VOL. II.
PART 7.
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Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
Prikcetoh Theolocicjl Semimrt
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 5TH, 1896.
By a Committee of the Association.
PRINCETON. N. J.
C. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS.
1896.
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Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETOUTflEOLOCICAL SEKINiR!
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May ’sth, 1896.
By a Committee of the Association.
PRINCETON. N. J.
C. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS.
I 896.
NOTICE.
[1896
The Committee appointed by the Alumni Association to prepare a
Necrological Report for the Annual Meeting of next year, for the more
perfect attainment of its object, earnestly solicit the aid of all the Alumni
of the Seminary. When an alumnus dies, newspaper obituary notices,
funeral or memorial sermons — and information in any shape — will be grate-
fully received. Let these be sent as soon as possible after the death of the
person to whom they relate, to
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Princeton, N. J.
OFFICERS
OF
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
FOR THE YEAR 1896-97.
Rev. John Fox, D.D., President.
“ Wallace Radcliffe, D.D., Vice-President,
“ William E. Schenck, D.D., 1
V Secretaries.
“ Joseph H. Dulles, )
“ W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., Treasurer.
“ James Chambers, D. D., '] Additional Member^
I
“ Samuel McLanahan, }- o/ the
I
“ David O. Irving, J Executive Committee.
COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles,
“ William E. Schenck, D.D.,
“ Henry C. Cameron, D.D.,
“ William Moore, D.D.
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CONSTITUTION
ilLUMNI ASSOCmTION
PRIIJCETON THEOLOGICIIL SEMINARY.
I. The name of this Association shall be Thh Alumni Association of
Princeton Seminary.
II. All who have been students in the Seminary shall be regarded, if
they please, as members cf this Association.
III. The object of the Association shall be the promotion of brotherly
love among its members, and the advancement of the interests of the
Seminary.
IV. The Professors, Directors and Trustees of the Seminary shall be
regarded as ex-officio members of this Association.
V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, Vice President,
a Secretary or Secretaries, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected annually,
and continue in office until others are chosen to succeed them.
VI. The officers, with three other members, annually chosen, shall be an
Executive Committee, with power to attend to the business of the Association
in the intervals of its meeiings.
VII. The Stated Meetings of the Association shall be held annually, in
Princeton, on the same day with the closing exercises of the Seminary, at
the close of the Seminary year, at such hour as may be appointed from year
to year.
VIII. Special meetings of the Association shall be called by the Presi-
dent, on the written request of five members, notice thereof, and the object
thereof, being given in two religious papers at least two weeks previous to its
occurrence.
(343)
ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Princeton, N. J., May 5, 1896.
The Alumni Association met in the Seminary Chapel
at 10 A. M., the President, Rev. William E. Schenck, O.D.,
being in the chair. The meeting was opened with prayer
by the President. The reading of the minutes of the last
meeting and of the Constitution was dispensed with on
account of the stress for time in connection with the celebra-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Green’s connec-
tion with the Seminary as an Instructor. For the same
reason upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee
the Association resolved to consume only so much time as
might be necessary to hear the customary reports and to
elect officers for the ensuing year.
The Executive Committee recommended the following
jiersons for officers for the coming year, viz. :
President — Rev. John Fox, D.D., of Brooklyn.
Vice-President — Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, D. D., of
Washington.
Secretaries— Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D., of Phila-
delphia, and Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.
Treasurer — Prof. W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., of
Princeton.
Addiiioivd Members of the Execidive Committee — Rev.
James Chambers, D.D., of New York City, Rev. Samuel
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McLanahan, of Lawrenceville, X. J., and Rev. David O.
Irving, of East Orange, X. J.
The nominations were accepted and the above officers
elected.
The report of the Committee on Xecrology was pre-
sented and a brief abstract of it read by the Cliairman, The
report was approved and ordered to be printed. The same
Committee, consisting of the Rev. J. II. Dulles, the Rev. W.
E. Schenck, D.D., the Rev. Prof. Henry C. Cameron, D.D.,
and the Rev. William Moore, D.D., was reappointed.
The report of the Treasurer, Prof W. Brenton Greene,
Jr., D.D., was presented by him and its approval by the
Secretaries, as an auditing committee before the meeting of
the Association on the recommendation of the Executive
Committee, was affirmed by the Association.
The report is as follows :
Wm. Brknton Greene, Jr., Treasurer, in account with the Alumni
Association of Princeton Theological Seminary.
1895. Dr.
May 7. Balance on hand, |173 07
June 1. Interest, 1 60
Subscriptions since last report, 14 50
S189 17
1895. Cr.
Sept. 21. To printing Necrological Report, S 87 10
To addressing the same, • 6 50
To stamping the same, 19 00
$112 60
Balance on hand May 5, 1896, 76 57
$189 17
W. Brenton Greene, Jr., Treasurer.
Princeton, May 5, 1896.
The Association then adjourned to participate in Pro-
fessor Green’s Jubilee Celebration.
WILLIAM E. SCHENCK,
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secreiaries.
NecroloCxICal Report.
PRESENTED MAY 5, 1&96.
The Committee on Necrology report for the year ending March 31, 1896,
the death of a member of the Board of Directors, Barker Gummere, LL.D.;
two members of the Board of Trustees, “William Libbey, Esq., and Robert
Lenox Belknap, Esq., and of forty three matriculated students of the Seminar^’.
They add also notices of .'ix Alumni whose death did not come to the atten-
tion of the Committee in time to be included in previous reports. The entire
number reported is fifty-two.
Of the forty-nine Alumni included in this report, the oldest had reached
the age of ninety-one years and eleven months, one other had passed his
ninetieth year, ten theireightieth, eleven their seventieth and ten their sixtieth.
The youngest was within ten days of the completion of his twenty-eighth
year when he died. The average age of the fortt'-nine was sixty-seven years
and two months. The date of the public profession of their faith has been
obtained in the case of forty-five ; the average age for these was seventeen
years.
The Committee solicit the co-operation of the Alumni in their efforts to
make the Necrological Reports more complete and accurate.
Joseph H. Dulles,
W’lLLIAM E. SCHENCK,
. Henry C. Cameron,
William Moore,
Committee.
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The report contains the following names : —
DIRECTOR.
Barker Gummere, Esq., LL.p.,
Died April >21, 1895.
TRUSTEES.
William Libbey, Esq.,
Robert Lenox Belknap, Esq.,
“ Nov. 5, 1895.
“ March 13, 1896.
ALUMNI.
Matriculated. Died.
1824.
Thomas Leiper Janeway, D. D., LL.D.,
Sept.
14, 1895.
1825.
John Gottlieb Morris, D.D., LL.D.,
Oct.
10, 1895.
1828.
Samuel Hutchings, D.D.,
Sept.
1, 1895.
1830.
Nathan Grier White,
Sept.
29, 1895.
1832.
John Tappan Pierce,
April
14, 1894.
1834.
Samuel Kellogg,
Jan.
14, 1896.
1835.
John Cunningham Patterson,
March
23, 1895.
Samuel Davies Stuart,
June
19, 1895.
1836.
Talbot Wilson Chambers, D.D., LL.D.,
Feb.
3, 1896.
1838.
John Miller,
April
14, 1895.
1841.
James Ballintinb,
May
4, 1895.
Peter Arthur McMartin,
M arch
13, 1896.
Samuel Pettigrew, M.D.,
Nov.
21, 1895.
1842.
Robert Logan,
Jan.
6, 1896.
1843.
William Henry Crane,
Nov.
30, 1894.
1844.
Robert Gordon Williams,
Feb.
16, 1894.
1845.
Justus Thomas U.mstead, D.D.,
March
27, 1896.
1846.
George Washington Burroughs, M.D.,
Dec.
25, 1895.
1847.
Edward Kennedy,
Dec.
13, 1895.
1848.
Robert Garland Brank, D.D.,
Aug.
21, 1895.
Nathaniel Baker Klink,
May
31. 189.5.
1849.
Robert Watts, D.D., LL.D.,
July
26, 1895.
1851.
John Stephenson Frierson,
Jan.
1, 1896.
Henry Smith Huntington,
Dec.
22, 1895.
1852.
Elias Nettleton Crane,
May
26, 1895.
1853.
Charles Rogers Mills, D.D.,
June
21, 1895.
1854.
Alexander Stewart Marshall, D.D.,
Feb.
3, 1896.
1855.
Robert Lewis McCune,
April
3, 1895.
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1856.
James Wilson Larimore,
May
30, 1894.
1858.
John Lowrey,
May
22, 1895.
James Baird McClure,
July
6, 1895.
Samuel Miller Moore, D.D.,
Oct.
14, 1895.
1859.
Thomas Lewis Preston, D.D.,
May
28, 1895.
1862.
Stephen Pratt Gates,
March 27, 1896.
James Hervey Marr,
June
3, 1895.
Walter Walker Ralston, D.D.,
Dec.
29, 1895.
1863.
Ejhanuel Nathaniel Pires,
March
3, 1896.
1864.
Eben Halley, D.D.,
June
8, 1895.
Edward Denison Ledyard, D.D.,
Aug.
29, 1895.
James Chrystie Nightingale,
Aug.
00
CO
1868.
John Ludlow Kendall,
July
8, 1895.
Robert James Laidlaw, LL.D.,
Oct.
24, 1895.
1871.
Hugh Porter Wilson,
Oct.
15, 1895.
1879.
Edmund Dillahunty Viser,
Dec.
27, 1895.
1882.
Wilson Gaines Richardson,
July
5, 1886.
1884.
George Edmund Woodhull,
Oct.
11, 1895.
1888.
Richard Marcus Kennedy,
March 11, 1896.
1890.
George Wheeler Clark,
Jan.
7, 1896.
1893.
Sanjuro Ishimoto,
Nov.
2, 1895.
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D I R liCTO R .
BAEEEE GUMMEEE, LL.E.,
Son of Samuel R* and Elizabeth Danker ( Barker) C-Tiinnnere^
was born Oct. 16, 1822, at Burlington, N. J. He attended a
boarding-school at Providence, R. I., for a time and was a stu-
dent in Haverford College, Pa. He studied law in the office of
Henry W. Green in Trenton, N. J. His entire life was spent in
the practice of his profession in Trenton. He was prominent in
the politics of his state and in the counsels of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Gummere was apjiointed by Governor Olden as
Clerk of the Court of Chancery of New Jerse}', and afterwards-
re-appointed as a commissioner of the sinking fund to succeed
Charles S. Olden, David Naar being secretary of the commission
at that time. Mr. Gummere in late years was offered the nomi-
nation for Governor on the Republican ticket, as well as the
office of Justice of the Supreme Court, and Vice-Chancellor, all
of which he refused. He was for a numlier of years president
of the Trenton Gas Light Company, a director of the Trenton.
Bank and a director of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company. He was a trustee and elder of the Old First Presby-
terian Church, a trustee of the General Assembly of the Presby-
terian Church, and a director of the Princeton Theological
Seminary from 1885 until his death, which occurred April 21,
1895, in Trenton, N. J., of Bright’s disease, in the 73rd year of
his age. He received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton Col-
lege in 1877.
He was married March 24, 1845, in Trenton, to Miss Eliza-
beth Chambers Stryker, who with four sons and four daughters-
survives him.
A letter only, not an initial.
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TRUSTEES.
WILLIAM LIBBEY,
Son of William Seavey and Sarah (Farrington) Li])bey, was born
March 7, 1820, in Newburgh, N. Y. He united with the Duane
Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, under the pastorate
of the Rev. Janies W. Alexander, D.D., at the age of twenty.
He studied in the Newburgh Academy, N. Y., and was prepared
to enter Union College, but circumstances prevented his going
on with his college course. He came to New York in the year
he was to have entered college, 1835, and obtained eniiiloyment
in the store of W. & J. Van Buskirk, dry goods jobbers, at 66
Liberty Street. He was connected with several firms until 1849>
when the partnership of Hastings, Libbey A Forby, was formed.
This was soon dissolved, and in 1852 Mr. Libbey associated him-
self with Arnold Graef in the silk and woolen business with
ofiices in New York, Philadelphia, Dresden and Aix-la-Chapelle.
During the financial distress of 1867 tliis firm was compelled to
make an assignment. Every debt was subsequently paid through
the diligence of Mr. Liiibey. In 1859 Mr. Libbey became asso-
ciated in business with Mr. A. T. Stewart. At the death of Mr.
Stewart in 1876 he was made an executor of his estate, the busi-
ness continuing for several years with Judge Henry Hilton as
partner. In 18S3 Mr. Lilibey left the firm and afterward lived
in retirement in New York City. He was a Trustee of the United
States Trust Company and of the Sun Fire Insurance Company,
and a Director of the National Bank of Commerce and the Erie
Railroad ; a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a life mem-
ber of the New England, of the New York Historical, and of the
American Geographical Societies. Since 1840 he was a member
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and is said to have
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taken a prominent jiart in the organization of the society whicli
develoiied into the Young Men’s Christian Association. He was
at all times a liberal though often unnoticed contributor to many
charitable and educational enterprises. He was a trustee of
Princeton College and also of Princeton Theological Seminary
from 1876 until his death. He died suddenly of ai)oplexy, Nov.
