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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
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 WILLIAMS COLLEGE, 
 
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 From its Foundation to the Present Time. 
 
 1833-1881. 
 
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PREFATORY, 
 
 The Record here presented is intended primarily as 
 a Society reference-book. Hence it is prepared with a 
 freedom and a minuteness which would, perhaps, be out 
 of place in a work intended for the general reader merely, 
 nothing of any apparent biographical value or interest 
 having been sacrificed in its construction. 
 
 While the material for these sketches, obtained in 
 most cases from original sources, has often been used 
 very much as it came to hand, it has frequently been 
 re-shaped, and sometimes supplemented by additional 
 particulars, or editorial inferences and comments, so that 
 those who furnished the data can hardly be considered 
 responsible for the notices as they now appear. In cer- 
 tain instances the sketches have intentionally been left 
 incomplete, or entirely omitted. Sometimes this has been 
 done by request of the subjects themselves, who were 
 unwilling to sacrifice the privacy of their lives to a pur- 
 pose of this kind ; and in a few — a very few — cases it has 
 been thought well to drop the veil of silence, which in 
 them is also the mantle of charity, over faults and failures 
 that, even at their worst, may have had in them something 
 of the genial and the generous. 
 
 The arrangement of names corresponds with that 
 adopted in the general catalogue, and with the order of 
 initiation. The notes of college appointments are incom- 
 plete, no perfect record having been found to exist ; while 
 the recipients themselves have been far too modest to 
 
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 report their honors. Upon their statements the showing 
 would have been scanty indeed. 
 
 In regard to these appointments it may be noted that 
 until 1847 the Commencement honors were four in num- 
 ber, the Valedictory, Philosophical, Salutatory, and First 
 English Orations, usually, though not invariably , given as 
 thus enumerated, with respect to average standing in 
 scholarship. From 1847 to 1869 the honors were stated 
 to be of equal grade. The first three of those above 
 named were retained, and to these were added the Clas- 
 sical, Historical, Metaphysical, and others of similar 
 designation (sometimes styled simply Honorary) ; and, 
 although some of these were more esteemed than others, 
 as a whole they were bestowed, without very exact dis- 
 crimination, upon all who attained a certain average. 
 Since 1869 the Valedictory and Salutatory have been 
 retained, and Philosophicals awarded for the other honor- 
 ary appointments. 
 
 Senior Exhibition was discontinued in 1842, Junior in 
 1862, and Adelphic Union in 1876. The Prize Rhetorical, 
 or Moonlight, appointments, formerly elective and made 
 by the classes represented, have since 1855 been conferred 
 by the Faculty with reference to fitness in the appointees. 
 The system of prizes for scholarship is of recent intro- 
 duction. The Fourth of July Celebration, furnished by 
 the Sophomores, long ago died out. 
 
 Thanks are due to many of our brethren for aid cor- 
 dially given us in the prosecution of a task involving 
 much dry research , and especial acknowledgments belong 
 to brothers Alexander Hyde (deceased since our work 
 was begun) ; Prof. William Porter, of Beloit College ; 
 Robert W. Adam and George H. Tucker, Esqs., of Pitts- 
 field ; Prof. William Goodell, of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania ; and George D. Rumsey, Esq., of Chicago. 
 
Prefatory, 5 
 
 They should likewise be made to many friends of our 
 deceased brothers, who have taken the utmost pains to 
 furnish information in reference to the objects of our 
 common regard, who could no longer answer for them- 
 selves. 
 
 Thanks are also gratefully returned to the Rev. Charles 
 S. Durfee for kind permission to use his father's Bio- 
 graphical Annals and Obituary Records of Williams Col- 
 lege, by reference and quotation throughout our book. 
 
 Errors and omissions, perhaps of importance, will 
 doubtless be observed ; and it is asked, as a favor to the 
 Society, that any such be reported to those who have had 
 the work in charge. 
 
 And if what is here recorded shall serve to perpetuate 
 the life-stories of our brotherhood, recall valued memo- 
 ries of by-gone days, encourage to faithful endeavor in 
 duty, and aid in developing a worthy ideal in the minds of 
 those who carry forward our Society on its way, now fast 
 approaching the semi-centennial period, the labor be- 
 stowed upon it will have been welcome indeed, and the 
 purpose with which it was undertaken fully accom- 
 plished. 
 
 James S. Knowlson, 
 James D. Clark, 
 Frederic J. Parsons, 
 
 Committee. 
 
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HISTORICAL 
 
 The Kappa Alpha Society of Union, Williams, Ge- 
 neva (now Hobart Free), and Princeton colleges, the 
 University of Virginia and Cornell University, was 
 founded at Union in 1825 by Rev. John H. Hunter and 
 his associates. It is believed to have been the first organ- 
 ization of its kind in the country, although preceded by 
 the Phi Beta Kappa. The latter was, in reality, simply a 
 secret literary association, while the former was intended 
 as a social and literary brotherhood. It owed its origin 
 mainly to that desire for a circle of intimate* friends, so 
 natural to those who find themselves transferred from 
 home relations to the companionship of a large gathering 
 of general acquaintances, and was well adapted to meet 
 that feeling. Its founder had a special talent, amounting 
 to genius, for the forming of such an organization, and 
 his plan has remained for the most part unaltered to the 
 present day. The first members were men of mark, well 
 known afterwards as Professors Jackson and Hun, Judges 
 Hubbell and Peckham, Senator King, Chancellor Dean, 
 and President Woods, with others hardly their inferiors ; 
 and they together impressed upon their creation a certain 
 character which it has always endeavored to retain. 
 
 In 1833 a similar group of students at Williams, moved 
 by the same desire and led by Azariah S. Clark, obtained 
 from the Society thus founded a charter for a branch in 
 the college of which they were members, under much the 
 
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 8 Historical, 
 
 same auspices as those which attended its own original 
 institution ; Prof. N. H. Griffin and Prof. Tatlock, 
 Tutors Hyde, Crawford, and White, Judge Norton and 
 Senator Dixon, with others not unfit to be esteemed their 
 peers, uniting to plant this first offshoot from the parent 
 stock. 
 
 The Society's outward beginnings were sufficiently 
 humble, its meetings being held, at first, in the various 
 members' rooms. Subsequently more commodious 
 though rather loftily situated quarters were found in the 
 attic of the old Mansion House. These were succeeded 
 by the comfortable apartments and home luxuries of a 
 private residence, where for forty years every accommo- 
 dation was furnished which liberal hospitality and a 
 hearty interest in the Society's fortunes could suggest ; 
 and when the progress of time and the inevitable change 
 of circumstances rendered a continuance of these favors 
 impracticable, feeUng that the Society should now possess 
 a home of its own, its members, who had for some years 
 held the lease of a very desirable village lot with the 
 dwelling-house upon it, were enabled, at the expiration of 
 their term, to purchase this property as their own posses- 
 sion. They then obtained incorporation under the gene- 
 ral statutes of the State, and erected upon the site they 
 had secured the present elegant Society House, complet- 
 ing and dedicating it in 1877, free of incumbrance, and 
 beautifully fitted and adorned. 
 
 While our Society's fortunes have varied at times, its 
 course has been remarkably even upon the whole. It has 
 long outlived the large and powerful anti-secret organiza- 
 tion formed to overthrow it and its fellow-societies, the 
 futile assault of which upon our place of meeting, soon 
 after the withdrawal of several of its members for the 
 purpose of uniting with us, is perhaps the most stirring 
 
Historical, g 
 
 event in our history. And this career of quiet success 
 would seem to have been not unbefitting a Society whose 
 whole history shows that it desires nothing more than it 
 does the prosperity of the college in which is its home, 
 the promotion of good scholarship and literary excellence, 
 and the furtherance of college morality and good order. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ^a^j^^ra J^I|rl[xa ^lacijdvf 
 
 IN WILLIAMS COLLEGE. 
 
 1833. 
 
 AzARiAH Sylvester Clark, of Canaan, Columbia 
 County, N. Y., second son of Rev. Azariah and Sarah 
 [Ay Is worth] Clark, was born at Canaan, December nth, 
 1 812. His father, the pastor of the Congregational church 
 in that town, and a graduate of Williams College in the 
 class of 1805, was a descendant of Lieut. William Clark, 
 one of the seven original settlers of the town of Northamp- 
 ton, Mass., and was a native of the adjoining town of East- 
 hampton. His mother descended from Arthur Aylsworth, 
 who came from England to this country in 1681 and set- 
 tled at North Kingston, in the State of Rhode Island. 
 She lived to the age of eighty-seven years, and died at 
 Canaan, in 1865. 
 
 As a child the subject of this sketch attracted notice 
 by his bright blue eyes and ruddy complexion. A friend 
 who knew him well through life says that " the modest 
 blush which graced his cheek when he first departed from 
 home for school never left it afterward." As he grew to 
 manhood he became tall, slender, and somewhat round- 
 shouldered, for his health was never strong. 
 
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 His disposition was retiring, and his manner quiet, yet 
 he had much depth of feeling. Such was his modesty, 
 even in manhood, that few who were not well acquainted 
 with him gave him credit for the talents he naturally pos- 
 sessed, or the information he had acquired. He learned 
 very readily ; and his mother used to say of him that he 
 knew all the letters of the alphabet but one, the second 
 time he was shown them. The acquisition of knowledge 
 was a pleasure rather than a task to him ; and in order to 
 improve every opportunity for making it, he taxed his 
 somewhat slender strength too far, while in college, with 
 studies not included in the regular course. 
 
 In consideration of the peculiar traits of his character 
 and his facility in study, he was destined for the ministry, 
 and was accordingly sent, to be fitted for college, to the 
 academy at Lenox, Mass., where many of the future mem- 
 bers of our Society were to succeed him in similar prepara- 
 tion. While he was in attendance there, his father received 
 a call to Colebrook, Conn., whither he removed in 1830. 
 This removal led to the transfer of the young student to a 
 school in Winsted, in the same State, where his preparatory 
 course was soon completed ; and in the fall of the same 
 year he entered the Freshman class in Williams College. 
 
 In 1832 Rev. Mr. Clark died, and his widow returned 
 with her children to the old home in Canaan, which had 
 been given to her by her father at the time of her mar- 
 riage. To this the family were all strongly attached, and 
 Azariah often spoke of it in his correspondence as '' the 
 happy land of Canaan." 
 
 In college he was known as a close student, a fine 
 scholar and careful thinker, an ardent lover of nature, 
 whose delight was a quiet ramble in the woods, and as a 
 social, witty, and genial companion. A warmly attached 
 circle of friends gathered about him, and under his leader- 
 ship united in the organization of a branch of the Kappa 
 Alpha Society, previously of Union College only, Mr. 
 Clark and his intimate friend, Alexander Hyde of Lee, 
 Mass., proceeding to that college for initiation in the 
 autumn of 1833. 
 
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 Mr. Clark delivered the Latin oration '* De Veterorum 
 Grascorum Mythologia" at Junior Exhibition in that year, 
 and an oration at the Adelphic Union Exhibition in 1834, and 
 graduated in the latter year with the Salutatory Oration. 
 He had, however, been elected Valedictorian by his class, 
 in accordance with the custom of those times, which per- 
 mitted the graduating class to nominate the honor men of 
 their choice, or the highest of them, to the Faculty. In 
 this case their selection was set aside for reasons which 
 were reserved, although inferiority in scholarship was not 
 thought by the friends of the nominee to have been the 
 cause of his failure to receive the first appointment. But 
 " he felt willing to sacrifice much to his love for the 
 Society." 
 
 After graduating, Mr. Clark went to Troy, N. Y., 
 where he entered, as student at law, the office of Daniel 
 Gardner, Esq., and afterwards that of Cushman & Sey- 
 mour, with whom he remained until the failure of his 
 health in March, 1837, when he returned to his mother's 
 home. He was then suffering, apparently, from general 
 debility only, and no special anxiety was aroused by his 
 symptoms ; but a slight hemorrhage from the throat or 
 lungs, which occurred about the ist of April, occasioned 
 his friends great alarm, and apparently led him to feel that 
 his case was hopeless. Repeated and increasingly severe 
 attacks soon exhausted his enfeebled constitution, and 
 death ensued on the 12th of May, 1837. 
 
 Like many another bright and active mind, he had 
 pushed his way into regions of doubt, and perhaps even of 
 scepticism ; but the sober hours of trouble and the shades 
 of coming death quieted and dispersed these wilder 
 thoughts, and restored to him, as to many another, the 
 faith in which his childhood had been nurtured. He died 
 peacefully, trusting in his Saviour, and his friends have 
 abundant reason for believing that his spirit sought its 
 final home in the happy land of a better Canaan than that 
 which he had loved" so deeply here. A discourse was 
 preached at his funeral by Rev. S. J. Tracy, a friend of 
 his father, and a Williams graduate. His remains were 
 
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 laid in the cemetery of his native town, with those of his 
 nearest relatives, and his name is inscribed upon the fam- 
 ily monument. But his peculiar memorial exists in the 
 Society of which he was the founder in Williams College. 
 This will ever lament his untimely death, cherish the 
 memory of his devotion to its interests, and indulge a well- 
 founded pride in the regard which he won from those who 
 knew him best, by his marked intellectual ability and the 
 many fine and attractive traits of his character. 
 
 Obituary notices of Mr. Clark appeared in Troy and 
 Hartford papers. His elder brother, Mr. William A. 
 Clark, of West Liberty, Iowa, and a younger sister, Mrs. 
 Sarah A. Barstow, of Canaan, survive him. (May, 1880.) 
 
 ^Alexander Hyde, of Lee, Mass., his place of resi- 
 dence through life, was born in that town, September 25th, 
 1 8 14. His father. Rev. Dr. Alvan Hyde, Trustee and sec- 
 ond Vice-President of WiUiams College, and for many 
 years pastor of the Congregational church in Lee, was a 
 native of Norwich, Conn. His mother, Mrs. Lucy [Fes- 
 senden] Hyde, was originally from Sandwich, Mass. His 
 brothers, Hon. WiUiam Hyde, of Ware, and Joseph Hyde^ 
 of Sheffield, were also Williams graduates. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college under 
 " Father Hotchkin," at the old Lenox Academy, where he 
 met and became intimate with his future chum and asso- 
 ciate in the founding of our Society at WilHams, Azariah 
 S. Clark, with whom he entered the college, as Fresh- 
 man, in 1830, and graduated in 1834. Their friendship 
 continued until cut short by the early decease of Mr. Clark, 
 as detailed in the preceding sketch. For interesting rem- 
 iniscences and valuable information respecting the men of 
 his time and the early history of our Society, the com- 
 pilers of this volume are much indebted to Mr. Hyde's 
 contributions to their undertaking. 
 
 After graduation he taught school for a year in Pitts- 
 field, and during the two following years had charge of 
 the High School in Lee. He was thus led to open in 
 
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 1837 at the family homestead, which had become his own 
 by inheritance, his boarding-school for boys, afterwards 
 very widely known, which he continued to conduct for 
 twenty-nine years, carrying on at the same time the farm 
 connected with it. In this institution many young men 
 were prepared for Williams and other colleges, not a few 
 of whom became members of the Society which their 
 instructor had helped to found within his alma mater's 
 walls. 
 
 It was probably due to the interest which he took in 
 beautifying and improving the Lee homestead that his 
 attention was strongly directed toward the subject of 
 improved agriculture. In this he eventually became so 
 much engrossed that from about the year 1866 he gave 
 most of his time to it, especially in the way of writing for 
 the periodicals devoted to that interest. During four 
 years he was the agricultural editor of the Berkshire Eagle, 
 furnishing also most of the leading articles upon general 
 subjects. In 1874 he undertook the management of the 
 Lee village paper. The Valley Gleaner, his connection with 
 which continued for three years ; and he was long a regu- 
 lar contributor to the New York Weekly Times. Nor 
 were his labors in this field restricted to journalism. He 
 was for many years a member of the Massachusetts Board 
 of 'Agriculture, and in 1869 delivered before the Lowell 
 Institute of Boston a course of twelve lectures upon his 
 specialty, which was published and has become a standard 
 authority. In connection with the Lee Centennial, in 1877, 
 he prepared a history of the town, which was printed in a 
 handsome octavo volume, " and is an invaluable legacy to 
 his native place." Upon the establishment of the Berk- 
 shire Historical Society in 1878, he was elected its presi- 
 dent, and in this position " displayed great tact, energy, 
 and knowledge of the county," contributing much to the 
 success of the enterprise. ** It was said commonly among 
 his associates that he zvas the Society." " His services in 
 establishing the Lee Library were of incalculable value to 
 that institution," and he was a leading spirit in the Farm- 
 ers' Club of the town. In its educational affairs he was, 
 
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 as might have been expected, deeply interested and effi- 
 ciently engaged, serving for twenty-five years, or more, 
 on its School Committee, most of the time as its chair- 
 man. In the church he was long a deacon, and, as such, 
 '' relied upon and honored." Thus, for over forty years, 
 to him, " more than to any other, his town was indebted for 
 hard, faithful, and long-continued service," and it might 
 almost be added, apparently, that, in fact, he was the 
 town. 
 
 Nor was his work merely local. Upon the estabUsh- 
 ment of the Normal Institution for the education of freed- 
 men at Hampton, Va., he became one of its trustees, and 
 in that capacity he rendered " the most valuable service to 
 the institution" by advice as to its management, lectures 
 to its pupils, and the like. Similar aid was also given by 
 him to the Government Indian School at Carlisle, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Hyde was for some years President of the Society 
 of Alumni of Williams College, and filled the chair at its 
 last Commencement meeting. He was also upon its Board 
 of Visitors. 
 
 In politics he had not been active, but he was elected 
 last fall to the House of Representatives of the State, his 
 first political office, "in which his native ability, excellent 
 judgment, and thorough information upon many subjects 
 would have enabled him to distinguish himself, although 
 he was not a fluent speaker." But upon this field he was 
 hardly permitted to enter. Soon after the opening of the 
 legislative session, on the 12th of January, in the pres- 
 ent year, while leaving the State House, at about four 
 o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of adjournment, Mr. 
 Hyde fell upon the pavement, prostrated, as is supposed, 
 by a stroke of apoplexy. He was conveyed to the Massa- 
 chusetts General Hospital, but died before reaching it, thus 
 closing a life of active and untiring work in the very midst 
 of dignified and honorable service. It was indeed well 
 said that " Berkshire was thus called to mourn the loss, in 
 the height of his usefulness, of one of her noblest, ablest, 
 and best sons ; and that hardly any sadder news than this 
 could have been brought to her hills, where he was emi- 
 
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 nently loved and respected, and by those whose opinion is 
 worth the most, admired." 
 
 Mr. Hyde married, October ist, 1839, CorneUa, daugh- 
 ter of Lieut.-Gov. Hull, of New Marlborough. By this mar- 
 riage he had nine children, three of whom are sons, and 
 cashiers of banks in Kansas. " The training of this family 
 to act well their part in the world " he himself declared 
 that he " considered the great work of his life." 
 
 (Feb., 1 88 1.) 
 
 Junior Exhibition, 1 833. President Philotechnian. Adel- 
 phic Union Ex., 1834. Commencement, 1834. A.M. ia 
 course. Phi Beta Kappa, 1865. 
 
 *Hon. James Dixon, ll.d. of Hartford, Conn., son of 
 Judge William and Mary [Field] Dixon, was born at En- 
 field, in the same State, his parents' home, on the 5th of Au- 
 gust, 1 8 14. He was fitted for college at the High School in 
 Ellington, near by, and entered Williams, as Freshman, at 
 the age of sixteen, in the autumn of 1830. While in college 
 he was recognized as the class poet ; dehvered at Junior 
 Exhibition in 1833 ^^ original poem upon **The Victim of 
 Ambition," and was graduated in 1834 with another, enti- 
 tled '' Human Life." A selection from his poetical pieces 
 contained in Everest's " Poets of Connecticut" (Hartford, 
 1843) includes the following sonnet, which may well have 
 been inspired by the natural features of the region sur- 
 rounding the college, as the well-known lines to Green 
 River had already been suggested to Bryant. 
 
 A RAMBLE IN THE WOODS. 
 
 The soft sweet music of the forest birds. 
 
 The fragrance of wild flowers, the solemn hush 
 
 Of the dark woods, more eloquent than words, 
 
 The murmuring sounds of summer streams, that rush 
 
 O'er flowers and bended grass, our souls beguile. 
 
 And tempt our wandering feet for many a mile. 
 
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 Through the green leaves we look to yon deep sky 
 Blue as the ocean, stretching far around, 
 And feel our hearts, to earth no longer bound, 
 Spreading their eagle-wings to soar on high. 
 Oh! in this perfect stillness how the heart 
 Pants for that power which is its better part ; 
 And 'mid the teachings of these trees and flowers, 
 Sighs o'er the memory of its wasted hours ! 
 
 Mr. Dixon was always devoted to literature, was for 
 some time a correspondent of the periodical press, and 
 published many contributions in verse to the New Eng- 
 land Magazine and the Connecticut Courant. The editor 
 •of the collection already mentioned says that " these dis- 
 play true poetical powers," and that " the sonnets in par- 
 ticular are characterized by a chasteness of thought and 
 style which entitles them to a high place among poems of 
 their order." 
 
 The bright and social nature of the class laureate, his 
 pleasant and somewhat showy vein of talent, and his free 
 and ready manner, rendered him conspicuous in college ; 
 while his warm and friendly disposition especially fitted 
 him to enjoy the intimacies of a secret society. He entered 
 into ours with enthusiasm, and formed attachments in its 
 circle which were to outlast college days ; nor did he 
 ever fail, even amid the preoccupations of public life, to 
 meet a Society brother with friendly interest. 
 
 After graduation he studied law in his father's office, 
 and upon admission to the bar began practice in Enfield. 
 He was soon after called to represent the town in the leg- 
 islature, and thus began his thirty years of political life. 
 On the I St of October, 1833, he married Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Cogswell, Professor at East 
 Windsor, and soon after removed to Hartford, which be- 
 came his permanent residence. He then entered into 
 partnership with Judge Ellsworth, and rose rapidly in 
 professional estimation, but soon became interested in 
 politics, in which his talents found their natural field. In 
 1845 he was elected, and in 1847 re-elected, to the U. S. 
 
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 House of Representatives, and in 1857 was advanced to 
 the U. S. Senate, in which he served two full terms, declin- 
 ing in 1859 ^^ offer of appointment as Minister to Russia. 
 Upon the expiration of his second Senatorial term, he 
 withdrew in a measure from the political arena, and the 
 remainder of his life was spent in the social and literary 
 occupations of his own attractive home. 
 
 Senator Dixon died in March, 1873, after a short attack 
 of heart-disease. His funeral was numerously attended, 
 U. S. Senators and other distinguished friends acting 
 as pall-bearers, and his remains were interred in Cedar 
 Hill Cemetery, near Hartford. His wife, who has since 
 deceased, two sons, and two daughters survived him. 
 
 The native talents, agreeable manners, fine tastes, and 
 literary cultivation of this prominent member of our fra- 
 ternity made him a popular and successful man from the 
 first. Subsequently his large means and abundant hospi- 
 tality extended his sphere of influence and confirmed him 
 in the position which nature seemed to have fitted him es- 
 pecially to fill. His home was a literary centre, always 
 open for the reception of men of culture ; his own cordial- 
 ity to them was admirably supported by that of his wife, 
 and thus in many ways his success brought with it only 
 higher estimation and further advancement. 
 
 In 1862 he was honored with the degree of LL.D. by 
 Trinity College. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1833. President Philotechnian. Adelphic 
 Union Ex., 1834. Commencement, 1834. Master's Ora- 
 tion, 1837. Phi Beta Kappa, (Honorary,) 1865. 
 
 * Rev. James Maltby Sayre, of Catskill, N. Y., son 
 of Francis and Susan [Taylor] Sayre, was born at Catskill, 
 his parents' home, March 4th, 18 14. 
 
 He was fitted for college in his native town, entered 
 Williams, and after graduating there in 1834, studied the- 
 ology in Auburn (N. Y.) Seminary. Was ordained in 
 September, 1839, ^"^^ soon after was installed pastor at 
 
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 Rondout, N. Y., where he remained, successfully engaged 
 in ministerial work, until failing health and growing deaf- 
 ness compelled his retirement from the pulpit. During 
 most of the rest of his life he was engaged in business in 
 Catskill, where his death occurred on the 9th of May, 
 1874. It was apparently the result of a general breaking 
 down of the system. His health had never been good, 
 and he passed away after a brief illness. 
 
 Intelligent and courteous, he was distinguished for 
 kindness and liberality, and was greatly respected in the 
 community. He was unmarried. 
 
 Obituary Record^ 1874-75, mainly. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1833. Valedictory, Adelphic Un., 1834. 
 
 George Hamilton Norris, of Chicago, III, was born 
 in Sullivan County, N. Y., May 31st, 1812. His father, 
 who was of English descent, removed to Deer Park, 
 Orange County, in 1 8 1 7, and there the subject of this sketch 
 resided until after graduation. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Middletown and Cold- 
 enham (N. Y.) academies and at the High School in Troy, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1830, joined in the es- 
 tablishment of our Society, and was graduated in 1834. 
 During Senior vacation commenced the study of law with 
 Huntington & Van Schoonhoven, in Troy, and continued 
 thus occupied until April, 1835, when he married Lydia 
 M. Hoxsey, of Williamstown, and immediately afterwards 
 removed to the West, settling in Ottawa, 111., where he re- 
 sided for many years. During this term he was success- 
 fully engaged in legal practice and in various business 
 operations, taking a conspicuous part in the affairs of the 
 town, which he did much towards building up, and filling 
 the positions of Justice of the Peace, County Surveyor, 
 Mayor, and President of the Bank of Ottawa. In 1858 he 
 purchased a large plantation on Long Island, also named 
 Deer Park. In 1859 removed to Chicago, having property 
 interests in that city, but the following year went thence 
 
1 833'] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 21 
 
 to Colorado to engage in mining operations, and while 
 there was a member of the Territorial Legislature. After 
 remaining about four years, he returned to Ottawa, where 
 his family had resided in the mean time ; spent most of the 
 following two years in North Carolina with his wife, who 
 was in failing health, and then returned to Chicago, where 
 Mrs. Norris died in October, 1869. 
 
 In January, 1871, Mr. Norris married Eliza U., daughter 
 of George Fulmer, Esq., of Williamsport, Pa., and during 
 the same year purchased the Spanish Grants at Spring 
 Garden, Volusia County, Fla., on the St. John's River, 
 where he has one of the finest orange-groves in the State, 
 and spends the winter and spring seasons in each year. 
 
 Mr. Norris was a delegate from Illinois to the Demo- 
 cratic National Convention of 1856, and a warm friend of 
 Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. 
 
 He had, by his first marriage, a family of five children. 
 
 (Feb., 1 88 1.) 
 
 Prize, Sophomore Moonlight, 1832. Junior Ex., 1833 
 Commencement, 1834. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Wright of Fentonville, Mich., son of 
 Charles and Eunice [Robinson] Wright, and brother of 
 Moses R. Wright (for particulars respecting all of whom 
 see sketch of latter), was born October nth, 18 14, at Ben- 
 nington, Vt. 
 
 He was fitted for college in his native town, entered 
 Williams in 1831, assisted in the founding of our Society, 
 and was graduated in 1835. He then taught school for 
 one year, and after studying theology the following two 
 years at Princeton, completed his course at Andover, 
 where he was graduated in 1839. ^^ August, 1840, he 
 entered upon the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in 
 Wolcott, N. Y., which he continued to fill for sixteen 
 years. He was then engaged with the American Tract 
 Society for three years (1856-59), at the expiration of 
 which, in consequence of failure of health, he removed to 
 
2 2 Biographical Record of the [1833. 
 
 Fentonville, where, in March, i860, he became pastor of 
 the Presbyterian church. Four years later, in the same 
 month, having resigned his charge, he entered the service 
 of the American Sunday School Union, as District Super- 
 intendent and Missionary, laboring in the same region ; 
 and in this work he is still engaged. 
 
 Mr. Wright married, January 5th, 1842, Mary A. Bel- 
 den, of Guilford, N. Y., and on January 7th, 1847, after 
 her decease, Ruth Smith of Wolcott. He has had seven 
 children, but three of whom are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1833. Moonlight Ex., 1833. Senior 
 Ex., 1834. Prest. Philologian. Commencement, 1835. 
 
 * James Homer Ellis, of New Salem, Franklin County, 
 Mass., youngest son among the twelve children of Paul 
 and P.ebeckah [Homer] Ellis, — natives respectively of Med- 
 way and of Stoneham, Mass., — was born in New Salem, his 
 parents' place of residence, February nth, 1810. 
 
 He was fitted for college at New Salem Academy, 
 entered Williams, and in 1835 was graduated there with 
 the appointment of the Salutatory Oration, which, how- 
 ever, he was prevented from fulfilling in person by a 
 severe attack of typhoid pneumonia. This attack proved 
 fatal on the nth of September, only twenty-three days 
 after Commencement, so that the intended salutation be- 
 came in truth but a last farewell. Mr. Ellis died in Wil- 
 liamstown, and was buried there by his classmates, who 
 warmly esteemed him, and, having cared for him tenderly 
 during his illness, erected over his remains a stone which 
 may still be seen in the old burying-ground, " to testify 
 their respect for him as a man, a scholar, and a Christian." 
 
 This much-loved member of our fraternity was a hard 
 worker, whose stalwart frame was thought by his friends 
 to indicate the largeness of his soul. While his spirit was 
 modest and gentle, it was very noble and ever firm against 
 wrong. One of his K. A. brothers, who watched at his 
 bedside during his peculiarly sad and trying illness, says 
 
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 that those who gathered about him there can never forget 
 the sweet composure and submission with which he antici- 
 pated his approaching departure. (1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1835. Prest. Philotechnian. Salu- 
 tatory, Commencement, 1835. 
 
 Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, of New York City, was 
 born at Morrisania, N. Y., November 25th, 18 16. Was 
 graduated from Williams in 1834, studied law for two 
 years with Hon. Wm. H. Seward, at Auburn, and one 
 year in the city of New York, where he practised until 
 1849, then went abroad and remained absent until 1852. 
 Since his return he has given his attention to scientific in- 
 vestigations, principally astronomical. His studies in the 
 photography of celestial bodies and phenomena have been 
 very original and successful, and of great value to science. 
 These researches are made in his own observatory in the 
 city, which is furnished with costly telescope and appa- 
 ratus and whatever appliances wealth can supply, and in 
 the management of these the services of competent assist- 
 ants are employed. 
 
 Mr. Rutherfurd has for years been a Trustee of Colum- 
 bia College and a Fellow of the Royal Society. 
 
 He married, in July, 1841, Margaret Stuyvesant Chand- 
 ler, and has by this marriage several children. 
 
 Biographical Annals, in part. 
 
 Commencement, 1834. Am. Ast. Soc. 
 
 * Rev. Nathaniel Herrick Griffin, d.d., of Williams- 
 town, son of Nathaniel and Azubah [Herrick] Griffin, was 
 born at Southampton (L. I.), N. Y., his parents* home, 
 December 28th, 18 14. His father was an elder in the 
 church and a leading man in the town. 
 
 At the age of twelve the subject of this sketch was 
 converted, and about that time began his preparation 
 
24 Biographical Record of the [i8 
 
 
 for college with Rev. A. Francis, of Bridgehampton, L. I. 
 In 1830 he entered Williams, selecting it on account of 
 some family connection with President Griffin, ranked 
 high as a scholar and a conscientious student throughout 
 his course, and was graduated in 1834 with an oration 
 upon " The World before the Flood." He then studied for 
 two years in Princeton Theological Seminary, which he 
 left in 1836 to become Tutor at Williams. During the 
 year 1837-38 he acted as stated supply at Westhampton, 
 L. I., and he afterwards served in the same capacity at 
 Franklin, N. J. In 1839 was ordained pastor of the 
 Presbyterian church at Delhi, N. N., where he remained 
 for a year, when he was compelled by failure of health to 
 seek restoration in a visit to Florida ; and as he was still 
 unable to resume pastoral duties in 1841, his connection 
 with the church at Delhi was then dissolved. 
 
 Upon his return to the North he supplied the place of 
 Professor Tatlock in the college, during the absence of the 
 latter in Europe, for a year. In the fall of 1843 opened 
 a private classical school in Brooklyn, which he continued 
 with success until 1846, when he received and accepted 
 the appointment of Lawrence Professor of the Greek and 
 Latin Languages in his alma mater. In 1853, upon the 
 division of his department, was appointed Professor of 
 the Greek Language and Literature, and he so remained 
 until 1857, when he retired from connection with the 
 college and opened a private school in Williamstown, 
 designed especially for the preparation of students intend- 
 ing to take the college course. In 1868, discontinuing his 
 school, he accepted the position of College Librarian ; and 
 this he retained until his death, which occurred at Wil- 
 liamstown, October i6th, 1876. 
 
 At Commencement in 1864 Dr. Griffin delivered the 
 oration before the Alumni, choosing for his subject " The 
 Difficulties attending the Progress of Science and Letters." 
 In 1867 he received the degree of D.D. from Lafayette 
 College. In 1852 he was elected Secretary of the Society 
 of Alumni, and for twenty-four years he continued to dis- 
 charge the duties, far from light, of this office. He pub- 
 
1 833-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 25 
 
 lished the triennial catalogues of the college for a space of 
 nearly thirty years, and prepared the first annual sketches 
 of deceased alumni. His methodical habits, patience, and 
 care in the collection of details fitted him peculiarly for 
 work of this description, and made it a real pleasure to 
 him. But in all the business of life he was sedulous and 
 painstaking to the utmost. It was through his well- 
 judged efforts that the college library became " a model 
 working collection ;" and it is recorded of him, by one 
 who had the very best opportunity of knowing, that " as 
 a faithful laborer for the college in all his relations to it 
 he had no superior." 
 
 Professor Griffin was a man whose natural modesty, 
 amounting sometimes to seeming diffidence, veiled in some 
 measure the noble traits of his character. The kindness 
 of his heart, his generosity to others, his solicitude for 
 those in need of sympathy, and the warmth and endur- 
 ance of his regard for his chosen friends, none could quite 
 know who did not know him intimately ; and to these the 
 memory of his character and friendship is very pre- 
 cious. 
 
 As one of the pillars of the Congregational church in 
 Williamstown, as a promoter of the educational interests 
 of the village, as a preacher of unusually fine pulpit talent, 
 gifted with a vigorous and graceful delivery and skilled in 
 the preparation of able and attractive discourses, he be 
 came prominent in the community with which he was 
 identified, and to it, as to the college, he gave his best and 
 most conscientious service. 
 
 It should be added that a large portion of his life-work 
 was done under the pressure of ill health. He rarely 
 knew what it was to pass a day throughout which he felt 
 entirely well and free from the lassitude induced by phy- 
 sical ailment. Yet this condition was not permitted to in- 
 terfere with his labor. He was ever punctual and in his 
 place ; no one could be more safely depended upon than he. 
 
 Professor Griffin's health became seriously and visibly 
 affected in the summer of 1875, and continued to decline 
 during the following autumn and winter. He remained 
 
26 Biographical Record of the [1833. 
 
 however, in the discharge of his duties as librarian until 
 the early part of May, 1876, when he had become too fee- 
 ble to leave the house. His disease was an affection of the 
 liver, and he was confined to his bed by it for about five 
 months, suffering much of the time great pain, yet remain- 
 ing constantly cheerful. And thus, on the i6th of October 
 following, he passed away. " His perfect trust in the Sav- 
 iour was the marked feature in his last sickness. The Fa- 
 ther gently drew the heart of his trusting child heaven- 
 ward by prophetic longings months before his departure. 
 For more than a year previous to his death his growth in 
 spiritual things was so marked that none who were near 
 him could fail to see it. During the whole of the preced- 
 ing winter the life and character of Christ were his con- 
 stant study. He wished the Gospel read to him, together 
 with the Psalms and a selection of hymns which he made 
 for this purpose in the early part of his sickness. Feeding 
 on this growing knowledge of Christ, his faith grew like- 
 wise, so that he could say, * I know Him whom I trust.' " 
 It was with characteristic modesty that, in making his 
 last bequests, he said to President Chadbourne, in refer- 
 ence to the conduct of his approaching funeral exercises : 
 *' If you can speak a word that shall profit the living, I 
 shall be glad ; but say as little as possible of me." In 
 compliance with his wish, the President conducted the 
 services, which were at the house, and ex-President Hop- 
 kins also spoke. The remarks of the former have been in- 
 cluded in a pamphlet entitled " The Hope of the Right- 
 eous," which also contains memorials of Professor Albert 
 Hopkins and the Rev. Dr. Gale, one of the Trustees of the 
 college. In this tribute to his memory. President Chad- 
 bourne has recorded that in the case of Professor Griffin, 
 by whose dying bed alone of the three he was permitted 
 to sit, " it was indeed a privilege to see how a good man 
 can die ; with what courage one who has shrunk from 
 conflict all his days can, when the time comes, meet every 
 requirement of God's providence, even death itself." He 
 adds: " Dr. Griffin was a most judicious counsellor. If he 
 ever erred, it was on the side of caution. But with all his 
 
1 833'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 27 
 
 natural caution, he never hesitated to recommend prompt 
 action, nor to assume responsibility when principle was 
 involved. In all questions relating to theology and phi- 
 losophy Dr. Griffin's learning and judgment were equalled 
 by very few. As a critic in all the higher realm of learn- 
 ing and thought, his aid was eagerly sought by those who 
 were laboring in the same fields." " The power and beauty 
 of a Christian life were manifest in all he did. For thirty 
 years he lived among this people, faithful to the college 
 and to the church, faithful in all the relations of life. His 
 precepts and example agreed. His trust in the Bible and 
 the God of the Bible was complete. If any among us was 
 worthy of the name of theologian, Dr. Griffin was the 
 man. But in the simplicity and fulness of his faith and 
 trust he was a Christian. And the strength and beauty 
 of his Christian character were clearly revealed as he 
 came near the end. When the outward man began to 
 weaken, the inward man, renewed day by day, put on that 
 strength which is the promise of immortality." 
 
 The Kappa Alpha Society in Williams College is in- 
 debted to Professor Griffin for the unwavering attachment 
 of one who, having aided in founding it and in impressing 
 its original character upon it, and having thoroughly en- 
 joyed his own connection with it, doubtless felt that he 
 owed it whatever of faithful interest, judicious counsel, 
 and timely advice he could appropriately give it ever af- 
 terward. He wished it to be always up to the standard of 
 its early days ; and his occasional quiet words of guidance 
 were very helpful to his younger and less experienced 
 brethren. He gave to it all his sons, to whom other near 
 relatives were added in the same connection ; and those 
 who have been engaged in the collection of these annals 
 of its membership regret nothing in regard to their work 
 so much as that it was not begun before the stores of in- 
 formation upon the subject which he possessed were lost 
 to them forever. 
 
 The subject of this sketch married, August 26th, 1839, 
 Hannah E., daughter of Solomon Bulkley, Esq., of Wil- 
 liamstown, and by this marriage he had three sons and a 
 
28 Biographical Record of the [i^SS- 
 
 daughter. Of the former, the oldest now fills the profes- 
 sorship of Latin in the college. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1833. Prest. Philologian. Com- 
 mencement, 1834. A.M. in course. D.D., Lafayette, 1867. 
 
 Rev. Lucius Ouintus Curtis, of Hartford, Conn., son 
 of Elizur and Amanda [Steele] Curtis, — the latter of New- 
 Hartford, Conn., before marriage, — was born at Torring- 
 ford, in the same State, his father's home, November 6th, 
 1812. 
 
 He was fitted for college partly in his native place and 
 partly in the academy at Williamstown, under Messrs. 
 Mack and Darby ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1831, 
 and was graduated in 1835. He then taught school awhile 
 in Farmington, Conn., and in Rochester, N. Y., and in 
 1842 entered Andover Theological Seminary, whence he 
 was graduated in 1845, having taken the second year of 
 his course at New Haven. Was ordained July 6th, 1846, in 
 South Woodbury, Conn., where he remained, as pastor of 
 the First Congregational Church, for eight years. In 
 April, 1846, was installed over the First Church of the 
 same denomination at Colchester, Conn., in which he la- 
 bored for twelve years, when failure of health led to his 
 resignation. 
 
 After a short trip to Europe, Mr. Curtis spent nearly 
 two years with the College Church at Ripon, Wis., and, 
 succeeding these, somewhat over four years with the Con- 
 gregational church at Lyons, la. Since June, 1876, he 
 has resided most of the time in Hartford, engaged princi- 
 pally in literary pursuits as a contributor of essays upon 
 the leading philosophical and theological questions of the 
 day to the New Englander and other reviews. He has not, 
 however, wholly retired from the pulpit. A number of his 
 sermons are in print. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Curtis delivered the address at the Quarta- 
 centennial Celebration of the founding of our Society in 
 WiUiams College. 
 
1 833-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 29 
 
 On the 28th of June, 1848, he married Emily C, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Samuel Whittelsey, of New York City. Mrs. 
 Curtis's mother conducted the Mothers Magazine for many 
 years. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No, 80 Church Street. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1832. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1833. 
 Junior Ex., 1834. Commencement, 1835. A.M. in course. 
 
 *Hon. Jesse Olds Norton, of Chicago, 111, son of 
 Col. Martin and Betsey [Story] Norton, was born at Ben- 
 nington, Vt, his parents' home, December 12th, 18 12. His 
 father, a patriot soldier of the war with Great Britain, then 
 just begun, sent this the youngest of his eleven children 
 to the town academy to prepare for Williams College, 
 which he entered in 1831. Having graduated honorably 
 in 1835, without fortune and relying on himself, he found 
 his way to Wheeling, Va., where for a short time he 
 taught a classical school. He then took charge of the 
 High School in Potosi, Mo., beginning the study of law at 
 the same time. While thus occupied he married, on the 
 25th of December, 1837, Phebe A. Sheldon, also a teacher 
 in that place. In 1839 they removed to Joliet, 111., where 
 Mr. Norton entered upon legal practice. He rose rapidly. 
 His genial manner made him popular, and he was elected 
 successively City Attorney, Probate Judge (for two terms), 
 member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1848, 
 and, in 1850, member of the legislature. In 1852 he was 
 sent by the old Whig party, in its last campaign, to Con- 
 gress, where, during the second session of his term, he re- 
 sisted the repeal of the Missouri Compromise with all his 
 eloquence and power. His course being approved by his 
 constituents, he was re-elected in 1854 as a RepubHcan, 
 and served with ability until 1857, when he was elected to 
 the Circuit judgeship of Cook County, an office which he 
 filled with great acceptance. In 1862 he was again elected 
 to Congress, and he fulfilled his term of two years from 
 
30 Biographical Record of the [i^33- 
 
 March, 1863, during a most trying period of the country's 
 history. 
 
 At a meeting of the Chicago Bar Association called to 
 take action upon Judge Norton's decease, his former part- 
 ner, Hon. J. R. Doolittle, said : *' Alter the surrender of 
 the South he steadily maintained that the union of the 
 States was not broken by rebellion ; that the Constitution 
 was still the supreme law, . . . and that, therefore, Con- 
 gress had no more power to expel States from the Union 
 than the States had power to withdraw." This view of 
 the subject led to a separation between Judge Norton and 
 his party, but he was not permitted to retire from public 
 life, being appointed in 1866, by President Johnson, U. S. 
 District-Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, a 
 position which he filled *' with singular ability " until 
 April, 1869. 
 
 Upon his retirement, he resumed professional practice, 
 forming a partnership with Judge Doolittle, previously 
 U. S. Senator from Wisconsin, which continued until the 
 destruction, by the great fire of 1 871, of the firm's office 
 and library. After this disaster he practised alone, part 
 of the time as City Counsel, until overtaken by the sick- 
 ness which terminated in his death on the 3d of August, 
 
 1875. 
 
 In closing the eulogium already quoted from, his part- 
 ner said : " There was in him a genial, affectionate, and 
 loving nature, refined and exalted by a true Christian life, 
 which only those who knew him and his family in intimate 
 friendly intercourse could fully appreciate. It was in his 
 hospitable home, where he was so sincerely loved and 
 almost idolized as husband, father, and friend, that these 
 virtues of the soul shone forth and made a beauty of char- 
 acter which no wealth can purchase and no intellectual 
 greatness can supply." 
 
 Resolutions in honor of the deceased were passed at 
 the meeting referred to, and ordered by the court in 
 whose presence it was held, to be placed upon its records. 
 A delegation was appointed to represent the bar at the 
 funeral ceremony, which was held in the Central Presby- 
 
1 833-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 31 
 
 terian Church and attended by a large assembly of friends 
 and fellow-citizens. In this church the deceased had filled 
 the office of elder, although with modesty and diffidence, 
 and his pastor bore ample testimony to his Christian char- 
 acter, adding that " his heart was thrown open, perhaps 
 too widely, to the claims of the destitute ; and his charity 
 reached to the ends of the earth." Distinguished friends 
 acted as his pall-bearers, and a long train of those who 
 respected and loved him followed his remains to their 
 resting-place in Oakwood Cemetery. 
 
 The wife of Judge Norton, a son, and three daughters 
 survive him. (1876.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Senior Ex., 1834. Commence- 
 ment, 1835. A.M. in course. 
 
 Rev. David Jewett Waller, of Bloomsburg, Pa., son 
 of Phineas and Elizabeth [Jewett] Waller, was born at 
 Wilkesbarre, Pa., January i6th, 181 5. His father was 
 one of the first children born in the Wyoming colony 
 (January, 1774), and his mother the daughter of Dr. 
 David H. Jewett, of New London, Conn. 
 
 Named after his grandfather, a clerical graduate of 
 Harvard, and his uncle, a Commodore in the U. S. Navy, 
 he was naturally destined to a classical education ; and, 
 having been fitted for college at Wilkesbarre, in 1830 
 entered Williams, whence he was graduated in 1834. 
 Among the first initiated members of our Society here, he 
 was one of its most enthusiastic promoters, and has had 
 the pleasure of seeing two brothers and three cousins 
 follow him in the same connection. 
 
 After graduation, Mr. Waller took the full theological 
 course at Princeton Seminary, was licensed in 1837, and 
 ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Blooms- 
 burg May I St, 1838. In this charge he continued for 
 thirty-three years, giving to it his whole pastoral life. 
 The district which it covered originally included four 
 churches, and embraced a tract nearly forty miles square, 
 
32 Biographical Record of the Sj-^ZZ^ 
 
 lying along the Susquehanna. It now requires the labors 
 of six pastors. 
 
 Immediately after settlement, Mr. Waller married 
 Julia, youngest daughter of Levi EUmaker, Esq., of Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 His extensive charge furnished the young pastor with 
 abundant and laborious employment. Constant travel 
 became necessary. One sermon a fortnight was all that 
 could be allotted to Bloomsburg, while other points were 
 even less favored. Forty miles of horseback travel in a 
 day, to solemnize marriages, attend funerals, or for other 
 pastoral work, were deemed, a scarcely noteworthy per- 
 formance, although much of this journeying was accom- 
 plished after dark. " Late hours in the morning and a repu- 
 tation for night-prowling were the not unnatural results." 
 Nor was the pastor the only itinerant in the field. The 
 entertainment of ministerial guests, his brethren of the 
 Presbyterian body, agents of benevolent societies, and 
 others less entitled to his hospitality, most of them passing 
 over the fifty miles between Danville and Wilkesbarre, 
 soon became so much a feature of his labor that he some- 
 times started more travellers and conveyances from his 
 house, on a morning, than did the proprietor of the neigh- 
 boring hotel ; so that, on the erection by the latter of a 
 new sign-board, some wags set up the old one before the 
 pastoral dwelling, where it seemed not altogether out of 
 place, except for the temperance character of the house. 
 
 The years passed in extended and diversified ministe- 
 rial work, prayer-meetings and Bible-classes, revivals, 
 public theological discussions, and care for' the town's 
 educational interests. The standard of the latter had not 
 been remarkably high. One of the teachers employed, 
 who had volunteered instruction in Hebrew, on perusing 
 a copy of Shakespeare, inquired whether this was the cele- 
 brated author of that name, and what were his principal 
 works ; and upon being informed, could only exclaim with 
 astonishment, "What! these dialogues?" 
 
 An important and heavy undertaking was the erection 
 of a new church building, which for some time largely 
 
1^33-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 33 
 
 engaged the pastor's efforts, and resulted in the dedi- 
 cation of a commodious and much-needed edifice in 
 1848. 
 
 To these occupations were added the pleasant duties 
 of a Trustee of Lafayette College, discharged with interest 
 and efficiency for over twenty-five years. 
 
 In 1 87 1, his church having been brought up to the 
 point of self-sustentation, Mr. Waller felt constrained, by 
 various pressing considerations, to resign his charge, 
 though continuing his residence in Bloomsburg as 
 ''preacher at large;" and this notwithstanding a severe 
 injury to his left hip, received in 1875, which has since 
 kept him on crutches. In the year of the National Cen- 
 tennial, at the request of his successor, he delivered in his 
 old church a historical discourse, which was published by 
 desire of the Trustees and Session, and has furnished much 
 of the material for the present sketch. 
 
 Mr. Waller is also engaged in serving as President of 
 the North and West Branch Railroad. 
 
 From a family of ten children he has three sons and 
 two daughters living. His oldest son, David J., Jr., a 
 minister, is Principal of the State Normal School at 
 Bloomsburg. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1834. A.M. in course. 
 
 Thompson Kidder, of Medford, Mass., son of Thomp- 
 son and Mary A. [Cannell] Kidder, — the latter a native of 
 Dunkirk, France, — was born at Boston, his father's place 
 of residence, September 12th, 1812. He was fitted for 
 college in the Boston Latin School and in private schools 
 in Medford and Lynn, Mass., entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in 1832, and graduated in 1836. After graduation he 
 was engaged for about twenty-five years in conducting his 
 own private school in Boston, retiring in 1871 and remov- 
 ing to his present place of residence. 
 
 In 1844 he married Sarah Kidder, of Medford, and 
 3 
 
34 Biographical Record of the [1833. 
 
 he has had by this marriage three sons, two of whom 
 survive. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1834. 
 
 * Samuel Darrow, of Hebron, Washington County, 
 N. Y., son of Dennison and Martha [McCleary] Darrow, 
 of Norwich, Conn., was born at the latter place in 18 12. 
 Six years later his father removed with his family to Heb- 
 ron, and settled upon a farm on which one of his sons now 
 lives. From this retired home the subject of this sketch 
 came, says a classmate, '' when full grown and of manly 
 stature," to the academy at Salem, in the same county, to 
 prepare for college. " While there he was an earnest 
 student of the languages, and read either Johnson's or 
 Walker's dictionary through for the purpose of extending 
 his knowledge of his own tongue." In 1831 he entered 
 Union College ; but after remaining a single term, left it 
 for Williams, which he entered in 1832, joining the class 
 
 of 'SS- 
 
 ** He was a man of mature mind, fond of metaphysical 
 studies and of poetry," and while in college composed 
 some pieces in verse which were printed. But in 1833 he 
 was compelled by failing health to return home, where, 
 after an illness of a few months, on the 19th of January, 
 1834, he died of consumption. Before his death he had 
 his literary compositions destroyed, " not having attained 
 his ideal in any of them." 
 
 A service in memorial of the deceased was held in the 
 college chapel, at which a eulogy upon him was pro- 
 nounced by his classmate and brother in K. A., Thomas 
 Wright, after which those who were present united in 
 singing an elegy composed for the occasion by James 
 Dixon, another classmate and Society brother, in token of 
 the general respect and affection felt for one who had 
 thoroughly deserved both. 
 
