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THE CLASS OF 1863.

Let us so live and die,

That our lessening band may cry
Hurrah, " Sixty-three ! "

Hurrah for our own " Sixty-three ! "

— Brooks. Ode in 1869,

-'•■^Ji

■ '\X

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

THE CLASS OF 1863

HARVARD COLLEGE,

June, 1893, to June, 1903.

PRINTED FOR THE USE OF THE CLASS.

CAMBRIDGE:
JOHN WILSON AND SON.

1903.

THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

341374

A8T0R, LENOX AND

TILOEN FOl'vOATIONS.

1906

Clagg Committee*

•ARTHUR LINCOLN, Class Secretary.
CLIFFORD CROWNINSHIELD WATERS.
EDWARD BANGS DREW.
HENRY FITCH JENKS.

TO THE CLASS OF 1863.

'T^HE last Class Eeport was issued in June, 1893, on the

-■" Thirtieth Anniversary of our graduation. The present Ee-
port covers the years from June, 1893, to June, 1903, our For-
tieth Anniversary.

This is the period of our maturity. In these ten years we
have done, for weal or for woe, the chief work of our lives. The
influence that the Class has exerted upon the world's history and
progress must be looked for in these pages. The record may not
be remarkable for achievement, but is one of which we have no
need to be ashamed.

At the time of the last Eeport, out of one hundred and twenty
graduates, ninety-six were living. At the present time, seventy-
six are living. We have lost in ten years twenty classmates, —
an average of two a year, — among whom are included many who
have shed lustre on the Class, who have contributed to the re-
nown it has gained, and who have been deeply enshrined in our
hearts.

First and foremost, is Lincoln, our Class Secretary, faithful
and true, ever devoted to the interests of the Class, whose pres-
ence and kindly greeting added an attraction to all our meetings,
and from whom it is hard indeed to realize that we have parted,
of whom, however, we may well say

" To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die."

Beside him have died Clarke, Dabney, Fiske, French, both
Frothinghams, Greenhalge, Greenough, Haseltine, Hassam,
Hayes, Howland, G. S. Jones, Kilbreth, Knapp, Stackpole,

4 THE CLASS OF 1868.

Wales, Weld, and Winthbop, and of those who were of the
Class for a part of the course, Barnakd, Dinsmoor, Eustis, and
Fearing, making a total of twenty-four out of the one hundred
and fifty-one who were at any time members of the Class, and
leaving us with eighty-eight still living.

Lincoln had begun this Report, and in spite of his illness had
prepared all the matter concerning those who had died before him
since the last Report, so that there was nothing to be done except
to send it to the printer, and he had procured the likenesses of all
of them but one. When he died, Waters was in California and
Drew in China, so as the remaining member of the Class Com-
mittee I took his material and have completed the work. I have
retained on the titlepage the term Secretary's Report, because the
work was so largely his that the volume may be treasured as a
memorial of his painstaking assiduity and of his all-absorbing
interest in the Class. His familiar features make the frontis-
piece to which we shall first turn. The portrait of Fiske is a
photogravure from the volumes of his essays published after his
death, for the use of which we are indebted to the permission
of Mrs. Fiske, and the courtesy of the Macmillan Company;
that of Greenhalge is from his life, published by our classmate
J. M. Brown, to whom we are indebted for the use of the plate ;
that of Hassam we owe to the kindness of his widow and brother ;
and those of Knapp and Winthrop have been supplied to us by
their brothers.

The remaining pictures are half-tones made ffom the best
photographs that could be procured. One or two of these were
so small and indistinct that the results may be considered as
really wonderful. The picture of Haseltine's garden, which sup-
plements the account of him in the text, is a heliotype reduced
from a photograph furnished by his sister.

The death of Barnard was so recent that it has proved impossi-
ble to secure a likeness of him.

Some response has been received from every member of the
Class now living, and from all but two of those who were

PREFACE. O

members for a part of the course. This Eeport, therefore, may
serve to answer the questions we should naturally ask one an-
other if we were to meet, and will tell us that which we should
most like to know. Its preparation has been a pleasure ; may its
perusal prove the same.

The words which Morse wrote for our Twenty-fifth Anniver-
sary appeal to our hearts now, and we find in them a new signifi-
cance, as we recall our hopes, and compare them with our achieve-
ments, and associate the memories of the past with the realities
of the present.

Still let us sing as boyhood sang.

When merry Time was young,
Ere yet his shining sickle rang —

And leave our tears unsung ;

Ay, leave the later loss and pain,

That wrung your hearts and mine,

Deep in the soul ; but sing the strain
We sang in auld lang syne.

The old sweet echoes in the heart

That time alone can give,
We need no master minstrePs art,

Save Love's to bid them live.

In every breast that music thrills

And bursts in song divine ;
We speed across a thousand hills.

To sing of auld lang syne.

* For the Class Committee.

HENRY F. JENKS.
June 24, 1903.

CONTENTS

PAOB

Members of the Class 11

Biographies of Members 13

Biographies of Members during a Part of the Course

only 125

Summary :

Occupations, etc 133

Marriages 134

Births 137

Grandchildren 145

Deaths 146

Sons in College 148

Daughters in College 150

Class Meetings 150

The Class Fund 172

Addresses 173

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Portrait op

Arthur Lincoln, Class Secretary

. Frontispiece

Haswell C. Clarke

Facing page 21

George S. Dabney

* 24

John Fiske

John D. W. French

Benjamin T. Frothingham . . .

William Frothingham ....

Frederic T. Greenhalge . . .

W1LLLA.M Greenough

' 55

Albert C. Haseltine

' 61

View op Haseltine's Garden

Portrait op

John T. Hassam

Alexander L. Hayes

William M. Rowland ....

George S. Jones

James T. Kilbreth

Arthur M. Knapp

William Stackpole

' 113

Benjamin Read Wales ....

117

Stuart Faucheraud Weld . . .

' 120

John Winthrop

' 122

George Reid Dinsmoor ....

' 126

Cartwright Eustis

' 128

Charles Frederic Fearing . . .

130

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS.

Amory, Charles Walter
Amory, Robert
Appleton, Kathan
Ayres, Marshall
Bagley, Charles Hazlett
Bailey, Andrew Jackson, 1869
Baxter, George Lewis
Bishop, Thomas Wetmore
Blair, Albert
Boit, Edward Darley
Bowditch, Charles Pickering
*Boynton, Winthrop Perkins,

1864 •1864

♦Brooks, Frederick •i874

Brown, John Murray

Brown, Melvin
♦Clarke, Has well Cordis, 1867 •1901

Cobb, Frederick

Comte, Auguste
♦Crane, William D wight, 1864 •isei

Cromwell, Frederic

Cross, Thaddeus Marshall Brooks

Curtin, Jeremiah
*Dabney, George Stackpole •1900

DanieU, Moses Grant
*Davis, Samuel Craft •1374

Denny, Clarence Holbrook

Drew, Edward Bangs

Edwards, Henderson Josiah

Emerson, Charles, 1867
*Etheridge, Locke •ises

♦Evans, Samuel Edwards •issi

Fairchild, Charles Stebbins

Field, William Gibson
*Fiske, John •1901

Foster, Charles Marsh

Freeman, John Williams
*French, John Davis Williams •1900

*Frothingham, Benjamin Thomp-
son •1902
*Frothingham, William •1895
*Fullerton, Payson Perrin •I877

Fumess, Charles Eliot

Gillet, Joseph Anthony

Goodwin, Frank

Green, Adolphus Williamson

Green, John Ome
♦Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas,

1870 -1896

*Greenough, William •1902

Grew, Edward Sturgis

Hall, John Dean

Hammond, Walter Whitney, 1864

Harris, Thomas Robinson, 1867
♦Haseltiiie, Albert Chevalier '1898
*Hassam, John Tyler *i9^i

*Hayes, Alexander Ladd •1899

*Heaton, Charles William •1869

^Higginson, Francis Lee, 1868
""Higginson, Samuel Storrow

Horton, John Marvin
♦Howland, William Monefeldt •1894
♦Hubbard, William Guptill •I866
♦Hun, Edward Reynolds •I88O

Hutchins, Edgar Adelbert

Jackson, Charles Cabot

Jenks, Henry Fitch
*Jenks, William Fumess •I88I

* Jones, George Seneca, 1864 •ms

Kidder, Edward Hartwell
*Kilbreth, James Truesdell •I897
*Knapp, Arthur Mason •1898

*Langdon, Francis Eustis •1890

Lathrop, William Henry

Lawrence, Arthur
♦Lincoln, Arthur •im2

THE CLASS OF 1863.

*Linder, William •I872

Lombard, Josiah

*Loring, Fmncis Caleb •isss

*Lunt, Henry •issr

*Marden, Francis Alexander •I893

Marsh, Francis

Marston, Elias Hutchins, 1881
♦Marvine, Edward Charles *mB

Mason, Amos Lawrence

Mixter, George
*Moriarty, Joseph Mosely •I888

Morison, George Shattuck

Morse, James Herbert

Nichols, William

Owen, Roscoe Palmer

Palmer, William Henry

Pearce, James Lewis

Peck, Thomas Bellows, 1864

Perry, James Leonard

Pillsbury, William Low

Pingree, David
♦Post, Albert Kintzing, 1868 •I872

Pratt, Herbert James

Putnam, William Harrington

Rand, John Howard

Shattuck, George Brune

Sheldon, Henry Newton

Shreve, Octavius Barrell

Smith, Clement Lawrence
*Stackpole, William •1901

Stetson, Edward Gray
*Stevens, Edward Lewis, 1864 'isw
*Taber, Henry Arnold •I868

Tomlinson, George Samuel
*Townsend, Henry Elmer •i89i

Tuck, Henry

Verplanck, Robert Newlin
♦Wales, Benjamin Read, 1864 •1901

Warren, Horace Winslow

Warren, John Collins

Waters, Clifford Crowninsbield
*Webb, Michael Shepard •I872

*Weld, Charles Stuart Faucheraud

•1901

Wheeler, Edmund Souder
* Wheeler, Moses Dillon, 1867 •i889

White, William Augustus
*Winthrop, John •I895

♦44+76=120

MEMBEEIS OF THE CLASS DURING A PART OF THE COURSE ONLY.

Allen, Frederick Baylies

Allyn, John

Almy, John Page
♦Barker, Augustus
♦Barnard, John Clark

Bellows, Josiah Grahme
*Blake, Marshall William
*Boyd, Charles Malcolm
♦Brown, Henry French
*Dinsmoor, George Reid
*Dunn, Horace Sargent
*Eustis, Cartwright
*Fearing, Charles Frederic

Going, Henry Barrett
♦Gould, Arthur Frederic
*Gould, Samuel Shelton

•1863
•1903

•1872
•1864
•1863
•1901
•1862
•1900
•1901

•1862

Whole number

*Haslett, Sullivan ♦issi

Howe, Franklin Theodore
*Huidekoper, Herman John •I868
Jones, W^illiam Frederic
Leve, Adolphus Maximilian
Lombard, Josiah Stickney
Richardson, William Priestley
*Ryan, William Aurelius ^1886

♦Sewall, Moses Bartlett ^1860

*Stevens, Gorman Phillips '1862

Strong, John Lorimer Graham
*Turner, George Henry •I86I

*Van Bokkelen, John Frink Smith

•1863

Ward, Edmund Augustus
*Washburn, Thomas Jefferson I866
♦19+12=31

151

* Deceased.

HARVARD COLLEGE.

CLASS OF 1863.

CHAELES WALTER AMOEY continues to reside in Boston,
at 278 Beacon Street. He was elected Treasurer of the Amos-
keag Manufacturing Company in 1898. His office is in the Ames
l^uilding, Washington and Court Streets.

His son William graduated at Harvard in 1891, and his son
George Gardner in 1896. His daughter Dorothy was married
Jan. 20, 1903, to Frederick Winthrop (Harvard, 1891) of New
York.

He has grandchildren, T. Jefferson Coolidge, 3d, born Sept. 17,
1893 ; Amory Coolidge, born March 23, 1895, and William Apple-
ton Coolidge, bom Oct. 22, 1901.

EOBEET AMOEY resides in Boston at 279 Beacon Street in
the winter, and in the summer at his cottage The Eyrie at Bar
Harbor, Maine. He retired, in September, 1888, from the Presi-
dency and management of the Brookline Gas Company, and has
not been in active business since, but has been engaged in
literary work in medicine and appeared, as an expert witness, be-
fore commissions appointed by the Superior Court to appraise
the values of Gas and Electric Companies' property where cities,
under the Statute, have taken over existing lighting plants.
At the present time he is revising the fifth edition of the second
volume (Poisons) of Wharton and Still^'s Medical Jurisprudence,

14 THE CLASS OF 1863.

of which he edited the last two previous revisions. As president
of the Kebo Valley Club and treasurer of the Mount Desert
Eeading Eoom, both social organizations in Bar Harbor, Maine,
he takes an active interest in the management during summer
seasons of these two social clubs.

He went to Europe in the spring of 1902.

He is still a Justice of the Peace, his commission having been
renewed in December, 1902.

He has another daughter, Margery Sullivan, born Oct. 23, 1897.
His son Eobert was prepared for college at Volkmann's School in
Boston, and entered Harvard College in the summer of 1902 in
the Class of 1906.

He has grandchildren, Mary Thorndike, born Oct. 17, 1893 ;
Alice Thorndike, born March 6, 1895 ; Augustus Thorndike, born
March 13, 1896 ; Charles Thorndike, born March 13, 1898 ; Eobert
Amory Thorndike, born Dec. 19, 1900.

NATHAN APPLETON is now residing at 66 Madison
Avenue, New York. Tn June, and again in the autumn of 1893,
he was in Chicago for the Columbian Exhibition. In November,
1893, he was the Eepublican candidate, from the Fourth District,
for the Governor's Council in Massachusetts.

In February, 1894, he went as the guest of Hon. T. Jefferson
Coolidge to Kingston, capital of Jamaica, and other parts of the
island, then to Colon and Panama, where he visited the canal
works, in temporary suspension, and on to Cartagena, where Mr.
C. was interested in the railroad to the Magdalena Eiver. He
returned by Port Limon, passed a night at St. Jos^, the capital
of Costa Eica, and then, touching at Kingston, to New York,
having been abroad exactly seven weeks.

In September, 1894, he went to France, and on October 19, at
the Picpus Cemetery, Paris, gave in behalf of the Massachusetts
Society, Sons of the American Eevolution, of which he was a
Vice-President and delegate, the bronze marker of the Society to
Gaston de Sahune Lafayette, to place at the grave of his distin-

BIOGRAPHIES. 15

guished ancestor. This was done, with speeches, in the presence
of several of the descendants of Lafayette, and French and Ameri-
can guests, and was an interesting occasion. There was a print of
it in " Harper's Weekly," of which Lincoln had a copy.

In March, 1895, he made a short visit to Bermuda, the guest
of Mr. S. H. Marston, and went several times to Washington,
being especially interested in the Panama Canal question. He
left New York the end of October, 1899, for Naples, and then by
Brindisi to Port Said, to attend, at the especial invitation of
Countess de Lesseps, widow of the builder of the canal, the inau-
guration of the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, to take place on
November 17, the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Suez
Canal, at which he had been as delegate of the Boston Board of
Trade, travelling with Gen. N. P. Banks. With his travelling
companion, Jacob Sleeper, and other friends, he went to Cairo, up
the Nile to Luxor, Karnac, Assouan, Philae, etc., and then, later,
took a steamer at Ismailia for Ceylon, where he passed the month
of January, 1900. He returned to Egypt, from Alexandria to
Athens (where he saw our classmate Frothingham of Brooklyn,
since dead), Smyrna, Constantinople, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna,
and Paris, where he saw the great Exposition in all its splendor.

On 28 March, 1896, he was one of the incorporators of the
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, and was Deputy Governor until the election of
1899, when he resigned. On 20 August, 1900, he became a life
member of the Society in France, Sons of the American Kevolu-
tion. On 13 Feb., 1902, he joined the Army and Navy Club of
the City of New York. On 30 Jan., 1903, he became a member
of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association.

MARSHALL AYRES still lives in New York City, and is
in business at 12 Broadway. Since December, 1898, he has been
engaged in the export business with Cuba, as Vice-President of
the Elwell Mercantile Co., and in charge of the New York office.

His oldest daughter, Mary Louise, entered an Episcopal Sister-

16 THE CLASS OF 1868.

hood at Peekskill, New York, in 1895. His second daughter,
Winifred, fitted for college at Miss Brackett's School in New York
City, entered Smith College in 1888, was graduated in 1892, and
received degree of M.A. from Smith in 1895. His third daughter,
Marjorie, was prepared for college at the New York Collegiate
Institute, entered Smith College in 1891, and was graduated in
1895.

His daughter inifred married, on June 3, 1897, Theodore
Sherwood Hope, of New York City, son of Charles Edwin and
Ida Dusenbury Hope, and resides in New York.

His daughter Marjorie married, on April 18, 1896, Albert Starr
Best, of New York, son of Albert and Estelle Starr Best, They
now reside in Evanston, Illinois.

His daughter Mildred married, on April 12, 1898, James Albert
Hawkins, of New York, son of James Eockwell Vail and Adelaide
Amelia Terhune Hawkins. Tliey reside in New York.

He has grandcliildren, Marshall Ayres Best, born Nov. 27,
1901, and Winifred Louise Hope, born June 13, 1902.

CHAELES HAZLETT BAGLEY is still practising dentistry
in Denver, Colorado, at room 9 Evans Block, 1132 Fifteenth
Street, and is interested in mining operations in Mexico.

ANDEEW JACKSON BAILEY resides in Boston, and is still
at the head of the Law Department of the City Government, with
his office at 731 Tremont Building.

Ho was appointed Corporation Counsel of Boston, Jan. 7, 1895,
and in November, 1895, was appointed associate Counsel for the
Massachusetts Metropolitan Water Board.

GEOEGE LEWIS BAXTEE still resides at 27 Warren Avenue
Somerville, Massachusetts, and is Head Master of the Latin High
School, which position he has held for thirty-six years.

In 1901 he was honored by having his name given to one of
the schools of Somerville.

BIOGRAPHIES. 17

He is one of the corporators of the Somerville Savings Bank,
and has held the ofl&ce of Trustee since its incorporation.

His only son, Gregory Paul Baxter, received his A.B. degree at
Harvard in 1896, his A.M. degree in 1897, and his Ph.D. degree
in 1899. He is instructor in Analytical Chemistry in Harvard
University.

THOMAS WETMOEE BISHOP Hves at Auburndale (Newton),
Massachusetts.

In 1896, after a pastorate of five years at Auburndale, he spent
eight months in Europe, passing a delightful winter in Berlin,
with classmate Drew, returning in the spring of 1897. He then
supplied the Methodist Episcopal church at Kevere for one year,
after which he became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church
at Newton Highlands for five years, his third parish in Newton.
Where he may be called upon next to pitch his tent is a secret
which will be revealed by a greater bishop than himself. In 1901,
with his sister, he spent three months in England and Scotland.

He still insists that Saint Paul could not have had him in
mind, and denies that 1st Timothy iii. 2, has any application to
himself.

ALBERT BLAIR continues to practise law in St. Louis, at
815 Missouri Trust Building. In 1900, he made a second journey
to Europe, spending about four months in travel ; and in 1901
he spent about the same length of time in New York, in efforts to
bring about a consolidation of the several Brake Beam Companies.

He has held no political offices, but in 1898 was a candidate,
on the Republican ticket, for State Senator, but, running in a
Democratic district, was not elected ; he had, however, the satis-
faction of cutting down the normal Democratic majority of 2000
to 1200.

He is of a " philosophic mood, and cheerful temper, has enjoyed
good health and moderate prosperity, and cherishes a cordial and
unabated regard for the men of sixty-three^

18 THE CLASS OF 1863.

EDWAED DAELEY BOIT has been at Newport, Ehode Island,
this spring, but returned to Europe hi March ; his address is care
of Eobert A. Boit, 40 Kilby Street, Boston. He has given up his
Paris residence, and is thinking of retuniing to live in the neigh-
borhood of Boston during the winter months. From May to
November he expects to reside at a place he bought in the moun-
tains near Florence, Italy, a few years ago. Its name is Cernitoio
(per Pelago Provin-cia di Firenze Italia), and it w^as originally a
convent dependent on the great convent of Vallombrosa.

His w^fe, Mary Louisa Cusliing, died Sept. 29, 1894 He
married, Jan. 6, 1897, Florence McCarty Little, daughter of
Capt. William McCarty Little, IT. S. N., and Anita Chartrand.
The wedding was celebrated in tlie English Protestant church at
Biarritz, where his wife's parents were tlien living, but their per-
manent place of residence is Newport, Ehode Island. He has
had two cliildren by tliis marriage, Julian McCarty, born Jan.
21, 1900, and PMward, born April 12, 1902, both at 28 Eue
Galilee, Paris, where his wife died April 28, 1902.

CHAELES PICKEEING BOWDITCH still lives in Boston,
and does business at 28 State Street.

There has been no change in his occupation since 1893.

He travelled in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and England from
February to October, 1898, and also made a journey to North
Africa, Italy, Spain, and P^ngland from November, 1901, to July,
1902.

He is a Justice of the Peace. Commission dated March 11,
1903, in continuation of similar appointments during the last
twenty-eight years.

He is a Director of the following corporations : Massachusetts
Cotton Mills, Massachusetts Mills in Georgia, Pepperell Manu-
facturing Co., Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., Massachusetts
Hospital Life Insurance Co., Boston & Providence Eailroad Cor-
poration, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., American Bell
Telephone Co. ; Trustee of the Boston Athenaeum ; a member of

BIOGRAPHIES. 19

the Faculty of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology
and Ethnology ; a member of the following societies besides those
in the Report of 1893 : New England Historic-Genealogical So-
ciety, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
Old South Corporation, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Member,
1894, Fellow, 1897), Essex Institute, Soci^t^ des Am^ricanistes de
Paris, Bunker Hill Monument Association, Massachusetts His-
torical Society, American Ethnological Society, American Greo-
graphical Society, Department of Archaeology University of
Pennsylvania, American Forestry Association, Massachusetts
Horticultural Society, Vice-President of Archaeological Institute
of America, International Society of Americanists, American
Anthropological Association, Vice-President of Boston Society
of Natural History. He is a member of the Unitarian Club,
Harvard Club of New York, Union Club, University Club, Eliot
Club, Country Club, Harvard Union, and other clubs.
He has published the following pamphlets since 1893 :

" Sketch of the Life of Epes S. Dixwell," in Volume XXXV., " Pro-
ceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences '' ;

** The Lords of the Night and the Tonalamatl of the Codex Borboni-
cus," in the "American Anthropologist," 1900 ;

" Memoranda on the Maya Calendars used in the Books of Chilan
Balam," in the "American Anthropologist," 1901;

" On the Age of the Maya Ruins," in the " American Anthropologist,"
1901 ;

" A Method which may have been used by the Mayas in calculating
Time," privately printed, 1901 ;

'* Was the Beginning Day of the Maya month numbered Zero (or
Twenty) or Onel" privately printed, 1901;

" Notes on the Report of Teobert Maler," in the " Memoirs of the
Peabody Museum," Volume II. No. 1, privately printed, 1901.

His son Ingersoll Bowditch prepared for college at the Rox-
bury Latin School, and at the school of Mr. William Nichols,
travelled in Europe for one year before entering college, under the
care of William Vaughn Moody, entered Harvard College in 1893,

20 THE CLASS OF 1863.

and graduated in 1897 with the degree of A.B ; entered Institute
of Technology in 1897, and graduated in 1900 with degree of B.S.
His profession is that of Civil Engineer, and he is at present in his
father's office, 28 State Street.

His daughter Lucy Eockwell Bowditch married, Nov. 7, 1894,
Franklin Greene Balch, son of Joseph and Agnes Love (Greene)
Balch. She resides at 279 Clarendon Street, Boston. Her chil-
dren are Franklin Greene Balch, Jr., and Charles Bowditch Balch,
born May 3, 1896 ; Lucy Bowditch Balch, born Jan. 12, 1898 ;
Henry Gordon Balch, born August 8, 1901.

His daughter Katharine Putnam Bowditch married, Nov. 16,
1899, Ernest Amory Codman, son of William C. and Elizabeth
(Hurd) Codman. She resides at 104 !Mt. Vernon Street, Boston.

♦ WINTHEOP'PEEKIXS BOYNTON was bom in Boston,
August 29, 1841. He died in Grahamsville, South Carolina,
Nov. 30, 1864.

♦FEEDEEICK BEOOKS was born in Boston, August 5,
1842. He died in Boston, Sept. 15, 1874.

JOHN" MUEEAY BEOWN continues in business in Boston as
a publisher and bookseller, being the senior member of the firm
of Little, Brown, & Co., 254 Washington Street. He resides in
Belmont.

From March, 1883, to March, 1903, he was a Trustee of the
Belmont Public Library, being Secretary and Chairman during the
whole time.

In the spring of 1898 he made a journey in Europe.

His son Philip Lamson Brown graduated at Harvard in 1899,
and in October of that year became a clerk with his firm, by
which his son Murray is also employed.

MELVIN BEOWN still has an office at 166 Montague Street,
Brooklyn, and is working his very best " to prevent the real
estate market getting dull."

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His son Frederick M. (Harvard, 1889) is practising law in
New York City. His daughter Evelyn, married, June 18, 1898,
Edwin Clarence Lane, of Brooklyn. He has a grandson, Melvin
E. Lane, born Sept. 25, 1902.

* HASWELL COEDIS CLAEKE was born in Eoxbury, Massa-
chusetts, Sept. 28, 1842. He died in Kankakee, Illinois, Jan. 16,
1901.

He continued to reside in Kankakee until his death, and was
elected Mayor of that city, April 18, 1899, for the term of two
years. He was a very prominent and respected citizen of Kan-
kakee, active in public affairs and in Masonic circles, and his
death, while Mayor, caused universal sorrow.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 26, 1901, the Class Secretary announced the death of Clarke,
and Bailey was requested to prepare a resolution to be entered
upon the Class records and sent to the family.

The following resolution was prepared by Bailey :

Resolvedy That in the death of our classmate, Haswell Cordis Clarke,
at the time of his decease Mayor of Kankakee in the State of Illinois, the
Class loses another of its loved and honored members, the promise of
whose early years has been abundantly carried out in his manhood.
Full of energy and application, steadfast in his college course and sei^
vice for his country in tlie army, he settled at the close of his service in
Kankakee, and from that time until his death, while attending closely to
business, he gave the best of his ability to the service of the public and
to charitable and religious works. We recognize in his steady upward
progress the benefits conferred by his college education and associations,
and the noble instincts developed by them, and while we mourn his loss,
we view with the pride and satisfaction of brothers the kind, eager dis-
position of our dear classmate as it developed into the earnest and strong
character of the man, making him the patriotic soldier, the steady man
of business, the loving and devoted husband, the doer of good public and
charitable works, and the loyal and upright Christian gentleman ; and
we rejoice that those with whom he was associated, and for whom he gave
so much of his life and work, so fully appreciated and honored him in his
life.

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FEEDEEICK COBB continues the practice of law in Brook-
lyn, New York, at 213 Montague Street, Eoom 3.

AUGUSTE COMTE still resides in San Francisco, and is prac-
tising law at 534J California Street. Prior to 1897 he was a
member of the Board of Education. In 1897 he was one of the
Freeholders elected to frame a charter for San Francisco, which is
the one now operative. In 1899 he was elected a Supervisor of
the City and County of San Francisco, under this charter, and
in 1901 was re-elected. These positions are non-partisan.

His wife died August 21, 1893, and he married, Jan. 15, 1898,
Ella La Faille, daughter of the late Daniel and Julie Frances
La Faille, of San Francisco. He has two daughters by this mar-
riage, Helen La Faille, born Sept. 15, 1900, and Marie La Faille,
born Feb. 19, 1902.

♦WILLIAM DWIGHT CEANE was born in Boston, Nov. 29,
1840. He died in Grahamsville, South Carolina, Nov. 30, 1864.

FEEDEEIC CEOMWELL is still Treasurer of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York. He resides in New
York, at 5 West 56th Street, in the winter, and in the summer
near Bemardsville, New Jersey, where he has "a farm of fair
dimensions, and delights in planting, stock-raising, etc." His
business address is 32 Nassau Street, New York City.

His close occupation in business makes it necessary for him
to find relaxation in frequent journeys in this country and in
Europe. He expects to sail for Cherbourg in June, and to
remain in Europe during the summer.

His eldest daughter is now in Italy, and the two younger are
attending the Brearley School in New York.

His son Seymour L. graduated from Harvard in 1892, and is
now a member of the firm of Strong, Sturgis & Co., bankers. He
married, Nov. 29, 1899, Miss Agnes Whitney, daughter of the late
Stephen Suydam Whitney, and they have two children, Frederic,
born Sept. 10, 1900, and Seymour, born Nov. 20, 1902.

BIOGRAPHIES. 23

THADDEUS MAESHALL BEOOKS CEOSS continues to
live in New York, practising medicine at 352 West 28th Street.
During the last ten years he has attended closely to his profes-
sion, and nothing worthy of record has occurred. He has had
good health, and has come to the conclusion that mankind's
greatest blessing is work.

He is still unmarried.

JEEEMIAH CUETIN lives at Bristol, Vermont, in the sum-
mer, but his headquarters are at Washington, District of Columbia,
when not in the field, that is making journeys of investigation.

In 1897, he made a trip through Mexico and Guatemala ; later
he visited Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey. In 1900, he
made a journey around the world by way of Siberia, Amoor Eiver,
Japan, China, and Sandwich Islands. In 1902, he travelled
through the Canadian Dominions, from Quebec to Victoria, British
Columbia, thence to Washington, District of Columbia, by a route
which led to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

In the " Boston Transcript " of Nov. 10, 1902, appeared the fol-
lowing notice:

Jeremiah Curtin is something of a globe trotter. Having had the
satisfaction of seeing his translation of " The Pharaoh and the Priest "
— from the Polish of Alexander Glovatski — obtain a good hold of the
intelligent reading public, Mr. Curtin is again " on the wing," his latest
temporary address being Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was only about a yeiir
ago that this indefatigable traveller returned from a journey around the
world, vid Eussia, Siberia, Amoor Eiver, China, and Japan. He spent
three months among the Buriats, the only tribe of Mongols, with its
great horse sacrifice and splendid creation myths, and he is now at work
on a book of Mongol religion and history, and also a book giving an
account of his travels. It was late in the summer when he completed
the final work on his latest Polish discovery, Alexander Glovatski, for
Mr. Curtin is one who makes innumerable changes in his proofs, in order
that his translation may be entirely satisfactory, to himself at least.
His fame, of course, rests chiefly as the authorized translator of the
works of Henry Sienkiewicz, of which "Quo Vadis'* alone sold to the

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FEEDEEICK COBB continues the practice of law in Brook-
lyn, New York, at 213 Montague Street, Eoom 3.

♦WILLIAM DWIGHT CEANE was bom in Boston, Nov. 29,
1840. He died in Grahamsville, South Carolina, Nov. 30, 1864.

FEEDEEIC CEOMWELL is still Treasurer of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York. He resides in New
York, at 5 West 56th Street, in the winter, and in the summer
near Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he has "a farm of fair
dimensions, and delights in planting, stock-raising, etc." His
business address is 32 Nassau Street, New York City.

His eldest daughter is now in Italy, and the two younger are
attending the Brearley School in New York.

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extent of one million copies. Mr. Curtin has done creative work, such
as bis books on myth and folk tales of Ireland, of Kussia, and of the
western Slavs and Magyars. He has no difficulty in making himself
understood when visiting strange people, inasmuch as he is a famous
linguist, knowing, it is said, over sixty languages. Mr. Curtin is nomi-
nally a resident of Bristol, Vermont, although seldom at home.

Since 1893 he has published :

" Creation Myths of Primitive America/*

and the following translations from Henryk Sienkiewicz :

** Yanko, the Musician, and other stories '' ;

" Lillian Morris, and other stories " ;

** Pan MichaeV a sequel to " With Fire and Sword " ;

" Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero *' ;

**Childrenof theSoil";

** Without Dogma";

" Hania, and other stories " ;

" Sielanka, and other stories " ;

« In Vain " ;

" The Knights of the Cross " ;

and in addition :

" The Argonauts," from the Polish of Orzeszho ;

" The Pharaoh and the Priest," from the Polish of Glovatski ;

and is at present engaged on a work to be entitled " The Mongols,"

about one-half of which is written.

* GEOEGE STACKPOLE DABNEY was born in the island
of Fayal, Nov. 25, 1842. He died in Boston, Sept. 3, 1900.

He continued to reside in Boston until his death, but was
obliged to give up active business on account of ill health.

At the funeral services held in King's Chapel, Boston, Sept. 6,
1900, C. W. Amory, J. M. Brown, F. L. Higginson, Jackson, Lincoln,
Mason, Mixter, and J. C. Warren acted with others as pall-bearers.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 26, 1901, the following memorial was adopted:

George Stackpole Dabney died in Boston, Sept. 3, 1900, at the
age of fifty-eight years, and was buried from King's Chapel, a number
of his classmates and old friends acting as pall-bearers.

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Six months after graduating, in December, 1863, he entered business,
and shortly went to China. The voyage out was somewhat noteworthy
in that his ship narrowly escaped capture by the *' Alabama." He spent
several years in China, and then returned to Boston, where the rest of his
business life was passed, he being at one time in partnership with his
brother, Walter Dabuey, as a cotton broker.

Dabney was a very constant attendant at the Class reunions on Com-
mencement Day, and his presence will be much missed, though after a
period of thirty-eight years classmates must be prepared to face such
depletion of their numbers with constantly increasing frequency.

His was a loyal, affectionate, unsuspicious nature ; his temperament was
naturally cheerful, buoyant, and courageous. He was social, was fond
of and excelled in games and sports. He was ready to take, and to give
punishment. Though somewhat below the average stature, he was sturdy,
muscular, and vigorous. He was known in college as '* Little Dab."

Some of his classmates will remember an episode which was in many
ways characteristic of him. On " Bloody Monday " when the Class of
1863 were Freshmen, and the Delta a stricken foot-ball field, the tide of
battle having surged over and past him and left him unscathed, Dabney
was seen expostulating with his hard fate and lamenting that no one
would hit him.

He was not fitted above others, to endure the tedium of physical in-
firmities, and probably would be the last to regret that old age with its
increasing disabilities was denied him.

It was thereupon

Votedj that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a copy
be sent to the family.

MOSES GEANT DANIELL stiU resides in Boston at 9
Schuyler Street, Eoxbury.

In July, 1895, he made a trip to Denver, Salt Lake City, and
the Yellowstone Park.

In June, 1896, he withdrew from the management of Chauncy-
Hall School, and accepted a position in the Editorial Depart-
ment of Ginn and Company, Publishers, Boston, where he still is.

He has been Treasurer of the Handel and Haydn Society
(except in 1897 and 1898) since 1881 ; Secretary of the Episco-
pal City Mission from May 22, 1901 ; and was appointed by

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Bishop Lawrence a member of the Sunday School Commission of
the Diocese of Massachusetts, September, 1902.
He is author of

"New Latin Composition," 1897;

" Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Ronoe, with Introduction and Notes," 1899.

Joint author (with Wm. C. Collar) of

"Exercises in Greek Composition," 1893;
"First Latin Book," 1894;
" First Year Latin," 1901;

Joint editor (with Prof. J. B. Greenough and Prof. B. L. D'Ooge)of

"The New Cfeaar,'' 1898, and
"Second Year Latin," 1899.

Joint editor (with Prof. Greenough) of

" Sallusfs Catihne," 1891.

His daughter Emily Anna entered Eadcliflfe College (then
" Harvard Annex " ) in 1891, graduated in 1895, and is now teacher
in Milton High School. His daughter Lucy Catherine married,
June 12, 1902, Stanley Marshall Bolster, son of Judge Solomon
Alonzo and Sarah Jenny Bolster of Koxbury. His daughter Eliz-
abeth Porter entered Radcliffe College in 1902.

* SAMUEL CKAFT DAVIS was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
March 10, 1842. He died in Boston, Oct. 10, 1874.

CLAKENCE HOLBKOOK DENNY still resides in Boston,
and is not engaged in active business.

EDWARD BANGS DREW is still in the Chinese Customs
service, and is now at Foochow, China.

In the spring of 1895 he returned home on furlough, and during
the visit of Li-Hung Chang to this country in September, 1896,
was his Secretary of Embassy, accompanying him through the
country. In Boston, Oct. 17, 1896, he read a paper before the
Commercial Club on the " Chinese Empire of To-day." Soon after
he returned to China vid Europe, spending the spring of 1897 in

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Berlin. From his return to China in 1897 until the spring of
1899 he was Commissioner of Customs at Canton, and then, until
January, 1901, at Tientsin. While he was here the Boxer upris-
ing occurred, in the spring of 1900, and with his wife he was in
Tientsin during the siege, and at one time under the fire of the
Chinese cannon. Before the siege he sent his children to Shang-
hai for safety. Immediately after the siege, Mrs. Drew joined
their children, and returned with them to the United States, but
he remained at Tientsin. General Chaffee and staff were for a
time quartered in his house. In December, 1900, he went to
Peking to see Sir Eobert Hart, and in January, 1901, started for
America on a special leave of absence for a year, for a needed
rest and change after so much responsibility and anxiety. He was
present at Commencement in this year, and presided at the Class
Supper. While in this country, he gave several addresses, and
lectures. In February, 1902, he returned to China, and resumed
his duties as Commissioner of Customs at Foochow.

