after-
wards resided in New Rochelle, employed in teaching, and while
on a visit to Pittsburgh, to make arrangements for the removal
of his family thither, took a violent cold, which aggravated the
consumptive tendencies with which he was struggling, and caused
his death, in that city, March 29, 1877.

1866.

Charles Converse Chatfield, son of Oliver S. Chatfield,
was born in Bethany, Conn., Apr. 21, 1841.

During his Senior year he established with others of his class
the Yale Courant^ which proved the pioneer of a large number
of college newspapers. Mr. Chatfield remained in New Haven as
editor and proprietor of the Yale Courant and the College
Courant until 1875, when the latter was united with other papers
in the New England Journal of Education^ having its ofiice in
Boston, of Avhich he became the publisher. He resided in New-

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ton, Mass., and died, of consumption, while visiting in New
Haven, Aug. 22, 1876, at the age of 35. He was married in Mid-
dleburgh, K. Y., Dec. 24, 1867, to Miss Frances C. Watson, who
survives him with two sons and one daughter.

1867.

Henry Weyman Walker, son of George L. and Isabella
(Weyman) Walker, was born in New York City, March 20, 1845.

He traveled somewhat extensively after graduation, and subse-
quently studied law in New York, where he died suddenly, Aug.
16, 1876, aged 31 years.

1871.

Charles Morris Swann, son of Thomas Swann, was born in
Crowland, Lincolnshire, England, Feb. 23, 1844. His parents
afterwards removed to this country, and resided during his college
life in Guilderland, Albany County, N. Y. He enlisted at the
outbreak of the late civil war, in the 11th New York Volunteers,
and received in the battle of Gettysburg a bullet which penetrated
the shoulder and remained lodged in the neighborhood of the
lungs, — contributing, perhaps, to cause the disease which ter-
minated his life. After leaving the service, he completed, among
many discouragements from poverty, his preparatory studies at
Claverack, N. Y, and his college course in New Haven. He then
returned to Claverack as a teacher, until so much enfeebled by
the progress of consumption that he removed in 1874 to Minne-
sota, where he became principal of the high school in Mankato.
He spent the summer of 1875 in San Francisco, attending (in pur
suance of studies begun in Claverack) medical lectures and
receiving a degree. The fogs of the coast aggravated, however,
his disease. He was able to finish another year of teaching in
Mankato, but grew gradually feebler, until his death in that city,
Jan. 11, 1877, aged nearly 33 years. He was married, in the
spring of 1876, to Miss D. A. Hall, who survives him.

1874.

Thomas Armstrong Bent, son of David J. Bent, was born in
West Chester, Pa., April 23, 1844, and died after a brief illness in
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 31, 1876, aged 32 years.

He entered College in 1869, and remained with the Class of
1873 until the close of the Junior year. He had been since his
graduation a member of the Divinity School of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was unmarried.

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1875.

Wilbur Allen Fuller, last surviving son of Hon. Allen C.
Fuller, was born in Belvidere, Boone Co., Illinois, July 16, 1854,
and died in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 13, 1877, of consumption.

In 1868, at the age of 14, he entered the preparatory depart-
ment of Beloit College, in Beloit, Wise, and in 1872 at the close
of the Freshman year there, he became a member of the corre-
sponding class in this College.

The most of the time since graduation he spent in California
and in Colorado in the vain pursuit of health.

1876.

Henry Clay Easton, youngest son of Shadford and Eliza
Easton, of Covington, Ky., was born in that city, Nov. 7, 1852,
and died there, Aug. 1, 1876, aged 23 years and 8 months.

He finished his College course with great difficulty, under the
continually increasing inroads of tubercular consumption; and
a cold contracted by unusual exposure a few weeks after grad-
uation brought on a hemorrhage which terminated his life.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
1823.

William Henry Cogswell, the eldest child of Col. William
and Mercy Cogswell, was born, Dec. 3, 1798, in that part of Pres-
ton, Conn., which is now included in the town of Griswold. He
was employed on his father's farm until he entered on the study
of medicine in New Haven.

Immediately upon receiving his degree he settled in Plainfield,
Conn., at first in partnership with Dr. Josiah Fuller, but after two
or three years he established a separate office and continued there,
prominent and respected in the active practice of his profession,
until his death, after two days' illness, Nov. 22, 1876, aged 78
years. In 1830 he represented the town in the Legislature, and
in 1860 was a member of the State Senate. For nearly three
years during the late war he was a special agent, appointed by
the Governor, to care for the sick and wounded soldiers of Con-
necticut regiments on the field or in the hospitals.

He was married, at about the time he began practice, to Mary
L., daughter of Dr. Josiah Fuller. After her death he was again

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married, in 1829, to Miss Lucretia A. Payne, of Canterbury, Conn.,
who survives him with five children.

1828.

Isaac Hartshorn, the youngest son of Edward and Mary
Hartshorn, was born in Manchester, Vt., July 6, 1804, and died in
Providence, R. I., Jan. 29, 1877, aged V2 years.

He went to Providence, R. 1., in early life, to reside with an
uncle, and after taking his medical degree returned there to be-
gin practice. He was, however, soon turned aside from profes-
sional life to some business ventures for which lie found himself
to have a special adaptation. He became interested in the manu-
facture of india rubber shoes, and applied himself with great en-
ergy and perseverance to tlie development of the inventions which
he introduced. In this connection he became a party to several
celebrated law suits. He was also interested at a later period in
other manufacturing enterprises ; as president and agent, for ex-
ample, of the Burnside Rifle Company. He made three visits to
Europe, on account of his health, and while on the last return
voyage, was attacked with paralysis, which some three years later
terminated his life.

Dr. Hartshorn married a Miss Gardiner, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
by whom he had issue, a son and two daughters. The daughters
alone survive.

1829.

Almon Hawley, the sixth child of Timothy R. and Deborah
Hawley, was born in Farmington, Conn., Aug. 11, 1801. His
parents removed to Ohio, in 1802, settling in 1811 in Jefferson,
where he lived for the rest of his life.

On graduation he at once began the practice of medicine, in
which he continued actively until his death, of pneumonia, Nov.
3, 1876, in Keokuk, Iowa, while on a visit to a relative.

Dr. Hawley was first married, Oct. 20, 1827, to Miss Susan A.
Dunn, of Connecticut, who died Aug. 8, 1839 ; by her he had six
children, the only one who survived infancy, a daughter, ^being
still living. He was married a second time, Oct. 27, 1841, to Miss
Sophronia Marsh, daughter of Alvin Marsh, a prominent lawyer
of Manlius, N. Y. She, with four of their six children, — two
sons and two daughters, — survives him.

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1837.

Artemas Bell, son of James and Mary (Percival) Bell, was
born in Chester, Mass., May 7, 1815. His father's death (in 1830)
obliged him to support himself; and by working on a farm in the
summers and teaching in the winters, he gained the means to
carry out his strong desire of studying medicine. He was at first
a pupil of Dr. Jairus Case, of Granby, Conn., and finished his
preparation in this college.

After receiving his degree he established himself in Southwick,
Mass., but soon removed to the neighboring town of Southampton,
where he was a successful and highly esteemed physician for up-
w^ards of thirty years. His health then failing he removed to
Feeding Hills, Mass., where he spent the remainder of his life as
an invalid in the family of his brother, Dr. Cyrus Bell. He died
in Feeding Hills, March 18, 1877, in his 62d year.

He was married, May, 1839, to Eliza, daughter of Col. Thad-
deus Foot, of Southwick.

1839.

Sidney Haskell Lyman, the eldest of eight children of Nor-
man Lyman, M.D., and Eunice (Smith) Lyman, was born, Nov. 7,
1813, in Glastonbury, Conn., where his father resided until 1828,
when he removed to Warren, in Litchfield County.

While in the Medical School, Dr. Lyman assisted Dr. Charles
Hooker, the Professor of Anatomy, in the preparation for his lec-
tures, and so laid the foundation for somewhat unusual surgical
skill. After graduation he taught school for a brief period, and
for a year practiced medicine in New Fairfield, Conn. He was
married, March 31, 1841, to Almira, daughter of Ira Eaton, of
Kent, Conn., and in the following autumn, he removed to New
Preston, a village in the township of Washington, Conn., where a
few months later he was joined by a younger brother, on his
graduation from this Medical School. They practiced their pro-
fession together until 1867, and from that date separately.

After the death of his first wife. Dr. Lyman was married, Apr.
20, 1847, to Abigail Esther, daughter of Birdsey Beardsley, Esq.,
of Kent. He represented the town in the State Legislature in
18G1, and was an examining surgeon during the war. He died in
New Preston, of softening of the brain, Feb. 16, 1877, aged 68
years. Of the three children of his first marriage, one daughter
is still living. By his second wife he had four children, three of
whom survive him.

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1843.

George Edwin Perkins, son of Moses and Mary (Harrison)
Perkins, was born in New Haven, Conn., May 13, 1821.

After receiving his degree he established himself as a physician
in North Madison, Conn., and in 1850 removed to Waterbury,
Conn., where he practiced his profession continuously until his
death. For a few years his younger brother. Dr. Moses H.
Perkins, who graduated at this Medical School in 1 849, was asso-
ciated in business with him. He died after ten days' illness, of
congestion of the brain, in Waterbury, Aug. 22, 1876, aged 55
years.

He was married, May 13, 1858, to Margaret A., daughter of
Ard Welton, of Waterbury. She died in October, 1860, aged
33, and he was again married in March, 1874, to Mary J., eldest
daughter of Lemuel H. Munson, of Waterbury, who survives
him. He had no children.

1847.

John Deacon died in Waterbury, Conn., June 9, 1877, aged
49 years.

He had practiced his profession in Waterbury for nearly thirty
years.

1852.

Pierre Robeau Holly, son of Wm. Welles Holly, of Stamford,
Conn., died in Hamilton, Bermuda, March 3, 1877.

He practiced medicine for a few years in the West Indies, and
then in Greenwich, Conn., and from 1860 in Stamford.

Welles Hamilton Sellew, son of Philip H. Sellew, was born
in Portland (then a part of Chatham), Conn., Sept. 11, 1829.

He settled in Moscow, Livingston County, N. Y., in the prac-
tice of his profession, in the autumn of 1852, and remained there,
gaining the entire confidence of the community, until his death,
June 23, 1876, in his 47th year. He had suffered for several years
from diabetes, which terminated in consumption.

He was married. May 30, 1854, to Miss Helen B. Smith, who
with two sons survives him.

Zebulon Wanton Thomson, son of John and Anna M. Thom-
son, was a native of Watertown, N. Y., and graduated from
Hamilton College in .1849.

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After taking his medical degree he engaged in the practice of
his profession for a short time in Buffalo, N. Y., and thence re-
moved to Indianapolis, Ind. He afterwards spent some years in
California, and later settled in Virginia City, Nevada. In the
latter part of the year 1875 he returned to California, and died in
a hospital in Auburn in that State, April 27, 1876. He was never
married.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1866.

Adeian John Ebell, son of Henry T. and Mary (Palm) Ebell,
was born Sept. 20, 1840, in Jaffnapatam, on the Island of Ceylon.
When about ten years of age, he was sent to this country to be
educated. He entered the Academical Department of this college,
with the class of 1862, remaining however for two terms only.
The next year he again entered college with the class of 1863, but
retired at the end of one term. He then taught music in New
Haven and in Chicago, and served for a short time in the Indian
war in Minnesota, with the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and then
returned to New Haven and graduated at the Scientific School.

He afterwards studied medicine at the Albany Medical College,
graduating M.D. in 1869. In the meantime he had begun to lec-
ture before schools and lyceums on natural science, and in 1871
he established himself in New York City as director of " The
International Academy of Natural Science," which comprised a
plan of travel and study in Europe for annually organized classes
of young ladies. He embarked from New York, on one of these
tours, late in March, 1877, on board the steamship Frisia, and was
taken ill almost immediately. He arrived, however, in the harbor
at Hamburg, April 10th, and was able with assistance to get on
board the small steamer which was to carry passengers to the dock,
but died before reaching the shore. The immediate cause of death
was rheumatism of the heart.

He was married, in September, 1874, to Oriana L., daughter of
Dr. A. J. Steele, of New York, who survives him.

1872.

Thomas Perkins Nevins, son of David H. and Cornelia L.
(Perkins) Nevins, was born, March 1, 1850, in the city of New
York, whence his parents removed in 1859 to Waterford, Conn.

:4V»

He was educated for the profession of a civil engineer, but not
finding any satisfactory opening he abandoned the plan. The
greater part of the two years after graduation he spent with
friends in New York City. In the summer of 1874 his health
began to fail, and after his return from a brief pedestrian tour in
England grew rapidly worse. In November he returned to his
father's house in Waterlord, and there died in January, 1875, aged
nearly 25 years.

1875.

Wells Cushman Lake died in Lake Forest, 111., Oct. 3, 1876,
aged 22 years. He returned to his home, in Lake Forest, on
graduation, and was for the next year one of the proprietors of a
" School of Art" in Chicago, giving also some instruction else-
where in drawing. He was attacked with hemorrhage from the
lungs in July, 1876, and gradually declined until his death. He
was unmarried.

THEOLOGICAL DEPART.MENT.

1875.

Chaelks Fitch Mouse, son of Amasa and Sarah A. Morse,
was born in Union, Conn., Sept. 6, 1 844.

He graduated at Amherst College in 1872, and immediately
entered on the study of theology in this Seminary, his residence
being at Stafford Springs, Conn.

He died, of typhoid fever, Aug. 29, 1876, in Brookfield, Mass.,
where he was stated supply of the pulpit of the Evangelical Con-
gregational Church.

Marshall Reuben Peck died at his father's residence in
Brookfield, Vt., Aug. 6, 1876, aged 29 years.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1870, was for two
years principal of a graded school in Northfield, began the study
of theology in the Chicago Theol. Seminary, and spent the last
two years of the course here.

He was ordained in Brookfield, Sept. 2, 1875, and sailed 'with
his wife, Mrs. Helen N. Peck, from New York City, Oct. 2, to
join the Madura ^Mission of the American Board of Commission-
ers for Foreign Missions. They arrived at their destination in
December, but exposure to the climate of Southern India caused
an alarming development of disease in Mr. Peck, such as to com-
pel his almost immediate return.

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LAW DEPARTMENT.
1871.

Michael Edward Downes, son of William and Ellen Downes,
was born in New Haven, Conn., in May, 1851.

In December, 1871, he was appointed clerk in the Probate Court
of New Haven, and only resigned the position on account of ill-
health about a year before his death. He was soon after appointed
assistant clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and so continued
until his death, of consumption, in this city, Sept. 22, 1876, at the
age of 25. He was unmarried.

[Notice of the following deaths were received too late for inser-
tion elsewhere.]

1813,

FiiEDERicK MoRGAx, a native of Groton, Conn., died in Col-
chester, Conn., June 18, 1877, aged 85 years.

He taught for about six years after leaving college — from 1816
to 1818 — as a Tutor in this College, so that at the time of his death
he was the oldest living former officer of the college. He also
studied medicine here, receiving his degree in 1819. In January,
1 820, he began practice in Colchester, where he soon married a
daughter of Dr. John R. Watrous. In 1824 he removed to Middle
Haddam, and in the spring of 1826 to Middletown, and again
three years later to Ellington; but in Oct., 1830, he returned to
Colchester, where he remained until his death, and as long as his
health permitted was engaged in the practice of his profession.
He was confined to his house for the most of the year preceding
his death.

His wife survives him with several of their children.

1835.
Ebenezer Banks Adams died at his residence in Green's
Farms, Westport, Conn., about the middle of June, 1877, aged QQ
years. He had been a teacher of a private school in Westport for
all his life, except as disabled by illness. His wife, who surWves
him, is a daughter of the Rev. Thomas F. Davies {Y. C. 1813).

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death

1800

Thomas Williams, 97.

Providence, R. I.,

Sept. 29, '76.

1805

John 0. Pettibone, 89.

Simsbury, Conn.,

Aug. 19, '76.

1806

Phineas L. Tracy, 90.

Batavia, N. Y.,

Dec. 22, '76.

1812

Samuel L. Edwards, 88.

Manlius, N. Y.,

April 7, '77.

Samuel C. Morgan, 87.

Norwich, Conn.,

Sept. 11, '76.

1813

Frederick Morgan, 85.

Colchester, Conn.,

June 18, '77.

1814

John D. Meers, 83.

Naugatuck, Conn.,

May 19, '77.

Thomas S. Wickes, 81.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,

Nov. 30, '76.

1811

John Beard, 79.

Tallahassee, Fla.,

July 15, '76.

((

Smith Clark, 84.

Haddam, Conn.,

Sept. 12, '76.

1820

Samuel K. Sneed, 78.

Kirkwood, Mo.,

Aug. 30, '76.

1821

Enoch Huntington, 75.

Manchester, Conn.,

Sept. 4, '76.

Isaac Peck. 74.

Greenwich, Conn.,

April 29, '77.

((

Charles Robinson, 75.

New Haven, Conn.,

Oct. 1, '76.

1822

John S. Law, 76.

Loveland, 0.,

Jan. 12, '77.

Jared B. Waterbury, 77.

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Dec. 31, '76.

1823

Alexander W. Marshall, 78.

Charleston, S. C,

Nov. 7, '76.

Joseph Ripley, 72.

New York City,

Jan. 1, '77.

1824

Selah B. Treat. 73.

Boston, Mass.,

Mch. 28, '77.

1825

William B. Bristol, 70.

New Haven, Conn.,

Oct. 10, '76.

William M. Lathrop, 69.

Hamilton, Mass.,

Aug. 24, '76.

1827

Robert A. Hallam, 69.

New London, Conn,,

Jan. 4, '77.

1828

Ebenezer W. Arms, 71.

Aurora, N. Y.,

Jan. 15, '77.

Frederick W. Chapman, 69.

Rocky Hill, Conn.,

July 20, '76.

((

Thomas 0. Lincoln, 67.

Bridgeton, N. J.,

Jan. 20, '77.

((

Christopher Morgan, 68.

Auburn, N. Y.,

April 3, '77.

1830

James Knox, 69.

Knoxville, 111.,

Oct. 9, '76.

1832

Allen T. Caperton. 65.

Washington, D. C,

July 26, '76.

1833

William P. Johnston, 64.

Washington, D. C,

Oct. 24, '76.

William N. Matson, 64.

Long Island Sound,

Dec. 30, '76.

George L. Potter, 64.

Lexington, Miss.,

Feb. 5, '77.

1834

Eleazer K. Foster, 64.

New Haven, Conn.,

June 13, '77.

Samuel St. John, 63.

New Caanan, Conn.,

Sept. 9, '76.

((

George Tomlinson, 70.

Washington, Conn.,

July 16, '76.

1835

Ebenezer B. Adams, 66,

Westport, Conn.,

June, '77.

Edward Buck, 61.

Andover, Mass.,

July 16, '76.

1839

David J. Burr, 55. -♦

Richmond, Va.,

Aug. 3, '76.

1840

James P. Hart, 59.

New Haven, Conn.,

Jan. 10, '77.

Chauncey H. Hubbard, 57.

Bennington, Vt.,

Aug. 22, '76.

1842

Seth B. Stone, 59.

New York City,

Jan. 27, '77.

1843

John Kendrick, 52,

Waterbury, Conn.,

May 27, '77.

1844

Charles Foster, 53.

Cortland, N. Y.,

May 23, '77.

1845

A. William Lord, 50.

Lyme, Conn,,

Oct. 21, '75.

1846

William B. Capron, 52,

Man4 Madura, India,

Oct. 6, '76.

1848

Charles Condit, 48.

Brooklyn, N. Y,,

Oct. 19, '76.

Charles T. Cotton, 51.

Washington, D. C,

Mch. 15, '77.

Charles Lowrey, 48.

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Feb. 17, '77.

1849

Edward P. Smith, 49.

Gulf of Guinea, Africa,

June 15, '76.

1852

Joseph F. Waring, 44.

Savannah, Ga.,

Oct. 4, '76.

1855

Simeon T. Hyde, 43.

Hartford, Conn.,

June 2, '77.

282

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death

1856

George B. Bacon, 40.

Orange, N. J.,

Sept. 15, '76.

1856

Ira Dunlap, 44.

Boston, Mass.,

June 18, '76.

1857

Richard H. Green,

Hoosick Corners, N. Y.,

Mch. 23, '77.

William A. Thompson, 41.

Newton, Mass.,

Sept. 5, '76.

1858

Montelius Abbott, 38.

Philadelphia, Pa.

May 18, '77.

Edward P. Batchelor, 42.

San Francisco, CaL,

Dec. 28, '76.

Edward Seymour, 42.

Bloomfield, N. Y.,

April 28, '77.

1862

James A. Dunbar, 35.

Aiken, S. C,

Mch. '76.

Merritt C. Page, 37.

Madison River, Montana.

May 13, '77.

1863

Henry E. Cooley, 38.

North Leominster, Mass.,

Feb. 17, '77.

((

Thomas C. Steele, 39.

Pittsburgh, Pa.,

Mch. 29, '77.

1860

Charles C. Chatfield, 35.

New Haven, Conn.,

Aug. 22, '76.

1867

Henry W. Walker, 31.

New York City,

Aug. 16, '76.

1871

Charles M. Swann, 32.

^Mankato, Minn.,

Jan. 11, '77.

1874

Thomas A. Bent, 32.

Philadelphia, Pa.,

Oct. 31, '76.

1875

Wilbur A. Fuller, 22.

Denver, Col.,

Jan. 13, '77.

1876

Henry 0. Easton, 23.

Covington, Ky.,

Aug. 1, '76.

Medical Department.

1823

William H. Cogswell, 78.

Plainfield, Conn.,

Nov. 22, '76.

1828

Isaac Hartshorn, 72.

Providence, R. I.,

Jan. 29, '77.

1829

Almon Hawley, 75.

Keokuk, Iowa,

Nov. 3, '76.

1837

Artemas Bell, 62.

Feeding Hills, Mass.,

Mch. 18, '77.

1839

Sidney H. Lyman, 63.

Washington, Conn.,

Feb. 16, '77.

1843

George E. Perkins, 55.

Waterbury, Conn.,

Aug. 22, '76.

1847

John Deacon, 49.

Waterbury, Conn.,

June 9, '77.

1852

Pierre R. HoUy,

Hamilton, Bermuda,

Mch. 3, '77.

WeUes H. Sellew, 46.

Moscow, N. Y.,

June 23, '76.

Zebulon W. Thomson.

Auburn, Cal.,

April 27, '76.

Sheffield Scientific School.

1866

Adrian J. Ebell, 36.

Hamburg, Germany,

Apr. 10, '77.

1872

Thomas P. Nevins, 25.

Waterford. Conn.,

Jan. '75.

1875

Wells C. Lake, 22.

Lake Forest, 111.,

Oct. 3, '76.

Theological Department.

1875

Charles F. Morse, 32.

Brookfield, Mass.,

Aug. 29, '76.

Marshall R. Peck, 29.

Brookfield, Vt.,

Aug. 6, '76.

Law Department.
1871 Michael E. Downes, 25. New Haven, Conn. Sept. 22, '76.

The number of deaths reported is 83 and the average age of the graduates of
the Academical Department is 60 years.

Of the Academical Graduates 20 were clergymen, 26 lawyers, 3 physicians,
10 in business, and 3 teachers.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in Connecticut, 26; New York, 15;
Massachusetts, 8 ; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia, 3 each ;
Vermont, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Illinois, and California, 2 each ; and the
remaining 15 in as many different States or foreign countries.

The oldest surviving graduates are of the Class of 1806:— George Goodwin,
of East Hartford, Conn., born April 23, 1786; Seth Pierce, of Cornwall, Conn.,
born May 16, 1785.

INDEX.

Class. Page.

1 858 Abbott, Montelius, 269

1835 Adams, Ebenezer B., 279

1828 Arms, Ebenezer W., 252

1856 Bacon, George B., 267

1858 Batchelor, Edward P.,... 269

1817 Beard, John, 243

1837 m Bell, Artemas,.. 275

1874 Bent, Thomas A., 272

1825 Bristol, William B., 250

1835 Buck, Edward, .260

1839 Burr, David J., 260

1832 Caperton, Allen T., 256

1 846 Capron, WiUiam B., 264

1828 Chapman, Frederick W., _ 253

1866 Chatfield, Charles C, 271

1817 Clark, Smith, 244

1823 m Cogswell, William H., ... 273

1848 Condit, Charles, 264

1863 Cooley, Henry E., 270

1848 Cotton, Charles T., 264

1847 w Deacon, John, 276

1871 Z Downes, Michael E., 279

1862 Dunbar, James A., .270

1856 Dunlap, Ira,-- 268

1876 Easton, Henry C, - 273

1866 5 Ebell, Adrian J., .'. 277

1812 Edwards, Samuel L., 241

1 844 Foster, Charles, 263

1834 Foster, Eleazer K., 258

1875 Fuller, Wilbur A., 273

1857 Green, Richard H.,- 268

1827 Hallam, Robert A., 251

1840 Hart, James P., 261

1828 m Hartshorn, Isaac, 274

1829 OT Hawley, Almon, 274

1852 m Holly, Pierre R., 276

1840 Hubbard, Chauncey H.,-. 261

1821 Huntington, Enoch, 245

1855 Hyde, Simeon T., 267

1833 Johnston, WiUiam P., ... 256
1843 Kendrick, John, 262

Class. Page.

1830 Knox, James, 255

1875 5 Lake, Wells C, - 278

1825 Lathrop, William M., 251

1822 Law, John S., 247

1828 Lincoln, Thomas 0., 253

1845 Lord, A. William, 263

1848 Lowrey, Charles, - 265

1839 m Lyman, Sidney H., 275

1823 Marshall, Alexander W.,. 248

1833 Matson, WiUiam K, 257

1814 Meers, John D., 242

1828 Morgan, Christopher, 254

1813 Morgan, Frederick, _ 279

1812 Morgan, Samuel C, 242

1875 t Morse, Charles F., 278

1872 5 Nevins, Thomas P., 277

1862 Page, Merritt C, 270

1821 Peck, Isaac, 246

1875 t Peck, MarshaU R., . 278

1843 m Perkins, George E., 276

1805 Pettibone, John 0., 240

1 833 Potter, George L., 257

1823 Ripley, Joseph, 249

1821 Robinson, Charles, 246

1834 St. John, Samuel, 258

1852 m Sellew, WeUes H., 276

1858 Seymour, Edward, 269

1849 Smith, Edward P., 265

1820 Sneed, Samuel K., 244

1863 Steele, Thomas C, 271

1 842 Stone, Seth B., 262

1871 Swann, Charles M., 272

1857 Thompson, William A.,.. 268

1852 w Thomson, ZebulonW.,... 276

1834 Tomlinson, George, 259

1806 Tracy, Phineas L., 241

1824 Treat, Selah B., 249

1867 Walker, Henry W., 272

1852 Waring, J. Frederick, ... 266

1822 Waterbury, Jared B., 248

1814 Wickes, Thomas S., 243

1800 Williams, Thomas, 239

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1878,

including the record of a few who died a short

time previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 26th, 1878.]
[No. 8 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 37 of the whole Record.]

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OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending June, 1878, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, June 26, 1878.]
[No. 8 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 3*7 of the whole Record.]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1806.

George Goodwin, who died at his home in Burnside, East
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 8, 1878, was the fourth child and third
son of George and Mary (Edwards) Goodwin, of Hartford, where
he was born, April 23, 1786. At the time of his death he was,
with the exception of one of his classmates, the oldest living
graduate of the college. Two of his brothers were graduated
here in 1807 and 1823.

Soon after leaving college he went into the grocery business in
Hartford, in which he continued till about 1816. In 1818 the
firm of Hudson & Goodwin, of which his father was a member,
was dissolved, and the firm of George Goodwin & Sons succeeded
to the business of printing, publishing and bookselling — the lead-
ing interest then being the issue of the Connecticut Courant, a
weekly paper, of which they retained control until 1836, and
for which, as well as for other publications, they manufactured
the paper at their mill in East Hartford. To give more attention
to this manufacture, which gradually became their leading busi-
ness, Mr. George Goodwin, Jr., removed, in 1821, to East Hart-
ford, where he spent an active and useful life until 1861, when the
mills passed into other hands. Soon after this his sight began to
fail, and in 1868 he became totally blind. He bore this trial with

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Christian submission, keeping up to the last his interest in books
and general affairs. He represented East Hartford three times in
the legislature.

He was married, Nov. 25, 1809, to Maria, eldest daughter of
Andrew Kingsbury, of Hartford, who died in 1851. Of their ten
children, six are still living.

1811.

Samuel Speing died in East Hartford, Conn., Dec. 13, 1877,
aged 85 years and 9 months. He was the sixth child and fourth
son of Rev. Dr. Samuel Spring (College of N. J., 1771), of New-
buryport, Mass., where he was born March 9, 1792. His mother
was Hannah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Y. C. 1749),
of Hadley, Mass. His elder brother, Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring,
of New York City, graduated at this College in 1805.

Upon leaving college he began the study of law, but soon en-
gaged in trade in his native town. After the war of 1812 he
removed to Boston, and while in business there was married, Nov.
27, 1816, to Lydia Maria, daughter of Winthrop B. Norton, of
Berwick, Me. Some three years later he resolved to prepare him-
self for the ministry of the Gospel, and entered the Theological
Seminary in Andover, where he finished the course of study in
1821. In the fall of 1821 he was called to settle over the 1st
(Congregational) church in Abington, Mass., where he was or-
dained, Jan. 2, 1822. He was dismissed Dec. 6, 1826, to accept a
call fi-om the North, now Park (Congregational) Church in Hart-
ford, Conn., which he served as pastor from March, 1827, to Jan-
uary, 1833. He was then settled over the Congregational Church
in East Hartford, Conn., which charge he resigned in 1861 on
account of failing health. His residence continued in East Hart-
ford, and for six years (from 1863) he officiated as chaplain for
the American Asylum for the Insane in Hartford. In all these
relations he was diligent and successful and greatly beloved. He
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia College
in 1858.

On the evening of Nov. 24, 1877, he fell from his doorstep and
fractured a hipbone, from which cause his death followed some
three weeks later.

The wife of his youth, with two sons and two daughters — the
survivors of a family of nine children — is still living.

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1815.

William Smith Robert, the fourth child of Dr. Daniel and
Mary (Smith) Robert, was born in Mastic, L. I., March 13, 1795,
and died in the same place Nov. 9, 1877, in the 83d year of his
age. An older brother, a graduate of this College in the class of
1810, is still living.

Mr. Robert never engaged in any business, or held office of any
kind. His entire life was spent in the supervision of his ances-
tral estate.

He was married, Febr. 8, 1831, to ('aroline E. Smith, who died
Aug. 16, 1850. Three sons and three daughters survive him, one
of the sons having graduated at this College in the class of 1862,
and another having been for three years a member of the same
class.

1817.

WiLLARD Child, son of Willard and Sylvia (Child) Child, was
born in Woodstock, Conn., Nov. 14, 1796.

He studied theology at the Seminary in Andover, Mass., where
he finished the course in 1820. He subsequently taught school,
and in 1827 (April 25) was ordained pastor of the Congregational
Church in Pittsford, Vt. He left this position in 1841 on account
of ill health, and after a few months spent in his native town was
installed in August, 1842, the first pastor of the Fifth (now the
Broadway) Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn. He re-
signed this charge in August, 1845, and for the next nine years
was settled over the First Church in Lowell, Mass. From this
place he removed to his last regular pastoral charge, the Congre-
gational Church in Castleton, Vt. After his resignation of this
charge in 1864, he supplied, with scarcely a Sunday's exception,
vacant churches (the old South in Worcester, Mass., the First
Church in North Brookfield, Mass., the First Church in Crown
Point, N. Y., and the Presbyterian churches in Champlain and
Mooers, N. Y.), until after the completion of his 80th year. In
all the places of his ministry he was beloved and admired as a
most attractive and inspiring preacher. He received the degree
of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Vermont in 1848.

He was married, Sept. 13, 1827, to Katherine Griswold, daugh-
ter of Rev. Dan Kent, of Benson, Vt., and granddaughter of Dr.
Daniel Griswold (Y. C. 1747), of Sharon, Conn., who died in
Lowell, Mass., Febr. 26, 1851. Of their six children, but two

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survived their mother. Dr. Child died Nov. 13, 1877, on the eve
of completing his 81st year, in Mooers, N. Y., at the house of his
only son, Willard A. Child, M. D., who survived his father but
three months. Dr. Child's only daughter is the widow of Rev.
Edward Ashley Walker (Y. C. 1856).

Nathan Ryno Smith was born in Cornish, N. H., May 21, 1797,
where his father. Dr. Nathan Smith, was at that time a practicing
physician. In 1798 his father was appointed Professor of Medi-
cine in Dartmouth College, and after a successful career in that
institution, he became, in 1813, the head of the new Medical In-
stitution of Yale College.

The son, after graduation, spent about eighteen months as a
private tutor in Fauquier County, Va., and then returned to New
Haven, where he received his degree in medicine in 1820. Shortly
after this he settled in Burlington, Vt., devoting himself especially
to the department of surgery. In 1821 he was appointed Pro-
fessor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Vermont
(situated in Burlington), and shared in the organization of the
medical department. With the desire of enlarging his profes-
sional knowledge he resigned in 1825, and spent that winter in
attending lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadel-
phia, and was invited to the chair of anatomy and physiology in
the medical department of Jefferson College, then just being or-
ganized. He filled this chair for two years.

In 1827 he accepted the professorship of anatomy in the School
of Medicine of the University of Maryland, and from that date
made Baltimore his home. Two years later he was transferred to
the chair of surgery, but in 1838 he resigned, in consequence of
a difficulty in the board of Trustees, and for the next two years
lectured in Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. ; in 1840 he
resumed his former position, which he held until his final resigna-
tion in March, 1870. From that time until his death, he devoted
himself to his large private practice.

Dr. Smith's fidelity and ability as an instructor, his skill and
firmness as an operator, his ingenuity in devising practical appli-
ances in surgery, and his benevolence and uprightness, secured
him an eminent position in the wide circuit where he was known.
The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Dart-
mouth College in 1875.

After an illness of nearly six months, he died in Baltimore, July 3,

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1877, in his 81st year. He was married while residing in Burling-
ton, to Juliette, daughter of Mr. J. Penniman, of that town. She
survives him with three of their nine children. His four sons
were all surgeons, the only survivor being his father's successor
in the professor's chair.

1818.

Francis Bugbee was born in Ashford, Conn., Febr. 18, 1794,
the son of Amos and Martha (Woodward) Bugbee.

After graduation he took charge of an academy in North Car-
olina, at the same time studying law with Judge Badger. In
June, 1820, he was admitted to the bar in that State, and in the
October following to the bar of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg. In
Jan., 1821, he settled inElyton, Jeiferson County, Alabama, where
he remained until 1826, at which time he removed to Montgomery,
in the same state, where he resided till his death. Besides pur-
suing the regular duties of his profession, he was a warm friend
of education, and served from 1836 to 1871 as a trustee of the
State University. In 1843 he was a member of the State Legis-
lature. During the late war he was an avowed Union man, and
at its close was appointed a judge of the circuit court, in which
relation he gave eminent satisfaction. From 1866 to 1869 he
served as U. S. District Attorney. He died suddenly at his resi-
dence in Montgomery, Apr. 21, 1877, of apoplexy, in the 84th
year of his age.

Judge Bugbee was married, in Jefferson County, Ala., July 5,
1827, to Miss Lavinia H. Tarrant, by whom he had five children,
of whom two daughters, with their mother, survive. His only
son, a graduate of the University of Alabama, and a lawyer of
high promise, died in 1859.

Charles Hyde OlmTsted died in East Hartford, Conn., his
native place, and his residence through his entire life, June 5,

1878, aged 80 years.

Having inherited a competent fortune, he did not study a pro-
fession and never pursued any regular business. For many years
after graduation he gave himself to the cultivation of his literary
and scientific tastes, the special objects of his attention being the
study of American history and certain departments of natural
history. He was for several years the president of the Connecti-
cut Society of Natural History.

He was never married.

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Henry Sherwood was born on what is known as Sherwood's
Island, in the present township of Westport, Conn., Sept. 14, 1796,
and died in the same town, May 5, 1878, in hi& 82d year.

His mother died within three months of his birth, and his father
three years later, so that he was brought up in the family of one
of his uncles, living in that part of Fairfield which is now included
in Westport.

He studied law and practiced the profession for a brief period ;
but m 1824 he entered into business in his native village and con-
tinued to be thus employed until 1860, when he retired to private
life. For the last two or three years before his death he had been
in feeble health. He acquired the title of General by service in
the State militia.

1820.

Cornelius Robert Bogert was born in New York City,
Febr. 26, 1800, his father being John G. Bogert, a lawyer of that
city, and for many years the Russian Consul for the port.

On his graduation he returned to New York and pursued the
study of medicine in the office of Dr. Samuel Borrowe, receiving
his degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1824.
He then spent six years in the West Indies as medical attendant
to the slaves on several large plantations owned by a New York
firm. In 1831 he returned to his native city, and formed an ac-
quaintance which resulted in his marriage two years later to Miss
Maria Louisa, daughter of Edward Champlin Thurston, a retired
merchant of the same city. In the meantime he became settled
in active practice, which he continued with growing success until
the partial failure of his health, about two years before his death.
Besides his wide general practice. Dr. Bogert was also, from its
organization until his death, the medical examiner of the N. Y.
Life Insurance Company.

He died at his residence in New York City, Nov. 10, 1877, in
the 78th year of his age. His wife survives him with one son and
one daughter.

1821.

Nathaniel Bouton, the youngest of fourteen children of Wil-
liam and Sarah (Benedict) Bouton, was born in Norwalk, Conn.,
June 20, 1799.

At the age of 14 he was bound out as an apprentice in a print-

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ing office in Bridgeport, Conn., and three years later purchased
the balance of his time in order to obtain an education for the
ministry. From college he entered the Theological Seminary in
Andover, Mass., where he finished the course in 1824. On March
23, 1825, he was settled over the First Congregational Church in
Concord, N. H., with which he remained until his resignation, 42
years later, March 23, 186'7. His residence continued in Concord,
where he died June 6, 18V8, aged 79 years. He was much inter-
ested in historical studies, and published while in the pastorate a
valuable History of Concord (1 vol., octavo, 1856, 786 pages).
He was early the President of the State Historical Society, and
edited two volumes of its Collections. In August, 1866, he was
appointed Editor and Compiler of the Provincial Records of New
Hampshire, and in that capacity issued ten volumes of Provincial
Papers, from 1867 to 1877. He also published over 30 sermons
and addresses, and a few other volumes. Dartmouth College (of
which he was a trustree from 1840 to 1877) conferred on him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1851.

He was married, Sept. 11, 1825, to Harriet, daughter of Rev.
John Sherman (Y. C. 1792), who died in Concord, May 21, 1828,
aged 21. His second wife, Mary Ann, daughter of Hon. John
Bell, of Chester, N. H., died in Concord, Feb. 15, 1839, aged 34.
His third wife was Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Horatio G. Cilley,
of Deerfield, N. H. He had two children by the first marriage,
five by the second, and six by the third.

Waldo Brown was born in Canterbury, Conn., in 1794, and
died in Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 27, 1877, aged 83 years.

He taught school and pursued the study of medicine for several
years on Staten Island, taking also a course of lectures at the
Yale Medical Institution. In 1826 he settled as a physician in
Connecticut Farms, N. J., practicing also in the neighboring
towns of South Orange and Irvington. In 1 850 he removed to
Stratford, Conn., and in 1857 to Norwalk, where his residence
continued until his death.

He married Mary Ann Brandt, of Connecticut Farms, who still
survives. Of their two daughters, one only is living.

1822. -^

Maro McLean Reed, son of Elijah F. and Hannah (McLean)
Reed, was born in South Windsor (then the southern part of East
Windsor), Conn., Oct. 18, 1801. His father was a prominent

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physician, and the son early showed an inclination for the same
profession. He attended lectures in the Yale Medical School,
also in Pittsfield, Mass., and in Castleton, Vt., receiving his degree
of M.D. from Middlebury College (with which the Castleton
Medical School was connected) in 1826. He practiced medicine
in his native town and in Hartford, Conn., until 1830, when he
removed to Jacksonville, 111., where he resided, engaged in the du-
ties of his profession, till his death, June 28, 1877, in his 76th year.
Some twenty years ago he became a homceopathist in practice.

Dr. Reed was married, Sept. 16, 1830, to Elizabeth, daughter of
James Lathrop, of Hartford. By her he had nine children, of
whom one son (a graduate of Illinois College in 1859) and four
daughters survive him.

1824.

Stephen Reed, younger son of John and Susanna (Beach)
Reed, was born in Cornwall, Conn., Sept. 26, 1801. When ten
years old, his parents removed to Canaan, Conn., from which
place he came to college.

After two or three years spent in school-teaching and in study-
ing medicine, he established himself as a physician in Goshen,
Conn. A year later he removed to Roxbury, Conn., and in 1831
to Richmond, Mass. Finding the exposure to the severity of the
weather too much for his rather delicate constitution, he gave up
his profession (about 1837), and opened a boarding-school for boys
in Richmond, in which he proved highly successful. In 1848 he
removed to Pittsfield, Mass., to take charge of an agricultural
warehouse and seed store, connected with a printing office from
which a weekly agricultural and miscellaneous newspaper was
published. This paper, " The Gulturist and Gazette^^'^ he con-
tinued to edit until 1858, when its publication was suspended.
Dr. Reed afterwards sold out his share in the warehouse, and
spent the rest of his life in Pittsfield, at leisure for his favorite
study, geology. His name became well known in connection with
geological discoveries in Western New England, mainly through
his account of a long train of bowlders across part of Central Berk-
shire. He was also active in all the public interests of the town.

He died in Pittsfield, after less than a week's illness, July 12,
1877, aged nearly 76 years. He was married in 1829 to Miss
Emeline Beebe, of Canaan, Conn., who died in 1832; and again.
May 7, 1833, to Miss Sarah E. Chapin, who survives him. He
had no children.

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1825.

Oliver Ellsworth Huntington, third son of Joseph and
Eunice (Carew) Huntington, was born in Norwich, Conn., Sept.
3, 1802.

The year after graduation he spent in New Haven, attending
medical lectures. He soon after went to New York City, where
he was engaged in mercantile business until 1837, when he
removed to the West. A few years later he became a permanent
resident of Cleveland, O., where he was engaged in the drug busi-
ness until 185*7, when he retired from active pursuits. He
remained in Cleveland until his death there, suddenly, of angina
pectoris, July 13, 1877, in his 75th year.

Mr. Huntington was married, June 10, 1830, to Mary Ann,
daughter of Joseph Strong, of Norwich, who died Nov. 23, 1840.
He was again married, in 1854, to Eunice K., daughter of Henry
Hitchcock, of Deeriield, Mass., who is still living. Of the four
children by his lirst marriage, one son only survived early child-
hood. He is a graduate of this college in the Class of 1857.

1827.

William Atwater died in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 10, 1877,
in his 71st year. He was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah
Atwater (Y. C. 1793), the first President both of Middlebury Col-
lege, Vt., and of Dickinson College, Pa., and was born in Middle-
bury, Nov. 15, 1806. His mother was Clarissa, daughter of Rev.
Eleazar Storrs (Y. C. 1762) of Sandisfield, Mass. In 1815 his
father returned to New Haven, his native place, for the education
of his children. He entered college w^ith the Class of 1826, but
left that class at the end of Sophomore year. On graduation he
began the study of medicine in New Haven, but abandoned it
after two years, on account of failing health. For the next
seven or eight years he remained at home in indifierent
health, and in the fall of 1836 removed to Cincinnati to
engage in the drug business. In 1837 he settled in JefPer-
sonville, Ind., as a druggist, and after nine years' experience
there continued in the same business in Brooklyn, N. Y., until the
fall of 1859, when he returned to New Haven, where he passed
the rest of his life in retirement. He died after a lingering ill-
ness of three years' duration.

