VOL. III.
PART 7.
jj^SEE SECOND AND FOURTH PAGES OF COVER.
Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PaiNCElDll THEOLOCICiL SEMINARY
I
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 8th, 1906.
By the Secretary.
PRINCETON, N. J.
PRINCETON PRESS, UNIVERSITY PRINTERS.
1906
THE ALUMNI ALCOVE.
The attention of the Alumni is called to the Alumni Alcove
in the Seminary Library. This Alcove was established some
years ago, and is intended to contain the publications of all
those vvho have been students in Princeton Seminary, and thus
be a visible and enduring monument of the large literary activ-
ity and influence of the sons of Princeton, who have done so
much toward moulding and directing the Christian thought of
this and other lands. It is believed that the Alumni will at
once recognize the desirability of such a collection and the con-
sequent desirability of making it as complete as possible. To
this end they are earnestly requested to send to the Library
their printed works, whether books, pamphlets or sermons.
I'he receipt of these will be immediately and gratefully
acknowledged, on behalf of the Library, by
J. H. DULLES,
Librarian
Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Princetbh Theologiml Sehinurt
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 8th, 1906.
By the Secretary.
PRINCETON, N. J.
PRINCETON PRESS, UNIVERSITY PRINTERS.
1906.
NOTICE.
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The preparation of the Necrological Report has been committed by
the Association to the Secretary, who earnestly solicits the aid of all
the Alumni of the Seminary. When an alumnus dies, newspaper obitu-
ary notices, funeral or memorial sermons — and information in any
shape — will be gratefully received. Let these be sent, as soon as pos-
sible after the death of the person to whom they relate, to
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Princeton, N. J.
OF
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
FOR THE YEAR 1906-1907.
Rev. William L. McEwan, D.D., President.
Rev. Paul van Dyke, D.D., Vice-President.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, Secretary.
Rev. W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., Treasurer.
Additional Members
of the
Executive Committee.
392
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SUCCESSION OF OFFICERS.
393
1873- 74-
1874- 75-
1875- 76.
1876- 77.
1877- 78.
1878- 79.
1879- 80.
1880- 81.
1881- 82.
1882- 83.
1883- 84.
1884- 85.
1885- 86.
1886- 87.
1887- 88.
1888- 89.
1889- 90.
1890- 91.
1891- 92.
1892- 93.
1893- 94-
1894- 95.
1895- 96.
1896- 97.
1897- 98.
1898- 99.
1899- 1900.
1900- 01.
1901- 02.
1902- 03.
1903- 04.
1904- 05.
1905- 06.
1906- 07.
PRESIDENTS.
Rev. John C. Backus, D.D., of Baltimore.
“ Charles K. Imbrie, D.D., of Jersey City.
“ E. P. Rogers, D.D., of New York City.
“ George Musgrave, D.D., LL.D., of Philadelphia.
“ Samuel Irenaeus Prime, D.D., of New York City.
“ James R. Graham, D.D., of Winchester, Va.
“ Henry H. Welles, of Kingston, Pa.
“ Wm. M. Paxton, D.D., LL.D., of New York City.
“ William C. Cattell, D.D., LL.D., of Easton, Pa.
“ William P. Breed, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ Henry J. Van Dyke, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ Talbot W. Chambers, D.D., of New York City.
“ William Irvin, D.D., of Troy, N. Y.
“ Everard Kempshall, D.D., of Elizabeth, N. J.
“ Elijah R. Craven, D.D., LL.D., of Newark, N. J.
“ George Alexander, D.D., of New York City.
“ Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ Charles L. Thompson, D.D., of New York City.
“ Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ J. Addison Henry, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ George D. Baker, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ Howard Duffield, D.D., of New York City.
“ William Edward Schenck, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ John Fox, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ Wallace Radcliffe, D.D., of Washington, D. C.
“ Henry van Dyke, D.D., LL.D., of New York City.
“ J. Frederick Dripps, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ John R. Davies, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ George T. Purves, D.D., LL.D., of New York City.
“ *Samuel M. Studdiford, D.D., of Trenton, N. J.
“ Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ A. Woodruff Halsey, D.D., of New York City.
“ Edward B. Hodge, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ John DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ William L. McEwan, D.D., of Pittsburgh, Pa.
SECRETARIES.
1872-97. Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D., of Philadelphia.
1885-87. “ William H. Roberts, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
1887- “ Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.
TREASURERS.
1872-85. Rev. William H. Harris, of Princeton.
1885-93. “ William Henry Green, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
1893- “ W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., of Princeton.
•Succeeded to the presidency, owing to the death of Dr. Purves, and presided
in 1902.
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ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOOICAL SEMINARY.
Princeton, N. J., May 8, 1906.
The Alumni Association met for dinner in Stuart Hall at
1.45 p. m., with the President, the Rev. Professor John DeWitt,
D.D., LL.D., in the chair. A blessing was asked by the Rev.
S. M. Studdiford, D.D. At the close of the dinner, the xA.ssocia-
tion was called to order for a brief business session. On
motion the reading of the minutes of the last meeting was
omitted.
The report of the Executive Committee was read by the
Secretary and is as follows :
The Executive Committee would recommend the following
officers of the Association for the ensuing year :
President — The Rev. William McEwan, D.D., of Pitts-
burgh, Pa.
Vice-President — The Rev. Professor Paul van Dyke,
D.D., of Princeton, N. J.
Secretary — The Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.
Treasurer — The Rev. Professor W. Brenton Greene, Jr.,
D.D., of Princeton.
Additional members of the Executive Committee — The Rev.
Howard Duffield, D.D., of New York City, the Rev. Herman
C. Eox, D.D., of Freehold, N. J., and the Rev. Professor Wil-
liam P. Armstrong, of Princeton.
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The report was received and the officers and other members
of the Executive Committee nominated for the coming year
were elected.
On motion the reading of the abstract of the Necrological
Report and of the names of the alumni who had died during
the year ending March 31 was omitted and the Report ordered
printed and sent to the alumni.
The report of the Treasurer was presented by him, and
having been received, was referred to the Rev. Edward B.
Hodge, D.D., and the Rev. Professor Charles R. Erdman, as
a committee of audit, who having examined the accounts and
found them correct, the report was adopted. A collection was
taken to reimburse the Treasurer for money advanced by him
to the Association and for the printing of the Necrological
Report. This collection amounted to $82.68.
The Treasurer’s Report follows:
WiLLi.Mi Brenton Greene, Jr., in account with the Alumni Associa-
tion OF Princeton Theological Seminary.
1905. Dr.
Collection at Alumni Dinner, May 9, 1905, $ 61.00
Subscriptions since (58 in all) 89.00
$150.00
1905 Cr.
Sept. 30 — Postage for Report $ 30.00
Oct. 14 — Postage for Report 4.00
Jan. 12 — Printing Report 100.86
“ “ — Envelopes for Report 4.35
“ “ — Printing and pasting in Report Subscription Slips 8.75
“ “ — Enclosing the Report in envelopes i.oo
Advanced by the Treasurer last year and due him at last meeting.
May 9, 1905 45.14
Due the Treasurer May 8, 1906
$194.10
44.10
$150.00
William Brenton Greene, Jr.,
T reasurer.
May 8, 1906.
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At the conclusion of the business meeting after-dinner
speeches were made by President Patton ; by the Rev. William
W. Knox, D.D., of New Brunswick, representing the class of
’66 ; by the Rev. J. Ritchie Smith, D.D., of Harrisburg, Pa.,
representing the class of ’76; by the Rev. Charles Herr, D.D.,
of Jersey City, representing the class of ’81 ; by the Rev. James
C. Russell, D.D., of Oneonto, N. Y., representing the class of
of ’86, and by the Rev. Alfred H. Barr, of Detroit, represent-
ing the class of ’96. The Association was adjourned with the
benediction pronounced by the Rev. Wilson Phraner, D.D.
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secretary..
Necrological Report
PRESENTED MAY 8. 1905.
The Report for the year ending March 31, 1906, contains notices of
a Director of the Seminary, the Rev. Robert Russell Booth, D.D., LL.D.,
and thirty-four former students. Two of the latter should have been
included in former Reports, but the fact of their death did not reach the
Secretary in time. The total number in the Report is thirty-five.
Of the thirty-four former students reported the oldest had reached
the age of ninety-four years; another was but two months younger;
another had passed his ninety-first year; four others, their eightieth;
nine others their seventieth, and eight others their sixtieth. The young-
est died at the age of twenty-six years and one month, the lamented
young missionary, Peale. The average age of the thirty-four was sixty-
five years and seven months. The average age at which thirty-one of
those reported made a public confession of their faith was seventeen
years and nine months.
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secretary.
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NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
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The Report contains the following names:
DIRECTORS.
Robert Russell Booth, D.D., LL.D., Died Nov. 24, 1905.
Francis Blanchard Hodge, D.D., May 13, 1905.
ALUMNI.
Matriculated.
Died.
1836.
David Lyon,
March
2,
1906.
1840.
Alfred Arthur Graley,
April
7,
190;.
1841.
Thomas Elcock,
Oct.
18,
1905.
1844.
Thomas Hughes Dinsmore, D.D.,
Sept.
21,
1905.
1846.
Frederick La Rue ’King,
Oct.
18,
1905.
1848.
Henry Weed Biggs, D.D.,
March
8,
1906.
1851.
William Elliott Baker,
Jan.
4.
1906.
Andrew Hannah Barkley,
Dec.
9.
1905-
Charles Jewett Collins,
March
19,
1906.
1852.
Francis Marion Symmes,
Sept.
16,
1905.
1854.
Robert Fleming Wilson,
May
24.
1905-
1855.
Hugh Samuel Alexander,
Nov.
27.
1905-
Henry Willard,
June
24,
1904.
1858.
John Habersham Elliott, S.T.D., LL.D.,
Jan.
