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 who 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.
The receipt of these will be immediately and gratefully ac-
knowledged, on behalf of the Library, by
J. H. DULLES,
Librarian.
Necrological Report
PRESENTED TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING
May 5th, 1908.
By the Secretary.
Entered at the Post Office at Princeton, N. J., as second class mail matter.
NOTICE.
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 1908-1909.
Rev. James M. Barkley, D.D., President.
Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., Vice-President.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, Secretary.
Rev. W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., Treasurer.
Additional Members
of the
Executive Committee.
NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
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SUCCESSION OF OFFICERS
PRESIDENTS.
1873- 74. Rev.
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. “
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., LL.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., LL.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.
^Succeeded to the presidency, owing to the death of Dr. Purves, and presided
in 1902.
498
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1904- OS.
1905- 06.
1906- 07.
1907- 08.
1908- 09.
1872-97.
1885-87.
1887-
1872-85.
1885-93.
l893-
“ Edward B. Hodge, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ John DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ William L. McEwan, D.D., of Pittsburgh, Pa.
“ J. Ritchie Smith, D.D., of Harrisburg, Pa.
“ James M. Barkley, D.D., of Detroit, Mich.
SECRETARIES.
Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D., of Philadelphia.
“ William H. Roberts, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ Joseph H. Dulles, of Princeton.
TREASURERS.
Rev. William H. Harris, of Princeton.
“ William Henry Green, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton.
“ W. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., of Princeton.
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ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Princeton, N. J., May 5, 1908.
The Alumni Association met for dinner in Stuart Hall at
12.30 p. m., with the President, the Rev. J. Ritchie Smith,
D.D., in the chair. A blessing was asked by the Rev. Thomas
V. Moore, D.D., president of the San Francisco Theological
Seminary. At the close of the dinner the Association was
called to order for a brief business session.
The report of the Executive Committee was read by the
Rev. G. Phillips Payson and is as follows :
The Executive Committee would recommend the following
officers of the Association for the ensuing year:
President — The Rev. James M. Barkley, D.D., of Detroit,
Mich.
Vice-President — The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., of Wash-
ington, D. C.
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.
William V. Louderbough, of Salem, N. J. ; the Rev. L. S.
Fulmer, of Montclair, N. J. ; and the Rev. Professor James O.
Boyd, Ph.D., of Princeton
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In view of the fact that the Necrological Report is printed
and distributed to the alumni of the Seminary, the Executive
Committee has withdrawn from the docket of the annual meet-
ing the reading of the customary summary of the Report.
The report was accepted and the officers and other members
of the Executive Committee for the ensuing year were elected.
The Necrological Report was ordered printed and distrib-
uted among the alumni.
The report of the Treasurer was presented by him, and
having been received, was referred to the Rev. Samuel Mc-
Lanahan and the Rev. Henry C. Minton, D.D., 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 for the printing of the Necrological Report and
other expenses. This collection amounted to $91.34, entirety
covering the obligations of the Association and leaving a bal-
ance in the hands of the Treasurer of 93 cents.
The Treasurer’s Report follows:
William Brenton Greene, Jr., in account with the Alumni Associa-
tion of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Dr.
1907 Collection at Alumni Dinner, May 7 $98.66
Subscriptions since (18 in all) 26.10
1907 Princeton University Press, for printing 2000 Necro-
logical Reports, and envelopes for same, July 15 $134-75
Postage on the above 4-°°
Due to Treasurer, May 7, 1907 (see last Report) 76-42
$215.17
Due to Treasurer May 5, 1908 9°-4!
$124.76
William Brenton Greene, Jr.,
T reasurer.
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At the conclusion of the business meeting after-dinner
speeches were made by the following, who were introduced by
Dr. Smith : President Patton, representing the Faculty ; the
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., representing the class of ’58; the
Rev. J. F. Dripps, D.D., representing the class of ’68 ; the Rev.
John.P. Campbell, D.D., representing the class of ’78; the Rev.
Henry E. Cobb, D.D., representing the class of ’88 ; the Rev.
Henry B. Hostetter, representing the class of ’98, and Mr.
Glenn B. Shafer, representing the graduating senior class.
After the regular speeches were concluded, the moderator of
the General Assembly, the Rev. William H. Roberts, D.D.,
LL.D., being present, was called upon by the President of the
Association and responded with a brief address. The Associa-
tion united in singing two verses of “Blest be the tie that
binds”, and was then adjourned with the benediction pro-
nounced by the Rev. James A. Worden, D.D.
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secretary.
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ABSTRACT OF THE
Necrological Report
• PRESENTED MAY 5, 1908.
The Report for the year ending March 31, 1908, contains the notices
of two Trustees of the Seminary, Mr. Alexander Maitland and Mr.
John Sinclair, and of fifty-four former students. Eight of these should
have been included in former Reports, but the fact of their death did
not reach the Secretary in time. The total number reported is fifty-six.
Of the fifty-four former students the oldest had reached the age of
ninety-one years and eleven months, while another was within seven
days of the completion of his ninetieth year ; thirteen others had passed
their eightieth year; eighteen their seventieth, and fourteen their six-
tieth. The youngest died at the age of twenty-five years and one month.
The average age of the fifty-four was sixty-nine years and six months,
this being two and one-half years above the average for the past thirty-
four years. The average age at which fifty-three of those reported
made a public confession of their faith was seventeen years and three
months.
JOSEPH H. DULLES,
Secretary.
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The Report contains the following names :
TRUSTEES.
Alexander Maitland,
Died Oct.
25,
1907.
John Sinclair,
ALUMNI.
Died Jan.
18,
1908.
Matriculated.
Died.
l83S-
John Varick Dodge,
Sept.
16,
1907.
1840.
Allen Henry Brown, D.D.,
Nov.
5,
1907.
1843-
William Wilberforce Lord, D.D.,
April
22,
1907.
1844.
Elijah Richardson Craven, D.D., LL.D.,
Jan.
5,
1908.
1846.
Charles John Jones, D.D.,
Sept.
8,
1907.
1847.
Lewis Green Barbour, D.D.,
July
1 7,
1907.
Edward Blanchard,
Oct.
3,
1907.
Samuel Crothers Logan, D.D., LL.D.,
Sept.
4,
1907.
Richard Valentine,
March 27,
1908.
1849-
Albert Chamberlin,
Jan.
10,
1908.
Robert Conover,
Feb.
25,
1908.
James McMullin Crowell, D.D.,
Jan.
4,
1908.
1850.
William Hampton Babbitt,
June
27,
1907.
Samuel McClurg Osmond, D.D.,
Aug.
3,
1907.
1852.
John Billings Fiske,
March
15,
1907.
I853-*
John McConnell McElroy, D.D.,
Feb.
20,
1908.
1854
Lucius Cuthbert, D.D.,
Jan.
16,
1906.
James Young Mitchell, D.D.,
Feb.
26,
1908.
l855.
Joseph Welton Hubbard, D.D.,
Sept.
29,
1907.
1856.
Robert Proctor,
Jan.
18,
1908.
1857.
Chester Bridgman,
May
23,
1907.
Philip Barnes Cook, M.D.,
Aug.
13,
1907.
James Addison Quarles, D.D.,
April
14,
1907.
1858.
Samuel Bayard Dod,
April
19,
1907.
Charles Dunlap,
June
21,
1907.
Franklin Chappell Jones,
Dec.
10,
1907.
Wendell Prime, D.D.,
Nov.
28,
1907.
I859-
Francis Bartlett Converse, D.D.,
Sept.
29,
1907.
Robert Edgar,
Sept.
I,
1907.
David Herron,
Jan.
8,
1908.
i860.
John Peterson Clarke,
Feb.
1 7,
1908.
Almon Baxter Merwin,
Jan.
22,
1907.
Jehu Thompson Osler,
Oct.
7,
1907.
Benjamin Franklin Patterson,
July
9,
1906.
l86l.
William Budd Bodine, D.D.,
Sept.
28,
1907.
1862.
James Marshall Anderson, D.D.,
Aug.
23,
1907.
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1863.
Addison Pinneo Foster,
June
18, 1907.
Alfred Jenks Stead,
Aug.
3, 1907.
1864.
Frederick Mayer Newman,
June
16, 1906.
Chauncey Elliot Van Allen,
April
22, 1907.
1865.
Matthew Witherspoon Maclean,
March 12, 1907.
1867.
John Andrew McDonald,
Jan.
6, 1906.
1 868.
William Grant,
Dec.
18, 1906.
1869.
Eli Marsh Turner, LL.D.,
March
1, 1908.
1870.
Robert George Williams,
June
5, 1907-
1872.
Alfred Harrison Moment, D.D.,
Oct.
5, 1907.
1874.
John Wallace Cummings, D.D.,
March
1, 1908.
1875-
James Henry Deming Ross,
Dec.
7, 1907.
1880.
William Gordon Neville,
June
8, 1907.
1890.
George Bailey Troub, Ph.D.,
Aug.
29, 1907.
1893-
Wallace Somerville Faris,
May-
13, 1907.
1903.
Nathan White Buckhout,
Dec.
26, 1907.
Thomas Horace Cleland,
June
15, 1907.
1906.
Edward Shields MacConnell,
Aug.
6, 1907.
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TRUSTEES.
ALEXANDER MAITLAND,
Son of Robert Lenox and Mary. (Currey) Maitland, was
born July 27, 1846, in Clifton, Staten Island, N. Y. He made
a public confession of his faith early in life in the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York City. He received his educa-
tion under private tuition, one of his teachers being the late
Rev. Samuel D. Alexander, D.D. In 1867 he entered his
father’s office with the firm of Robert L. Maitland & Co., and
remained in the commission business until 1878, since which
time he devoted himself mainly to philanthropic, educational
and religious work. His business capacity and sound judgment
led to his being chosen to fill many positions of responsibility.
He was a member of more than thirty boards, associations and
clubs. Among the latter were the Century Club, the Down
Town Club of New York City, the Yacht Club, the City Club,
and the St. Andrew Society. He was for a time president of
the Edward Smith Company, in New York, and also of the
New York City Marble Cemetery. He was president of the
Union Trust Company, New York, manager of the Presbyte-
rian Hospital, treasurer of the Presbyterian Home for Aged
Women, director and vice-president of the City Mission and
Tract Society, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
director of the Lenox Library, and upon its merging into the
New York Public Library, he became a trustee of the latter in-
stitution. He was a trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary
from 1892 until his death and for many years was chairman
of its Finance Committee. He was also for a number of years
chairman of its Library Committee. He was for a time a
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deacon in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
City, and later an elder in the same church during the ministry
of the late Dr. John Hall. He received the degree of A.M.
from Princeton University in 1867. He died Oct. 25, 1907,
very suddenly, in Princeton, N. J., of heart disease, in the
64th year of his age. He was buried in the Woodlawn Cem-
etery, New York City.
Mr. Maitland was married June 29, 1881, in Princeton,
N. J., to Mary Jane, daughter of the late President James
McCosh, who survives him.
JOHN SINCLAIR,
Son of Thomas and Sarah (Archer) Sinclair, was born in
Belfast, Ireland, Jan. 4, 1841. He studied in Belfast and
Liverpool. Coming to this country he settled in New York
in his early manhood and was engaged in business as a com-
mission merchant in New York City from 1864-99, when he
retired from active business. He served as an officer in the
City Mission and Tract Society of New York from 1888 until
his death, and was connected with several of the hospitals of
the same city. He was a member of the Board of Church
Erection for twenty-five years, and a ruling elder in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, for more than thirty
years. He was a trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary
from 1894 until his death, being for a number of years a
member of its Finance Committee. He died Jan. 17, 1908,
in New York City, of heart disease, a few days after the com-
pletion of his 67th year. He was buried in the Woodlawn
Cemetery, New York City.
Mr. Sinclair was married Feb. 24, 1870, in New York City,
to Fanny Coit Bunker, who with two sons and two daughters
survives him.
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ALUMNI.
JOHN VAHICK I0LGE,
Son of Henry Samuel and J-ane Dey (Varick) Dodge, was
born in New York City, Oct. 14, 1815. He made a public
confession of his faith in the North Congregational Church of
New Haven, Ct., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory
studies were pursued in the Dey Street Classical School of
New York City, under William Sherwood, and he graduated
from Yale University in 1835. Entering the Seminary at
Princeton in the fall of the same year, he remained there four
years, graduating in 1839. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of New Brunswick, April 24, 1839, and ordained by the Pres-
bytery of Vincennes, May 6, 1840, being at the same time
installed pastor of the church at Evansville, Ind. This relation
was dissolved in February, 1850. He then supplied the church
at Terre Haute, Ind., for six months. He was pastor of the
church at Jacksonville, Ind., from April 27, 1851, to April 6,
1855. After this for two years he engaged in missionary work
along the line of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, in Illinois.
He was stated supply of the church at Canton, 111., 1857-59;
of the church at South Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia),
from October, 1859, to October, i860. For the next three
years, 1862-65, he was chaplain in the Soldiers’ Hospital at
Evansville, Ind. In the former year on returning one Sunday
from preaching, he was thrown from his carriage and broke
both arms and one of his legs. In 1865 his health compelled
him to give up active work. He continued his residence in
Evansville until his death, which occurred Sept. 16, 1907, of
bronchitis, when he had almost completed his 92nd year. He
was buried in the Oak Hall Cemetery, near Evansville.
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Mr. Dodge was twice married : (1) June 6, 1842, in Evans-
ville, Ind., to Augusta Dupuy, who died Jan. 24, 1856; (2)
Feb. 2, 1857, in Evansville, to Mary Eliza Dupuy, who died
April 13, 1907. Two daughters survive him.
ALLEN HENRY BROWN, D-D ,
Son of Silas and Olivia (Brown) Brown, was born Sept. 23,
1820, in New York City. He made a public confession of his
faith in the Murray Street Presbyterian Church, of New York,
at the age of fifteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in
New York City under Messrs. Forrest & Wyckoff. The soph-
omore and junior years of his college course were spent in the
New York University and the senior year at Columbia Uni-
versity, from which institution he graduated in 1839. He
spent the following year in general study and in attendance
upon Dr. Nordheimer’s Hebrew class in Union Seminary,
New York. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1840,
taking the full three years’ course, and graduating in 1843.