He was married in 1841 to Miss Catherine A. Ault, of Jefferson-
ville, Ind., who survives him with their only daughter. They had
also one son, who died in childhood.

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1828.

James Chaffee Loomis, eldest son of James and Abigail S.
(Chaffee) Loomis, of Windsor, Conn., was born in Windsor, Apr.
29, 1807.

On his graduation he began the study of law in the University
of Virginia, but returned the next year to Connecticut, where he
pursued his studies, first in the school connected with this col-
lege, and later in Norwalk with Hon. Clark Bissell. In 1 832 he
was admitted to the bar of Fairfield County, and settled in prac-
tice with Hon. Samuel B. Sherwood, of Saugatuck, now Westport.
He removed to Bridgeport in 1840, and before many years his
business became more extensive than that of any of his asso-
ciates in the county. He also took an active part in public
affairs, was early elected to the State Senate (serving in 1837-
38 as an ex-officio member of the corporation of this college),
and repeatedly afterwards to the lower house of the State Legis-
lature. He was in 1861 and 1862 the unsuccessful candidate of
the Democratic party for the governorship. About 1870 he
retired from the active practice of his profession, to devote him-
self to the care of his large estate and to the interests of the
various corporations and public trusts with which he was con-
nected. At the time of his death he was President of the County
Bar Association, of the City Board of Education, of the Mountain
Grove Cemetery, and of the Bridgeport Library Association.

Mr. Loomis went from home on August 18, 1877, to South
Egremont, Mass., with the intention of spending some weeks
there in rest. He was attacked two days later with a gastric
fever, from the effects of which he died, in that town, Sept. 16, at
the age of 70.

He was first married. May 1, 1833, to Eliza C. Mitchell, of New
Haven, who died March 24, 1840.. He was again married, Apr.
24, 1844, to Mary B., daughter of Ira Sherman, of Bridgeport,
who survives him. His children — one son by the first marriage,
and one son and one daughter by the second marriage— all died
before him. The younger son was at the time of his death (in
October, 1867) a member of the Senior Class in this college.

Ezra Palmer, eldest son of Ezra and Elizabeth (Caldwell)
Palmer, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 15, 1808. He entered
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., at the age of fourteen, and
there completed his preparation for college. He received his med-

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ical degree at Harvard College August 31, 1831. From this time
until March, 1878, he actively and devotedly practised his profes-
sion in Boston.

Dr. Palmer died of heart disease, at his home in Boston, May
23, 1878. He was unmarried.

William Wolcott was born in Stow, Mass., Jan. 22, 1800.
He was the youngest in a family of fifteen children, and from the
age of twelve years was obliged to earn for the most part his own
living.

After two years spent in the Yale Theological Seminary, he was
ordained, Oct. 20, 1830, as pastor of the Congregational Church in
Petersham, Mass., where he continued until November, 1833. He
then removed to Pennsylvania, and was settled for a year or two
over a church in Lower Providence, near Norristown. A desire
to engage in missionary work then led him to Michigan Territory,
where he was for a year or two a pastor in Adrian. For thirty
years, from 1837, he labored cheerfully and earnestly as a home
missionary in Michigan, wherever he found a needy church and
the prospect of doing good. For the last few years of his life he
resided in Hudson, Mich., the progress of disease (ossification of
the brain) incapacitating him for ministerial labor. He died in
Kalamazoo, Mich., June 3, 1877, aged 77 years.

In September, 1830, he married Miss Lavinia Foote, daughter
of Dr. Joseph Foote (Y. C. 1787), of North Haven, Conn., who
died Jan. 9, 1832, leaving one son. In 1832 he married Miss
M. A. Penniman, of Dorchester, Mass., and in September, 1868,
was again married to Mrs. Sarah M. Smith, of Hudson, Mich.,
whom he survived but seven weeks. Of his six children, two
daughters and one son are still living.

1829.

Thomas Adam Spence, a native of Cambridge, Md., entered
college from Snow Hill, Md., at the beginning of the Sophomore
year.

He studied law and began practice in his native tow^n. He
took a lively interest in politics, and in 1840 was a Presidential
elector on the Whig ticket. In 1843 he represented his district in
Congress, and after the adoption of the new State Constitution in
1851 was elected Judge of the Circuit Court. During the civil
war he was a staunch Union man, and under the Constitution of

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1864 was elected to the circuit judgeship for Dorchester county.
In 1867 he was removed from this position by the adoption of a
new constitution, and returned to the practice of his profession at
Snow Hill. In 1872 he was the Republican candidate for Con-
gress, but was defeated. Not long after he was appointed by
Postmaster-General Cresswell Assistant Attorney-General for the
Post Office Department. From this position he was transferred
to the position of Assistant Superintendent of the railway mail
service, which he held up to the time of his death. He died of
pneumonia in Washington, Nov. 10, 1877, aged 67 years. He
leaves a wife, but no children.

1830.

William Morrison Tallman, son of David and Eunice Tall-
man, was born in Lee, Oneida County, N. Y., June 13, 1808. His
parents removed from Woodbury, Conn., to Oneida County in
1806, and ten years later to Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1821 he entered
the law office of Hon. Frederick A. Tallmadge, of N. Y. City, but
soon found the need of a more thorough education, and began to
prepare for college.

Immediately after graduating he entered the Yale Law School,
and was admitted to the bar in New Haven in September, 1832.
He then went to N. Y. City and continued his legal studies in the
office of Tallmadge & Bulkley for one year, and was admitted to
the bar of that state in October, 1833. He then entered into the
practice of law in Rome, N. Y., and continued there until 1850,
when he removed to Janesville, Wise, his residence until his
death. Two years before going West, he had purchased large
tracts of land in Wisconsin, and in subsequent years he increased
his purchases so wisely that he acquired a handsome fortune from
this source. In July, 1854, he relinquished the practice of his pro-
fession, finding ample occupation in the development and manage-
ment of his estate. Much of his means and time were spent in
effecting public improvements in Janesville.

He left home in March, 1 878, for a visit to the South and East,
and while in Washington became ill with a severe cold, which in-
creased some asthmatic difficulties under which he labored, and
finally caused his death. He was brought home about the first of
May and died there May 13, in his 70th year.

He was married in 1831 to Miss Emeline, daughter of Norman
Dexter, of New Haven, who died on the 7th of June, three weeks
after her husband. Their two sons are still living. Their only
daughter was married in 1865 and died the following year.

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1833.

JosiAH Clark was born in Leicester, Mass., Febr. 7, 1814, the
eldest son of Rev. Josiah Clark (Williams Coll. 1809) and Ase-
nath, daughter of Nathaniel Edwards of Northampton, Mass.
His father remained in Leicester as preceptor of the academy there
until 1818, and then removed to Rutland, Mass., where he was
pastor until his death in 1845.

From 1833 to 1835 Mr. Clark was the principal of an academy
in Westminster, Md., and for the next two years a teacher in the
University of Maryland at Baltimore. He then studied theology
in the Seminary in Andover, Mass., supplementing the usual
course with an additional year of study. In 1841 he became an
associate preceptor in Leicester Academy, and later the preceptor,
remaining there until 1849, when he was made principal of Willis-
ton Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. This position he retained
until 1863, when he removed to Northampton, Mass. There he
continued to teach, at first in a private school on Round Hill, and
afterwards receiving pupils in his house, chiefly those preparing in
the classics for admission to college. In the summer of 1875 the
Smith College for women was opened in Northampton, and Dr.
Clark (the degree of LL.D. was given him by Yale College in
July, 1875) entered on the duties of the Professorship of Latin
and Greek. In August, 1876, he was prostrated (perhaps in con-
sequence of a partial sunstroke) by an obscure disease of the brain,
and after a lingering illness died at his residence in Northampton,
May 30, 1878, aged 64 years.

Professor Clark impressed himself on his pupils in a remarka-
ble degree, alike by his admirable character and his finished schol-
arship ; and those who knew him in this relation will always look
back to him as the model teacher.

He was married, Nov. 21, 1842, to his cousin, Lucy Edwards,
daughter of David L. Dewey, of Northampton, who survives him
without children.

1834.

Samuel Gray Southmayd was born Oct. 30, 1811, in Middle-
town, Conn., the only child of Samuel and Sarah (Gill) South-
mayd, of that town.

He entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year, and
upon graduation studied medicine in the Yale Medical School,
where he received the degree of M.D. in 1836. He practiced his
profession for about six years, at first in Middletown and after-

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wards in New York City. He then became connected with a
planing mill in New York City, which under a lucrative patent
yielded him a handsome fortune. He finally retired to Hoboken,
N. J., where his later life was spent. He died in Hartford, Conn.,
Oct. 9, 1877, at the age of 66.

Dr. Southmayd was married, Nov. 11, 1838, to Miss Sarah E.
Russell, of Middletown, daughter of Matthew T. Russell (Y. C.
1779). She died in June, 1866, leaving no children.

He was again married, April 22, 1868, to Miss Maria C. Earned,
by whom he had one daughter.

1835.

Alexander Smith Johnson, the eldest son of Alexander B.
and Abigail L. (Adams) Johnson, was born in Utica, N. Y., July
30, 1817. His father was a distinguished citizen of Utica; his
mother was a granddaughter of the elder President Adams.

The year after graduation he spent in the study of law in the
school connected with Yale College, and then returned to Utica,
where after further study he was admitted to the bar in July,
1838. In the following January he formed a partnership with
Samuel Beardsley, Esq., but as he still seemed to his early friends
too young for the responsibilities of the profession, he removed in
June of the same year to New York City, where he entered into a
partnership with Elisha P. Hurlbut, Esq. Charles F. Southmayd,
Esq., subsequently became a member of the firm, and in 1846 Mr.
Hurlbut was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court. In Novem-
ber, 1851, Mr. Johnson was elected a Justice of the Court of
Appeals, and six years later, at the age of forty, he became the
Chief Justice of that court. He resided in Albany during his
judicial term, and at its close, in 1860, he returned to Utica and
resumed the practice of the law. In July, 1 864, he was appointed
U. S. Commissioner under the treaty with Great Britain for the
settlement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound
Companies, and the duty, which occupied him until the fall of
1867, was discharged in such a manner as to win the highest credit
both at home and abroad. After this he resumed his practice at
the bar, and in January, 1873, was appointed to fill a vacancy on
the Commission of Appeals, a judicial body created to give tem-
porary relief to the regular Court of Appeals. A year later he
was transfeiTed by a similar appointment to the court just named,
serving until Jan. 1, 1875. In October, 1875, he was appointed

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U. S. Circuit Judge for the Second Judicial District (comprising
the States of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont), succeeding
Judge Lewis B. Woodruff (Y. C. 1830). The incessant labors of
this position proved too severe a strain upon his constitution, and
early in January, 1878, he left home for Nassau, in the Bahamas,
where he died on the 26th of that month, in the 61st year of
his age.

Judge Johnson's success upon the bench is sufficiently attested
by the record of the positions to which he was called. Equally as
a man and as a judge he commanded the high respect of the com-
munity. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hamil-
ton College in 1859.

He was married in November, 1852. His wife, a son and three
daughters survive him.

1837.

Sheldon Leavitt was born in New York City, June 26, 181 8,
and joined college in the Sophomore year.

He entered on a mercantile career in New York City in 1838,
and with the exception of two visits to Europe continued in busi-
ness until 1853, when he retired and changed his residence to
Great Barrington, Mass. In later years he spent most of his
time in Europe, residing in Paris. He died in New York City,
of cirrhosis of the liver, Oct. 26, 1876, in his 59th year.

He was married, Aug. 2, 1842, to Miss Josephine Wells, who
died Apr. 26, 1863, leaving two sons and a daughter.

1839.

Philander Button was born Feb. 22, 1813, in North Haven,
Conn., and died May 21, 1878, in Greenwich, Conn., aged 65
years.

The low state of his health at the time of graduation prevented
him from studying for a profession. He was able, however, to
take charge of an academy in Greenwich, and found in this occu-
pation his main employment until 1861, when he gave up teaching.
For the next few years he devoted himself to the improvement of
a farm, in Greenwich, on which he had begun to reside as early
as 1846. During the last years of his life he was a confirmed
invalid.

He was married, Oct. 11, 1843, to a daughter of Dr. Darius
Mead (Y. C. 1807), of Greenwich, by whom he had one son and
five daughters.

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RuFus Putnam Cutler, son of Temple (Sutler, and grandson
of the eminent Rev. Dr. Manasseh ("utler (Y. C. 1765), for more
than fifty years pastor of the Congregational Church in Hamilton,
Mass., was born in Hamilton, July 11, 1815, and died in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1877, at the age of 62.

For upwards of a year after graduation he was the principal of
an academy near Lowell, Mass., and in 1841 entered the Divinity
School of Harvard University, where he finished the regular
course of training in 1844, though he continued in residence for a
year longer. On the 18th of March, 1846, he was ordained pastor
of the Second Unitarian Congregational Society of Portland, Me.,
known as the Park Street Church of that city. After a success-
ful ministry of eight years, he accepted a call to the pastorate of
the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, Cal., where he
began his labors in August, 1854; and in the autumn of 1859
returned to New England with abundant proof of the high esti-
mation in which he had been held by his people in that growing
community. For some years he lived in retirement in Portland,
with the exception of a brief visit to Brooklyn, N. Y., and preach-
ing for a few months at Staten Island. His health was impaired,
and for a long time he was threatened with blindness; but in
1869 he ventured on resuming work for a few Sundays as an
experiment ; and was so much encouraged by the result that he
consented to take the pastoral charge of the church of his faith
in Charleston, S. C, which he continued to serve till the spring of
1872. That church had been greatly depleted by the civil war,
both in numbers and strength ; and when he left it on account of
his ill health and the depressing effects of the climate, he left it
replenished and strong and deeply regretting his withdrawal. In
October, 1872, he sailed for Europe, and on his return voyage, in
August, 1873, with his general health seemingly improved, he was
struck with partial paralysis, from the effects of which he never
recovered. In the interval before his death he resided in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., where with the best medical care, which he had ample
means to secure, and though mostly confined to his chair or bed,
able to enjoy fully the society of devoted friends, to read, and to
converse with his wonted charm, he slowly declined, with periods
of great suffering borne with entire patience and supported to the
end by the sweetest Christian spirit. He was never married.

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1840.

Elijah Baldwin Huntington, eldest son of Deacon Nehemiah
ind Nancy (Leffingwell) Huntington, was born in Bozrah, Conn.,
Aug. 14, 1816. By ill-health and want of means he was obliged
to leave college at the beginning of the Sophomore year, but in
1851 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him, and his
name has subsequently been enrolled with his class.

He taught school in Connecticut for several years, going over
in the mean time the regular college studies and also pursuing a
theological course, and in 1 845 he was licensed to preach by the
New London Association of Congregational ministers. After
laboring for the American Bible Society, he was engaged in
organizing a church in Putnam village in Windham County,
Conn., which had lately begun to form about a station of the Nor-
wich and Worcester Railroad, and which is included in the
present town of Putnam. Here he was ordained in November,
1848. His voice failing, he was dismissed from this charge after
two years' service, and in the spring of 1851 became the principal
of a school in West Meriden, Conn. In the fall of 1852 he was
invited to Waterbury, Conn., as principal of the high school, and
superintendent of the other schools of the city. He removed
again in December, 1854, to Stamford, Conn., where he had
charge of a public school until 1857, when he opened a private
school for boys, which he continued until 1864. He then devoted
himself to literary labor, residing in Stamford until April, 1875,
when he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church in
South Coventry, Conn. He retired from this service in April,
1877, and continued a resident of the town until his death. He
was prostrated by an attack of paralysis in November, 1877, and
after lingering for more than a month, died Dec. 27, in the 62d
year of his age.

He was married, March 6, 1843, to Julia Maria, daughter of
Deacon Thomas Welch, of Windham, Conn., who survives him
without children.

Mr. Huntington published in 1863 " A Genealogical Memoir of
the Huntington Family" (428 pages, octavo) ; also, in 1868, a
"History of Stamford" (492 pages, octavo) ; in 1869, "Stamford
Soldiers' Memorial" (166 pages, octavo) ; and in 1874, "Stamford
Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths down to 1825"
(140 pages, octavo).

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1841.

William Henry Clarke, eldest son of Rev. Peter G. Clarke
(hon. Y. C. 1821) and his wife Lucretia Hitchcock, was born in
Norwich, Conn., Jan. 22, 1821.

He entered college during the third term of Sophomore year
from the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Conn., and on graduating
proceeded to study in the General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. His course was interrupted by ill
health, so that it was not completed until 1845, when he was
ordained Deacon (June 29).

He spent seven years engaged in teaching in the Patapsco
Female Institute, Ellicott's Mills, Md., being in the meantime
(Sept. 20, 1846) ordained Priest.

In 1852-3 he served as an agent of the Church Book Society of
New York, and from Sept., 1853, till Feb., 1856, had charge of
Locust Grove Seminary (for girls) near Pittsburgh, Pa. In March,
1856, he became the rector of St. Peter's Church, Rome, Ga., and
left that position in the summer of 1861 to remove to Augusta,
Ga., as assistant rector of St. Paul's Church. On the death of
Rev. E. E. Ford, he became (in Jan., 1863) the rector, and so con-
tinued till his death. From 1863 he was a member of the Stand-
ing Committee of the Diocese, and from 186V its President. In
October, 1875, he was selected by the House of Bishops to be
Missionary Bishop to Cape Palmas, Africa, which office he declined
to accept.

On the morning of the 10th of August, 1811, he was summoned
to the bed of a dying person, and while administering consolation
to the bereaved family was stricken with paralysis of the brain,
and died two hours later.

He married, Aug. 6, 1850, Miss Sophia Green Creighton, of
New Haven, Conn., who died in Augusta, Jan. 8, 1870. Their
only child, a daughter, is still living.

1843.

(vHARLES Cramer, youngest son of Hon. John Cramer, was
born in Waterford, Saratoga County, N. Y., July 11, 1823^ and
died in the same place, after a lingering illness, Sept. 3, 1876, aged
53 years.

He studied law in New York City and began practice in Water-
ford; but found the drudgery of professional labor distasteful,
and gave himself up to reading, to the study of the ancient and
modem literatures, and to foreign travel. He was never married.

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William Grtswold Lane was born in Norwalk, O., Febr. 12,
1824. His father, Judge Ebenezer Lane (Harv. Coll. 1811), was
subsequently the Chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the State,
and his mother (the first cousin of her husband) was Frances A.,
eldest daughter of Gov. Roger Griswold (Y. C. 1780), of Con-
necticut.

After graduation he spent a year in the Law School of Harvard
University, and then continued his studies in Sandusky, O., at
that time his father's residence. In 1846 he went to Germany,
and after a year's further study in Berlin, returned to Sandusky
to enter into practice in company with his father. He continued
there in active practice until February, 1873, when he was made
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, an office which he held
until forced by ill-health to resign. He died in Sandusky, Oct.
28, 1877, in his 54th year. His career, as a lawyer, as a judge,
and as a man, was singularly pure and honorable.

Judge Lane married, Oct. 31, 1850, his second cousin, Elizabeth
D., daughter of Charles C. Griswold, of Lyme, Conn. She sur-
vives him with children.

1844.

John Jackson was born in Maiden, Mass., Dec. 25, 1817, the
son of John and Mary (Howland) Jackson. His father was a sea-
faring man, and during the war of 1812 was commissioned as
sailing master in the U. S. navy.

His early life was spent on a farm, until he was 16 years of age,
when he became a clerk in a store in Charlestown, now a part of
Boston. Here in 1836 he became interested in the subject of per-
sonal religion, and soon after began to prepare for college with
the view of entering the ministry. Upon graduation he entered
the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., and after some inter-
ruptions finished the course in 1848, and was licensed to preach
by the Essex North (Congregational) Association on July 12.
From a variety of causes, prominent among which was an
enfeebled constitution, he preached but a few times, and then
sought out-door employment. Until 1855 he was engaged in col-
lecting and compiling statistical information. He then became
assistant to the Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, and so
continued until 1868. After this his employment became more
irregular, from indications of pulmonary disease and a succession
of business misfortunes. He was unmarried, and died in Boston,
Jan. 23, 1877, aged 59 years.

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1846.

Albert Henry Barnes, born in Morristown, N. J., Febr. 11,
1826, was the son of Rev. Albert Barnes (Hamilton Coll. 1820),
the well-known commentator on the Bible, and Abby A. (Smith)
Barnes.

After graduating he studied law in Philadelphia and Chicago,
and practiced for a time. In 1854 he was ordained in Lawrence-
ville, Tioga County. Pa., and preached in the Presbyterian Church
there for five and a half years. In September, 1860, he settled in
Philadelphia as a teacher, and was thus occupied, as far as his
somewhat feeble health allowed, for many years. The degree of
Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on him by Lafayette College
in 1871. He died in Philadelphia, of heart disease. May 6, 1878,
at the age of 52.

He was married, Dec. 21, 1854, at Newark, Del., to Miss Annie
M. Chamberlain, by whom he had two daughters.

1847.

George Nehemiah Cleaveland, son of Nehemiah Cleave-
land (Bowdoin Coll. 1813), of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born Febr.
27, 1826. He entered the class in Sophomore year, having pre-
viously been a member of the class of 1846.

He at first studied law, but in the summer of 1849 began the
study of medicine in the office of Dr. Gurdon Buck, of New York
City. He did not, however, follow either profession, but devoted
himself to the study of botany and the cultivation of flowers.
After residing on Brooklyn Heights for many years he removed
to a farm near ^e village of Saugatuck, in Norwalk, Conn., and
there gave himself successfully to his favorite pursuits till his
death. On the afternoon of Oct. 30, 1877, he felt unwell, and
drove to the house of his physician in the adjacent township of
Westport. On his arrival there, while seated in his carriage, he
expired suddenly, probably of a disease of the heart. He was
never married.

Amos Smith Darrow, son of Leavitt Darrow, was born in
Plymouth, Conn., Febr. 7, 1825. He was named for his uncle,
Amos Smith, who for many years kept a private school in New
Haven, and with whom he prepared for College.

After graduation he taught in Rochester and Danville, N. Y.,
for a short time, but on account of his health soon removed to the

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South, and was engaged in teaching in Kentucky and Alabama
until 1851, when he went to Vicksburg, Miss., as principal of an
academy for young ladies. Finding a more active life necessary,
he applied himself to civil engineering, and was occupied for some
time in locating the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas railroad.
He also became interested in constructing levees on the Missis-
sippi river, and in this business had accumulated a handsome
fortune when the civil war broke out. Although opposed to se-
cession, he was forced into the army of his adopted state, and was
subsequently attached to the staff of Gen. John Morgan as engi-
neer, and accompanied him on some of his famous raids. On one
of these excursions he succeeded in escaping from his companions,
and remained at the North until the close of the war.

In 1869 he married the widow of his former partner in business,
and about the same time purchased a plantation on the Mississippi
river, near Donaldsonville, La., and was engaged in sugar and rice
planting until the time of his death. He had been in declining
health for some years, but the immediate cause of death was a
malignant carbuncle. He died at his residence, Aug. 10, 1877,
aged 52 years. His widow with his only son survives him.

Charles Augustus Nichols was born in Haverhill, Mass.,
Jan. 4, 1826.

He studied law in Haverhill and in the Law School of Harvard
University, and in 1851 was admitted to practice in New York
City, where he formed a partnership with his classmate Peet, and
attained a highly honorable position at the bar. In April, 1864,
he married Isabella B., daughter of Ex-Gov. James Y. Smith, of
Providence, R. I., and two years later removed thither to engage
in the extensive manufacturing business of his father-in-law. He
soon became identified with the interests of the city, representing
it in the General Assembly, and becoming actively engaged in the
direction of a number of banks and insurance companies. Through
illness he was for some months withdrawn from active duty, but
the end was very unexpected. He died in Somerville, Mass., Oct.
20, 1877, in his 52d year.

His wife survives him, with one son and two daughters.

William Sharp was born Sept. 10, 1811, and died in Dover,
Del., Sept. 13, 1876, aged 65 years.

Mr. Sharp entered college at the beginning of the Senior year,

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from Milford, Del. He was occupied in teaching and in the study
of law in Delaware until his admission to the bar in 1854. He
continued in practice in Dover until 1861, when he was appointed
prothonotary of the Superior Court of the State and Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, for a term of five years. At the close of this
period he retired to private life and engaged in agriculture, his
residence still being in Dover. He was editor of the State Senti-
nel, when he was prostrated by nervous disease. He died after a
painful illness of some weeks' duration.

He was married in March, 1859, to Catharine E. Kingsbury of
Salem, Ind., who survives him without children.

Thomas Young Simons, third son of Dr. Thomas Y. Simons,
was born in Charleston, S. C, Oct. 1, 1828.

For two years after leaving College he taught in the Charles-
ton High School, preparing himself at the same time for admission
to the bar. In 1850 he was admitted to practice, and except
during the period covered by the late war, continued to practice
uninterruptedly in Charleston to the time of his death. He rep-
resented his native city in the General Assembly from 1854 to
1860, and in the latter year was one of the Presidential electors
for South Carolina. He was also a member of the State Conven-
tion which passed the ordinance of secession in December, 1860,
and during the war which followed served as an officer in the
Confederate service, first as Captain of the 2'7th Regiment, S. C.
Volunteers, and later as Judge Advocate. In September, 1865,
he became editor-in-chief of the Charleston Courier, and contin-
ued to act in this capacity until April, 1873. This, joined with
the labors of a lawyer in large practice, did much to impair his
strength and to lay the foundation for his last illness. In the
later years of his life he was prominently identified with the
efibrts to secure local self-government and the creation of a Union
Reform party, in South Carolina. He died after a long illness, in
Charleston, Apr. 30, 1878, in his 50th year.

He was married in July, 1852, to Miss Annie L. Ancram.

1850.

Patrick Cabell Massie, son of Dr. Thomas Massie, of Nel-
son, Va., and grandson of Maj. Thomas Massie, a soldier of the
Revolution, was born in Nelson County, Va., Jan. 8, 1829, and
died in Lynchburgh, Va., Sept. 29, 1877, aged 48 years.

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The first year after graduation he studied law in the Yale Law
School, and then returned to his home in Nelson County, where
he spent the rest of his life, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He
was sincerely respected for his high Christian character. He was
married, June 18, 1857, to Miss Susan C. Withers, of Campbell
Co., Va., who survives him, with six sons and one daughter. He
had been for many years afflicted with an obscure nervous dis-
ease, and was taken to Lynchburgh a few weeks before his death
for the sake of superior medical advice.

1862.

Henry Edward Phelps was born in New Haven, Conn.,
June 4, 1833, the son of Henry A. and Harriet (Noding) Phelps.

After graduation he taught in Missouri (1852-3), in New York
City (1853-4), and in Elizabeth, N. J. (1854-5). In the autumn
of 1855 he removed to New Market, Platte County, Missouri, to
engage in business, and a year later returned to N ew York City,
where for several years before his death he held the position of
secretary in the counting-room of H. B. Claflin & Co., residing in
Jersey City, N. J.

He died in Jersey City, June 29, 1877, aged 44 years.

He was married, Nov. 7, 1855, to Miss Julia Truesdell, of New
York City, who is still living, with their three sons and one
daughter.

1853.

Charles Townsend, the youngest son of the Hon. Charles
Townsend, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., April 12, 1 831.

On leaving College he became a clerk in the Bank of Attica,
in Buffalo, and from 1855 was cashier of the same institution.
He was married, June 10, 1856, to Miss Martha S., youngest
daughter of Gains B. Rich, of Buffalo, and spent the next few
months in Europe. After his return he continued in his office as
cashier until 1872, when he resigned on account of incipient dis-
ease. The later years of his life were spent in travel. He died, of
consumption, at Haslach, in the Black Forest, Germany, Sept. 1
1877, aged 46.

His widow, with two sons and two daughters, survives him.

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1854.

WiLLARD Cutting Flagg, only son of Gershom and Jane (Pad-
dock) Flagg, was born in Moro, Madison County, 111., Sept. 16,
1829.

After leaving college he returned home, and owing to the fail-
ing health of his father took charge of his extensive farm. He
was married, Febr. 13, 1856, to Sarah, daughter of James Smith,
of St. Louis, Mo., and continued to reside on his farm near Moro
until his death. He took an active part in local politics in the
campaigns of 1856 and 1860, and in 1862 was appointed collector
of internal revenue for the 12th district of Illinois, retaining the
office until elected to the State Senate, a position which he held
for four years from 1869. He was greatly interested in the pro-
motion of scientific agriculture and horticulture, and held a lead-
ing position in connection with many organizations for this object.
He was also a frequent and successful writer on political and agri-
cultural topics. He was one of the originators of the farmers'
movement in the West, and was elected in 1873 the first president
of the Illinois State Farmers' Association. He was one of the
earliest promoters and trustees of the Illinois Industrial University.

He died in Moro, March 30, 1878, of influenza, having been in
feeble health through the previous winter.

His wife with three of their six children survives him.

Orson Cowles Sparrow, son of Bradford and Adelia Sparrow,
was born in Killingly, Conn., Sept. 3, 1832.

He taught in Honesdale, Pa., for two years after graduation,
and then took a course in chemistry in the Yale Scientfic School
and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1858. He
was then called to the chair of chemistry in Andrew College,
Newton, Tenn., where he remained till the civil war broke out
and closed the institution. Returning North in 1861 he began
the study of medicine and graduated at the Long Island College
Hospital in 1864. Soon after, he entered the U. S. service as Act-
ing Assistant Surgeon at the McDougall General Hospital near
Fort Schuyler, N. Y., where he remained till the close of the war.
On returning to Brooklyn he was appointed assistant to Dr. Flint
in the L. I. College Hospital, and also secured a good private
practice. He devoted a large share of his time to life-insurance
examinations, and also made diseases of the heart and lungs the
object of special study. In the spring of 1875 the ravages of con-

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sumption compelled him to seek a warmer climate, and he settled
in Yaldosta, Ga., where he resided till his death, Sept. 13, 1877,
at the age of 45. He married Sarah, daughter of Deacon Lewis
Edwards, formerly of Norwich, Conn., who died in Jan., 1874.
Of their two children, the only son is still living.

1856.

Lewis Este Mills, son of Lewis and Sarah A. Mills, was bom
in Morristown, N. J., Aug. 13, 1836.

He studied law at first in Morristown, and afterwards com-
pleted his studies in Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar
in November, 1858, and became a partner in the firm of Mills &
Hoadly, of which his elder brother was the senior member. In
1859 he formed a partnership with Mr. A. T. Goshorn in the same
city. He joined the army in the late civil war as a volunteer
aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. R. B. Potter, and served in the
army of the Southwest during that year's campaign, which
included the siege of Yicksburg. Returning to Cincinnati, he
was married, Jan. 7, 1864, to Miss Jean Springer, daughter of
Charles Springer, and thereafter gradually withdrew from active
practice and devoted himself to travel and literary pursuits. He
published a revision of Handy's Reports of the Superior Court of
Cincinnati (in 1877), and printed privately (in 1867) a volume of
" Glimpses of Southern France and Spain."

He went to Europe (for the fourth time) in the summer of 1877,
and after traveling in Normandy and passing the winter in Brus-
sels, had reached Florence, Italy, in an invalid condition, where
while wasting away from a disease of the kidneys a sudden attack
of heart-disease ended his life on the 10th of April, 1878, in his
42d year.

His wife survives him, without children.

1857.

Israel Selden Spencer, eldest son of the late Horatio N.
Spencer (Y. C. 1821) and Sarah A. (Marshall) Spencer, was born
in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Miss., March 23, 1837. He
first entered college as Sophomore with the Class of 1856, but
soon withdrew, to begin at the same point a year later.

He engaged in planting cotton near Skipwith Landing, Issa-
queena County, Miss., soon after graduation, and at a later period
became a merchant, at the head of the firm of Spencer & Taylor

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at Skipwith Landing. He was thus engaged at the time of his
death, in that place, after a brief illness, June 3, 1878, at the age
of 41.

1858.

Edward Augustus Manice, younger son of DeForest and
Catherine M. (Booth) Manice, was born in New York City, Oct.
19, 1838.

For the two years after graduation he studied chemistry in the
Yale Scientific School, receiving in ] 860 the Degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy. He remained in New Haven for another year,
continuing his chemical studies, and then returned to New York.
He studied law at the Columbia College Law School, and was
admitted to the bar, but an ample fortune made it unnecessary
for him to engage in active practice. He was married, Nov. 4,
1863, to Miss Phebe, daughter of Hon. John B. Jlobertson (Y. C.
1829), of New Haven, who survives him, with their four children.
He had suffered for some months from malarial fever, and in a fit
of temporary insanity took his own life, in New York City, on
the morning of Dec. 4, 1877.

George Fairlamb Smith, son of Persifor F. and Thomasine S.
(Fairlamb) Smith, was born in West Chester, Pa., Feb. 28, 1840,
and died in the same place, after a short but painful illness, Oct.
18, 1877, in his 38th year.

He was a student of law in his father's office until enlisting for
three months, April 17, 1861, as a private in the 2d Regiment,
Pennsylvania Infantry. While with this regiment he was pro-
moted to be 1 st Lieutenant, and in his subsequent connection with
the 49th and 61st regiments reached the rank of Colonel. He
served honorably through the war, was engaged in most of the
battles of the Army of the Potomac, was wounded and taken
prisoner at Fair Oaks, and again wounded at Spottsylvania Court
House. At the close of the war he returned to the practice of his
profession in West Chester, where he continued until his death.
In 1876 he was made Judge Advocate on Gov. Hartranft's 'staff,
with the rank of Brigadier General.

He was married, in Thornbury, Pa., Sept. 25, 1867, to Anna E.,
daughter of Wellington Hickman, who survives him with one son
and one daughter.

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I860.

Edward Bolt wood, sixth son of Hon. Lucius Boltwood (Wil-
liams Coll. 1814) and Fanny H. (Shepard) Boltwood, was bom in
Amherst, Mass., Sept. 4, 1889.

He studied law in the Law School of Harvard University, and
was admitted to the bar in Boston. After a short time spent in
an office in Pittsfield, Mass., he removed early in 1 863 to Detroit,
Mich., where he engaged in practice. He was married, Oct. 26,
1865, to Miss Sarah E., eldest daughter of Thomas F. Plunkett, of
Pittsfield, and the next year removed to Grand Haven, Mich.
He was in 1868 elected Probate Judge of the county, but resigned
that office early in the summer of 1871 to accept the treasurer-
ship of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, in Pittsfield.
After the death of his father-in-law, he became (in January, 18Y6)
also the President of the company, and continued to hold both
these offices until his death. Under his management the good
character and financial success of the company were satisfactorily
promoted. The effect of too close attention to business, follow-
ing on the death of his wife, was to develop tendencies to con-
sumption which foreign travel failed to overcome. He spent the
winter of 1876-77 in South Carolina, and on the approach of the
next winter sailed for the south of France. He left Marseilles for
Cairo, Egypt, on Jan. 10, but the exposure of the passage proved
too great, and he rapidly declined. He died in Cairo on the 6th
of February, 1878, in his 39th year. Of his two sons one only is
still living.

1867.

Beverly Allen, only son of Beverly and Penelope Allen, was
born in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 15, 1845. His mother is a sister of
Maj. Gen. John Pope, U. S. A.

A few months afler leaving college he entered the Merchants'
Bank of St. Louis, as teller, and continued in this position until
compelled to retire by illness. Early in 1874 his health began to
fail, and he endeavored by travel, but without success, to regain
strength. He failed slowly until his death, in St. Louis, of consump-
tion of the lungs, on the night of Jan. 25-26, 1876, at the age of
31 years.

He was married, June 7, 1870, to Mary V., daughter of William
Price, Esq., of St. Louis, whom he leaves a widow, with two sons.

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Henry Willson Payne, son of Hon. Henry B. Payne, was
born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 7, 1845.

He graduated at the Columbia College Law School, N. Y. City,
in May, 1870, and then settled in Cleveland in the study and
practice of his profession. The failure of his health obliged him
to leave for Europe in the fall of 1 876. He spent the ensuing
winter in Mentone, France, and returned there in October, 1877,
with the hope of entire recovery by another spring; but the
disease (consumption) terminated fatally, Feb. 8, 1878.

Moses Strong, only son of Hon. Moses M. Strong (Dartmouth
Coll. 1829) and Caroline F. (Green) Strong, was born, June 17,
1846, at Mineral Point, Wise, where his father has for many years
been largely interested in the development of lead mines.

Selecting the profession of a mining engineer, he remained in
New Haven until the summer of 1868, studying in the Sheffield
Scientific School ; and during the next two years he continued his
studies in Germany. He returned to America in the autumn of
1870, and was employed in 1871-2 as civil engineer on the
Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central Railroads. In the
spring of 1873, on the inauguration of the Geological Survey of
Wisconsin, he was appointed assistant geologist, and served faith-
fully in that capacity until his death. On Aug. 18, 1877, while
completing a geological examination of the branches of the
Chippewa River, in the northern part of the State, the skiff in
which with a companion he was ascending the Flambeau River
was capsized while passing some rapids, and in the effort to save
the life of his comrade he was seized with cramp and drowned.
Since his death his elaborate report on the geology and topo-
graphy of the Lead Region of Wisconsin has been published by
the director of the survey.

He was married, Feb. 13, 1873, to Miss Julia M. Jones, at
Mineral Point, who survives him with two daughters.

1869.

Thomas Walter Swan, son of Thomas S. Swan, was born in
East Haddam, Conn., Sept. 13, 1846, but in childhood his family
removed to Old Lyme, Conn., from which town he came to
college.

He read law after graduating, partly at home, and partly in
Shelburne Falls, Mass., where he was principal of the Academy in

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1810. He was admitted to the bar, Sept. 19, 1871, and was at
once taken into partnership with Hon. John T. Wait, of Norwich,
Conn. For three years from July, 1864, he was city attorney.
He was obliged in January, 1878, to abandon his business and go
to a warmer climate, on account of lung-disease, from which he
had long suffered. Relief was sought in vain and he died, in
Pilatka, Fla., on the 7th of March, in the 32d year of his age.

He was married, Nov. 26, 1872, to Miss Jennie A. Maynard,
of Shelburne Falls. She survived him, with three children, one of
whom has since died.

1871.

Frank Monroe Parsons, son of Samuel M. and Sarah (Bick
ford) Parsons, was born in York, Me., Nov. 6, 1848, and was
fitted for College at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. His resi-
dence while in College was in Niantic, 111.

After graduating he studied law for several months in Jackson-
ville, 111., acting also as principal of one of the schools. During
1872-3 he was associated in the practice of law with his classmate
Janes, in Paris, Tenn., and thence removed to Little Rock, Ark.,
where he died of typhoid fever, Oct. 3, 1877, aged nearly 29 years.

He was married in Little Rock, July 28, 1877, to a daughter of
Judge Compton (formerly of the Supreme Court of the State)
with whom he was practicing law at the time of his death.

1873.

Ebenezer Hartwell Btjckingham, youngest son of the late
Rev. Ebenezer Buckingham (Ohio University, 1833) and Laura S.
(Horr) Buckingham, was born in Canton, O., where his father
was then and for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
May 25, 1850.

On graduation he began the study of law in an office in Omaha,
Nebraska, and in 1875 was admitted to the bar. At that time he
formed a partnership with C. J. Green, Esq., and the firm con-
tinued the practice of law in Omaha until dissolved by death. In
the fall of 1 875 Mr. Buckingham was the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party for the county judgeship, but was defeated ; a year
later he was elected district attorney of the Third District of
Nebraska, and filled the office acceptably till his death.

Me died in Omaha, after a brief illness, Nov. 28, 1877, at the
aere of 27 years. He was unmarried.

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John Franklin Chase, son of David and Sarah (Peckham)
Chase, was born in Tiverton, R. L, March 28, 1850. He was fitted
for college in Newport, R. I.

On graduating he obtained a position as teacher in the Has-
brouck Institute, Jersey City, N. J., where he continued until his
death. He also pursued the study of law at the Columbia College
Law School, where he graduated in 1875. After being admitted
to the bar, in May, 1875, he gave part of his time for the next
year to the practice of law in New York City, and was intending
to devote himself wholly to that business after the summer of 1876.
He died, in New York City, of malignant scarlet fever, after three
days' illness, April 19, 1876, aged 26 years.

He married, at Newport, R. I., July 30, 1874, Edna C. Tilley,
who survives him with one son.

1875.

Harmanus Madison Welch, son of Hon. Harmanus M. and
Antoinette (Pierce) Welch, was born in New Haven, Conn., June
19, 1854.

After graduation be entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
New York City, where he pursued his studies until March, 1877,
when he received an appointment as assistant doctor to the
Nursery Hospital on Randall's Island. While attending to his
duties in the hospital, he contracted typhoid fever, and after a
short illness died there, Sept. 18, 1877, in his 24th year. He was
enthusiastically devoted to his chosen profession, and gave promise
of a successful career, had his life been spared. At the time of
his illness, he was on the point of resigning his position with the
purpose of further study in Europe. He was unmarried.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1815.

Jared Potter Kirtland was born in Wallingford, Conn.,
Nov. 10, 1793. His mother was Mary, daughter of Dr. Jared
Potter (Y. C. 1760), a famous physician of Wallingford. His
father, Turhand Kirtland, was largely interested in the purchases
made by the Connecticut Land Company in Ohio, and removed
to the Western Reserve in 1803. Meantime the son remained in
Wallingford, and Dr. Potter dying in 1810 left a legacy to pro*

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vide for his medical education at Edinburgh. But the war with
Great Britain prevented the voyage, and when the Medical De-
partment of this College went into operation in 1813, young
Kirtland was the first matriculated student in a class of 38
members.

He was married in May, 1814, to Caroline, second daughter of
Joshua Atwater, of Wallingford, and after graduation he prac-
ticed in Wallingford until 1818, when he made a journey to Ohio
to perfect arrangements for a removal thither. But on returning
for his family he found a peculiarly attractive opportunity for
establishing himself in Durham, Conn., and there remained until
the death of his wife in 1823, when he carried out his intention of
settling in Poland, Ohio. He had acquired a large country prac-
tice, and had also been for three terms a member of the legislature,
when in 183Y he was elected to the professorship of the theory
and practice of medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincin-
nati. He resigned this position in 1842, having in the meantime
purchased a fine fruit farm in East Rockport, five miles from the
city of Cleveland, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1843
the medical department of the Western Reserve College was
established, at Cleveland, and he filled the chair of theory and
practice in that institution until 1 864.

Besides his professional attainments. Dr. Kirtland was inter-
ested in all departments of natural history. He was an efficient
assistant in the first geological survey of Ohio, and was untiring
in his efforts to improve the horticulture and agriculture of his
adopted state.

He died at his residence in East Rockport, Dec. 11, 1877, aged
84 years. Shortly after the death of his first wife he was married
to Miss Hannah F. Toucey, of Newtown, Conn.

Of three children by his first marriage, one daughter survived
him.

1816.

Harvey Campbell died in Groton, Conn., Sept. 16, 1877, at
the age of 85. He was the son of Dr. Allen and Sarah (Kinne)
Campbell, and was born in Voluntown, Conn., Sept. 30, 1792.