His son Charles D. Drew graduated at Harvard in 1897, and
took the degree of S.B. at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology in 1899. He is now a civil engineer in government
employ in the Philippine Islands. His daughter Dora May
Drew graduated at Eadcliffe in 1899, and married, June 12, 1900,
Irving Babbitt (Harvard, 1889), Assistant Professor of French in
Harvard University, son of Edwin Dwight and Augusta (Darling)
Babbitt.

He has one grandchild, Esther Babbitt, born Oct. 2, 1901.

HENDEKSON JOSIAH EDWARDS continues to reside in
Boston, and to practise law at 47 Court Street.
His wife died July 2, 1902.

CHAELES EMEESON still lives at Concord, Massachusetts.

♦ LOCKE ETHEEIDGE was bom in Warren, New York, Dec.
11, 1837. He died in New York City, Nov. 5, 1865.

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♦SAMUEL EDWARDS EVANS was bom in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, May 17, 1841. He died iu Chelsea, Massachu-
setts, Nov. 16, 1891.

CHARLES STEBBINS FAIRCHILD continues to reside in
New York City, and is President of the New York Security and
Trust Company at 44-46 Wall Street.

He is Treasurer of the New York State Charities Aid Associa-
tion. In December, 1895, he was Chairman of the Committee of
Sound Money of the New York Reform Club, and a member of the
Committee of Fifty organized to purify the government of New
York City. He is Vice-President of tlie (New York) Chamber of
Commerce, and a member of various Commercial Clubs. In 1897
he was on the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis Conven-
tion of Boards of Trade. The same year he was candidate, on the
Citizens' Union ticket, for Comptroller of Greater New York. In
1901 he was elected President of the Harvard Club of New York,
and at Commencement, June 26, 1901, he was elected a member
of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College.

WILLIAM GIBSON FIELD resides at Enfield, Hartford
County, Connecticut. He is a counsellor at law, and an occasional
writer for the press.

He owns and occupies an original colonial mansion on Enfield
Street famed " far and wide " for its beauty, on account of its
width and its being lined on either side with giant elm-trees.
The house was built one hundred and thirty-two years ago by his
wife's great-great-grandfather, Captain Ephraim Pease, a prosper-
ous merchant, contractor, and large land-owner in Enfield during
the French and Indian war. He entertained Washington, when,
as Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army he passed through
Enfield to take command of the army in Cambridge. In the
house next north of Field House were quartered British soldiers
of the Revolution, probably a part of Burgoyne's army, surren-
dered October, 1777.

His wife is eighth in direct descent from Governor William

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Bradford, the well-known governor of the Plymouth Colony who
inaugurated the popular feature of Thanksgiving Day. Her great-
grandfather, Eev. Elam Potter, a former minister of the Congrega-
tional church in Enfield, was very active in his opposition to slavery,
that in his time prevailed in Connecticut ; he even went lecturing
against it in the Southern States ; and it is supposed that the
memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut, praying that
the negroes in this State be released from slavery, was perhaps,
in part, a result of his influence.

Enfield Street is, to some extent, a resort in summer. It is on
the line of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Kailroad,
and on the trunk trolley line between Boston and New York.
Facilities are therefore the best for reaching Hartford and Spring-
field, Massachusetts, for business.

He is a member of the Connecticut Valley Harvard Club, meet-
ing annually in Springfield, Massachusetts.

♦ JOHN FISKE was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 30,
1842. He died in Gloucester, Massachusetts, July 4, 1901.

He continued to live in Cambridge until his death, engaged in
lecturing, authorship, and other literary work.

He had published since Commencement, 1893, the following
books :

"Old Virginia and her Neighbors," 1897.

"Through Nature to God," 1899.

"Dutch and Quaker Colonies," 1899.

"A Century of Science," 1899.

"The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War," 1900.

and had in press at the time of his death :

"Life Everlasting," published 1901;

The above works were published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Since his death have been published :

"New France and New England," 1902 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.);
"Essays Historical and Literary" (Macniillan Co., 2 vols.), 1902;

Three vols, of the History of all Nations Series (Lea Bro's & Co.,

Philadelphia, 1902.)

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The lists of Fiske's publications which have appeared in former
Class reports were most carefully prepared by Fiske himself, and
the proof from the printer thoroughly revised by himself at his
own request. The new publications since 1893 enumerated herein
have been furnished by Mrs. Fiske, so we may know that we
have in these lists an accurate and complete record of his literary
work.

Among other books which Tennyson read or had read to him,
in his last sickness, was Fiske's " Destiny of Man."

He delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Cambridge, June
27, 1895, a course of lectures on " The Dutch and Quaker Col-
onies," before the Lowell Institute in Boston, beginning Feb. 7,
1898, and another course of lectures on " New France and New
England," before the Lowell Institute, beginning Feb. 18, 1901.
He was under engagement at the time of his death to deliver an
oration at the exercises commemorating the millennial anniversary
of the death of King Alfred at Winchester, England, and was to
have sailed for Europe for that purpose in August, 1901.

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Har-
vard University, in 1894 and the degree of Litt. D. by the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in the same year.

He was from Nov. 7, 1894, to April 1, 1899, President of the
Immigration Eestriction League. He was re-elected a member
of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College in 1899.

Several years ago Fiske wrote the following characteristic letter
to an inquirer regarding his methods of work :

Petersham, Mass., July 19, 1884.
Dr. H. Erichsen :

Dear Sir, — I am forty-two years old, six feet in height, girth of
chest forty-six inches, waist forty-four inches, head twenty-four inches,
neck eighteen inches, arm sixteen inches, weight two hundred and
forty pounds, complexion florid, hair auburn, beard red. Am alert
and active, appetite voracious, digestion perfect, sleep sound. I work
by day or night indifferently. My method, like General Grant's, is to
" keep hammering." I sometimes make an outline first. Scarcely
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or smoke a cigar. But I drink beer freely (two or three quarts daily
for the past twenty-four years), and smoke tobacco in a meerschaum
pipe nearly all the time when at work. Have been in the habit of work-
ing from twelve to fifteen hours daily since I was twelve years old.
Never have a headache, or physical discomfort of any sort. I prefer
to work in a cold room, 55° to 60° F. Always sit in a draft when I can
find one. Wear the thinnest clothes I can find, both in winter and
summer. Catch cold once in three or four years, but not severely.
Never experienced the feeling of disinclination for work, and therefore
have never had to force myself. If I feel at all dull when at work,
I restore myself by a half-hour at the piano. You may make any use
you like of these facts.

Very truly yours, John Fiskb.

Please let me know when and where your book is to appear.
P. O. address, 22 Berkeley St., Cambridge, Mass.

Herbert Huxley Fiske prepared at St. Mark's School, South-
borough, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard College in the Class
of 1896. He was married, Jan. 24, 1903, to Elizabeth, youngest
daughter of the late Dr. George Franklin French and Clara H.
Buckley, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Clarence S. Fiske, married June 1, 1895, at New York, New
York, Margaret Gracie Higginson, daughter of James Jackson
Higginson and Margaret Bethune Gracie, of New York. They
have children : Margaret Gracie, born March 9, 1896 ; Barbara,
born Sept. 7, 1897 ; John, bom Sept. 17, 1900 ; Dorothy Brooks,
born Sept. 19, 1902.

Maud Fiske was married Dec. 12, 1896, at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, to Grover Flint, son of General Cuvier Grover, U. S. A.,
and Susan Willard Flint, New York. They have children : Cuvier
Grover Flint, born April 5, 1900; Susan Willard Flint, born
May 25, 1902.

Ealph Browning Fiske died June 15, 1898.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 25, 1902, Smith offered the following memorial:

Since our last reunion the Class and the whole country have suffered a
grievous loss in the death of John Fiske, which occurred at the Haw-

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thorne Inn, East Gloucester, Massachusetts, early in the morning of July
4, 1901. His last illness was a very brief one. Until within a few days
of the end he had been in the enjoyment of his usual good health, his
intellectual powers were still in their full vigor, and he had apparently
many years of happy and fruitful work before him, when he suddenly
succumbed to the effects of physical exhaustion, due to the oppressive
summer heat. He was fifty-nine years old.

It was already apparent to us in our college days that Fiske would
make his mark as a writer. But he did not at once venture to trust to
his pen for a livelihood. He entered the Harvard Law School, and after
completing the three terms that were then required for the degree, and
gaining admission to the bar, he began actual practice in Boston. But
like more than one of our eminent men of letters, he soon abandoned the
law for authorship, and by the autumn of 1865 he had closed his ofl&ce
and definitely committed himself and his family — for he was already
married — to the precarious chances of a literary career. How success-
ful he made this career is known to all. The long lists of his writings
given in our Class Secretary's reports in 1888 and 1893 attest his extraor-
dinary productiveness and his prodigious industry. In the same
reports are recorded the engagements and appointments and honors that
grew out of his literary activities. The most remarkable of these is the
record of his lectures, which in the ten years ending in 1893 av'feraged
considerably more, than a hundred a year, and took him to places as
remote from one another as Loudon and Tacoma. A few of these lectures
were on philosophical, a smaller number on musical subjects ; a few took
the form of sermons from Unitarian pulpits ; the great majority were on
American history, a field which, for the purposes of the Lyceum lecture,
Fiske has been truly said to have discovered and made completely his
own. He had no rival in it while he lived, and he has left no successor.
His lectures were very popular. Without any of the graces of the orator,
by his simple skill in telling the story, he had the gift of making a serious
subject entertaining, and drew large audiences wherever he was announced
to speak. In the remarkable awakening of interest in American history
which has taken place within the last twenty years there has been no
more potent factor than his voice and pen.

Fiske was a precocious child, and in his case the promise of childhood
was not disappointed. The quick understanding and retentive memory,
which had made the boy familiar with much literature and sevei*al
languages, grew in strength witli his years. His interest and his reading
covered a very wide range, and his writing followed close in their wake.

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Ho came to be one of the most learned men of his time, — a scholar of
the older type, who made all knowledge his province ; a type that has
become rare in this age of specialization. That his acquaintance with
many of the numerous topics which appear in the titles of his essays was
not profound, goes without saying. Yet he was never superficial. His
study was thorough and searching ; and even in the hackwork of his pro-
fession, of which he had his share, he spoke with knowledge, if not always
with authority. In three fields of inquiry he produced works which
commanded the respectful attention of exports. In philosophy he won
credit, not only for the lucid exposition in which he was unsurpassed,
but also for some substantial contributions of his own, which proved him
an original as well as an independent thinker. In the religious problems
which grew out of the doctrine of evolution he took a deep interest. In
the heat of the controversy that raged over this subject in the Seventies
he incurred the reproach of agnosticism for the stand he took in behalf
of untrammelled scientific inquiry ; but he lived to win the praises of his
critics and to bring comfort to many perplexed spirits by his later essays,
in which he championed the faith of the believer and sought to show that
the fundamental doctrines of religion remain, as matters of faith, un-
scathed by the discoveries and conclusions of modern science.

Finally, Fiske came to be, in the last dozen years of his life, " the
most widely read and one of the most influential of American historians."
As early as 1878 he projected a History of the American People on the
model of his friend J. R. Green's well-known History of the English
People, It was to be a work of six or eight volumes. Five years later
he was still engaged on this project, and in fact the rest of his life was
mainly devoted to American history. But the plan as originally con-
ceived was never carried out. Fiske*s well established habits of work
were apparently too strong for him to break away from, and instead of a
comprehensive history, he produced a series of historical monographs, in
which he treated one period or topic after another, not in chronological
order, but following his own choice or convenience. Proceeding in this
way, he published, beginning in 1888, a series of nine volumes, in which
he gradually covered the whole period of our history down to the year
1789, together with a volume on Civil Government in the United States,
a school history of the United States, and a smaller history of the Revo-
lution. To this list he added, in 1900, a volume on the western campaigns
of the Civil War, which may be accepted as evidence of his purpose to
cover the whole period of our history as far at least as the end of that
war, and of the full measure of our loss in his untimely death. In his

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last years he added still another work in the same field, — a general his-
tory of the United States in three volumes, which is to form part of a
Universal History, not yet published. This makes a total of sixteen
volumes on American history, besides some on other subjects, in thirteen
years, — surely a remarkable achievement. Nor was this rapid produc-
tion accomplished at the cost of any sacrifice of quality. By natural
endowment and long training, Fiske had acquired a truly marvellous facil-
ity of expression which enabled him to write page after page with scarcely
a correction or erasure. In history he was not primarily an investigator.
He was a critic of sources rather than a searcher for them. In this part
of the historian's function he entered into the labors of other men. But
he followed no man's lead. He went directly to the material they had
gathered, and sifted it for himself; and out of it, with sure discernment
of what was characteristic and interesting, he constructed his delightful
pictures of the past.

From 1867 to the end of his life Fiske made his home in Cambridge.
He often appeared at our Class meetings on Commencement Day, but
during the rest of the year even those of us who lived near by saw little
of him. He was away lecturing much of the time, and at home he was
constantly engrossed in his work. Yet he never lost his interest in his
Class, and had ever a cordial greeting for a classmate. He was a cheerful
spirit, to whom intellectual toil in the field he had chosen was the most
absorbing pleasure ; a genial nature, kindly, simple, and unaffected ; and
in his great learning there was no trace of pedantry or assumption.

To the record of service which the Class of Sixty-three has thus far
achieved, Jolm Fiske has made the largest and most conspicuous contri-
bution. We gladly enter on our minutes this testimonial, bearing witness
to our high sense of his worth, and to the warm regard with which we
cherish his memory.

It was thereupon ^

Voted, that the memorial be entered upon the Class records and a copy
sent to the family.

CHAELES MAESH FOSTEE returned from Ithaca, New
York, where he was at the time of the last report, to Topeka,
Kansas, in May, 1894, and has since resided in Topeka, practising
law.

In August, 1902, he made a visit to various places in southern

36 ' THE CLASS OF 1863.

him during his college days as a youth full of life, energy, and humor,
unpretending in manner, loyal in friendship, clear in thought, witty in
speech. He did well his part in all that pertained to undergraduate life,
though his exuberant spirits sometimes brought him into conflict with
the Faculty's regulations and (like many another classmate) he passed a
season in rural retirement before his course ended, returning in time to
graduate with his Class.

Toward the close of his college course he began to take a deeper view
of the privileges and duties of life, and while losing nothing of his sense
of humor and appreciation of the bright and joyous side of things, he
deepened steadily in his sense of duty. He was confirmed, before gradu-
ating, in the Episcopal church, and remained its loyal and devoted
member to the end.

In February, 1864, ho entered the United States Christian Commis-
sion, and in its service spent many months of faithful and unpaid duty in
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia. At the close of the Civil War
he marched across country from Richmond to Alexandria, took part in
the Great Review at Washington, and then returned to Boston, which, for
the rest of his life, he made his home in the winter, spending his summera
at North Andover, Massachusetts, where, in October, 1867, he bought an
estate which he named Cochichewick Farm. This was his real home.
Here he devoted himself to agriculture and the study of kindred subjects.
He bred cattle and edited herd books. He wrote on forestry, and re-
ceived from the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture
a prize of $1000 for the splendid larch plantation of his own planting.
He entertained freely, and travelled widely in this country and abroad.
He entered public life, and served for four years on the Common Council
of the City of Boston. He took an interest in everything that concerned
the public good, and gave himself unsparingly to the service of his fellow-
men, in Church and State. Inheriting an independent fortune, he might
have spent a life of elegant and selfish leisure among his books and
herds; but instead of that he labored unweariedly for and among all
sorts and conditions of men. Patience, thoroughness, and good judg-
ment were distinctive marks of his work. He shirked no duty, and
never shrank from taking a responsibility. He had the gift of loyal
friendship. His love for his classmates especially was unfading, and in
making his will he performed the gracious and characteristic act of leav-
ing, to seven of his most intimate among them, legacies, in token of his
life-long affection.

He never married ; but those to whom he ministered as son or brother

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New Hampshire and Vermont, visiting also friends in Masi=;achu-
setts, New York City, and Washington, District Columbia, among
whom were several classmates, and returned to Topeka, March 5,
1903.

JOHN WILLIAMS FREEMAN is still out of health, and
resides in Canandaigua, New York.

♦JOHN DAVIS WILLIAMS FRENCH was born in Boston,
Jan. 29, 1841. He died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 2, 1900.

He continued to reside in Boston, and upon his farm in North
Andover, Massachusetts, until his death, devoting much of his
time to work in religious and charitable societies, and to agricul-
ture, horticulture, and forestry.

The funeral service, conducted by Bishop Lawrence at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Boston, May 7, 1900, was largely
attended by members of the Class, J. M. Brown, Grew, Lawrence,
and Lincoln, acting with others, not classmates, as pall-bearers.

A memorial window was placed in Emmanuel Church, Boston,
Dec. 8, 1901. A memoir for the New England Historic-Gen-
ealogical Society, prepared by Hassam, and printed in the New-
England Historical and Genealogical Register (LV., Ixvii), says :

" He was a good citizen, public-spirited to an unusual degree, always
ready and willing to give his time and his money to all worthy and de-
serving objects. His death is a distinct loss to the community. It will
be difficult to fill the place thus left vacant."

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 27, 1900, the Class Secretary offered the following tribute
on behalf of Lawrence, who was absent :

John Davis Williams French, our classmate, the son of Jonathan
and Hannah (Weld) French, was born in Boston, Jan. 29, 1841. His
father, who is still living, at a very great age, was a well-known man of
business.

French fitted for college at the private Latin School of the late Epes
S. Dixwell, and entered with the rest of us in 1859. We remember

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38 THE CLASS OF 1863.

The foUowiog letter was subsequently received from a

sister :

280 Marlborough Street, July 19, 1000.
Dear Mr. Lincoln, — On coining to Boston to-day, after a two weeks'
absence, I found your kind note and tlie tribute paid to my brother on
Commencement Day. Please accept my sincere thanks.

Very truly yours,

Cornelia Anne French.

♦BENJAMIN THOMPSON FROTHINGHAM was bom in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, Feb. 2, 1843. He died at Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia, April 30, 1902.

He had given up active business at the time of his death, and
had devoted much time to travel in this country and in Europe.

The following letter was received from Cromwell, in reply to
inquiries made by the Class Secretary :

32 Nassau St., New York, May 20, 1902.

Dear Lincoln,. — Henry Tuck has forwarded to me a letter from you,
inquiring as to the death of our classmate Benjamin T. Frothingham,
and asks me to reply : I have intended to write informing you of the
sad event, and am now wishing that I had done so earlier.

Frothingham died on the 30th of last month, from heart disease, —
very suddenly at the close, but after a failure in health which lasted
through three or more years, and which gave warning of the gradually
approaching and inevitable end.

His loss of physical strength had led him recently to relinquish all
active pursuits : in fact, he had of late given up most of his time
to foreign travel, and in that he indulged the scholarly tastes with
which he was gifted, and daily added to the store of knowledge which
made him a man of exceptional culture. While his near friends knew
well the suffering and restriction which came with his illness, no one
ever saw a shadow cast by them upon his life. He never lost the happy
faculty of rising above difficulties and disappointments of that kind into
an atmosphere of brightness and hope.

In Brooklyn, where he had his home, he, during the active years of
his life, did much for the good of those around him. While not en-
gaged in public life, he was interested in the city's charities and in many
organizations formed for the general welfare ; he was for many years

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the Secretary of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society and its most active
Director, and was also interested in the Institute of Arts and Sciences,
and there and elsewhere became a valued adviser in educational work.
A graduate of tlie Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, he was one of
the officers of its Board of Tnistees, and until his death continued his
interest in its wide field of instruction.

I had a long visit from Ben only two days before his death. He came
here to my office, and for nearly two hours we indulged in memories
of the past, going back to the days at Cambridge, and in anticipa-
tion of the happy times to come, — for we then vowed that we would
without fail join the Class at the forty-year reunion next year.

Imagine the shock when, upon the second day after that, a telegram
came, telling me that he had died.

Mrs. Frothingham, as you may remember, is a sister of our classmate,

W. Augustus White ; she has remaining with her two children, — the

one a daughter, the other a son (John Wliipple Frothingham) who

graduated with high rank at Harvard.

With warm regards, believe me, sincerely yours,

Frederic Cromwell.
Arthur Lincoln, Esq., 63 State St., Boston.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 25, 1902, the Class Secretary offered the following memorial
on behalf of White, who was absent :

Benjamin Thompson Frothingham was born in Charlestown, Massa-
chusetts, Feb. 2, 1843. He would sometimes refer, half jokingly, to the
fact that he was born under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument ; and
it almost seemed as if his warm sympathy with every movement making
for liberty of thought and of man was, if possible, heightened by some
feeling of obligation imposed by the associations of his birthplace. His
ancestry for two centuries was of New England origin, and his maternal
grandfather, Benjamin Thompson, after whom he was named, repre-
sented the Charlestown district in Congress for two terms. In 1852
his parents changed their residence to Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1855 he
entered the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute at its open-
ing. This was a large new preparatory school of which Dr. Jolm H,
Raymond was President, and inaugurated by him on liberal lines that
placed it in advance of most of the boys' schools of the period. Disci-
pline was maintained by appealing to the pupils* sense of honor rather
than by restrictive regulations and punishments. The morale of the

40 THE CLASS OF 1863.

school was excellent and congenial to Frothingham, who always looked
back with pleasure to the four years spent there.

His gift of oratory and elocution seemed innate, perhaps a natural ex-
pression of the combination in his character of clearness of thought, with
a warm and sympatlietic appreciation of the feelings and thoughts of
others. At those rather dreary school functions where boy after boy
recites mechanically some " piece " learned by rote, his recitations were
always an enlivening and redeeming feature that aroused the audience
to close attention and appreciative applause.

He learned much at school, but more outside. He was always an
eager reader, and early in his life took an interest in subjects that usually
attract only those of maturer years. He sympathized strongly with the
movement toward a more liberal religious belief in the Unittirian denom-
ination. He attended the church of which Rev. Samuel Longfellow
(brother of the poet) was pastor, — a man of congenial sweetness of
disposition that resulted in a warm and lasting friendship between the
two, and had considerable influence in shaping Frothingham's opinions
and character.

The anti-slavery movement enlisted his warmest sympathies. As a
boy of thirteen, he was not too young to take an enthusiastic interest
in Fremont*s campaign for the Presidency, and his interest in national
politics deepened and grew more intense as public sentiment at the
North rapidly ripened during tiie few years immediately preceding the
Civil War.

Frothingham entered college at the age of sixteen, probably more
mature in development than most of his classmates. He attained a fair
standing in his classes without much effort, but for more than that he
did not care to strive, as the routine of recitations was irksome to him,
and he preferred to throw his real work and interest into studies some-
what outside of the regular college work. From early boyhood he was
a lover of music, and enjoyed greatly both classical music and the Italian
Opera of that date. On the short visits of opera companies to Boston,
he was nearly always in attendance, sometimes taking a text-book with
him to prepare between the acts for next morning's recitation.

His genial nature and bright mind made him a popular and prominent
member of the Class, and resulted in his receiving perhaps the highest
honor within its gift, that of being chosen orator for Class Day. His
address on that occasion was largely concerned with the stirring ques-
tions of the day, and was an inspiring appeal to patriotism and the sup-
port of the national cause. So good a judge as Edward Everett, who

BIOGRAPHIES. 41

was present, said that it was the best Class Day oration he had ever
listened to.

Frothingham's nature was, as has been said, an unusually affectionate
and kindly one; his tastes and inclinations were all toward a quiet
life ; he had nevei\ taken any interest in athletics or outdoor sport ; it
was, therefore, only a strong sense of duty that led him, a few months
after graduating, to enter the army as a volunteer aide with the
rank of captain on the staff of General Gillmore. A diary kept by him
during his term of service makes frequent mention of meeting class-
mates. In November, 1863, he was at Port Royal, South Carolina, and
in that vicinity, where he met Crane and Boynton several times. In
January, 1864, he was in Florida, and mentions Stetson as spending
a night with him, meeting Morison several times, and obtaining a pass
for him, and also meeting Brooks and Wales. From April to June, 1864,
he saw hard service in the Peninsular Campaign, and met Verplanck,
Clark, and others. Such was his aversion to any appearance of ostenta-
tiousness, that in after life he seldom referred to his military service, or
if it was spoken of, passed it over lightly as a matter of little serious-
ness ; yet it appears from his diary that he was often under fire, that
men and horses were shot alongside of him, and once beyond the picket
lines he was shot at from behind at short range, and narrowly escaped
capture.

After leaving the army he made a trip to Europe, and spent nine
months abroad, much of the time in company with Cromwell and White,
and enjoying and appreciating greatly the Old World that is so new to
an American on his first visit.

In 1866, he married Katharine Tredway White. In all four children
were bom to them, a daughter and three sons. The loss of two of his
sons at the age of six and seven, respectively, was deeply felt by him.

For about twenty-five years he was engaged in mercantile business in
New York, but he was never greatly interested in money-making.

He gave much of his time and thought to institutions with which he
was connected. He was a trustee in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly-
technic Institute for thirty-five years, for the most of that time its
Secretary and for a few years its Treasurer. He was for thirty years a
Trustee of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, for most of that time its
Secretary, and always the most active member of its Board. In 1898,
he l^ecame a Trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
was a member of its Executive Committee, and Chairman of its Music
Committee. He was a director in the Nassau National Bank of Brook-

42 THE CLASS OF 1803.

lyn. He served for a time as Trustee of the First IlDitarian Society of
Brooklyn. He took an active and intelligent interest in all movements
for better politics, and his advice and co-operation were sought and wel-
comed in many ways.

During the latter years of his life, his activity was a good deal limited
by his knowledge that a serious weakness of the heart might bring
death at any moment ; yet his manner never showed any consciousness
of it, but he was always as bright and cheerful as though he had every
prospect of many years more of life. Considerable time was spent in
Europe, where it was always a pleasure to him to meet classmate Pratt
and talk over college days. He always kept up a close intimacy with
Cromwell, whom he called to see and had a long talk with only two
days before his death. The end came very suddenly on April 30, 1902.

It would be superfluous to enumerate his fine qualities to his class-
mates who knew him so well. His most effective work was the example
he set of a nature always kindly and loving, bringing cheer to all with
whom he came in contact, absolutely unselfish, and full of thoughtful
consideration for others ; and this fundamental amiability of character
was illumined by a brightness of mind and alertness of fancy that made
him the best of companions, as well as the dearest of friends.

The f olowing letter was subsequently received :

September Q, 1902.
My dear Mr. Lincoln, — I thank you exceedingly for your kind letter
enclosing the Memorial of my husband. This appears to me a very
fitting tribute, for which I shall- express personally my gratitude to my
brother. It is a genuine satisfaction to me to know that the Class of
Sixty-three, of which he was so fond, records his memory with such
sympathy and appreciation.

Believe me, very sincerely yours,

Katharine White Frothingham.
Chestnut Hill, and 68 Broad St., N. Y.

* WILLIAM FROTHINGHAM was born in Boston, Nov. 8,
1841. He died ia Boston, Feb. 27, 1895.

He continued in business in Boston until his death.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day
June 26, 1895, H. F. Jenks offered the following memorial:

"We are one in the joy and sorrow."

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BIOGRAPHIES. 43

•
Well have we proved the truth of this first line of our dear old Class

song. Few classes in our Alma Mater, if any, have more strongly re-
garded the ties of brotherhood. In these days of large classes it is im-
possible to maintain the same intimacy and to conserve the same friendly
interest which was possible in classes whose number was small enough to
allow acquaintance and some degree of familiarity between all their
members. Though our Class was the largest that had graduated up to
its time, it was small enough for the establishment and maintenance of
those personal relations, between all who composed it, which promote
mutual interest and sympathy, and we have always retained a kindly
regard for one another, have rejoiced in one another's triumphs, and
mourned in one another's misfortunes and sorrows. Wo have been
singularly fortunate, in comparison with other classes, in the limited
number of breaks which have occurred in our circle. In the quin-
quennial catalogue issued to-day ninety-four names of living members
appear. Of the one hundred and five who graduated thirty-two years
ago, twenty-two only have died ; of the one hundred and twenty who
have received degrees as members of our Class, only twenty-six ; and of all
the one hundred and fifty-one who were at any time connected with the
Class, only forty-one, — a record such as probably no other class can show,
particularly when we consider that from our Class were sent many into
the ranks of the army in the Civil War.

Still, in spite of this immunity, we are reminded as the years pass on
that we must

** Draw the ranks of our brotherhood nearer,"

for from time to time they ** narrow," and as we come here to-day we are
called to notice a break in them since we last met together.

William Frothingham, son of Samuel and Louisa Frothingham, who
was born in Boston, 8th Nov., 1841, died in that city February 27, of
the current year.

We remember Frothingham as a man with a ready capacity for acquir-
ing knowledge, but never a hard student ; he could with little effort have
attained a high standing, and he had natural abilities of no mean order.
In his life after graduation, he had many trials to encounter and mis-
fortunes to overcome, and the prospects of his early manhood failed of
fulfilment.

With some of us, he retained his early intimacies, and felt the support
of their sympathy, and, as from time to time he met with us in our
gq,tUerings, there was a ready cordiality in his manner, and an underlying

44 THE CLASS OF 1863.

cheerfulness that no disaster or reverse could entirely overcome. His
death in the prime of manhood reminds us that the time of our gradu-
ation from earthly scenes draws on apace.

We mourn the loss of one of our brotherhood, and tender to his family
and friends our respectful sympathy.

" What though life'sbattle has not been
A victory to all !
What though in running life's hard race
We may have chanced to fall.

** Each brother's life with its single strife
Is a part of each other's story."

It was thereupon

Voted^ that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a copy
be sent to the family.

*PAYSON PEEEIN FULLEETON was born in Boston,
July 15, 1841. He died in New York City, Nov. 13, 1877.
His son, Walter Morse, died Feb. 23, 1881.

CHAELES ELIOT FUENESS is still in impaired health, and
not engaged in any business.

JOSEPH ANTHONY GILLET is still Professor of Mathe-
matics and Physics in the Normal College of the City of New
York, a position which he has held for over thirty-three years.
He leads a very quiet life, is in excellent health, enjoys his work,
draws his salary regularly, and strives to earn it by good honest
work.

FEANK GOODWIN still resides in Boston, and is a Professor
in the Law School of Boston University.

His son, Eobert Eliot, was fitted for college at the High School,
Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard College, with
a cum laude, in 1901, and is now a student in the Law School of
Boston University.

BIOGRAPHIES. 45

ADOLPHUS WILLIAMSON GEEEN still resides in Chicago,
but spends much of his time in New York, and has a summer
home at Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut.

From 1893 to 1898 he was a lawyer, with a constantly increas-
ing practice, and after twenty-five years of hard work had reached
the position to which he had been looking forward, the head of a
large law firm with the privilege of selecting just the kind of busi-
ness he wanted.

At the beginning of 1898 he was largely instrumental in form-
ing the National Biscuit Company, and became the general counsel
for that Company, also one of its Directors and a member of its
Executive Committee. As the Company developed, he became
drawn more and more into the business management, so that in
the fall of 1898 he was forced to take the position of Chairman
of the Board of Directors, and became practically the chief execu-
tive oflBcer. This necessitated his gradually giving up the prac-
tice of law.

He has made four trips to Europe since 1893.

JOHN OENE GEEEN continues the practice of his profes-
sion in Boston, at 182 Marlborough Street.

He still holds his professorship in the Harvard Medical
School, and is Aural Surgeon of the Massachusetts Charitable
Eye and Ear Infirmary. He has resigned from the Massa-
chusetts Gieneral Hospital and as Aural Surgeon of the Boston
City Hospital, but has been appointed Advisory Surgeon of the
latter.

His writings, entirely professional, have been confined to medi-
cal periodicals and society transactions, except sections in the
following works :

** Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences."
"American Textbook of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat."
" International Textbook of Surgery."

"A System of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilology and Derma-
tology."

46 THE CLASS OF 1863.

♦FREDEEIC THOMAS GREENHALGE was born in Clith-
eroe, England, July 19, 1842. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts,
March 5, 1896.

He continued to reside in Lowell until his death.

He was elected Governor of Massachusetts, Nov. 7, 1893, and
inaugurated Jan. 4, 1894. He was re-elected in November, 1894
and 1895, and died in oflBce.

Funeral services were held in the First Congregational Church,
Lowell, March 9, 1896. Sheldon was one of the pall-bearers, and
classmates present were Appleton, Bishop, Daniell, Denny, Drew,
Edwards, Goodwin, Grew, F. L. Higginson, Lincoln, Mason, Owen,
Smith, Wales, and H. W. Warren.

The following letters explain themselves :

Boston, March 6, 1896.

Dear Mrs. Greenhalge, — Among the many assurances of respect
and esteem for your husband, I hope that a word from his college class-
mates will be of some comfort to you and your children. I therefore
venture to send you this message to remind you of the great interest
we have always had in him.

In the early college days we soon learned to appreciate his talent and
to value his friendship, and later years have constantly strengthened our
regard and attachment for him. There is a peculiar charm about college
friendships which is most enduring, and I am sure we have always
cherished this feeling for him, as he did for us. He has been a constant
attendant at our social gatherings, and no one has contributed more than
he to the pleasure and profit of such occasions.

Our burden will be heavier, now he is gone, but his memory will help
us to bear it more bravely.

Very sincerely yours, Arthur Lincoln,

Class Secretary,
Mb. Arthur Lincoln,
Boston.
Dear Sir, — My mother desires me to thank you in her name for the
very kind and sympathetic letter which you sent to her.

Very truly yours, F. B. Greenhalge.

Memorial exercises were held by the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts in Mechanics Building, Boston, April 18, 1896.

46 THE CLASS OF 1863.

♦FREDEEIC THOMAS GREENHALGE was born in Clith-
eroe, England, July 19, 1842. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts,
March 5, 1896.

He continued to reside in Lowell until his death.

He was elected Governor of Massachusetts, Nov. 7, 1893, and
inaugurated Jan. 4, 1894. He was re-elected in November, 1894
and 1895, and died in ofl&ce.

The following letters explain themselves :

Boston, March 6, 1896.
Dear Mrs. Greenhalge, — Among the many assurances of respect
and esteem for your husband, I hope that a word from his college class-
mates will be of some comfort to you and your children. I therefore
venture to send you this message to remind you of the great interest
we have always had in him.

Our burden will be heavier, now he is gone, but his memory will help
us to bear it more bravely.

Very sincerely yours, Arthur Lincoln,

Class Secretary.
Mr. Arthur Lincoln,
Boston.
Dear Sir, — My mother desires me to thank you in her name for the
very kind and sympathetic letter which you sent to her.

Very truly yours, F. B. Greenhalge.

Memorial exercises were held by the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts in Mechanics Building, Boston, April 18, 1896.

BIOGRAPHIES. 47

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 24, 1896, Sheldon offered the following tribute:

Our late classmate, Frederic Thomas Greenhalge, the son of William
and Mary (Slater) Greenhalge, was born in Clitheroe, England, on the
19th day of July, 1842. He spent his boyhood and laid the foundation
of his education in rural England, with the ordinary advantages of Eng-
lish middle-class life, somewhat heightened by the fact that his father
possessed much natural ability, and had gained for himself a thoroughly
practical education. In the spring of 1855, William Greenhalge, with his
family, emigrated to this country, and established himself in Lowell, in
an important and fairly well-paid position, in charge of the engraving
department of the Merrimack Print Works. His son Frederic inherited
from the sturdy English stock from which he sprang the vigorous race-
qualities which were afterwards prominent in his career; and, as has
been so often seen in other cases, those qualities lost none of their native
power, but acquired a more brilliant polish and a keener edge in the
stimulating air of Massachusetts. He was fitted for college in the High
School at Lowell, where, though completing the four years' course in
three years, he took high rank in his studies, being the first winner of
the Carney medal, and became a leader in his class. He founded and
largely maintained the " High School Union," a paper edited and written
by the scholars. In the fall of 1859, he was admitted to college, and
became a member of our Class. He did not remain long with us, being
compelled by the death of his father to leave college during his junior
year ; but he was with us long enough to win distinction, to gain the
good-will of his classmates, and to make us all glad, not only in his own
pleasure, but for the sake of the Class, which was thus enabled to claim
him as her own, when, in 1870, the college gave to him the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, as a member of the Class of '63.

Though always a good student, especially in those subjects which he
most affected, and which he saw to be of chief importance to his own
needs, it was as a writer and debater that he acquired his highest dis-
tinction. His discussions with our other deceased classmate, who but
for his early death would doubtless have continued to be his tit rival,
Gorham Phillips Stevens, are fresh in the memory of many of us. At
the close of our Sophomore year, he was appointed orator of the Institute
of 1770; and he also became one of the editors of the old "Harvard
Magazine." We knew him then in embryo, as we have known him since
his graduation, not only as the powerful orator, not only as the sagacious

48 - THE CLASS OF 1863.

raan of affairs, not only as one who both in public and private life owed
his success to his good qualities, and not to his failings, but as the man
of letters whose tongue and whose wit were alike always ready, whose
genial nature was made all the more lovable because when he was at
ease among his classmates he liked to cover it with a mask of sarcasm,
whose capacity was always equal to every exigency that came to him.
Accordingly, in after life as well as in college, we were as quick to resort
to his tongue and pen as he was ready to use them in our behalf. He
enlivened our meetings by the brilliancy of his speech and the kindliness
of his bearing. lie wrote the ode for our fifth triennial dinner in 1878 ;
he was well characterized by our Secretary in 1888 as " Joculator ornatis-
simus;" he presided at our latest dinner in 1893 with a plenitude of
wit and eloquence which demanded and received from every one his best
in return.