5, 1895, in New York City, in the 76th year of his age.
He was married July 8, 1850, at Fausse Point, La., to Miss
Elizabeth Marsh, who with three sons survives him. One of his
sons is Professor William Libliey of Princeton College.
ROBERT LENOX BELKNAP,
Son of Aaron Betts and Jennet Lenox (Maitland) Belknap, was
born July 23, 1848, in New York City. Early in life he made a
})ublic profession of his faith. His preparatory studies were
pursued in New York City under Pr()fe.ssor Quackenbush and he
graduated from Columbia College in 1869. After his graduation
he served as clerk with the firm of merchants. Fuller, Lord A
Co. From 1871 to 1879 he was vice-president of the Mercantile
Loan and Warehouse Co., New York; and from 1879 to 1888
was treasurer of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. Recognizing
the im})ortance of the region at the head of Lake Superior, he
took a leading part in the formation of the Land and River
Improvement Co., which in 1883 purchased the land and laid
out the present city of West Superior, Wis., and he was the first
president of that company. He was prominently identified with
various other business enterprises, having their headquarters in
New York City. He was one of the honorary associate editors
of “ The American Historical Register,” and took a great interest
in the iiatriotic hereditary societies of which he was a member.
In 1866 he became a member of the 7th Regiment, and in 1873
was made Commissioner of Subsistence with the rank of captain
on the staff of General William G. Ward, commanding the First
Brigade. He became Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff in
1876, and continued in that position until 1880, when he resigned.
Mr. Belknap always devoted much of his time to charitable and
lihilanthropic work. He became a manager of the Presbyterian
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Hospital in New York in 1877 and was its treasurer from 1880 to
1892 ; he was a manager of the American Bible Society since 1879,
president of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Church in
University Place since 1884. and superintendent of the Sunday
School of that church since 1880 ; trustee of the Theological Sem-
inary at Princeton, since 1888 ; manager of the Society of the
Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York since 1881, and its
treasurer since 1892; and a member of the New York Sabbath
Committee since 1887. He was for several years one of the vice-
presidents of the Presh3derian Social Union. His entire life was
spent in New York Cit}', where he died March 13, 1896, of
Bright’s disease, in the 48th year of his age.
He was married Feb. 3, 1870, in New York City, to Miss
Mary Phenix Remsen, who with three sons and three daughters
survives him.
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ALUMNI.
THOMAS LEIPEH JANEWAY, D.D., LL.E.,
Son of Rev. Jacob Jones and Martha Gray (Leiper) Janeway,
was born Feb. 27, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. His preparatory
studies were pursued in schools in Philadeljihia. He united
with the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia at the age
of nineteen. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
with the first honors of his class in 1823. He then siient one
}mar in further study, entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1824
and graduating after taking the full three years’ course in 1827.
He was licensed by the Presl)3dery of Philadelphia, Oct. 17,
1827. He spent a year after his graduation as a tutor in the
Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He was
ordained by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, Nov. 3, 1829, and
at the same time installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
of Rahway, N. J. This relation was dissolved Nov. 17, 1840, he
having received a call to the North Presbyterian Church of Phil-
adelphia, over which he was installed Dec. 8th of the same year.
He continued the pastor of this church until March 6, 1854.
During this time he was largely instrumental in establishing the
North Tenth Church. From Nov. 1, 1855, to Aug, 2, 1861, he
was pastor of the church at Kingston, N. J. He then returned
to Philadelphia to take up his work as corresponding secretary
of the Board of Domestic Missions, which position he held from
1861 to 1868. Since that time he resided in Philadelphia with-
out charge, interesting himself in church work and in benevolent
and philanthropic enterprises. He died Sept. 14, 1895, in Phila-
delphia, of no particular disease other than old age, in his 91st
year. He received the degree of D.D. from Princeton College in
1850 and was also honored with the degree of LL.D. Dr. Jane-
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way was chosen President of the college at Cannonsburgh, Pa.,
in 1857, but declined the position. He Avas a trustee of Lafayette
College from 1847 to 1852, and of Princeton Theological Semin-
ary from 1861 to 1865. He published the ‘‘Life of Jacob Jones
Janeway,” beside Avriting many pamphlets. He AA’as for a time
a trustee of the Presbyterian General Assembly.
He was married Oct. 25, 1825, at “Fancy Hill,” Gloucester
Co., N. J., to INIiss Abby BlackAVOod HoAvell, Avho died April 1,
1885. Taa’o sons and tAAm daughters surAUA^e him.
JOHN GOTTLIEB MORRIS, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of Johann and Barbara (Myers) Morris, Avas born Noa’. 14,
1803, at York, Pa. He united AA'ith the Lutheran Church of Mt.
Jackson, Va., at the age of eighteen. He Avas prepared for col-
lege under the tuition of James Steen and Samuel S. Schmucker
and graduated from Dickinson College in 1823. For two years
afterwards he continued his studies in Nazareth, Pa., and under
S. S. Schmucker in Virginia. He entered the Seminary at Prince-
ton in 1825, remaining there less than a year. He Avas licensed
Oct. 16, 1826, bj'’ the Lutheran Synod of Maryland and Virginia,
and then for a short time Avas a student in the Lutheran Semi-
nary at Gettysburgh, Pa. He AA'as ordained by the Lutheran
Synod of Maryland and Virginia, Oct. 15, 1827, and at the same
time installed ])astorof the First Lutheran Church of Baltimore.
This relation lasted the unusual period of thirty-three years,
being dissoh-ed Aug. 1, 1860. He Avas librarian of the Peabody
Institute, Baltimore, from 1860 to 1864, preaching frequently
during this period. He supplied the Third Lutheran Church of
Baltimore from 1861 to 1867. He Avas for a time lecturer on
biology in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburgh, Pa., and on pulpit
elocution and Bible Science in the Lutheran Seminary at Gettys-
burgh. He resided during most of his life in Baltimore and
died at Lutherville, near that city, Oct. 10, 1895, of old age and
general debility, Avhen he had almost completed his 92d year.
Dr. Morris Avas at one time librarian of the (Maryland State His-
torical Society and Avas president of that society and of the Ger-
man Historical Society at the time of his death. From 1831 to
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1833 he was editor of the Lutheran Observer. He was several
times president of the (ieneral S3’nod of the Lutheran Church.
He was a voluminous writer and editor. More than four hun-
dred books bear his name on their title page, and he wrote much
for the newspajiers. Among his translations from the German
was Koestlin’s Life of Luther. He was a member of many
learned societies. He did not value honorary degrees, but
received that of D.D. from Pennsvlvania College in 1839 and
that of LL.l). from the same institution in 1873.
He was married Nov. 1, 1827, at York, Pa., to Miss Eliza
Hay, who died July 16, 1875. Three daughters survive him.
SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, D.D.,
Son of Samuel and Lois (MTiitehead) Hutchings, was born Sept.
15, 1806, in New York City. At the age of fifteen he united
w'ith the Sj)ring Street Presbyterian Church of his native city.
His preparatory studies were pursued under the Kev. Amzi
Armstrong, D.D., in the Bloomfiold Academy, N. J., and he
graduated from Williams College in 1828. In November of the
same year he entered the Seminary at Princeton, remaining two
and a half vears. He was licensed by the Presbyteiy of New
York, April 23, 1830, and ordained by the Presbytery of Cleve-
land, Nov. 8, 1831. During 1831-32 he supplied a small Con-
gregational Church in Cleveland, ()., which before he left was
changed to a Presbvterian Church and became the germ of the
present First Presbyterian Church of that city. He then sup-
plied the Congregational Church at Medfield, ^lass., 1832-33.
Having decided to become a foreign missionar}^, he sailed from
Boston for India, July 1, 1833, reaching Madras Oct. 12th, and
Jaffna, Ceylon, Oct. 28th. He was stationed at Oodooville,
Yaran\", Chavagacherry, and ]\Ianei)y, Ceylon. On the failure
of the health of Rev. Joseph Knight, the Tamil and English
dictionar}" on which he had worked for years was committed to
Dr. Hutchings and he was sent to Madras to complete this work.
He remained there a year and a half, being stationed at Roya-
purum with charge of the church and schools there. At this
time his health failed under his combined duties, and on the
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advice of his physician he set sail for America in October 1843
after ten years of missionary service. He reached New York
June 1, 1844. His health not warranting his return to India he
accejited a call to the Congregational Church of Brookfield,
Mass., over which he was installed Sept. 15, 1847, continuing its
pastor until April 7, 1851. From this date to 1856 he was prin-
cipal of a young ladies’ seminary in New Haven, Conn., and
again of the Female Institute of Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1856-57. He
supiilied the Wickliffe Presbyterian Church of Newark, N. J.,
1857-63. From 1863 to 1873 he was engaged in teaching in
Newark, and supplied the Presbyterian Church of Salem, Pa.,
1869-70. After 1873 he resided in Orange, N. J., employing his
time in literary work. He died Sept. 1, 1895, in Orange, of
pneumonia and heart failure, within two weeks of the com-
pletion of his 89th year. He received the degree of D.D. from
Williams College in 1888. Dr. Hutchings was a man of large
literary activity. He iiublished a volume in 1873, “The Mode
of Baptism,” and very many articles on a wide range of subjects
in reviews, the religious and secular papers and encyclopedias.
He contributed more than a thousand articles to the “ Library
of Universal Knowledge,” and most of the biographical sketches
in the ‘ Cyclopedia of Missions” published in 1891.
He was married Sept. 18, 1831, in New Haven, Conn., to
Miss Elizabeth Coit Lathrop, who with one son and four daugh-
ters survives him.
NATHAN &RIER WHITE,
Son of Robert and Nancy Smith (Grier) White, was born April
11, 1810, at Faggs Manor, Pa. He united with the Presbyterian
Church of West Nottingham, Md., at the age of fifteen. His
preparatory studies were pursued at the West Nottingham Aca-
demy and he graduated from Dickinson College in 1828. He
then spent two years in teaching in academies at Reading, Pa.,
and in Hartford Co., Pa. In 1830 he entered the Seminary at
Princeton, remaining there three years. He was licensed by the
Presbytery of Newcastle, Oct. 3, 1833, and ordained by the Pres-
bytery of Carlisle, June 11, 1834, and was at the same time
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installed pastor of the churches of McConnellsburg and Wells
Valley, Pa. On Sept. 12, 1835, the church at Green Hill, Pa.,
was added to his charge. These associated churches he served
until July 5, 1864. He was pastor of the church at Williams-
burg, Pa., from Nov. 9, 1864, to A])ril 10, 1883. He subsequently
served as stated supply the church of Tyrone, Pa., 1883-85, and
that at Dawson, Pa., 1885-88. After the latter year he resided
in New Haven, Pa., until his death, which occurred Sept. 29,
1895, at New Haven, of acute cystitis, in the 86th year of his age.
Mr. White was twice married: (1) Jan. 31, 1836, at Mc-
Connellsburg, Pa., to Miss Susau Mayers, who died Oct. 14, 1840;
(2) Nov. 1, 1842, in Franklin County, Pa., to Miss Catherine
McDowell, who died Oct. 21, 1893. One son and one daughter
by his first wife survive him.
JOHN TAPPAN PIEHCE, ,
Son of Rev. .John and Lucy (Tappan) Pierce, was born Dec. 16
(or 15), 1811, at Brookline, Mass. He united with the First
Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N. J., at the age of twenty-one.
He received his preparatory education in the Brookline Acad-
emy, and graduated from Harvard College in 1831. He then
spent one year as clerk in a Boston store, entering the Seminary
at Princeton in 1832, and remaining less than a year. He was a
student in Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, 1833-34, and
in Oberlin Seminary, 1834-36. He was licensed to preach b}'’ a
council of the Congregational Church in Cincinnati in 1834, and
ordained by a Congregational council in Oberlin, 0., Oct. 10,
1836. From 1837 to 1838 he supplied the Congregational Church
of Middlesex, Vt. ; engaged in teaching in Jacksonville, 111.,
1839-40; was principal of a school in Greggsville, 111., 1840-42;
a teacher in St. Louis, Mo., for some time after this. At this
time his health failed him seriously. He resided for a time in
Henderson, Ky., and then in Arcadia, Mo., 1844-50. He was
obliged to leave Missouri on account of the slavery agitation.
After 1850 he resided in Geneseo, 111., his health not permitting
his engaging in the active duties of the ministry. He died April
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14, 1894, in Geneseo, of old age and general decline of his vital
powers, in the 83rd year of his age.
He was married in Russia, O , to Miss Martha Haskins, who
died some years before him.
SAMUEL KELLOGG,
Son of Seth Shove and Matilda (Lockwood) Kellogg, was born
June 30, 1808, in New Canaan, Conn. He united with the Rut-
gers Street Presbyterian Churcli, New York City, at the age of
sixteen. His preparatory studies were pursued at Erasmus
Hall, Flatbush, L. I., N. Y., and he graduated from the Univer-
sity of the City of New York in 1834. Entering the Seminary
at Princeton the same year, he took the full three years’ course
there and graduated in 1837. He was licensed by the Fourth
Presbytery of New York, April 26, 1837, and ordained by the
Presbytery of Long Island, Nov. 20, 1838. He was stated sup-
ply of the Presbyterian Church at Westhampton, N. Y., 1838-41,
and of the church at Dobb’s Ferry from 1841 to 1847, when he was
installed its pastor. This relation continued until 1852. He
then was stated supply at Hempstead, N. Y., from 1852 to 1864.