9,
1906.
Joseph Littleton Polk, Ph.D.,
May
29,
1905.
John Emory Wheeler, D.D.,
Nov.
22,
1905.
1859.
Francis Blanchard Hodge, D.D.,
May
13.
1905-
1862.
S. Stanhope Orris, Ph.D., L.H.D.,
Dec.
17,
1905-
1863.
Salmon Coles Paris, D.D.,
March
8,
1906.
1864.
Augustus Macdonald,
Jan.
27,
1906.
1866.
Adam Augustus Bookstaver,
April
24,
1905-
Timothy Grenville D.\rling, D.D.,
Feb.
3,
1906.
1869.
Thomas Johnson Sherrard,
July
10,
1905-
Albert Clark Titus,
May
I,
1905-
1870.
Isaac Baird,
Nov.
10,
1904.
1872.
Archibald Alexander Murphy,
May
19,
1905-
1874.
Thomas McKeen Boyd,
Jan.
25,
1906.
1880.
Hubert William Brown, D.D.,
Feb.
15.
1906.
1890.
William Deas Kerswill, D.D.,
Sept.
5,
1905-
1891.
William Littell Everitt,
April
5,
1905-
Henry Walter Moore,
Nov.
19,
1905-
1893-
Thomas Hogett Medd,
April
8,
1905-
1902.
John Rogers Peale,
Oct.
28,
1905.
1904.
Herbert Augustus Wilcox,
July
16,
1905-
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DIRECTORS.
ItOEEET EUSSELL BOOTH. B.B., LL.B.,
Son of William Agur and Alida (Russell) Booth, was born
May i6, 1830, in New York City. He made a public confes-
sion of his faith in the Rivington Street Presbyterian Church,
New York, at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Grammar School of New York University
and he graduated from Williams College in 1849. He studied
theology in Auburn Seminary, 1849-52, graduating in the lat-
ter year. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Cayuga, June
4, 1851, and ordained by the Presbytery of Troy, Nov. 30,
1853, being at the same time installed co-pastor of the First
Church of Troy, N. Y. He was released from this charge
Jan. 13, 1857. His other pastorates were; First Church,
Stamford, Conn., from March 4, 1857, to Feb. 18, 1861 ; Mer-
cer Street Church, New York, from March 6, 1861, to Oct.
30, 1870, when it was united with the University Place Church,
New York, of which he was the pastor from that time until
June II, 1883, and the Rutgers Riverside Church from Nov.
8, 1886, until Dec. 9, 1896, when his health required the giving
up of regular pastoral work. He was pastor emeritus of the
last church from 1896 until his death. The interval between
1883 and 1886 was spent in rest and travel on account of his
health. He died Nov. 24, 1905, in New York City, in the
76th year of his age. He was buried in the Woodlawn Ceme-
tery, New York. He received the honorary degree of D.D.
from New York University in 1864 and that of LL.D. from
Lafayette College in 1895. Dr. Booth was a Director of
Princeton Seminary from 1882 until his death. He was a
director of Union Seminary, New York, from 1861 to 1892;
trustee of Williams College from 1866 until his death; a mem-
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ber of the New School Committee of Foreign Missions from
1864 until 1870, and thereafter a member of the Board of
Foreign Missions of the united Church until his death. He
was moderator of the Synod of New York and Brooklyn in
1871 and Moderator of the General Assembly at Pittsburgh in
1895. He was also a trustee of the Christian College of China
in Canton, a member of the first revision committee, a member
of the Kai Alpha Society from 1847 until his death; a member
of the American Tract Siciety, of the Union League, Century
and Colonial Clubs. From 1863 to 1869 he was the chaplain
of the Twenty-Second regiment of National Guards of the
State of New York. He published “ The work of foreign
missions in relation to Christianity,” 1865 ; “ Christian union
and denominational loyalty,” 1896; “History of the Rutgers
Riverside Presbyterian Church,” 1898.
He was married Oct. 26, 1853, in Auburn, N. Y., to Emma
Louise Lathrop, who survives him. •
FRANCIS BLANCHARD HODGE, D.D..
Son of the Rev. Dr. Charles and Sarah (Bache) Hodge, was
born Oct. 24, 1838, in Princeton, N. J. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Prince-
ton at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the Edge Hill School of Princeton under the Rev.
T. W. and the Rev. W. C. Cattell, and he graduated from
Princeton College in 1859. Entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’
course there, graduating in 1862. He continued his theo-
logical studies in Princeton for a fourth year as a resident
graduate. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick, Feb. 4, 1863, and ordained by the Presbytery of New
Castle, May 9, 1863, being at the same time installed pastor of
the church at Oxford, Pa. He was released from this charge
Dec. 22, 1868, that he 'might accept a call to the First Presby-
terian Church of 'Wilkes Barre, Pa., over which he was installed
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Feb. 23, 1869. This was his only other charge, from which he
was released April 22, 1902, on account of ill health, after the
long period of more than thirty-three years. He was made
pastor emeritus. He continued his residence in Wilkes Barre
until his death, which occurred there. May 13, 1905, after
a long illness, in the 67th year of his age. He was buried in
Princeton. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from
Princeton College in 1883. Dr. Hodge was a Director of
Princeton Seminary from 1892 until his death, and a trustee
of Princeton University from 1887 until his death. During
the civil war he served for a short time under the Christian
Commission, while pastor in Oxford.
Dr. Hodge was married, June 2, 1863, in Princeton, N. J.,
to Mary Elizabeth Alexander, who died May 8, 1883. Two
sons and three daughters survive him.
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NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
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ALUMNI.
DAVID LYON.
Son of Stephen and Nancy (Hill) Lyon, was born April 27,
1812, at Basking Ridge, N. J. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Basking Ridge at
the age of sixteen. His preparatory education was received
in the academy at Basking Ridge, under the teaching of the
Rev. H. R. Perrine, Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. R. D. Van Vleek,
and J. P. Alward. He entered the sophomore class of Prince-
ton College, graduating therefrom in 1836. Entering the
Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the
full three years’ course, and graduated in 1839. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, April 18, 1839, and
ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Albany, Feb. 17,
1841. He was stated supply of the church at Knox, N. Y.,
from 1839 to 1840. In the latter year he became stated supply
of the church at Northampton, N. Y., continuing to serve it
as such until installed its pastor. Sept. 3, 1845. The pastoral
relation was dissolved Oct. 31, i860. Following this he was
pastor of the church at Mariaville, N. Y., from Dec. 19, i860,
to March 19, 1876. He then served the church at Northville,
N. Y., as pastor-elect from April, 1876, to April, 1879. At
this time he took up his residence at Sloansville, N. Y., and
continued to reside there until his death. He supplied the
churches at Esperance and West Milton, 1880-85, the
church at Esperance alone 1891-92. During the following
year he preached in the Baptist Church of Sloansville. Early
in 1905 he became seriously paralyzed, and he died March 12,
1906, at Sloansville, of cerebral hemorrhage, in the 94th year
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406
of his age. He was buried at iMariaville, N. Y. Mr. Lyon
was moderator of his Presbytery several times, and was a
commissioner to the General Assembly seven times.
He was twice married: (i) Jan. 19, 1841, at Knox, N. Y.,
to Sarah Ann Williams, who died July 28, 1875; (2) April
24, 1877, at Johnstown, N. Y., to Mrs. Sarah Ann (Dock-
stader) Mosher, who died July 12, 1899.
ALFRED ARTHUR GRALEY,
Son of John and Anne (Greenwood) Graley, was born Aug.
12, 1813, in London, England. He came to this country with
an elder brother at the age of nineteen. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Wamps-
ville, N. Y., at the age of twenty-five. He never enjoyed the
advantages of a college course, but studied before coming to
the Seminary under the direction of the Rev. W. A. Cooper,
of Wampsville. Before entering the Seminary he had been
employed as a shoemaker in Wampsville. He entered the
Seminary at Princeton in 1840, remaining two years. He was
licensed Sept. 4, 1844, by the Presbytery of Onondaga (now
Syracuse) and ordained by the same Presbytery, Dec. 25, 1844.
He at once took charge of the Congregational Church at Lenox,
N. Y., serving it as its pastor until June 12, 1856. After this
he was stated supply of the following Presbyterian Churches ;
Pompey, N. Y., 1857-63; Manlius, N. Y., 1863-69; Medina,
N. Y., 1869-70; Knowlesville, N. Y., 1870-72; and stated sup-
ply and missionary at Clarkson, N. Y., 1872-78. At this time
he was honorably retired from the active work of the ministry,
and resided at Clarkson until 1903, when he moved to Brock-
port, N. Y., where he died, April 7, 1905, of bronchitis, in the
92nd year of his age. He was buried at Manlius, N. Y. Mr.
Graley furnished material, both words and music, for several
Sabbath-school song books, among these being Happy Voices.
Echo to Happy Voices, and Happy Hours.
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NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
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He was married three times : ( i) June 21, 1843, Geneva,
N. Y., to Alley Maria Van Eps, who died Sept. 23, 1843; (2)
May 21, 1849, De Kalb, N. Y., to Margaret Ann Dies, who
died May 24, i860; (3) July 17, 1861, at Pompey, N. Y., to
Catherine Melita Jerome, who died March 10, 1891. Three
sons and one daughter by his second wife survive him.