Obliged by the death of his father in 1862 to leave college, and to
provide for his own support and care for his mother and sisters, he met
these responsibilities fully and efficiently, while he devoted his spare time
to the study of the law. In the winter of 1862-63 he taught a district
school at Chelmsford ; in September, 1863, he was employed for a short
time at the American Boiler Works at Lowell. But his personal needs
could not make him deaf to the call of patriotism. He volunteered to
enlist in the Union army ; and when, by reason of an enfeebling injury,
he failed to pass the medical examination, he was still resolved to put
himself in the way of active service, and so betook himself to Newbern,
North Carolina, hoping to receive a commission. Here he was for a time
placed in charge of the commissary department; but w^hen the city
was attacked in February, 1864, he took command of a body of colored
troops, and so continued until he was seized with malarial fever, and
after some weeks was sent home sick, and discharged. He then resumed
the study of the law, and in May, 1865, was admitted to the Middlesex
bar.

It has been my privilege elsewhere, in another connection, to speak of
Greenhalge's career at the bar, and I may perhaps be allowed to use the
same words here. As a lawyer, it was well said of him by one of our
ablest judges, that he never found it necessary to give up candor or
manners in order to fight hard and prevail. So another eminent judge,
now deceased, after presiding at the trial of a case prosecuted by Green-
halge, and stubbornly defended by one of our most skilful lawyers, spoke
of the pleasure he had felt in hearing a case fought hard and closely by
men who were both lawyers and gentlemen. Ho never failed to bring

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out the full strength of his client's position ; and he was never afraid to
meet the hardest onset or the most persistent defence that could he made
by his opponent. His powers of oratory were unfailing; but he did not
attempt by those powers to conceal any unfairness of argument or any
distortion of truth and justice. Utterly loyal to his client, he did not
fall short in his loyalty to the court. He was eager to secure victory,
and he could toil terribly to this end ; but he could not fight his forensic
battles otherwise tlian fairly and honestly. He loved the truth ; and his
bearing, his demeanor, the tones of his voice, the very features of his
countenance, his heart and mind manifesting themselves in all that he
said and did, showed this love of truth so plainly that few could fail to
see and appreciate it. He was a sincere man ; he could not deceive him-
self, and he would not deceive others. He was a lover of justice ; and he
realized the fact, so often overlooked by mere theorists, that, under our
system of administering the law, a just result can best be practically
attained when the opposing interests are each earnestly and even zeal-
ously supported and vindicated by the highest skill of professional advo-
cacy, with a competent and impartial tribunal finally to decide between
them. So he, sincerely and with an earnest strenuousness, but fairly
and courteously, supported the claims of his client, and expected and
welcomed the same conduct from his adversaries. If he were disap-
pointed in this reasonable expectation, if any unfair devices were used
against hira, he was able to trample them underfoot and bring them
to destruction.

Accordingly, he was successful as a lawyer. Early in his professional
life, he said that he had a fair practice, which was increasing daily. It
cannot be doubted that, had he continued in active practice, he would
have attained both a sufficient competence and that measure of fame
which is within the reach of the practising lawyer. He turned into
political life, and his renown is the greater. But he was the same man
as a lawyer that he was in other walks of life. His practice was a
varied one, and he did all his work well. It was ever his habit to rise,
at least, to the level of each occasion, and to discharge successfully
whatever duty came to his hand. I have said that he would doubtless
have acquired a competence had he not diverted his attention from law
to politics. But he never practised law in the commercial spirit ; he
was not inclined to magnify the pecuniary value of his services, or to
consider his own emolument so much the object of his exertions as the
welfare of his client. He desired professional success ; he was ambitious
to gain it ; the contests of the bar suited his eager nature. His argu-

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ments to juries were strong and effective, just as in political life his
speeches were influential and persuasive. He knew what to say and
how to say it ; and, while his wit and sarcasm made his arguments and
speeches attractive and fascinating, the unflinching integrity and manli-
ness of his nature slione forth in all that he said, and gave the weight
and strength that carried conviction to the minds of those that heard
him.

I have purposely left myself but little space in which to speak of his
public life. It was as a man rather than as a statesman or a politician
that we, his classmates, knew and loved him. And yet, we cannot
forget that the honors he received from his fellow-citizens were acquired,
not by any chance, not by any devices of a demagogue, not by any
pandering to popular prejudices or any truckling to the passions of the
hour, but by the same combination of warm-hearted geniality, stern
and unbending integrity, firm and determined devotion to the right,
with the same capacity of vehement outburst against the wrong, and
the same fertility of resource, all fused together into the same trenchant
eloquence, that won and retained our affection. And we feel that the
honors he gained are, in a certain sense, to be counted among the laurels
of his Class ; that it is also his " glory that cannot be shaken " that is to
help inspire us for the combats that remain. He was naturally a leader
of mankind ; and we may well go over the title-roll of his dignities, not
in any vain pride, but with rejoicing that in him worth was recognized,
and that his high qualities were afforded the field which was necessary
for their proper manifestation.

He served in the Common Council of Lowell in 1868 and 1869. He
was for three years, beginning in 1871, a member of the School Board.
In 1880, he was elected Mayor of Lowell, and discharged with honor
the duties of that office; and in 1888 he was made City Solicitor. In
1874, he was appointed Special Justice of the Police Court of Lowell.
In 1885, he was elected a Representative from Lowell to the General
Court of the Commonwealth; and, in 1889, he became a member of the
51st National Congress from the 8th Massachusetts District. In 1884,
he was sent as a delegate to the National Republican Convention ; and,
in 1889, he presided over the Republican State Convention of Massa-
chusetts. In 1893, he was elected, and was re-elected in 1894 and 1895,
to be Governor of Massachusetts, each time by majorities which had
been long unknown in our State elections. In all these positions he
gained for himself the love and admiration of those who agreed with
him, the esteem and admiration of those who differed from him. He

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made each difficulty the stepping-stone to a new success. In his Con-
gressional service, though lasting but for a single term, it is not too much
to say that he gained for himself a national distinction, at once winning
the attention and respect of the House, and securing a position in the
front rank of Congressional orators. But it was in the discharge of his
functions as Governor of Massachusetts that he most clearly manifested
to the public gaze his courage in administration, his independence in
thought and action, his absolute integrity, his ardent and unswerving
patriotism, his steadfast faith in the people, his quick and sound judg-
ment, his persistent adherence to the right regardless of any question as
to his own political interest, or even as to any merely partisan concerns.
While he was yet newly seated in the gubernatorial chair, anarchy with
misguided labor in its train, crawled before him, and snarled out such
threats and demands as time-serving politicians had been wont to quail
before ; but he met the sufferings of labor with so ready a sympathy,
and the ravings of anarchy with so stern and utter a denial, that all
danger disappeared as if by magic; and again were exemplified those
great words of Lowell :

** The brave makes danger opportunity ;

The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime,
Dwarfs it to peril. "

But it is not for me on this occasion to speak in detail of his public
services. This matter has now passed into the domain of history, and
we who loved the man could not treat this subject with the self-restraint
and in the calm and measured language that would be fitting. Instead
of attempting to do so, let me hand to our Secretary the resolutions,
already indeed familiar to us all, in which the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts has made official acknowledgment of his services and recorded
its grief for his loss.

Greenhalge was married Oct. 1, 1872, to Isabel Nesmith, daughter
of the Honorable John Nesmith, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of this
Commonwealth. His children were Nesmith Greenhalge, born August
28, 1873, and died July 25, 1874; Frederick Brandlesome Greenhalge,
born July 21, 1875 ; Harriet Nesmith Greenhalge, born Dec. 10, 1878 ;
Richard Spalding Greenhalge, born July 31, 1883.

His health had suffered from the demands made upon him in his
official positions ; and early in February, 1896, he was prostrated by the
progressive encroachments of a disease which had long been sapping his
strength, though he had hitherto resisted its open attacks. But now it

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advanced rapidly to its inevitable termination ; and he died on the 5th
day of March, 1896, during his third term of office as Governor, lamented
by all the people of the Commonwealth. Never has there been a more
general expression of grief in this State than came from this loss. I
have already quoted the resolutions of the Executive Department of the
Commonwealth. On Saturday, April 18, 1896, the Commonwealth paid
him its last formal tribute by observances, in his honor, at Mechanics
Hall, in Boston, terminating with an eloquent eulogy upon the late
Governor, by the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge. Let me quote a
few winged words from this noble speech :

" He was sinple in his life, devoted and tender to his wife and chil-
dren, a lover of home, the altar and shrine of the race who read the
Bible in the language of Shakespeare. He was brave and loyal, loyal
with that chivalrous loyalty which is not too common, but which leads
a man like him to come unasked to the aid of a friend, and to give and
take blows in a friend's behalf, as the Black Knight came to the side
of Ivanhoe when he was sore beset. He was honest in word and deed,
and untouched by the unwholesome passion for mere money which is
one of the darkest perils of these modern times. He loved literature
and books with a real love and reverence, and held scholarship in honor.
. . . With memory sharpened by sorrow, we all recall his ability in
administration, his capacity for business, his unfailing charm of manner,
his simple but strong religious faith, and his large and generous toler-
ance. These qualities were known and honored of all men ; and they
had their reward, not in the high offices that came to him, but in the
confidence and affection which he inspired. This was a life worth
living. He made it so, both for himself and for others. He did
a man's work ; he fouglit a man's fight ; he made his mark upon his
time."

Greenhalge died a poor man. Under the press of public duties that
weighed upon the last years of his life, he had disregarded his personal
interests so completely that his pecuniary resources had practically dis-
appeared. And he would rather have had it so than have gained wealth
while engaged in the discharge of public trusts. But he has left to his
children a legacy better than any mere wealth, — a name which is loved
and honored as few otliers have been by the people of this State, a fra-
grant memory which will not soon pass away, an inheritance of glory
in which they can never cease to feel an honest pride. And to us, his
classmates, he has left an example which we cannot fail to find quickening
and ennobling. Because we have known him, because- we have been con-

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versant with him, and enjoyed the blessiug of his friendship, we can repeat
with deeper truth, with a stronger realization of the force of our words :*

"Our place has already been taken

By the lives whose glad labor is done ;
By their glory which cannot be shaken
We are pledged to the combat till won."

It was thereupon

Voted, that the tribute be entered upon the Class records and a copy
be sent to the family.

The resolutions adopted by the Executive Council of Mas-
sachusetts and referred to in the foregoing memorial are as
follows :

" The Lieutenant-Governor and the Executive Council of Massachusetts
for the year 1896, in common with all the people of this Commonwealth,
feel a deep sense of loss to the State and nation in the premature death
of our beloved Governor, Frederic Thomas Greenhalge.

" He has left us in the maturity of his early manhood and in the full
play of his splendid abilities to plan and execute, and all the people may
well give expression to their grief at the untimely departure of a chief
magistrate so entirely devoted to their service. This council will miss
his genial presence, his wise leadership, and his personal friendship.

" Coming to this country in childhood and in humble circumstances,
he, like many others who acquired leadership and fame, had to work out
his destiny by the force of his indomitable will. His growth and success
were phenomenal. Heroes are bom, not made. Frederic T. Greenhalge
was both born great and grew great.

" He readily imbibed the spirit of American institutions, and his
early life and the training of his intellectual powers in the schools was
a fine illustration of American opportunity, American civilization, and
Massachusetts education. He was of and for the people. He believed
in them and trusted them. They believed in him and loved him. And
when the power of speech and the fire of eloquence were called forth
to stir men to enthusiasm and action, they were sure to be found in
Frederic T. Greenhalge. He captivated men not so much by his elo-
quence as by his earnestness and his sincerity. A lawyer by profession, he
spent much of his life in the public service. In the councils and as Mayor
of his own city, in the Legislature of this State, he took position at the

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front and did good service. A brilliant career in the national House of
Representatives, and finally as Governor of this Commonwealth completed
his public service. Every position he filled he adorned. He was a man
of fixed opinions, and when conclusions were reached and believed by
him to be founded on principles of justice and truth, it was useless to
try and change his course. He was conscientious and untiring in his
discharge of public duty, and though sometimes criticised by those who
watched for his halting, his praises now fall from their lips.

" Taken prematurely in the middle of a career which, had he lived,
might have been greatly extended, he drops by the wayside, leaving a
reputation of honorable service to the Commonwealth and without a
stain. History will assign him an honorable place in the long line of
illustrious chief magistrates of this Commonwealth, and his memory
will live in the hearts of the people for ages yet to come.

" Without rudely invading the sanctity of private grief, we tender our
heartfelt sympathy to the sorrowing family."

The following letter was subsequently received :

My dear Mr. Lincoln, — Please accept my sincere thanks for the
copy of Judge Sheldon's tribute to my husband. It is a beautiful testi-
monial, just, truthful, and appreciative* I shall prize it as a memorial
dear to me and my children from the classmates whom he loved.
Very sincerely yours,

Isabel Nesmith Greenhalge.
CoNWAT Cbntre, July 22, 1896.

A marble bust of Governor Greenhalge, by Kitson, was pre-
sented to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by the people of
Lowell, Feb. 28, 1896, and is now placed in the State Hguse.
A volume on " The Life and Work of Frederic T. Greenhalge,"
has been published by James Ernest Nesmith.

His son, Frederick Brandlesome, has graduated in the Harvard
Class of 1898.

* WILLIAM 6EEEN0UGH was born in Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, June 29, 1843. He died at Lake Placid, New York, July 8,
1902.

He was for three years, 1897-1899, a Commissioner of Education

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in New York City by appointment of Mayor Strong. His wife
died Nov. 29, 1897.

His son, William, graduated at Harvard in 1896; his son,
Carroll, is a member of the Class of 1904.

He has a second grandson, Greenough Townsend, born March
4, 1895.

At Commencement Fairchild will ofifer the following memo-
rial:

William Greenough, sou of William Whitwell (Harvard, 1837) and
Catherine Scollay (Curtis) Greenough, was born in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, June 29, 1843. He. fitted for college at the Boston Public
Latin School.

The first year after graduation he spent at Salisbury and Amesbury,
Massachusetts, occupied in studying the character and condition of wool.
The second year he passed in Boston, with Tyler, Mclnnes, and Co.,
wool dealers. From August 1, 1865, to April 1, 1866, he was in business
as a wool-broker, at 122 Congress Street. He was afterwards with Hallo-
well and Coburn, wool commission merchants. He became a member
of this firm April 1, 1867, and left it, Jan. 1, 1872, and began business
under his own name at 51 Federal Street. His warehouse, with all its
merchandise, was consumed in the great fire of November, 1872. He
removed to New York City early in 1879, and engaged in the manu-
facture of woollen goods at Waterloo, New York, and their sale in New
York City, in partnership with his wife's brother, under the name of
Patterson and Greenough, at 65 Leonard Street. In the early part of
1888 he moved to 41 Worth Street, and later to 345 Broadway, where
he continued in the same business until the time of his death.

He was interested in the foundation of the New York Free Circulat-
ing Library, — a free library for the poor of the City of New York, —
and was one of the trustees, and at one time Secretary of the Society.
He was connected with the management of the Dewitt Dispensary, New
York Lying-Tn Hospital, City Reform Club, and New York Charity
Organization Society, of which he was one of the founders. He was,
during the last years of his life, a trustee of the Institution for the
Savings of Merchants' Clerks, and of the New York Institution of the
Deaf and Dumb.

In 1897 he was appointed a Commissioner of Education in the City of

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New York, by William L. Strong, at that time Mayor of the City, and
served in that capacity for three years.

He was a member of the New York Historical Society, Waterloo His-
torical Society, University Club, Merchants' Club, Harvard Club, and of
several others.

He was marrfed, April 26, 1871, to Alice Mary Patterson, daughter
of Joseph Wymau Patterson of New York City, who died on the 27th
day of November, 1897.

He had five children, all of whom survive him, — Alice, born March
24, 1872, the wife of Edward Mitchell Townsend, Jr. ; William, born
July 15, 1874 (Harvard, 1896); Marion Mansfield, born Oct. 17, 1877;
Edith, born Sept. 12, 1881 ; and Carroll, born Jan. 30, 1883.

He died at Lake Placid, New York, on the 8th of July, 1902.

No better description can be given of Greenough's public service and
faithful character than by quoting the following article from a New York
newspaper in reference to his work as a Commissioner of Education and
also the minute of the Charity Organization Society of New York upon
his death.

"A SAFE STEP TOWARD NON-PARTISANSHIP.

** Many persons who believe most strongly in the wisdom of non-partisan
government in municipal affairs are convinced that it is a mistake to attempt
to force that conception upon a community in which all political ideas are
wrapped up with the division into parties. Even victory, if premature, is
often a calamity, and a crushing defeat on the issues of non-partisanship would
set back the cause indefinitely. To be able to make use of a victory the
people must be ready for it. It is better to wait too long than to offer open
battle when defeat is probable and victory would weaken the forces that won
it. There is but one safe road to new forms of government and that road is
public education. Let us show the people the advantages of disinterested con-
duct in public positions before we ask them to vote on the abstract principle.
Colonel Waring has done more to make the idea of independence in municipal
politics a reality than a dozen crusades. When there have been enough officials
like him the reform will have been accomplished gradually ; a permanent vic-
tory will haye been won ; solid education by example will have made our city
ready for another principle in elections.

" An illustration of this kind of progress was given at yesterday's meeting
of the Board of Education, in a report based on months of faithful and intel-
ligent work. The Board of Education was practically committed months
ago to a reconstruction of teachers* salaries, based on an abolition of the old
grades and a substitution of grades by which the newest teachers and those
with the lowest salaries teach children in the middle of the school course and

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are promoted down to the younger children as well as up to the older ones.
The rearrangement of salaries fell to one commissioner, a new acquisition of
the board. He found it necessary to work out this principle in detail to apply
to all the two thousand teachers in the city. Not only that, but old by-laws
of the Board of Education, many of them foolish and arbitrary, about priority
in promotion, not only according to Ifength of service, but according to the
school where the vacancy occurred, made the task infinitely more complicated.
No member of the Board of Education of a year ago would have thought of un-
dertaking such a task. If it had been done it would have been done by the paid
superintendents. This merchant, however, knew how important it was that
the whole work be accomplished by a man with no wires to pull and an under-
standing of the spirit of the change in standards of promotion. He has done
it in his own office after months of work, with the clerical help of his own
personal force of employees, and there have been no speeches about it and no
invitation for applause. Yet all the citizens who understand the effort which
one of their number has made for the good of all, without pay and without
notoriety, have a lesson in the value of giving offices to men whose only desire
is to be of use to the community.

" Nobody knows whether Commissioner Greenough is a Republican, a Demo-
crat, or a Mugwump, and nobody cares to know. He has performed the kind
of service that leads to non-partisan standards along a road where there are
no dangers."

" At a Regular Monthly Meeting of the Central Council of the Charity
Organization Society, held on Oct. 8, 1902, the President announced the death
of William Greenough, and the following minute was unanimously ordered
to be spread upon the record.

** William Greenough, one of the original founders and organizers of the
Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, died July 8, 1902, be-
fore his time. It was in 1882 when a group of those interested in systematic,
intelligent improvement in charitable methods met at Mr. Greenough's resi-
dence, to form a Charity Organization Society for this city. By education and
moral equipment he was well fitted to be one of the leaders in the modem
movement.

" He combined gentleness with firmness, earnestness and persistency with
consideration for the views of others, a wide range of information, and a natu-
ral ability for the practical application of his researches and observations.

** He was a member and chairman of the local committee of the district in
which he lived for several years, and a member of this Council and its Execu-
tive Committee, Finance Committee, and other active committees from 1885 to
1899, when many other duties, and a gradual impairment of health, compelled
him to retire from the Council. He then became one of the Vice-Presidents of
this society. He was an ardent supporter of the Teachers* College through
all its early struggles, and for several years a most valuable member of the
Board of Education of this city.

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" Others come and go ; their work succeeds ; the society prospers and time
heals all things, but we cannot forget our beginnings and our foundation-
stones. It fell to the lot of pioneers and builders to bear the heaviest burden
of moulding public sentiment and of meeting the adverse criticism of preju-
dice, inexperience, and ignorance, and of creating respect for the society. In
this troublesome period of its history, Mr. Green ough was indefatigable and
untiring.

" There was nothing superficial in his chai*acter. He took home with him
the educational and social problems, and thought them out until he was
sure of his position. Then he contended for it. Vanity and self-interest
were not in him. He worked for the cause which interested him. He was
absolutely true, sincere, and genuine. Is there any better type ? But the
higher the 'type, and the greater the man's usefulness, the keener the loss."

I may add that I saw him often during the last years of his life, and
that to the end he was the same kind, genial, lovable fellow and strong,
faithful friend that he had always been.

EDWARD STURGIS GREW continues to reside in Boston at
185 Marlborough Street. He is not engaged in active business.
He has been for thirty-one years a manager and for twelve years
Secretary of the Boaton Dispensary.

In 1898 and again in 1903 he visited Europe.

His son Randolph Clark graduated from Harvard in 1895;
his son Henry Sturgis in 1896; and his son Joseph Clark in
1902.

His §on Henry Sturgis Grew married, Nov. 17, 1897, Ethel
Hooper, daughter of James C. Hooper.

JOHN DEAN HALL is Assistant Surgeon-General in the
United States Army, with the rank of Colonel.

He was stationed at Fort Wadsworth, New York, July 31, 1898.
Later he was stationed at San Francisco, and at the present time
is on duty at Manila, Philippine Islands.

WALTER WHITNEY HAMMOND closed his pastorate of
the Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, March
31, 1895, and on account of his removal from Philadelphia re-
signed his position in the Executive Council of the Presbyterian
Historical Society of the United States of America.

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After an interval marked by occasional supply of pulpits, and
evangelistic labor, he took charge, in October, 1897, of the Pres-
byterian Church at Remsenburg, Long Island, and closed his
service there upon accepting, April 1, 1902, his present charge,
the Morris Plains, New Jersey, Presbyterian Church.

He is a member, from April 1, 1902, of the Morris Ministerial
Association, a body organized for theological and literary culture.

On July 4, 1902, at Morris Plains, he delivered the address in
connection with a flag-raising in the square. Has given several
addresses at union meetings and inter-denominational gatherings
on behalf of the work of the Young Men*s Christian Association,
United Society of Christian Endeavor, Sunday School, Temper-
ance, and Missions.

THOMAS ROBINSON HARRIS, in 1895, having completed
twenty-five years as Rector of St. Paul's Church, New York City,
resigned, and accepted the Rectorship of St. Mary's, Beechwood,
a small rural parish at Scarborough-on-the-Hudson. He made
this change principally for the sake of the health of himself and
his family, intending to remain there only for two or three years.
Finding, however, that the smaller parish gave much more time
for outside work, he has remained there for eight years.

His public duties have been greatly increased. For sixteen
years he has been Secretary of the Convention of the Diocese. In
1895 he was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the
Diocese, and has_^served' as Secretary of that Committee for eight
years, — having been re-elected by ballot by the Diocesan Con-
vention every year. In 1897 he was elected Chairman and
Treasurer of the Committee on Trust Funds of the Corporation
of Widows and Orphans of the Clergy, to fill the place occupied
by Dean Hoffman, and he continued to hold the position for two
years, until he found it conflicting with other duties. In 1897
he was elected by the Diocesan Convention a Trustee of the Gen-
eral Theological Seminary, and a few weeks later was elected a
member of the Standing Committee of that institution. In the

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following May he was elected Secretary of the Board of Trus-
tees. All which positions he continues to hold. He has been a
member of the Annual Committee on the Examinations at the
Seminary nearly every year since 1893, and Examining Chaplain
of the Diocese of New York since 1895, until last November,
when he resigned. In 1894 he was elected President of the New
York Clericus, — a club composed of clergy of New York and
vicinity, — and in 1897 he was elected President of the New York
Churchman's Association. He is also a member of the clerical
association known as "The Club." During his residence at Scar-
borough he has been three times elected a School Trustee, and
has served in that capacity for over five years. In 1899 he was
, elected General Secretary of the Church Congress of the Protes-
tant-Episcopal Church, and continues to hold the office.

His publications have been confined principally to his official
work as Secretary of the various bodies with which he is con-
nected, and whose annual reports he prepares for publication.
He has contributed, however, a number of articles to the religious
press, besides a somewhat lengthy one to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Among the published articles are the following:

" The Higher Criticism and the Devotional Use of the Holy Scrip-
tures." A paper read before the New York Churchman's Associa-
tion, and published in "The Churchman," Sept. 30, 1893.

"Church Growth in New York." "The Churchman," Dec. 16, 1893.
Largely copied in the Press.

'* The Religious Corporations Law." " The Churchman," 1897. This
paper resulted in the appointment of a Committee to revise the Relig-
ious Corporations Law of the State of New York, of which he was a
member, and which succeeded in securing a radical revision of the
law adopted by the Legislature in 1895.

His oldest son, Robert Van Kleeck, married, in 1894, Anna Van
Doren, of New York, and has two children : Robert Van Kleeck,
2d, born July 6, 1895 ; Laurence Van Doren, born Dec. 7, 1898.
He is now Rector of Christ Church, Red Hook, New York.

His oldest daughter, Margaret, was married in 1899 to William

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" The Higher Criticism and the Devotionftl Use of the Holy Scrip-
tures." A paper read before the New York Churchman's Associa-
tion, and published in " The Cliurchman," Sept. 30, 1893.

"Church Growth in New York." "The Churchman," Dec. 16, 1893.
Largely copied in the Press.

'*The Religious Corporations Law." « The Churchman," 1897. This
paper resulted in the appointment of a Committee to revise the Relig-
ious Corporations Law of the State of New York, of which he was a
member, and which succeeded in securing a radical revision of the
law adopted by the Legislature in 1895.

His oldest daughter, Margaret, was married in 1899 to William

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Lamson Griffin, of New York, and has one son, William Lamson
Griffin, 2d, born Nov. 10, 1902.

His youngest daughter, Ellen Van Kleeck, died in December,
1894. His third daughter. May Eobinson, was admitted to the
Normal College in New York in 1896. His youngest son,
Thomas Eobinson, is attending the Holbrook Military Academy,
where he is making a good record for scholarship.

* ALBERT CHEVALIER HASELTINE was born in Phila-
delphia, Jan. 16, 1843. He died at Pierres-Maintenon, near
Paris, France, July 14, 1898, and was buried in the Bagneux
Cemetery, in Paris.

He continued to live in Paris and its vicinity until his death,
devoting much time to fruit-raising and horticulture upon his
estate at Pierres-Maintenon.

At the annual meeting of the class on Commencement Day,
June 28, 1899, Jenks offered the following memorial :

Albert Chevalier Haseltine died July 14, 1898, soon after Com-
mencement, near Paris, France.

A man of refinement and courtesy, but reserved in manner, he was, in
college life, known intimately by few of us, but by those he was
esteemed and counted an agreeable companion.

Soon after graduation he took up his residence in France, and for a
few years devoted himself to literature and the study and practice
of art, and subsequently to horticulture. He was consequently unable
to maintain much intercourse with the class, and was present at Com-
mencement only three times.

Hia death, coming as it does this year Avith two others, reminds us that
we must look forward to our own occupation of the place which

.... ** has already been tAken

By those whose glad labors are done."

As one and another departs let us

" draw the ranks of our brotherhood nearer. "

and cherishing the little nameless, unreraembered acts of kindness and
of love, which, the poet says, are the best portions of a man's life, be
stimulated to practise them ourselves.

We tender our respectful sympathy to the surviving relatives of our
classmate.

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It was thereupon

Vot^y That the Memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a
copy be sent to the family.

The following letters were received in reply to inquiries by the
Class Secretary:
BoiT writes :

Vallombro8A,JItalt, July 13, 1899.

My dear Lincoln, — Here in the Apennines about twenty miles
from Florence, and nearly three thousand feet above it, I recall my promise
to tell you something of our classmate Albert Haseltine during the last
years of his life.

Our intercourse was always of the most irregular and broken kind.
We would meet two or three times during a few weeks or months, and
then lose sight of one another for several years.

It must have been ten years ago or thereabouts that Haseltine was
called on to represent the interests of one of his brothers in the settle-
ments of the affairs of George Petit — the well-known Paris picture dealer
— and at that time, to be near Petit, he had hired a diminutive apart-
ment in the Rue Godot de Mauroy which he occupied only when called
to the capital by the exigencies of his brother's affairs.

It was a curious little place, and there I remember finding him, having
no doubt, gone to see him in the company of some mutual friend passing
through Paris. He showed us his apartment, and he could do this
almost without taking a step, and yet it comprised a short staircase, an
antechamber, a kitchen, a parlour, and a bedroom. I recall his saying we
were lucky to find him there, because most of his time was spent at
Chartres, where he had a house and, above all, a garden in which he
loved to work, digging, planting, weeding, pruning, and raising many
kinds of fruit, not for sale but to supply his personal wants.

I never visited him during his stay at Chartres (which must have
extended over several years), but later on, about five years ago, I carried
out an often-deferred project of spending a day in his company and see-
ing his newly acquired cottage and garden in the little village of Pierres
near Maintenon, about a dozen miles from Chartres on the railway
towards Brittany.

An early train from Paris brought me at about ten a.m. to the Station
of Maintenon, where Haseltine was waiting for me. It was a beautiful
day in June, and the walk of two or more miles through the pretty

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country surrounding the Chateau of Maintenou was delightful. Further
on than the walls of the park the landscape became flatter and barer
than it had been, and in this more uninteresting scenery we came upon
the village of Pierres and Haseltine's modest dwelling. A gray plaster
building of one story, with dormer windows in the roof, square and
small, it stood directly on the road, with a narrow garden behind it run-
ning down to a bit of woodland. This was all, and here Haseltine passed
the last years of his life. Here he died.

Inside the house were two small rooms on the street, and a kitchen and
shed at the back, and in the roof a large rambling room with some im-
provised easy-chairs and a fine collection of books that remained to him
from the period of his college days. All day long he would work in his
garden, and in the evening would read for hours in the attic parlour I
have spoken of. At rare intervals there came a visit to Paris, where, in
the Rue do Bourgogne, he always retained a modest lodging, and it was
during these visits that we occasionally met, for I never went to Pierres
except on the June day of which I have been speaking.

On that day (to go back to it) he showed me about his garden with
the natural pride of a creator, — for it was all the result of his own
labors, and I listened not unwillingly to the story of its growth, visited its
strawberry and raspberry beds, and felt of the green pears and peaches
slowly ripening against its walls. Then came the hour for lunch, and
after sipping our coffee, we climbed the narrow stairs leading to the upper
room, and there spent a pleasant hour talking of old days and old friends,
until our talk was interrupted by the arrival of a rustic carriage pre-
viously ordered to carry us over to Chartres, Avhere we proposed to visit
the cathedral, see the town, and dine at the inn — returning together by
the evening express to Paris. I have a most vivid recollection of this
drive of a dozen miles or more through a beautiful country, in the most
beautiful month of the year, and, in my enjoyment and admiration, I
found in Haseltine a sympathetic and congenial companion, one who was
keenly alive to the beautiful side of things.

After this memorable day we did not meet for two years, and when we
did meet it was in the most unexpected manner. Again in the month
of June (this time in the year 1897) I had arranged with William
Haseltine, — the artist, so long resident in Rome, — to go with him to the
Salon of the Champs de Mars. We had reached our destination at an
early hour of the morning, — say ten o'clock, — and were almost alone
in the vast building, when we suddenly ran up against Albert Haseltine.
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agreed to join forces, and when our visit to the Salon was over, both the
Haseltines accepted my invitation to lunch with me. In this way we
passed the better part of another long June day together, and this meet-
ing of the two brothers is not devoid of a certain melancholy interest in
view of the fact that only one year later this same brother William
was sent for in Albert's last illness, and was with him when he died.
" The last time I saw Haseltine (it must have been only a few months
before his death) he was coming to call on me when he met me in the
street, and we walked on together. I had been to see the American
Ambassador to France and urge Hasel tine's fitness for the post of
Commissioner at the coming French Exposition, and gave him, on that
occasion, an account of my interview.

Although he had many influential friends working in his favor,
Haseltine did not secure this position, and no doubt felt the disappoint-
ment keenly. He ha<l felt, as he had a right to feel, that his intimate
knowledge of the French language and long familiarity with artistic
matters eminently qualified him for the place he sought, but these
places all depended upon political influence.

We can only wonder how long his life might have been prolonged by
the success of his application for this position. The lonely life he had
led had, no doubt, somewhat undermined his health, and a persistent
hoarseness had long indicated a growing weakness of the throat and
lungs j but whether or no a new interest would have given him new
courage, and have prolonged his life, there was undoubtedly a pathetic
side to his last days and death. Under other circumstances, his noble
tastes and wide cultivation might have made a mark in this puzzling
world of ours.

I cannot think, my dear Lincoln, that these ragged recollections of
mine can be of service to you, but I have noted them down for what
they were worth.

Always yours most truly,

Edward D. Boit.

Appleton writes :

21 July, 1899.

Haseltine was the founder of the Harvard Club in Philadelphia, and
then of the one in New York. I remember my first visit to the latter
was during the winter of 1865-66, or perhaps 1867-68, when the meet-
ings were held way up in the building of Clark's restaurant, Broadway.

It was in 1869-70 that our classmate appeared in Paris with the plan
of selecting and buying paintings to be sent to his brother, who was an
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a painter iu Rome, Italy, and another, a sculptor in the same city, and
I believe they were to help in the work.

The Franco-Prussian War broke out before they were more than started,
and this really prevented the business from being undertaken later, though
A. C Haseltine was always more or less in touch with French artists, and
for many years lived in Paris, and was associated with the house of
Mons. George Petit.

The winter of 1875-76, 1 saw him frequently in London and Paris,
when he was especially interested in a plan of a cable from Portugal vid
the Azores to some place in the United States, to co-operate with the
telegraph system of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The leading spirit
in the enterprise was Mr. Van Choate of Boston, and I was associated
with them, and we worked at it together for some time, but did not bring
it to a successful result.

Shortly after this, he took up the idea of erecting a business building
on American prmciples, i. e., heat, elevators, many different offices, etc.
etc., of which there was nothing of the kind in Paris. This was to be
near the Bourse, in the financial centre of Paris, and I knew, perhaps better
than any one, the thought, time, care, and diligent work he gave to it.
Properties had to be examined, leases looked over, many of them running
for years, and all the details of future ownership arranged. But this did
not succeed, and so, from the two disappointments, I doubt if he attempted
any more active work of the kind.

I saw him often at Paris, the summer of 1878, the year of the Exposi-
tion, and also in 1879, at the time of the Canal Congress called together
by Ferdinand de Lesseps, and did what little I could in his behalf. As
late as two years ago, he sought a place in the American Commission for
the great Exposition to be held in 1900, and I, with others of his class,
signed a petition recommending his services.

I cannot say just what year it was he went to live at Chartres, where
he had a very comfortable house, with grounds and garden, and he took
great delight in looking after the vegetables, fruits, and flowers. He lived
almost the life of a hermit, cooking his meals and taking long walks
across the country. I visited him two or three times at this place.
I^ter he removed to Pierres-Maintenon, between Paris and Chartres,
where he had a cosy house, garden, and everything to his taste, which a
legacy from an old friend enabled him to possess without annoyance, as
his finances were not very high. I went there during my last visit to
France, the autumn of 1894, and passed a night, and the next day we
drove to a neighboring village to lunch.

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That was the last time I remember seeing him, as it was only a few
days before I left Paris, where he had in the Rue de Bourgogne over the
river, a comfortable little pied d terre whenever he came to the city.

Brought up in luxury and extravagance, but compelled to live in most
modest circumstances, he was generally in a cheerful^ and pleasant frame,
and seemed to enjoy recalling the days of his past, before he had been
subjected to so many disappointments.

Mason writes :

In September, 1896, my wife and I passed a day or two with Hasel-
tine at his house in PieiTes, where he took great pleasure in seeing his old
friends and in showing them his garden and the attractions of the neigh-
borhood. It was a privilege to visit with him the magnificent cathedral
at Chartres, and indeed his knowledge of French history, literature, and
art was very wide.

Probably few men could have so adapted themselves to the mode of
life in which his lot was cast, but he did it with philosophy and with
dignity. He was of French Huguenot extraction, in appearance a
Frenchman, with perfect command of the language, for which he had a
fondness in his early days. He was a great reader of books, in several
languages. Very fastidious in his tastes, he took a great interest in the
French cuisine and became personally proficient in this art, as well an ex-
pert in judging of French wines. His knowledge of " fruits and flowera"
led the American Commissioner to the Exposition of 1878 to enlist his
services in that department, and they were subsequently acknowledged
in the United States Government Report.

Though seldom with us, Haseltnie was a loyal son of Harvard and
took pride in having been the organizer and the first Secretary of the
Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia and in New York. He had a strong
desire to return and live again in his own laud among his old friends,
and a few months before his death a business position that would have
enabled him to do this was offered to him, but failing health obliged
him to decline it.

♦JOHN TYLER HASSAM was born in Boston, Sept. 20,
1841, and died in Boston, April 22, 1903.

In addition to the societies mentioned in former reports, he was
elected a member of the Bar Association of Boston, June 6, 1885,
of the Virginia Historical Society, May 9, 1896, corresponding

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member of the Somerville Historical Society, Feb. 6, 1900, corre-
sponding member of the Maine Historical Society, June 27,
1900.

He has been a frequent contributor to the " New England His-
torical Genealogical Register," and to the "Proceedings of the
Massachusetts Historical Society," and, since the list printed in
the Class Report of 1888, has published the following pamphlets
reprinted from the "New England Historical Genealogical
Register : "

*'The Hassam Family. Additional Notes.'' 1889 ;

" Ensign WiUiam Hilton of York, Me." 1896 ;

"Ezekiel Cheever. The Cheevcr M8S. and Letters." 1903 ;

and the following from the " Proceedings of the Massachusetts
Historical Society:"

''The Confiscated Estates of Boston Loyalists. Victrix causa deis

placuit, sed victa Catotii" Cambridge: 1895;
"Diuister Papers." Cambridge: 1895;
"Hilton Letters." 1895;
*' Early Recorders and Registers of Deeds for the County of Siiflfolk,

Massachusetts. 1639-1735." 1898. Reprinted also, with additional

foot-notes, as part of the Introduction to " Lib. x. Suffolk Deeds."