 He is buried in Hebron, upon the old farm, on which 
 his brother still resides. (1880.) 
 
1 834-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 35 
 
 1834. 
 
 Rev. Charles Ashley Williams, of Geneva, Wis., 
 son of William and Lucy [Fitch] Williams, was born at 
 Salem, N. Y., his parents' home, September 20th, 18 14. 
 His father, a Williams graduate of the class of 1798, was 
 nearly related to Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder 
 of the college, and his mother was sister of Rev. Dr. Fitch, 
 its first president. 
 
 After preparation at Salem Academy, of which his 
 father was principal, and at Greenwich in the same county, 
 the subject of this sketch entered Williams in 1832, and in 
 1835 graduated with the Valedictory Oration. This he 
 was unable to dehver in person by reason of a severe and 
 unfortunate illness, contracted while caring for his class- 
 mate and K. A. brother, James H. Ellis, whose decease 
 occurred soon after. The oration which Mr. Williams 
 had prepared for the Commencement occasion, on the " In- 
 fluence of Moral upon Intellectual Character," was read 
 for him by a classmate in its appropriate place. 
 
 The effects of this illness have been so lasting as per- 
 manently to impair the health of its subject and to inter- 
 fere repeatedly with the work of his life. Entering 
 Andover Seminary in the fall of 1835, he took the first 
 year of his theological course there, and at its close, in 
 May, 1836, emigrated with his father's family to Illinois. 
 In the autumn of 1837 he went to Alabama in pursuit of 
 health, and while there taught in Tuscaloosa and in Marion 
 College, Perry County. In 1843 he was licensed to preach 
 by the Presbytery of Ottawa, 111. ; and in 1845, after a 
 sea-voyage for the sake of health, was settled at West 
 Gloucester, Mass. In 1848 he returned to Illinois and or- 
 ganized a home-missionary church in South Ottawa, with 
 which he labored for three years, when he was compelled 
 to abandon it by renewed illness. He subsequently took 
 charge of the Classical Institute at Galena, 111., under the 
 care of the Trustees of the North-west Theological Sem- 
 inary, but on the removal of the institution to Carlinville, 
 
36 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 thought best, for sanitary reasons, to dissolve his connec- 
 tion with it, preferring an engagement in the same work 
 at St. Paul, Minn. In 1858, a change for the sake of health 
 having again become necessary, he established the Keokuk 
 Female Seminary, with which he was connected for about 
 seven years, filling also, from 1 862 to the close of the war, 
 the post of Chaplain to the U. S. Hospital in the 
 same place, under an appointment by President Lincoln. 
 In 1865 he became pastor of Westminster Church, Rock- 
 ford, 111., in which he remained three and a half years, 
 when he was again compelled by physical disability to 
 retire from pulpit-work, and opened at his present resi- 
 dence a home-school for boys which he continued to con- 
 duct for five years. It then became necessary for him 
 finally to desist from too exacting labor, and since 1875 he 
 has been engaged principally in literary pursuits. A 
 volume recently published in New York, entitled *' The 
 Age — Temptations of American Christians," has been 
 attributed to his pen. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Williams married Susan F., daughter of 
 Rev. Roswell Hawkes, of South Hadley, Mass. (1880.) 
 
 Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 1834. Valedictory, Com- 
 mencement, 1835. A.M. in course. Phi Beta Kappa, 
 1864. 
 
 John Tatlock, ll.d., of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 William and Mary [Lloyd] Tatlock, of Liverpool, Eng- 
 land, was born in the island of Anglesea, North Wales, 
 December 4th, 1808. 
 
 After an apprenticeship of some years in a commercial 
 house in Liverpool, upon attaining his majority he sailed 
 for the United States, which he reached in 1830, landing 
 at Philadelphia. He soon after found his way to New 
 York, and thence to Hunter, Greene County, in the same 
 State, where he studied for college while employed in a 
 mercantile establishment. Entering Williams in 1832 as 
 Freshman, he graduated in 1836 with the Valedictory 
 
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 Oration upon the subject of " Metaphysics," and was imme- 
 diately after appointed to the position of Tutor in the 
 college, which he filled for two years. In 1838 he was 
 made Professor of Mathematics, and in this position he 
 continued until 1867, except during the year 1845-46, in 
 which he held the Professorship of Ancient Languages. 
 
 On the i6th of August, 1838, he married Lucy B., daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Alfred Perry, of Stockbridge, and by this mar- 
 riage he had a son, John, born December 4th, 1841 ; but 
 both wife and son deceased within the space of a single 
 month during the following year. On the i8th of July, 
 1843, Professor Tatlock married Sarah M. Benjamin, of 
 WiUiamstown, whose ever kindly interest in our Society 
 should be acknowledged here. They occupied for some 
 years a house pleasantly situated near the site of the pres- 
 ent college chapel, but removed subsequently to the still 
 more attractive residence made vacant by the death of 
 Professor Kellogg ; and upon the acquisition of this prop- 
 erty Professor Tatlock became a naturalized citizen of the 
 United States. 
 
 Many will ever remember with grateful pleasure the 
 hospitality dispensed in both these pleasant homes. Into 
 the second of them Professor Tatlock received the orphan 
 children of a deceased brother, and they remained with 
 him throughout the academic course, or until able to 
 care for themselves. Two of these followed their uncle 
 in his Society connection, the younger bearing the same 
 honored name, and transmitting it in turn to his own 
 eldest son, to be placed again and for the third time upon 
 our record of membership. May this succession never be 
 suspended long ! 
 
 In 1845 Professor Tatlock was appointed College Libra- 
 rian, and he continued to discharge his duties as such 
 until 1856. At Commencement in 1848 he delivered the 
 oration before the Alumni, which had for some time been 
 discontinued, taking for his subject " Esthetic Culture." 
 On the 14th of October, 1852, he was licensed to preach 
 by the Congregational Association of Berkshire, and his 
 pulpit work was almost continuous throughout his pro- 
 
38 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 fessorship. In 1857 he received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Western Reserve College, and in 1865 and 1866 was Vice- 
 President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society here. Finally, 
 in 1867, after twenty-nine years of service in the college, 
 he resigned his chair and became Professor Emeritus of 
 Mathematics. 
 
 In June, 1868, Dr. Tatlock was admitted to the bar of 
 Massachusetts, and began legal practice, removing to 
 Pittsfield early in 1869. He was soon after appointed 
 Special Justice of the District Court of Central Berk- 
 shire, which office he resigned after some time, continu- 
 ing to reside in Pittsfield, but withdrawing from active 
 life, in which he has assuredly played no sluggard's 
 part. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1835. Adelphic Union Ex., 1834 and 1836. 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Valedictory, Commencement, 1836. 
 A.M. in course. LL.D., West. Res., 1857. ^.P. Phi Beta 
 Kappa. 
 
 Hon. and Rev. Robert Crawford, d.d., of Deerfield, 
 Mass., son of James and Jane [Kennedy] Crawford, was 
 born at Paisley, Scotland, then his parents' home, Novem- 
 ber 24th, 1804. In 1 82 1 his father emigrated with his 
 family to America, settling on new wild land in the town- 
 ship of Lanark, Canada West. In 1826 the subject of this 
 sketch, being twenty-one years of age, left home and came 
 to Hoosac Falls in the State of New York, to engage in 
 cotton manufacturing ; and three years later removed to 
 Bennington, Vt., for the same purpose. 
 
 In 1832, being in his twent3^-eighth year, he began pre- 
 paration for college, — if a little study of Latin in Scotland, 
 while a boy, be excepted, — and six months later, in Sep- 
 tember of the same year, entered Williams, as Freshman. 
 One of the principal events of his course was his accom- 
 panying, in the summer of 1835, an expedition composed of 
 about twenty members of the college, under the leader- 
 ship of Professors Emmons and Albert Hopkins and Tutor 
 
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 Calhoun, which sailed from Boston along our eastern coast 
 and up the Bay of Fundy, and is said to have been the first 
 of its kind fitted out from an American college. In 1836 he 
 was graduated, and soon after entered Princeton Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, which he left at the close of his first year, to 
 become Tutor at Williams. In this capacity he remained 
 until the end of fall term, 1838, when he entered the 
 Middle class in Union Seminary, from which, after licen- 
 sure in May, 1839, he was graduated in the spring of 1840. 
 Having accepted a call, not long after, to the Congrega- 
 tional church of North Adams, Mass., he was ordained its 
 pastor August 20th, 1840, President Hopkins preaching 
 the usual sermon. 
 
 On the 30th of the following month Mr. Crawford 
 married Ellen M., daughter of ex-President Griffin, of the 
 college, and by this marriage he has had seven children. 
 
 In 1855, after a pastorate of fifteen years, he resigned 
 his charge at North Adams, and shortly after was settled 
 over the Presbyterian church in Crookville, Pa., fifteen 
 miles south of Philadelphia ; but in a little more than a 
 year this enterprise, which had been a promising one, was 
 broken up by the failure of a large manufacturing estab- 
 lishment upon which it depended for support and a con- 
 gregation. In 1857 Mr. Crawford returned to Massa- 
 chusetts, and settled in the fine and historic town of Old 
 Deerfield, which is still his home. He was, early in his 
 settlement, elected a member of the board of trustees of 
 the well-known academy in the town, and in 1863 became 
 president of 'the board, a position to which he has been 
 annually re-elected ever since. 
 
 In 1858 he received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson 
 College, Pa. In the fall of 1862 was elected to the Senate 
 of Massachusetts, where he served until 1864, attending, 
 in addition to regular sessions, an extra sitting of some 
 length, called to consider war matters. In 1852 and again 
 in 1872 he visited Scotland and England for health and re- 
 creation, much to his enjoyment. From time to time dur- 
 ing his ministry he has printed, by request, occasional 
 discourses. And having recently proposed to resign his 
 
40 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 charge, he was persuaded by his people to withdraw from 
 his purpose. Thus, although he began his professional 
 life at some disadvantage, through delay, he has been 
 enabled to do a long and active work, in which he is still 
 permitted, at the age of seventy-six, to continue. (1880.) 
 
 Dr. Crawford has two sons and two daughters living. 
 Of the former, both graduates of Williams, the older is 
 Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of 
 Illinois, and the younger a missionary in western Turkey. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1835. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1836. Com- 
 mencement, 1836. A. M. in course. D.D., Jefferson, 1858. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Hon. Joseph White, ll.d., of Williamstown, son of 
 Joseph and Rebecca [Rice] White, was born at Charle- 
 mont, FrankHn County, Mass., November i8th, 181 1. He 
 is a descendant of John White and, on the maternal side, 
 of Edmond Rice, settlers, from England, of the towns of 
 Lancaster (1650) and Sudbury (1639) respectively. 
 
 Having reached the beginning of his eighteenth year, 
 the subject of this sketch taught school for some months 
 in his native town, and then entered upon his preparation 
 for college in Bennington Seminary, supporting himself 
 at the same time by teaching, in his own turn, in the same 
 institution as well as in the town. His preliminary course 
 was brief. He entered Williams, as Freshman, in the 
 autumn of 1832, and was graduated in 1836 with the First 
 English Oration. While in college he supported himself 
 entirely by teaching, annually spending in this occupation 
 a period of twenty weeks, taken in part from term-time, 
 as was then permitted in such cases. And after gradua- 
 tion he passed several months as instructor in the semi- 
 nary at Bennington. 
 
 ' In March, 1837, Mr. White entered the office of Judge 
 J. D. Willard, of Troy, as student at law, going thence, in 
 October following, to that of Hon. Martin I. Townsend 
 and Brother, where he remained until January, 1839, ^"^^ 
 
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 then returned as Tutor to the college, serving as such 
 with acceptance until Commencement, 1840. In 1841 Mr. 
 White married Hannah, daughter of Keyes Danforth, Sr., 
 of Williamstown, and soon after formed a copartnership 
 in Troy with his brother-in-law, the late Hon. A. B. Olin, 
 which continued for some years. 
 
 In December, 1848, he removed to Lowell and took 
 charge of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, then one of the 
 largest manufacturing corporations in New England. 
 Meantime he represented Middlesex, as Senator, in the 
 legislative session of 1857, serving as Chairman of the 
 Joint Standing Committee on Education. He was also 
 Chairman of a large special Committee on Retrenchment 
 and Reform, and thus secured the adoption of important 
 measures relating to the objects and modes of legislation. 
 In April, 1858, was appointed a Bank Commissioner, and 
 served as such until resignation in i860. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. White was elected Trustee of the college 
 in place of Hon. David Buel. At Commencement, 1855, 
 delivered an oration before the Society of Alumni in 
 memorial of the founder. Col. Ephraim Williams, which 
 was printed at the Society's request. In March, 1859, was 
 chosen College Treasurer to succeed Hon. Daniel Dewey, 
 deceased; accepted the appointment, and, on the ist of 
 January following, removed to Williamstown, his home 
 since that time. 
 
 In July, i860, the appointment of Secretary to the 
 State Board of Education, in place of Gov. Bullock, was 
 added to the above, and to it annual re-election was made 
 until May, 1876. Its duties were exacting, and included 
 oversight of the six Normal Schools of the State, the 
 conduct of numerous Teachers' Institutes, delivery of lec- 
 tures and addresses, voluminous correspondence, mostly 
 legal, and the preparation of a series of annual reports, 
 extending to sixteen volumes, to which was added a com- 
 pilation of the State laws respecting public schools, with 
 original notes. For his discharge of these duties he re- 
 ceived the hearty approval of the Board and the people 
 of the State. 
 
42 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 In 1868 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him 
 by Yale College. 
 
 Mr. White served as a member of the legislature a 
 second time in the session of 1875, acting as Chairman, on 
 the part of the House of Representatives, of the Joint 
 Committee on Education. In 1877 he was chosen Presi- 
 dent of the Northern Berkshire Conference of the Con- 
 gregational Church. But during recent years he has with- 
 drawn for the most part from public office, devoting his 
 time mainly to his duties as College Treasurer, to the 
 management of the farm on which he resides, and to the 
 consultation of the large and well-appointed library which 
 he has for many years been engaged in collecting. (1881.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1833. Junior Ex., 1835. Adelphic 
 Un. Ex., 1835. President Philotechnian. First Enghsh 
 Oration, Commencement, 1836. College Oration, July 
 4th, 1839. Master's Oration, 1839. College Oration on 
 the Occasion of the Death of the Late President, April 
 15th, 1 841. Oration before Alumni, 1855. Phi Beta 
 Kappa (Treasurer), 1864. LL.D., Yale, 1868. 
 
 Edward Strong, m.d., of Auburndale, Mass., son of 
 Hon. Lewis and Maria [Chester] Strong, — the former 
 a son of Gov. Caleb Strong and the latter a native of 
 Weathersfield, Conn., — was born at the family home in 
 Northampton, April 4th, 18 16. 
 
 He was graduated at Williams in 1834 and at Harvard 
 Medical School in 1838, practised in his profession at West 
 Springfield and at South Hadley for about ten years, and 
 removed to Newton in 1853. Since 1854 he has been 
 employed in the office of the Secretary of State in Boston, 
 largely in the superintendence and compilation of the An- 
 nual Registration Report of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 
 and other statistical publications under State authority, 
 the most important of which is the volume of Abstracts 
 from and Comments upon the State Census of 1865. 
 
 Mr. Strong married, September 30th, 1839, Lucretia 
 
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 W. Mitchell, of Norwich, Conn., and on the 9th Septem- 
 ber, 1846, after her decease, Harriet L. Hayes, of South 
 Hadley. By the latter marriage he has had a son and 
 three daughters, of whom two only are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1833. Commencement, 1834. 
 
 *JOB Shaftsbury Olin, of Troy, N. Y., youngest 
 child of Hon. Gideon Olin, was born at Shaftsbury, Vt., 
 his parents' home, July 5th, 181 1. His father, a native of 
 Kingston, R. I., and one of the early settlers of what after- 
 wards became the State of Vermont, was a leading man 
 in his section, took a prominent part in the struggle for 
 independence, subsequently became a distinguished mem- 
 ber of Congress in the House of Representatives, and 
 was for eleven years Speaker of that body. He also 
 served for some years as County Judge of Bennington 
 County. Was twice married, the second time to Mrs. 
 Lydia [Myers] Pope, a native, like himself, of Rhode 
 Island, who subsequently became the mother of our subject. 
 By his first marriage Judge Olin had eight children, all 
 now dead, and by his second five, most of whom are also 
 deceased. 
 
 This son was fitted for college at a school in Benning- 
 ton now known as Mt. Anthony Seminary, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1832, and was graduated in 1836. 
 He then went immediately to Troy and entered the office of 
 Hon. Martin I. Townsend as student at law ; but completed 
 his studies in that of his future partner, the late Judge 
 George Gould. '' Upon commencing his professional life 
 he evinced good judgment in the matters of his profession, 
 untiring industry, and an integrity beyond the shadow of 
 suspicion." He was for a time in partnership with his 
 brother Abram, also a Williams graduate, who was a 
 lawyer of eminence and subsequently became a Judge of 
 the District Court of the District of Columbia, and in 
 this connection he entered upon '' a remarkably brilliant 
 career." Subsequently he became a partner of Judge 
 
44 Biographical Record of the [1B34. 
 
 Gould, as already mentioned. He was early appointed a 
 magistrate, and filled the office of Justice of the Police 
 Court for five years ; was afterwards elected Recorder of 
 the City and Judge of the Mayor's Court, and presiding 
 as such " he exhibited a degree of knowledge of the law, 
 and a capacity for the application of its rules and princi- 
 ples to the affairs of life, which did him the greatest 
 honor." 
 
 But this '' brilliant career" was destined to a compara- 
 tively early close. Before he had completed his forty- 
 third year, an attack of bilious colic, so sudden and brief 
 that '' few were informed of his sickness until his death 
 was announced to them," brought all to an end. His 
 decease occurred on the 21st of October, 1854, and was 
 deeply lamented throughout the community in which he 
 lived. At a meeting of the Troy bar, held on the same 
 day, Hon. David Buel presiding, warm eulogiums were 
 pronounced upon his abilities and character, and a deep 
 feeling of sorrow and loss was exhibited. In expressing 
 his own estimate of his departed associate, Judge Gould 
 said : '* He studied his profession with me, and although 
 absent from me for a time, after entering on practice, re- 
 turned to my office and was for ten years my partner. If 
 any one can say he knew him, I am that one. And know- 
 ing him thus, I can vouch for him in every respect, — as to 
 strong intellect, high cultivation, noble purposes, and 
 warm affections. . . . Perhaps the most marked point of 
 his character was his independent spirit. He was, in the 
 discharge of his duties, one of the most fearless men I 
 ever knew. And this without assumption, without arro- 
 gance, I might say with even a distrust of his own powers. 
 ... In his family he was most kind and affectionate, and 
 necessarily the object of the strongest attachment, the 
 most tender endearment." 
 
 Mr. Wm. A. Beach, now of New York, added: " Two 
 of the most prominent features of his character attracted 
 the admiring notice of the most indifferent observer. I 
 allude to his warm, cheerful disposition and his frank, 
 fearless independence. His social qualities were ardent 
 
1 834-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 45 
 
 and sanguine, and adorned with a mild and gentle gayety 
 entirely relieving from asperity his always clear and 
 marked decision of purpose and expression. How well 
 we remember the smile upon his lip which always greeted 
 us, whether in our festal relaxations or in the zealous ac- 
 tivities of business effort. From all the occasions of life 
 he extracted joy. His sunny nature threw over the rough 
 inequalities and weary toil of earth an animating and hope- 
 ful light. He was indeed a spirit * of infinite jest, of most 
 excellent fancy,' whose memory will long linger around 
 us in brightness." 
 
 " The independence of his character was not morose and 
 arbitrary. It was guided by high and educated intelli- 
 gence and an exalted conscientiousness. It sprang from 
 a noble self-reliance, founded upon large thought and 
 clear, comprehensive judgment. His conclusions were 
 convictions, weakened by no doubt or hesitation. Such 
 a mind and such a man could not fail to leave an impress 
 on his fellows; and in proportion to his extended rela- 
 tions and large influence is the gloomy void his death has 
 made." 
 
 Resolutions were passed by the meeting, and also by 
 the Council of the Troy Club, specially convened on the 
 same day. 
 
 In concluding its notice of these meetings, the news- 
 paper in which it is contained adds : " We may well say 
 that in his death our community has sustained an irrepa- 
 rable loss, and such an one as we are seldom called on to 
 record." 
 
 Judge OHn married in 1840, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Mary 
 A. Ousterhout, a graduate from and subsequently a 
 teacher in Mrs. Willard's Seminary in Troy, and by this 
 marriage he had two daughters. His wife and children 
 survived him, but all are now deceased. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Troy Daily Budget, Oct. 23^, 1854, in part. 
 
 Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 1835. Prest. Philologian. 
 Commencement, 1836. A. M. in course. 
 
4^ Biographical Record of the [1834, 
 
 Rev. William Brown Otis, of Clifton, King George 
 County, Va., was born at Otisville, N. Y., January 6thy 
 1817. 
 
 He was graduated at Williams in 1836, and at the Gen- 
 eral Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, in 
 New York, in 1840. He then took charge of a parish in 
 Washington County, North Carolina, which he retained for 
 about four years. In 1843 was called to the rectorship of 
 Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in which he remained one 
 year. In 1844 accepted a call to St. John's, Salem, N. J., 
 with which he was connected for three years. In 1848 
 took charge of a parish in Morristown, N. J., in which he 
 continued until the failure of his health, when he returned 
 to Salem, and remained there several years. In 1855 h€ 
 removed to Geneva, N. Y. ; in 1866 was called to Christ 
 Church, Shrewsbury, N. J., with which he remained for 
 some years. In 1879 removed to his present residence, 
 without parochial charge. 
 
 During the war of the rebellion Mr. Otis was for a time 
 Chaplain of the Twelfth New Jersey Infantry. He mar- 
 ried, Nov. 25th, 1846, Annie E. Tuft, of Salem, N. J. (1880.) 
 
 Biographical AnnalSy, mainly. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1835. Prest. Philologian. 
 
 James Newton Platt, of New York City, was born in 
 that city February 3d, 18 17. 
 
 He was fitted for the collegiate course at the Grammar 
 School of Columbia College, entered Williams in 1833, and 
 was graduated in 1835. He then studied law in New York, 
 was admitted to the bar in October, 1838, and has ever 
 since been engaged in legal practice in that city. (1880.) 
 
 Senior Ex., 1835. Commencement, 1835. 
 
 Solomon Belden Noble, of Long Island City, N. Y., 
 youngest son of Hon. Daniel and Esther [Belden] Noble, 
 was born at Williamstown, his parents' home, May 22d, 
 
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 1820. His father, a distinguished graduate of the college, 
 in the class of 1 796, was for many years the Treasurer of 
 the institution, as well as one of its Trustees and most effi- 
 cient supporters. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at Prof. 
 Chester Dewey's '' Gymnasium" in Pittsfield, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1833, and was graduated in 
 1837. He then read law in New York, and after admis- 
 sion to the bar was engaged in active practice in that city 
 for a number of years, during which he was for some 
 time a deputy clerk of the U. S. District Court for the 
 Southern District of New York. He also served one 
 term, 1852-53, as a member of the legislature, in the As- 
 sembly. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Noble removed to the new'municipality of 
 Long Island City, on the East River, opposite the upper 
 part of New York, then rising into commercial impor- 
 tance. In its public affairs he has taken a leading part, 
 filling the offices of Corporation Attorney and Counsel, 
 and City Clerk, and is at present Counsel to the Board 
 of Excise. 
 
 In 1850 married Agnes Nicolson, and has five sons and 
 a daughter. (Dec, 1879.) 
 
 Address, No. 10 Jackson Avenue. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1834. Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 
 1836. Adelphic Union Ex., 1836. Commencement, 1837. 
 Master's Oration, 1840. 
 
 * Walter Wright, of Chicago, 111., third son of John 
 and Huldah [Dewey] Wright, was born in Sheffield, Mass., 
 his parents' home. May 31st, 18 19. During his childhood 
 the family came to Williamstown, where his maternal 
 uncle, Dr. Chester Dewey, was a professor, and where the 
 subject of this sketch received his preparation for college 
 in the academy. He entered WiUiams in 1832, as Fresh- 
 man, and was graduated in 1836, at the age of seventeen. 
 
48 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 with the Salutatory Oration, thus early manifesting abilities 
 which did not pass without special commendation from 
 the head of the institution. 
 
 He soon after began the study of law in Troy, com- 
 pleting his introductory course at Chicago, whither his 
 father had removed in 1834. But though admitted to the 
 bar, he never engaged in practice. His health having be- 
 come impaired, partly, perhaps, by too close application 
 in college, he went to Europe soon after gaining his pro- 
 fession, for travel and change. He had inherited a com- 
 petence, mostly in real estate, from his father, and on his 
 return from abroad gave his attention to his own business 
 affairs, which soon became greatly embarrassed through 
 accommodation endorsements for a near relative. In 1857 
 these matters reached a crisis, and for the next seventeen 
 years Mr. Wright struggled under the load of debt thus 
 contracted, amounting originally to nearly two hundred 
 thousand dollars. Every cent of this sum, with interest, 
 he ultimately paid, being enabled to do so by the rise in 
 the value of his property ; but it was not finally cleared 
 away until 1874; and it is interesting to note that at his 
 death he was possessed of a fortune considerably larger 
 than the great amount he had so honorably discharged. 
 
 During several years of this trying period he supported 
 himself, considerably to the injury of his health, by the 
 pen. To this he was naturally led by his fine literary taste, 
 ripe German scholarship, studies in metaphysics, and ambi- 
 tion for a marked literary reputation. He made many 
 admirable poetical translations, which were destroyed by 
 the great fire of 1871, and wrote for years the editorials 
 of the Chicago Tribune, which " were always published 
 just as they were written." 
 
 Mr. Wright was a lover of music and painting, culti- 
 vated, witty, possessed of exquisite humor, graceful in con- 
 versation, a charming letter- writer, and a favorite in society. 
 Better still, he was exact and honorable in business, gen- 
 erous in giving, devout and scrupulous in religion. 
 
 His health failing, he spent the winter of 1875-76 in 
 Florida. Early the following spring he returned to Chi- 
 
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 cago, and after lingering through the summer, died in that 
 city, of an affection of the liver, on the 25th of October, 
 1876. He was unmarried. 
 
 Obituary Record^ 1877, in part. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1835. Salutatory, Commencement, 1836. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Martin Finch, of Keeseville, Essex County, N. Y., son 
 of William and Rachel [Smith] Finch, was born in the 
 town of Jay, in the same county, then his father's place of 
 residence, June 21st, 181 1. 
 
 Having worked upon a farm until nearly twenty-one 
 years of age, he went to Bennington, Vt., to study, and 
 was enabled, by the aid of friends and by teaching himself, 
 to work his way through the preparatory course at the 
 academy. He entered WiUiams, as Freshman, in the fall 
 of 1833, and at the close of first term Sophomore engaged 
 in teaching in Westfield Academy for . a few months. 
 Shortly after his return to college he was attacked by ty- 
 phus fever, and obliged, as soon as able, to go home. His 
 father had removed not long before to Peru, Clinton 
 County, and here the son remained until the following 
 spring (1835), when he rejoined his class, with which he 
 was graduated in 1837. 
 
 He then became assistant in Auburn Academy, teach- 
 ing there and in Victory, near by, until 1840. Meantime 
 he had entered the law office of D. Robinson, Esq., at 
 Port Byron, in the vicinity, reading as he was able in the 
 intervals of teaching. Upon discontinuing this work he 
 went to Keeseville, and, settling permanently, continued 
 his studies in the office of T. A. Tomlinson, Esq. Upon 
 the election of the latter to Congress, soon after, his pupil 
 undertook the management of the office business, which he 
 conducted during most of his principal's term of service. 
 
 After admission to practice in the summer of 1842, Mr. 
 Finch formed a partnership with Mr. Tomlinson, which 
 lasted for about four years, when the latter retired from 
 
so Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 practice. The former continued the business, and has 
 remained in it until the present time. He has, in addi- 
 tion, held some town office every year since the second 
 of his residence in Keeseville : was supervisor for twelve 
 successive years; served three years as district-attorney 
 of the county of Essex ; and was a member of Assembly 
 in 1860-61. In 1872 he was appointed Register in Bank- 
 ruptcy for his Congressional district, and this office he 
 still holds. 
 
 Mr. Finch married, October 8th, 1843, and has had 
 eight children, two only of whom survive. A recent pe- 
 culiarly painful occurrence in his domestic history was 
 the decease of his son, the Rev. Henry O. Finch, of Guil- 
 ford, Conn., a graduate of the University of Vermont, who 
 was found dead on the beach not far from Guilford, where, 
 during a morning walk, he had probably been attacked by 
 disease of the heart, which proved immediately fatal. 
 His brief pastorate at Guilford had been very successful, 
 and the occasion of his funeral at Keeseville proved that 
 he was greatly esteemed and beloved at home. (1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1837. 
 
 * Russell Brown, of Whitingham, Vt, was the fifth 
 son of Jonas and Lois [Russell] Brown. His father and 
 mother, natives respectively of New Ipswich and Rindge, 
 both in New Hampshire, came to Whitingham about 
 1797, settled there in the wilderness, and raised a family 
 of seven sons and four daughters, all of whom became 
 adults. 
 
 The subject of this notice was born at this home, Feb- 
 ruary 2ist, 18 12, and as he exhibited a special aptitude for 
 study, was fitted for college, in part at Bennington Semi- 
 nary, under his cousin Nathan (now Rev. Dr. Brown, a 
 graduate of Williams, who has for many years been a dis- 
 tinguished missionary of the Baptist Church in India and 
 Japan), and in part at New Haven, Conn. He entered 
 
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 Williams, as Sophomore, in 1834, and proved himself an 
 excellent scholar and original thinker. He was an ardent 
 student of history, and had both a taste and a talent for 
 poetry. His father, a farmer, was a devout and exemplary 
 Christian, and for more than a quarter of a century a dea- 
 con in the Baptist Church, with which his son Russell 
 united about 1832. It thenceforth became the young 
 student's purpose to prepare for the ministry and go to 
 the missionary field. To this he devoted himself with un- 
 tiring zeal, so that he had even begun to exercise himself 
 in preaching during his preparation for college. Possess- 
 ing a strong constitution and a fine physical organization, 
 he seemed peculiarly fitted for his chosen work ; but these 
 quickly succumbed to an attack of typhoid fever, of which 
 he died, very suddenly and unexpectedly to his friends, in 
 college, May 7th, 1835, during his Junior year. Funeral 
 services were held upon the occasion in the college chapel, 
 where a eulogy was pronounced by the cousin, classmate, 
 room-mate, and K. A. brother of the deceased, William G. 
 Brown (p. 52), and a dirge, also composed by him, was 
 sung by the students over the remains. These were then 
 conveyed for interment to Whitingham;^ escorted for 
 some miles by the class, who subsequently erected over 
 them a monument bearing the inscription " In pace quies- 
 cat." 
 
 Uriah Burr Phillips, of New York City, a member 
 of the class of 1837, entered Williams College during 
 Freshman year, probably in 1834. He remained only a 
 short time, perhaps a year, and is remembered by his room- 
 mate, Prof. J. A. Leland, of South Carolina, as a " clever, 
 genial companion," and by a K. A. brother as a ''very 
 pleasant, companionable man." 
 
 Before entering college he had been employed for a 
 time in the New York post-office. But all efforts to as- 
 certain his history for this publication have thus far proved 
 unsuccessful. (Feb., 1881.) 
 
52 Biographical Record of the [1834. 
 
 William Goldsmith Brown, of Linwood, Portage 
 County, Wis., second son of Nathan and Betsey [Gold- 
 smith] Brown, was born at Whitingham, Vt., his parents* 
 place of residence, March 3d, 1812. 
 
 He was fitted for college at New Hampton, N. H., and 
 at Bennington Seminary, then a flourishing institution, 
 taught in part by his brother Nathan (a Williams graduate 
 of 1827, well known in later years as a missionary of the 
 Baptist Church in India, China, and Japan, and as an emi- 
 nent philologist), and entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1833, with his cousin and classmate, Russell 
 Brown, also of our Society, of whom a sketch has already 
 been given (p. 50). But being deeply affected by the 
 death of the latter during his Junior year, and finding his 
 own health begin to fail, he was shortly after compelled 
 to abandon his hope of graduating, and withdraw from 
 college. 
 
 After some years spent in teaching in Union Acad- 
 emy, Bennington, and at Shelburne Falls and Holyoke, 
 Mass., the subject of this sketch in 1840 became engaged 
 in journalism as editor, at first of the Vermont Telegraphy 
 afterwards oi the Voice of Freedom (anti-slavery papers 
 published at Brandon, Vt.), and from 1856 to 1858 of the 
 Chicopee (Mass.) Journal. 
 
 It was during this period of newspaper-work that he 
 wrote several poems which attained a wide circulation and 
 celebrity, and secured his admission among the " Poets of 
 Vermont," in the volume of their selected works published 
 at Rutland in 1858, as well as in general estimation. The 
 best known of these pieces are " A Hundred Years to 
 Come" and '' Mother, Home, and Heaven ;" the former 
 of which, although an impromptu, written in a single hour, 
 is so happily conceived as to touch a universal chord ; and 
 is justly included among " Single Famous Poems" (N. Y., 
 1877) as worthy of such special recognition. This poem 
 alone should avert from its author the oblivion presaged 
 in its concluding stanza, and will be appropriately inserted 
 here. 
 
1 834'] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 53 
 
 A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME. 
 
 Oh! where will be the birds that sing, 
 
 A hundred years to come ? 
 The flowers that now in beauty spring, 
 
 A hundred years to come ? 
 The rosy lip, the lofty brow, 
 The heart that beats so gayly now ? 
 Oh! where will be Love's beaming eye, 
 Joy's pleasant smile, and Sorrow's sigh, 
 
 A hundred years to come ? 
 
 Who'll press for gold this crowded street, 
 
 A hundred years to come? 
 Who'll tread yon church with willing feet, 
 
 A hundred years to come ? 
 Pale trembling age and fiery youth, 
 And childhood with its brow of truth, 
 The rich and poor, on land and sea, — 
 Where will the mighty millions be, 
 
 A hundred years to come ? 
 
 We all within our graves shall sleep, 
 
 A hundred years to come. 
 No living soul for us will weep, 
 
 A hundred years to come. 
 But other men our lands shall till. 
 And others then our streets shall fill, 
 While other birds shall sing as gay. 
 As bright the sunshine as to-day, 
 
 A hundred years to come. 
 
 Many other poems by the same hand have gone the 
 rounds of the papers and magazines, and it is hoped that 
 their author will yet collect all these fugitive pieces into 
 a volume for preservation. A couple of stanzas from one of 
 them, entitled '' Fifty Years Ago," and recently addressed 
 to his brother in Japan, already mentioned, may be given 
 for the sake of the allusions to Commencement scenes 
 which they contain. 
 
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 I see the long line, arm in arm, 
 
 With music on the air, 
 March to their annual festival 
 
 Up to the house of prayer, 
 While towering high above them all, 
 
 A king in look and mien. 
 His white hair like a silver crown, 
 
 Our Griffin's form is seen. 
 
 Ah! well, if on life's stage for truth 
 
 They've raised their voice as well 
 As when, that day, upon their ears 
 
 His "Tolle vocem!" fell. 
 But well or ill, their parts are played; 
 
 They've crossed death's river o'er; 
 A few like us, of gray-haired men, 
 
 Still linger on the shore. 
 
 At the Whitingham Centennial, celebrated during the 
 summer of the present year, the orator of the day con- 
 cluded his address before the great audience present with 
 a recitation of " A Hundred Years to Come," which he 
 thus prefaced : " When I hesitated as to what my closing 
 words should be, I was impressed with the fact that a 
 native of Whitingham, a poet and a man of genius, had 
 unconsciously written what ought to be repeated here. I 
 offer as a part of these proceedings the following lines, 
 seemingly written for this occasion, more than twenty 
 (forty) years ago by William G. Brown." 
 
 The subject of this eulogium removed in 1861 to Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., and subsequently to his present residence, 
 where he has been engaged in mercantile and business 
 pursuits. 
 
 He married, October loth, 1839, Eunice, daughter of 
 David Fisher, of Halifax, Vt., and by this marriage he has 
 three sons and two daughters. The former inherit their 
 father's aptitude for editorial work. (1880.) 
 
 P. O. address, Meehan, Portage Co., Wis. 
 
 Junior Ex. (not fulfilled), 1836. 
 
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 1835. 
 
 John Ravenscroft JoneSj of Lawrenceville, Bruns- 
 wick County, Va., son of Thomas and Mary A. [Goode] 
 Jones, — the latter originally of Mecklenburg County in the 
 same State, — was born in the county first named, August 
 2ist, 1818. 
 
 He was prepared for college at Ebenezfer Academy, in 
 his native county, and at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, 
 Mass., and entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 
 1833. Left, on account of poor health, November, 1835, 
 and the following spring entered William and Mary Col- 
 lege, but remained only until July of the same year, when, 
 his health again failing him, he abandoned all hope of a 
 collegiate education. In 1837 and 1839 he taught in 
 Brunswick Academy. 
 
 Mr. Jones's occupation in Brunswick County during 
 the greater part of his life has been that of a planter and 
 farmer, and he has been fully identified with all the social 
 and business interests of that section. Under the old con- 
 stitution of Virginia he was a justice of the peace and 
 member of the County Court. At present he is County 
 Superintendent of Schools, under appointment by the 
 Board of Public Education, his term commencing January 
 1st, 1879. ^^ has also been for many years a lay-reader 
 in the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 He married, December nth, 1839, Mary J. Rice, also 
 of Brunswick County, and by this marriage he has a 
 daughter and two sons. (1880.) 
 
 * Moses Robinson Wright, of Ithaca, N. Y., younger 
 brother of Rev. T. Wright (p. 21) and son of Charles and 
 Eunice [Robinson] Wright, was born at Bennington, Vt., 
 his parents' home, April 7th, 18 18. His paternal ancestors 
 were among the early settlers of the Vermont Grants, and 
 of the same stock with those of Gov. Silas Wright of 
 N. Y. His mother was a descendant of Hon. Moses Rob- 
 
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 inson, a friend and correspondent of Jefferson and of 
 Ethan Allen in Revolutionary times, and subsequently 
 Chief-Justice and Governor of the State. 
 
 The father of our subject died when the latter was but 
 ten months old. His mother was left with a large prop- 
 erty, and subsequently married Rev. J. Whiton, a gradu- 
 ate and trustee of the college. 
 
 Moses R. was fitted for the collegiate course at a pri- 
 vate school in Manchester, Vt., under Rev. Lyman Cole- 
 man, who is still connected with the work of education as 
 Professor in Lafayette College. His pupil entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1834, and proved himself an excel- 
 lent scholar; but the failure of a large manufacturing 
 establishment in Bennington crippled the financial re- 
 sources of his mother and led to his withdrawal from col- 
 lege before the completion of his course. Undaunted by 
 this misfortune, the young man resolved to rely on his own 
 efforts, and, leaving home with, only fourteen dollars and 
 an old silver watch in his pocket, made his way to Ithaca, 
 where he entered a law-office, and endeavored to support 
 himself at the same time by teaching. Finding his income 
 insufficient for his needs, he determined upon going South 
 to teach, and spent upwards of a year in Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
 thus employed. Returning North, he continued his legal 
 studies at Rochester, N. Y., and completed them at Ithaca, 
 where he settled in practice and attained a high position 
 in his profession by laborious study and a patience, perse- 
 verance, and determination that nothing could overcome. 
 Legal difficulties rather invited than repelled him, and he 
 was never happier than when deep in some recondite 
 question of jurisprudence, depending for its solution upon 
 subtle principles and intricate analogies. His range of 
 reading, both legal and general, was varied and extensive, 
 and his tenacious memory retained whatever it had once 
 grasped ; while his unquestioned integrity and purity, 
 devotion to his profession, and ambition to excel in it 
 might reasonably have led to the enjoyment of its highest 
 honors, especially as he was also considerably engaged in 
 politics. As a member of the last Democratic National 
 
1 835-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 57 
 
 and State Conventions preceding his death, he had ren- 
 dered important services to his party, contributing largely, 
 by his prudent course as Chairman of the Committee on 
 Resolutions, to its gaining vantage over the Know-Noth- 
 ing organization. As a politician his opinions were care- 
 fully formed on the ground of right, not expediency, and 
 he was ever free and open in their expression. 
 
 His early misfortunes and struggles, together with a 
 somewhat nervous organization, had contributed to render 
 his temper less genial than it might have been under more 
 favorable conditions, but those whom he honored with his 
 friendship found that he possessed a warm heart and a 
 generous, self-sacrificing spirit. Indeed he was liberal to 
 a fault ; and neither friend nor stranger ever appealed to 
 him for succor in vain. 
 
 His death occurred on the 6th of June, 1855. Consti- 
 tutionally subject to inflammatory rheumatism, he was 
 severely attacked by it after exposure to a shower. Hem- 
 orrhage followed with extensive inflammation of the lining 
 of the stomach, and death ensued. He bore his sufferings 
 with courage and calmness, and, in the full possession of 
 his faculties, approached the last sad scene with the com- 
 posure of a philosophic and Christian mind. 
 
 At a meeting of the bar of Ithaca, after remarks by 
 Hon. S. B. Cushing and others, resolutions of respect to 
 the memory of the deceased were unanimously adopted. 
 Similar tributes were paid by Ithaca Lodge No. 71 and 
 by Fidelity Lodge, F. A. M., No. 51. Mr. Wright was 
 unmarried. 
 
 Ithaca Journaly June iph^ 1855, mamly. 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1836. 
 
 Daniel Day, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of Thomas and 
 Betsey S. Day, of Lanesborough, same State, was born at 
 the latter place, September 1 8th, 1 8 1 5. Fitted for college in 
 his native town and in Greenfield, Mass., entered Williams 
 in 1834, with the class of '38, but left in 1837. He taught 
 
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 a private school for boys at Lanesborough for ten years, 
 was afterwards connected with an Iron Company, and has 
 now been for some years in the office of the Berkshire 
 County Savings Bank, Pittsfield. 
 
 Mr. Day received the honorary degree of A.M. from 
 WiUiams in 1848. In 1863 he was a member of the Legis- 
 lature of Massachusetts. He married, October 14th, 1840, 
 Eliza J. Smedley, and by this marriage he has a son and a 
 daughter. (1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1836. A.M., (Honorary,) 1848. 
 
 *Hon. John Benedict Steele, of Kingston, N. Y.,. 
 second of seven sons of Nathaniel Steele, was born at Wal- 
 ton, Delaware County, N. Y., March 28th, 18 14. His 
 father was a resident and among the earliest settlers of the 
 neighboring town of Delhi, where this son was fitted for 
 college, in Delaware Academy. He entered Williams as 
 a member of the class of 1838, but left without completing 
 his course, probably from want of means for continuing it ;, 
 studied law in Delhi, was admitted to practice in 1839, ^'^^ 
 settled soon after in Oneonta, Otsego County. In 1841 he 
 was appointed district-attorney, in which office he con- 
 tinued until 1847, when he removed to Kingston, Ulster 
 County, where he pursued the practice of his profession 
 with marked success, and after some time formed a part- 
 nership with Gen. George H. Sharpe, now Speaker of the 
 New York House of Assembly. In 1850 Mr. Steele was 
 elected Special Judge of that county, and in i860 Repre- 
 sentative in Congress, where he served upon the commit^ 
 tees on the District of Columbia and on Revolutionary 
 Pensions. In 1862 he was re-elected, by a largely increased 
 majority, and during his second term labored with decided 
 efficiency upon the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, in 
 addition to the ones already named ; and he was prepar- 
 ing to take an active part in the campaign of 1 866 when his 
 life was suddenly cut short by a terrible casualty. At 
 about half-past ten o'clock on the morning of September 
 
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 23d, while driving in his carriage to Rondout, as he de- 
 scended Hone Street, which is a sharp decHvity, his horse 
 took fright and dashed the vehicle to which he was at- 
 tached upon an awning-post, against which Mr. Steele 
 was thrown, falling to the curb with great force. It was 
 found that his skull was fractured, several ribs were broken, 
 and that other internal injuries had probably been sus- 
 tained, which together rendered death inevitable. This 
 ensued at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the same 
 day, the patient meanwhile lying in a partially insensible 
 condition. 
 
 The funeral exercises were attended in St. John's 
 Church, Kingston, of which the deceased had long been a 
 communicant and vestryman, and was also senior war- 
 den. A sermon was preached upon the occasion by the 
 rector, Rev. Dr. Waters, who characterized his departed 
 friend as genial and warm-hearted, unselfish, generous, sin- 
 cere, and learned ; adding that he possessed warm and 
 touching eloquence, which he knew well how to use and 
 adapt to his situation and purpose, so that he moved and 
 led the people very much as he would. Mentioning his 
 ready and willing attention, while in Congress, to the many 
 calls of such as wanted the special assistance which his 
 position enabled him to give, and his sympathizing efforts 
 for the poor and unfortunate, particularly the sick and 
 wounded soldiers in the hospitals, the speaker especially 
 eulogized his independent and important vote for the re- 
 moval of slavery, adding that, although of a different po- 
 litical party, he was on intimate terms with the members 
 of the Administration, who respected his influence and 
 position and had confidence in his integrity and virtue. 
 " The highest he did not fear, the lowest he did not de- 
 spise. His life was a success. His counsels and princi- 
 ples will be a guide for many who come after him. So do 
 the just live always. Their faults, errors, sins, and imper- 
 fections are and should be forgotten, buried with their 
 bones ; while their virtues live and shine and are immor- 
 tal." 
 
 The funeral services were in accordance with the rites 
 
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 of the Masonic order, through most of the offices and 
 honors of which the deceased had passed. These per- 
 formed, he was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery. Resolu- 
 tions of respect to his memory were offered and supported 
 by members of the Ulster County bar, before Judge In- 
 galls of the Supreme Court, upon whose minutes they were 
 entered, and similar testimonials were adopted by the 
 local Masonic and Odd Fellows' lodges,, of both of which 
 the deceased was a member. 
 
 The following letter of condolence from the Secretary 
 of War, received by Mrs. Steele some time after, is of 
 special interest : 
 
 "War Department, ) 
 Washington City, 1867. \ 
 ''Dear Madam: 
 
 " It was with profound sorrow I learned your late husband's 
 death from the public prints, and only abstained from express- 
 ing my sympathy from unwillingness to intrude upon your 
 attention at the period of your deep affliction. 
 
 " My acquaintance with Mr. Steele was formed soon after 
 my entrance upon the duties of the Department. He was then 
 representing his district in Congress. In earnest, devoted 
 patriotism he was unsurpassed, and all the energies of his 
 strong heart and vigorous intellect were devoted to the support 
 of his country. My esteem and confidence in him grew with 
 our acquaintance, and I mourned his death as the loss of a 
 faithful friend, a patriotic citizen, and a cultivated gentleman. 
 By none will his memory be more respected than by 
 
 '* Yours truly, 
 
 " Edwin M. Stanton. 
 "Mrs. John B. Steele." 
 
 Mr. Steele married Ann E. Paddock, of Oneonta, who, 
 with a daughter, survives him. Both reside in San Fran- 
 cisco. (1880.) 
 
 A.M., (Honorary,) Williams, 1863. 
 
 * Hon. John Wells, ll.d., of Brookline, Mass., son 
 of Hon. Noah and Sarah [Reed] Wells, was born at Rowe, 
 
1^35-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 6i 
 
 Franklin County, Mass., February 17th, 18 19. His father 
 was a highly respected and influential farmer of Rowe, a 
 man of strongly marked character, who was repeatedly 
 sent by his fellow-townsmen to represent them in the Gen- 
 eral Court, and was, in 1842, a member of the State Sen- 
 ate from his county. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the 
 local schools, entered WiUiams in 1834, and after distin- 
 guishing himself throughout his course, graduated in 1838, 
 with the Valedictory Oration, the subject of which was 
 " The Influence of Scepticism on Human Happiness." 
 His future colleague, Mr. Justice Colt, was his classmate,, 
 and Mr. Justice Field, now of the United States Supreme 
 Court, was in the class immediately preceding his. 
 
 After graduating Mr. Wells opened a select school in 
 Rowe, which was a great success. One of its leading fea- 
 tures was a weekly lyceum, at the closing exhibition of 
 which, in the old meeting-house, the Principal recited a 
 poem on " The Burning and Destruction of Pompeii." He 
 next taught for a year at Newport, R. I., and then applied 
 himself to the study of law, at first in the office of Messrs. 
 Daniel Wells and George T. Davis, in Greenfield, and 
 afterwards at the Law School of Harvard College. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1841, settled in the growing 
 manufacturing town of Chicopee, near Springfield, and 
 practised there for the next twenty-five years, taking a 
 leading position in his profession and in public and social 
 life. For some years he edited the weekly newspaper in 
 the town, uniting with^reat purity of language fairness of 
 statement and positiveness of conviction. He was Presi- 
 dent of the Cabot Bank for some time, and a member of 
 the legislature in 1849, 185 1, 1857, and 1865, in one of which 
 years his father was his colleague in the same body. In 
 1856 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Probate and 
 Insolvency, and he added greatly to his reputation by the 
 manner in which he performed the delicate duties attend- 
 ing this position, until his increasing practice compelled 
 him to resign it in 1864. He was also conspicuous in 
 church matters, being one of the founders of the lTnita« 
 
62 Biographical Record of the [1835. 
 
 rian Society in Chicopee, its clerk for twenty-five years, 
 leader of its choir for a long time, and superintendent for 
 many years of its Sabbath-school. Brought up in the 
 Unitarian faith, he always adhered to it with firmness and 
 earnestness, but without intolerance or bigotry. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Wells served as one of the Presidential 
 Electors of Massachusetts, voting for Mr. Lincoln. In 
 September, 1866, he was selected by Governor Bullock, 
 at the unanimous request of the bar of Western Massa- 
 chusetts, for the seat on the bench of the Supreme Court 
 made vacant by the death of Judge C. A. Dewey, of 
 Northampton ; a position which all who knew him had 
 felt for many years must ultimately become his. Soon 
 after this appointment he removed to Boston, and finally 
 settled in Brookline. 
 
 As a judge he was one of the ablest members of a 
 court always high in character. No one perceived more 
 perfectly the finest legal distinctions, and no one gave 
 heartier welcome to moral considerations, to truth, and to 
 justice. He worked carefully, deliberately ; the detail 
 processes of his mind were both slow and delicate ; he 
 hesitated over points that others could not see or carelessly 
 disregarded ; but all this only gave greater completeness 
 and larger power to the final main conclusions, which never 
 failed of substantial justice. His were the attainments of 
 diligence sustained by good sense, earnest convictions, 
 and a clear intellect. His opinions, beginning with the 
 13th of Allen, extend through twenty-five or twenty-six 
 volumes of reports, and will remain an enduring monu- 
 ment of great judicial power. That in the case of Lowell 
 vs. Boston, 1 1 1 Mass. Rep., 454, may be referred to as an 
 able exposition of an interesting question in constitutional 
 law, involving important principles; and it was one in 
 which eminent counsel had been engaged. 
 
 Politically he was originally a Whig; but upon the 
 dissolution of that party became a Republican of the con- 
 servative wing. 
 