THOMAS ELCOCK,
Son of Richard and Mary (Wagoner) Elcock, was born Oct.-
16, 1811, in York County, Pennsylvania. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Monaghan Presbyterian Church
at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued in the preparatory department of Lafayette College, from
which institution he graduated in 1841. Entering the Semi-
nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full
three years’ course there, graduating in 1844. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Newton, April 26, 1843, for a time
after his licensure he preached in the colored Presbyterian
church of Princeton. He was ordained Sept. 18, 1845, by the
Presbytery of Sidney and at the same time installed pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Covington, O. This relation was
dissolved June 8, 1852. He was stated supply of the churches
of Gettysburg and Mt. Jefferson, O., from April, 1845, fo
April, 1852; of the church of Delphos, O., during the follow-
ing year. He was pastor of the Van Wert and Delphos
churches from April 18, 1854, to June 12, 1861. After this he
was stated supply of the following churches : Decatur, Flat
Rock, and New Salem, O., 1861-66; Shanesville, O., 1866-70;
Shanesville, Harrison, and Centre, O., 1870-86. After this
he resided in Van Wert, O., doing evangelistic work as his
strength permitted until his death there, Oct. 18, 1905, two days
after the completion of his 94th year. His death occurred
instantly after his return from a small supper party with his
friends, when he sat down in his chair to rest, and instantly
his spirit departed. He was buried in Van Wert.
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405
Mr. Elcock was married April 7, 1846, in Piqua, O., to
Elizabeth Howard Moody, who died March 27, 1890. One
son and four daughters survive him.
THOMAS HUGHES DINSMOEE, D.D.,
Son of Moses and Irenaea (Braddock) Dinsmore, was born
Aug. 15, 1819, in Richhill Township, Greene Co., Pa. He made
a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of
Wolf Run, Pa., at the age of seventeen. His preparatory
studies were pursued at West Alexandria, Pa., under the Rev.
John McCluskey, D.D., and he graduated from Washington
(now Washington and Jefferson) College with the first honors
of his class in 1843. He spent a year in teaching in the Grove
Academy, Steubenville, O., and in the academy at West Alex-
ander Pa. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1844, he
took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1847. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 28.
1847, 3.nd supplied the churches at Washington and Walnut
Creek, la., during the following year. He was ordained an
evangelist July 3, 1850, by the Presbytery of Iowa (O. S.).
He was professor of mathematics and the natural sciences in
the Des Moines College, la., from May, 1849, to May, 1853.
During a part of this time he supplied the church at Lowell,
la., 1849-52. He was pastor of the church at Washington,
la., from Oct., 10, 1854, to October, 1858, and of the church
at Liberty, la., from 1855 to 1859, giving each one-half of his
time. Returning to the work of teaching, he became the prin-
cipal of the Van Rensselaer Academy at Pidgeon Creek, Mo.,
1859 to 1864. He then became stated supply of the church at
St. Francisville, Mo., 1864-68, being at the same time principal
of St. Francisville Academy. He supplied the church at
Athens, Mo., 1868-71, and was agent of the Highland Univer-
sity, Kan., from December, 1870, to June, 1872, being acting
president of that university from December, 1871, to Decem-
ber, 1872. He was professor of mathematics in the same in-
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stitiition, 1872-75. During the following year he engaged in
missionary work at Walthena, Doniphan, and Severance, Kan.
From May, 1878, to December, 1879, was president of Con-
cordia College, Kan., and for a second time served Highland
University as its financial agent, 1879-82. He was stated sup-
ply at Olathe, Kan., 1883-84, at Perry, Kan., 1884-88, and at
Auburn and Wakarusa, Kan., 1888-90, when the increasing
infirmities of age compelled him to give up active ministerial
work. He died Sept. 21, 1905, at Muskegon, Mich., of pneu-
monia, in the 87th year of his age. He was buried at High-
land, Kan. He received the honorary degree of D.D., from
Highland University in 1890.
Dr. Dinsmore was married Sept. 14, 1847, West Alex-
ander, Pa., to Elizabeth McConaughey, who died July 24, 1874.
Four sons and three daughters survive him.
FREDERICK LA RUE KING,
Son of Frederick and Abigail La Rue (Perrine) King, was
born Jan. 2, 1823, in Morristown, N. J. He made a public
confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of
Rahway, N. J., at the age of twenty-one. His preparatory
studies were pursued in Elizabeth, N. J., under the Rev. John
T. Halsey, and he graduated from Princeton College in 1844.
He then spent two years in teaching. He entered the Semi-
nar}" at Princeton in 1846, remaining two years. While a
student at the Seminary he was tutor in Latin and Rhetoric in
the college at Princeton, and continued in this work until 1855.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, Oct. 3,
1850, and ordained, Oct. 16, 1855, by the Classis of Bergen
of the Reformed church. He supplied the Reformed church
in Hudson City, N. J., from September, 1855, to September,
1857, and the Presbyterian church at Wyoming, Pa., from
May to December, 1858. His only pastorate was that of the
North Haverstraw Presbyterian Church, N. Y., from Nov. 2,
1859, to Oct. 9, 1866. During all of his life he was much
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hindered by ill health which prevented any long continued
settlement in any one field. He went abroad on account of his
health in 1875 and remained there until 1894. He returned to
this country in the latter year, taking up his residence in Xew
York City, where he died Oct. 18, 1905, of asthma, in the 83rd
year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of the First
Presbyterian Church of Morristown, X’. J. Mr. King was
unmarried.
HENRY WEED BIGGS, D.D.,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Jacob and Rebecca ( Xeff) Biggs,
was born March 15, 1828, at Frankford, Philadelphia. He
made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian
Church of Cincinnati, O.. at the age of nineteen. His prepara-
tory studies were pursued in the prei)aratory de])artment of
the Cincinnati College, from which institution he graduated in
1845. He then spent one year in graduate studies and the two
following years as clerk in a hardware store in Cincinnati. He
entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1848, taking the full
three years’ course, and grailuating in 1851. He was licensed
June 18. 1851, by the Preslwtery of Cincinnati, and ordained
an evangelist April 10. 1852. by the Presbytery of Crawfords-
ville. He engaged in mission work in Lebanon. Ind., from
September. 1851, to iMarch, 1853. at which time he became
stated supply of the Presbyterian church at Princeton, Ind.
He served this church in this capacity until June, 1855. He
was pastor of the church at IMorgantown, W. \’a.. from July
6, 1855, to Aug. 16, 1864. His only other pastoral charge was
over the First Church of Chillicothe, ( )., from Aug. 18, 1864,
to Sept. 14. 1892, a period of twenty-eight years. At this time
he was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry
on account of advancing years and was honorabl}' retired by
his Presbytery. He continued to reside in Chillicothe until
his death, which occurred March 8, 1906, at Chillicothe. of
kidne}' troubles, within one week of the completion of his 78th
year. He was buried in the Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe.
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He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wooster Uni-
versity in 1877. Dr. Briggs was a memljer of the Board of
Examiners of teachers for Ross County and Chillicothe for
over twenty years. He published several sermons and a mem-
orial of the Rev. J. R. Moore, and also of Noah S. Wilson,
and the history of the First Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe,
Ohio. During the course of his ministry he performed 1126
marriage ceremonies.
He was married Aug. 18, 1853, in Cincinnati, O.. to Cor-
nelia Spaulding Poinier, who died March ii, 1903. Thev had
no children.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT BAKEE,
Son of John Osgood and Frances Adeline (Fabian) Baker,
was born Feb. 20, 1830, in Liberty County, Ga. He made a
public confession of bis faith in the Presbyterian Church of
Wilkesbarre, Pa., at the age of sixteen. He pursued his pre-
paratory studies in that city under Mr. John Sterling, and
graduated from Princeton College in 1850. He then spent the
first year of his theological course in the Columbia Theological
Seminary. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1851 and
completed his theological course there, graduating in 1853.
was licensed June 23, 1852, by the Presbytery of Luzerne, and
ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey, May 18, 1853,
being at the same time installed pastor of the Second Presby-
terian Church of Bridgeton, N. J. He was released from this
charge Nov. 19, 1855. After this he was stated supply of the
church at Sacramento, Cal., from January, 1856, to April, 1857,
and of the church at Staunton, Va., from November, 1857,
until installed its pastor, April 23, 1859. He was released
from this charge Feb. 20, 1884, having served this church dur-
ing the long period of twenty-seven years. He supplied the
church at Roswell, Ga., from January, 1890,' until his death,
which occurred Jan. 5, 1906, at Roswell, of heart failure, in
the 76th year of his age. He was buried at Roswell.
Mr. Baker was married July 7, 1856, in Roswell, Ga., to
Catherine Evelyn King, who with three sons and four daugh-
ters survives him.
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ANDREW HANNAH BARKLEY,
Son of Daniel and Margaret (Hannah) Barkley, was born
July 25, 1829, in Jonesboro, Tenn. He made a public confes-
sion of his faith in the Presbyterian church of his native place
at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued in the Martin Academy in Jonesboro under Messrs. Her-
rick, Dwinell and Jones, and he graduated from Washington
College, Tennessee, in 1851. After spending three months in
teaching he entered the Seminary at Princeton, taking the full
three years' course there and graduating in 1854. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1854,
and during the next two years engaged in missionary work in
Tennesee, supplying for a time the church at Holsten. He was
ordained by the Presbytery of Knoxville, Sept. 13, 1856. and
at the same time installed pastor of the church at Madisonville,
Tenn., which he had been serving for a year and from which
he was released April 13, 1861. He was installed pastor of
the Bethel and Mount Zion ( afterwards Crawfordsville)
churches. Miss., (.)ct. 20, 1861, and released from these charges
April II, 1873, and was made evangelist for the Presbytery of
Tombeckbee. He engaged in evangelistic work for about a
year. After this he supplied the following churches in Miss-
issippi: Crawford. 1877-87; Macon, 1880-85; Knox, 1881-82;
Enterprise, 1882-83; West Point. 1885-87; Hamilton in i8go;
Unity, 1890-93; Lauderdale, 1892-96; De Kalb, 1892-95; iVIer-
idian Second, 1893-95 1 Houston and Buena \hsta, 1896-1901 ;
Friendship and Oak Grove, 1898-99. His residence had been
at a place seven miles from Crawford since 1861, when he first
served the Crawfordville church, and he continued to reside
there until his death, which occurred Dec. 9. 1905, of uratic
poisoning in the 77th year of his age. He was buried in the
Hairston Cemetery, near Crawford.