1899;
" The Bahama Islands. Notes on an Early Attempt at Colonization."

1899;
"Registers of Deeds for the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. 1735-

1900.^' 1900. Reprinted also, with additional foot-notes, as part of

the Introduction to "Lib. xi. Suffolk Deeds." 1900 ;
"Registers of Probate for the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. 1639-

1799." 1902;

as well as the following :

" Land Transfer Reform. A Practical Point of View." 1893. A re-
ply to an article by F. V. Balch in the "Harvard Law Review"
for March, 1893. Printed for the Laud Transfer Reform League of
Boston;

"No. 47 Court Street, Boston." 1903. Reprinted (with additions) from
Notes and Queries of the " Boston Transcript " of October 25, 1 903.

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and these privately printed volumes :

" The Hassam Family." 1896 ;
" The Hilton Family." 1896 ;
** The Cheever Family." 1 896 ;

"The Hassam Family." 1902. This is a reprint, \vith some addi-
tions, of *• The Hassam Family." 1896.

At Commencement the following memorial will be offered by
Owen:

John Tyler Hassam was bom Sept. 20, 1841, and died April 22,
1903. From his birth to his death he resided in Boston. After a ser-
vice of eight or nine months in the army as First Lieutenant in a regi-
ment of colored troops, he studied law and was admitted to the bar
Dec. 13, 1867. His practice as a lawyer was confined principally, if
not entirely, to conveyancing, and his ability, industry, and accuracy
soon gave him a place among the leaders of that branch of his profession
in Suffolk County. Studious by nature and enthusiastic in the pursuit
of all sources of information relating to the subjects of his investigation,
he devoted all the time which could be spared from his increasing
business to the study of the early history of his native city, and, long
before his death, was recognized as an authority upon the antiquities of
Boston. As an ofl&cer and member of historical and genealogical so-
cieties he made many valuable contributions to their records, many of
which have been published in pamphlet form for distribution among his
friends. Absorbed as he seemed to be in the study of the musty records
of the past, his mind was still alert in devising and putting into effect
new plans for preserving and arranging these records and making more
easy and convenient the use of them by the public. The sketch of his
life printed in the Class report presented by the Secretary on the twenty-
fifth anniversary of our graduation gives some idea of the extent of his
activities and the variety of his achievements. Among them may be
mentioned the originating and forwarding of the plan of the exhaustive
researches in England undertaken by the New England Historic-Genea-
logical Society, which resulted in the discovery of the parentage and an-
cestry of John Harvard ; the printing of the early volumes of Suffolk
Deeds ; the great improvement of the indexes in the Registry of Deeds
under his direction as an Index Commissioner, which has resulted in
vastly diminishing the labor and expense of examining titles ; the rescu-
ing from destruction of a large part of the original court files of Suffolk
County, and obtaining the large appropriations necessary for their pres-

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ervation and proper arrangement; and the effective service which he
rendered towards the procuring of the passage by the Massachusetts Leg-
islature of the act authorizing the addition of accommodations for the
Eegistries of Deeds and Probate in the new court house. He was also
one of the earliest and most effective advocates of the introduction of
the Torrens system of laud registration, which, with some modifications,
has been enacted into law in this Commonwealth.

Although in no sense an orator, he was an easy and persuasive speaker,
and his zeal was untiring when he had once entered upon the work of
obtaining what he believed to be for the benefit of the public. Finn
and persistent in the pursuit of his purpose, he cherished no resentment
towards those who opposed him. Of sunny disposition and kindly tem-
per, he had always a smile and a friendly greeting for all with whom he
came in contact. Burdened during the past two years with the weight
of an incurable disease, he still maintained his cheerful demeanor, and
although his wasting form and haggard face gave evidence to his friends
that he was walking in the shadow of death, he made no sign and
uttered no complaint. His last work was the revision of the proof of
the sketch contained in the Class report for this year. Two days after
he had returned it, he passed away. He lived a useful and an honor-
able life, and he will be long remembered in the community whose
interests he served so well.

•ALEXANDER LADD HAYES wa3 born in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, Sept. 20, 1841, He died in Cambridge, April
14, 1899.

He continued to reside in Cambridge until his death, but was
obliged to give up somewhat the practice of his profession as
solicitor of patgnts on account of ill health.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 28, 1899, the following sketch, prepared by Goodwin, was
read by the Class Secretary : —

Our classmate, Alexander Ladd Hayes, was bom in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, Sept. 20, 1841. The writer of this sketch was born in
the same year, and in the same town, and had an intimate personal
acquaintance with him from early boyhood. We are informed that
much of the moulding of the mind of our classmate is to be referred
to the influence of Mr. Morrison, whose school he attended when a boy
in Washington, and by whom he was fitted for college; and we can

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readily conceive that the attraction which the delicate aroma of classical
literature always possessed for our classmate, drawing him toward it as
a fragrant plant causes the body to lean toward its branches, may have
been increased by the early surroundings of his preparatory school. The
hard syntax, and the mechanical metre of literature never bound him
with their chains; but the delicate sentiment and the fine feeling ever
wooed and won him. •

His mind had a scientific^ a philosophical, and a poetic turn. But it
was the fine idea in science, not the material embodiment of it which
interested him. The marvellous matching of ideas, their correlation,
and the symmetry resulting in their combination, fascinated him ; and
these he saw in his imagination, so that he did not need the visible
object, the crystallization into material form, to satisfy his mental re-
quirements. It was in these respects that his scientific, his philosophical,
and his poetical qualities met. An electrical machine, displaying its
new-bom wonders, represented to him the thought of the universe,
drawn from manifold quarters, operating in entire harmony, without
clash or confusion, and upon lines of beauty, yet all of it based upon
principles of eternal and universal verity. With a mind so constituted,
it was very natural that he should give his attention, as he did for a
large part of his mature life, to the subject of inventions ; and we are
informed by those competent to judge of the matter, that his work in
drawing descriptions of novel and patentable ideas was excellent, entirely
accurate, and expressed in language of great clearness, with the fine dis-
tinctions between things very neatly put.

But beyond all these intellectual aptitudes, he was thoroughly amiable,
very sympathetic, and without a streak of meanness in his nature. The
vice of envy, which alone of all the vices assaults merit in another, was
entirely absent from his soul. He rejoiced with those that rejoiced, and
sympathized with those to whom his kindly words and looks were
grateful. Then, too, he was genial. The hard facts of a competitive
and exacting age beget a selfishness in many men who are worthy of a
better development of their characters ; but the ugly nature of the
struggle for success never seemed to affect him in the least. He was
always serene, always interested in his friends, and although without
zeal in the affairs of the mass of humanity, yet with a deep interest in
the welfare of those within the limits of his environment. Had he been
educated to the ministry, he would have had a larger care for the mem-
bers of his flock, than for the uplifting of all mankind, and would never
have groaned or sighed under the load of the white man's burden.

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It was thereupon

Voted, that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a copy
sent to the family.

The following letter was subsequently received :

No. 605 Sbars Building, Boston, August 8, 1899.
My DEAR Lincoln, — For my sisters and myself I thank you very
much for the copy of the resolutions passed by my brother's Class on the
occasion of his death, which you so kindly sent me.

It is pleasant for us to know that this tribute to my brother was
written by one who had known him all his life, and could appreciate those
traits of character which endeared him to us as a brother, and to his
classmates as a friend. Please convey to the members of his Class our
grateful appreciation of this thoughtful and kindly act.
Very sincerely yours,

William A. Hayes, 2d.
To Arthur Lincoln, Esq.,

63 State St., Boston, Mass.

♦ CHAELES WILLIAM HEATON was born in Alton, lUi-
nois, Dec. 11, 1840. He died in Boston, Sept. 9, 1869.

FEANCIS LEE HIGGINSON continues to live in Boston at
274 Beacon Street. While not in active business, he is a " fairly
busy man."

Since about 1886 he has been one of the managing Trustees of
the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and others, and its Presi-
dent for the past two years. He is a Director of the Merchants'
National Bank, the City Trust Co., the Massachusetts Hospital
Life Insurance Co., and of several other corporations. He is a
Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, of the Massachu-
setts Eye and Ear Infirmary, of the Museum of Fine Arts, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts
Humane Society. He is an Overseer of Harvard College, having
been elected in 1897 for the term expiring at Commencement,
1903.

He was in Europe from May 4, 1898, to about May 10, 1899.

He was mamed, April 11, 1898, to Corina Anna, daughter of

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George B. and Amalia Shattuck of Boston, and has two children,
Corina S., born Sept. 19, 1899, and Eleanor Lee, born Nov. 22, 1901.

His son Francis Lee, Jr., fitted for college at the Groton School,
Groton, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard College in 1896, and
graduated in 1900. He is now a clerk in the office of Lee, Hig-
ginson, & Co. His daughter Mary Cabot married, Feb. 2, 1898,
Philip S. Sears (Harvard, 1889), of Boston.

He has grandchildren : Philip Mason Sears, born Dec. 29, 1899,
and David, born Dec. 23, 1901.

SAMUEL STORROW HIGGINSON is at the Soldiers' Home,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

JOHN MARVIN HORTON is living in New York City at
211 West 101st Street.

* WILLIAM MONEFELDT ROWLAND was born in Charles-
ton, South Carolina, Feb. 19, 1841. He died in Bloomfield, New
Jersey, April 1, 1894.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 27, 1894, the Class Secretary announced the death of How-
land, and Cobb was requested to prepare a sketch to be entered
upon the records and sent to the family. The following sketch
was subsequently prepared by Cobb : —

William Monefeldt Rowland, Class of 1863, a native of Charleston,
South Carolina, after a lingering illness, died of paresis at Bloomfield,
New Jersey, at the age of fifty-four, on the first day of April, 1894. His
obsequies were conducted by the Rev. Robert Colly er of the Church
of the Messiah, 'New York City, who, after the religious exercises and
reading with much feeling Sir Edwin Arnold's familiar poem ** He who
died at Azan," paid a tribute to the memory of the deceased that may
be condensed to this purport, —

'* He was a ripe scholar and a polished gentleman. His books were
his constant companions, we might almost add, his best loved friends,
and it is much to be deplored that his physical strength was but in poor
accordance with his mental power. Naturally of a meditative disposi-
tion, he disliked ostentation, and took but little interest in the lighter

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moods and movements of social life : but, on the other hand, he possessed
that broad human sympathy rarely found, save in the contemplative
recluse and philosopher; this, combined with lofty instincts, clear in-
tuitions, and unwavering sincerity, won for him the affection and esteem
of all to whom he was truly known."

He was buried in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery.

♦WILLIAM GUPTILL HUBBAED was born in Acton
Maine, March 18, 1841. He died in Somerville, Massachusetts
May 23, 1865.

♦ EDWARD EEYNOLDS HUN was born in Albany, New
York, April 17, 1842. He died in Stanford, Connecticut, March
14, 1880.

EDGAE ADELBEET HUTCHINS has removed to Boston,
and is in business as a mining expert at 120 Tremont Street.

His daughter Amy was married, Dec. 26, 1900, to Le Baron E.
Barker (Harvard, 1898). They have one child, Anne Ware
Barker, born Dec. 6, 1901.

CHAELES CABOT JACKSON still lives in Boston at 301
Marlborough Street, and is the senior member of the firm of
Jackson and Curtis, Stockbrokers, 15 Congress Street. He went
to Europe in February, 1903.

He is Vice-President of the Boston Stock Exchange, and a
member of the Executive Committee of the Indianapolis Mone-
tary Convention.

He published, in 1894, a pamphlet, "Has Gold Appreciated?"

His son Charles graduated from Harvard College in 1898, and
his son Eobert Appleton in 1899, and from the Law School in
1902. His son George S. is a member of the Harvard Class of
1905.

HENEY FITCH JENKS is still pastor of the First Congre-
gational Parish of Canton, Massachusetts (Unitarian).

In 1895 he spent a part of the fall in Denver, Colorado, and
went again as far as Salt Lake City. In 1897 he went to Eng-

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land, with members of the American Library Association, to
attend the International Library Convention in London, July 13,
and returned the last of August. Unusual facilities were given to
the party for seeing places of interest generally closed to visitors.
The Corporations of Newcastle, Bath, Salisbury, and many other
cities and towns extended special civilities, and in London the
Lord Mayor invited the members to an evening reception ; at Lin-
coln and Salisbury, the Dean and Sub-Dean, respectively, con-
ducted them through the Cathedrals ; at Oxford, the authorities of
the Bodleian Library invited them to a Conversazione ; at Cam-
bridge, the Mayor, a son of the naturalist Darwin, gave a garden
party ; in London, Apsley House, the home of the Duke of Wel-
lington, Grosvenor House, the home of the Duke of Westminster,
Sutherland House, and Brooke House, the home of Lord Tweed-
mouth, were thrown open; in Edinburgh, the Corporation was
assiduous in attentions and hospitality, and the royal apartments
in Holyrood Palace were shown, by the special direction of her
Majesty, the Queen. Besides there were many opportunities for
making personal acquaintances, and visiting the homes of the
people. Before returning he made a short trip to Paris. In 1900
he attended a meeting of the American Library Association at
Montreal, and after it made a second visit to the Eiver Saguenay.

In 1902 he went abroad again, intending to make a short trip
on the continent, and be absent about three months, but was
obliged to return in half that time, and without having been out
of England. He saw, however, several Cathedral cities which he
had not seen before, and received benefit from the voyage.

In December, 1894, he was elected a member of the Massachu-
setts Society of Colonial Wars ; in 1894, Dec. 21, a member of the
Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Eevolution; in
1895, Eecording Secretary of the Prince Society ; in 1898, Cabinet
Keeper of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; in 1891, Vice-
President of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum ; in 1893, a mem-
ber of the Virginia Historical Society ; in 1900, Vice-President of
the Boston Latin School Association ; in April, 1901, a member of

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the American Antiquarian Society ; May, 1 899, Moderator of the
Boston Association of Congregational Ministers, which ofl&ce he
held to May, 1901 ; in December, 1902, a member of the Twen-
tieth Century Club in Boston ; in March, 1903, he was for the
fifth time re-elected a Trustee of the Canton Public Library for
three years, which, when completed, will make seventeen years
of continuous service. He is a member of the Harvard Union.
He was a delegate to the National Conference of Unitarian
Churches at Saratoga in 1894, 1897, and 1901, and at Washing-
ton in 1895 and 1899.

In 1902 he resigned his membership in the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, the Virginia Historical Society,
and the American Folk Lore Society. In the same year his
commission as Justice of the Peace expired, and he did not apply
to have it renewed.

He published an article on " Old School Street, Boston," in the
" New England Magazine " for November, 1895. In 1898, May 26,
he preached the annual sermon before the Massachusetts Con-
vention of Congregational- Ministers. His subject was " Some
Problems of the Country Parish," and the sermon was printed by
vote of the Convention. In 1902 the " Eecords of the Church in
Brattle Square, Boston," of which he had been for some years one
of the editors, was published. He was a member of a Committee
of the Massachusetts Historical Society to publish a second
volume of Belcher Papers, volume seven of the sixth series of the
Collections of the Society, and two additional volumes of Trum-
bull papers, volumes two and three of the seventh series of the
Collections.

His son Charles F. is in the Class of 1906 in Bowdoin College.
His son Frederic A. has passed his preliminary examinations, and
hopes to enter Harvard this year.

♦ WILLIAM FURNESS JENKS was born in Louisiana, Mis-
souri, May 21, 1842. He died near Philadelphia, Oct. 31, 1881.
His son Eobert Darrah graduated at Harvard in 1897.

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* GEORGE SENECA JONES was born in Foxboro', Massa-
chusetts, June 13, 1840. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
March 14, 1903.

He gave up the manufacture of typewriters some time ago,
and has since been writing the astronomical articles for the
" Press," " Record," and " Inquirer " in Philadelphia, for papers in
Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Pittsburg, and Washington,
and for newspapers and magazines all over the country.

For several months he managed the scientific department of
the " Self-Culture," published in Chicago. In 1898 he wrote a
volume entitled "Foreign Statesmen," in a set of books called
"Six Thousand Years of History."

He leaves a wife and three children.

At Commencement the following memorial will be offered by
Jenks :

We have reached a point in life when we cannot expect that the
exemption from the ordinary lot of mortahty which has been such
a marked feature of our Class history can be our experience much
longer. More and more rapidly must we be numbered with the
starry host. Since our last Class report twenty-three, more than one-
fifth of the Class, have ceased from earthly labors, and of these whom
we are called upon to commemorate to-day, four since the last Com-
mencement.

George Seneca Jones died March 14, 1903, after a long illness, at
his home in Philadelphia. A native of Massachusetts, bom in Foxboro',
June 13, 1840, most of his active life was passed in Pennsylvania,
where for many years he was in the Department of Public Instruction
at the Capital, and later in business life, or engaged as an author.
This is the simple story of his life.

Coming to us in the Sophomore year, and leaving, to enter the army,
before oiir graduation, he was not widely known ; and as his after life
was passed in another State, and he was able to attend Commencement
but once, he had little or no opportunity to renew or strengthen such
intimacies as he may have formed with his classmates, so that while
he always retained an interest in them, and in the memories of college
life, he was to most of us little more than a name.

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But though we did not know him well, we felt he was of us, and were
glad to hear of his usefulness ; his work is a part of our Class achievement,
and helps to round out its record of service. In his later years, in de-
scribing the stars in their courses so as to increase the popular interest
in astronomical science, he has helped to reveal the Creator to his crea-
tures by pointing out the work of an Almighty hand^ In his departure
we feel that the ties of our brotherhood are again broken and the circle
of our fellowship narrowed.

He leaves a widow and three children, and to them we offer our sym-
pathy in their bereavement.

EDWAED HAETWELL KIDDEE lives in New York at 37
East 77th Street. He is the Secretary of the Barrett Manufac-
turing Co. and the American Coal Products Co., but passes six
months of each year at his country place at Marlborough, New
Hampshire.

He travelled in Europe for several months in the summers of
1895 and 1896. In 1899 he went to Egypt, coming home through
Europe, travelling some seven or eight months, and again, 1901,
was abroad for four months.

His daughter Grace was married, Sept. 18, 1900, to Paul Leicester
Ford, son of Gordon L. and Emily Elswood (Fowler) Ford. Paul
L. Ford died May 8, 1902.

He has a grandchild, Lesta Ford, born June 3, 1902.

* JAMES TEUESDELL KILBEETH was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, March 12, 1841. He died in Southampton, Long Island,
June 27, 1897.

He continued to reside in New York City until his death. He
was appointed by President Cleveland Collector of Customs of
the Port of New York, July 28, 1893, and assumed office August
3, 1893. The Senate was not in session at the time of his appoint-
ment, so that his confirmation by that body did not occur until
Oct 30, 1893. By act of Congress he was appointed one of a
committee of three to superintend the construction of a new
Custom House in New York City. He was Collector at the time

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of his death, and a most efficient, just, and able officer. He died
of pneumonia after an illness of about two weeks.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 30, 1897, Lincoln ofifered the following memorial :

The Class of 1863, in annual meeting assembled at Cambridge on
Commencement Day, miss for the first time the gracious presence and
cordial greeting of their classmate, James Truesdbll Kilbreth, and
desire to extend upon the record their appreciation of his great worth
and their regard for his memory.

In College he was our attached friend. He early won our love and
respect, which deepened and strengthened as the years went on. He
had a kind and generous word for all, and unkind and ungenerous
thought for none. His sturdy character, combined with his social and
musical nature, made him an attractive personality, and gave him at
once a conspicuous place in the Class, which he always maintained.

In the Professional Schools he attained distinction by faithful and
diligent work, which commended him in high degree to teachers and
associates.

In his professional career, as lawyer and judge, he became a trusted
and wise counsellor to the clients who sought his advice, and by his fair
and just decisions upon the bench, he was a safeguard for the morals
and happiness of the great city whose interests he served.

In political life, as administrator of the great office which he has
recently filled, he was so impartial, so high-minded, and so unswerving
in the discharge of his duties, that he commanded the respect of all
parties and of the nation.

He was always a loyal son of Harvard, a devoted and enthusiastic
member of our college Class. He has fallen like an oak in the forest
with heart sound to the core. In this, our own circle of classmates,
his place can never be filled, but his memory will remain a benediction
and an inspiration to us all.

It was thereupon

Voted, that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a copy
be sent to the family.

The following letter was subsequently received by the Class
Secretary from Kilbreth's son :

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Southampton, July 6, 1897.
Dear Mr. Lincoln, — Both the copy of the minutes and your own
personal letter have reached us, and on behalf of my mother and myself
I want to express to you our deep appreciation. It was very thoughtful
of you to have the minutes prepared and I can assure you that they
were a source of gratification and sorrowful pleasure to us. Your
own kind sympathy we cherish deeply too, and thank you from the
heart. . . .

Sincerely yours,

James T. Kilbreth, Jr.

*AETHUE MASON KNAPP was bom in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont, August 8, 1839. He died in Boston, Dec. 27, 1898.

He continued to reside in Boston and to' be Custodian of Bates
Hall, in the Boston Public Library, until his death. In the
discharge of his multifarious duties he had to meet, and try to
help and satisfy, " all sorts and conditions of men," — and women,
from cranks to philosophers, rich and poor, learned and ignorant,
men who had an idea of what they wanted, and club-women
who had " to get up a paper " on a subject regarding which they
had not a shadow of an idea, and it is gratifying to know from
many sources that he was able to render assistance to a great
many people, and to perform the duties of his trying, though
congenial, position to the acceptance of all.

Funeral services, conducted by Eev. William E. Barton, pastor,
were held at the Shawmut Church, Boston, Dec. 30, 1898.
Among others, Rev. James De Normandie, D.D., one of the
trustees of the Boston Public Library, made the following
address :

The work of a great public library can be appreciated only by those
who know something of it.

You see a large and beautiful building sheltering seven or eight
hundred thousand volumes ; you see the ceaseless procession of patrons ;
you see the attendants delivering to them the books, and you think
that is all, and that it is plain and easy.

Of what is done before the public can be served ; of the vast and
hidden details ; of the choice and cataloguing and arrangement of books ;

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of the years of careful preparation ; of the co-operation, industry, studied
and unhroken attention; of the promptness and forbearance; of the
patience and knowledge and alertness required to meet the daily demand
of thousands of inquiring minds, — of all this nothing is known.

The public is most exacting of its servants, and feels that all their
time and strength and acquisitions belong to it without a moment's
delay, without any manifestation of impatience or weariness. To haye
been for nearly a quarter of a century in such a service is itself a great
testimony to one's worth, and to have been for twenty years the trusted
head of one of the leading departments of the Public Library is a proof
of merit to which words can add very little.

The accumulated and well-arranged learning of our friend, as if it
were all in a multitude of familiar drawers, was freely given to any
inquirer. Many came every day to ask not only for books, but to know
what books or what essays had been written upon every subject recent
or ancient, plain or abstruse, that the fertile mind of man has ever
thought of, — and here was one who seemed to remember all, whose
good taste and good judgment were ever ready to suggest not only books,
which is a very little matter, but the best books, which is a very
important matter touching the higher questions of life, — so that his
daily work was to give to hundreds better ideals of human actions and
human character, making his mission one with all those who in every
form of teaching, in journalism, in schools, and in the church, are help-
ing this to be a better world.

What knowledge, what graciousness, what a ready and unfailing
sympathy, what a sense of humor which so lightens the annoyances of
public station, what a spirit of self-denying, what faithfulness marked his
daily life.

When Saint Paul would express the highest merit of a steward, he says,
" It is required that a man be found faithful," and when Jesus Christ
would set the seal of divine favor and divine joy upon a man's work, he
told the beautiful story of one who was faithful to his talents, his gifts.

Servants and stewards of the Most High, all of us, our best reward is
that we be found faithful. Only faithful ! In the midst of so much
that is unfaithful, in the midst of so many noisy activities which count
for nothing and end in nothing, God grant that when our work like his
is done, there may be written upon it the promise of Jesus, " Thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things,
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

We know it cannot be otherwise, and we would not have it otherwise,

i^rv-'s-'*-^.

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The public is most exacting of its servants, and feels that all their
time and strength and acquisitions belong to it without a moment's
delay, without any manifestation of impatience or weariness. To have
been for nearly a quarter of a century in such a service is itself a great
testimony to one*s worth, and to have been for twenty years the trusted
head of one of the leading departments of the Public Library is a proof
of merit to which words can add very little.

The accumulated and well-arranged learning of our friend, as if it
were all in a multitude of familiar drawers, was freely given to any
inquirer. Many came every day to ask not only for books, hut to know
what books or what essays had been written upon every subject recent
or ancient, plain or abstruse, that the fertile mind of man has ever
thought of, — and here was one who seemed to remember all, whose
good taste and good judgment were ever ready to suggest not only books,
which is a very little matter, but the best books, which is a very
important matter touching the higher questions of life, — so that his
daily work was to give to hundreds better ideals of human actions and
human character, making his mission one with all those who in every
form of teaching, in journalism, in schools, and in the church, are help-
ing this to be a better world.

Servants and stewards of the Most High, all of us, our best reward is
that we be found faithful. Only faithful ! In the midst of so much
tliat is unfaithful, in the midst of so many noisy activities which count
lor nothing and end in nothing, God grant that when our work like his
it done, there may be written upon it the promise of Jesus, " Thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things,
«ttter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

We know it cannot be otherwise, and we would not have it otherwise,

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but the heart has its own way of looking at the things which belong
to the heart. The separation is always hard, and we miss the familiar
voice and the loved form, and the lonely paths are sad and hard to enter.
The heart knows its own bitterness and loves to dwell upon it. We see
those on whom our hopes are centred, whom we have most fondly loved,
drop away, and we ask, '' Are the infinite purposes defeated, or are we
listening only to an unfinished tale to be told out elsewhere ? " It is in
the presence of death that we first and most surely believe there is no
death.

What this loss is to this inner circle privileged to be at one with him,
we may not now venture to say, but they will be grateful as long as they
live for this life, and they know that he will be with them still in
innnmerable sweet and precious memories of gentle companionship, of
daily duty and sacrifice, of unfaltering devotion, of unbroken love, in
influences which belong to the things which are unseen, but eternal.

It is ever the story of old ; a cloud has received him out of our sight.
The veil of the future is never lifted, but because it is not, we believe it
has fallen around us from the same Eternal Goodness which makes
this life so dear and grateful.

'* What to us is shadow to him is day
And the way he knoweth^
And not on a blind and aimless way «

The spirit goeth, — "

but a way which duty, faith, and love make straight and shining to
the Eternal Home.

The following Bulletin was posted in the Library :

Arthur Mason Knapp.
1839-1898.

On Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1898, died Arthur Mason Knapp, Custodian of
Bates Hall in the Boston Public Library.

He was bom at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, August 3, 1839, the son of
Hiram Knapp and Sophronia Brown. During his boyhood the family
removed to Boston, where he fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School. He was graduated as the first scholar in his Class, and entered
Harvaixi College as a member of the Class of 1863. He held from Har-
vard the degree of A.M. as well as that of A.B.

After teaching for some years in Phillips Academy, Andover, in the
Boston Latin School, and in the Brookline High School, he entered the

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service of the Library, Jan. 23, 1875. His first appointment was to
the charge of the special collections of the Library ; from 1878 until
bis death he held the position of Custodian of Bates Hall.

His knowledge of Shakespeariana and of Elizabethan literature was of
great valhe in the preparation of the catalogue of the Barton collection.
In his position in charge of the main reference department of the Li-
brary, his special knowledge of the subject of genealogy and local
history, as well as a thorough general knowledge of the resources of
the Library on all subjects, was of the greatest service to an immense
constituency of readers. To the value of this service, rendered with
exact conscientiousness and singleness of purpose in its relation to his
colleagues, and with assiduity and personal interest towards the readers
and students who came to him for assistance, the warm appreciation of
all those with whom he came in contact bears witness.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 28, 1899, the Class Secretary offered the following memorial
on behalf of Peck, who was absent :

Arthur Mason Knape died at his home in Boston, Dec. 27, 1898,
after a brief but painful illness, of paralysis. He had been engaged in
his usual employments in the Boston Public Library up to the time of
his illness, and, although somewhat delicate in physique, is believed to
have been usually in possession of good health. From his boyhood
onward he had been remarkable for his love of literature. At the
Boston Latin School, where he was prepared for college, he stood easily
at the head of a class which contained a large number of good scholars.
A few years older, and therefore more mature in mind than most of his
classmates, he was enabled by his industry, his clearness of mind, and
his remarkable memory, to hold his leadership, and did so with such
unassuming modesty as never to excite a feeling of jealousy among his
classmates. He held a high rank for scholarship during his college
course, in which he showed the same capacity and devotion to study as
in his school days. His intellect was sound rather than brilliant.
While he won the respect of the Class by his sterling traits of character,
his retiring disposition, and the fact that he made his home with his
parents in Boston, and spent the working hours of the week only in
Cambridge, prevented him from becoming as well known in the Class
socially as would otherwise have been the case.

To an unusual degree, Knapp's life was spent in a congenial atmos-

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phere of books and study. After graduation, he adopted the profession
of teaching, and taught in the Phillips Academy in Andover and in the
Brookline High School, until in January, 1875, he entered the service
of the Boston Public Library. After serving for about three years as
curator of pamphlets and periodicals and keeper of the Prince and
Barton Libraries, and during this time preparing, in connection with
Mr. J. M. Hubbard, a Shakespearian catalogue which was highly com-
mended, he was appointed librarian of Bates Hall, and held this respon-
sible position until his last illness, — a period of more than twenty years.
Here he found his life-work, and in this employment his life was spent
happily and, in the highest sense of the word, successfully. His life must
have been happy, because his modest ambitions were satisfied, his tasks
were such as were best suited to his tastes and talents, and he must have
enjoyed the consciousness that he had won the esteem and friendship of
those with whom he was brought into pleasant relations in the perform-
ance of his daily duties. His life was truly successful, because it was
spent in a constant succession of acts of service to others, and, in render-
ing these services, his own stores of knowledge were increased, his mind
was expanded and strengthened, and his character became riper and
sweeter. Although he lived among books, he was in no sense a recluse.
It was his duty, as librarian of Bates Hall, to place his knowledge of the
treasures of the Library at the disposal of every applicant needing his
help or guidance, and it was said that " almost no other individual in
the city was in personal contact with so many people as was Mr. Knapp."
In this trying position his patience and courtesy never failed, and so re-
tentive was his memory, so thorough his acquaintance with the contents
of the Library, and so general and exact his knowledge upon a vast
variety of subjects, that he rarely failed to supply the needed informa-
tion. The many tributes which appeared in the press after his death
uniformly testified to the admirable manner in which his duties were
performed, and to the spirit of Christian courtesy which he displayed
to persons of all characters, often under circumstances which must have
been very trying to his equanimity. These tributes also show how
widely he was known as a scholar and as an accomplished librarian, and
how universally he was esteemed and admired by the many frequenters
of the Library. His faithfulness to his duties was unswerving, while
the most hasty visitor could not fail to note that the Library in which
he was so important a factor, was his pride and delight. His record is
one of a life well spent in useful and honorable work, of fidelity to
principle, and of native talents, developed and strengthened by cultiva-

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tion and worthy use. We, his classmates, shall miss him on our visits
to the Puhlic Lihrary, at Commencements, which he frequently attended,
and in the social gatherings of the Class, while to his associates in his
work, and to the many students who looked to him for advice and assist-
ance, the loss is almost irreparable.

It was thereupon

Voted, that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a
copy be sent to the family.

* FEANCIS EUSTIS LANGDON was bom in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, Nov. 10, 1842. He died in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, Feb. 4y 1890.

WILLIAM HENEY LATHEOP continues to live and prac-
tise medicine in Lowell, Massachusetts, at 21 First Street.

He remained a member of the School Board through 1894 ; in
all, four years. In 1901 he was President of the Middlesex North
District Medical Society.

AETHUE LAWEENCE is still Eector of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Archdeacon of Spring-
field. He completed his twenty-fifth year of service at Stock-
bridge in 1897, and on June 2d of that year there was a service
in St. Paul's Church commemorating it.

He has been since June, 1900, Archdeacon of Springfield. In
October, 1895, he was a member of the General Convention of the
Episcopal Church at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in October, 1901,
of the same body at San Francisco.

He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Western Massachusetts ; of the Commission on Church Unity of
the Protestant Episcopal Church ; and Honorary Secretary of the
Egypt Exploration Fund. In 1899 he was elected Professor of
Church History in the Berkeley Divinity School, but declined
the post. Oct. 10, 1903, he received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Williams College.

He is a member of the Massachusetts Military Historical So-

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ciety, of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, a Fellow of the
American Greographical Society of New York, has been Chaplain
of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Sons of the Eevolution, is a
member of the Boston Episcopal Charitable Society, of the Cen-
tury Association of New York City, the Harvard Club of New
York, the Union Club of Boston, and a life member of the Har-
vard Union of Cambridge. In 1900 he became Vice-President of
the Berkshire Industrial Farm, a Eeform School for boys at
Canaan Four Corners, Columbia County, New York.

From August, 1897, to April, 1898, he was in Italy, Germany,
France, Algiers, and England, and a part of the time in Algiers
and Italy with classmate Pratt. For two Sundays in 1897 he
took charge of St. John's Church in Dresden. In 1902 he was
again abroad from July to October, visiting Germany, Holland,
England, and Scotland.

He is the author of an article on " Bryant and the Berkshire
Hills " in the " Century Magazine *' for July, 1895.

His son William Eichards graduated at Harvard in 1901, was
a master at the Groton School in 1901-2, and is now studying in
Germany.

* AETHUE LINCOLN was born at Hingham, Massachusetts,
Feb. 16, 1842. He died at Boston, Dec. 11, 1902. He continued
to practise law in Boston, in the Exchange Building, 53 State
Street, up to the time of his death.

He was the Trustee of many estates, and Treasurer of several
charitable societies.

He was appointed, July 30, 1896, by the Governor, a member
of the Ballot Law Commission of Massachusetts, to hold office for
one year from Aug. 1, 1896, and re-appointed to hold for three
years from Aug. 1, 1897. In October, 1897, he was elected Chair-
man of the Commission, and Sept. 5, 1900, was again re-appointed
a Commissioner for three years from Aug. 1, 1900. He was
elected a member of the corporation of the Home for Aged Men,
Boston, Jan. 9, 1899, a Director of the Bunker Hill Monument

86 THE CLASS OF 1863.

Association, June 17, 1900, a member of the Oakley Club, October,
1900, a member of the Society for the Relief of Aged and Desti-
tute Clergymen in 1901. At Commencement, 1900, he failed of
election as Overseer of Harvard College by a tie vote, but the fol-
lowing year (June 26) was elected.

He maintained his record of attendance at Commencement
until the end, and was present at every annual meeting of the
Class through 1902, being the only member of the Class who has
not missed one since graduation.

His health began to fail a year and a half or more before his
death; but with unflagging fidelity he attended to every duty
until within three days of his death, which occurred on Dec. 11,
1902, among other things, preparing during the last summer the
copy for the printer of much of this report, including all relating
to the men who had deceased.

His funeral, which took place from Arlington Street Church on
one of the stormiest days of the winter, was attended by a large
congregation, which filled the edifice, testifying to the high regard
in which he was held by the community, and the sense of general
loss which was felt at his departure. R Amory, Bowditch, J. M.
Brown, Denny, Grew, Jackson, Jenks, and J. C. Warren, with two
others not of the Class, acted as pall-bearers, and Allen, Baxter,
Bishop, Daniell, Edwards, J. 0. Green, W. F. Jones, Lathrop,
Lawrence, Mason, Peck, Shattuck, Shreve, Tomlinson, H. W.
Warren were present.

The " Boston Transcript " said :

** Noticeable among those present were many men who had attained
far more than Mr. Lincoln's age of sixty years. While they were
gathering at the church, the organist, Everett E. Truette, played appro-
priate selections, including Chopin's * Funeral March.' The high pulpit
desk was completely hidden by beautiful wreaths and clusters of flowers,
and all about the pulpit steps and chancel were still more of these
tributes to Mr. Lincoln's memory. The service was conducted by Rev.
Paul Revere Frothingham, minister of this church, who read from the
scriptures, including passages from the Psalms, and offered prayers.
The quartette of the church sang the hymn, * Still, Still with Thee,'

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to the music of Mendelssohn's * Song without Words/ ' Consolation ' ;
the quartette, 'Cast Thy Burden on the Lord/ from Mendelssohn's
oratorio, ' Elijah,' and for a closing number the familiar hymn, ' Lead,
Kindly Light.' After the minister's benediction, Mr. Truette played
the *Marche Fun^bre,' of Guilmant, for a postlude. Following the
services at the church, the body was taken to Hinghara, the birthplace
of Mr. Lincoln, for burial in the family lot in the cemetery there."

In the " Transcript " of Monday, December 15, was printed the
following tribute :

ARTHUE LINCOLN.

A noble life has ended, but its memory will never fade from the hearts
of those who enjoyed its blessed friendship. Few in our community
have been able to draw around them so many closely intimate friends as
Arthur Lincoln, and fewer still have won without effort the implicit con-
fidence and esteem of those who knew them only in a social or business
way. From early boyhood he possessed a happy winsome disposition,
a manner singularly attractive and gentle, and an openness and frankness
of countenance which made him a delightful associate and companion,
and in his ripe maturity, a devoted husband and father.