He continued his studies there for part of a year as a resident
licentiate. During one or two of his summer vacations he
travelled widely through New Jersey as a colporteur of the
American Tract Society. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of New York, April 19, 1843, and ordained an evangelist by
the Presbytery of West Jersey, Jan. 5, 1848. He was stated
supply of the church at May’s Landing, N. J., 1847 to i860,
and then was presbyterial missionary from i860 to 1870, with
his headquarters at Absecon, N. J. He was stated supply at
May’s Landing and Tuckahoe from 1870 to 1872. He resided
during the next year in New York City. In 1874 he was
appointed synodical missionary for the Synod of New Jersey,
with his residence in Camden, and continued as such until
1886. He was presbyterial missionary for the Monmouth and
West Jersey Presbyteries 1887 to 1888, and for the Presby-
tery of West Jersey alone from 1889 until 1906, when his
health made it necessary for him to give up active duties. He
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then moved to Montclair, N. J., where he died of heart failure
Nov. 5, 1907, in the 88th year of his age. He was buried at
Stamford, Conn. He received the degree of D.D. from
Princeton University in 1905. Dr. Brown was clerk of the
Presbytery of West Jersey from October, 1851, to April, 1865.
He was a commissioner to the General Assembly in 1857 and
1883; moderator of the Presbytery of West Jersey in 1851
and 1879, and of the Synod of New Jersey in 1885. He was
a trustee of both the Synod and Presbytery, being secretary
of the Trustees of the Synod, and president of the Trustees
of the Presbytery. He was a member of the South Jersey
Historical Society and of the Newark Historical Society. Dr.
Brown’s principal work was the establishment of churches in
the destitute and less highly populated parts of the state of
New Jersey. He was deeply interested in the history of the
Presbyterian church in New Jersey and wrote many mono-
graphs upon topics illustrative of it. He obtained the appoint-
ment by the Synod of the permanent committee on historic
matters, which is now accumulating a collection of historic
matter in the Library of Princeton Seminary. It was owing
to his labor that the historic monument on the site of the old
Scotch Church was erected. Dr. Brown published many pam-
phlets and articles in connection with his work. Among these
are the Twelfth Annual Report of the S. S. Missionary Asso-
ciation of the Duane Street Church, New York, 1839; a Tract
on the Practice, Doctrine and Government of the Presbyterian
Church, 1851 ; The Presbyterian Church in West or South
Jersey 1700 to 1865, 1869; Early Settlers on the Sea Coast of
New Jersey, 1869; Jonathan Pitney, M.D., or Fifty Years’
Progress on the Coast of New Jersey, 1886; Historical Sketch
of the Synod of New Jersey 1861 to 1886, 1886; Origin and
Progress of the Presbyterian Church in South Jersey, 1887;
Tribute to the Memory of Rev. Samuel Beach Jones, D.D.,
1893; History of the Presbyterian Church of Pilesgrove, or
Pitts Grove, 1893.
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He was married Jan. 12, 1852, in Lowell, Mass., to Martha
Ann Dodge, who died March 11, 1885. One son and two
daughters survive him.
william wilberfoe:e loed.d.d,
Son of John Way and Sarah Bryant (Chase) Lord, was born
Oct. 28, 1819, in Madison County, N. Y. He made a public
confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of
Geneseo, N. Y., at the age of sixteen. His preparatory
studies were pursued in Geneseo High School under Principal
Charles Wilson, and he graduated from the- University of
Western New York (no longer existing) in 1837. He spent
the first two years of his theological course in Auburn Theo-
logical Seminary and entered the Seminary at Pricenton as a
senior in 1843, remaining one year. He was ordained a deacon
in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Doane in 1848,
and ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1850. After his
ordination he went South and devoted himself to the ameliora-
tion of the cholera epidemic at Baltimore and the yellow fever
epidemic in various other southern cities. He was rector of
Christ Church, Vicksburg, Miss., from 1854 to 1864; of St.
Paul’s Church, Charleston, S. C., from 1864 to 1870. Coming
North at this time he was for many years rector of Christ
Church, Cooperstown, N. Y., from which he resigned a few
years ago on account of ill health. He continued to reside in
Cooperstown during the rest of his life. He died April 22, 1907,
in New York City, of heart disease, in the 88th year of his age.
He was buried at Cooperstown. He received the degree of
D.D. from the University of Alabama in 1859. Dr. Lord was
a delegate to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church
in 1856. He was president of the Standing Committee of the
Diocese of Mississippi until the Civil War, and was a member
of the Board of Foreign Missions of the P. E. Church in 1857.
He was also a member of the Historical Society of New Jersey
and of the Historical Society of Virginia. He taught mental
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and moral science in Amherst College in 1846 and was chap-
lain in the confederate army during the Civil War. He pub-
lished a poem, Christ in Hades, 1851, and another poem,
Andre, a Tragedy, in 1856. His Death of Greatness was pub-
lished in Stedman’s Anthology.
He was married Feb. 19, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa., to
Margaret Chamberlain Stockton, who with one son and one
daughter survives him.
ELIJAH RICHARDSON CRAVEN, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of Elijah Richardson and Sarah Eccleston (Landreth)
Craven, was born March 28, 1824, in Washington, D. C. He
made a public confession of his faith in the Second Presbyte-
rian Church (now New York Avenue), Washington, D. C.,
at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued
in Georgetown, D. C., under Rev. James McVean, and in
Washington, D. C., under George J. Abbott, and he graduated
from Princeton University in 1842. He then engaged in the
study of law for two years in Washington. He entered the
Seminary at Princeton in 1844, remaining during the most of
five years. His attendance during the year 1845-46 was un-
avoidably irregular, and during the years 1847 to 1849 he was
a tutor in the College. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Baltimore, Nov. 16, 1847. He served the church at East
Hampton, L. I., N. Y., as pastor-elect during the year 1849.
He was ordained by the Reformed Classis of New Brunswick
Feb. 27, 1850, being at the same time installed pastor of the
Second Reformed Church of Somerville, N. J. This relation
was dissolved Oct. 24, 1854. His only other pastorate was
that of the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, N. J., from-
Oct. 31, 1854, to July 3, 1887, a period of thirty-three years.
He gave up the pastorate to accept the position of secretary
of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, taking up his resi-
dence in Philadelphia, in 1887. He remained in this office until
May, 1904, when the weakness of increasing years compelled
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him to cease active work. He was made secretary emeritus
and continued such until his death, which occurred Jan. 5,
1908, in Philadelphia, in the 84th year of his age. His death
was partly due to a fall resulting in the fracture of his hip,
although he had been in failing health for several years. He
was buried in Newark, N. J. He received the degree of D.D.
from Princeton University in 1859, and the degree of LL.D.
from Lafayette College in 1890. Dr. Craven was a trustee of
Princeton University from 1859 until his death, and secretary
of the Board for many years. He was a director of Princeton
Seminary from 1865 until his death; he was a member of the
Board of Foreign Missions from 1855 to 1870, and of the
Board of Church Erection from 1870 to 1887. He was director
of the German Theological School, of Newark, from 1870
until his death. He was moderator of the General Assembly
in 1885. Among his publications were the Constitution of
Courts of Appeal in the Presbyterian Church, 1863; a Report
to the General Assembly on Courts of Appeal, 1865; The
Religious Defect of the Constitution of the United States,
1868; The American Edition of Lange’s Commentary on
Revelation, 1874, and of the same Commentary on John, 1871 ;
Address to the Trustees on the Re'vised Book of Discipline,
1884, besides numerous articles to the theological reviews.
Dr. Craven was twice married: (1) March 24, 1852, at
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Hannah Tingey Sanderson, who died April
5, 1863; (2) Jan. 15, 1867, in New York City, to Elizabeth
Gertrude Moore, who with two sons and two daughters sur-
vives him. One of his sons is the Rev. Charles E. Craven, an
alumnus of Princeton Seminary.
CHARLES JOHN JONES, D.D.,
Son of Rees and Sarah (Stanton) Jones, was born Sept. 23,
1818, in Deptford, Kent, England. He was a newsboy in
London until twelve years of age. In June, 1831, he began
the life of a sailor in a British man-of-war and continued at
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sea until 1841. While a sailor he was converted and made
three voyages as a Christian sailor before the mast, and then
left the sea to study for the ministry . He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the Eastburn Mariners’ Church, Phila-
delphia, at the age of twenty-two. His preparatory studies
were pursued in Philadelphia at the academy of Joseph P.
Engles and later at the Model School connected with Lafayette
College, from which institution he graduated in 1846. Enter-
ing the Seminary at Princeton in 1846, he remained there three
years, leaving a month before the conclusion of the full course
by permission of the faculty, that he might begin his labors
among the boat men of the Mississippi at St. Louis. He was
licensed April 5, 1848, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and
ordained an evangelist Jan. 9, 1850, by the Presbytery of St.
Louis. He labored among the boat men at St. Louis from
April, 1849, to September, 1854, when he engaged in work as
a missionary among the seamen of New York City, continuing
in this work until 1856. As a result of his labors he organized
the Mariners’ Church in New York City and was its pastor
from March 2, 1856, to April 13, 1863. After this he was
chaplain in the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y.r
from April, 1863, to April, 1893, at which latter date he was
made chaplain emeritus. He resided in Stapleton, N. Y., from
1893 to 1901, and in Philadelphia, Pa., from 1901 until his
death, which occurred Sept. 8, 1907, in Philadelphia, of the
diseases incident to old age, having almost completed his 89th
year. He received the degree of D.D. from Lafayette College
in 1880. Dr. Jones was a commissioner to the General Assem-
bly in 1866. He published many tracts and pamphlets and
sermons, as well as one book, Prom the Lorecastle to the
Pulpit, 1884. Lor a time in 1854 he was assistant editor of
The Cascade, a temperance weekly published in St. Louis, and
later of The Sea Bird, a monthly published in New York. He
organized the first Boatmen’s church in St. Louis, in 1850, and
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was one of those active in the organization of the Second
Presbyterian Church of Princeton.
He was married three times: (1) April 9, 1849, Phila-
delphia, Pa., to Martha Baker, who died Aug. 19, 1849; (2)
June 6, 1850, in Boston, Mass., to Emma Wood, who died
April 10, 1880; (3) April 27, 1881, in New York City, to
Mrs. Isabella Laing (Thoms) Mayer, who died Feb. 7, 1901.
One son and two daughters by his second wife survive him.
LEWIS GREEN BARBOUR, D.D.,
Son of James and Letitia (Green) Barbour, was born Sept.
19, 1829, in Danville, Ky. He made a public confession of his
faith in the Presbyterian Church of Danville, at the age of
lourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the pre-
paratory department of Centre College, from which institu-
tion he graduated in 1846. He spent the following year as
clerk in a mercantile establishment. He entered the Seminary
at Princeton in 1847, remaining two years, when his course
was interrupted by the failure of his health. He returned and
continued his theological studies in 1850, graduating in 1851.
He was licensed by the .Presbytery of Transylvania, Sept. 19,
1851, and ordained by the Presbytery of Muhlenberg in Octo-
ber, 1854. From 1849 1850 he engaged in teaching in Boyle
County, Ky. In June, 1852, he began serving the church at
Bowling Green, Ky., and was installed its pastor in October,
1854, this relation being dissolved in October, 1855. During
this pastorate he supplied the church at Russelville, Ky., from
June, 1852, to September, 1855. He was principal of an acad-
emy in Lexington, Mo., July, i860, to August, 1865, and
engaged in teaching in Lexington, Ky., during the following
year. He was principal of the Caldwell Institute, Danville,
Ky., from 1866 to 1874, and professor of Mathematics and
Astronomy in Central University, Richmond, Ky., from 1874
to 1901. From 1903 until his death he resided in Louisville,
Ky. He died in Louisville, July 17, 1907, of a complication
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of diseases, in the 78th year of his age. He was buried at
Danville, Ky. He received the honorary degree of D.D. in
1876 from Centre College. Dr. Barbour published pamphlets
and review articles, and numerous articles on Higher Mathe-
matics and other subjects. He was on the editorial staff of
the “Transylvania Presbyterian” and the “Kentucky Presby-
terian”, 1876 to 1878.
He was married June 20, 1854, in Danville, Ky., to Eliza-
beth Ann Ford, who with two sons and two daughters survives
him.
EDWARD BLANCHARD,
Son of Edward Sherburne and Jane (Archibald) Blanchard,
was born Oct. 10, 1817, in Truro, N. S., Canada. He made a
public confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church
of Truro, at the age of eighteen. He had no college education.
Before entering the Seminary, he was engaged in teaching in
grammar schools and academies for about ten years. During
this time he was principal of the Collegiate Academy of Ar-
cadia College, Wolfville, N. S., and head master of the gram-
mar school at St.- Johns, N. B., and also principal of the Col-
chester Academy, in Canada. He entered the Seminary at
Princeton in 1847, remaining less than a year. He never
entered the pastorate, but engaged in teaching after leaving
the Seminary. He taught in the preparatory department of
the Presbyterian Theological College, then located in Truro,
and in the high school department of the Model Schools in
Truro, in connection with the Provincial Normal Schools, and
in 1873, finding his strength unequal to the strain of teaching,
he turned his attention to the occupation of farming and pur-
sued it until his death, which occurred Oct. 3, 1907, at DeBert,
N. S., of general debility, when he had almost completed his
90th year.. He was buriedtin Truro.
Mr. Blanchard was married June 4, 1864, in Truro, N. S.,
to Margaret Coyle Metzler, who with two sons survives him.
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SAMUEL CROTHERS LOGAN, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of George and Susanna (Logan) Logan, was born Dec.