He studied medicine with his father (long a successful physician
in Eastern Connecticut) and afterwards in this Medical School.
He settled in his native town and enjoyed a large practice. He
was also interested in public affairs, and repeatedly a member of
both houses of the General Assembly of the State.
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He married Sarah Cook, and after her death her sister, Eliza
Cook, who also died before him. He leaves two sons and six
daughters.

1826.

Asa Johnson Driggs was born in Middletown, Conn., about
the year 1805. While a youth he was placed in the Episcopal
Academy at Cheshire, Conn., for his education, and on leaving
school entered the office of Professor Eli Ives of New Haven, as
a student of medicine.

Upon graduation he began practice in Cheshire, and during the
next year was married to a daughter of Rev. Reuben Ives (Y. C.
1786), the Rector of the Episcopal church in that town. In 1828
his wife died, leaving one son who is still living. Immediately
after this he went to the island of Trinidad and served for a few
years as physician on several plantations there. He then resumed
his practice in Cheshire, and for more than a generation continued
the beloved and respected physician of that community. He died
there suddenly, of paralysis, March 16, 1878, aged 73 years.

1827.

George Dyer died in Trumbull, Conn., May 8, 1878, asjed 75
years. He was born in Windham, Conn., in August, 1802, the
son of Benjamin Dyer, a druggist in Windham, and grandson of
Eliphalet Dyer (Y. C. 1740), a member of Congress from Connec-
ticut and afterwards Chief Justice of the State.

He began the study of medicine with Dr. Chester Hunt, of
Windham, and after taking his degree established himself in prac-
tice in Greenfield Hill, Conn., but not finding a good opening there
removed about 1 832 to Trumbull, Conn., where he continued in
active practice for forty years. He was attacked about five years
before his death with softening of the brain, and failed gradually
in mental and physical strength. He took an interest in local
politics, and once represented Trumbull in the State Legislature.

He married when about 60 years of age, and his wife survives
him without children.

1829.

James Beakes Coleman died in Trenton, N. J., Dec. 19, 1877,
in the 72d year of his age.

He was a native of Trenton, and received his early education
there, where he also spent some years with an apothecary and

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became a good practical chemist, before beginning the study of
medicine. After graduating, he spent nearly two years in Phila-
delphia, and then practiced in Burlington County, N. J., until
1837 when he returned to Trenton, his home for the rest of his
life. He was for this entire period a general practitioner, though
especially skillful as a surgeon, and exercising his inventive genius,
not only in contriving mechanical appliances for use in his profes-
sion, but also in other ways. For instance, in 1841, while physi-
cian of the State Prison, he was the first to introduce forced ven-
tilation by means of a blowing-fan. He wrote largely for the
press, in the line of his profession and the useful arts, and in the
way of general literature, both prose and poetry. He was the
President of the State Medical Society in 1855.

His wife, who was a sister of Chief Justice Beasley of New
Jersey, died in February, 1876.

Seth Shove, long a practicing physician in Katonah, Westches-
ter County, N. Y., died in that place, Febr. 24, 1878, aged 73
years.

1834.

Noah Henry Byington was born in Bristol, Conn., Sept. 26,
1809, and died in Southington, Conn., Dec. 29, 1877, aged 68
years.

His medical studies were begun with his elder brother, Charles
Byington, M. D. (Yale 1821), of Bristol, and continued in New
Haven and Philadelphia. On receiving his degree he began the
practice of his profession in Wolcott, Conn., where he resided
until 1849, when he removed to Southington, where he continued
in active service until the attack of diphtheria which closed his
life after a fortnight's illness. He had represented both Wolcott
and Southington in the State Legislature, and had taken special
interest in all educational matters.

1840.

Edmund Randolph Peaslee, son of James and Abigail (Chase)
Peaslee, was born in Newton, N. H., Jan. 22, 1814.

He graduated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., in 1836,
and after a year spent in teaching in Lebanon, N. H., returned to
the college as tutor. He retired from the tutorship in 1839, hav-
ing in the meantime begun his professional studies in the Medical
School connected with Dartmouth, and then continuing them in

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New Haven. In 1841 he began practice as a physician in Hano-
ver, and a year later became Professor of Anatomy and Physi-
ology in the college. This chair he continued to fill until 1 8'70.
He was also appointed lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery in
Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1843, and was made professor of these
branches in the same college in 1845, retaining the position until
1857, and also continuing to act as Professor of Surgery until
1860. In 1851 he was appointed Professor of Physiology and
Pathology in the New York Medical College, of N. Y. City, and
in 1858 (in which year he removed his residence from Hanover to
New York) he accepted the Professorship of Obstetrics in the
same institution, which he held until 1860. From the date of his
removal to New York he took a leading position in his profession,
making a specialty of the diseases of women, and particularly
of ovariotomy. His treatise on Ovarian Tumors, published in
1872, is the standard authority on that subject. He also published
in 1854 a work on Human Histology, and was a frequent and
valued contributor to the medical journals. In 1872 he was
elected Professor of Gynaecology in Dartmouth College, and in
1874 Gynaecology was made a separate chair in Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, N. Y., and he was elected the first Professor.
He filled many positions of honor in various Medical Associations
of New York. In 1859 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
on him by Dartmouth College.

After an unusually exhausting series of professional engage-
ments, he was attacked with pneumonia, and died after a week's
illness, Jan. 21, 1878, aged 64 years.

He was married, July 11, 1841, to Martha T., daughter of Hon.
Stephen Kendrick, of Lebanon, N. H., who survives him with one
son and one daughter. The son was graduated at this College in
1872.

1843.

Charles Barnes Whittlesey, only son of John S. and Phebe
(Barnes) Whittlesey, was born in New Britain, Conn., Sept. 13,
1820.

He came to New Haven in 1840, and after his graduation
established himself here as a druggist, continuing in the business
until his death. Dr. Whittlesey was respected and successful as
a business man, and honored wherever known as an earnest Chris-
tian. From 1857 until his death he was a deacon of the First

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Church. He died in New Haven, after a brief illness, Jan. 27,
1878, in his 58th year.
He was married in 1851 to E. Antoinette Wilcoxson, of Milan,
O. She with four of their six children — one son and three
daughters — survives him.
1844.

George Anson Moody, son of Dr. Anson (Y. C. 1814) and
' Clarissa (Collins) Moody, was born in Palmer, Mass., Feb. 20,
1821.

After preliminary medical studies with his father he entered
this school, and in June of the year of his graduation settled in
Plainville, Conn., where he remained in active practice for a third
of a century. During this entire period he was eminently useful
and enjoyed the respect of the community. For some years he
had been affected with rheumatism, and his very sudden death, on
I Nov. 23, 1877, was caused by the disease reaching the heart.

Dr. Moody was married in November, 1844, to Nancy E. San-
ford, of North Haven, Conn., who survives him. Two sons died
in early childhood, and two sons (one of them now a member of
the medical department) and a daughter are still living.

1848.

Henry Clinton Porter, fourth son and youngest child of
Horace and Hannah (Frisbee) Porter, was born in Waterbury,
Conn., April 20, 1825.

He was prepared, in the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Conn.,
to enter the Academical Department of this College, but obliged
to give up his intention for family reasons, and decided on the
profession of medicine. In 1846 he went to Towanda, Pa., and
after beginning his studies with Dr. Houston of that place,
returned to New Haven to obtain a degree. On graduating he
entered into partnership with Dr. Houston, at the same time
carrying on business as a druggist. After four or five years he
withdrew from active practice to devote himself entirely to the drug
business, in which by integrity and good judgment he was highly
successful. He died of apoplexy, at his home in Towanda, March
17, 1877, in his 52d year.

He was married in 1850, to Eliza E., daughter of N. M. Betts,
of Towanda, and had three children — two sons and a daughter — >.
who with their mother are still living.

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1856.

Elijah Gregory was born in Danbury, Conn., Oct. 9, 1833.
He began the study of his profession with Dr. E. P. Bennett of
that town.

After graduation he practiced medicine for a year in Lakeville,
Conn., was then for two years in Lenox, Mass., and for the two
following years in North Salem, N. Y. His health here failed
him, but he was able after a brief rest in Danbury to begin prac-
tice again, in Bridgeport, Conn., in the fall of 1861. In August,
1862, he joined the IVth Regiment, Conn. Volunteers, as Assist-
ant Surgeon, and served until the close of the war. He then
returned to Bridgeport, where he continued in active practice
until his sudden death, Oct. 5, 1877, at the age of 44.

He was married in 1857 to Josephine Shepard, of Bethel, Conn.,
who survives him with one son.

1869.

Daniel Poll was born in Dresden, Saxony, in 1831. Being
implicated in the revolutionary movements of 1848, he came to
this country, settled in New York City as a physician, and was
there married. He soon after removed to Williamsburgh, N. Y.,
and thence to Meriden, Conn. About 1864 he settled in Hart-
ford, Conn., and soon became a favorite physician among the Ger-
man population of that city. In 1868 he received the appoint-
ment of " physician for the poor" in Hartford, and performed the
duties of that office for three years in succession, to the public sat-
isfaction. In 1876 he lost his wife, and his later days were not
prosperous.

He died in Hartford, of kidney disease, Apr. 3, 1877, aged 46.
He left two children.

Hanford Lyon Wixon, son of LeGrand and Roxana Wixon,
was born in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 30, 1844, and died in the
same city, June 30, 1877, aged 33 years.

Dr. Wixon had practiced medicine in this city since his gradu-
ation. He died, after a long illness, of typho-malarial fever. He
was not married.

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LAW DEPARTMENT.

1853.

John Day Ferguson, son of John and Helen G. (Morewood)
Ferguson, died in Stamford, Conn., Dec. 9, 1877, aged 45 years.

He graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1851, and
practiced law in New York City and in Stamford, the place of his
family residence.

1874.

Thomas Daniel Kennedy, son of Daniel Kennedy, died at
his father's residence in New Hav^en, Conn., after a lingering
illness, of paralysis of the brain, Nov. 25, 1877, aged 28 years.

He was a graduate of the New Haven High School, and after
studying law (partly in the office of Timothy J. Fox, Esq.) began
practice in this city. In April, 1875, he was elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket as one of the representatives of New Haven in the
State Legislature. His health, always delicate, prevented his
further participation in business or politics after the year 1875.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1854.

Stephen Lyford Crosby, second son of Dr. Josiah and Olive
L. (Avery) Crosby, was born July 15, 1833, and died at his moth-
er's house in Manchester, N. H., Nov. 29, 1875.

He entered the school from Manchester, and fitted himself for
the profession of a civil engineer. In 1859 he went to Peru, and
was occupied there, especially in building the railroad over a por-
tion of the Andes, until 1873, when he returned to Manchester
attacked with the incipient disease of the lungs, which caused his
death. He was never married.

1865.

Theron Skeel, son of Rufus R. Skeel, was born in the city of
New York in July 1847, and died suddenly of heart-disease in
the same city, April 22, 1878.

After completing the regular course and receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy, he remained in New Haven for another
year, and was graduated civil engineer in the summer of 1866.

820

In the ensuing fall he joined a special class in steam engineering
at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and after a two years'
course received the rank of 3d Assistant Engineer in the Navy.
He served for a year in the South Pacific squadron, but was then
obliged to ask a leave of absence on account of ill health. In
1871 he was recalled to duty, and sent on the Tehuantepec Expe-
dition. While in Mexico his resignation from the navy was
accepted, and he returned to his father's house in Newburgh, N. Y.
He spent the next six months in the practical exercise of his
profession in the Washington Iron Works at Newburgh, and was
afterw^ards similarly employed in Albany and New York City.

In 1874 he opened an office in N. Y. City as consulting engi-
neer, and was busily occupied till the day of his death in scientific
researches for practical purposes, and in the construction of
important public works.

1867.

Peter Houtz Grove, son of Elias and Sabina (Houtz) Grove,
was born near Fredericksburg, Lebanon County, Pa., Nov. 23,
1845.

After graduation he became bookkeeper for the firm of Grove
Brothers, in Danville, Pa. He died of typhoid fever, at his
father's house, near Fredericksburg, Pa., Jan. 5, 1875, in his 30th
year.

He was married, July 7, 1873, to Miss May J. Baldy, of Dan-
ville, who survives him with one daughter.

1869.

Edward Whiting Johnson, eldest son of Frank and Mary
Rebecca Johnson, was born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 28, 1848, and
died in the same city, of spinal meningitis, Jan. 31, 1878, aged 29
years.

His preparatory training was received at Gen. Russell's Colle-
giate and Commercial Institute, in New Haven. After his gradu-
ation he sailed on the U. S. Flagship Lancaster, for a visit to
South America, and then spent a year in European travel. Soon
after his return he was married, Nov. 8, 1871, to Miss Alice Isa-
bella Thomas, of Hartford, Conn., and he was engaged for the
rest of his life in the banking business in Norwich, winning in
his brief career the sincere respect of the community. His wife
and one son survive him.

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1871.

Charles Woodford Griswold, son of Thomas F. and Mary
Ann (Bishop) Griswold, was born in New Britain, Conn., May
16, 1852.

He graduated at the New* Britain High School in 1868, and
then took the course in civil engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School. After receiving his degree he was employed temporarily
on the U. S. Coast Survey, and in October, 1871, went to N. Y.
City, where he filled the position of engineer of the Woodlawn
Cemetery until his death. At the end of January, 1878, he was
attacked with a disease of the brain induced by overwork, which
after two or three sleepless nights developed into acute mania.
At the urgent advice of his physician he was removed to the
asylum in Poughkeepsie, and died there, Feb. 3, 1878, in his 26th
year.

He was married, Oct. 9, 1872, to Miss Sarah L. Garrett, of
Sullivan County, N. Y., who survives him with their three chil-
dren.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

1873.

William Edward Safford was born in Oberlin, O., Apr. 11,
1850. He was graduated at Oberlin College in 1870, and imme-
diately entered this seminary.

His first stated employment in the ministry was in 1874, when
he took charge of a parish in Ashland, Wise. After one year's
service there, he removed to Hudson, Wise, where he spent two
years as acting pastor of the Congregational Church. He closed
his engagement at Hudson in the autumn of 1877, and on* Oct.
28th supplied a vacant pulpit in St. Paul, Minn. Directly after
the service he was prostrated by an attack of typhoid fever, of
which he died, in St. Paul, on the 6th of November, in his 28th
year. He was unmarried.

1876.

Charles Whittlesey Guernsey, son of Rev. Jesse Guernsey,
D.D., and Sarah L. (Whittlesey) Guernsey, was born in Derby,
Conn., Sept. 2, 1850. In his boyhood his father removed to Iowa,
residing in Dubuque from 1857 till his death in 1871. The son

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graduated at Iowa College in 1871, and after an additional year
spent at the College as tutor, he joined the Yale Divinity School.
The middle year of his course was spent in Andover Seminary.

He afterwards spent nearly a year in study and travel in Europe,
and during this time decided upon the law as his profession, and
with this in view settled in Cleveland, O., where he was admitted
to the bar in the spring of 1877. In the following autumn, after
having formed a promising business connection in the same city,
he was attacked by pneumonia. Inflammation of the lungs soon
set in, and after many weeks of great suffering he died, in Cleve-
land, Febr. 11, 1878, in his 28th year.

Samuel Lee Hillyer, son of Abraham R. and Charlotte
(Mathews) Hillyer, and grandson of Rev. Asa Hillyer (Y. C.
1786), who was for forty years pastor of the 1st Presbyterian
Church in Orange, N. J., was born in Coshocton, O., March 9,
1847. He graduated from Oberlin College, O., in 1872, and spent
the next three years in the Yale Divinity School.

Before he had completed his theological course, he received
invitations to settle in the ministry in Woodbridge, N. J., Terre
Haute, Ind., and Durham, Conn. The first of these calls he
accepted, and was installed pastor of the 1st Congregational
Church in Woodbridge, June 3, 1875. During his brief ministry
of 2^ years, a new house of worship was built, and the church
was more than doubled in numbers. In the spring of 1877 his
failing health compelled him to relinquish work for a time. His
church gave him a vacation of three months, which he spent in
Europe ; but he found himself on his return no better, and by
October his decline had been so rapid that he offered his resigna-
tion of his charge. Immediately after this he was prostrated by
a severe hemorrhage from which he never rallied. He died of
quick consumption, Nov. 28, 1877, in a railway carriage, while on
his way to Cleveland, O., the home of his wife.

He was married, Sept. 29, 1875, to Ella E., daughter of Rev.
Joseph S. Edwards, of Cleveland, who survives him.

SXJMMi^RY.

Academical Department.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1806

George Goodwin, 91,

East Hartford, Conn.,

Febr. 8, '78.

1811

Samuel Spring, 85,

East Hartford, Conn.,

Dec. 13, '77.

1815

William S. Robert, 82,

Mastic, N. T.,

Nov. 9, '77.

1817

WiUard Child, 81,

Mooers, N. Y.,

Nov. 13. '77.

Nathan R. Smith, 80,

Baltimore, Md.,

July 3, '77.

1818

Francis Bugbee, 83,

Montgomery, Ala.,

Apr. 21, '77.

Charles H. Olmsted, 80,

East Hartford, Conn.,

June 5, '78.

Henry Sherwood, 81,

Westport, Conn.,

May 5, '78.

1820

Cornelius R. Bogert, 77,

New York City,

Nov. 10, '77.

1821

Nathaniel Bouton, 79,

Concord, N. H.,

June 6, '78.

Waldo Brown, 83,

Nor walk, Conn.,

Oct. 27, '77.

1822

Maro McL. Reed, 75.

Jacksonville, 111.,

June 28, '77.

1824

Stephen Reed, 75,

Pitcsfield, Mass.,

July 12, '77.

1825

Oliver E. Huntington, 74,

Cleveland, 0.,

July 13, '77.

1827

William Atwater, 70,

New Haven, Conn.,

Sept. 10, '77.

1828

James C. Loomis, 70,

South Egremont, Mass.,

Sept. 16, '77.

Ezra Palmer, 69,

Boston, Mass.,

May 23, '78.

William Wolcott, 77,

Kalamazoo, Mich.,

June 3, '77.

1829

Thomas A. Spence, 67,

Washington, D. C,

Nov. 10, '77.

1830

William M. Tallman, 70,

Janesville, Wise,

May 13, '78.

1833

Josiah Clark, 64,

Northampton, Mass.,

May 30, '78.

1834

Samuel G. Southmayd, 66,

Middletown, Conn.,

Oct. 9, '77.

1835

Alexander S. Johnson, 60,

Nassau, Bahama Isl.,

Jan. 26. '78

1837

Sheldon Leavitt, 58,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Oct. 26, '76.

1839

Philander Button, 65,

Greenwich, Conn.,

May 21, '78.

Rufus P. Cutler, 62,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Dec. 9, '77.

1840

Elijah B. Huntington, 61,

South Coventry, Conn.,

Dec. 27, '77.

1841

WiUiam H. Clarke, 56,

Augusta, Ga..

Aug. 10, '77.

1843

Charles Cramer, 53,

Waterford, N. Y.,

Sept. 3, '76.

WilUam G. Lane, 53,

Sandusky, 0.,

Oct. 28, '77.

1844

John Jackson, 59,

Boston, Mass.,

Jan. 23, '77.

1846

Albert H. Barnes, 52,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

May 6, '78.

1847

George N. Cleaveland, 51,

Westport, Conn.,

Oct. 30, '77.

Amos S. Darrow, 52.

Donaldsonville, La.,

Aug. 10, '77.

Charles A. Nichols, 51,

Somerville, Mass.,

Oct. 20, '77.

William Sharp, 65,

Dover, Del.,

Sept. 13, '76.

((

Thomas Y. Simons, 49,

Charleston, S. C,

Apr. 30, '78.

1850

Patrick C. Massie, 48,

Lynchburgh, Va.,

Sept. 29, '77.

1852

Henry E. Phelps, 44,

Jersey City, N. J.,

June 29, '77.

1853

Charles Townsend, 46,

Haslach, Germany,

Sept. 1, '77.

1854

Willard C. Flagg, 48,

Moro, 111.,

March 30, '78

Orson C. Sparrow, 45,

Valdosta, Ga.,

Sept. 13, '77.

1856

Lewis E. Mills, 41,

Florence, Italy,

Apr. 10, '78.

1857

1. Selden Spencer, 41,

Skipwith, Miss.,

June 3, '78.

1858

Edward A. Manice, 39,

New York City,

Dec. 4, '77.

George F. Smith, 37,

West Chester, Pa.,

Oct. 18, '77.

1860

Edward Boltwood, 38,

Cairo, Egypt,

Febr. 6, '78.

1867

Beverly Allen, 31,

St. Louis, Mo.,

Jan. 26, '76.

Henry W. Payne, 33,

Mentone, France,

Febr. 8, '78.

324

ClasB.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Df'.ath.

1867

Moses Strong, 31,

Flambeau River, Wise,

Aug. 18, '77.

1869

T. Walter Swan. 31,

Pilatka, Fla.,

March 7, '78.

1871

Frank M. Parsons, 29,

Little Rock, Ark.,

Oct. 3, '77.

1873

Ebenezer H. Buckingham, 27

, Omaha, Nebr.,

Nov. 28, '77.

((

John F. Chase, 26,

New York City,

Apr. 19, '76.

1875

Harmanus M. Welch, Jr., 23.

New York City,

Sept. 18, '77.

Medical Department.

1815

Jared P. Kirtland, 84,

East Rockport, 0.,

Dec. 11, '77.

1816

Harvey Campbell, 85,

Groton, Conn.,

Sept. 16, '77.

1826

Asa J. Driggs, 73,

Cheshire, Conn.,

March 16, '78.

1827

George Dyer, 75,

Trumbull, Conn.,

May 8, '78.

1829

James B. Coleman. 71,

Trenton, N. J.,

Dec. 19, '77.

((

Seth Shove, 73,

Katonah, N. Y.,

Febr. 24, '78.

1834

Noah H. Byington, 68,

Southington, Conn,,

Dec. 29. '77.

1840

Edmund R. Peaslee, 64,

New York City,

Jan. 21, '78.

1843

Charles B. Whittlesey, 57,

New Haven, Conn.,

Jan. 27, '78.

1844

George A. Moody, 56,

Plainville, Conn.,

Nov. 23, '77.

1848

Henry C. Porter, 52,

Towanda, Pa.,

March 17, '77.

1856

Elijah Gregory, 44,

Bridgeport, Conn.,

Oct. 5, '77.

1869

Daniel Poll, 46,

Hartford, Conn.,

Apr. 3, '77.

((

Hanford L. Wixon, 33,

New Haven, Conn.,

June 30, '77.

Department op Law.

1853

John D. Ferguson, 45,

Stamford, Conn.,

Dec. 9, '77.

1874

Thomas D. Kennedy, 28,

New Haven, Conn.,

Nov. 25, '77.

1854
1865
1867
1869
1871

Department of Philosophy and the Arts.
{Sheffield Scientific School.)

Stephen L. Crosby, 42,
Theron Skeel, 30,
Peter H. Grove, 29,
Edward W. Johnson, 29,
Charles W. Griswold, 25,

Manchester, N. H.,
New York City,
Fredericksburg, Pa.,
Norwich, Conn.,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,

Theological Department.

1873 William E. Safford, 27,
1875 Charles W. Guernsey, 27,
" S. Lee HUlyer, 30,

St. Paul, Minn.,
Cleveland, 0.,
New York,

Nov. 29, '75.
Apr. 22, '78.
Jan. 5, '75.
Jan. 31, '78.
Febr. 3, '78.

Nov. 6, '77.
Febr. 11, '78.
Nov. 28, '77.

The number of deaths reported above is 79, and the average age of the gradu-
ates of the Academical Department is 58 years.

Of the 55 Academical graduates, 15 were lawyers, 11 in business, 7 clergymen,
7 doctors, and 4 teachers.

The deaths are distributed as follows : — in Connecticut, 23 ; in New York, 14;
in Massachusetts, 6 ; in OMo and Pennsylvania, 4 each ; in New Hampshire, New
Jersey, and Wisconsin, 2 each ; and the remainder in as many different States or
countries.

The oldest surviving graduate is Seth Pierce, of Cornwall, Conn., of the Class
of 1806, who was bom May 16, 1785.

INDEX

Class. Page.

1867 AUen, Beverly, _ 309

1827 Atwater, WiUiam, 291

1846 Barnes, Albert H., 302

1820 Bogert. Cornelius R., 288

1860 Boltwood, Edward, 309

1821 Bouton, Nathaniel, .288

1821 Brown, Waldo, _. 289

1873 Buckingham, Ebenezer H., 311

1818 Bugbee, Francis,. _ 287

1839 Button, PhUander, 297

1834 TO Bjrington, Noah H., 315

1816 m Campbell, Harvey, 313

1873 Chase, John F., 312

1817 Child, Willard, 285

1833 Clark, Josiah, 295

1 841 Clarke, WilHam H., 300

1847 Cleaveland, George N., 302

1829 TO Coleman, James B., 314

1843 Cramer, Charles, 300

1854 s Crosby, Stephen L., 319

1839 Cutler, Rufus P., - 298

1 847 Darrow, Amos S., 302

1826 TO Driggs, Asa J., 314

1827 TO Dyer, George, 314

1853 I Ferguson, John D., ..! 319

1 854 Flagg, Willard C, 306

1 806 Goodwin, George, . 283

1856 TO Gregory, Elijah, _ 318

1871 s Griswold, Charles W., 321

1867 s Grove, Peter H., .._ 320

1875 t Guernsey, Charles W., 321

1875 t Hillyer, S. Lee, ..., 322

1840 Huntington, Elijah B., 299

1825 Huntington, Oliver E., 291

1 844 Jackson, John, 301

1835 Johnson, Alexander S., --- 296
1869 s Johnson, Edward W., 320

1874 I Kennedy, Thomas D , 319

1815 TO Eartland, Jared P., 312

1843 Lane, William G 301

Class. Page.

1 837 Leavitt, Sheldon, _ 297

1828 Loomis, James C, 292

1858 Manice, Edward A., 308

1850 Massie, Patrick C, 304

1856 Mills, Lewis E., 307

1844 TO Moody, George A., 317

1847 Nichols, Charles A., 303

1818 Olmsted, Charles H., 287

1828 Palmer, Ezra, _ 292

1871 Parsons, Frank M., 311

1867 Payne, Henry W., 310

1840 TO Peaslee, Edmund R., 315

1852 Phelps, Henry E., 305

1869 TO Poll, Daniel, 318

1848 TO Porter, Henry C, _ 317

1822 Reed, Maro McL , 289

1 824 Reed, Stephen, _ 290

1815 Robert, William S., 285

1873 t Safford, William E., 321

1847 Sharp, William, 303

1818 Sherwood, Henry, 288

1829 TO Shove, Seth, 315

1847 Simons, Thomas Y., 304

1865 s Skeel, Theron, 319

1858 Smith, George F., 308

1817 Smith, Nathan R., 286

1834 Southmayd, Samuel G., -.. 295

1854 Sparrow, Orson C, - 306

1829 Spence, Thomas A., 293

1857 Spencer, L Selden, 307

1811 Spring, Samuel, _ 284

1867 Strong, Moses, 310

1869 Swan, T. Walter, .310

1830 Tallman, William M., 294

1853 Townsend, Charles, 305

1875 Welch, Harmanus M., Jr.,. 312

1843 TO Whittlesey, Charles B., ..- 316

1869 TO Wixon, Hanford L., 318

1 828 Wolcott, William, 293

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1879,
including the record of a few who died a short
time previous, hitherto unreported.

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GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending June^ 1879, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hitherto unreported.

[Presented at the Meeting op the Alumni, June 25, 18t9.]
[No. 9 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 38 of the whole Eecord.]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1810.

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, the last surviving member of
the Class of 1810, died at his residence in Kingston, N. Y., after
a few days' illness, Feb. 23, 1879, in the 88th year of his age.
He was born in Kingston, Nov. 29, 1791, of mingled Huguenot and
Dutch descent, his mother being a Miss Wynkoop, and his father
Jonathan Hasbrouck, a county judge under the first Constitution
of New York State.

He entered the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, under Judges
Reeve and Gould, in 1812, and after continuing his studies with
Elisha Williams, Esq., of Hudson, N. Y., began practice in
Kingston in 1814. Three years later he formed a co-partnership
with Charles H. Ruggles, Esq., which existed till the appointment
of Mr. Ruggles to the bench in 1831 ; and in the fall of 1833 he
formed a similar connection with Marius Schoonmaker, Esq., (Y. C.
1830). Meantime he had served one term in Congress (1825-27)
as a representative of Ulster and Sullivan Counties. But neither
the practice of his profession nor political life proved so con-
genial to his tastes as the offer, in 1840, of the Presidency of
Rutgers College, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was inducted into
this office on September 15 of that year, and did much during the
ten years which followed to upbuild and strengthen that institution.

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His scholarly attainments, his high religious character, and the
dignity and courtesy of his manner combined to secure the sub-
stantial success of his administration. The degree of Doctor of
Laws was conferred on him by Columbia College in 1840 and by
Union College in 1841. He resigned in 1850, and after about five
years' residence in New York City, removed to his native town,
where he spent the remainder of his life in dignified retirement.
A large family of children survived him, one daughter being the
wife of Gen. George H. Sharpe, of Kingston, and another the
wife of Judge Joseph F. Barnard (Y. C. 1841), of Poughkeepsie.

Daniel Robert, of Huguenot descent, the eldest son of Dr.
Daniel and Mary (Smith) Robert, was born at Mastic, in the town
of Brookhaven, L. I., Nov. 15, 1792, and died at New Utrecht,
L. I., Aug. 21, 1878. A brother graduated at this College in the
class of 1815.

He studied law at the Litchfield Law School, and was
admitted to the bar of New York City in 1815. In 1819 he
was appointed by Gov. DeWitt Clinton, Judge Advocate of the
First Brigade of Artillery, New York State Militia, a position
which he held for several years. In 1822 he was licensed as a
counsellor in chancery, and won a good position by his attainments.

He continued to practice law in the city of New York with
success, until the year 1836, when he retired to a farm in New
Utrecht, on account of the health of his children; here he spent
the remainder of his days in the quiet enjoyment of rural life,
never holding any public office.

He was married June 27, 1827, to Jane, daughter of John
Cowenhoven, of New Utrecht, by whom he had three sons and
two daughters.

He died of ascites, after an illness of three weeks, his death
being principally caused by a gradual decay of the vital powers,
his mind being clear to the last. His wife and all his children
survive him.

1811.

Heney Robinson, elder son of Deacon Samuel and Content
(Robinson) Robinson, of Guilford, Conn., was born in that town,
Dec. 20, 1788.

After leaving college he taught in an academy in Wethersfield,
Conn., and in 1813 entered the Theological Seminary in Andover,
Mass., where he finished the course in 1816. In 1817 he accepted

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a tutorship in Bowdoin College, but resigned after one year's
service. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church
in Litchfield South Farms (now Morris), Conn., Apr. 30, 1823, and
was dismissed from this charge in poor health, Oct. 27, 1829. His
succeeding pastorates were all in Connecticut, as follows : — Con-
gregational Church in Suffield, June 1, 1831 — Apr. 29, 1837*
North Killingly, now East Putnam, Nov. 20, 1838 — Apr. 1, 1845 ;
Plainfield, Apr. 14, 1847— Apr. 10, 1856. The rest of his life was
spent in retirement in his native town, where he died, of pneu-
monia, Sept. 14, 1878, in the 90th year of his age.

He was married, June 11, 1823, to Wealthy T., daughter of
William Brown, of East Guilford, now Madison, Conn. She died
March 24, 1833, leaving three children. He was again married,
Apr. 8, 1835, to Mary C, widow of Spencer Judd, of Springfield,
Mass., and daughter of Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Gay (Y. C. 1787), of
Sufiield, Conn., who survives him, with one son (a graduate of this
College in 1863) and one daughter.

1814.

Augustus Floyd, second son of NicoU and Phebe (Gelston)
Floyd^ and a grandson of William Floyd, a signer of the Decla-
ration of Independence, was born May 28, 1795, in Mastic, L. I.,
where he died, suddenly, Sept. 25, 1878.

He studied law, and in 1817 was admitted to the bar in New
York City, where he continued in practice until 1849, when — owing
to an almost total loss of hearing — he retired to the village of
Yaphank, near his birthplace, where he led henceforth a very
secluded life. He was never married.

1817.

Augustus Lyman Chapin, second son of Moses A. and Lucina
(Graves) Chapin, was born in West Springfield, Mass., Jan. 16,
1795, and entered this College in 1814. A powerful revival of
religion occurred in College in the spring of 1815, and in conse-
quence his thoughts were turned towards the ministry of the
gospel.

After graduating he was engaged in teaching in Georgetown,
D. C, and in Maryland, for some two and a half years, and in the
summer of 1820 he entered the Theological Seminary at Prince-
ton, N. J., where he spent upwards of two years. In October,
1822, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Bruns-

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wick, and after leaving the Seminary was engaged in missionary
labors in Western New York, and as temporary supply for the
churches of Clarkson, Madison, and Wolcott in that state. By
reason of illness he was partially disabled for two or three years
after this, though preaching so far as health allowed during this
interval, in West Stockbridge, Mass., and in Andover, Conn. In
1829 he went to Oxford, N. Y., where he labored for one and a half
years, being ordained as an evangelist in Sept., 1830, by the
Presbytery of Chenango. He then served as stated supply for
two years in Walton, N. Y., and was married, May 12, 1831, to
Abby, daughter of Col. Stephen Hayes, of Newark, N. J. In
November, 1833, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Lexington Heights, N. Y., where he remained till 1841,
when he removed to Gal way, N. Y., in which place and in neigh-
boring towns he preached as he was able for three years. From
1844 to 1849 he acted as stated supply to the churches of Ley den
and West Turin, N. Y., and then returned to Galway and
preached in the vicinity for four years more. He then removed
to Amsterdam, N. Y., where he remained till 1868, continuing
meanwhile to labor in the ministry as opportunity offered.

The later years of his life were spent with a married daughter
in Galesburg, 111., where his wife died, March 23, 1873, and where
his own death occurred, after a brief illness, Nov. 7, 1878.

Of his four children, two only survived childhood, one of whom
graduated at Amherst College in 1858, and has been since 1863 a
missionary in China.

1819.

Maltby Strong, fourth son of Rev. Joseph Strong (Y. C. 1784)
and Sophia (Woodbridge) Strong, was born in Heath, Mass.,
Nov. 24, 1796, his father being then settled over the church in
that town. Two of his elder brothers were graduated here in
1812 and 1815.

After leaving college he attended a course of lectures at the
Yale Medical School, and then entered the office of his brother.
Dr. Woodbridge Strong, of Boston, as a student, and attended
two courses of lectures at Harvard University. In 1822, he accom-
panied Dr. Nathan Smith, the head of the Yale Medical School^
to Brunswick, Me., as private pupil and surgical assistant in a
course of lectures, and while there received the degree of M.D.
from Bowdoin College. He then began the practice of medicine
in South Hadley, and pursued it with success for several years.

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In 1831 he removed to Rochester, N. T., where he continued to
practice his profession. In 1832 he engaged in the business of
milling flour in connection with his eldest brother, Hon. Joseph
Strong. This business, and other employments, such as the pur-
chase and sale of real estate, engrossed his attention for some
years, to the exclusion of his profession ; but he subsequently
resumed practice, and did not finally relinquish it until about ten
years before his death. In 1854 he was elected Mayor of the city,
and held the oflice for one term. He was intelligently interested
in all public affairs, and especially in the improvement of the
educational privileges of Rochester.

He was married, Sept. 9, 1835, to Miss Eliza B., daughter of
Joseph E. Sprague, of Salem, Mass., who survives him, without
children. He died in Rochester, Aug. 5, 1878, in his 82d year.

1820.

Henry Jones, younger son of Major Daniel Jones, of Hartford,
Conn., was bom in that city, Oct. 16, 1801. His mother was
Rhoda, daughter of Dr. Charles Mather (Y. C. 1763).

He studied theology for four years in the Andover Theol. Sem-
inary, and was settled as pastor of the Second Congregational
Church in New Britain, Conn., Oct. 12, 1825. He was dismissed
from this charge, Dec. 19, 1827, and in the following October
opened a high school for young ladies in Greenfield, Mass. He
removed in 1838 to Bridgeport, Conn., where he opened in Decem-
ber of that year the " Cottage School" for young men, which he
conducted with success until 1865. The remainder of his days
was spent in retirement at his home on Golden Hill in Bridge-
port, where he died after a brief illness, of angina pectoris, Nov.
9, 1878, at the age of 77.

He was married, Sept. 5, 1826, to Eliza S., daughter of Dr.
Noah Webster, the lexicographer (Y. C. 1778), of New Haven,
who survives him. Of their four children, one daughter and one
son (a graduate of this college in 1865) are still living.

1822.

Joseph Hungerford Brainerd, eldest child of Joseph S. and
Hannah (Hungerford) Brainerd, was born in Chatham, now Port-
land, Conn., March 22, 1801. His parents removed in 1803 to
Troy, N. Y., and in 1808 to St. Albans, Vt. He spent two and
a half years in the University of Vermont, and then entered Yale.

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After graduation and about a year spent in teaching in Bryan
County, Ga., he returned to St. Albans and studied law with
Hon. Asa Aldis. He was admitted to practice in September,
1825, and soon opened a law oflSce in St. Albans. In 1831, 1832
and 1833, he was elected one of the Executive Council of the
State, — a body which was superseded by the present State senate.
In 1831 he also became editor and proprietor of an anti-masonic
paper in St. Albans, called the Franklin Journal, which he con-
ducted for about five years. In April, 1834, he was appointed
Clerk of the Courts of Franklin County, which office he held
until his resignation in August, 1872. For forty years before his
death he was one of the deacons of the Congregational Church in
St. Albans. After a useful and honored life, he died at the
family homestead, March 28, 1879, aged 78 years.

He was married. May 8, 1839, to Fanny, daughter of Deacon
Cotton Partridge, of Hatfield, Mass., who died May 10, 1848.
He was again married, May 26, 1857, to Mrs. Hannah H. Whit-
ney, a sister of his late wife, and the widow of David S. Whitney,
of Northampton, Mass. She died Nov. 18, 1859. Of his four
children, all by the first marriage, a son died in prison at Ander-
sonville, Ga., in 1864, and a daughter died in childhood; the
second son (a graduate of this College in 1867) and the younger
daughter are still living.

HoRAiio Nelson Brinsmade, son of Dr. Thomas C. and Eliza-
beth (Goodwin) Brinsmade, was born in New Hartford, Conn.,
Dec. 28, 1798.

He spent the year after leaving college in Princeton (N. J.)
Theol. Seminary, and then became an instructor in the American
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, Conn., where he
continued for eight years. In the meantime he completed his
professional studies with Rev. Joel Hawes of Hartford, and was
ordained to the work of the ministry by the Hartford North
Association of Congregational ministers, June 1, 1828. In 1831
he removed to Collinsville, a rising manufacturing village in
Canton, Conn, (a township formed from New Hartford and Sims-
bury in 1806), where he gathered a Congregational Church to
which he ministered until the fall of 1834, when he was called to
the charge of the First Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Mass.
From Pittsfield he was called in 1841 to the Third Presbyterian
Church of Newark, N. J. He resigned this charge in October,
1853, on account of his wife's health, and removed to Beloit,

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Wise, where he remained till her death in October, 1864. Dur-
ing a part of this time he was pastor (1854-61) of the First Con-
gregational Church in Beloit, and a temporary instructor in
Beloit College.

In 1864 he returned to Newark, and the next year gathered a
chapel congregation to which he ministered with success, as in all
his earlier pastorates, until his retirement within a few years of
his death. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on
him by Union College in 1842.

He died suddenly, of paralysis of the heart, at his residence in
Newark, Jan. 18, 1879, at the age of 80.

He was married, Sept. 9, 1825, to Maria S., only daughter of
Rev. Joseph Washburn (Y. C. 1793), of Farmington, Conn., who
died June 25, 1831 ; his second wife was Amelia, daughter of
Alexander Collins, of Middletown, Conn., whom he married Apr.
29, 1833; after her death he was again married, Jan. 1, 1866, to
Anna M., daughter of Deacon George Turner, of Great Barring-
ton, Mass., who survives him.

His children, two sons by his first marriage, and two sons by
his second, all died in infancy.

Am AS A Gaillard Poutee, son of Rev. Amasa Porter (Y. C.
1793) and Sarah (Bliss) Porter, was born in Derby, Conn., where
his father was then pastor, Sept. 20, 1803. An elder brother
graduated in the class before him.

He studied law in New Haven in the school of Messrs. Staples
& Hitchcock, and for ten years from 1825, practiced his profes-
sion in Hebron, Conn. He then settled in New Haven, where he
continued to reside till his death, April 29, 1879, in the 76th year
of his age. He was never married.

James Watson Robbins, son of Ammi R. and Salome Robbins,
of Colebrook, Conn., and grandson of Rev. Ammi R. Robbins
(Y. C. 1760), of Norfolk, Conn., was born in Colebrook, Nov. 18,
1801.

For a few months after graduation he taught in Enfield, Conn.,
and then went to Virginia, where he was similarly employed for
some three years, in the family of Hon. Wm. L. Brent, and in the
Peyton family at Warrenton, and at Arlington, where Robert E.
Lee, afterwards general-in-chief of the Confederate army, was pre-
pared by him for West Point.

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Returning to New Haven in the latter part of 1825, he began
the study of medicine, graduating in 1828. He spent six months
of the year 1829 in a botanical exploration of the New England
States ; and in this way formed the acquaintance of Dr. George
Willard (Brown Univ. 1808), of Uxbridge, Mass., who induced
him to settle in that town. He practiced medicine in Uxbridge
(at first in partnership with Dr. Willard) for thirty years, until
1859, when he accepted an appointment as physician and surgeon
of several copper mining companies near Portage Lake, Lake
Superior. During his professional life he had devoted himself
largely to botany, gathering a valuable library, second, it is
believed, to no private botanical library in the country ; and in
the four years of his residence near Lake Superior, he made exten-
sive botanical researches, and these were followed by a tour in
1863-4 down the Mississippi to Texas and Cuba, which resulted
in very valuable collections. He then returned to Uxbridge,
where he spent the remainder of his life, mostly retired from
medical practice and devoting his leisure to his favorite pursuit.
He died there, Jan. 10, 1879, in his 78th year, of a disease of the
kidneys, caused by the presence of trichinoB. He was unmarried.

1823.

Mabtin Bull Bassett died at his residence in Birmingham,
Conn., May 15, 1879, aged 77 years.

He was born in Hebron, Conn., May 14, 1802. His father was
the Kev. Amos Bassett, D.D., a graduate of this college in 1784,
and a member of the Corporation from 1810 to 1827, and for
thirty years pastor of the Church in Hebron. His mother was
Sophia Bull from Farmington.

After graduation he studied medicine with Dr. Isaac Jennings,
of Derby, taking also a partial course in the Yale Medical School.

In 1831 he was married to Caroline Tomlinson, of Huntington,
Conn., and went to Ohio, where he began to practice his profes-
sion. In a short time, however, he returned east on account of
delicate health, and having inherited a large farm near Birming-
ham, he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits and
in the management of his other property. His early associations
in his father's family left their trace in his ardent love for theo-
logical studies and his earnest Christian life.

His wife survives him with four daughters out of a family of
eight children.

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David Mack, son of Gen. David Mack, of Middlefield, Mass.,
was born in that town, May 23, 1804. He first entered Williams
College, but after two years joined the corresponding class here.