He was the soul of integrity, sound in judgment, with clear percep-
tions of truth and right, and in his business relations displayed marked
ability and skill. That such a man should have been the trusted con-
fidant and agent of people in all spheres of life and in widely varied
business connections was to have been expected, and it was natural that
his services should have been sought and availed of where good faith,
honesty, and careful administration were the highest needs. His innate
modesty never allowed him to seek public or business honors, and
numerous as those conferred upon him were, they came as the unsought
reward of a straightforward, upright, and unselfish life.

The perplexities and annoyances of a business career he met with
such gentle firmness and discretion that, to outward appearance, they
left little trace of anxiety and care, and his threescore years sat lightly
upon a heart that was ever young. He was one of the best examples
of a sturdy New England character mellowed by the Christian graces
of kindliness, and an equable temperament which enabled him to bring
his cheerful and happy nature to the aid and support of his fellowmen.

His Unitarian faith was broad and comprehensive, held with firm and
clear conviction, and illustmted by his life and work ; but he took little

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interest in its controversial side, and was so broadly catholic in thought
that he welcomed all who by honest belief and uprightness of life were
doing the Master's work.

In his loss the city is the poorer ; but it is richer in the fact that such
a man dwelt within its gates, and here showed those virtues which en-
nobled his daily walk and honored his chosen profession, bringing happi-
ness and love to the vast circle of friends to whom the record of his life
will now be a precious and enduring gift. If outwardly he has passed
from among us, he yet lives in our hearts and in the happy remembrance
of all that his pure and Christian character has been to us.

W. W.

From various testimonials from various societies with which he
was connected may be selected those from the Trustees of Derby
Academy and of the Public Library of Hingham.

The Trustees of Derby Academy place on record their sense of the
loss which they, in common with the rest of the community, have
sustained in the death of their associate, Mr. Ai-thur Lincoln.

A member of this Board for thirty-one years, for thirty of which he
was its Secretary, he was punctual in his attendance upon its meetings,
and gave patient, diligent, and cordial consideration to the affairs of
the institution committed to its charge.

With the same fidelity and untiring industry he performed the
duties of every position which he assumed, and he was called to many,
responding to each new call as if it alone demanded his time and
thoughts.

** No duty could overtask him,
No need his will outrun,
Or ever our lips could ask him,
His hands the work had done ; "

and so fully as to win commendation and increase the confidence felt
in him.

" Walking his round of duty
Serenely day by day

All that wakes to noble action
In his noon of calmness lay."

A deep affection for his birthplace, which came to him by inheritance,
made him ever loyal to its interests and zealous for its prosperity, and

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the town reciprocated the feeling, and availed itself of his service, and
gladly conferred upon him its honors.

Of a sunny disposition and genial temper, with a great capacity for
friendship, he was a general favorite, and his presence was sought in
social gatherings ; by his kindliness he won the hearts of his associates,
and by his high sense of honor secured their respect.

The community honored him, his acquaintances esteemed him, his
friends loved him, and those who knew him best held him in highest
regard.

He was a good citizen, and his life exemplified how much may be
done in private station for the common weal, if only the will exist.

It is hard to realize that we are to see his face no more at our
gatherings, and that his place in the community is vacant, but in him
we see that

"Honorable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor
that is measured by number of years, but wisdom is the gray hair unto
men, and an unspotted life is old age.

" He being made perfect in a short time fulfilled a long time.

" Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which
are living."

To his family in their affliction we tender our heartfelt sympathy, and
assure them of our participation in their sorrow, commending them to
the source of all comfort for help in their time of need.

At a regular meeting of the Trustees of the Hingham Public
Library, the following was presented by Hon. J. D. Long :

The Trustees of the Hingham Public Library place on their records this
expression of their sorrow and sense of loss in the death, on the 11th
instant, of their esteemed and beloved associate, Mr. Arthur Lincoln.
He was a native of this town and descended from one of its first
settlers. He was of a family distinguished in its annals, and his identi-
fication with its life and its interests was never broken. Here began
his education. From here he went to Harvard College, graduating in
the Class of 1863. Here he retained till his death the ownership of
the house in which he was born. Although he engaged in the practice
of law in Boston, and after his marriage lived there continuously, he
retained his voting privilege here, and rarely failed here to cast his vote
on election days. He represented Hingham in the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in the years 1879 and 1880. He was one of the

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^ Trustees of Derby Academy and many years the efl&cient Secretary of

the Board, always present at its meetings and always devoted to the

f welfare of the Academy. Indeed he was always loyal to all the interests

{ of the town, ready to serve in any capacity whenever good service was

* needed in connection with its schools or other institutions, or the
i Centennial, or other observance of the landmarks of its history. It is
1 of especial interest that he was a Trustee of this Public Library. In

• this connection he rendered valuable service in selecting books for
J purchase, his admirable good taste and judgment and his familiarity
'. with good literature peculiarly fitting him for that duty.

• He was a man of rare qualities. His natnre was so amiable, his
' bearing so affable, and his instincts so high and true, that it is not too

much to say that no man was more beloved. He commanded absolute
confidence ; his life was unsullied ; his manner was unpretentious. He
was an honor to the town and an example to its youth — a model
gentleman, man of business, and citizen.

; In the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine" for March, 1903,

'^ appeared the following notice :

* Arthur Lincoln, Class Secretary, died in Boston, Dec. 11, 1902. He
'. was born at Hingham, Feb. 16, 1842, the son of the Hon. Solomon
' (Brown University, 1822) and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln. He fitted
; for college at Hingham. While in college he was a member of the

Harvard Glee and Hasty Pudding Clubs, and <l>. K. B. After leaving college
he studied at the Harvard Law School from March, 1864, to July, 1865,
acting as a college proctor at the same time. He was admitted to the
bar June 16, 1865. He entered the office of Lothrop and Bishop,

; Boston, Jan. 1, 1866, and except for a short time in 1867, was con-

nected with that firm, part of the time as a member, until its dissolution
in 1879. Since then he has been in practice for himself in Boston,

^ and of late years chiefly occupied as a Trustee of various estates. He

was Judge Advocate, with the rank of Captain, on the staff of Brigadier-
General Sutton of the 2d Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from

; July 30, 1877, to March 3, 1882. In the years 1879 and 1880 he was

Representative to the General Court from the first Plymouth District,
serving during the former year as Chairman of the Committee on Bills
in the third reading, and during the latter on the judiciary. In 1897
he was appointed by Governor Wolcott a member of the Ballot Law .Com-
mission, and at the time of his death was Chairman of the Board. He

; was the Memorial Day orator at Hingham in 1876. He was a Manager,

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Secretary and Treasurer of the Boston Dispensary ; Treasurer of the
Industrial School for Girls at Dorchester ; a member of the Boston Lying-
in Hospital ; member of the Society for the Promotion of Theological
E<lucation, of the Society for Encouraging Religious Education, of the
Society for the Relief of Aged and Destitute Clergymen ; for some time
Treasurer of the American Unitarian Association ; Treasurer of the Massa-
chusetts Congregational Charitable Society ; Treasurer of the Society for
Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others of North America ;
a member of the " Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins," of the
Sufifolk Savings Bank, Boston; Director in the Hingham Mutual Fire
Insurance Co. ; member of the Boston and Hingham Civil Service Re-
form Associations ; the Boston Bar Association ; Clerk and Treasurer of
the Proprietors of the Social Law Library in Boston ; Trustee of the
State Library ; President of the Hingham Public Library Corporation ;
Trustee and for many years Secretary of the Derby Academy, Hingham ;
member of the Apollo Club, the Harvard Musical Association, the
Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Bostonian Society ; Trustee of
the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth ; member of the Unitarian, St. Botolph,
Union Clubs, and the Oakley Country Club. He has been one of the
Directors of the Alumni Association of Harvard College since 1872,
except the years 1882 and 1883, when he was Secretary of the Associa-
tion ; and was one of the Executive Committee on the Commemoration
of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the
College. In 1900 he was defeated as a candidate for Overseer of
Harvard College by a tie vote, but elected the following year to fill
the vacancy. He has not missed attendance at a single Commence-
ment since graduation. He married, Dec. 17, 1883, Serafina Loring of
Boston, who, with a daughter, their only child, survives him.

At CommenceBcient the following memorial will be offered by
Lawrence :

We meet to-day with feelings of peculiar sadness. For the first time
in forty years the Class comes together at Commencement without the
familiar and beloved presence of Arthur Lincoln. As our Secretary
he had held the unique record of having never once missed the annual
meeting of his Class.

Such a record is an evidence of his high sense of duty and of his sur-
passing attachment to his classmates. He loved them and they loved
him; and on this day — the first Commencement that he has failed to
greet them — it is their privilege to express and put on record their

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t admiration for bis character and their personal affection for him as a

\ man.

{ Arthur Lincoln (the son of Solomon and Mehitable) was bom in

\' Hingham, Massachusetts, Feb. 16, 1842. He was descended from one

i of the earliest settlers of the town, and of a family distinguished in its

annals for public service and high character. There he fitted for col-
( lege, entering Harvard in 1859, and graduating in 1863, with an honor-

able record for scholarship and character. His subsequent life was
r. mostly passed in Boston, but he never lost his interest in and his identi-

fication with his native place. There he retained through life the
\ ownership of the house in which much of his early life was passed ; there

\ he never failed to vote on election day, and for two years was the town's

representative in the Legislature of Massachusetts. He was devoted to
all its interests, serving with painstaking fidelity its various institu-
;. tions, — such as its Public Library and schools, taking an active part in

its historical and other celebrations, and identifying himself in every
i way with its public and private life. But to most of us he was best

known in connection with his professional and social life in Boston, and
; especially with his duties, performed with such singular enthusiasm,

\ devotion, and fidelity, as Secretary of his Class.

Choosing the law as his profession, he was admitted to the bar in
; 1865, having studied two years at the Harvard Law School; and for

•' the rest of his life devoted himself assiduously to his vocation. As

might have been expected by us who had so long known his spotless
} integrity, his good business judgment, his painstaking industry, and his

/ kindness of heart, his work led him more and more into fiduciary posi-

■ tions, the management of trust property, the care of estates, and into

becoming the friend and adviser of the widow, the orphan, and the
• unprotected. But his life had many other interests. He travelled

'. abroad, served in the militia, played golf, cultivated music, kept his

4 friendships in repair, served in all sorts of charitable and literary and

social organizations, — a list of which would unduly prolong this brief
/■ paper. They may be found in the Class reports. He was at the

\ time of his death an Overseer of Harvard College. He was a faithful

:• member of the Unitarian Church, — firm in his own faith, sympa-

thetic and generous toward the faith of other men. His was a
:. well-rounded, joyous, useful life, filled with love and service to his

fellowmen.
\ He had great personal charm. There were in his face and bearing

: a gentleness and sweetness that to a stranger might have been mislead-

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ing ; but underneath it lay a strength of purpose and a force of will that
went to make him the man that he was. He was strong. He stood
four-square to all the winds that blew. No temptation, no persuasion
could swerve him a hair's breadth from y^hat he believed to be the path
of truth and honesty and right. The implicit trust that men learned
to place in him was never disappointed. Pure in heart and word and
deed, he leaves behind the record of a blameless life.

No allusion to that life would be complete which did not touch upon
that in it which meant most of all to him, and that was his home.

He married somewhat late, but his family life brought to him his
highest happiness. There all that was best and tenderest in him found
expression. Whether he there gave most or received most, we may not
know or say ; but we recall Sir Walter's words —

" Some feelings are to mortals given
With less of e^arth in them than Heaven.
And if there be a human tear,
From passion's dross refined and clear,
'T is such as pious fathers shed
Upon a duteous daughter's head."

He leaves a wife and only daughter.

Last of all, we remember what may be called his enthusiastic passion
for his Class. He was its ideal Secretary. No classmate ever got
beyond the range of his affection and remembrance. The smallest
detail connected with any one of them was of interest to him. He
rejoiced over our successes ; he sympathized with our sorrows. Of
his careful editing of the Class Reports, you need no reminder. He left
large scrap-books filled with newspaper cuttings, gathered from every-
where, relating to the Class from its graduation to the time of his
own death.

He delighted in the meetings. You remember his careful preparation
for them and for the suppers, the kindly and genial smile with which
he greeted us; the self-forgetful courtesy of his manner, the modest
dignity of his bearing. A year ago, though his strength was unequal
to the task, he insisted on being driven to Cambridge for the last time,
to make preparation, with his usual fidelity and care, for the Class
meeting on Commencement Day ; and toward the close of his life, when
too feeble to attend to other business, almost his last labor and latest
pleasure, was the completion of the books already referred to, in which
he had gathered, and arranged in permanent form, the record of his
clasBmates' lives.

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No Class was ever more loyally and lovingly served. May we see to
it that DO classmate's name shall be more gratefully and tenderly
remembered than that of

Arthur Lincoln. »

The following will be offered by Peck :

Death has made many inroads of recent years in the ranks of our Class,
and has taken away some who had achieved success in public life, or
had won fame in literature, or had been leaders in business or philan-
thropic work, but probably no one among them was more highly
esteemed and beloved, or will be more lamented or more greatly missed
than Arthur Lincoln.

The same qualities that led to his selection as Class Secretary, his
simplicity of character, his faithfuhiess to duty, his warmth of heart,
his genuine interest in every member of the Class, and his readiness to
help in time of need, as well as his unfailing patience and affability,
made every classmate his friend, and won the esteem and affection of all
who were brought into close relations with him.

In thinking of the traits of character which he displayed from the
time of entering college to the close of his life, one who knew him inti-
mately and in many relations is impressed with the fact that although
he grew in strength of character, in wisdom, and in judgment, there
was a uniform growth, but no radical change in character nor even in
manner. He was essentially the same through life as in his college
days, always modest and unassuming, trustful of others, although not
easily deceived, thinking no evil, forming his opinions cautiously, and
expressing them with moderation, and therefore an excellent adviser,
not only in business matters, but in all important concerns of life. One
could always go to him and be sure of sympathy and appreciation and
of wise counsel. He had wit and humor, and appreciated humor in
others ; but the substance of his character was serious, and his concern
was with the essentials of life. He valued others and chose his friends,
not for their brilliant qualities nor their social position, but for their
essential worth of character. Having chosen a friend, he was true to
him under all conditions. Few men cared as little as he for the glamour
of fashion or the brilliance of worldly success. At the same time he
valued the privileges and advantages which success in life brought to
him, — books, home comforts, social position, travel at home and abroad,
and whatever makes modern life desirable. But he held all these things

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at their true value, and could have been happy if fortune had placed
him in dififereut circumstances, as long as he had the essentials of life
and useful work to do.

The traits of character that impressed his friends most strongly were
his perfect integrity, his modesty, his patience, his charity for others,
his industry, his fidelity to duty, his soundness of judgment, and the
steady warmth of his friendships.

The same qualities, which were so evident to his classmates and to
his associates in business, shone even more brightly in his home life.
The warmth which he put into his friendships, there developed into the
still warmer and deeper feeling of home love. One felt that his home,
and what it contained, were the things that were the most precious to
him in life. His strength was so concealed by his modesty that it was
not at once evident how the home rested upon his sound judgment and
his steady affection. He had the qualities most needed to make a happy
home, self-control, infinite patience, feelings deep and strong, but not
effusive, and wisdom in meeting the difficulties that come to all.

The void which his unexpected death has left in the hearts and lives
of his classmates and friends, is an indication of the far greater void in
the home of which he was the strong support, and in the hearts of the
wife and daughter to whose happiness his unfailing afifection and devo-
tion were indispensable.

The following will be ofifered by Bishop :

The traits of character of Arthur Lincoln that have left the deepest
imprint are great conscientiousness, fidelity to duty, a gentleness and
evenness of disposition which made every one his friend.

In a long and intimate friendship with him of more than forty years,
I cannot recall a single instance in which these noble qualities are now
tarnished by a regrettable recollection.

On the street, in his office, at Commencement, in his home, wherever
you met him, he was always Arthur Lincoln, which meant so much to
his classmates and others who knew him. One was always made the
happier for meeting him, for he was a man, to use Emerson's phrasing,
whose " friendship bathes the soul in an element of love like a fine
ether."

His devotion to his Class and his loyalty to Harvard were almost a
passion with him ; and it surely is not too high praise to say, that no
class ever had a more ideal Secretary.

A year ago, when his look was a sad prophecy of what has since

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come, he began, during his enforced rest at the seashore, with the help
of his devoted wife, the preparation of the present Class report. He was
then too ill for such a task ; but no persuasion could make him leave
to other hands this last service for the Class he loved so well and whom
he had so faithfully served.

Few, if any, outside his family, knew the effort it cost him to serve
his Class at the last Commencement, and the joy it gave him, on his
return home, that his strength had been equal to the task.

In the silence of his chamber, after the end had come, I stood for a
few moments. His face wore the same pleasant look as in life, and my
thoughts were such as any man might covet for his friend whom he had
left. Our Class gatherings will be a different thing from this time on,
because this guileless soul was so essential a factor in all of them.

The Jews have a custom, when one of the family dies, of burning a
taper in memory of the dead. It used to be kept burning for a year.
The light is tended with great care, thus to keep alive the memory of
the loved one. Arthur Lincoln needs no burning taper with those
who knew him ; for while a friend or a member of the Class of *63 sur-
vives, his memory will be cherished.

The following will be offered by Denny :

He was my friend, but he was the friend of everybody. The ideal
friend, not the hail-fellow-well-met kind, but the friend you go to when
beset by the troubles and perplexities of life. He would freely share
with you his strength. His advice would always be for a simple,
straightforward course of action. It would be given in the most modest
way, but would be persisted in until his plan became your plan.

He saw the good points in people, and gave them due credit, and this,
with his unfailing courtesy, and cheerful way of meeting and greeting
all with whom he came in contact, conveyed an impression of friendli-
ness, and caused all to reciprocate the feeling, and this in a measure
accounted for his popularity with all sorts and conditions of men.

His industry must have been remarkable, judged by the variety and
amount of detail of the work which his own tastes and the calls of his
profession and official and public duties laid upon him, yet he never
seemed to be in a hurry, and would greet a new arrival in his office as
serenely as if that man's interests were the one thing that concerned
him that day.

But those of us who have known him for forty years, and known him
intimately, perhaps hark back to his extreme simplicity of life and

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thought, to his clean-heartedness and wholesome views of things, as his
strong points, the hooks of steel by which he grappled us to his soul.
Such attributes, manifested as they were in him without asceticism, and
with appreciation of the good things of this life and of the social amen-
ities, go to make a strong man and a lovable one, and such a man was
Arthur Lincoln.

Morse will offer the following :

TO ARTHUR LINCOLN.

As the Ipng coast in tidal ways

To the incessant flow of sea —

So all there is of you and me
Is subject to the stream of days.

Yet sing I one who lived and wrought ;

His praise upon the shore I sing.

What matter if the song I bring
Shall pass away and be as naught 1

The choice of all our hearts — the one

Who wrote our names upon the sand —
He, too, at last hath stayed his hand —

Is gone — his gentle work is done.

Believing much, he held the pen

That traced our momentary fame
As if no wave should reach the same.

No billow wash it out again.

The ill we sometimes wrought, he saw,
Yet set it, where the seas ran high,
So near that, ere the seas ran by,

It felt the planetary law.

From youth to years he held in fee

The love we never could withhold —
The love that never shall grow cold.

Till Time shall call us to the sea.

We are within the hand-reach, all,

Of Him who lifted up the shore.

When we can love and sing no more,
He sounds the trumpet of recall.

The twilight of an afternoon

Fades slowly, but the evening star
Leads up the shining hosts that are

In hiding with the courtly moon.
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Till eve we know not where they hide,
And who can guess the larger suns
Beneath whose beams our hidden ones —

Our dearest and our best abide 1

♦ WILLIAM LINDEE was bom in Brooklyn, Sept. 23, 1842.
He died in Newton, Massachusetts, Jan. 18, 1872.

JOSIAH LOMBARD is still at 12 Broadway, a Director of the
Tide Water Oil Company.

His daughter Ethel A. was married, Oct. 25, 1900, to Ralph W.
Best, son of the late Albert and Estelle Best. He died at Colo-
rado Springs, Sept. 8, 1902. They have one child, Alice L., bom
March 28, 1902.

♦FRANCIS CALEB LORING was born in Boston, Nov. 13,
1841. He died Oct. 30, 1888.

* HENRY LUNT was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, March
28, 1842. He died in Quincy, Massachusetts, April 7, 1887.

♦FRANCIS ALEXANDER MARDEN was born in West
Windham, New Hampshire, June 19, 1840. He died in New
York City, Jan. 31, 1893.

The memorial adopted by the Class on Commencement Day,
June 28, 1893, was duly sent to the family, and subsequently the
following letter was received by the Class Secretary from Mrs.
Marden :

Conway Centre, N. H.
Dear Mr. Lincoln, — With deep feeling I thank you for your kind-
ness. And through you, will thank the Class of '63, for myself and my
children, for their kindness and sympathy.

Yours very sincerely,

LiLLiE Marden.

His daughter Lillie Butman was married to James Sheafe
Satterthwaite, April 7, 1896.

FRANCIS MARSH is Manager for Eastern Massachusetts of
the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Boston,

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with his office in the John Hancock Building, 178 Devonshire
Street. He lives at Dedham.

In the summer of 1897 he made a trip through England,
Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, and Germany.

His son Edward married, Oct. 9, 1901, Adele M. Fisher,
daughter of Albert F. and Anna W. Fisher, of Dedham, and
has a son, Francis, 2d, born Jan. 16, 1903.

ELIAS HUTCHIN'S MAESTON" is still Principal of the
Phillips Grammar School in Boston, residing in Somerville, at
27 Maple Avenue. ^

*EDWAED CHAELES MAEVINE was born in Auburn,
New York, Aug. 5, 1840. He died in Buffalo, New York, Nov.
26, 1878.

AMOS LAWEENCE MASON still lives and practises medi-
cine at 265 Clarendon Street, Boston, and in the summer at York
Harbor, Maine.

He continued to be Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in
the Harvard Medical School until 1899, when he resigned that
position, after twenty years of teaching for the University, chiefly
in the wards of the Boston City Hospital, as Instructor, Assistant
Professor, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He re-
mained as Visiting Physician to the Hospital until January, 1903,
when, after twenty-five years of active service, he withdrew from
that position, and was appointed " Senior Physician " to the
Hospital, by the Trustees. He is now Senior Physician to the
Boston City Hospital, a Councillor of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, and an Honorary Member of the Association of American
Physicians.

In 1895 he was President of the Suffolk District Medical
Society, and in 1896 President of the Boston Society for Medical
Improvement. In 1899 he withdrew from the Board of Man-
agers of the Boston Dispensary, of which he was a member for
twenty years.

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100 THE CLASS OF 1868.

He went to Europe in the summer of 1896, visiting England,
Holland, Germany, and France.

He has written various articles relating to the practice of
medicine.

He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars.

His daughter Marion Steedman was married, March 11, 1902,
to Eichard Thornton Wilson, Jr., of New York.

GEORGE MIXTEE still lives in Boston, at 219 Beacon Street,
and is in business at 28 State Street, as banker and dealer in
mercantile paper.

He has bucolic tastes, which he gratifies by farming his ances-
tral acres in Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he has one of the
finest farms in Worcester County.

He is a member of the Somerset Club, Union Club, Algonquin
Club, Exchange Club, Harvard Union, Boston Athletic Associa-
tion, Tennis and Eacquet Club, Boston Art Club, New Eiding
Club, Papyrus Club, Eural Club, Country Club, Eastern Yacht
Club, Massachusetts Automobile Club, Megantic Fish and Game
Corporation, Point Mouillee Shooting Club, Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society, Mycological Club, Worcester West Agricultural
Society, of which latter society he was for two years President.

In October, 1902, he was nominated by the Democrats in the
Third Worcester District for Eepresentative to the General Court,
but failed of success at the polls, in spite of the following notice
which appeared in the " Boston Herald " during the campaign :

" We observe that the Democrats of the Third Worcester District have
nominated Mr. George Mixter of Hardwick for the Great and General
Court. The Democrats are in a large and elegant minority up in that
vicinity, and the chances are that Mr. Mixter will not be elected. It
deserves to be mentioned, however, that the Democratic nominee, who
belongs to the Somerset Club and resides here in Boston during the
fallow season of the year, is a gentleman, a scholar, a mighty hunter and
fisherman, a farmer, a financier, and an all-round Yankee, whose equip-
ment would add to any legislative body. If the voters of the Third
Worcester District desire a first-class representative, who could be

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depended upon to look out for their best interests, as his father, the late
Hon. William Mixter, did when he was one of the leaders in our Legis-
lature, they will forget politics and elect Mr. Mixter."

The following notice appeared after the election :

In the multitude of returns the fact should not be lost sight of that
Mr. George Mixter of Hardwick and of Boston, and President of the
Worcester West Agricultural Society, swept his own Republican town,
notwithstanding the fact that he is a Democrat, and, therefore, not
elected.

♦JOSEPH MOSELY MORIARTY was born in Boston, Aug.
16, 1842. He died in Chicago, March 6, 1888.

GEORGE SHATTUCK MORISON has an office at 49 Wall

Street, New York.

He continued to live in Chicago until the spring of 1898, re-

tainiqg also his old New York office. He closed his Chicago
office in 1898, and his legal residence has since been in New
York. In the spring of 1901 he removed his office from 35 Wall
Street (Mills Building) to 49 Wall Street (Atlantic Building).
Having built a substantial new house in Peterborough, New Hamp-
shire, the original town of the Morisons, he moved the greater part
of his books and furniture to this house when he left Chicago, and
it is now really his home, although business and other conditions
prevent his occupying it as much as he would wish to.

During the last ten years his work has been of a less active
character than before, becoming more of a consulting practice,
with less direct charge of work, but it has taken him to various
parts of the United States. As a member of the Isthmian Canal
Commission, he went to Paris and to the Isthmus, spending some
time both at Nicaragua and at Panama, besides visiting the
Caribbean coast east of the Panama Route. He has also made
visits to Mexico, Cuba, and some other places.

In 1894 he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of
the Board of Engineers to determine the Greatest Practicable
Length of Span for a Bridge across the North River at New

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York. In 1896 he was appointed by President Cleveland a mem-
ber of the Board of Engineers to Locate a Deep Water Harbor in
Southern California. From 1895 to 1897 he served as a member
of a Board of Consulting Engineers to the Dock Department of
New York City.

In 1899 he was appointed by President McKinley a member of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, which position he still holds,
although the Commission is furloughed.

During the year 1895 he was President of the American Society
of Civil Engineers.

He was elected a Trustee of the Phillips Exeter Academy in
June, 1888, and since June, 1898, has been President of the Board
of Trustees.

He is a member or a fellow of the following professional and
technical societies : American Society of Civil Engineers, elected,
1875 ; American Institute of Mining Engineers, elected, 1879 ;
Western Society of Engineers, elected, 1879; American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, elected, 1890 ; Institution of Civil En-
gineers (London), elected, 1891 ; Mexican Society of Engineers
and Architects (about 1896) ; American Association for the
Advancement of Science, elected, 1901 ; American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.

The following is a list of the principal pamphlets or articles
which he has published during the last ten years :

"The New Epoch and the Civil Engineer." President's Address de-
livered at the Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, June, 1895.

** The New Epoch and the University." Phi Beta Kappa Oration
delivered at Cambridge, June, 1 896.

** Suspension Bridges, A Study." *^ Transactions American Society of
Civil Engineers," December, 1896.

"The New Epoch and the Currency." "North American Review/'
February, 1897.

"The Civil Engineer and the University." Address delivered at the
Annual Commencement of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y., June, 1897.

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"Masonry." "Journal of Western Society of Engineers," December,

1898.
" The Responsibilities of the Educated Engineer." Address delivered

at the Annual Commencement of Purdue University, Lafayette,

Indiana, June, 1901.
"The Isthmian Canal." Address delivered before the Commercial

Club of Chicago, January, 1902.
''The Isthmian Canal." Address delivered before the Massachusetts

Eeform Club in Boston, April, 1902.
"The Isthmian Canal." Lecture delivered before the Contemporary

Club of Bridgeport, Connecticut, May, 1902.
"The Bohio Dam." "Transactions American Society of Civil Engi-
neers," 1902.
" Lake Bohio the Summit Level of the Panama Canal." " Engineering

Magazine," January, 1903.
"The Panama Canal." "Transactions American Society of Civil

Engineers," 1903.
"The Panama Canal." "Bulletin of the American Geographical

Society," 1903.

He is the author, jointly with his brother and sister, of a life
of his father, entitled,

"John Hopkins Morison, A Memoir," 1897.

He is a member of the following social clubs: Union Club,
Boston, elected, 1878 ; University Club, New York, elected, 1880 ;
Down Town Association, New York, elected, 1887 ; Chicago Club,
Chicago, elected, 1888 ; Engineers' Club, New York, elected, 1889 ;
Union Club, New York, elected, 1900.

JAMES HEEBERT MORSE continues to reside in New
York, engaged in teaching, and spends the summers at Cotuit on
Cape Cod.

He writes from Siena, Italy, under date of March 19, 1903 :

Since 1901, my former assistant, I. Lothrop Rogers (Harvard, 1881),
and my son James Herbert Morse, Jr., have been associated with me
in the school as partners. In May, 1902, we removed to 1 West 46th
Street, and, sailing for Europe on October 18th, I began my first Sab-
batical year since the school was established in 1868. At the present

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writing, I am with my wife in Italy, where we have passed the winter
chiefly in Capri, Ravello, Castellamare, Naples, Rome, and Siena. Be-
fore returning home in July, I expect to visit Florence and Venice in
Italy, Switzerland, England, and Scotland. Much shall I miss not
being with the " boys " at the Dinner this year, but if we are, as we
hope to be, at that time in the land of Burns, I shall, all by my lone-
some, if necessary, sing Auld Lang Syne with the full Scotch emphasis.

The old bad habit clings to me, which Time does not in any way cor-
rect, of writing verses, when I have nothing worse to do, and, since 1892,
various poems of mine have appeared in the " Critic," " Independent,"
" Boston Transcript," " Atlantic Monthly," " Scribner's," « Harper's,"
and ** Century " Magazines. A series of my papers — eight in number
— on the ** Training of Boys," appeared last year in " Harper's Bazar."
Otlier contributions in prose and verse have been printed in various
journals and magazines ; but that great epic which, when in college, I
intended to produce, remains unwritten, although the other day, when,
on the shoulders of a swarthy Charon, I crossed the Styx at Avemous
and entered Hell, I received some encouragement from both Virgil and
Dante.

Uncle Sam has " trusted, honored, and profited " me by leaving me
free from the duties of public office. I have never even served on the
jury — an uneventful life, every one will say.

The following letter was written to Lincoln, before he had

heard of his decease :

Rome, Italy, Dec. 27, 1902.

My dear Lincoln, — I am sending you to-day a corrected edition
of tlie Class poem of 1901, but I confess it a most unsatisfactory mess
as I see it cold. I have tried to give it better shape, but it needs to be
re-written and then burnt.

I am abroad, as you see, and do not expect to be at home again until
well on in July, so that I shall miss the Dinner in June ; but, as the old

song says :

** My heart will be with you.
Wherever you may go."

We have been in Italy two months, slowly coming north from Capri,
where we rummaged among the villas of the Csesars, and had three joyous
weeks, — Sorrento, Amalfi, Ravello, Castellamare, Pompeii, Naples,
and then Rome. Here we stay about three months, and then Florence,
Venice, Siena, and perhaps Switzerland. I am going to look in at the

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banker's to-morrow to see if Smith or any other classmate is in Rome.

It is good for sore eyes to see the old boys, and I shall miss no chance

to look them up. Rome is a cold town in winter. The feet get cold,

and the hands numb, but the heart is warm. I wish you would come

here and bring a cord or two of my oak woods for back-logs, — a few

poplar branches, linden, and old apple-tree trunks.

Sincerely yours,

J. H. Morse.

His son James Herbert, Jr., graduated from Harvard in 1896,
and his son William Gibbons, in 1899. His daughter Rosa took
the Harvard examinations in 1899, and received four honors.

His son William Gibbons married, Oct. 12, 1902, Marjorie
Dewey, daughter of Daniel and Mary Dewey of Newton, Massa-
chusetts, and is in the employment of the American Bridge Com-
pany at Wissahickon, Pennsylvania, living in Germantown.

WILLIAM NICHOLS stills lives in Buffalo, New York, at 83
Ashland Avenue, and conducts the Nichols School at 35 Norwood
Avenue. He is also Head Master of the Franklin School, of
which the pupils are mostly girls.

His son Clifford graduated at Harvard in 1894, and is a lawyer
in the service of the Erie Railroad ; his son Philip graduated from
Harvard in 1895, and is also a lawyer, and Assistant City Solicitor
of Boston.

ROSCOE PALMER OWEN still holds the office of City
Conveyancer in the Law Department of the City of Boston. He
has removed his office to 731 Tremont Building, Boston.

He is a member of the University Club of Boston and of the
Abstract Club.

WILLIAM HENRY PALMER continues to reside in New
York, and is a Fire Insurance Broker, at 55 Liberty Street.

From 1894 to 1899, he was Cashier of the Schermerhoni Bank
of Brooklyn ; then he established himself in his present business.

His daughter Elizabeth Cummings was married, August 10,
1897, to Samuel Hubbard, son of Edwin and Emma (Riedel)

106 THE CLASS OF 1863.

Quackenbush of Troy, New York, and has a daughter Emma
Lasell, born Oct. 18, 1898.

His son William Henry, Jr., married April 18, 1900, Violet,
daughter of Joseph Biddle and Lydia (Duval) Wilkinson of
New York City, and has a daughter Violet Wilkinson, bom
August 20, 1902.

JAMES LEWIS PEAECE lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and
is in business in connection with the Simpson-Groves Insurance
Agency Co., 101 Massachusetts Building.

About 1892 he purchased a suburban home of thirty acres and
has since that time been devoting himself to improving and
beautifying it. In a letter written not long after he says :

" While rural life was quite a change and somewhat of an experiment,
it was the achievement of a purpose and wish which both my wife and I
had entertained for years, and which I regret we did not accomplish
long before, for it really seems to be the ideal life, and after an expe-
rience of two years we are increasingly fond of it.

" The thirty acres are about evenly divided up into lawn, meadow,
woodland, and orchard, and it is within thirty miles* ride of Kansas
City, by frequent trains day and night. I do not attempt to run it as
a farm, nor does my income depend upon its proceeds, as my other
resources, I am glad to say, are sufficient without it, but it aflforiis me
ample and varied occupation, besides being a good investment. I have
not exactly retired from active business, but rather withdrawn from it,
anyhow for the present, and until the general commercial maelstrom
adopts a somewhat less decided centrifugal motion.

" Without indorsing too ardently the familiar adage that * God made
the country and man made the town,' I have a growing conviction that
it is more than half true, although my whole past career as a dweller in
cities until now has been at variance with this sentiment.

" The foregoing references as to my present life are sufficient to renew
me to you up to date. The intervening years since we separated as
friends and classmates have brought to me my proportion of disappoint-
ment and defeat in some directions, with sufficient compensations in
others to render the record so far a pretty fair average. . . .

" To us distant veterans of brigade '63, away off here in the wild and
woolly West, occasional chronicles from Orient Headquarters are re-

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107

ceived with a degree of satisfaction which you more favored fellows
dwelling near the shrine of Alma Mater can scarcely appreciate. If it
were not for our faithful Class Secretary's intervening biographies, which
come to us now and then with the optative of indefinite frequency, we
frontier pilgrims would have, long since, mentally starved to death on
morbid reminiscences."

His son McCloud married, March 31, 1897, Miss Cora Osborne.
His daughter Eliza S. married, Feb. 22, 1898, Christen Jensen
Kasmussen. His daughter Catherine married, Nov. 8, 1899, John
H. Slavens of Kansas City, Missouri. His daughter Sallie
McCloud married, Nov. 20, 1900, Pascal Parker. He has a
grandson, John H. Slavens, Jr., born Sept. 27, 1900.

THOMAS BELLOWS PECK continues to make his home in
Walpole, New Hampshire. He has not engaged in any regular
business since returning to Walpole in 1887, but has been inter-
ested in gardening and out-door life, and has taken some part in
town affairs. He has been Secretary of the Town Library Com-
mittee since 1891 ; Secretary of Walpole Old Home Week Associ-
ation since its organization in 1899 ; Vice-President of the Unitarian
Club two years ; Trustee of Savings Bank of Walpole for many
years ; one of three Commissioners of the Village District ; High-
way Surveyor two years ; member of Cemetery Committee ; and
Secretary of the Homestead Golf Club, although not a golf-player.

He has devoted considerable time and labor to local history
and genealogy, and has prepared and published the following
books and pamphlets :

" Tlie Bellows Genealogy ; or John Bellows the Boy Emigrant of
1635 and his Descendants," comprising a full history of Col.
Benjamin Bellows, the founder of Walpole, N. H., and his descend-
ants, and a partial account of the families of Isaac, John, and
Eleazer Bellows of Marlborough, Mass., and of Nathaniel Bellows
of Groton, Ct. Illustrated. Keene, N. H. Sentinel Printing
Company, 1898. 8**, pp. xvi, 657.

** Records of the First Church of Rockingham, Vermont," from its
organization, October 27, 1773, to September 25, 1839. Copied
by Thomas Bellows Peck, with an Historical Introduction. Reprinted

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from the " New England Historical and Genealogical Register."
Boston : Press of David Clapp & Son, 1902. 8°, pp. xi, 60, cloth.

" Ezra Bellows of Lunenburg, Mass., and Springfield, Vt., and his De-
scendants," supplementary to the Sketch on page 609 of the " Bel-
lows Gene-alogy," 1898. Reprinted from the " Genealogical Quarterly
Magazine," Burlington, Vermont, 1901. 8*^, pp. 14, pamphlet.