21, 1823, in Hanover, Ind. He made a public confession of
his faith in the Clear Creek Presbyterian Church, Jessamine
County, Ky., at the age of twenty. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the preparatory department of Hanover Col-
lege, from which institution he graduated in 1846. He then
spent a year in teaching. He had started to go to Oregon, but
stopped at Palestine, 111., where he organized an academy and
took charge of it for one year. Entering the Seminary at
Princeton in 1847, he took the full three years’ course there,
graduating in 1850. He was licensed by the First Presbytery
of New York (O. S.), Oct. 10, 1849, and ordained an evan-
gelist by the Presbytery of Lake (O. S.), April 14, 1851. He
began work as a missionary in Constantine, Mich., in Decem-
ber, 1850, and was installed pastor of the church there Nov.
24, 1854. This relation was dissolved April 6, 1857. He was
pastor of the Fifth Church of Cincinnati, O., from June 11,
1857, to Oct. 15, 1859; stated supply of the Seventh Church,
Cincinnati, O., from October, 1859, to October, i860; from
this time he was pastor-elect of the church at Valpariso, Ind.,
until installed its pastor, May 6, 1863, and was released from
this charge Oct. 15, 1865. During this pastorate he was presi-
dent of the Valpariso Collegiate Institute for four years,
1860-64. In the latter year he became secretary of the West-
ern Freedmens’ Committee and continued laboring as such
until 1865, when he was made secretary of the Freedmens’
Committee, and so continued until 1869. He began supplying
the First Church of Scranton, Pa., in December, 1868, and was
installed its pastor Sept. 3, 1869. This relation was dissolved
May 1, 1892, when he was made pastor emeritus and honorably
retired from the active duties of the ministry. He continued
his residence in Scranton until his death, which occurred Sept.
4, 1907, in Scranton, in the 84th year of his age. He was
buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery of Scranton. He received
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the degree of D.D. from Hanover College in 1870, and the
degree of .LL.D. from Livingston College, North Carolina, in
1893. Dr. Logan served as colporteur for the American Sun-
day School Union in New Hampshire during the Seminary
vacation of 1849. He organized Biddle University at Char-
lotte, N. C., and the Wallingford Academy of South Carolina.
He was greatly interested in work among the Freedmen, and
in May, 1864, he presented to the General Assembly a paper
which resulted in the organization of the General Assembly’s
Committee on Freedmen. He also organized many schools
and churches among the Freedmen. He was chaplain of the
Thirty-fourth Regiment of Indian Volunteers during the war,
and served the Christian Commission for two months in 1864.
After his retirement from the pastorate he devoted himself
to the betterment of the foreign speaking population in Scran-
ton and its vicinity, and was appointed by the Presbytery of
Lackawanna to organize missions for the education and moral
elevation of the foreign element in the Lackawanna and Wy-
oming valleys. This work occupied him until his death. He
was the secretary and founder of the Presbyterian Cleric, of
Scranton. He was the General Assembly’s representative to
the assemblies of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church
of Scotland, in 1879, and was frequently in official attendance
upon the meetings of the General Assembly. He published
many sermons and tracts and various reports, besides numer-
ous articles for the newspapers.
Dr. Logan was married Aug. 17, 1852, in Hanover, Mass.,
to Lucy Williams Loring, who died July 14, 1895. One son
and one daughter survive him.
RICHARD VALENTINE,
Son of William and Beatrice (Gregory) Valentine, was born
Nov. 13, 1823, near Lexington, Ky. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Louis-
ville, Ky., at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were
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pursued in Danville, Ky., under James S. Graham, and he
graduated from Centre College, Ky., in 1847. Entering the
Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took
the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1850. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Louisville (O. S.), Sept. 4,
1850, and ordained by the same Presbytery, Nov. 14, 1851,
being at the same time installed pastor of the church at New
Castle, Ky., which he had been serving since October of the
previous year. This relation was dissolved in 1867. During
the last two years of this pastorate he was president of the
Smithfield College, Ky. He was pastor of the First Church,
Lexington, Ky., from July 28, 1867, to June 27, 1869, and
stated supply after this of the following churches: Hopewell,
Bethel and Clear Creek, Ky., 1869-74; Augusta and Murphys-
ville, Ky., 1874-83; Mason and Somerset, O., 1883-88; George-
town, O., 1888-96, and Milton, Kenova and Hamlin, W. Va.,
1896-1901. This last year he was honorably retired from the
active work of the ministry and thereafter resided in Hunt-
ington, W. Va., until his death, which occurred March 27,
1908, in Huntington, of old age, in his 85th year. He was
buried in Huntington. Mr. Valentine was moderator at one
time of his Presbytery and of his Synod ; he was three times
a commissioner to the General Assembly. He published nu-
merous articles in the newspapers, especially on questions
growing out of the late civil war.
He was married May 8, 1851, in New Castle, Ky., to Sarah
Woodson Smith, who died April 23, 1902. One son and
seven daughters survive him.
ALBERT CHAMBERLIN,
Son of Calvin and Charlotte (Finch) Chamberlin, was born
April 8, 1822, at North East, New York. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at Armenia,
N. Y., at the age of nineteen. He pursued his preparatory
studies in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., under William MeGorge and
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Charles Bartlett. He graduated from Williams College in
1849. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the
same year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduat-
ing in 1852. He was licensed by the Presbytery of North
River, April 28, 1852. He was never ordained. He supplied
the church at Armeniaville, N. Y., for a time in 1853, and
thereafter until 1857 he preached as often as his health per-
mitted. He resided in Armeniaville from 1852 to i860, when
he moved to Croton Falls, N. Y. He supplied the church at
Smithfield, N. Y., from 1857 to 1858; the church of Croton
Falls, N. Y., from 1858 to 1861, and the church at Salem
Centre, N. Y., for a part of 1878. His health did not permit
his engaging permanently in ministerial work. He died Jan.
10, 1908, at Croton Falls, of bronchitis, in the 86th year of
his age. He was buried in the Somers Cemetery, “Ivandale”,
Croton Falls, N. Y. He published articles on current topics in
various papers.
He was married June 28, i860, in Croton Falls, N. Y., to
Julia Finch, who with three sons survives him.
ROBERT CONOVER,
Son of George and Mary (DuBois) Conover, was born July
3, 1823, at Carlisle Station, Warren Co., O. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of
Franklin, O., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in Carlisle common schools and in the prepara-
tory department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., from which
institution he graduated in 1849. After graduation he taught
the public school for three months at Harrodsburg, Ky. En-
tering the Seminary at Princeton in 1849, he remained there
two years. He then spent one year at the Cincinnati Theolog-
ical Seminary, from which he graduated in 1852. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Transylvania April 26, 1851, and
ordained by the Presbytery of Crawfordsville, Nov. 14, 1852,
being at the same time installed pastor of the church at North
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Salem, Ind. He was released from this charge in 1854. Dur-
ing this pastorate he also engaged in teaching, being principal
of the Presbyterial Academy of North Salem, from October,
1852, to November, 1854. He supplied the Seventh Church of
Cincinnati, O., in 1855, and then the churches of Cummins-
ville and Cheviot, O., 1855-56. He was superintendent of the
Female Seminary of Bloomington, 111., from September, 1856,
to April, 1874. He was stated supply of the church at
Towanda, 111., 1856-78; of the church at Clinton, 111., 1859-61 ;
of the church at El Paso, 111., in 1861 ; of the church at Lex-
ington, 111., from 1863-65, and again in 1878 until 1881, when
he was installed its pastor. This relation was dissolved in
1893 when he retired from the active duties of the ministry,
taking up his residence in Bloomington, 111. He died Feb. 25,
1908, at Bloomington, of general debility due to old age, in
his 85th year. He was buried at Bloomington. Mr. Conover
was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Bloomington from 1859
to 1871, and stated clerk of the Synod of Illinois from 1867
to 1870. He was permanent clerk of the Synod of Central Illi-
nois from 1870 to 1874, and stated clerk of the Synod of
Central Illinois from 1874 to 1882. He published a historical
sketch of the Presbytery of Bloomington, 1888.
Fie was married March 30, 1852, at Springdale, O., to
Harriet Hilts, who died Feb. 24, 1908.
JAMES McMULLIN CPOWELL, D.E.,
Son of Elijah and Susan (McMullin) Crowell, was born June
9, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of
his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of West Chester,
Pa., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the West Chester Academy and he graduated from
Princeton University in 1848. He then spent one year in
teaching in the Academy at West Chester. Before going to
the Seminary at Princeton he studied Theology, Exegesis and
Hebrew for one year with the Rev. John Crowell. Coming to
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Princeton Seminary in 1849, he entered the middle class, re-
maining two years and graduating in 1851. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Castle, June 3, 1851, being at the
same time installed pastor of the church at Upper Octorara,
Pa. He was released from this charge April 14, 1857. His
other pastorates were that of the Seventh Church of Philadel-
phia from May 10, 1857, to May 5, 1869; of the St. Peter’s
Church, Rochester, N. Y., from Oct. 12, 1869, to Dec. 8, 1870,
and of the Woodland Church, Philadelphia, Pa., from Jan. 12,
1871, to May 5, 1883, when he was elected secretary of the
American Sunday School Union, with headquarters in Phila-
delphia. He continued in the discharge of the duties of this
office from this time until his death, which occurred Jan. 4,
1908, in West Philadelphia, of diseased arteries of the heart,
in the 81st year of his age. He was buried in the Woodland
Cemetery in Philadelphia. He received the degree of D.D.
from Princeton University in 1864. Dr. Crowell was a trustee
of Princeton University from 1868 to 1883. He was a member
of the Board of Education in 1880, its vice-president in 1887
and its president in 1904, holding this last office until his death.
He was the junior orator representing the American Whig
Society at the celebration of the Centennial of Princeton Uni-
versity. When a student at College he was editor of the
Nassau Literary Magazine.
Dr. Crowell was married June 12, 1851, at West Chester,
Pa., to Lydia Ann Crowell, who died Aug. 25, 1894. One son
survives him.
WILLIAM HAMPTON BABBITT,
Son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Sutton) Babbitt, was born
June 5, 1825, in Mendham, N. J. He made a public confession
of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Mendham, at
the age of twenty-five. His preparatory studies were pursued
in Mendham and Plainfield, N. J., and he graduated from
Princeton University in 1846. He then spent four years in
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teaching. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1850,
taking the full three years’ course, and graduated in 1853.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Rockaway (N. S.) in
1853, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery April
25, 1856. While a student in the Seminary he was also tutor
of Mathematics in the College. He supplied the church at
Bellefontaine, Ohio, for a time in 1854, and then the church
at Deckertown, N. J., from May, 1854, to April, 1856. He
became stated supply of the First Church at Hoboken, N. J.,
in May, 1856, and was installed its pastor Jan. 21, 1857, and
released from this charge in July, 1867. He was then pastor
of the church at Glendale, Ohio, from Oct. 3, 1867, to Sept.,
1881. He was assistant pastor of the First Church of Cleve-
land, O., from December, 1881, to April, 1882. In the latter
year he began supplying a church at Tecumseh, Mich., and was
installed its pastor May 16, 1883. This relation was dissolved
May 14, 1893. He was stated supply at Glenwood, Florida,
from December, 1893, to March, 1894, and thereafter lived in
Cleveland, O., until his death, which occurred June 27, 1907,
in Cleveland, of chronic indigestion, just after the completion
of his 82d year. He was buried in the Lake View Cemetery,
Cleveland, O. Mr. Babbitt was president of the Presbyterian
College of Cleveland, and also secretary to the Presbyterial
Home Missions Committee of the Presbytery of Cleveland.
He published several sermons and articles in the newspapers.
He was married Nov. 5, 1857, in Mendham, N. J., to Sarah
Elizabeth Bryant, who survives him.
SAMUEL McOLURG OSMOND, D D,
Son of William and Elizabeth (McClurg) Osmond, was born
Aug. 18, 1825, in Lower Oxford, Chester Co., Pa. He made
.a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of
Oxford, Pa., at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the New London Academy, Pa., under Wil-
liam F. Wyers, and in the Hopewell Academy, Hopewell, Pa.,
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under Ephraim Stevenson. He taught in the public schools
a year before entering college. Ele graduated from Princeton
University in 1850 and then engaged in teaching in Wilkes-
barre, Pa., for six months. Entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the fall of 1850, he took the full three years’ course
there, graduating in 1853. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of New Castle in April, 1852, and ordained by the Presbytery
of Raritan, June 22, 1853, being at the same time installed as
co-pastor of the First and Second churches of Amwell, N. J.
This relation was dissolved in June, 1857. From July, 1857,
to September, 1862, he was stated supply of the churches of
Perry and Pittsfield, 111. In October of the latter year, he
began supplying the church at Iowa City, Iowa, and was
installed its pastor May 7, 1863. This relation was dissolved
April 2, 1879. His other pastorates were that of the church
at Lawrence, Kans., from April, 1879, to April, 1887, and of
the church at Elkton, Md., from October, 1888, to November,
1893. He then took up his residence in Philadelphia until
1903, being chaplain of the Presbyterian Hospital of that city
from 1899 to 1903. Afte'r this he resided in Topeka, Kans.,
until his death, which occurred Oct. 3, 1907, at Topeka, of
neuralgia of the heart, in the 82nd year of his age. He re-
ceived the degree of D.D. from Iowa State University in 1873.
Dr. Osmond published Sulamith, a metrical romance, 1893, and
a number of sermons and lectures in various newspapers and
periodicals.
He was twice married: (1) June 1, 1853, in Oxford, Pa.,
to Louisa P. Murdagh, who died March, 1873; (2) April 11,
1874, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Mrs. Harriet (Samson) Lane,
who died Feb. 13, 1906. Three daughters survive him.
JOHN BILLINGS FISKS,
Son of Horace and Mary (Adams) Fiske, was born Oct. 18,
1828, in Waterford, N. Y. He made a public confession of his
faith in the First Baptist Church at Detroit, Mich., at the age
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of twenty-three. His preparatory studies were pursued in the
Waterford Academy, N. Y., under William Lloyd, and he
graduated from Union College in 1848. After this he spent
two years as a clerk in an iron foundry in Detroit, Mich. The
first two years of his theological course were spent in the
Baptist Theological Seminary, at Kalamazoo, Mich. He en-
tered the Seminary at Princeton in 1852, remaining less than
a year. He was licensed by the First Baptist Church of De-
troit, Feb. 4, 1853, and ordained by an Ecclesiastical Council
of Congregational ministers, at Dexter, Mich., Nov. 15, 1855.