At this time his health became infirm and he was obliged to
relinquish the active duties of the ministry. He moved to
Plainfield, N. J., where he resided until his death, which occurred
-Jan. 14, 1896, at Mt. Pleasant near Plainfield, from injuries
resulting from a fall, in the 88th year of his age.
He was twice married (1) Aug. 2, 1838, at Rutland, Mass.,
to Miss Mary Pierce Henr}^ who died July 14, 1861 ; (2) May 6,
1863, at Rutland, Mass., to her sister. Miss Eliza Stone Henry,
who survives him with two sons and one daughter. One of the
sons is the Rev. S. H. Kellogg, D.D., of Dehra Boon, India, an
alumnus of the Seminary.
JOHM CUNNINGHAM PATTERSON, Esq.,
Son of John and Elizabeth (Jefferies) Patterson, was born Oct.
24, 1815, in Wilmington, Del. He made a public profession of
his faith at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were
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pursued in the academy at New London, Pa., and he graduated
from Princeton College in 1835. He entered the Seminary at
Princeton the same year, remaining only six months, having
given up his purpose to study for the ministry. He engaged in
teaching for one year, 1836, in Mr. Sears’s Academy, Princeton,
and then one year as a private tutor in Monmouth County, N.
J. He studied law in \l’ilmington, Del., and at once engaged in
the practice of his profession in that city, in which he spent the
rest of his life. He retired from the practice of law in 1888 on
account of ill health. He died March 23, 1895, in Wilmington,
of old age, in the 80th year of his age.
He was married twice; (1) To Miss Helen L. Sherron,
from whom he was divorced; (2) in 1861 in Hartford County,
Md., to Miss Laura Archer Webster, who died in 1892. Six
children survive him.
SAMUEL DAVIES STUART,
Son of Rev. Robert and Hannah Owen fTodd) Stuart, was born
Feb. 15, 1815, at Walnut Hill, Fayette county, Ky. At the age
of twelve he united with the Presb^’terian Church of M'alnut
Hill. His ])reparatory studies were pursued mainly under his
father at M’alnut Hill, and he graduated from Centre College in
1833. He then spent two years in teaching, entering the Semi-
nary at Princeton in the fall of 1835 and remaining two and a
half years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick, April 24, 1838, and ordained by the Presbytery of West
Lexington, Jan. 25, 1839, and at the same time installed pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Woodford, Ky., which he had
been serving as stated supply for a year. This relation con-
tinued until the spring of 1840. He was pastor of the church at
Brier, Va., from Nov. 7, 1840, until some time in 1856, and of
that at Christianburgh, Va., from Jan. 4, 1857, until some time
in 1862. From 1862 to 1865 he was a chaplain in the army of
the Confederate States. He spent the summer of 1866 in Europe
in the interests of Washington College, Va., and from 1868 to ’73
was president of the Stonewall Jackson Female Institute, Abing-
don, Va., and from 1874 to ’75 an agent of the Presbyterian Com-
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mittee of Publication, residing at Abingdon, which continued to
be his place of residence until his death, which occurred at
Abingdon, June 19, 1895, of valvular disease of the heart, in the
81st year of his age. Mr. Stuart was moderator of the Synod of
Virginia before the war; was commissioner to the General
Assembly at Augusta in 1861 and again at Savannah in 1886.
He was influential in securing increased endowment for Wash-
ington and Lee University, for Hampden Sydney College and
other educational institutions.
He was married Nov. 15, 1838, at Staunton, Va., to Miss
Cornelia St. Clair Waddel, who died June 12, 1892. Four
daughters survive him.
TALBOT WILSON CHAMBERS, S.T.D., LL.D.,
Son of William Chestnut and INIary (Ege) Chambers, was born
Feb. 25, 1819, at Carlisle, Pa. At the age of twelve he united
with the Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. He pursued his pre-
paratory studies there under the instruction of John A. Inglis
and John M. Krebs, D.D. He graduated from Rutgers College
in 1834, being but fifteen years of age, dividing the second honor
of his class with two others. He had spent his freshman year in
Dickinson College, entering Rutgers as a sophomore. He attended
the New Brunswick Theological Seminary during the winter of
1834-35 and then spent eighteen months in private study at
home. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1836, remain-
ing one year. At this point financial embarrassments inter-
rupted his studies and from the autumn of 1837 to the summer
of 1839 he was engaged in teaching in private families in the
South. At the same time he prosecuted his literary studies with
unabated ardor, read theology and wrote sermons. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Clinton, Miss., Oct. 21, 1838, and
ordained by the Classis of New Brunswick of the Reformed
Dutch Church, June 22, 1840, being at the same time installed
pastor of the Second Reformed Church of Raritan at Somerville,
N. J., which he had been serving as pastor-elect since October of
the year previous. This relation continued until 1849, when he
accepted a call to become one of the co-pastors of the Collegiate
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Dutch Church in New York City, being installed Dec. 2, of that
year. He preached in his turn in the Lafayette Place, the North
and the Middle Churches until November, 1871, when he was
assigned to special duty in the Middle Church on Lafayette
Place. For about forty-three years he rendered full ministerial
service, and was still one of the Collegiate pastors at the time
of his death, which occurred Feb. 3, 1896, in New York City, of
influenza and heart failure, in the 77th year of his age. Dr.
Chambers was a leader in the counsels of his own Church and
Avas in frequent demand as a teacher and lecturer. From Jan-
uary to May 1877 he took Dr. Schaff’s place in the chair of
Exegesis of the Greek Testament in Union Theological Semin-
ary, NeAV York City. During the session of 1887-88 he occu})ied
the chair of Greek Exegesis in the Hartford Seminary, and the
same chair in Princeton Seminary during 1891-92. He per-
formed a similar service for the seminaries at Neiv Brunsivick,
Allegheny and Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. He was theVedder
Leeturer at Neiv Brunswick in 1875. In 1863 he was president
of the General Synod of the Reformed Church. He was a mem-
ber of the Old Testament Comjiany of the American Committee
of Revision of the English Bible from 1875 until the completion
of its labors in 1885. From 1888 until his death he was the
chairman of the committee on versions of the American Bible
Society ; Avas a trustee of Rutgers College from 1868 till his death
and of Columbia College from 1881 till his death. In 1892 he
was president of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches holding
the Presbyterian system, and Avas the president of the Western
Section at the time of his death, and Avas expected to jireside at
the Council in GlasgoAV in 1896. He received degree of S.T.D.
from Columbia College in 1853 and that of LL.D. from Rutgers
College in 1884. Dr. Chambers was a man of great literary
actiAuty and made frequent contributions to the religious con-
troversies of the day. Among his separate works were “ The
Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Scriptures,” 1876 ;
“ A Companion to the Revised Old Testament,” 1885 ; “ Schmol-
ler’s Exposition of Amos,” translated and enlarged, “ Exposition
of Zechariah,” Lange’s Commentary, 1874 ; “ Homilies of
Chrysostom on I. and II. Corinthians,” 1889. Dr. Chambers
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always retained a very warm interest in Princeton Seminary and
was accustomed to jireach in the Sentinary pulpit once each
year.
He was married A})ril 27, 1841, at Somerville, N. J., to Miss
Louisa Mercer Frelinghuysen, who died June 2, 1892. Six sons
anr] three daughters survive him. One of his sons is the Rev.
Theodore F. Chambers, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
German Valley, N. J.
JOHN MILLEE,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel and Sarah (Sergeant) Miller, was
born April 6, 1819, in Princeton, N. J., his father being the dis-
tinguished second professor of Princeton Seminary. At the age
of nineteen he united with the First Presbyterian Church of
Princeton. He received his preparatory education in the Edge
Hill School at Princeton and graduated from Princeton College
in 1836. He then studied and worked with Professor Henry
with the intention of becoming a teacher of physics, but after he
had made a public profession of his faith he decided to enter
the ministry and in pursuance of his intention entered the
Seminary at Princeton in 1838, graduating alter the full three
years’ course in 1841. He remained a fourth year continuing
his studies in special directions. He was licensed by the Pres-
bytery of New Brunswick, April 28, 1841, and ordained by the
Presbytery of Baltimore, Oct. 30, 1843, being at the same time
installed pastor of the church at Frederick City, Md. This rela-
tion was dissolved Dec. 18, 1848. He was pastor of the West
Arch Street Church, Philadelphia, Pa., from July 10, 1850, to
December 6, 1855. He then went to V^irginia and for eight
years was without a regular pastorate, although he supplied
churches in the valley of Virginia. The most of his time was
spent in study. During the civil war he served for one year as
captain of artillery in the Confederate army, 1861-62. He was
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Petersburgh, Va.,
October 8, 1863, to June 1, 1871. In this latter year he took up
his residence in Princeton and continued to reside there for the
rest of his life. He did not desire a pastorate although he sup-
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plied pulpits almost constantly. He was engaged chiefly in
literary work. In consequence of a (juestion of his orthodoxy
raised by the publication of his book, “ Questions awakened b}'
the Bible,” in 1877, and an adverse decision in both Presbytery
and Synod he withdrew from the ministry of the Presbyterian
Church. In 1880 he built in Princeton an indei)endent church,
which he served as pastor, establishing in connection with it
several mission stations. In 1893 he was received by the Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church asaminister of that denomination,
giving over to it his Princeton church and its mission stations and
establishing a Presbytery of Princeton in connection with that
body. He continued to serve the church in Princeton and its
missions until his death, which occurred April 14, 1895, in Prince-
ton, of pneumonia, having just completed his 76th year. Mr. Mil-
ler was a constant student and a prolific writer. He published a
number of books and many articles. Among his })ublications
were : “ The Design of the Church as an Index to her real Nature
and the true Law of her Communion,” 1846; “The Doctrine of
Development,” 1852; “A Commentary on the Proverbs,” 1872;
“Fetich in Theology,” 1874; “Metaphysics, or the Science of
Perception,” 1875; “Questions awakened by the Bible,” 1877.
He was warmly interested in all philanthropic movements, show'-
ing himself especially friendly to the poor.
He was twice married (1) September 24, 1844, in Richfield
Springs, N. Y., to Miss Margaret Benedict, who died September
5, 1852 ; (2) November 3, 1856, in Lexington, Va., to Miss Sally
Campbell Preston McDowell, who died April 21, 1895, just a
week after his own decease. One daughter by his first wife and
two by his second survive him.
JAMES BALLINTINE,
Son of Samuel and Margaret (King) Ballintine, was born Jan.
27, 1810, at Lancaster, Pa. He united with the First Pre.sby-
terian Church of Rochester, N. Y., at the age of thirteen. His
school life was passed in Bethany, Rochester (Collegiate Insti-
tute) and Geneva, N. Y. He entered Union College, but ill
health prevented his remaining. He sjient the years 1839-41 in
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Auburn Theological Seminary, entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the latter year as a senior and remaining less than a year.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Cayuga April 20, 1842,
and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Rochester
Nov. 14, 1843. He was stated supply of the Presbyterian
Church at Gates, N. Y., from 1843 to 1850, when he Avas
installed pastor. This relation Avas dissolved in 1862. From
1861 to 1881 he resided on a farm near Rochester, N. Y., engag-
ing in general missionary Avork in the toAvns near Rochester.
From 1881 to 1891 he resided at Le Roy, N. Y., moving then to
Rochester, Avhich Avas his place of residence until his death,
May 4, 1895, at Rochester, of heart failure, in the 86th year of
his age.
Mr. Ballintine Avas twice married; (1) Jan. 25, 1845, at
Seneca, N. Y., to Miss Sarah A. Rippey, Avho died June 30, 1846 ;
(2) March 10, 1849, at Gates, N. Y., to Miss Marietta Bristol,
Avho died May 27, 1872. One daughter by his first Avife and
two sons and three daughters by his second survive him.
PETEE AETHUE McMAETIN,
Son of Duncan and Margaret (McArthur) McMartin, Avas born
June 15, 1812, at Amsterdam, N. Y. He united Avith the Pres-
byterian Church at Johnstown, N. Y., at the age of tAventy-two.
He pursued his preparatory studies in JohnstoAvn, and gradu-
ated from Union College in 1839. He thenlengaged in teaching
for two years, entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1841 and
graduating after the full three years’ course in 1844. He Avas
licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia April 4, 1844, after
which he engaged in teaching in Ncav Jersey, Maryland and
Virginia. He was ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey
Dec. 3, 1856, and at the same time installed pastor of the
church at Cape Island, N. J. This relation was dissolved Oct.
7, 1857. He AA'as pastor of the church at Hillsboro, N. C., Oct.