 Judge Wells was always a gentleman, dignified, affable, 
 and courteous. He had a delicate and slightly consump- 
 
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 live figure, a reserved and quiet manner, and a mild voice, 
 which, while they indicated lack of robustness in constitu- 
 tion, greatly misled any one who imagined that this was 
 accompanied by any lack of mental strength or independ- 
 ence. 
 
 In 1869 he delivered the annual address before the 
 Society of Alumni of Williams (of which he was, by elec- 
 tion in 1875, president at the time of his death), advocat- 
 ing the elective system in collegiate studies; and in 1870 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater. 
 
 About the middle of November, 1875, Judge Wells 
 went to Salem to hold a session of his court, but, taking 
 cold on his journey, was almost immediately prostrated by 
 a severe attack of pneumonia. His wife, overcome by 
 sympathy and exposure, lay for some days a helpless inva- 
 lid in a room adjoining that where, in spite of the best 
 medical advice, he was rapidly sinking. He lingered a 
 few days only, and died at Salem on the 24th of the 
 month. 
 
 His remains were removed for interment to Brookline, 
 where impressive funeral ceremonies were held and largely 
 attended. Rev. Prof. F. H. Hedge, a previous pastor of the 
 deceased, in closing an impressive address, said : ** The 
 moral atmosphere of Judge Wells was one of sweetness, 
 gentleness, urbanity, charity, and lowliness. One felt 
 morally refined in his presence and society. His walk in 
 life was like the steps of the traveller in new-fallen snow — 
 it left its imprint, but no stain." The pall-bearers were 
 the judges of the Supreme Court ; and the remains of 
 their departed associate were conveyed to Forest Hills for 
 interment. 
 
 A memorial meeting of the Massachusetts bar was sub- 
 sequently held in the Supreme Court room in Boston, at 
 which warm and sincere eulogies were pronounced and 
 appropriate resolutions adopted. Chief-Justice Gray said 
 upon this occasion : '' The impression made by the death 
 of Judge Wells is not confined to the profession of which 
 he was one of the most honored and beloved members. 
 From every part of the commonwealth — from the western 
 
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 counties, in which he was born and educated and passed 
 his early manhood ; from Suffolk, in which the greatest 
 part of his judicial work was done ; from Norfolk, in which 
 was the home of his adoption, and Essex, in which he died 
 — have gone up voices of mourning and of blessing for the 
 wise and just j udge, the useful citizen, the kind neighbor, 
 the true friend. As we vainly strive to express our esti- 
 mate of his worth, better words echo in our ears and 
 come to our lips. He did justly, he loved mercy, he 
 walked humbly with his God." Similar action was taken by 
 the Williams Association of Boston at their annual meeting 
 in January following, when the following resolution was 
 unanimously adopted : " That in the death of Mr. Justice 
 John Wells, Williams College has lost one of her brightest 
 jewels, — a man in whom were blended some of the grandest 
 attributes of humanity, whose life was an active example of 
 one of those just, generous, retiring, yet affirmative char- 
 acters whose very completeness and grandeur of purpose 
 lift those who mourn his loss into gratitude that he had 
 lived long enough to accomplish what he did. In the death 
 of this alumnus, WiUiams College has met the irretrievable 
 loss of a constant adviser and true friend ; yet in the 
 memory of his life she has an ornament of which nothing 
 can ever rob her, and which she will ever hold in deepest 
 love and veneration." In seconding this resolution, Judge 
 Colt, of the Supreme Court, his brother in K. A., and 
 on the bench, said : ** The chief characteristic of John Wells 
 was fidelity to duty in all the various caUings of life ; and 
 no worthier son ever laid the laurels which he won at the 
 feet of his alma mater, and no warmer or truer heart ever 
 lay beneath the green sod than his." 
 
 It may be said, in conclusion, of Judge Wells's career, 
 that he owed his success not more to the brilliance of his 
 talents than to diligence and fidelity, sustained by good 
 sense, earnest convictions, and clearness of intellect. It 
 was the fruit of an honorable and busy life, in which he 
 had proved himself an able lawyer and advocate at the 
 bar, and had won the confidence and esteem of his asso- 
 ciates and the public for his learning, his skilful conduct 
 
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 of his cases, and his honorable and manly bearing in his 
 profession as well as in everything he undertook. He 
 owed his success far more to self-discipline and the in- 
 tellectual growth of a well-balanced mind than to any 
 special gift of genius, and his life is an example full of 
 encouragement and promise to young men who have 
 yet a place and a reputation to win. 
 
 He married, in 1850, Sophia, daughter of the late 
 Hon. Edward Dwight, of Boston, who, with a daughter 
 and son, survives him. 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1837. Valedictory, Commence- 
 ment, 1838. Master's Oration, 1841. Phi Beta Kappa, 
 1864. LL.D., 1870. 
 
 Durfees Obituary Record, 1876. 
 
 Am. Law Review, Vol. X. No. 2, p. 365. 
 
 Albany Law Journal, Dec. 4th, 1875. 
 
 * Hazen Cheney, of Beloit, Wis., son of Israel and 
 Priscilla [Goodell] Cheney, was born August loth, 1807, ^t 
 Lunenburg, Vt., a little town near the head-waters of the 
 Connecticut. 
 
 Here he remained at work upon a farm until twenty- 
 two years of age, and then undertook to obtain a liberal 
 education. After preparation, he entered Williams in 
 1832, and was graduated in 1836. While in college he 
 commanded a respect and exercised an influence secured 
 by his age and strong individuality. A feat which he had 
 achieved in the way of killing a bear, while visiting the 
 woods of Northern New Hampshire with Professor Em- 
 mons for the purpose of making studies in natural history, 
 usually caused him to be specially pointed out to new- 
 comers. To these studies he was much devoted, and it 
 was in consequence of his efforts that the Natural History 
 Society, which has been in successful operation ever since, 
 was founded in the college. 
 
 Mr. Cheney is remembered by his early associates as a 
 kindly, honest, grave man, simple of heart and slow of 
 5 
 
66 Biographical Record of the [1835. 
 
 speech, whose friendships were strong and formed for life. 
 After graduation he spent a couple of years in legal study 
 at Lancaster, N. H., and in 1838 went to Beloit, two years 
 after the settlement of the town. Here he practised 
 law and engaged in operations in real estate for twenty 
 years, during a number of which he was law-partner of 
 Hon. Matthew Carpenter, late U. S. Senator from Wis- 
 consin. In 1857 he visited Europe, remaining about a 
 year, greatly to his enjoyment. In i860 his health had 
 become so much affected by asthma that he found it nec- 
 essary to seek a change of climate, went to Colorado, and 
 settled near Pike's Peak, where he engaged in mining and 
 subsequently in stock-raising. He lived alone in his ranch, 
 and it was hard for one of so social a nature to give up the 
 companionship of his friends. He studied the characters 
 of the miners with whom he met, and sometimes found 
 among them bright minds and warm, clean hearts. He 
 made friends, too, of his cattle, talked to them, and loved 
 them. Thus he lived for sixteen years. In the last sum- 
 mer of his life, that of 1875, he revisited Williamstown and 
 all the scenes of his early life, and spoke of them upon his 
 return to the West with a heart as warm and an enthusi- 
 asm as fresh as in the years when he had first known 
 them. Then he went back to his lonely ranch, where, in 
 the closing days of the year, he was stricken with paraly- 
 sis, of which he died on the 2d of January, 1876, at Cen- 
 tral City. His remains were brought to Beloit and laid 
 with those of his kindred in the cemetery there. 
 
 Mr. Cheney, although of so social and affectionate a 
 nature, was never married. He was a man of strength and 
 resolution ; plain in style, but refined in thought ; full of 
 seriousness, sincerity, public spirit, and the love of letters. 
 *' The first subscription for Beloit College bore his name 
 for a greater amount than he was then worth, but it was 
 paid ; nor was it his last. Reverses and death cut short 
 hopes which he had fondly cherished of large bounty to 
 this and that object. But such enthusiasms cannot be in 
 vain. They are in themselves a wealth of soul. ' I mean,' 
 
1 835-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 67 
 
 said he, ' that my heart shall never grow narrow ;' " and it 
 never did. Obituary Record, 1877, in part. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1835. Adelphic Union Ex., 1835. Com- 
 mencement, 1836. 
 
 Hon. Laban Smith Sherman, of Ashtabula, O., old- 
 est son of Judge John and Sylvia [Smith] Sherman, of 
 Say brook, O., was born in April, 18 14, at North Adams, 
 Mass., also the birthplace of both his parents. 
 
 While a lad he accompanied his grandfather's family 
 from Adams to Wayne County, N. Y., and thence to On- 
 tario. Was fitted for college at Canandaigua, entered 
 Williams in 1833, and remained three years. He then 
 went to Ashtabula, entered the office of M. M. Sawtell, 
 Esq., a prominent lawyer of that town, and subsequently 
 became a member of the Cincinnati Law School, where 
 he graduated in 1839. ^^ ^^^ soon after admitted to 
 practice, and during the same year was elected prosecut- 
 ing attorney of Ashtabula County, the duties of whose 
 office he discharged creditably and satisfactorily. His 
 maiden speech, in an important patent suit, in which he 
 was opposed to Messrs. Wade and Ranney, the former 
 subsequently U. S. Senator for many years, and the latter 
 a judge of the Supreme Court of the State, was pronounced 
 one of the strongest arguments ever made in the court 
 before which it was delivered. 
 
 In 1849 M^'- Sherman was again elected prosecuting 
 attorney. In 1852 he was elected to the State Senate, in 
 which he served two terms, and was regarded one of the 
 ablest members. His speeches in the debates on the adop 
 tion of the present State Constitution were of special, 
 value, and would have been of still greater service had he 
 permitted them to be published. 
 
 In 1876 he was elected judge of the Court of Common 
 Pleas for the district in which he resides, and this office he 
 now fills, with the reputation of an able and upright mag- 
 istrate. 
 
68 Biographical Record of the [1835. 
 
 As a lawyer, especially before a jury, the subject of 
 this sketch stands at the head of the bar of Northern 
 Ohio. His manner is easy, yet dignified ; and although he 
 is not, perhaps, a finished orator, his readiness of percep- 
 tion, retentiveness of memory, legal knowledge, and in- 
 tense earnestness render him a most effective speaker. 
 Before his accession to the bench his practice was very 
 large, extending beyond the limits of his own State in both 
 State and Federal courts. 
 
 Judge Sherman married, in 1841, Mary E. Jinks, of Say- 
 brook, and by this marriage he has had five sons and three 
 daughters ; six of these children are now living. (1881.) 
 
 Joseph Charles Pynchon, m.d., of Springfield, Mass., 
 the most influential living member of a family whose 
 history is closely and most honorably identified with 
 that of the early days of Springfield town, entered 
 Williams College as a member of the class of 1836, with 
 which he was graduated. He afterwards studied, and for 
 a short time practised, medicine, but soon entered upon 
 mercantile pursuits. At the present time he is president 
 of the Five Cent Savings Bank, director in other enter- 
 prises, and engaged in'a large insurance business. He has 
 been frequently nominated for political offices, but these 
 trusts he has always declined. (1880.) 
 
 M 
 
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 Commencement, 1836. 
 
 1836. 
 
 * RuFUS Gibbon Wells, of Palmyra, N. Y., son of 
 Peter and Mary [Smith] Wells, was born in Manchester, 
 Ontario County, same State, his parents' place of resi- 
 dence, December 24th, 18 12. His father was a native of 
 Cheshire, and his mother of Adams, adjoining towns in 
 Northern Berkshire.] 
 
1836.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 69 
 
 This son, who had given evidence of " rare endow- 
 ment of intellect," was fitted for college at Canandaigua, 
 N. Y., entered Williams, as Freshman, in September, 1835, 
 and remained until past the middle of his course, when he 
 was transferred to Washington (now Trinity) College, 
 Hartford, at which he was graduated August ist, 1839, 
 with excellent reputation. He then studied law, in 1843 
 or '44 was admitted to the bar, and settled in Palmyra, 
 where he subsequently formed a partnership with James 
 Peddie, Esq. ; and although soon arrested in his profes- 
 sional career, was enabled to show that he " richly com- 
 manded those talents for forensic effort that might have 
 given him an enviable position among his brethren of the 
 bar." 
 
 Mr. Wells married, October ist, 1839, Mary A. Walden, 
 of North Adams, Mass., an excellent Christian woman, 
 who died in January, 1845. The union had been a most 
 happy one, and the shock of this bereavement seemed to 
 unnerve the survivor and to hurry him after the partner 
 of his affections. He felt this life cheerless without her ; 
 the " lamp had gone out in his path." His health declined ; 
 he rencAved his Christian profession, returned to his fa- 
 ther's home, and died of consumption May 21st, 1845, the 
 year of his wife's decease. 
 
 This popular member of our Society was a man " who 
 made friends everywhere." He was an active worker in 
 his business, took a warm interest in politics as a member 
 of the old Whig party, and by his platform efforts made 
 under exposure, in its behalf, probably laid the foundation 
 of the disease which proved fatal to him. He took sides 
 always for the right as he saw it, religiously and morally. 
 While preparing for college he expressed a desire to enter 
 the ministry, but being opposed in this by his parents, who 
 were of the Quaker faith, relinquished the idea, much to 
 his subsequent regret, expressed upon his death-bed. He 
 met his end in gred.t peace and resignation ; and his en- 
 treaties to the friends around him to be ready, when 
 called, to follow him were not without their effect. 
 
 By his marriage Mr. Wells had four children, one of 
 
JO Biographical Record of the [1836. 
 
 whom died at about the same time as its mother. Two of 
 those who survived their father followed him soon after 
 his decease, leaving behind them a sister who is still living 
 and is the wife of a resident of North Adams. (1880.) * 
 Palmyra 7iewspaper of May ^ 1845, in part. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1836. Oration, 4th of July, 1837. Jun- 
 ior Ex., 1838. Commencement (Washington), 1839. 
 
 JOSIAH Alban Mills, of Chatham Village, Columbia 
 County, N. Y., son of Reed Mills, was born in Williams- 
 town, July ist, 1 8 18. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Bennington Seminary, en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, in 1835, and completed his 
 course regularly, but did not receive his degree until 
 1842. 
 
 From 1842 to 1858 he was engaged with his brother, 
 Benjamin F., in the management of a preparatory school, 
 now the Greylock Institute, in South Williamstown, in 
 which many students have been fitted for Williams Col- 
 lege. He was next occupied for ten years in legal prac- 
 tice in Buffalo, N. Y., after which he returned to Wil- 
 liamstown for three years ; was then for a year each in 
 Pittsfield and Northampton, and has since resided in 
 Chatham, engaged in legal practice. 
 
 Mr. Mills has been thrice married : in 1848 to Sylvia 
 M. Eldridge ; in 1858, after her decease, to Mary A. Hu- 
 sted, of Austerlitz, N. Y. ; and in 1870, after the death of 
 his second wife, to Sarah A. Darby, who is now living. 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1838. 
 
 *Hon. HuLBERT Fellows Fairchild, of Memphis, 
 Tenn., son of Reuben and Mellona Fairchild, was born at 
 New Lisbon, Otsego County, N. Y., October 25th, 181 7. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Oxford, in the same State, 
 entered the Sophomore class at Williams in 1835, and left 
 
1836.] Kappa Alpha in Williains. 71 
 
 at the beginning of Senior year, 1837. He then went 
 to Louisville, Ky., and studied law in the office of Messrs. 
 Pirtle & Speed, and was admitted to the bar. In Decem- 
 ber, 1 841, removed to Pocahontas, Ark., and for about 
 four years was engaged in practice there. At the expira- 
 tion of that time went to Batesville, in the same State, 
 where he resided until his removal to St. Louis in 1864. 
 In 1859, during this residence in Batesville, he was ap- 
 pointed Chancellor of the State Court in Chancery, sitting 
 at Little Rock, which position he held until his election by 
 the legislature in i860 as Associate Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court, the tribunal of last resort in the State. This 
 position he resigned during the civil war, removing to 
 St. Louis, as already mentioned, and opening an office 
 there with very favorable prospects of success, when the 
 Legislature of Missouri passed laws prohibiting from 
 practice within the limits of that State all persons who 
 had held office in any of the Confederate States. His 
 plans being thus frustrated. Judge Fairchild visited Eng- 
 land and the Continent in the summer of 1865, partly for 
 business purposes, and upon his return selected Memphis 
 as his future place of residence. But while awaiting the 
 completion of an office, he started on a trip to his old 
 home in Batesville, was violently attacked on the way by 
 pneumonia, and died at Jacksonport, Ark., February 3d, 
 1866. 
 
 Judge Fairchild was a lawyer of great learning, better 
 fitted by his natural turn of mind for success as a jurist 
 than as an advocate. In his speeches he rather convinced 
 than persuaded. His manner was sufficiently impassioned, 
 but his language was somewhat abstract for popular effect. 
 Yet he was very successful as an advocate, for the weight 
 of his character added double force to what he said. He 
 was a rapid and fluent writer in a pure and classical style, 
 somewhat involved at times, but eminently characteristic 
 of his manner of thinking. His tastes were literary, and 
 he kept up to the last his acquaintance with the classics 
 as well as a general knowledge of current literature. His 
 manners were rather those of a scholar than of a man im- 
 
72 Biographical Record of the [1B36. 
 
 mersed in active business ; but while among strangers he 
 had an appearance of abstraction and earnest thought, 
 among friends no one could be more genial. His temper 
 and mind alike exhibited the finest discipline. His friend- 
 ship was unalterable, his speech carefully guarded, and he 
 rarely spoke unkindly of any one, his views of life being 
 charitable and moderate. He was fond of out-door exer- 
 cise, always kept good horses, and took much pride in 
 them ; was abstemious in his way of life, and said that he 
 had never tasted intoxicating liquors of any kind ; his only 
 intemperance was in keeping too late hours for the pur- 
 pose of study, as he seldom retired before two or three 
 o'clock in the morning. 
 
 His moral rectitude, sense of honor, and general stan- 
 dard of character were of the highest type, and his moral 
 courage equal to any emergency. He was a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and his religion, by its sincerity 
 and freedom from ostentation and intolerance, gave a 
 noble earnestness and a fine harmony to his character. 
 He was generous to the poor and sympathetic with the 
 suffering. From politics he kept aloof, except to discharge 
 the duty of voting, and in that was influenced as much by 
 the character of the candidates as by the principles they 
 professed. 
 
 He died in the prime of life, but with the utmost com- 
 posure, having an abiding confidence in a better life to 
 come. 
 
 At a meeting of the bar held at Jacksonport, May 22d, 
 1866, the following resolution was unanimously adopted, 
 and was ordered to be placed upon the records of the Cir- 
 cuit Court : 
 
 '* We, the committee to whom it was referred to pre- 
 pare a suitable expression of the feelings of the bar in re- 
 gard to the death of our late friend and brother. Judge H. 
 F. Fairchild, respectfully recommend that it be declared 
 to be the sense of this meeting that in his death we have 
 sustained a loss most detrimental to the profession and to 
 the community at large, and have endured a misfortune 
 which cannot be remedied or relieved. That for those 
 
1836.] Kappa Alpha m Williams, 73 
 
 unusual virtues which exacted the admiration of all who 
 knew him when living we regret and lament him when 
 dead ; and that, in view of our long and pleasant associa- 
 tion with him, the singular purity and consistency of his 
 life, his high intellectual endowments, cultivated with the 
 most careful and assiduous attention, his great capacity as 
 a judge, his ability as a lawyer, the kindly and faithful 
 manner in which he performed all the duties of every re- 
 lationship in life, true to himself and hence true to all 
 men, with a firm and well-established belief in the truths 
 of religion which made itself manifest in deeds of charity 
 and kindness to all men, without regard to position or in- 
 fluence, and man)^ other virtues which added to the pleas- 
 ures of our long acquaintance with him and which could 
 not have been contemplated by us without our own ad- 
 vantage and improvement, we cannot speak or reflect on 
 his untimely and unexpected end without exceeding re- 
 gret that he should not have been spared to us at a period 
 when we might have been especially benefited by his 
 counsel and by his example ; and that it only remains for 
 us in our bereavement to receive the lesson which is come 
 to us, in this affliction, to cherish the memory of our de- 
 parted brother, and to endeavor in our several positions in 
 life to emulate an example which would have shed lustre 
 upon any. And to the only survivor of the family of our 
 friend we tender our respectful sympathy in the midst of 
 her deep affliction." 
 
 Judge Fairchild married, September 14th, 1841, Cla- 
 rissa Bulkley, of Williamstown, and by this marriage he 
 had a daughter and three sons, all of whom died before 
 him — the sons in infancy, and the daughter at the age of 
 twelve years, while attending school in Ballston, N. Y. 
 These afflictions were felt by him with all the grief of a 
 nature unusually sensitive ; but he bore them with a reso- 
 lution and constancy that surprised those who knew him 
 best. 
 
 He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts 
 from WiUiams College in 1858. 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1837. 
 
74 Biographical Record of the [1836. 
 
 * Austin Adams Howard, of Buffalo, N. Y., son of 
 Daniel and Martha [Sherman] Howard, both natives of 
 Vermont, was born at Covington, Wyoming County, N. Y., 
 April 23d, 1816. 
 
 Early manifesting a desire for professional life, he pre- 
 pared, with the best facilities he could command, for col- 
 lege, entered WiUiams in 1835, and was graduated in 1839. 
 He soon after entered the law-office of Judge John B. 
 Skinner, in Wyoming, completed his preparation in that 
 of Potter & Spaulding, in Buffalo, in 1842, and was 
 thereupon admitted to practice. That he was faithful in 
 this preliminary work is manifest from the fact that at the 
 dissolution of this firm he was sought by both its mem- 
 bers as an associate in business. He accepted the offer of 
 General Potter, with whom he was connected for several 
 years. Subsequently he devoted himself for the most 
 part to office- work, chiefly in legal business relating to 
 transactions in real estate. The members of the Buffalo 
 bar, at a meeting held in honor of his memory, testified 
 to his industry, his extraordinary care and method, and 
 his faithfulness to his clients. He was valued as a rehable 
 friend, eminently sensible, sound in judgment, generous, 
 kind, and affectionate in disposition, proverbial for indus- 
 try, frugality, and sobriety. He was more profound than 
 brilliant, and was pre-eminently a man of refined literary 
 taste and culture. Socially he stood in the front rank, as 
 a gentleman of the old school. But as a son, husband, 
 and father he was best known and most beloved. To his 
 aged mother, now in her eighty-eighth year, he still re- 
 membered, amidst the weakness and pain of his own last 
 sickness, to send the birthday letter, although written by 
 the hand of another, and the gift which it had been his 
 custom to forward to her. 
 
 Although not a church-member, he was constant and 
 devout in his attendance upon the ordinances of worship, 
 based his hope of eternal life wholly on Christ as the 
 Saviour of sinners, kept the Bible constantly at his side 
 upon his bed during his illness, and so was able to pass ia 
 peace through the valley and shadow of death. 
 
1836.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 75 
 
 He departed this life on the ist of September, 1879, 
 after a long sickness of complicated character, affecting- 
 the heart and other organs, and was buried in Forest Lawn 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Howard married, in 1846, Harriet C, daughter of 
 Peter Curtiss, of Buffalo ; and in 1858, after her decease, 
 Sarah Peacock, niece of the late Judge Peacock, of May- 
 ville, N. Y. By his first marriage he had four children, 
 two of whom are still living, and by his second also four, 
 of whom three survive. (Dec, 1879.) 
 
 Commencement, 1835. 
 
 Rev. William Porter, Professor of Latin in Beloit 
 College, Beloit, Wis., oldest son of Hon. William and 
 Mary A. [Quincy] Porter, was born at Lee, Mass., his 
 parents' home, January loth, 1820. His father, a graduate 
 of Williams, was a distinguished member of the Berkshire 
 bar, and for many years a Trustee of the college. The 
 son succeeding to his name was fitted for the collegiate 
 course at Hopkins and Lenox academies, the former at 
 Hadley, Mass.; entered Williams in 1835, maintained a 
 high rank in scholarship, and was graduated in 1839. ^^ 
 then studied law for one year in his father's office, after 
 which he entered upon a theological course, taking his 
 first year at Andover and the remainder in Union Semi- 
 nary, New York, where he was graduated in 1843. His 
 health having become impaired, he then spent two years 
 in Florida and Georgia, seeking restoration, and in 1850 
 went to Marietta, O., where he remained two years, en- 
 gaged in teaching in the college there. In 1852 he became 
 Professor of Mathematics in Beloit College, then just 
 established, and after serving five years in that department 
 was appointed to the Professorship of the Latin Language, 
 in which he has remained until the present time, a period 
 of twenty-four years, spending a year, during 1873-74, in 
 European travel. 
 
 In 1854 Professor Porter married Ellen G. Chapin, of 
 
76 Biographical Record of the [1836. 
 
 New York, sister of the President of Beloit College, and 
 by this marriage he has three children now living. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1837. Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 1838. 
 Commencement, 1839. A.M. in course. Phi Beta Kappa, 
 (Honorary,) 1867. 
 
 Hon. James Denison Colt, ll.d., of Pittsfield, Mass., 
 son of Ezekiel R. and Electa [Campbell] Colt — natives 
 respectively of Pittsfield and Lenox — and brother of 
 Hon. Thomas Colt (see Index), was born at Pittsfield, 
 October 8th, 18 19. "■ His parents were classed among the 
 excellent families in that good old town." 
 
 He was fitted for college in the town common schools, 
 entered Williams in 1834, at the age of fourteen, and grad- 
 uated in 1 838. Immediately afterward he went to Northern 
 Mississippi, where he was engaged in teaching for the 
 next two years. Returning North in 1840, he studied law 
 with Hon. Julius Rockwell, of Pittsfield, and at the Har 
 vard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and 
 at once formed a partnership with Judge Rockwell, which 
 continued until 1859. ^^ that year both he and his partner 
 were appointed to the bench of the Superior Court, a 
 position which Mr. Colt declined, preferring to remain in 
 practice. In 1865 he accepted an appointment to the 
 Supreme Court, under which he served until the follow- 
 ing year, during which he resigned his seat in conse- 
 quence of ill health. In 1868 he was again appointed to 
 the same position, which he still occupies. 
 
 In 1853 and '54 Judge Colt was a member of the State 
 Legislature and acted as Chairman of the Judiciary Com- 
 mittee. In 1 86 1 delivered the oration before the Wil- 
 liams Alumni. In 1862 was elected Trustee of the college 
 in place of Governor Briggs, deceased ; and in 1870 
 received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater. 
 
 About 1850, during his partnership with Judge Rock- 
 well, he became Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the 
 
1836.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 77 
 
 Berkshire Medical School, and lectured one or two sea- 
 sons. 
 
 He married, June loth, 1857, Elizabeth, daughter of S, 
 C. Gilbert, of Oswego County, N. Y., and has had by this 
 marriage six children, of whom five, two sons and three 
 daughters, are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1836. Junior Ex., 1837. Prest. Philo- 
 technian. Commencement, 1838. Phi Beta Kappa, (Hon- 
 orary,) 1865. LL.D., 1870. 
 
 ^ Moses Cowan Robinson, of Buffalo, N. Y., son of 
 Henry and Martha [Haynes] Robinson, of Benningtoa 
 Centre, Vt., was born August 21st, 18 16. 
 
 He died at Tewksbury, Mass., October 12th, 1877, and 
 is buried at Bennington. 
 
 His health compelled him to leave his class (that of 
 1839) jus^ before Commencement, but he took his degree 
 in 1844. He was a lawyer by profession, but most of his 
 life he spent in teaching. At one time he was teacher of 
 Greek and Latin in Burr Seminary, at Manchester, Vt. 
 He was a very fine scholar in the classics, and eminently 
 successful in communicating his acquisitions to others. 
 He was never married, making his home with friends,, 
 whom he seemed to find and make wherever he lived. 
 Impulsive by temperament, genial in society, full of enthu- 
 siasm, he attracted attention always. He was not mucli 
 within reach of old college friends, but often spoke of 
 them with kindly recollections when he read their names, 
 and knew their honors. (Communicated^ 
 
 * Calvin Gideon Martin, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 Calvin and Mary [Campbell] Martin, brother of George 
 C. Martin, and cousin of Hons. James D. and Thomas 
 Colt (see Index), was born at Pittsfield, his parents' home,. 
 August 27th, 1820; was fitted for college in his native 
 town, entered Williams in 1835, and was graduated in 
 
78 Biographical Record of the [1836. 
 
 1839. ^^ afterwards studied law with his father, but 
 died of consumption, November 6th, 1842, at the age of 
 twenty-two, and just about the time when he had ex- 
 pected to begin his professional career. He was much 
 esteemed as a very genial companion and friend. Was 
 unmarried. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1838. 
 
 1837. 
 
 Hon. Francis Henshaw Dewey, ll.d., of Worcester, 
 Mass., son of Hon. Charles A. and Frances [Henshaw] 
 Dewey, of Northampton, was born in Williamstown, July 
 22d, 1 82 1. His father, a native of Williamstown and son 
 of a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, was 
 for many years a member of the same court, as well as a 
 Trustee of Williams College, of which he was a graduate. 
 His mother was the daughter of Judge Samuel Henshaw, 
 of Northampton, of the Massachusetts Court of Common 
 Pleas. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the 
 Round Hill School, in Northampton, Mount Pleasant 
 School, in Amherst, and at a private school in Pittsfield. 
 He entered Williams in 1836, was graduated in 1840, and 
 studied law at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and with 
 Hon. Emory Washburn, in Worcester, where he was 
 admitted to practice in 1843 ^^^^ has ever since continued 
 to reside. Upon admission he became Mr. Washburn's 
 partner, but subsequently formed other professional con- 
 nections. In 1855 and 1868 he was elected Senator from 
 Worcester County, and he served as Chairman of the 
 Judiciary Committee during both terms. In February, 
 1869, was appointed a justice of the Superior Court, and 
 the same year was chosen a Trustee of the college, which 
 in 1874 bestowed upon him the degree of LL.D. He was 
 elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 
 
1 83 7-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 79 
 
 1869, and has been president of the Worcester County 
 Horticultural Society, the Mechanics' Bank, and the Nor- 
 wich and Worcester Railroad, as well as director in many 
 other corporations. 
 
 During- the present month (February, 1881) Judge 
 Dewey has resigned his seat upon the bench in order to 
 obtain leisure for his personal affairs ; and upon this occa- 
 sion the governor of the State has expressed his regret 
 by letter '' that the Commonwealth is to lose the services 
 of one who for twelve years has been so efficient, ready, 
 and learned a judge, and has added distinction to a name 
 already illustrious in her judicial annals." 
 
 Judge Dewey married, November 2d, 1846, Frances 
 A., only daughter of John Clarke, Esq., of Northampton ; 
 and after her decease, on the 26th of April, 1853, Sarah 
 B., only daughter of George A. Tufts ; and by his second 
 marriage he has four children living. His brothers, Hon. 
 Charles A. and Dr. George C, his three sons, Francis H., 
 Jr., John C, and George T., and his cousin Daniel Dewey, 
 as well as his cousins Charles D. and George F. Betts, all 
 graduated at Williams and followed him in his connection 
 with our Society, of which (Incorporated) he was in 1879- 
 80 fourth president. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1839. Pi"est. Phi- 
 lologian. Commencement, 1840. Master's Oration, 1843. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, (Honorary,) 1867. LL.D., 1874. 
 
 * Charles Dewey Betts, of New York City, brother 
 of George T. Betts and cousin of Judges F. H. and C. A. 
 and Dr. G. C. Dewey (see Index), was born at Newburg, 
 N. Y., July 6th, 1820. He was the son of Hon. Samuel R. 
 Betts, of New York, a graduate of Williams in the class of 
 1806, and for many years judge of the U. S. District Court 
 for the Southern District of New York. His mother was 
 the sister of Judge C. A. Dewey, of the Supreme Court of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 He was fitted for college in New York, entered Wil- 
 
8o Biographical Record of the [1837. 
 
 Hams in 1835, and was graduated in 1839. Studied law in 
 the office of Daniel Lord, Esq., of New York, and was 
 duly admitted to practice in that city. He was then ap- 
 pointed clerk of the court over which his father presided, 
 and occupied that position until his death, which occurred 
 January 13th, 1845, ^^id was the result of a severe cold 
 caught while travelUng. He was unmarried. 
 
 His brother says of him : " He was, I think, one of the 
 most ardent and devoted members of K. A. that I ever 
 knew, and took a deep interest in all that affected the 
 prosperity of the Society." 
 
 * Edmund Augustus Benedict, of Irvington, N. Y., 
 son of Lewis and Susan [Stafford] Benedict, and brother 
 of Henry M. (see Index), was born at Albany, his parents' 
 home, February nth, 1820. Was fitted for college at 
 Albany Academy, entered Williams in 1836, and was 
 graduated in 1840. He was then engaged in business in 
 Albany for some years, and was appointed by Governor 
 Hunt aid on his staff. During his term of office his most 
 interesting service was that of tendering the hospitalities of 
 the State to Kossuth, upon the occasion of his visit to the 
 capital. In 1856 he removed to the city of New York, 
 joined the Stock Exchange, and became a member of the 
 banking house of J. N. Perkins & Co. ; and on the 4th 
 December, 1857, married Lucy B., daughter of his senior 
 partner, then residing at Norwich, Conn. 
 
 After the dissolution of the firm, and in the fall of 1871, 
 Mr. Benedict went to Europe with his family for the bene- 
 fit of his health, and remained abroad until the spring of 
 1873. Upon his return he settled at Irvington on the 
 Hudson, where he lived very quietly and in declining 
 health until his death, August nth, 1878, when he found 
 that rest with his Saviour for which he had long prayed. 
 He was interred at Norwich. His wife, a son, and a 
 daughter survive him. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Commencement, 1840. 
 
1 83 7-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 81 
 
 ^ Thomas Thornton Read, of New York City, son 
 of Thomas and Hannah [Parsons] Read, was born at Troy, 
 N. Y., his parents' home, December 3d, 1825. 
 
 He was prepared for college at the age of twelve, but 
 delayed entering about a year on account of his youth, 
 and then became a member of Williams, whence he was 
 graduated in 1841 with the Greek Oration, an unusual ap- 
 pointment. After graduation he engaged for some years 
 in business in the city of New York, which became his 
 home, eventually retiring and availing himself largely of 
 the pleasures of foreign travel. He was noticeable for an 
 unusually fine physique, and while in Sweden his remark- 
 able personal resemblance to the late king, Charles XV. 
 of that country, subjected him to many public and private 
 attentions founded upon it. So much was said on the 
 subject that the sovereign referred to sent his own 
 picture to Mr. Read and requested that of the latter in 
 return. 
 
 In the summer of 1874 he suffered an attack of pneu- 
 monia, which was followed in the fall by a severe cold, 
 terminating in a fatal access of heart-disease. He died on 
 the 2 1 St of December in that year, in the full enjoyment 
 of the comfort of a religious hope. 
 
 The subject of this sketch had far higher claims to the 
 regard of those who knew him than any founded on mere 
 attractiveness of person. He was remarkable for his native 
 modesty, courteous address, amiability of disposition, lib- 
 erality, refined taste, and general elevation of character. 
 He had a retentive memory, and was especially fond of 
 the classics, so that the presentation to his alma mater of 
 the scholarship which bears his name was characteristic 
 aUke of his generosity and his taste. He was unmarried. 
 
 Obituary Record, 1874-5, mainly. 
 
 Commencement, 1841, 
 
 * Rev. Melzer Montague, of Allen's Grove, Wis., 
 son of Daniel and Lovisa [James] Montague, was born 
 6 
 
82 Biographical Record of the [1837. 
 
 at Westhampton, Mass., his parents' home, May 5th, 
 1818. 
 
 He was prepared for college in his native town and in 
 the Shelburne Falls Academy, entered Williams in 1837, 
 and was graduated in 1841 with the Philosophical Oration. 
 While in college it was his custom to teach school during 
 each winter, and he thus, doubtless, laid the foundation, 
 in part, of his subsequent success as an instructor. 
 
 After spending the year following graduation in teach- 
 ing and in study, he entered the Middle class at East 
 Windsor Theological Seminary, with which he was grad- 
 uated in 1844. In October of that year was ordained at 
 Easthampton, and was thereupon sent by the young men 
 of the place as a home missionary to Wisconsin, where, in 
 the following month, he became pastor of the Fort Atkin- 
 son Congregational church. In this charge he remained 
 about ten years, receiving a few boys into his family for 
 instruction, from time to time. At the end of that period, 
 being compelled by an affection of the throat to withdraw 
 from pulpit work, he opened a school in the same town, 
 and he subsequently taught for a year at Whitewater, and 
 for another, following, in Beloit College. He then took 
 charge of the Congregational church at Milton in the same 
 State, teaching also for one year in the academy there, 
 and for another in a private school. Finally, in 1858, 
 under strong inducement, he became Principal of the 
 academy at Allen's Grove, in which he accomplished 
 some of the most laborious and successful work of his life, 
 and with which he was connected for a period of about 
 fourteen years, deducting one year devoted to instruction 
 in Ripon College. 
 
 Throughout his life as a teacher he was more or less 
 engaged in preaching, and in the summer of 1866 he de- 
 livered a poem at Westhampton on the occasion of a 
 general reunion of the town. 
 
 During the last three years of his life Mr. Montague 
 was Superintendent of Schools for the county in which he 
 resided, and it was while in the discharge of his duties as 
 such that he met with the accident which occasioned his 
 
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 death. On the 27th of December, 1872, he set out from 
 home for the purpose of visiting some schools in a distant 
 part of his county. He had inspected one of these and 
 was on his way to another when he was thrown from his 
 sleigh, and was found lying insensible by the side of the 
 road. He was removed to a neighboring house, medical 
 aid was summoned, no outward injury was found, and the 
 physician judged the case to be one of paralysis. He was 
 then taken to Elkhorn for better care, but never rallied, 
 and on the 30th of December, after having shown, by a 
 slight pressure of the hand, some sign of recognition to 
 his wife only, he passed away. On the 2d of January in 
 the new year he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery at 
 Fort Atkinson. 
 
 Thus he departed " as any good man might be willing 
 to die, in the midst of his work and in the height of his 
 usefulness, sincerely mourned by many loving hearts, 
 having left an imperishable though unwritten record of 
 his life in the characters and lives of the hundreds of 
 youth who came under his influence and training." 
 
 Mr. Montague's religious life was begun by public 
 consecration of himself at the age of thirteen years. 
 '' It was not emotional, but of principle ; not obtrusive, 
 but deep and sincere ; not stagnant, but growing." His 
 chosen field was that of the ministry, but he was led by 
 Providence into the work of education, and in this he was 
 eminently useful ; so that his name is often mentioned 
 with gratitude by those who came under his influence. 
 
 Mr. Montague married, in May 1845, Mary, daughter 
 of Rev. Enoch Hale, who was for over fifty years pastor 
 of the church in Westhampton. They had no children, 
 but two adopted daughters became as their own to them. 
 Mrs. Montague now resides at CUnton, Wis. {1880.) 
 
 Minutes of the Presbyterian and Congregational Conven- 
 tion of Wisconsin J held at Eau Claire^ Sept., 1873, in part, 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1840. Prest. Philotechnian. 
 Philosophical, Commencement, 1841. 
 
84 Biographical Record of the [1837. 
 
 * Benjamin Wilcox, of South Bend, Ind., son of Benja- 
 min and Rachel Wilcox, — her name before marriage 
 also, — was born at Upper Middletown (now Cornwall), 
 Conn., May i8th, 18 16. At the age of sixteen he accom- 
 panied his father's family in its removal to Le Roy, N. Y., 
 and about that time made his first essay in teaching. 
 Always desirous of acquiring knowledge, he used, when 
 a boy, to fasten a book before him on the plough he was 
 driving, in order to study while he worked. After prepa- 
 ration at the academy in Clarkson, N. Y., he entered the 
 Freshman class in Williams, in which he stood high as a 
 scholar, although obliged from time to time to interrupt 
 his course and teach awhile in order to procure means for 
 continuing it. Succeeding in this, he was graduated with 
 his class in 1841. 
 
 Having relinquished his original purpose of studying 
 for the medical profession, he adopted that of teaching, as 
 more desirable for him, and in this he spent the remainder 
 of his life. After a brief engagement in Yates, N. Y., he 
 .taught for eleven years in the Wilson (Wis.) Collegiate 
 Institute, and for six in Valparaiso, Ind., and in 1870 
 took charge of the High School at South Bend, in which 
 he filled the position of Principal during the remainder of 
 his life, to great and general acceptance. As a teacher he 
 was laborious and progressive, giving his best thought 
 and the full extent of his abilit}^ to his pupils. Thus, pos- 
 sessing naturally the gift of a fine taste, he became him- 
 self a man of learning and culture, constantly adding to 
 his mental resources and graces. Throughout his life he 
 was an earnest Christian, a very valuable member of the 
 church, in which he was at the time of his decease an 
 elder, and influential in the community at large. His 
 whole nature was genial and kindly, and it was the best 
 possible tribute to his character and competence for his 
 work that those who had enjoyed the privilege of receiv- 
 ing his instructions themselves desired for their children 
 the same advantage. 
 
 Early in the summer of 1875 Mr. Wilcox, accompanied 
 by his wife, visited the East for the benefit of his health, 
 
1 83 7-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 85 
 
 but upon reaching the sea-shore found the change un- 
 favorable. They then returned as far as Le Roy, but 
 upon the way he had become much worse, and he lived 
 only a few days after reaching the residence of his sister 
 in that place, dying there upon the nth of August. His 
 remains were taken home to South Bend, where his fune- 
 ral was attended by a great multitude, the whole commu- 
 nity uniting in its observance. The services were held 
 in the First Presbyterian Church ; and had the edifice 
 been twice as large, it would hardly have accommodated 
 the crowd of former pupils, associates in educational work 
 and in official position, and of other friends, which assem- 
 bled upon this occasion of general mourning. An appro- 
 priate discourse was preached, and so large a procession 
 followed the remains of the deceased to the cemetery that 
 it made '* an imposing parade, such as was not often seen 
 in their streets." 
 
 In March, 1843, Mr. Wilcox married Harriet M. 
 Parmlee ; after her decease he married her sister, Carrie 
 E. Parmlee, and by each of these marriages he had three 
 children. 
 
 He belonged to both the Masonic Order and that of 
 the Odd Fellows. 
 
 South Bend Tribune , Aug. 21st, 1875, condensed. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1838. Commencement, 1841. A.M. 
 in course, and honorary, (Geneva,) 1844. 
 
 * Rev. William Riley Stevens, of Rochester, Minn., 
 son of William and Eunice [Pierce] Stevens, was born at 
 Worthington, Mass., his parents' home. May 15th, 1812. 
 His father was a thorough New England farmer, with a 
 family of thirteen children, all of whom became adults. 
 His mother, a superior woman, was well educated for her 
 time, faithful in her domestic affairs, and careful to train 
 up her family in the fear of the Lord. She was Mr. 
 Stevens's second wife, and only six of his children were 
 also hers ; but she regarded them all as her own, and they 
 reciprocated her love alike. 
 
86 Biographical Record of the [1837. 
 
 When about sixteen years of age the subject of this 
 sketch became converted, and he soon began to look to- 
 wards the ministerial profession. Although the com- 
 mencement of his college preparation was delayed until 
 he had attained majority, he adhered with increasing 
 earnestness to his purpose, was duly fitted for his course 
 through much toil and self-sacrifice, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in 1837, ^^<^ ^^s graduated in 1841, with an 
 oration on Greylock — a subject not, perhaps, without some 
 sly allusion to his own towering height. He at once took 
 his theological course at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, was 
 graduated in 1844, and entered upon his work at Lo- 
 gansport, Ind., where he remained for two years. Was 
 then settled at Akron, O., for two years, at Newton Falls, 
 same State, five years, at Thornton, Ind., a year and a 
 half, at River Falls, Wis., seven years, and at Rochester 
 four years, over churches of the Congregational denomina- 
 tion, and died at Rochester, of heart-disease, January 15th, 
 1867. 
 
 Mr. Stevens was a man of very marked characteristics. 
 In person he was thought to bear a strong resemblance to 
 President Lincoln. However that may have been, his 
 gigantic stature, six feet and seven inches, attracted the 
 notice of all who saw him. Hawthorne, in his " American 
 Note Books," says that among a party of students from 
 Williams which he saw in North Adams, about Com- 
 mencement in 1838, " one was six feet seven inches high, 
 and all his Herculean dimensions were in proportion. 
 His features, too, were cast in a mould suitable to his 
 stature. His motions were devoid of grace, but yet had a 
 rough freedom, appropriate enough to such a figure." This 
 description must have referred to our subject, for there 
 could hardly have been two such prodigies in the college 
 at about the same time, if indeed there ever was another. 
 He did not, however, allow himself to be annoyed by the 
 notice he attracted, but took it in the best part. It is re- 
 lated that while on his way to River Falls for settlement 
 he stopped at the town of Prescott, Wis., one night. The 
 next morning, while walking out to see the town, he per- 
 
1 83 7'] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 87 
 
 ceived that he was the observed of all observers then 
 abroad, one of whom called out to him, ** I say, stranger, 
 where did you lodge last night?" With the utmost 
 gravity he replied, " My head lodged in Barker's Hotel, 
 and my feet in infinite space." 
 
 Mr. Stevens was an able, faithful, and successful laborer, 
 an earnest worker in the temperance, anti-slavery, and 
 education causes, a wise master-builder, a workman that 
 needed not to be ashamed. His seven years of effort in 
 River Falls were attended by repeated revivals and large 
 accessions to the church. At Rochester, after long exer- 
 tion, he secured for the Congregational society a beauti- 
 ful and substantial edifice, which was dedicated the even- 
 ing before his death. His last audible utterance was, 
 " Come, Jesus." 
 
 Mr. Stevens married, in 1845, Louisa Cook, of Wil- 
 liamstown, who died in 185 1, during their residence in 
 River Falls, leaving a son and a daughter who are still 
 living. He afterwards married Lamira Hales, of Wind- 
 ham, O., who survives him. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1841. 
 
 * Garwood Thaddeus Sheldon, of Detroit, Mich., 
 son of Dr. William and Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, was born 
 at Le Roy, N. Y., his parents' place of residence, March 
 loth, 1820. Was fitted for college in part at the academy, 
 and in part by the rector of the Episcopal church, in his 
 native town; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1836, and 
 was graduated in 1840. 
 
 He then went to Detroit, his home for the future, and 
 studied law in the office of E. C. Seaman, Esq., whose 
 partner he afterwards became. Subsequently he was a 
 member of the firm of Wilcox, Sheldon & Gray. He 
 was a lawyer of good abilities, excelling especially in 
 chancery cases, and was for years an honored and suc- 
 cessful practitioner. But a constitutional tendency to 
 consumption cast a cloud about his career and blighted 
 
88 Biographical Record of the [1837. 
 
 all his plans. For the last ten years of his life he ceased 
 to be engaged in active practice, and he died on the 14th 
 of January, 1870. Remarks in honor of his memory were 
 made by several of his professional brethren before the 
 Wayne Circuit Court, which thereupon adjourned. 
 
 Mr. Sheldon was a man of retiring but social disposi- 
 tion, strong in his attachments and ever inclined to make 
 himself agreeable, even under the depressing influences 
 which weighed upon him. Enemies he had none, and the 
 number of his friends was identical with that of his ac- 
 quaintances. 
 
 He married a sister of Hon. H. H. Emerson, of Detroit, 
 who with four children survived him. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1840. Com- 
 mencement, 1840. 
 
 1838. 
 
 Hon. Charles Phillips Waller, of Honesdale, Pa., 
 brother of Rev. D. J. and of G. G. Waller (see Index), was 
 born in the Wyoming Valley, Pa., near Wilkesbarre, Au- 
 gust 7th, 1 819. 
 
 He entered Williams in 1837, as Freshman, but left 
 college at the end of his Sophomore year, studied law 
 with his uncle, Judge Collins, of Wilkesbarre, and was 
 admitted to the bar in August, 1843, shortly after which 
 he removed to Honesdale, where he soon built up a large 
 practice and has since continued to reside. 
 
 In November, 1874, Mr. Waller was elected President 
 Judge of the Twenty-second Judicial District of Pennsyl- 
 vania, to hold the office for ten years from the ist of Jan- 
 uary following. This position he now fills. In 1852 he 
 served as Presidential Elector for his State. In April, 
 1845, he married Harriet W. Stone, of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., 
 and by this marriage he has two daughters. (1880.) 
 
1838.] Kappa Alpha i7i Williams. 89- 
 
 William Dickinson Allis, of Rochester, N. Y., son 
 of William and Julia [Ingersoll] Allis, of Brookfield, Vt.,. 
 was born at Prescott, Canada West, in November, 1818. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the academies of Gaines 
 and Clarkson, N. Y., entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1838, and left at the end of Sophomore year, on account of 
 severe illness. His profession has been that of a teacher, 
 in which he was engaged for years in the public schools 
 of Rochester. He also taught in the academy of HoUey, 
 N. Y., and in Buckingham Academy, Berlin, Md. During 
 the last fifteen years he has been with the Rochester 
 Paper Company. 
 
 Mr. Allis is married, and has two sons and a daughter 
 living. (1880.) 
 
 John Benjamin Gale, of Troy, N. Y., son of Samuel 
 and Mary [Thompson] Gale, was born at Troy, his 
 parents' home, May 9th, 1824. 
 
 He was fitted for college in Troy, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in September, 1838, and was graduated in 1842. 
 He then read law in the office of Hon. H. P. Hunt, of 
 Troy, whose partner he subsequently became in the firm 
 of Hunt, Fairbanks, and Gale, which continued for several 
 years. Upon its dissolution he associated with himself 
 Charles L. Alden, Esq., a graduate of Williams, and this 
 connection, under the firm-name of Gale & Alden, still 
 subsists. 
 
 Mr. Gale has served as alderman (from the Second 
 Ward) of the city which has always been his place of resi- 
 dence. He has been twice married : first, on October 6th, 
 1846, to Elizabeth V. S. Wells, of Troy, and again, after 
 her decease, on the 29th January, 1873, to her sister, 
 Catherine, who is still living. By his first marriage he 
 had three children, but one of whom, a daughter, sur- 
 vives. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1841. Commencement, 1842. A. M. in 
 course. 
 
90 Biographical Record of the [1839. 
 
 1839. 
 
 Hon. RuFUS DoDD Woods, of Enfield, Mass., son of 
 Leonard and Persis [Dodd] Woods, — the latter originally 
 of Princeton, Mass., — was born at Enfield, his parents* 
 home. May ist, 1818. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Mt. Pleasant Collegiate 
 Institute, Amherst, and at Monson Academy, entered 
 Amherst College, as Freshman, in 1834, left at the close of 
 Sophomore 3^ear, entered the Junior class at Williams in 
 1838, and was graduated in 1840. He then taught for a 
 while in Westfield Academy, but soon became engaged in 
 manufacturing in Enfield, and so continued until the close 
 of the war in 1865. In 1852 he removed his residence to 
 Holyoke, where he became president of the Hadle}^ Falls 
 Bank, a position which he retained until 1857, when he re- 
 turned to his old home. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was a member of the State 
 Legislature, in the House of Representatives, in 1858, 
 serving as Chairman of the Committee on Railways and 
 as a member of that on the Judiciary. In 1872 and 1873 he 
 served in the State Senate, was Chairman of its Com- 
 mittee on Agriculture and a member of that on the 
 Hoosac Tunnel. He is at present a trustee of the State 
 Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, and a member of the Gov- 
 ernor's Council, to which he was recently elected. In 
 1870 he received the honorary degree of A.M. from Am- 
 herst College. At Commencement of the present year 
 was chosen fifth president of the Incorporated K. A. 
 Society. 
 