" Parentage of Ezra Bellows of Lunenburg, Mass., and Springfield, Vt.,
with an Account of the Bellows Family of Westboro, Mass."
Supplementary to the Sketch on page 609 of the " Bellows
Genealogy," 1898. Reprinted from "Genealogical Quarterly Maga-
zine," Burlington, Vermont, 1902. 8*^, pp. 9, pamphlet.

JAMES LEONARD PERRY lives and practises medicine at
138 West 116th Street, New York City.

He married, Nov. 10, 1891, Adrienne Marie Duysters of
New York City, who died March 28, 1893. He has a son
James Agassiz Perry, born Nov. 16, 1892.

WILLIAM LOW PILLSBURY lives in Urbana, IlUnois. In
1893 the office of Registrar of the University of Illinois was
created, and he was appointed to it. He has been continued as
Secretary of the University, but has been out of the Agricultural
Experiment Station since 1897, except for some editorial work.
During the fifteen years that he has been with the University
of Illinois, the number of students has grown from 377 to 3288.

In the Report for 1883 it is incorrectly stated that he taught
school first at Bloomington, Illinois, and later went to Normal,
when really he went to Normal, and began teaching there imme-
diately after graduating from college.

His daughter Bertha Marion, having received the degree of
A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1895, entered the graduate
department of Radcliffe College in 1896, and received there the
degree of A.M. in 1898.

DAVID PINGREE still lives in Salem, Massachusetts, and is
occupied in looking after the business affairs of his family.

He is also interested to some extent in the care and manage-
ment of several local institutions.

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* ALBERT KINTZING POST was born in the City of New
York, Jan. 5, 1843. He died in West Hampton, Long Island,
New York, July 5, 1872.

HEEBERT JAMES PRATT still continues his wanderings in
Europe and the East.

He writes from Blidah, Algeria, under date of March 30, 1903 :
" I do not know that I have anything to communicate about
myself. I am still a traveller and reader, but the years are
getting on, and I am beginning to think it 's time to go home to
America and settle down for old age. The highway is free for
all, but belongs rather to the next generation, a fact every day
more evident."

WILLIAM HARRINGTON PUTNAM is still teaching in
Washington, District of Columbia, at 1339 Corcoran Street

He writes : " The routine of a schoolmaster and private tutor
gives little opportunity for picturesque description at the end of
each period. I have helped some young men to enter upon
college courses, and others to prepare themselves for business
pursuits each year, and so have been brought into contact with
many whose characters and talents have been an interesting
study, and some who may hereafter be among the leaders in
their respective spheres of useful labor. I have had little strength
for work outside my daily routine, though I have written one or
two historical and biographical papers for our local historical
society."

JOHN HOWARD RAND was in 1893 Manager of the Lake
Hopatcong Club at Mount Arlington, New Jersey. Since then
he has been and is Manager of the Country Club of West Chester
County, New York.

GEORGE BRUNE SHATTUCK continues to practise medi-
cine at 183' Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. He has made
four or five trips to Europe and Africa.

110 THE CLASS OF 1863.

He was re-elected Overseer of Harvard College, and served for
twelve years, until Commencement, 1902. He is still Editor of
the " Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," and has served on
that staff for twenty-four years ; Senior Visiting Physician of the
Boston City Hospital, and has served on that stafif far twenty-five
years; President of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear
Infirmary ; a Trustee of the Boston Lying-in Hospital ; a member
of the Corporation of the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and
Feeble Minded Youth; of the Consulting Board of Physicians
of the Dan vers Insane Hospital ; of the Association of American
Physicians ; of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of other
Medical Societies ; Chairman of the Harvard Overseers' Commit-
tee on Italian, Spanish, and Eomance Philology and Literature ;
a member of the Committee on the Medical and Dental Schools ;
a Trustee and a Vice-President of the Humane Society of the
State of Massachusetts ; a Trustee of the Boston Athenaeum ;
President of the Tarratine Club, Dark Harbor, Maine.

He has contributed numerous articles, signed and unsigned,
to medical and other periodicals, dictionaries, reviews, and
transactions.

His daughter Eleanor Shattuck was married to Hugh Whitney,
Oct. 20, 1897. Hugh Whitney is the son of Henry Austin
Whitney (Harvard, 1846) and Fanny Lawrence Whitney. They
have one child, Eleanor Whitney, born Sept. 2, 1899.

His daughter Corina A. Shattuck was married to classmate
Francis L. Higginson, April 11, 1898. They have two children :
Corina Shattuck Higginson, born Sept. 19, 1899 ; Eleanor Lee
Higginson, born Nov. 22, 1901.

HENEY NEWTON SHELDON continues to live in Boston
at 538 Massachusetts Avenue. He was appointed, Feb. 1, 1894,
by classmate Greenhalge, then Governor of the Commonwealth,
one of the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and
has been continuously engaged since that time in the performance
of the duties of the position. In 1897 he was appointed on a

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commission " to investigate and report upon a plan for the simpli-
fication of pleadings to be used in criminal proceedings" in
Massachusetts.

His son Wilmon Henry was graduated at Harvard in 1895.
He continued his studies in the Graduate School, and took the
degree of A.M. in 1896, and of Ph.D. in 1899. He has since
taught philosophy as an Assistant in the University of Wisconsin,
and at Harvard, and is now a tutor in Columbia University, New
York.

OCTAVIUS BAERELL SHEEVE retired from the active
practice of medicine about a year ago. He still lives in Salem,
Massachusetts, and is engaged in the care of several estates, and
the study of art.

He went to Europe August 4, 1897, and returned Nov. 4, 1897 ;
again April 10, 1901, and returned July 26, 1901, and again June
4, 1902, and returned Sept. 4, 1902.

His daughter Genevieve was married, June 11, 1898, to Dr.
Edward Lawrence Peirson [Harvard, 1884] of Salem. They have
a son Edward Shreve Peirson, born June 11, 1899.

His son Benjamin Daland Shreve entered Harvard College in
the Class of 1895, but did not graduate. He passed two years in
Europe, mostly in Paris, where he received a business education,
and on his return became Assistant Treasurer of the Shreve,
Crump & Low Company of Boston.

CLEMENT LAWRENCE SMITH continues to reside in Cam-
bridge, and to teach Latin at Harvard. He spent the academic
year, 1897-98 in Rome, as Director of the American School of
Classical Studies in that city. During his residence in Rome, his
personal studies were directed to an examination of the manu-
scripts of Suetonius in the Vatican Library, and, in the course of
his journey during the following summer from Italy to England,
he studied the manuscripts of the same author in Florence,
Venice, Munich, Leyden, and the British Museum. The results

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of this investigation were published in the paper mentioned
below. On his return in the fall of 1898 he was elected Dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and held this position, in addi-
tion to his professorship, until 1902, when he resigned it, owing to
impaired health. In 1899 he was President of the American
Philological Association. His presidential address, given at New
York University in July, was published in the " Atlantic Monthly."
In 1901 he was elected Pope Professor of Latin, succeeding in this
position Professor Lane. He has been granted leave of absence for
the year 1902-03, and expected to spend it chiefly in Rome.

He continues to be joint Editor-in-chief of the College Series of
Latin Authors, which now numbers twelve volumes. His own con-
tribution to the series, an edition of Horace's Odes and Epodes, was
published in 1894. A second edition of the work is now in press.
He has published, besides official reports, the following papers :

" Cicero's Journey into Exile." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,

VIL (1896), pp. 65-84.
" The American College in the Twentieth Century." " Atlantic Monthly,"

February, 1900, pp. 219-231.
" A Preliminary Study of certain manuscripts of Suetonius' Lives of the

Caesars." Harvard Studies, XII. (1901), pp. 19-58.

His daughter Eosalba Peale was married, Oct. 28, 1895, to
Arthur Cleveland Bent (Harvard, 1889), of Taunton, Massachu-
setts. His sons, George Lawrence and C. Lawrence, Jr., were
graduated from Harvard College in 1895 and 1897, respectively,
and his youngest son, Edgar Lawrence, is at present a student in
the Class of 1905.

* WILLIAM STACKPOLE was born in Boston, April 27,
1842. He died in York Cliffs, Maine, August 10, 1901.

He continued to reside in Boston, not engaged in active busi-
ness, until his death.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 25, 1902, the Class Secretary announced the death of Stack-
pole, and read the following sketch, which had been prepared by
Mason :

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William Stackpole died on August 10, 1901, at York Clififs, Maine,
in his sixtieth year.

He was the second son of Joseph Lewis (Harvard, 1824) and Susan
Margaret (Benjamin) Stackpole, and was born in Boston, April 27, 1842.
He fitted for college at the Boston Public Latin School, and during his
college course, and for some years afterward, lived with his mother in
Cambridge, entering actively into the dry goods commission business soon
after his graduation. Later he became a cotton broker in partnership
with Walter Dabney (Harvard, 1865), and, having good financial and
business ability, he soon acquired a moderate fortune and permanently re-
tired from active business life.

He made several trips to Europe, but had no great liking for foreign
travel, as he was very fond of his home associations, living quietly with
his aged mother the greater part of the year. His tastes were social and
his chief interest was in out-door sports, shooting, fishing, and yachting,
which for many years took him to the South in winter, and often at
other seasons to the Monument Club on Buzzard's Bay, of which he was
one of the founders some thirty-five years ago.

In early years he was an adept at the game of billiards, and, with
William Frothingham, at the end of our first college year, he beat at
this game the two representatives of the Yale Freshman Class, the con-
test taking place at Worcester, where, in that year (1860), Harvard won
against Yale the three boat races on Lake Quinsigamond, as well as the
two billiard matches and the gam«s of chess.

Stackpole was a very good shot, and a skilful and patient angler for
salmon, bass, and trout. He took great pleasure in sending to his friends
the trophies of his gun and rod.

Long before his death, however, his health began to fail, several visits
to foreign spas brought little improvement, and during the last two
years of his life he was th« victim of a hopeless malady, with which he
bravely contended until the end.

It was thereupon

Votedf that the memorial be entered upon the records, and a copy
be sent to the family.

The Class Secretary subsequently received the following letter :

Mattafoibbtt, July 6, 1902.

Dear Mr. Lincoln, — I am greatly obliged to you for sending me

the proceedings of the Class of 1863 in regard to my brother William.

114 THE CLASS OP 1863.

It is a kind and appreciative memorial of his life and character, for which
all his family will feel grateful and for which you have my cordial
thanks. Sincerely yours,

J. L. Stackpolb.
Arthur Lincoln, Esq., Class Secretary, Class of 1863.

EDWAED GEAY STETSON still practises law at 508 Call-
fornia Street, San Francisco, residing at Toyon, Marin County.

He has held no ofl&ce except Trustee of a Country School Dis-
trict, which he says " is not one of profit, nor honor, and as my
co-trustees do not appear to approve of me, I should hardly call
it an office of trust."

He sends the following letter :

San Francisco, March 11, 1903.
Rkv. Henry F. Jenks, Canton Corner, Mass.

My dear Jenks, — Yours of the 24 ultimo — asking information for
the Class Report — has reached me, and gives me the first news of Lin-
coln's death. I shall miss Lincoln. Since I left the Law School in
1868, 1 have seen very few of my classmates, and have heard little about
the others, except what I read in the Class reports ; but Lincoln I have
seen sometimes, and have corresponded with him, and his image remains
clear in my meuory.

I enclose a memorandum of answers to your questions seriatim. But
when you ask for more facts, I hardly know what to say. My life since
1893 has not been eventful. lu 1890, for reasons of health, I went to
live in the country at a place I call Toyon, in the Santa Margarita
Valley, a little north of San Francisco, and there I have lived ever
since, keeping my ofiice in the city, and swinging daily, like a pendulum,
from town to country, — most days in the city occupied with books and
papers, and sometimes in the country watching the grass grow, and the
fruit ripen, and trapping the coons and foxes and coyotes, or, like Mr.
Gladstone, swinging an axe. We are not burdened with social forms
over there, — in fact, rather out of the world, some people might say.
Still, now and then a stray classmate or old college friend turns up
and visits us. Curtin and his wife came, postponing for a day his
expedition to the Kombo Indians (or whatever tribe it was), whose
myths he wanted to dig up before the six survivors of the race should
depart for their eternal hunting grounds. Hall, we would see from time
to time, while he was here, before his translation to Manila a few months

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ago. Blair was the fast one to come, — last year some time, — and it
was amusing to find a St. Louis lawyer posing as an authority on apple
orchards. Morison and Fiske came here more than once, but could
never spare time for a visit to me at home. Drew turns up now and
then, on his way between Boston and China, and has not forgotten how
to talk English. Nathan Appleton came here with M. de Lesseps, when
the Panama Canal was booming, and Denny, Piugree, and Waters made
visits to California. Possibly two or three others made flying trips
hither. Their visits have been as the visits of angels, and I have been
sadly isolated from my classmates.

My two boys are growing up, but are not yet old enough to think
about Harvard. I find one of them studying a Latin Grammar written
by one Daniell ; it can't be our Daniell, for this man pronounces Latin
in a very diflFerent fashion from that used by Moses Grant in 1863, and
I note other heresies in the book.r

I shall rejoice in your Report when it comes, and meanwhile, remain,
with best wishes.

Yours as ever,

Edward Gray Stetson.

♦EDWARD LEWIS STEVENS was born in Boston, Sept. 30,
1842. He died near Camden, South Carolina, April 18, 1865.

* HENRY ARNOLD TABER was born in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, Sept. 23, 1841. He died in New Bedford, Oct. 5,
1868.

GEORGE SAMUEL TOMLINSON still lives in Boston, at 283
Heath Street, Roxbury, occupied with the charge of several estates
as Trustee.

His three daughters all graduated at the Girls' Boston Latin
School. His daughter Anna then studied six years at the School
of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
and is now an artist. His daughter Edith graduated at Smith
College in 1899, and married, June 6, 1900, Richard Gorham
Badger, son of James Gorham and Emma Bartlett (Holmes)
Badger. They have one son, Richard Gorham Badger, Jr., born
June 25, 1901. His daughter Adelia studied six years at the
New England Conservatory of Music. His son James Ellis

116 THE CLASS OF 1863.

prepared at the Eoxbury Latin School, and is a member of the
Harvard Class of 1903.

*HENEY ELMEE TOWNSEND was born in Boston, Dec. 29,
1841. He died in Boston, July 14, 1891.
His son Frederic Edward died May 15, 1899.

HENEY TUCK continues Vice-President of the New York
Life Insurance Company, 346 Broadway, New York City.

In 1894 he made a trip round the world, and has since made
several trips to Europe.

His wife died Nov. 9, 1898, and in 1902, Sept. 23, he married
Elenore Boyd Hammond, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

His son Shirley E. married, April 30, 1901, Ellen Miller ; his son
Henry W. married, April 26, 1898, Olga M. Dininny ; they have a
son Carlton Webster, born April 2, 1899. His daughter Eosamond
married, April 10, 1901, James Harper Skillin of New York.

EOBEET NEWLIN VEEPLANCK has abandoned agriculture,
having found that farming for thirty years was not profitable to
mind or purse, and is now living at Orange, New Jersey, having his
family, who are employed in New York and its vicinity, with him.

He narrates an instance of fortune's pranks, to show how nar-
rowly he escaped the " potentialities of wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice.'' When he sold his oil refinery in 1872, his partner
took cash, and he took one hundred shares in Standard Oil stock,
which his father, badly advised, induced him to sell soon after.
That stock in 1882 became twenty-four hundred shares, and is
worth to-day $1,680,000, and has paid $700,000 in dividends.

His son Gulian is employed under classmate Cromwell, and his
son William is beginning with the same company ; while his son
Eobert is in a marine engine-shop.

* BENJAMIN BEAD WALES was bom in Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts, Feb. 4, 1842. He died in Boston (Dorchester), August
31, 1901.

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He continued to reside in Dorchester, and was in the Appraiser's
Department of the Boston Custom House at the time of his death.

He was a very prominent comrade of the Grand Army of the
Republic, much interested in the schools of his neighborhood,
and a highly esteemed and respected citizen of his native town.

In reply to a communication from the Class Secretary, the fol-
lowing letter was received from Mrs. Wales :

Mr. Arthur Lincoln :

My dbar Sir, — I thank you for your kind and tender sympathy,
and for the tribute of respect to the memory of my dear husband and
your classmate expressed in your note to me.

All that was dear to me has gone out of my life. The sweet and
blessed memories of the happy past are all that remains, and it is a ray
of sunshine through the gloom, to know that my loved one's pure life
and character lives in the hearts of his friends.

There will be one more vacant chair at your next reunion, but I know
that you will remember the cheery smile and the pleasant word with
which he always greeted the " Class of '63."

Sincerely yours,

Augusta A. Walks.
October 11, 1901.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 26, 1902, H. W. Warren offered the following tribute :

Bbnjamin Read Wales died at his home on Columbia Road, Dorchester,
on Saturday, August 31, 1901, after an illness qf only a few hours.

The printed reports of our secretary give so completely the story of
our classmate's life that few additional particulars are needed in this
brief memorial. He was an earnest and valued member of Benj. Stone,
Jr., Post 68, G. A. R., — of which he was Past Commander, — also a
member of Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion, of the
Dorchester Council of the Royal Arcanum, of the Roxbury Military
and Historical Society, of the Boston Chapter of the Sons of the Amer-
iean Revolution, of the American Art Society, and of the Old Boston
Schoolboys' Association.

For nearly twenty-nine years he was connected with the Boston Cus-
tom House, and for seventeen years of that time was in the Appraisers'

118 THE CLASS OF 1863.

Department. He was a consistent and beloved member of the Second
Parish Church in Dorchester (Congregational Trinitarian) for forty-three
years. All his life he was closely identified with that church. There
be was baptized ; there received as a church member ; there married ;
and there the last services in memory of him were held. At those
services the pastor, Rev. Dr. Arthur Little (himself a comrade of the
same Grand Army Post), delivered an eloquent and sympathetic eulogy
on the life and character of our classmate. The most prominent officers
of the church, and representatives from the societies of which he was a
member, were honorary pall-bearers, and the Guard of Honor was six Past
Commanders of his Grand Army Post. Almost the entire east end of
the church was a mass of flowers, and the pulpit ftnd casket were hidden
in them. The house was full to the doors, with those who came to pay
the last tribute of respect and esteem, and the presence of many children
testified to their affection for him.

Dr. Little said, " I have seen many large gatherings in this house
during the last ten or twelve years on occasions similar to this ; but I
do not remember ever to have seen ]so large a one. You have come
because you loved this man, because you knew him, because he was
kind to you and true to you, and 'because you feel that in bis depar-
ture you have lost a personal friend."

His interest in children and his earnest patriotism were frequently
shown by his addresses in the public schools, especially at the exercises
connected with Memorial Day.

Captain Read Wales, as his neighbors and friends called him, was a
descendant of one of the best known and most respected of the Old
Dorchester families. He loved his home, his church, his town. No one
who knew him ever doubted our classmate's intense patriotism, his con-
scientious devotion to duty, his genial kind-heartedness and well-deserved
popularity.

It was thereupon

Votedf that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a
copy be sent to the family.

HORACE WINSLOW WARREN lives at 77 Rockview Street,
Jamaica Plain, and is Master of the Henry L. Pierce School in
Dorchester.

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BIOGRAPHIES. 119

Scotland, and in July and August, 1900, a brief vacation trip to
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

He is a member of numerous professional clubs and societies,
such as Schoolmasters' Clubs and Educational Associations, of
the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Appalachian Moun-
tain Club, of the Cyclists* Touring Club of England, and Asso-
ciate Member G. A. R.

His daughter Helen F. is in the class which graduates this
year from the Girls' Latin School in Boston, and last year passed
with credit the preliminary examinations for Radcliflfe College,
receiving an " honor " in Greek.

JOHN COLLINS WARREN is still engaged in the practice of
his profession in Boston, at 58 Beacon Street. He was made
Professor of Surgery in Harvard University in 1893.

In 1895 Jefferson College gave him the degree of LL.D. Be-
side the societies mentioned in the last report, he is Hon. F. R. C.
S. Eng. (elected in 1900), a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and of the College of the Physicians and Sur-
geons of Philadelphia.

He is the author of

" Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics," 1895 ;

"Healing of Arteries after Ligature in Man and Animals," 1896,

and, Editor and author of

" Warren and Gould's International Text Book of Surgery," 1900.

The splendid endowment of the Medical School of the Univer-
sity, through which it is to possess the finest and best equipped
buildings in the country, is largely due to his indefatigable perse-
verance and enthusiasm.

His son John graduated at Harvard in 1896, and at the Medi-
cal School in 1900, and is now Demonstrator of Anatomy in
Harvard University. His son Joseph graduated at Harvard in
1897, and at the Law School in 1900, and is now Attorney of the
Police Commission of Boston.

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as our classmate, John Fiske^ De LaGuse, the historian, and Andrew D.
White. Mr. Gladstone and the Empress Eugenie also wrote to Weld in
regard to it.

He was married August 16, 1880, in Hyde Park, to Lydia Anna Har-
vell, of Hyde Park, daughter of Arterius and Caroline HarvelL A son,
Louis D wight Harvell, was born April 18, 1882, and named Louis after
the Prince Imperial of France, who was killed in Zululand.

He died at Hyde Park, Nov. 8, 1901, leaving his wife and son surviv-
ing him.

In his death tlie community has lost an enthusiastic and painstaking
student and an indefatigable worker in certain fields of historical and
political research. We have lost a respected classmate and valued friend,
and are reminded that the ranks of our brotherhood are drawing closer
and closer.

It was thereupon

Resolved, that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a
copy sent to the family with the assurance of our deepest sympathy.

His son, Louis Dwight Harvell, is a member of the Class of
1905, in Bowdoin College.

EDMUND SOUDER WHEELER lives in Buffalo, New York,
and his address is 857 Delaware Avenue.

From June, 1893, to June, 1899, he was one of the Directors
of the Niagara Falls Power Company (at Niagara Falls), and
from June, 1894, to June, 1899, Treasurer of that company.

For the last eleven years he has been Superintendent of the
Niagara Junction Railway Company, and Agent of the Niagara
Development Company, with offices at Niagara Falls, New York.

His journeys have been confined to those made for business,
with an occasional trip to the neighborhood of Boston and New
York.

His wife died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Nov. 11, 1897.

His son Reginald Tremaine entered the Lawrence Scientific
School in 1901, in the Class of 1905. His daughter Elisabeth
Townsend was married, Oct. 15, 1902, to Dr. Jacob S. Otto, of
Bufifalo, New York.

120 THE CLASS OF 1863.

CLIFFORD CROWNINSHIELD WATERS is stUl residing in
California, at present at Los Angeles. He is not engaged in any
active business.

* MICHAEL SHEPARD WEBB was born in Windsor, Ver-
mont, Feb. 22, 1842. He died in San Francisco, April 15, 1872.

♦CHARLES STUART FAUCHERAUD' WELD was bom
in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dec. 14, 1839. He died in Hyde Park*
Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 1901.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 25, 1902, Lincoln ofifered the following memorial:

Charles Stuart Faucheraud Weld, or, as he called himself in later
years, Stuart F. Weld, son of Theodore D wight Weld and Angeline Emilia
(Grimk^) Weld, was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dec. 14, 1839. He
fitted for college at his father's school in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He
entered the class at the beginning of the Freshman year and completed
the full course of four years.

In college he was a diligent and faithful student and received a Detur
in his Sophomore year. He had no ambition to see his name high on
the rank list, but chose rather to devote himself to those studies which
were congenial to him and which seemed to him more advantageous in
after life. He occupied, however, a respectable and honorM position as
a scholar in the Class.

He took his college life seriously, without indulging much in its frivol-
ities, and with his natural dignity and reserve did not encourage much
the formation of close intimacies, but cordially welcomed those who
sought his friendship.

After graduation he lived in Boston, and for the most part in Hyde
Park, Massachusetts. He devoted his time principally to literary work,
reading, studying, and teaching either private pupils or in schools. He
contributed numerous articles to the "Atlantic Montlily," the "Radical,"
and similar magazines. He was especially interested in the life of Napo-
leon III. and his government, and in the Isthmian Canals, preferring
the Panama • route.

In recent years he published a pamphlet on Koumania, and the part
Louis Napoleon took in her affairs. Rev. Dr. Edward E. Hale wrote
an introduction to this work. It was favorably received by such men

120 THE CLASS OF 1863.

CLIFFORD CROWNINSHIELD WATERS is still residing in
California, at present at Los Angeles. He is not engaged in any
active business.

* MICHAEL SHEPARD WEBB was bom in Windsor, Ver-
mont, Feb. 22, 1842. He died in San Francisco, April 15, 1872.

♦CHARLES STUART FAUCHERAUD* WELD was bom
in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dec. 14, 1839. He died in Hyde Park>
Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 1901.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 25, 1902, Lincoln oflfered the following memorial:

After graduation he lived in Boston, and for the most part in Hyde
Park, Massachusetts. He devoted his time principally to literary work,
reading, studying, and teaching either private pupils or in schools. He
contributed numerous articles to the "Atlantic Monthly," the "Radical,"
and similar magazines. He was especially interested in the life of Napo-
leon III. and his government, and in the Isthmian Canals, preferring
the Panama ' route.

In recent years he published a pamphlet on Roumania, and the part
Louis Napoleon took in her affairs. Rev. Dr. Edward E. Hale wrote
an introduction to this work. It was favorably received by such men

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as our classmate, John Fiske, De LaGuse, the liistorian, and Andrew D.
White. Mr. Gladstone and the Empress Eugenie also wrote to Weld in
regard to it.

He was married August 16, 1880, in Hyde Park, to Lydia Anna Har-
vell, of Hyde Park, daughter of Arterius and Caroline Harvell. A son,
Louis D wight Harvell, was born April 18, 1882, and named Louis after
the Prince Imperial of France, who was killed in Zululand.

He died at Hyde Park, Nov. 8, 1901, leaving his wife and son surviv-
ing him.

In his death the community has lost an enthusfastic and painstaking
student and an indefatigable worker in certain fields of historical and
political research. We have lost a respected classmate and valued friend,
and are reminded that the ranks of our brotherhood are drawing closer
and closer.

It was thereupon

Resolved^ that the memorial be entered upon the Class records, and a
copy sent to the family with the assurance of our deepest sympathy.

His son, Louis Dwight Harvell, is a member of the Class of
1905, in Bowdoin College.

EDMUND SOUDER WHEELER lives in Bufifalo, New York,
and his address is 857 Delaware Avenue.

From June, 1893, to June, 1899, he was one of the Directors
of the Niagara Falls Power Company (at Niagara Falls), and
from June, 1894, to June, 1899, Treasurer of that company.

For the last eleven years he has been Superintendent of the
Niagara Junction Railway Company, and Agent of the Niagara
Development Company, with offices at Niagara Falls, New York.

His journeys have been confined to those made for business,
with an occasional trip to the neighborhood of Boston and New
York.

His wife died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Nov. 11, 1897.

His son Reginald Tremaine entered the Lawrence Scientific
School in 1901, in the Class of 1905. His daughter Elisabeth
Townsend was married, Oct. 15, 1902, to Dr. Jacob S. Otto, of
Buffalo, New York.

122 THE CLASS OF 1868.

* MOSES DILLON WHEELEE was born in Zanesville, Ohio,
March 16, 1840. He died near Arrochar, Staten Island, New
York, Nov. 1, 1889.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WHITE Uves in Brooklyn, New
York, at 158 Columbia Heights.

He retired from mercantile business in 1897.

His son Harold Tredway graduated at Harvard in 1897. Both
his sons are stockbrokers.

His son Alexander Moss, Jr. (Harvard, 1892), married, 2 Nov.
1898, Elsie Ogden.

He has grandchildren : Alexander White Moffat, born 26 June,
1891 ; Donald Moflfat, born 18 July, 1894; George Barclay Mof-
fat, Jr , born 16 May, 1897 ; Frances White Moflfat, born 21 Nov.,
1899.

♦JOHN WINTHEOP was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
June 20, 1841. He died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sept.
18, 1895.

He continued to reside in Stockbridge, devoting a large portion
of his time to farming, until his death.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 24, 1896, the Class Secretary announced the death of
Winthrop, and presented the following memorial on behalf of
Shattuck, who was absent:

John Winthrop, soil of Robert Charles (Harvard, 1828) and Eliza
Cabot (Blanchard) Winthrop, was born in Boston, June 20, 1841. He
fitted for college with Mr. Thomas G. Bradford, in Boston, and entered
the class at the beginning of the junior year.

After graduation the greater part of his life, interrupted by annual
visits to Boston, and occasional visits to New York, was passed at Stock-
bridge, Massachusetts, where he owned an estate and spent his time as
a gentleman farmer, — a person whom he himself described as " one
who has a farm, does not labor, and loses money at it steadily." He
was married in March, 1864, to Isabella Cowpland Weyman, daughter of
John Weyman of New York.

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122 THE CLASS OF 1868.

* MOSES DILLON WHEELEE was born in Zanesville, Ohio,
March 16, 1840. He died near Arrochar, Staten Island, New
York, Nov. 1, 1889.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WHITE Uves in Brooklyn, New
York, at 158 Columbia Heights.

He retired from mercantile business in 1897.

His son Harold Tredway graduated at Harvard in 1897. Both
his sons are stockbrokers.

His son Alexander Moss, Jr. (Harvard, 1892), married, 2 Nov.
1898, Elsie Ogden.

He has grandchildren : Alexander White Moffat, born 26 June,
1891; Donald Moflfat, born 18 July, 1894; George Barclay Mof-
fat, Jr, born 16 May, 1897 ; Frances White Mofifat,born 21 Nov.,
1899.

♦JOHN WINTHEOP was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
June 20, 1841. He died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sept.
18, 1895.

He continued to reside in Stockbridge, devoting a large portion
of his time to farming, until his death.

At the annual meeting of the Class on Commencement Day,
June 24, 1896, the Class Secretary announced the death of
Winthrop, and presented the following memorial on behalf of
Shattuck, who was absent:

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123

Wiutbrop's name recalls some of the most distinguished leaders and
some of the most important chapters in the early Colonial history of
New England; his father's life is still fresh in our minds.

It would not have been strange had he inherited a taste for elegant
scholarship and a love of letters* But in fact he was never fond of books.
He was fond of nature and animals, and understood them. He was
bluff, honest, outspoken, straightforward in hi* mannei*s and conversa-
tion — " without any nonsense." His distinguishing characteristic was
plain common-sense and good judgment. He had many of those elements
which go to make popularity.

He was at one time Representative to the General Court from the
Fifth Berkshire District. He was for a number of years, and at the time
of his death, President of the Lenox Club ; he was also warden of the
Episcopal Church at Stockbridge, of which his classmate Arthur Lawrence
was rector.

Among his neighbors of all cLisses in Berkshire County, whether the
fashionable summer residents who come to Lenox from New York, or the
poorer native farmers and laborers of the soil, Winthrop was immensely
popular, and without striving to be so. This was largely due to his
genuineness, his bonhomie.

Although robust in appearance, he was not always in good health, and
he died suddenly at Stockbridge, after returning from a fishing trip
to the lakes of Maine, Sept. 18, 1895. His funeral was attended by a'
great concourse of people of all classes from the countryside. His wife
survives him ; but he left no children.

It was thereupon

Voted, that the memorial be extended upon the Class records, and a
copy be sent to the family.

The following letter was subsequently received by the Class
Secretary from Mrs. Winthrop:

My dbar Mr. Lincoln, — I am very much pleased with the class
tribute to my husband which you so kindly sent me. It is very simple,
direct, and to the point. When you see Dr. Shattuck, would you kindly
convey my appreciation of it. Thanking you very much for sending it
to me, Believe me, very sincerely yours,

Isabella C. Winthrop.
Stockbridge, June 29, 1896.

124 THE CLASS OF 1863.

The following sketch was prepared for the "Harvard Grad-
uates' Magazine," by Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., Esq., a brother of
Winthrop :

John Winthrop (born in Boston, June 20, 1841, died in Stockbridge,
Sept. 18, 1895), second son of the late Hon. Robert C. Winthrop by his
first wife, Eliza Cabot Blanchard, was fitted for college at private schools,
took bis bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1863, and not long afterward
established himself on a farm of some two hundred acres near the vil-
lage of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in one of the most beautiful situations
in the county of Berkshire. His health, originally delicate, was greatly
benefited by an open-air life, which enabled him to indulge to the full
his pronounced taste for horses and live-stock, and he continued to make
Stockbridge his home for the remainder of his life, though he habitually
passed a couple of months of each winter in Boston, and made occasional
visits t) other places. With much native intelligence, he had no love
of literature or disposition to mix in general society. A single trip to
Europe satiated him with art, and a single term of ofl&ce as representa-
tive of the Fifth Berkshire District in the Massachusetts Legislature tired
him of politics. He liked best the quiet life of a gentleman farmer,
varied by the conviviality of the well-known Lenox Club, of which he
was always one of the most active members, and of late years the presi-
dent. It was his lot, .however, to attain a degree of widespread per-
sonal popularity not often enjoyed by more ambitious men. His genial
manners, his obliging disposition, his keen sense of humor, handsome
figure, and engaging address, all combined to make him a universal
favorite, and his death, after a short illness, in his fifty-tifbh year, has
given rise to exceptional manifestations of sorrow wherever he is known.
He married, March 30, 1864, Isabella Cowpland, daughter of the late
John Weyman of New York, by whom, who survives him, he leaves
no issue.

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS

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PART OF THE COURSE ONLY.

Frederick Baylies Allen lives in Boston at 132 Marlborough Street.
He is still in charge of the Episcopal City Mission, with an office at
the Diocesan House, 1 Joy Street. He is Secretary of the Massachu-
setts Bible Society.

He has two more grandchilden : Allen Williams Clark, bom Feb. 18,
1896, and Francis Richmond Clark, bom Nov. 27, 1899.

John Alltn is senior member of the firm of Allyn and Bacon, book-
publishers, at 172 Tremont Street, Boston, and lives in Cambridge.

He married, June 19, 1872, Anna Winter Page, of Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, and has children: Alice Page, born March. 27, 1873; Rufus
Bradford, born June 27, 1874; Philip Morton, born August 24, 1878,
married, June, 1902, Elfrida MacDonald ; Dorothea, bora June 2, 1880;
Samuel Bradford, born Sept. 20, 1884.

John Page Almy lives in Boston at 26 Newbury Street, and is in no
active business.

♦Augustus Barker. * 1863.

*JoHN Clark Barnard died at Worcester, Massachusetts, April 1,
1903.

JosiAH Grahmb Bellows lives in Walpole, New Hampshire. He is
a lawyer, but is now invalided from a shock of paralysis, in 1900, from
which he never expects fully to recover.

In the late autumn of 1900 he went to England for his health.

January 1, 1894, he was appointed one of the Railroad Commission-
ers for New Hampshire, and resigned the office of Judge of Probate for

126 THE CLASS OF 1863.

Cheshire County, which he had held for over sixteen years. He con-
tinued, by two reappointments, as Railroad Commissioner until June
1, 1901, when he resigned on account of health. For the same reason,
October 1st of that year, he resigned the Treasurership of the Savings
Bank of Walpole. In the fall of 1893 he was appointed on the Com-
mission to ascertain and establish the true jurisdictional line between
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and to the same Commission was
given, later, the task of fixing the southeast comer of New Hamp-
shire and the southwest corner of Vermont. New Hampshire and
Massachusetts had been in dispute over this matter twice about 1690,
and though various commissions and legislatures had tried to patcli it
up, it was never done until finally, in 1894, his Commission and the
Massachusetts Commission agreed, and after six or seven years of legis-
lation, and the various impediments that we wise people always put in
the way of good deeds, the matter was finally closed by the New Hamp-
shire Commission in 1901. Although the contention between the States
was not based on tangible values, he believes it to be about the longest
fought-out State quarrel on record. In 1894 he was chosen clerk of the
Railroad Commission, and continued in that ofl&ce until his resignation.
His daughter Mary Howland Bellows was entered at Smith's College in
1897, and graduated with the Class of 1901, receiving the degree of B. L.

♦Marshall William Blake. * 1873.

♦Charles Malcolm Boyd. * 1864.

♦Henry French Brown. '' * 1863.

* George Reid Dinsmoor was bom in Keene, New Hampshire, May
28, 1841. He died in Keene, April 29, 1901.

He continued to reside in Keene until his death. He had been out
of health for some time, and although thus debarred from active work,
he was well known and much beloved and respected in his native town
and elsewhere. The Class Secretary received the following letter from
Mrs. Dinsmoor :

Keene, N. H., March 31, 1902.

My dear Mr. Lincoln, — I have your letter of March 14th, and
regret that circumstances have prevented my acknowledging it before
now ; and, too, I wish to assure you that I am not so unmindful as I
seem of your kind note of many, many months ago. I am glad to
have, and am most grateful for your expressions of appreciation of my
husband's character, and for the nice remembrances you have of him.

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The heroism with which he met the suffering of so many years is beyond
words, and his interest in the world and the life about him was ever
keen and sympathetic. Every item of news which reached him of his
classmates and their respective welfares interested him deeply. I appre-
ciate very much your earnest desire to have a photograph of Dr. Dins-
moor for the Class records. I have hesitated which of two pictures to
send you, — whether one taken twenty years or so ago, or one taken
within the last seven years ; but as you ask for the latest one, I conclude
to send you this last, although it is, as you will see, distinctly the picture
of an invalid. Yours very truly,

Helen J. Dinsmoor.

" The Keene Evening Sentinel," April 29, 1901, in announcing Dins-
moor's death, says :

Dr. George R. Dinsmoor, of this city, died this morning at his resi-
dence, 45 Washington Street, at the age of nearly sixty years.