Mr. Barkley was married March 26, 1873, near Crawford,
Miss., to Sallie Alice Hairston, who with one son survives him.
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, CHARLES JEWETT COLLINS,
Son of Oristus and Nancy (Jewett) Collins, was born June 25,
1825, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. He made a public confession of
his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes Barre at
the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in
Lancaster, Pa., under the Rev. Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D.,
and he graduated from Williams College in 1845. He then
engaged in teaching in the Episcopal High School of Fairfax,
Va., 1847-48, and in Williams College. 1848-50. He spent a
few weeks of the year 1850-51 in Cnion Seminary. New York.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1851 he remained there
three years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Luzerne.
June 21, 1853. After leaving the seminary he was for a time
principal of the Eemale Institute of Wilkes Barre. He was
ordained by the Presbytery of Northumberland, Dec. 31, 1856.
being at the same time installed pastor of the Grove Church of
Danville, Pa. He was released from this, his only pastoral
charge, April 19, 1865. During the rest of his active life he
was engaged in teaching. He was superintendent of the pub-
lic schools of Wilkes Barre from 1866 to 1874: princijial of the
Princeton College Preparatory School at Princeton, N. J.,
from 1874 to 1880: and principal of the Bradford Mansion
School at Rye, N. Y.. from 1880 to 1884. .\fter this he re-
sided in New York until his death, which occurred IMarch 19,
1906, in New York, from a gradual breaking down due to
“ length of days," in the 8ist year of his age. He was buried
in Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Mr. Collins was twice married: (i) June 15, 1859, in
Washington Heights, N. Y., to Annie Rankin, who died May
12. 1884; (2) Dec. 12, 1890, in Chicago, 111., to Ida Van
Emberg Martin, who with three daughters by his first wife
survives him.
FRANCIS MARION SIMMES,
Son of Daniel Tuthill and Lucinda (Gaston) Symmes, was
born Nov. 18, 1827, near Hamilton, O. He made a public con-
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fession of his faith in the Rossville (now Hamilton) Presbyte-
rian churchy O., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory
studies were pursued in the Farmers' College near Cincinnati,
O., under Free.nan G. Cary, and he graduated from Hanover
College, Ind., in 1852. He entered the Seminary at Princeton
in the fall of the same year, remaining all but two months of
the full three years' of the course. He was licensed by the
Presbytery of Oxford (O. S.) April ii, 1854, and ordained by
the Presbytery of Madison (O. S.) Nov. 14, 1856. In 1855
he became stated supply of the churches of Jefferson and Pleas-
ant, Ind., serving the former in this capacity until 1861. At
the time of his ordination he was installed pastor of the church
at Pleasant, and continued in this relation until July 31, 1861.
He was then pastor of the church at \'ernon, Ind., from Aug.
II. 1861, to IMay I, 1864. He was stated supply of the church
at Brazil. Ind., from October, 1864, to March, 1865 ; of the
church at Bedford, Ind., from IMarch, 1865, to April, 1867 : and
of the churches at Lebanon and Hopewell, Ind., from Novem-
ber, 1887, to October, 1872. After this he engaged in home
mission work, making his headquarters at Crawfordsville, Ind.,
and supplying a number of the neighboring churches. He thus
served the church at Alamo, 1872-75 ; the church at Romney,
1872-77; the churches at Dayton and Kirklin, 1875-77;
churches at Paoli and Orleans. 1877-83 ; the church at Bedford.
1880-81. Early in the year 1883 he moved to the state of
Kansas and was stated supply at Pittsburgh from April, 1883,
to October, 1885 ; at Florence from November. 1885, to April.
1887; and of the church at Derby from April, 1887. until in-
etalled its pastor April 11, 1889. He was released from this
charge April 12. 1894, when the increasing infirmities of age
obliged him to relinquish regular pastoral work. He died
Sept. 16, 1905, at Pittsburgh, Kan., of kidney trouble, in the
78th year of his age. He was buried at Pittsburgh.
Mr. Symmes was twice married; (i) March 15. 1856, in
Crawfordsville, Ind., to Alary J. Dunn; (2) April 5, 1877, at
Bedford. Ind., to Alartha S. Sears, who, with two sons and one
daughter by his first wife, survives him.
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ROBERT FLEMING WILSON,
Son of George and Nancy (Taylor) Wilson, was born April
22, 1825, at West Kishacoquillas, Pa. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of his native
town, at the age of twenty-four, while he was a student in col-
lege. His preparatory studies were pursued in the preparatory
department of Jefferson College, and he graduated from that
institution (now Washington and Jefferson) in 1850. He then
engaged in teaching in the Classical and Commercial High
School at Lawrenceville, N. J., for two years. The first two
years of his theological course were spent in the Western
Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He entered the
Seminary at Princeton in 1854 as a senior, graduat-
ing in 1855. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Huntingdon, June 14, 1854. He supplied the New Bloom-
field and Ickesburg churches. Pa., from May to August,
1855, and was called to the pastorate of these churches, but
declined. He then supplied the church at Marion, la., from
December, 1855, to April, 1856, receiving a call to this pas-
torate which he also declined. He was ordained by the Pres-
bytery of Redstone, Nov. 20, 1856, being at the same time in-
stalled pastor of the First Church of McKeesport, Pa. He
was released from this charge May 14, 1867. From October,
of the latter year until April, 1868, he supplied the .church at
Logan’s Valley, Pa. He then served the church of Bedford,
Pa., as pastor-elect from March, 1868, until April, 1877, and
further, giving it a part of his time, until April, 1878 During
this period- he also served the Everett (Bloody Run) Church
from May, 1874, to December, 1877. He was stated supply of
the church at Port Royal, Pa., from April, 1878, until installed
its pastor May 27, 1879, and continued in this relation until
Oct. 5, 1886. After this he took up his residence in Lewis-
town. Pa. He died i\Iay 24, 1905, near Reedsville, Pa., of
heart disease, in the 81 st year of his age. His body was found
lying across the railroad track near the place at. which he had
alighted from a train by mistake. There were no signs of
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injury upon the bo'dy and it was evident that death had re-
sulted from heart disease, to which he was subject. He was
buried in the Presbyterian cemetery at Mifflintown, Pa. Mr.
Wilson was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Huntingdon for
thirteen years, his service being terminated by his death. He
was also for several years permanent clerk of the Synod of
Harrisburg. He edited the Historical Memorial of the Cen-
tennial Anniversary of the Presbytery of Huntingdon, 1795-
1895 ; Philadelphia, 1896.
He was married Sept. 24, 1856, at Canonsburg, Pa., to
Elizabeth Carothers McCullough, who with three daughters
survives him.
HUGH SAMUEL ALEXANDER,
Son of Samuel Edmiston and Mary (Alexander) Alexander,
was born Jan. 27, 1828, in Little Valley, near Lewistown, Pa.
In early life he made a public confession of his faith in the
Presbyterian church of Little Valley. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Miller Academy, Washington, O., and at
the Tuscarora Academy, Academia, Pa. He graduated from
Lafayette College in 1855. In the fall of the same year he
entered the Seminary at Princeton, but withdrew almost im-
mediately, on account of a throat trouble, and engaged in
teaching. He entered the junior class of Princeton Seminary
again in 1858, taking the full three years’ course and gradu-
ating in 1861. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia, April 5. i860; but was never ordained. He supplied
the churches of Aurora and Bensalem, Pa., in 1861, and the
church at Newark, O., in 1862. In this same year he entered
the service of the U. S. Christian Commission, for which he
labored for a time during the civil war. Erom 1864 to 1874
he was principal of the Columbia Classical Institute, Pa. After
this he resided in infirm health near Culpeper Court House,
Va., where he had purchased the Wheatdale farm, moving
later to Eastern View. In 1885 he established the Eastern
View Academy, of which he was the principal until 1900. The
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exposure to which he was subject during*the war aggravated
the throat trouble, from which he had earlier suffered and pre-
vented his preaching regularly. He was run over and instantly
killed by a railroad train at Culpeper, Nov. 27, 1905, in the
77th year of his age. He was buried in the Fairview Ceme-
tery. Culpeper.
Air. Alexander was married, April 22, 1857, in Washing-
ton. (_)., to Nancy McCurdy, who survives him.
HENRY WILLARD,
Son of John Dwight and Laura (Barnes) Willard, was born
Sept. II, 1830. at Troy, N. Y. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Troy at the
age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in
Troy and Delhi. N. Y.. and at South Williamstown, Mass., and
he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851. He then
studied medicine for one year and after this engaged in teach-
ing for one year, being the principal of the Orange County
Grammar School of Randolph, AT. The first and second years
of his theological course were spent in the .Andover Theologi-
cal Seminary. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1855 as
a senior he spent one year there, graduating from that institu-
tion in 1856, and then returning to .Andover for a further year
of graduate study. He was licensed by the New York and
Brooklyn Congregational .Association in Alay, 1856, and
ordained by the Cleveland Congregational .Association at Pitts-
field, O., Oct. 20, 1858. From September, 1859. to September,
1869, he was stated supply of the Presbyterian church at
Alonroeville, O. During the next four years he supplied the
Congregational church at Zumbrota, Alinn., and then for seven-
teen years served the Congregational church at Plainview,
Alinn., as its pastor. From June to December of 1880 he
labored as general missionary for the American Home Mis-
sionary Society in North Dakota. He supplied the Congre-
gational church at Alantorville, 111., from December, 1881, to
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October, 1884. aiVl the Congregational church of Crystal
Lake, 111., for a year thereafter. After this he resided in Chi-
cago, 111., until his death, which occurred there, June 24, 1904,
of arterial sclerosis, in the 74th year of his age. He was buried
in the Oakwood Cemetery of Troy, N. Y.