 Mr. Woods married, May 23d, 1848, Isabella Smith, of 
 Enfield, and has had by this marriage a daughter. (Dec, 
 1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1848. A. M., Amherst, 1870. 
 
 * Thomas Robbins, m.d., of New York City, son of 
 James W. Robbins, a Williams graduate in the class of 
 
i839'] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 91 
 
 1802, and Maria [Eggleston] Robbins, was born at Lenox, 
 Mass., his parents' home, September 12th, 1820. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, entered 
 WiUiams in 1836, maintained an excellent standing, and 
 was graduated in 1840. He then taught for some time in 
 Lyme, Conn., after which he began the study of medicine, 
 and in 1844 was graduated from the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons in New York. He settled in that city for 
 professional practice, in which he was engaged until over- 
 taken by consumption, and died of that disease at Lenox, 
 August 17th, 1846. 
 
 Dr. Robbins was a young man of fine attainments and 
 excellent character and promise. He lived an active 
 Christian life, and died with full faith in the Redeemer. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1840. Com- 
 mencement, 1840. A. M. in course. 
 
 *JoHN Adam Walker, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 Hon. WiUiam P. and Lucy [Adam] Walker, — the former a 
 Williams graduate of 1798, — was born at Lenox, his pa- 
 rents' home, January 7th, 1821. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy and at 
 the French school of Mons. Coudert in New York City, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1836, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1840 with the Philosophical Oration. He then 
 studied a year at the Yale Law School and three years at 
 Andover and Union Theological Seminaries, becoming 
 Tutor at Williams in 1844, and remaining a year as such, 
 occupied mainly with the instruction of the Junior class 
 and supplying the place of Prof. Kellogg. During 1846- 
 48 he continued his legal studies at Lenox, and in the lat- 
 ter year was admitted to the bar. In 1853 removed to 
 Pittsfield, in 1855 was made Special Justice, and in 1858 
 Justice of the Police Court held there. In 1859 resigned 
 this position, and took his seat in the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives. At the close of the session, in i860, 
 became Secretary and Treasurer of the Berkshire Mutual 
 
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 Fire Insurance Company, in which office and in legal 
 practice he continued until his death. This was caused 
 by inflammatory rheumatism, and occurred May 22d, 1864. 
 
 Mr. Walker was, until middle age, of tall, erect, and 
 somewhat slender figure ; his manner was very pleasing, 
 indicating unusual delicac}^ and modesty. These qualities 
 he possessed almost in excess, so that they became obsta- 
 cles to his original plans for professional life. By his 
 friends they were felt only as marked traits in a very win- 
 ning character. 
 
 He married, October 14th, 1847, Margaret Magee, of 
 Boston, and had by this marriage two daughters and a 
 son. All these survive him, residing in Pittsfield. (1879.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1839. Philo- 
 sophical, Commencement, 1840. Master's Oration, 1843. 
 
 ^Charles Worthington, of Boston, Mass., son of 
 Charles and Sarah [Walker] Worthington, and cousin of 
 John A. Walker (p. 91), was born at Lenox, his parents' 
 home, February 23d, 1822. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1836, and was graduated in 
 1840, with the Salutatory Oration. He then studied law 
 with C. D. Loring, Esq., of Boston, and in Harvard Law 
 School, and, upon admission to the bar, formed a partner- 
 ship for practice in Boston, which was soon terminated by 
 his declining health. He died at Stockbridge, of con- 
 sumption, May 28th, 1847. 
 
 Mr. Worthington was greatly beloved by his associates 
 for his amiable disposition and for many attractive traits 
 of character. The simultaneous withdrawal of Walker, 
 Robbins, and Worthington, men of fine scholarship and 
 prominent standing, from the Social Fraternity anti-secret 
 society created much excitement in college, and was the 
 first serious defection from that large and controlling 
 body, as well as the earhest intimation of its decline. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1839. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1839. Salutatory, 
 Commencement, 1840. 
 
1 839-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 93 
 
 James Scott Griffith, of Racine, Wis., son of Grif- 
 fith P. and Phebe A. Griffith, was born at Troy, N. Y., 
 his parents' place of residence, December 5th, 1821. 
 
 He entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1838, but left at 
 the close of first term Sophomore, in the fall of 1839, 
 and has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits at the 
 West. 
 
 Mr. Griffith married Elizabeth Jackson, of Huron, O., 
 and has had by this marriage several children. 
 
 *Hon. Thomas Colt, of Pittsfield, Mass., youngest 
 brother of Hon. James D. Colt (p. 'jG), was born at Pitts- 
 field, June 28th, 1823. 
 
 He was fitted for college in his native town, entered 
 Williams in 1838, as Freshman, was graduated in 1842, and 
 for about five years following resided in Pittsfield, doing 
 business as a merchant. He was then engaged in the 
 manufacture of paper at Ballston Spa, N. Y., for about 
 two years, and at Pittsfield, whither he then returned, 
 from the expiration of that time until 1873. In the latter 
 year he took up the business of general insurance with a 
 friend, and in this he continued until his death. He was a 
 leading member of the Congregational Church, and filled 
 a prominent place in the community, being identified with 
 all its best enterprises. To this his fine personal appearance, 
 business capacity, generous impulses, and public spirit 
 naturally led, and few have held as many home offices. 
 He presided at town meetings frequently ; was Chairman 
 of the Soldiers' Monument Committee; and in 1856 was 
 elected a member of the Governor's Council and a Presi- 
 dential Elector at large. He assisted in raising a company 
 of the Tenth Massachusetts Volunteers, aided in the for- 
 mation of the Berkshire Athenaeum, and, as his last pubUc 
 work, engaged in superintending the completion and pub- 
 lication of Smith's '' History of Pittsfield." 
 
 In 1864 he was chosen President of the Society of 
 Alumni of Williams College. 
 
 His death was sudden. It took place in Pittsfield, No- 
 
94 Biographical Record of the [i839* 
 
 vember 8th, 1876, a few days after his return from the 
 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, as occurred in so 
 many other cases, and was caused by congestion of the 
 lungs. His funeral was largely attended, especially by 
 the business men of the county. 
 
 Mr. Colt married, December 25th, 1855, Catharine M., 
 daughter of William B. Cooley, of Pittsfield, and grand- 
 daughter of Rev. Dr. Cooley, long the Vice-President of 
 the college. She survives her husband. 
 
 Obituary Record, 1877, in part. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1841. Prest. Philotechnian. Commence- 
 ment, 1842. 
 
 * Henry William Porter, m.d., of New York City, 
 was the son of Dr. Samuel Porter, an eminent physician 
 of Skaneateles, N. Y. In the spring of 1838 he began his 
 preparation for college at the school of Alexander Hyde, 
 in Lee, who remembered him as an '* apt and ambitious 
 scholar — one of those genial, gentlemanly, high-toned boys 
 whom every teacher loves and respects." He entered 
 Williams, was graduated thence in 1842, studied medicine 
 and received his- degree of M.D. from the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1846, standing 
 high in both institutions. The better to fit himself for 
 medical practice, he then entered the New York Hospital 
 as assistant, and it was while in the faithful performance 
 of his duty there that he contracted the fatal disease ol 
 "ship-fever" (probably typhoid), of which he died in 1847, 
 at the age of thirty-four. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1841. Commencement, 1842. 
 
 James Somerville Knowlson, of Troy, N. Y., oldest 
 son — one of twins — of Richard J. and Margaret [Brown] 
 Knowlson, was born at Albany, then his parents' home, 
 May I St, 1823. 
 
1 839-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 95 
 
 His father having removed, with his family, to Sand 
 Lake, Rensselaer County, this son was sent from that 
 place to the school of Hon. Asahel Foote, at Williamstown, 
 where he was fitted for the collegiate course. In the fall 
 of 1839 h^ entered WilHams, as Freshman, but at the end of 
 Sophomore year he left college and went to Troy to re- 
 side, where he has since remained, being engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits, particularly the manufacture of woollen 
 and cotton goods, until 1869. Since then he has with- 
 drawn, for the most part, from business. 
 
 During his residence in Troy Mr. Knowlson has been 
 active in many of the best institutions and enterprises of 
 that city. Has served as trustee, since 1866, of the 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; as elder in the First 
 Presbyterian Church, and for several years as president of 
 its board of trustees; as bank director, and the Hke. In 
 1867 he received, but declined, the nomination for mayor 
 from the Democratic party, then in the ascendency. And 
 in the mean time he has been constant in his attachment to 
 Williams College, which, in 1843, awarded him the degree 
 of A.B., restoring him to his place on the roll of his class, 
 and enabling him to serve, in 1865, upon the Executive 
 Committee of the Society of Alumni. 
 
 His devotion to the affairs and interests of the Kappa 
 Alpha Society is well known to its members. He has 
 given it two sons, much time and care, and very gen- 
 erous material aid ; the latter especiallyr at an important 
 crisis in its affairs, enabling it to secure the site of its 
 present house. He was also one of the most active mem- 
 bers of its Building Committee in charge of the erection 
 of the edifice itself, so that possession of this choice and 
 increasingly vakiable property by the Society is largely 
 due to his individual agency and effort. A recent proof 
 of his unabated interest in its welfare was the gift of a 
 large number of valuable books, to form the nucleus of a 
 library for the house. In recognition of his services and 
 benefactions he was chosen the second president of the 
 Incorporated Society, in 1871, and was subsequently re- 
 elected to that position. 
 
96 Biographical Record of the [1839. 
 
 Mr. Knowlson married, in April, 1846, Jane E. Kellogg, 
 of Troy, and by this marriage had six sons and four daugh- 
 ters. Three of the latter and four of the former survive 
 their mother. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. Edward Taylor, d.d., of Binghamton, N. Y., son 
 of Abner and Mary [Johnson] Taylor, — the former a native 
 of Willington and the latter of Stafford, both in Connecti- 
 cut, — was born in Lee, then his parents' place of residence, 
 October 6th, 1821. 
 
 He was fitted for college in his native town by Alex- 
 ander Hyde and I. W. Andrews, entered Williams, as 
 Sophomore, in the fall of 1839, ^"^^ ^^^ graduated in 1842. 
 After teaching school for a year at Little Falls, N. Y., he 
 entered Auburn Theological Seminary, from which he 
 was graduated in 1846. The same year was settled over 
 the Congregational church in Hinsdale ; in 1850 at Lan- 
 singburg, N. Y. ; in 1855 at Kalamazoo,^ Mich. ; in 1863 
 over the South Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 during his connection with which he was also Chaplain of 
 the Thirteenth New York Volunteers, and introduced the 
 custom, now generally adopted, of preaching an annual 
 sermon to his regiment ; and in 1868 at Binghamton. Dur- 
 ing 1867 and 1868 he travelled for a year in Europe and 
 in Egypt ; from 1875 to 1879 ^^^ laid aside in consequence 
 of overwork, but in the latter year so far recovered as to 
 resume preaching, and in January, 1880, took charge of 
 the Congregational church in Norwich, N. Y., near Bing- 
 hamton, without change of residence. 
 
 He was a trustee from 1856 to 1863 of Kalamazoo Col- 
 lege, and from 1857 to 1863 of Olivet, both in Michigan; 
 also of Chicago Theological Seminary for some years 
 during the same period. In 1869 he received the degree 
 of D.D. from Olivet. 
 
 Mr. Taylor married, October 6th, 1847, Jane G. Wood, 
 of Aurora, N. Y., and by this marriage he has a son. 
 
 " Was initiated into the mysteries of K. A. in Decem- 
 ber, 1839, ^^<i have been glad of it ever since. Swing my 
 
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 badge Sundays and week-days, and expect to do so until 
 I pass ad astra'* (1880.) 
 
 Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 1841. Adelphic Un. Ex., 
 1842. Commencement, 1842. A.M. in course. D.D., 
 Olivet, 1869. 
 
 * Charles McKinstry, of New York City, fourth son 
 of Col. David C. and Nancy [Whiting] McKinstry, was 
 born at Detroit, Mich., his father's place of residence, May 
 27th, 1819. In 1837, after occupying a situation of respon- 
 sibility in a bank in Detroit, he entered Lenox Academy, 
 and in 1839 Williams College, where he remained, apply- 
 ing himself arduously to study until the summer of 1841. 
 He then left Williams for Rutgers, where he was gradu- 
 ated in 1843 with the Salutatory Oration, after which he 
 began the study of law in the office of his uncle, Judge 
 Whiting, of Geneva, N. Y. At the end of two years he 
 entered that of Foot & Davis, one of the most promi- 
 nent in the city of New York, and subsequently took 
 charge of their extensive and important attorney practice, 
 upon his admission to the bar. Afterwards he opened an 
 office of his own in the same city, and some years later 
 formed a partnership with his college friend and K. A. 
 brother, Joseph Lovell, Esq., which continued until his 
 death. In August, 1853, he was attacked by hemorrhage 
 of the lungs, while bathing at Long Branch ; and towards 
 winter, finding a milder climate necessary to him, went to 
 New Orleans, returning benefited, as he thought. But 
 consumption was upon him, and finding that he must give 
 up business, he left New York for Matanzas just before 
 Christmas in 1854. On the way another violent hemor- 
 rhage prostrated him, leaving him after many days with 
 scarcely strength enough to reach Cardenas. But he 
 was able, with the early summer following, to return to 
 his parents' home in Ypsilanti, Mich., where he died very 
 peacefully and with Christian resignation, just a week later, 
 June 23d, 1855. "Few gathered around his early grave. 
 7 
 
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 to moisten its sod with their tears, but among those few 
 were swelling hearts from far-distant cities, who knew and 
 loved him well." 
 
 He was unmarried, and was a member of the Order 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1841. Salutatory, Commence- 
 ment (Rutgers), 1843. 
 
 George Patrick Briggs, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 Hon. George N. and Harriet [Hall] Briggs, was born at 
 South Adams, March 4th, 1822. His father, a Trustee of 
 Williams College, was a member of Congress and for 
 seven years Governor of Massachusetts, residing after 1842 
 in Pittsfield. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at 
 Lenox Academy, entered Williams in 1839, ^^<^ ^^^^ gra- 
 duated in 1842 with the First English Oration. He then 
 studied law in Pittsfield, and subsequently in Harvard Law 
 School, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 
 1846; practised in Boston until the following year, and in 
 Lowell from that time to 1861, when he settled in Pitts- 
 field, since his home, where he is engaged in farming. 
 
 Mr. Briggs married, August 4th, 1856, Cornelia Gush- 
 ing, of Cleveland, O., who deceased in 1858. October 
 6th, 1875, he married Mrs. Sarah E., widow of Dr. A. A. 
 Leland, of Detroit, Mich. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1841. First English, Commencement, 1842. 
 A.M. in course. LL.B., Harvard. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 1840. 
 
 Seth Smith Mellen, of Mt. Sterling, Ala., was 
 born February 7th, 1821, in Pelham, Mass., whence his 
 father soon after removed with his family to Brookfield, 
 Worcester County. 
 
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 This son was fitted for college at the Wesleyan Acad- 
 emy in Wilbraham, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1839, ^^^ ^^^^ graduated in 1843 with the Philosophical 
 Oration. He then went to the South, where he has ever 
 since continued to reside. After professional engagements 
 as teacher at Tarversville and Longstreet, Ga.', and De 
 Soto, Miss., he settled at Mt. Sterling, where, in addi- 
 tion to managing a school of his own, he is engaged in 
 farming and in business affairs, and has for several years 
 served as County Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 Mr. Mellen married Martha A. Crocker, of Georgia, as 
 his first wife, and had by this marriage two children, both 
 of whom are deceased. Subsequently he married a lady 
 from Massachusetts, and by this marriage he has five chil- 
 dren. (Nov., 1879.) 
 
 [The middle name is as given above.] 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1841. Philosophical, Commencement, 
 1843. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Rev. Edward Jefferson Willis, of Clarksburg, W. 
 Va., son of Larkin and Susan E. Willis, was born De 
 cember 19th, 1820, near Rapidan Station, Culpepper 
 County, Va. 
 
 He was fitted in Hampden Sydney College, Va., and 
 at Lenox Academy, Mass., and entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in 1840. At the end of a year he withdrew 
 from Williams and entered the Law School of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, where he completed the usual two- 
 years' course in one year, graduating with L.B. (LL.B.) 
 July 4th, 1842. He then settled in Charlottesville, the 
 seat of the University, for practice; and on the i8th of 
 April, 1843, married Miss Snead, of Albemarle County, 
 Va. In January, 1845, ^^ removed to Barboursville, same 
 State, and in addition to his legal practice conducted a 
 successful school for boys. While there was Grand 
 Worthy Patriarch, Sons of Temperance, for Virginia. 
 
 On March 5th, 1849, M^- Willis started with a company 
 
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 for the gold region. They left Independence, Mo., with 
 a wagon-train on the 3d of May following, and walked the 
 entire distance to the Bear River diggings, in California, 
 which they reached on the last day of August. There our 
 subject remained a short time with profit. In November 
 he removed to Sacramento for legal practice, and in 1850 
 was elected Judge of the City and County by a large ma- 
 jority. During his term occurred the squatter riots, in 
 which the sheriff was killed while carrying out the sentence 
 of this court, the first for the execution of criminals in 
 that State. Other city officers were also killed at that time. 
 
 In August, 1854, Mr. Willis entered the ministry and 
 removed to Oakland, where the First Baptist Church was 
 organized (as the First Church of Sacramento had previous- 
 ly been) in his own parlor. In July, 1856, returned with 
 his family to Virginia, and was settled over a leading 
 church in Richmond, with which he remained until June, 
 1 86 1. He then became chaplain of the Fifteenth Virginia 
 Infantry, in which capacity he served until April follow- 
 ing, when he was made captain of a company in the same 
 regiment, composed mostly of young men from his own 
 congregation and Sunday-school. 
 
 He continued in this command until late in 1864, taking 
 part in ten of the heaviest pitched battles of the war. In 
 that of Sharpsburg, or Antietam, while leading his regi- 
 ment, he had many balls shot through his clothing, but 
 came out unhurt. 
 
 After the war Mr. Willis settled nearRapidan Station, 
 where he remained two years, preaching also at Orange 
 Court-House and Gordonsville. In January, 1867, accepted 
 a call to Alexandria. In June, 1869, removed to Winches- 
 ter, where he labored in reorganizing and building up the 
 church there. In 1876 accepted his present position as 
 president of Broaddus Female College, Clarksburg, a 
 regularly incorporated institution upon the model of Mt. 
 Holyoke 'Seminary. 
 
 In March, 1876, his first wife having deceased, Mr. 
 Willis married his second. Miss Rogers, of Loudoun 
 
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 County, Va. He has had three sons and six daughters, 
 all by his first marriage, (1879.) 
 
 * James Sloan Smith, of Macon, Ga., was fitted for 
 college at Lenox Academy, entered Williams as a mem- 
 ber of the class of 1844, remained in college only a short 
 time, returned home and studied law in his father's office, 
 but lived only two or three years, dying in 1844 or 1845. 
 
 James Alexander Scott, of Richmond, Va., son of 
 James Scott, a native of Scotland, and Grace [Freeland] 
 Scott, a Virginian of Scotch descent, was born in Ches- 
 terfield County, Va., December 19th, 1821 ; was fitted for 
 college at Lenox Academy, entered Williams in 1840, 
 remained through Freshman year, went to Rutgers, and 
 was graduated there in 1844. Mr. Scott has ever since 
 been engaged in the tobacco business in Richmond in the 
 house established by his father, who died in 1861, aged 
 eighty-eight years. He still carries on the business in 
 company with descendants of the parties in Scotland 
 who sent his father to establish it in this country. 
 
 In 1862 the subject of this notice married a daughter 
 of Dr. Joseph Lovell, Surgeon- General U.S.A., of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. At the breaking out of the late war he was 
 first lieutenant of a volunteer company, which was im- 
 mediately ordered to the Potomac, where he remained 
 with it several weeks. The company then returning to 
 Richmond, he resigned his commission ; and being, as a 
 member of the City Council, exempt from military duty, 
 remained in the city during the entire war, and was one 
 of the committee appointed to surrender it to the U. S. 
 forces. On the restoration of civil government he 
 was re-elected to the City Council, of which he had al- 
 ready been a member for sixteen years, and was chosen 
 its president. After serving thus for a year he removed 
 his residence to Ashland, Hanover County, seventeen 
 
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 miles from Richmond, though still attending to his^busi- 
 ness in the city. 
 
 Mr. Scott is a leading Free Mason. He has had six 
 children, five of whom are still living. (1880.) 
 
 * David Hyde Kellogg, of Spuyten Duyvil, N, Y., 
 son of Daniel Kellogg, of Skaneateles, in the same State, 
 was born at the latter place, September 24th, 1821. His 
 mother's maiden name was Hyde. He was fitted for col- 
 lege in the school of Alexander Hyde, at Lee, to which 
 he went in company with H. W. Porter, his fellow-towns- 
 man and future brother in K. A. In 1840 he entered Wil- 
 liams, and in 1844 was graduated. He then began the 
 study of law, but was soon led by failure of health to dis- 
 continue it, and spent several years in travel at home 
 and abroad. Having inherited a competent fortune, it 
 was his pleasure to devote himself to a life of unostenta- 
 tious usefulness. 
 
 On the 24th of July, 185 1, Mr. Kellogg married Har- 
 riet N., daughter of Justin Kellogg, Esq., of Troy, and 
 in the fall of 1855 settled at Spuyten Duyvil, near New 
 York. In 1867 he established a paper business in the city, 
 and therein lost a large portion of his property, but by 
 no failure of his own. Soon after he became a suffering 
 invalid, and the last years of his life were spent in total 
 blindness. But through all this he manifested the meek- 
 ness, patience, and cheerfulness becoming one whose hope 
 was in heaven ; and after long endurance died peacefully, 
 by a shock of paralysis, on the 20th of August last. His 
 remains were taken for interment to his native town. 
 " His memory will be cherished in the hearts of a large 
 circle of friends, and his example will long have its in- 
 fluence upon those who knew him best." Others, too, 
 will remember with lasting pleasure the kindness and 
 unaffected cordiality of his manner and the evident deli- 
 cacy and refinement of his nature. 
 
 A son and a daughter survive him. (Oct., 1880.) 
 
 N. V. Observer, Aug, 26th, 1880, in part. 
 
1 841.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 103' 
 
 1841. 
 
 Hon. Marshall Wilcox, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 Loring and Maria [Bradley] Wilcox, was born at Stock- 
 bridge, Mass., March 19th, 1821. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1840, and was graduated in 
 1844. He then studied law in Otis, Mass., and practised 
 there a few years, after which, in 1853, he removed to 
 Lee, in the same county, where he remained until 1871. 
 In that year he settled in his present place of residence, 
 where he is engaged in professional practice. 
 
 Mr. Wilcox was elected to the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives in 1866, and to the Senate in 1868. In 
 1867 was chosen the first president of the Kappa Alpha 
 Society (Incorporated), and in that office he remained 
 until 1 87 1. 
 
 He married, January 7th, 1857, Nancie F. Bradley, of 
 Detroit, Mich., and has by this marriage a son. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1843. Commencement, 1844. Phi Beta 
 Kappa, (Honorary,) 1867. 
 
 William H. Stanton, of Bel Air, Ga., entered Wil- 
 liams College from Salisbury, Conn., then his home, as 
 Freshman, in 1840. He left at or near the close of his first 
 year; about 1850 went South, and there engaged in teach- 
 ing. Subsequently he married the daughter of a Southern 
 planter, McGrudder by name, who lived in Bel Air and 
 had a large number of negroes on his plantation. Mr. 
 Stanton resided with his father-in-law, but came North 
 about the breaking out of the war. Being entirely South- 
 ern in his feelings, he soon returned to Georgia, where he 
 is supposed to be living still. (1880.) 
 
 ^Joseph Lovell, of Natchez, Miss., third son of Dr. 
 Joseph Lovell, Surgeon-General U. S. A., and Margaret 
 
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 [Mansfield] Lovell,— a native of Virginia, — and brother of 
 W. F. Lovell (see Index), was born at Washington, his 
 parents' place of residence, June nth, 1824. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lee, entered Williams in 
 1840, left at the end of Freshman year, and went to Yale, 
 whence he was graduated in 1844, and received the 
 degree of A.M. in 1853. He studied law in New York, 
 was admitted to the bar in 1847, and practised in that city 
 in partnership with his friend and K. A. brother McKin- 
 stry (p. 97) until the death of the latter, and subsequently 
 alone. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Lovell married Louisa, eldest daughter of 
 General Quitman, of Natchez, to which place he removed 
 the following year. At the beginning of the civil war he 
 became a member, with rank of General, of the staff of his 
 brother. Gen. Mansfield Lovell, commanding at New Or- 
 leans. At its close returned to Natchez, where he re- 
 sumed his occupation as a cotton-planter, and died in that 
 city November 28th, 1869, leaving a daughter. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1842. Skull and Bones, Yale. A.M., 
 Yale, 1853. 
 
 * Lemuel Bingham Gay, of Sumter, S. C, was born at 
 Pittsfield, Mass., April 13th, 1820. 
 
 He was graduated at Williams in 1843, taught awhile 
 in Charleston, S. C, and was connected with the Orange- 
 burg (S. C.) Female Seminary for four years. He then 
 studied law and practised a short time at Sumter. During 
 the rebellion served in the commissary department of 
 the Confederate army with the rank of captain, and was 
 intensely Southern in his feelings. After the war returned 
 to Sumter and resumed teaching, and at the same time 
 edited the Sumter News, continuing thus emplo)7^ed until 
 his death, November 23d, 1871. He was unmarried. 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Senior Ex., 1842. Commence- 
 ment, 1843. 
 
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 Derick Lane Boardman, of Troy, N. Y., oldest son 
 of Rev. Dr. George S. and Alida [Lane] Boardman, — 
 the latter of Troy before marriage, — and brother of Dr. J. 
 Boardman (see Index), was born March 17th, 1824, at 
 Watertown, N. Y., where his father was then pastor of 
 the First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Black River Institute, in 
 Watertown, entered Williams, as Freshman, in Septem- 
 ber, 1840, and was graduated in 1844. He then removed 
 to Rome, N. Y., and studied law in the office of Judge H. 
 A. Foster, a Senator of the United States, whose daugh- 
 ter, Mary N., he married in 1848, after his admission to 
 practice. To his professional business in Rome he added 
 that of fire insurance, and upon his removal, July ist, 
 1 867, to his present place of residence, became State Gen- 
 eral Agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
 York, which position he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Boardman was a member in 1854 of the Legisla- 
 ture of New York, in the Assembly, has been a Trustee of 
 Williams College since 1848, and was the third President 
 of the Kappa Alpha Society (Incorporated), serving for 
 four years from Commencement, 1875. 
 
 He has a daughter and a son, the latter of whom, 
 Henry F., is also a member of our Society. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1844. 
 
 1842. 
 
 George Frederic Betts, of New York City, younger 
 brother of Charles D. Betts (p. 79), was born at Newburg, 
 N. Y., June 14th, 1827. 
 
 In 1840 he entered the University of New York, and 
 in 1 841, as Sophomore, Williams College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1 844. He then studied law for one year 
 in New York, one in Harvard Law School, and one 
 again in New York ; was admitted to the bar in 1 847, 
 and practised in Newburg until 1850, when he removed 
 
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 to New York and became one of the new firm of Beebe, 
 Betts & Donohue. From this he retired in 1853 to join in 
 forming the partnership of Owen & Betts, with which Mr. 
 F. B. Cutting was also connected. These were firms 
 whose practice was very large ; Mr. Cutting's rank in the 
 profession, especially as an advocate, being of the very 
 highest. In 1855 Mr. Betts was compelled by ill health to 
 withdraw from his business connections, and he then gave 
 some time to travel in the South. Upon his return he was 
 appointed clerk of the U. S. District Court for the South- 
 ern District of New York, of which his father was at that 
 time, and for many years after, judge, and in this office 
 he remained until 1878, when he resumed legal practice. 
 
 In April, 1861, he assisted in raising and organizing^ 
 the Ninth Regiment N. Y. Vols. (Hawkins Zouaves), and 
 was appointed lieutenant-colonel thereof ; was ordered to 
 Newport News, in 1862 took part in the capture of Hat- 
 teras and Roanoke Island, and soon after resigned. 
 
 Mr. Betts married, November loth, 185 1, Ellen, daugh- 
 ter of Professor Wm. Porter, of Williams, and adopted 
 daughter of Charles Stoddard, Esq., of Boston, who was 
 long a Trustee of the college. By this marriage he has 
 had five children, of whom a son and three daughters are 
 now living. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1843. Commencement, 1844. Master's 
 Oration, 1847. N. Y. Historical Soc. 
 
 George Grant Waller, of Honesdale, Pa., younger 
 brother of Rev. D. J. and C. P. Waller (pp. 31, 88), was 
 born in the Wyoming Valley, near Wilkesbarre, May 3d, 
 1 82 1. Entered Williams, as Sophomore, in 1841, and was 
 graduated in 1844. Studied law with his uncle. Judge 
 Collins, of Wilkesbarre, was admitted to the bar in May, 
 1846, practised a year at Bloomsburg and two years at 
 Wilkesbarre, and in 1849 removed to his present place of 
 residence, where he has been engaged in practice since 
 that time. 
 
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 Mr. Waller married, October nth, 1854, Lizzie J.^ 
 daughter of Judge Bentley, of Montrose, Pa., and by this 
 marriage has had four children, of whom only one, a 
 daughter, is now living. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1843. Commencement, 1844. 
 
 Albertus Perry, of New York City, oldest son of 
 Asa and Philura [Aylsworth] Perry, brother of George 
 Perry (see Index), and cousin of Azariah S. Clark (p. 12), 
 was born at Richmond, Mass., his parents' home, June 
 2 1 St, 1824. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1841, and was graduated in 
 1845. He then studied law with Judge Spencer, of Utica, 
 N. Y., and shortly after admission to the bar settled in Os- 
 wego, where he has resided until the present year, during 
 which he has removed to New York for practice. He has 
 always held a high rank in his profession, and has repeat- 
 edly been the candidate of his party for a seat on the 
 bench of the Supreme Court. 
 
 Mr. Perry married, in 1849, Eliza, daughter of Judge 
 John Grant, of Oswego, and has by this marriage two 
 sons and two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1844. Moonlight Ex., 1844. Adelphic Un. 
 Ex., 1845. Commencement, 1845. 
 
 * Hasbrouck Davis, of Chicago, III, third son ot 
 Hon. John and Ehza [Bancroft] Davis, was born at 
 Worcester, Mass., his parents' place of residence, April 
 19th, 1827. His father, a native of Northborough, Mass., 
 was a graduate of Yale, Governor of Massachusetts, and 
 U. S. Senator, whose incorruptible integrity gained for 
 him the popular appellation of Honest John Davis. His 
 mother was the eldest daughter of Rev. Dr. Bancroft, of 
 Worcester. 
 
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 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college in the 
 common schools of his native city, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, at the age of fourteen, in 1841, and was gra- 
 duated in 1845 with an oration on the "Pantheism of 
 Spinoza." During his college course he maiiltained a 
 high standing not merely as a scholar, but as a thinker 
 and writer, with a special fondness for metaphysical and 
 speculative studies. 
 
 After graduation he was engaged as teacher in the 
 Worcester High School for one year, at the expiration of 
 which he visited Germany for the purpose of studying 
 theology at Heidelberg ; this he did, and upon his return 
 to Massachusetts became pastor of the Unitarian Society 
 at Watertown, but in consequence of a change in his reli- 
 gious views resigned his charge after a short settlement, 
 withdrew from the ministry, and entered upon the study 
 of law in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in that 
 city in 1854, and began practice there, which he continued 
 upon his removal to Chicago the following year. 
 
 In February, 1862, at the outbreak of the rebelHon, he 
 became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry 
 and immediately proceeded to Virginia, where he greatly 
 distinguished himself at Winchester by a brilliant charge, 
 with a very inferior force, upon the enemy's cavalry ; also 
 at Darksville, where, at the head of a little party of forty, 
 he made a furious attack upon eight hundred of the 
 enemy, in position, and scattered them with heavy loss, 
 taking fifty prisoners and their horses. The same month, 
 being enclosed, together with Col. Miles* command, by 
 the enemy at Harper's Ferry, he cut his way out with 
 two thousand cavalry, intercepting and capturing a part 
 of Longstreet's train and about one thousand prisoners ; 
 thus "by his wisdom, courage, and patriotic devotion, 
 manifested by him on so many occasions during the war, 
 the entire cavalry force at the place was saved from the 
 shameful surrender that followed." Those who were 
 present and witnessed the dashing exploits of Gen. Davis 
 were amazed at his undertaking and the manner in which 
 he carried it through. In November he marched to 
 
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 Dumfries, and held it against a much superior force under 
 Gens. J. E. B. Stuart and Fitzhugh Lee. In May, 1863, 
 being ordered to destroy, if possible, the communication 
 between Richmond and Lee's army, he did so, striking 
 the Fredericksburg Railroad at Ashland, and the Virginia 
 Central at Hanover Station, and tearing up both lines. 
 He then pushed on to a point within seven miles of Rich- 
 mond, guided only by a common map of Virginia, crossed 
 the Pamunky and Mattapony, driving the enemy's pickets 
 before him, and made his way to Gloucester, after having 
 been given up for lost ; thus successfully accomplishing a 
 transit of more than two hundred miles through a region 
 not before reached by our forces. In this raid millions of 
 property were destroyed without much loss to the body 
 which made it ; and it was deemed so important an 
 achievement that the commanding officer, when afterwards 
 in Washington, was sent for by President Lincoln, who re- 
 quested from him a particular account of the expedition. 
 
 General Davis afterwards made several brilliant forays 
 into the interior counties. In November, 1863, he re- 
 turned to Chicago with his regiment for its reorganiza- 
 tion, after which they together took part in the Red 
 River campaign and were several times in action. In 
 one of these engagements the General was severely 
 wounded, but kept his saddle. He was with his force at 
 Baton Rouge and at Liberty, Miss., where it was owing 
 to his management that the whole command was not cap- 
 tured. It was afterwards at Mobile, Memphis, and finally 
 at Alexandria, La., where, on the ist of August, 1865, its 
 commanding officer resigned, having been made, on the 
 30th of June preceding, brevet Brigadier-general for 
 gallant and meritorious services, to rank from the 13th 
 of March of that year. 
 
 On his return to Chicago, General Davis resumed the 
 practice of law. In June, 1866, he purchased an interest 
 in the Chicago Evening Post, which he retained until 
 April, 1867, when he disposed of it. While with the Post 
 he was not only editor but manager, and brought it up 
 from obscurity to a position of influence and power. He 
 
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 was subsequently elected City Attorney, and served as 
 such for nearly two years with marked ability. At the 
 expiration of this term he made arrangements for an ex- 
 tended tour in Europe, including a visit to the armies 
 then operating on French soil, and sailed in the Cambria, 
 of the Anchor Line, October 8th, 1870, to execute this plan. 
 The steamer was wrecked, on the night of the 19th, upon 
 the coast of England, and General Davis, with most of 
 the passengers and crew, was lost. He is said to have 
 been one of those who took to the boats. Nothing fur- 
 ther is known of his fate, but he doubtless met it with his 
 old undaunted courage. It may be mentioned as a fact 
 of singular and almost romantic interest that, in the course 
 of a sermon preached during the autumn of 1849 i'^ ^he 
 college chapel at Cambridge, he had said that, if he 
 might choose, he would wish his last resting-place to be 
 in the bosom of the sea — an unconscious prophecy, like 
 that of Bryant when he hoped to die in June. 
 
 Resolutions of regret and sympathy were passed by a 
 meeting of his friends and comrades-in-arms at Chicago, 
 by a large gathering of the bar of Cook County, and by 
 the Alumni of Williams residing in Chicago. Many 
 eulogiums were also pronounced upon him by the press. 
 
 General Davis was gifted in an unusual degree with 
 bodily and mental vigor. Over six feet in height, well 
 proportioned, fair in complexion, with light brown hair, 
 and blue eyes tinged with gray, he might be said to 
 possess a more than common share of physical beauty. 
 His voice was soft and gentle in conversation, but full 
 and sonorous in public. 
 
 The Chicago Times of October 30th, 1870, said of him : 
 ** His thorough insensibility to fear led him to undertake 
 enterprises which, with most men, would seem sheer fool- 
 ishness or reckless desperation. He would frel^uently 
 start out for the enemy's line accompanied, as were the 
 knights of old, by a single squire, who in this case was a 
 trusty sergeant. In full uniform he would pass into the 
 regions occupied by the Confederates, and would pene- 
 trate their position in every direction. On one occasion 
 
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 he passed an entire night in the town of Dumfries while 
 it was occupied by a Confederate force. His very in- 
 solence carried weight. He was supposed to be accom- 
 panied by an adequate force, and in this way he would 
 always rout small strolling parties of the enemy, or recon- 
 noitre and capture some small place without difficulty." 
 
 To those who knew the subject of this notice in college 
 days it would not have seemed probable that one whose 
 tastes were of so decidedly intellectual a character should 
 make his mark in life as a man of bold and daring action 
 upon the sternest field, perhaps, which opportunity ever 
 affords. To those early friends his ready impromptu 
 songs for society use, his more ambitious yet ever suc- 
 cessful poetic flights, and his lofty philosophic orations, 
 all alike clothed in the choicest diction and adorned by a 
 refined imagination, would have seemed almost certainly 
 prophetic of a splendid literary career. Yet it was, per- 
 haps, something of the same coolness and the same many- 
 sidedness of mental operation evident in his literary work 
 which underlay his military daring and success. This 
 was reinforced by the sturdy and immovable patriotism 
 which he inherited by birth, and the times offered a more 
 propitious field for the display of the special cast of his 
 mind than literature had at command. Thus he found 
 his opportunity where he had little expected, and having 
 found he surpassed it. 
 
 He married, in November, 1850, Martha W., daughter 
 of Josiah Stickney, Esq., of Waterto^vn, Mass., and left 
 four children by this marriage. 
 
 Memorial Vol.y in part. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1842. Poem, Fourth of July 
 Celebration, 1843. Junior Ex., 1844. Ed. Wms. Miscel- 
 lany, 1845. Commencement, 1845. 
 
 * John Burr Skinner, of Attica, N. Y., second son ot 
 Samuel Skinner and nephew of J. B. Skinner, both 
 graduates of Williams, was born at Le Roy, his parents* 
 
112 Biographical Record of the [1842. 
 
 home, June 23d, 1822. He was graduated from Williams 
 in 1842 ; in 1844 removed to Attica, and there studied law ; 
 became a member of the prominent firm of Putnam & 
 Hoyt, and married Julia, only daughter of his senior 
 partner. In 1868 he opened an office in Buffalo, where, 
 although continuing to reside in Attica, he practised until 
 his death in 1870, at the age of forty-seven. 
 
 Mr. Skinner was a prominent man in the community, 
 often found in the Board of Supervisors, and everywhere 
 "a most genial and courteous gentleman, who made 
 friends and commanded esteem wherever he went." He 
 left a son. Obituary Record, 1870-71. 
 
 Robert William Adam, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 William and Charlotte [Lawrence] Adam, and cousin of 
 J. A. Walker (p. 91), was born at Canaan, Conn., his 
 parents* home, September 28th, 1825. He was fitted for 
 college at Lenox Academy, which deserves honorable 
 mention here for the number, (about twenty,) and quality 
 of its contributions through a long series of years to 
 our brotherhood, many of whom began to anticipate 
 their society connection while still on academic ground. 
 
 The subject of this notice entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in 1 841, and was graduated in 1845. During the 
 succeeding winter he taught at Sheffield, Mass., and the 
 following spring settled in Pittsfield, where he has since 
 resided. Having spent the winter of 1847-8 in Yale Law 
 School, he was admitted to the bar in April, 1849, ^^^ 
 was engaged in professional practice until 1865, when he 
 became Treasurer of the Berkshire County Savings Bank ; 
 and this position he still holds. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Adam was a member of the Massachusetts 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 He married, September ist, 1852, Sarah P. Brewster, 
 of Pittsfield, and has by this marriage a son and a daugh- 
 ter. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1845. A.M. in course. 
 
1842.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 113 
 
 Rev. Charles Jewett Collins, of Rye, Westchester 
 County, N. Y., only son of Judge O. and Nancy [Jewett] 
 Collins, was born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., his parents' home, 
 June 25th, 1825. His father, a native of Guilford, Conn., 
 was one of the early settlers of Wyoming Valley, and 
 subsequently resided at Lancaster, as President Judge of 
 the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania. His mother, 
 a sister of Commodore David Jewett (see p. 31), daughter 
 of David Jewett, Jr., and granddaughter of David Jewett, 
 Sr., was a native of Montville, Conn. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, who is cousin of the Wal- 
 lers and of Rev. A. D. L. Jewett, D.D. (see Index), was 
 fitted for college at the academies in Wilkesbarre and 
 Lancaster, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1841, and 
 was graduated in 1845. Taught for one year in Wilkes- 
 barre and one in the Episcopal High School at Alexan- 
 dria, Va. In the fall of 1848 became Tutor at Williams, 
 and for two years remained in that position. In 185 1 
 entered Princeton Seminary, and in 1854 completed the full 
 course in theology. In 1855 became Principal of the 
 Young Ladies* Institute at Wilkesbarre, and in 1856 pastor 
 of the Grove Presbyterian Church, Danville, Pa. In this 
 charge he spent ten years very happily ; but being com- 
 pelled by ill health to desist from preaching, he decided 
 upon a change of work, and in 1 866 engaged in organizing 
 and was made Superintendent of the Common (or Graded) 
 Schools in Wilkesbarre, upon the improvement of which 
 he labored earnestly and successfully until 1874. He then 
 accepted an invitation to become Principal of the Pre- 
 paratory School connected with Princeton College, con- 
 tinued as such until the summer of the present year, 
 retired at that time from the position, and in September 
 opened the Bradford Mansion School for boys at Rye. 
 
 Mr. Collins married, June 15th, 1859, Annie, daughter 
 of Robert Rankin, Esq., of Newark, N. J., and by this 
 marriage has had four daughters, of whom three are now 
 living. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1843. Junior Ex., 184^. Presto. 
 8 
 
114 Biographical Record of the [1842. 
 
 Philologian, 1845. Commencement, 1845. A* M. in course. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, (Honorary,) 1867. 
 
 Thomas Cumming Davies, of Augusta, Ga., was, dur- 
 ing 1842-43, a member of the Sophomore class in Williams, 
 the class of 1845. His home has continued as above, but 
 most of his life has been spent abroad. At last accounts 
 he was engaged in grape-culture in Switzerland. (1881.) 
 
 * William Henry Philip, of Washington, D. C, son 
 of Henry D. and Catherine D. [Hoffman] Philip, — the lat- 
 ter of the Van Ness family of Washington, — was born at 
 Claverack, N. Y., his parents' home, September 6th, 1824. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1842, and was graduated in 
 1846. He then studied law in Kinderhook and in Wash- 
 ington, which became his permanent place of residence, 
 and was admitted to the bar, after which he went abroad 
 and travelled extensively in Europe. 
 
 In April, 1864, Mr. Philip was commissioned, by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, Colonel of the Fifth Regiment Militia, D. C, 
 and as such he saw considerable service. In April, 1862, 
 joined the staff of Maj.-Gen. Franklin, and served with the 
 Sixth Corps during the Peninsula and Maryland cam- 
 paigns. Was present at Antietam, and almost continually 
 on duty during the " Sundays' battles," and was warmly 
 commended for gallantry on the field by Gens. McClellan, 
 Franklin, Hancock, and others, in letters now on file in 
 the War Department. The former wrote : '* Your services 
 are entitled to marked recognition on the part of the 
 government, and, as the commander of the army in which 
 you served so bravely and efficiently, I offer you my 
 thanks." 
 
 After his resignation. Col. Philip engaged in practice 
 in Washington, and on the 24th November, 1864, married 
 Eliza P. Worthington, of Georgetown Heights, D. C, a 
 ,member of an old and well-known Virginia family. Own- 
 
1842.] Kappa Alpha in Willzams. 115 
 
 ing a large amount of property in Columbia County, 
 N. Y., and in Washington, he was in the habit of spend 
 ing the summer and winter seasons respectively in those 
 places. His death occurred on the 7th of the present 
 month, at the Buckingham Hotel in New York, after a 
 brief illness, while on his way from Claverack to Wash- 
 ington, and was caused by pneumonia. By his marriage 
 he had a daughter and six sons, two of the latter of whom 
 are deceased. 
 
 Col. Philip's college associates will learn of his death 
 with hearty sorrow, remembering his many fine qualities 
 as a thorough gentleman of genial nature, excellent literary 
 taste, sound and careful judgment, and sincere, conscien- 
 tious life. (May, 1881.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1845. Moonlight Ex., 1845. Valedictory, 
 Adelphic Un., 1846. Commencement, 1846. 
 
 * Henry Marvin Benedict, of Albany ,^N. Y., younger 
 brother of E. A. Benedict (p. 8o)j was born at Albany, 
 September i6th, 1827. 
 
 He was fitted at Albany Academy and at boarding- 
 schools in Pittsfield and Williamstown, entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, in 1842, and remained until about the mid- 
 dle of Junior year, when he was compelled, by incipient 
 disease of the hip, to return home. From this disease he 
 never recovered. It doomed him to years of confinement 
 to his bed, and rendered him a cripple for life. At first 
 he met these sufferings with a stoical indifference which 
 amounted almost to a defiance, seeking relief in close 
 reading, careful thought, and the use of the pen. His 
 unusual worldly advantages made him feel it an especial 
 hardship to be cut off" from active life. But after a severe 
 mental struggle he came to resignation and was enabled 
 to regard his affliction in the light of a lofty, intelligent 
 Christian faith, which he manifested publicly by uniting 
 with the Second Presbyterian Church. 
 
 During the rebellion, being unable to serve in the 
 
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 army himself, his patriotic impulses led him to send a val- 
 uable substitute. He, however, undertook the duties of 
 chief clerk in the U. S. Dispensing Office at Albany, in 
 discharging which he proved himself vigilant and incor- 
 ruptible. The Solicitor of the Treasury officially com- 
 mended his zeal and efficiency, and in January, 1865, the 
 Governor of New York made him Acting Assistant Adju- 
 tant-General, with the rank of major, which was subse- 
 quently advanced to that of colonel. 
 
 In 1 87 1 he published his ''Genealogy of the Benedicts 
 in America," a work of prodigious labor, in the preface of 
 which he says that the time devoted to it might be meas- 
 ured by years, and the correspondence would fill volumes ; 
 to say nothing of journeys, searches, and personal exami- 
 nations of books, in graveyards, and in the flesh. The 
 same year he published *' A Contribution to the Stafford 
 Genealogy." 
 
 Mr. Benedict received the degree of A.B. from Wil- 
 liams in i860, and that of A.M. in 1874. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Albany Institute and the N. Y. Genealogical 
 and Biographical Society. 
 
 In 1870 he went abroad, and on the 30th of October, 
 1871, married, at Geneva, Switzerland, Louisa Fowler, of 
 Newburg, N. Y. Their only child, a son, was born at 
 Lausanne the following year. 
 
 The life of the subject of this notice was one of suffer- 
 ing, yet he never pleaded exemption on that score. He 
 bore it with submission, dignity, and composure. He 
 was of a generous and faithful spirit, always self-reliant, 
 naturally bold, decided, and somewhat imperious. But 
 trouble harmonized his character, without robbing him 
 of his energy. He was a loyal and public-spirited citizen, 
 chaste and decorous in conversation, virtuous in life, and 
 earnest in his Christian profession. 
 
 He died at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 5th, 1875,. 
 and is buried in Albany Cemetery. 
 
 Williams Obituary Record^ slightly altered, 
 
 A.B., i860. A.M., 1874. 
 
1 843-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 117 
 
 1843. 
 
 * Rev. Justin Wright Parsons, d.d., of Baghchejuk, 
 Turkey in Asia, son of Lorenzo (misnamed at baptism 
 Orenzo) Parsons, was born at Westhampton, his parents' 
 home, April 26th, 1824. His mother's family name was 
 Bridgman, but both his parents were descendants of 
 Lieut. William Clark (see p. 12). 
 
 About six months after his birth his parents re- 
 moved to Pittsfield, which became the family home 
 thenceforth until the father's death. This son was fitted 
 for college at schools in Westhampton and Pittsfield, and 
 at Hopkins Academy in Hadley. He entered WiUiams, 
 as Freshman, in 1841, and was graduated in 1845. I^ 
 the autumn of that year entered Union Seminary, and 
 completed his course there in 1848, delivering an oration 
 upon the occasion, after which he preached for a year in 
 Hancock, Mass. 
 
 On the nth of December, 1849, M^- Parsons married 
 Catherine, only daughter of Isaac Jennings, M.D., of 
 Oberlin, O., a regular graduate of the college in the 
 town in which she lived. On the 26th of the same month 
 he was ordained by the Fourth Presbytery of New York, 
 and immediately after sailed, as a missionary of the 
 American Board of Commissioners, for Thessalonica, Tur- 
 key in Europe, which he reached the following June, and 
 where he remained until 1855. He was then transferred 
 to Smyrna, and there, as well as in his previous station, 
 was engaged in work among the Jews, until the Board 
 relinquished that field to the Church of Scotland. From 
 Smyrna he returned in 1858 to Nicomedia — Ismit, as the 
 Turks have it — in Asia Minor, and thence, in 1872, to 
 Baghchejuk. The field around this station, formerly em- 
 bracing the whole of ancient Bithynia east of Broosa, is 
 now bounded on the east by the river Parten (Parthe- 
 nius), and on the south by a line running through the Lake 
 of Nice. His work throughout this region was chiefly 
 that of superintending preachers, teachers, and colpor- 
 
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 teurs, and made it necessary for him to visit all parts of 
 the field frequently. In 1872, accompanied by Mrs. Par- 
 sons, who was in the saddle for sixty-six days on that 
 trip, he made an extended tour through the central and 
 eastern missions, visiting Antioch, Aleppo, Aintab, Diar- 
 bekir, Harpoot, Erzeroom, and Marsovan. Upon his re- 
 turn he removed, as already mentioned, to Baghchejuk, 
 where, with the aid of his wife and a daughter, he opened 
 a school for the education of native girls as teachers. 
 This was a great success, numbering as many as seventy 
 pvipils. He also took part in establishing a training school 
 for male teachers and preachers. 
 
 In 1874 this faithful laborer returned to the United 
 States, and revisited the scenes of his childhood and 
 youth. He did not tarry long, but soon went back to 
 his work, and again engaged in the visitation of stations. 
 
 In his trips for this purpose, which were made upon 
 hired horses, the Circassians who infest the country not 
 permitting any but themselves to own such as would be 
 suitable for this use, he disposed of Bibles to thousands 
 of Turks, Greeks, and Armenians ; and although much 
 exposed to malaria, and never long free from fever and 
 ague, he persevered in this work until the fatal event for 
 which it finally gave opportunity. 
 
 At Commencement, July 7th of the present year, his 
 alma mater conferred upon this distant son the degree of 
 D.D. While his friends were rejoicing at the bestowal 
 of this well-merited honor upon him, the sudden news of 
 his tragic death caused a shock throughout the Christian 
 world, and gave a notoriety to his name altogether for- 
 eign to his modest and retiring spirit and life. The occur- 
 rence, which became the occasion of immediate action on 
 the part of Great Britain and the United States, com- 
 pelling Turkey to prompt measures of reparation, was 
 announced in the early part of August by cable from Lon- 
 don, upon intelligence by telegraph from Constantinople ; 
 and the following details were soon after given : 
 
 About the i8th of July Dr. Parsons and a native helper, 
 who had often accompanied him upon similar excursions. 
 