He studied law with his uncle. Judge Mack, of Salem, Mass.,
and for a time in the Yale Law School, and began the practice of
the profession in Andover, Mass., but found it so distasteful to
his sensitive nature that he early abandoned it for the vocation of
a teacher. A special faculty for imparting knowledge made him
unusually successful in his work. He was the principal of the
Friends' Academy, in New Bedford, Mass., from December, 1831,
to May, 1836, and was married in 1835 to Lucy M. K. Brastow,
also a teacher. He next with his wife's assistance conducted a
boarding and day school for young ladies in Cambridge, Mass.,
which was very successful until, in 1841-2, his desire to assist in
making Christianity a practical part of every-day life induced
him to join an " Industrial and Educational Association," in which
all the participants were to have equal advantages. Disappointed
in the working of this intended reform, Mr. Mack and his wife
opened in 1847 another boarding school for young ladies, about
three miles from Cambridge, in that part of Watertown which is
now Belmont. This also was very prosperous for some years.

In the late civil war he was so desirous to serve his country in
some way that he went to South Carolina as a teacher of the con-
trabands, the abolition of slavery having been for years one of
his most ardent desires.

In the last few years he remained in Belmont, suffering from
heart-disease, of which he died, in that town, July 24, 1878, sur-
rounded by his family — his wife, an only son, who is a physician
in Atlanta, Ga., and two surviving daughters.

William Gordon VerPlanck, eldest son of William Beekman
VerPlanck and his wife Matilda, daughter of Gen. James Gordon,
was born, Oct. 12, 1801, and entered college from Mount Pleasant,
Saratoga County, N. Y.

For some years he cultivated a farm in Saratoga County, near
Ballston, and in 1849 removed to Geneva, N. Y., and was em-
ployed in the old bank of Geneva until 1853. After brief periods
of residence in Barrytown, N. Y., and Dubuque, Iowa, he was
appointed in 1859 warden of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the
Insane, in New York City, in which office he remained until Jan-
uary, 1877, when he returned to Geneva, where he died at the
residence of his son, March 30, 1879, in his 78th year.

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He married, Feb. 21, 1826, Maiy Elizabeth, daughter of Hon.
Samuel M. Hopkins (Y. C. 1791), LL.D. Of his four children,
one son and one daughter survive him.

1824.

Jeremiah Townsend Denison, the eldest of eleven children
of Captain Henry and Julia Anna (Townsend) Denison, was born
in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 6, 1806, and died in Fairfield, Conn.,
Apr. 25, 1879, aged 73 years.

The most of the year after graduation he spent in Europe, and
while there he decided on his profession, and began the study of
medicine in Paris. On returning to New Haven he continued his
studies in the Yale Medical School, and received his degree in
1828. In the same year he began practice at Warehouse Point,
in East Windsor, Conn., but one year later removed his office to
New Haven, where he was married, Sept. 7, 1830, to Miss Euretta
Rosevelt, a niece of his medical preceptor, Dr. Knight. In 1833 he
was induced by the request of prominent citizens in Fairfield to
establish himself there, and there his residence continued till his
death. His wife died in Fairfield in March, 1841, and he was
again married, March 16, 1842, to Miss Esther Judson Goodsell,
an adopted daughter of Deacon David Judson, of Fairfield, who
died March 12, 1 863. His third wife, Mrs. Maria Meeker, to whom
he was married. May 3, 1869, died on the 18th of August follow-
ing. His children were two, both by the first marriage, a son,
who is still living, and a daughter who married Dr. Myron N.
Chamberlin (Y. C. 1857), and died in 1873.

About the year 1850 Dr. Denison adopted the practice of
homoeopathy, and in 1851 he was one of the founders and the first
president of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society. He
filled at difi*erent times various local offices, such as postmaster
and judge of probate, and through life retained the high respect
of his fellow-townsmen as a Christian gentleman.

Dennis Platt, the son of Ebenezer and Anna (Hoyt) Platt,
was born in the southern part of Danbury, now Bethel, Conn.,
Sept. 26, 1800.

He began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School in
the fall of 1824, but left in the following winter to take charge of
a female academy in New London, Conn. In the fall of 1826 he
returned to New Haven, but ended his course in August, 1827,

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when he went to Willimantic^ Conn., in the employ of the Home
Missionary Society, lie was ordained at North Coventry, Conn.,
as an evangelist, Apr. 30, 1828, and was installed March 31, 1830,
over the Congregational Church in Canterbury, Conn. He left
this charge, Jan. 1, 1833, and after preaching for six months at
Greeneville, near Norwich, Conn., removed to Homer, N. Y.,
where he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church from March 12,
1834, to Aug. 15, 1842. He was then settled over the Presbyterian
Church in Manlius, N. Y., from Oct. 5, 1842, till Feb. 25, 1845,
when he removed to Syracuse, N. Y., and became a joint editor
and proprietor of the Meligious Recorder, From Oct. 20, 1846,
till early in 1853, he was pastor of the Congregational Church in
Binghamton, N. Y. In the fall of the latter year he removed to
South Norwalk, Conn., where he remained till his death by apo-
plexy, Oct. 21, 1878, at the age of 78. For the first six years of
his residence there, he was the district secretary of the Western
College Society, and subsequently as opportunity offered did much
useful work as a home missionary in Fairfield County.

He was married, June 16, 1828, to Caroline, daughter of Jabez
Dwight, of New Haven, Conn. Of their five children two died
in infancy, and one son while a member of the Freshman class in
this College.

Justus Sherwood, son of Justus and Sally (Bradley) Sher-
wood, was born in Southport, Conn., Feb. 5, 1805.

After graduation he remained in New Haven and attended
three courses of lectures in the Medical School, receiving his de-
gree in 1827. He then settled in his native place, where he con-
tinued in practice until his death there, Dec. 3, 1878, in his 74th
year.

He married in 1827 Henrietta Isaacs, daughter of David Butler,
of New Haven. She died in 1844, leaving one son and four
daughters.

1825.

Richard Smith, the youngest son of Deacon Paul Smith, of
Sharon, Conn., was born in that town, Aug. 7, 1802. After grad-
uation he spent a year in teaching in Maryland, and then attended
one course of lectures in the Law School at New Haven and com-
pleted his preparation for the bar in the office of Gen. Charles F.
Sedgwick in Sharon. He was admitted to practice in 1829, and
opened an office in Sharon, but his father's decease endowing him

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with a competency, including a large landed estate, and his tastes
inclining him to agricultural employments, he gave much of his
time to the care of his farm, and for many of the later years of
his life ceased to attend the courts. After a long and honored
life, in the summer of 1878 his usual good health gave way under
the pressure of age, and he died at his home in Sharon, Dec. 21,
aged 16 years.

He was married, in April, 1830, to Hannah, daughter of Deacon
Aaron Read, of Sharon, who died in June, 1831, leaving a son
who yet survives. He was again married, in 1832, to Lydia Ann,
daughter of Judge Moulton of Western New York. She died a
year later, leaving one daughter who is still living. In 1836 he
married Miss Catherine Hubbell, of Bennington, Vt., who survives
him.

1826.

James Creighton Odiorne was born in London, England,
June 4, 1802. His father, George Odiorne, was a merchant of
Boston, Mass., and while spending two years in England for pur-
poses connected with his business, he married as his third wife
Maria, daughter of Rev. James Creighton (Univ. of Dublin,
1764), an intimate associate of John Wesley.

The family came to America in the summer of 1802, and James
was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover.

He was married, June 25, 1828, to Susan Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of Isaac Warren, Esq., of Framingham, Mass., and in
the same year became a partner with his father in the iron and
nail trade in Boston, but retired from business in 1837. In 1867
he removed to Framingham, continuing however to spend the
winters in part in Boston, where his wife died, Jan. 9, 1851. He
was again married, June 8, 1870, to Frances M., youngest daughter
of George Meacham, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass. He died sud-
denly, in Wellesley, Mass., Feb. 5, 1879, while on the cars in a
journey from Framingham to Boston.

After his retirement from business he indulged his tastes for
historical and scientific studies, and also gave considerable atten-
tion to the law. In 1830 he took a deep interest in the movement
against the Free Masons, and published a volume of 300 pages,
entitled *' Opinions on Speculative Masonry." In 1832 he assisted
in the formation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and
for many years he served as its Treasurer, He was also an active
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Society of Natural History. In 1875 he published a Genealogy
of the Odiorne Family (222 pages, octavo).

Of the four sons and two daughters by his first marriage, three
sons and one daughter survive him.

Robert Gozman Rankin, son of Henry and Ann (Marsh) Ran-
kin, was bom in New York City, June 29, 1806, and entered
college as Sophomore in 1823.

After leaving College he began the study of the law with Peter
DeWitt, Esq., of New York, and a year later removed to the
Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. He was admitted to practice in
New York City in October, 1829, and was in full tide of success
when a bronchial difficulty forced him to seek a more active out-
of-door life. In 1837 he removed to Fishkill, and ultimately
became largely engaged in cotton and iron manufactures. In
1850 he changed his residence to Poughkeepsie, and in 1852 to
Astoria, L. I., to engage in business as a consulting engineer. In
1859 he removed to Washington Heights, and was for a time
Superintendent of the Institution for the Blind. From 1863 he
resided in Newburgh, where he died Aug. 29, 1878, aged 72 years.
He had been during his latter years the general agent and con-
sulting engineer of the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Com-
pany and of its successor, the New York & New England Rail-
road Company, having been as early as 1847 the first projector of
the present Hudson River Railroad, as well as of the roads just
named. At the time of his death he was the oldest Regent of the
University of the State of New York, having been elected in 1847.
He was practically interested in philanthropic and religious work,
founding, for instance, and carrying on till his death, a mission
Sunday School in Newburgh.

In March, 1831, he married Miss Laura M., daughter of Hon.
Frederick Wolcott (Y. C. 1786), of Litchfield, Conn., by whom he
had four sons and six daughters.

1828.

William Bushnell was born in Westbrook, then a village in
Saybrook, Conn., April 14, 1801, and died in East Boston, Mass.,
April 28, 1879.

At the age of 16 he left home to learn a trade in New Haven,
where he remained until reaching his majority. During the later
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progress here, by means of which his interest was directed towards
the ministry as his personal work. It remained to prepare himself
for college, and then, after receiving his degi-ee, and after a year
spent in teaching, as principal of the academy in Greenwich, Conn.,
he entered the Yale Divinity School, where he finished the course
in 1832. On August 8, of that year, he was ordained and installed
over the Congregational Church in North Killingly, now East
Putnam, Conn., where he remained until Apr. 8, 1835. He then
accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Whippany, N. J.,
which he left in the following June. On Jan. 3, 1838, he was
settled over the Congregational Church in Beverly, Mass., where
he continued until called to the First Congregational Church in
Newton, Mass., in May, 1843. His relations to this church ended
with the close of the year 1846, when he became Secretary of the
American Seaman's Friend Society in Boston. In consequence of
failing health he deemed it necessary in 1855 to abandon this
occupation, and also to give up the idea of a return to the ministry.
He took up the study of medicine, receiving the degree of M. D.
from the Pennsylvania University in 1858, and practiced after the
homoeopathic system in East Boston till his death.

He was married in May, 1832, to Miss Juliette Post, of West-
brook, who survives him with one son of his five children.

George Beige Hoffman died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 11,
1879, in the 71st year of his age, the last surviving son of
George and Henrietta (Rogers) Hoffman. His father was a
prominent merchant of Baltimore, and one of his brothers was
graduated here in the Class of 1827.

On taking his degree he returned to his native city and entered
the dry-goods store of Hoffman & Co., as clerk. After retaining
this position sufficiently long to become thoroughly acquainted
with the business, he became a partner in the firm of Hoffman,
Burneston & Co. About 1864 he retired from business, and then
spent several years in Europe. On his return to Maryland he pur-
chased as a residence the estate known as " Waltham" in Queen
Anne County.

Mr. Hoffman married Louisa, daughter of Gen. Benjamin C.
Howard (College of JST. J. 1809), who died in November, 1876.
They left no children.

Alfeed Newton, son of Noah and Olive (Cheney) Newton,
was born in Colchester, Conn., Nov. 11, 1803. An older brother

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graduated here in 1818. He received his early education in the
common schools, and served as clerk in a country store until the
spring of 1823, when he began to prepare for college, with the
design of becoming a minister. He entered as Sophomore in
1825, and after graduating engaged in teaching school, to earn
the means of continuing his studies. From 1831 to 1834 he
served as tutor in college, at the same time pursuing the regular
course in the Divinity School. In the spring of 1835 he was invited
to supply the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church in Norwalk,
Ohio, and while in this connection was ordained to the ministrv
by the Presbytery of Huron, Sept. 30, 1835. After serving as
stated supply of this church until 1838, he was installed its pastor
on July 24 of that year, and sustained that relation until Aug. 1,
1870. He remained as pastor emeritus of the church and a resi-
dent of the town until his death there, Dec. 31, 1878, at the age
of 75. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him
by Hamilton College in 1861.

His wife, to whom he was married Aug. 14, 1837, survives him.

1829.

William Frederick Clemson, youngest son of Thomas and
Elizabeth Clemson, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Sept. 8,
1811. He died Feb. 17, 1879, at his residence in New York City.

He entered college at the age of fourteen, and after graduation
read law under the direction of Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, an
eminent attorney of Philadelphia, but he early relinquished the
profession for other pursuits. His tastes led him to extensive
reading, particularly in theological subjects, and in the arts and
mechanics, as well as in general literature.

He married early, and his wife survives him without children.

Henry Sherman, who died in Washington, D. C, March 28,
1879, was the third son of Josiah and Hannah (Jones) Sherman,
of Albany, N. Y., where he was born March 6, 1808.

He spent a part of the first year after graduation in the Prince-
ton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, and then took up the study of
law in the Yale Law School, returning in 1832 to his home in
Albany, and there entering his profession. He soon removed to
New York City, and while practicing there published in 1841 a
" Digest of the Law of Marine Insurance," which ran through
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History of the U. S.," for use in schools. In 1850 he removed to
Hartford, Conn., and there published (1858) a work on slavery,
and (1860) an enlarged edition of his History. In 1861 he re-
moved to Washington, and was employed until 1868 in connection
with one of the bureaus of the Treasury Department. In 1868
he resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, in
which he continued until his death (which occurred, after a three
weeks' illness, from erysipelas), being at that time of the law firm
of Sherman & AtLee. Mr. Sherman was a personal friend of
President Lincoln, who on the morning before his assassination
tendered him the Chief Justiceship of the Territory of New
Mexico ; his commission was afterwards sent him by President
Johnson, but he resigned the office very soon.

He was married, Sept. 20, 1843, to Miss Anna Amelia, daughter
of Michael Burnham, Esq., publisher of the New York Evening
Post. She survives him with three of their five children.

1831.

Alpheus Staekey Williams, son of Ezra and Hepzibah
(Starkey) Williams, was born in Essex, then a part of the town
of Saybrook, Conn., Sept. 20, 18] 0.

He studied law, in part in the Yale Law School, and then
traveled through Europe, during the years 1834-36. On his
return to this country he removed to Detroit, Mich., and there
began the practice of his profession. From 1840 to 1844 he was
County Judge of Probate, besides filling other local offices of
trust. He was also editor and proprietor of the Detroit Daily
Advertiser from 1843 to 1848. He served in the Mexican War
as Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Michigan Volunteers, and on his
return was made Brigadier General of the state Militia, and
Major General in 1859. In 1861 he was commissioned Brigadier
General of Volunteers in the Union Army. His career during
the late war comprised a brilliant succession of exploits, as com-
mander of the 12th Army Corps at South Mountain, Antietam,
and Gettysburg, and as commander of the first division of the
20th Corps in the march to Atlanta. He participated in every
movement and in every battle from Chattanooga to the close of
the war, and won in an unusual degree throughout his army
career the regards of all associated with him or under his com-
mand. In 1 865 he was sent by Gen. Sherman to command a
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that he was discharged from service. In August, 1866, he was
appointed Minister-Resident to San Salvador, Central America,
which office he retained until October, 1869. In 1874 he was
nominated by the Democratic party, and was elected Representa-
tive in Congress for the 1st District of Michigan, and was re-elected
in 1876. The purity of his Congressional career is evidenced by
the hearty approval won at all hands by his administration as
chairman of the House Committee on the District of Columbia
and by the expressions of feeling elicited by his death. He died
in Washington, from the effects of an apoplectic stroke, Dec. 21,
1878, at the age of 68.

He was married in February, 1839, to Mrs. Jane Larned Pinson
of Detroit. After her death he was married, in 1875, to Mrs.
Martha Conant Tillman, also of Detroit, who survives him, with
two daughters and one son by his first marriage.

1833.

Samuel Henshaw Bates, eldest son of Hon. Isaac C. Bates
(Y. C. 1802), U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, and of Martha,
daughter of Judge Samuel Henshaw, was born in Northampton,
Mass., Jan. 10, 1814, and was prepared for college at the Round
Hill School in that town, under the charge of Messrs. Cogswell
& Bancroft.

He studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar, and
remained in his father's office in Northampton for a year or two ;
but soon relinquished his profession to engage in farming. Near
the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted for three years as a
private, in the 24th Regiment Mass. Volunteers, declining a com-
mission. He was engaged in all the early battles in North
Carolina under General Foster, and was then transferred with his
regiment to the vicinity of Charleston. At Fort Wagner he
suffered two severe sunstrokes, which impaired his previously
vigorous constitution and prevented his re-enlistment. He subse-
quently spent several years as clerk in the War and Treasury
departments at Washington, thence returning for about two years
to his native town. He then bought a small farm in East Brook-
field, Mass., but found himself unequal to the labor of managing
it ; and started for California with a nephew, hoping for benefit
to his health from that climate. But pulmonary disease had set
in, which was aggravated by his journey, and proved fatal at
Santa Rosa, California, Jan. 3, 1879. He was not married.

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1834.

John Newton Kendall, son of Joshua and Laura (Goodrich)
Kendall, of Granby, Conn., was born in Granby, Feb. 4, 1813.

After graduation he went to Natchez, Miss., where he taught a
school, and found employment as a surveyor and civil engineer.
In 1840 he removed to Alabama, and for five years resided in
Autauga County in that State. He began the study of medicine
in 1843, and in 1847 received the degree of M. D. from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. From that time he resided almost unin-
terruptedly in Benton, Lowndes County, Alabama, engaged as a
physician and druggist, until his death there of disease of the
heart, Aug. 18, 1877, at the age of 64i| years.

Dr. Kendall married, July 23, 1840, Miss Jane Fairchild, of
Granby. He was again married, Nov. 23, 1852, to Miss Sallie R.
Riggs, of Dallas County, Alabama, who survives him. He had
nine children by his second marriage.

Amasa Udolphin Lyon, son of Amasa and Perley (Penniman)
Lyon, was born in Woodstock, Conn., Jan. 31, 1813.

After his graduation he studied law, for a year in Southbridge,
Mass., and then in the J^aw School of Harvard University. On
the completion of his studies he settled in New York City, and
began business as an attorney, acting as clerk of one of the courts
for a time, and afterwards being in partnership with Judge
Young. About 1850 a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism
interrupted his practice for an entire winter, and compelled him
subsequently to seek out-door employment for a time. He them
engaged in the preparation of brown stone for building purposes,
his establishment being one of the earliest steam stone-dressing
yards in the city. After some years he disposed of his business
to advantage, and returned to the practice of law. Later, he
took charge of extensive iron works in New Jersey, and after his
retirement from this position spent the few remaining years of his
life in travel, and in the quiet exercise of Christian beneficence.
After suffering from an incurable disease for one or two years, he
died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1878, at the
age of 65.

He married, in November, 1840, Miss Mary Esther, daughter
of Rev. Samuel Backus (Union College, 1811), of East Wood-
stock, Conn., and Palmer, Mass. He survived his wife 21 years,
and left two sons.

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1836.

William Seward Piersox, the eldest son of Dr. William S.
Pierson (Y. C. 1808), was born in Durham, Conn., March 28,
1815 ; his mother was Nancy, daughter of Jacob Sargeant, of
Hartford, Conn. In December, 1818, his father removed to
Windsor, Conn., from which place he entered College.

He studied law with Gov. Wm. W. Ellsworth (Y. C. 1810), of
Hartford, and in the Yale Law School, and was admitted to the
bar, in Hartford, November, 1838, and in New York City, Sep-
tember, 1839. He practiced law in New York, in partnership
with Frederick E. Mather, Esq. (Y. C. 1833), until compelled
by the failure of his health to retire .from active professional
labors. In 1853 he removed to Sandusky, Ohio; and while resid-
ing there was chosen Mayor of the city in April, 1861, at a time
when he was able by his position to contribute largely to the sup-
port of the government in the first part of the struggle with
rebellion. He was subsequently appointed to the command of
the Hoffman Battalion (a body of soldiers organized for special
duty as guard of the rebel officers held prisoners on Johnson's
Island in Sandusky Bay), with the rank of major, and was pro-
moted by successive steps to the rank of Brigadier General of
Volunteers.

In June, 1864, he removed to Windsor, and spent the last
fifteen years of his life on his father's homestead, in uneventful
but very active attention to a wide range of business, both per-
sonal and as a trust for others, for which his integrity and judg-
ment fitted him in a rare degree. He died very suddenly, April
18, 1879, of congestion of the lungs, in Keene, N. H., where he
had been called by the death of a relative.

General Pierson was married, on the twelfth of October, 1840, to
Miss Mary E. Beers, daughter of Dr. Timothy P. Beers, for nearly
thirty years a Professor in the Medical School of Yale College,
and a classmate and lifelong friend of his father. His wife sur-
vives him.

He was the fifth in direct descent from the first Rector of Yale
College. As he had no children and no brothers who attained
maturity, and as his father was the only son of an only son, the
male line of this branch of Rector Pierson's descendants termin-
ated with him, in one who was well worthy to close the line of a
worthy ancestry.

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1837.

Henry Williams was born in Elizabethtown, N. J., Sept. 12,
1818, and entered this College from Savannah, Ga., at the begin-
ning of the Sophomore Year.

He studied law for the first year after graduation in Savannah,
and later in the Law School of Harvard University. In 1840 he
began practice in Savannah, and there continued, highly respected
in his profession, until his death, after a brief illness, July 11,
1878, in his 60th year. During the late civil war he was a Lieu-
tenant of the L'ish Volunteers from Savannah. He was for a
number of years a member of the city Board of Education.

He was married, Nov. 27, 1845, to Wilhelmina, daughter of
Hon. John Berrien, of Savannah, who survives him with several
children.

1839.

Charles Hammond, son of Dr. Shubael and Polly (Paul)
Hammond, was born in Union, Conn., June 15, 1813.

He was prepared for college at the academy in Monson, Mass.,
and on graduation returned to it for two years as Principal. He
then spent three years in the study of divinity, one at Andover,
and two at New Haven ; but in 1845 resumed the charge of the
Monson Academy, which he now retained until 1852. From 1852
to 1863 he was the Principal of the Lawrence Academy, in Groton,
Mass., but in the latter year resigned to return to Monson, where
he remained at his old post until his death.

Dr. Hammond (he received the degree of LL.D, from Iowa
College, in 1877) deserves to be remembered as a thorough and
successful teacher, greatly interested in all educational interests
and methods, and especially strong in his loyalty to his Alma
Mater ; he was also a keen lover of historical studies, and had at
his command a rare knowledge of New England history.

He was ordained, without pastoral charge, at Tolland, Conn.,
Oct. 9, 1856, by the Consociation of Tolland County.

He was married, March 27, 1855, to Adriana S., daughter of
Rev. Dr. William Allen, of Northampton, Mass., and grand-
daughter of Pres. John Wheelock, of Dartmouth College, who
survives him. Twin sons were born to them in 1856, one of whom
died in the same year ; the other died in 1866 — a blow from which
Dr. Hammond never completely rallied. He died in Monson, after
a painful illness of two months, caused by stone in the bladder,
Nov. 7, 1878, in his 66th year.

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1840.

Charles Smith Shelton, who died at hia residence in Jersey
City, K J., May 21, 1879, was the second son and fourth and
youngest child of George and Betsey (Wooster) Shelton, of
Huntington, Conn., where he was bom Aug. 28, 1819.

He studied medicine in New Haven, receiving his degree in
1844, but after entering on his profession took a partial course in
theology, was licensed to preach by the Fairfield (Conn.) East
Association of Congregational Ministers, March 28, 1848, and
went in the same year to Southern India as missionary physician and
surgeon under the appointment of the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions. He was stationed at Madura,
until in consequence of the severity of the climate and the
exhausting duties of his profession his health was utterly broken
down and he was compelled to return to America in 1856. He
resided successively in Davenport, Iowa (1856-59), in Springfield,
111., (1859-67), and in Jersey City (1867-79), vainly seeking a
restoration of health, and in the meantime practicing as a physi-
cian and surgeon as he was able. During the late civil war he
also served for two years as surgeon to a Missouri Engineer
Corps. Through life the same missionary spirit which had in-
spired his service in India made him a consistent minister to the
spiritual as well as to the physical sufferings of his fellow-men.

Dr. Shelton was married, July 6, 1848, to Henrietta Mills, third
daughter of Zabdiel and Julia (Ely) Hyde, of New York City.
His wife and their children — three daughters and one son —
survive him. The son graduated at this College in 1877.

George Thacher, son of Peter and Anne (Parks) Thacher,
was born in Hartford, Conn., July 25, 1817, and died in the same
city, of disease of the brain and heart, Dec. 27, 1878, aged 61
years.

He studied for three years in the Yale Divinity School, and
began preaching in June, 1843, in the Congregational Church
in Derby, Conn,, where he was ordained pastor, Jan. 4, 1844.
From this charge he was dismissed, Oct. 10, 1848, to accept a call
to the Congregational Church in Nantucket, Mass., over which
he was settled from Nov. 14, 1848, to May 14, 1850. He was
then installed, May 26, 1850, over the Allen St. Presbyterian
Church in New York City, of which he continued pastor until his
resignation, Oct. 9, 1854. His succeeding pastorates were over

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the 1st Congregational Church, Meriden, Conn. (Nov. 16, 1854-
Sept. 18, 1860), and the Orthodox Congregational Church, Keokuk,
Iowa (Oct. 30, 1860— Apr. 8, 1867). He then spent some months
in Europe, and in October, 1868, took temporary charge of the
church in Waterloo, Iowa. From this service he was called to
the Presidency of the State University of Iowa, which office he
filled from April, 1871, till June, 1877. He then took charge of
the Congregational Church in Iowa City, but the state of his
health, which had caused his resignation of the presidency, put
an end to his public work in the following March. He returned
shortly after to the East, to die among his kindred.

He was married, in April, 1844, to Miss Sarah M., daughter of
Rev. Noah Smith (Dartmouth Coll. 1818), of South Britain, Conn.
After her death (July 12, 1850), he was married, Aug. 27, 1851,
to her younger sister. Miss Mary S. Smith, who is still living.
His children — two by the first marriage, and one by the second —
died before him.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him, both
by Knox College and by Iowa College, in 1871.

1841.

Philip Hiss Austen was born in Baltimore, Md., June 26,
1822. He studied medicine at home, and received his degree from
the University of Maryland in February, 1846. For eighteen
months he practiced his profession in Baltimore, and then spent
two years for the sake of his health on a farm some twenty miles
from the city. He then pursued a course of study in the Baltimore
Dental College, where he also gave instruction for many years
later. From 1851 to 1856 he was again in general practice as a
physician in Baltimore, and for the next nine years devoted him-
self to dental surgery. His healfh then requiring a more active
life, he became and continued for some years the secretary and
general superintendent of the Austen coal and iron mines, in
Preston County, West Virginia, of which he was part owner.

On the morning of the 1st of October, 1878, Dr. Austen was
aroused at his residence in Baltimore by a sound as of burglars
in the house, and while going down the stairs he made a misstep
and in consequence was fearfully burned by the flames from a
candle in his hand coming in contact with his clothing. He was
at the time just recovering from an illness, and the exhaustion of
vital energy from this accident caused his death, on the 28th of
the same month, at the age of 56.

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He married, Oct. 13, 1852, Virginia, daughter of John Dushane,
who survives him with three daughters.

Joseph Brown, son of Othniel and Martha Brown, was born
in Wickford, R. L, in 1813, but removed with his parents in his
infancy to Genesee County, N. Y., his residence while in college.

After graduation he taught in Western New York, and in a
Female Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pa., until 1848, at the same time
pursuing the study of theology. In the fall of 1848 he went to
Gallipolis, O., organized a Baptist church, and was ordained to
the ministry. In 1850 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the
1st Baptist Church in Springfield, O., where he remained for ten
years, and during this period took a full theological course in the
Lutheran Seminary in connection with Wittenberg College in
Springfield. His next pastorate was over the 1st Baptist Church
in Terre Haute, Ind., where he continued (with the exception of
two years spent in Charleston, 111.) until 1870, when he moved to
Indianapolis. He was then for five years the Corresponding
Secretary and Agent of the Baptist State Convention, but the
failure of his health obliged him to give up all work in 1875. He
died, after a long and trying illness, in Indianapolis, Aug. 11, 1878.

He was married, Aug. 20, 1844, to Miss Harriet M. Thursby, of
New Haven, Conn., who survives him. Of their three sons and
two daughters, one son died shortly before him.

1842.

Horace Cowles Atwater, second son of Ezra and Esther
(Leaming) Atwater, was born in Homer, Cortland County, N. Y.,
March 14, 1819.

He studied for three years in the Yale Divinity School, and
during these three years, being a licensed preacher of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, preached in Westville and other neighbor-
ing places. He then spent twelve years in ministerial work in
connection with the Methodist denomination in Southern New
England, being ordained at Fall Kiver, Mass., Apr. 3, 1847. In
1857 he went to the West, and was employed for some years in
evangelistic work under the auspices of the Congregational
churches. His longest settlement was in Alexandria, Ohio, from
1861 to 1867. Through the period preceding the late war, he had
been an ardent anti-slavery man, and after its close he removed
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chiefly in North Carolina and Tennessee, under the direction of
the Presbyterian Church, and in 1870 settled in Elizabethton,
Tennessee, as stated supply of the church there, but after the last
presidential election was dismissed from this relation as a penalty
for his vote for Governor Hayes. His residence continued in
Elizabethton, where he died Feb. 7, 1879, at the age of 60.

He was first married, March 9, 1851, to Miss Helen M. Bourne,
by whom he had two daughters. He was divorced from his wife,
and was again married, Nov. 30, 1871, to Miss Sarah J. Lewis, of
Manchester, Conn., by whom he had one son who died in infancy.

Samuel Lynes, from New York City, was born Dec. 1, 1821.
He lived for two years after graduation in Allentown, Pa., teaching
in an academy and devoting his leisure to the study of medicine.
Returning then to New York City, he pursued his studies there,
and received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, March 7, 1846. The next month he became a
resident of Norwalk, Conn., where he spent the remainder of his
life, engaged in the practice of his profession. For some six years
before his death his health was seriously impaired by malarial
fever, but the immediate cause of death was a partial sunstroke,
received about the middle of July, 1878. He died in Norwalk,
July 29, aged 56^ years.

He was married, Aug. 22, 1854, to Miss Sarah R., daughter of
Justin R. Bush, of Greenwich, Conn., who died the next month,
Sept. 27. He was married, June 23, 1858, to Miss Emily A.,
daughter of Charles Sperry, Esq., of Norwalk, who survives him
with three of their four children.

At the time of his death Dr. Lynes was president of the Fair-
field County Savings Bank, treasurer of the Norwalk Fire Insur-
ance Company, and director in the National Bank of Norwalk,
and held many other less prominent positions of trust. He had
in former years represented Norwalk in the State Legislature,
and was a trustee of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane in
Middletown, from 1871 to 1876.

1843.

Eli Sims Shorter was born in Monticello, Ga., March 15,
1823, and entered college from Irwinton, near Eufaula, Alabama.

After graduating he returned to Eufaula, where he studied law
and entered on its practice. Subsequently, however, he relin-
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he was elected a Representative in Congress by the Democratic
}jarty in his district, and was re-elected two years later. In 1859
he declined to be again a candidate.

He was married, Jan. 12, 1848, to Miss Fannin, of Georgia, by
whom he had several children. He died in Eufaula, April 29,
1879, aged 56 years.

1844.

Rockwell Emerson, born in Norfolk, Conn., Feb. 23, 1823,
was the son of Rev. Dr. Ralph Emerson (Y. C. 1811) and Eliza
(Rockwell) Emerson. In 1829 his father resigned the pastoral
charge of the Congregational Church in Norfolk to accept a pro-
fessorship in the Theol. Seminary at Andover, Mass., which he re-
tained for 25 years.

The son was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
and after graduation spent three years as a student in the law
office of Hon. Willis Hall (Y. C. 1824) at Albany, N. Y. He was
admitted an attorney and counsellor at law in 1847, and practiced
his profession in the city of New York until his death. He died
in Flushing, L. I. (where he had resided for about two years),
June 21, 1878, at the age of 55. His widow, Mrs. Mary (Hawley)
Emerson, survives him, with one son and four daughters.

Henry Huntley Haioht, elder son of Hon. Fletcher M.
Haight (Hamilton Coll. 1818) and Elizabeth S. MacLachlan Haight,
was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 20, 1825.

He studied law in Rochester, until October, 1846, when he re-
moved with his father to St. Louis, Mo., where he was admitted
to the bar in July, 1847. He then entered into partnership with
his father, but left in November, 1849, for San Francisco, where
he arrived in Jan., 1850, and established himself as a lawyer. He
was at one time in partnership with Gen. James A. McDougall,
and afterwards with his father (who followed him to San Francisco
in 1854) until the appointment of the latter as U. S. Judge for
the Southern District of California in 1861. He was eminently
successful in his chosen profession, and secured such public esteem
that he was chosen Governor of the State for the term of four
years beginning in December, 1867. His administration won for
him additional honor, but he preferred to return to private life
and spent his remaining years in the quiet practice of his profes-
sion in San Francisco, his residence being in Alameda. He had
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heart, and had found some relief in the practice of taking steam-
baths. On Sept. 2, 1878, he left his office in San Francisco and
went to the bath-house, but while there was seized with an acute
attack and died a few minutes later ; the cause of death was
found by an examination to be aneurism of the aorta.

He was married, Jan. 24, 1855, to Anna E., daughter of Capt.
Lewis Bissell, of St. Louis, who survives him with four children.

1845.

James Noaille Brickell was born in Columbia, S. C, of
Huguenot descent, June 5, 1823, and had been a member of the
College of Charleston, S. C, before entering the Sophomore Class
in this College. In his boyhood his family had removed to Ten-
nessee, and later to Madison County, Mississippi.

Immediately on graduation he began the study of law in Mis-
sissippi, and in July, 1848, was admitted to practice. He settled
in New Orleans in 1849 and there engaged in his profession until
the breaking out of the war. He disbelieved in the wisdom of
secession, but as soon as the Louisiana Convention had joined in
the movement, he volunteered as a private. After serving for
fifteen months in the field in Virginia, he was made 1st Lieutenant
of Ordnance, and served in that capacity — refusing all offers of
higher position — till the close of the war. He then returned to
New Orleans, and resumed his professional duties, accepting in
good faith the results of the past struggle. But in the years
which followed, his experience and observation of the evils of the
military government of the state led him into vigorous and un-
tiring opposition by tongue and pen. In the opinion of his asso-
ciates at the bar, he was a lawyer of unusual ability, and in
happier times would have reached and adorned the bench. About
1873 he was prostrated by a severe attack of pleurisy, from the
effects of which he never perfectly recovered, and after a gradual
failure of his vital powers he was stricken with paralysis and died
on Sept. 26, 1877, at the age of 54. He was never married.

Andrew Flinn Dickson, son of Rev. John Dickson, was born
in Charleston, S. C, Nov. 8, 1825. His mother was a daughter
of Rev. Andrew Flinn, D.D., the first pastor of the 2d Presbyte-
rian Church in Charleston.

After graduation he began to teach in his native city, but was
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his father's health. He taught in Cincinnati for about a year, and
after his father's death, in 1847, entered Lane Theological Semi-
nary in that city. The next year he returned to ]Sew Haven,
and was connected with the Yale Divinity School until January,
1850. In the meantime he had been licensed to preach by the
Middlesex (Conn.) Association of Congregational Ministers, and
having been married, Jan. 7, 1850, to Miss A. H. Woodhull, of
Long Island, he took charge of the Presbyterian Churches of
John's Island and Wadmalaw, near Charleston, in which out of a
membership of 360, 330 were colored people. After serving in
this position for some years and acting for a short time as an
agent of the American Tract Society, he took charge in 1856 of
the Presbyterian Church in Orangeburg, S. C, and left this posi-
tion to become a chaplain in the Confederate service during the
late war. His next pastoral charge was over the Canal Street
Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1868 to 1871. He
subsequently served the church in Wilmington, N. C, for about
18 months, and then the church in Chester, S. C, for three years.
The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church
having established an Institute for the training of colored min-
isters at Tuscaloosa, Ala., he was appointed its first professor and
entered on his duties in October, 1876. While filling this posi-
tion he died, in Tuscaloosa, after two days' illness, of pleurisy,
Jan. 8, 1879, aged 53 years. His wife with nine children survives
him.

Mr. Dickson had published, in 1856 and 1860, two series of
" Plantation Sermons," and in 1872 a volume on the "Temptation
in the Desert." He was also, in 1878, the successful competitor
for the prize established by the late Hon. Richard Fletcher, by an
essay entitled, " The Light — is it waning ?"

He was of marked ability as a preacher, and especially earnest
and successful in the work to which he devoted his first and last
efiTorts in the ministry, the spiritual elevation of the colored race.

John Grant, son of Deacon Elijah and Elizabeth (Phelps)
Grant, was born in Colebrook, Conn., Aug. 29, 1822.

After graduation he taught for a short time in Richmond, Va.,
and after an interval of ill-health, resumed teaching in the Acad-
emy in Woodbury, Conn. From this position he was called in
May, 1848, to a tutorship in this college, which he held till com-
mencement, 1850. For the next three years he was the principal

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of a classical school in Newark, N". J. From September, 1853, to
the autumn of 1857 he taught in New York City, and then
returned to Newark, where he resided till his death. He con-
tinued teaching till about 1869, and was subsequently employed
for some six years in the New York Custom House. He died in
Newark, July 5, 1878, aged nearly 56 years. His death was
caused by internal hemorrhage, consequent on the rupture of a
deep-seated tumor under the back-bone, between the shoulders,
which had been externally operated upon thirteen times during a
period of forty years. His life had been one of great suffering,
borne with Christian endurance.

He was married in Canton, O., Aug. 20, 1857, to Gertrude,
daughter of Samuel D. Day, who survives him with one son.

George Dana Harringtox, the youngest child of Lyman and
Al thine (Bruce) Harrington, was born in Londonderry, Vt., July
28, 1823, and came to college from Factory Point in that State.

He settled in Bennington, Vt., where he was engaged in busi-
ness for several years. He was also for some time employed in
civil engineering, — in the construction of the Central Vermont
Railroad, and in other railroad building in Canada and New
York. In 1862 he received a captain's commission as commissary
of subsistence, and was with the Northern Army in Virginia for
a timCj and later at headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. He per-
formed his duties in the service so well as to gain the especial
esteem of Gov. Tod, of Ohio, and through his influence received
a full colonel's commission. While at Columbus he became inci-
dentally interested in the condition of the State Penitentiary, and
the impulse given to spiritual work among the convicts by his
suggestions and cooperation was so marked that he was subse-
quently appointed by Gov. Cox a member of the Board of State
Charities. In connection with the U. S. Census of 1870 he was
appointed Chief Clerk of the Census Bureau, at Washington, and
was acting superintendent of the same at the time of his death.

For the last six months of his life he was a sufferer from cardial
asthma, which brought on paralysis of the brain, of which he died
in Washington, March 13, 1879, in the 56th year of his age.

He was married, June 8, 1847, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of
George Lyman, Esq., of Bennington, who survives him, with five
of their nine children. The eldest son is a graduate of Williami
College and of the Yale Divinity School.

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Richard Taylor, the only son of Gen. Zachary Taylor, twelfth
President of the United States, and of Margaret (Smith) Taylor,
was born in New Orleans, La., Jan. 27, 1826. His early years
were spent in the soldier's camp, until his father sent him about
1839 to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a drill in the classics. Three
years in Scotland and a year in France fitted him, with little other
aid, to enter on advanced standing at Harvard College, whence he
came to Yale near the beginning of the Junior Year.

He went directly from college in 1845 to his father's camp on
the Mexican frontier, in the capacity of military secretary and
aide-de-camp ; and after a year's experience at the front, as it
appeared that military operations were. temporarily suspended, he
returned to Louisiana, to seek relief from acute rheumatism which
had greatly impaired his health. During his father's brief presi-
dency he acted as private secretary, and at its close (July, 1850)
he retired to a sugar plantation in the Parish of St. Charles, about
twenty miles above New Orleans, where he was still living when
the late civil war broke out. His estate was large, and by his
marriage, in February, 1851, to Miss Myrth Bringier, a lady of
French extraction, and of an old and powerful Creole family, he
had materially increased it. He was known as a leading citizen
of Louisiana, and was in the State Senate from 1856 to 1860 ; but
the noteworthy part of his public life began with the Democratic
National Convention in 1860, at which he strongly opposed the
movement for secession. He returned to Louisiana and was a
member of the State Convention which voted secession in the
spring of 1861, and he aided in the first organization of the state
troops for the contest. In June, 1861, he accepted the colonelcy
of the 9th Louisiana Regiment, which reached Manasses Junction
in Virginia the night after the first battle of Bull Run. His first
remarkable service was in Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the
Valley of Virginia in the spring of 1862, notably at Port Republic
where the brigade which he led decided the day in favor of
the Confederate forces. For his conduct in this campaign he was
promoted by his brother-in-law. President Davis, to a Brigadier-
Generalship ; and for his share in the Seven Days' battles before
Richmond which followed, he was made a Major General and
assiscned to the command of the District of West Louisiana. He
showed great ability in organizing and supplying an army there,
and by his capture of Brashear City and its forts (in June, 1863)
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But the fall of Vicksburg speedily overthrew his plans, and even
his more famous defeat of Gen. Banks at Mansfield in the follow-
ing May gained no permanent result. In the summer of 1864 he
was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, the second grade
in the Confederate Army, and ordered to the command of the De-
partment of Alabama and Mississippi. This command, after the
surrender of Lee and Johnston, Gen. Taylor surrendered to Gen.
Canby, May 4, 1865. He returned to New Orleans to reside,
ruined in fortune, and in uncertain health. After a time the Leg-
islature of Louisiana put him in charge of some important public
works, and in 1873 he went abroad on business and remained for
a year or more. His varied accomplishments and the charm of
his manner secured for him, especially in England, a considerable
position in society, and the same was true in his own country, at
the South, and as well at the North where he spent part of his
later years.

After passing the greater part of the last winter in Wash-
ington, he came to New York to visit friends, and to finish
the revision of the proofs of a book entitled " Destruction and
Reconstruction" which was published about the 1st of April. He
had long suffered from the effects of a malignant malarial fever,
contracted in the first year of the late war, and late in March
symptoms of a severe dropsical disorganization of the system set
in. He died in New York, April 12, 1879, at the age of 53. His
wife died in 1875. He leaves three daughters.

Nathan Fox Wilbur was born in Cayuga County, N. Y.,
April 9, 1818. After graduation he taught a school for nine
months, and studied law in Seneca Falls, N. Y. Having been
admitted to the bar in January, 1848, he left his native state with
the intention of settling in the South : but in April of the same
year he visited Western Ohio, and was attracted to the town of
Piqua, in the Miami valley, as a place of residence. He was a
successful lawyer in Piqua from that time until his death. His
habits of study and close application to business, with his pro-
nounced Christian character, gave him a high position in the
community.