He supplied the Congregational Church at Dexter, 1855-64; the
Congregational church at Webster, Mich., 1865-66; the Con-
gregational Church at Grand Haven, Mich., 1867-68; the Con-
gregational Church at Manistee, Mich., 1869-71 ; was pastor
of the Congregational Church at Anamosa, Iowa, 1872-89, and
of the Congregational Church at Bonne Terre, Mo., 1889-1902.
After this he resided at Bear Lake, Mich., until his death,,
which occurred March 15, 1907, at Bear Lake, of old age, in
his 79th year. He was buried at Bear Lake. Mr. Fiske was
a tutor for a few months in the Baptist College at Kalamazoo,
Mich., in 1852.
He was twice married: (1) Nov. 3, 1853, Northville,
Mich., to Mary Gregory, who died Jan. 27, 1890; (2) July 15,
1902, in Denver, Colo., to Mrs. Susan Angeline (Knight)
Clency, who died Dec. 9, 1907. One son by his first marriage
survives him.
john McConnell Mcelroy, d.d.,
Son of Ebenezer Erskine and Sarah (Ghormley) McElroy,
was born Jan. 21, 1830, near Greenfield, O. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Green-
field at the age of thirteen. His preparatory studies were pur-
sued in the Salem Academy, South Salem, O., under the Rev.
J. C. Thompson and Rev. J. A. I. Lowes, and he graduated
from Jefferson College in 1851. He then spent two years in
teaching in the Eldersridge Academy, O., studying theology
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the second year under the Rev. Alexander Donaldson, D.D.
He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1853, remaining two
years. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Chilicothe, June
6, 1855, and ordained by the Presbytery of Des Moines, Dec.
6, 1855, being at the same time installed pastor of the church
at Ottumwa. This relation was dissolved April 21, 1869.
During the first two years of this pastorate he also served the
church at Kirkville, Iowa, and from i860 to 1864 was prin-
cipal of the Ottumwa seminary. From 1864 to 1866 he was
superintendent of the public schools of Wappello County,
Iowa. He was stated supply of the church at Richland, Iowa,
1869-70; pastor of the church at Batavia, Iowa, from April,
1870, to April, 1883; stated supply at Kirkville, Iowa, 1883-
84; missionary at Ottumwa, 1885-88; stated supply of the
East End Church, Ottumwa, Iowa, from May, 1888, to May,
1891. At this time he retired from the active duties of the
ministry. Pie continued his residence at Ottumwa until his
death, which occurred Feb. 20, 1908, of pneumonia, after six
days’ illness, in Ottumwa, in the 79th year of his age. He
was buried at Ottumwa. He received the degree of D.D. from
Jefferson College in 1881. Dr. McElroy published a tract,
The Universalist ; Jefferson College, Class of 1851, 1881 ; The
Heckert Family, 1897; Abbey Byram and her Father, Indian
Captives, 1889; The Scotch Irish McElroys in America, 1901,
and The Men of the Past in Iowa Presbytery, 1905.
He was married Sept. 11, 1855, in Murraysville, Pa., to
Agnes Greer, who with one son and three daughters survives
him.
LUCIUS CUTHBEET, D.D.,
Son of Lucius and Charlotte (Fuller) Cuthbert, was born
Sept. 22, 1832, in Beaufort, S. C. He made a public confes-
sion of his faith in the Baptist Church at the age of eighteen.
His preparatory studies were pursued in Beaufort, under Mr.
Fielding, and he graduated from South Carolina College in
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1853. He then spent a year in general reading and in writing.
He entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1854, remaining a
year and a half. He was licensed by the Baptist church in
Beaufort, S. C., in 1855, and ordained by the Baptist church
in Aiken, S. C., in May, 1856. He was pastor of the Baptist
church at Aiken from his ordination until 1865, and of the
Baptist church at Charleston, S. C., from 1865 to 1867. He
supplied the Baptist churches of Beach Island, Town Creek
and Aiken, and also the churches of Williston, Elco and Rose-
mary, S. C., for different periods of time from 1867 to 1884.
He took up his residence in Aiken, S. C., in 1900, and from
that time until 1903 twice served the church at Elco, S. C. He
died Jan. 16, 1906, at Aiken, of angina pectoris, in the 74th
year of his age. He was buried in the Bethany Cemetery of
Aiken. He received the degree of D.D. from South Carolina
College in T891 or 1892.
Dr. Cuthbert was married Nov. 19, 1856, in Charleston,
S. C., to Susan Margaret Mikell, who survives him.
JAMES YOUNG MIT3HELL, D.D.,
Son of James and Elizabeth (Young) Mitchell, was born Jan.
22, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He made a public confession of
his faith in the First Presbyterian Church, Northern Liberties,
Philadelphia, at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Newark Academy, Delaware, and he grad-
uated from Union College in 1854. Entering the Seminary at
Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three
years’ course, graduating in 1857. He was licensed by the
Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 1, 1857, and ordained by
the Presbytery of Newton, July 14, 1857, being at the same
time installed pastor of the church at Phillipsburg, N. J. This
relation was dissolved Jan. 7, J862. Immediately he began
supplying the Central Church Northern Liberties (now Tem-
ple), Philadelphia, and was installed its pastor Oct. 26, 1862.
This relation was dissolved Aug. 1, 1876. His only other
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pastorate was that of the church at Lancaster, Pa., from Oct.
1, 1876, to July 14, 1907, exactly fifty years after his ordina-
tion. He was made pastor emeritus and continued to reside in
Lancaster until his death, which occurred Feb. 26, 1908, due
to general weakness of age, in his 77th year. He was buried
in the Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster. He received the
degree of D.D. from Union College in 1880. Dr. Mitchell
published the History and Directory of Temple Church, Phila-
delphia, 1873, besides articles for the religious press.
He was married Oct. 13, 1853, at Easton, Pa., to Henrietta
Michler, who died Dec. 11, 1905. One son and two daughters
survive him.
JOSEPH WELTON HUBBARD, D.D.,
Son of Aristarchus and Abigail Maria (Welton) Hubbard,
was born May 11, 1827, in Geneseo, N. Y. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Congregational (now Presbyte-
rian) church of Clinton, N. Y., at the age of twenty-one.
His preparatory studies were pursued in the Temple Hill
Academy of Geneseo, N. Y., under Principals H. N. Robinson
and D. D. McColl, and he graduated from Hamilton College
in 1850. He taught in the Clinton grammar school and en-
gaged in the study of law from 1850 to 1851. He then spent
a year in the Harvard Law School, graduating with the degree
of LL.B. in 1852. During the next two years he practiced
law in New York City. Having turned his attention to the
ministry he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York,
in 1854, remaining there a year. Coming to the Seminary at
Princeton in 1855, as a middler, he took the other two years
of his theological course there, graduating in 1857. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New York, April 16, 1856, and
ordained by the West Jersey Presbytery Aug. 5, 1857, being
at the same time installed pastor of the Second Church of
Bridgeton, N. J. This relation was dissolved April 19, 1865.
He began supplying the church of Cape Island (now Cape
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May), N. J., in April, 1865, and was installed its pastor May
1, 1866. This relation was dissolved Dec. 17, 1867. He then
was stated supply of the church at Le Roy, N. Y., from
December, 1867, to September, 1869; pastor of the church at
Dayton, N. J., from Nov. 10, 1870, to Aug. 3, 1875; president
of the North Illinois College 1875-77; pastor-elect of the
Congregational Church of DeWitt, Iowa, 1877-79; stated
supply of the Wilton Junction and Sugar Creek Presbyterian
churches 1879-83; of the Presbyterian Church at Knoxville,
Iowa, 1883-89, and pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Mechanicsville, Iowa, from 1889-96, and then of the church
at Linn Grove, Iowa, 1896-99. The latter year he took up his
residence at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, remaining there until his death,
which occurred Sept. 29, 1907, at Mt. Vernon, of dysentery,
in the 81st year of his age. He was buried at Mt. Vernon.
He received the degree of D.D. from Buena Vista and Lenox
Colleges in 1906. Dr. Hubbard was stated clerk of the Pres-
byteries of West Jersey and Geneseo and Cedar Rapids, while
a member of these bodies. He was a commissioner of the
General Assembly in 1861, 1875 and 1895. He published a
memorial of Rev. Daniel Stratton, 1866; a history of the
Presbyterian Church in Iowa from 1837-1900, 1907, besides
sermons and addresses.
He was married three times: (1) Aug. 21, 1850, in Marl-
borough, Conn., to Olive Sophronia Carrier, who died Sept. 13,
1857; (2) Oct. 12, 1858, in Bridgeton, N. J., to Rebecca
McBride, who died Feb. 26, 1887; (3) July 2, 1888, in Knox-
ville, Iowa, to Laura Brooks Smith, who with two sons by his
second wife survives him.
ROBERT PROCTOR,
Son of Simon and Anne (Taylor) Proctor, was born Feb. 17,
1830, in Chinguacousy, Ontario, Canada. He made a public
confession of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of
Rochester, N. Y., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory
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studies were pursued in the Geneseo Academy, Livingston
County, N. Y., and he graduated from Princeton University
in 1856. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the
same year, he took the full three years' course there, graduat-
ing in 1859. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Rochester
City, April 7, 1858, and ordained by the Presbytery of Rock
River, Nov. 7, 1859, being at the same time installed pastor
of the Second Church of Freeport, 111. This relation was
dissolved in November, 1862. He was stated supply of the
church at Jordan, N .Y., from August, 1863, to August, 1864,
and of the Seneca Street Chapel, Buffalo, N. Y., from Novem-
ber, 1865, to November, 1866. During the next year he en-
gaged in teaching in Buffalo. From April, 1867, to November,
1868, he supplied the church at Alden, N. Y. He was pastor
of the Independent Presbyterian Church at Polo, 111., from
Dec. 8, 1868, to Dec. 8, 1871 ; from June to September, 1872,
be supplied the First Church of Galena, 111., and then organ-
ized the church at Oregon, 111., which he served as stated
supply from March 15, 1873, to Nov. 8, 1874. He supplied
the church at McComb City, Miss., from January, 1875, to
July, 1876. In the latter year he joined the Rock River Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was pastor
of the Methodist church of Walnut, 111., from October, 1877,.
to October, 1878; of the church at Pecatonica, 111., from
October, 1878, to October, 1879; of the church at Englewood,
Chicago, 1879-80; of the church at Arlington Heights, 111.,
1880-82; of the church at Plano, 111., 1882-83; of the church
at Turner, 111., 1883-84, and of the church at Mt. Morris, 111.,
1884-87. At this time he was made a supernumerary of the
Methodist Church. He took up his residence at Hot Springs,
Ark., and became the proprietor of the Superior Bath House
there and so continued until his death, which occurred Jan.
19, 1908, at Hot Springs, of heart trouble, in the 78th year
of his age. He was buried in Freeport, 111.
Mr. Proctor was married Dec. 16, 1863, at Freeport, 111.,
to Mary Dent Mitchell Wilcoxon, who survives him.
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CHESTER BRILGMA.N,
Son of Clark and Sophronia (Clark) Bridgman, was born
July 3, 1833, in West Hampton, Mass. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Congregational church of West
Hampton, at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Willistown Seminary of East Hampton,
Mass., and he graduated from Amherst College in 1856. He
took the first year of his theological course in the seminary
at Columbia, S. C., and entered the Seminary at Princeton, as
a middler, in 1837, completing his course there and graduating
in 1859. He studied during two months of the summer of
1858 at the Andover Theological Seminary. He was licensed
May 4, 1858, by the Hampshire West Association, at Whately,
Maine, and ordained Jan. 5, i860, by the Presbytery of West
Jersey, being at the same time installed pastor of the Presby-
terian churches of Woodstown and Swedesboro, N. J., which
he had been supplying since May, 1859. This double pastorate
was dissolved Nov. 17, 1863. He was pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Ludlow, Mass., from May, 1864, to July,
1866, and then supplied the Congregational church at Medfield,
Mass., from April, 1867, to April, 1868. He was pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Williamstown, N. J., from Oct.
18, 1869, to July 11, 1871, and served the church at Upper
Mt. Bethel, Pa., as pastor-elect from July, 1871, to August,
1873. He resided in Woodstown, N. J., frqm 1874-87, doing
occasional work as an evangelist. From January,. 1878, to
October, 1879, he supplied the Congregational church at Tor-
ringford, Conn., and the Congregational church at Greenfield
Hill., Conn., from 1879 to 1881. In the latter year he returned
to Woodstown, N. J., having retired from the active work of
the ministry, and resided there until 1887. After this he
resided at Bordentown, N. J., at Haddonfield, N. J., and also
at Merchantville, N. J., returning again to Woodstown in 1905,
where he lived until his death, which occurred May 23, 1907,
at the Hospital of St. Agnes, Philadelphia, Pa., of nephritis,
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in the 74th year of his age. He was buried in the Presbyterian
Cemetery of Woodstown, N. J. He was commissioner to the
General Assembly at St. Louis in 1890. He contributed nu-
merous articles to the religious newspapers and a tract of eight
pages, entitled “Come to Me”, which is still published by the
American Tract Society.
He was married May 30, 1861, in Woodstown, N. J., to
Sarah H. Reed, who with one daughter survives him.
PHILIP BARNES COCK, M. D.
Son of Joel and Polly (Russell) Cook, was born Jan. 17, 1832,
in Orwell, Pa. He made a public confession of his faith in the
Presbyterian church of Donalson, Pa., at the age of sixteen.