10, 1858, to June 20, 1861. Subsequently he ser\'ed the follow-
ing churches as stated supply : Schenectady, N. Y. ; PlainAvell,
Alamo and LaAvton, Mich., 1867-71 ; Winneconne, Wis., 1874-75;
Teconsha, Mich., 1875-77; Sebewa and Sunfield, Mich., 1878;
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Plainwell, Mich., 1877-79; West Sebewa, Mich., 1879-80; Bad
Axe, Ubley and Verona, Mich., 1881-91. In this last year he
retired from active service. He died March 13, 1896, at Plain-
Avell, Mich., of congestion of the lungs, in the 84th year of his
age.
He was married June 12, 1856, in INIontgomery County,
N. Y., to Miss I.sabella C. Dougall, who died Nov. 10, 1882.
Two sons and two daughters survive him.
SAMUEL PETTIGREW,
Son of John and Agnes (Campble) Pettigrew, was born April 5,
1813, in County Armagh, Ireland. He studied in the academies
of Armagh City and Tandeagee, Ireland, and came to this
country when he was about twenty-one years of age. He united
with the Presbyterian Church of Blairsville, Pa., at the age of
twenty-two. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1837 and
then graduated from the Western Theological Seminary at
Allegheny, Pa., in 1840 after the full three years’ course. He
spent six months in work as stated supply, having been licensed
by the Presbytery of Blairsville, April 29, 1840, and then entered
the Seminary at Princeton in 1841, remaining six months as a
graduate student. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Bed-
ford, Nov. 17, 1842, and at the same time installed pastor of the
church at Red Mills, Pa., where he remained until April 14,
1844. He was stated supply and teacher at Maline Creek, Mo.,
1844-49; principal of a Female Seminary at St. Louis, Mo.,
1849-52; associate editor of the aS^. Louis Presbyterian, 1849-52;
stated supply at Carlisle, 111., 1853; stated supply at Maline
Creek, Mo., 1853-58; at Camden, Miss., 1858-59; teacher in St.
Louis, Mo., 18.59-61 ; hospital chaplain of the Jefferson Barracks,
St. Louis, 1861-65. At this time his health became somewhat
infirm and he took up the study of medicine in the St. Louis
Medical College, 186.5-68, receiving the degree of M.D. in the
latter year. He practised as a physician in St. Louis and in
Whitehall, 111., 1868-82. In 1882 he took charge of the church
of Lebanon, Or., where he remained until 1885, w'hen his health
again failed him. He resided in McMinnville, Or., 1885-88, and
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was honorably retired from the active duties of the ministrj'^ by
the Presbytery of Oregon in 1888. His residence after this time
was in St. Louis, Mo., where he died Nov. 21, 1895, in the 83rd
year of his age.
He was married Feb. 14, 1852, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss
Kate M. Flaherty, Avho died March 24, 1892.
EGBERT LOGAN,
Son of John and Rachel (McPheeters) Logan, was born Feb. 13,
1813, near Staunton, Augu.sta Co., Va. He united with the
Presliyterian Church of Bethel, Va., at the age of seventeen.
His preparatory studies were pursued at Greenville, Va., and he
graduated from Washington College, Va., in 1840. He then
spent two 3'ears in teaching, entering the Seminary at Princeton
in 1842 and remaining only one year. He was licensed by the
Presb^’tery of Charleston, April 10, 1846, and ordained by the
Presbytery of Orange, Dec. 5, 1851. He was the president of the
Greensboro, Ga., Female College from 1852 to 1854; taught in
Orangeburg and Greenwood, S. C., 1854—55 ; was stated supply
of the Presbyterian Church at South Liberty, Ga., 1855-57 ; of
the West Point, Long Cave and Ebenezer churches, Ga., 1857-65 ;
of the Philadelphia and McDonough churches, Ga., 1867-72.
After the last date he resided in Hawley, Texas, and in Fort
5Vorth, Texas, in which latter place he died, Jan. 6, 1896, of
heart disease, within a month of the completion of his 83rd year.
Mr. Logan was married Aug. 18, 1843, at Lexington, Va., to
Miss Eliza Jane Logan, who survives him with three sons and
one daughter.
WILLIAM HENEY CEANE,
•Son of Matthis and Sarah (Lum) Crane, was born Dec. 1, 1818,
near Elizabeth, N. J. He united with the First Presbyterian
Church of Elizabeth at the age of eighteen. His preparatoiy
studies were pursued in Elizabeth and he entered the class of
1843 of Princeton College, but his health failed after he had been
in college three years and he was unable to graduate. From
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1842 to 1843 engaged in teaching in the Wilkes Barre Acad-
emy, Pa., entering the Seminary at Princeton in the latter year.
After one year of study in the Seminar}^ his health again failed
and he left Princeton and si)ent the next lour years in teaching
and in the services of the American Tract Society as a colpor-
teur. He was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of
Florida, April 7, 1848, and then was stated supply of the follow-
ing churches: Marianna, Fla., 1848; Madison and Oakland,
Fla., 1849-50; Mineral Spring and Bainbridge, Ga., 1851 ; Euchee
Valley, Fla., 1852. He was principal of the Philadelphia Acad-
emy, Gadsden County, Fla., in 1853; stated supply at Damascus,
Ga., 1854 and prineijial of Bainbridge Academy, Ga., 1854-55;
stated supply and teacher at lamonia, Fla., 1855-58 ; missionary
in the Presbytery of Florida, 1859-60 ; 2irincipal of the Phila-
delphia Academy, Fla., 1861-65; jirincijial of the academy at
Quincy, Fla., 1866-68 ; sujierintendent of the Gadsden County
schools, 1869-70; engaged in general missionary work with his
residence at Quincy, Fla., 1870-77 ; from 1878 to 1893 he labored
as stated su^iply and engaged in missionary work in the Smyrna,
Grand Ridge and lamonia churches, also at Corinth, Bristol and
Antioch, in Florida and Georgia. He died Nov. 30, 1894, near
•Quincy, Fla., within one month of the completion of his 76th
year. He was a commissioner to the General Assembly several
times; at New' Orleans, 1858, at Atlanta, 1882, at St. Louis, 1887,
and at Macon, Ga., 1893.
He was married April 3, 1849, at Quincj', Fla., to Miss Annie
Julia Atwater, who died Oct. 27, 1890. Four sons and two
daughters survive him.
EGBERT GORDON WILLIAMS,
Son of William Gordon and Tryjihena (King) Williams, was
horn IMarch 30, 1816, at New Hartford, Conn. His preparatory
.studies were pursued in Ellington, Conn., and at the Amherst
Academy, Mass., and he graduated from Amherst College in
1835. He sjDent some time after his graduation in travel on
iiccount of his health, and later engaged in business. He united
with the First Congregational Church of New Britain, Conn., at
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the age of twenty-four. In 1844 he entered the Seminary at
Princeton, graduating in 1847 after the full three years’ course.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 28^
1847, and soon after engaged in teaching in Knoxville, Tenn.,
where he remained until 1849. He supplied the Presbyterian
Church at Monterey, Cal., 1850-51 ; that of Carmel, N. Y., 1851-
52; and the Congregational Church of North East, Conn., 1852-
53. He was ordained by the New Haven East Congregational
Association, Oct. 12, 1853, and at the same time installed pastor
of the Congregational Church of Durham, Conn., remaining in
care of this church until A25ril, 1855. He was 23astor of the
Woodbury, Conn., Congregational Church from Ajiril 25, 1855,
to July 8, 1859, the pastor elect of the church at Birmingham,
Conn., in 1860. He served in the civil war as caiAain of Com-
jiany G of the 1st Regiment Connecticut Artillery, 1861-62. The
rest of his life was spent in teaching : as principal of the Sauger-
ties Seminary at Saugerties, N. Y., 1862-65 ; of the academy at
Waterbury, Conn., 1865-69 ; of the State Normal School, Castle-
ton, Vt., 1869-74; of the Mechanicsville, N. Y., Academy, 1874-
83, and of a ladies’ boarding school at Amherst, Mass., from 1885
until his death, which occurred Feb. 16, 1894, at Amherst, of
pneumonia, near the close of his 78th year.
He was married three times : (1) Nov. 21, 1837, at Sharon,
Conn., to Miss Amelia Smith Gould, who died July 30, 1843;
(2) May 18, 1847, at Princeton, N. J., to Miss Elizabeth Marsh
Smith, who died April 10, 1860 ; (3) Ajjril 2, 1862, at Saugerties,
N. A'., to Miss Mary Elizabeth Slater, who with one daughter by
his first w'ife and one by his second surviv^es him.
JUSTUS THOMAS UMSTED, D.D.,
Son of John and Catharine (Harner) Umsted, was born Jan. 22,
1820, in Chester County, Pa. He united with the Seventh Pres-
byterian Church of Philadelphia at the age of twenty. He was
prepared for college by the Rev. Joseph P. Engles, D.D., in Phil-
adelphia and spent three years in the University of Pennsylvania.
He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1845, graduating in
1848 after the full three years’ course. He was licensed by the
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Presbytery of Philadelphia, July 7, 1847, and supplied the
church of South Bend, Ind., 1848-49. He was ordained by the
Presbytery of Iowa, Oct. 15, 1850, and at the same time installed
pastor of the church at Muscatine, la., remaining in this charge
until Oct. 20, 1853. He was pastor of the church at Keokuk,
la., from June, 1853, to Oct. 11, 1858; stated supply at Selma,
Ala., in 1859; pastor at Faggs Manor, Pa., Nov. 7, 1860, to May
22, 1872; pastor at St. George’s, Del., June 25, 1872, to April 19,
1876 ; pastor at Smyrna, Del., May 15, 1877, to Oct. 25, 1887 ;
pastor at White Haven, Pa., Dec. 6, 1887, to Sept. 21, 1892. He
was honorably retired from the active duties of the ministry,
April 18, 1893, and took up his residence in Coatesville, Pa.,
where he died March 27, 1896, of cancer, in the 77th year of his
age. He received the degree of D.D. from New Windsor College
in 1884. He published a number of sermons.
Dr. Umsted was married July 10, 1848, in Philadelphia,
Pa., to Miss Isabella McMinn Wilson, who with one son and
two daughters survives him.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BURROUGHS, M.D.,
Son of Hon. Charles and Elizabeth (Morris) Burroughs, was
born in Trenton, N. J., Oct. 17, 1812. His grandfather, John
Burroughs, a highly intelligent farmer, was a soldier in the
Revolution and assisted in liringing Washington’s army across
the Delaware, at the time of the battle of Trenton. Dr. Bur-
roughs’s early education was received at the Trenton Academy
and at the Classical School of Prof. James Hamilton. He united
at the age of twenty-three with the First Presbyterian Church of
Trenton. He studied at Lafayette College, during the presi-
dency of J. W. Yeomans, D.D., receiving the degrees of A.B.
and A.M. from that institution. He pursued theological studies
at Lambertville, N. J., under the direction of Peter 0. Studdi-
ford, D.D. He was licensed Oct. 7, 1846, by the Presbytery of
Raritan, and spent one year, 1846-47, in Princeton Theological
Seminary as resident licentiate. While engaged in his studies,
he was instrumental in the organization of the Second Presby-
terian Church of his native city, raising funds for the purchase
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of a brick edifice and the erection of a building for the Sunday-
school. He was ordained, as an evangelist, by the Presbytery
of Raritan, June 16, 1847, and engaged at once in missionary
work in Hunterdon county, N. J. While in this field, he was
successful in organizing a church in Rosemont, N. J., and in
building a house of worship which was dedicated free of debt.
He preached to this congregation from 1848-50. Subsequently
he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Bensalem, Pa.,
established by Rev. ^^hlliam Tennent, Sr., and also stated sup-
ply of the church at Centreville, Pa., 1851-53. While in this
field, he frecjuently preached six times a week ; owing to exposure
in riding long distances, his health failed, and he was compelled
to resign. In 1854 he was installed pastor of the Reformed
(Dutch) Church at Waterloo, New York, in the Classis of
Cayuga. His health again failed, and he was released from this
charge a year later. He then studied medicine, and was engaged
for some years in its practice, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
in Philadelphia, Pa. But he always loved the work of the
ministry ; it was a great trial to him to be laid aside from its
labors, and he was always ready to preach as his health per-
mitted. He died at Bethayres, Pa., Dec. 25, 1895, of debility
subsequent to paralysis, in the 84th year of his age.
He was married (1) in Pine Plains, N. Y., to Miss Angeline
Smith, who died at Trenton, N. J., July 22, 1850, leaving no
children; (2) in Phelps, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1854, to Miss Olivia Caro-
line Stockton, daughter of Rev. B. B. Stockton, who survives
him with one son, the Rev. George S. Burroughs, D.D., president
of Wabash College and an alumnus of the Seminary, and one
daughter.
ELWABD KENNEDY,
Son of Samuel and Jane (Hyndman) Kennedy, was born Aug.