1 843-] Kappa Alpha m Williams, 119 
 
 set out on a tour of missionary visitation. Upon their 
 return toward home, late in the afternoon of July 28th, 
 while on the mountain road between Nice and Baghche- 
 juk, after passing an encampment of Yuruks (Circassians), 
 with whom they had some brief conversation, they pro- 
 ceeded about a mile farther on their way and then lay 
 down for the night, the weather being warm, in the open 
 air. Here they were found asleep by some of the Yuruks, 
 who determined to kill and rob them, and stole upon 
 them so quietly as not to awaken them. One of the 
 assassins, placing the muzzle of his gun almost against 
 the person of the attendant, fired and shot him through 
 the heart. Our brother Parsons, thus aroused, sprang 
 up, but was instantly despatched in the same manner by 
 a ball which passed through his arm into his side and 
 quite through his body. 
 
 To this account, given by the murderers in confession, 
 one of them added that they did not intend to kill " the 
 old man with the beard," but feared if he were spared 
 they might be identified and punished. Hardly anything 
 except a small sum of money, scarcely amounting to five 
 dollars, was taken from the bodies, which were then 
 thrown into the bushes, where they were found after the 
 alarm had been given in Baghchejuk by the return of 
 the horses which the victims of this cold-blooded and 
 fruitless slaughter had ridden. 
 
 The people of the town, amongst whom the deceased 
 had lived and labored for twenty-five years, were " con- 
 vulsed with horror and grief" as the news spread among 
 them. They had respected and beloved him as most in- 
 defatigable and self-denying in his labors alike for their 
 spiritual and temporal benefit. Nearly the whole com- 
 munity attended the funeral exercises, and many re- 
 marked with wonder the peaceful, sleep-like expression of 
 the missionary's countenance. 
 
 The Turkish authorities, upon learning that a despatch 
 on the subject had been forwarded to the British Em- 
 bassy, and by it to the American Consulate, sent to the 
 Yuruk camp a squad of soldiers, who, by threatening to 
 
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 shoot the whole tribe unless the culprits were surren- 
 dered, obtained possession of them. One was condemned 
 to death and the other two were awarded fifteen years 
 of penal servitude. The affair caused much consternation 
 even at Constantinople, leading those intending to 
 travel to seek the protection of an armed escort. 
 
 It is related as a characteristic incident in Dr. Par- 
 sons' life, suggested by this occurrence, that some years 
 ago, while travelling alone and unarmed, with nothing but 
 a small bundle of Bibles and Testaments, he was stopped 
 by three of the desperadoes infesting the country, who 
 demanded his money. '' I have none," he answered. 
 '' What are you carrying in your package there ?" they 
 roughly asked. ^' Only good books," he replied ; and 
 taking out some Bibles, by dint of exhortation and per- 
 suasion he induced these ruffians to buy a copy each, 
 leaving their money with him instead of taking his with 
 them. Such were the courage and gentleness with which 
 he prosecuted his trying and difficult work. 
 
 Dr. Parsons had by his marriage a son and three 
 daughters. The former, now a Senior at Williams, is 
 also a member of our Society. His second daughter, 
 the widow of Rev. Albert Whiting, resides in Nanking, 
 where her husband, a young missionary, gave his life for 
 the famine-stricken Chinese. Mrs. Parsons remains in 
 Baghchejuk, whither she returned from a visit to this 
 country a little more than a year since. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1843. Commencement, 1845. D-D^ 
 Williams, 1880. 
 
 * William Clark, of Lenox, Madison County, N. Y., 
 son of Oliver and Deborah [Lester] Clark, was born at 
 Lenox, his parents' home, November 5th, 1822. His fa- 
 ther was originally from Conway, Mass., and his mother 
 from Chatham, N. Y. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the school of Mr. Nash, a 
 relative, in Pittsfield, and entered WiUiams during the 
 
1 843-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 121 
 
 autumn of 1843, ^s Sophomore, in the class of 1846, but 
 was obliged to leave during the course of the year by 
 sickness, from which he never recovered. This was due 
 to a cause already operating at the time of his entering 
 college. While in his seventeenth year he was the sub- 
 ject of an accident which nearly proved fatal to him. 
 During a severe storm of wind and rain, a large barn on 
 his brother's farm in which he was at work fell, and he 
 was caught between a timber and the floor, the beam 
 resting on his breast. For a time it seemed impossible to 
 extricate him from the situation, and that he must be 
 crushed to death. He himself thought so, and bade his 
 friends farewell. But help arrived in time, and he was 
 mercifully saved, although with health permanently im- 
 paired. 
 
 He died of consumption, in his native place, July 22d, 
 1846, having borne his sickness with resignation. ''He 
 waited patiently for the call of the Master to come up 
 higher." 
 
 Mr. Clark never married or engaged in business. He 
 was much respected and beloved by all who knew him, 
 and had greatly endeared himself to his Society breth- 
 ren, during his brief stay among them, by his amiable dis- 
 position and attractive manner. Several sisters survive 
 him. (Dec, 1879.) 
 
 *JoHN Fowler Allen, of Orange Court-House, Va., 
 son of John H. and Almira [Fowler] Allen, was born at 
 Sandisfield, Mass., his parents* home. May 25th, 1824. He 
 was fitted for college by his guardian, Alexander Hyde 
 of Lee, entered Williams, as Sophomore, in 1843, ^^^ was 
 graduated in 1 846 with the First English Oration. On the 
 day of his graduation he left his native State for Virginia, 
 where he engaged in teaching in the Male High School 
 at Barboursville, with Rev. E. J. Willis, a K. A. brother, 
 who pronounced him ''an able and faithful instructor." 
 He then taught at Harrisonburg, same State, for twoyears^ 
 after which he became Principal of Howard Male Acad- 
 
122 Biographical Record of the [1843. 
 
 emy, Orange C. H., where he remained, exerting an ex- 
 cellent influence, until 1856, when he took charge of a 
 similar institution in Henry County, Ala., in which he 
 stayed for two years. In August, 1857, he married Eliza 
 F. Atkins, of Orange C. H., and in 1858 became Professor 
 in the Female College at Eufaula, Ala. Returning in im- 
 paired health to Orange in 1863, he remained there until 
 after the war, taking no part in it, but residing quietly on 
 the homestead of his father-in-law, directly in the line of 
 march of both armies, where he was witness of many 
 thrilling scenes. The headquarters of Gen. Lee were for 
 some time upon this plantation, to its great injury. 
 
 In October, 1867, Mr. Allen became Professor of Math- 
 ematics and Natural Sciences in Judson Female Institute, 
 Marion, Ala., but was unable to discharge his duties long. 
 While there he was offered the presidency of a similar 
 institution, or college, in Memphis, Tenn., but failing health 
 compelled him to decline this and return to Orange, 
 where, after a most painful sickness of eleven months, he 
 died, May 19th, 1874. Consumption had caused an abscess 
 in his left side, which proved fatal. He was buried from 
 the Presbyterian church in Orange, of which he was 
 a member, and rests in an old family burying-ground 
 near by. 
 
 Mr. Allen left a son (George Dean) and a daughter^ 
 who reside with their mother at Orange. (Feb., 1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1845. First English Or., Commencement^ 
 1846. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 ^George Campbell Martin, of Pittsfield, Mass., 
 brother of Calvin G. Martin (p. 77), was born August 
 30th, 1827, at Pittsfield, where he was also fitted for col- 
 lege. He entered Williams in 1843, was graduated in 
 1847, ^^^d went soon after to Ohio, where he was em- 
 ployed as a civil engineer in the building of the Cleveland 
 and Columbus Railroad. Thence he went to Selma, Ala., 
 where he was engaged in similar work. About 1857 he 
 
1 843-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 123 
 
 returned to Pittsfield with health much impaired, and 
 purchased an interest in a paper-mill in Dalton, hear by. 
 But he was unable to do more than ride out to it occa- 
 sionally. His health steadily declined, and he died at 
 home, of consumption, on the 24th of October, 1859. ^^ 
 was unmarried. 
 
 Thus early passed away both these brothers, alike en- 
 deared to their friends and college associates by unusual 
 equability of temper and kindliness of disposition. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Nicholas Evertsen Phillips, of Galva, Henry 
 County, 111., son of Col. William and Sarah [Evertsen] 
 Phillips, was born at Phillipsburg, Orange County, N. Y.,. 
 his parents' home, January loth, 1826. His father was an. 
 officer in the war of 18 12; his mother a native of Dut- 
 chess County, N. Y. 
 
 He was fitted for college in Lee and in South Middle- 
 town, N. Y., entered Williams during second term Fresh- 
 man, in 1844, and left at the end of second term Sopho- 
 more, 1845. He then remained at home on his father's 
 farm a year, after which he made a voyage from New 
 York to Mobile before the mast. Upon his father's death 
 in 1847 h^ went to Illinois, where he was engaged in 
 business with a brother and an uncle for about four years, 
 when, becoming affected by the gold-fever, he started for 
 California with his brother Edgar (see following sketch), 
 overland, by ox-team. The brothers spent the summer of 
 1852 in making the trip, remained in that State until the 
 spring of 1855, occupied for the most part in mining, and 
 then returned East together for a visit. In the autumn of 
 1856 the elder went back alone, via Panama. He engaged 
 in mining with success, mostly at Placerville, Eldorado 
 County, and after about three years was made Collector of 
 Foreign Miners' Licenses, a position which gave him close 
 though profitable employment. Two years later he be- 
 
124 Biographical Record of the [1844. 
 
 came Assessor of Real and Personal Property for the 
 same county. 
 
 Upon retiring from office he again turned his attention 
 to mining, and in company with others built an expensive 
 quartz-mill, which, by a sudden flooding of the mine, was 
 rendered almost useless. Having thus lost nearly all the 
 fruits of previous prosperity, he became disgusted with 
 mining, gave it up entirely, and returned to Illinois, 
 where, in 1865, he embarked in the grain business, and, 
 blessed with health and perseverance, has been successful 
 and contented in his affairs. 
 
 Mr. Phillips married, September 6th, 1870, Eliza Ives, 
 of Galva, and by this marriage he has two sons. (1880.) 
 
 Edgar Lewis Phillips, m.d., of Galesburg, 111., brother 
 of the preceding, was born at Phillipsburg, N. Y., April 
 5th, 1827. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the same schools, entered 
 Williams at the same time and in the same class with his 
 brother, but remained somewhat longer than he, leaving 
 during his first term Junior. He attended medical lec- 
 tures in Cleveland, O., and began practice; in 1852 ac- 
 companied his brother to California, as already mentioned, 
 where he practised awhile before his return to the East in 
 the spring of 1855. The following autumn entered the 
 St. Louis (Mo.) Medical College, and in the spring of 
 1856 received his M.D. from that institution. He then 
 settled for a time in Knoxville, 111., but in 1863 removed 
 to his present residence, where he has since continued in 
 professional practice. During the war he was for a time 
 surgeon in the volunteer service 
 
 Dr. Phillips married, in May, 1857, Mary L. Sanburn, 
 of Knoxville, and by this marriage he has two sons and 
 two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Joseph Henry Budd, of Stockton, Cal., was born at 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., January 13th, 1822. 
 
 He was fitted for college at New Paltz (N. Y.) 
 
1 844-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 125 
 
 Academy, entered Williams in 1841, and was graduated 
 in 1844 with the First English Oration. He then studied 
 law in Poughkeepsie, and in 1848 removed to Janesville^ 
 Wis., where he practised in his profession for a while. 
 His health failing, however, he exchanged his occupation 
 for the foundry and machine business, in which he was 
 engaged until 1857, when he removed to California and, 
 with restored health, resumed legal practice. In i860 he 
 settled at Stockton, where he has since resided, with an 
 extensive practice embracing many important cases. 
 
 In 1849 Mr- Budd married, in Wisconsin. He has, by 
 this marriage, two children. (1879.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1843. Prest. Philologian. Adelphic Union 
 Ex., 1843. First English Oration, Commencement, 1844. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 George Dean, of Oakland, Cal., son of Jehiel and 
 Anna [Lobdell] Dean, was born at Amsterdam, N. Y., his 
 parents' home, April i8th, 1824. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Monson (Mass.) Academy,, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1844, and left 
 at the end of first term Sophomore, for the purpose of 
 assisting his father in mercantile and manufacturing busi- 
 ness at home. About two years later went to Newark, 
 O., where he entered the law-office of Hon. George B. 
 Smythe as student at law, but after a year thus spent gave 
 up this study and became an operator in the employ of 
 the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Louisville Telegraph 
 Company, in which capacity he served them in Colum- 
 bus, Cincinnati, and other cities in Ohio. 
 
 On the 26th of May, 1852, Mr. Dean married Laura V., 
 daughter of Thomas Bunn, Esq., of Amsterdam, where he 
 himself settled in business soon after, and remained until 
 1859. H^ then went to the Pacific Slope, spent about a 
 year in Nevada City, Cal., and six years in Silver City, 
 Nev., where he was engaged in a general merchandise 
 business. In i860 he settled in his present place of resi- 
 
126 Biographical Record of the [1844. 
 
 dence, where he was for five years the agent of the Cen- 
 tral Pacific Railroad Company. Since then his business 
 has been in real estate. 
 
 He has by his marriage a son, George, Jr., and two 
 daughters. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 James Dickson Clark, of Brooklyn, N. Y., oldest son 
 of Charles and Temperance Clark, was born at North- 
 ampton, Mass., November 12th, 1828. His parents were 
 descendants of Lieut. Wm. Clark (already mentioned — see 
 p. 12), whose family name they both inherited, and were 
 then living in Charleston, S. C., whence they removed to 
 Brooklyn in 1836. 
 
 This son was fitted for college at the Northampton 
 High School and at the private school, in Brooklyn, of 
 Rev. N. H. Griffin, K.A., soon afterward Professor ; en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1844; and was 
 graduated, with the Classical Oration, in 1848. Studied 
 law a year in New York, one in Harvard Law School, 
 again in New York, and was admitted in the spring of 
 185 1. Practised in Brooklyn a short time, and subse- 
 quently until 1855 in New York, and in the autumn of 
 that year became an instructor in the newly opened 
 Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, in which 
 he remained until 1858. He then, with a partner, estab- 
 lished the private school of Clark and Brownell, in which 
 he continued until 1864, conducting it alone during the 
 last year, at the expiration of which a partial failure of 
 health compelled him to retire and spend some time in 
 country living. In the autumn of 1868 became engaged 
 in business in New York, and so continued until 1873, 
 when, and for some time after, he received a few private 
 pupils. In the summer of 1875 a severe illness withdrew 
 him from active life, to which he has not as yet been able 
 to return. His only work since has been upon the present 
 Record. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Latin Oration, Junior Ex., 1847. Classical Or., Com- 
 mencement, 1848. A.M. in course. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
1 845'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 127 
 
 1845. 
 
 Hon. Daniel Ephraim Safford, of Hamilton, Mass., 
 only child of Capt. Ephraim and Sally [Roberts] Safford, 
 was born at Hamilton, his parents' home, February 5th, 
 1826. His father, a master mariner, sailed for a number 
 of years from the port of Salem, but died before the birth 
 of his son. The latter, left, by the death of his mother 
 during his infancy, to the care of his grandmother, was 
 fitted for college under Dr. S. H. Taylor at Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, from which he was graduated in 1843. 
 The following year he entered Williams, as Freshman, and 
 in 1848 was graduated with the Philosophical Oration. 
 He then studied law in Boston, and in 1849 ^"^^ '5^ in 
 Harvard Law School, from which he received the de- 
 gree of LL.B. In 185 1 was admitted to the bar in Salem, 
 where he opened an office and has since continued, with 
 the exception of a few years' practice in Ipswich. His 
 residence has always been at Hamilton, eight miles north 
 of Salem. 
 
 Mr. Safford was a member of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives in 1861, and of the Senate in 1871 and 
 '72. He was also a member of the Board of Inspectors, 
 from 1873 to '^6, of the State Almshouse, and from 1876 
 to *79 of the State Prison at Charlestown and Concord ; 
 and was for the last year chairman of the latter board. 
 
 He married, December 7th, 1854, Mary E. Smith, of 
 Ipswich, and by this marriage has a daughter and two 
 sons. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1847. Prest. Philologian, 1848. Philo- 
 sophical, Commencement, 1848. Master's Oration, 185 1. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 * Moses Lyman Montague, of Allendale, S. C, son of 
 Deacon Moses and Harriet [Smith] Montague, was born at 
 South 'Hadley, Mass., his parents' home, November 25th, 
 
128 Biographical Record of the [1845 
 
 1823. He entered Williams, as Junior, in the fall of 1844, 
 and was graduated in 1846; taught the High School in 
 Fairhaven, Mass., from 1847 ^o 1^5 5> ^"<i i^ the latter year 
 removed to Beaufort, S. C, where he was occupied in 
 mercantile pursuits until the breaking out of the war. In 
 1 86 1 he engaged in teaching at Allendale, and so contin- 
 ued until the cessation of hostilities, after which he worked 
 upon his plantation until his death. This was caused by 
 malarial fever, and occurred on the 28th of August, 1868. 
 Mr. Montague married, October 15th, 1849, Mary 
 Wilcox, of Fairhaven, and left three sons and a daugh- 
 ter by this marriage. Mrs. Montague resides at Yonkers, 
 N. Y. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1846. 
 
 Chester Pomeroy Dewey, of Brooklyn, N. Y., son of 
 Rev. Chester Dewey, D.D., LL.D., and Olivia H. [Pom- 
 eroy] Dewey, was born at Pittsfield, January loth, 1826. 
 His father, a native of Sheffield, was a distinguished grad- 
 uate of Williams and Professor in that and other similar 
 institutions. His mother was a native of Pittsfield. 
 
 He was fitted for college in his father's '' gymnasium" 
 at Pittsfield and in the Rochester (N. Y.) High School, 
 entered Williams in 1844, third term Sophomore, and was 
 graduated in 1846. While in college he was an active 
 member of the Natural History Society and secretary of 
 the Adelphic Union. He spent the year after graduation 
 as private tutor in Gloucester County, Va., and during the 
 two subsequent years assisted his father in the latter's 
 school at Rochester, and in translating from the German 
 several monographs on the Carices for Wood's Botany 
 and Sillimans Journal. In 1847 began the study of law 
 in Rochester, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar. Dur- 
 ing part of these three years he was also employed in the 
 survey of a line of railroad in Western New York, and in 
 the business of insurance. In December, 1850, he became 
 assistant editor of the Rochester AmericaUy and subse- 
 
1 845-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 129 
 
 quently its editor and proprietor. In the autumn of 1858 
 spent some time in Illinois as correspondent of the New 
 York Evening Post during the celebrated Lincoln-Douglas 
 campaign, in which his association with Mr. Lincoln was 
 close and constant. December ist, 1858, he formed a con- 
 nection with the New York Commercial Advertiser, of 
 which he became successively city, associate, and manag- 
 ing editor, and chief editorial writer. In June, 1874, 
 joined the Brooklyn Argus in the last-named capacity, 
 which he has retained in the Union- Argus, its successor, 
 until the present time. He is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1846. 
 
 Henry Beach Horton, of Chicago, 111., son of Ste- 
 phen and Laura [Beach] Horton, was born at Skaneateles, 
 N. Y., his parents' home, March 19th, 1827. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Geneva, N. Y., entered 
 Geneva College (now Hobart Free) in the autumn of 
 1843, ^rid soon after joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society 
 there. At the end of Sophomore year left Geneva, and 
 the following term, autumn of 1845, entered Junior at 
 Williams, where, there being then no branch of the Alpha 
 Delta Phi, he was free to join our own Society. 
 
 After graduation in 1847 he went into the produce 
 commission business in Mansfield, O., and in 1851 married 
 Adaline, daughter of Lieut.-Governor Holabird, of Win- 
 sted, Conn. Mrs. Horton died April 3d, 1856, leaving a 
 son, who is still living. Her husband soon after removed 
 to Clinton, la., where in 1858 he took charge of the Clin- 
 ton Herald, a weekly journal. This he edited during five 
 years, serving in the mean time as City Treasurer and as 
 Mayor successively. 
 
 In 1 86 1 Mr. Horton married Amanda J. Webster, of 
 Elgin, 111., and in 1863 removed to Chicago, where he 
 joined in establishing the job-printing house of Horton & 
 Leonard, which soon became one of the largest and best 
 known in the West. But the great fire of 1871 swept 
 9 
 
130 Biographical Record of the [1845. 
 
 away in a few hours the establishment which had been so 
 successlully conducted, and the fortune embraced in it. 
 Since then he has been engaged in the insurance business, 
 having organized the Millers' Mutual Insurance Company, 
 with which he is connected. (1880.) 
 
 William Farley Storrow Lovell, of New Orleans, 
 La., brother of Joseph Lovell (p. 103) and fifth son of 
 Dr. J. Lovell, Surgeon-General U.S.A., was born at 
 Washington, D. C, November 29th, 1829. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lee, and entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, in 1845, but remained only one term. In 
 1849 ^^s appointed midshipman in the U. S. Navy, and 
 in 1855 was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy. 
 
 Remaining in the service, he made cruises in the 
 home squadron on the coasts of South America and Af- 
 rica, and accompanied two expeditions to the arctic seas, 
 the first, during 1850-51, in search of Sir John Franklin, 
 and the second, in 1855, to seek for Dr. Kane. He at- 
 tained the rank of lieutenant, and between the ages of 
 twenty-five and thirty commanded three United States 
 steamers. 
 
 He married, June 29th, 1858, J. Antonia, daughter of 
 General John A. Quitman, of Natchez, Miss.; the follow- 
 ing spring resigned his commission, and thereupon began 
 cotton-planting in Mississippi, in partnership with his 
 brother Joseph. This connection was continued until the 
 death of the latter. 
 
 During the late war the subject of this sketch served 
 in the Confederate army as Captain of Artillery, after- 
 wards as Lieutenant-Colonel of Ordnance (at New Orleans, 
 where his brother. General Mansfield Lovell, was in com- 
 mand), and finally as Assistant Inspector-General in Pem- 
 berton's army. 
 
 In the fall of 1864, after the evacuation of New Orleans, 
 he went to England, running the blockade from Wilming- 
 ton, N. C, on business for the Confederate government, and 
 returning to Mississippi at the close of the war. Since 
 
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 then he has been largely engaged, in that State and 
 Louisiana, in cotton and sugar planting, his residence be- 
 ing in New Orleans. He has three sons and two daugh- 
 ters, two of the former being graduates of Southern 
 colleges or similar institutions. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Care S. B. Newman & Co. 
 
 James Fowler Dwight, of New York City, son of 
 Hon. Henry W. and Frances [Fowler] Dwight, was born 
 at Stockbridge, his parents' home, January 30th, 1830. 
 His father was a member of Congress and Trustee of Wil- 
 liams College, and his mother a resident, before marriage, 
 of Westfield. 
 
 After preparation at Stockbridge, Westfield, and East- 
 hampton, the subject of this sketch entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in the fall of 1845, ^"d was graduated in 1849. 
 He then began the study of law in Springfield, continued 
 it in Harvard Law School and in Germany, and, after 
 spending some years abroad, settled in practice in New 
 York. In 1857 became Assistant U. S. District- Attorney, 
 serving as second to Hon. Theodore Sedgwick. As 
 such he devoted himself, during his term of two and a 
 half years, to the suppression of the slave-trade clandes- 
 tinely carried on from the port of New York, and at one 
 time had under seizure for this offence thirteen vessels, 
 which he kept at work in his own service. Proceeding in 
 this way, often at the risk of his own life, he finally suc- 
 ceeded in suppressing the whole nefarious system at that 
 point. 
 
 In September, i86i,Mr. Dwight gave up a lucrative 
 practice and joined the Northern army as second lieuten- 
 ant of cavalry in the Fremont Hussars of St. Louis, Mo. 
 In 1863 he was Provost-Marshal- General of the Depart- 
 ment of the Missouri, his jurisdiction including Missouri, 
 Arkansas, and Kansas ; so that he and his cousin Judge 
 Charles C. Dwight, who was at the same time Provost. 
 Judge at New Orleans, controlled the whole slave terri^ 
 
132 Biographical Record of the [1845. 
 
 tory west of the Mississippi. His administration of this 
 office, at its headquarters in St. Louis, was of a decidedly 
 abolition character. After five years of service, having 
 passed through the intermediate promotions, he was mus- 
 tered out by General Sheridan at New Orleans, July, 1865, 
 as Colonel of Cavalry. 
 
 Returning to New York, he was appointed by the 
 government, in May, 1867, a Register in Bankruptcy for 
 that city, which appointment he still holds. 
 
 Colonel D wight married, October 3d, 1867, Charlotte 
 Clark, of Portland, Me., who died March 29th, 1873. By 
 this marriage he has a son and a daughter. On the 14th 
 October of the present year he married Henrietta M. 
 Latham, of New York. It is his custom to spend the 
 summer season with his family at the old home (rebuilt) in 
 Stockbridge. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. B, W. Dwighfs " Descendants of John Dwight 
 of Dedham' {N. K, 1874), mainly. 
 
 John Boardman, M.D., of Buffalo, N. Y., younger 
 brother of D. L. Boardman (p. 105), was born June 4th, 
 1828, at Watertown, N. Y., then his parents' residence. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Bloomfield, N. Y., and in the 
 school of Alexander Hyde, at Lee, Mass.; entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1845, ^^d was graduated 
 in 1849. While in college his residence was at Rome, 
 N. Y. After graduation he went to Buffalo, and began 
 medical studies in the office of Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, 
 attending lectures at the Medical Department of the 
 *' University of Buffalo," and subsequently at the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in April, 
 1853. He then settled in Buffalo, where he still remains in 
 practice. 
 
 Dr. Boardman was for two years Demonstrator in 
 Anatomy in the " University of Buffalo ;" is a member of 
 the Buffalo Medical Association, Erie County Medical 
 Society (of which he has served as president), and of the 
 ,New York State Medical Society ; was Attending Physi- 
 
1 845-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 133 
 
 cian to the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, 1854-58 ; Attending 
 Surgeon for a time to the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters 
 of Charity ; and for one term President of the Free Medi- 
 cal and Surgical Dispensary. 
 
 In 1862 he married Frances S., daughter of Dr. A. 
 Miller, of New Orleans, K. A. in Union, who died at the 
 residence of his son-in-law in November, 1879. Mrs. Board- 
 man deceased in August, 1868. 
 
 Samuel Partridge Ely, of Marquette (L. S.), Mich., 
 youngest child of Elisha and Hannah [Dickenson] Ely, 
 and brother of George H. Ely (p. 139), was born at 
 Rochester, N. Y., then his parents* place of residence, 
 October 14th, 1827. His father, a native of West Spring- 
 field, Mass., was a descendant of Nathaniel Ely, one of the 
 settlers of that town. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was reared by his uncle, 
 Hervey Ely, Esq., of Rochester ; fitted at the Collegiate 
 Institute in that city, under Professor Chester Dewey ; 
 entered Williams, third term Sophomore, May, 1845, ^^^^ 
 was graduated in 1847, ^^'ith the Mathematical Oration. 
 He was then engaged for a short time in milling at 
 Rochester, but soon removed to Marquette, in the upper 
 peninsula of Michigan, and was for a while superinten- 
 dent of the railroad running thence to the iron-mines near 
 by. Since then he has been mainly occupied in the de- 
 velopment of mines and the organization of the produc- 
 tive industries connected therewith, especially in the Lake 
 Superior region. These deposits, some of the largest 
 and best in the world, have, under the efforts of Mr. Ely 
 and his associates, been so judiciously managed that they 
 now furnish material for one third of the whole iron pro- 
 duction of the United States. Notable among them are 
 the Lake Superior and Republic mines of Marquette 
 County. 
 
 During the period of this particular occupation the 
 subject of this notice was at different times, for a number 
 of years between 1864 and 1872, Mayor of Marquette, 
 
134 Biographical Record of the [1845. 
 
 and as a leading citizen of literary education and ability 
 was often called upon to deliver orations, addresses, and 
 lectures, a number of which have been printed. 
 
 Mr. Ely is at present engaged in the development of a 
 silver-mine at Diamond, Juab County, Utah, though re- 
 taining his home in Marquette. He married, August 4th, 
 1853, Harriet H. Greenough, of Cambridge, Mass., who 
 died at Paris, France, August 4th, 1875, leaving three sons 
 and two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Mathematical Or., Commencement, 1847. Master's 
 Oration, 1850. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Hon. George Goundry Munger, of New York City, 
 son of Perley and Zerviah [Chapin] Munger, was born 
 at Morrisville, Madison County, N. Y., his parents' place 
 of residence. May 24th, 1828. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Rochester Collegiate 
 Institute, entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the autumn 
 of 1845, remained a year, and at its expiration entered 
 Yale ad eufidetn, where he became a member of the Scroll 
 and Key Society, and was graduated in 1848. 
 
 He then studied law in Rochester and in Harvard Law 
 School, settled in practice in Rochester, which had for 
 many years been his home, and became partner with Judge 
 Selden, afterwards of the Court of Appeals. On the ist 
 January, 1856, he became County Judge of Monroe County, 
 and in this office he continued until April ist, 1859. I^ 
 1862 and 1863 he was a member of the State Senate, and 
 in the autumn of 1865 was appointed by President John- 
 son U. S. District-Attorney for the Northern District of 
 New York, in which capacity he served until April fol- 
 lowing, when he resumed practice. In 1879 ^^ published 
 a treatise on the '' Law of Applied Payments," and in the 
 spring of the present year formed a partnership for pro- 
 fessional practice in New York, removing his residence to 
 that city. 
 
 Judge Munger married, August 31st, 1852, Charlotte 
 
1 845 -J Kappa Alpha in Williams. 135 
 
 Sweet, of Manlius, N. Y., and by this marriage has a son 
 and three daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 93 Nassau Street. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Hon. Paul Ansel Chadbourne, d.d., ll.d., President 
 of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., son of Isaiah 
 and Pandora [Dennett] Chadbourne, was born in North 
 Berwick, Me., October 21st, 1823. His ancestors came to 
 this country in 1623 as agents of Mason, the patentee of 
 New Hampshire, and settled at Portsmouth, afterwards 
 buying from the Indians all that tract of land on which 
 the village of South Berwick now stands, and starting 
 upon it a water-wheel, supposed to be the first set in mo- 
 tion on this continent. 
 
 During boyhood the subject of this sketch was accus- 
 tomed to work upon a farm in the summer season and in 
 a carpenter's shop through the winter. Subsequently he 
 served for two years in a drug-store. At the age of nine- 
 teen he became a member of Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
 N. H., where he was fitted for college. In the fall of 1845 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, but left that class at the 
 end of a single week, was re-examined, and advanced to 
 the Sophomores. While in college he gave special atten- 
 tion to scientific studies ; was much engaged with Profes- 
 sor Hopkins in the observatory and in the field ; was an 
 active member of the Natural History Society, and was 
 much occupied in making collections in botany, of which 
 he had an extensive herbarium at the time of entering 
 college. He easily maintained the first rank in scholar- 
 ship from the beginning, and was graduated with the 
 Valedictory Oration (subject, "Scepticism") in 1848. 
 
 He then taught for a year in the Freehold (N. J.) In- 
 stitute, pursuing theological studies at the same time with 
 Rev. Dr. D. V. McLean of that place. The next year 
 entered the Theological Seminary at East Windsor, Conn. 
 
136 Biographical Record of the [1846. 
 
 (now at Hartford), but, in consequence of a severe fit of 
 sickness, left in the spring of 1850 to become Principal of 
 the High School at Great Falls, N. H., and was soon after 
 licensed to preach by the Piscataquis Association. The 
 same year he became Tutor at Williams, and the year fol- 
 lowing (185 1) Principal of the East Windsor Hill Acad- 
 emy. In May, 1853, was appointed Professor of Chemis- 
 try and Botany at Williams, and this professorship he held 
 for fourteen years, being also Professor of Chemistry and 
 Natural History during the last half of that term (com- 
 mencing in 1858) in Bowdoin College, and Professor in 
 the Medical School of Maine and in the Berkshire Medi- 
 cal College at Pittsfield for several years. He also lec- 
 tured for twelve years in Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, 
 giving his courses during his college vacations. In 1857 
 led a scientific expedition to Florida, and in 1859 visited 
 the Scandinavian countries of Europe, including Iceland , 
 and making an extensive tour. The following year he 
 led a scientific expedition to Greenland. In i860 he pub- 
 lished four lectures on natural history which he had pre- 
 viously delivered at the Smithsonian Institution, and gave 
 a course of lectures at Western Reserve College. 
 
 Professor Chadbourne was a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Senate for two years, 1865 and 1866, and during 
 that time delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, a 
 course of lectures on Natural Theology, which was after- 
 wards published. The volume has been extensively used 
 as a college text-book. At about this time he was elected 
 President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at 
 Amherst, but his health failing, a change of climate be- 
 came desirable, and he accepted the position of President 
 of the University of Wisconsin, tendered him soon after, 
 which he continued to fill until 1870. He then spent 
 nearly two years in the Rocky Mountain region, engaged 
 in locating and opening mines ; and having been elected to 
 the presidency of Williams College upon the resignation 
 of Rev. Dr. Hopkins, on the 27th of July, 1872, he was in- 
 augurated into that influential position. 
 
 During President Chadbourne's administration the in 
 
1846.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 137 
 
 terests of the college have been advanced in almost all 
 departments. The attendance of students has been very 
 largely increased, the educational facilities afforded by 
 the institution have been extended and multiplied, its 
 financial affairs judiciously administered, and its resources 
 augmented. But after the exhausting labors of nine years 
 in this service the President has resigned his position and 
 is about to retire from it, notwithstanding the Trustees' 
 urgent endeavors to persuade him to retain it and the 
 general wish of the Alumni to the same effect. His resig- 
 nation is stated to be due to a desire for relief from too 
 severe and engrossing work, and for leisure to be devoted 
 to important literary and other projected undertakings. 
 
 President Chadbourne's influence has not been limited 
 to the college. It has been felt through all the surround- 
 ing region and the entire State. Being himself engaged 
 in business as a cotton manufacturer, he has been called 
 upon in various ways to forward the industrial enter- 
 prises of Massachusetts ; and having a pronounced inter- 
 est in politics, he has become a leader in the Republican 
 party, taking an active part in its political campaigns. In 
 1876 was a member of the National Convention by which 
 President Hayes was nominated, and during the fall of 
 1880 w^as made by acclamation Permanent Chairman of 
 the Republican State Convention at Worcester, which 
 nominated him Presidential Elector at large, a choice sub- 
 sequently confirmed by State vote. He has also served 
 the State on its Board of Agriculture, as one of the Hoo- 
 sac Tunnel Commissioners, and in many other positions. 
 Is at present engaged as editor-in-chief upon a literary 
 work of national importance, to be styled " The Wealth 
 of the United States," which is to be printed in various 
 languages for distribution in foreign countries, and in the 
 furtherance of which the Department of State at Wash- 
 ington has engaged to co-operate. 
 
 His life has indeed been one of hard and unremitting 
 labor, performed to a certain extent under unfavorable con- 
 ditions, and may serve as an example of conscientious 
 energy worthy the study of young men entering upon the 
 
138 Biographical Record of the [1846. 
 
 active affairs of life. Yet perhaps the heaviest burden 
 of such a career, the responsibility and care which weigh 
 on one to whose personal attention are committed inter- 
 ests closely connected with the formation of human char- 
 acter, could never be the subject of general observation. 
 
 The village of Williamstown is deeply indebted to 
 President Chadbourne for attention to its concerns. In 
 1855 he became President of the College Horticultural 
 and Landscape Gardening Society, and his work in this 
 position naturally led to more effective efforts in a more 
 influential post for the improvement and beautifying of a 
 town whose capabilities, naturally of the first order, had 
 been sadly neglected. Under his guidance and super- 
 vision it has been almost entirely transformed, and by 
 means of the removal of unsightly fences, the protection 
 of lawns and of grass borders along the streets, and the 
 enforcement of neatness about the college grounds, has be- 
 come entitled to be called the model New England village. 
 
 President Chadbourne received the honorary degree 
 of M.D. from the Berkshire Medical College in 1859, that 
 of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1868, and that of D.D. 
 from Amherst in 1872. Though never ordained, he has 
 been almost incessantly engaged in the work of preaching 
 since college days, and many of his occasional discourses 
 have been published. The entire list of his publications 
 thus far, including several important volumes, numbers 
 more than fifty. The largest of these, " Instinct in Ani- 
 mals and Men," was issued in New York in 1872. He has 
 been called on to deliver three full courses of lectures be- 
 fore the Lowell Institute, a course before the Smithsonian, 
 and one on '' Science and Faith" before Union Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, upon the Morse foundation. He is a mem- 
 ber of numerous literary, scientific, historical, and similar 
 associations, and has received from many others their 
 diplomas, one of the most valued of which, conferred by 
 the Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, is 
 signed by King Frederic VII. of Denmark. 
 
 Dr. Chadbourne married, October 9th, 1850, Elizabeth 
 S. Page, of Exeter, N. H., and by this marriage he has 
 
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 had two daughters and a son, the latter of whom and one 
 of the daughters are now living. (1881.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1846; subject, " The Temple of Science 
 not reared by Man." Valedictory, Commencement, 1848. 
 A.M. in course. M.D., (Honorary,) Berkshire Med. Col., 
 1859. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. LL.D., Williams, 1868. 
 D.D., Amherst, 1872. Mass. Hist. Soc. 
 
 George Hervey Ely, of Cleveland, O., fifth son of 
 Elisha and Hannah [Dickenson] Ely, of Rochester, N. Y., 
 and older brother of Samuel P. Ely (p. 133), was born 
 at Rochester, October i8th, 1825. His father, soon after 
 marriage, became one of the settlers of that city, then a 
 small cluster of dwellings in the woods by the Fall of the 
 Genesee. Here he was long and well known, and here 
 his wife died in 1832, in consequence of exposure while 
 caring for the sick during the great cholera visitation. 
 The father then removed to Michigan, and with a son 
 founded the town of Allegan, where he died, full of years 
 and honors, as Senator, Judge, and Regent of the State 
 University. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the 
 Rochester High School, under Professor Chester Dewey, 
 entered Williams, at the beginning of third term Sopho- 
 more, in 1846, and was graduated in 1848. He then went 
 immediately to Cedar Rapids, la., and there ran a flour- 
 mill for two years, after which he returned to Rochester, 
 bought a larger mill, and was heavily engaged in the 
 flouring business for seven years. During this period he 
 married Hannah, daughter of Judge Henry Welles, of the 
 Supreme Court of the State, residing at Penn Yan. Mrs. 
 Ely and an infant daughter deceased about two years after- 
 ward. 
 
 While in business in Rochester Mr. Ely became exten- 
 sively interested, in connection with his brother Samuel, 
 in the development of the Lake Superior iron region, and 
 thus they together laid the foundation for the growth of 
 
140 Biographical Record of the [1846. 
 
 the iron industry, now immensely expanded, in that region. 
 During the earlier years of the war the older brother was 
 engaged for a while in shipping coal from Philadelphia 
 for the supply of the navy; but in 1863 he settled in 
 Cleveland, where he has since remained, largely occupied 
 in the mercantile department of the iron business men- 
 tioned. In 1869, for the benefit of his health, he travelled 
 in Europe, and subsequently visited the South and the 
 Pacific Slope. About four years since he was sent as one 
 of the representatives of the city of Cleveland to the 
 National Railroad Convention at St. Louis, and two years 
 ago as delegate from the Cleveland Board of Trade to the 
 Lake Improvement Convention at St. Paul, of which he 
 was chosen president. In November, 1879, ^^ ^^^ com- 
 missioned by the latter body to oppose at Detroit the 
 project of bridging the river at that point, before a board 
 of government engineers. In fine, he has come, in conse- 
 quence of his activity in matters pertaining to the naviga- 
 tion of the great lakes, to be regarded as the especial 
 guardian of that interest, and has repeatedly appeared be- 
 fore Congressional committees, as occasion demanded, in 
 its defence. 
 
 In July, 1878, Mr. Ely delivered an address at the Ely 
 reunion, held at Lyme, Conn., and in August, 1879, one of 
 more formal character at the opening of a new building 
 for the Board of Trade in Cleveland. During the recent 
 Presidential campaign he made political speeches before 
 large audiences, and the press gave wide circulation to his 
 efforts. 
 
 He has long been an elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
 which he has served as commissioner to four different 
 meetings of its General Assembly. And thus in the 
 various spheres of active life he is filling the place of a 
 leading citizen of the important and rapidly rising city 
 which is his home. 
 
 Mr. Ely married as his second wife, in 1856, Amelia, 
 daughter of Joseph Ripka, of Philadelphia, and by this 
 marriage he has had a son and a daughter. The former, 
 Montague R., a member of our Society in Williams (see 
 
1846.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 141 
 
 Index), deceased at Princeton, under peculiariy painful cir- 
 cumstances, during the spring of the present year. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 12 National Bank Building. 
 
 Commencement, 1848. Master's Oration, 185 1. 
 
 Henry Walker Bishop, of Chicago, 111., son of Judge 
 Henry W. and Sarah [Bulkley] Bishop, was born at 
 Lenox, Mass., his parents' home, June 2d, 1829. His father 
 was a graduate of Williams and a Trustee of the college, 
 as his own father had been before him. His mother was 
 a native of Williamstown, and through her he is cousin to 
 S. T. Bulkley and nearly related to Professor E. H. Griflin 
 and brothers (see Index). 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, of which 
 his grandfather was among the founders, and which the 
 subject of this sketch and others are at the present time 
 endeavoring to establish upon new and permanent founda- 
 tions ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in the autumn of 
 1846, and remained until the middle of Junior year. He 
 then left and entered Amherst College, where he was 
 graduated in 1850. In 1855 was admitted to the bar of 
 Massachusetts, and the following year removed to Chicago, 
 where he settled in practice. In 1863 was appointed Mas- 
 ter in Chancery of the U. S. Circuit Court for the North- 
 ern District of Illinois, and this appointment he now 
 holds. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Bishop received the honorary degree of 
 A.M. from Williams. He married, August 8th, 1862, 
 Annie, daughter of Joshua Richardson, Esq., of Port- 
 land, Me., and by this marriage had a daughter and two 
 sons. Of these children a son only, Henry W., Jr., is 
 now living. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 33 National Life Building. 
 
 A.M., Williams, 1879. 
 
142 Biographical Record of the [1846. 
 
 Benjamin Lee Horton, of Skaneateles,N.Y., brother 
 of H. B. Horton (p. 129), was born at Skaneateles, Au- 
 gust loth, 1830. Was fitted for college under Rev. Dr. 
 Muhlenberg at College Point, Flushing, L. I., entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1846, but left early in his Sopho- 
 more year. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, 
 but never engaged in practice. Subsequently followed 
 mercantile pursuits in New York, and afterwards held a 
 position in the custom-house in that city. Of late has 
 resided at the old family home in Skaneateles. Is unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 * Caleb Willis Sanford, of New York City, son of 
 Giles and Cynthia [Willis] Sanford, was born at Albany, 
 his parents' home, December 7th, 1829. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Albany Academy and in 
 the Mills school, South Williamstown, and entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1846. At the close of 
 his first term Junior, in the autumn of 1848, he left college 
 and took a position in a wholesale business house in Bos- 
 ton, but during the following year returned to Albany, 
 where he became connected with his father in the lumber 
 commission business. Upon the latter's retirement the 
 son became senior partner in the new firm of Sanford & 
 Van Etten, and being successful in his affairs, himself re- 
 tired a short time after his father's sudden decease. 
 
 On the 4th of October, 1859, he married Rose W., 
 daughter of Hon. E. H. Rosekrans, a judge of the Su- 
 preme Court of the State, and immediately went abroad 
 with his bride. They were absent about a year, and upon 
 their return settled in the city of New York, where Mr. 
 Sanford died very suddenly on the 14th of October, 1861. 
 While returning from church for the second time, on the 
 13th inst., he was attacked by illness which soon assumed 
 an apoplectic character. Shortly after reaching home he 
 became unconscious, and at five o'clock of the following 
 afternoon passed away. His remains were interred in 
 Albany Rural Cemetery. 
 
1846.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 143 
 
 Mr. Sanford, though of a somewhat retiring disposi- 
 tion, by his excellent abilities, unusually refined taste, 
 strength of character, and upright Christian life, to which 
 were added unusual personal attractions, made many 
 warm friends, by whom he was greatly respected and be- 
 loved. (1880.) 
 
 George Perry, of New York City, younger brother 
 of Albertus Perry (p. 107) and cousin of Azariah S. 
 Clark, the founder of our Society in Williams, was born 
 in Richmond, Mass., December ist, 1828. His paternal 
 ancestors were pioneer settlers of Connecticut, the first 
 of them in this country having come from England and 
 settled in the township of Stratford, in that State, in 1675. 
 His grandfather. Rev. Arthur Perry, was one of the early 
 ministers of Western Massachusetts, among whom he held 
 for many years a prominent place. The first of his 
 mother's family in this country was Arthur Aylsworth, 
 who settled in the Providence Plantations in Rhode Island 
 in 1656, some of whose descendants still reside in the old 
 homestead occupied by him. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at Lee 
 Academy, entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the fall of 
 1846, and was graduated in 1849. ^^ then began the 
 study of law, but shortly after deserted it for journalism 
 and literature. He has long been connected with the 
 New York Home Journal, of which he became editor in 
 February, 1867, succeeding Mr. N. P. Willis. In addition 
 to his labor as such he has translated several volumes 
 from the French, but his work has been principally for the 
 newspaper press, and has included poetical specimens ; but 
 these have not been collected. 
 
 Mr. Perry married, October nth, 1865, lone, daughter 
 of William Hinton, of New York, and by this marriage he 
 has a son. (1880.) 
 
 George Albert Blake, m.d., of Walpole, N. H., son 
 of Joseph and Joanna [Norris] Blake, — the latter original- 
 
144 Biographical Record of the [1846. 
 
 ly of Nottingham, N. H., — was born at Raymond, same 
 State, his parents' home, April 4th, 1828. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, 
 entered Williams, as Sophomore, September, 1846, and 
 was graduated in 1849. ^^ then began the study of 
 medicine with Dr. C. L. Hubbell in Williamstown, con- 
 tinued it in Raymond, entered Harvard Medical School 
 in 1850 and received from it his M.D. in 1853, studying 
 during vacations in Holliston, Mass., where he began 
 practice. In 1855 removed to Salmon Falls, N. H., and 
 on May 28th, 1856, married Margaret Harrington, of 
 Walpole. The following year removed to Burlington, 
 la., where he engaged in business, but in 1858 returned 
 East and settled in his present home. 
 
 On the 6th November, 1861, Dr. Blake entered the ser- 
 vice of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, and was ap- 
 pointed inspector of the camp and forces, under General 
 Sedgwick and others, lying south and west of Alexandria, 
 Va. It being proposed to him to join General Butler's 
 expedition against New Orleans, he sailed from Boston, 
 January ist, 1862, for service at Ship Island, where he re- 
 mained until the advance and attack on the city in May 
 following, at which he was present. From this time until 
 October 25th, 1865, his headquarters were at New Or- 
 leans, but he was present at the siege of Port Hudson, 
 in May and June, 1863, and in the spring of 1864 fitted up 
 a hospital steamer for sick and wounded, which he accom- 
 panied to Cairo, 111., and then returned home for a visit. 
 On the 2d of July, 1864, he sailed from New York for 
 New Orleans in the steamer Locust Point, which collided, 
 at one o'clock the next morning, with the Matanzas, 
 bound to New York, and sank in about seven minutes, 
 carrying down with her every passenger on the port side 
 except the subject of this sketch, including the sharer of 
 his state-room. Seizing a settee, the Doctor jumped over- 
 board with it, not daring, in the darkness, to throw it 
 over and take the risk of finding it again. In doing this 
 he received a severe blow, but kept his hold and, trusting 
 to his physical endurance, floated about in the open sea 
 
1846.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 145 
 
 for an hour and a half. He was then picked up by a boat 
 from the Matanzas and carried back to New York, with 
 the loss of his clothing and money. After a brief visit 
 at home for repairs, he again sailed for New Orleans 
 immediately after the capture of the revenue steamer 
 Gushing by the Florida, off the coast of Maine, and pro- 
 ceeding to Galveston and Mobile in the service of the 
 Commission, ministered to the needs of military prisoners, 
 both Union and Confederate. In the fall of 1865 he re- 
 turned home, but he again entered the service as cashier 
 in the office of the Pension and Claim Agency at Wash- 
 ington, where he remained until the business was closed 
 and the Commission's archives removed to New York, 
 when he finished up the work, returned to Walpole and 
 resumed his practice. (1880.) 
 
 Greek Oration, Junior Ex., 1848. Commencement, 1849. 
 Mass. Med. Soc. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Edgar Cronkhite, of Waseca, Minn., son of George 
 and Parmelia Cronkhite, was born at Glenn's Falls, N. Y., 
 his parents' home, in 1826. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Glenn's Falls Academy, 
 and entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1845, but 
 left in the spring of 1847, ^^<^ spent the following four 
 years in the city of Washington and in travel at the South. 
 In 1852 returned home, and later in that year began the 
 study of law in Buffalo. After a year was admitted to 
 the bar, and removed to Neenah, Wis., where he prac- 
 tised a while and served as Register of Deeds for Winne- 
 bago County. He subsequently removed to Rochester, 
 Minn., and continued legal practice there. During his 
 residence in that place he took part, as captain of a com- 
 pany of cavalry, in General Sibley's expedition against 
 the Indians occupying the north-west part of the State, 
 and was x\djutant of the Post at Forts Snelling and Ridge- 
 
146 Biographical Record of the [1847. 
 
 ley. He has for some time been a resident of Waseca, 
 and is Auditor of Waseca County, practises his profession, 
 and interests himself in agriculture. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1846. 
 
 Rev. Robert Russell Booth, d.d., of New York 
 City, oldest son of William A. and Alida [Russell] Booth, 
 and brother of Rev. Dr. H. M. Booth (see Index), was born 
 in New York, his parents' place of residence. May i6th, 
 1830. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the New York University 
 Grammar School, and entered the University, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1845. Remained through Sophomore 
 year, and in the autumn of 1847 entered the Junior class 
 at Williams, where he was graduated in 1849. The same 
 year entered Auburn Theological Seminary, whence he 
 was graduated in 1852. After spending some months in 
 Europe and the East he returned, and in the autumn of 
 1853 married Emma L., daughter of Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of 
 Auburn. By this marriage he has had two children, both 
 of whom died in early childhood. In November of the 
 same year he was ordained colleague with Rev. Dr. 
 Beman of the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y.> 
 and in that position he remained for three and a half 
 years. Early in 1857 was installed in the First Presby- 
 terian Church, Stamford, Conn., during his connection 
 with which he made a second trip to the East for the sake 
 of health. In March, 1861, was settled over the Mercer 
 Street Presbyterian Church in New York; in 1864 re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from the University of New 
 York; and in 1868, impelled by the generous action of his 
 people, again visited Europe, accompanied by Mrs. Booth,, 
 and was absent about seven months. In the fall of 1870, 
 after the reunion of the Old and New School Presby- 
 teries, the Mercer Street church united with that in Uni- 
 versity Place (cor. Tenth St.), removing to the edifice of 
 the latter, and Dr. Booth became pastor of the new or- 
 ganization, his present charge. 
 