For the past twenty-three years, Mr. Dinsmoor has been shut out
from the activities and many of the pleasures of life on account of a
severe attack of paralysis, which deprived him of the use of all his limbs.
Through this long period of invalidism, he had kept in touch with the
outer world as well as he could, and by frequent drives he enjoyed the
beauties of Keene and its immediate surroundings. Through the de-
lightful hospitalities of his home, in which his devoted and loving wife
and affectionate sister made his happiness their foremost thought and
aim, he kept in touch with many old friends and found new ones.
His infirmities and sufferings were borne with the greatest patience
and fortitude, and into a life doubtless trying and burdensome in the
extreme, was brought much of happiness to himself and others.

* Horace Sargent Dunn. * 1862.

* Cartwright Eustis was born in Natchez, Mississippi, Nov. 4,
1842. He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dec. 2, 1900.

He continued to reside in New Orleans, and engaged in business
as Treasurer of A. Baldwin and Company, Limited, corporation,
dealers in hardware, until his death. He was a much beloved and
respected citizen of that city. A sketch of his life appears in the
Secretary's Report of Class of 1888.

The following letter was received byF. L. Higginson from Richardson :

Nbw Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 7, 1900.
Dear Frank, — Cartwright Eustis died in Milwaukee last Saturday,
and was buried here Wednesday. The poor fellow was a great sufferer.

128 THE CLASS OF 1868.

and about three months ago had an operation performed, and went to
Milwaukee for the 'purpose. The operation was considered a perfectly
successful one, and his friends expected to have him return this month,
but a cold contracted while taking an airing on Thanksgiving Day
culminated in acute pneumonia, a shock his already wasted system
could not withstand.

One more of our old set called home.* He left a wife and nine chil-
dren, only one of whom, the oldest daughter, being married, Mrs.
Russell of Milwaukee. Cartwright bore his suifering with great forti-
tude and unflinching courage. Peace to his ashes.

Sincerely, W. P. Richardson.

The Class Secretary received the following letter from one of Eustis's

sons :

Fbb. 21, 1901.
Arthur Lincoln, Esq., Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir, — I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 14th
inst. to my mother, and in her behalf I wish to thank you for your
kind words of sympathy.

Under separate covers I send you a photograph of my father as per
your request, and also a copy of the " New Orleans Times Democrat,"
with a short account of the circumstances surrounding his death.

Any friend of my father is a friend of mine, and I trust, should you
ever come to New Orleans, you will do me the honor of calling on me.

Yours truly, Allan C. Eustis.

The "New Orleans Daily Picayune" of Dec. 3, 1900, announcing the
death of Eustis, says :

Cartwright Eustis, one of the most widely known and influential
business men of this city, a distinguished soldier and a cultured gentle-
man, died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. Mr. Eustis has been a
prominent figure in the business life of New Orleans for many years,
and at the same time his influence has been felt in all the varied circles
with which his life has come in contact. He was a leader. In educa-
tional, religious, social, and business afla-irs, municipal as well as private,
he occupied positions of prominence and power. A member of the
Board of Administrators of the Tulane University, he became chairman
of the real estate committee ; in the congregation of Trinity Church he
occupied the position of junior warden ; he was Treasurer of A. Baldwin
& Co., Limited, one of the largest business corporations of this city ;
he was Vice-President of the Round Table Club, one of the most influ-
ential social and intellectual organizations of the city, and Mayor Flower

128 THE CLASS OF 1868.

One more of our old set called home/ He left a wife and nine chil-
dren, only one of whom, the oldest daughter, being married, Mrs.
Kusscll of Milwaukee. Cartwright bore his suifering with great forti-
tude and unflinching courage. Peace to his ashes.

Sincerely, W. P. Richardson.

The Class Secretary received the following letter from one of Eustis's

sons :

Feb. 21, 1901.
Arthur Lincoln, Esq., Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir, — I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 14th
inst. to my mother, and in her behalf I wish to thank you for your
kind words of sympathy.

Under separate covers I send you a photograph of my father as per
your request, and also a copy of the " New Orleans Times Democrat,"
with a short account of the circumstances surrounding his death.

Any friend of my Either is a friend of mine, and I trust, should you
ever come to New Orleans, you will do me the honor of calling on me.

Yours truly, Allan C. Eustis.

The "New Orleans Daily Picayune" of Dec. 3, 1900, announcing the
death of Eustis, says :

Cartwright Eustis, one of the most widely known and influential
business men of this city, a distinguished soldier and a cultured gentle-
man, died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. Mr. Eustis has been a
prominent figure in the business life of New Orleans for many years,
and at the same time his influence has been felt in all the varied circles
with which his life has come in contact. He was a leader. In educa-
tional, religious, social, and business affkirs, municipal as well as private,
he occupied positions of prominence and power. A member of the
Board of Administrators of the Tulane University, he became chairman
of the real estate committee ; in the congregation of Trinity Church he
occupied the position of junior warden ; he was Treasurer of A. Baldwin
& Co., Limited, one of the largest business corporations of this city ;
he was Vice-President of the Round Table Club, one of the most influ-
ential social and intellectual organizations of the city, and Mayor Flower

C^^t^ui/t^^^CAj^^^^^^

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BIOGRAPHIES. 129

recognized his qualities by appointing him a member of the Water and

Sewerage Board, although he saw fit to decline the trust. It would be

difficult to point to any movement of great public interest in which his

influence has not been felt.

• ••• •••••

During his long and honorable business career he held many posi-
tions of great responsibility and trust, but the position in the duties of
which he found probably the greatest pleasure was as a member of the
board of administrators of Tulane University. The welfare of that
great institution was near his heart, and he devoted himself to its inter-
ests with the greatest zeal and energy. He was a member of that
board from the time of its formation. His position as chairman of the
real estate committee gave him a large hand in the management of the
trust, and his great ability was a potent factor in the prosperity that
has attended the administration.

* Charles Frbderio Fearing was bom in New York City, July 31,
1840. He died in New York City, April 5, 1901.

He continued to reside in New York until his death, and was very
prominent in social life. During his periods of invalidism he was con-
stantly surrounded by relatives and old friends. His sense of humor
remained with him until the last, and many good stories are told of him
by his friends of the Union Club, which he called his home. One of
these stories is recounted as follows :

" Mr. Fearing once met with a severe accident. His leg was crushed,
blood-poisoning set in, and the doctors decided that he must choose
between amputation and death. He chose death. The patient rapidly
grew worse, word was sent to his relatives and friends that he was dying,
and we all thought the end had come. The next morning one of our
leading daily papers printed an obituary notice on the supposed deceased.
The proprietor of the paper, then and always a friend of Mr. Fearing,
subsequently asked him how be felt when reading the announcement of
his own death. *0h,' Mr. Fearing replied, *I never believe anything
in your paper, and I didn't believe that.* "

A contemporary New York paper, April 19, 1901, thus speaks of
him :

" Charles F. Fearing's funeral was solemnized yesterday at the Pres-
byterian Church in University Place, and he was buried at Woodlawn
Cemetery; and so passes away from our every-day vision a man well
known in a world of genial, polite, and pleasant people, — the only world

130 THE CLASS OF 1863.

he cared much for, — and little known or not at all in that world of great
and energetic activities which is regarded as making up the life of the
time.

" He was not a very old man, and yet so rapid have heen the changes
of life in the city that he seems almost to helong to a former time.
Fearing's youth fell in that ancient age when young gentlemen out of
college finished their education by making the grand tour of Europe;
and his grand tour coincided with the date when Commodore Vanderbilt
was just doing his first fighting as a railroad man, and when Jay Gould
was pushing a wheelbarrow along the roads in Delaware County. His
social qualities, his wit, his good nature, his genial spirit, his immense
success as a raconteur, made him a welcome guest wherever he was
known; and to tell of the brilliant circles in which he was at home
would be to write the history of society in the city for thirty years."

" Native Philistines will perhaps agree with foreign critics in regard-
ing as a quite unusual American one who never invented anything, nor
built a railroad, nor organized a trust, but the man who sets the example
of making the most of the pleasant side of life has his value. The man
who cultivates the art of enjoying life, of endeavoring to be happy and
to make others happy about him, has distinguished himself in a way
that our people will appreciate . more and more as time goes on."

The following sketch has been prepared by Mason :

Charles Frederic Fearing died in New York, April 5, 1901, in
his sixty-first year. He was the eldest son of Charles Nye and Mary
(Swan) Fearing, and the great-great-grandson of General Israel Fearing
of Wareham, Massachusetts, a soldier of the Revolution.

For twenty years he was a stockbroker in Wall Street, but about 1885
retired from active business. He had many tastes that fitted him for a
life of leisure, among them a fondness for books which led him to collect
a good library of standard works.

For fifteen years he was a constant traveller, and, with social tastes
and ready wit, he made many friends in England and France, China and
Japan, Manila and Australia, India, Cape Colony, and Auckland, and at
many other points where he stopped during his frequent voyages.
He went round the world three times, and was equally at home in San
Francisco and London, Hong Kong and Cairo. He met many notable
people, among them Cecil Rhodes, whom he visited in South Africa.

He was fond of angling, and, in pursuit of his favorite sport, had
camped on many streams in both continents. He was the originator of

130 THF CLASS OF 1863.

he cared much for, — and little known or not at all in that world of great
and energetic activities which is regarded as making up the life of the
time.

" He was not a very old man, and yet so rapid have been the changes
of life in the city that he seems almost to belong to a former time.
Fearing's youth fell in that ancient age when young gentlemen out of
college finished their education by making the grand tour of Europe ;
and his grand tour coincided with the date when Commodore Vanderbilt
was just doing his first fighting as a railroad man, and when Jay Gould
was pushing a wheelbarrow along the roads in Delaware County. His
social qualities, his wit, his good nature, his genial spirit, his immense
success as a raconteur, made him a welcome guest wherever he was
known ; and to tell of the brilliant circles in which he was at home
would be to write the history of society in the city for thirty years."

"Native Philistines will perhaps agree with foreign critics in regard-
ing as a quite unusual American one who never invented anything, nor
built a railroad, nor organized a trust, but the man who sets the example
of making the most of the pleasant side of life has his value. The man
who cultivates the art of enjoying life, of endeavoring to be happy and
to make others happy about him, has distinguished himself in a way
that our people will appreciate . more and more as time goes on."

The following sketch has been prepared by Mason :

For twenty years he was a stockbroker in Wall Street, but about 1885
retired from active business. He had many tastes that fitted him for. a
life of leisure, among them a fondness for books which led him to collect
a good library of standard works.

He was fond of angling, and, in pursuit of his favorite sport, had
camped on many streams in both continents. He was the originator of

£ff.

ACTC:>, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

BIOGRAPmES. 131

the Kestigouche Salmon Club, on the Canadian river of that name, and
his fishing tours took him also to Scotland and to Norway.

In his last years he made two visits to the baths of Nauheim, in Ger-
many, for the cardiac malady which ultimately proved fatal, but most
of his summers were passed with his relatives and his old friends on the
seashore of New England or in the vicinity of New York. He was a
strong Harvard man and found great satisfaction through life in his
early association with the University.

Henry Barrett Going lives in Brookline at 15 Fairbanks Street.

♦Arthur Frederic Gould. * 1890.

* Samuel Shblton Gould. * 1862.

* Sullivan Haslbtt. * 1887.

Franklin Theodore Howe still resides in Washington, District of
Columbia, and is news editor of the "Washington Evening Star."
He has been a member of the Washington Harvard Club since its
formation, and one year its Vice-President. He is a member of Bum-
side Post, No. 8, G. A. R. ; and Hancock Regiment, No. 1, W. V. U.,
and of the Union Soldiers' Alliance, an organization peculiar to Wash-
ington, and one of its past Presidents.

His four daughters made a tour of Europe in 1900, and, as a result,
one of them, Sarah Willard Howe, has just published "Oberammergau
in 1900," a description of the Passion Play.

His son George Alpha married Miss Bella Jost of Montgomery,
Alabama, and has two children, Elise Francis, and Theodore Christian ;
and his son Franklin Theodore, Jr., married Miss Nellie Bennett of
Washington, and has a son, Franklin Theodore, 3d.

♦Herman John Huidekoper. * 1868.

William Frederick Jones lives in Orchard Street, Jamaica Plain.

He was commissioned Deputy Collector of Customs for the port of
Boston, March 27, 1894, and still holds that office. Since 1901 he has
been Treasurer of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.

• JoslAH Stioknbt Lombard, M..D., died at London, England,
May 18, 1903.

132 THE CLASS OF 1808.

William Priestley Richardson still lives in New Orleans, at 1438
Louisiana Avenue.

* WiLUAM AuRELius Rtan. * 1886.

* Moses Bartlbtt Sewall. * 1860.

* GoRHAM Phillips Stevens. * 1862.

John Lorrimer Graham Strong is in a law ofiGice at 130 Fulton
Street, New York City.

His wife died Dec. 30, 1900.

His son married, Feb. 18, 1896, Grace Huntington, daughter of Fred-
eric S. and Josephine Perry Wells.

He has one grandson, Chester Bradford Strong, bom March 20, 1900.

* Gboroe Henry Turner. * 1 861.

* John Frink Smith Van Bokkelen. - * 1863.

Edmund Augustus Ward still spends much of his time on his farm at
Richfield Springs, New York. His address in New York City is the
University Club.

♦Thomas Jefferson Washburn. * 1866.

SUMMARY.

The occupations of the Class may be presented as follows :

Business. — C. W. Amory, R. Amory, Appleton, Ayres, J. M. Brown,
Cromwell, Denny, Emerson, Grew, F. L. Higginson, S. S. Higginson,
Horton, Jackson, Kidder, J. Lombard, Marsh, Mixter, Palmer, Pearce,
Peck, Pingree, Rand, Tomlinson, Verplanck, Waters, E. S. Wheeler,
White, — 27. Allpiy Almyy Going, Howe, W. F, Jones, Live^ Richard^
son, Strong, — 8.

Law. — Bailey, Blair, M. Brown, Cobb, Comte, Edwards, Fairchild,
Field, Foster, Goodwin, A. W. Green, Hutchins, Owen, Sheldon, Stet-
son, — 15. Bellows, Ward, — 2.

Medicine. — Bagley, Cross, Freeman, J. 0. Green, Hall, Lathrop,
Mason, Perry, Pratt, Shattuck, Shreve, Tuck, J. C. Warren, — 13.
J. S, Lombard, — 1.

Teaching. — Baxter, Daniell, Gillet, Marston, Morse, Nichols, Put-
nam, Smith, H. W. Warren, — 9.

Theology. — Bishop, Hammond, Harris, H. F. Jenks, Lawrence, — 5.
Allen, — 1 .

Civil Engineering. — Morison, — 1.

Miscellaneous. — Pillsbury, public instruction ; Boit, painting ; Bow-
ditch, trusts ; Drew, Chinese customs* service ; Curtin, authorship, — 6.

Residences. — As situated at present, of those members of the Class
who have received the degree of A.B., thirty-four are in Massachusetts ;
twenty in New York; three in Illinois; two in Europe; two in New
Jersey ; three in California ; two in Missouri ; and one each in China,

134 THE CLASS OF 1868.

Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Manila, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
Vermont, Washington, D. C, and Wisconsin.

Of those who were members of the class during a part of the course
only, seven are in Massachusetts; two in New York, and one each in
New Hampshire, and Louisiana, Washington, D. d and Europe.

MARRIAGES.

Nichols Nov. 26, 1863

♦WiNTHROP Mar. 30, 1864

GiLLBT May 4, 1864

' (Sept. 4, 1884

BoiT (June 16, 1864

(Jan. 5, 1897

Daniell (July 26, 1864

(July 24, 1872

Shrbvb July 28, 1864

♦FiSKB Sept. 6, 1864

ToMLiNsoN Sept. 10, 1864

KiDDBR Oct. 11, 1865

*Frothingham, W Oct. 26, 1865

♦Post Jan. 25, 1866

♦FuLLBRTON April 18, 1866

Rand April 19, 1866

Marston (April 30, 1866

(Aug. 14, 1873

♦Taber May 10, 1866

BowDiTCH June 7, 1866

♦Davis June 19, 1866

♦Mardbn June 26, 1866

Goodwin Sept. 27, 1866

Brown, M. Oct. 8, 1866

Whbbler, E. S Oct. 24, 1866

♦Frothingham, B. T Oct. 31, 1866

Edwards Nov. 29, 1866

♦Jones, G. S Dec. 24, 1866

PiLLSBURY Dec. 26, 1866

*TowNSEND April 11, 1867

Harris June 20, 1867

MARRIAGES.

135

Amory, C. W Oct. 23, 1867

HoRTON Nov. 12, 1867

♦Evans Nov. 20, 1867

Grew Nov. 26, 1867

Cromwell Jan. 8, 1868

White April 29, 1868

Pearob June 3, 1868

(June 11, 1868

^^^"^ I Oct. 30, 1889

Sheldon Dec. 31, 1868

Bailey Jan. 19, 1868

HuTCHiNS Jan. 19 1869

•Langdon Mar. 9, 1869

♦Clarke May 5, 1869

TT a o (Oct- 6, 1869

HlGGINSON, S. S. }^^^^ g^ j3gg

♦LiNDBR Dec- 2, 1869

PAiiMER Jan. 17, 1870

Morse May 12, 1870

*Webb May 12, 1870

Smith Aug. 25, 1870

Warren H W '.' i Aug. 25, 1870
Warren, H.W |g^^^ 2, 1884

Marsh April 13, 1871

♦Greenough April 26, 1871

Fairohild June 1, 1871

Lathrop Sept. 6, 1871

Emerson Sept. 18, 1871

*Kilbreth Nov. 21, 1871

Shattuok June 6, 1872

CuRTiN July 17, 1872

Baxter July 18, 1872

CoMTE (Aug. 15, 1872

^''''^'' (Jan. 15, 1898

♦Grbenhalgb Oct. 1, 1872

Warren, J. C May 27, 1873

*Knapp July 2, 1873

Brown, J. M Oct. 30, 1873

( Nov. 26, 1873
( Sept. 23, 1902

136

THE CLASS OF 1863.

*HuN April 29, 1874

*Jenk8, W. F. . . . June 15, 1874

I>RBW Aug. 24, 1874

Mason Sept. 30, 1874

*Walbs Oct. 14, 1874

FuRNESs Mar. 29, 1875

HiGOINSON, F. L / ^®^- ^^» ^^^^

' ' I April 11, 1898

Vkrplanck Feb. 24, 1876

Jackson June 7, 1876

Hall .... i^^^® ®> 1^76

( Sept 21, 1882

Lombard, J June 7, 1877

Lawrenob June 12, 1877

♦Hassam Feb. 14, 1878

Green, A. W July 3, 1879

*Weld Aug. 16, 1880

Jenks, H. F Mar. 1, 1881

Cobb jan. 18, 1883

♦Lincoln Dec. 17, 1883

♦HowLAND April 30, 1885

Stetson Sept. 3, 1887

FiBLD Oct. 25, 1887

^PLBTON Nov. 16, 1887

Hammond . Sept. 24, 1890

P»»RY Nov. 10, 1891

Lombard, J. S. AprU 20, 1864

^owe Aug. 6, 1864

^^^ Nov. 19, 1864

Bdlowa ... [ J^°® 26, 1866

1 Nov. 21, 1877
^Fearing July 9, I866

Allen (April 24, 1867

(June 4, 1884

^o**»^ Oct. 28, 1867

*-^^«^ Nov. 24, 1867

Eichardton Nov. 28, 1867

'^^^^^^ Feb. 25, 1868

*^y«» • Feb. 23, 1869

BIRTHS.

137

Ward .
*Eu$tis .
*Dinsmoor

Total.

Oct. 16, 1869
, May 3, 1870

Sept. 9, 1874
14

101

Amory, C. W.

Amory, R.

Ayres

Baxter .
BoiT . .

BOWDITCH .

Brown, J. M.

BIRTHS.

William Sept. 19, 1869

Clara Gardner Jan. 3, 1872

George Gardner June 22, 1874

Dorothy July 17, 1878

Alice May 8, 1865

Robert Oct 23, 1885

Mary Copley July 3, 1888

Katharine Leighton .... Oct. 21, 1891

Margery Sullivan Oct. 23, 1897

Mary Louise July 5, 1869

Winifred July 21, 187i

♦Charles Marshall Oct. 7, 1872

Marjorie Aug. 18, 1874

*Loraine Aug. 13, 1876

MUdred ........ May 12, 1879

*George Lewis May 16, 1873

Gregory Paul Mar. 3, 1876

♦Edward Darley ' . May 13, 1865

♦John Gushing Oct. 1, 1866

Florence Dumaresq .... May 6, 1868

Jane Hubbard Jan. 17, 1870

Mary Louisa June 5, 1874

Julia Overing Nov. 15, 1877

Julian McCarty Jan. 21, 1900

Edward April 12, 1902

Cornelia June 12, 1867

Lucy Rockwell Aug. 24, 1868

Katharine Putnam .... April 13, 1870

•Edith April 29, 1872

IngersoU May 31, 1875

. Murray Oct. 11, 1876

Philip Lamson Jan. 31, 1878

138

Brown, M.

Cobb .

COMTB

Cromwell

Daxiell

Drew

♦Evans

♦FiSKE

THE CLASS OF 1863.

Alice Munroe May 11, 1879

Robert CorneU Juue 7, 1880

Arthur Perry Oct. 11, 1883

Margaret Deo. 15, 1887

Susan KUaubeth July 19, 1867

Frederick Melvin Nov. 21, 1868

Evelyn Brockway Dec. 7, 1870

♦Adelaide Bradford Oct. 20, 1873

Percy Low May 23, 1885

Mary Ethel Aug. 29, 1887

Pauline Julia May 31, 1873

George Augustus Feb. 8, 1877

Lawrence Henry Aug. 17, 1879

♦Marie Christine Dec. 22, 1880

♦Louis Joseph May 12, 1883

Edmund Jules Capel .... Sept. 18, 1885

Helen La Faille Sept. 15, 1900

Marie La FaiUe Feb. 19, 1902

Mary Rebecca Oct. 14, 1868

Seymour Legrand April 24, 1871

*Ellis Bowman Sept. 8, 1875

Gladys Louise Husted ) ^.^ ^o iqq/*

T. .1 Tr 1 ' TT i. J f • Nov. 28, 1886
Dorothea Katharine Husted )

♦Moses Grant April 19, 1865

Emily Anna Nov. 16, 1873

Lucy Catherine Dec. 1.8, 1875

♦Robert Jan. 13, 1877

Elizabeth Porter April 20, 1884

Charles Davis Sept. 13, 1875

Dora May Aug. 22, 1877

Elsa Caroline Mar. 11, 1881

Luoy Bartlett Mar. 22, 1884 .

Kathleen June 24, 1886

Lionel Edward Jan. 27, 1890

Maude May Aug. 9, 1868

Grace Ermina April 19, 1870

Kenneth Edward Jan. 28, 1875

Maud July 21, 1865

Harold Brooks May 13, 1867

Clarence Stoughton .... May 10, 1869

BIRTHS.

139

♦Frothingham, B.

♦Frothingham, W.
♦fullerton . .

FURNBSS . . .
GiLLBT . . .

Goodwin . .
Green, A. W. .

*Grebnhalge

*Grbenough . .

Grew

♦Ralph Browning . ^. . . . Nov. 16, 1870

Ethel July 22, 1872

Herbert Huxley Aug. 20, 1877

T. Elizabeth White Feb. 21, 1869

♦Thompson Goddard .... Oct. 17, 1871

John Whipple June 8, 1878

♦Philip Hart Feb. 22, 1881

♦Maria Louisa Dec. 10, 1866

Samuel Aug. 7, 1868

. ♦Arthur Warren Sept. 8, 1868

♦Walter Morse May 18, 1871

. Anna Earle May 17, 1876

Alexander Ramsey Oct. 18, 1877

♦Charles Eliot Oct. 21, 1879

Laura Mar. 31, 1882

. ♦Mary Ann Sept 9, 1867

Fannie Nov. 5, 1871

• Louis Bliss - Dec. 23, 1880

. *Mary Feb. 18, 1868

Sarah Storer Aug. 1, 1870

Eleanor Greenwood .... June 24, 1877

Robert Elliot Oct. 27, 1878

. Jane May 3, 1880

Mary July 9, 1881

♦Arthur Williamson .... Dec. 6, 1882

Esther Margaret April 16, 1885

♦Charles Francis Dec. 12, 1886

Elizabeth Lawrence .... May 6, 1888

John Russell June 10, 1890

Josephine Aug. 5, 1892

. *Nesmith Aug. 28, 1873

Frederick Brandlesome . . . July 21, 1876

Harriet Nesmith Dec. 10, 1878

Richard Spalding July 31, 1883

. Alice Mar. 24, 1872

William July 15, 1874

Marion Mansfield Oct. 17, 1877

Edith Sept. 12, 1881

Carroll Jan. 30, 1883

. ♦Robert Sturgis Sept. 1, 1871

140

THE CLASS OF 1863.

Hall

Hammond
Harris

♦Hassam . . .

HlGGINSON, F. L.

HiGGINSON, S. S.
HORTON . . .

*H0WLAND . .
HUTCHINS . .

Jackson

Jenks, H. F.

Eandolph Clark Sept. 21, 1873

Henry Sturgis Nov. 1, 1875

Joseph Clark May 27, 1880

Eleanor Jackson Sept U, 1882

John De Camp Sept. 10, 1877

Dean Dec. 14, 1883

Walter Edward July 4, 1892

Robert Van Kleeck .... June 23, 1868

Margaret Oct. 23, 1870

•William Thaddeus Dec. 25, 1872

Emma . Mar. 8, 1876

•Edith Holbrook July 7, 1878

May Robinson May 3, 1880

Thomas Robinson 1 « iqoa

*Ellen Van Kleeck} ' ' ' ' ^^^^^ ^' ^^^^

Eleanor Mar. 20, 1879

Francis Lee Nov. 29, 1878

Mary Cabot •. . Dec. 3, 1879

Juliet Mar. 6, 1881

Barbara Mar. 28, 1884

Corina Shattuck Sept. 19, 1899

Eleanor Lee Nov. 22, 1901

♦Gordon Storrow June 16, 1889

♦David Stone Aug. 16, 1868

Marion Nov. 26, 1869

Frances Bickford Oct. 22, 1887

, *Willie Fuller Dec. 6, 1869

Alexander Jan. 4, 1871

Lucy CamiUa June 16, 1873

♦Hiram Aug. 26, 1875

Amy Dec. 11, 1876

De Witt Aug. 28, 1880

Charles Mar. 10, 1877

Robert Appleton Nov. 24, 1878

Susan July 17, 1881

George Schiinemann .... Mar. 10, 1884

Frances Appleton May 31, 1887

Henry Angier Nov. 17, 1882

Charles Fitch Feb. 12, 1884

Frederic Angier Dec. 3, 1886

•n

BIRTHS.

141

•Jbnks, W. F.

*JONBS, G. S.

Kidder

♦KiLBRBTH

*Langdon .
Lawrence
♦Lincoln

*LlNDER

Lombard, J.

♦Mardbn

Marsh •

Marston

Mason •
Morse .

Nichols
Palmer .

Robert Darrali Mar. 1, 1875

Horace Howard June 6, 1878

Emma Clarence Sept. 23, 1867

•Francis Gilmore Dec. 9, 1869

♦George Emmerson Dec. 16, 1872

EUa May May 16, 1878

Chester Nye May 6, 1881

♦Edward Hartwell July 17, 1867

James Hathaway Sept. 25, 1869

Mary Grace Jan. 2, 1878

James Truesdell June 23, 1873

Helen Haven Nov. 5, 1870

Francis Eustis Aug. 3, 1872

William Richards July 3, 1878

♦Susan Dana Aug. 20, 1879

Serafina Sept. 2, 1884

WiUiam Sept. 18, 1870

Emily Rathbun July 21, 1878

Ethel Ayres Mar. 2, 1880

♦Jessica Sept. 12, 1881

Edith April 18, 1884

Louise Ayres Oct. 15, 1886

♦Harold Feb. 15, 1891

Francis Skiddy June 12, 1867

Marian Isabel Aug. 11, 1870

Lillie Butman AprU 18, 1872

Eleanor Gay Mar. 9, 1876

♦Frank Walter Nov. 7, 1873

Edward Feb. 9, 1877

♦Charles Edwin Dec. 17, 1866

Mabel Louise Oct. 1, 1874

Marion Steedman July 17, 1875

Rose July 4, 1871

James Herbert July 8, 1875

William Gibbons Dec. 14, 1877

♦William Dec. 6, 1864

♦George Tolman Jan. 10, 1867

Clifford Oct. 21, 1873

Philip July 25, 1875

Elizabeth Cummings .... Nov. 7, 1870

142

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1

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Peargb

Perry .

PiLLSBURY

♦Post . .

Shattuck .
Sheldon
Shrevb . ,

Smith . .

Stetson
♦Taber .

TOMLINSON

THE CLASS OF 1863.

Anna Mather Dec. 26, 1872

William Henry Aug. 20, 1876

Bertha Nov. 21, 1879

*Greorge Kennedy April 1, 1883

Daniel Appleton Deo. 27, 1884

Marjorie )

Alice > July 11, 1887

McCloud June 25, 1869

Eliza Stockwell Sept. 29, 1870

♦James Lewis Dec. 17, 1871

Catherine July 7, 1874

Sallie Oct. 4, 1875

James Agassiz Nov. 16, 1892

William Forrest Dec. 17, 1867

ArthurwLow Nov. 30, 1869

♦George Stephen Feb. 18, 1871

Bertha Marion June 18, 1875

Charles Stephen Feb. 3, 1887

Lina Beatrice Nov. 11,1866

Waldron Kintzing July 7, 1868

Regis Henri Jan. 28, 1870

Corina Anna Mar. 18, 1873

Eleanor Cecilia Amalia . . . Nov. 19, 1875

♦Alice Sept. 17, 1869

Wilmon Henry April 4, 1875

Genevieve Aug. 31, 1868

Benjamin Daland Mar. 10, 1871

Mary Daland Sept. 27, 1873

Rosalba Peale June 14, 1871

George Lawrence Dec. 2, 1873

Clement Lawrence April 14, 1875

Edgar Lawrence May 6, 1882

Meriam Nov. 16, 1888

Philip Gushing Sept. 22, 1890

♦Henry June 20, 1867

Gertrude Swift July 4, 1868

Anna Clementine June 13, 1872

Edith Eliza Jan. 7, 1875

Adelia Grover May 6, 1877

James Ellis ....... July 15, 1880

>.S

BIRTHS.

143

*T0WNSEND .

TUOK

Verplanck

Warren, H. W.

Warren, J. C.

♦Weld . . .
Wheeler, E. S.

White

Allen

Allyn

Bellows

Kobert Elmer Feb. 7, 1868

♦Frederic Edward Aug. 15, 1869

Lilian Henrietta June 17, 1873

Shirley Richardson Aug. 5, 1874

Henry Webster May 5, 1877

Rosamond Feb. 27, 1879

Gulian Crommelin Dec. 9, 1876

Judith Crommelin April 14, 1878

Mary Brinckerhoff Sept. 28, 1881

William Samuel Mar. 20, 1884

Robert Sinclair Aug. 15, 1885

Mary Winslow July 25, 1875

Helen Farrar ...... Aug. 21, 1886

John Sept. 6, 1874

Joseph Mar. 16, 1876

Louis Dwight Harvell . . . April 18, 1882

*Townsend Sept. 24, 1867

Elisabeth Townsend .... July 27, 1873

Frank Storer Dec. 24, 1876

Marion June 8, 1880

Reginald Tremaine .... June 28, 1883

Frances Hillard Aug. 10, 1869

Alexander Moss Oct. 30, 1870

Harold Tredway Oct. 10, 1875

*Alfred Hillard Oct. 3, 1876

Margaret Low Mar. 2, 1883

258

Josephine Francis Feb. 1, 1868

Rebecca Gorham Oct. 12, 1869

Louisa Ripley Nov. 21, 1871

Hildegarde July 1, 1885

Frederick. Lewis July 5, 1890

Alice Page Mar. 27, 1873

Rufus Bradford June 27, 1874

Philip Morton Aug. 24, 1878

Dorothea June 2, 1880

Samuel Bradford Sept. 20, 1884

*Mary Grahme ) ^ ^q 10^7

*Annie Morrill ) " '

144

THE CLASS OF 1863.

•make .
*Din8moor

*Euitis .

Going

Howe

Live . .
jRichardson

Strong
Ward

Mary Rowland Sept. 18, 1878

*a daughter 1868

William PaiTy Nov. 29, 1875

♦Julia Fiske Nov. 20, 1878

Ellen Aug. 5, 1871

Laura May 30, 1873

Cartwright Mar. 9, 1875

Allan Chotard Dec. 23, 1876

Catherine Jan. 2, 1879

Herbert Lee Nov. 24, 1880

Richard Sept. 8, 1882

Laurance Aug. 28^ 1884

Maud ......... Aug. 26, 1887

Mabel Dec. 21, 1868

Gertrude Jan. 2, 1870

John Kendall Oct. 29, 1871

Mary Helen Aug. 15, 1865

George Alpha Aug. 6, 1867

Katerine Lay Oct. 10, 1868

♦Frances Sylvia July 8, 1871

Franklin Theodore July 17, 1873

Sarah Willard Sept. 30, 1874

♦Caleb William Aug. 12, 1876

♦John Cowdin Aug. 14, 1879

Marie Agnes Oct. 2, 1880

♦Eobert Cowdin Mar. 17, 1882

Alvah Maximilian Nov. 2, 1866

Maurice Ambrose Sept. 13, 1874

♦Catherine Caroline .... Nov. 29, 1868

James Scudday ...... Jan. 10, 1871

Mary June 13, 1872

Marguerite Aubert Dec. 3, 1873

Henry Leverich Mar. 21, 1875

Jane Priestley Nov. 23, 1877

RosinaBein Jan. 2, 1880

Catherine Caroline Jan. 2, 1882

Julia Hayden Nov. 19, 1884

Louise Rightor May 27, 1886

Frederick Jan. 16, 1869

♦Edmund Oct. 20, 1870

BIRTHS.

145

Henrietta Ward April 23, 1872

Anne Williston Dec. 26, 1874

Susan Elliot April 10, 1877

Frances King Nov. 16, 1880

56
Total 314

Amory, C. W.
Amort, E.

Atres . . •
bowditch . .

Brown, M.
Cromwell .

Drew . .

FlSEE . .

Grbenough . .
Harris . . .

HiGGINSON, F. L.

GEANDCHILDREN.

T. Jefferson Coolidge, 3d . . . Sept.

Amory Coolidge Mar.

Wm. Appleton Coolidge . . . Oct.

Mary Thomdike Oct.

Alice Thomdike Mar.

Augustus Thomdike Mar.

Charles Thomdike Mar.

Robert Amory Thomdike . . . Dec.

Marshall Ayres Best Nov.

Winifred Louise Hope . . .
Franklin Greene Balch, Jr. "^

Charles Bowditch Balch | * " ^^^

Lucy Bowditch Balch .... Jan.

Henry Gordon Balch .... Aug.

Melvin E. Lane Sept.

Frederic Cromwell Sept.

Seymour Cromwell Nov.

Esther Babbitt Oct.

Margaret Gracie Fiske .... Mar.

Barbara Fiske Sept.

Cuvier Grover Flint April

John Fiske . Sept.

Susan Willard Flint May

17,
2a
22,
17:
6
13
13,
19,
27.

Dorothy Brooks Fiske . . .
Edward Mitchell Townsend, 3d
Greenough Townsend . . .
Eobert Van Kleeck Harris, 2d
Laurence Van Doven Harris .
William Lamson Griffin, 2d. .

Philip Mason Sears Dec.

David Sears Dec.

June 13.
3,

12;

25,

10,

20,

17,
25

19:

13,

10,
29
23,

Sept.

Feb.

Mar.

July

Dec.

Nov.

1893
1895
1901
1893
1895
1896
1898
1900
1901
1902

1896

1898
1891
1902
1900
1902
1901
1896
1897
1900
1900
1902
1902
1893
1895
1895
1898
1902
1898
1901

146

THE CLASS OF 1803.

HUTOHINB
ElDDBB •

Lombard
Mabsh .
Palmbb

Pbabce
Shattuok

Shrevb
tomlinson

TUOK . .

White . .

AlUn

Howe

Strong . . .

Anne Ware Barker . • .

Lesta Ford

Alice L. Best ....

Francis Marsh, 2d . . .

Emma Lasell Quackenbush

Violet Wilkinson Palmer

John H. Slavens, Jr. . .
Eleanor Whitney • . .
Corina Shattuck Higginson
Eleanor Lee Higginson
Edward Shreve Peirson .
Richard Gorham Badger, Jr.
Carlton Webster Tuck .
Alexander White Mofiat .
Donald Moffat ....
George Barclay Moffat, Jr.
Frances White Moffat . .

Katharine Clark . . . . ,
Benjamin Preston Clark, Jr.
Allen Williams Clark . . .
Francis Eichmond Clark . .
Elise Francis Howe . . .
Theodore Christian Howe
Franklin Theodore Howe, 3d
Chester Bradford Strong . ,

Dec.

1901

June 3,

1902

Mar.

28,

1902

Jan.

16,

1903

Oct.

18,

1898

Aug.

20,

1902

Sept.

27,

1900

Sept.

1899

Sept

19,

1899

Nov.

22,

1901

June 11,

1899

June 26,

1901

April

1899

June 26,

1891

July

18,

1894

May

16,

1897

Nov.
$

21,

1899

Feb.