15, 1819, at Ballymony, County Antrim, Ireland. He came to
America when about eighteen years old. His preparatory studies
were pursued at Bath, under the Rev. Leslie Irwin and he grad-
uated from Lafayette College, through his own exertions, in
1847. In the fall of the same year he entered the Seminary at
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Princeton, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in
1850. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Luzerne, May 16,
1849, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Win-
chester, April 19, 1851. From 1850 to 1853 he served the First
Presbyterian Church of Prince William County, Va., as pastor-
elect, but was never installed. He then engaged in missionary
work in California from 1853-55. From 1855-58 he was stated
supply at Berwick, Pa.; of the church at Elkland, Pa., from 1858
until his installation as pastor. Sept. 28, 1859. This relation
was dissolved May 1, 1866. After this he supplied the church
at Fall Brook, Pa., May 1866 to May 1870, and that at Barclay,
Pa., 1870-74. At this time his health did not permit his con-
tinuing in the active work of the ministry and he engaged in
farming in order that he might be entirely independent, residing
at Merryall, Pa. He died there Dec. 13, 1895, of inflammation
of the bladder, in the 77th year of his age.
He was married Oct. 18, 1860, at Merryall, Pa., to Miss Mary
Lewis, who with one son and one daughter survives him.
EGBERT GARLAND BRANK, D.D.,
Son of Ephraim McLean and Mary (Campbell) Brank, was born
Nov. 3, 1824, in Greenville, Ky. He united with the Presbyterian
Church of Greenville at the age of seventeen. He prepared for
college in Greenville and graduated from Centre College, Ky.,
in 1846. He then studied law for one year, beginning the study
of theology in the New Albany Seminary, where he remained a
year, 1847-48. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848,
remaining there one year, the middle year of his course. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Muhlenberg, Oct. 5, 1849, and
ordained by the Presbytery of West Lexington, IMay 5, 1852, and
at the same time installed pastor of the church at Harmony, Ky.
As a licentiate he had served this church in connection with the
Woodford Church since 1850. The pastoral relation with the
Harmony Church was dissolved in 18.54. His other pastorates
were : Second Church, Lexington, Ky., Feb. 13, 1854, to May 15,.
1869; Central Church, St. Louis, Mo., July 11, 1869, until his
death, which occurred Aug. 21, 1895, in St. Louis, of a tumor cvf
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the bowels after a long illness, in the 71st 3^ear of his age. He
received the degree of D.D. from Centre College in 1869. Dr.
Brank was a prominent minister in the Southern Presbyterian
Church. Pie was a commissioner to the General Assembly of
that body at Nashville in 1856; at Savannah in 1876; at Lex-
ington in 1884 and at Hot Springs, Kan., in 1892. He published
many sermons, addresses and general newspaper articles.
He was married Oct. 7, 1865, in Lexington, Ky., to Miss
Ruth Ann Smith, who with two sons and one daughter survives
him.
NATHANIEL BAKER KLINK,
Son of George and .Joana (Baker) Klink, was born Feb. 25, 1823,
at Bethlehem, N. Y. He united with the First Presbyterian
Church of Bethlehem at the age of fifteen. His preparatory
studies were pursued at the Albany Academy, Albany, N. Y.,
and he graduated from Union College in 1847. After spending
one year in Union Theological Seminary, New Yoik City, he
■entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of 1848, graduat-
ing after the full three years’ course in 1851. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick May 8, 1850 ; served the
church of Oneida Valley, N. Y., as stated supply, 1851-52, and
that at West Galway, N. Y., 1852-53. He was ordained by the
Presbytery of Albany Feb. 13, 1854, and at the same time
installed pastor of the church at Ballston Spa, N. Y., after hav-
ing served it as stated supply for a year previous. This relation
was dissolved in May, 1855. He was pastor of the church of
Fairmount, N. J., from Nov. 23, 1855, to Nov. 30, 1859, and
■stated supply of that at Sacramento, Cal., from Jan. 15, 18fi0, to
May 1, 1861. He taught in a private school at Vallejo, Cal.,
during 1861 and 1862, and subsequently served the following
■churches as stated supjdy : Vallejo, Cal., May 1, 1861, Aug. 1, 1883;
Santa Paulo and Hueneme, Cal., August, 1883-August, 1884;
Redding, Cal., 1886-89 ; West Berkeley, Cal., 1889-92 ; Clements,
Cal., 1892-94. In this last year he was honorably retired from
the active duties of the ministry. He died May 31, 1895, at
■San Francisco, CaL, of pneumonia, in the 73d year of his age.
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]\Ir. Klink was for several years Superintendent of Public In-
struction in Vallejo, and was twice a commissioner to the Gen-
eral Assembly. He published a number of sermons and
addresses in the newspai)ers.
He was married Sept. 6, 1853, at Albany, N. Y., to Miss
Elizabeth Seymour, who with two sons and seven daughters
survives him.
ROBERT WATTS, B.D., LL.D.,
Son of John and Jane (Hill) Watts, was born July 10, 1820, at
Money lane. County Down, Ireland. He united with the Pres-
byterian Church of Clough, County Down, at about the age of
sixteen. He prepared for college in the Royal Academical
Institution of Belfast. In October 1847 he came to America and
engaged in teaching for a time. He was a junior in Lafayette
College in the class of 1849, but upon President Junkin’s going
from that institution to M'ashington College, Va., he followed
him there, graduating in 1849. He entered the Seminary at
Princeton the same year, taking the full three years’ course and
graduating in 1852. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, April 9, 1851. Upon his graduation from the
Seminary he was commissioned by the Church Extension Com-
mittee of the Presbytery of Philadelphia to form a congregation
in Franklin Hall in that city, and so successfully was the work
carried out that in the following year, having been ordained by
the Presbytery of Philadelphia May 4, 1853, he was installed at
the same time pastor of the congregation which he himself had
collected, then organized into the Westminster Presbyterian
Church. This relation was dissolved June 10, 1863. During
the years 1860-63 he had been assistant editor of the Home and
Foreign Record. In the latter year he accepted a call to the
Gloucester Street Presbyterian Church of Dublin, of which he
was the pastor from Aug. 4, 1863, to October, 1866, when he was
elected by the General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian
Church professor .of Systematic Theology in the Assembly’s Col-
lege, Belfast. There he remained for the rest of his life, a period
of twenty-nine years, doing the chief work of his life. He died
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July 26, 1895, in Belfast, of heart failure, in the 76th year of his
age. He received the degree of D.D. from Westminster College,
Mo., in 1864, and that of LL.D. from Washington and Lee Col-
lege in 1884. Dr. Watts was a conservative theologian and was
an able opponent of the liberal school of theological thought of
his day. He made many important contributions to the con-
troversial literature of the times, among which were “ Calvin and
Calvinism,” 1865; “The Newer Criticism,” 1882; “The New
Apologetic,” 1890; “The Rule of Faith and the Doctrine of
Inspiration,” 1885, and others. His articles for reviews and
other periodicals were numerous.
Dr. M'atts was married Sept. 6, 1853, at Summer Hill, County
Down, Ireland, to Miss Margaret Newell, who with two sons
and one daughter survives him.
JOHN STEPHENSON FRIERSON,
Son of Robert Luther and Jane Eliza (Stephenson) Frierson, was
horn Dec. 27, 1829, at Bigbyville, Maury Co., Tenn. He made
a public profession of his faith at the age of seventeen. His
preparatory studies were i)ursued at the Stephenson Academy
and he graduated from Centre College, Ky., in 1851. He entered
the Seminary at Princeton the same year, remaining there only
two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Maury, Sept.
3, 1853, and ordained by the same Presbytery, Sept. 30, 1854,
being at the same time installed pastor of church at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn., after having served this church as stated sup-
ply for a year. This church he served until his death, adding
to it the care of the Summertown and Ebenezer churches during
the last two years of his life. He died Jan. 1, 1896, at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn., of pneumonia, having just completed the 66th
year of his age.
Mr. Frierson was twice married (1) Jan. 11, 1855, at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn., to Miss Martha Matilda Jordan; (2) Feb. 8,
1870, also at Mount Pleasant, to Mrs. Martha (Granbury) Dun-
can, who survives him with one son and one daughter by his
first wife and one son and one daughter by his second.
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HENRY SMITH HUNTINGTON,
Son of Henry and Hanna (Thomas) Smith, was born June 30,
1828, at Camden, N. Y. His father dying when the son was a
few days old, he was adopted by his grandfather, Hon. George
Huntington, and his name changed from Henry Huntington
Smith to Henry Smith Huntington. He jiursued his early
studies at Rome, N. Y., Cheshire, Conn., and at Major Duff’s
^Military Academy, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. He
made a public profession of his faith at the age of twenty-one.
He graduated from Princeton College in 1850 and then spent one
year at the Theological Seminary at Andover, entering the Sem-
inar}”^ at Princeton in 1851 and remaining three years. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Oct. 5, 1893 and
ordained sine titulu by the Presbytery of Troy, Nov. 15, 1858.
He served the following churches as stated supply; Caldwell.
N. Y., Nov., 1857, to Sept., 1862 ; lone City, Cal., March, 1863,
to Nov., 1864; Watsonville, Cal., Aug., 1865, to March, 1867 ;
First Church, Wilmington, Del., March, 1868, to March, 1869 ;
the Reformed Dutch Church of Owasco, N. Y., Aug., 1869, to
Oct., 1870; Calvary Presbyterian Church, Auburn, N. Y., Oct.
1870, and as pastor of the same from Nov. 20, 1871, to April 15,
1874; the Caldwell, N. Y., church as pastor elect from 1876 to
1879. Transferring his connection to the Protestant Episcojial
Church he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Coxe, Sept. 28,
1881, and a priest by the same. Sept. 28, 1882, at Hammonds-
port, N. Y. He w'as rector of St. Mathias’ Church, East Aurora,
N. Y., 1881-83; of Trinity Church, Lancaster, N. Y., 1883-87 ;
of the Church of the Epiphany, Suspension Bridge, N. Y., 1887-
92. June 1, 1892, he became chaplain of the “Church Charit}'
Foundation,” an Episcopal Church Home in Buffalo, N. Y.,
which position he held until his death. He died Dec. 22, 1895,
at Buffalo, of pneumonia, in the 68th 3'’earof his age.
He was married, June 30, 1859, at Yonkers, N. Y., to Miss
Geneva Crosby, who with two sons and two daughters survives
him.
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ELIAS NETTLETON CRANE,
Son of Rev. Elias Winans and Hannah Margaretta (Johnson)
Crane, was born Jan. 4, 1827, at .Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. At the
age of twenty-one he united with the Presb3derian Church at
Jamaica. "His preparatory studies were pursued in the Cor-
nelius Institute, New York City, under the Rev. John J. Owen,
D.D., and he graduated from Princeton College in 1852. He
entered the Seminary at Princeton the same year, graduating in
1855 after taking the full three 3'ears’ course. He was licensed
by the Preslyvtery of New York April 18, 1855, and was stated
supply of the church at Southampton, L. I., from Nov. 4, 1855,
to March 30, 1856. He was ordained h_v the Presbytery of
Elizabethtown Aug. 19, 1856, and at the same time installed
pastor of the church at New Yernon, N. -T. This relation was
dissolved April 12, 1862. He served as chaplain of the 175th
Regiment of the New York State Volunteers for three months
in 1863, and was agent for the United States Christian Commis-
sion from Sept. 19, 1863, to July, 1865. From August, 1865 to
1881 he was chaplain for the American Seamen’s Friend Society.
In 1883 he was transferred to the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. If.,
and labored there until April 1, 1892, when he was obliged to
give up active work on account of a paralytic stroke suffered in
the preceding November. He subsequently resided in Elizabeth,
N. J., until his death, which occurred May 26, 1895, in Eliza-
beth, of })aral3’sis, in the 69th 3’ear of his age.
He was married April 21, 1864, in Plainfield, N. J., to Miss
Mary Elizabeth Pruden, who survives him.
CHARLES ROGERS MILLS, D.D.,
Son of Calvin and Sophia Roxana (Rogers) Mills, was born Aug.
21, 1829, at Guilford (Centre), N. Y., He united with the First
Congregational Church of Guilford at the age of fourteen. His
jireparatory studies were pursued under the Rev. Samuel M.
Gayley at Wilmington, Del., and he graduated from Lafaj'^ette
College in 1853. Entering the Seminary at Princeton the same
year he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in
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1S56. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, April
11, 1855, and ordained by the Presbytery of Buffalo City, June
25, 1856, having devoted his life to the cause of foreign missions-
He started for China the following year and labored as a mis-
sionary at Shanghai from 1857 to 1862, when he was transferred
to Tung Chow. In 1865 he was installed pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Tung Chow and continued in this charge
until his death. He supplied the church at Nying Gya from
1872 to 1877. He visited the United States in 1870 and again
1882-83 and 1892-93. His death occurred at Tung Chow, June
21, 1895, of heart failure, in the 66th year of his age. He received
the degree of D. D. from Lafayette College in 1882. Dr. Mills
translated Cruden’s Concordance into the Chinese language.
He was twice married : (1) Aug. 20, 1856, at Buffalo, N. Y.,
to Miss Rose Anna MacMaster, who died at Tung Chow, Feb. 3,
1874; (2) Nov. 26, 1884, at Chee Foo, China, to Miss Annetta
Eugenia Thompson, who survives him with three sons and one
daughter by his first wife and two sons and one daughter by his
second .