His preparatory studies were pursued at Rome and Wyoming,
Pa., chiefly under the Rev. Darwin Cook, and he graduated
from Princeton University in 1857. Entering the Seminary
at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three
years’ course there, graduating in i860. He was licensed by
the Presbytery of Luzerne (now Lackawanna) April 17, 1859,
and was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Vincennes
(now Indiana), Sept. 16, i860. He engaged in work as a
missionary in Greene County, Ind., for eight months after
April, i860. He was stated supply of the churches at Bloom-
field and Scofield Prairie, Ind., from 1861 to 1862. He served
as chaplain to the 85th Infantry of the U. S. A. from May,
1862, to May, 1863. He then supplied the church at Bloom-
field, Ind., for a year, being also engaged in teaching during
the same time. Upon the failure of his voice he was obliged
to give up the work of preaching and studied medicine, receiv-
ing the degree of M.D. from the Miami Medical College, Cin-
cinnati, O., in 1866. He entered upon the practice of the
medical profession in this year in Nokomis, 111., remaining
there until 1870. During the next three years he labored as a
life insurance agent in connection with his medical practice,
at Indianapolis, Ind. Finding himself able to resume preach-
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ing, he became stated supply of the church at White Haven,
Pa., in September, 1873, serving this church until November,
1875. After this he resumed the practice of medicine in
Kingston, Pa., from 1875 to 1883, and then in Le Raysville,
Pa., from 1883 until his death, which occurred Aug. 13, 1907,
in Le Raysville, of apoplexy, in the 76th year of his age. He,
was buried at Orwell, Pa. -
Mr. Cook was twice married: (1) March 14, 1865, in
Worthington, Ind., to Emma Frances Langworthy, who died
April 7, 1892; (2) Sept. 5, 1895, at Le Raysville, Pa., to Mary
Haigh, who with one son and three daughters survives him.
JAMES ADDISON QUARLES, D.D. LLD„
Son of James and Sarah Ann (Mills) Quarles, was born April
30, 1837, in Dunlora, Mo. He made a public confession of his
faith in the Presbyterian church of Boonville, Mo., at the age
of ten. His preparatory studies were pursued in Boonville
under Prof. Frederick I. Kemper, and he graduated from
Westminster College, Missouri, in 1858. He spent two years
at the University of Virginia, and one year in teaching in
Boonville, 1856-57, before going to Westminster College, which
latter institution he attended during the long vacation between
the two years he spent at Princeton. He entered the Seminary
at Princeton in 1857, remaining there two years. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Missouri, April 9, 1859, and
ordained by the same Presbytery, Feb. 15, i860, being at the
same time installed pastor of the church at Glasgow, Mo.,
which he had been serving since November, 1859. This rela-
tion was dissolved Jan. 1, 1866. He at once began serving the
church at Lexington, Mo., and was installed its pastor Oct. 7,
1867, being released from this charge Oct. 4, 1873. During
the last three years of this pastorate he was president of the
Elizabeth Anil Seminary of Lexington, which he later served
in the same capacity from 1877 to 1886. He served the High
Street Church, St. Louis, Mo., as pastor-elect from October,
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1873, to July, 1874, and the churches of Prairie and Rich-
mond, Mo., as stated supply from May, 1875, to December,
1876. In 1886 he became professor of Moral Philosophy in
Washington and Lee Lhiiversity, and continued to discharge
the duties of this chair until his death, which occurred April
14, 1907, after a few days’ illness, in Lexington, Mo., in the
70th year of his age. He was buried at Lexington, Mo. He
received the degree of D.D. from Westminster College, Mo.,
in 1883, and that of LL.D. from Central LTniversity, Ky., in
1891. Dr. Quarles served Westminster College as a canvassing
financial agent on two occasions. From January, 1874, to
May, 1877, he was deputy county clerk of Lafayette County,
Mo. He published a number of pamphlets and articles in the
religious press, together with many sermons in the daily and
weekly papers.
He was married Oct. 11, 1859, in Eldon, Mo., to Caroline
Wallace Field, who survives him.
SAMUEL BAYARD DOD,
Son of Albert Baldwin and Caroline (Bayard) Dod, was born
Dec. 3, 1838, in Princeton, N. J. He made a public confession
of his faith in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton at
the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in
the Edgehill School in Princeton, under Doctors Thomas and
William Cattell, and he graduated from Princeton University
in 1857. He then spent a year and a half in study at the
Lhiiversity of Berlin, Germany. Entering the Seminary at
Princeton in 1858, he took the full three years’ course there,
graduating in 1861. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick, Oct. 2, i860, and ordained by the Presbytery
of Hudson (O. S.) in June, 1862, being at the same time in-
stalled pastor of the church at Monticello, N. Y. This relation
was dissolved in 1864. His only other pastorate was that of
the church in Wilkesbarre, Pa., from 1864 until Sept. 27, 1868,
when he resigned to take charge of the estate of the late E. A.
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Stevens. As a trustee of that estate he had the oversight of
the founding and the direction of the Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, N. J. He resided in Hoboken from
1868 to 1885, and in East Orange, N. J., for some years after
that date. He later took up his residence in South Orange,
where he died April 19, 1907, of heart disease, in the 69th
year of his age. Mr. Dod was buried in Rosedale Cemetery,
Orange, N. J. Mr. Dod was a trustee of Princeton Univer-
sity from 1882 until his death; he was president of the Board
of Trustees of Stevens Institute at Hoboken from 1868 until
his death ; he was also a member of the Board of Managers of
the Geological Survey of New Jersey, president of the Board
of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of South Orange,
and held many other positions of trust. He was the organizer
of the Hudson Trust Company, President of the First Na-
tional Bank of Hoboken, of the Hoboken Land Improvement
Company, and at various times was president of the Hudson
Street Railway Company and the Hoboken Ferry. He trav-
elled much and was interested in art and music. In conjunc-
tion with his sister, Mrs. Stevens, he endowed the chair of
Mathematics in Princeton University in honor of his father.
He published a memorial sermon on Joseph Henry, and three
books, Stubble or Wheat, 1888; A Highland Chronicle, 1892;
A Hillside Parish, 1893, besides many contributions to the
magazines.
He was twice married: (1) Oct. 22, 1862, in Princeton,
N. J., to Isabella W. Green, who died Dec. 17, 1883; (2)
March 31, 1885, in Hoboken, N. J., to Eleanor Wall, who with
one son and two daughters by his first marriage survives him.
CHARLES DUNLAP,
Son of William and Sarah (Nevius) Dunlap, was born Dec.
13, 1832, in Northville, Mich. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Northville, at the
age of twenty-three. His preparatory studies were pursued
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in Northville, under the Rev. S. S. Cochrane, and he gradu-
ated from the University of Michigan in 1855. He then spent
three years in teaching and in work on the home farm. Enter-
ing the Seminary at Princeton in 1858, he took the full three
years’ course there, graduating in 1861. He was licensed by
the Presbytery of Michigan (O. S.), May 2, 1861. From
July, 1862, to July, 1863, he supplied the church at Lakeville,
Mich. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Michigan, Jan.
25, 1865, being at the same time installed pastor of the church
of South Lyon, Mich., which he had been supplying since May
of the previous year. He was released from this charge May
2, 1871. From September, 1871, to May, 1872, he supplied the
churches of Grand Ledge and Oneida, Mich. ; the church at
Sturgis, Mich., from June, 1872, to June, 1874; the church
at Waltham, 111., from July, 1874, to November, 1879; the
church at Osceola, la., from November, 1879, to October,
1892; the churches of Adel, Minburn and Waukee, la., from
1892 to 1896; the churches of Adel and Waukee, 1896-97; the
churches of Adel and Minburn, 1897-98, and the church of
Adel alone, 1898-99. At this time he retired from the active
work of the ministry on account of his advancing years. He
was honorably retired in 1902 and took up his residence on a
fruit farm near Grand Junction, Colo., where he resided until
his death, which occurred June 21, 1907, of paralysis, in the
75th year of his age. He was buried in Adel, Iowa. Mr.
Dunlap published occasional sermons in the local papers.
He was married Dec. 2, 1863, in Oxford, Mich., to Christie
Gardner, who died Oct. 11, 1907, less than four months after
his own death. One son and three daughters survive him.
FRANKLIN CHAPPELL JONES,
Son of Elijah Cowles and Julia (Chappell) Jones, was born
March 20, 1837, in New London, Conn. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Congregational church of South-
ington, Conn., at the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies
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were pursued partly under his father and at the Louis Acad-
emy of Southington, and he graduated from Yale University in
1857. He then spent a year as a tutor in Beloit College.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1858, he remained there
one year. The other two years of his theological course were
spent at Andover Seminary, from which he graduated in 1861.
He was licensed by the Woburn Congregational Association
Jan. 15, 1861, and ordained by a Council of the New London
Congregational Association Feb. 4, 1863, being at the same
time installed pastor of the Congregational church of Frank-
lin, Conn., from which he was released Sept. 28, 1880, on
account of ill health. He served the Congregational church at
Manitou, Colo., as acting pastor from May, 1882, to April,
1883, and then taught in a private school in Manitou, 1883-85.
He supplied the Congregational churches of Hydesville and
Rohnerville, Cal., from November, 1885, to November, 1886.
At this time ill health again interrupted his ministerial labors.
He served the Vailsburgh Chapel at South Orange, N. J., as
church missionary from May, 1888, until December, 1893.
During the next three years he resided in ill health at Rose-
ville, N. J., and then from. 1896 to 1898, in Norfolk, Mass.,
during one year of this time teaching in the Norfolk public
school. He was pastor of the Congregational church of Dover,
Mass., from November, 1898, to April, 1901. Again ill health
laid him aside from his active labors. He resided in Norfolk,
Mass., from 1901 until his death, which occurred Dec. 10,
1907, in Norfolk, of angina pectoris, in the 71st year of his age.
He was buried in Franklin, Conn. He published a historical
discourse at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
church of Franklin, Conn., and an address on the life and
character of Samuel Nott, D.D.
Mr. Jones was married May 7, 1863, at Carbondale, Pa.,
to Harriet Lathrop Wurts, who with three sons survives him.
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WENDELL PEIME, D.D.
Son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Irenaeus and Eloisa Lemet (Wil-
liams) Prime, was born Aug. 3, 1837, in Matteawan, Duchess
Co., N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the
Clinton Street Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., at the
age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the
Columbia College grammar school, New York City, under
Prof. Anthon, and he graduated from Columbia University in
1856. He spent the following year in Union Theological
Seminary, Virginia, and then the year 1857-58 as tutor in a
private family in Goochland County, Va. Entering the Sem-
inary at Princeton in 1858 as a middler, he completed his
theological course there, graduating in i860. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New York, April 26, i860, and ordained
by the Presbytery of Michigan, Oct. 23, 1861, being at the
same time installed pastor of the Westminster Church, Detroit,
Mich. This relation was dissolved April 23, 1867. He gave up
this charge on account of ill health and then, spent some time
in travel abroad. His only other pastorate was that of the
Union Church, Newburgh, N. Y., from June 3, 1869, to
October 5, 1875. In 1876 he became editor of the New York
Observer and continued this work until 1893, when his health
obliged him to give up continuous labor. After this he spent
much time in travel in this country and in Europe, doing such
literary work as his health permitted. He died Nov. 28, 1907,
in Zurich, Switzerland, in the 71st year of his age. He was
buried in the Moravian Cemetery of Konigsfeld-Baden, in the
Black Forest. He received the degree of D.D. from Union
College in 1880. Dr. Prime was president of the Riverside
Rest Association, of New York City. He published a sermon
on the Assassination of President Lincoln, besides other ser-
mons and Fifteenth Century Bibles, 1888. He was editor of
the Autobiography and Memorials of Samuel Irenaeus Prime.
He contributed many letters and articles to New York Ob-
server and the illustrated Christian Weekly. The greater part
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of his literary work was done as editor of the New York
Observer.
He was married June 9, 1869, in New York City, to Helen
M. Lefferts, who died July 27, 1873.
FRANCIS BARTLETT CONVERSE, D.D.,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Amasa and Flavia (Booth) Converse, was
born June 23, 1836, in Richmond, Va. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the Green Hill Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Central High School of Philadelphia and
later in the Classical School of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Coleman,
in the same city, and he graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1856. He then spent three years in his father’s
office assisting in editing and in other work in connection with
the Christian Observer. He entered the Seminary at Princeton
in 1859, remaining somewhat more than a year. He left the
Seminary at the- breaking out of the Civil War and went to
Richmond, Va. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Han-
over, in October, 1861, and ordained an evangelist by the
• Presbytery of East Hanover, in October, 1862. He was stated
supply of the Olivet Church, New Kent County, Virginia,
1861-62. His life was spent in editorial work in connection
with the Christian Observer, of which he became the associate
editor in 1857. In 1872, upon the death of his father, he
became editor of that paper, which at first was published in
Richmond, Va., and after 1869, in Louisville, Ky. His labors
as editor were ended only by his death, which occurred Sept.
29, 1907, in Louisville, Ky., of heart disease, in the 72nd year
of his age. He was buried in Louisville. He received the
degree of D.D. in 1896 from Hampden Sydney College. Dr.
Converse was obliged to interrupt his course in Princeton
Seminary on account of his health. He did a vast amount of
literary work in connection with his duties as editor.
He was married May 3, 1866, in Hanover County, Va., to
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Ellen Elizabeth Pollard, who with four sons and two daugh-
ters survives him.
ROBERT EDGAR,
Son of William and Jane Edgar, was born July 31, 1833, in
County Down, Ireland. He came to New York City in Octo-
ber, 1842. He made a public confession of his faith in the
First Presbyterian Church of Lansingburgh, N. Y., at the age
of twenty. His preparatory studies were pursued in Lansing-
burgh Academy under J. Hooker Magoffin and the Rev. John
Smith, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1859.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
year, he took the full three years’ course there and graduated
in 1862. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Troy (O. S.),
Jan. 15, 1861, and ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of
Tioga (N. S.), April 29, 1867. He was stated supply of the
church at Lake George, N. Y., from May, 1862, to October,
1863; of the church at Swartswood, N. J., from August, 1864,
to August, 1865; of the church at Nicholson, Pa., from Octo-
ber, 1865, to October, 1866; of the church at Union, N. Y.,
from September, 1866, to May, 1867; of the church at Toledo,
O., from July, 1867, to July, 1871, and of the church at Clay-
ton, Mich., from November, 1873, to November, 1874. He
served the church at Deerfield, Mich., as pastor-elect from
April, 1875, to April, 1878, and was pastor of the church at
Aledo, 111., from October, 1878, to June, 1881. His only other
pastoral labor was as stated supply of the Second Church of
Davenport, la., from June, 1881, to January, 1891. He con-
tinued his residence in Davenport until October, 1900, when he
moved to Fordyce, Ark., remaining there until his death, which
occurred Sept. 1, 1907, when he had just completed his 74th
year. He was buried at Fordyce, Ark. Mr. Edgar published
a historical sketch of the College of New Jersey, 1859, and
a Thanksgiving sermon, Lake George, N. Y., 1862.