Pie died in Piqua, Feb. 28, 1878, in the 60th year of his age.
He was married in the spring of 1855 to Miss H. Jane Reynolds,
of New York, who survives him. Of their three children the
youngest, a daughter, is still living.

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1847.

George Gardner Barnard died in New York City, April 27,
1879, aged 50 years. He was the son of Frederic and Margaret
(Allen) Barnard, and was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1829.
Three of his brothers were graduated at this college, in the classes
of 1837, 1841 and 1848.

He studied law in Poughkeepsie, in the offices of his brother,
Joseph F. Barnard, and of Judge Barculo. On being admitted
to the bar he went to San Francisco to join another brother, a
successful practitioner of the law, who died about 1856. He then
returned to the East and opened an office in New York City, in
partnership with Joseph J. Chambers. In 1857 he was elected
Recorder, and on the expiration of his term of office in 1860 was
elected Justice of the Supreme Court, on the Tammany ticket,
through the influence of William M. Tweed. In 1868 he was re-
elected to a second term on the bench, and in the same year the
complicated litigation began in which the Erie Railway was in-
volved, culminating so far as Judge Barnard was concerned in
his impeachment by the Legislature in March, 1872. At the en-
suing trial, in August, the impeachment was sustained and he was
removed from office. His subsequent life was spent in retirement.
He had been for many years afflicted with rheumatic gout, and
to this was superadded in the last months of his life an attack of
Bright's disease of the kidneys.

He was married in 1859 to Fanny A., daughter of John Ander-
son, of New York City, who died in 1874. Two daughters and
three sons survive him.

Angelo Jackson was bom Nov. 25, 1819, and died in Wash-
ington, D. C, suddenly, of heart-disease, June 8, 1878.

He was married, about the time of graduation, to Miss Elizabeth,
daughter of Dr. Asa Whitney, formerly of West Stockbridge,
Mass. He settled in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and taught in the academy
there for three years, studying law meantime. In April, 1850, he
was admitted to the bar, and immediately began the practice of
the law. He continued to be thus engaged with fair success until
October, 1861, when he raised a company of light infantry, and
entered the service of the U. S. as First Lieutenant. He. partic-
ipated in some twenty-five or thirty battles and skirmishes, but
left the army in July, 1866, unwounded, though with his health
seriously impaired by exposure and hardships. His law-practice
having been broken up by his absence, he accepted a clerkship in
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the Treasury Department in Washington, which he held till his
death.

His wife died, suddenly, of pneumonia, in January, 1859, and
in 1863 he married Miss Margarita R. Kutz, a sister of his class-
mate, Henry 0. Kutz, of Philadelphia. She survives him with
one son. Of the three children by his first marriage, the elder
son graduated at Union College.

1848.

John Ferree Brinton, the eldest son of Ferree Brinton,
Associate Judge of Lancaster County, Pa., and of Elizabeth
(Sharpless) Brinton, was born on a farm, in that county, July 29,
1827.

He entered college in the Sophomore year, and in September
after graduation began the study of law in the office of Eli K.
Price, Esq., of Philadelphia. In June, 1851, he was admitted to
the bar; and he practiced his profession in that city until 1862
when he was obliged by the State of his health to give up busi-
ness. He then retired to a country seat in Lancaster County,
having been married, Oct. 20, 1856, to Miss Anna Binney, daugh-
ter of the late Dr. Amos Binney of Boston. In 1866, he went
abroad for his health, and having found himself benefitted
returned home in the spring of 1870 with the intention of recross-
ing the ocean in the succeeding autumn. But immediately after
his return his wife died, and the blow so entirely overthrew his
physical strength that he was unable to carry out his purpose.
From that time he lived in constant and excruciating pain,
gradually losing the use of his limbs. Death, long prayed for,
came at last on the 15th of November, 1878, at his home in
Philadelphia.

He leaves three sons and two daughters, having lost one daugh-
ter in Paris. The eldest son is a member of the present Fresh-
man Class in this college.

1849.

Edward Augustus Arnold, son of Rev. Joel R. and Julia
(Arnold) Arnold, was born, May 28, 1827, at Chester, N. H.,
where his father was then pastor. He entered this college as a
Sophomore in 1846, his father then residing in Colchester, Conn.

He spent one year after graduation in teaching in Stonington,
Conn., and then began the study of medicine at the University of
Maryland, in Baltimore, where he received his medical degree in

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March, 1852. He remained in Baltimore for another year, as a
physician, and then settled in Davenpoit, Iowa, serving at the
same time as Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department
of the State University at Keokuk. Two years later he removed
to Fort Dodge, and in ]856 to Cedar Falls, both in the same
State. In 1859 he went to Kansas, and after one year spent in
practicing his profession in Atchison, visited Colorado and New
Mexico, and finally entered the U. S. Navy in the fall of 1862. A
year later he resigned his position and settled in Indianapolis,
whence he returned to Cedar Falls in January, 1865. In 1868
he again left Cedar Falls, and went to Missouri. In 1870 he
removed to Illinois, and practiced his profession in various locali-
ties in that State for six years. He died in Vincennes, Ind., on
the 29th of September, 1877, of typho-malarial fever, having been
resident there for little more than a year.

He was married to Miss Caroline Frances Webber, of Hopkins-
ville, Ky., Nov. 8, 1866, and left several children.

Thomas Ridgway Bannan, son of John and Sarah Bannan,
was born in Orwigsburg, near Pottsville, Pa., Oct. 10, 1828, and
died suddenly from an attack of apoplexy, at his residence in
Pottsville, Pa., on Christmas evening, 1878, at the age of 50
years.

He studied law, mainly with his father in Pottsville, and was
admitted to practice there in September, 1852, where he continued
thus engaged until his death.

He was married, June 29, 1865, to Miss Alice Johnson, of Potts-
ville, who died March 24, 1866.

Chaeles Greene Came was born in Buxton, Me., Sept. 26,
1826.

After graduation he studied law in Portland, Me., being occu-
pied a part of the time in teaching and in editorial work. On his
admission to the bar, in October, 1862, he began the practice of
law in Rockland, Me., but in September of the next year returned
to Portland, where for two years he acted as assistant editor of
the Portland Advertiser while also practicing his profession.
During this time he was twice a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives of Maine. In July, 1856, he became editor in-chief of
the Advertiser^ a position which he held until May, 1857, when
he accepted a position as associate editor of the Boston Journal^
which he retained to the time of his death.

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He was married, in September, 1855, to Miss Sarah M. Lewis,
of New Haven, who died after a long and painful illness in 1877.
Soon after her death his health began to fail, and for the last few
months he was confined to his house in Boston, where he died
Jan. 16, 1879, at the age of 52. Of his four children, two daugh-
ters and a son are still living.

1850.

George Lombard Frost, son of George Frost, M. D. (Bow-
doin College, 1822) and Caroline A. Frost, was born in Springfield,
Mass., Mch. 18, 1830.

He studied law in Springfield for a year, and spent the succeed-
ing year in the Law School of Harvard University. In September
1852, he was admitted to the bar, and in the following March
removed to Mineral Point, Wise, where he remained in the active
practice of his profession until the autumn of 1869. During the
winters of 1863 and 1864 he represented Iowa County in the
State Senate. In 1869 he removed to Dodgeville, in the same
county, where he resided, honored as an able lawyer and leading
citizen, until his sudden death, while in Madison in the perform-
ance of his duty as a representative in the legislature, Feb. 15,
1879, in his 49th year. His affection for his Eastern home was so
strong that he was contemplating removal during the present
summer to Springfield, where his mother is still living.

He was maried, Sept. 10, 1852, to Miss Malvina Gaszynski, of
Boston, Mass., who died in February, 1867. He was again
married, Nov. 20, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Thomas, of Dodgeville,
who survives him. Of eight sons by his first wife, five are still
living, as also an only son by his second marriage.

1852.

Charles Downs Helmer, son of Steuben Helmer, was born
in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1827, and
entered this college from Hamilton College, N. Y., at the begin-
ning of the Junior year.

For two years after graduation he taught in the Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb in New York City, and then took the regular
three years' course in the Union Theol. Seminary. Having
declined the offer of a tutorship in this college, he then went to
Europe, for study and travel. Returning early in 1859, he
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Church in Hartford, Conn., but declining a proposition he remain
there, went to Milwaukee, Wise, where he was ordained and
installed over the Plymouth (Congregational) Church, in Septem-
ber, 1859. In 1866 he accepted a call to the Union Park Congre-
gational Church, Chicago, where he was installed on the 20th of
December. He was dismissed by his own desire from this office,
nine years from the day of his installation, and the next year
began preaching in the newly established Tompkins Avenue
Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., of which he was
formally installed the pastor, March 28, 1877. Before leaving
Chicago he had contracted a malarial fever, from which he had
not entirely recovered when he began work again in Brooklyn.
His work was in consequence much interrupted, and on returning
from a long absence in the fall of 1878, he was almost immedi-
ately prostrated again, and was obliged to resign his pastorate.
He died at the residence of a brother in Lockport, N. Y., April
28, 1879, in the 52d year of his age. He was buried in Milwaukee,
by the side of three of his children.

He was married, Dec. 25, 1861, to Miss Susan R., daughter of
James Bonnell, of Milwaukee, who survives him with one son
and one daughter.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was tendered him by Beloit
College in 1875, but he refused to accept or use the title. He
delivered by appointment a poem before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of Yale College at the Commencement in 1862, which was
printed.

Charles Linn^us Ives, only child of Dr. N. Beers Ives
(Y. C. 1826) and Sarah (Badger) Ives, was born in New Haven,
Conn., June 22, 1831.

He attended two courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia, where he received the degree of M.D. in
1854. He then attended a supplementary course at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, and remained as a resi-
dent surgeon at the Bellevue Hospital until April, 1856, when he
entered on the practice of his profession in New Haven. From
1864 to 1868 he was partially engaged in teaching medicine in
connection with the Yale Medical School, and in the latter year
was appointed to the chair of the Theory and Practice of Medi-
cine in this institution. In 1873, hoping to better his health by a
change of locality, he resigned this professorship to accept the
chair of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, in the

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University of the City of New York. To prepare for this he
made a second visit to Europe (having already made an extended
tour in 1870), but failing health compelled him to resign this
professorship also, and to give up entirely his profession. The
rest of his life was spent in travel and the search for health. In
March, 1879, he underwent a surgical operation, in consequence
of which he died in Burlington, N. J., on the 2l8t of that month.

He was married, June 20, 1860, to Miss Bessie W. Salter^
daughter of Cleveland J. Salter, of Waverly, 111., who survives
him. They had no children.

Dr. Ives published in 1873 a pamphlet on the Bible Doctrine of
the Soul, which in 1877 he re-published in a duodecimo of 334
pages.

By his last will he left to the President and Fellows of Yale
College the sum of $10,000, of which the income is to devoted to
the support of indigent and worthy students. He was also during
his life a generous benefactor of the Medical School.

1853.

Ltjthee Gould [ng Tarbox was born in Sheridan, Chautauqua
County, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1832, and died in Nashville, Tenn., Nov.
14, 1878, aged 46.

After graduation he taught for a year in the public schools in
Memphis, Tenn. On the introduction of the public school system
into Nashville in 1855, he was elected principal of the High
School, and served in this capacity until the breaking out of the
late war. He then resigned his position and removed to Detroit,
Mich., where he taught in a Seminary for young ladies. In 1865
he returned to Nashville, and served as a member of the City
Board of Education until 1875, when he resigned on account of
his health. He was also employed as a cashier in a banking
institution until the failure of his health. He died of paralysis
after a long illness.

He was married in Detroit in 1865, to Miss Cornelia Wajson,
who survives him with one son.

1856.

Alfred Coit, son of Robert and Charlotte (Coit) Coit, was
born in New London, Conn., May 23, 1835.

After beginning the study of law with his brother, Robert
Coit, Jr. (Y. C. 1850), in New London, he continued his studies

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in the Law School of Harvard University, receiving the degree of
LL.B. in 1858. In November of the same year he was admitted
to the New London County Bar, and practiced his profession with
success and public esteem in his native city until his death in that
place, Jan. 17, 1879, after a short but severe illness, of ansemia of
the brain.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1862, 1863, and 1864, and of the Senate in 1868. From 1865
to 1868 he was a member of the State Board of Education, and
Judge of Probate for the New London District in 1875-76. At
the session of the State Legislature in January, 1877, he was
elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for New London
County for four years from July 1, 1877, and was in the discharge
of the duties of this office at the close of his life.

Judge Coit was married, Aug. 1, 1862, to Ellen Hobron of
New London. His wife with five children survives him.

Charles Albert Swift, son of Rufus C. Swift, was born in
New Lisbon, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1837, but entered college from
Warren, Conn., where he returned to teach after graduation. In
1857-8 he taught in Litchfield, Conn., and was for the next two
years principal of the high school in Sacramento, Cal. While in
Sacramento he became insane, and was never after entirely well.
He studied law in New York City, in 1860-61, and then returned
to California, where he spent two years on a farm in lone Valley:
He then came back to Warren, and from 1865 to 1874 was farming
in Vineland, N. J. He was then again in Warren until February,
1877, when he left home without the knowledge of his friends.
He died in Texas, Aug. 18, 1877, of a congestive chill. He was
not married.

1858.

Isaac Riley, second son of Rev. Henry A. and Emma V. (Smith)
Riley, was born in New York City, Feb. 2, 1835.

Immediately upon graduation he entered the Union Theological
Seminary, New York City. Ending his course there in May,
1861, he began to preach the following September in the Forest
Presbyterian Church, in Middletown, Del. In December he was
called to the pastorate, and on March 5, 1862, was ordained and
installed.

He was married, Jan. 16, 1862, in New York City, to Kate A.
S., daughter of Rev. Joel Parker, D.D.

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In July, 1864, he enlisted for thirty days in the 7th Delaware
Infantry, and after the expiration of his term of service returned
to Middletown. He resigned his pastorate Sept. 18, 1864, and
began preaching a month later in the First Presbyterian Church,
Pottsville, Pa., where he was installed as pastor on the 30th of
November. Having secured the union of the First and Second
Presbyterian Churches in Pottsville, he resigned his charge at the
close of September, 1867. He then began preaching in the Park
Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., where he was installed as
associate pastor with his father-in-law, Oct. 23. In the following
July he was called to the pastorate of the 34th Street Reformed
Church in New York City, where he was installed Sept. 27.
From this position, which he filled with signal ability and success
he was called to the charge of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, Buffalo, N. Y., where he was settled in October, 1875.

His active and useful ministry there was terminated by his
death, Oct. 23, 1878, at the age of 43, after a week's illness of
pleurisy, ending in pneumonia.

His wife with three children survives him.

Pkeston Irving Sweet, second son of Eleazer D. and Jane
Ann (Densmore) Sweet, was born in Wappinger's Falls, N. Y.,
March 7, 1837, and died in New York City, after a brief illness,
Feb. 8, 1879, in the 42d year of his age.

He studied law at the Albany Law School, receiving the degree of
LL.B. there in May, 1859, and being in the same month admitted
to the bar. He very soon decided to begin the practice of his
profession in Chicago, but his residence there w^as interrupted by
the partial failure of his health, on account of which he spent
nearly a year in the Rocky Mountain gold region. In June, 1861,
finding his health re-established, he resumed the practice of law
in New York City. In the spring of 1874 he gave up the active
duties of his profession. He was unmarried.

1859.

Robert John Carpenter, son of James and Sarah Carpenter,
was born in Demorestville, Canada West, Oct. 13, 1837, and died
in Berlin, New Hampshire, Feb. 2, 1879.

After leaving college he spent upwards of two years in the
Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass. He was married, Feb.
6, 1862, to Miss Ellen Furbish, of Portland, Me., and ten days later
started on a tour around the world, from which he returned in the

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spring of 1863. He then engaged in business in New York City,
becoming a partner with S. W. Hopkins & Co., dealers in rail-
way iron and steel. He went soon after to London as resident
partner for the firm in that city, where he remained until the
Franco-German war caused a suspension of his business. He
returned to this country, and for the last two years of his life was
interested in mills for supplying material for the manufacture of
paper.

Near the end of January, 1879, he was suddenly attacked with
scarlet fever ; three days later Bright's disease of the kidneys set
in, and he was a great sufferer until death released him.

His wife survives him with two sons and two daughters.

Thomas Bradford Dwight, second son of Rev. Dr. William
T. Dwight (Y. C. 1813), and grandson of President Timothy
Dwight, was born in Portland, Me., where his father was for
thirty-two years pastor, Sept. 17, 1837. His mother was Eliza L.,
daughter of Thomas Bradford, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of
Philadelphia.

He studied law with George M. Wharton, Esq., of Philadelphia,
where he was admitted to the bar in December, 1861. During
the civil war he was repeatedly engaged in service, especially in
the summer of 1863. In 1864 he became the Assistant of the
District Attorney for the county, and was thus employed in the
prosecution of criminal cases for several years. He then resumed
civil practice, and with such success that upon the establishment
of the Orphans' Court for the county of Philadelphia in 1874, he
was elected one of the judges. His judicial duties were performed
with eminent ability, but his complete devotion to his work
proved too severe a strain upon his system, and he was obliged to
resign his office at the close of the year 1877. His remaining life
was spent in great weakness at the home of his sister in Andover,
Mass., where he died Aug. 31, 1878, at the age of 41.

Judge Dwight was married, June 6, 1872, to Julia K., daughter
of Robert R. Porter, M.D., of Wilmington, Del., who survives
him without children.

Samuel Dorr Faulkner, son of Hon. James Faulkner and
Minerva (Hammond) Faulkner, was born in Dansville, N. Y.,
Nov. 14, 1835.

He entered colllege at the age of 20, graduating in the same
class with an older and a younger brother. After graduation he

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studied law in the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the
bar in May, 1860. In the following November he entered into
partnership with S. Hubbard, Esq., for the practice of law in
Dansville, which co-partnership existed till 1864, when Mr.
Hubbard was elected County Judge. In 1862 he was appointed
Supervisor of Dansville, to fill a vacancy, and was elected to the
same position in the two succeeding years. In 1866 he was
elected to the New York Assembly as a democrat, in a district
which was strongly republican, and in 1871 was elected County
Judge and Surrogate, overcoming an opposition majority of over
1,000. In 1874 he received the democratic nomination for
Congress in his district, and in the situation of parties at that
time his election would have been certain if he had consented to
run ; but the state of his health would not permit him to enter the
canvass. In the fall of 1877 he was re-elected County Judge and
Surrogate for a second term of six years, overcoming as before a
very large opposition majority.

In the fall of 1873, his unremitting application to judicial and
professional duties brought on a hemorrhage of the lungs which
compelled him to spend the remaining winters of his life in
Florida or Colorado. From each of these visits he returned
apparently much strengthened, but only to exhaust himself again
by close attention to his duties. On the 22d of July, 1878, while
returning home from a session of court, the horse he was driving
stumbled and fell, and the shock which he received from the
accident brought on a succession of hemorrhages, which caused
his death, at Dansville, on August 9th, in the 43d year of his age.
He was unmarried.

Judge Faulkner was widely known through Western New
York, and had attained an enviable reputation for judicial integ-
rity, as well as oratorical abilities.

1862.

Edward Collins Stone, elder son of Rev. Collins Stone
(Y. C. 1832) and Ellen J. (Gill) Stone, was born in Hartford,
Conn., where his father was then teaching in the American
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Jan. 29, 1840. He first entered
the class of 1861, but was compelled to leave it by an attack of
typhoid fever during the first term.

On graduating he became an assistant teacher under his father,
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Columbus — and when the latter returned to Hartford in 1863, as
Principal of the American Asylum, he followed in June, 1864, as
an assistant teacher. From Hartford he was called, in November,
1868, to take charge of the State Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, at Delavan, Wisconsin. He remained there until Feb-
ruary, 1871, when he was recalled to Hartford, to take the posi-
tion vacated a few weeks before by his father's sudden death.
The confidence placed in his abilities was not disappointed, and
the institution under his charge steadily prospered until his death
from malignant erysipelas, after about a week's illness, Dec. 21,
1878, in his 39th year.

He was married, July 26, 1869, to Miss Mary C, only daughter
of Charles P. Welles, of Hartford, who survives him with four
children.

1863.

Feank Howe Bradley, son of Abijah and Eliza Collis (Town-
send) Bradley, was born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 20, 1838,
and died, from the falling of a bank in a gold mine, near Nacoo-
chee, Ga., March 27, 1879.

Through his undergraduate course he was partially employed
in teaching in Gen. Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute
in New Haven, at which school he was himself fitted for college.
In the year 1 863-4 he taught in Hartford, Conn., and spent the
next year as a student in the Chemical Laboratory of the Sheffield
Scientific School. His tastes early led him to the study of geol-
ogy, and up to this time his vacations had been largely spent in
the field in making collections of fossils. In the summer of 1865
he went to the Isthmus of Darien, and spent a year in that
vicinity, obtaining large collections of corals and other zoological
specimens, partly for the Yale Museum. During 1867 and 1868
he was assistant geologist in the Illinois survey, and in November
of the latter year, became Professor of Natural Sciences in Han-
over College, at Hanover, Ind. In September, 1869, he left this
position to accept the Professorship of Mineralogy and Geology
in East Tennessee University, at Knoxville, and while there made
some valuable geological explorations. He resigned this position
in 1875, with the hope of so adding to his resources that he might
be able with freedom to pursue his favorite science ; and to this
end he undertook the development of a gold mine in Northern
Georgia, where he met his death.

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Professor Bradley was married, July 15, 1867, to Sarah M.,
daughter of Samuel P. Bolles, Esq., of New Haven. She survives
him, with one daughter, two children having died earlier, and one
on the day of his own death.

Howard Kingsbury, son of llev. Oliver R. and Susan (Pat-
terson) Kingsbury, was born in New York City, Febr. 3, 1842.

After a few months spent at home, he went to Irvington, N. T.,
and remained there teaching in private families until September,
1 865, when he sailed for Europe with one of his pupils. They
remained abroad until July, 1867, having passed the greater part
of the time in Berlin and Dresden. He then entered the Union
Theological Seminary in New York City, and on finishing his
course was ordained in New York City by the Third Presbytery
of New York, June 20, 1869. He served as stated supply for six
months in the First Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, Pa., and
from December, 1869 to October, 1870, in Rome, N. Y., and in
1871 (June 22) he was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church in Newark, O. From this office he was invited to Amherst,
Mass., where he was installed over the First (congregational Church,
December 6, 1877. His useful pastorate there was terminated by
his death, in that town, Sept. 28, 1878, in his 37th year, of typhoid
fever, after about three weeks' illness.

He was married, June 24, 1869, to Sophia H., daughter of
Stephen H. Thayer, Esq., of New York City, who died Nov. 2,
1873. Their only son survives his parents.

1865.

Henry Armitt Brow^n was born in Philadelphia, Dec. 1,
1844, the second son of Frederick and Charlotte A. (Hoppin)
Brown.

He spent a year after graduating at the Columbia College Law
School, New York City, and in July, 1866, sailed for Europe.
He remained abroad until November, 1867, visiting also Egypt
and Palestine. Resuming the study of the law in the office of
Daniel Dougherty, Esq., of Philadelphia, he was admitted to the
bar of that city in December, 1869. In April, 1870, he went
again to Europe, spending most of the time until his return in
November, in Sweden, Norway, and Russia, countries which he
had not previously visited. He then settled down to the law in
Philadelphia ; but his tastes inclined rather to literature, and in

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spite of a very considerable success in his profession, he made
little effort to increase his practice.
He wrote extensively for current periodicals, and began to be
widely known as a public speaker. An oration delivered in Phila-
delphia on the 100th anniversary of the assembling of the Continen-
tal Congress of 1774 was followed by a brilliant succession of
public addresses, especially in connection with the centennial cele-
brations of revolutionary events. It was after a very fatiguing
day at Valley Forge, on June 19, 1878, where he had delivered
an impressive oration, that he returned to Philadelphia to com-
plete his preparation for a similar engagement at Monmouth, on
the 28th ; but what at first seemed a slight illness gradually
developed into typhoid fever, so that for weeks his life was
despaired of. About the first of August he rallied, and seemed
likely to recover ; but successive relapses ensued, and he died on
the 21st of that month, in the 34th year of his age.

He was married, Dec. 7, 1871, to Miss Josephine L., daughter
of Mr. John Baker, of Philadelphia, who survives him with his
only child, a daughter.

1871.

Frederick Lawton Auchincloss, fifth son of John and Eliz-
abeth (Buck) Auchincloss, was born in New York City, Feb. 26,
1851.

He entered after graduation the banking ofiice of Vermilye &
Co., of New York City, as clerk, and in April, 1872, took a posi-
tion in the importing house of John & Hugh Auchincloss, also of
New York, of which firm he was admitted a member in January,
1875, and with which he remained in connection until the time of
his death.

He died in Yokohama, Japan, on the 17th of November, 1878,
while on a voyage around the world, partly for health and partly
for pleasure. He was unmarried. Since his death the College
has received from the executor of his last will, a legacy of
twenty-five hundred dollars as an evidence of his regard for the
place of his education.

1872.

Frank Hunt Smith, son of Denison B. and Mary S. (Hunt)
Smith, was born in Toledo, Ohio, March 10, 1849. His pre-
paration for college was completed at the school of Rev. A. V.
Blake, in Gambier, O., and he was for a short time a member of

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Kenyon College in that town. He then spent a year at home in
business, and in January, 1867, entered the Freshman Class of
this College. Six months later he returned home, but in 1869
re-entered the college, as a member of the Sophomore Class.

He spent the three years after graduation in the General Theo-
logical Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, in New
York City, and on the 9th of November, 1875, was ordained
deacon by Bishop Bedell in Toledo. He was soon after called to
St. Peter's Church, Albany, N. Y., as assistant to the Rev. Dr.
W. W. Battershall (Y. C. 1864), and while in that position was
ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Doane in the spring of
1878. By exposure in returning from an evening reception early
in 1877 he contracted a disease of the lungs which at once took a
powerful hold on him. He continued at work until August, 1878,
when he left Albany for Colorado. Finding that his strength
was gradually failing he returned to his father's residence in
Toledo in March last, and there died on the 23d of May. He
was not married.

1876.

' David Trumbull, eldest surviving son of Rev. Dr. David
Trumbull (Y. C. 1842) and Jane W. (Fitch) Trumbull, was born in
Valparaiso, Chili, where his father has spent his life a missionary
May 31, 1865.

He was sent to the United States to be educated, and after
graduation spent a year in a visit to his parents. In 1877 he
returned to New Haven, and entered the Theological Department
of the college. At the close of the year he was one of the boat
crew which rowed at New London, in competition with a crew
from Harvard University, on the 28th of June, and he remained
there for a few days on a visit to relatives. On the afternoon of
July 3d, while sailing in a yacht in New London harbor, with
Col. Charles M. Coit, a little son of Col. Coit fell overboard, and
Mr. Trumbull as well as the boy's father sprang to the rescue.
The yacht hove to, and the child was drawn on board, but before
the others were reached they both had sunk. Mr. Trumbull's
body was recovered near the spot on July 10th, and was buried
in New Haven the next day. The impulse of self-sacrifice which
closed his life was thoroughly in keeping with the noble purposes
which controlled it.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1829.

CHAtTNCET Lewis Cooke formerly of Hempstead, L. I ,.died in
New York City, Dec. 17, 1878, at the age of 70.

Samuel Johnson, son of Isaac and Phebe (Burchard) Johnson,
was born in Bozrah, Conn., July 1, 1805, and died in the same
town, of angina pectoris^ Feb. 12, 1879, in the 74th year of his age.

He began his professional studies with Dr. Earl Knight, of
Bozrah, and. with Dr. Joseph Peabody, of Montville, Conn., and
during the winter of 1827-8 he attended lectures in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

After his graduation in 1829, he settled immediately in his
native town, where he was engaged in practice without intermib-
sion till his death.

He was married in 1836; of his seven children, three died in
early life, and three sons survive him, with his widow. The un-
timely death of his only daughter overshadowed with great sorrow
the close of his life.

1831.

Alexander LeBaron Monroe, the son of Dr. Stephen Mon-
roe, a practising physician of Sutton, Mass., was born in Sutton,
May 3, 1807.

He entered on his profession in East Medway, a part of Medway,
Mass., in the fall of 1832, and the next year removed to Medway
Village, in the same town, where he practiced medicine for seven
years. He then took up his residence in Cabotville, a part of
Springfield, but now Chicopee, Mass., and in the winter of 1842-3,
removed to the adjoining town of Granby. Ten years later, there
being need of additional medical service in Medway, he was in-
duced by his old friends to return, and for twenty-five years he
continued in practice there, with the exception of a few months
in 1862 spent as Surgeon in the Peninsula campaign under Gen.
McClellan. In 1877 he was forced by impaired health to relin-
quish practice. He died very suddenly, of heart disease, in Med-
way, Feb. 20, 1879, in his 72d year.

He was married, Oct. 2, 1834, to Louisa Barber, who died June
2, 1836. He next married, Nov. 30, 1837, Mrs. Miriam Hawes,
who with two children, a son and a daughter, survives him.

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He was not only a skillful practitioner, but by the force of his
Christian character exerted a deep influence for good in the com-
munity where most of his life was spent.

1834.

William Watson Ely died at his residence in Rochester,
N. Y., March 27, 1879, of angina pectoris, from which he had long
been suffering, although the more acute symptoms developed
only within the last two months of his life.

Dr. Ely was born in Fairfield, Conn., April 30, 1812. He
began the practice of his profession in Manlius, N. Y., and in
1839 removed to Rochester, where he continued in practice till
his death. He was held in high repute, alike for his scientific
attainments, and for his personal worth. The degree of Doctor
of Laws was conferred on him by the University of Rochester
in 1869.

William Henry Richardson, only son of Levi and Amelia
(Trumbull) Richardson, was born in Chaplin, then a part of
Mansfield, Conn., Dec. 5th, 1808. At an early age he removed
with his parents to North Mansfield, Conn., where he resided
much the greater part of his life. He pursued his medical studies,
first with Dr. Archibald Welch of Mansfield, subsequently with
Dr. Samuel B. Woodward of Wethersfield and Dr. Silas Fuller of
Columbia, and at the medical school of Yale College. On grad-
uating, he returned to Mansfield and immediately, entered on the
practice of his profession, which he followed, with assiduity and
success, for more than forty years. After some three years of
impaired health, he died from disease of the brain, Dec. 14, 1878,
aged 70 years.

In 1862, he was a member of the State Legislature. For many
years he served as School Visitor.

He was married in 1853 to Abigail, daughter of Edmund Free-
man, Esq., of Mansfield, who with their only son survives him.

1837.

Joseph Washburn Clark, the eldest son of Abraham and
Milicent (Washburn) Clark, was born in Farmington, Conn., Jan.
19, 1813, and died in San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 17, 1878, aged
nearly 66 years.

He entered the Academical Department of this college with
the class of 1834, but owing to the removal of his parents in 1831

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to Jacksonville, 111, was obliged to leave the class. After begin-
ning the study of medicine with Dr. Henry of Springfield, III., he
returned to New Haven in 1835.

On receiving his degree he began practice at Rushville, 111.,
but removed soon to Rockingham, 111., where he remained till 1842.
For the next eight years he practiced in Platteville, Wise, and
then went to Georgetown, California, and devoted himself to mer-
cantile pursuits. From 1852 till his death he was a merchant and
broker in San Francisco, where he was for twenty-five years an
active and honored member and officer of the First Congregational
Church.

He was married in 1837 to Miss Lucy A. Hooker, of Westfield,
Mass. After her death he was again married, Apr. 10, 1842, to
Miss Jane W., daughter of Joseph Fessenden of Brattleboro',
Vt., who survives him with one son and one daughter.

1846.

Edwin Avert Park, son of Benjamin F., and Hannah (Avery)
Park, was born in Preston, Conn., Jan. 27, 1817, and died in New
Haven, Conn., Jan. 17, 1879. One of his brothers graduated
from the Academical Department of this College in 1861, and
another is now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Con-
necticut.

Dr. Park had studied medicine in one of the colleges of New
York City before taking his final course in this city, and immedi-
ately upon receiving his degree he opened an office in New Haven
where he practiced successfully until his last illness. He had been
in failing health for a year, but the immediate cause of death was
the effusion of water on the brain.

His wife, who survives him with two sons and two daughters,
was Miss Allen, of New Haven.

1849.

Roger Smith Olmstead, third son of Hawley Olmstead,
LL.D. (Y. C. 1816), was born in Wilton, Conn., July 17, 1826.

In 1839 his father removing to New Haven to take charge of the
Hopkins Grammar School, he became a member of the school and
completed there his preparation for college, which he entered in
the autumn of 1843. After two years' study at Yale and other
colleges and brief experiences of life as a sailor before the mast,
he settled down to the study of medicine and graduated with
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honor. He immediately opened an office in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
for twenty years was favored with a large and lucrative practice.
In IS^O he removed to Omaha, Neb., where he died suddenly of
apoplexy, Oct. 22d, 1878, in the 53d year of his age. His remains
are interred in the family lot in New Haven.

He was married in 1849 to Charlotte A. Hungerford, of Wol-
cottville. Conn. She with three of their four daughters survives
him.

1863.

Newton Bushnell Hall was born in Canaan, Conn., March
14, 1828, the only son of Amaziah and Betsey Hall, who removed
to Branford, Conn., in 1833, where he was educated and began
preliminary medical studies.

He entered upon his profession in Branford immediately upon
graduation, and was successful in acquiring a large country prac-
tice, which he retained till his death, in Branford, July 21, 1878,
after a week's illness from malarial fever and rheumatism.

Dr. Hall was married. May 4, 1862, to Amenia F. Coons, of
Ulster County, N. Y., who survives him with one daughter.

1866.

Leopold Albert L. Angles died in Marseilles, France, in
March, 1879, after two days' illness.

He was a native of Avignon, F'rance, but came to America in
his youth, and was educated in part in the Suburban Home
School in New Haven. He subsequently resided in the family of
the principal of this school. Rev. A. Gr. Shears, as an assistant
teacher, and meantime pursued his medical studies. After gradua-
tion he was for a time house physician in the City Hospital, and
later visited France, with the expectation of returning to his friends
in New Haven ; but his duty to his aged mother kept him from
fulfilling his purpose. He leaves a wife and two children.

Stephen Chalker Bartlett, the eldest son of Stephen R.
and Susan (Chalker) Bartlett, was born in North Guilford, Conn.,
April 19, 1839, and died in Waterbury, Conn., of pleuro-pneumo-
nia, after ten days' illness, Feb. 3, 1879, in his 40th year.

Previous to his graduation he had served in the U. S. military
hospitals at West Philadelphia, and Chester, Pa., and as acting
assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy in 1864-6.

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On receiving his degree he entered into practice in Naugatuck,
Conn., where he was married, Sept. 22, 1869, to Julia B., daughter
of A. J. Pickett. In 1872 he removed to Waterbury, and there
conducted a large practice until his death. One of his most
important cases was a successful attempt at skin-grafting on an
extensive scale, the patient's entire scalp having been torn off by
the hair being caught in machinery.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1872.

Daniel Wardwell Wardwell, eldest son of Samuel and
Mary A. (Stillman) Wardwell, was born in Adams, Jefferson
County, N. Y., June 21, 1852, and died in New Orleans, La., of
yellow fever, Sept. 28, 1878, after an illness of about four days.

He entered the school from Rome, N. Y., and immediately after
graduating accepted a position as assistant chemist in the coal tar
works of Messrs. Page, Kidder & Fletcher, of New York City.
In the spring of 1877 he entered into a ten years' contract with
the Gas Light Company of New Orleans for furnishing its ammo-
niacal liquor, and erected a factory in that city for the manu-
facture of sulphate of ammonia, which he had operated with suc-
cess for about a year, when he was stricken down with the
prevalent fever, at the age of twenty-six. He was unmarried.

1873.

Charles Adams Cragin died in Wallingford, Conn., after a
week's illness, Jan. 2, 1878, aged 36 years. The cause of his sud-
den death was brain fever, induced by physical and mental over-
exertion.

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1810

A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, 87,

Kingston, N. Y.,

Feb. 23, '79.

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Daniel Robert, 85,

New Utrecht, N. Y.,

Aug. 21, '78.

1811

Henry Robinson, 89,

GuDford, Conn.,

Sept. 14, '78.

1814

Augustus Floyd, 83,

Mastic, N. Y.,

Sept. 25. '78.

isn

Augustus L. Chapin, 83,

Galesburg, 111.,

Nov. 7, '78,

1819

Maltby Strong, 81,

Rochester, N. Y.,

Aug. 5, '78.

1820

Henry Jones, 77,

Bridgeport, Conn.,

Nov. 9, '78.

1822

Joseph H. Brainerd, 78,

St. Albans, Yt.,

March 28, '79

Horatio N. Brinsmade, 80,

Newark, N. J.,

Jan. 18, '79,

Amasa G. Porter, 75,

New Haven, Conn.,

Apr. 29, '79.

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James W. Robbins, 77,

Uxbridge, Mass.,

Jan. 10, '79.

1823

Martin B. Basse tt, 77,

Derby, Conn.,

May 15, '79.

David Mack, 74,

Belmont, Mass.,

July 24, '78.

William G. YerPlanck, 77,

Geneva, N. Y.,

March 30, '79.

1824

Jeremiah T. Denison, 73,

Fairfield, Conn.,

Apr. 25, '79

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Dennis Piatt, 78,

South Norwalk, Conn,,

Oct. 21, '78.

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Justus Sherwood, 73,

Southport, Conn.,

Dec. 3, '78.

1825

Richard Smith, 76,

Sharon, Conn.,

Dec. 21, '78.

1826

James 0. Odiorne, 76,

Wellesley, Mass.,

Feb. 5, '79.

Robert G. Rankin, 72,

Newburgh, N. Y.,

Aug. 29, '78.

1828

William Bushnell, 78,

East Boston, Mass.,

Apr. 28, '79.

George B. Hoffman, 70,

Baltimore, Md.,

Jan. 11, '79.

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Alfred Newton, 75,

Norwalk, 0.,

Dec. 31, '78.

1829

William F. Clemson, 67,

New York City,

Feb. 17, '79.

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Henry Sherman, 71,

Washington, D. C,

March 28, '79.

1831

Alpheus S. Williams, 68,

Washington, D. C,

Dec 21, '78,

1833

S. Henshaw Bates, 65,

Santa Rosa, Cal.,

Jan. 3, '79.

1834

John N. Kendall, 64,

Benton, Ala.,

Aug. 18, '77.

Amasa U. Lyon, 65,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Aug. 12, '78.

1836

William S. Pierson, 64,

Keene, N. H.,

Apr. 18, '79,

1837

Henry WiUiams, 59,

Savannah, Ga.,

July 11, '78,

1839

Charles Hammond, 65,

Monson, Mass.,

Nov, 7, '78.

1840

Charles S. Shelton, 59,

Jersey City, N. J.,

May 21, '79,

((

George Thacher, 61,

Hartford, Conn.,

Dec, 27, '78,

1841

Philip H. Austen, 56,

Baltimore, Md.,

Oct, 28, '78,

Joseph Brown, 65,

Indianapolis, Ind.,

Aug. 11, '78,

1842

Horace C. Atwater, 60,

Elizabethton, Tenn.,

Feb. 7. '79.

Samuel Lynes, 56,

Norwalk, Conn.,

July 29, '78.

1843

Eli S. Shorter, 56,

Bufaula, Ala.,

Apr. 29, '79.

1844

Rockwell Emerson, 55,

Flushing, N. Y.,

June 21, '78,

((

Henrv H. Haight, 53,

San Francisco, Cal.,

Sept. 2^, '78.

1845

James N. Brickell, 54,

New Orleans, La.,

Sept. 26, '77.

((

A. Flinn Dickson, 53,

Tuscaloosa, Ala,,

Jan. 8, '79.

((

John Grant, 56,

Newark, N, J,,

July 5, '78.

George D. Harrington, 55,

Washington, D. C,

March 13, '79

Richard Taylor, 53,

New York City,

Apr, 12, '79,

Nathan F. Wilbur, 60.

Piqua, 0..

Feb. 28, '78.

184*7

George G. Barnard, 50,

New York City,

Apr. 27, '79,

Angelo Jackson, 58,

Washington, D. C,

June 8, '78,

1848

John F. Brinton. 51,

Philadelphia, Pa,,

Nov, 15, '78,

379

Class. Name and Age.

1849 Edward A. Arnold, 50,
" Thomas R. Bannan, 50,
" Charles Gr. Came, 52,

1850 George L. Frost, 49,

1852 Charles D. Helmer, 51,
" Charles L. Ives, 47,

1853 Luther G. Tarbox, 46,
1856 Alfred Coit, 43,

" Charles A. Swift, 40,

1858 Isaac Riley, 43,

" Preston I. Sweet, 42,

1859 Robert J. Carpenter, 41,
" T. Bradford Dwight, 41,
" Samuel D. Faulkner, 42,

1862 Edward C. Stone, 39,

1863 Frank H. Bradley, 40,

" Howard Kingsbury, 36,

1865 Henry Armitt Brown, 33,

1871 Frederick L. Auchincloss, 27,

1872 Frank H. Smith, 30,
1876 David Trumbull, 23,

Place and
Yincennes, Ind.,
Pottsville, Pa.,
Boston, Mass.,
Madison, Wise,
Lockport, N. Y.,
Burlington, N. J.,
Nashville, Tenn.,
New London, Conn.,
Texas,

Buffalo, N. Y.,
New York City,
Beriin, N. H.,
Andover, Mass.,
Dansville, N. Y.,
Hartford, Conn.,
Nacoochee, Ga.,
Amherst, Mass.,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
Yokohama, Japan,
Toledo, 0.,
New London, Conn.,

Time of Death.
Sept. 29, '77.
Dec. 25, '78.
Jan. 16, '79.
Feb. 15, '79.
Apr. 28, '79.
March 21, '79.
Nov. 14, '78.
Jan. 17, '79.
Aug. 18, '77.
Oct. 23, '78.
Feb. 8, '79.
Feb. 2, '79.
Aug. 31, '78.
Aug. 9, '78.
Dec. 21, '78.
March 27. '79.
Sept. 28, '78.
Aug. 21, '78.
Nov. 17, '78.
May 23, '79.
July 3, '78.

Medical Department.

1829 Chauncey L. Cooke, 70,

" Samuel Johnson, 73,

1831 Alexander L. B, Monroe, 71,

1834 WiUiam W. Ely, 67,

" William H. Richardson, 70,

1837 Joseph W. Clark, 66,

1846 Edwin A. Park, 62,

1849 Roger S. Olmstead, 52,

1863 Newton B. Hall, 50,

1866 Leopold A. L. Angles,

" Stephen C. Bartlett, 39,

New York City,
Bozrah, Conn.,
Medway, Mass.,
Rochester, N. Y.,
North Mansfield, Conn.,
San Francisco, Cal.,
New Haven, Conn.,
Omaha, Nebr.,
Branford, Conn.,
Marseilles, France,
Waterbury, Conn.,

Dec. 17, '78.
Feb. 12, '79.
Feb. 20, '79.
March 27, '79.
Dec. 14, '78.
Dec. 17, '78.
Jan. 17, '79.
Oct. 22, '78.
July 21, '78.
March, '79.
Feb. 3, '79.

1872
1873

Sheffield Scientific School.

Daniel W. Wardwell, 26,
Charles A. Cragin, 36,

New Orleans, La.,
Wallingford, Conn.,

Sept. 28, '78.
Jan. 2, '78.