Mr. Willard was twice married : ( i ) Dec. 6, 1858, in Mount
\"ernon. O., to Jeannie Wells, who died Feh. 18, 1902; (2)
April 15. 1903, in Prospect, Conn., to Marion Josephine Phipps
who with three sons and three daughters by his first wife sur-
vives him.
JOHN HABERSHAM ELLIOTT, S.T.L., LL.D.,
Son of the Rev. Stephen and Anna Hutson ( Habersham)
Elliott, was horn July 31, 1832. in Beaufort, S. C. He made
a public confession of his faith in the St. Helena Protestant
Episcopal church of Beaufort at the age of twenty-five. His
preparatory studies were pursued in his native place under
John Eielding and he graduated from South Carolina College
in 1851. He engaged in the study of law during a part of the
}ear 1852-53 in the University of \’irginia and then for two
years in a private office. After this he spent a year or more
in rest and travel on account of the state of his health. He
was admitted to the Bar of South Carolina ; but did not engage
in the practice of law. Having at this time become a professed
follower of Christ he determined to devote his life to the min-
istry and spent the year 1857-58 in the Theological Seminary
of the Episcopal Church near Alexandria, \"a. Entering the
Seminary at Princeton in 1858 he spent one year there and
then one year in the South Carolina Seminary at Camden.
S. C. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Jan. 27, 1861, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Davis, and
a presbyter by the same, Eeb. 14, 1863. He supplied the
Christ Church of Wiltown, S. C., 1861-62. and then was rector
of Grace Church, Anderson, S. C., 1863-65, after which he had
an interval of ill health. He was subsequently rector of the
following churches: St. Paul's, Englewood, X. J.. 1867-68;
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St. John’s, Cincinnati, O., 1868-73, of Church of the
Ascension, Washington, D. C.. from 1873 ontil 1902, when he
suffered a stroke of paralysis, which caused him to give up the
active duties of the ministry. He was rector emeritus of the
last church from this time until his death, which occurred Jan.
9, 1906, in Washington, as the result of the paralytic stroke of
three years previous, in the 74th year of his age. He was
buried in Beaufort, S. C. He received the honorary degree
of S.T.D. from Columbia University, New York, in 1871, and
later the degree of LL.D. from another institution. Dr.
Elliott was president of the Standing Committee of the dio-
cese of Ohio for some time ; was a deputy commissioner to the
General Conventions of 1871, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889 and 1892.
He became a member of the Standing Committee of the dio-
cese of Maryland in 1878 and was made its president in 1891.
He published a number of works of recognized merit, among
them being; “Canonical forms and requisites for persons
seeking holy orders,” 1872 ; “ Success of foreign missions,”
an address, 1873 ; “ Powers and responsibilities of standing
committees,” 1882; “The plenary inspiration of the Holy
Scriptures,” a pamphlet, 1885, and “ Shall the name be
changed, or, the name Protestant Episcopal not accidental,”
1887.
He was twice married: (i) June 12, i860, in Beaufort,
S. C., to Mary Barnwell Fuller, who died May 23, 1863; (2)
March 12, 1868, at Beaufort, to Rosa Stuart, who survives
him.
JOSEPH LITTLETON POLK, PH.D.,
Son of Joseph Gillis and Imogen St. Dorval (Gilman) Polk,
was born Aug. 12, 1837, in Washington, D. C. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Charteris Church, Can-
onsburg. Pa., which was connected with Jefferson College, at
the age of seventeen, while a college student. He pursued
his preparatory studies in the Washington Academy, Princess
Anne, Md., and graduated from Jefferson (now Washington
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and Jefferson) College in 1856. He then engaged in teaching
for two years ; one year as principal of the academy at East
New Market, Md., and the other as assistant in the Washing-
ton Academy at Princess Anne. He also studied theology
during the latter j-ear with the Rev. A. C. Heaton of Princess
Anne. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1858, re-
maining there two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of Lewes, May 16, i860, and ordained by the same Presby-
tery, Xov. 28, i860, being at the same time installed pastor of
the church at Pitts Creek, i\Id. He was released from this
charge Aug. i, 1877. During ten years of this time he sup-
plied also the Rehoboth church, and was principal of the New-
ton, Md., High School, 1866-70, and again, 1874-76. He was
principal of the academy at Newark, Del., 1877-84, and during
this time supplied the church at Glasgow, Del., one year, that
at Delaware City, Del., one winter, and the Red Clay Creek
church four years. He was then pastor of the church at
Faggs Manor, Pa., from Oct. 21, 1885, to Oct. 9, 1904, and of
the Doe Run church. Pa., from Nov. 16, 1904. until his death,
which occurred at Mortonville, Pa., May 29, 1905, suddenly,
of heart disease, in the 68th year of his age. He was buried
at Doe Run, Pa. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Dela-
ware College in 1880.
Dr. Polk was married Aug. 8, 1861, in Canonsburg, Pa.,
to Mary Wilson, who with four sons and six daughters sur-
vives him. Two of his sons are graduates of Princeton Semi-
nary : the Rev. Samuel W. Polk, of the class of ’90, and the
Rev. Thomas McK. Polk, of the class of 1902.
JOHN EMOHY WHEELER, D.D.,
Son of Thomas and Hester Belle (Bryan) Wheeler, was born
April 15, 1840, in Alexandria, Va. He made a public confes-
sion of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Alexandria in
•early life. His preparatory studies were pursued at William
and Mary, Va., and he graduated from Randolph-Macon Col-
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lege in 1856. He then spent two years in teaching and in the
study of law in the Yale Law School. He entered the Semi-
nary at Princeton in 1858, where he remained a year. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Potomac, Oct. 23, i860. He
was a chaplain during the civil war in Stephen D. Lee’s bri-
gade from 1862 until the surrender of Vicksburg in July,
1863. He was ordained an evangelist, Oct. 21, 1865, by the
Presbytery of East Mississippi. From May 20, 1866, to Xov.
7. 1868, he was pastor of the church at Rodney, Miss. Dur-
ing the next four years he engaged in teaching in \'dckburgs.
Miss. He was then stated supply of the church at Indepen-
dence, Mo., 1875-86; pastor of the Westminster Church,
Sacramento, Cal., from Nov. 14, 1886, to Aug. 22, 1890;
acting professor of practical theology in the San Francisco
Theological Seminary, then at San Rafael, Cal., 1891-92;
stated supply of the church at Merced, Cal., 1892-95 ; stated
supply of the Mt. Paran, Granite and Randallstown churches.
Md., from 1897 until installed pastor of the first of these .\pril
14, 1898, and of the other two, June 23rd of the same year..
He was serving these churches when death overtook him, Nov.
22, 1905, near Harrisonville, Md., of acute heart disease, in
the 66th year of his age. He was buried in the Druid Ridge
Cemetery. Baltimore. Md. He received the honorary degree
of D.D. from Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. Dr. Wdieeler
was at one time moderator of the Synod of Missouri.
He was married, Dec. 18, 1862, in Vicksburg, Miss., to
Mary Emanuel, who with one son and three daughters sur-
vives him.
FRANCIS BLANCHARD HOD&E, D.D.,
(See page 400.)
S. STANHOPE ORRIS, PH.D.. L.H.D.,
Son of Adam and Catherine (Shull) Orris, was born Feb. 19,
1832, near Ickesburg, Pa. He made a public confession of
his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Lower Tuscarora, Pa.,
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at tlie age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued ill the Tuscarora Academy at Academia, Pa., and he
graduated with honors from Princeton College in 1862.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in
1865. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon,
June 20, 1865. For a year after his licensure he was tutor of
Latin in Princeton College. He was ordained by the Presby-
tery of Huntingdon, I\lay 30, i86(), being at the same time
installed pastor of the Spruce Creek Church, Pa. This rela-
tion was dissolved June 8. i86p. He spent the following year
in study in Germany. Returning to this country he assumed
charge of a mission chapel connected with the Collegiate Re-
formed Church of New York City, which he served for one
year. He was professor of the Greek Language and Litera-
ture in Marietta College. C).. from 1873 *^0 1877, when he was
called as an associate professor to a similar chair at Princeton.
In the following year he was made full professor. Later this
chair was named the Ewing Professorship of Greek Language
and Literature, and its occupant was also called Instructor in
Greek Philosophy. This chair he occu])ied until 1902, when
the state of his health compelled him reluctantly to resign.
He was made professor emeritus. While travelling in China
in 1903. he was stricken with paralysis in the city of Hong
Kong. L’pon his recovery from this stroke he returned to
America and took up his residence at Harrisburg, Pa. There
he suffered from a second stroke of paralysis in 1904. He
died Dec. 17. 1905. in Harrisburg, of paralysis, in the 74th
year of his age. He was buried at Newport, Perry Co.. Pa.
He received the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton in 1875, and
that of L.H.D. from Lafayette College in 1889. Dr. Orris
was Director of the American Classical School at Athens dur-
ing the academic year 1889-90. He was a life-long student
of Plato and left a manuscript on the Platonic and Aristotel-
ian Philosophy and its Ijearing on Christianity and the Christ-
ian Religion, which it is expected will be published. He was
unmarried.
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SALMON COLES PARIS, D.D.,
Son of John and Ann (Morrison) Paris, was born Dec. i6,
1831, in Triadelphia, W. Ya.. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Bellefontaine, O.,
at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued in the preparatory department of Washington College.