ALEXA.NDEE STEWART MARSHALL, D.D.,
Son of John A. and Elizabeth (Stewart) Marshall, was born
April 29, 1829, at Dayton, Pa. He united with the Presbyterian
church of Elder’s Ridge, Pa., at the agt' of twenty. His pre-
paratory education was had in the Elder’s Ridge Academy, and
he graduated from \Yashington College, Pa., in 1853. The first
year of his theological course was spent in the MTstern Theo-
logical Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He entered the Seminary
at Princeton in 1854, remaining less than a year on account of
straightened financial circumstances. He was licensed by the
Presbytery of Blairsville June, 1855, and then supi)lied the
church of Osaukee, Wis., from October, 1855, to April, 1856.
He was ordained by the Presbytery of Cedar April 11, 1857, and
at the same time installed pastor of the church at Marion, la.,
which he had served as supply since April 20, 1856. This
pastorate lasted until his death, a period of nearly forty years,
counting the year of his being its sup])ly. He died Feb. 3, 1896,
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at Marion, in the 67th year of his age. He received the degree
of D.D. from Lenox College, la. Dr. Marshall was the first
moderator of the Synod of Iowa after its consolidation. He
was the stated clerk of Cedar Presb^dery for several years
before the reunion, and of the Iowa Synod several years since
the reunion. He was a commissioner to the General Assemldy
at Peoria, 1863, and subsequently to Assemblies at Chicago and
Cincinnati.
He was married Dec. 3, 1855, at McKeesport, Pa., to Miss
Mary Robb Christy, who died Dec. 3, 1880. One son and three
daughters survive him.
ROBERT LEWIS McCUNE,
Son of Jacob Brewer and Catherine (Divelbiss) McCune, ivas
born Nov. 26, 1826, at Mercersburgh, Pa. He united with the
Presbyterian Church of IMercersburgh at the age of sixteen. He
was prepared for college by private tutors and graduated from
Marshall College, Mercersburgh, in 1848. He then engaged in
teaching for several years, as principal of the Berrysburg Clas-
sical Institute, Dauphin County, Pa., for two years, 1848-50, and
as principal of the Willow Green Seminary, Garrettstown, Va., two
years, from July, 1850, to Sept., 1852. At this time he 'vv'ent to
the M'estern Theological Seminary at Allegheny, graduating from
that institution after the full three years’ course in 1855. He
then went to Princeton, spending a year in the Theological Sem-
inary there as a graduate student. He had been licensed by the
Presbytery of Carlisle, June 13, 1855. During that year he sup-
plied the church at Bedford, Pa. He was ordained an evange-
list by the Presbyteiy of East Alabama, Oct. 21, 1856. From
April, 1856, to Oct., 1857, he engaged in home missionary work
in the bounds of the Presbytery of East Alabama ; was principal
of Hodge’s Classical School in Virginia from the spring to the
fall of 1858, and supplied the church at Lebanon, Va., during
that year from January to October. He subsequently supplied
the following churches: Front Royal, Va., from Nov., 1859, to
Nov., 1860 ; Montoursville, Pa., 1861 ; Carmi, III, April, 1862, to
April, 1865 ; Shade Gap and Ujiper Tuscarora, Pa., 1865-67 ;
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Bethel Church, Pa., 1867, being its pastor from Aug. 26, 1868, to
June 28, 1870; Heuvelton, N. Y., Sept., 1870, to Oct., 1872; Ham-
burg, la., Oct., 1872, to March, 1874; St. Thomas and Rocky
Spring, Pa., Oct., 1874, to April, 1875; Fayetteville, Pa., April,
1875, to Nov., 1877. After this time he engaged in evangelistic
work, residing at Brasher Iron Works, N. Y. At the outbreak
of the civil war he had been driven out of Virginia because of his
strong union views. He died April 3, 1895, at Fredonia, Pa., of
paralysis, in the 69th year of his age.
He was married April 4, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss
Elizabeth H. Wallace.
JAMES WILSON LAEIMORE,
Son of Joseph Clark and Mary Jane (Wilson) Larimore, was
born May 6, 1834, at Steubenville, 0. He made a public pro-
fession of his laith at the age of twenty-two. He pursued his
preparatory studies at Olivet, Mich., Hampden, O., and else-
where and was a student for a time in Hampden Sidney College
and in the University of the City of New York. He entered the
Seminary at Princeton in 1856 and remained for two years. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Albany, May 5, 1858, and
ordained by the Dutch Reformed Classis of Albany in July,
1860. At the same time he was installed pastor of the Third
Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, which relation continued
until June 27, 1861. He then served the Presbyterian Church
of Bladensburg, Md., for one year. From 1862 to 1863 he was
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Mt. Pleasant, la. ; from
1863 to 1865 was chaplain in the United States army; and from
the latter date until 1872 was stated supply of a church in
Chicago. After this he devoted himself to editorial and other
literary work until 1876, when he engaged in teaching, for two
years at the Cook County Normal School, being principal one
of these, and then as Professor of Natural Science in the N Divi-
sion High School of Chicago, where he remained until the end
of 1889. At this time ill health interrupted his work as a
teacher and he was never able to resume it. He engaged in the
chemical manufacturing business when his health was partially
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re-established and so continued until his death, which occurred
May 30, 1894, of heart failure, in Chicago, in the 61st j^ear of
his age. During a large jiart of his life in Chicago he preached
as occasion permitted.
He was married (1) June 23, 1859, at Hillsdale, N. Y., to
Miss Kate M. Hoysret, who died Oct. 18, 1856 ; (2) May 7, 1867,
at Chicago, 111., to Miss Hattie Lucinda Stevens, who survives him.
JOHN LOWHEY,
Son of John and Eliza (Elfrey) Lowrey, was born March 17,
1838, in Princeton, N. J. At the age of eighteen he united with
the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton. His preparatory
studies were pursued in the Edge Hill School at Princeton,
under Thomas and William Cattell, and he graduated from
Princeton College in 1856. He then spent a year in teaching in
Cranbury, N. J., entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1857,
graduating in 1861 after four years spent in this institution.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick April 18,
1860, and ordained by the Presbytery of North River July 10,
1861, being at the same time installed pastor of the church at
Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y. This relation was dissolved July 28,
1863, he having accepted a call to Sag Harbor, L. I., N. Y.,
where he was installed Nov. 12, 1863. He was released from
this charge May 21, 1867. His other pastorates were: the
Throoji Avenue Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1867, to April
21, 1873; Whitehall, N. Y., July 1, 1873, to Sept. 17, 1884;
Hackettstown, N. J., Nov. 19, 1884, until his death, which
occurred in Hackettstown May 22, 1895, of neuralgia of the
heart, in the 58th year of his age. It will be noticed that Mr.
Lowrey’s pastoral services were continuous from his ordination
until his death.
He was married Aug. 12, 1861, at Cranbury, N. J., to Miss
Lydia Clarke, ivho survives him.
JAMES BAIRD McCLURE,
Son of Daniel and Esther (Thompson) McClure, was born April
7, 1832, near Vincennes, Ind. He made a public profession of
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his faith at the age of nineteen. He S])ent two years in Wabash
College, and three years in Hanover College, graduating from
the latter in 1858. In the fall of the same year he entered the
Seminary at Princeton, remaining only one year. He then
went to McCormick Seminary, from which he graduated in
1861. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Vincennes June
27, 1860, and ordained by the Presbytery of Rock River in Sep-
tember, 1864. He was stated supply of the Presbyterian Church
at Fulton, 111., from 1861 to 1866, and of the Central Church,
Denver, Col., from 1866 to 1867. From 1867 to 1876 he was
associate editor of The Northwestern Presbyterian and field corres-
pondent and general agent for The Interior of Chicago. For
some years after 1876 he was stated supply of the River Park
Church, Chicago, and later supplied other churches in Chicago
more or less regularly. He died July 4, 1895, in Chicago, 111.,
of heart disease with other complications, in the 64th year of his
age. He published “Moody’s Anecdotes,” “Moody’s Child
Stories” and other wwitings. He was unmarried.
SAMUEL MILLER MOORE, D.D.,
Son of Joshua and Elizabeth A. H. (Ker) Moore, was born
Sept. 15, 1834, at Norristown, Pa. He made a public profes-
sion of his faith in the Pre8b3derian Church at Academia, Pa.,
at the age of sixteen. He studied at the Tuscarora Academy,.
Academia and at Port Royal, Pa., and graduated from Lafaj’ette
College in 1857. He then spent one year in Union Theological
Seminary, Va., entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1858 and
remaining but one term. He was licensed by the Second Pres-
byteiy of Philadelphia, April 19, 1859, and m'dained by the
Presbytery of Huntingdon, Dec. 6, 1859, and at the same time
installed pastor of the church at Pine Grove, Pa. This relation
continued until Oct. 4, 1863. During this time he was pastor
also of the church at Bald Eagle, Pa., from Jan. 17, 1860, to Nov,
25,1862. His other pastorates were : Alexandria, Pa., Nov. 17,
1863, to Oct. 4, 1870, and T3Tone, Pa., Dec. 6, 1870, to May 1,.
1887. He resided at Tyrone during the rest of his life and died
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there, Oct. 14, 1895, of Bright’s disease, in the 62nd year of his
age. He received the degree of D.D. from Williams and Mary
College, Va., in 1877.
Dr. Moore was married Nov. 2, 1859, at Lewistown, Pa., to
i\Iiss Sarah P. Johnston, who with one son and three daughters
survives him.
THOMAS LEWIS PRESTON, D.D.,
Son of John Thomas Lewis and Sarah Lyle (Caruthers) Preston,
was born June 2, 1835, in Lexington, Va. At the age of sixteen
he united with the Presbyterian Church of Lexington. He pre-
pared for college in his native city under Jacob Fuller, and
graduated from Washington College, Va., in 1854. He then
spent one year at the University of Virginia; one 3^ear as ad
interim professor of Latin and modern languages in Washington
College, Va., and three years in Union Theological Seminary,
\'a. He came to Princeton Seminary in 1859, remaining one
session as a resident graduate. The other half of the \'ear was
spent in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Lexington, Aug. 19, 1859, and
ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, April 19, 1861.
He supplied the church of Tygarts Valley, Va., in 1861 ; was
pastor of the church at Hebron, Va., from May 18, 1862, to July
21, 1868; stated supply at Salem, Va., 1868-69; pastor of the
First Church, Richmond, Va., from May 2, 1869, to 1883, and of
the church at Lexington, Va.. from 1883 until his death, which
occurred May 28, 1895, at Lexington, of Bright’s disease, within
four days of the completion of his 60th year. He received the
degree of D.D. from Washington College, Va., in 1872. Dr.
Preston served for a short time as chaplain to the 27th Virginia
Regiment of the Confederate arm}', but his health did not per-
mit his continuing in military service.
He was married May 22, 1861, at Waynesboro, Va., to Miss
Lucy Gordon W'addell, who with two sons and four daughters
survives him.
STEPHEN PRATT GATES,
Son of Bezaliel and Sarah Ann (Pratt) Gates, was born Jan. 10,
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1839, in Chester, Conn. He united with the Presbyterian Church
at Rome, Pa., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies
were pursued at Towanda, Pa., in the Susquehanna Collegiate
Institute and he graduated from Jefferson College in 1862. En-
tering the Seminary at Princeton the same year he took the full
three years’ course there, graduating in I860. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Susquehanna, Ma)^ 10, 1865, and ordained
by the same. Sept. 2, 1866, being at the same time installed
pastor of the church at Canton, Pa., which he had been serving
as stated supply from June 1, 1865. This relation was dissolved
April 16, 1889. From IMay 7, 1889, to July 2, 1890, he was pas-
tor of the churches of Beecher’s Island and Farmington, Pa. He
became stated supply of the church at Brandt, Pa., Dec. 19,
1890, and served this church until 1895, when he was honorably
retired from the active duties of the ministry. He died March
27, 1896, at Canton, Pa., of apoplexy, in the 58th year of his age.
He was twice married: (1) June 8, 1867, at Squaw Grove,
111., to Miss Emma Frances Fay, who died March 16, 1871; (2)
Nov. 14, 1872, at Speedsville, N. Y., to Miss Malilda Jane Free-
man, who survives him with one daughter bj^ his first wife and
two sons by his second.
JAMES HAEVEY MAEE,
Son of Rev. Phineas Barber and Mary (Graham) Marr, was born
April 3, 1842, in Lewisburg, Pa. At the age of nineteen he
united with the Presbyterian Church of Jersey Shore, Pa. He
studied in the Academy in Lewisburg and graduated from
Bucknell College (then the University of Lewisburg) in 1860.
Not satisfied with this he entered Princeton College the same
year and graduated also from that institution in 1862. After
the summer vacation he entered the Seminary at Princeton and
taking the full three years’ course graduated in 1865. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, April 4, 1864,
and ordained by the Presbytery of San Francisco, May 21, 1868.
He served the following churches as stated supply : in Balti-
more, Md., 1865; Clearfield and Harrisburg, Pa., 1865-66;
La Crescent, Hokah and Brownsville, Minn., 1866; Howard
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Street Church, Sail Francisco, Cal., 1867-69; East Orange, N. .J.,
1870-78. It was then suggested to him that he engage in mis-
sionary work in Philadelphia. In 1879 he selected the Chandler
Mission in Kensington, Philadelphia. Out of this grew by his
labors with the cooperation of the Rev. Frank Robbins, D. D.,
the present Beacon Church, which Mr. Marr served as stated
supply from 1881 to 1893. After this he engaged in evangelistic
work as he was able until his death, which occurred June 3,
1895, at Point Pleasant, N. J., of heart failure, in the 54th year
of his age.