The number of deaths reported above is 84 (the largest number as yet reported
in any one issue of this Record), and the average age of the graduates of the
Academical Department is 60 years.

Of the 71 Academical graduates, 22 were lawyers, 13 clergymen, 11 physicians,
9 in business, and 7 teachers.

The deaths are distributed as follows: — in New York, 16; in Connecticut, 13;
in Massachusetts, 8 ; in New Jersey and the District of Columbia. 4 each ; in
Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania, 3 each ; in California, Georgia, Indiana, Mary-
land, New Hampshire and Tennessee, 2 each; and the remainder in as many
different States or countries.

The oldest living graduate is Seth Pierce, of Cornwall, Conn., of the Class of
1806, who was born May 15, 1785.

IISTDEX

Class. Page.

1866 m Angles, Leopold A. L., 376

1849 Arnold, PMward A., 360

1842 At water, Horace C, 351

ISTl Auchincloss, Frederick L., . 3*71

1841 Austen, Philip H., 350

1849 Bannan, Thomas R., 361

184*7 Barnard, George G., 359

1866 m Bartlett, Stephen C, 3*76

1823 Bassett, Martin B., 336

1833 Bates, S. Henshaw, 345

1863 Bradley, Frank H., 369

1822 Brainerd, Joseph K., 333

1845 Brickell, James N., 354

1822 Brinsmade, Horatio N., ,._ 334

1848 Brinton, John F., 360

1865 Brown, Henry A., 3*70

1841 Brown, Joseph,. 351

1828 Bushnell, William, 341

1849 Came, Charles G., 361

1859 Carpenter, Robert J,, 366

181*7 Chapin, Augustus L., 331

183*7 m Clark, Joseph W., 3*74

1829 Clemson, William F., 343

1856 Coit, AHred, 364

1829 m Cooke, Chauncey L.,_ 3*73

18*73 p Cragin, Charles A., 3*7*7

1824 Denison, Jeremiah T., 338

1845 Dickson, A. Flinn, 354

1859 Dwight, T. Bradford, 36*7

1 834 w Ely, WilHam W., _ 3*74

1848 Emerson, Rockwell, 353

1859 Faulkner, Samuel D., 36*7

1814 Floyd, Augustus, 331

1850 Frost, George L., 362

1845 Grant, John, 355

1 844 Haight, Henry H., 353

] 863 m Hall, Newton B., _ 376

1839 Hammond, Charles, 348

1845 Harrington, George D., -_ _ 356

1810 Hasbrouck, A. Brayn, 329

1852 Helmer, Charles D., 362

1828 Hoffman, George B., 342

Class. Page.

1852 Ives, Charles L., 363

1847 Jackson, Angelo, 359

1829 m Johnson, Samuel, 373

1820 Jones, Henry, 333

1 834 Kendall, John N., 346

18 i3 Kingsbury, Howard, 370

1842 Lynes, Samuel, _ 352

1834 Lyon, Amasa TJ., 346

1823 Mack, David, 337

1831 m Monroe, .Alexander L. B., _ 373

1828 Newton, Alfred, _ 342

1826 Odiorne, James C, 340

1849 m Olmstead, Roger S., 375

1846 m Park, Edwin A., .._ 375

1836 Pierson, William S., _ 347

1824 Piatt, Dennis, 338

1822 Porter, Amasa G., _ 335

1826 Rankin, Robert G., .341

1834 m Richardson, William H., .. 374

1858 Riley, Isaac,. 365

1822 Robbins, James W., 335

1810 Robert, Daniel, 330

1811 Robinson, Henry,. 330

1840 Shelton, Charles S., 349

1829 Sherman, Henry, 343

1824 Sherwood, Justus, 339

1843 Shorter, Eli S., 352

1872 Smith, Frank H., 371

1 825 Smith, Richard, 339

1862 Stone, Edward C, 368

1819 Strong, Maltby, 332

1858 Sweet, Preston L, 366

1856 Swift, Charles A.,... 365

1853 Tarbox, Luther G., 364

1845 Taylor, Richard, 357

1 840 Thacher, George, I 349

1876 Trumbull, David, 372

1823 VerPlanck, Wilham G., _._ 337

1872 p Wardwell, Daniel W., 377

1845 Wilbur, Nathan F., 358

1831 Williams, Alpheus S 344

1837 Williams, Henry, 348

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in
June, 1S80.

[PRESEIVTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 30tli, 1880.]
[No. 10 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 39 of the whole Record.]

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year endhig in

June, 1880.

[Presented at the Meeting op the Alumni, June 25, 1880.]

[No. 10 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 39 of the whole Record.]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1809.

Burr Baldwin was born in Weston, Fairfield County, Conn.,
Jan. 19, 1Y89.

After liaving tauglit, chiefly in tlie Newarl: (N. J.) Academy, lie
entered Andover (Mass.) Theol. Seminary in the spring of 1811,
but was obliged by ill-health to leave in 1813, without having
completed the full course. After a few months, having partly
regained his health, he became the principal of the academy in
which he had formerly taught, where he remained until able, in
1816, to undertake home missionary work in the Ohio valley. He
was ordained as an evangelist by the Litchfield (Conn.) South
Association of Congregational ministers, June 2, 1819, and was
employed with acceptance in various missionary labors in New
Jersey and New York, until 1824, when he was settled over the
Presbyterian Church in Montrose, Pa. From this charge he
was dismissed in 1829, and was installed, Feb. 17, 1830, as the
first pastor of the North Congregational Church in New Hart-
ford, Conn. After three years' service he was dismissed, and
supplied various pulpits until his installation over the Congrega-
tional Church in Ashfield, Mass., April 20, 1836. He was dis-
missed from Ashfield in September, 1838, and then established

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a school in Newark (N. J.), which employed his time until the
autumn of 1847. For the rest of his life his residence was in
Montrose, Pa., while he was mainly and very usefully occupied
in missionary work in that neighborhood and elsewhere. Daring
the late civil war he was for two years post-chaplain at Bei^erly,
W. Va. On the last Sabbath of the year 1879, he fell while on
the way to church, and the shock to his system probably hastened
his death, which occurred in Montrose, Jan. 23, 1880, at the age
of 91 years. His failure of health in early life prevented the ful-
filment of his purpose of becoming a foreign missionary, but his
career in connection with the preaching of the gospel at home was
eminently useful. He was also influential in the early introduction
of Sabbath schools, and in the organization of the American Colo-
nization Society. He was first married, Nov. 17, 1829, to Cornelia
C. Keen, by whom he had six sons and two daughters. She died
Oct. 2, 1854. He was again married, Apr. 25, 1857, to Mrs. Char-
lotte A. Beach who survives him. He had been since 1875 the
last survivor of his class, and was with one exception the oldest
living graduate of the College.

1815.

William Courtney Wetmoee, third son of Victory and Katha-
rine M. (McEwen) Wetmore, of Stratford, Conn., was born in
that town, Oct. 12, 1796.

He studied law in the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, and about
1818 entered the office of Messrs. Brackett & Clark, in New York
City, afterwards becoming a partner in the firm. From 1 848 he
was connected in business with Mr. Richard Bowne. From his
admission to the bar he made a specialty of the law of real estate,
and was chiefly occupied with conveyancing and with the admin-
istration of trusts. He refused all offers of public position, but
had served for three years before his death as President of the
Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. He resided in New
York City until about 1868, when he removed to Fordham, N.
Y., where he remained until October, 1879, when he returned to
the city. After having been in feeble health for some months, he
died in New York, March 22, 1880, in his 84th year, of an organic
disease of the heart.

He married Miss Elizabeth Lovejoy, who survives him, with
four sons and a dauo;hter.

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1818.

Samuel Howard Huntington, third son of Hon. Hezekiah
and Susan (Kent) Huntington, was born in Suffield, Conn., Dec.
14, 1793. In 1813 his father removed to Hartford, Conn., from
which place he entered college. After graduation he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in Hartford, where he continued
in practice. Besides the duties of his profession, he served in
1829 as clerk of the State Senate, and was for three years (in 1842,
1846 and 1850) judge of the County Court. On the establish-
ment of the Court of Claims in Washington, D. C, in 1855, he
was appointed its chief clerk, and held that position for most of
the rest of his life. He was from 1830 to 1858 a trustee of Trinity
College, and for many years one of the leading laymen in connec-
tion with the Protestant Episcopal Church of Connecticut. He
died at his residence in Hartford, after a brief illness, Feb. 4,
1880, in the 87th year of his age.

Judge Huntington was married, Oct. 25, 1825, to Catharine H.,
daughter of George Brinley, of Boston. She died July 21, 1832,
and he was again married, Oct. 19, 1835, to Sarah B., daughter
of Robert Watkinson, of Hartford, who died a few years before
him. By his second marriage he had four daughters and three
sons, all of whom survive him. One son was graduated at this
college in 1863, and another at Trinity College in 1867.

1820.

Nathaniel Alpheus Pkatt, sixth son of Ezra and Temperance
(Southworth) Pratt, was born in that part of Saybrook which is
now the town of Essex, Conn., Jan. 29, 1796.

For the three years after graduation he studied in Princeton
Theological Seminary, and on the 25th of February, 1824, he was
ordained to the work of the ministry by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, at Shrewsbury, N. J. After supplying the church
in Shrewsbury for upwards of two years, he went to Georgia, and
was installed over the Presbyterian church in Darien in April,
1827. From this charge he was dismissed, April 2, 1840, and in
the following month he removed to Roswell, Ga., where he
gathered a church, over which he was installed as pastor, Sept.
17, 1842, and where he continued to labor faithfully till his death.
He was stricken with paralysis on March 20, 1879, but although
he partially rallied from this attack, his power of speech did not
return. He died suddenly, Aug. 30, 1879, in his 84th year.

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He was married in March, 1830, to Miss Catharine B., daughter
of Roswell King, of Darien. She survives him, with seven of
their ten children. The degree of D.D. was given him by Ogle-
thorpe University in 1864.

1822.

Lot Norton, son of Lot and Mary (Hickok) Norton, was born
in the village of Lakeville, in Salisbury, Conn., Jan. 15, 1803.

He settled as a farmer on his paternal estate, and lived there
quietly through his life. In 1857 he was a member of the State
Legislature. On Saturday, May 29, 1880, he went to the village
church to attend the public exercises in honor of " Memorial
Day," and fell dead as he was entering the building.

He was married, Sept. 6, 1826, to Martha, daughter of Dea.
Eliphalet Whittlesey, of Salisbury, who died Oct. 29, 1867. Of
their six children, two daughters and one son are still living.

1825.

John Jay Abernethy, son of Roswell Abernethy, M.D., was
born in Harwinton, Conn., Dec. 26, 1805. In the year of his
graduation his father removed to Woodbury, Conn., and there
the son acquired his earliest training in medicine. In 1828 he
took the degree of M.D. at the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons in New York City, and in February, 1837, he entered the
naval service of the U. S. as assistant Surgeon. During his fif-
teen years of sea-service he served in the Pacific Squadron, and
in the Mexican war ; and during the late rebellion he was in the
Atlantic blockading squadron, though on the retired list. His
last promotion was in March, 1871, to the position of Medical
Director, with the rank of Captain; shortly after this date he
retired from the service, and the last years of his life were spent
in New York City.

His only brother's death, early in 1878, gave a shock to his own
health, from which he never recovered. Attacked at first with
symptoms of heart disease, he gradually failed, and died in New
York, Oct. 28, 1879, in his 74th year. He was unmarried.

By his last will he made provision for the establishment, after
the death of a relative, of a fellowship in this college by an endow-
ment of $10,000.

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1827.

Joseph Gushing, son of Joseph Gushing, of Amherst, N. H.,
was born in Amherst, Dec. 11, 1806. In 1809 his father removed
to Baltimore, Md., and there entered into the book and stationery
business, in which his son joined him on his return from college.
In 1829 Mr. Joseph Gushing, Jr., became a member of the firm,
in which he continued until his retirement in 1877. He had been
in declining health for some years, and was at Bedford Springs,
Pa., with his daughter, when he died, somewhat suddenly, July 6,
1879, aged 72^ years.

He was married in 1832 to a daughter of Dr. Golin Mackenzie,
of Baltimore. One of his sons graduated at Harvard Gollege in
1855.

1828.

David Ely Bartlett, second son of Rev. Shubael Bartlett
(Y. G. 1800) and Fanny (Leffingwell) Bartlett, was born in East
Windsor, Gonn. (where his father held the pastorate for over fifty
years), Sept. 29, 1805, and died in Hartford, Gonn., Nov. 29, 1879,
aged 74 years.

His whole life after leaving Gollege was devoted to the educa-
tion of the deaf and dumb. Until 1 832 he was connected with
the American Asylum in Hartford, and then for nearly twenty
years with the Institution in New York Gity, during which time
he took a partial course in the Union Theological Seminary, to fit
himself for the work of a minister to those whom he was teach-
ing. In 1852 he resigned his situation as senior teacher in the
N. Y. Institution, and for several years resided in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., supervising a private school in his family for younger deaf-
mute children than were then admitted into public institutions.
The experiment proved the expediency of such instruction, but
was financially disastrous, and in 1860 Mr. Bartlett accepted an
invitation to return to the American Asylum at Hartford, where
he was actively engaged until his sudden death, after only two
weeks of feebleness. His remarkable power of making himself
understood by his pupils, his unwearied industry, and his wonder-
ful sympathy made him extraordinarily beloved as a teacher ;
while the transparency and enthusiasm of his character won the
high regard of all who came in contact with him.

He was married, July 15, 1846, to Miss Fanny P., daughter of
Theodore Hinsdale, Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass. She survives him

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with three daughters and one son. The son graduated at this
College in 1816, and succeeds his father in his work as a teacher
in Hartford

1828.

Alfued Blackman, son of Samuel C. Blackman (Y. C. 1793),
was born in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 28, 1807.

Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in the
office of his father, a Judge of Probate for the district, and in
1830 he was admitted to the bar. In 1832 he removed to the vil-
lage of Humphreysville, now the town of Seymour, Conn., and
practiced there until 1842, when he removed to Waterbury, Conn.,
to perform the duties of Judge of Probate. In the fall of 1 844 he
transferred his residence to New Haven, Conn., where he re-
mained until his death. In 1842 he was elected to the State Sen-
ate, and in 1851 was appointed Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, then known as the County Court, which office he consented
to hold only for a single year. In 1852 he was appointed clerk
of the U. S. District Court, which position he held until 1868. In
1855 he was elected a representative to the General Assembly,
l)eing the first Democrat elected to that office from New Haven
since 1833. While engaged in the discharge of his duties as rep-
resentative he was elected Mayor of the City ; he held the office
for one year, declining a re-nomination. He remained in practice
until 1869, when owing to the decline of his health he retired
from active life, after a brilliant career as an advocate. He died
in New Haven, Apr. 2^, 1880, in his 73d year, after a long illness.

He was married, in 1832, to Miss Abbie Beers, of Newtown,
w^ho survives him. Their two sons graduated at this College in
1854 and 1857, — the younger only being now living.

1829.

Henry Augustus Boardman was born in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 9,
1808.

In the fall of 1830 he entered the Theological Seminary in
Princeton, N. J., and in April, 1833, was licensed to preacTi. In
September, 1833, he was called to the pastorate of the Tenth Pres-
byterian Church of Philadelphia, over which he was duly installed,
Nov. 8, 1833, and of which he continued in charge until May,
1876, when he became Pastor Emeritus. After an interval of
feeble health, he died in Philadelphia, June 15, 1880, aged 72

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years. During his long and eminent pastorate, he was repeatedly
called to other fields of labor, — notably in May, 1853, to the chair
of Pastoral Theology in Princeton Seminary. He published many
volumes and pamphlets, on theological subjects. The degree of
D.D. was conferred on him by Marshall College.

He leaves three sons and two daughters, one son being a grad-
uate of this College in the Class of 1859.

Francis Gillette, the youngest child of Ashbel and Achsah
(Francis) Gillett, was born in that part of the old town of Wind-
sor then known as Wintonbury, but now included in the town of
Bloomfield, Conn., Dec. 14, 1807. His father, a farmer and a
preacher to the small Baptist Society in Wintonbury parish, died
in 1814, and the son's education at College was only accom-
plished after bitter opposition from his natural guardians.

After graduation he entered a law office, but his health having
become impaired, he settled upon his patrimonial estate as a
farmer. In 1832 he represented the town of Windsor in the Leg-
islature, and in 1838 received a similar appointment from the new
town of Bloomfield. During the session of the latter year he
made himself prominent by anti-slavery utterances, and in 1841
was nominated for Governor by the Liberty party, and the nomi-
nation was frequently repeated during following years by the
same party and by the Free Soilers. He removed to Hartford in
1852, and in 1854 was elected by the Legislature to fill an unex-
pired term of a single year in the U. S. Senate, through a coa-
lition of Whigs, temperance advocates, and Free Soilers. At a
later time he was one of the founders of the Republican party in
Connecticut.

After having been in feeble health for two or three years, he
died suddenly at his residence in Hartford, Sept. 30, 1879, of
paralysis of the heart. He was married, Sept. 10, 1834, to Eliza
D., daughter of Edward Hooker (Y. C. 1805), of Farmington,
Conn. She survives him, with three of their six children. One
of the sons is now a member of Congress from Iowa.

1830.

John Cotton Smith, son of Deacon Wm. M. Smith (Y. C. 1805)
and Helen (Livingston) Smith, was born in Sharon, Conn., March
21, 1810.

After graduation he pursued for a time the study of law, but

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never engaged in practice. His residence was the old family
homestead in Sharon, where he died of heart disease, Nov. 2, 1879,
in his 70th year. He was elected to the State Legislature in
1833, and also in 1842, 1853, 1854, 1870 and 1876. In politics he
was a Democrat, and represented the State in three national
conventions, those of 1835, 1844 and 1856. He received the votes
of his political friends in 1839, and again in 1845, for a seat in
Congress, but was defeated. He was also the unsuccessful candi-
date for the lieutenant-govenorship in 1858, and in June of the
same year was appointed by President Buchanan minister resi-
dent to the republic of Bolivia, which position he resigned in
February, 1861.

He married about 1845 Mrs. Huder, formerly Miss Bishop, of
New Haven, and spent the years from 1846 to 1850 in European
travel. Mrs. Smith died some years ago, without children.

1831.

Henry Bates Camp, son of Dennis and Anna Camp, was born
in Durham, Conn., Dec. 10, 1809.

He began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School,
and completed his course at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
In August, 1835, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational
Church in North Branford, Conn., but resigned this charge in
August, 1836, on account of ill-health. In 1837 he became an
instructor in the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at
Hartford, Conn., where he taught until 1864. The rest of his life
was spent in retirement in Hartford, where he died quite suddenly,
Feb. 16, 1880, aged 70 years.

He married, May 21, 1835, Cornelia L. Baldwin, of North Guil-
ford, Conn., who died about two years before him. Three daugh-
ters survive their parents, two sons having died before them, — the
elder being a graduate of this college in the Class of 1860.

William Hemphill Jones, eldest son of Morgan and Mary
(Hemphill) Jones, was born in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 26, 1811.

He studied law in Philadelphia with Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll,
and when admitted to the bar returned to Wilmington. Soon
tiring of the practice of his profession, he devoted himself to the
more congenial pursuits of political life. In 1836 he was Secre-
tary of State; then member of the legislature; and in 1851 was
Mayor of Wilmington, being the first to hold the office by popu-

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lar election. Soon after, on his removal to the city of Washing-
ton, he was appointed to a position in the Treasury Department,
and in December, 1858, was made Chief Clerk in the office of the
First Comptroller, and during his long service in that position
was repeatedly intrusted with trusts of the highest responsibility,
which he executed with fidelity and success. July 1, 1875, he
was appointed Deputy First Comptroller of the Treasury, but held
this office only until Sept. 4, 1876. At the opening of the 45th
Congress, in December, 1877, he was made Secretary of the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, a
place for which he proved to be peculiarly fitted by his fund of
information and his unfailing courtesy. He died in Washington,
April 30, 1880, in his 69th year, of pneumonia, after a few days'
illness.

He leaves a widow, daughter of Allan Thomson, of Wilming-
ton, and one daughter.

BoLLiN Sanford died at his residence in New York City, Dec.
2, 1879, in the 74th year of his age. He was a native of Vermont,
but in his early youth his father removed to Litchfield South
Farms, now Morris, Conn., from which place he entered College.

He studied law in the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted
to the bar, Apr. 2, 1832. In the following summer he removed to
Auburn, N. Y., and entered the office of Wm. H, Seward, where
he continued until 1834 when he opened an office in New York
City with Hon. Lewis B. Woodruff (Y. C. 1830). In 1836 a
severe illness with inflammation of the lungs obliged him to relin-
quish the practice of his profession for a more active life. He
then became connected with the management of the Stamford
Manufacturing Company, which had its office in New York and
extensive factories of dyestuffs, etc., in Stamford, Conn. He con-
tinued to be a director and large shareholder in this corporation
until his death.

Mr. Sanford was first married to a sister of Judge O. S. Sey-
mour (Y. C. 1824), of Litchfield, who died without children. By
his second wife. Miss Wright, of Brooklyn, N. Y., he had a son
and a daughter, who are both deceased. His third wife. Miss Clo-
rinda Harrison, of Brooklyn, is still living, as are two of her sons.
Mr. Sanford was warmly interested in the prosperity of the Col-
lege, and at different times contributed efficiently to movements
for its enlargement — especially in connection with the Fund
raised in 1854.

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1832.

Samuel Robbins Brown, only son of Timothy H. and Phebe
(Hinsdale) Brown, was born iij Scantic Parish, in East Windsor,
Conn., June 16, 1810. In 1818 his father removed to Monson,
Mass., in order to avail himself of the advantages of the academy
there in the education of his children ; and from that place the
son entered Amherst College, in 1828. Three months later he
removed to this College, and though greatly hampered by pov-
erty succeeded in finishing the course without interruption. He
then spent three years and a half as a teacher in the N. Y. Insti-
tution for the Deaf and Dumb, earning money to pay his father's
debts. In 1835, he went to Columbia, S. C, for the sake of the
milder climate, and studied theology for two years in the Presby-
terian Theol. Seminary. Returning to New York, he finished his
studies at the Union Seminary, and was accepted by the Ameri-
can Board as a foreign missionary. Before the Board could pro-
vide a place for him, he was invited to go to China, in the service
of the Morrison Education Society, as a teacher. In October,
1838, he was married to Elizabeth G., daughter of Rev. Shubael
Bartlett (Y. C. 1800), of East Windsor, and was ordained at New
York on the following day, and sailed the same month for his post.
He taught in Macao till 1842, and then in Hongkong until 1847,
when he was obliged to return to America by his wife's protracted
illness. For two years and a half, 1848-51, he had charge of an
academy in Rome, N. Y. In 1 851 he went to the outlet of Owasco
Lake, near Auburn, N. Y., as pastor of a very feeble Reformed
Dutch Church, which was greatly strengthened by his care of it
for eight years. Early in 1859 the Reformed Dutch Church's
Board of Foreign Missions determined to send a mission to Japan,
and Mr. Brown was appointed one of the missionaries. He sailed
for China in April, 1859, and in November established himself in
Japan, which continued to be his residence (with the exception of
the period from June, 1867, to August, 1869, when he visited the
United States), until July, 1879, when protracted illness obliged
him to return to this country. He died in Monson, Mass., June
20, 1880, aged 70 years. His wife survives him, with two sons
and two daughters. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was con-
ferred on him by the University of the City of New^ York in 1867.

To Dr. Brown's influence by means of his pupils much of the
recent development of China is justly due. His work in Japan
was even more strikingly useful, in connection with education and

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the study of the Japanese language and the translation of the
Bible.

Martin Kellogg was born in Newington, then a parish of
Wethersfield, Conn., Nov. 4, 1810. He was the son of Gen.
Martin Kellogg and of Mary, daughter of Gen. Roger Welles
(Y. C. 1775). He entered college in 1827, but spent only a part
of the first year with that class.

For two years after graduation he had charge of the academy
in Sunbury, Gates County, N. C. He then spent six years
in Illinois, after which he returned to North Carolina as a
teacher. In March, 1849, he married Patience B., daughter of
John C. Gordon, of Gates County, and until 1861 he continued
engaged in his vocation. His wife died in September, 1 869, leav-
ing two sons and three daughters. The younger son graduates
from Amherst College this summer.

His own residence continued at Sunbury until his death. He
was brought North in an invalid conditio q in the summer of
1879, and died Sept. 9, while in the City Hospital in Hartford,
Conn., where he had placed himself for a surgical operation.

1834.

William Ives Budington was born in New Haven, Conn.,
April 21, 1815, the son of William and Lydia (Ives) Budington.

After graduating he taught in the academy in New Canaan,
Conn., for nearly a year, and then began a three years' course in
the Yale Divinity School. The year 1838-9 he spent as a resident
licentiate in the Andover Theological Seminary. He was or-
dained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charles-
town, Mass., April 22, 1840, and fulfilled a happy and prosperous
ministry there, until reasons connected with an impaired state of
health led him to resign the charge, Sept. 22, 1854. He assumed
at once the pastoral care of the Western Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia, Pa., but the death of his wife and other reasons led
him to relinquish this position in the following April, when he
removed to the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., over which he was installed, Dec. 19, 1855. His
ministry in Brooklyn was from the first highly esteemed, and the
office was only laid down on account of the disease from which he
died. In 1877 he was attacked with cancer of the lip, which after
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form. He resigned his pastoral office, Dec. 22, 1878, and died in
Brooklyn, Nov. 29, 1879, in his 65th year.

He was married, Jan. 5, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth L., daughter
of William Gunton, of Washington, D. C, who died Dec. 24,
1854. He was again married, April 7, 1857, to Mrs. Elizabeth W.
Nicholson, of Canandaigua, N. Y., who survives him. His chil-
dren, three daughters and two sons by the first marriage, and
one son by the second marriage, all survive him.

He published (in 1845) an admirably written History of the First
Church in Charlestown; also several occasional sermons and
review-articles. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by
Amherst College in 1856.

Reuben Gaylord was born in Norfolk, Conn., Apr. 28, 1812,
the seventh child of Reuben and Mary (Curtiss) Gaylord.

He taught an Academy in New Preston, Conn., for the winter
after graduation, and from the spring of 1835 till the summer of
1837 had charge of the preparatory department of Illinois Col-
lege, at Jacksonville, 111. Meantime he was pursuing theological
studies under Rev. Edward Beecher (Y. C. 1822), and after spend-
ing a year in the Yale Divinity School, was ordained as an Evan-
gelist, at Terryville, Conn., in August, 1838. He spent one year
in the work of the ministry in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and then
took charge of the church in Danville, in the same State. He
was dismissed from this pastorate, Nov. 7, 1855, and removed to
Omaha, Nebraska, where he formed the first Congregational
Church in that Territory, of which he was installed pastor. May
4, 1856. While visiting the East on his first vacation, in the
summer of 1864, he accepted the agency of the American Home
Missionary Society for Nebraska and western Iowa, and in conse-
quence was dismissed from his pastorate, on the 15th of the fol-
lowing November. For six years he devoted himself with
earnest fidelity to this new service, until in consequence of over-
work he was stricken with a slight attack of partial paralysis,
which obliged him to resign his office in May, 1870. He still
continued to explore destitute parts of the country in behalf of
the same Society, and to preach to settlements in the vicinity of
his residence. From 1876 he supplied the church in Fontenelle,
one of the many founded by him, and died there, of paralysis,
Jan. 10, 1880, in his 68th year.

He was married, Oct. 13, 1838, to Miss Sarah Burton, of Beth-

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lem, Conn., who died less than two years after. He was again
married, Nov. 8, 1841, to Miss Mary M. Welles, of Hartford, Iowa,
who survives him, with one daughter and one son (a graduate of
Iowa College).

1835.

AsHBEL Bradford Haile was born in Poultney, Vt., in 1806,
and died in Norwich, Conn., March 9, 1880, aged 74 years. When
he was two years of age his father removed to Gouverneur, St.
Lawrence County, N. Y., then a wilderness settlement. He grew
up as a farmer's boy, and after reaching his majority earned by
teaching the means for completing his education, and entered the
Junior Class of this college in 1833.

On graduation he took the full course in the Yale Divinity
School and was licensed to preach in 1838. He saw reasons,
however, for a change of plan, and in 1839 entered the Yale Med-
ical School, from which he graduated in 1 842. He then settled
in Norwich, Conn., where he continued (with the exception of a
residence in California from 1852 to 1855), successful and highly
respected in the practice of the medical profession, until his last
illness, which began about two years before his death. He mar-
ried Miss Mary May, of Norwich, who survives him with one
daughter.

William McLellan, the son of Dr. John McLellan, a well
known physician of Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa., was born
in that town. May 8, 1815.

After leaving college he taught school for a short time in his
native place, and then began the study of the law in Chambers-
burg, the county seat, under the direction of his uncle, Hon.
Thomas G. McCulloh. He was admitted to the bar, Oct. 2, 1838,
and went to Monroe, Mich., to begin practice. But he preferred
his old surroundings, and in 1841 returned to his father's house,
where he remained without regular occupation till 1846. He
then removed to Chambersburg and entered on the active prac-
tice of his profession, and on February 2, J 847, was married to
Miss Ellen Cheney, of Washington County, Md. After 1874, he
devoted himself chiefly to his private affairs, being no longer in
vigorous health, and in May, 1878, he was stricken with paralysis.
He partially recovered, but in August, 1879, was again attacked,
and the third stroke proved fatal on Oct. 21.

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His wife survives him with three daughters and a son, — a sec-
ond son havinpj died since his father.

He was distinguished in his profession, and exercised a wide in-
fluence in public affairs in his native county.

Aaron Snow, son of Freeman G. and Jane (Reed) Snow, was
born at Centerbrook, in Say brook, Conn., June 26, 1804. After
he had learned a trade and had started in business, at the age of
24 he became a christian and resolved to seek an education, in
order to preach the gospel.

He studied theology in the Yale Divini,ty School, where he
completed the course in 1838. In October, 1840, he was called to
settle over the Congregational Church in the parish of East
Glastonbury (now Buckingham), Conn., where he was ordained
Apr. 18, 1841. From this charge he was dismissed. May 19,
1862, and in the same year began to supply the pulpit of the
Mount Sinai Congregational Church in the township of Brook-
haven (L. I.), N. Y. In June, 1875, he retired from this service on
account of infirmity, and soon after removed to Essex (formerly a
part of Saybrook), Conn., where he died, after a short illness,
March 1, 1880, in his 76th year.

He was three times married : (1) to Sarah Ann, daughter of
Calvin Hoit, of Stamford, Conn., May 9, 1841, who died Dec. 4,
1841 ; (2), in November, 1843, to Mary B. Treat, of Glaston-
bury, who died July 31, 1845; (3), November 11, 1846, to Abi-
gail Hovey, of Ashford, Conn., who survives him. Two daugh-
ters, one by the second and one by the third marriage, are also
living.

1836.

Joshua F. Pearl, son of John M. and Achsah (Fenton) Pearl,
was born in Belchertown, Mass., May 3, 1808.

Upon graduation he began teaching in the Fair Haven Acad-
emy in New Haven, where he continued for five or six years.
He next taught for brief periods in his native town and in War-
ren, Mass. In 1845 he went to Natchez, and organized there the
first free school established in Mississippi. Later, he again re-
turned to New Haven and taught for some years, and was then in-
vited to Memphis, Tenn., to organize and superintend the free
schools about to be started there. He next went to Nashville,
Tenn., as Superintendent of Public Instruction, and remained in

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that position until the breaking out of the civil war, when he
went to Detroit, Mich., as principal of a Female Seminary. After
the close of the war he was called on to reorganize the Nashville
schools, and to resume his old position there, but he was obliged
to resign after a few months on account of impaired health. He
afterwards resided for a few years in New Haven. He died of
bronchial phthisis in Belchertown, Mass., Oct. 18, 1879, aged 71
years.

He was married. May 2, 1837, to Louisa, daughter of Luther
Brown, of Ware, Mass., who survives him. They had one son
and three daughters ; two daughters are still living.

1838.

Lot Curran Clark was born in Norwich, Chenango County,
N. Y., June 20, 1819, the son of Lot and Lavinia (Crosby) Clark.
He entered College at the beginning of the Sophomore year, from
St. Augustine, Fla., where his father was then living.

Upon graduation he began the study of law in the office of
Hon. Esek Cowen, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ; and after further
studies in Lockport, N. Y., and in New York City, was admitted
as an attorney in 1840. In December of the same year he opened
an office in Port Richmond, Staten Island. In the following Sep-
tember he was appointed District Attorney of Richmond County
and served for six years, until the office was made elective. He
was then elected for a term of three years, but resigned before the
expiration of that period. This, with the exception of some
trusts in connection with the common schools, was the only public
office which he ever filled. He continued to reside on Staten
Island, where he had first gone for his health, until 1872, having
during most of the time an office in the city of New York as well
as one in Port Richmond. In 1867, however, his health was so
much broken by professional labor and hereditary tendency to
asthma, that he was obliged to give up his business, and did not
again resume it. At different periods he made six visits to
Europe and one to the Rocky Mountains, for the benefit of his
health. In 1872 he removed his residence to New York City,
where he died of typhoid pneumonia, Feb. 11, 1880, in his 61st
year.

He was married, Nov. 9, 1859, to Frances S., daughter of Rev.
Theodore Irving, of Staten Island. She survives him with their
only child, a daughter.

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Joseph Parrish Thompson, son of Isaac and Mary Anne
Thompson, was born in Philadelphia, Aug. 7, 1819.

After beginning a theological course at the Andover (Mass.)
Seminary, he continued his studies in the Yale Divinity School,
and before he had reached his majority was invited- to become
the pastor of the Chapel Street Congregational Church (now the
Church of the Redeemer) in New Haven. Over this church he
was ordained, Oct. 28, 1840. From this charge he was dismissed
March 31, 1845, to become the first pastor of the church worship-
ing in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York. He continued
as pastor of the leading Congregational Church in that city, from
April 15, 1845, until Nov. 15, 1871, when on account of the failure
of his health he was obliged to resign his charge. During these
years of eminently successful pastoral work and of distinguished
pulpit power, he was also largely influential through the press,
publishing some twenty volumes, and acting as editor-in-chief of
The Independent^ a weekly newspaper, from its establishment in
1848 till 1862. When relieved from parish labor, he devoted
himself to study and authorship exclusively ; choosing for these
purposes a residence in Berlin, Germany. He was especially ab-
sorbed in studies in Egyptology, ^nd also contributed largely to
the proceedings of numerous international congresses on the law
of nations, geographical research, the regulation of trade, peace,
education, and other subjects. He was, moreover, very active
with his pen in explaining the history and polity of the United
States to European minds.

He died in Berlin, Sept. 20, 1879, aged 60 years.

He was married. May 5, 184J, to Lucy O., daughter of James
Bartlett, of Portsmouth, N. H. She died Jan. 27, 1852, and he
was again married, Oct. 25, 1853, to Elizabeth C, daughter of
Wm. C. Gilman, of New York City, who survives him with her
only son, a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1877.
Of the four children by his first marriage, two daughters and a
son are still living, — one son having lost his life in the war of the
rebellion.

Dr. Thompson received the degree of D.D. from Harvard Col-
lege in 1856, and that of LL.D. from the University of the City of
New York in 1868.

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1839.

William Herbert Norris was born Nov. 4, 1814, and entered
College as a resident of Alexandria, D. C.

He studied for the Protestant Episcopal ministry and was for
many years rector of a church in Carlisle, Pa. His next settle-
ment, after an interval of rest in Philadelphia, was as rector of
Christ Church, Woodbury, N. J., for twenty years from 1855.
The remainder of his life was spent in retirement in Philadelphia,
where he died Feb. 18, 1880, in his OGth year. He was married
in 1840, and lost a son from a wound received at the battle of
Antietam.

1840.

William Bartlett Brinsmade, son of Daniel B. and Mary W.
(Gold) Brinsmade, of Washington, Conn., was born in that town.
May 10, 1819.

He became a civil engineer, and was employed largely in rail-
road construction in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In 1856 he
was made Superintendent of the Conn. River Railroad, and
retained that position until 1868, when he was obliged to give up
work on account of ill-health. A trip to Europe failed to restore
him, and he i-emained an invalid until his death. His residence
was for many years in Springfield, Mass., but about 1876 he was
taken to Litchfield, (/onn., where he remained in a private insti-
tution for nervous diseases. On the evening of May 15, 1880, he
was suffocated in his room by a fire kindled from a match which
he had probably secreted and lighted.

He was married in 1 850 to Miss Chapin, of Springfield, and
leaves two sons (one a graduate of Harvard College in 1874, and
the other now a member of the Junior class in the same college)
and a daughter.

^ 1842.

Leonard Case, Jr., second and only surviving son of Leonard
and Elizabeth (Gaylord) Case, was born in Cleveland, O., June
27, 1820.

He studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar in 1845 ;
but, instead of engaging in business, occupied himself mainly in
private studies and in the care of his large estate. His health,
never robust, became much enfeebled soon after graduation, and
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disease of the lungs. During the last winter he failed rapidly,
and on the evening of Jan. 5, 1880, when his friends last saw him
alive, he was evidently very near his end. He was found dead in
his bed the next morning, and it is probable that death resulted
from the effect of chloroform which he was in the habit of using
to check his severest paroxysms of coughing, and which in his
very weak state proved too powerful. He was unmarried.

Mr. Case had been during his life a large benefactor to public
objects in his native city, and since his death his endowment of a
School of Applied Science in Cleveland with property valued at
over a million dollars has been made known.

1843.

Isaac Mills Ely, son of David Ely (Y. C. 1800), of New York
city, and grandson of Rev. Dr. David Ely (Y. C. 1769), of Hunt-
ington, Conn., was born in Fairfield, Conn., in 1819, and entered
this college from Rochester, N. Y., at the beginning of the Sopho-
more year. His mother was a daughter of Hon. Jonathan Sturges
(Y. C. 1759), of Fairfield.

After graduation he began immediately a course of theological
study, taking one year in Andover Theological Seminary, and
two in the Yale Divinity School. He was then licensed to preach
by the Hartford (Conn.) Central Association, and at once began
work in Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., but a speedy failure
of health led him to try a removal to Tennessee, where he spent a
year in teaching in Shelbyville. He then resumed preaching, but
his health continued so infirm as to prevent him from undertakino-
the duties of a settled pastorate. He accordingly preached tempo-
rarily in vacant pulpits, his longest service being also the last, for
three years in connection with the Congregational Church in
Chenango Forks, N. Y. He was later principal for a time (from
1872) of a select school for young lacjies, in Chenango Forks,
where he continued to reside, and where he died Jan. 7, 1880
in his 61st year. He was ordained as an evangelist, at Brighton,
N. Y., Feb. 9, 1861, and subsequently served as Hospital Chap-
lain in the Union service at Alexandria, Va.

In 1868 he married Harriet E., eldest daughter of Henry A.
Rogers, who survives him, with three children.

Gordon Hall, son of Gordon and Margaret (Lewis) Hall, was
born in Bombay, India, Nov. 4, 1823. His father was graduated

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at Williams College in 1808, and was one of the pionee* mission-
aries of the American Board. At two years of age the son was
brought to America by his mother, and in consequence of his
father's sudden death remained in this country. He spent the
year after graduation in general study in New Haven, and then
entered the Yale Divinity School, where he finished the course in
1847. Meantime he had been called in 1846 to a tutorship in
college, which he resigned in 1848. He was ordained pastor of
the Congregational Church in Wilton, Conn., Oct. 25, 1848, where
he remained until dismissed, May 4, 1852, to accept a call to the
pastorate of the Edwards Church, in Northampton, Mass., over
which he was installed on the 2d of the following month. His
long and useful service in this position was only broken by death.
On Sunday, Oct. 26, 1879, while on a brief visit in Binghamton,
N. Y., he undertook to preach, but was interrupted by an attack
of hemorrhage of the lungs; he seemed to be recovering, when
typhoid pneumonia supervened, which caused his death, at Bing-
hamton, Nov. 5, the day after he had completed his 56th year.

He was married, Oct. 10, 1848, to Emily B., youngest daughter
of Rev. Samuel Merwin (Y. C. 1802), of New Haven. She sur-
vives him with five sons and one daughter.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by
Amherst College in 1864.

1844.
Henry Postlethwaite Duncan died in New York City, Dec.
6, 1879, in the 57th year of his age. He was a son of Dr. Stephen
Duncan, of Natchez, Miss., who was before the late war one of
the largest planters in the South. During the earlier part of his
life he resided near Natchez, attending to his father's large plant-
ing interests. Subsequently he traveled extensively, and spent
much of his time in the neighborhood of New York. He was
married, Oct. 6, 1847, to Mary, daughter of G. W. Sargent, of
Natchez, but had no children. He died of quick consumption,
after only six weeks of really serious illness.

1845.

Chaeles Thomas Chester, third son of Thomas L. and Eliza
(Sidell) Chester, of New York City, was born Jan. 26, 1826.

After graduation he began the study of medicine in New
Haven, but in 1846 became interested in the telegraphic enter-

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prise, then in embryo. After a few years' experience in the prac-
tical management of lines, he engaged in business in New York
in 1853 with Mr. John W. Norton, then the principal dealer in
electrical and telegraphic apparatus and supplies. The following
year he began business for himself in the same line in New York,
and was so engaged until his death, at his residence in Engle-
wood, N. J., of pneumonia, Apr. 13, 1880, at the age of 54. Be-
sides being a manufacturer of electrical apparatus, Mr. Chester
also made a number of telegraphic inventions and improvements,
and was thoroughly respected for his integrity and ability.

He was married, June 17, 1856, to Lucretia L. Roberts, of New-
bern, N. C, who survives him. Of their five children, one son
and two daughters are now living.

Isaac Muneoe St. John, eldest child of Isaac R. and Abby R.
(Munroe) St. John, was born in Augusta, Ga., where his father
was then in business, Nov. 19, 1827. He entered College from
New York City.

On graduating he began the study of law in New York, but in
1847 removed to Baltimore, where he was employed as assistant
editor of the Patriot. He subsequently chose civil engineering as
a profession, and until 1855 was connected with the engineering
corps of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road. In 1855 he removed
to Georgia, and was for five years in charge of divisions of the
Blue Ridge Rail Road. In February, 1861, he entered the Con-
federate service as a private in the Fort Hill Guards, South Caro-
lina State troops. Two months later he was transferred to engi-
neer duty, and rapidly rose to the position of chief engineer of
the Army of the Peninsula. In May, 1862, he was made Major
and chief of the Mining and Nitre Bureau Corps, and was subse-
quently promoted through the various grades to the rank of Brig-
adier General, and in 1865 to the position of Commissary Gen-
eral of the Confederacy. After the war he resumed his profes-
sion, and from 1866 to 1869 was chief engineer of the Louisville,
Cincinnati and Lexington Rail Road. In 1870 and 1871 he was
city engineer of Louisville ; and from 1871 till his death, consult-
ing engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail Road. He died
suddenly at his residence at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia, April 7, 1880, aged 52 years.

During the war he was married to a daughter of Col. J. L.
Carrington, of Richmond, Va.

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1846.

Isaac Clinton Collins, son of the Hon. Ela Collins, M. C,
was born in Lowville, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1824. His mother was Maria,
daughter of the Rev. Isaac Clinton (Y. C. 1786).