He spent the freshman and sophomore years in that institu-
tion and his junior year in Wittenberg College. Springfield,
0. ; but he did not complete his college course. He entered
the Seminary at Princeton in 1863. taking the full three years’
course there and graduating in 1866. He was licensed by
the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Feb. 7, 1866, and ordained
an evangelist by the Presbytery of West Virginia, July 17,
1866. From May, 1866, until January, 1868, he was stated
supply of the Buckhannon and French Creek churches, W.
Va. Soon after this he was appointed superintendent of city
ihissions in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in this position he was the
means of starting several churches, among these the South
Side Church, Hazlewood, Pa. During this time he was the
editor of the “ Pittsburgh Pulpit,” a Presbyterian paper for
ministers. From May, 1874, until May, 1876, he was general
agent for the Pennsylvania Bible Society. During the next
two years he served the church at Apple Creek, O., as pastor
elect, and then the church at Holmesville, O., as stated supply,
1878-79. He was pastor at Perrysville, O., 1880-82; prin-
cipal of the academy and pastor at Frankfort, Pa., from June
1, 1882, to Dec. 10, 1884; president of the Richmond College,
(J., 1886-88, and pastor of the Richmond and Pleasant Hill
churches from May 7, 1886 to April 23 and April 21, 1890,.
respectively; stated supply at Cameron, W. \'a., 1890-91;
secretary of the American Sunday School Union in Tennessee,
1891-92. His health breaking down in 1893 he went to Stark,
Fla., taking charge of the church there under the Board of
Home Missions until 1897. After this^he engaged in similar
work in Chandler, Fla. He was obliged to retire from the
active work of the ministry in 1903, continuing his residence
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in Chandler until the summer of 1905, when he removed to
Wilkinsburg, Pa. He died at Wilkinsburg, March 8, 1906.
of acute bronchitis, in the 75th year of his age. He was
buried in the Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Richmond College
in 1889. He was made honorary fellow of the Society of
Social Science, Literature and Arts of London in 1888, and a
member of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science in 1891.
Dr. Paris was married, Xov. 20, 1862, in Washington, Pa.,
to Amanda Fitz Allen Hayes, who with two sons and one
daughter survives him.
AUGUSTUS MACDONALD,
Son of the Rev. Dr. James Madison and Lucy Esther (Hyde)
Macdonald, was born Dec. 24, 1841, in Jamaica, N. Y. He
made a public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian
Church of Princeton, N. J., at the age of twenty, his father
being pastor of the church at the time. His preparatory
studies were pursued in Princeton under Air. J. S. Schenck,
and he graduated from Princeton College in 1862. He then
engaged in teaching. Entering the Seminary at Princeton
in 1864 he took the full three years’ course there, graduating
in 1867. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick, April 18. 1867. He preached as a supply in various
churches, but allowed his license to expire, April 23, 1877, and
gave himself to business. He lived all his life in Princeton,
and was active and at times prominent in its political affairs.
He was mayor of the borough from 1891 to 1893, and served
it as collector of taxes and in other positions. During the
political campaign of 1880 he edited “ The Other Side,” a
Democratic paper. He died Jan. 27, 1906, in Princeton, after
a brief illness, of arterial schlerosis with complications, in the
65th year of his age. He was buried in the Princeton Ceme-
tery.
Mr. Macdonald was married Oct. ii, 1883, near Prince-
ton, to Mary Evans, who with one son and one daughter sur-
vives him.
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ADAM AUGUSTUS BODESTAVER,
Son of Alanson and Mary Eleanor (Barclay) Bookstaver,
was born Nov. 29, 1842, at Crawford, N. Y. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Second Reformed Church
of New Brunswick, N. J., at the age of twenty-one, while a
student in college. His preparatory studies were pursued in
the IMontgomery Academy, Orange Co., N. Y., and he gradu-
ated from Rutgers College in 1866. He entered the Semi-
nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, remaining two
years. While a student in Princeton Seminary he employed
his first long vacation in the summer of 1867 as an agent of
the American Tract Society, in Martinsburg, \'a., and the
vacation of the summer of 1868 as supply of the Congrega-
tional church at Ducksburg, \'t. He took the third year of
his theological course in the Seminary of the Reformed Church
at New Brunswick, N. J., graduating therefrom in 1869. He
was licensed by the Classis of New Brunswick of the Re-
formed Church, ^lay 21, 1869, and after his licensure he sup-
plied the Presbyterian church at Islip, L. I., from October,
1869, to June, 1870. He was ordained by the Classis of
Schenectad}- of the Reformed Church, in September, 1870.
and at the same time installed pastor of the Second Reformed
Church of Glenville. N. Y., which he served for two years.
Ill health necessitated his giving up his work in this church.
He labored in the organization of the Central Avenue Church,
Jersey City Heights, N. J., in 1872. He was never again
able to resume the active duties of the ministry. He resided
at Searsville. N. Y.. 1872-84; at Willard, N. Y., 1884-1900;
and in the Hillside Home, Clark Summit, Pa., from 1900
until his death, which occurred there April 24, 1905, of kidney
trouble, in the 63rd year of his age. He was buried at Mont-
gomery, N. Y.
Mr. Bookstaver was married Dec. 28, 1870, in Milltown,
N. Y.. to Harriett Mott Fisher, who survives him.
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TIMOTHY GRENVILLE DARLING, D D.,
Son of Timothy and Lucy (Sargent) Darling, was born Oct.
5, 1842, in Nassau, N. P., Bahamas. His father was a Brit-
ish subject. He made a public confession of his faith in the
South Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the age of
fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Willis-
ton Seminary of Easthampton, L. I., N. Y., under Principal
Clark.’ and he graduated from Williams College in 1864. The
state of his health required him to spend the next two years
largely in seeking its restoration. He entered the Seminary
at ^Princeton in 1866. remaining there two years. He took
the senior year of his theological course in Union Seminary,
New York, from which he graduated in 1869. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Brooklyn (N. S.) in 1868, and was
assistant to the pastor of the First Church of Baltimore, Md.,
from December, 1870, to June, 1873. was ordained by
the Presbytery of Albany, June 18, 1873, being at the same
time installed pastor of the First Church of Schenectady, N.
Y. He was released from this his only pastorate, Dec. 15,
1887. that he might accept a call to the chair of Sacred Rhet-
oric and Pastoral Theology in the Auburn Theological Semi-
nary. In 1890 he received a call to the chair of Theology in
McCormick Seminary, which he was inclined to accept, as by
taste and aptitude he was strongly drawn to the teaching of
systematic theology ; but at this time this chair in Auburn
becoming vacant by the death of Professor Welch, he received
and accepted a call to fill it. It was while in the full discharge
of its duties that he was stricken with a sudden and violent
attack of appendicitis, and died after a fruitless operation, in
Auburn, Feb. 3, 1906, in the 64th year of his age. He was
buried in Auburn. He received the honorary degree of D.D.
from Williams College in 1879. He was unmarried.
THOMAS JOHNSON SHERRARD,
Son of Robert Andrew and Jane (Hindman) Sherrard, was
born Feb. 25, 1845, Sugar Hill Farm, near Steubenville, O.
He made a public confession of his faith in the First Presby-
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terian Church of Steubenville, at the age of seventeen. His
preparatory studies were pursued in the Dunlap’s Creek Acad-
emy, Merrittstown, Pa., of which the Rev. D. H. Sloan was
principal, and he graduated from Washington and Jeffer-
son College in 1868. He spent the following year in the
Northwestern Theological Seminary (now McCormick) at
Chicago, entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1869 as a
middler. He took the two remaining years of his course
there, graduating in 1871. He was licensed by the Presby-
tery of Steubenville, April 27, 1870, and ordained by the
Presbytery of Huntingdon, June ii, 1872, being at the same
time installed pastor of the Mifflintown and Lost Creek
churches. Pa., which he had been supplying since January of
the same year. He was released from the Lost Creek Church,
April 13, 1875, upon the separation of these churches into two
pastoral charges. He continued to serve the Mifflintown
church as its pastor until his release therefrom April 14, 1880.
After this he was pastor of the following churches : Brookville,
Pa., from Nov. ii, 1880, to March 6, 1883; Honey Brook, Pa.,
from April 21, 1883, to July 15, 1889; and the Central Church
of Chambersburg, Pa., from June 10, 1890, to Oct. i, 1902.
He continued to reside at Chambersburg until his death, which
occurred there, July 10, 1905, of heart disease, in the 6ist
year of his age. He was buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Chambersburg. Mr. Sherrard was a trustee of the Wilson
Female College of Chambersburg. He was a commissioner
to the General Assembly at Pittsburg, in 1878, at New York,
in 1889, and at Los Angeles, in 1903. He edited “ The Sher-
rard Family of Steubenville,” Philadelphia, 1890.
He was married Dec. 21, 1871, at Clarion, Pa., to Mary
Rachel Campbell, who with two sons and two daughters sur-
vives him.
ALBERT CLARK TITUS,
Son of Benjamin Westly and Elizabeth (Titus) Titus, was
born Oct. 9, 1847, in Trenton, N. J. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Tren-
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ton at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued in the Model School of his native city and under the
private tuition of C. S. Converse, and he graduated from
Princeton College in 1869. Entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the fall of the same year he took the full three years’
course there, graduating in 1872. He was licensed by the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 10, 1872, and ordained
by the Presbytery of Carlisle, July 9, 1872, being at the same
time installed pastor 6f the church at Newport, Pa., which he
had been serving as pastor-elect since May 26 of the same
year. He was released from this charge April 9, 1875. He
then engaged in teaching for a few months, after this serving
the Presbyterian Church of Andover, N. Y., as stated supply,
1876-81. At this time the death of his father made it incum-
bent upon him to return to Trenton, to take care of the busi-
ness interests of his father’s family. He connected himself
with the Fourth Presbyterian Church of that city and was for
a time the superintendent of its Sunday School. Later he
connected himself with the Prospect Street Church, where he
conducted a class for boys and young men in its Sunday
School. He died in Trenton, IMay i, 1905, of dilatation of
the heart, in the 58th year of his age. He was buried in the
cemetery of the Ewing Presbyterian Church near Trenton.