He was married Nov. 3, 1864, in Burlington, N. J., to Mary
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Jane Boozer, who with four sons and one daughter survives
him.
DAVID HEREON.
Son of David and Sarah (Martin) Herron, was born Oct. 26,
1832, in Newry, County Down, Ireland. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church at Tully,
County Longford, Ireland, at the age of seventeen. He came
to America at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in Newry, the place of his birth, but more espe-
cially at Mountnorris, under Alexander McDonald. He gradu-
ated from Union College in 1859. He had entered college soon
after his arrival in America, but owing to ill health was com-
pelled to postpone his college career. Entering the Seminary
at Princeton in 1859, he took the full three years’ course there,
graduating in 1862. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Albany, June 12, 1861. He supplied the churches of North
Hampton and Northville, N. Y., in 1861, and the churches of
Luzerne and Conklinville, N. Y., 1862-63. He then engaged in
work as a home missionary in Trempeleau Valley, Wis., 1863-
64. He was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of
Albany, June 14, 1864. He was pastor of the North Hampton
and Northville churches from June 27, 1865, to Oct. 11, 1870.
During this pastorate he replaced the old church building with
a new one. He was pastor of the church at Bethlehem, N. Y.,
from Nov. 17, 1870, to December, 1879; of the church at Jef-
ferson, N. Y., from Aug. 31, 1880, to September, 1885, and
of the church at Norwood, N. J., from June 24, 1886, to June
24, 1888. After this he resided at Northville, N. Y., from 1888
to 1890, and then at Broadalbin, N. Y., from 1890 until his
death, which occurred Jan. 8, 1908, at Broadalbin, of paralysis,
in the 76th year of his age. He was buried at Perth, N. Y.
Mr. Herron was married June 16, 1864, at North Broad-
albin, N. Y., to Margaret Reddish, who died Sept. 13, 1906.
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JOHN PETERSON CLARK, *
Son of Daniel and Mary (Peterson) Clarke, was born Dec. 9,
1824, in Philadelphia, _Pa. He made a public confession of his
faith in the church at Upper Octorara, Pa., at the age of
twenty-four. His preparatory studies were pursued in the
Classical Institute of Wilmington, Del., under Samuel Galey,
and he graduated from Lafayette College in 1856. He then
took up the work of colporteur for the Presbyterian Board of
Education and engaged in teaching during the winters of 1856
and 1857, fifst at Sadsburyville, Pa., and then in the Howard
Academy, Chester Co., Pa. The first two years of his theolog-
ical course were spent in the Western Theological Seminary,
and he entered the Seminary at Princeton in i860 as a senior,
remaining one year and graduating in 1861. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Castle April 11, i860, and ordained
an evangelist by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, Oct. 2, 1861.
He was stated supply of the churches of Phillipsburg, Morris,
and Moshanon, Pa., from April, 1861, to April, 1863, con-
tinuing his service of the last named church until April, 1865.
In October of this year he was elected pastor of the church at
Doe Run, Pa., over which he was installed April 10, 1866. He
was released from this charge April 14, 1868. At this time he
began serving the church at Little Valley, Pa., and was in-
stalled its pastor June 13, 1871, and released from this charge
Oct. 8, 1873. He was pastor of the Second Mansfield and the
Danville churches, N. J., from Nov. 18, 1873, to Oct. 5, 1881.
His last pastorate was that of the Stillwater and Swartswood
churches, N. J., from Nov. 15, 1881, to Oct. 1, 1896. He then
retired from active work and went to live with his children
in Hackensack, N. J. He died Feb. 17, 1908, in Hackensack,
of Bright’s disease, in the 84th year of his age. He was buried
in Hackensack Cemetery. Mr. Clarke was a commissioner to
the General Assembly at Madison in 1881.
He was married May 27, 1862, at Norwood, N. Y., to
Matilda Powless, who with three sons and three daughters
survives him.
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ALMON BAXTER MERWIN,
Son of Almon and Aletta Merwin, was born June 27, 1835, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated from Yale University in 1857.
He then engaged in teaching for two years. He was a student
in Union Theological Seminary, New York, for a short time
in 1857, and again from 1859 to i860. He entered the Semi-
nary at Princeton in the fall of the latter year, remaining there
two years, when he returned to Union Seminary, from which
he graduated in 1863. He was never licensed or ordained.
He was a tutor in the Deaf and Dumb Institute, New York
City, from 1863 to 1865, and then superintendent of the Ameri-
can Sunday School Union in North Iowa from 1865 to 1866.
In the latter year he engaged in teaching in Newark, N. J., and
so continued until 1874, when he accepted a chair in the
Newark High School. He retired from this work in 1885.
He died Jan. 22, 1907, in Brooklyn, N. Y., suddenly, of acute
bronchitis, in the 72nd year of his age. He was buried in
Newark, N. J.
Mr. Merwin was married three times: (1) Dec. 25, 1868,
in Hudson City (now Jersey City), N. J., to Kate J. Bryden,
who died Oct. 4, 1880; (2) in 1884, at Madison, N. J., to
Catherine Johnson, who died in 1889; (3) in 1894, in Newark,
N. J., to Helen A. Hill, who died in September, 1906.
JEHU THOMPSON OSLER,
Son of Jehu and Ann (Thompson) Osier, was born Nov. 12,
1832, in Danville, Pa. He made a public confession of his
faith in the Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond, Va.,
at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued
in the Presbyterian Institute of Philadelphia under Dr. Lyman
Coleman, and he graduated from Princeton University in i860.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
year, he took the full three years course there, graduating in
1863. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia Cen-
tral, April 3, 1862, and ordained an evangelist by the same
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Presbytery, April 3, 1865. He supplied the Moyamensing
Church, Philadelphia, Pa., from January to July, 1864. From
April to September, 1865, he engaged in home mission work
in Florida. He was stated supply of the church at Hancock,
Md., from November, 1865, to May, 1867; pastor of the church
at King wood, N. «[., from November, 1867, to October, 1872;
pastor of the South Bethlehem Church, Pa., from Oct. 26,
1872, to May 4, 1875; stated supply of the chapel of the First
Church of Schenectady, N. Y., 1875-76. He then resided in
Princeton, N. J., until 1881. In this year he began serving the
church at West Milford, N. J., and was installed its pastor
July 11, 1882. This relation was dissolved Oct. 1, 1907. He
died Oct. 7, 1907, in Christ Hospital, Jersey City, of nephritis,
in the 75th year of his age.
Mr. Osier was married March 4, 1864, in Princeton, N. J.,
to Helen Free Rittenhouse, who survives him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PATTERSON,
Son of James and Sarah (Eves) Patterson, was born March
12, 1835, in Orangeville, Pa. He made a public confession of
his faith in the Rohrsburg Presbyterian Church, Pa., at the
age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the
academy at Wyoming, Pa., and he graduated from Lafayette
College in 1S60. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the
fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there,
graduating in 1863. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick, April 22, 1863. He was never ordained.
Erom September, 1863, to January, 1865, he engaged in evan-
gelistic work at Atsion, N. J. The rest of his life was devoted
to teaching. He was principal of the high school in Pottsville,
Pa., 1865-67, and then superintendent of the public schools
at Pottsville from that time until his death, which occurred
July 9, 1906, of heart disease, in Pottsville, in the 72nd year
of his age. He was buried at Pottsville.
Mr. Patterson was married May 10, 1874, at Easton, Pa.,
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to Mary E. Opdycke, who with two sons and one daughter
survives him.
WILLIAM BUDD BODINE, D.D.,
Son of Daniel Budd and Elizabeth Shinn (L^mb) Bodine, was
born March 10, 1841, near Mount Holly, in Burlington Co.,
N. J. He was confirmed a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in Trenton Academy, N. J., under Rev. David Cole,
D.D., and he graduated from Princeton University in i860.
During the following year he was engaged in teaching. He
entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1861, remaining one year.
He then spent two years at the Episcopal Theological Seminary
in Gambier, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1864.
He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church
by Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, in July, 1864, and
ordained a presbyter by Bishop Wittingham, of Maryland, on
Trinity Sunday, 1865. From September, 1864, to September,
1865, he was assistant to the rector of Emanuel Church, Balti-
more, Md., and rector of the Memorial Church, Baltimore,
from October, 1865, to October, 1869. He was rector of
Christ Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., from November, 1869, to
November, 1871. He was then chaplain of the Theological
Seminary of the diocese of Ohio and of Kenyon College from
1871 to 1876, and later professor of Theology in the Theolog-
ical Seminary at Gambier, O., from 1876 to 1877. He was
president of Kenyon College from 1877 to 1891. During the
following year he was general missioner of the Parochial Mis-
sionary Society of the United States. In January, 1893, he
became rector of the Church of Our Saviour, Philadelphia, Pa.,
and so continued until his death, which occurred Sept. 28, 1907,
at Mt. Pocono, Pa., of arterial schlerosis, in the 67th year of
his age. He was buried in the old St. David’s Church grave-
yard, Radnor, Pa. He received the degree of D.D. from
Princeton University in 1878. Dr. Bodine. served the Episco-
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pal church at Elberon, N. J., during the summers of 1891 to
1906. He published a sermon on Church Music, a historical
sketch of the Theological Seminary of the Diocese of Ohio and
Kenyon College, and a funeral sermon on the Rev. A. Black,
D.D.
He was married April 22, 1867, in Baltimore, Md., to
Rachel Alice Allen, who with three sons and three daughters
survives him.
JAMES MARSHALL ANDERSON, D.D.,
Son of James and Janet (Marshall) Anderson, was born Sept.
10, 1827, in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He was brought to Amer-
ica when two years of age. He made a public confession of
his faith in the church connected with Williams College at the
age of twenty-five. His preparatory studies were pursued in
the Schenectady Academy, New York, under William Aitken,
and he graduated from Williams College in 1854. After leav-
ing college he spent eight months in foreign travel. He then
engaged in teaching for one year near Charleston, S. C., and
for the succeeding year in Ohio. After this he occupied the
chair of Modern Languages in the Tuskegee Female College,
Alabama, for four years. He then began the study of law in
Cincinnati, Ohio. He entered the Seminary at Princeton in
1862, remaining two years. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of Connecticut (O. S.) in April, 1864, and was ordained an
evangelist by the Presbytery of Cincinnati (N. S.) April 19,
1865. He was president of the Female College at College Hill,
near Cincinnati, from 1864 to 1868, and professor of Mathe-
matics in Williams College from 1868 to 1869. He was pastor
of the Second Church, Belvidere, N. J., 1870-74; of the church
at Matawan, N. J., from June 30, 1874, to Dec. 13, 1881, when
ill health for a time interrupted his ministerial labors. He was.
pastor of the church at New Vernon, N. J., from May 9, 1884,
to April 9, 1889, and of the church at Bismarck, N. D., from
1889 to 1893. He had no charge after this. He resided in
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Duluth, Minn., from 1893 until his death, which occurred
Aug. 23, 1907, in Duluth, of heart failure, having almost com-
pleted his 80th year. He was buried at Norfolk, Conn. He
received the honorary degree of D.D. from Williams College
in 1904. Dr. Anderson was a commissioner to the General
Assembly at Saratoga in 1890. He was chaplain of the House
of Representatives of North Dakota in 1890. He published
a number of sermons.
He was married Aug. 25, 1864, in Cheshire, Conn., to
Elizabeth Robbins, who died April 13, 1896, at Duluth, Minn.
One son and three daughters survive him.
ADDISON PINNEO FOSTER, D.D.,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Eden Burroughs and Catherine (Pinneo)
Foster, was born Sept. 25, 1841, in Henniker, N. H. He
made a public confession of his faith in the John Street Con-
gregational Church, Lowell, Mass., at the age of twelve. His
preparatory studies were pursued in the Lowell High School
and later in the Phillips Academy at Andover, and he gradu-
ated from Williams College in 1863. Entering the Seminary
at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he remained two
years there. He then spent the third year of his Seminary
course at the Andover Theological Seminary, from which insti-
tution he graduated in 1866. He was licensed by the Hampden
East Congregational Association, May 2, 1865, and ordained
by an Ecclesiastical Congregational Council at Lowell, Mass.,
Oct. 3, 1866, being at the same time installed pastor of the
Appleton Street (Eliott) Congregational Church of Lowell.
This relation was dissolved in October, 1868. He was stated
supply of the First Congregational Church of Washington,
D. C. ; of the First Congregational Church of Baltimore, Md. ;
of the Vine Street Church, Cincinnati, O., and of the First
Church of Chicago, 111., during the next two years, serving
each one of them for a brief period, as his health did not
permit him to continue long in one field. He was then pastor
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of the Congregational church at Malden, Mass., from March
17, 1871, to Nov. 30, 1872; of the Congregational church of
Chelsea, Mass., from Oct. 9, 1872, to April 30, 1877; of the
First Congregational Church of Jersey City, N. J., from May
23, 1877, to March 23, 1886, and of the Emanuel Congrega-
tional Church, Roxbury, Mass., from May 23, 1886, to March
23, 1893. He continued his residence in Roxbury until 1896.
After this he resided in Auburndale, Mass., 1896-1904, and
then in New Paltz, N. Y., from 1904 until his death, which
occurred June 18, 1907, in New Paltz, of chronic gastritis, in
the 66th year of his age. He was buried in Lowell, Mass. He
received the degree of D.D. from Williams College in 1886.