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 The subject of this sketch, an active worker through 
 life, fining responsible positions with efficiency and suc- 
 cess, has been a Trustee of Williams since 1866, is Chair- 
 man of the Assembly's Committee on Foreign Missions, 
 member of the American Board's Prudential Committee 
 and of the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Alli- 
 ance, Director of Union Seminary, and member of the 
 Union League and the Century Club. 
 
 Perhaps his most important work thus far, outside the 
 pastoral charge, has been that done by him as one of the 
 Church Extension Committee, in its endeavors to secure 
 the discharge of debts resting upon the Presbyterian 
 churches in New York. These obligations have been 
 almost entirely removed, mainly through the efforts of 
 this committee. Dr. Booth's own church is thoroughly 
 organized as a working body, and sustains several mis- 
 sions in needy parts of the city. 
 
 The burden of all this work told so heavily upon the 
 pastor's health that he was compelled to desist from 
 preaching in the fall of 1879. After a winter's rest and 
 another summer's trip abroad, he has happily been 
 granted an autumn's restoration to his pulpit and people. 
 
 Dr. Booth has permitted the publication of a number 
 of his sermons, besides making frequent contributions to 
 the religious journals. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1849. ^' M. in course. D. D., N. Y. 
 University, 1864. 
 
 Ambrose Newell Merrick, of St. Louis, Mo., son of 
 Reuel and Maria [Fenton] Merrick, was bom at Brim- 
 field, Mass., his parents' home, February 9th, 1827. Was 
 fitted for college at Williston Seminary, entered Williams, 
 as Sophomore, September, 1847, ^^<^ was graduated in 
 1850, after which he was engaged for four years in agri- 
 cultural pursuits at home. In 1855 he entered the law-, 
 office of Hon. George Ashmun, in Springfield, and in 
 March, 1857, was admitted to the bar. Engaging in prac~- 
 
148 Biographical Record of the [1847. 
 
 tice in Springfield until 1867, he served during that time 
 as a member of the Common Council for three years, in 
 one of which he was its presiding officer; also as City 
 Solicitor for one year, and for one (1864) as a member 
 of the Board of County Commissioners. In 1865 he was 
 a member of the Executive Committee of the Williams 
 Society of Alumni. In 1869 an affection of the throat oc- 
 casioned his removal with his family to California. After 
 four years spent on the Pacific coast, at Los Angeles, San 
 Francisco, and in Washington Territory, he returned east- 
 ward and settled in Minneapolis. In 1872 was elected 
 City Attorney there, and this office he held for three 
 years. His practice was extensive and increasing, but in 
 1876 regard for the health of his family made it necessary 
 for him again to remove. St. Louis then became his place 
 of residence, where he is now actively engaged in a prac- 
 tice largely in the criminal courts. 
 
 In November, 1858, Mr. Merrick married Sarah B. 
 Warriner, of Springfield, Mass. By this marriage he has 
 had eight children, of whom five are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1848. Junior Ex., 1849. Commence- 
 ment, 1850. 
 
 * Converse Augustus Kellogg, of Chicago, 111., 
 son of Augustus and Cornelia [Hart] Kellogg, was born 
 at Skaneateles, N. Y., his parents* home, November 2d, 
 1830. He was a nephew of D. H. Kellogg (p. 102), and 
 his name in reality Augustus Converse Kellogg, al- 
 though he wrote it as above. His mother's home before 
 marriage was in Utica, N. Y. After her death, which 
 occurred during his infancy, he was taken and brought up 
 by an aunt residing in Buffalo, and was fitted for college 
 at schools in that city. He entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1847, ^^^ remained until some time 
 during his Junior year (1849-50), when he left college. 
 Soon after he settled in Chicago, where he was engaged 
 for awhile as a telegraph operator. Subsequently he was 
 
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 connected with some of the newspapers there. He died 
 in New York in March, i860. 
 
 His very winning manners, amiable disposition, and 
 youthful grace made him generally popular and endeared 
 him much to his intimate friends. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1849. 
 
 * Dudley Field, of New York City, son of Hon. 
 David Dudley Field and Jane L. [Hopkins] Field, was born 
 in New York, November 28th, 1830. His father, a grad- 
 uate of Williams, has always been among its warmest 
 friends. His mother was a cousin of President Hopkins. 
 
 He was fitted for college by a private tutor, entered 
 Williams, as Sophomore, in the autumn of 1847, ^^d was 
 graduated in 1850 with the Philosophical Oration. On 
 that occasion his father delivered the address before the 
 Alumni, and his grandfather. Rev. David Dudley Field, of 
 Stockbridge, closed the Commencement exercises with 
 prayer. 
 
 He then spent eighteen months in European travel, 
 upon his return studied law in his father's office, and 
 subsequently became his partner in a very large business, 
 maintaining the connection until his decease. During 
 this time he was engaged in many important cases, among 
 which some of the most noteworthy were that of Quimbo 
 Appo, about twenty years since, the suit involving the 
 Mariposa estate, in which General Fremont was claimant ; 
 the Erie Railroad litigation, and the defence of Tweed. 
 Recently he had taken a prominent part in the legal af- 
 fairs of the New York Elevated Railroad, and in the con- 
 flict between the Western Union and the American Union 
 Telegraph companies. He was a laborious worker, an 
 able lawyer, and an effective speaker at the bar. 
 
 Mr. Field left his office, apparently in excellent health 
 and spirits, on the 4th of August last, and on the follow- 
 ing day started from his summer residence at Hastings-on- 
 the-Hudson for a drive across the country to Stockbridge, 
 
150 Biographical Record of the [1B47. 
 
 to attend a family gathering during the ensuing week. 
 He reached his place of destination on the 9th, still ap- 
 parently well, but became seriously ill the same night, and 
 died on the morning of the loth. He had for some time 
 been subject to heart-disease, and this occasioned his 
 death. 
 
 Mr. Field married, January 13th, 1861, Laura J. Bel- 
 den, of New York, and by this marriage he had two chil- 
 dren, both of whom are deceased. (1880.) 
 
 N. V. Tribune^ Aug. 11 th^ m part. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1849. Philosophical, Commencement, 1850. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Hon. Charles Augustus Dewey, of Milford, Mass., 
 son of Hon. Charles A. and Caroline [Clinton] Dewey, 
 and brother of Hon. Francis H. and Dr. George C. Dewey 
 (see Index), was born at Northampton, Mass., his parents* 
 home, December 29th, 1830. His mother was the daugh- 
 ter of General James C. and sister of Governor DeWitt 
 Clinton of the State of New York. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Northampton High 
 School and at Williston Seminary, from which he was 
 graduated with the Salutatory Oration. Entered Wil- 
 liams in 1847, ^^d was graduated in 185 1, again with the 
 Salutatory. Studied law in Harvard Law School and 
 afterwards in New York, where he practised for a time. 
 In 1856 went to Davenport, la., and was engaged there 
 lor two years in legal and real-estate business, after which, 
 in 1859, he returned to Massachusetts and settled in Mil- 
 ford, his present residence. After practising there for 
 about two years he was appointed successively Trial Jus- 
 tice, Justice of the Police Court, and Justice of the Third 
 District Court of Southern Worcester, which last position 
 he has held since 1872. As a resident of Milford he has 
 had much to do with the management of the town schools 
 and library. 
 
 Judge Dewey married, March 12th, 1867, Marietta N. 
 
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 Thayer, of Milford, and by this marriage he has a daugh- 
 ter. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1850. Salutatory, Commencement, 185 1. 
 A.M. in course. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 * William Richard Benjamin, of Elmira, N. Y., only 
 son of Simeon and Sarah W. [Goldsmith] Benjamin, — 
 the former a native of Riverhead and the latter of Matti- 
 tuck, both on Long Island, — was born February 26th, 1827, 
 at Newtown (near Brooklyn), where his father, who was 
 engaged in business in the city of New York, then re- 
 sided. Upon retiring from this business Mr. Benjamin 
 removed to Elmira, whence his son was sent to school at 
 Geneva for study preparatory to the collegiate course. 
 He entered Geneva (now Hobart Free) College in the 
 fall of 1845, as Freshman, soon after joined the K. A. So- 
 ciety there, remained until the end of Sophomore year, 
 and in the autumn of 1847 entered the Junior class at Wil- 
 liams, with which he was graduated in 1849. Although 
 his health was already much impaired, he occupied him- 
 self for a time in the office of his father, a man of wealth 
 engaged in real-estate transactions. But he could not 
 long endure even this confinement. He travelled a little, 
 took great enjoyment in quiet home life, declined gradu- 
 ally, and died among those he loved best, on the i6th of 
 January, 1852, of acute congestion of the lungs, or per- 
 haps consumption, which had long been preying upon 
 him. 
 
 The ceremonies of his funeral were observed on the 
 19th, a *' black and tempestuous day, one of the coldest 
 and stormiest of the season." Yet the whole community 
 came together ; "Tiothing but sorrow could have drawn 
 them on such a day." A sermon was preached in the 
 First Presbyterian Church, which the deceased had at- 
 tended, by its pastor. Rev. Dr. Murdoch, afterwards of 
 New Haven, who bore testimony to the humble hope of 
 the deceased in a merciful Saviour, expressed to himself. 
 
152 Biographical Record of the [1847. 
 
 Then the remains, attended by a large procession, were 
 laid in Woodlawn Cemetery, near by. 
 
 This brother, adopted into our Williams branch, was 
 greatly beloved among us, as among his own earlier associ- 
 ates at Geneva. Peculiar in his manner and almost feminine 
 in his nature, he was yet full of kindly and genial feeling, 
 ardent in his attachments, and every inch a gentleman. As 
 a son he was very affectionate and tender. His character, 
 as all might see at a glance, was one of uncommon purity 
 and amiability. His tastes were simple yet refined. He 
 was passionately fond of flowers, and loved neatness, 
 order, and tastefulness in all things. In his friendships 
 also he was select, but those to whom he gave his regard 
 found him always a most agreeable companion and a warm 
 and constant friend. 
 
 Orlando Bird Bidwell, of Freeport, 111., son of Bar- 
 nabas and Betsy [Curtis] Bidwell, was born at Monte- 
 rey, (formerly South Tyringham,) Berkshire County, 
 his parents' home, July 22d, 1829. Is cousin of H. M. 
 Sabin (p. 167). His great-grandfather, Rev. Adonijah Bid- 
 well, was the first Congregational minister of the town, 
 and the homestead on which he lived is still occupied by 
 the father of our subject. Several members of the family 
 have been graduates of Williams. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, and in the 
 fall of 1846 entered Williams, as Freshman, but left while 
 Sophomore and entered upon business, setthng in 1856 in 
 his present place of residence. In 1870 became President 
 of the First National Bank of Freeport, in which he had 
 been a director from its organization, and still occupies 
 this position. 
 
 Mr. Bidwell has been President of the School Board of 
 Freeport, is elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and 
 was for a time a Trustee of Beloit College. In 1 876 was 
 elected a member of the Williams Society of Alumni. 
 
 He married, in 1850, Candace Ransom, of Otis, Mass., 
 and by this marriage had a daughter and two sons. Both 
 
1 847-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 153 
 
 the latter have been members of Williams and belong to 
 our Society. 
 
 After the decease of his first wife in 1865, Mr. Bid well 
 married, October 1866, Margaret J. Townsend, of Great 
 Harrington, and by this marriage he has a son and three 
 daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1847. 
 
 1848. 
 
 * Edwin Ely Bronk, of Coxsackie, N. Y., oldest son of 
 Leonard and Maria [Ely] Bronk, was born at Coxsackie, 
 the family home, July nth, 1829. He was the brother of 
 Leonard Bronk, Jr., subject of the following notice, and 
 related to L. J. Bronk, K. A. of Union. 
 
 So closely were the subject of this sketch and his 
 brother united that it is difficult to present the brief stories 
 of their lives apart. They were fitted for college together 
 at the village academy, entered Williams at the same time, 
 during the fall term in 1847, although in different classes, 
 and occupied the same room until the graduation of the 
 elder. While both were living they were seldom seen long 
 apart. 
 
 The older brother entered the Sophomore class, main- 
 tained an excellent standing, and was graduated in 1850. 
 He subsequently studied at the Albany Law School, 
 which he left in the spring of 1853. In the autumn of the 
 same year he accompanied Leonard, whose health was 
 already fast breaking down, to Florida, whence they re- 
 turned the following spring, not long before the invalid's 
 death. The survivor went abroad a year later, and re- 
 mained away about two years, travelling through Great 
 Britain, the continental countries, including Russia and 
 Turkey, in Egypt and the Holy Land. Soon after his re- 
 turn, a tendency to the same disease which had been fatal 
 to his brother began to show itself in him, his health en- 
 
154 Biographical Record of the [1848. 
 
 tirely failed, and he died at home, of consumption, on the 
 22d of June, 1861. 
 
 A striking and handsome personal appearance, together 
 with unusual amiabihty of disposition, refinement of man- 
 ner, and delicacy of feeling, combined with excellence of 
 principle and elevation of character, made this member 
 of our Society generally esteemed, and warmly endeared 
 him to those who could gain the friendship guarded by 
 his natural reserve. He was unmarried. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1849. Commencement, 1850. Master's 
 Oration, 1853. 
 
 * Leonard Bronk, Jr., of Coxsackie, N. Y., only 
 brother of the preceding, was born at Coxsackie, October 
 2ist, 1831. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the village academy, en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, during the fall term of 1847, 
 and was graduated in 185 1 with the Historical Oration. He 
 then studied law in Hudson, N. Y., and in 1852 entered 
 the Albany Law School, from which he received the -de- 
 gree of LL.B. Was admitted to the bar April 8th, 1853, 
 but his health beginning to fail at about that time, went to 
 Florida, accompanied by his brother, in the fall of the same 
 year, only to return the following spring and die in mid- 
 summer, July 23d, 1854. In this early departure he was 
 " calm, peaceful, and resigned." 
 
 Thus were removed by consumption, so fatal to the 
 membership of our Society, these much-loved and admired 
 brothers, models of amiability in disposition and correct- 
 ness in life, who were apparently just entering upon careers 
 of much promise. The subject of this notice was one who, 
 although reticent and retiring, could win and retain the 
 strong attachment of such as valued quiet worth and true 
 though often hidden feeling. He was unmarried. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1850. Historical, Commencement, 185 1. \ 
 
1848.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 155 
 
 James Henry Rogers, m.d., of Sag Harbor, Suffolk 
 Co., N. Y., son of Nathan and Caroline [Denison] Rogers, 
 both natives of Long Island, was born in the city of New 
 York, September ist, 1829. 
 
 He was fitted for college by a private tutor, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1848, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1852. In 1855, after the usual course, received the 
 degree of M.D. from Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
 phia, and in both these years of graduation travelled 
 abroad. In 1858 commenced the practice of medicine in 
 New York, and in 1861 travelled in South America. The 
 latter part of that year he joined the army for the sup- 
 pression of the rebellion, and after six months of hospital 
 duty in Wisconsin came out, sick. Subsequently he went, 
 as one of the surgeons attached to the Seventh New York 
 Volunteers, to Baltimore, and was detailed to take charge 
 of the post at Fort McHenry. From 1863 to 1865 prac- 
 tised in New York, but his health not being robust, he 
 then removed to his present country residence, where he 
 engages, to some extent, in professional work. 
 
 Dr. Rogers married in 1866. 
 
 * John Ellis Blake, m.d., of New York City, son of 
 Hon. John R. and Helen [Ellis] Blake, was born at Brat- 
 tleboro, Vt., his parents' home, October 20th, 1831. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Brattleboro High 
 School and the academies in Northfield and Deerfield, 
 Mass., and entered Williams, as Freshman, in the autumn 
 of 1848. At the end of his first year he left Williams, en- 
 tered Cambridge University ad eiindem, and in 1852 was 
 graduated there. While at Cambridge he was a member 
 of the Porcellian and Hasty-Pudding clubs. 
 
 He then began the study of medicine in the office of 
 Drs. J. C. and M. Warren, in Boston, having charge at the 
 same time (for three years) of the Warren Museum of 
 Comparative Anatomy, and thus securing special training 
 in surgery. His formal course was taken in Harvard 
 Medical School, from which he received his M.D. in 1855. 
 
156 Biographical Record of the [1848. 
 
 He was then attached to the Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pital, whence he was drafted into the Boston Cholera Hos- 
 pital, at a time when the disease was raging. Later in the 
 same year he visited Europe, and for two years following 
 was occupied principally with professional studies in Paris. 
 Before returning he made the tour of Spain for health, 
 mostly on horseback, over routes seldom travelled ; crossed 
 the Sierra Nevada, and descended to Gibraltar, whence 
 he visited Tangiers. 
 
 In June, 1858, Dr. Blake married Elizabeth S., daughter 
 of Samuel C. Gray, Esq., of Boston, a descendant of Judge 
 Story. The following year he settled in Middletown, 
 Conn., succeeding to an extensive surgical practice in 
 that wealthy and pleasant place and in Portland, on the 
 opposite bank of the Connecticut, where the demand for 
 his services in connection with casualties in the quarries 
 was too exacting for his strength. After nine years of 
 this work his health became so far impaired as to render 
 rest and change of scene necessary. Accordingly he 
 again visited Europe, taking his family, returned in the 
 summer of 1868, and the following spring settled in New 
 York. But asthma and bronchitis fastened upon him, and 
 prevented his going beyond general family practice ; yet 
 he did much professional work, continuing it up to his 
 death, which occurred suddenly, as the result of syncope, 
 September 27th of the present year. He had ridden out 
 only two days before. But he was aware that his sum- 
 mons might come at any moment, and had long accus-^ 
 tomed himself to anticipate it. 
 
 Dr. Blake had contributed a number of articles to medi> 
 cal journals, and had issued several pamphlets containing 
 statements of important cases. In one of these he brought 
 to general notice a method of diluting nitrous-oxide gas 
 with common air at the moment of administration, deemed 
 important and likely to become of extensive application. 
 He was a Fellow of the Massachusetts and Connecticut 
 Medical Societies, of the New York Academy of Medicine, 
 and Obstetrical and Pathological Societies, the Medical 
 Society of the County of New York, and the American 
 
1848.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 157 
 
 Medical Association, and had served as delegate to impor- 
 tant conventions. 
 
 Dr. Blake was an excellent practitioner, though pre- 
 vented by delicacy of health and frame from accomplish- 
 ing what under other conditions he might have effected. 
 But his skill was abundantly proved, notably on an occa- 
 sion when his fertility and promptness of resource saved 
 a patient from imminent death by aconite poisoning. And 
 this professional ability was united with such geniality of 
 manner, polished culture, fulness of general information, 
 tenderness and delicacy of character, that he was, to his 
 patients, less a practitioner than a dear friend. Better 
 than all, he was a Christian man. 
 
 A resolution of the New York Obstetrical Society in 
 honor of his memory characterizes him as " a careful ob- 
 server and conscientious student," " a man of broad and 
 ripe scholarship," whose "devotion to his friends was 
 steadfast and even enthusiastic," to whom " it was impos- 
 sible to do a mean act," and who " died with the esteem 
 and respect of every one in the profession who was privi- 
 leged to know him." 
 
 His wife, daughter, and two sons survive him. (1880.) 
 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal^ in part. 
 
 A.M. in course, Cambr. Univ. 
 
 James Linn McLean, of Winfield, W. Va., only son of 
 Rev. Dr. Daniel V. and Evelina B. [Linn] McLean,was born 
 at Englishtown, Monmouth County, N. J., July i6th, 1833. 
 His father, who was of Scotch descent, was pastor of the 
 old Tennent Church (a historic member of the Presbyte- 
 rian body, antedating by half a century the Revolution), 
 and was subsequently settled over the village church at 
 Freehold, an offshoot of his former charge. 
 
 During the latter settlement the subject of this sketch 
 was fitted for college, in part by Rev. Dr. Wines, at Bur- 
 lington, N. J., and in part at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. He entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the fall of 
 
158 Biographical Record of the [1848. 
 
 1848, at the age of fifteen, but left at the end of the year 
 and entered Princeton ad eundem the term following. 
 While there he was a member of Clio Hall, which he rep- 
 resented as Junior orator, with three others, by Society 
 election, at Commencement, 1850. 
 
 Being ^compelled by sickness to leave college again 
 early in Senior year and to suspend his studies until the 
 following spring, he then (185 1) entered the Junior class 
 in Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., of which his father had 
 in the mean time become President, and in 1852 was grad- 
 uated from that institution with the Valedictory Oration. 
 Immediately afterward he began the study of law at Eas- 
 ton, in January 1855 was admitted to the bar, and the 
 following year went West, settling in Dubuque, la. 
 
 In 1857 he married Amanda Mixsell, of Easton, who 
 deceased in January, 1859. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ infant daughter, 
 who is still living. 
 
 Speculation in real estate at the West proving unfor- 
 tunate, Mr. McLean returned to Easton to live, but was 
 soon called to West Virginia to look after a large tract 
 of unimproved land in which his father was interested. 
 At the beginning of the war he returned North and be- 
 came actively engaged in the enlistment of troops. In 
 1862 opened a law-office in Philadelphia, but at the close 
 of the war returned to West Virginia, and eventually set- 
 tled in professional practice at his present place of resi- 
 dence. He has taken an active interest there in politics, 
 and in 1871 was a member of the State Legislature, on 
 the Republican side. Is an elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 In September, 1868, he married Josephine S., daughter 
 of Judge Dunbar, of Charleston, W. Va., and by this mar- 
 riage he has two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Valedictory, Commencement (Lafayette), 1852. 
 
 William Fessenden Allen, of Honolulu, Sandwich 
 Islands, son of Hon. Elisha H. Allen, LL.D., and Sarah E. 
 
1848.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 159 
 
 [Fessenden] Allen, of Brattleboro, Vt., was born at Ban- 
 gor, Me., December i8th, 1831. His father was a grad- 
 uate of Williams, member of Congress, and U. S. Consul 
 to the Sandwich Islands, and finally became Chief-Justice 
 and Chancellor of the Kingdom. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at 
 Exeter, N. H., and Deerfield, Mass. Entered WiUiams, 
 as Freshman, in 1848, but left in December, 1849, ^^^ ac- 
 companied his father to Honolulu, where the latter had 
 just been appointed consul, sailing from Boston in Jan- 
 uary, 1850. Their passage extended to one hundred and 
 thirty-five days, and was made without touching land. In 
 August of the same year the son came to San Francisco, 
 and was there appointed Inspector of Customs. After a 
 short time returned to Honolulu, but in 185 1 was again in 
 San Francisco, engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1853 
 he formed a business connection in Honolulu, from i860 
 to 1863 was at Hawaii, and on the ist January, 1864, be- 
 came Collector-General of Customs for the Islands, a po- 
 sition which he still holds. He is also a member of the 
 Privy Council of State, Knight Commander of the Royal 
 Orders of Kamehameha and Kalakaua, and Master of a 
 lodge of the Masonic Order. 
 
 Mr. Allen married, at San Francisco, August 30th,. 
 1865, Cordelia C. Bishop, of Warrensburg, N. Y. In 1871 
 he revisited the East, after an absence of twenty-one 
 years. (1880. 
 
 * RuFUS Richard Williams, of Gardiner, Me., son of 
 Marcus and Nancy H. WiUiams, was born at Mansfield,. 
 Mass., his parents' home, October 25th, 1828. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary and 
 Phillips Academy, Andover ; entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1848, maintained an excellent standing, 
 but left at the close of his first year. 
 
 On the 26th January, 1852, he married Palmyra Wil- 
 liams, of Dighton, Mass., and soon after removed to Cali- 
 fornia, where he remained for two years. Returning to 
 
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 the East, he attended lectures during 1857 and '5^ ^^ the 
 Homoeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, O., after which 
 he began practice in Clinton, continuing it, upon removal, 
 in North Vassalboro, both in Maine. In 1871 he settled 
 in Gardiner ; but he had inherited a tendency to consump- 
 tion, and during the summer of 1874 broke down in con- 
 sequence of overwork. The following winter he spent in 
 Minnesota, and in March, 1875, went South, accompanied 
 by a sister (now engaged in the practice of his own pro- 
 fession), intending to pass the trying spring months in 
 Texas ; but near Malvern, Ark., he was prostrated by a 
 profuse hemorrhage from the lungs, which he survived 
 only about two weeks, dying at that place on the 23d of 
 the month in which his fruitless journey was begun. His 
 funeral was attended in Gardiner. The church was 
 crowded, and the ceremony was according to the forms 
 of the Knights Templars. 
 
 Mr. Williams was a close student and a popular, suc- 
 cessful physician. Instructive and entertaining in conver- 
 sation, gifted with ingenuity and clearness of thought, 
 beauty and purity of expression, and a good understand- 
 ing of human nature, he often Hfted the mind above pain, 
 seeking to give remedies for the spirit as well as the body. 
 He was admired and respected as a member of the com- 
 munity ; all his life those who kilew him best loved him 
 most, and he died " in the triumphant enjoyment of those 
 religious views which had made his life beautiful." 
 
 His wife, a son, and two daughters survive him. 
 
 (1880.) 
 
 1849. 
 
 Charles March Freeman, of Troy, N. Y., son of 
 Jonathan W. and Sarah A. Freeman, was born at Glenn's 
 Falls, N.Y., August 15th, 1832. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Troy, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in the fall of 1848, and was graduated in 1852 
 with the Meteorological Oration. Studied law with Judge 
 
1 849'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, i6i 
 
 Gould, of Troy, and at the Harvard Law School, and 
 practised in the city of New York until August, 1861, on 
 the 5th of which month he was commissioned second- 
 lieutenant in the Second U. S. Infantry. He served with 
 that regiment and on various staff details, and was severely 
 wounded in the sword-arm during the battle of Gaines' 
 Mills, June 27th, 1862. In the summer of 1866 was retired 
 for physical disability, with the rank of captain and brevet 
 major. Since that time has been living quietly at the old 
 home near Troy. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Greek Oration, Jun. Ex., 185 1. Meteorological, Com- 
 mencement, 1852. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., son 
 of Ziba and Nancy [Hurlbut] Hoyt, was born at Kings- 
 ton, Luzerne County, Pa., June 8th, 1830. His earliest 
 paternal ancestor in this country came from England and 
 landed at Salem, Mass., about 1628, subsequently settling 
 at Windsor, Conn. The grandfather of our subject on 
 the same side, a native of Danbury in the State last 
 named, removed in 1795 to Kingston, opposite Wilkes- 
 barre, which became his family home. Here lived his son 
 Ziba, a veteran of 1812, " as brave a soldier as ever fired 
 a musket or drew sword from scabbard." 
 
 During boyhood the subject of this sketch worked on 
 his father's farm ; but being a " quick-witted " boy, he 
 began to desire a liberal education. This was decided on, 
 and he was fitted for college at Wilkesbarre Academy 
 and at Wyoming Seminary, in Kingston, a Methodist in 
 stitution, conducted at that time by Rev. Dr. Nelson, 
 afterwards head of the Methodist Book Concern in New 
 York. As soon as prepared, young Hoyt entered Lafay- 
 ette College, in which he remained until the end of Junior 
 year, when he left that institution, and at the beginning- 
 of Senior year entered Williams. This occurred in the 
 fall of 1848, and in August, 1849, ^^ was graduated. In 
 regard to this change he remarked, in a recent speech at. 
 II 
 
1 62 Biographical Record of the [1849. 
 
 Lafayette, that by it he lost the differential calculus, which 
 was taught at Lafayette during Senior and at Williams 
 during Junior year, and that he had been vainly endeavor- 
 ing to overtake it ever since ; but that he found the cate- 
 chism in good and sufficient measure in both institutions, 
 and that he claimed to know. 
 
 Soon after graduation Mr. Hoyt, with a partner, 
 opened a select school at Towanda, Pa. ; but being ap- 
 pointed Professor of Mathematics in Wyoming Seminary 
 at the end of a year, he accepted that position, which he 
 filled for the ensuing two years. As it was not his inten- 
 tion, however, to adopt teaching as his profession, at the 
 end of that time he entered upon the study of law in the 
 office of Hon. G. W. Woodward, of Wilkesbarre, after- 
 wards a judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and 
 was in due time admitted to the bar. He then spent some 
 time in Austin, Tex., in the service of the Louisville (Ky.) 
 Land Company, and in Memphis, Tenn., where he was 
 again engaged in teaching. Soon after his return home, 
 and during 1855, he married Mary E., daughter of Elijah 
 Loveland, Esq., of Kingston, settled in Wilkesbarre, which 
 has continued to be his place of residence since then, and 
 established himself in business as a lawyer. He also inter- 
 ested himself in public affairs, and especially as President 
 of the School Board in improving the school system of 
 the city. In this work he had the valuable co-operation 
 of Rev. C. J. Collins, K. A., Borough Superintendent for 
 four years ; and the result was a complete revolution in 
 that department. 
 
 Mr. Hoyt was an original abolitionist, and took part in 
 the Fremont campaign of 1856. In 186 1 he stumped the 
 county and State for Lincoln, and when the war broke 
 out, although surrounded by a young and interesting 
 family, was among the first to move. He at once became 
 actively engaged in the raising of the Fifty-second Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, a superior regiment of well-formed 
 hardy young men, one thousand strong, upon the organi- 
 jzation of which he was chosen its lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 After leaving Camp Curtin the regiment went into win- 
 
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 ter quarters near Washington, and while it was thu&placed 
 its lieutenant-colonel was detailed to serve upon a board 
 for the examination of officers as to fitness for command. 
 The following spring the regiment went to Newport News 
 as part of General Naglee's brigade, and immediately 
 upon landing became engaged in the fighting about York- 
 town, distinguishing itself there and subsequently in the 
 advance towards Richmond, which it very nearly ap- 
 proached. 
 
 Soon after, while in this region, Colonel Hoyt, being 
 directed to throw a bridge over the Chickahominy, did 
 :SO ; and this work proved an important factor in the bat- 
 tle of Fair Oaks, which immediately followed. In this 
 -engagement the Fifty-second suffered heavily, large masses 
 of the enemy falling upon it and bringing one half its 
 members to the ground, either killed or wounded, in a few 
 minutes. During the retreat and " change of base" which 
 followed. Colonel Hoyt's services in holding this bridge 
 for the passage of our troops were of the utmost impor- 
 tance. " Hoyt, Plaisted, Van W)^ck, and Stanton, fighting 
 waist-deep in the waters of the creek for four consecu- 
 tive days and nights, holding thus the line of escape and 
 covering the rear of the retreating army, might be 
 deemed, as they actually proved themselves to be, from 
 that day forward, capable of any service that patriotism 
 may repose in the hands of brave men." 
 
 The brigade remained in the Yorktown fortifications 
 until January following, when it was sent to Port Royal, 
 and in April thereafter aided in Dupont's attack on 
 Charleston. During the succeeding summer it took a 
 leading part in the successful assault on Fort Wagner, 
 captured September 5th. In December the regiment was 
 recruited to its full complement and re-armed, and its 
 colonel having resigned, Lieut.-Col. Hoyt succeeded to 
 his rank January 9th, 1864. On the 3d of July following 
 the regiment took part in a bold advance on Charleston, 
 making an attack on Fort Johnson. In consequence of the 
 failure of the supports relied on, this movement failed, and 
 Colonel Hoyt and about one hundred men, being left in 
 
164 Biographical Record of the [1849. 
 
 the presence of an overpowering force, after capturing a 
 battery were compelled to surrender. Of the leader^s 
 conduct in this enterprise his superior general said : " After 
 this you placed yourself at the head of the column and 
 led them most gallantly and faithfully. . . . Had you 
 been supported as your brave conduct demanded, it would 
 have insured the success of the important operations then 
 being carried on in front of Charleston." 
 
 After confinement in Charleston jail and in Macon, Ga., 
 Colonel Hoyt was conveyed from the latter city in obe- 
 dience to an order that he should be placed as one of six 
 hundred U. S. officers under the fire of the Union guns 
 directed upon Charleston. While on his way he, with 
 four others, jumped from the cars and escaped, hoping to 
 be able to reach the fleet; but being pursued by a file of 
 soldiers with blood-hounds, they were retaken after two 
 days and nights, and the Colonel was again immured in 
 Charleston jail. An incarceration of two months followed,, 
 when he was exchanged, and rejoined his regiment at 
 Morris Island. 
 
 In the ensuing spring the surrender of the city 
 occurred, and the regiment, after incorporation with the 
 army of General Sherman — a connection of the Hoyt 
 family — returned North. In November, 1864, its Colonel 
 was mustered out of service, and on the 13th of March 
 following brevetted Brigadier-general. 
 
 On his return to private life. General Hoyt resumed the 
 practice of his profession, and in 1867 received from Gov-^ 
 ernor Geary the appointment of Judge of Common Pleas, 
 which he held for only a short time. As Chairman of the 
 Repulican State Committee he conducted the campaigns 
 of 1875 and ''j6 with wisdom, energy, and success. In May, 
 1878, during a time of excitement in regard to the resump- 
 tion of specie payment,which he favored, he was nominated 
 for Governor of Pennsylvania. He was elected by a large 
 plurality, and inaugurated January 14th, 1879, ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 
 term of four years. Able, highly educated, conscientious, 
 and incorruptible, he has made his own way to his present 
 high position, and having won he fills it well. 
 
1 849-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 165 
 
 Governor Hoyt has in print an address read in No- 
 vember, 1879, before the Historical Society of Pennsylva- 
 nia, upon the early history of titles in Luzerne Co. 
 
 He has by his marriage a son and two daughters. 
 
 (1880.) 
 
 A.M. ad eundem, Lafayette, 1865. 
 
 William Goodell, m.d., of Philadelphia, Pa., son of 
 Rev. Dr. William Goodell, a distinguished missionary of 
 the American Board of Commissioners to Constantinople, 
 and Mrs. Abigail P. [Davis] Goodell, — of Holden, Mass., 
 before marriage, — was born in the island of Malta, October 
 17th, 1829. 
 
 He was fitted for college by his father, came to the 
 United States in 1847, ^"d in the fall of that year entered 
 Williams, as Freshman. In 185 1 he was graduated with 
 the Natural History Oration, after which he studied medi- 
 cine in Philadelphia with Dr. Samuel McClellan and at 
 Jefferson Medical College, and received the degree of 
 M.D. from the latter in 1854. He then returned to Con- 
 stantinople, where he was engaged for the next six years 
 in professional practice, and during this period he married 
 at Smyrna, September 4th, 1857, Caroline D., daughter of 
 Judge Thomas S. Bell, of West Chester, Pa. 
 
 Returning to the United States in i860. Dr. Goodell 
 spent five years in practice at West Chester, then re- 
 moved to Philadelphia and became Physician in Charge of 
 the Preston Retreat in that city, a position which he still 
 holds. In 1 87 1 he was appointed Lecturer on the Dis- 
 eases of Women and Children in the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, and in 1875 was called to the Professorship of 
 Clinical Gynecology in the same institution, which he fills 
 with ability and success. 
 
 Professor Goodell has written many papers on medi- 
 cal subjects, and in 1877 published his "Lessons in Gyne- 
 cology," which reached its second edition within a year. 
 He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadel- 
 phia, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Imperial 
 
1 66 Biographical Record of the [1849. 
 
 Medical Society of Constantinople, the London Obstetri- 
 cal Society, and other similar bodies, including the Obstet- 
 rical Society of Philadelphia, of which he was at one time 
 president. 
 
 He has had by his marriage five children, four of whom,, 
 two sons and two daughters, are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 500 North Twentieth Street. 
 
 Greek Oration, Jun. Ex., 1850. Natural History Ora- 
 tion, Commencement, 185 1. A.M. in course. Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Rev. Augustine David Lawrence Jewett, d.d., of 
 
 New York City, son of Admiral David Jewett of the Bra- 
 zilian Navy, a native of Connecticut, and Eliza [Lawrence] 
 Jewett, daughter of Hon. Augustus H. Lawrence, of New 
 York, was born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., January 12th, 1830. 
 He is a cousin of the Wallers (see Index), and of Rev. C. 
 J. Collins (p. 113), by whom he was fitted for college. 
 
 He entered Williams in the fall of 1848, as Freshman, 
 and was graduated in 1852. Then took a four years* 
 course of theology in Princeton Seminary, during which 
 he was actively interested in the establishment of a chap- 
 ter of our Society in the College of New Jersey. For its 
 membership he had the warmest esteem and regard ; but 
 upon the passage by the college authorities of a law com- 
 pelling secret-society men to resort to mental reservations, 
 he advised the withdrawal of the chapter as the only hon- 
 orable course. 
 
 After graduation from the seminary he was settled 
 over the Reformed church at Piermont-on-the-Hudson, 
 where three years of labor in open-air preaching cost him 
 the loss of his voice, so that he decided to resign his 
 charge and remove to New York. After a year's rest, re- 
 sumed preaching, and was settled over the Presbyterian 
 church at Throg's Neck, Westchester County, N. Y., 
 where he labored for several years, devoting much of his 
 time during the war to the soldiers in the Fort Schuyler 
 
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 and David's Island hospitals. In 1868 accepted a call to 
 the First Presbyterian Church, New Brunswick, N. J., 
 with which he remained until September, 1874, when a 
 partial failure of health, caused by sunstroke and nervous 
 prostration, rendered his withdrawal necessary. Since 
 then he has not been permitted to undertake a regular 
 charge, but has resided in or near New York, engaged, to 
 such extent as health has allowed, in missionary work, the 
 supply of vacant churches, and similar service. 
 
 Mr. Jewett received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers 
 College in 1872. 
 
 In 1856 he married Elizabeth H., daughter of Rev. 
 Dr. Richard W. Dickinson, of New York, and by this 
 marriage he has had five children, of whom two, a daugh- 
 ter and a son, are now living. The latter is also a member 
 of our Society. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 22 East Fifty-fourth Street. 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 185 1. Moonlight Ex., 1851. Com- 
 mencement, 1852. A.M. in course. Presiding officer of 
 class, 1872. D.D., Rutgers, 1872. 
 
 Henry Millen Sabin, m.d., of Rockport, 111., son of 
 Dr. Millen and Mehscent [Bidwell] Sabin, and cousin of 
 O. B. Bidwell (p. 152), was born at Monterey, Mass., Sep- 
 tember 6th, 1 83 1. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Lenox Academy and Willis- 
 ton Seminary, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1849, 
 and was graduated in 1853. During a number of years 
 following was engaged in teaching as Principal, for one 
 year of a public school in Cincinnati, for two years of 
 Lenox Academy, for somewhat less than two of Pittsfield 
 High School, and for several of the High School at 
 Saxonville, Mass. In 1863, after the usual preparatory 
 studies, was graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospi- 
 tal College, New York City, and entered the army as Act- 
 ing Assistant Surgeon in the Fifty-second Massachusetts ; 
 
1 68 Biographical Record of the [1849. 
 
 was stationed at Port Hudson, and served for nine months 
 under General Banks, returning up the Mississippi after 
 the capture of Vicksburg, in full charge of all the sick of 
 the regiment. 
 
 In 1864 he settled in Edwardsville, III., in practice. 
 March 12th, 1867, married Mrs. Letitia [McCrea] Tun- 
 nell, of that place; in November, 1872, removed to Lin- 
 coln, Neb., where, on the 4th January, 1874, his wife 
 deceased. Soon after this occurrence he returned to 
 Edwardsville, where he remained until his removal to 
 Rockford in May of the present year. He has one son. 
 
 (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1852. A.M. in course. 
 
 ^Rev. Henry Pratt, of Topsfield, Mass., son of 
 Schuyler and Olive [Gay] Pratt, — the latter a resident be- 
 fore marriage of Walpole, Mass., — was born at Salisbury, 
 Conn., his parents' home, January nth, 1825. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Salisbury Academy and 
 Williston Seminary, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1846, and was graduated in 1850. Studied theology at 
 East Windsor (now Hartford) Seminary, and was gradu- 
 ated there in 1853. On the 25th October, 1854, was or- 
 dained pastor of the Congregational church in Dudley, 
 Mass., his only charge, with which he remained until the 
 corresponding date in 1869, when he was dismissed at his 
 own request, after a successful pastorate of fifteen years, 
 during which more than one hundred members united 
 with his church. He remained in Dudley about five years 
 after his resignation, preaching occasionally, but devoting 
 himself chiefly to farming, although giving much atten- 
 tion both then and throughout his whole residence in the 
 town, as well as subsequently, to its educational interests. 
 He was for twenty-five years a member, and most of that 
 time President, of the Board of Trustees of Nichols Acad- 
 emy, and for eighteen years Chairman of the District 
 School Committee. 
 
 In the fall of 1879 M^- Pratt removed to Topsfield, 
 
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 where he had a fine farm, which he worked, in connection 
 with his oldest son, until struck down by paralysis of the 
 heart on the 19th April of the present year. 
 
 " He was known as a warm-hearted, generous man, of 
 quick sympathies, an active and earnest Christian, a useful 
 and public-spirited citizen." 
 
 Mr. Pratt married, April 23d, 1855, Elizabeth Kings- 
 bury, of Dudley, and by this marriage he had two sons, 
 who, with their mother, survive him. (1880.) 
 
 Obituary Record^ 1880, in part. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1849. Prest. Philologian. Com- 
 mencement, 1850. A.M. in course. 
 
 Frank Gardner Noyes, of Nashua, N. H., son of 
 Leonard W. and Anne S. [Gardner] Noyes, was born at 
 Nashua, his parents' place of residence, July 6th, 1833. 
 His father, a native of Canaan, N. H., whose ancestors for 
 three generations were clergymen, was a business-man in 
 Boston, whence he removed to Nashua in 1823, and was 
 actively engaged throughout life in business enterprises. 
 His mother, a grand-niece of the wife of John Hancock, 
 is a native of Leominster, Mass. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at 
 Phillips Academy, Andover ; entered WilUams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the autumn of 1849, ^^^^ ^^ ^^ close of Sopho- 
 more year, and went to Union, whence he was graduated 
 in 1853. Thesame year he began legal studies in the office 
 of Sydney Bartlett, Esq., in Boston; in 1854 entered Har- 
 vard Law School, and in 1856 was graduated thence with 
 LL.B. In the autumn of that year settled in Clinton, la., 
 in partnership with Hon. N. B. Baker, ex-Governor of 
 New Hampshire. In 1861 was appointed aide-de-camp on 
 the staff of the Governor of Iowa, and was actively en- 
 gaged as such in organizing the volunteers of that State 
 until 1862, when he received a commission from President 
 Lincoln as captain in the Subsistence Department of the 
 Army, and was assigned to duty with the Thirteenth Di- 
 
170 Biographical Record of the [1849. 
 
 vision, Army of the Tennessee, operating against Vicks- 
 burg. Served at Memphis, Helena, Vicksburg, New 
 Orleans, the Bayou Teche, Red River, in the *' bay fight" 
 before Mobile, and in the capture of that city ; and in 
 1864 was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief C. S. 
 Thirteenth Army Corps and Chief C. A., Department of 
 Texas. Was mustered out of service in November, 1865,, 
 receiving three brevet commissions after the close of the 
 war. 
 
 In March, 1867, Colonel Noyes was appointed U. S. 
 Consul at Panama, then an important position by reason 
 of the trade with the Pacific coast, the Pacific Railroad 
 not having been opened at that time. 
 
 In 1869 he again engaged in business at Clinton, manu^ 
 facturing iron machinery, engines, boilers, and the like. In 
 1879 retired from that business, and has since been occu- 
 pied with literary pursuits at his old and present home. 
 
 Colonel Noyes married Hannah E. Richardson, a lineal 
 descendant of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the 
 Declaration, and by this marriage he has had three sons 
 and four daughters. The sons are all deceased. (1881.) 
 
 1850. 
 
 * James Hervey Reed, of Boston, Mass., son of Briggs 
 R. and EHzabeth [Hutchinson] Reed, — the former a native 
 of Bridgewater, — was born in Danvers, his parents' home, 
 January 28th, 1828. 
 
 He was fitted for college in Pembroke (N. H.) Acad- 
 emy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1848, and was 
 graduated in 1852. He then taught for nine years in the 
 public schools of St. Louis, most of the time as Principal 
 of the Webster School. In 1862 removed to Boston and 
 joined his brother in the insurance business, in which he 
 continued until his decease on the 21st of October during 
 the present year. 
 
 In April preceding Mr. Reed had been stricken by a 
 shock of paralysis, which, although slight, affected his 
 
1850.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 171 
 
 brain seriously, and was followed by extreme nervous suf- 
 fering. During the summer, however, he was able to 
 visit Williamstown, where he " looked lovingly on the 
 dear old scenes, called up cherished associations, and said 
 a last good-by to them all." He then went on to Lake 
 George, and while driving thither from Glenn's Falls 
 made a determined effort, in which, notwithstanding heat 
 and fatigue, he was successful, to climb to the monu- 
 ment erected to Col. Ephraim Williams. During the 
 sleepless nights of the last weeks of his sickness he tried 
 to forget his weariness in living over the old college 
 times, camping with " the boys" on Greylock, and sleeping 
 with them there upon the hemlock boughs. He was always 
 deeply interested in young men, and often expressed a 
 hope that he might be able to help some of that class who 
 were struggling for an education as he had struggled. 
 His was ever a liberal and ardent spirit, full of tender and 
 intense affection for home and friends, so that the interests 
 of his K. A brothers and of our Society seemed as dear to 
 him as his own could be. His amiable qualities attached 
 to him a large circle of friends to whom his doors ever 
 offered a hospitable welcome. He was truly "a man of 
 heart," the warmth of whose grasp and the glow of whose 
 face plainly testified to the sincerity of his greeting and 
 the reality of his regard. 
 
 Our brother consecrated himself to God at the age of 
 fourteen, and in early life united with the Central Square 
 Baptist Church in East Boston. On settling in Boston he 
 became an active member of Charles Street church and 
 its Sunday-school, and he subsequently sustained a similar 
 relation to the Clarendon Street church and school. In 
 these, as everywhere, he was known as a zealous Chris- 
 tian, ready at all times, with a cheerful and earnest spirit, 
 for Christian work. He attached each member of the 
 Sunday-school to himself in the warm ties of friendship ; 
 his public prayers were earnest, devout, and full of the 
 Gospel ; and in his last hours he could say, " God is the 
 strength of my heart and my portion forever." 
 
 The funeral of our deceased brother was attended by 
 
172 Biographical Record of the [1850. 
 
 a large concourse of friends. His blameless and loving 
 social life, business integrity, and devotion to his family 
 and church were commended by his pastor. Rev. Dr. 
 Gordon. Then, wearing a look of settled peace upon his 
 face, he was laid in Walnut Grove Cemetery, amid the 
 scenes of his early days and in his native town, while " the 
 friends of his youth gathered around his grave to pay 
 their last tribute of love and respect to one whose friend- 
 ship had never changed." 
 
 " Gone to the city of unclouded splendor. 
 Gone from the harvest-field. 
 He gave to life the best that life can render, 
 The best that heart can yield." 
 
 Mr. Reed married, October 24th, 1866, Lydia P., daugh- 
 ter of Col. Nathan Tapley, of Danvers, and by this mar- 
 riage he had a son and a daughter, who, with their mother, 
 survive him. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1852. A. M. in course. 
 
 Edward Sutton Smith, m.d., of New York City, son 
 of Dr. Jerome V. C. and EHza M. [Brown] Smith, was 
 born at Boston, Mass., his parents' home, December 27th, 
 
 1834. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, 
 and entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the fall of 1850. 
 During 185 1 he left and went to Harvard University, 
 where he was graduated. He then studied medicine in 
 the University of Paris, from which, as well as from Har- 
 vard, he received the degree of M.D. He practised in 
 Paris, and finally settled in New York. 
 
 During two years of the war Dr. Smith was Examin- 
 ing Surgeon of the Seventeenth Regiment, U.S.A. On 
 the 9th September, 1879, ^e married Mary E. Shepherd, 
 of Shrewsbury, N. J. (1880.) 
 
1850.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 173; 
 
 Solomon Taintor Bulkley, of New York City, son 
 of Solomon and Mary (Wells) Bulkley, — the latter of 
 Cheshire, Mass., before marriage, — was born at Williams- 
 town, his parents' home. May 31st, 1833. 
 
 He was fitted for college by his brother-in-law. Prof. 
 N. H. Griffin, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in Williamstown, and 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 185 1. Leav- 
 ing college during his second term Junior, he went to 
 ■Rock Island, III, and spent two years in the Rock Island 
 Bank ; then engaged in business on his own account, sold 
 out in 1859, ^^d was unemployed until the breaking out of 
 the war, when he became war correspondent of the New 
 York Herald. As such he was present with the Army of 
 the Potomac in nearly all the prominent engagements 
 fought in Virginia, was taken prisoner while acting as 
 volunteer aid at the battle of Brandy Station, June 9th, 
 1863, and was confined in Libby Prison and in Castle 
 Thunder until the following March. 
 
 Immediately after the war Mr. Bulkley travelled 
 throughout the South, mostly by private conveyance, 
 for the purpose of ascertaining the true condition and 
 sentiment of the people. With this object in view, he at- 
 tended the reconstruction conventions in Mississippi, 
 Alabama, and Florida. In 1867 he accompanied General 
 Sherman and his associates of the Peace Commission in a 
 visit to the various tribes of Indians on the Plains, and he 
 remained beyond the bounds of civilization for more than 
 a year. Upon his return it was proposed to him to go 
 to Australia for an absence of two years ; but this service 
 he declined, and thus ended his connection with the 
 Herald. For the past eight years he has been associated 
 with Hon. John H. Starin, M.C. from New York City, in 
 the transportation business. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. Charles Jenkins Hill, of Middletown, Conn., 
 sixth son of George and Priscilla [Griffin] Hill,— the lat- 
 ter before marriage of Bradford, Mass., — was born at 
 Portland, Me., his parents* place of residence, February 
 
174 Biographical Record of the [1850. 
 
 2d, 1830. His father soon after removed to Philadelphia, 
 where the subject of this sketch, in due time, completed a 
 full classical course in the High School. He then spent a 
 year in the office of the Philadelphia City Gas Company, 
 accumulating means for taking a collegiate course, upon 
 which his recent conversion and his strong desire to enter 
 the ministry had led him to resolve. During this time he 
 carried on his preparation for college by study and recita- 
 tions out of office hours, in order to find time for which he 
 was obliged to rise at four o'clock every morning. He was 
 thus enabled to enter Williams during the spring of 1850, 
 in the third term of Sophomore year, and in 1852 was 
 graduated. He immediately took charge of the Hoosac 
 Falls Academy ; at the end of a year entered Union 
 Theological Seminary in New York City ; took his 
 second and third years at Andover, and was graduated 
 there in 1856. In January, 1857, was settled over the 
 First Congregational Church in Nashua, N. H., and on 
 the nth of March following married Martha, daughter of 
 Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield. After laboring in Nashua 
 for seven or eight years he became exhausted by work, 
 fell in his pulpit during service, and was carried home in- 
 sensible. In accordance with the advice of physicians he 
 resigned his charge, and after nine months of rest ac- 
 cepted a call to the Congregational church at Glovers- 
 ville, N. Y., which he left, after three years of service, for 
 the First Presbyterian Church at Whitehall. There he 
 greatly desired to remain, but his health again failing, and 
 physicians advising as before, he resolved upon a decided 
 change of climate, and became pastor of a church in An- 
 sonia. Conn., whence he was called to the South Church 
 in Middletown, over which he has been settled for the last 
 five years. 
 