He was married June 5, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss
Rebekah Graham, who with one son survives him.
WALTER WALKER RALSTON, L.L.,
Son of Samuel and Margaret (Buchanan) Ralston, was born
April 30, 1835, at Lowellville, 0. He united with the Presby-
terian Church at Sewickleyville, O., at the age of twenty. His
preparatory studies were pursued at the Sewickleyville Academy
under Joseph Travelli and he graduated from Jefferson College
in 1862. In the fall of the same year he entered the Seminary
at Princeton, taking the full three years’ course and graduating
in 1865. He was licensed by the Presb3dery of New Brunswick,
April 20, 1864, and ordained by the Presbytery of Baltimore,
June 13, 1865, and at the same time installed pastor of the church
at Churchville, Md. This relation was dissolved Sept. 26, 1866.
His subsequent pastorates were : Uniontown, Pa., April 23,
1867, to Oct. 1, 1872 ; Xenia, O., Dec. 10, 1872, to Sept. 29, 1875 ;
Bridgewater, Pa., pastor-elect from 1875, pastor, Dec. 28, 1879-
82; Denison, 0., 1882-88; Beulah, Pa., 1888 to Sept. 19, 1893;
of the Pitcairn and Wilmerding churches. Pa., with his residence
at Walurbia, from Feb. 27, 1894 until his death, which occurred
Dec. 29. 1895, within a few hours after he had preached his
morning sermon, at Walurbia, of apoplexy, in the 61st year of
his age. He received the degree of D.D. from Muskingum Col-
lege, Ohio, in 1884.
Dr. Ralston was married May 17, 1865, at Cannonsburgh,
Pa., to Miss Martha Hodgens, who with three sons and one
daughter survives him.
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EMANUEL NATHANIEL FIRES,
Son of Manoel and Antonia (Vieira) Pires, was born Oct. 19,
1838, on the Island of Madeira. lie was brought to America
when eleven years of age, his family having been driven from
Madeira by religious persecution. He united with the Portu-
guese Church of Jacksonville, lib, at the age of eighteen. His
preparatory studies were pursued at Jacksonville and he grad-
uated from Hanover College in 1863. Entering the Seminary
at Princeton the same year he took the full three years’ course
there, graduating in 1866. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of Sangamon, May 3, 1866, and ordained an evangelist by the
same. May 4, 1866, going at once as a missionary to Brazil. In
this work he continued until 1869. He was pastor of the Portu-
guese Church of -Jacksonville, III, from IMarch 2, 1870, until
Sept. 11, 1873; of the Central Portuguese Church of the same
place from September, 1873, to April 13, 1887 ; of the Second
Portuguese Church of Springfield, III, from -January, 1878, to
December, 1891, and of the Union Portuguese Church, Jackson-
ville, from Oct. 16, 1887, until his death, which occurred March
3, 1896, at Jacksonville, of pneumonia, in the 58th year of his
age. Mr. Pires engaged in teaching from October, 1871, to
April, 1872. In 1890 he went to Hawaii and established two
mission churches among the Portuguese there.
He was married Dec. 25, 1871, at -Jacksonville, III, to Miss
Arcania Day, who survives him with two sons and five
daughters.
EBEN HALLEY, D.D.,
Son of Ebenezer and Eliza (Moore) Halley, was born Jan. 9,
1845, at Salem, N. Y. At the age of fourteen he united with the
Third Presbyterian Church of Albany, N. Y. He pursued his
preparatory studies in the Albany Academy and graduated from
Williams College in 1864. Entering the Seminary at Princeton
the same year, he remained there one year and then engaged in
home missionary work in Richmond, Vt., for two years, 1865-67.
He then spent another year in Princeton Seminary. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Albany, June 10, 1868, and ordained
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by a Congregational Council in Cincinnati, O., Jan. 13, 1870,
being at the same time installed pastor of the Seventh Street
Congregational Church of Cincinnati, which he had been serving
as supply since Oct. 10, 1869. This relation was dissolved April
6, 1878. From May 12, 1878, to Oct. 22, 1886, he was pastor of
the First Congregational Church of Binghamton, N. Y. His
only other charge was that of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Troy, N. Y., over which he was installed Dec. 15, 1886. This
church he served until his death, which occurred June 8, 1895,
in Troy, of Addison’s disease, in the 51st year of his age. He
received the degree of D.D. from Williams College in 1886.
Dr. Halley was married May 14, 1878, at Cincinnati, 0., to
Miss Henrietta Chittenden Burt, who with two sons survives him.
EDWARD DENISON LEDYARD, D.D.,
Son of Edward Denison and Elizabeth (Wallace) Ledyard, was
born May 11, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. At the age of fourteen
he united with the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church of Phila-
delphia. As a boy he studied in the Philadelphia High School
from 1854 to 1858, then under Robert H. Laberton until 1860,
and later a year under Flenry D. Gregory. He graduated from
Princeton College in 1864 with high honor, being the valedicto-
rian of his class. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the
same year, taking the full three years’ course and graduating in
1867. During his seminary course he was tutor of mathematics
in the college— ■ from January 1865 to June 1867. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, Jan. 7, 1868,
and ordained by the Presbytery of North River, Aug. 29, 1867,
being at the same time installed j^astor of the Presbyterian
Church at Rondout, N. Y. This relation was dissolved Jan. 13,
1874, he having received a call to the Mt. Auburn Church, Cin-
cinnati, 0., over which he was installed April 20th of that year.
He continued pastor of this church until Sept. 11, 1883. He was
then pastor of the Second Church of Steubenville, O., from Nov.
1, 1883, to Feb. 25, 1895. His health began to fail him at this
time, yet he assumed charge of the Second Church of Danville,
Ky., being installed April 20, 1895, but his ministry there was brief.
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He died Aug. 29, 1895, in Danville, of heart disease and other
complications, in the 55th year of his age. He received the
degree of D.D. from Washington and Jefierson College in 1887.
Dr. Ledyard was the stated clerk of the Presbytery of Steuben-
ville for three years and was a trustee of Washington and Jeffer-
son College from 1888 until his death. He was buried in Free-
hold, N. J.
He was manned Nov. 14, 1867, at Freehold, N. J., to Miss
Alethea Bartleson, who with one son and one daughter sur-
vives him.
JAMES CHEYSTIE NIGHTINGALE,
Son of John and Ann Jane (Agnew) Nightingale, was born Sept.
22, 1836, in New York City. At the age of seventeen he united
with the First Reformed Church of New York City. He was
prejjared for college in the Geneva Hall, Northwood, O., and
graduated from the Universit}' of the City of New York in 1864.
After his graduation he studied medicine for one year and then
spent two years in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary at
Allegheny, Pa. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1864
as a senior, graduating in 1865. He was licensed by the Pres-
bytery of New York, April 20, 1865, and ordained an evangelist
by the same Presbytery, Oct. 23, 1866. He was stated supply
of the Canal Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, from
September 1865, to September 1867 ; of the church at Islip, L. I.,
N. Y., from February 1868 to February 1869. His pastorates
were: Smithville Flats, N. Ab, Dec. 13, 1869, to January 1874,
and Babylon, N. Ab, from Feb. 10, 1869, to Oct. 5, 1880. At this
time ill health interrupted his active work as a minister. He
resided in New A"ork City from 1880 to 1883 and in Stamford,
Conn., from 1883 to the year of his death, which occurred Aug.
17, 1895, at Newark, N. J., of a kidney trouble, within a month
of the completion of his 59th year. He was moderator of the
Synod of Long Island, 1879-80.
Mr. Nightingale was married Oct. 28, 1869, at Stamford,
Conn., to Miss Julia St. John, who died Feb. 6, 1894. Two
sons survive him.
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JOHN LUDLOW KENDALL,
Son of John Marsh and Nancy (Ludlow) Kendall, was born Dec.
19, 1844, at New Providence, N. J. At the age of fourteen he
united ivith the Psesbyterian Church of New Providence. He
pursued his preparatory studies in the Western Reserve Acad-
emy, and graduated from Western Reserve (now Adelbert) Col-
lege in 1868. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the same
year, remaining only one year. He was licensed by the Presby-
tery of Elizabeth, Oct. 6, 1869, and ordained an evangelist by
the Presbytery of Otsego, Oct. 20, 1869. He then served the
churches of Exeter and Fly Creek, N. Y., as stated supply, 1869-
71. In the latter jmar he began supplying the church at Arnot,
Pa., and was installed its pastor Dec. 31, 1872. This relation
was dissolved in April, 1874. He became stated supply of the
church at Armenia, N. Y., May 1, 1874, and was its pastor from
June 20, 1875, to July, 1878. After leaving Armenia he sup-
jdied the Westminster Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a year.
He was without a charge from 1880 to 1882, residing in New
Providence, N. J., and supplying churches in South New Jersey.
He was installed pastor of the church at Pleasant Mount, Pa.,
May 16, 1882, and of that at Uniondale, Pa., May 17, holding
this double pastorate until April 18, 1888. From 1888 to 1892
he supplied the churches of Trout River and Pennsdale, Pa., and
the church at Montoursville, Pa., from Jan. 1, 1892, until in-
stalled its pastor on July 7th of the same year. He was released
fi-om this charge Sept. 24, 1894. After this time he resided in
New Haven, Conn., until his death, which occurred July 8, 1895,
in New Haven, of typhoid fever and pneumonia, after an illness
of two months, in the 51st year of his age.
He was married Oct. 18, 1869, at Milton, N. Y., to Miss
Jennie Crippen Malcolm, who died , 1893. Three sons
survive him.
EGBERT JAMES LAIDLAW, LL.D.,
Son of James and Annie (Henderson) Laidlaw, was born Dec.
3, 1839, in Esquesing Township, Ontario, Canada. He attended
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the Ligny School from the age of six to seventeen. He engaged
in teaching for one year, 1858-59, at QuatraBras, and then spent
three months in Knox College, Canada, and attended the Uni-
versity of Toronto, 1859-60. He again interrupted his study to
engage in teaching, first at Quatre Bras, 1860-63, and then at
Waterloo, 1863-67. After this he engaged in business for one
year, 1867-68. He was at length in a pecuniary position to
pursue his studies for the ministry and entered the Seminary
at Princeton in 1868, graduating after the full three years’
course in 1871. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, Feb. 8, 1871, and ordained by the Presbytery of
Columbus, Sejit. 22, 1871, being at the same time installed
jiastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, O. This
relation was dissolved April 14, 1875, he having been called to
the pastorate of the Jefferson Avenue Church, Detroit, Mich.
He remained in this charge until 1878, when he accepted, a call
to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
over which he was installed March 12, 1878. This was his last
pastorate. In the discharge of its duties he died Oct. 24, 1895,
at “ Elm Grove,” near Georgetown, Ont., of consumption, having
almost completed his 57th year. He received the degree of LL.D.
from Galesville University, Wisconsin, in 1887. Dr. Laidlaw was
twice a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Pres-
byterian Church in the United States, the Northern branch. He
was a trustee of Queen’s University, Canada. He published
“ Our Religion as it was and as it is,” and “ The Trial of Dr.
Briggs before the General Assembly — A calm Review of the
Case.”
He was married Jan. 18, 1872, at “Elm Grove” near
Georgetown, Ontario, Can., to Miss Margaret McColl, who died
March 29, 1893. Three sons and one daughter survive him.
HUGH POUTER WILSON,
Son of Samuel and Mary (Porter) Wilson, was born Aug. 26,
1839, at Canfield, 0. He united with the Presbyterian Church
of Canfield at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the Mahoning Academy, Canfield, 0., and in Union
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Seminary, Poland, O. He entered the sophomore class of Wash-
ington and Jefferson College in 1868, hut the next year went to
Princeton College, from which he graduated in 1871. His educa-
tion had been interrupted by teaching. From the fall of 1857
he taught nine winter terms in succession with the excejition of
the winter of 1864-65. He was for two years in the Union
army during the war of the rebellion and received two wounds,
one of which resulted finally in his death. He was second
lieutenant of a company of the 102d regiment of Ohio infantry.
In 1871 he entered the Seminary at Princeton, remaining one
year, and then completing his theological course in the Western
Theological Seminary at Allegheny in 1874. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Mahoning, April 24, 1873, and ordained by
the same, April 29, 1874, and at the same time installed pastnr
of the church at Homeworth, 0., which he had been serving as
stated supply for a year previous. This relation was dissolved
April 21, 1876. He later served as stated supply : Mt. Ayr, la.,
April 21, 1876, to .June 26, 1878 ; Prairie View, Caledonia,
Reading and Goshen, la., and Mt. Ayr as pastor, from June 26,
1878, to April 19, 1883; Axtell and Baileyville, Kan., April
2U, 1883, to June 21, 1887; pastor at Clifton, Kan., June 21,
1887, to June 18, 1891, when he became pastor of the church at
Effingham, Kan. When the Oklahoma Territory was opened
he at once settled in it and organized the churches of Enid and
North Pond Creek, and served the church at Enid until May 15,
1894, at which time he took charge of the North Pond Creek
church and was serving it at the time of his death. This occur-
red Oct. 15, 1895, at Jefferson, O. T., of blood poisoning — the
result of the wound received at Dinwiddie Court House during
the war, March 31, 186-5 — in the 57th year of his age. He was in-
strumental in organizing a number of churches that afterwards
became quite flourishing. He was a commissioner to the General
Assembly at Pittsburgh in 1878 and to that at Saratoga in 1890.