Dr. Foster was a member of the executive committee of the
American Missionary Association from 1877 to 1895. He was
secretary for New England of the American Sunday School
Union from 1893 to l9°A> and the eastern editor of the Chi-
cago Advance. He was also for a time a trustee of Berea
College. Among his publications were Four Pastorates ;
Glimpses of the Life and Thoughts of Eden B. Foster, D.D.,
1883; a Manual of Sunday School Methods; sermons preached
annually in the Monday Club from 1876 to 1893; a Bird’s Eye
View of Christianity and the Types of Scripture, Decennial
report of the class of ’66, Andover Theological Seminary.
He was twice married: (1) Aug. 8, 1866, at Springfield,
Mass., to Harriette Day, who died Aug. 1, 1896; (2) Sept. 22,
1898, at New Paltz, N. Y., to Gertrude Deyo, who died Feb.
16, 1907. Two sons and two daughters by his first wife sur-
vive him.
ALFRED JENKS STEAD,
Son of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin and Sarah Ann (Jenks) Stead,
was born March 28, 1843, in Bridesburg, Pa. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of
Astoria, Long Island, N. Y., at the age of fourteen. His pre-
paratory studies were pursued in the grammar schools of New
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York City, under Dr. Benden, principal of the classical depart-
ment, and he graduated from New York University in 1863.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in
1866. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Nassau, April 18,
1866, and ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, April
9, 1867. He was stated supply of the church at Richland
Prairie, Minn., from June, 1867, t° June, 1871, and of the
church at Chippewa Falls, Wis., from July of the latter year
until installed its pastor in 1872. This relation was dissolved
in 1874. After this he supplied the following churches: Gen-
eseo, 111., from September, 1874, to September, 1878; Munson,
111., from January, 1877, to November, 1881, and the Oak
Grove Church, Bloomington, Minn., from December, 1881,
until installed its pastor, in April, 1882. He was released from
this charge June 5, 1893. From 1893 to 1&97 he supplied the
church at Holloway, Mich., and for a year thereafter resided
in ill health at Wyandotte, Mich. His last ministerial work
was as supply of the Henrytown and Richland Prairie churches,
Minn., with his residence in Canton, from 1899 to 1903. He
continued' to reside in Canton from this time until his death,
which occurred Aug. 3, 1907, in Canton, of heart disease, in
the 65th year of his age. He was buried in the cemetery of
the Richland Prairie Church, Minn.
Mr. Stead was married Nov. 22, 1872, in Chatfield, Minn.,
to Lillie R. Edwards, who with three sons survives him.
FREDERICK MAYER NEWMAN,
Son of Henry and Mary Ann (Lyman) Newman, was born
Oct. 31, 1840, in Albany, N. Y. He made a public confession
of his faith in the First Reformed Church of Albany at the
age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued in
the Albany Academy and in Prof. Anthony’s Classical Insti-
tue of Albany, and he graduated from Union College in 1864.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same
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year, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in
1867. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York, April
17, 1867, and ordained by the same Presbytery Dec. 9, 1868.
He was pastor of the church at Port Henry, N. Y., 1869-70,
and then spent a year in travel in Europe. He was pastor of
the First Church at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., from July 2,
1872, to Jan. 25, 1875. He never accepted another charge,
yet, although giving up the active work of the ministry, he
still continued to interest himself in missionary work. He
supplied the church at Hamilton Union, N. Y., for a time in
1879. After this he resided in Albany without charge until
his death, which occurred June 16, 1906, in Albany, of paraly-
sis, in the 66th year of his age. He was buried in the Rural
Cemetery, Albany. He was unmarried.
CHAUNCEY ELLIOTT VAN ALLEN,
Son of Lawrence Evert and Maria (Ellis) Van Allen, was
born Sept. 22, 1838, in West Perth, N. Y. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian church of Johns-
town, N. Y., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Johnstown Academy, and he graduated
from Union College in 1864. Entering the Seminary at Prince-
ton in the fall of the same year, he remained there three years.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Albany, Oct. 10, 1866,
and was ordained to the ministry of the Baptist Church by a
Council at New Marlborough, Mass., June 29, 1876, being at
the same time installed pastor of the Southfield Baptist Church,
Mass. He gave up this charge in 1879. After this he served
the following Baptist churches as pastor: Cross River, N. Y.,
1879-84; Bennettsburgh, N. Y., 1884-88; Salisbury, N. Y.,
1888-92; Stephentown, N. Y., 1892-96; Russell, Mass., 189b-
1900. He died April 22, 1907, in Springfield, Mass., of rupture
of the heart, in the 69th year of his age. He was buried in the
Peabody Cemetery, Springfield.
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He was married Feb. 17, 1864, in Schenectady, N. Y., to
Phebe Anne Ward, who died March 16, 1907. One son sur-
vives him.
MATTHEW WITHERSPOON MACLEAN,
Son of Malcolm and Catherine (Macpherson) Maclean, was
born June n, 1842, in Glasgow, Scotland. He made a public
confession of his faith in the St. Columba Church, Glasgow,
at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies. were pursued
in the Church of Scotland Normal School of Glasgow, with
private tuition in the classics, and he graduated from Glasgow
University in i860. He spent the next year as a divinity stu-
dent in the Theological Hall of Glasgow University, and went
to Trinidad, W. I., in the summer of 1861. Coming to Canada
on a visit in the summer of 1862, he was induced to remain and
taught school in the Niagara District of Canada for a few
months. He spent two sessions in the Theological Hall of
Queen’s College, Kingston, Canada, 1863-65. Entering the
Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the latter year, as a senior,
he spent one year there, graduating in 1866. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Niagara in connection with the Church
of Scotland in Canada, June 12, 1866, and ordained by the
Presbytery of Guelph, of the same Church, Aug. 15, 1866,
being at the same time installed pastor of the St. Andrew’s
Church, Paisley, Ontario. This relation was dissolved Dec.
24, 1871. His other pastorates were that of the Mill Street
Church, Port Hope, Canada, from January, 1872, to Novem-
ber, 1873, and of the St. Andrew’s Church, Bellville, Canada,
from Nov. 12, 1873, to March 20, 1904, a period of thirty-one
years. After this he resided at Arlington Beach, Sask., Can-
ada. Mr. Maclean received the honorary degree of B.A. from
Princeton University in 1866, and the degree of M.A. from
Queen’s College, Kingston, in 1872. He was clerk of the
Presbytery of Kingston of the Church of Scotland in Canada,
from 1874 to 1875, and was the convener of the Home Mission
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Committee of the Presbytery of Kingston for twenty years.
He was a member of the Board of Education af Bellville,
chaplain of the Fifteenth Regiment, Arglye Eight Infantry, for
over twenty years, chaplain of the Bellville Masonic Lodge,
and a trustee of Queen’s University, Kingston. He published
a number of sermons.
He was married Sept. 29, 1868, at Kingston, Canada, to
Isabella Elizabeth Davidson, who died in March, 1901. Two
sons and one daughter survive him.
JONH ANDREW McDONALD,
Son of John and Elizabeth (Forbes) McDonald, was born
Oct. 13, 1837, in London, Ontario, Canada. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Lobo,
Out., at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the collegiate institute of London, Ont., and he
graduated from Knox College, Toronto, in 1867. Entering
the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took
the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1870. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 14, 1869,
and ordained by the Presbytery of London, Canada, Dec. 19,
1870, being at the same time installed pastor of the Presby-
terian church of Dorchester, Ont. This relation was dissolved
in 1876. He was pastor of the church at Wallacetown, Can-
ada, 1876-80; of the churches of Bridgden and Bear Creek,
1880-91 ; of the churches at Varna and Blake, 1891-99, and
of the churches of Richard’s Landing and Ophia during the
next seven years. His last pastorate was that of the Knox
Church, Little Current, Canada, from October, 1906, until his
death, which occurred Jan. 6, 1907, at Little Current, of heart
failure, in the 69th year of his age. He was buried at Blake,
Canada.
Mr. McDonald was married Jan. 5, 1863, in Lobo, Canada,
to Sarah Graham, who with one son and one daughter survives
him.
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WILLIAM GRANT,
Son of Firflay and Annie (Fraser) Grant, was born March 22,
1844, at Sunny Brae, East River, Pictou Co., N. S., Canada.
He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian
Church of Blue Mountain, Canada, at the age of seventeen.
His preparatory studies were pursued in Springville and Truro,
Canada, and he graduated from Dalhousie College in 1866.
He then spent two years of his theological course in the semi-
nary at Halifax. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1868
as a senior, he remained there one year, graduating in 1869.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Pictou, June 2, 1869, and
ordained by the same Presbytery Sept. 27, 1869, being at the
same time installed pastor of the church at Earltown, N. S.
This relation was dissolved Dec. 31, 1875. He was pastor of
the West River, Clyde River and Brookfield churches, P. E. I.,
Canada, from April 10, 1877, to April 25, 1886. He had served
the West River church before his installation for a year. He
was then made pastor of the Cow Bay (later Port Morien)
Church, Canada, from May 11, 1886, to May 31, 1899, and of
the church at Grand River, N. S., from June 1, 1899, until his
death, which occurred Dec. 18, 1906, at Grand River, of a
stomach trouble, in the 63d year of his age. He was buried at
Grand River. He engaged in teaching before entering college
and also while a student in college. He taught at Sunny Brae,
East River, Canada, from 1861 to 1862; at Bridgeville, from
May, 1863, to October, 1863, and at Glen Coe from May, 1864,
to October of the same year, and at Lafifan, Burney’s River,
from May, 1866, to October of the same year.
Mr. Grant was twice married: (1) October, 1870, at Bur-
ney’s River, Canada, to Margaret Ann Blair, who died Dec. 13,
1883; (2) Oct. IT> 1886, at New Glasgow, N. S., to Elizabeth
Catherine Falconer, who with one son by his first marriage
and one daughter by his second survives him.
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ELI MARSH TURNER, LL.D.,
Son of Uriel Mallory and Mary Rebecca (Marsh) Turner, was
born Dec. 24, 1844, ’n Clarksburg, W. Va. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Morgan-
town, W. Va., at the age of nineteen. His preparatory studies
were pursued in Culpepper, Va., under Edward B. Smith, and
in Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, W. Va., under A. W.
Lorentz, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1868.
He spent the following year at home. He entered the Semi-
nary at Princeton in 1869, remaining less than one year. He
was tutor in the classical department in Princeton University
from 1869 to 1873, and then engaged in teaching in Clarksburg,
W. Va., for two years. He was a practicing attorney-at-law
from 1875 to 1877, and was state senator for West Virginia
from 1877-81. The next four years were spent in farming and
literary work. In 1885' he was called to the presidency of the
University of West Virginia and held this office until June,
1893. After this he was general agent of the Northwestern
Life Insurance Company for West Virginia, until his death,
which occurred March 1, 1908, in Morgantown, W. Va., of
apoplexy, in the 64th year of his age. He was buried in the
Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown. He was never licensed
or ordained. He received 'the degree of LL.D. from Wash-
ington and Jefferson College in 1886.
Dr. Turner was married May 3, 1883, in Newark, O., to
Hetty Georgiana Jackson, who with two sons and one daugh-
ter survives him.
ROBERT GEORGE WILLIAMS,
Son of George and Elizabeth (Roberts) Williams, was born
July 13, 1838, at Festiniog, North Wales, Great Britain. He
made a public confession of his faith in the Welsh Calvinistic
Methodist Church at the age of thirteen. He came to America
in 1857. His preparatory studies were pursued in the high
school at Hightstown, N. J., under Rev. John E. Alexander,
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and he graduated from Princeton University in 1870. Enter-
ing the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he
took the full three years’ course there, graduating in 1873. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Newark, April 16, 1873, and
was ordained by the New Brunswick Classis of the Reformed
Church, Jan. 21, 1874, being at the same time installed pastor
of the Reformed church in Griggstown, N. J. This relation
was dissolved Jan. 21, 1877. He was stated supply of the
Presbyterian church at Bradford, Pa., from May, 1877, to
January, 1879; pastor of the Presbyterian church of Edinboro,
Pa., from Oct. 4, 1879, to April 15, 1885; stated supply of the
Presbyterian church at Nelson, Pa., from September, 1885, to
June, 1888; pastor of the church at Alexis, 111., from Sept. 19,
1888, to Dec. 15, 1890; pastor of the churches of Cochranton
and Milledgeville, Pa., from April 21, 1891, to Dec. 21, 1893;
pastor of the churches of Fruit Hill and Kermoor, Pa., from
June 26, 1894, to April 7, 1902, and stated supply of the
churches of Moshanon and Snow Shoe, Pa., from 1893 until
his death. From 1893 to *895 he resided at Kylertown, Pa.,,
and after that until his death at Moshanon. He died June 5,
1907, at Moshanon, of a strangulated hernia, in the 69th year
of his age. He was buried at Moshanon.
He was married May 16, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa., to
Sarah Richards Caffrey, who with three sons and three daugh-
ters survives him.
ALFRED HARRISON MOMENT, D.D.
Son of Edward Truman and Mary (Cowan) Moment, was-
born Jan. 22, 1844, in Clarke, Ontario, Canada. He made a
public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of
Newtonville, Canada, at the age of twenty-one. His prepara-
tory studies were pursued in the common and grammar schools
of Durham County, Canada, and in the normal school of
Toronto, and he graduated from Hanover College, Indiana, in
1872. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall of the
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same year, he remained one year, spending the year following
in preaching in Maine. Returning to the Seminary in 1874,
he completed his course there, graduating in 1876. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 25, 1876,
and ordained by the Presbytery of New York City, July 9,
1876, being at the same time installed pastor of the Spring
Street Church, New York City. This relation was dissolved
Feb. 4, 1S84. He was pastor of the Seventy-seventh Street
Church (now Knox), New York City, from Feb. 15, 1884, to
Jan. 12, 1885, and of the Westminster Church, Brooklyn, from
Dec. 16, 1885, to Feb. 19, 1894. He then spent two years in
travel abroad. After this for several years he engaged in
editorial work and was for a time editor of the Sunday School
department of the Presbyterian Standard. He was installed
pastor of the church at Raleigh, N. C., March 1, 1903, serving
this church until his death, which occurred Oct. 5, 1907, at
Raleigh, of typhoid fever, in the 64th year of his age. He
was buried in Raleigh. He received the degree of D.D. from
Hanover College in 1886, and later the same degree from
Lenox College, Iowa. Dr. Moment published many .sermons
and a History of the Old Spring Street Presbyterian Church,
New York City, and for some years he expounded the Sunday
School lessons in The Treasury.