 Mr. Hill has published several sermons, but has con- 
 fined himself principally to pulpit work. He has a daugh- 
 ter and two sons. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1852. 
 
1850.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 175 
 
 James Bartlett Meacham, of Bennington, Vt, oldest 
 son of James and Almira [Bartlett] Meacham, was born at 
 Williamstown, November 27th, 1828. His father, well 
 known to the members of our Society, which for more than 
 forty years he provided with a home beneath his hos- 
 pitable roof and cared for with paternal affection and assi- 
 duity, belongs to a family which has been highly esteemed 
 in Williamstown from its very settlement, the names of 
 Jonathan, James, and WiUiam Meacham appearing in the 
 earliest documents relating to the history of the town. 
 The first of these was a leading man in the settlement. 
 His name heads the application of the '' eleaven families" 
 originally composing it to the Governor and Council in 
 1754 for protection against the Indians. This having 
 been refused, leaving his family in Fort Massachusetts, 
 where all the '' eleaven" were compelled to resort for 
 safety, he accompanied Col. Ephraim Williams on his 
 fatal expedition to Crown Point in 1755, but, more for- 
 tunate than his leader, returned in safety, and the follow- 
 ing year, with William Meacham and others, offered the 
 Council to subscribe towards the erection of a blockhouse 
 for the protection of the town, then called West Husack 
 or Hoosuck — a name which in all its forms, as thus given, 
 or, in more modern days, as Hoosick, Hoosack, Hoosic, 
 and finally Hoosac, has little in the way of euphony to 
 commend it. In 1764 he acted as one of a committee to 
 provide a minister for the Proprietors ; while the names 
 of J. and T. and of James Meacham stand for substantial 
 contributions on the list of subscribers towards the erec- 
 tion of a church edifice in 1796. Deacon Meacham of a 
 later day was among the early incumbents of his office, 
 always deemed especially important and honorable in 
 New England, and his son, '* whose sweet voice led in 
 sacred songs and whose meek and holy life was an honor 
 to the church," was the father of Captain James, the 
 family head of the present day. Long may he yet abide 
 in the old home ! Here, too, should his beloved consort, 
 whose maternal interest in the comfort of our Society, and 
 contributions of many kinds to our enjoyment, will never 
 
176 Biographical Record of the [1850. 
 
 be forgotten by those who shared them, receive honorable 
 mention and grateful remembrance. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college mostly 
 at the school of B. F. and J. A. Mills in South Williams- 
 town, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1850, and was 
 graduated in 1854. He then studied law in Bennington, 
 where he was admitted to the bar in December, 1857, and 
 has since remained in practice. 
 
 He married, O&tober 29th, 1862, Corinna Thayer, of 
 Bennington, and by this marriage he has three sons. 
 (1880.) 
 
 Frank Sargent Bissell, of Pittsburg, Pa., son of 
 John and Nancy [Semple] Bissell, was born at Pittsburg, 
 January 28th, 1833. His father's family went from 
 Windsor, Conn., to the Western Reserve in Ohio, about 
 1790. 
 
 He was fitted for college by Prof. Lewis Bradley, of 
 Allegheny City, Pa., entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1850, and was graduated in 1854. He then entered upon 
 business in Pittsburg in connection with a brother, manu- 
 facturing stoves and miscellaneous castings, and has con- 
 tinued successfully engaged in this avocation at the same 
 location until the present time. Is an ardent Republican, 
 and has been honored by his fellow-citizens with many 
 unsought positions of importance. 
 
 Mr. Bissell married, in 1856, Martha H., daughter of 
 Dr. Thomas Millen, of Pittsburg. Mrs. Bissell deceased 
 March 19th, 1862, and in July, 1866, he married Anna M., 
 daughter of George W. Jackson, also of Pittsburg. He 
 has three sons. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 235 Liberty Street. 
 
 * Charles Edward Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn., son 
 of Hon. Gurdon and Sarah A. [Swan] Trumbull, was born 
 at Stonington, Conn., his parents* home, October 31st, 
 
1850.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 177 
 
 1832. The Trumbull family needs no special mention 
 here. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at Sto- 
 nington Academy, and entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1850. About the completion of his second year 
 his parents removed to Hartford ; but he remained ever 
 strongly attached to the old home at Stonington, and 
 would return thither when he conveniently could, taking, 
 if possible, a tramp with his gun across the country, which 
 he thoroughly loved to do. 
 
 Another change in his relations occurred at the same 
 time, bringing the utmost disappointment to the circle of 
 warm personal friends which his unusual charm of manner 
 and character had quickly gathered about him here. He 
 left Williams in the middle of his course and went to 
 Yale, where he completed it, graduating with honor in 
 
 1854. 
 
 His health not being robust, in accordance with the 
 advice of friends he undertook no close employment dur- 
 ing the succeeding year, but continued with interest (part 
 of the time in the State Library at Hartford) the study of 
 the English classics and general modern literature, which 
 he loved. He had not fully decided upon a profession, but 
 was strongly inclined to that of civil engineering, which 
 was well suited to his need of an out-door life. But in 
 July, 1855, just about a year after his graduation, he was 
 attacked by a disease which, though it yielded to surgical 
 skill, left his system so prostrated that typhoid fever super- 
 vened. While convalescent, and in order to hasten re- 
 covery, he sailed for Florida on the 5th of December fol- 
 lowing, accompanied by a younger brother. There the 
 change of climate operated so favorably that for a time his 
 strength was greatly restored ; but a renewed attack in 
 February, 1856, forbade further hope. Being made aware 
 of his situation in the intervals of consciousness from deli- 
 rium, he prepared for his early fate with the calm assurance 
 and humble faith of a Christian. " No relative was near 
 save the brother who accompanied him, as this noble life 
 ebbed slowly away. But at the eleventh hour he woke to 
 12 
 
178 Biographical Record of the [1850. 
 
 hear a mother's voice, and to feel a mother's hand upon 
 his brow, and then 'God's finger touched him and he 
 slept.'" He died on the 17th of March, 1856. 
 
 After reporting these circumstances to his classmates 
 at their triennial meeting in 1857, his friend and classmate 
 L. L. Weld, Esq., of New York, added : " 1 am sure I am 
 not saying too much when I say that there was no man, 
 not only in our own class, but in the range of college 
 classes, so respected and loved as Charley Trumbull. He 
 came among us when half our college probation was 
 ended. Yet almost immediately he sprang into a popu- 
 larity unsought by him, but which was his proper place. 
 Who can forget his genial smile, his hearty grasp, his 
 warm sympathy, his self-sacrificing generosity, his glowing 
 humor, his thoughtful kindness, his brilliant genius, his 
 Christian worth ? He was always the same ; brave with- 
 out boastfulness, witty without severity, wise without os- 
 tentation, always wanted, always welcome, always be- 
 loved. He was a man of the largest susceptibilities, ardent 
 in his attachments, a faithful friend in good report and evil 
 report. A true, humble Christian, he shrank from display. 
 He was very earnest for the right, very bold to denounce 
 wrong, very brilliant in all his powers, frank, open-hearted, 
 generous, kindly. We had looked with confidence to a 
 career in which a genius so noble and so promising would 
 do God service ; but a wiser mind had shaped his course, 
 and an all-powerful hand beckoned him away." 
 
 In this eulogium his friends and brothers at Williams 
 would most heartily concur. They had felt the pain of 
 parting from him in the midst of a brilliant and fascinating 
 career, and to it they had never become reconciled. When 
 he revisited them to witness the graduation of his old 
 class, shortly after receiving his own degree, they became 
 more sensible than ever of the deprivation they had sus- 
 tained, as they found him still the enthusiastic friend, the 
 unconsciously brilliant companion, the unselfish and de- 
 voted brother. The tidings of his untimely and remote 
 decease fell as heavily upon them as it could fall upon any 
 of his friends, and they would add their tribute of affection 
 
1850.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 179 
 
 and esteem for one whom neither time nor distance nor 
 death itself could sunder from their love. 
 
 His remains were laid in Spring Grove Cemetery, near 
 Hartford. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1852; subject, "Henry Clay;" 
 to whom he seemed a kindred spirit. Townsend Prize 
 for Essay, Yale, 1854. Oration, Commencement, Yale, 
 1854 ; subject, " The Graves of the Regicides." 
 
 Rev. Jeremiah Evarts Walton, of Marshall, Mich., 
 son of Rev. William C. and Lucinda [Muse] Walton, — the 
 latter a native of Jefferson County, now in West Va., — 
 was born at Alexandria, Va., March 27th, 1831. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Newark (Del.) Academy, 
 and entered Delaware College, in the same town, in 1849^ 
 as Freshman. At the end of second term in that year, 
 leaving Delaware, he entered Williams, from which he was 
 graduated in 1853. He then took the theological course 
 at East Windsor, in 1855 was licensed by the Congrega- 
 tional Association of Connecticut, and in 1857 ordained 
 by the Presbytery of Baltimore. His first settlement was 
 in a country parish at West River, Md. He next became 
 colleague with Rev. Dr. Beman, of Troy ; was afterwards 
 settled twice in Rockford, 111., and had for some time the 
 Third Parish Church in Portland, Me. 
 
 In 1867 he was admitted to the diaconate in the Episco- 
 pal Church by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, and in 1868 
 to the priesthood by Bishop Whitehouse, of IlHnois. He 
 was settled at Wilton, Conn., for seven years, and during 
 the academic year 1878-79 had charge of the Military In- 
 stitute at Hamden in the same State. In December, 1879, 
 accepted a call to his present charge. Trinity Parish, Mar- 
 shall. In his religious teachings has always been a warm 
 advocate of catholicity in the churches. 
 
 Mr. Walton, who is the uncle of Revs. R. W. and 
 W. W. Clark (see Index), married Helen M. Randall,, 
 of North Adams, Mass., who died about nine years since.; 
 
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 at Rockford, and by this marriage he had three sons and 
 three daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 185 1. Commencement, 1852. 
 
 James Augustus Atkins, of Leesburg, Idaho Ter- 
 ritory, son of Zaccheus and Rebecca [Berry] Atkins, was 
 born December 5th, 1834, at New Sharon, Me. He was 
 fitted for college at the Latin School in Roxbury, Mass., 
 then his home; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1850, 
 and was graduated in 1854 with an oration on "Yankee 
 Notions." He then studied law with Peleg W. Chandler, 
 Esq., of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. 
 After practising in Roxbury, he went, in 1859, ^^ Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., and subsequently removed to California. 
 He was engaged in mining there, in Washington Terri- 
 tory, at Dalles, Oregon, and at Elk City, Idaho. Is now 
 at Leesburg, similarly occupied. He is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1853. Commencement, 1854. 
 
 1851. 
 
 John Henry Tingley, of Philadelphia, Pa., son of 
 Clem and Harriet Tingley, was born June i6th, 1833, in 
 Philadelphia. Entered the Freshman class of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in September, 1849, ^^^ ^^e 
 Sophomore of Williams in May, 1851. About the end of 
 Junior year left college, and was for some time engaged in 
 business in New York. Subsequently he returned to 
 Philadelphia, and for several years past has been occupied 
 in editorial work. Is also engaged in the Recorder of 
 Deeds' office. 
 
 Mr. Tingley married, September nth, 1856, Kate L. 
 Scott, of Philadelphia, and has had by this marriage a 
 daughter and three sons. Two of the latter are deceased. 
 <i88o.) 
 
1 85 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, i8i 
 
 Ely McClellan, M.D., U.S.A., son of Dr. Samuel and 
 Margaret [Ely] McClellan, and brother of Carswell Mc- 
 Clellan (see Index), was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1835. 
 These brothers are cousins of Gen. George B. McClellan. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college in 
 Philadelphia, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 185 1, and 
 left in 1853, at the beginning of his Junior year. He then 
 began the study of medicine, was graduated from Jeffer- 
 son Medical College in 1857, ^^d practised in Philadel- 
 phia until 1 86 1, when he was appointed Assistant Sur- 
 geon U.S.A. He served in the Army of the Potomac ; 
 was for some time in charge of the General Hospital at 
 Fortress Monroe ; was at Fort Delaware, in New Mexico, 
 Kentucky, Georgia, and Washington Territory. In 1866 
 was promoted captain, and in 1876 major. Is now sta- 
 tioned at Fort Lapwai, Idaho Territory. 
 
 Surgeon McClellan married, in January, 1858, Emily 
 Tevis, of Philadelphia, and by this marriage he has three 
 sons and a daughter. His family resides at Louisville, 
 Ky. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Care Surgeon-General U.S.A., Washington. 
 
 John Edward Taylor, of Morristown, N. J., eldest 
 son of Dr. John R. and Sarah M. [Lawrence] Taylor, was 
 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., his parents' home, June 20th, 1834. 
 
 He was fitted for college at private schools in Brook- 
 lyn, entered Columbia, as Freshman, in 1850, left for Wil- 
 liams at the beginning of the summer term 185 1, and was 
 graduated in 1854. He then studied law for a year in the 
 city of New York, and in Morristown the following two 
 years ; was admitted to the bar in New York in 1857, and 
 practised in that city until i860, when he visited Europe. 
 Upon his return during the following year he resumed 
 practice in New York. In 1864 removed to Morristown, 
 ancj about 1870 retired from professional avocations. 
 Since that time he has occasionally revisited Europe, and 
 has also travelled in the East. 
 
1 82 Biographical Record of the [185 1. 
 
 In 1875 and '76 Mr. Taylor was Recorder of Morris- 
 town. He has interested himself in the pubhc affairs of 
 the place, and especially in the erection of an elegant 
 and expensive building for its public library. Is unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1854. Commencement, 1854. 
 
 * Edward Payson Taft, of Lyons, N. Y., seventh son 
 of Deacon Newell and Jane [Sterrett] Taft, — the latter a 
 native of Elmira, N. Y., — was born in Lyons, September 
 loth, 1832. His father, a native of Goshen, Mass., and 
 brother of C. R. Taft, Esq., of Williamstown, resided in 
 Williamstown from childhood to years of maturity, upon 
 attaining which he removed to Western New York, and 
 in 1 8 16 settled in Lyons, where he lived until his death in 
 1874, in his eighty-first year. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the 
 Mills' school in South Williamstown and at Easthampton, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1851, left in 1852 or 
 '53 on account of ill health, and went into business with 
 his father. In this connection he continued until Septem- 
 ber, 1862, when he entered the U. S. service. He was ac- 
 tive in raising the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth U. S. 
 V^olunteers, in the fall of that year, and at its organization 
 was appointed its major. Was promoted lieutenant- 
 colonel June 23d, 1864, and on the advancement of his 
 colonel succeeded to the vacant command September 
 1 5th of the same year, when his regiment was transferred 
 to the artillery arm of the service as the Ninth N. Y. 
 Heavy Artillery. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 the regiment took part in the 
 Wilderness campaign, as infantry, and distinguished itself 
 in several desperate battles, especially that of Cold Har- 
 bor, in which Colonel Taft was the first to mount the 
 enemy's works, cheering on his men to the successful as- 
 sault. In July of the same year the Sixth Corps, to 
 which his regiment was attached, was ordered to Mary- 
 
1 85 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 183 
 
 land for the protection of the capital. The division in 
 which the Ninth was included, being sent to check the 
 advance of the rebels, fought the disastrous battle of 
 Monocacy. Here, too, Colonel Taft led his regiment 
 bravely against overwhelming odds. While endeavoring 
 to rally his men he received a ball just below the right 
 knee, which shattered the bone, and he was left on the 
 field until found by the enemy, who removed him to 
 Frederick City, Md., where he was restored to his friends. 
 Amputation became unavoidable and led to a protracted 
 illness, inducing the disease which terminated in his death. 
 Against this result he struggled with a determined will 
 and remarkable energy and strength of constitution. 
 After partial recovery he was detailed for court martial 
 duty in New York, as president of the court. Following 
 his discharge from service in June, 1865, he accepted the 
 appointment of U. S. Consul at San Juan del Sud. But 
 climatic fever, contracted there, prostrated his already 
 weakened frame, necessitating his return, and aggravating 
 his disease, which resulted in his death at Lyons, June 
 20th, 1 867, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. 
 
 In social life his genial manners and affable disposition 
 were conspicuous. At the same time he was one of those 
 naturally fitted to lead. A well-stored mind and good 
 conversational powers made him ever a welcome guest. 
 He died a martyr on the altar of his country, and his 
 name is worthily inscribed on the roll of those who sealed 
 their devotion to their country with their lives. 
 
 Colonel Taft married, October 8th, 1856, Josephine L. 
 Avery, of Waterville, N. Y., who, with a son and three 
 daughters, survived him. 
 
 In 1869 WilHams College honored his memory by con- 
 ferring upon him the degree of A.B. 
 
 Biographical Annals y mainly. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1852. 
 
 * Robert Woodworth McClellan, of Hudson, N.Y., 
 
184 Biographical Record of tJte [1851. 
 
 third son of Hugh and Lucy [Woodworth] McClellan^ 
 was born at Greenport, Columbia County, N. Y., Febru- 
 ary 28th, 1834. His father, a man of extended influence 
 in the county, and one of the original directors of the 
 Hudson River Railroad Company, for which he was 
 largely engaged in negotiating the right of way, removed 
 to Hudson during the childhood of this son, who was fit- 
 ted for college in that city, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the autumn of 185 1, and remained until the second 
 term of his Senior year (1855), when he left college and 
 began the study of law in Hudson, removing shortly after 
 to the city of New York, and completing his preparation 
 in the office of Hon. Ambrose L. Jordan. 
 
 Upon admission to practice he was retained by Mr. 
 Jordan in his office, and was subsequently received by him 
 as a partner in business. For several years he practised 
 in this connection with superior success, possessing special 
 aptitudes for his profession and many influential clients. 
 At one time he had the entire business of the Singer 
 Sewing-Machine Company. 
 
 About 1862 he gave up his practice in New York and 
 opened an office in Hudson, where he remained until his 
 death in December, 1865. He was unmarried. 
 
 Daniel Dewey, of Boston, Mass., oldest son of Judge 
 Daniel N. and Eliza [Hubbell] Dewey, was born at Wil- 
 liamstown, his parents' home, March 3d, 1834. His father 
 was for many years the Treasurer of Williams College, as 
 well as one of its Trustees. 
 
 The subject of this notice is cousin of Hons. F. H. and 
 C. A. and Dr. George C. Dewey and of C. B. Hubbell 
 (see Index). 
 
 He was fitted for college at South Williamstown and 
 at Williston Seminary, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 185 1, and was graduated in 1855. He then studied law 
 in his father's office, for nine years was engaged in 
 practice in Williamstown, and during most of that time 
 was Secretary of the college's Board of Trustees. Since 
 
185 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 185 
 
 then he has been engaged in business in Boston as a com- 
 mission merchant in wool. 
 
 In 1 864 and '65 Mr. Dewey was a member of the Legis> 
 lature of Massachusetts. On the 28th April, 1864, he mar- 
 ried Mary A. Adams, of North Chelmsford, Mass., and by 
 this marriage he has had four children, of whom two, a 
 son and a daughter, born in 1879, ^^^ twins. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 169 Congress Street. 
 
 Commencement, 1855. A.M. in course. 
 
 * John Foot, of Geneva, N. Y., son of Hon. Samuel 
 A. and Jane [Campbell] Foot, was born, the oldest of a 
 large family of children, in New York City, then his 
 parents' place of residence, April 30th, 1835. His father, 
 an eminent lawyer, of the firm of Foot & Davies, was sub- 
 sequently a distinguished member of the Court of Appeals, 
 the highest judicatory in the State. His brother Alfred 
 was a member of our Society at Union in 1858. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college in 
 New York, principally at the University Grammar SchooL 
 He entered Williams, as Freshman, in September, 185 1, 
 and was graduated in 1855 with an oration on ''Earnest 
 Men." Immediately afterward he began the study of 
 law in New York, in the office of William E. Curtis, Esq., 
 and in December, 1856, was admitted to the bar and began 
 practice. 
 
 In the spring of 1861 he decided, for the sake of his 
 health, to settle in Red Wing, Minn., and was admitted to 
 practice in the courts of that State. Upon the call of the 
 President, soon after, for volunteers, he organized a com^ 
 pany (I, Second Minn. Vols.), of which he was commis- 
 sioned captain by Governor Ramsay. His regiment went 
 into service in Kentucky in October following, took an 
 active part in the winter campaign, and on the 19th of 
 January, 1862, shared in the battle and victory of Mill 
 Spring. On the 29th of the same month Captain Foot 
 
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 was ordered to Minnesota on recruiting service ; but his 
 health rapidly declining, he tendered his resignation, and 
 left the State to return to his father's residence in Geneva, 
 which he reached on the ist of March, only to expire on 
 the 13th of the same month, at the age of twenty -six. 
 His funeral took place and his remains were interred at 
 Geneva, on the afternoon of Sunday, March 17th, 1862. 
 
 His easy manner, amiable disposition, mental ability, 
 and fine personal appearance made him a very attractive 
 young man. His father wrote of him to Governor Ram- 
 say : *' It is consolatory to me that the life of my son has 
 been of some service to our country. He was able to do 
 his part, with the brave regiment of which he was a 
 member, at the battle of Mill Spring, where the lines of 
 the rebels were first broken. Had his life been spared, 
 his good education, high qualifications for his profession, 
 sound moral principles, and gentlemanly manners would 
 have made him an ornament to the bar and State of Min- 
 
 Biographical Annals, 
 Commencement, 1855. 
 
 1852. 
 
 Egbert Henry Fairchild, of Peekskill, N. Y., son 
 of Egbert N. and Julia E. [Strong] Fairchild, — natives 
 respectively of Great Harrington, Mass., and Catskill, 
 N. Y., — was born at Ogdensburg, N. Y., his parents' home, 
 September 4th, 1833. A sister of his father was the wife 
 of the poet Bryant. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at 
 Great Barrington, entered WiUiams in the autumn of 
 1850, and was graduated in 1853. He then studied law 
 for a time, but without entering upon practice took up 
 mercantile pursuits. In 1858 removed to the city of 
 New York, where he became engaged, in company with 
 his father, in the construction of the new Central Park 
 reservoir, and has since been employed as contractor 
 
1852.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 187 
 
 upon similar works. Tn 1862 and '63 was secretary of a 
 transportation company, which ran the first line of steam 
 canal-boats, propellers, from Rome on the Erie Canal 
 to New York City. Was also secretary for about ten 
 years of the Hudson and Harlem River Canal Company, 
 the work undertaken by which, that of connecting the 
 Hudson and East rivers, is now in course of prosecution 
 by the U. S. Government. 
 
 Mr. Fairchild married, August 17th, 1863, Mary S., 
 daughter of Isaac Seymour, Esq., of New York, and by 
 this marriage he has nine children, seven sons and two 
 daughters. No deaths have occurred in his family. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1853. 
 
 Abraham Lansing, of Albany, N. Y., second son of 
 Christopher Y. and Caroline M. [Thomas] Lansing, and 
 brother of William Lansing (see Index), was born at AU 
 bany, his parents' home, February 27th, 1835. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Albany Academy, of which 
 lie is now a Trustee, entered Williams in 1852, at the be- 
 ginning of Sophomore year, and was graduated in 1855. 
 He then studied law in his father's office and in the Albany 
 Law School, in 1857 was admitted to the bar, and began 
 legal practice. A severe sickness in 1859 interfered con- 
 siderably with his business employments, but he continued 
 to pursue them until 1868, when he entered upon a series of 
 appointments to pubhc positions of importance. The first 
 of these, that of City Attorney, was followed the succeed- 
 ing year by that of Reporter to the Supreme Court of the 
 State. In this capacity Mr. Lansing prepared and pub- 
 lished seven volumes of reports before his resignation, 
 which occurred in 1873. In 1874 he was selected by Gov- 
 ernor Dix for the office of State Treasurer, as a substitute 
 for the incumbent, who was incapacitated for the discharge 
 of duty by sickness. This position was returned to the 
 latter upon his recovery a few months later. In 1876 fol- 
 lowed the appointment by the mayor, etc., of Corporation 
 
1 88 Biographical Record of the [1852. 
 
 Counsel, which was retained until 1878. Since then Mr. 
 Lansing has been occupied mainly with his private affairs. 
 In the summer of 1879 ^^ visited Europe for recreation, 
 and also as a delegate from the American Committee for 
 the Codification of the Law of Nations to a conference of 
 the general body, held in London. 
 
 Mr. Lansing married, November 26th, 1873, Catharine, 
 daughter of Peter Gansevoort, Esq., of Albany. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1854. Prest. Philotechnian. Com- 
 mencement, 1855. 
 
 * Isaac Bronson, of New York City, son of Dr. 
 Oliver and Joanna [Donaldson] Bronson, — the latter of a 
 North Carolina family, — and brother of Oliver Bronson, Jr. 
 (see Index), was born in New York, then his parents' resi- 
 dence, March 19th, 1835. During his early childhood his 
 father purchased a place near Hudson, which then became 
 the family home. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the 
 school of L. J. Dudley in Northampton, Mass., entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1852, and was graduated in 1856. 
 He then studied in the Albany Law School, from which 
 he received the degree of LL.B. in 1858. The same year 
 settled in New York and married Harriet, daughter of 
 J. Phillips Phenix, Esq., of that city. In 1864 Mrs. Bron- 
 son died at Baden, and in 1866 her survivor married Alice, 
 daughter of William Whetten, Esq., also of New York^ 
 who, with a daughter, survives her husband. 
 
 During the war Mr. Bronson served for a short time 
 as Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff of General 
 Sheridan in Virginia, where he met with a serious injury 
 to his ankle. This had a permanent effect upon his healtb 
 and laid the foundation for his subsequent decline. 
 
 In the winter of 1871-72 he went South for relief, but 
 never returned, dying of consumption at Aiken, S. C, on 
 March 26th of the latter year. 
 
 He was gifted with quickness of perception, fine con- 
 
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 versational powers, and a style of personal address which 
 won for him general admiration. With these were united 
 a warmth of heart and a depth of social affection which 
 gained him many ardent friends. 
 
 Obituary Record^ 1874-75, in part. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1854. 
 
 Daniel Campbell, of Madison, Wis., was born at 
 Schenectady, N. Y., his parents' home, July 9th, 1836. He 
 was fitted for college at Hempstead, L. I., College Hill, 
 Poughkeepsie, and the Mills' school at South Williams- 
 town ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1852, and re- 
 mained until the expiration of Junior year, when he left, 
 intending to complete his course at Union. Instead of 
 doing this he entered the law-office of Smith & Mitchell, 
 in Schenectady, where he remained until of age. In 1857 
 was admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership for 
 practice in Schenectady, which lasted until i860. In that 
 year he removed to Wisconsin and settled in Madison. 
 Since leaving the East has never engaged actively in pro- 
 fessional practice, but has devoted his attention to mer- 
 cantile affairs and to business in real estate. His present 
 residence, known as Meadow Lawn Farm, is about a mile 
 from the city of Madison and adjoins the grounds of the 
 Wisconsin State Agricultural Society and those of the 
 State University. Here he is occupied in agricultural pur- 
 suits. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Campbell married Mary L. Brooks, of 
 Madison. (1880.) 
 
 1853. 
 
 * Anthony Thornton Hall, of Shelbyville, 111., 
 second son of Rev. J. W. and Catherine [Thornton] Hall, 
 was born at Gallatin, Tenn., January 22d, 1834. His father 
 was for a number of years President of Miami University, 
 
190 Biographical Record of the [1853. 
 
 and subsequently, in 1840, settled at Dayton, O., where 
 the subject of this notice was fitted for college. He en- 
 tered Williams at the beginning of Sophomore year, 185 1, 
 and was graduated in 1854, after which he studied law in 
 Dayton, and, upon admission to practice, settled in Shelby- 
 ville, as partner with his uncle, Judge Thornton. Here he 
 remained until his death, which occurred, after a sickness 
 of only one week, on the 24th of November, 1872. 
 
 Mr. Hall was a useful and highly respected member of 
 the community in which he lived. " For seven years he 
 had been Superintendent of Schools, and his resignation 
 of that position had been refused. For fifteen years he 
 had been one of the town's most prominent, faithful, hon- 
 orable, and successful lawyers. In every relation of life 
 he was the same genial, affable, true, high-minded gentle- 
 man, with more of nobility and less frailty than is com- 
 mon to man, with countless friends and no personal 
 enemies. He died leaving to his aged father and mother, 
 and to an only brother and sister, that precious legacy, an 
 untarnished name." 
 
 A meeting of the bar, of which he was a member, was 
 held on Sunday, the day of his death, in the largest church 
 in town, which was filled to its utmost capacity by an 
 audience desirous of uniting in the proceedings. The 
 funeral ceremonies were largely attended. In describing 
 them the Shelbyville Leader of November 28th said : 
 
 ** No death ever occurred in this community causing 
 such general grief. Large numbers of people from town 
 and country ; pubhc schools closed for the occasion, and 
 their hundreds of pupils in procession ; business-men who 
 had closed their shops, offices, and stores ; old and young, 
 from far and near — all, while the bells of the city tolled, 
 united in forming a funeral pageant greater than our city 
 ever witnessed." ^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ jg^^_^5_ 
 
 Commencement, 1854. 
 
 * Robert Jackson, of Newark, N. J., son of James 
 
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 and Grace Jackson, was born at Cambridge, Washington. 
 County, N. Y., his parents' home, November 21st, 1834. 
 He was fitted for college at Cambridge Seminary, en~ 
 tered Williams at the beginning of Junior year in the fall 
 of 1852, and graduated in 1854 with the JEsthetical Ora- 
 tion. During a part of his course he was Principal of the 
 Academy at Northfield, Mass. After graduating he 
 studied law at the Albany Law School, and in October, 
 1856, was admitted to practice in the city of New York, 
 where he settled in business, and being a sound and able 
 lawyer was successful in many important suits. He took 
 no active part in the war, but his entire influence was 
 given to the support of the government. 
 
 His decease was sudden and unexpected. He had been 
 suffering for a short time from a cold, and was taken ill in 
 the night ; a physician was sent for, who prescribed, and 
 assured the family that the patient was in no immediate 
 danger ; but about an hour later, at three o'clock in the 
 morning of July 23d, 1877, he peacefully expired. His 
 disease was congestion of the lungs. 
 
 Mr. Jackson was a man of strong and marked charac- 
 ter, whose direct, straightforward honesty made him fully 
 trusted by all who knew him. He was a sound thinker 
 and a good writer, possessing a decided taste for litera- 
 ture ; and although somewhat inclined to reticence, was 
 popular in college and generally liked and respected. He 
 was unmarried. 
 
 Editor Williams Quarterly. Valedictory, Adelphic 
 Un., 1854. ^sthetical, Commencement, 1854. Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Rev. John Tatlock, Jr., of Hoosac Falls, Rensse- 
 laer County, N. Y., second son of James and Jane Tat- 
 lock, was born in Liverpool, Eng., his parents' home, 
 January 29th, 1835. He is the nephew of Prof. John,, 
 brother of Rev. Dr. William, and father of the third John, 
 and of Seymour W. Tatlock (see Index). 
 
192 Biographical Record of the [1853. 
 
 Having lost his parents, the one in 1846 and the other 
 in the year following, the subject of this sketch sailed for 
 the United States in 1850, and became a member of his 
 uncle's family in Williamstown. Was fitted for college in 
 Hinsdale by Rev. I. N. Lincoln, afterwards Professor of 
 Latin in Williams, entered the same college in 1852, as 
 Freshman, and was graduated in 1856 with the Mathe- 
 matical Oration, on the subject " Seven." He then studied 
 theology at Auburn Seminary, was licensed to preach by 
 the Presbytery of Cayuga in 1858, and in December of the 
 same year married Lucy B., daughter of Seymour Whit- 
 man, Esq., of Williamstown, 
 
 In 1859 M^- Tatlock was settled over the Congrega- 
 tional church in South Adams, with which he remained 
 for seven years. After a year spent with the Woodside 
 Presbyterian church, Troy, N. Y., he accepted a call 
 from the Presbyterian church in Hoosac Falls, of which he 
 is still in charge. 
 
 He has had six children, one of whom is deceased ; two 
 sons, now in Williams, follow their father, uncle, and great- 
 uncle in the same Society connection. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1855. Editor Williams Quarterly, 1856. 
 Mathematical, Commencement, 1856. Master's Oration, 
 1859. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Franklin Noble, of Washington, D. C, 
 son of Rev. Mason and Ann C. [Pleasants] Noble, — the 
 former a native of Williamstown, graduate of and tutor in 
 the college, and since, for many years, Chaplain in the 
 U. S. Navy, — was born in Washington, his parents' place 
 of residence, August 25th, 1837. He is cousin of Adair 
 Pleasants (see Index). 
 
 Entered WiUiams at the beginning of Sophomore year, 
 September, 1853, and was graduated in 1856. Studied 
 theology in Union Seminary, New York, was graduated 
 there in 1861, and ordained in Sandusky, O., April 30th, 
 1862. Was installed June loth, 1865, over the Congrega- 
 
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 tional church in Torringford, Conn., and on the ist De- 
 cember, 1866, took charge of the Atlantic Avenue Mission, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., which he organized into the Church of 
 the Covenant, becoming its pastor upon its constitution in 
 March, 1868. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Noble joined the staff of revisers engaged 
 upon the American Encyclopaedia, under the direction 
 of Dr. George Ripley, in New York, carrying his occu- 
 pation as such along with the management of his church 
 until June, 1874, when he resigned the latter, and was sub- 
 sequently for some time wholly in the editorial work. In 
 April, 1875, was installed pastor of the Presbyterian 
 church in Hempstead, N. Y., which charge he recently 
 resigned with the intention of spending a year in foreign 
 travel. 
 
 Mr. Noble married, in 1862, Emma M. Prime, of New 
 York. By this marriage he has had a son and five daugh- 
 ters ; one of the latter is deceased. (Nov., 1880.) 
 
 Mr. Noble some years since discontinued the use of 
 his first name. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1855. 
 
 *JOHN Lamberton, of Ware, Mass., second son of 
 John E. and Sarah [Dunbar] Lamberton, was born at 
 Ware, his parents' birthplace and home, February nth, 
 1835. The second and third names, Eddy Dunbar, origin- 
 ally given him he discarded, with the consent of the family, 
 by legal process, finding them cumbersome. 
 
 Committed to his mother's care by the death of his 
 father, which occurred before the birth of this son, he was 
 ever warmly devoted to her. Upon her second marriage, 
 in 1 841, the family removed to Holyoke, Mass., where 
 John commenced the study of Latin, while engaged as 
 clerk in a store. Encouraged by educated friends, he de- 
 voted his little patrimony to securing an education for 
 himself, saying, ** Money invested in my brain will be 
 safe." 
 
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194 Biographical Record of the [1853. 
 
 After spending two years in Williston Seminary, he 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1852, and in 
 1856 was graduated with the Salutatory Oration. 
 
 Soon after, being invited by gentlemen from New Eng- 
 land to go to Philadelphia and take charge of a school in 
 that city, he did so. But the constitution which he inher- 
 ited was not robust ; his elder only brother had died in 
 youth ; his own health had been too heavily taxed and was 
 breaking down, so that he was compelled to rehnquish 
 this undertaking. Before leaving Philadelphia he decided 
 to give up his original intention of studying law, and to 
 enter the ministry ; and in the mean time he returned to 
 Springfield, then the family home, for rest and recupera- 
 tion, if attainable. But his health continued steadily to 
 decHne until his decease, which occurred upon the 28th 
 of June, 1857. 
 
 During his illness his resignation found expression m 
 words like these : " I have desired, struggled to live. I 
 have consecrated my life to God and his service, and do 
 not doubt my acceptance through Christ's righteousness. 
 I shall soon die. I cheerfully give up all. Thy will be 
 done. He loves me, and doeth all things well." He spoke 
 of the Society, to which he was warmly devoted, and ex- 
 pressed the desire that all its members should be men of 
 honor and purity. '' And, remembering gratefully all his 
 friends, instructors, physicians, and his own family, in great 
 debility of body, but with his mind clear and filled with 
 abundant peace, this lovely and gifted young man left the 
 scenes of life to be forever with the Lord, who had need 
 of him." 
 
 His mother relates that during his illness, speaking in 
 whispers through feebleness, he said, giving her his badge,. 
 " Wear this key, mother, as a keepsake from me while you 
 live, and have it finally returned to the Society." " This,'" 
 she adds, " will be done ; and should you ever meet an old 
 lady of seventy, erect in form, with white hair, wearing 
 the key, for the memory of him who wore the same, give 
 me your hand." 
 
 During his college course the subject of this sketch 
 
J 853'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 195 
 
 won the high approbation of the Faculty in all respects ; 
 he was considered by the President "a credit to his class 
 and to the college ;" while his personal friends, who recall 
 his tall and slender figure, attractive face, modest bearing, 
 and warm yet delicate manner, together with the many 
 qualities of mind and heart which endeared him to them, 
 will ever unite in saying, " Very pleasant hast thou been 
 unto me." 
 
 Greek Oration, Junior Ex., 1855. Valedictory, Adel- 
 phic Un. Ex., 1856; subject, " Plato." Salutatory, Com- 
 mencement, 1856. 
 
 Rev. William Tatlock, D.D., of Stamford, Conn., old- 
 est son of James and Jane Tatlock, was born in Liverpool, 
 Eng., his parents' home, May 26th, 1833. He is the brother 
 of Rev. John, nephew of Prof. John, and uncle of John 
 and Seymour W. Tatlock (see Index). 
 
 Was educated in part in the Liverpool Collegiate 
 School, of which Conybeare and Howson were respec- 
 tively Principal and Vice-Principal, but after his parents* 
 death followed his brother, in 1852, to the United States, 
 and came to reside with his uncle in Williamstown. In 
 the autumn of the following year he entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, and in 1857 was graduated with the Philosoph- 
 ical Oration. During his course he assisted in maintaining 
 services in one or more struggHng Episcopal churches in 
 the neighborhood, and at its close entered the General 
 Theological Seminary, of that denomination, in New York, 
 from which he was graduated in i860. Was ordained 
 Deacon, December 21st, 1859, and Priest, November nth, 
 i860, by Bishop Potter of New York: For nearly a year 
 was Assistant to Rev. Dr. Geer at St. Timothy's, New 
 York, and in November, i860, became Rector of St. John's, 
 North Adams, while his brother was settled in the South- 
 ern division of the same town. In 1862 became Assistant 
 Minister, and in 1864 Associate Rector, of St. Peter's, Al- 
 bany, and in May, 1866, Rector of St. John's, Stamford, 
 
196 Biographical Record of the [1853. 
 
 where he has since remained, notwithstanding urgent calls 
 to other important parishes. 
 
 Dr. Tatlock has been Archdeacon of Fairfield since 
 1877. Is a member of the Standing Committee of the 
 Diocese of Connecticut, Trustee of Trinity College and 
 of the General Theological Seminary, and Assistant Sec- 
 retary of the House of Bishops. In 1878 he received the 
 degree of D.D. from Union College. 
 
 He married, in 1868, Florence, oldest daughter of John 
 S. Perry, Esq., of Albany, and has had by this marriage 
 five children. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1856. Editor Williams Quarterly, 1857. 
 Philosophical, Commencement, 1857. A.M. in course. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. D.D., Union, 1878. 
 
 1854. 
 
 CarsWELL McClellan, of St. Paul, Minn., younger 
 brother of Surgeon Ely McClellan (p. 181), of the same 
 class, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., December 3d, 1835. 
 He was fitted for college in the private school of Rev. Dr. 
 S. Crawford, in that city, entered the Freshman class of 
 Williams in the fall of 185 1, and was graduated in 1855. 
 He immediately went West, and soon after began work as 
 a civil engineer, upon the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail- 
 road, in Missouri. In 1859 ^^ visited Brazil, and while 
 there was similarly employed on the Dom Pedro Railroad 
 and other like works. 
 
 He returned to the United States in time to join the 
 Army of the Potomac, of which his cousin, Gen. George 
 B. McClellan, was commander, in its movement upon 
 Yorktown, and was soon made Captain, and Assistant Ad- 
 jutant-General to General A. A. Humphreys, Chief Topo- 
 graphical Engineer, under whom he served in the Fifth 
 Corps at Fredericksburg, riding with him in the first as- 
 sault upon that city, when he led the last charge upon 
 Maryland Heights ; and for services on that occasion he 
 
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 subsequently received from Congress the brevet of Major. 
 At Gettysburg he was Chief of Staff to the same General 
 (then in command of the Second Division, Third Corps, 
 under Major-General Sickles), and was wounded on the 
 third day of the fight. For services in that great engage- 
 ment he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 He was attached at .different times to other commands ; 
 was finally captured at the occupation of the Weldon 
 Railroad near Petersburg, and, after a short confinement 
 in Libby Prison, paroled, upon which he resigned. After 
 the war he spent some three years in the oil country in 
 Pennsylvania ; then resumed engineering, and about ten 
 years since settled in Minnesota for work upon the North- 
 ern Pacific Railroad. 
 
 Mr. McClellan married, July 13th, 1868, Mrs. Annie 
 Davis Dewey, of CoUinsville, III, and he has had by this 
 marriage two sons and three daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. Lester Courtland Rogers, of Edgerton, Rock 
 County, Wis., son of Rev. Lester T.and Susan H. [Cran- 
 dall] Rogers, — the latter of Hopkinton, R. L, before mar- 
 riage, — was born at Waterford, Conn., his parents' place 
 of residence, December nth, 1829. He is a descendant, 
 in the tenth generation, of John Rogers, the Smithfield 
 martyr. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Alfred (N. Y.) Academy, 
 entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the fall of 1853, and 
 was graduated, with a poem entitled " The Trance," in 
 1856. 
 
 His father and grandfather having both been ministers 
 of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination, he devoted 
 himself to the same calling, and in the fall of 1857 entered 
 Rutgers Theological Seminary, from which he was grad- 
 uated in i860. His first settlement was at Newmarket, 
 N. J., in which he continued until the spring of 1868. Soon 
 after assuming this charge, he entered the Union army 
 under the President's call for nine months' volunteers, and 
 became Chaplain of the Twenty-ninth New Jersey. He 
 
198 Biographical Record of the [1854. 
 
 was called " the fighting Chaplain" from having first en- 
 listed in the ranks, and from his uniform practice of follow- 
 ing his regiment into the field. 
 
 His second settlement was at Leonardsville, N. Y., 
 where he remained until January, 1872, when he accepted 
 the charge of the college church in Milton (Wis.) College. 
 This connection continued until 1875, and throughout its 
 duration Mr. Rogers was busily engaged in additional 
 work, as president of various conferences and delegate to 
 meetings of similar bodies. He was often called upon, 
 likewise, to deliver discourses upon special occasions, a 
 number of which, together with other contributions from 
 his pen, have been published in the Sabbath Recorder, the 
 denominational organ. 
 
 In August, 1875, Mr. Rogers accepted an invitation 
 from the American Sabbath Tract Society to lecture on 
 the Sabbath question throughout the country, and he has 
 since been thus occupied in both the Eastern and Western 
 States. 
 
 On the 30th August, 1857, he married Josephine Wil- 
 cox, of Westerly, R. I., and by this marriage he has three 
 children. (1880.) 
 
 Poem, Sophomore Fourth of July Celebration, 1855. 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1855. Poem, Adelphic Union Ex., 
 1855. Commencement, 1856. A.M. in course. 
 
 Oliver Bronson, of Binghamton, N. Y., younger 
 brother of Isaac Bronson (p. 188), was born in the city 
 of New York, April 30th, 1837. Two years later his father 
 removed to Hudson, which thenceforward became for 
 many years his home. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the school of L. J. Dud- 
 ley, in Northampton, Mass., entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the autumn of 1854, and was graduated in 1858. 
 He then spent some time in the Harvard Law School, 
 from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1861, and 
 was subsequently admitted to the bar in New York. 
 
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 In the fall of 1865 he retired from practice, and accom- 
 panied his parents to Florida, his father being in failing 
 health and needing his presence. His residence there 
 was continued through a term of ten years, during which, 
 in the spring of 1870, occurred his marriage with Julia 
 F., daughter of George Colt, Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass. By 
 this marriage he has had two sons, of whom one is now 
 living. 
 
 In the summer of 1879 ^^^- Bronson purchased a resi- 
 dence and settled in Binghamton. (1880.) 
 
 * William Johnson Slidell, of Princeton, N. J., son 
 of Hon. Thomas Slidell, late Chief-Justice of Louisiana, 
 and cousin of Col. R. S. Mackenzie (see Index), was born 
 at New Orleans, La., in August, 1838, entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, in the fall of 1854, and remained until the 
 end of Sophomore year. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the civil war he obtained a 
 commission in the U. S. army as first lieutenant in one of 
 the new regiments of the regular infantry, and served with 
 much distinction in the Armies of the Cumberland and 
 the Potomac. In 1863 was commissioned Colonel of a 
 regiment of New York Volunteers, which he commanded 
 during the remainder of the war. At its close he re- 
 signed his commission and retired to civil life. " He 
 was remarkable for his gallant bearing, his singularly 
 attractive appearance, and his conspicuous courage ; 
 and he was very dear to all who knew him. Courtly, 
 witty, generous, and full of talents, he had a brilliant ca-^ 
 reer before him had he pursued his profession — the law ; 
 but fond of field-sports and devoted to his family, he pre- 
 ferred the less ambitious life of a country gentleman. 
 While preparing to take his family to Europe he became 
 ill, and died at Princeton," February 6th, 1881, " near the 
 old university of which his great-grandfather, the Rev. 
 Dr. Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration 
 of Independence, was so long the president. Its presi- 
 dent, ex-president, and professors joined with the other 
 
200 Biographical Record of the [1854. 
 
 prominent citizens of Princeton in paying the last honors 
 to this gallant soldier and accomplished gentleman." 
 
 He was buried beside his father in the Island Cemetery 
 at Newport. N, V. World, Feb. i2>ih, 1881. 
 
 Hon, James Etherington Trimble, ll.d., of Farmer- 
 ville, La., son of Samuel T. and Matilda E. [Appleton] Trim- 
 ble, was born at Bridgewater, Pa., February 22d, 1834. 
 
 He was fitted for college by a private tutor at Alle- 
 gheny City, Pa., entered Williams in September, 1853, as 
 Freshman, and was graduated in 1857. ^^ then went to 
 Iowa and commenced the study of law. In 1859 ^^ be- 
 came President of Farmerville Female College, and he 
 so continued until 1862, when he entered the Confederate 
 army, and was assigned to duty as military engineer, with 
 rank of First Lieutenant of Cavalry. Was subsequently 
 transferred to the Assistant Adjutant-General's depart- 
 ment as Chief of Staff, with acknowledged rank of Ma- 
 jor, to General D. Provence. But " before, throughout, 
 and since the war has been a Union man," and cast the 
 only Republican vote in his parish, in 1868, for General 
 Grant. 
 
 After the close of the war he resumed his legal studies, 
 and in 1866 was admitted to the bar of Louisiana. In 
 1872 was elected Judge of the Eleventh District of the 
 State, and for the four ensuing years he held that position. 
 It was during this time that he performed the most con- 
 spicuous act of his life by imprisoning a U. S. officer for 
 refusing to recognize a writ of habeas corpus. This was 
 done by way of " vindicating the supremacy of the civil 
 over military authority in time of peace," and is said to 
 have been the first act of the kind in the history of the 
 country. 
 
 In 1859 Judge Trimble received the degree of .LL.D. 
 from Mount Lebanon (La.) University. 
 
 He is now engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 Has been a leading member of the Masonic Order. 
 
 In 1858 married, at Washington, Ark., Laura C. Bart- 
 
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 lett, of Williamstown, who died in i860, leaving a son. 
 By his second marriage, which took place November 
 15th, 1 861, with Isabella Hunger, of Rutland, Vt, he has 
 six children. (1880.) 
 
 President Philotechnian. Commencement, 1857." A.M. 
 in course. LL.D., Mt. Leb. Univ., 1859. 
 
 James Hugh Peters, of Englewood, N. J., son of 
 Rev. Dr. Absalom Peters, who was for many years pastor 
 of the Congregational church in Williamstown and a 
 Trustee of the college, and Mrs. Harriet H. [Hatch) 
 Peters, — a resident before marriage of Norwich, Vt., — 
 was born in the city of New York, then his parents' place 
 of residence, November 13th, 1837. He accompanied his 
 father to Williamstown in 1844, and was fitted for college 
 in the town schools. Entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1854, but left July ist, 1856, just before the close 
 of his Sophomore year, and immediately after settled ia 
 New York, entering the house of Booth & Edgar, sugar- 
 refiners, of which firm he afterwards became a member. 
 
 On the 1st February, 1868, he married Mary A., daugh- 
 ter of his senior partner, William A. Booth, Esq., and by 
 this marriage he has had three sons, one of whom is de- 
 ceased, and a daughter. In 1868 he removed his residence 
 to Englewood, where he takes an active part in Sabbath- 
 school and other work in the church of his brother-in-law,. 
 Rev. Dr. H. M. Booth. 
 
 Mr. Peters served our Society very effectively and ac- 
 ceptably in connection with the erection of its new House 
 in Williamstown, towards the accomplishment of which 
 his labors as a member of the Building Committee largely 
 contributed. 
 
 During the present year Mr. Peters has withdrawn 
 from the business in which he was long engaged, and be- 
 come a member of the New York Stock Exchange, in 
 which he represents the firm of Hatch & Peters, bankers. 
 
 In 1873 he was restored to the roll of his class (1858) 
 
202 Biographical Record of the [1854. 
 
 upon receiving the degree of A.B. from the college. That 
 of A.M. followed. (1881.) 
 
 Address, No. 25 Pine Street. 
 
 Samuel McCoskry Cleveland, m.d., of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., oldest son of Professor Charles D. and Alison [Nis- 
 bet] Cleveland, and brother of Tread well Cleveland (see 
 Index), was born in Philadelphia, December 7th, 1837. 
 
 He was fitted for college by his father, a well-known 
 educator, author, and philanthropist, and at Phillips Acad- 
 emy, Andover ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1854, 
 and was graduated in 1858 with the Metaphysical Oration. 
 Returning home, he at first opened a school in the city 
 for boys, but soon after accepted the position of Profes- 
 sor of English Literature and Rhetoric in the University 
 of Pennsylvania. In 1875 he retired from his professor- 
 ship and entered upon a course of study at the Philadel- 
 phia Homoeopathic Medical College, from which he was 
 duly graduated ; and since then he has been engaged in 
 practice according to that school. 
 
 Dr. Cleveland married, August 14th, 1879, Julia Con- 
 over, of Freehold, N. J. 
 
 Address, No. 252 South Twenty-first Street. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1856. Junior Ex., 1857. Meta- 
 physical, Commencement, 1858. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 1855. 
 
 William Lansing, of Albany, N. Y., younger brother 
 of Abraham Lansing (p. 187), was born at Albany, March 
 20th, 1837. 
 
 He w^as fitted for college at Albany Academy and 
 under tutors ; also in part at Stockbridge and South 
 WiUiamstown. Entered Williams, at the beginning of 
 
1 855-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 203 
 
 second term Sophomore, in the winter of 1855, and was 
 graduated in 1857. ^^ then studied law in Albany, was 
 duly admitted, and has ever since been engaged in legal 
 practice there, for a number of years in partnership with 
 his brother above named. During a part of this time he 
 has held the position of Master and Examiner in the U. S. 
 Supreme Court. 
 