He was married Sept. 10, 1873, in Poland, 0., to Miss Thalia
Gibson Hine, who with five sons and one daughter survives him.
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EDWARD DILLAHUNTY VISER,
Son of James Hervey and Almeda Frances (Black) Viser, was
born Aug. 26, 1858, at Oxford, Miss. At the age of seventeen he
united with the First Presbyterian Church of Clarksville, Tenn.
He studied in the preparatory department of the University of
Mississippi and graduated from the Southwestern Presbyterian
University in 1879. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the
same year, remaining two years there. At this time he sus-
]:)cnded his theological studies to engage in teaching in southern
Mississipjn. In a few years he resumed his theological course
in the theological dejiartment of the Southwestern Presbyterian
University. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Nashville,
.Tune 12, 1888, and ordained by the Presbytery of St. John’s,
May 11, 1889. He had previously supi)lied the dhurch at Zion,
Tenn., from June to December, 1888. At the time of his ordin-
ation he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Dunedin, Fla., holding this charge only until December of the
same year. From January, 1890, to January, 1891, he was
stated suj)ply of the Montpelier, Geneva and Laurel churches,
Ala.; was stated supply and pastor-elect of the Pine Ridge,
Greenwood and Carmel churches. Miss., 1891-93; stated sup-
ply at Pine Ridge and Greenwood and evangelist at Wash-
ington, Miss., 1893-94; stated supply of Waycross, St. Mary’s
and Waynesville, Ga., 1894-95. He had just begun to serve the
churches of Bethel, Rock Spring and Green Spring, Va., having
preached but once, when he was stricken down with the disease
of which he died, peritonitis, Dec. 27, 1895, at Osceola, Va., in
the 38th year of his age.
He was married Sept. 27, 1883, at Amite City, La., to Miss
Alice Walker Hardy (the last being her adopted name), who
with three sons survives him.
WILSON &AINES RICHARDSON *
Son of Thomas Gaines and Sarah (Perry) Richardson, w'as born
Dec. 9, 1825, in Maysville, Ky. He graduated from the Uni-
versity of Alabama in 1844. He was a teacher of ancient lan-
* This sketch should have appeared in the Necrological Report for 1887.
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guages in the University of Alabama from 1844 to 1849, about
four and a half years. He then went abroad for a period of
study and travel in Europe. On his return to this country he
became Professor of Modern Languages in the University of
Mississippi. About a year after he had taken up his work in
this institution he was brought to Christ during a revival. When
the war broke out he enlisted as a private and was wounded at
Mobile Bay and carried a prisoner to Shiji Island, where he
remained until the close of the war. Later he ivas a professor
in Central University, Ky., remaining there several years. He
had been a ruling elder for many years when at the age of fifty-
seven, in 1882, he entered the Seminary at Princeton. He
remained there two years as a special student. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 30, 1884, and
ordained by the Presbytery of Memphis, Sept. 5, 1884, being at
the same time installed pastor of the churches of Stanton and
Dacyville, Tenn., of the Southern Presbyterian Church. This
service was closed by his death, which occurred July 5, 1886, at
Stanton, of congestive chill, in the 71st year of his age.
He was twice married : (1) April 10, 1856, at Brandon, Miss.,
to Miss Louisa Kennon, who died Sept. 11, 1874; (2) in 1876,
at Harrisburg, Va., to Miss Ann McAfee, who died in November,
1887. Four sons and two daughters still survive him.
GEORGE EDMUND WOODHULL,
Son of the Rev. Dr. George Spafford and Elizabeth (Martin)
Woodhull, was born Oct. 17, 1860, at Point Pleasant, Va. He
made a public profession of his faith at the age of nineteen.
His preparatory studies were pursued at Oberlin, O. He spent
his freshman year in the University of the City of New York,
his sophomore year in Lake Forest University and his junior and
senior years in Princeton College, graduating from the last in
1884. In the fall of the same year he entered the Seminary at
Princeton, graduating after the full three years’ course in 1887.
He immediately engaged in home missionary work at West
Plains, Mo. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York,
May 14, 1888, and ordained by the same. Sept. 3Uth of the same
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year, having devoted himself to tlie work of foreign missions.
He at once sailed for Japan and arrived at Osaka in October.
Mis missionary career was destined to be brief, for he died at
Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 11, 1895, of typhoid fever, within six days of
the completion of his 35th year.
He was married June 7, 1888, at West Plains, Mo., to Miss
Lillie Johnson, Avho with one son and two daughters survives
him.
RICHARD MARCUS KENNEDY,
Son of James Poster and Hanna Catherine (McGaughey) Ken-
nedy, was born Aug. 26, 1864, at Greencastle, Tenn. He made
a public profession of his faith at the early age of ten years. He
was prepared for college at Cornersville, Tenn., and graduated
from the Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1885. He
then spent one year at Union Tlieological Seminary, Hampden
Sidney, Va. ; one year in preaching at Spring Hill, Tenn., and a
second year at Union Seminary. He entered the Seminary at
Princeton as a senior in 1888 and spent one year there. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Columbia, May 19, 1888, and
ordained by the same, Oct. 9, 1889, being at the same time in-
stalled pastor of the Zion Presbyterian Church in Maury Count}',
Tenn. This relation lasted until Nov. 21, 1892, he having re-
ceived a call to the church at Franklin, Tenn., over which he
was installed Dec. 25, 1892. In the autumn of 1895 his health
began to fail seriously, obliging him to give up his charge and
seek restoration at Fort Reed, Florida; but his hopes were dis-
appointed and he died at Fort Reed, March 11, 1896, of con-
sumption, in the 32nd year of his age.
He was married June 26, 1890, at Brick Church, Tenn., to
Miss Mamie Mildred Gordon, who survives him with one son
and one daughter.
GEORGE WHEELER CLARK,
Son of Waldo Josiah and Mary Thompson (Wheeler) Clark, was
born Jan. 17, 1868, at Rupert, Vt. He united with the Ninth
Presbyterian Church of Troy, N. Y., at the age of twelve. He
studied in the Troy High School and graduated from Williams
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College in 1890. In the fall of the same year he entered the
Seminary at Princeton and remained there nearly two years.
He was licensed and ordained hy the Presbytery of Pueblo,
April 26, 1892. At this date he began serving The Fountain
Presbyterian Church of Pueblo Colo., as its supply and was
installed its pastor November 11 of the same year. This relation
was dissolved July 19, 1894. He became pastor of the church
at Florence, Colo., Aug. 23, 1894, but was obliged to relinquish
his charge Oct. 12, 1895, on account of failing health. In Feb-
ruary of that year he had an attack of pneumonia, which later
developed into consumption. He died Jan. 7, 1896, in Ti’oy,
N. Y., of consumption, within ten days of the completion of
his 28th year. He was at one time called to the presidenc}^ of
the College of the Southwest, hut declined.
He was married Sept. 21, 1892, in Troy, N. Y., to Miss
Emma Jane Ward, who with one daughter survives him.
SANJURO ISHIMOTO,
Son ofGisahuro Yamaguchi and Tami Kiuchi, was born Nov. 3,
1862, at Omura, Hizen, Japan. He was early adopted hy the
Ishimoto family and gave up his own family name for that of
his adopted family. He was baptized on the confession of his
faith in Christ, Oct. 2, 1877, being not quite fifteen years of age,
in the Kaigan Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. James H. Bal-
lagh, of the Dutch Reformed Church. He became a student in
the American Presbyterian Mission Boys’ School, now the Meiji
Gakuin at Tokio, in 1875, graduating from that institution under
the latter name in 1882. He then engaged in teaching and at
the same time in the study of theology in the Meiji Gakuin,
remaining there about ten years. During the summer months
he engaged in evangelistic work, and was in frequent demand
as an interpreter for foreigners. He was a member of both the
Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the Meiji
Gakuin, resigning from these positions on his coming to America.
He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1893 as a graduate
student, having graduated from the theological department of
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the Meiji Gakuin. Early in the session of 1895-9(5 he was
stricken down Avith tyjAhoid fever and died in the Isabella
IMcCosh Infirmary, Princeton, Nov. 2, 1895, the day before the
completion of his 33d year. He was an elder in the Shinsakal
Church of the Church of Christ in Jai)an from 1884 until his death.
Mr. Ishimoto was married Jan. 21, 1887, at Tsukiji, Japan,
to Miss Sugu Akiyama, who survives him with two sons and
one daughter.
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INDEX.
Page.
Ballini'Ine, James, 363
Belknap, Robeiit Lenox, 351
Brank, Robert Garland, 371
Burroughs, George Washington, 369
Chambers, Talbot Wilson, 360
Clark, Gegrge Wheeler, .... 393
Crane, Elias Nettleton, 376
Crane, William Henry, . . 366
Frierson, John Stephenson, 374
Gates, Stephen Pratt, ■ 382
Gu.vimere, Barker, 349
Hali.ey, Eben, 385
Huntington, Henry S.mith, 375
Hutchings, Samuel, 355
Ishimoto, Sanjuro, . 394
Janeway, Thomas Leiper, 349
Kellogg, Samuel, 358
Kendall, John Ludlow, 388
Kennedy, Edward, 370
Kennedy, Richard Marcus, 393
Klink, Nathaniel Baker, 372
Laidlaw, Robert James, 388
Larimore, James Wilson, 379
Ledyard, Edward Denison, 386
Libbey, William, 350
Logan, Robert, 366
Lowrey, John, 380
McClure, James Baird, . ._ 380
McCune, Robert Lewis, 378
McMartin Peter Arthur, 364
Marr, James Hervey 383
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Marshall, Alexander Stewart, 377
Miller, John, 362
Mills, Charles Rogers, 376
Moore, Samuel Miller, 381
Morris, John Gottlieb, 354
Nightingale, James Chrystie, 387
Patterson, John Cunningham, 358
Pettigrew, Samuel, 365
Pierce, John Tappan, 357
PiRES, Emanuel Nathaniel, 385
Preston, Thomas Lewis, 382
Ralston, Walter Walker, 384
Richardson, Wilson Gaines, 391
Stuart, Samuel Davies, 359
Umstead, Justus Thomas, 368
VisER, Edmund Dillahunty, 391
Watts, Robert, 373
White, Nathan Grier, 356
Williams, Robert Gordon, 367
Wilson, Hugh Porter, 389
WooDHULL, George Edmund, 392
THE ALUMNI ALCOVE.
The a-ttention of the Alumni is called to the Alumni Alcove
in the Seminary Library. This Alcove was established some
years ago, and is intended to contain the publications of all
those who have been students in Princeton Seminary, and thus
be a visible and enduring monument of the large literary activity
and influence of the sons of Princeton, who have done so much
toward moulding and directing the Christian thought of this
and other lands. It is believed that the Alumni will at once
recognize the desirability of such a collection and the consequent
desirability of making it as complete as possible. To this end
they are earnestly requested to send to the Library their printed
works, whether books, pamphlets or sermons. The receipt of
these will be immediately and gratefully acknowledged, on
behalf of the Library, by
•J. H. DULLES,
Librarian.
The Necrology of Princeton Theological Seminary has been
printed annually for twenty-two years. That of 1875 contains
sketches of 26 deceased alumni; there are 31 in that of 1876;
36 in that of 1877 ; 44 in that of 1878 ; 44 in that of 1879 ; 31
in that of 1880; 54 in that of 1881 ; 47 in that of 1882 ; 36 in
that of 1883 ; 38 in that of 1884 ; 48 in that of 1885 ; 33 in that
of 1886 ; 31 in that of 1887 ; 36 in that of 1888 ; 43 in that of
1889 ; 55 in that of 1890 ; 36 in that of 1891 ; 54 in that of 1892 ;
53 in that of 1893 ; 42 in that of 1894; 54 in that of 1895, and
52 in the present issue, making in all 924 brief biographies of
ministers and other alumni and officers of the Seminary, some
of whom have filled prominent positions, while all have con-
tributed to the contemporaneous history of the Church.
The Necrology is regularly sent to many of the alumni whose
address is known. The aid of those who wish it to be perpetu-
ated is earnestly solicited in sustaining it. The cost to each
subscriber is 50 cents per annum ; $1 for two years ; $2 for three
years, together with a cop3^ of the General Catalogue of the
Seminary ; $3 for five years, together with Annual Catalogues of
the Seminary for the same period, and a General Catalogue.
Alumni who have not subscribed are respectfully requested to
aid in sustaining this periodical. If all the alumni who receive
it will become subscribers, its perpetuation will be secured.
Subscriptions should be sent to
W. BRENTON GREENE, Jr., Treasurer.
Princeton, N J., July, 1896.
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