After graduation he read law in New York for a year, and in
1848, settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was admitted to the
bar a year later. He continued in successful practice there until
his death, except during two years' service as Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas. He also served for two years as a member of
the Ohio Legislature, and was otherwise prominent in political
affairs in connection with the Democratic party. Though the
record of his public life was not eventful, it was peculiarly honor-
able in the degree of esteem in which he was held by all who
knew him. He died suddenly at his home in Cincinnati, July 30,
1879, of heart disease, at the age of 55.

Judge Collins was married, Feb. 3, 1852, to Miss Emily H.
Ruth, formerly of Baltimore. She survives him with six children.

William Spencek Eakin was born July 6, 1820, in Shelby-
ville, Tenn., the son of John and Lucretia Eakin.

He w^as for many years a merchant in Nashville, Tenn., but his
sympathy with the Union during the war obliged him to leave
his native state. He subsequently settled in Groton, Conn.,
where he resided at the time of his death. During a visit to New
York City he was seized Jan. 31, 1880, with an attack of heart
disease while on an elevated railroad train, and died a few min-
utes after.

He was married Feb. 25, 1848, to Lemira G. Ewing, of Phila-
delphia, who died suddenly in Dresden, Saxony, March 20, 1869.
One of her two sons is still living. He was again married, June
27, 1871, to Mary P., daughter of Rial Chancy, Esq., of New
London, Conn., who survives him.

Jonathan Homer Lane, eldest son of Mark and Henrietta
(Tenney) Lane, was born in Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1819, and
entered College at the beginning of the Sophomore year. For the
year after graduating he taught in a seminary in Castleton, Vt. ;
was next for a year connected with the U. S. Coast Survey, and
then became an Assistant Examiner in the Patent Office. He
was subsequently advanced to the rank of Principal Examiner,

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but in 1857 was removed for political reasons. A private office
for patent business which he then opened was not successful. He
spent much time and money in constructing apparatus designed
for use in an 'experiment for compressing air in large quantities.
In the autumn of 1869 he became connected with the U. S. Coast
Survey Office as verifier of standard weights and measures, and so
continued till his death, in Washington, May 3, 1880, in his 61st
year.

He had made scientific and mathematical studies his specialty,
and had originated several improvements and inventions which
are of permanent importance. He was never married.

1849.

Romeo Ezekiel North was born at Bayou Lafourche, La.,
March 27, 1830, and died at his residence in Louisville, Ky., after
a short illness. May 22, 1880.

He entered college as Sophomore, from Louisville, and returned
to that city on graduation to study law. He did- not however
practice the profession, but devoted himself to general study and
literary labor. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the
Louisville Courier and special correspondent of the New York
Times. During the latter part of his life, much of his time was
devoted to the duties of a director of the Louisville City National
Bank. For many years he was a great sufferer from Bright's
disease. He was never married.

1854.

Leander Hubbell Potter, son of Herman B. and Minerva
(L'Hommedieu) Potter, was born in Rockford, 111., March 15,
1829, and joined the class at the beginning of the Sophomore
year.

After graduating, he taught, first in Maryland, then in Iowa,
and subsequently in the Chicago High School, where he remained
until his removal to Bloomington, 111., in 1859, as Instructor in
Language in the State Normal University.

In September, 1861, he entered the army as Captain in the 33d
Illinois Infantry. A year later he was promoted to the rank of
Major, and in May, 1863, to that of Lieutenant Colonel in the
same regiment. After three years' service he was compelled to

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resign in September, 1864, on account of disability, resulting
from a wound in the leg, received at Cotton Plant, Ark., July 7,
1862. He was next engaged as principal of the High School in
Beloit, Wise, and in 1867, became the President of the Illinois
Soldiers' College and Military Academy, a state institution for
the education of Illinois soldiers and their sons, located at Fulton.
In 1871 he accepted the presidency of the Northern Illinois Col-
lege, in the same town, which he held until in 1873. His resi-
dence continued in Fulton, while he was teaching in Chicago, until
in 1876, he was invited to act as professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and
English Literature, in Knox College, at Galesburg, III. Increas-
ing ill-health led to his retirement from this engagement in the
summer of 1878, and the anxieties arising from serious pecuniary
reverses, added to the inroads of consumption, hastened his
death, which occurred at Galesburg on the 11th of July, 1879.

He was married, July 26, 1858, to Miss Mary A. J. Bartlett, of
New Haven, Conn., who survives him with three sons and two
daughters.

1857.

JosEFH Payson Buckland was born in Springfield, Mass.,
Oct. 7, 1835.

After teaching school in Holyoke, Mass., he studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1865. He was the first judge of the
Holyoke police court, but after half a dozen years service removed
to Springfield, where he practiced his profession until within a
year or two of his decease. He then returned to Holyoke in fail-
ing health, and devoted himself to the duties of superintendent
of schools. He died suddenly, of consumption, after several
months' illness, in Holyoke, Oct. 25, 1879, aged 44 years; and
the importance of his public services to that community caused
his death to be greatly lamented. He was unmarried.

Edward John Evans, younger son of the late John Evans, a
prominent lawyer of York, Pa., was born in that city, June 3,
1837.

He began in 1857 the study of law with his father, but was
compelled by the failure of his eyes after a few months to seek
other employment. Accordingly in 1858, with the cooperation of
his father and under the firm name of Edward J. Evans & Co.,
he established an extensive nursery business in the management

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of which he continued until his death. In July, 1879, while
engaged at his nursery, he contracted a cold, which was increased
by exposure on a journey, producing an attack of pneumonia,
which rapidly developed into consumption, which caused his
death, in York, on the 19th of April, 1880, in his 43d year.

He was married, Dec. 31, 1861, to Fannie E., daughter of
Edward Chapin, Esq. (Y. C. 1819), of York, who survives him
with three daughters.

James Henderson Grant, eldest son of Oliver DeForest Grant,
was born in New York City, Jan. 8, 1838, and entered this Col-
lege as Junior, after graduation at the N. Y. Free Academy.

He was in business as a banker and broker with his father,
most of the time until 1864. In 1862-63 he served as Lieut.-Col-
onel of the 22d Regiment National Guard of N. Y. State. He
went to Japan in 1866 and was for a few years in business there.

He died in Denver, Col., Apr. 13, 1880, aged 42 years.

1858.

Joseph Worthy Pickett, son of Benjamin and Lydia O.
(Birchard) Pickett, w^as born in Andover, Ashtabula County,
Ohio, Jan. 28, 1832. He graduated at Allegheny College, Mead-
ville. Pa., in 1855, and after spending two years in teaching in
Taylorsville, Tenn., entered the Senior class in this College.
From 1858 to 1861 he studied in the Andover (Mass.) Theol. Sem-
inary, and from August, 1861, until May, 1863, preached in the
Congregational Church in Wentworth, N. H. In the meantime
he was ordained to the ministry, at Bristol, N. H., Jan. 2, 1862,
and on Apr. 10, 1862, was married at Wayne, O., to Mary J.,
daughter of Rev. George Roberts, of his native town. After
leaving Wentworth, he labored for six months in behalf of the
U. S. Christian Commission in Gen. Sherman's army, and before
the close of 1864 took charge of the Congregational Church in
Mount Pleasant, Iowa. From this place he was called in the sum-
mer of 1869 to become the Superintendent of the work of the
American Home Missionary Society in Southern Iowa, and
removed his residence to Des Moines. After nine years' diligent
service in this field, he was appointed in April, 1878, superintend-
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his headquarters at Colorado Springs, Col. His laborious and
self-denying career was suddenly closed on the evening of Nov.
14, 1879, by the overturning of a stage-coach on which he was
traveling, in its route from Denver to Leadville, Col., at a point
about eleven miles from the latter place. Since his death, " the
Pickett Memorial Congregational Church" has been organized in
Leadville, in honor of his work. His first wife died June 25,
1868, and he was married, Apr. 18, 1878, to Mrs. Sybil B. Ryder,
who survives him, with his three sons, two of them by his first
marriage.

1860.

SiDMON Thorne Keese, SOU of Peter and Melinda A. Keese,
was boru in Keeseville, Essex County, N. Y., May 16, 1840.

He studied law in the Columbia College Law School, gradua-
ting in 1862, and practiced his profession in New York City until
April, 1871, when he was appointed by the Legislature of New
Jersey, Justice of the First District Police Court of Jersey City,
the place of his residence. He held this ofiice till 1877, when he
resumed practice in Jersey City. A year or two later he had a
severe attack of rheumatism, which induced dropsy. He went to
Peru (near Keeseville), N. Y., for his health, but died there,
Apr. 3, 1880.

He was married, Feb. 14, 18G5, to Miss Mary E. Andrews, of
New Haven, Conn., who survives him.

1861.

William Martin Johnson, eldest son of Bradish and Louisa
A. (Lawrance) Johnson, was born in New York City, Oct. 10, 1839.

After graduation he studied law for one year in the Columbia
College Law School, and was from that time to his death in busi-
ness with his father, in the firm of Bradish Johnson & Sons, sugar
refiners. He died, after a very brief illness, while spending the
summer at Niantic, in East Lyme, Conn., Sept. 20, 1879, in his
40th year.

He was married, Oct. 17, 1866^ to Miss Sallie E. Day, of Ston-
ington. Conn., who survives him with several children.

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1863. ,

Joseph Platt Cooke, the eldest son of Amos S. and Juliette
(Montague) Cooke, was born, June 15, 1838, in Honolulu, Haw-
aiian Islands.

He was prepared for College at home and spent a year in Oahu
College, entering his class at Yale at the beginning of the Sopho-
more year. Upon graduation he returned immediately to Hono-
lulu, and took the place of his father (who had been obliged by
ill-health to retire from active employments) in the house of Cas-
tle & Cooke, commission merchants. He subsequently became a
member of the firm, and so continued, highly respected, until his
death in Honolulu, after a painful illness, Aug. 29, 1879, at the
age of 41.

He was married, Jan. 18, 1870, in Honolulu, to Miss H. Emi-
letta Wilder, who survives him, with four children.

1866.

Edwin Curtis Gormly was born in Allegheny City, Pa., Aug.
14, 1845, and died in London, England, Feb. 8, 1880, in his 35th
year.

He studied law in Pittsburgh, Pa., (his home at graduation) for
a year, but was obliged to change his plans by the failure of his
eyes. He ultimately entered the ofiice of the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company in Pittsburgh, and in May, 1873, took charge of
the foreign office of the company, in Liverpool, which continued
to be his occupation till his death.
•

1867.

Arthur Herman Adams was born in Florence, O., Nov. 24,
1847, and entered this college at the beginning of the Junior
year.

He taught for two years after graduation in the Delaware
Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., and then took the three years'
course in the Yale Theological Seminary. He remained in^ New
Haven for two additional years, teaching, and studying medicine,
receiving the degree of M.D. in 1874. On the 31st of August,
1874, he was married, in Stevensville, Pa., to Miss Sarah C.
Thomas, and two months later tkey sailed from San Francisco for
Japan, where Dr. Adams was stationed as a Medical Missionary
of the American Board of Foreign Missions till his death. In 1879

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he was obliged to bring his family to Southern California, on
account of his wife's health, and having left them there he sailed
on his return, November 15. He died on the passage to Yoko-
hama, Nov. 23, 1879, aged 32 years.

1869.

Alexander Lardner Brown, son of Frederick and Charlotte
A. (Hoppin) Brown, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 21, 1847.

He returned home after graduation and was engaged in the
wholesale and I'etail drug business with his eldest brother until
the failure of his health, which was seriously undermined by the
death of his only child, in 1876, and the subsequent loss of his
brother Henry Armitt Brown (Y. C. 1865), in 1878.

He died at his country home, in Burlington, N. J., Apr. 1, 1880,
in his 33d year.

He was married, May 29, 1872, to Miss Philippa M. Etting, of
Philadelphia, who survives him.

1870.

John Wallingford Andrews, elder son of Hon. John W.
Andrews (Y. C. 1830) and Lavinia (Gwynne) Andrews, was born
in Columbus, O., May 4, 1849.

The year after graduation was spent in reading and study at
home, and in June, 1871, he sailed for Europe, where he remained
for a year, — for the most of the time in Berlin. He then began
the study of Law in Columbia College Law School, where he was
graduated in May, 1874. He settled at first in the practice of
his profession in Chicago, but the brilliant promise of his earlier
career was interrupted by ill-health. In the summer of 1 879 he was
appointed U. S. District Attorney for the Territory of Montana,
and while in the performance of his duties died at Helena, May 8,
1880, from an attack of gastritis, aged 31 years.

He was not married.

1873.

Seth Weston Williams, son of the Hon. Charles and Eliza A.
(Weston) Williams, was born in Nashua, N. H,, Apr. 15, 1849.

He entered College in 1868, but at the close of the Freshman
year was obliged by weakness of the eyes to withdraw for a year.

In August, 1873, he went abroad, and after thirteen months

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spent in travel in Europe and the Holy Land, began the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. James R. Wood, of New York City.
He received the degree of M.D. in the spring of 1876 from the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and was awarded at that time
the Flint Prize for excellence in physiology. The next year he
spent in special studies in Heidelberg, Germany, and then
returned to Bellevue Hospital as one of the assistants. While
performing his duties there he found time to prepare an elaborate
essay on Pott's Disease of the spine, which was awarded the
Sayre Prize, open to all the Alumni of the Medical College. His
promising career was cut short by an attack of pneumonia, com-
plicated with an abscess of the cerebellum, which came upon him
while spending a vacation at the seaside. He died, after a week's
illness, in Portland, Me., Sept. 20, ISYO, aged 30 years.
He was unmarried.

1875.

Frank Elijah Hubbard, son of Jerome B. Hubbard, was born
in Bristol, Conn., Feb. 5, 1853.

An hereditary tendency to consumption led him at the end of
his College course to spend a year in the Hawaiian Islands, and
subsequently to enter into business in San Francisco. His health
gradually failed, and he died in Alameda, Cal., in July, 1879,
aged 26 years.

1876.

Low^ELL Lawrence Clapp, the last surviving son of Captain
William Clapp, was born in Pomfret, Conn., March 31, 1852, and
died in Westminster, in tlie town of Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 19,
1879, in the 28th year of his age.

He entered College from Brooklyn, Conn., and was throughout
his course a very laborious student. He was principal of a school
in East Killingly, Conn., for the first year after graduation, and
for the rest of his life had charge of a school in Unionville, Hart-
ford County, Conn. His gratifying success as a teacher had led
him to postpone the intention of entering the ministry, which he
had while in College. Meantime continued hard work had under-
mined his health and strength. He had formed an engagement of
marriage, and was on his way home for the marriage to take
place, but on the journey was taken ill and was found by friends

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at Danielsonville exhausted and deranged. He was carried to his
father's residence, and there sank rapidly under an attack of brain-
fever, and died in about a month's time.

1878.

George Clarence Ackerman, son of Theodore J. Ackerman,
was born in New York City, Oct. 8, 1 856, and died at his father's
residence in New Haven, Conn., May 23, 1880, in his 24th year.

His Senior year in college was interrupted by a severe illness,
which prevented his taking part in the regular work of the class
for the last four months, and which developed into a seated pul-
monary disease. He spent the winter of 1878-79 in Aiken, S. C,
and the succeeding winter in Colorado, from which place he
returned but a short time before his sudden death.

George Edwards Gilbert, son of Rev. William H. Gilbert
(Y. C. 1841) and Mary (Goodridge) Gilbert, was born in Ash-
field, Mass., where his father was then pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church, Apr. 22, 1855.

He was prepared for College at the Hartford (Conn.) High
School, and entered Yale with his twin brother at the beginning
of the Freshman year. Upon graduation he went to Englewood,
N. J., as a teacher, but early in the winter was prostrated by a
fatal disease (diabetes), from which he had already sufiered while
in College. During the following summer he was apparently
improving, until a few days before his death, 'which occurred at
his father's residence, in South Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 20, 1879.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1823.

Austin Chitrch, son of Oliver and Elizabeth (Cone) Church,
was born in East Haddam, Conn., Jan. 9, 1799.

He began his professional studies in 1820 with Dr. Josiah Good-
hue, of Hadley, Mass., afterwards pursuing them with Dr. Amos
Twitchell, of Keene, N. H., and attending one course of lectures
at the Castleton (Yt.) Medical School. After receiving his degree
he began practice in Utica, N. Y., but in 1826 removed to Coop-
erstown, and in 1829 to Ithaca, N. Y. In 1834 he relinquished
practice and established in Rochester, N. Y, chemical works for
the manufacture of pearlash and saleratus. He removed to
Oswego, N. Y., in 1842, and in 1845 settled in New York City,
where he established extensive chemical works for the manufac-
ture of bi-carbonate of soda for baking purposes from soda-ash,
being the first in this country to develop the process, and contin-
uing actively interested in the business till within a few years of
his death. He died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7,
1879, aged 80 years.

He was married. May 3, 1827, to Nancy, second daughter of
Dr. Elihu D wight (Dartmouth Coll. 1790), of South Hadley, Mass.
His wife with two daughters and two sons survives him.

1824.

Charles Rowland died suddenly of paralysis of the heart in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1879, at the age of 79.

He was a native of Fairfield, Connl, and in 1825 settled in
Brooklyn, where he lived to become — with one . exception — the
oldest practicing physician. He married, in 1827, Miss Maria
Bellamy, of Derby, Conn. Two sons and two daughters survive
him.

Thomas Smith Williamson, the only son of Rev. William and
Mary (Smith) Williamson, was born at Fair Forest, Union Dis-
trict, S. C, in March, 1800; in 1805 his father, wishing to set
at liberty the slaves which he had inherited, removed to Man-
chester, Ohio.

He was graduated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in
1820, and soon after began to read medicine with his brother-in-

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law, Dr. William Wilson, of West Union, Ohio. He also
attended a course of medical lectures in Cincinnati, before attend-
ing the Yale Medical School.

On receiving his degree he settled in Ripley, Ohio, where he
soon gained a good practice, and was married, Apr. 10, 1827, to
Margaret, daughter of Col. James Poage. A half-formed purpose
to devote themselves to missionary work was rendered stronger
by the early deaths of their first three children ; and after spend-
ing one winter at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, and
being licensed to preach the gospel. Dr. Williamson was appointed
by the American Board in the spring of 1834 to visit the Indian
tribes west of and near the Mississippi River and north of the
State of Missouri. The result was the establishment by the Board
of a new mission, of which Dr. Williamson was put in charge.
As soon as navigation opened in the spring of 1835, he left Ohio
with his family, and until 1846 was stationed at Lac-qui-parle,
among the Dakotas, in the western part of what is now the State
of Minnesota. In 1846 he removed to Kaposia, five miles below
St. Paul, and after the cession of these lands to the government,
followed the Dakotas in 1852 to their reservation, and selected as
his residence a spot some thirty miles south of Lac-qui-parle. He
continued there until the Indian outbreak in 1862, and afterwards
made his home at St. Peter, Minn., where he died, June 24, 1879,
in his 80th year. His wife died in July, 1872.

From the time of his entrance on the missionary work, he gave
himself unreservedly to the elevation and Christianization of the
Dakotas ; he lived to see among them ten native ordained minis-
ters and about 800 church members, connected with the churches
which he had planted* The crowning work of his life, the trans-
lation of the Bible into the language of the Sioux nation, was
only completed, in connection with Rev. Dr. Riggs, about three
months before his death.

His three surviving sons are all college graduates, and one of
them was associated with his father in the missionary work.

1830.

Albert Alfred Wright, son of Asaph and Prudence (Moore)
Wright, was born in Goshen, Conn., March 14, 1808, and died in
North Canaan, Conn., May 14, 1880, aged 72.

After graduation he attended an additional course of medical
lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He
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began the practice of his profession at Canaan, Conn., in May,
1830, and there continued until his death, with the exception of a
brief residence during the winter of 1853-54, in Bridgeport,
Conn. One week previous to his decease he made his last profes-
sional visit, and his death followed from general exhaustion.

He married (1), May 17, 1831, Frances Ann, eldest child of
Rev. Pitkin Cowles (Y. C. 1800), of Canaan, Conn. She died
April 3, 1853, aged 43 ; (2), July 18, 1854, Mary, widow of
Samuel Beach, M. D. (Y. C. 1826), of Bridgeport, Conn., and
daughter of Rev. Zephaniah Swift, of Derby, Conn. She died
March 1, 1871, aged 65 ; (3), June 19, 1872, Eunice Albina,
widow of David William Gardner, and daughter of Solomon
Wright, of Pownal, Vt. By his first wife he had four children,
of whom one son and two daughters, together with his last wife,
survive him.

1837.

Robert Cephas Cone, eldest son of Rev. Jonathan Cone
(Y. C. 1808) and Abbie C. (Usher) Cone, was born in Colchester,
Conn., Apr. 12, 1811. He entered the Medical School from Dur-
ham, Greene County, N. Y., where his father was then settled in
the ministry, and after receiving his degree he returned to Dur-
ham and opened an office. He practiced there for nine years, and
then in Lowville, Lewis County, N. Y., for sixteen years, and in
1865 removed to New York City, where he continued in full
practice till his sudden death. He died in New York, Dec. 19,
1879, in his 69th year, after less than a week's illness, of con-
sumption.

Dr. Cone was married in Durham, May 30, 1 842, to Miss Mary
Pratt, who survives him with the younger of their two sons.

1849.

Gaylord Giles Bissell, eldest son of Roderick and Fanny
(Gaylord) Bissell, was born in Torrington, Conn., Feb. 13, 1825.

At the age of 16 he began to teach school, and in connection
with his teaching pursued medical studies. In April, 184^, he
entered on the practice of his profession in Bethlem, Conn., and
on Nov. 7, 1849, was married to Emily A., daughter of Edwin
Talmadge. In 1854 he removed to Union Mills, Pa., and in 1857
to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he and one of his brothers opened a
drug store in connection with their practice. Dr. Bissell also

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took great interest in legal subjects; and while in Fort Dodge
was admitted to the bar. Tn March, ] 860, he went with his two
brothers to Colorado to develop mining interests, and subse-
quently to Montana, where he was one of the original settlers
of Virginia City and its first mayor. In the fall of 1865 he left
Montana, and after a visit at the East returned to Iowa, where he
subsequently resided,— from 1869 in Lovilia, Monroe County,
where he exerted a wide influence in the community, and where
he died, of Bright's disease, July 8, 1879, aged 54 years. His
widow and two sons survive him.

1866.

CoKNELius Jay DuBois, the eldest son of Dr. Henry A. and
Helen (Jay) DuBois, was born Aug. 30, 1836, in New York City,
where his father was at that time a practicing physician.

He studied law in the Law School of Columbia College, receiving
the degree of LL.B. in 1861, and in April of the same year went
with the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. State Militia, on three months'
service in the civil war. In September, 1862, he raised a company
of soldiers in New Haven, Conn, (to which city his father had
removed), and was elected their captain. His company was at-
tached to the 27th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and after
fighting at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he was wounded
in the arm at the battle of Gettysburg. After his recovery he
was made, in April, 1864, Adjutant of the 20th Connecticut Vol-
unteers, and served for three months, being breveted Lt. Col. for
bravery at Resaca, Ga.

He subsequently studied medicine, and practiced in Minneapo-
lis, Minn., in San Rafael, Cal., and in New Haven. After a
long and painful illness, he died at his father's residence, in New
Haven, Feb. 11, 1880, in his 44th year. He was unmarried.

Dexter Louis Lounsbuky, son of Allen Lounsbury, was born
in Bethany, Conn., in 1844.

After graduation while employed as house physician at the
Conn. State Hospital in New Haven, he was married, Oct. 22,
1866, to Mary E. Hart, of the same city. He afterwards prac-
ticed his profession in Naugatuck, and elsewhere in Connecticut.

Subsequently, he began preaching in the same State in connec-
tion with the Methodists, and later took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, being ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Con-

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necticut, June 13, 1874. His first charge was at Nichols Farms,
in the town of Trumbull, Conn., and in April, 18*78, he was cho-
sen rector of Christ Church in Stratford, Conn. While still filling
this position he was instantly killed by a shot from a pistol in the
hands of his wife, on the morning of the 24th of September, 1879.
At a trial before the Superior Court of the State, Mrs. Lounsbury
was acquitted of a criminal charge, on the ground of insanity,
caused by disease. One daughter survives him.

1867.

Henry Potter was born in New London, Conn., in 1825.
Brought up as a mechanic, it was not until late in life that he
was able to devote himself to a profession. After receiving his
degree he returned to his native place, and there practiced medi-
cine. He was for a number of years city physician, but was re-
moved from this office a short time before his death, on account
of differences wath the Board of Health. He had also been a
member of the City Board of Education. He was found dead in
his room on the morning of March 10, 1880, death having been
caused by apoplexy and a consequent hemorrhage of a blood ves-
sel in the brain.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

1878.

Henry Orton Finch, son of Martin and Caroline (Jackson)
Finch, was born in Keeseville, N. Y., June 7, 1853, and gradua-
ted at the University of Vermont, in 1874.

After studying law for a year in his father's office, he entered
the Union Theol. Seminary, in New York City, removing to this
Divinity School for the last year of the course. After graduating
he was employed as acting pastor of the First Congregational
Church in Guilford, Conn., and while still in that relation died
suddenly from the bursting of a blood-vessel while walking on the
beach in Guilford, Aug. 27, 1879, at the age of 26. He was ex-
pecting to be ordained pastor four days later. He was not mar-
ried.

SUMMARY.

Academical Department.

Class.

Name and Age.

Place and

Time of Death.

1809

Burr Baldwin, 91,

Montrose, Pa.

Jan. 23, '80.

1815

Wm. C. Wetmore, 83,

New York City,

March 22, '80

1818

Samuel H. Huntington, 86

Hartford, Conn.,

Feb. 4, '80.

1820

Nathaniel A. Pratt, 83,

Roswell, Ga.,

Aug. 30, '79.

1822

Lot Norton, 11,

Salisbury, Conn.,

May 29, '80.

1825

John J. Abernethy, 74,

New York City,

Oct. 28, '79.

182V

Joseph Gushing, Jr., 12,

Bedford Springs, Pa.,

July 6, '79.

1828

David K Bartlett, 74,

Hartford, Conn.,

Nov. 29, '79.

Alfred Blackman, 72,

New Haven, Conn.,

Apr. 28, '80.

1829

Henry A. Boardman, 72,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

June 15, '80.

Francis GiUette, 71,

Hartford, Conn.,

Sept. 30, '79.

1830

John Cotton Smith, 69,

Sharon, Conn.,

Nov. 21, '79.

1831

Henry B. Camp, 70,

Hartford, Conn.,

Feb. 16, '80.

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Wm. Hemphill Jones, 68,

Washington, D. C,

Apr. 30, '80.

EoUin Sanford, 73,

New York City,

Dec. 2, '79.

1832

Samuel R. Brown, 70,

Monson, Mass.,

June 20, '80.

Martin Kellogg, 68,

Hartford, Conn.,

Sept. 9, '79.

1834

Wm. I. Budington, 64,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Nov. 29, '79.

((

Reuben GTaylord, 67,

Fontenelle, Neb.,

Jan. 10, '80.

1835

Ashbel B. Haile, 74,

Norwich, Cqnn.,

March 9, '80.

((

Wm. McLellan, 64,

Chambersburg, Pa.,

Oct. 21, '79.

Aaron Snow, 75,

Essex, Conn.,

March 1, '80.

1836

Joshua F. Pearl, 71,

Tewksbury, Mass.,

Oct. 18, '79.

1838

Lot C. Clark, 60,

New York City,

Feb. 11, '80.

Joseph P. Thompson, 60,

Berlin, Prussia,

Sept. 20, '79.

1839

Wm. H. Norris, 65,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

Feb. 18, '80.

1840

Wm. B. Brinsmade, 61,

Washington, Conn.,

May 15, '80.

1842

Leonard Case. 59,

Cleveland, 0.,

Jan. 6, '80.

1843

Isaac M. Ely, 60,

Chenango Forks, N. Y.,

Jan. 7, '80.

Gordon Hall, 56,

Bingham ton, N. Y.,

Nov. 5, '79.

1844

Henry P. Duncan, 56,

New York City.

Dec. 6, '79.

1845

Charles T. Chester, 54,

Englewood, N. J.,

Apr. 13, '80.

Isaac M. St. John, 52,

White Sulphur Springs, W. Ya., Apr. 7, '80.

1846

Isaac C. Collins, 55,

Cincinnati, 0.,

July 30, '79.

((

Wm. S. Eakin, 59,

New York City,

Jan. 31, '80.

J. Homer T-ane, 60,

Washington, D. C,

May 3, '80.

1849

Romeo E. North, 50,

Louisville, Ky.,

May 22, '80.

1854

Leander H. Potter, 50,

Galesburg, 111.,

July 11, '79.

1857

Joseph P. Buckland, 44,

Holyoke, Mass.,

Oct. 25, '79.

Edward J. Evans, 43,

York, Pa.,

Apr. 19, '80.

James H. Grant, 42,

Denver, Col.,

Apr. 13, '80.

1858

Joseph W. Pickett, 47,

near Leadville, Col.,

Nov. 14, '79.

1860

Sidmon T. Keese, 40,

Peru, N. Y.,

Apr. 3, '80.

1861

Wm. M. Johnson, 40,

East Lyme, Conn.,

Sept. 20, '79.

1863

Joseph P. Cooke, 41,

Honolulu, H. I.,

Aug. 29, '79.

1866

Edwin C. Gormly, 34,

London, England,

Feb. 8, '80.

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Class. Name and Age.

ISGT Arthur H. Adams, 32,

1869 A. Lardner Brown, 32,

1870 John W. Andrews, Jr., 31,
1873 Seth W. Williams, 30,
18T5 Frank E. Hubbard, 26,
1876 Lowell L. Clapp, 27,
1878 George C. Ackerman, 23,

" George E. Gilbert, 24,

Place and
Pacific Ocean,
Burlington, N. J.,
Helena, Mont.,
Portland, Me.,
Alameda, Cal.,
Canterbury, Conn.,
New Haven, Conn.
South Norwalk,

Time of Death.
Nov. 23, '79.
Apr. 1, '80.
May 8, '80.
Sept. 20, '79.
July, '79.
Nov. 19, '79.
May 23, '80.
Sept. 20, '79.

Medical Department.

1823 Austin Church, 80,

1824 Charles Rowland, 79,

" Thomas S. Williamson, 79,

1830 Albert A. Wright, 72,

1837 Robert C. Cone, 68,

1849 Gaylord G. Bissell, 54,

1 866 Cornelius J. DuBois, 43,
'' Dexter L. Lounsbury, 35,

1867 Henry Potter, 55,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
St. Peter, Minn.,
North Canaan, Conn.,
New York City,
Lovilia, Iowa,
New Haven, Conn.,
Stratford, Conn.,
New London, Conn.,

Aug. 7, '79.
Aug. 7, '79.
June 24, '79.
May 14, '80.
Dec. 19, '79.
July 8, '79.
Feb. 11, '80.
Sept. 24, '79.
March 9, '80.

Theological Department.
1878 Henry 0. Finch, 26, Guilford, Conn.,

Aug. 27, '79.

The number of deaths above given is 64, and the average age of the graduates
of the Academical Department is 57^ years.

Of the 54 Academical graduates, 13 were in business, 11 clergymen, 10 law-
yers, 8 teachers, and 4 physicians.

The oldest living graduate is Seth Pierce, of the Class of 1806, of Cornwall,
Conn., who was bom May 15, 1785.

The present series of the Obituary Record closes with this number. Aid in
preparing future numbers is urgently requested by the Secretary of the College.

A Supplement, just printed, can be obtained at the Library, containing an
index and title page to this series, with brief notices of some graduates who have
died since July, 1870, but have not been before commemorated.

INDEX.

Class Page

1825 Abernethy, John J.,_ 386

1878 Ackerman, Geo. C, 411

1867 Adams, Arthur H., 408

1870 Andrews, John W., 409

1809 Baldwin, Burr, .__ 383

1828 Bartlett, David E., 387

1849 m Bissell, Gaylord G., 414

1828 Blackman, Alfred, ___ 388

1829 Boardman, Henry A., 388

1840 Brinsmade, William B.,-_. 399

1869 Brown, A. Lardner, 409

1832 Brown, Samuel R., 392

1857 Buckland, Joseph P., 405

1834 Budington, William I., 393

1831 Camp, Henry B., 390

1842 Case, Leonard, 399

1845 Chester, Charles T., 401

1823 m Church, Austin, _ 412

1876 Clapp, LoweU L., 410

1838 Clark, Lot C, 397

1846 Collins, Isaac C, _ 403

1837 w Cone, Robert C, 414

1863 Cooke, Joseph P., 408

1827 Cushing, Joseph, 387

1866 m DuBois, Cornelius J., 415

1844 Duncan, Henry P., __ 401

1846 Eakin, William S., ..403

1843 Ely, Isaac M., _ 400

1857 Evans^ Edward J., _- 405

1878 t Finch, Henry 0., 416

1834 Gaylord, Reuben, 394

1878 Gilbert, George E., 411

Class Page

1829 GiUette, Francis, 389

1866 Gormly, Edwin C, _. 408

1857 Grant, James H.,_ 406

1835 Haile, Ashbel B., 395

1843 Hall, Gordon, 400

1832 Hubbard, Prank E., 410

1818 Huntington, Samuel H.,._ 385

1861 Johnson, William M., 407

1831 Jones, William Hemphill,. 390
1860 Keese, Sidmon T., 407

1832 Kellogg, Martin, 393

1846 Lane, J. Homer, 403

1866 m Lounsbury, Dexter L., 415

1835 McLellan, William, _- 395

1839 Norris, William H., 399

1849 North, Romeo E., 404

1822 Norton, Lot, 386

1836 Pearl, Joshua F., _ 396

1858 Pickett, Joseph W., 406

1867 m Potter, Henry,.. 416

1854 Potter, Leander H, 404

1820 Pratt, Nathaniel A., 385

1824 m Rowland, Charles, 412

1 846 St. John, Isaac M., 402

1831 Sanford, Rollin, _. 391

1830 Smith, John Cotton, 389

1835 Snow, Aaron, 396

1838 Thompson, Joseph P., 398

1815 Wetmore, William C, 384

1873 Williams, Seth W., 409

1824 m Williamson, Thomas S 412

1830 m Wright, Albert A., 413

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

OBITUARY RECORD

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE.

1870— 80.

1813.

Ebenezer Brown died in Roscoe, Winnebago County, III, Feb. 13, 1872, aged
83 years and 6 months. He was a native of Brimfield, Mass.

He studied theology, and was first settled as pastor over the Congregational
Church in the North Parish of Wilbraham, Mass., March 3, 1819. He resigned
this charge in July, 1827, and was installed three months later over the Congre-
gational Church in Prescott, Mass., where he continued until March, 1835. He
left this church to accept a call to the Second Church in Hadley (Upper Falls),
Mass. In 1838 he went from this position to Illinois, under a commission from the
American Home Missionary Society, and settled first in Byron, Ogle County. In
November, 1843, he aided in forming the Congregational Church in Roscoe, and two
months later assumed its pastoral charge. He retained his residence in Roscoe till
his death, preaching in many other places, and passing his last years in retirement.

His widow and one son survive him.

1814.

Horace Goodrich was bom in Wethersfield, Conn., Aug. 3, 1795. In 1798
his parents removed to Pittsfield, Mass., and subsequently to South Hadley, Mass.,
from which place he entered College.

Upon graduation he began at once the study of medicine under the direction of
Dr. Josiah Goodhue, of Hadley. In 1819 or 1820 he began practice in Ware,
Mass., where he remained for 35 years, gaining in a high degree the respect and
esteem of the community. He was twice a member of the State Legislature. At
the age of 60 he found his health hopelessly impaired and retired td a farm in
East Windsor, Conn., where he spent the most of his remaining days, in great
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feebleness. He died at the home of his eldest daughter, in Vineland, N. J., Aug.
21, 1812, aged 11 years.

At the age of 33 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon William Dickinson,
of Hadley, by whom he had four sons aud four daughters. One son and three
daughters are still living.

1815.

Hubbard Rockwell, elder son of Rev. Lathrop Rockwell (Dartmouth Coll.
1789), pastor of the Congregational Church in Lyme, Conn., and of Olive (Dutton)
Rockwell, was born in Lyme, in 1196.

He was a tutor in this College from 1811 to 1819, and during the greater part
of his life supported himself by teaching in New York City. After an old age of
extreme poverty, he died, very suddenly, at his boarding house in New York,
Jan. 14, 187 L. He was unmarried.

1816.

"Walter Smith died in Mount Vernon, 0., Feb. 1, 1811, aged 11 years.

He was born in 1193 in Kent, Conn., and after studying theology under Rev.
Dr. Matthew Perrine, of New York City, was licensed to preach by the Litchfield
(Conu.) North Association, Sept. 30, 1818. On the 2d of June, 1819, he was set-
tled over the Congregational Church in the village of North Cornwall, town of
Cornwall, Conn. He was obliged to resign on account of mental derangement in
April, 1838, and in the spring of 1840 removed to Mount Vernon, 0., where he
engaged in teaching and also in business.

He married Orpha Jerome, adopted daughter of Stephen Dodge, of New York
City, who died near the close of the year 1874. They had three sons.

1817.

Anson Hubbard, son of David and Jemima (Chamberlain) Hubbard, was bom in
Glastonbury, Conn., May 24, 1791, and died in Everett, Mass., March 6, 1876, in
his 85th year.

He studied theology with Rev. Nathan Perkins, D.D., of "West Hartford, Conn.,
and was licensed to preach by the Hartford North Association, Feb. 4, 1819.
After preaching for a few months in Eastford, Conn., he was settled in 1820 over
the Congregational Church in Lunetiborg, Vt., but was obliged to resign his charge
some three years later, on account of poor health. He was installed Jan. 15, 1828,
over the Congregational Church in Monson, Me., and there continued until his dis-
mission, Aug. 19, 1834, He requested this dismission in order to join a colony,
organized in Maine, for a settlement in Illinois, and he labored for a few years in
Payson, Round Prairie, and Plymouth, in that State, until disabled by illness. He
then returned to Maine, and for eight years from November, 1838, supplied the
church in Andover. He then retired to Chelsea, Mass., and there and in the place
of his death spent his closing years.

He was married in 1829 to Miss Charlotte Adams, of Rumford, Me., who died
in Chelsea in 1855. In September, 1859, he married Miss Caroline Augusta Hub-
bard, of Glastonbury, Conn., who survives him. By his first marriage he had two
sons, the elder of whom died of consumption in 1854, when just about to enter
College. The younger son enlisted in the Union army in the late civil war, and
was killed at the battle of Cold Harbor.

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1818.

Roger Wolcott Griswold was born in Lyme, Conn., March 15, 1797, the
fourth son of Gov. Eoger Oris wold (Y. C. 1780), and grandson of Gov. Matthew
Griswold. His mother was Fanny, daughter of Col. Zabdiel Rogers, of Norwich,
Conn.

Upon graduation he removed to Norwalk, Ohio, where he studied law with his
brother-in-law Ebenezer Lane (Harvard CoUege 1811), afterwards Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of that State. In 1 8 1 9 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1820
he settled in Ashtabula, 0., as a lawyer. He was also partially occupied in editing
a newspaper, and was twice a representative in the State Legislature. A short
time after his admission to the bar, he was married to his third cousin, Juliet,
daughter of Thomas Griswold, of East Lyme, Conn., who bore him twelve children
(eight of whom survive him), and who died in April, 1855. By his second wife,
Mrs. Caroline R. Martin, of Kenosha, 111., he had no children. By his third wife,
Mrs. H. C. Walker, he had two daughters, both still living.

About the year 1832, he relinquished the practice of his profession, and was
afterwards employed as an agent for persons at the East in the sale of lands, and
during the latter part of his life was chiefly occupied in farming. He died in
Ashtabula, Nov. 15, 1878, of heart disease.

Horatio Hubbell, the eldest son of Walter Hubbell, Esq., was bora in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., July 9, 1799.

At the age of 14 he entered Union College, but as the climate of Schenectady
did not agree with him, he was transferred to this College, which he entered in
1815.

He studied law in the office of Joseph R. Ingersoll, Esq., of Philadelphia, and
after his admission to the bar (in September, 1821), traveled extensively in Europe.
He settled in Philadelphia, and for many years had an extensive practice. In 1842
he was elected Brigadier General of the Third Philadelphia Brigade.

His wife died in the early part of the winter of 1874-75, and his own health be-
came soon after much impaired. While on a visit to relatives in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
he died of apoplexy, July 23, 1875, aged 76 years. •

1819.

Walter Livingston, son of Hon. Henry W. Livingston (Y. C. 1786), a member
of Congress from the State of New York, and of Mary (Allen) Livingston, was
born in Claverack, N. Y., July 28, 1799.

He spent six months after graduation in Judge Reeve's law school, at Litchfield,
Conn., and then devoted three years to travel in this country and in Europe.
After his return he was elected to the New York Legislature from his native
county, but soon removed to Allentown, Pa., where he remained until 1839, serv-
ing meantime in both houses of the State Legislature. He then removed to Phila-
delphia, where he engaged in business for the greater part of the rest of his life.
He died in that city, Jan. 28, 1872, aged 72^ years. He married Miss Mary A.
Greenleaf, who survived him with children.

George Sheldon, of Aurora, Ohio, was born August 26, 1797, and died in
Colfax, Ind., June 14, 1873, aged nearly 76 years.

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He spent a year in teaching in Great Barrington, Mass., and then took a three -
years' course in Andover Theol Seminary. He then went to Painesville, Ohio, as
a home missionary, being ordained Sept. 25, 1823. In October, 1825, he removed
to Franklin Mills, 0., where he remained as pastor until 1830. He was appointed
in 1829 agent of the American Bible Society, and for the most of the remainder
of his life was employed in its service, and left to it a part of his scanty property
at his decease. He was also financial agent for Western Reserve College fjom
1831 to 1854. About 1854 he was deposed from the ministry of the Presbyterian
church and suspended from church membership, on account of irregularity in
obtaining a divorce from his wife and re-marriage ; but in 1866 he was restored to
fellowship by the church in Bellefontaine, 0., where he resided from 1856 till his
removal to Indiana in 1870.

1822.

Charles Huntington Weld, son of Rev. Lewis Weld (Harv. Coll., 1789), pastor
for more than 30 years of the Congregational church in Hampton, Conn., and of
Elizabeth (Clark) Weld, was born in that town, in 1799.

He studied theology for two years in the Andover Theol. Seminary, but was
never ordained. His whole life was overshadowed by ill health, caused by dys-
pepsia. He was for a time au agent of the American Bible Society in Mississippi,
and subsequently preached in Manlius, N. Y., and elsewhere. He died at the
residence of his brother, Theodore D. Weld, in Hyde Park, Mass., July 14, 1871,
aged 72. He was married in 1862 to Mrs. Catharine Speer, of Newark, N. J.,
who died in 1865. He had no children.

1823.

Whitmill John Hill, a native of Halifax County, N. C, died at Scotland Neck,
in that county, in February, 1871, in the 67th year of his age.

1826.

Henry Zachariah Hatner, son of Zachariah and Eve (Clum) Hayner, was
born in Brunswick, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1802.

He studied law in Troy, N. Y., where he was admitted to practice in 1829 and
continued until 1851. In 1852 he received from President Fillmore the appoint-
ment of Chief Justice of the territory of Minnesota. When superseded by a
change in the national administration, he opened a law office in New York City,
where he continued in practice until the opening of the civil war. He served as
Major on the staff of Gen. Wool, and later as a Provost Marshal in Baltimore and
in New York City. After the close of the war he was engaged in organizing
some mining operations in the Western States, and returned to the East in feeble
health. He died of Bright's disease, in New York City, in March, 1874, .in his 72d
year. By his first wife, Miss Mary Herrick) of Sheffield, Mass., he had one son,
(a member of the class of 1858, in this College), who was killed in the civil war.
He was married twice subsequently, and left one son and two daughters.