Mr. Titus was twice married: (i) Oct. 23, 1872, in Tren-
ton, N. J., to Mary Johnson Whitehead, who died Feb. 15,
1895 ; (2) Oct. 14, 1896, in Norristown, Pa., to Rebecca Foster
Johnson, who with two sons by his first wife survives him.
ISAAC BAIRD,
Son of James Dixon and Agnes (Miller) Baird, was born
Aug. 22, 1841, in Onslow, Nova Scotia, Canada. He made
a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at
Onslow at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the Model and Normal schools of Truro, Nova
Scotia. He attended the Presbyterian Seminary at Truro
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and Dalhousie College, Halifax, but did not take his de-
gree. He then spent a year in editing and publishing two
newspapers, “ The Mirror ” and “ The Bulwark ” at Truro.
The next five years were spent in teaching at intervals in
Nova Scotia. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1870.
remaining there one year, and taking the other two years of
his theological course in Union Seminary, New York, from
which he graduated in 1873. He was licensed by the Pres-
bytery of Westchester, April 16, 1872, and ordained an evange-
list by the same Presbytery, March 3, 1873. He engaged in
missionary work under the Rev. Dr. Phraner of Sing Sing,
N. Y., during his vacations while a student of theology. Im-
mediately after his ordination he went as a missionary under
the Foreign Board to the Chippewa Indians, making his resi-
dence at Odanah, Wis. He was thus employed from 1873 to
1884. He was stated supply of the church at Crystal Falls,
Mich., from April, 1884, until April, 1885. In May of the
latter year he began supplying the church at Ripon, Wis., and
was installed its pastor November ist. He was released from
this charge Oct. 30, 1886. He was then pastor of the Pres-
byterian church at New Mills, Canada, from July i, 1887, to
June 30, 1891. The rest of his life was spent in California,
as stated supply of the church at Templeton from 1891 to
1899; of the church at Cayucos from 1899 to 1902, and during
a part of this time of the church at Moro also ; as pastor of
the church at Walnut Creek and stated supply of the church
at Concord from Dec. 18, 1902, until his death, which occurred
Nov. 10, 1904, at Walnut Creek, Cal., of acute dysentery, in
the 64th year of his age. He was buried at Walnut Creek.
Mr. Baird was married Aug. 5, 1873, in Knowlton, Que-
bec, Canada, to Mary Louise Tarbell, who survives him.
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER MURPHY,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas and Anne (Salter) Murphy, was
born Oct. 30, 1851, at Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. He made
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a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of
Frankford, of which his father was the pastor, at the age of
fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued under the
direction of Dr. H. D. Gregory in Philadelphia, and he gradu-
ated from Princeton College in 1872. He entered the Semi-
nary at Princeton in the fall of the same year and remained
two and a half years, when ill health interrupted his course.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia North,
Sept. 29, 1874. After leaving the Seminary early in 1875 he
spent several years in reading and study and in helping his
father in the Frankford Church. In the fall of 1878 he took
charge of Grace Chapel, Jenkintown, Pa., an offshoot of the
old Abington Church, and continued his labors there until the
summer of 1880. Upon his ordination, June 13, 1881, by the
Presbytery of Philadelphia North, he was installed pastor of
the Leverington Church, Philadelphia, and was released from
this charge June i. 1882. He was pastor of the First Church
of Port Carbon. Pa., from June 21, 1882, to Jan. 5, 1886.
After this he went to the Northwest, supplying the First Con-
gregational Church of Huron, So. Dak., from February, 1886,
until May, 1887. Returning east he was pastor of the Spring
Garden Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, from Jan. 24, 1888,
to June 30, 1890, and of the First Church of Springfield, O.,
from Oct. 12, 1891, to June 18, 1894. He spent the next year
in rest and travel, and his last pastorate was that of the Second
Church of New Brunswick, N. J., from May 8, 1895, until
June 28, 1904, when the state of his health made it necessary to
give up, for a time he hoped, the active duties of the ministry.
But in this hope he was disappointed. He died, May 19, 1905,
in New Brunswick, of heart disease, in the 54th year of his
age. He was buried in the old family burial ground at Blaw-
enburg, N. J., beside the other members of his father’s family.
He was at one time moderator of the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, and when in Springfield, O., had been a member of
its Board of Trade, being the first clerical member of that
Board in its history. He was unmarried.
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THOMAS McKEEN BOYD,
Son of William Henry and Mary Kennedy (Logan) Boyd,
was born June ii, 1846, in Stewartsville, N. J. He made a
public confession of his faith in the First Mansfield (now
Washington) Presbyterian Church, N. J., at the age of six-
teen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the school at
Hightstown, N. J., under the Rev. J. E. Alexander and he
graduated from Princeton College in 1874. Entering the
Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the
full three years’ course there, graduating in 1877. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 23, 1877,
and ordained an evangelist three days later by the same Pres-
bytery, as he had decided to engage in home missionary work
in the far West. He served the church at Waitsburg, Wash.,
from 1877 to 1880, when he became stated supply of the church
at Lewisburg, Ida. He was installed pastor of this church
April 20, 1884, and released from it March 15, 1888. After
this he was pastor of the church of Pendleton, Ore., from April
7, 1888, to Dec. 9, 1890. During the next two years he sup-
plied Calvary Church, Seattle, Wash. He was pastor of the
church of Watsonville, Cal., from Nov. 6, 1892, to Aug. 14,
1894; stated supply at Bloomfield, Valley Eord and Bodega,
Cal., 1896-97; stated supply at Point Arena, Cal., 1898-99; at
Oxnard, Cal., 1899-1902, and of the Olivet Church, San Eran-
cisco, 1902-03. His last work was at Oceanside (Carville),
one of the suburbs of San Erancisco. He also had a Sunday
School class and conducted singing in the Howard Church,
San Erancisco. In June, 1904, he suffered a stroke of par-
alysis. He died Jan. 25, 1906, in San Francisco, of cerebral
degeneration, in the 60th year of his age. He was buried in
the Cypress Lawn Cemetery, near San Francisco. Mr. Boyd
founded the Presbyterial Academy at Pendleton, Ore. He
was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Idaho and of the Pres-
bytery of East Oregon. He was at one time moderator of
the Synod of Columbia, and was a commissioner to the Gen-
eral Assembly.
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He was married, Oct. 4, 1882, in Tacoma, Wash,, to Mary
Estelle McCarty, who with two sons and two daughters sur-
vives him.
HUBERT WILLIAM BROWN, D.D.,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Frederick Thomas and Charlotte Ann
(White) Brown, was born Feb. 10, 1858, in Cleveland O. He
made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian
church at Ann Arbor, Mich., at the age of nineteen. His
preparatory studies were pursued in the High School of St.
Paul, Minn., Major B. F. Wright, principal, and he graduated
from the University of Michigan in 1879. During the fol-
lowing year he was principal of the High School at Ypsilanti,
Mich. He entered the .Seminary at Princeton in 1880, taking
the full three years’ course there and graduating in 1883, and
then took a fourth year of graduate study. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1883,
ordained si)ie titulo by the Presbytery of Monmouth, April 9,
1884, having dedicated himself to the cause of foreign mis-
sions. He supplied the church at Point Pleasant, N. J., fruin
May, 1883, to July, 1884, having preached for that people
also during the summer of 1882. He reached Mexico City,
Aug. 6, 1884, and engaged in his missionary labors there from
that time until his death. In 1892 he was appointed treasurer
of the mission there, and to these duties he added those of a
professor in the College and Theological Seminary at Coyoa-
can, as well as editorial work as head of the Presbyterian Press
in Mexico City. He preached every Sunday either in Spanish
or English, beside making long missionary tours through the
country. He was pastor of the Union Evangelical Church of
Mexico City from some time in 1903 until May ii, 1905,, when
increasing ill health made it necessary for him to relinquish
his work and he went to Clifton Springs, N. Y., with the hope
of finding restoration there ; but in this he was disappointed.
He died at Clifton Springs, Feb. 15, 1906, five days after the
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completion of his 48th year. He was buried at Manasquan,
N. J. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wash-
ington and Jefferson College in 1902. Dr. Brown occupied
the chair of Theology, Church History and Philosophy in the
Presbyterian College in Mexico, with which he was closely
identified during his entire missionary career, and which was
located in various places during that period. In 1888 he be-
came editor of El Faro, a religious paper, and continued to
edit it many years. He translated into Spanish Fisher’s His-
tory of the Reformation, Philadelphia, 1893. For a score of
years he was a correspondent of the New York Observer. In
1900 while on a vacation he delivered the mission lectures on
the students’ foundation in Princeton Seminary, repeating
them at Auburn. These lectures were afterward published
as a book named “ Fatin America,” New York, 1901.
He was married, Oct. 20, 1886, in Chicago, 111., to Mary
Wulmar Jacobs, who with three sons survives him.
WILLIAM LEAS KEESWILL, L.D.,
Son of Giles and Margaret (McNair) Kerswill, was born
May 10, 1863, in Adelaide, Ont., Canada. He made a public
confession of his faith in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,
Adelaide, at the age of twenty-one. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Collegiate Institute of Strathroy, Ont.,
whose headmaster was F. E. Embrie, and he graduated from
Toronto University in 1890. Entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years’
course there, graduating in 1893. He was licensed, June 6,
1893, by the Presbytery of Toronto, Can., and ordained an
evangelist by the Presbytery of Chester, April 24, 1894. Dur-
ing his Seminary course he made a special study of the Ori-
ental languages, particularly of Hebrew, Syriac, and i\rme-
nian, and in the summer of 1893 he was invited to visit
Lincoln University with a view to the acceptance of the chair
of Hebrew and History in that institution, to which he was
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elected by the unanimous action of its Board of Trustees.