He was twice married: (1) April 28, 1879, in New York-
City, to Magdalena Wust, who died July 11, 1880; (2) Feb.
15, 1884, in New York City, to Julia Wilson, who died Oct. 5,
1885. One daughter by his second wife survives him.
JOHN WALLACE CUMMINGS, D.D.,
Son of William and Katherine (Wallace) Cummings, was born
Sept. 13, 1847, 'n Stillwater, O. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Presbyterian Church at Feedspring, O., at
the age of seventeen. His preparatory studies were pursued
in the New Hagerstown Academy, Ohio, under Prof. John T.
Daniel, and he graduated from Wooster University in 1873.
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He then spent a year in teaching, being principal of the acad-
emy at Canaan, O. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in
1874, he took the full three years’ course there, graduating in
1877. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Steubenville, Mav
6, 1877, and ordained by the Presbytery of Wooster, June T2,
1878. He had only one pastoral charge, that of the churches
of Orange and Bethel, O., with his residence at Nankin, O.,
from June 29, 1878, until his death, which occurred March I,
1908, at Nankin, O., of chronic nephritis and heart failure, in
the 61 st year of his age. He was buried at Nankin. He re-
ceived the degree of D.D. from Wooster University in 1895.
Dr. Cummings engaged in teaching before entering upon his
college course, first in public schools from 1865 to 1866, then as
teacher of mathematics in the New Hagerstown Academy from
1867 to 1869. He was secretary of the Synods Permanent
Committee on Home Missions and Sustentation and was a
member of the General Assemblies of 1882 and 1892. He
published a memorial address on the Death of President Gar-
field, 1881 ; Obedience to Law, 1891 ; Supremacy of Law, 1905 ;
Paul’s Vision, 1906, besides other addresses and sermons. He
contributed between two hundred and three hundred articles
to newspapers and was for several years a regular contributor
to The Interior.
He was married Sept. 4, 1876, in Carrollton, O., to Harriet
M. DeFord, who with two sons survives him.
JAMES HENKY DEMING EOSS,
Son of Joseph and Almira (Cogger) Ross, was born Aug. 21,.
1851, in Troy, N. Y. He made a public confession of his faith
in the Second Presbyterian Church of Troy at the age of four-
teen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Troy High
School, from which he graduated in 1868. He graduated from
Princeton University in 1874. He then took the' first year of
his theological course in Union Seminary, N. Y. Entering
the Seminary at Princeton as a middler in 1875, he completed
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557
his course there, graduating in 1877. He was ordained by an
Ecclesiastical Congregational Council at Newburyport, Mass.,
Feb. 22, 1878, being at the same time installed pastor of the
Fourth (now Prospect Street) Congregational Church of New-
buryport. He served this church until 1882. He was pastor
of the South Norwalk Congregational Church, Conn., 1884-88,
and of the Franklin Street Church of East Somerville, Mass.,
1888-93. Since then he had no charge. He resided in North
Cambridge, Mass., from 1896 until his death, which occurred
Dec. 7, 1907, at Clifton Springs, N. Y., of nervous exhaustion,
in the 57th year of his age. He was buried at Newburyport,
Mass. Mr. Ross published a number of sermons and essays.
Since 1894 he devoted himself to journalism. He published
the life of Robert Ross, Martyr, 1894; Hymns and Singers of
the Y. M. C. A., 1901. He interested himself greatly in hymn-
ology and published many articles upon that subject in the
religious press. He edited the proceedings of the American
Missionary Association during the last fifteen years of his life.
He was married Feb. 27, 1878, at Hollis, N. H., to Susan
Jane Folger, who survives him.
WILLIS GORDON NEVILLE, D.D., LL.D.,
Son of John Coffee and Julia E. (McFall) Neville, was born
July 2, 1855, in Oconee County, S. C. He made a public con-
fession of his faith in the Hiwassee Presbyterian Church,
Hayesville, N. C., at the age of seventeen. His preparatory
studies were pursued in Hayesville under A. M. Dawson and
J. A. McMurray. He taught in the Hicksville High School,
Hayesville, N. C., from January to Mayj 1874, and in the
Raburn Gap High School, Ga., from July to December of the
same year. He graduated from Adger College, South Carolina,
in 1878. The first two years of his theological course were
spent in the theological seminary at Columbia, S. C. Entering
the Seminary at Princeton in 1880 as a senior, he took his third
year there, graduating in 1881. He was licensed by the Pres-
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bytery of South Carolina, April 17, 1880, and ordained by the
same Presbytery, April 9, 1882, being at the same time installed
pastor of the churche sof Ninety-six and Cokesbury, S. C.,
which churches he had been supplying for a year previous.
This relation was dissolved in September, 1885. He was
pastor of the. Concord Church, Blackstock, S. C., from May,
if 86, to August, 1890; of the church at Frankfort, Ky., from
Oct. 26, 1890, to July 14, 1893, and of the church at Yorkville,
S. C., from 1893 t° 1905. In the latter year he became presi-
dent of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, and con-
tinued such until his death, which occurred June 8, 1907, at
Clinton, S. C., of heart disease, in the 52nd year of his age.
He was buried at Greenwood, S. C. He received the degree of
D.D. from Davidson College in 1904, and the degree of LL.D.
from South Carolina College in 1905. Dr. Neville was a trus-
tee of Davidson College and of the Columbia Theological
Seminary. He published The Problem of Life, 1884; The
Kingdom of Christ not of this World, 1886; Obedience to Law,
1890, and Our Debt to the Heathen, 1892, all of these being
sermons.
He was married Nov. 7, 1883, in Cokesbury, S. C., to Vir-
ginia Aiken, who with three sons and five daughters survives
him.
GEORGE BAILEY TROUB, Ph D.,
Son of Adam Shaffer and Letitia Ann (Miller) Troub, was
born Feb. 20, 1863, in Honey Brook, Pa. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Honey Brook Presbyterian
church, at the age of twelve. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the York Collegiate Institute, Pa., and he graduated
from Lafayette College in 1889. He then took the first year
of his theological course in McCormick Theological Seminary.
Entering the Seminary at Princeton in 1890 as a middler, he
completed his course there and graduated in 1892. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Chester, May 12, 1892, and
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559
ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, Sept. 6, 1892.
He was installed pastor of the churches of Petersburg and
Bethal, Pa., July 25, 1893, and of the church of Shaver’s Creek,
Pa., on the day following, and was released from this triple
charge Aug. 28, 1894. He then spent some time in travel. He
was principal of the high school at Honey Brook, Pa., for a
time in 1895. After this he was stated supply of the following
churches: Hicksville, O., 1896-1900; Grand Ridge, 111., 1901-
04; Millton, la., during the same time, and the Olivet Church,
Indianapolis, Ind., from May, 1906, until his death, which
occurred Aug. 29, 1907, at Indianapolis, in the 45th year of
his age. His death was due to a fall from his bicycle in front
of a street car, when he was instantly killed. He was buried
in Hicksville, O. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the
Illinois Wesleyan University in 1903. He worked at cabinet
making during his preparatory course of study and canvassed
for books during his college vacations. During his seminary
vacations he engaged in Sabbath School work in Wyoming.
Dr. Troub was twice married: (1) Dec. 26, 1895, in Mc-
Alevy’s Fort, Pa., to Jeanette H. Mitchell, who died May 22,
1896; (2) Feb. 22, 1899, near Hicksville, O., to Mildred
Lorinda Harter, who with one son and one daughter by his
second marriage survives him.
WALLACE SOMERVILLE FARIS,
Son of the Rev. Dr. William Wallace and Isabella Hardy
(Thomson) Faris, was born May 15, 1869, in Chicago, 111.
He made a public confession of his faith in the Presbyterian
church of Carlinville, 111., at the age of twelve. His prepara-
tory studies were pursued in the Union Academy of Anna, 111.,
under his father and J. W. Stevens. He spent two years of his
college course in Lake Forest College and the other two years
in the Leland Stanford Junior University, from which he grad-
uated in 1893. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the
fall of the same year, he took the full three years’ course there,
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graduating in 1896. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Pittsburgh, May 7, 1895, and ordained an evangelist by the
same Presbytery, June 19, 1896, having devoted himself to the
cause of foreign missions. Sept. 21, 1896, he sailed for the
West Shantung Mission, China, under appointment by the
Board of Foreign Missions. When a new station was consid-
ered at Ihsien, he was placed at its head. He spent ten years
in China and was at home for one year in 1905 on furlough.
He died May 13, 1907, at Ihsien, Shantung, China, within two
days of the completion of his 38th year. He was buried at
Ihsien.
Mr. Faris was married Sept. 2, 1896, at Anna, 111., to Ellen
McGill Asper, who survives him.
NATHAN WHITE EUCKHOUT,
Son of William Armstrong and Mary Louise (Harkness)
Buckhout, was born Dec. 29, 1878, in State College, Pa. He
made a public confession of his faith in the church at State
College at the age of sixteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in public and local private schools and he graduated
from Pennsylvania State College in 1889. From that time until
his entering the Seminary he engaged in various pursuits. He
entered the Seminary at Princeton in 1903, remaining there
one year. He did not continue his studies for the ministry.
In 1904 he was in the employ of a brick and terra cotta manu-
facturing company at Corning, N. Y., and from 1905 to 1907
in the employ of the Consolidated General Co., Long Branch,
N. J., being engaged chiefly as a chemist. He died Dec. 26,
1907, at State College, Pa., of paralysis of the brain, within
three days of the completion of his 29th year. He was buried
in the Branch Cemetery, near State College. He was un-
married.
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THOMAS HORACE CLELAND,
Son of Robert Wickliff and Sallie (Glass) Cleland, was born
May 19. 1882, in Shelbyville, Ky. He made a public confession
of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Monrovia, Cal., at
the age of nine. His preparatory studies were pursued in the
grammar and high schools of Azusa, Cal., and he graduated
from the Occidental College in 1903. Entering the Seminary
of Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three
years’ course there, graduating in 1906. He was licensed by
the Presbytery of Los Angeles July 11, 1905, but was never
ordained. After leaving the Seminary he was appointed trav-
elling secretary of the college Y. M. C. A. for the colleges of
the Rocky Mountain regions west to the Pacific coast. On his
way to his first conference he was taken sick, continued at
work for a few days and then was obliged to come home. He
also took part in another conference at Pacific Grove. For
some months he supplied various churches and was considering
a call to one of these when a fatal relapse occurred. He died
June 15, 1907, at Long Beach, Cal., of tuberculosis, following
an attack of pleurisy the year previous, having just completed
his 25th year. He was buried at Monrovia, Cal. Mr. Cleland
had been accepted by the Board of Foreign Missions and ex-
pected to enter upon his work in the foreign field in 1907, when
death overtook him. He was unmarried.
EDWARD SHIELDS MacCONNELL,
Son of John Stark and Clara Janvier (Shields) MacConnell,
was born Jan. 13, 1882, in Pittsburgh, Pa. He made a public
confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Parnas-
sus, Pa., at the age of fourteen. His preparatory studies were
pursued in the public schools of Parnassus, and he graduated
from Wooster University in 1905. He spent the following
year at his home and in the railroad office of the Union Station,
Pittsburgh, from July, 1905, to July, 1906, and then until
September as tutor in a private family. He entered the Semi-
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nary at Princeton in the fall of 1906. He lost his life Aug. 6,
1907, by drowning in Absecon Bay, near Atlantic City, N. J.,
while trying to save the life of a friend, in his 26th year. He
was at the time supplying the Presbyterian Church of Absecon
during his summer vacation. He had expected to become a
missionary to China after completing his Seminary course.
He was buried at Parnassus, Pa. He was unmarried.
INDEX
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Anderson, James Marshall 545
Babbitt, William Hampton 521
Barbour, Lewis Green 514
Blanchard, Edward 515
Bodine, William Budd 544
Bridgman, Chester 530
Brown, Allen Henry 508
Buckhout, Nathan White 560
Chamberlin, Albert 518
Clarke, John Peterson 541
Cleland, Thomas Horace 561
Conover, Robert 519
Converse, Francis Bartlett 538
Cook, Philip Barnes 531
Craven, Elijah Richardson 51 1
Crowell, James McMullin 520
Cummings, John Wallace 555
Cuthbert, Lucius 525
Dod, Samuel Bayard 533
Dodge, John Varick 507
Dunlap, Charles 534
Edgar, Robert 539
Faris, Wallace Somerville 559
Fiske, John Billings 523
Foster, Addison Pinneo 546
Grant, William 552
Herron, David 540
Hubbard, Joseph Welton 527
Jones, Charles John 512
Jones, Franklin Chappell 535
Logan, Samuel Crothers 516
Lord, William Wilberforce 510
MacConnell, Edward Shields 561
McDonald, John Andrew 551
McElroy, John McConnell 524
Maclean, Mathew Witherspoon 550
Maitland, Alexander 505
Merwin, Almon Baxter 542
Mitchell, James Young 526
Moment, Alfred Harrison 554
Neville, William Gordon 557
Newman, Frederic Mayer 548
Osler, Jehu Thompson 542
Osmond, Samuel McClurg 522
Patterson, Benjamin Franklin 543
Prime, Wendell 537
Proctor, Robert 528
Quarles, James Addison 532
Ross, James Henry Deming 556
Sinclair, John 506
Stead, Alfred Jenks 547
Troub, George Bailey 558
Turner, Eli Marsh 553
Valentine, Richard 517
Van Allen, Chauncey Elliott 549
Williams, Robert George 553
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