10,

1891

Feb.

28,

1893

Feb.

18,

1896

Nov.

27,

1899

Mar.

20,

1900

DEATHS.

BoYNTON Nov. 30, 1864

Crank Nov. 30, 1864

Stevens, E. L. April 18, 1865

Hubbard May 23, 1865

Ethbridob Nov. 5, 1865

Tabbb Oct. 5, 1868

Hbaton Sept 9, 1869

LiNDBR Jan. 18, 1872

Webb April 15, 1872

DEATHS. 147

Post July 5, 1872

Brooks Sept. 15, 1874

I>Avi8 Oct. 10, 1874

FuLLERTON Nov. 13, 1877

Marvinb Nov. 26, 1878

Hun Mar. 14, 1880

Jbnks, W. F Oct. 31, 1881

I-UNT April 7, 1887

MoRiARTT Mar. 6, 1888

LowNa Oct. 30, 1888

Whbblbr, M. D Nov. 1, 1889

Langdon Feb. 4, 1890

TOWNSEND July 14, 1891

Evans Nov. 16, 1891

Mardbn Jan. 31, 1893

Rowland AprU 1, 1894

Frothingham, W. Feb. 27, 1895

WiNTHROP Sept. 18, 1895

Grbenhalob Mar. 5, 1896

KiLBRBTH June 23, 1897

Hasbltinb July 14, 1898

Knapp : Dec. 27, 1898

Hates April 14, 1899

French May 2, 1900

Dabnby Sept. 3, 1900

Clarke Jan. 16, 1901

FlSKE July 4, 1901

Stackpolb Aug. 10, 1901

Wales Aug. 31, 1901

Weld Nov. 8, 1901

Frothingham, B. T April 30, 1902

Grbbnough July 8, 1902

Lincoln Dec. 11, 1902

Jones, G. S Mar. 14, 1903

Hassam Apr. 22, 1903

bewail Sept. 13, 1860

Turner 1861

J^nn May 22, 1862

148

THE CLASS OF 1863.

Stevens, G. P. Aug. 12, 1862

Gould, S.S. Sept. 17, 1862

Brawn, K F. Mar. 3, 1863

Van Bohkelen June 22, 1863

Barker Sept. 18, 1863

Boyd June 30, 1864

Woihhum Oct. 22, 1866

Huidekoper Oct. 21, 1868

BkJce Nov. 15, 1872

Ryan July 15, 1886

Hasleti Jan. 4, 1887

GaM,A.F. Oct. 6, 1890

EutUe Dec. 2, 1900

Fearing April 4, 1901

JHnsmoor April 29, 1901

Barnard April 1, 1903

Total

Amort, C. W.
Baxter . .
bowditch .
Brown, J. M.
Brown, M. .
Cromwell .
Drew . .

♦FlSKB . . .

Frothinqham,
Goodwin . .
Grbenhalob
♦Grehnough .

B. T,

Grew

Harris . . .
Higginson, F. L.
hutohins . .

SONS IN COLLEGE.

William Harvard, 1891

Gregory Paul " 1896

IngersoU " 1897

Philip Lamson " 1899

Frederick Melvin .... " 1889

Seymour Legrand .... " 1892

Charles Dana Davis ... " 1897

Herbert Huxley " 1896

John Whipple " 1899

Robert Eliot " 1901

Frederick Brandlesome . . " 1898

William " 1896

Carroll " 1904

Randolph Clark " 1895

Henry Sturgis " 1896

Joseph Clark " 1902

Robert Van Kleeck . . . Columbia, 1889

Francis Lee Harvard, 1900

Alexander " 1894

SONS IN COLLEGE.

149

Jackson . .

Jbnes, H. F.
*Jbnks, W. F.

KiDDEB . .
♦KiLBRBTH .

Lawrence .
*Mardbn
Morse . .

Nichols . .

PiLLSBURY .

♦Post . . .

Sheldon
Smith

TOMLINSON .
*T0WNSBND .

Warren, J. C.

Weld . . .
Wheeler, E.
White . .

Charles Harvard,

Robert Appleton .... "

George S "

Charles Fitch Bowdoin,

Robert Darrah Harvard,

James Hathaway .... "

James Truesdell "

William Richards .... "

Francis Skiddy "

James Herbert "

William Gibbous "

Clifford

Philip

William Forrest "

Arthur Low . .

Waldron Kintziug

Regis Henri . .

Wilmon Henry .

George Lawrence

Clement Lawrence

Edgar Lawrence .

James Ellis . .

Robert Elmer

John ....

Joseph ....

Louis Dwight Harvell . . . Bowdoin,

1898

1899

1905

1906

1897

. . . " 1892

. . . " 1894

. . . " 1901

. . " 1888

. . . " 1896

. . . " 1899

. . . " 1894

. . . " 1895

. . . " 1889

Lawrence Scientific, 1892

. . Harvard, 1890

1891

1895

1897

1905

1903

1889

1896

1897

1905

Reginald Tremaine . Lawrence Scientific, 1905

Alexander Moss Harvard, 1892

Harold Tredway " 1897

*Eustis ,

Uve ,

Allan Chotard
Alvah Maximilian
Maurice Ambrose

Tulane, 1896
Williams, 1891
1897
3

150

THE CLASS OF 1868.

Aybbs . .

Daniell

Drew

PiLLSBUBT
TOMLINSON

Bettowi

DAUGHTERS IN COLLEGE.

Winifred Smith, 1892, A.M. 1895

Marjorie Smith, 1895

, Emily Anna Radcliflfe, 1895

Elizabeth Porter Radcliffe, 1906

. Dora May Radcliflfe, 1899

'University of
lUinois, 1895
Radcliflfe, 1896,
A.M. 1898

Edith E Smith, 1899

7
Mary Howland Smith, 1901

_1^

Bertha Marion

CLASS MEETINGS.

A room in Holworthy Hall has always been open to the Class for
business and social meetings on Commencement, Alumni, and Commem-
oration Days.

Members present at

the anniversary in 1864

. 42

1865 .

, 47

1866 .

. 63

1867

. 29

1868

. 30

1869 .

. 38

1870

. 30

1871 .

. 34

1872

. 36

1873 .

. 29

1874

. 36

1875

. . 34

1876

. . 38

1877

. . 43

1878

. . 31

1879

. . 32

1880

. . 30

1881

. . 29

CLASS MEETINGS.

151

Members present at the anuiversary ia 1882

1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902

29
53
22
28
27
16
57
21

22
27
28
24
25
25
25
26
21
22
21

The tables od pages 168-171 give the attendance at each Commence-
ment.

The Eleventh Dinner, on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the
graduation of the Class, took place at the Parker House, Boston,
June 27, 1893. Greenhalge presided ; Bishop, chaplain; Morse,
odist ; Lincoln, chorister. Forty-three members were present.

The Ode on page 159, by Morse, was sung to the air of " John
Brown":

The following was read by Lincoln :

The Class of Sixty-three, may its tribe increase !
Awoke one night from thirty years of peace,
And saw, beneath the gaslight in the room,
At Parker's tavern, in his best saloon,
The Secretary writing in a Book of Gold.
Exceeding grace had made the Chaplain bold.

152 THE CLASS OF 1868.

And to his classmate said the reverend sage,

** What writest thou ? " The writer turned the page

And with a look of sweet content

That all who saw knew quickly what it meant,

To the Bishop thus ; —

" In this red-lettered book I have the data

Of those who 've wisest served their Alma Mater."

" And is our Class there P " quoth Thomas,

The Secretary thought, — " now for another boon

I '11 blow their trumpet till the crack of doom."

Then with an air of great delight

To all his classmates on this festive night,

He showed the names of those who loved their college best,

And lo ! 't was Sixty-three led all the rest.

The Bill of Fare was as follows :

Q. B.F.F. Q. S

ALVMNOS CONLEGI HARVARDIANI ORNATISSVMOS

IN8PEGTOBE8 H0N0BAND08 ATQYB BEYEBENDOS

CVM AMPLISSIMO IVRIS MEDICINAE SCIENTIAE DOCTORVM ORDINE

PROFESSORIBVS-QVE

VIROS INLVSTRISSVMOS

RERVMPVB • FOED • AERARII PRAEFECTVMi

IN CONG • RERVMPVB • FOED • REPRAESENTATOREM

CIVITATIS-QVE LOWELLENSIS SVMMVM MAGISTRATVMa

APVD AVLAM SINESIAM LEGATVM«

CIVITATIS NOV-EBOR • IVDICEM*

CIVITATIS BOSTONIAE ADVOCATOS

CHRISTOPH • COLVMBI HISTORIC VM 6

JOHANN • HARVARDIANI EXPLORATOREM «

POPVLI AMERICANI PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM7

VENEEANDOS ECCLESIARVM PASTOKES

FAVTORES CLASSIS PECVNIAE MVNIFICOS

OMNES SOD ALES FESTIVOS ATQVE REIVVENES

AD SOLLEMNIA CENATICA

A • D • V • KAL • QVINCT • A • CIO • 10 ■ CCC ■ v!/XXXXIII

APVD PARKEEIS CAVPONAM

CONCELEBRANDA

IFaIBOHILD. * GBUNHALaB. > GUBTIN. « KiLBBKTH. S FZSKI. • HaSSAK. ^ MOBI8OH.

The above references are appended now (1903) to aid those who have forgotten their Latin.

BA QVA PAB EST OBSEBVANTIA
INVITANT

mi' VIRI DISCIPVLORVM HARVARDIANORVM

ANNI CIO*IO-CCC-a/XIII

> Olau OoimiTTa.

TRICES -FEST- ANNIVER

CLASS SONG.

We are one in the joy and the sorrow ;

We are one in the loss and the gain, —
Not alone in the hope of to-morrow,

But in memories glad that remain.

Chorus : Again old joys are o'er us, —
Old voices fill our chorus ;
And ever through the years
We shall hear our parting cheers :

Hurrah, Sixty-three 1
Hurrah for our own Sixty-three !

'T is the parting of brother from brother.
Yet to-day shall but strengthen the bond ;

It shall stretch from one year and another, —
Only lost in the union beyond !

Make the voice of our gladness the clearer !

It must speak in our trouble and toil ;
Draw the ranks of our brotherhood nearer I

They may narrow, but must not recoil.

For our place has already been taken

By the lives whose glad labor is done ;
By their glory, which cannot be shaken,

We are pledged to their contest till won.

Fredebick Brooks.

ODE.

Praise the passion of the trumpet ; praise the wonder of renown ;
Sing the fiery-hearted beautiful whose brows we ran to crown,
When our battle-vexed immortals laid their shining weapons down,
As we were marching on.

Chorus : Glory, glory, hallelujah 1
Glory, glory, hallelujah !
Glory, glory, hallelujah !
As we were marching on.

For the ashes on the altars flows the fragrance of the wine ;
Yet there 's gladness in the vineyard, for the noon is on the vine.
And the harvesters are singing where the purple clusters shine,
As we go marching on.

Sing the sorrow time has ended ; sing the flow that will not cease,
From the golden horn of plenty spilling out its rich increase ;
Sing the merry boys and maidens blooming in our paths of peace,
As we go marching on.

Still, as brothers by the memories of all we dared to be, —
Ay, as brothers by the pain of loss, and joy of victory.
We are toiling down the terraced mountains, singing, to the sea.
As we go marching on.

— Morse.

But first of right to thee, Past, helong
The homage of our hearts, the tribute of our song !
At memory's call, — to meet our farewell gaze, —
Return, je scenes of bygone College days !

CLASS POEM.

■>

ESCVLENTA HOC ORDINE APPONENTVR
Little Neck Clams.

SOUPS.
Clear Green Tartle. Cream of Lettuce.

FISH.
Boiled Penobscot Salmon. Egg Sauce.

Fried Soft-Shell Crabs. Tartor.

Cucumbers. Tomatoes.

REMOVES.
Spring Lamb. Mint Sauce.
Fillet of Beef, Larded, d la Bemaise,
Roast Chicken. Giblet Sauce.

entr]6es.

Supreme of Roast Larded Sweetbreads.

Boucher of Shrimp, d la Heine.

Strawberry Fritters. Sauce Benedictine.

Roman Punch.

GAME.
Golden Plover. English Snipe.

Lettuce Salad. Julianne Potatoes.

SWEETS.
Parisienne Souffle. Chantilly Cream.

Charlotte Russe. Boubie Denis Glass.

Boquefort'and Brie Cheese.
Toasted Crackers. Salted Almonds, Olives.

DESSERT.
Strawberries. Bananas. Oranges.

Nuts and Raisins.

Ice Cream. Sherbet.

COFTEB.

160 THE CLASS OF 1868.

The Twelfth Dinner, on the Thirty-fifth Anniversary
of the graduation of the Class, took place at the Parker House,
Boston, June 28, 1898. Sheldon presided; Bishop, chaplain;
Morse, odist; Lincoln, chorister. Thirty-two members were
present

The following Ode, by Morse, was sung to the air of " Tramp,
Jiramp, tramp " :

In the winding vale of Time

With the golden thread of song
Shall we ever cease to tread the flowery ways

Where the endless echoes roll

To the measures sweet and long,
Which we lifted in the old and happy days f

Chorus : Near, far, rolling on undying,

Hear, brothers, hear the merry strain.

And the echoes in reply

That shall never wholly die,
Where our heroes with the cannon trod the plain.

Comrade from the hills of gold,

Comrade from the land of pine,
Comrade singing in the Silences beyond.

Here 's the welcome of the wine,

Here 's the hand that joined with thine
In the old, unfailing pledge to keep the bond.

Chorus : Near, far, rolling on undying,

Hear, comrades, hear the merry strain,

And the echoes in reply

That shall never wholly die,
Of a nation bringing blossoms for the slain.

Honor to the leal and lost !

Honor to the brave and true !
Honor to the sons who catch the undersong —

They who lift the starry light,

They who bear the stainless blue.
Beating down in thunder battlemented wrong 1

Chorus : Near, far, rolling on undying.

Hear, brothers, hear the merry strain,

And the echoes in reply

That shall never wholly die.
From our heroes on the rounding of the main.

CLASS BiEETINGS. 161 ^

The following communication from Tuck was read : '

June 27, 1898.
Dear Lincoln, — As I cannot be with you to-morrow night, — per-
haps the enclosed may be acceptable —
Yours sincerely,

Hbnbt Tuok.

TO THE CLASS OF 1863 — 36th CLASS SUPPER.

*• Time flies." — *• Things change and we change with them,"

But our loye for Harvard and our Class ne*er dies ;

As we grow older, love for those increase.

With failing vigor, eyes and ears less sharp.

Affection for old friends grows in the heart

Stronger and q^onger. So, come we here to-day.

Old fires to kindle and old bonds renew.

Fall five and thirty years ago, we stood upon the brink,

Eager to launch our boats upon the voyage of life,

And now, that voyage for some of us is o'er,

The score is finished and the record made.

Some we commend — not one let us condemn.

'T is not for all to conquer in the wage of life.

The few are victors, but the most must fail,

Fate and environment largely shape our end,

With these propitious, even fools may win.

With fate adverse, pure hearts, high aims

Are not enough to gain the laurel wreath

On earth, — perhaps sufficient for a heavenly crown —

Let us hope this, and still press bravely on.

Cheering our friends, helping our fellowmen.

That like Ben Adhem, we "lead all the rest."

H.T.

Two large salmon (twenty-one pounds and twenty-two pounds),
which had been killed by those expert fishermen, C. W. Amory
and J. C. Warren, were sent to the Dinner from the Eestigouche
Salmon Club, Matapedia, Quebec.

The Thirteenth Dinner took place at the Parker House,
Boston, June 25, 1901. Drew presided; Lawrence, chaplain;
Morse, odist; Daniell, chorister. Twenty-nine members were
present.

162 THE CLASS OF 1863.

The following Ode was read by Morse :

When the feasting had ended, and merriment ceased,
Then the bard took his cue from the king of the feast.
He sang of the wine-press, of Lyde, and glory,
The men of old Rome and the old Roman story.

So, brothers, to-night, with my cue from the king —
Rex bibendi — I take the old harp and I sing.
If the sweet bells be jangled, you '11 think the tune fine.
Because of the love in your hearts and in mine.

Call up the old boys. Let them all, as they come,
Keep step to the stir of the fife and the drum.
The little blue soldier caps — think how they shone !
Forty years to a day since we first put them on.

Forty years to a day since our sweetest by far

Swept over the hills in the red storm of war.

Half ashamed, we who stayed watched the gleam of the gun

In that summer of battles — Gkxl's own Sixty-one.

Half the world, had we known then the counsels of Qod,
Was in camp for the mom when the scourge and the rod
Should be flung on the stream and swept over the bars
At the word of the Builder who builds for the stars.

Call them back — those eight brothers who fell at the portal.
Whose faces we see not, whose names are immortal, —
Their date is in marble, their deed so sublime
We name them Qod's architects working in Time !

Call them back. Fill the cup. Let them stand as of old
With youth's purple aglow in the eye, with the gold
Agleam on their brows, and the gladness within !
Though apart as the stars, how it made us all kin —

Made us kin, as we shot the old ball down the green;
Made us kin, while the moon wove her mantle serene
With the boughs of the elms in the yard 'twixt the halls,
As we danced on the green and she danced on the walls.

O the splendors of Youth ! O the days, when each stole,
With the girl of his fancy, to try the Dutch roll.
On the ice in the gleam of the moon, when Fresh Pond
Was as sweet with bright eyes as the Starry Beyond.

Call them back ; and the masks which we wear in the mart
At the threshold of trade — tear them all from the heart : —
The stem features of Law, the far light in the eye
Divinity draws from long watching the sky.

■^

CLASS MEETINGS. 163

The doctor's sad smile as he sits by the bed.
While the pulse to his touch beats the March to the Dead —
Toss them all to the winds, those false features we dou,
As we drop the last tear at the gate and are gone !

We have hearts ; we have rights. As a morning in May,
Which rises in might and flings winter away,
Uncovers the blossoms and bids the birds sing —
As a morning in May, we will call back the spring.

Yet chastened in soul, we have seen the young go
To be angels above, who were angels below.
We have measured the way many times to the tomb
And laid our sweet hopes in that low-vaulted room;

Many times have come back to the clamor and strife —

To the onset, recoil, of the battle of life.

If we lay the mask by to be boys once again,

It is not to forget we have learned to be men.

Shall I read the Mock Parts of our old Sixty-three,
Taking up one by one the old masks which you see ?
Some are white. — How they shine in the azure of love.
As they go forth to star with the angels above !

We remember them all, in the mask or the crown,
Both the boys who went up and the boys who stayed down.
All are young. *T is the mask we designate " old.**
There is Lincoln, the Skipper, whose heart is true gold ;

He has long held the tiller and kept the ship trim.
For he loves the old crew, and the old crew love him.
Every year, as our captain, he makes up the log, —
That is, Lincoln the mask, not this handsome young dog.

There is Knapp with the same ubiquitous look

With which he brushed off his very last book.

There are Bailey and Owen, officially wise, —

Brown, Green, Dunn — all hues that have dropt from the skies.

Heaven knows how they wind through the cold and the dark.
Incandescent for long, till they flash in a spark.
There is White — that grand fellow — seven colors in one,
Who does his fine work like a wave from the sun.

Ben Frothingham — elegans rhetorum dux ;
Post, Linder, and Crane, Van Bokkelen, Brooks,
Gould, Stevens — dear Gorham ! — the sweetest of seven —
Who put on the white crown to star it in heaven.

164 THE CLASS OF 1868.

There is Bishop — no bishop who takes so much trouble,
With so single a heart, to make other hearts doable.
He wears the mask lightly — black cloth and white choker —
Too serious, maybe, for jack-pot and poker.

But a heart that breeds beauty and gladness and joy —

The face of a man, but the soul of a boy.

We are all on our knees to the possible girl

Who shall make up his crown with her heart for the pearl.

There is Sheldon, who masks in the law as a judge;
Of course, as the autocrat says — " It 's all fudge."
He 's a little dark fellow, with that in his soul
Makes a logical thought take the track of a mole.

He can spar with a phrase to the limit of law,

Till he gets his fist fixed for a whack at the jaw.

A multum in parvo, you see him compact

As the bolt which Jove handles when sinners are whacked.

Then our Smith — you would think from his gravity, Smith
Had peeled off the green and got down to pith.
Just get him behind a golf ball with a brassy.
The pith of the man in the Dean becomes *' sassy."

He is levity's self, a kind of young Jocus,

In the deft way he lifts the light ball through its locus;

But I, who as bard sing his praises in rhyme,

Must confess that he can't do the joke every time.

There 's our famous flood-spanner, bridge-builder, world-strider.

Who takes a broad stream like a long-legged spider, —

A vast anaconda, who swinges his flail.

And the river gods roar as they slide from the tail.

He threatens the Dutch in their pot-bellied town.
And the whole river rumbles from Dunderberg down.
Had he lived in the times of the goose and the gander —
Of Hero the goose, and the other, Leander,

Long since had the Hellespont sung of a wonder
Leander's to which had been small sparks to thimder.
He 'd have laid a bridge straight to the girl at her orisons,
And made her his bride — just imagine it — Morison's !

Then Bowditch, last fruit of the decimate system !
Because we had lost some good fellows, and missed 'em —
The Faculty, somehow, I think it was, smote 'em —
'T was thought the whole class ought to wear the same totem.

CLASS MEETINGS. 165

Like the team of the Sun when the boy took the wagon,
We meant to go straight, but we struck the old dragon.
" No team like that team should be run on the cobbles."
And the Faculty went for the class collywobbles.

Thus I take the masks up, giving each a sly touch.
With a hint to the boys that we might have been such.
But are not. We are only the fellows you see,
Just starting, but wiser than old Sixty-three.

There are some little changes that make us feel glum;

In nigh forty years there ought to be some.

The arsenal there, with the guns all new rammed

For the Old Cambridge Antis, has long since been damned.

We buried the football, whose death seemed a big skin.
But the ball, resurrected, became the new pig-skin, —
Only shined up a bit — 't was the Higginsons shined it ;
They are half in the family, so we don't mind it.

We know that the earth is our oyster to-day,
From Cuba to Guam, from Cebu to Cathay ;
It was we who discovered the thing on the sands, —
Ask the Mandarin there from the chin-chinny lands.

It was he who led Chang when he came with the queue ;
The conundrums he asked were all answered by Drew.
If Chang has his way with the heathen Chinee,
'T will be holiday soon for our own Sixty-three.

Say, Mandarin, fresh from the Orient old,

Will they give us the queue when they give us the gold ?

Rise, Curtin, arise ! Let the Manchu declare —

Is he under the paw of the Great Northern Bear ?

You uncovered the Pole, brought Pan Michael to light,
Ran Sienkievitch down through the vast polar night;
Then, skirting the coast to the isles of the Celt,
You caught the sweet ballads that make the heart melt.

For this linking of worlds, Nat Appleton tried,

But the Gulf was too deep, or the Isthmus too wide.

Then the note Brother Pratt caught — he does n't know which:

Art, music, the lingo of Ivanovitch,

The lilt of a song missed — he can't tell you why.
But it 's something we *ll know in the Sweet By-and-By !
Fiske knows — if he doesn't, who does ? — He has been as
Alert in the world as original sin has.

166 THE CLASS OF 1803.

On the coast of all knowledge what gems he has found I

But the marvel to man is, how he gets round.

Get round he does, in a way makes you smile,

But you can't fence him in while he keeps up that style.

Such beauty as pearls have in ti-esses of girls,
Such beauty do words make when Fiske strings the pearls —
Clear, lucent, and flashing, through sunless he found them.
And still as the shell which the sea built aroimd them.

Some Fiske of the future shall search by the sea —
A scion perhaps of our own Sixty-three,
When the Antis are dead, and the game up, perhaps,
With the Muscovite in on the last of his laps.

Some logical fellow, with erudite leaning —

Who shall take up the shell and thus muse on the meaning :

— " Those boys on the shore, with the knife and the shell.
And marks upon both of what Sherman called Hell —

'*Did they well, did they ill, in that Spanish trepan ?
Was it death to the oyster, or life to the man ?
Did they ill, did they well, when they went down the shoals
And packed off to Paradise thousands of souls 7

** Were our daddies all wrong, excepting the Antis ?
Were the Antis all ticketed — Tenth Bulge of Dante's ?
Who can tell ] The earth greens; the lovely hills bourgeon;
Was the Spanish trepan not the work of the surgeon

** Who saved from the burning, pre- Adamite embers
Our very imperfect and infantile members —
Gave body and shape and proportion and mind.
While he lopt off the simian pendant behind —

** That pendant an old tail, grasping, prehensile.

Long marked on God's page with the Author's blue pencil ?

— We walk on in blindness ; we seem in the van.

But there 's something behind us that shoves on the man.

** Small honor to us. Honor such as there is —
We write it as ours, but God knows it is His."

— Thus the Fiske of the future, whose words are like bells,
Shall walk on the shore and discourse of the shells.

But we of to-day, and the ** we " that are gone.
Whose dear faces we see with the glory put on —
Here we lay down all masks, get our hearts all in tune
For the music we marched by that sweet day in June.

CLASS MEETINGS. 167

Two large specimens of the " Salmo giganteus Restigouche, ex
dono C. W. Amory and F. L. Higginson, piscatores," were sent
from Canada.

Members of the Class present at the Class Dinner in

1866 .

. 59

1869 .

. 33

1872 .

. 38

1875 .

. 40

1878 .

. 35

1881 .

. 30

1883 .

. 60

1886 .

. 27

1888 .

. 69

1890 .

. 26

1893 .

. 43

1898 .

. 32

1901 .

. 29

168

THE CLASS OF 186a

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS

Amorj, R» , , *
A}rplet0ii * ^ . ,
Ayrfls * ... *
&i«loy . . , , ,

BtTley

Buter .....
Biibop . , . . .

BlAlr

Bolt

Bovi'4ltcli ....
Boyntori ....

BrookA

ft ronHf' Jh. M. > w .
BrowUf M. . , ,

Clarke

Cobb .....
Gomta .....
CrikDQ . . , . .
Cri>mw«B . ^ . .
Oroav .....
Giirtin .....
I>«lniey . , . * ,
DbdIdU .....
Bavit .....

Deimy . . , , .
Drew .....

K*)waf<<!e ^ . , .

EmeraoEi ....

KtliK^rldge . . . .

Evanj .....

Falrthlld ....

Fi^id . . . . .

FLske . . . , .

Fo«t«T . , . . ^

Free^mjui . . . .

French . . * < ,

FTutliiLigbanif B. T.

Frothingliam, W. .

FullKjrtoji . . . .

FiitTieaa . . . ,

GUktt . . . . .

Goodwin . . . .

C*r«*Hj A. W. . . .

areen, J. O. . . .

GreeabalK« . . .

GreaiiQugh . . .

Grew . . . . -

Hall ..... .

Qammnnd . . . .

Harris

Hftyoa . , , .
Ilaaton ....
HL^fiDBon> F, L.
HiF^iBFLDeoii, B. E, .
Morton ....
Howland . . ,
Hubbnrd . . .
Hun , . . . .
Hutcbiiu . , .
Jaek9<m . . .
JsnlCB, H. F. . .
Jenka, W. F. . .
Jonflx, O. S. . .
Sldder ....
Kilbnth . . .
Ktupp ....
IjAUfdon . . .
Lathmp . . .
LawTf!'nc« . . .
Llaeoln , • . ^
Lliider . . . ,
LoinbKrd^ J. r n

'66!'«9

'6a

'69 '70f7i -73

*75

*7*

*77

^78

■fll

BIOGRAPHIES.

169

PRESENT ON COMMENCEMENT DAYS.

'84 *85 *» '87 '88

'89

'9a

'97*

'99'

Total

Amory, 0. W.
Amory, R.
Appleton
Ayres . .
-^ [ley .

Baxter .
Biahop .
Blftir . .
Boit . .
Bowditoh
Boynton .
Brooks .
Brown, J. M.
Brown. M.
Clarke .
Cobb . .
Oomte .
Crane. .
Cromwell
CroM . .
Cnrtin .
Dabney .
Danieil .
DaTlB. .
Denny . .
Drew . .
Edwarda
Emerson
Etheridge
Erans
Fairchild
Field . .
make . .
Foster
Freeman
French .
Frothingham, B. T.
Frothingham, W,
FuUerton .
Fumess . .
OiUet. . .
Ooodwin. .
Green, A. W.
Green, J. O.
Greenhalge .
Greenough .
Grew . . .
Hall . . .
Hammond .
Harris . .
Haseltine .

Hayes
Heaton
Higginson, F. L.
Higginson, S. S.
Horton . .
Howland
Hubbard
Hun . . .
Hutchins .
Jackson . .
Jenks, H. F.
Jeuks, W. F.
Jones, G. S.
Kidder . .
KUbreth. .
Knapp . .
Langden . .
Lathrop . .
Lawrence
Lincoln . .
Under . .
Lombard, J.
Loring . .

6
10
16

13
19
32

3
17
2

2
26
87

6
14

1
6
9
3
27
2

30
8
3

2
4

15
2

23
8
9
3

11
4
3

22
2

170

THE CLASS OF 1863.

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS

Lunt . ,
MftTdad

If OTHh -

Uaadq ^
Mtiter .

Morjie *
If Ichob .

OVHU ^
BiiiEatr ,
Fftuco .
Feck. .
Perry
FiUsbaiy
F^n^rH ,
FcMt . .
Tntt .
Futnun
Rjuid .
Sh&ttuck
Blieldoa
Gbrevg .
fimJth .
Bt4ckpo]ft
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StflveuSf B,
T&bcr .
TomUnacm
TowEiBeDd
Tnck .
Vnri>Umck
Wales H
Wttrrent H^
WojTeu, J
W«t*ri *
Webb .
Weld .
WhPf!(leT, K
Wbeoier, M,
WliJt* .
Wlntbrop

AHm .
Ail^ .
X/ww .
Barker ,

^CJfffi .

Broji-Tij IT,

Dunn H,
Eu^Ux .

6ow]^ .
€hul}t,A.F.
Q^idd, 8. S.
ffeafelt . ,
Nffw , »
Ifuidekaptr
Jonfg, W. /I

X^TT. . .

Lnmhiifd^ J.

Rffmi . ,
Semdl . .

Sirong . ,
Turnf^ . .
Van B&kkel0n
Ward , .
W&thbiirti

TariA .

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34 38

'77

'78 '75

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BIOGRAPHIES.

171

PRESENT ON COMMENCEMENT DAYS.

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MutOi ,

Marston .

Marviue ^
Maaoh

MIxtfii- .
Mortarty

Hdriaou .
Morae

KlchoU .

Owen » .

IHUdbt ,

Ftiftrce .

Peck . .

Peny , »

Plngree ,

B*»tt , ♦

Putnun ,
Band . ,
BhKttuck
Bbeldoa ,

Bmlth
Btockpolo
BtetsoD
BtflvenflT E.
Taber . .

TowQwud
Tuck . .
YerpUuck
WmleB
WRrren, H. W,
Wftrreo^ J, C.
Wjiters .
Webb . .
Weld . .
Wheeler, £.
Wheeler, K,
White .
Winthrop

Allm . .
AUpti. .
Atmu , .
Barker ,
Barnard

Boyd
Browut H. K

fhtnn . .

Fearinp ,
Going
Gould ^ A, F.
fhuitf, S. S.
MaaUn .
Hewi . .
Huidtkotier
Joma, IV. F,

Lombard, J,
Jtirhfird^n

Strong

TuTHtr

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Ward .

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24
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£4
11
2
2
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4

£1

172 THE CLASS OF 1863.

THE CLASS FUND.

The Class Fund at Lincolu's death was invested as follows :
$1,000, Oregon Eailway and Navigation Co. 4s ; $1,000, Xansas
City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad 6s ; $1,000, Rio Grande
Western Railway ; $500, Union Pacific Railroad 4s, and there was a
balance of $415.67 in cash.

This was transferred by the Executrix of his estate to the Class
Committee, on the 30th of April, 1903.

The expenses of the Class Dinners and of Commencement Days
are paid from the Fund, and there are no assessments. -

The Dinner this year, and the expenses of the Class Report,
will be paid from the Fund. This will more than exhaust the
cash balance, and will render an encroachment on the securities
necessary, but will leave about $3,000 at par value.

ADDRESSES.

Notice of any change in address should he sent at once to the Class Secretary, especially
as the College authorities rely upon the Class Secretaries for the addresses of the Alumni

Amort, C. W., Ames Building, Boston, Massachusetts.

Amort, Dr. Robert, 279 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Appleton, Nathan, 66 Madison Avenue, New York, New York.

Atres, Marshall, 12 Broadway, New York, New York.

Baqlbt, Dr. C. H., 1132 15th Street, Denver, Colorado.

Bailbt, a. J., 730 Tremont Building, Tremont Street, Boston, Massa-
chusetts.

Baxter, George L., 27 Warren Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts.

Bishop, Rev. T. W., Auhumdale, Massachusetts.

Blair, Albert, 615 Missouri Trust Building, St. Louis, Missouri.

Borr, E. D., Jr., care Hottinguer et Cie, Paris, France, or care R. A. Boit,
40 Kilby Street, Boston.

BowDiTOH, C. P., 20 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Brown, John M., 254 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Brown, Mblvin, 166 Montague Street, or 215 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York.

Cobb, Frederick, 213 Montagtie Street, Brooklyn, New York.

CoMTB, AuGUSTE, 534^ California Street, San Francisco, California.

Cromwell, Frederic, 32 Nassau Street, New York, New York.

Cross, Dr. T. M. B., 352 West 28th Street, New York, New York.

CuRTiN, Jeremiah, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of
Columhia.

Daniell, M. G., 11 Schuyler Street, Roxhury, Massachusetts.

Dennt, Clarence H., 23 Central Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Drew, Edward B., Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
Service, Foochow, China.

Edwards, H. J., 47 Court Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Emerson, Charles, Concord, Massachusetts.

174 THE CLASS OF 1863.

Fairohild, Charles S., 10 West 8th Street, New York, New York.

Field, W. Gibson, Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, P. 0. Box 16.

Foster, Charles M., Topeka, Kansas.

Freeman, John W., care Mrs. Walter Tillman, Troy, New York,

FuRNEss, Charles Eliot, care Dawes E. Furness, 42 Chauncy Street,
Boston.

GiLLET, J. A., 242 East 76th Street, New York, New York.

Goodwin, Frank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Green, A. W., Home Insurance Building, Chicago, Illinois.

Green, Dr. J. Ornb, 182 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Grew, Edward S., 185 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hall, Col. J. D., Asst. Surgeon Gen. U. S. A., Manila, Philippine
Islands.

Hammond, Rev. W. W., Morris Plains, New Jersey.

Harris, Rev. Thomas R., Scarborough, New York.

HiooiNSON, F. L., 274 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Higginson, S. S., Soldiers' Home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

HoRTON, J. M., 211 West lOlst Street, New York, New York.

HuTGHiNS, E. A., 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Jackson, C. C, 15 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Jenks, Rev. Henry F., Canton, Massachusetts. (P. 0. Canton Comer.)

Kidder, E. H., 37 East 77th Street, New York, New York.

Lathrop, Dr. William H., Lowell, Massachusetts.

Lawrence, Rev. Arthur, Stockbridgo, Massachusetts.

Lombard, Josiah, 12 Broadway, New York, New York.

Marsh, Francis, 178 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Marston, Elias H., Phillips School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mason, Dr. A. L., 265 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

MixTER, George, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

MoRisoN, George S., 49 Wall Street, New York, New York.

Morse, J. H., 1 West 46th Street, New York, New York.

Nichols, William, 35 Norwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York.

Owen, Rosooe P., 731 Tremont Building, Tremont Street, Boston, Massa-
chusetts.

Palmer, William H., 55 Liberty Street, New York, New York.

PBA.RCE, James L., 14 East 32d Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

Peck, Thomas B., Walpole, New Hampshire.

Perry, Dr. James L., 138 West 116th Street, New York, New York.

Pillsbury, W. L., Urbana, Illinois.

PiNGREB, David, Salem, Massachusetts.

ADDRESSES. 175

Pratt, Herbbbt J., care Baring Bros, and Co., Lim., London, England.
Putnam, William H., Lunenburg, Massachusetts, or 1339 Corcoran,

Washington, District of Columbia.
Hand, John H., Country Club, West Chester, New York, New York.
Shattuce, Dr. Gborgb B., 183 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sheldon, Henbt M., 538 Massachusetts Avenue, or Court House, Court

Square, Boston, Massachusetts.
Shreyb, Dr. 0. B., Salem, Massachusetts.
Smith, Clement L., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stetson, E. G., 508 California Street, San Francisco, California.
ToMLiNSON, George S., 283 Heath Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Tuck, Dr. Henry, 39 East 53d or 346 Broadway, New York, New York.
Verplanok, R. N., 160 William Street, Orange, New Jersey.
Warren, H. W., 77 Rockview Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Warren, Dr. J. Collins, 58 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Waters, Clifford C, Los Angeles, California.
Wheeler, Edmund S., 857 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
White, William Aug., 130 Water Street, New York, New York.

Alien, Rev, Frederick B,y 132 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

AUt/Hj John, 172 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Almtfy John P., 26 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Bellows, J, G., Walpole, New Hampshire.

Goingy H. B., 15 Fairbanks Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bowe, Franklin 7'., care Evening Star, Washington, District of

Columbia.
Jones^ William F,, Orchard Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Leve, A. M., West Townsend, Massachusetts.
Lombard, Dr. J, S., care Baring Bros, and Co., Lim., London,

England.
Bichardso7iy W. P., 1438 Louisiana Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Strong, J. L. G., 130 Fulton Street, New York, New York.
Ward Edmund A,, University Club, 1 West 54th Street, New York, .

New York.

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