Impressed with the importance of the work to be done by
Lincoln University for the Negro race, he accepted this call
and entered upon the discharge of his duties in the fall of the
same year. Later his work was limited by the action of the
Trustees, to instruction in the Theological Seminary, and the
teaching of history was assigned to another chair. He con-
tinued in this work until his death, which occurred on Sept. 6,
1905, at Oakville, Ont., Canada, of valvular heart disease, in
the 43rd year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery at Ox-
ford, Pa. He received the honorary degree of D.D., in 1902,
from the Presbyterian College of Montreal. While a college
student he had employed his vacations in mission work in the
destitute regions near Moskoka, Ont., Canada, and his Semi-
nary vacations in preaching at Allandale, Ont., and as supply
for the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of London, Ont.
Dr. Kerswill was appointed an examiner in the Department of
Oriental Languages in Toronto University in 1893. He was
medalist in Mental and Moral Philosophy and Logic, in that
university upon graduating. He published Old Testament
Doctrine of Salvation, Philadelphia, 1904 ; and left a manu-
script of a work on the Philosophy of History, which it is ex-
pected will be published.
He was married June 19, 1895, at New London, Pa., to
Harriett Duffield Strawbridge, who with two sons survives
him.
WILLIAM LITTELL EVERITT.
Son of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Smith and Helen Caroline (Bate-
man) Everitt, was born Nov. 8, 1869, at Montclair, N. J. He
made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian
Church of Jamesburg, N. J., of which his father was pastor, at
the age of . fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued
in the academy at Jamesburg, and later at the Peddie Insti-
tute at Hightstown, N. J., and he graduated from Princeton
College in 1891. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the
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fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there,
graduating in 1894. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Monmouth, April 12, 1893, and ordained by the same Pres-
bytery, May 15, 1894. He was pastor of the churches of
Meshoppen and Mehoopany, Pa., from Oct. 26, 1894, to April
20, 1897. His only other pastoral charge was over the Light
Street Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Md., from May 18.
1897, until his death, which occurred April 5, 1905, in Balti-
more, of peritonitis, after an operation that at first seemed
successful, in the 36th year of his age. He had preached in
his church only three days before his death. He was buried
at Jamesburg ,N. J.
Mr. Everitt was married. May 27, 1895, in Jamesburg, X.
J., to Margaret Cecelia Pownall, who died Sept. 12, 1905. One
son survives him.
HENRY WALTER MOORE,
Son of George Washington and Esther M. (Hayes) Moore,
was born Sept. 19, 1865, in Colora, Cecil Co., Md. He
made a public confession of his faith in the Second United
Presbyterian Church of New Washington, Pa., at the age of
fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued at New
Washington and in the Preparatory Department of Westmin-
ster College, Pulton, Mo., from which institution he gradu-
ated in 1885. He spent the next six years in teaching lan-
guages and literature in the Norfolk, Va., mission college for
colored youth, and in the private study of theology. Entering
the Seminary at Princeton in 1891, he remained Jthere two
years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Allegheny of
the United Presbyterian Church, May 10, 1892, and ordained
by the Presbytery of Caledonia of the same denomination, June
14, 1893, being at the same time installed pastor of the United
Presbyterian church at Caledonia, N. Y. He was released
from this charge Oct. 7, 1895. He then supplied the Presby-
terian church of El Paso, Texas, from October, 1896, until his
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death, which occurred Nov. 19, 1905, at El Paso, of consump-
tion, in the 41st year of his age. He was buried at El Paso.
For two months in 1892 Mr. Moore supplied the Church of
the Strangers, New York, and was afterward called to be the
pastor of that church, but declined.
He was married July 9, 1902, in El Paso, Tex., to Lulu
May Trumbull, who with one son survives him.
THOMAS HOOETT MEDD,
Son of Richard and Mary Hannah (Hogett) Medd, was born
April 30, 1868, in Bowes, England. At an early age he came
to this country and was confirmed a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. His ^preparatory studies were pursued in
Toledo, O. He attended Heidelberg University, Ohio, for
four and a half years and then went to Ursinus College, Penn-
sylvania, for the completion of his college course, graduating
from that institution in 1892. He took the first year of his
theological course in the School of Theology connected with
Ursinus College. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1893
as a middler, he completed his course there, graduating in 1895.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April
23, 1895, and ordained by the Presbytery of West Jersey, Oct.
21, 1895, being at the same time installed pastor of the church
at Atco, N. J. He was released from this charge Sept. 29.
1897. He spent the following year as a graduate student in
Princeton Seminary, studying for and receiving the degree of
B.D., in May, 1898. He was then pastor of the church at
Gretna, Canada, from July 29, 1898, to Sept. 12, 1899, when
ill health compelled him to seek a milder climate in the South,
For a time he pursued graduate studies in Columbia Seminary,
South Carolina, and in 1901 began supplying the churches of
Easley, Pickens and Liberty, S. C. The former two he con-
tinued serving until the fall of 1902, when his health compelled
him to stop preaching. He went north and pursued special
studies in the New Brunswick Seminary, N. J., later moving
434
NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
[i9oe
to Philadelphia, where he resided until his death, which oc-
curred there April 8, 1905, of tuberculosis, in the 37th year of
his age. At the time of his death he was serving the Bethany-
Reformed Church in Roxboro, Philadelphia. He was buried
at Collegeville, Pa.
Mr. Medd was married, June 25, 1895, Philadelphia,
Pa., to Annie Landis Hunsicker, who with one son survives
him.
JOHN ROGEES PEALE,
Son of Samuel Alexander and Elizabeth (Mclntire) Peale,
was born Sept. 17, 1879, at New Bloomfield, Pa. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at
New Bloomfield, at the age of twelve. His preparatory stud-
ies were pursued in the academy of his native town, and he
graduated from Lafayette College in 1902. Coming to the
Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the
full three years’ course there, graduating in 1905. During
his seminary course he was leader of the \"olunteer Band and
manifested an intense interest in the cause of Foreign Mis-
sions. He kept a map of the world hanging on the wall of
his room that the claims of the heathen world might ever be
before his eyes. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Car-
lisle, April II, 1905. and ordained an evangelist by the same
Presbytery, March 15 of the same year, having dedicated him-
self to the cause of foreign missions. He sailed for China
Aug. 16, 1905, and proceeded quickly to his field of labor at
Lien Chou. Just before his departure for China he expressed
the wish that he might be allowed to serve his Master for
forty years in that country. He had been in Lien Chou only
four days when both he and his young wife were killed by a
Chinese mob, Oct. 28, 1905. Their bodies were later recovered
by Chinese officials and were given Christian burial by two
Chinese Christians at Lien Chou. He was in his 27th year
when he died.
1906]
NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
435
Mr. Peale was married June 29, 1905. at West Nottingham,
Md., to Rebecca Gillespie, who perished with him.
HERBERT AUGUSTUS WILCOX.
Son of Samuel E* and Sophia (Johnson) Wilcox, was born
Jan. 24, 1879, at North Adams, Mich. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Alma, Mich.,
at the age of sixteen. He jiursued his preparatory studies in
the public schools of Alma, and in the preparatory department
of Alma College, from which institution he graduated in 1904.
He entered the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
year. Having completed the first year of his seminary course,
he was employing his first long vacation in supplying the
churches of Gladwin and Pinconning, in the Presbytery of
Saginaw, Mich., when he was stricken with typhoid fever, of
which disease he died July 16, 1905, at Gladwin, Mich., in the
27th year of his age. He was buried at Alma, Mich.
• Not an initial.
436 NECROLOGICAL REPORT. [1906
INDEX
PAGE.
Alexander, Hugh Samuel, 413
Baird, Isaac 425
Baker, William Elliott 408
Barkley, Andrew Hannah, ... 409
Biggs, Henry Weed, 407
Bookstaver, Adam Augustus 422
Booth, Robert Russeli 399
Boyd, Thomas McKeen, ... 428
Brown, Hubert William, 429
Collins, Charles Jewett 410
Darling, Timothy Grenville 423
Dinsmore, Thomas Hughes, 405
Elcock, Thomas 404
Elliott, John Habersham, 413
Everitt, William Littell 431
Paris, Salmon Coles 420
Graley, Alfred Arthur 403
Hodge, Francis Blanchard, . . 400
Kerswill, William Deas, 430
King, Frederick La Rue, 406
Lyon, David 402
Macdonald, Augustus 421
Medd, Thomas Hogett 433
Moore, Henry Walter, 432
Murphy, Archibald Alexander, 426
Orris, S- Stanhope 418
Peale, John Rogers, 434
Polk, Joseph Littleton 416
Sherrard, Thomas Johnson, .... 423
Symmes, Francis Marion, 410
Titus, Albert Clark 424
Wheeler, John Emory 417
Wilcox, Herbert Augustus 435
Willard, Henry, 414
Wilson, Robert Fle.ming, 412
i^'
The Necrology of Princeton Theological Seminary has
been printed annually for thirty-one 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
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1891 ; 54 in that of 1892 ; 53 in that of 1893 ; 42 in that of
1894; 54 in that of 1895; 52 in that of 1896; 35 in that of
1897 ; 37 in that of 1898; 44 in that of 1899; 49 in that of
1900; 37 in that of 1901 ; 62 in that of 1902; 42 in that of
1903; 66 in that of 1904; 44 in that of 1905, and 35 in the
present issue, making in all 1375 brief biographies of ministers
and other alumni and officers of the Seminary, some of whom
have filled prominent positions, while all have contributed to
the contemporaneous history of the Church.
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it to be perpetuated is earnestly solicited. At its meeting in
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