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1829.

Stephen Galatty, a native of the island of Scio, in the Grecian Archipelago,
resided in that island until the massacre of 1822, which drove his family from their
home. They sought an asylum in Malta, and there met the American missionary,
Rev. Daniel Temple, by whose advice Stephen, with a younger brother, was sent to
Boston in 1823, and thence directly to New Haven, where the brothers prepared
for college, one graduating in 1829, and one in 1830.

They returned to Malta, and later removed to Syra, the capital of the island of
that name in the group of Cyclades, near Athens. The elder brother was suc-
cessful as a merchant, and also served for many years as Judge of the Superior
Court. He died in Syra in 1876, at the age of 68, leaving a large family.

1830.

James Root Averill, son of Eliphalet Averill, was bom in Hartford, Conn., in
1811, His mother was Mary, daughter of Hon. Jesse Root, of Coventry, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

After graduating he studied law, and on being admitted to the bar opened an
office in New York City, which he soon gave up to enter on a mercantile career.
This resulted disastrously, and for some years he lived in Europe, traveling exten-
sively. After his return he occupied himself with journalism, and for several
years was an editorial writer on the Hartford Times. He lived in seclusion in
Hartford, and gave much time to scientific studies, especially in astronomy and
microscopy. Much of his leisure was devoted to pedestrian tours in the White
Mountain region, with which he was thoroughly familiar. On Sept. 20, 1875, he
left Hartford, saying to a friend that he had been for some time in bad health and
was going to Europe to consult physicians. Letters were received from him post-
marked Boston on the day following, and on Sept. 22 he was met in Portland, Me.,
by an acquaintance, to whom he said that he was going to the White Mountains.
No further trace of him has been recovered, and there is reason to suppose that he
did not leave the country, but voluntarily put an end to his life, not long after the
last mentioned date. He was not married.

Daniel Dudley Avery, son of Dr. Dudley Avery, of G-roton, Conn., and of
Mary Anne (Brown) Avery, from Bristol, England, was born in Groton, Apr. 1 2,
1810, and died after a lingering illness at his residence on Petite Anse Island, in
the Parish of Iberia, La., June 8, 1879, in his 70th year.

In 1832, he was admitted to the bar in Baton Rouge, La., where he continued
to reside until 1862. Soon after his settlement there he was twice elected to the
General Assembly of the State. In 1860 he was elected Judge of the Circuit
Court, and held the position until the city of New Orleans was taken by the
Union troops in 1862, when he retired to his sugar plantation on Petite Anse
Island. He went the following year to Texas, where he remained till the restora-
tion of peace in 1865.

He was married in 1837 to Miss Sarah C. Marsh, who died shonly before him.
By this marriage there were two sons and three daughters.

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1831.

James Richards Fayerweat^er, son of Richard and Hannah (Richards)
Fayerweather, was born in New Canaan, Conn., April 27, 1810.

He studied law in the office of Hon. Hamilton Gamble, in St. Louis, Mo., and
was admitted to the bar in that city in 1834, was married Nov. 20th of the same
year to Ehza Ann Doan, and shortly thereafter removed to RushviUe, 111., and
practiced there in his profession about five years. He thence removed to Bur-
lington, Iowa, in which place he continued his practice and occupied several civil
offices for some ten years. In 1855 he became actively engaged in railroad
projects, then beginning to attract attention in the west, and was identified with
such interests for upwards of twenty years.

In 1875 he was prostrated by an attack of paralysis from which he suffered two
years, and the direct result of which was liis death on the 27th day of June,
1877, in Burlington.

His wife and four sons survived him, two sons having died during his lifetime.

1832.

Abner Neal, son of a well-known bookseller of the same name, of Balti-
more, Md., was born in that city, Aug. 7, 1810.

He read law with James Mason Campbell, Esq., of Baltimore, and practiced his
profession there until 1848, when he removed to the town of "Westminster, Carroll
County, Md., where he continued in the pursuit of his profession until his death,
on the 31st of August, 1874, at the age of 64. When "Westminister was erected
into a city, he was elected its first mayor, and filled the office for several years.

He was married Feb. 2, 1837, to Rose E., daughter of Abraham White, of Bal-
timore.

1834.

William Henry Starr was born in Hartford, Conn., March 27, 1814, the
second son of Charles and Nancy (Bodge) Starr. His parents removed to New
York City in 1815, from which place he entered college with the class of 1833.
He joined the class of 1834 in the third term of their Freshman year. After
graduation he studied in the Yale Law School, and in the law office of Hon. Wm.
W. Ellsworth (Y. C. 1810) of Hartford, and finally in New York city, where he was
admitted to the bar. He was married, March 2, 1836, in Farmington, Conn., to
Miss Frances C, daughter of Jamrs K. Camp, and soon after settled in Alton, 111.
In 1838, he removed to Burlington, at that time in the Territory of Wisconsin, now
in the State of Iowa, where he spent the most of his life. His wife died Dec.
24, 1874. and his own death occurred Dec. 29, 1876. Of their seven children, two
sons and two daughters survived them.

1837.

Arnoldus "Vanderhorst Dawson was born in Charleston, S. C, Apr. 11,
1818, and died in the same city, Feb. 26, 1871, aged nearly 53 years. Ho studied
law, and married Miss Hester Simons, of Charleston, who is also deceased.

Walter Thomas Lenox was born in Washington, D. C, Aug. 15, 1817, and
died in the same city, July 16, 1874.

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After graduation he studied law in Washington, and entered on its practice
there. He was at one time Mayor of the city.

1839.

John Mason Grant, son of Charles and Hannah Grant, was born in Litchfield
Coun., June 14, 1817. '

He spent four years in theological study, -the first three in the Yale Divinity
School, and the fourth in the Union Theol. Seminary, N. Y. City, where he also
attended medical lectures. He then spent some years in teaching in New York
City and the neighborhood, and in Virginia. In March, 1849, he entered the ser-
vice of the Maryland Tract Society as colporteur, and continued in this employ-
ment until July, 1 853. After another interval of teaching, he settled in Balti-
more, in January, 1856, as an agent for the sale of religious periodicals. In No-
vember, 1862, he was appointed as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue and
was occupied with the duties of that position and as a book agent for several
years.

The last part of his life was spent in Florida, where he died, at Clearwater Har-
bor, Hillsborough County, Nov. 3, 1818, aged 61 years.

1841.

Henry "William Wood, son of Andrew and Matilda A. Wood, was born in
Washington, Ky., Oct. 2, 1822, and had graduated at Centre College, Danville, Ky.,
in 1839, before entering the Junior class in Yale College.

He spent his life in his native place as a dry-goods merchant, and died there,
after a few days of violent illness, Feb. 9, 1873, aged 50 years.

He married, March 20, 1844, Miss Hannah J. Lashbrooke, of Washington, who
survives him, with two sons and three daughters.

1846.

Charles Josias Pennington, eldest son of Josias and Sophia C. (Clapham)
Pennington, was born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1826, and died in the same city
March 27, 1877, aged 50 years.

He studied law in Baltimore, and opened an oflBce there, but in 1856, his
health being unsettled, he removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he remained three
years. He then returned to the East and accepted a clerkship in the Census Bureau
at Washington. At the breaking out of the civil war he resigned his position and
returned to Baltimore. He did not ag^n practice his profession, but spent the
latter years of his life in retirement at Oakland, Garrett County, Md.

He married April 4, 1852, Elizabeth T. Winder, of Talbot County, Md., who
with his children — two sons and a daughter — survives him.

1847.

Sidney Tennent was born Feb. 19, 1827, near Seaford, in Sussex County,
Del., and entered college from Philadelphia, Pa.

He studied law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the
same year he went to California, and received the appointment of Inspector of the
Revenue for the port of San Francisco ; he was also admitted to the bar in that

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city and engaged in the practice of his profession. His health failing him, he soon
removed to St. Joseph, Mo., where he practiced law for several years, and also
edited a paper. On the organization of the Territory of Kansas in 1854, he settled
in Troy, the county seat of Doniphan County in that Territory, where he had an ex-
tensive practice until near the time of his death. He died in Troy, of consumption,
Aug. 10, 1873, aged 46 years.

Col. Tenneat married Miss Chloe M. Smith, of Troy, Apr. 26, 1863, by whom he
had one daughter, who died in infancy. His widow has since married Col. Cyrus
Leland (Harvard Coll. 1832), of Troy.

1848.

Samuel Alexander Strickler, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Eakin) Strickler,
was born in Shelbyville, Tenn., May 2, 1826.

He studied law with an uncle in Nashville, but did not practice. He was in
business in Nashville until 1851, and was subsequently clerk in a banking house
in New York city.

While on his way from New York in May, 1872, to visit relatives in Tennessee,
he stopped for a day or two in Indianapolis, Ind., and there, in a fit of insanity (caused
as is supposed by excitement on the subject of religion), took his own life. He
was unmarried.

1853.

Benjamin Franklin Baer was bom in Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 9, 1834, and died
after a lingering illness in the same place, Jan. 19, 1875,

He studied law in the Yale Law School and in the ofiBce of Nathaniel Ellmaker,
Esq., of Lancaster, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1 856. He practiced
his profession in his native place. In the summer of 1862 he entered the Union
Army as Captain of a company of the 122d Regiment Penns. Volunteers, but his
health did not permit his seeing much active service in the field, and he was
honorably discharged in April, 1863, on account of physical disability. He was
never married.

1859.

Rudolph McMurtrie, only son of Dr. B. E. and Ellen (Dorsey) McMurtrie, was
born April 5, 1838, in Huntingdon, Pa., from which place he entered college at the
beginning of the Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar April 15,
1862. He soon after entered the U. S! Army as a private, and served for nine
months. After his discharge he enlisted in the Navy, where he served for about
a year. Returning to Huntingdon he began practice, but after two years, having
no taste for his profession, and having acquired a competent estate by his father's
death he abandoned the law and devoted himself to other business. He died in
Huntingdon, Nov. 9, 1870, after a short illness, leaving a widow, but no children.
His wife was Jennie, daughter of Hon, Seth T. Hurd, of Brownsville, Pa.

John Onins Slay, son of William Slay, was born in Hazlettville, Kent County,
Del,, Feb, 14, 1839, and entered at the beginning of the Sophomore year, from
Camden, Del., then his father's residence.

429

Upon leaving College he pursued the study of law in the ofiBce of Hon. Martin
W. Bates, of Dover, Del., and in October, 1862, was admitted to the bar. He prac-
ticed law in Dover (in several cases gaining particular credit) until April, 1864,
when he removed to Chestertown, Md., as an assistant in the office of Hon. George
Vickers. In a short time Gen. Vickers was elected to the U. S. Senate, and Mr,
Slay being admitted to full partnership, the work of the firm mainly devolved upon
him. His devotion to business was so incessant, that his health gradually grew
weaker under the strain, until about Christmas, 1870, when on account of symp-
toms of consumption, developed by close confinement and study, he was obliged to
seek rest. Rather retrograding then mending, he spent the summer of 1871 in
the Alleghany mountains, and in October of the same year went to Minnesota, but
in June, 1872, returned to his father's house at Camden, where he died on the 27th
of that month, aged 33 years. His unfinished career gave promise of marked
distinction at the bar. He was not married.

1860.

Alfred Conrad Palfrey, son of William T. and Sidney A. (Conrad) Palfrey,
was born in Franklin, La,, March 20, 1839, and died of pneumonia, after a painful
illness of three months, at New Iberia, La., June 18, 1879, aged 40 years.

On graduation he went to Charleston, S. C, where he was married, Nov. 27,
1860, to EUza E., eldest daughter of James Tupper, Esq., Master in Equity of
Charleston, He was the confidential assistant of his father-in-law in his business
until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted as a private in the Charles-
ton Light Dragoons (afterwards Company K, 4th S, C, Cavalry), He continued
with that command until in Oct., 1864, he was appointed assistant Auditor of S.
Carolina, a position which his failing health made it advisable for him to accept.
Soon after the close of the war he resumed his duties in the office of the Master of
Equity, and remained in that employment until the death of Mr. Tupper in 1868.
His wife died in Charleston, May 2, 1866, and in 1874 he removed to New Orleans,
La. In 1876 he was appointed Secretary of the Sugar Shed Association of that
city, and held this position until his death. One son, the last of a family of four
children, survives him.

1864.

Elias Loughborough Kerr, son of Elias Kerr, was born in Fleming, N. Y.,
March 24, 1842. •

After graduation he studied at the Albany Law School, receiving the degree
LL.B. in May, 1865. He first settled in Lincoln, 111., but removed in the summer
of 1867 to Omaha, Nebraska, and a year or two later to Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory, where he practiced law until his very sudden death in 1871. He was
unmarried.

1869.

Cornelius Sullivan, son of Patrick Sullivan, was bom in Bristol, Conn., Aug.
15, 1846, and died in New York City in June, 1878.

On graduation he went to New York City and there studied law and entered on
its practice. About 1874 he was attacked with pulmonary consumption, and the
remaining years of his life were years of much suflfering. He continued, however,
to practice his profession up to the day of his death. He was unmarried.

430

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1823.

Horatio Nelson Fenn was bom in Plymouth, Conn., in March, 1^98, and died
in Rochester, N. Y., April 10, 1871, aged 13 years.

At an early age he removed with his father to New Haven, Conn., and he had
already spent three years as a clerk in a drug store, when in the autumn of 1817
he removed to Rochester, N. Y. He there pursued medical studies with Dr. F. F.
Backus (Y. C. 1813), in whose drug store he was employed.

After his graduation he began the practice of medicine in the village of Geneseo,
N. Y., but in 1826 became engaged in the manufacture of window glass in Peter-
borough, N. Y. This euterprise not proving successful, he resumed in 1830 the
practice of his profession in Kochester, associating therewith the practice of dent-
istry, in which art he was a pioneer in Western New York. After three or four
years he devoted himself wholly to dentistry, in which he continued to be actively
engaged until disabled by rheumatism some six or seven years before his death.

He was married in October, 1833, to Henrietta F, Hughes, of Hagerstown, Md.,
who survived him and died March 21, 1879. Two of their four children are still
living,

1839.

Ebenezer Bingham Allen, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Eliza B. Allen, was
born in Hanover, a parish in the township of Lisbon (now in Sprague), New Lon-
don County, Conn., Dec. 26, 1816. His medical studies were in part pursued with
Dr. Wm. Witter.

He practiced medicine in Belchertown and Chicopee, Mass., until the year 1 846,
when he removed to Lawrence, Mass., practicing there until 1862. He then entered
the U. S. army as surgeon, and served for one year, when his health failed him.
In 1865 he gave up his profession, and removed to Norwich, Conn., opening an
office there as a wool-broker. He continued in that business until his death, of
Bright's disease, in Norwich, Dec. 1, 1873.

He married in 1840 Miss Abbie C. Tingley, of Windham, Conn., who survives
him, with one of their three children.

•
1841.

Timothy Langdon died in New Haven, Conn., July 29, 1874, aged 56 years.
He was bom in Bethlehem, Conn., March 14, 1818. His fathei* was Rev. John
Langdon (Y. C. 1809), pastor of the Congreigational Church in Bethlehem, and his
mother was Elizabeth Pierpont, of Litchfield, Conn., sister of Rev. John Pierpont
(Y. C. 1804).

During his medical course he spent considerable time in the office of Alanson
Abbe, M.D. (Y. C. 1821), of Litchfield, and soon after receiving his degree he be-
gan practice in Naugatuck, Conn., where he remained till the year 1867. The
active duties of his profession were interrupted in 1848 by a severe and protracted
illness from the effects of which he never fully recovered. In 1867 he removed to
New Haven, where he spent most of his remaining days.

431

He was married, in Litchfield, Dec. 1, 1841, to Mary A. Morse, who survives him
with one daughter. His only son died in 1856, and one daughter died a few days
after his own death.

1847.

Nathaniel Bo wen Cooke, son of John and Susan (Bo wen) Cooke, was born in
Cambridgeport, Mags., Feb. 26, 1816.

He graduated at Brown University in 1 840, and spent the next three years as
teacher of a select school in Bristol, R. I. He then spent a brief time in the Theol.
Institution in Newton Center, Mass., and in 1844 begun the study of medicine,
attending a course of lectures at the Medical School of Harvard University.

On receiving his degree he began the practice of his profession, and subsequently
returned to school teaching in Webster, Mass., and in Bristol, R. I. In 1862 he
was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church, at Greenville, in the town of Leices-
ter, Mass. In 1869 he was settled over the Baptist Church in Lonsdale, R. I.,
where he died, April 14, 1871. He was married in April, 1846, to Anne R. Mon-
roe, of Bristol, who survived him with one daughter.

1872.

Joseph Mansfield Homiston died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Apr. 8, 1879, aged 50
years. He was a native of Massachusetts, and had practiced in Brooklyn for sev-
eral years. He had been in waning health for nearly two years.

INDEX

Members of the Law^ Medical^ and Philosophical Departments are denoted by
the letters ?, m, and p, respectively.

Class

Page

Class

Page

1833

Abbot, Rufus

1866m Bartlett, Stephen C.

376

1858

Abbott, Montelins

269

1847

Bassett, Benj. F.

223

1825

Abernethy, ^ohn J.

386

1823

Martin B.

336

1878

Ackerman, George C,

411

1858

Batchelor, Edward P.

269

1842

Adam, John H.,

1833

Bates, S. Henshaw

345

1867

Adams, Arthur H.

408

1826

Beach, Isaac C.

1835

p]benezer B.

279

1817

Beard, John

243

1821

Geo. E.

210

1828

Beardsley, Sheldon

1817

Alden, Augustus

1846m Beecher, Josiah H.

112

1867

Allen, Beverly

309

1825

Belden, Joshua

1839w EbenezerB.

430

1837m Bell, Artemas,

275

1870

Andrews, John W.

409

1874

Bent, Thomas A.

272

1866m Angles, Leopold A. L.

376

1843

Benton, Wm. A .

186

1828

Arms, Ebenezer W.

252

1843m Belts, Wm. G.

1849

Arnold, Edward A.

360

1845

Bibbins, Wm. B.

1861

Hubbard

226

1816

Bird, Isaac

207

1823

Ashmun, George

1863

Bishop, Edw. G.

1842

Atwater, Horace 0.

351

1795

Timothy

1827

Wmiam

291

1849m Bissell, Gaylord G.

414

1846

Wm. W.

142

1828

Biackman, Alfred

388

1814

Atwood, John M.

1839

Blake, E. Whitney

139

1871

Auchincloss, Frederick L.

371

1872

Frank W.

232

1841

Austen, Philip H.

350

1850

Blatchley, Joel S.

143

1830

Averill, James R.

425

1812

Bliss, George

115

1830

Avery, Daniel D.

425

1822

J.Lee

125

1836

Charles P.

180

1871

Orville J.

193

1868

Ayres, Russ W.

151

1871

Board, Charles H.

1829

Boardraan, Henry A.

388

1794

Bacon, Ezekiel

1868

Herbert

230

1856

George B.

267

1812

Wm. W.

1823

Badger, Milton

1820

Bogert, Cornelius R.

288

1853

Baer, Benj. F.

428

1852

Boies, Wm.

1822

Baker. Osmyn

169

1860

Boltwood, Edward

309

1809

Baldwin, Burr

383

1864

Thomas K.

108

1852

Bannan, Douglass R,

1864

Booth, Chas. E.

1849

Thomas R.

361

1821

Bouton, Nathaniel

288

1826

Barber, Eldad

1819m Bowers, Benj. F.

194

1847

Barnard, George G.

359

1833

Bradford,^Edward A.

1846

Barnes, Albert H.

302

1863

Bradley, Frank H.

369

1825

Josiah

1853

Henry R.

1851

Julius S.

1834

Brainerd, Davis S.

179

1844

Barrett, Myron

220

1822

Joseph H.

333

1813

Barstow, Zedekiah S.

1821

Brewer, Josiah

1828

Bartlett, David E.

387

1845

Brickell, James N.

354

434

Class

Page

Class

Paife

1822

Brinsmade, Horatio N.

334

1859

Catlin, Benj. S.

1840

Wm. B.

399

1834

Chalker, Henry

179

1848

Brintou, John F.

360

1807

Champion, Aristarchus

1839

Bristed, Charles A.

139

1841

Champlin, Louis D.

1827

Bristol, Albert G.

1808

Chandler, John

203

1825

William B.

250

1817

Chapin, Augustus L.

331

1820

Brockway, John H.

1870

Charles H.

1818

Bronson, Oliver

209

1868

John M.

109

1869

Brown, A. Lardner

409

1828

Chapman, Frederick W.

253

1868;

David B.

1868

Timothy P.

230

1813

Ebenezer

421

1873

Chase, John F.

312

1809

Garrett G.

1866

Chatfield, Charles C.

271

1865

Henry A.

370

1840

Chauvenet, Wm.

1841

Joseph

351

1817

Chesebrough, Robert J.

1817

Nehemiah

207

1818

Chester, Alfred

1832

Samuel R.

392

1845

Charles T.

401

1812

Solyman

204

1824

Child, Linus

1821

Waldo

289

1817

WiUaKd

285

1864

Browning, Robert M.

228

] 823m Church, Austin

412

1823

Buck, David

211

1829

John B.

214

1835

Edward

260

1876

Clapp, Lowell L.

410

1873

Buckingham, Ebenezer H.

311

1841

Clark, Charles H.

141

1867

Buckland, Joseph P.

405

1826

Edwin E.

1834

Budiugtou, Wm. I.

393

1837m Joseph W.

374

1836

Buel, Frederick,

137

1833

Josiah

295

1812

BufEett, Wm. P.

160

1838

LotC.

397

1818

Bugbee, Francis

287

1838

Perkins K.

1824

Bulkeley, Eliphalet A.

1821

Peter F.

169

1821

Bulkley, Henry D.

1817

Smith

244

1861

Milton

1824

Clarke, Tertius S.

170

1863

BuU, Cornelius W.

228

1837

Walter

1832

Bunker, James M.

134

1841

WiUiam H.

300

1826

Bunnell, James F.

131

1847

Cleaveland, George N.

302

1839

Burr, David J.

260

1829

Clemson, William F.

343

1803

Burrall, Thomas D.

1870

Cleveland, H. Augustus

109

1826

Wm. P.

131

1808

Coe, Noah

1827

Bushnell, Horace

213

1872

Robert E.

110

1841

Jackson J.

1834

Coffing, Churchill

135

1835

Nehemiah

1823m Cogswell, William H.

273

1828

William

341

1856

Coit, Alfred

364

1828w Butler, Thomas B.

111

1 829m Coleman, James B.

314

1842

Buttles, Albert B.

1846

Collins, Isaac C.

403

1839

Button, Philander

297

1820

Collis, John T.

1834m[Byington, Noah H.

315

1848

Colton, Henry M.

1848

Condit, Charles

264

1858

Caldwell, Samuel

106

1837m Cone, Robert C.

414

1849

Came, Charles G.

361

1869

Conkling, Frederick G.

1831

Camp, Henry B.

390

1813

Converse, Sherman

120

1816m Campbell, Harvey

313

1846

Conyngham, John B.

1846w Candee, Judsoa

1829m Cooke, Chauncey L.

373

1832

Caperton, Allen T.

256

1815

George

1853

Capron, Samuel M.

145

1863

Joseph P.

^ 408

1846

William B.

264

1847 m Nathaniel B.

431

1824m Carpenter, Nelson

110

1863

Cooley, Henry E.

270

1859

Robert J.

366

1870

Cope, Orlando

1828

Carter, Wm.

1863

Cortelyou, Adrian V.

149

1822

Case, Francis H.

1848

Cotton, Charles T.

264

1842

Leonard

399

1836

Cowles, Edw. P.

181

1828

Casey, Edward W.

1873;? Cragin, Charles A.

377

435

Class

Page

Class

Page

1843

Cramer, Charles

300

1847

Ellsworth, Stukely

223

1854/) Crosby, Stephen L.

319

1810

Ely, Ellas H.

119

1857

Croxton, John T.

147

1843

Isaac M.

400

1827

Cushing, Joseph

387

1834m William W.

374

1839

Cutler, Rufus P.

298

1848

Emerson, Rockwell

353

1831

Wm. W.

1845

Emigh, Ward

1863

Emmons, Julius

1874^

Danforth, Wm. B.

234

1839

Estes, D. Gordon

140

1847

Darrow, Amos S.

302

1821

Est/, Isaac

210

1818

Davis, Richard D.

1857

Evans, Edward J.

405

183t

Dawson, Arnoldus V.

426

1857

Evan W.

143

1812

Day, Benjamin

1858

Lemuel R.

1818

Caleb

1839

Thomas

1859

Faulkner, Samuel D.

367

1847m Deacon, John

276

1831

Fayerweather, James R.

426

1841

Dean, Gilbert

1856

Pellowes, Francis

1843

Philotus

1823m Penn, Horatio N.

430

1812

Delafield, Edward

161

1849

Stephen

188

1808

Joseph

160

1853^

Ferguson, John D.

319

1836

Deming, Henry C.

1844

Ferry, Orris S.

220

1824

Denison, Jeremiah T.

338

1841

Field, Maunsell B.

183

1836

Dent, Henry H.

1878;;

Fnich, Henry 0.

416

1817

Dickinson, Baxter*

208

1860

Finney, Edgar A.

107

1823

Edward

129

1835

Fisher, Samuel W.

136

1823

Richard W.

169

1810

Fitch, Eleazer T.

1845

Dickson, A. FHnn

354

1854

Flagg, Willard C.

306

1814

Samuel H.

1814

Floyd, Augustus

331

1823m Dimock, Timothy

152

1866

Foote, Harry W.

150

1813

Dixon, Abram

162

1820

Jared

123

1830

Dorsey, Samuel W.

215

1849

Ford, RufusA.

223

1871^

Downes, Michael E.

279

1844

Foster, Charles

263

1851

Downie, Timothy C.

189

1834

Eleazer K.

258

182677iDriggs, Asa J.

314

1828

Lemuel

1866m DuBois, Cornelius J.

415

1807

Fowler, James

118

1814

Dulles, Joseph H.

205

1860

Wm.

191

1862

Dunbar, James A.

270

1850

Frost, George L.

362

1820

Duncan, Garnett

168

1875

Fuller, Wilbur A.

273

1844

Henry P.

401

1856

Dunlap, Ira

268

1820

Gadsden. Philip

1832

Dunning, Edward 0.

134

1829

Galatty, Stephen

425

1827

Durant, Henry

173

1842

Gardiner, Hugh B.

185

1829

Dutton, Warren B.

176

1833

Gardner, Robert D.

155

1852

Dwight. James H.

103

1816

Garfield, John M.

1859

T. Bradford

367

18.34

Gaylord, Reuben

394

1827??iDyer, George

314

1829

Gilbert, Edwin R.

133

1878

George E.

411

1846

Eakln, Wm. S.

403

1842

Gill, Robert T.

141

1821

Eastman, Oman

123

1841

Gillett, Ezra H.

219

1876

Easton, Henry C.

273

1829

Gillette, Francis

389

ISeQp

Ebell, Adrian J.

277

1820.

Goddard, George C.

1832

Eddy, Henry

1797

Goodrich, Chas.

1814

Edwards, David S.

121

1814

Horace

421

1828

J. Erskine

1843

Wm. H.

186

1819

Jonathan

209

1806

Goodwin, George

283

J812

Samuel L.

241

1849

Gordon, George A.

101

1860

Elder, D. Riker

191

1866

Gormly, Edwin C.

408

1829

Eldridge, Joseph

177

1817

Grammer, John

1869

Eliason, John

109

1830

Grant, Elijah P.

177

1813

Elliot, George A.

■ 7

1857

James H.

406

436

Class

1838 Grant, Joel
1845 John

1839 John M.
]85t Green, Richard H.
1856m Gregory, Ehjah
1829m Ira

1840 Samuel

1816 Gridley, Frederick
1875 Grinnell, Frank L.
187 Ip Griswold, Charles W.
1821 John F.

1818 Roger W.

1818 Samuel

1867^ Grove, Peter H.

1855 Groves, Lafayette W.

1875^ Guernsey, Charles W.

1818 Gurley, R. Randolph

1842 Hadley, James

1844 Haight, Henry H.

1835 Haile, Ashbel B.
1840 Hall, Gordon
1863m Newton B.

1852 Reginald H.

1853 T. Dwight

1827 Hallam, Robert A.

1839 Hammond, Charles
1848Z George C. W.
1869 Hand, George E.
1857^ Harger, Charles

1815 Harleston, Edward

1845 Harrington, George D.
1875^ Harris, George

1854 Jacob B.
1831 Harrison, Hugh T.

1836 Hart, Edward L.

1840 James P.

1831 John C.
1828m Hartshorn, Isaac

1817 Hartshorne, Robert
1808 Harvey, Joseph
1810 Hasbrouck, A. Bruyn

1851 Hastings, George G.
1864 Haughee, Thomas
1829m Hawley, Almon
1823 Haxall, Robert W.
1823 Hayes, Gordon,

1826 Hayner, Henry Z.

1852 Helmer, Charles D.
1835 Hequembourg, Charles L.
1842 Hiester, Isaac E.

1861 Hill, Charles B.

1816 George
1823 Whitmill J.
1875^ Hillyer, S. Lee
1815 Hinsdale, Charles J.

1832 Hitchcock, Henry L.

1828 Hoffman, George B.

1827 Philip R.

Page

Class

Page

138

1827

Hogeboom, Henry-

355

1852m HoUy, Pierre R.

276

427

1825m Holmes, Henry

268

1857

John M.

318

1821m Holt, Hiram

111

1872m Homiston, Joseph M.

431

1849

Hough, Edward C.

1827

Howe. Samuel

174

232

1817

Hubbard, Anson

422

321

1840

Chauncey H.

261

1829m Denison H.

194

423

1875

Frank E.

410

167

1818

Hubbell, Horatio

423

320

1818

Huggins, James S.

146

1855

Hughes, Aug. DeB.

190

321

1809

Hungerford, Wm.

1 847m Hunt, Isaac S.

233

1815

Huntington, Andrew

1819

Asahel

353

1840

Elijah B.

299

395

1821

Enoch

245

400

1814

Jedediah

376

1825

Oliver E.

291

104

1818

Samuel H.

385

224

1818

Hurlbut, Joseph

167

251

1855

Hyde, Simeon T.

267

348

1808

Ingersoll, Ralph L

151

1822m Isham, Oliver K.

196

1852

Ives, Charles L.

363

1841

Geo. W.

184

356

1863

Wilbur

234

189

1847

Jackson, Angelo

359

1844

John

301

218

1840

James, Horace

182

261

1847

Jessup, Edward

1835

Johnson, Alexander S.

296

274

1869p

Edward W.

320

1823

Edwards

130

1 829m Samuel

373

329

1861

Wm. M.

407

144

1843

Johnston, Alex.

187

1867

Alex.

228

275

1833

William P.

256

1831

Jones, Elisha C.

129

1820

Henry

333

424

1872

James S.

152

362

1831

Wm. H.

390

217

192

1809

Judson, Philo

118

1855m Keese, Hobart

1860

Sidmon T.

407

424

1815

Kellogg, Henry

122

322

1832

Martin

393

1834

Kendall, John N.

346

1843

Kendrick, John

262

342

1874Z

Kennedy, Thomas D.

319

1864

Kerr, PJias L.

429

437

Class

Page

Class

Page

1818

Kimball, David

168

1850m Matthews. Henrv W. E.

195

1862

Kimberly, Wm. R.

107

1825

Maverick, Samuel A.

1821

King, Asa H.

1831

Mayer, John L.

178

1863

Kingsbury, Howard

370

1814

Meers, John D.

242

1815m Kirtland, Jared P.

312

1849

Miles, James B.

224

1830

Knox, James

255

1816

Miller, Fleming B.

166

1835

Mills, Ethelbert S.

137

18l5p

Lake, WeUs C.

278

1835

Geo. L.

217

1840

Lamont, Geo. D.

218

1856

Lewis E.

307

1846

Lane, J. Homer

403

1826

Sidney

132

1843

William a

301

1815

Mitchell, James H.

122

1841m Langdon, Timothy

430

1831m Monroe, Alexander L. B.

373

1814

Lanman, Chas. J.

1844m Moody, George A.

317

1829

Lathrop, John

1856

Morehead, John C.

147

1825

William M.

251

1828

Morgan, Christopher

254

1856m Latimer, C. Clinton

195

1813

Frederick

279

1814

Law, John

121

1812

Samuel C.

242

1822

John S.

247

1874#

Morris, James W.

233

1859m Lawton, John W.

154

1860

John M.

148

1816

Leavitt, Harvey F,

165

1875^

Morse, Charles F.

278

1814

Joshua

1810

Samuel F. B.

1837

Sheldon

297

1811

Sidney E.

1823m Lee, Henry S.

194

1816

Moseley, Wm. A.

122

1814

Leffingwell, Lucius W.

163

1813

Legare, Isaac S, K.

178

1832

Neal, Abner

426

1837

Lenox, Walter T.

426

1830

Neill, Benj. D.

1824

Leonard, Frederick B.

1872^

Nevins, Thomas P.

277

1834

Leverett, Wm.

179

1828

Newton, Alfred

342

1845Z

Lewis, Edw. Z.

196

1853

Nicholas, Thos. P.

1828

Lincoln, Thomas 0.

253

1847

Nichols, Charles A,

303

1810

Linsley, Ammi

119

1857

Nolen, Geo. A.

225

1819

Livingston, Walter

423

1815

Norcross. Erasmus

165

1813

Longstreet, Aug. B.

1839

Norris, Wm. H.

399

1828

Loomis. James C.

292

1849

North, Romeo E.

404

1845

Lord, A. William

263

1824

Northrop, Bennett F.

171

1866mLounsbury, Dexter L.

415

1822

Norton, Lot

386

1848

Lowrey, Charles

265

1823

Nott, Handel G.

1824

James

212

1850

Lyman, Joseph B.

1826

Odiorne, James C.

340

1839m Sidney H.

275

1849m Olmstead, Roger S.

375

1822

Solomon

1818

Olmsted, Charles H.

287

1842

Ljmes, Samuel

352

1834

Lyon, Amasa U.

346

1862

Page, Merritt C.

270

1860

Palfrey, Alfred 0.

429

1866^3

McAlister, Alex. U.

196

1828

Palmer, Ezra

292

1823

Mack, David

337

1^28

John C.

133

1836

McLean, Charles B.

138

1864

Wm. H.

1835

McLellan, Wm.

395

1846m Park. Edwin A.

375

1859

McMurtrie, Rudolph

428

1826

Parker, Aurelius D.

172

1835

McPhaU, George W.

1826

Edward W.

212

1858

Manice, Edward A.

308

1808

Parmelee, James H.

1805

Marsh, Frederick,

1871

Parsons. Frank M.

311

1823

Marshall, Alexander W.

248

1872

Lewis G.

193

1815

Thomas A.

1819

Samuel H.

■ 10

1817

Marvin, Geo.

166

1867

Payne, Henry W.

314

1850

Massie, Patrick C.

304

1819

Payson, Joshua P.

1864

Mather, Edw. T.

1831m Peabod7, Jeremiah K

1837

Oliver W.

1836

Pearl, Joshua F.

396

1833

Matson,' William N.

257

1840m Peaslee, Edmund R.

314

438

Class

Page

Class

Page

1849

Peck, David

143

1822

Robbins, James W.

335

1821

Isaac

246

1808

Silas W.

1875^

Marshall R

278

1810

Robert, Daniel

330

1822

Peet, Harvey P.

1815

WiUiam S.

285

1846

Pennington, Charles J.

427

1866

Roberts, Henry

229

1858

Penny, Benjamin F.

148

1829

Robinson, Alex. C.

1828

Perkins, Greorge

176

1821

Charles

246

1861

Geo. C.

227

1867

Ernest

1843TO George E.

276

1870

George A.

lS49m Moses H.

154

1811

Henry

330

1817

Samuel H.

123

1821

RockweU, Edward

124

1818

Thomas C.

1815

Hubbard

422

1805

Pettibone, John 0.

240

1824

Wm. H.

130

1852

Phelps, Henry E,

305

1806

Root, James

159

1858

Pickett, Joseph W.

406

1850

N. W. Taylor

105

1816

Pierce, George E.

1824m Rowland. Charles

412

1871^ Pierpont, D. Hobart

155

1812

Rumsey, Wm.

1836

Pierson, William S.

347

1860

Russell, Jacob W.

192

1824

Piatt, Dennis

338

1842

Platts, John W.

185

1836

Sabine, Joseph F.

138

1804

Plummer. George

18TM

Safiford, William E.

321

1831

Polk, Trusten

216

1845

St. John, Isaac M.

402

1869m PoU, Daniel

318

1834

Samuel

258

1873p Poraeroy, Benj.

233

1836m Salisbury, Samuel T.

153

1822

Porter, Amasa G.

335

1857

Sandys, Edwin F.

225

1858

Edward C.

226

1820

Sanford, Peleg P.

l8ASm Henry C.

317

1831

Rollin

391

1853

Post, Samuel A. L. L.

105

1831

Saunders, Ephraim D.

1833

Potter, George L. •

257

1841

Schott, Guy B.

1867m Henry

416

1866

Schroeder, Ernest

229

1854

Leander H.

404

1863

Scott, Henry W.

1871^9

Powell, Ferdinand E.

1835

Seeley, John E.

180

1847

Pratt, Andrew T.

100

1837

Selfridge, Wm. W.

218

1857

Geo.

190

1852m Sellew, Welles H.

276

1826

Mark

213

1852

Seropyan, Christopher D.

145

1820

Nathaniel A.

385

1858

Seymour, Edward

269

1826

Preston, Wm.

173

1865

Sharp, John

228

1835

Prudden, George P.

1847

William

303

1826

Pumpelly, George J.

1819

Sheldon. George

423

1840

Shelton, Charles S.

349

1826

Rankin, Robert G.

341

1829

Sherman, Henry

343

1844

Raymond, Edward A.

1818

Sherwood. Henry

288

1841

Henry H.

220

1824

Justus

339

1825

Moses

172

1846

Thomas D.

222

1864

Raynor, Gilbert J.

150

1843

Shorter, Eli S.

352

1822

Reed, Maro McL.

289

1829m Shove, Seth

315

1824

Stephen

*290

1847

Simons, Thomas Y.

304

1809

Rice. John P.

203

isebp

Skeel, Theron

319

1840

Richards, George

1859

Slay, John 0.

428

1807

Guy

1822

Smith, E. Goodrich

126

1827

Robert K.

132

1849

Edward P.

265

1849

Richardson, Walker

224

1872

Frank H.

37i

1834m William H.

374

1858

George F.

308

1823

Riddel, Samuel H.

211

1821

John

124

1851

Riddell, Wm. P.

102

1830

John C.

389

1858

Riley, Isaac

365

1817

Nathan R.

286

1823

Ripley, Joseph

249

1825

Richard

339

1833m Rising, Henry H.

1816

Walter

422

1826

Ritter, Thomas

213

1865

Walter B.

229

439

Class

F&fre

Class

Page

1827

Smyth, Ralph D.

175

1816W Tracy, Richard P.

1820

Sneed, Samuel K.

244

1863m Tread way, Frederick S.

1835

Snow, Aaron

396

1824

Treat, Selah B.

249

1833

Southard, John H.

1876

Trumbull, David

372

1834

Southmayd, Samuel G.

295

1851

Edwin B.

189

1835m Spalding, Benj. B.

153

1820

Tudor, Wm. W.

1855

Spanier, Emil

106

1864

Tyler, James B.

1854

Sparrow, Orson C.

306

1829

Spence, Thomas A.

293

1804

Van Heuvel, Jacob A.

159

1857

Spencer, I. Selden

307

1813

Yan Rensselaer, Jeremiah

1815

Sprague, Wm. B.

205

1826

Philip S.

1805

Spring, Gardiner

114

1824

Wm. P.

1811

Samuel

284

1838

Yarnum, Joseph B.

181

1848

Stanton, P]dmund D.

101

1823

Yer Planck, William G.

337

1871

Starr, John W.

193

1834

Wm. H.

426

1847m Wakefield, JohnL.

164

1863

Steele, Thomas C.

271

1864

Walker, Alfred E.

108

1813

Stevens, John A.

162

1867

Henry W.

212

1814

Stiles, Joseph C.

163

1809

Ward, Samuel D.

1851

R. Cresson

102

1872^ Wardwell, Daniel W.

377

1832

Stone, CoUins

1852

Waring, J. Frederick

266

1862

Edward C.

368

1807

Warner, Ely

1868J9

Lewis B.

1822

Waterbury, Jared B.

248

1842

Seth B.

262

1822

Waterman, Thomas T.

127

1848

Strickler, Samuel A.

428

1849

Waties, John

101

1819

Strong, Maltby

332

1847

Webster, George G.

142

1867

Moses

310

1813

Weed, John W.

163

1811

Selah B.

1862

Weeks, Robert K.

227

1869

Sullivan, Cornelius

429

1849

Weiser, Erastus H.

102

1823

SuUivant, Wm. S.

1833m Welch, Benj.

152

1869

Swan, T. Walter

310

1875

Harmanus M., Jr.

312

1871

Swann, Charles M.

272

1842

Henry K. W.

1858

Sweet, Preston I.

366

1822

Weld, Charles H.

424

1856

Swift, Charles A.

365

1809

Welles, Gaylord

1858

Wells, Henry A.

1855

Talcott, George

1851

Henry D.

1824

Joel

1844m JohnF.

1837

Tallman, Thomas

1863

Wesson, Charles H.

150

1830

Wm. M.

294

1815

Wetmore, Wm. C.

384

1853

Tarbox, Luther G.

364

1837

Whelpley, James D.

1844

Taylor, Nathan'l W.

221

1823

White, Addison H.

130

1856

Ohver S.

147

1853

Whittelsey, Charles H.

1845

Richard

357

1843m Whittlesey, Charles B.

316

1847

Tennent, Sidney

427

1838

Charles C.

182

1869

Terry, Frederic P.

152

1834

Wickes, Thos.

1840

Thacher, George

349

1814

Thomas S.

243

1846

Thompson. Abijah H.

' 222

1822

Wight, Wm. L.

128

1826

Andrew

1845

Wilbur, Nathan F.

358

1838

Joseph P.

398

1847

Wilcoxson, Martin Y. B.

188

1857

William A.

268

1818

Wilkins, Gouverneur M.

1852m Zebulon W

276

1857

WiUey, Nathan

191

1814

Tits worth, John

1831

Williams, Alpheus S.

344

1822

Todd, John

127

1840m Francke

1834

Tomlinson, Geo.

259

1837

Henrv

348

1825

Topliff, Stephen

212

1869

Orin M.

231

1834

Totten, Thomas H.

136

1873

Seth W.

409

1853

Townsend, Charles

305

1800

Thomas

239

1854

Tracy, Albert H.

145

1 824m Williamson, Thomas S.

412

1806

Phiaeas L.

241

1872

Willson, Richard D.

166

440

ClasB

1864 Wilson, Harry
1 845 w Winter, Enoch T.
1869m Wixon, Hanford L.
1854 Wolcott, Elizur
1828 William

1841 Wood, Henry W.
1868 Wm. C.

1850 Woodford, Oswald L.

Page

Class

Page

1862

Woodhull, George L.

1830

Woodruff, Lewis B.

216

318

1862

Woods, Robert G.

149

146

1846Z

Woodward, James M.

112

293

1830m Wright, Albert A.

413

42Y

1832

James L.

231

1822

Luther

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