 Mr. Lansing married, October 17th, 1867, Caroline A., 
 -daughter of Robert McClellan, Esq., of Hudson, N. Y., 
 and by this marriage he has had two sons and two daugh- 
 ters, of whom a son and a daughter are deceased. (1881.) 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1856. Commencement, 1857. 
 
 Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, of Vernon, Conn., 
 •son of Elijah and Esther [Griswold] Hammond, was born 
 :at Ellington, Conn., September ist, 1831. At the age of 
 seven he removed with the family to Vernon, which has 
 ever since been his home. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary and 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1854, and was graduated in 1858. He 
 then began the study of theology in Union Theological 
 Seminary, New York ; after two years spent in that insti- 
 tution crossed the Atlantic, and continued his course in 
 the Seminary of the Free Church of Scotland, in Edin- 
 burgh. While thus engaged he received an invitation to 
 hold meetings in the vacant church of a village near by, 
 and his success in that work, which resulted in a great re- 
 ligious awakening, led him to devote himself to the pro- 
 fession of an evangelist. He was invited to other neigh- 
 boring fields. Immense audiences were attracted to his 
 iservices, which were held in the churches of the large 
 cities, as well as in public halls and in the open air, where 
 they were attended by thousands who would not enter 
 the churches. 
 
 After two years thus spent he returned to the United 
 States, and for the ensuing five continued his labors in 
 
204 Biographical Record of the [1S55, 
 
 his peculiar method throughout the New England and 
 Middle States. This method may be said to consist in. 
 frequent meetings, some for preaching and others special- 
 ly for prayer and private personal appeal, in simple, 
 familiar, and colloquial, but earnest, discourses, dealing 
 largely in anecdote and illustration ; in the free use of 
 hymns and music, printed pledges and leaflets, and like 
 means calculated to make an immediate impression. 
 
 After five years of this work Mr. Hammond visited 
 Palestine, and subsequently spent many months in Great 
 Britain, preaching daily for sixteen weeks in London 
 alone, part of the time in Rev. Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle,, 
 to immense audiences. Since his return he has labored 
 extensively from Canada and the shores of Lake Erie to 
 Texas and to the Pacific coast, and he is still engaged 
 wherever specially called. During the past winter his 
 work has been in Manitoba, and thence homeward through 
 Canada. Much of his effort is directed towards the con- 
 version of children, in which he very thoroughly believes. 
 Extensive revivals have usually attended his services. In 
 the city of St. Louis alone over seven thousand persons 
 are said to have been added recently to the churches as 
 the fruit, under Providence, of his labors. 
 
 During the last twenty years he has thus been at work 
 in many parts of the world, and he is still ready to go on. 
 It is his practice to recruit during the summer season at 
 his pleasant home in Vernon, and to give the winter more 
 especially to his work. In connection with this he has 
 written a number of religious books which have been ex- 
 tensively circulated. 
 
 Mr. Hammond married, in 1866, Eliza Overton, of 
 Towanda, Pa., great-granddaughter of George Clymer^ 
 one of the signers of the Declaration. He says : '' We 
 have no olive-plants. If we had, I should desire all the 
 boys to be sons of old K. A. The influence of the Society 
 upon me in college was only beneficial." (March, 1881.) 
 
 Commencement, 1858; subject, "Experience as an 
 Element in Oratory." A. M. in course. 
 
1 855-1 Kappa Alpha in Wtlltams. 205 
 
 Rev. Robert Meech, class of 1858, Allegheny City, 
 
 Pa. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1857. Valedictory, Adelphic Un. 
 Ex., 1858. A.M., Trinity, 1867. 
 
 Walter De Forest Day, m.d., of New York City, son 
 of Samuel S. and Catharine A. [De Forest] Day, and 
 older brother of Orrin and J. S. Day (see Index), was 
 born at Catskill, N. Y., his parents* home, October 26th, 
 1835. Was fitted for college at the school of Tutor Swan 
 in Williamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1855, 
 and was graduated in 1859. ^^ then studied medicine at 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 
 City, at which he was graduated. During the first year of 
 the war Dr. Day served as medical cadet in the U. S. army. 
 He then settled in New York for practice, and in 1869 
 became Professor of Materia Medica and Botany in the 
 New York College of Pharmacy. In 1873 was appointed 
 Superintendent of the New York Board of Health, which 
 position he still holds. 
 
 He married, September 9th, 1869, Sarah E. Wheeler, 
 and by this marriage he has had three children, two of 
 whom are now living. (Dec, 1879.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1856. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1858. Com- 
 mencement, 1859. 
 
 Edwin Harris Darling, of Boston, Mass., son of Hon. 
 Timothy and Lucy [Harris] Darling, both of Calais, Me., 
 and oldest brother of Rev. Dr. T. G. and S. W. Darling (see 
 Index\ was born at Calais, January 28th, 1839. ^^^ father 
 being soon after appointed U. S. Consul at Nassau, New 
 Providence, he was taken to that island and fitted for col- 
 lege in part at Nassau. His preparation was completed 
 at Hudson, N. Y., and he entered Williams, as Freshman, 
 in the fall of 1855, graduating in 1859 ^^^^^^ ^" Honorary 
 
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 oration. He studied law with Hon. G. F. Shepley, of 
 Portland, Me., was admitted to the New York bar in the 
 spring of 1861, and has since practised in New York City 
 and in Boston, although out of the profession for about 
 three years, during part of which time he was editor of 
 the Charlestown (Mass.) Chronicle. He is at present Bail 
 Commissioner of Suffolk County and Secretary of the 
 Williams Alumni Association of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Darling married, November 28th, 1863, JuHa F. 
 Kinney, of Cincinnati, O., and has had by this marriage 
 two children, one of whom, a daughter, is now living. 
 (1880.) 
 
 Address, 13 Court Square. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1858. Adelphic Union Ex., 1859. Honor- 
 ary Or., Commencement, 1859. P^i Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 1856. 
 
 * John Freligh Platt, of Plattsburg, N. Y., son of 
 Moss Kent and Elizabeth T. [Freligh] Platt, was born at 
 Plattsburg, November 19th, 1837. His great-grandfather 
 was one of the original proprietors of that town, which 
 was named in honor of him. His maternal grandmother 
 was the only sister of Chancellor Kent, of New York. 
 
 The subject of this sketch entered Williams College, 
 as Sophomore, in the fall of 1853, ^t the age of fifteen; 
 but, failing in health, returned home after an unusually 
 promising beginning of his proposed course. Two years 
 of active out-door life restored him to vigor, and he re- 
 turned to college, joining the class of 1858. But a severe 
 cold, taken in the spring of 1857 while watching with a 
 brother student who was ill, and kept from the knowledge 
 of his family friends, laid the foundation of the fatal dis- 
 ease, consumption, which terminated his life, at home, 
 February 25th, 1858. 
 
 Funeral services were held on the 28th, at the First 
 
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 Presbyterian Church, in the course of which a ser- 
 mon was preached by Rev. Dr. Coit of the Episcopal 
 Church, who said of the deceased : " There was in him 
 such purity of heart, such delicacy of sentiment, such re- 
 finement of taste, such tenderness of spirit, blended with 
 a true manliness, unwavering faithfulness, an earnest pur- 
 pose to be and do something in the world, and an indomi- 
 table energy and perseverance, all beautified by grace," 
 that " were I to attempt to portray the many virtues and 
 amiable qualities of our young friend, the picture would 
 fall far below the reality in the eyes of those who knew 
 him best and loved him most." " It was a beautiful sight 
 to see this youth, with so much to make life desirable, re- 
 linquish all, not doggedly because he could not help him- 
 self, but cheerfully, gladly. It was a good sight to see 
 how manfully he bore himself, and yet how humbly. It 
 was good to witness the sweet peace, the holy calm, the 
 almost rapturous joy, with which he met death. And 
 this was not nature, it was Jesus with him." 
 
 The Plattsburg Journal commemorated the sad event 
 in similar terms: ''The Christian hope which dawned 
 upon his childhood fully sustained him now, and enabled 
 him to cheer and comfort the mourners around him. 
 Calm and peaceful to the last, he took an affectionate 
 leave of all near to him, and then, as vision and hearing 
 failed, with a clear, audible, twice-repeated Amen, he 
 passed away. We may not speak of the desolated house- 
 hold at his paternal home, nor of that noble and manly 
 beauty, nor of the cherished hopes which have gone 
 down with it to the tomb ; but by faith in Him who is 
 the Resurrection and the Life we say, ' Blessed are the 
 dead who die in the Lord.' " 
 
 The peculiar characteristics of this young broth- 
 er's mind were great force of will, indomitable resolu- 
 tion, and unconquerable perseverance. It was not his 
 habit to accept an opinion or believe a proposition 
 without sifting it to its foundation ; nor to enter upon a 
 subject without giving it a thorough examination. He 
 was extremely reserved, except with his intimate friends,. 
 
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 .and sedulous in the avoidance of display and publicity. 
 His taste was for literary pursuits, through which he 
 hoped to exert an extended influence. Few men of twice 
 his years have read as much or digested what they have 
 read as carefully as he had done. His conversation dur- 
 ing his illness was often brilliant, embracing a wide range 
 of topics, the politics of the day, science, poetry, religion, 
 and amusing anecdote, so as to cause his friends to won- 
 der where he had gathered such a fund of information. 
 
 His natural habit of mind led him, when he found that 
 his recovery was improbable, to look calmly at the subject 
 of death and to examine into his hopes for the life here- 
 after. To the settlement of his belief in the vital truths 
 of religion he addressed the full force of his intellect, 
 .shutting himself up for days together while thus engaged, 
 and resting his whole soul at length upon Christ without 
 a shadow of doubt or a cloud of despondency, until he 
 passed away into the eternal world, with the words, 
 ^' Precious Jesus, Amen," lingering on his dying lips. 
 
 Cominunicated. 
 
 Leonidas William Morss, of Ledge Dale, Wayne Co., 
 Pa., son of Burton G. and Caroline A. Morss, was born at 
 Red Falls, N. Y., his parents' residence, January 17th, 
 1838. He was fitted for college at Davenpoi't and Pratts- 
 ville, N. Y., and at Glendale, Mass., entered Williams, 
 September, 1856, as Freshman, and was graduated in i860. 
 He has been ever since engaged in the business of tanning 
 and in farming. Married, October i8th, 1866, Minnie E. 
 Morss, of Carbondale, Pa., and has had by this marriage 
 five children, four of whom are now living. Within a 
 few years Mr. Morss has removed to his present residence, 
 x:ontinuing in the same business as before. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. Joseph William Hyde, of Stamford, Conn., son 
 of Joseph Hyde— a graduate of Williams and brother of 
 Alex. Hyde (p. 14) — and of Catharine M. [McEwen] 
 
1856.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 209 
 
 Hyde, was born in New York City, then his parents' 
 place of residence, December 4th, 1839. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the Collegiate School of 
 Forest and Welling in New York, entered Williams in 
 1856, not long after his father's removal to Sheffield, Mass., 
 and was graduated in i860 with the ^sthetical Oration. 
 In the autumn of the same year he became assistant in 
 Kenwood School, New Brighton, Pa., where he remained 
 until the spring of 1862, when he removed to Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., and with his father took charge of a private school 
 in that city, at the same time becoming a candidate for 
 orders in the Episcopal Church, and pursuing theological 
 studies. He was ordained deacon in April, 1865, by 
 Bishop Potter of New York, and in August following 
 took charge of St. Stephen's, North Castle, and St. Mark's^ 
 New Castle, Westchester County, N. Y., residing at Aro- 
 nock. In November following was ordained priest. In: 
 March, 1867, became assistant to Rev. Dr. Tatlock of St.. 
 John's, Stamford ; in March, 1871, rector of Christ 
 Church, Sharon, Conn., and in June, 1873, returned to 
 his former position at Stamford, becoming also minister- 
 in-charge of Emmanuel Church in the same place. 
 
 Mr. Hyde married, July 20th, 1865, Mary, daughter of 
 Addison Porter. Mrs. Hyde deceased in October, 1874, 
 leaving a son and two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1859. Prest. Philologian. Prest. Williams 
 Art Association. Editor Williams Quarterly, ^sthetical, 
 Commencement, i860. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 
 * George Clinton Dewey, m.d., of Northampton, 
 Mass., youngest brother of Hons. F. H. and C. A. Dewey, 
 and cousin of Daniel Dewey (see Index), was born at 
 Northampton, December 6th, 1840. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the High School and at 
 L. J. Dudley's private school in that town, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1856, and was graduated in i860. 
 He then studied medicine in an office in Northampton 
 
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 and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New- 
 York, from which he received his degree of M.D. in 1863. 
 Soon after, he entered Bellevue Hospital in the same city, 
 upon its medical staff, and after spending about six months 
 in study and practice in this position, was violently at- 
 tacked by typhus fever of virulent type, contracted 
 through exposure at the hospital. He succeeded with 
 difficulty in reaching home in an almost unconscious con- 
 dition, and died on the 17th of April, 1864. 
 
 Dr. Dewey gave great promise of excellence in his 
 profession, to which he was entirely devoted. As a man, 
 he was very sincere, honest, and straightforward, and as 
 a friend, genial, social, and unassuming ; in every way he 
 possessed the warm regard of his associates. 
 
 Commencement, i860. A.M. in course. 
 
 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, of the United States 
 army, son of Alexander Slidell and Catharine [Robinson] 
 Mackenzie, was born July 27th, 1840, in the city of New 
 York, his parents' place of residence. He is cousin of 
 William J. Slidell (p. 199). 
 
 Was fitted for college at Maurice's school. Sing Sing, 
 N. Y., entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1855, 
 and remained until the close of first term Junior in the 
 winter of 1858-59, when, having received appointment as 
 cadet in the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, he 
 entered that institution, from which he was graduated in 
 June, 1862. He was then promoted Second Lieutenant 
 of Engineers U.S.A. Served in the war of the rebeUion 
 as Assistant Engineer Seventh Army Corps, in Northern 
 Virginia campaign, being engaged at Kelly's Ford and at 
 Manassas, where he was wounded. For services in this 
 battle was brevetted First Lieutenant. Was engaged 
 in the Maryland and Rappahannock campaigns, in the 
 battle of Fredericksburg and in that of Chancellorsville 
 (May 2d-4th, '63), for services in which he was brevetted 
 Captain. For similar services at Gettysburg, the same 
 
1856.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 211 
 
 year, was brevetted Major, July 4th, 1863. Was much 
 engaged in the construction, repair, and grading of 
 bridges and like work as Captain in command of the 
 Engineer Corps, Army of the Potomac. Took part in 
 the battle of the Wilderness and the engagements about 
 Spottsylvania, and commanded a regiment in the Rich- 
 mond campaign, June, 1864, being again wounded at the 
 siege of Petersburg ; for services in which he was brevet- 
 ted Lieutenant-Colonel, June, 1864. July following was 
 engaged in the defence of the Capital, commanding a regi- 
 ment, and in August and the following months, in the 
 Shenandoah campaign, commanding a brigade at Ope- 
 quan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek (October 19th, 1864), 
 where he was again wounded and for a short time dis- 
 abled ; for gallant services in which engagement he was 
 brevetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers. At the siege 
 of Petersburg (December, 1864, to March, '65) was in 
 command of a brigade and subsequently of a cavalry divi- 
 sion, and on the 13th of the latter month was brevetted 
 Brigadier-General in the U. S. army for services in the field. 
 On the 31st of the same month was brevetted Major- 
 General of Volunteers for the same cause. In April fol- 
 lowing took part in the pursuit of Lee's army, capitula- 
 tion of Appomattox Court-House, and at Richmond, com 
 manding a cavalry division during the summer. In Jan- 
 uary, 1866, was mustered out of the Volunteer service, 
 after which he engaged as engineer U.S.A. until March 
 6th, 1867, when he was commissioned Colonel Forty-first 
 Infantry, U.S.A. Has of late been engaged in the South- 
 west as Colonel Fourth U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort 
 Garland, Col. During the present month the government, 
 having constituted the States of Arkansas and Louisiana 
 and the Indian Territory into the military department 
 of Arkansas, Col. Mackenzie has been assigned to this 
 command, "according to his brevet of Brigadier-General," 
 with headquarters at Little Rock. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Culloms Biog. Reg. Graduates of West Point, mainly. 
 
 Junior Ex., 1858 (appointment not fulfilled). A.B., 
 
212 Biographical Record of the [1856. 
 
 Williams, 1863, restoring to class roll, and followed by 
 A.M. 
 
 Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin, of New York 
 City, son of Rev. Nathan and Mary G. [Wheeler] Benja- 
 min, was born at Argos, Greece, February 13th, 1837. 
 His father, a graduate of Williams, and for many years 
 missionary of the American Board in Turkey and Greece, 
 was of Welsh descent, and a native of Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 The subject of this notice entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in 1855, and was graduated in 1859. ^^ then passed 
 three years in the State Library at Albany, N. Y., read 
 law, but did not enter upon practice, becoming engaged 
 in literary pursuits. In i860 published '* Constantinople, 
 the Isle of Pearls, and other Poems ;" in 1868, " The Turk 
 and the Greek ;" in 1869, '' Tom Roper ;" in 1870, " Choice 
 of Paris ;" in 1877, " Contemporary Art in Europe ;" 
 in 1878, "Atlantic Islands" and "Multitudinous Seas;" 
 in 1879, "The World's Paradises" and "Our American 
 Artists;" and in 1880, "Troy, its History, Legends, and 
 Literature." It is his usual method to illustrate his books 
 and articles, from his own designs, which have been found 
 to possess especial attractiveness. He has contributed 
 largely to the Atlantic, Scribners, Harper s, and other 
 monthlies, and to the North American Review; and his 
 articles are generally assigned to leading places. 
 
 In art he has furnished illustrations to the London Illus- 
 trated News and numerous other periodicals as well as 
 books, and since 1871 has painted professionally, and with 
 growing reputation, especially selecting marine subjects. 
 
 Mr. Benjamin is a member of the Boston Art and New 
 York Century clubs. He married, October 20th, 1863^ 
 Clara Stowell, who deceased in October of the present 
 year, leaving a daughter. (1880.) 
 
 Editor Williams Quarterly. First Prest. Williams Art 
 Association. A. M., (Honorary,) Williams, 1869. 
 
1 85 7'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 213 
 
 1857. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Henry Kellogg, d.d., of Allegheny City, 
 Pa., son of Rev. Samuel and Mary P. [Henry] Kellogg, — 
 the latter originally of Rutland, Mass., — was born at 
 Quogue (L. I.), N. Y., September 6th, 1839. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the school of Lewis Hard- 
 castle, Haverstraw, N. Y, ; entered Williams, as Freshman, 
 September, 1856; was obliged by ill health to leave in 
 April, 1857; remained out of college a year, entered 
 Princeton College in the last quarter of Freshman year, 
 April, 1858, and was graduated from that institution in 
 June, 1 86 1. In September following he entered Princeton 
 Seminary, in 1862 became Tutor in Mathematics in the col- 
 lege from which he had recently been graduated, and in 
 that position he remained until the close of 1863-64. In 
 April of the latter year completed his Seminary course 
 and was ordained at Hempstead, L. I., and in May follow- 
 ing married Antoinette W. Hartwell, of Montrose, Pa. 
 
 In December, 1865, Mr. Kellogg sailed for India as a 
 missionary of the Presbyterian Board, and upon* arrival 
 was stationed at Futtehgurh, North India. In 1871 he 
 revisited America, and in 1872 returned to India and 
 settled at Allahabad. On the 4th March, 1876, Mrs. 
 Kellogg died, and in June following the subject of this 
 notice returned permanently to the United States. Early 
 in 1877 he was settled as pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
 Church, Pittsburg, Pa., and in July following was elected 
 Professor of Theology in the Western Theological Semi- 
 nary, Allegheny (in place of Rev. Dr. A. A. Hodge), his 
 present position. 
 
 Professor Kellogg has published essays in Hindustani, 
 in the magazine in that language printed at Allahabad ; in 
 English, in the Friend of India (Calcutta), Princeton Re- 
 view, Catholic Presbyterian (Edinburgh), and other religious 
 periodicals. In May, 1871, he published a "Grammar of 
 the Hindi Language" (London and Calcutta). Is corre- 
 sponding member of the American Oriental Society. 
 
214 Biographical Record of the [1857. 
 
 On the 20th of May, 1879, ^^' Kellogg married Sara 
 C. Macrum, of Pittsburg. By his first marriage he had 
 two sons and four daughters ; two of the latter have de- 
 ceased. (May, 1880.) 
 
 American Whig Society, Princeton. A.M., Princeton, 
 1864. D.D., Princeton, 1877. 
 
 Sidney Wood Cooper, of New York City, son of 
 Conrad Cooper, of Stillwater, N. Y., was born at Water- 
 ford, in the same State, March 4th, 1840. 
 
 He was fitted for college principally at Kinderhook 
 Academy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1856, and 
 was graduated in i860. He then entered the office of 
 Reynolds, Cochrane & Harris, in Albany, as student at 
 law, taking lectures at the same time in Albany Law 
 School, from which he was graduated with LL.B. in 
 1 86 1. Shortly after was admitted to the bar. 
 
 In August of the same year was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln Lieutenant in the Eighth U. S. Infantry, with 
 which he served until August, 1864, when he resigned. 
 Subsequently he became Colonel of the First National 
 Guard, New York Volunteers, known as the Hawkins 
 Zouaves. 
 
 After resigning from the army Mr. Cooper practised 
 law in New York for eight or ten years. The year 1879 
 he spent with his family in Europe. In December last 
 was nominated by President Hayes Consul at Cadiz, and 
 was confirmed by the Senate on the same day. This ap- 
 pointment 'includes five agencies, those of Seville, Alge- 
 ciras, and others, as well as the consulate for the Swiss 
 Republic at all these places, and is considered one of the 
 best in the consular service. During the present month he 
 has been appointed U.S. Consul at Guttenberg, Germany. 
 
 Mr. Cooper delivered the annual poem before the 
 Alumni of Williams, June i8th, 1871 ; and more recently 
 a poem at a grand Burns banquet in New York, at which 
 Hon. David Dudley Field presided. 
 
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 He married, in 1862, the daughter of James B. Martin, 
 of Milwaukee, Wis., and by this marriage he has a daugh- 
 ter. (May, 188 1.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1858. Commencement, i860. 
 
 Rev. Matthew LaRue Perine Hill, of Corning, N.Y., 
 third son of Rev. R. W. and Elizabeth A. [Ten Eyck] 
 Hill, — the latter originally of Owasco, N. Y., — was born 
 at East Bloomfield, N. ¥., March nth, 1834. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Geneseo Academy, en- 
 tered Williams in 1854, as Freshman, and was graduated 
 in 1858. Studied theology at Princeton Seminary, and 
 has been pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Little 
 Falls and Gloversville, N. Y., Jacksonville, Fla., Des 
 Moines, la., and since 1875 of that in Corning. In several 
 of these places there were revivals of special interest dur- 
 ing his ministry, and in all success and growth. Several 
 of Mr. Hill's sermons are in print. 
 
 He married, in 1870, at Johnstown, N. Y., Marcelia Gil- 
 bert, niece of Marcellus Gilbert, Esq., of that place. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1858. A.M. in course. 
 
 John Hubbard Ames, of Stamford, Conn., was born 
 at Housatonic, Berkshire County, Mass., December 29th, 
 1838. 
 
 From 1843 to 1861 his home was in New York, but 
 during part of that time he attended the school of Alex- 
 ander Hyde, in Lee, and that of Joseph Hyde, in Sheffield. 
 Entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1856, and remained un- 
 til near the end of Sophomore year, when he was dis- 
 missed at his own request. He then went into business 
 in New York, but his health failing, travelled in Europe in 
 1859 ^"d '60. 
 
 In July, 1861, on the breaking out of the war, he en- 
 tered the U. S. Navy, as engineer, and remained in the 
 
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 service until September, 1865. Has since been engaged 
 in business, having filled at various times the positions of 
 Superintendent of the Yale & Winn Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, Shelburne Falls; of the Yale Lock Company, Stam- 
 ford ; the Herring & Co. manufactory. New York ; and 
 the Grant Locomotive Works, Paterson, N. J. While 
 with the latter concern went to Russia with locomotives, 
 spending a year in that country. Is now with the North- 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company, New York, residing as 
 above. 
 
 Mr. Ames married, in 1861, Sarah L. Hyde, and by this 
 marriage he has seven children. (1880.) 
 
 Lewis Melvin Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pa., son of 
 Joseph and Mary [Chase] Johnson, was born at Haver- 
 hill, Mass., his parents* home, November* 19th, 1837. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the High School in his 
 native place, entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall 
 of 1857, ^nd was graduated in 1861. He then entered im- 
 mediately upon his chosen work of teaching, as an in- 
 structor in Maplewood Institute, Pittsfield. Since that 
 time has had charge of the Preparatory School of Lake 
 Forest College, near Chicago ; of the Newark (N. J.) 
 High School ; and for six years of the State Normal School 
 at Trenton, N. J. Four years since he purchased his 
 present school in Philadelphia from the late Prof. C. D. 
 Cleveland. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married, in 1874, Anne Morris, of Phila- 
 delphia, a direct descendant of Robert Morris. (1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., i860. Commencement, 1861. A.M. in 
 course. 
 
 Matthias Nicoll, of New York City, third son of 
 Samuel B. and Sarah B. [Payne] Nicoll, — the latter of 
 Flushing, L. I., before marriage, — was born on Shelter 
 Island, Suffolk County, N. Y., October 5th, 1841. 
 
 He was fitted for college by Alexander Hyde, at Lee, 
 
1 85 7'] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 217 
 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1857, ^"d was gradu- 
 ated in 1 86 1. In October, 1862, he entered the office of 
 the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company in New York, 
 where he has remained from that time to the present. 
 
 Mr. Nicoll married, on the 5th of March, 1867, Alice 
 M., daughter of Alfred Large, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and by this marriage he has a son and two daughters. 
 Mrs. Nicoll died in January, 1873. (1880.) 
 
 Class Marshal, 1861. A.M. in course. 
 
 William Myers Hoes, of New York City, son of 
 Peter S. and Henrietta [Myers] Hoes, was born at Kin- 
 derhook, N. Y., his parents' home, June 19th, 1840. His 
 grandfather's sister, Hannah Hoes, was the wife of Presi- 
 dent Van Buren. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Kinderhook Academy, en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, in the autumn of 1857, ^"^ 
 was graduated in 1861. He then read law in the office of 
 Hon. W. H. Tobey at Kinderhook, and in 1863 and '64 
 was a member of the Law School of Columbia College, 
 from which he received the degree of LL.B. In May of 
 the latter year was admitted to practice, and in 1866 be- 
 came a member of the firm of Spencer, Hoes & Metcalf, 
 consisting of Hon. J. C. Spencer and J. B. Metcalf, K.A., 
 besides himself. In 1868, after the dissolution of this firm, 
 he entered that of Rapallo & Spencer, which included 
 Hon. C. A. Rapallo, now judge of the Court of Appeals, 
 Judge Spencer, and others. Since 1871 he has practised 
 without a partner. 
 
 Mr. Hoes is Senior Warden of Kane Lodge No. 454, 
 P. A.M., New York City. He married, June 24th, 1875, 
 Annie, daughter of the late Solomon T. Nicoll, of Bay- 
 side, L. I., and niece of M. Nicoll, K.A. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 291 Broadway. 
 
 Junior Ex., i860. Moonlight Ex., i860. Commence- 
 ment, 1 86 1. A.M. in course. 
 
2i8 Biographical Record of the [1858. 
 
 1858. 
 
 Augustus Cleveland Brown, of New York City, 
 son of Rev. Silas C. and Mary [Cleveland] Brown, was 
 born at York, Livingston County, N. Y., October 23d, 1830. 
 His home while in college was West Bloomfield, N. Y. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Geneseo Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1857, and was graduated in 
 1861. In the spring of 1863 entered the army, in which 
 he served until the winter of 1863-64 as Captain of Bat- 
 tery H, Fourth New York Artillery, attached at first to 
 the Fifth and afterwards to the Second Corps, Army of 
 the Potomac. Was with General Grant from Culpepper 
 to Petersburg, during the campaign of 1864, but was com- 
 pelled by a couple of sunstrokes to resign just before the 
 close of the war. 
 
 Mr. Brown is settled in New York as a member of the 
 leading firm of Beach & Brown, lawyers, his senior part- 
 ner being William A. Beach, Esq., formerly of Troy. Is 
 unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 120 Broadway. 
 
 Junior Ex., i860. Prest. Philotechnian. Poet, Class- 
 day, 1 86 1. Commencement, 1861. 
 
 Rev. Gavin Langmuir, of Florence, Italy, fourth of 
 six sons of Alexander Langmuir, was born in Scotland, 
 November ist, 1840. While an infant he was brought to 
 this country by his parents, intelligent and religious peo- 
 ple, who settled in Rochester, N. Y., where his father be- 
 came a leading and successful man of business. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at 
 Geneseo (N. Y.) Academy, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1857, and was graduated in 1861 with 
 the Valedictory Oration. He was a superior general 
 scholar, quick in the acquisition of knowledge, and pos- 
 sessed of ample resources of his own. He was also popu- 
 
1858.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 219 
 
 lar with his classmates, as the numerous appointments 
 conferred upon him by them attest. 
 
 After graduation he spent a year in assisting his father, 
 and then entered Princeton Seminary. While there he 
 received a call from the ancient and historic First Presby- 
 terian Church of Morristown, N. J., which was originally 
 established by King George II. in 1756, and has counted 
 among its pastors many of distinguished name, including 
 the late Rev. Albert Barnes. Over this church Mr. Lang- 
 muir was settled after graduation, on the 17th July, 1866, 
 and with it he remained until dismissed in consequence of 
 a partial failure of health, September 9th, 1868. He was 
 succeeded by Rev. John A. French, also of our Society. 
 
 Upon his retirement from this field, Mr. Langmuir 
 thought it best to go abroad, where he has remained un- 
 til the present time, in charge of the American chapels 
 successively at Paris, Rome, and in Florence, where he 
 now resides. He has been found by our countrymen trav- 
 elling abroad a most acceptable incumbent of these some- 
 what exceptional posts ; and a classmate, also residing in 
 Florence, reports that he is the popular preacher of that 
 city. 
 
 Recently he received a call from the Second Presby- 
 terian Church in Philadelphia, but thought best to decline 
 it, although permitted by restored health to anticipate a 
 return to the United States at an early day. 
 
 Mr. Langmuir married in Paris, September 3d, 1867,. 
 Laura J. Baker, of Elizabeth, N. J„ and has had by this 
 marriage one child, now deceased. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Care Eyre & Huntington, Bankers. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1858. Junior Ex., i860. Prest. Adel- 
 phic Union. Editor University Quarterly (published by 
 several colleges in conjunction). Chosen Valedictorian, 
 Adelphic Union, but resigned after receiving Commence- 
 ment appointment. First Class-day President, 1861. 
 Valedictory, Commencement, 1861 ; subject, ** Truth for 
 its own Sake." 
 
2 20 Biographical Record of the [1858. 
 
 WiNTHROP Sargent Gilman, Jr., of New York City, 
 son of Winthrop S. and Abia S. [Lippincott] Gilman, and 
 brother of Theodore and Benjamin I. Gilman (see Index), 
 was born at Upper Alton, 111., September 28th, 1839. 
 
 He passed his boyhood mostly at the school of Alex- 
 ander Hyde, K.A., at Lee, although receiving tuition also 
 at the schools of W. H. Leggett and Professor Charlier, 
 in New York. Entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1856; 
 during his college connection accompanied the Florida 
 Expedition to Fernandina, Key West, and the Tortugas ; 
 left college in 1859 ^^d travelled in Europe. Upon his 
 return in i860 he became engaged in the business of bank- 
 ing. In 1 86 1 was married, and in 1865 fixed his place of 
 residence at Palisades, Rockland County. He has three 
 children. (1880.) 
 
 Theodore Gilman, of New York City, brother of 
 the preceding and of Benjamin I. Gilman, was born at 
 Alton, 111., January 2d, 1841. 
 
 Was fitted for college by Professor Lincoln at Wil- 
 liamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1858, and 
 was graduated in 1862, having been absent during the 
 winter terms of Freshman and Sophomore years. Since 
 graduation has been engaged in the business of banking in 
 New York. 
 
 During recent years Mr. Gilman has served our Soci- 
 ety very efficiently in connection with the erection and 
 fitting up of its new house, to which and its appointments 
 he has given special care and the benefit of his taste and 
 proficiency in matters of art. 
 
 He married, October 22d, 1863, Elizabeth D. Paxson, 
 and by this marriage has had nine children, of whom three 
 sons and two daughters are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Address, W. S. Gilman & Sons, No. 62 Cedar Street. 
 
 Vice-Prest. Williams Art Association. Commence- 
 ment, 1862. A.M. in course. 
 
1858.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 221 
 
 Rev. John Abbott French, of Flushing, N. Y., son 
 of J. L. A. and Mary [Everdean] French, was born at 
 Boscawen, N. H., March 28th, 1840. Fitted for col- 
 lege at the Nashua (N. H.) High School, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1858, and was graduated in 
 1862 with the Historical Oration. He then took his 
 course in theology at Union Seminary, and in 1868 en- 
 tered upon the charge of the First Presbyterian Church, 
 Morristown, N. J., in which he succeeded Rev. Gavin 
 Langmuir (see p. 218). In 1877 became pastor of the 
 Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, in which field 
 he remained until January of the present year, when he 
 was compelled by illness resultmg from overwork to re- 
 tire from it and from all pastoral labor for the present. 
 In each of these churches Mr. French's term of ser- 
 vice was marked by decided success, bringing strength 
 and growth to both, but especially the Chicago church,, 
 which he found in a greatly enfeebled condition, and left 
 in such a state of prosperity as enabled it to secure for his 
 successor Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnson, previously Professor 
 at Auburn. During this pastorate Mr. French was a Trus- 
 tee of the Chicago Theological Seminary. 
 
 In 1870 he married Emily W. Leavitt. Has no chil- 
 dren now living. (June, 1880.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1861. Poet, Class-day, 1862. Historical^ 
 Commencement, 1862. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. A.M. in 
 course. 
 
 James Betts Metcalf, of New York City, son of 
 James W. and Maria C. [Betts] Metcalf, was born in New 
 York, May 13th, 1843. O^i the maternal side he is nephew 
 of C. D. and G. F. Betts, Esqs. (pp. 79, 105), and nearly 
 related also to the Deweys of our Society. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Easthampton, Mass., by 
 Professor Wright as private tutor, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in the autumn of 1858, and was graduated in 
 1862. Immediately afterward began the study of law in 
 
2 22 Biographical Record of the [1858. 
 
 the office of Judge Francis Wayland, of New Haven, and 
 took the course in Yale Law School, from which he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.B. in July, 1864. Was admitted 
 to the bar of Connecticut May i ith of the same year, and 
 to that of New York the 17th of November following, and 
 thereupon began practice in New York City, at first alone, 
 afterwards as a member of the firm of Spencer, Hoes & 
 Metcalf, and subsequently as one of that of Rapallo & 
 Spencer (see p. 217). 
 
 Finally, upon the elevation of both his seniors in 
 the latter partnership to the bench, he again practised 
 alone, and so continued until January ist, 1873, when he 
 left the profession and became engaged in the business of 
 banking and stock-brokerage with a former classmate in 
 the law-school, under the firm-name of Bray ton, Ives & Co., 
 his present connection. 
 
 Mr. Metcalf married, March 31st, 1869, Anne T., 
 daughter of F. H. Cutting, Esq., of New York, and has 
 by this marriage a daughter and a son. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 4 Broad Street. 
 
 A.M. in course. 
 
 George W. Bacon, of Milwaukee, Wis., a native of 
 Hudson, N. Y., and a member of the class of 1862; left 
 college without graduating. Captain New York Volun- 
 teers (Williams Roll of Honor, 1862). After the war 
 went West, and was engaged in business. Married, 
 and soon after went to Europe, where he travelled for 
 some time. About two years since, towards the end of 
 his absence, he met with an adventure of interest, which 
 was noticed at the time in American newspapers. While 
 travelling with Mrs. Bacon upon a railroad in North- 
 ern Italy, being attacked for purposes of plunder by a 
 couple of ruffians occupying the same compartment, he 
 succeeded, by means of a severe and protracted struggle, 
 in which he was aided by his wife, in keeping them at bay 
 
1858.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 223 
 
 until the approach of the train to a stopping-place, when 
 they withdrew. They were subsequently apprehended and 
 condemned to a long term of confinement. (1881.) 
 
 Rev. George Lansing Raymond, of Williamstown, 
 Mass., son of B. W. and Amelia [Porter] Raymond, was 
 born at Chicago, 111., September 3d, 1839. 
 
 He was fitted for college partly at the Springside 
 Boarding School, Auburn, N. Y., and partly at Phillips 
 Academy, Andover ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1858, and was graduated in 1862. In the fall of the same 
 year entered Auburn Theological Seminary, and remained 
 a year ; then completed his course at Princeton, gradu- 
 ating in 1865. Next spent three years in Europe, and 
 upon his return became, in June, 1869, pastor of the 
 Darby Borough Presbyterian church, near Philadelphia. 
 In April, 1874, was appointed Provisional Professor of 
 Rhetoric in Williams, which position he held for a year, 
 and in 1875 Professor of Oratory in the same college. 
 This appointment he now fills with marked success. 
 
 In 1875 Professor Raymond again visited Europe, re- 
 maining about a year. During a part of the academic 
 year 1879-80 he discharged, in addition to his duties at 
 Williams, those of Professor of Oratory at Princeton. 
 In 1870 published his first volume, " Hay dee and Other 
 Poems;" in 1876 followed this with '* Colony Ballads," 
 ■''seven spirited songs of the Revolution of 1776, written in 
 pure stout English, with a good dash of Saxon in it and 
 much brave common-sense;" in 1877 with "Ideal and 
 Real;" and in 1879 with the "Orator's Manual," designed 
 as a college text-book, and highly commended for this 
 purpose by competent judges. 
 
 Professor Raymond married, in 1872, Mary E. Blake, 
 of Philadelphia, and by this marriage he has a daugh- 
 ter. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1859. College prize for best college 
 song, 1859. College prize from Williams Quarterly ^ 1861. 
 
2 24 Biographical Record of the [1858. 
 
 Editor Williams Quarterly, 1861. Junior Ex., 1861. 
 Prest. Adelphic Un., 1861. Commencement, 1862. A.M. 
 in course. 
 
 Rev. Edward Herrick Griffin, d.d., of Williams- 
 town, oldest son of Professor Nathaniel H. and Hannah 
 E. [Bulkley] Griffin, brother of Rev. H. L. and of S. B. 
 Griffin, and related to S. T. Bulkley and A. Pleasants 
 (see Index), was born at Williamstown, November i8th, 
 
 1843. 
 
 He was fitted for college by his father, entered Wil- 
 liams in 1858, and was graduated in 1862 with the Meta- 
 physical Oration. He then studied theology at Princeton 
 and Union Seminaries, and was graduated from the latter 
 in 1867. 
 
 During the year 1864-65 he was Tutor in Mathematics 
 and Greek in Williams College. In 1867 was settled over 
 the First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vt., with 
 which he remained until his appointment in 1872 to the 
 Massachusetts Professorship of the Latin Language and 
 Literature in the college. From this chair, which he has 
 since occupied, — declining a tender of that of Intellectual 
 and Moral Philosophy in the College of the City of New 
 York in 1878, — he has been transferred during the present 
 month to that of Rhetoric. 
 
 At its last Commencement Professor Griffin received 
 the degree of D.D. from Amherst. 
 
 On the 22d of May, 1872, he married Rebekah, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Dr. Wheeler, of Burlington, formerly Presi- 
 dent of Vermont University, and by this marriage he has 
 two sons. (Feb., 1881.) 
 
 Junior Ex., 1 861. Prest. Philologian, 186 1. Metaphysi- 
 cal, Commencement, 1862. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. A.M. 
 in course. D.D., Amherst, 1880. 
 
1 859-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 225 
 
 1859. 
 
 William Dixon Spalding, of New York City, son of 
 Asa L. and Mary [Dixon] Spalding, nephew of Hon. 
 James Dixon, and older brother of Rev. James F. Spald- 
 ing (see following sketch), was born at East Haddam, 
 Conn., October 7th, 1836. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1855, was ab- 
 sent by reason of ill health for several months of Sopho- 
 more year, and left altogether for a time, but re-entered, 
 as Junior, in the class of i860, with which he was gradu- 
 ated. In 1865 went to Washington, where he was em- 
 ployed for several years in the civil service (office of the 
 U. S. Senate), as a financial and subsequently as a legisla- 
 tive clerk. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Spalding was for some months in London, 
 as correspondent of the New York Tribune^ returning 
 towards the close of the year. He was again in Europe 
 in 1868, and spent considerable time in Continental travel. 
 Since then he has resided for the most part in London, 
 engaged in correspondence with the New York Herald 
 and other newspapers, as well as in various literary enter- 
 prises in that city, including the editing, for a time, of the 
 Practical Magazine. 
 
 During the present year he has returned to New York, 
 expecting to remain. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Care Weed & Kennedy, No. 6 Pine Street. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1856. Commencement, i860. 
 
 Rev. James Field Spalding, of Cambridge, Mass., 
 brother of the preceding, was born at Enfield, Conn., De- 
 cember 5th, 1839. Was fitted for college at Williston Semi- 
 nary, and entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1857. After 
 completing his first year he was absent for a similar length 
 15 
 
2 26 Biographical Record of the [1859. 
 
 of time, in consequence of ill health. He then re-entered, 
 as Sophomore (September, 1859), but was again compelled 
 by the same cause to be absent for a considerable time, so 
 as to become ineligible for a Junior appointment, but kept 
 up with his class, and was graduated in 1862 with the Clas- 
 sical Oration. 
 
 During 1863-64 he was Tutor in Greek in the college, 
 and from 1865 to 1870 Associate Master of Round Hill 
 School in Northampton. In 1869 he entered the ministry 
 of the Episcopal Church and became rector of St. John's, 
 Northampton; in 1870, rector of St. John's, Ithaca, N. Y.; 
 in 1872, of Trinity, Portland, Conn.; and in 1879, of the 
 ancient parish of Christ Church, Cambridge, his present 
 charge. 
 
 Mr. Spalding has published occasional articles in re- 
 views and other periodicals. A recent pamphlet of his on 
 *' The Ordinance of Confirmation" has reached its third 
 edition. In 1880 he was made Chairman of the Williams 
 Alumni's Committee on Examinations. 
 
 On the 28th of April, 1864, he married Mary A. Har- 
 per, of Enfield, and by this marriage he has three sons. 
 (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1858. Classical, Commencement, 1862. 
 Editor Williams Quarterly, 1862. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. 
 A.M. in course. 
 
 Treadwell Cleveland, of New York City, brother of 
 Prof. S. M. Cleveland (p. 202), was born in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., April i6th, 1843. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Dummer Academy, 
 Byfield, Mass., and entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1859. Intending to continue his studies at the University 
 of Berlin, he left Williams in 1861, but having given up 
 this plan, entered the Senior class at Rutgers, and was 
 graduated there in 1862. The same year began his pro- 
 fessional course in the Law School of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and in 1864 was admitted to the bar. The 
 
1 859-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 227 
 
 year following he removed to New York, where he has 
 since remained in practice. 
 
 Mr. Cleveland married, May 15th, 1866, Evelyn S., 
 daughter of Commodore James L. Mcintosh, and by this 
 marriage he has two sons. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., i860. 
 
 I860. 
 
 JosiAH Gramme Bellows, of Walpole, N. H., son of 
 Josiah Bellows, 3d, and Mary A. [Grahme] Bellows, was 
 born at Walpole, his parents' home, July 21st, 1841. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the public schools at 
 Walpole and at Newton Centre, Mass., entered Williams, 
 ■second term Freshman, class of 1863, in the early part of 
 i860, and remained until the end of first term Sophomore. 
 Studied law in the office of Hon. F. Vose, in Walpole, 
 from November, 1863, to March, 1864. In the latter year 
 entered Harvard Law School, and was graduated thence 
 with LL.B., July, 1865. Continued his studies in Con- 
 cord, N. H., and the following December was admitted to 
 the bar. June 26th, 1866, married Annie E., daughter of 
 Dr. Alphonso Morrill, of Concord. Mrs. Bellows died at 
 Cambridge, Mass., April 1867, leaving an infant daughter 
 who survived her mother but a month. 
 
 Returning to Walpole, he practised there from Feb- 
 ruary to December in 1866; in January, 1867, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of Massachusetts in Boston, where he 
 remained until April, when he again returned to Walpole 
 and there practised until April, 1868. He then became 
 chief clerk in the U. S. Pension Agency in Boston, served 
 as such until September, 1869, and was then once more 
 engaged in practice until May, 1871, after which he trav- 
 elled abroad for some months, and on his return resumed 
 practice in Walpole, where he has since remained. 
 
 Mr. Bellows was appointed Judge of the Probate 
 Court for the County of Cheshire in August. 1876, and he 
 
2 28 Biographical Record of the [i860. 
 
 still holds that position. Has also filled various offices in 
 connection with local banks and insurance companies. 
 He married, November 21st, 1877, his second wife, Katha- 
 rine H. W., daughter of A. P. Howland, Esq., of Walpole, 
 and by this marriage he has a daughter. (1879.) 
 
 * Charles Whiting Reynolds, of Albany, N. Y., son 
 of Hon. John H. and Margaret A. [Whiting] Reynolds, — 
 the latter originally of Kinderhook, N, Y., — was born at 
 Kinderhook, February 21st, 1844. His father was a very 
 eminent lawyer, ranking with the first in his State, and 
 was for some time a Judge of the Commission of Appeals. 
 Both parents were of New England families. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Kinderhook Academy and 
 at White Plains, N. Y., entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 i860, but left the following year and entered the U. S. 
 Naval School, then at Newport, R. I., where he re- 
 mained two years. He then returned to Williams and 
 completed a partial course with his class in 1864. After 
 leaving college studied law in the office of his father, with 
 whom and Hon. Hamilton Harris, of our Society at 
 Union, he became partner after admission to practice in 
 1866. In the discharge of the duties arising from this 
 connection he continued until his decease in Albany, 
 September 13th, 1875. 
 
 He was a young man of strong natural abilities, which 
 gave great promise to his brief career. His character was 
 full of integrity, elevated principle, and magnanimous sen- 
 timent ; his disposition genial and large-hearted ; and his 
 nature charged with a personal magnetism which at- 
 tracted to him hosts of friends. He was unmarried. 
 
 Adelphic Union Ex., 1874. 
 
 John Arnold Tibbits, of New London, Conn., son of 
 John W. and Fanny [Chappell] Tibbits, was born at New 
 London, his parents' home, February 19th, 1844. 
 
i86o.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 229 
 
 He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, 
 graduating thence with the Salutatory, and entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the fall of i860, but left before the 
 close of the year. He then studied law in New London 
 and entered upon practice there. In July, 1862, enlisted 
 as a private in the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, 
 and was made orderly sergeant before the troops left the 
 State. At the battle of Antietam was wounded in the 
 left hand and right arm, the former of which was thus 
 rendered useless for most purposes. In December, 1862, 
 was promoted Second Lieutenant. Was at Chancellors- 
 ville and Gettysburg, and in the latter battle was again 
 wounded in the right arm. He then resigned on account 
 of physical disability, the wound in his left hand never 
 having closed up. 
 
 Mr. Tibbits has been Judge of the City Court of New 
 London, Clerk of Common Pleas, Representative of the 
 General Assembly of his State (in 1872), and Chairman of 
 the Military Committee, on the part of the House. Was 
 Judge Advocate of the Third Regimental District from 
 1872 to 'j%, Government Director of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad, for four years, under General Grant's second 
 administration, delegate to the Republican National Con- 
 vention of 1876, and has been, since May, 1877, Collector 
 of Customs for the port of New London. He has also 
 been editor and part proprietor of the New London Even- 
 ing Telegraph, since its establishment in 1873. 
 
 Mr. Tibbits married, February i8th, 1869, Lydia Dennis, 
 of New London, and by this marriage he has a son. (1880.) 
 
 Williams Roll of Honor, 1864. 
 
 Rev. Eben Halley, of Binghamton, N. Y., son of Rev. 
 
 Dr. E. and Eliza Halley, — natives of Scotland and now 
 residents of Albany — was born at Salem, Washington 
 County, N. Y., January 7th, 1845. His father, a well- 
 known Presbyterian minister, was settled for many years 
 in Troy, and subsequently in Albany. 
 
230 Biographical Record of the [i860. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college in 
 Albany Academy, entered Williams, as Sophomore, Sep- 
 tember, i860, served one of the years included in his 
 course in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh N. Y. 
 Volunteers, and was graduated in 1864. He subsequently 
 entered Princeton Theological Seminary, spent two years 
 there, was ordained to the ministry by a council of the 
 Congregational Church at Cincinnati, January 13th, 1870, 
 and was pastor of the Seventh Street Congregational 
 Church in that city from his ordination to April, 1878, 
 when he resigned. The following month was installed 
 over the First Congregational Church of Binghamton, 
 his present charge. 
 
 Mr. Halley married, May 14th, 1878, Henrietta C. 
 Burt, of Cincinnati. (1880.) 
 
 WiUiams Roll of Honor, of 1863. 
 
 Rev. Timothy Grenville Darling, d.d., of Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y., brother of Edwin H. and Samuel W. Dar- 
 ling (see Index), was born at Nassau, New Providence 
 (Bahama Islands), October 5th, 1842. Was fitted for col- 
 lege by Rev. B. W. D wight at Brooklyn and Clinton, 
 N. Y., and in Williston Seminary ; entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, September, i860, and was graduated in 1864 
 with the Ethical Oration. He studied theology two years 
 at Princeton Seminary and one year at Union, and after a 
 year and a half of rest became assistant to Rev. Dr. J. C. 
 Backus of the First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. 
 June 1 8th, 1873, was ordained, and installed pastor of the 
 First Presbyterian Church, Schenectady, his present 
 charge. For the last three years has also been Acting 
 Professor of Mental Philosophy in Union College. 
 
 In 1879 ^^ received the degree of D.D. from his alma 
 mater. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1862. Editor Williams Quarterly, 1863. 
 Class Orator, Biennial, 1864. Prest. Lyceum Nat. Hist., 
 
i86o.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 231 
 
 1864. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. Ethical, Commencement, 
 1864. D.D., 1879. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Rev. Henry Matthias Booth, d.d., of Englewood, 
 N. J., brother of Rev. Dr. R. R. Booth (p. 146), was born 
 in the city of New York, October 3d, 1843. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the school of Forrest and 
 Quackenbos, New York, entered Williams in the class of 
 1864, during Freshman year, and was graduated in 1864 
 with an Honorary Oration. Entered Union Seminary 
 the same year, and was graduated thence in 1869 with an 
 oration. Ordained pastor of the Englewood Presbyterian 
 church September 19th, 1867, his only charge to the 
 present time. He received the degree of D.D. in 1879 
 from his alma mater. 
 
 Dr. Booth married, November 19th, 1867, Isabella B., 
 daughter of Rev. Dr. Newell, of New York. Mrs. Booth 
 deceased in about three weeks from that time. His 
 second marriage took place January 12th, 1870, with 
 Anna, daughter of Fisher Howe, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 By this marriage he has a son and two daughters. (1880.) 
 
 Honorary Oration, Commencement, 1864. Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1864. A.M. in course. D.D., 1879. 
 
 * Hamilton Rogers Halsey, of Brooklyn, N. Y., son 
 of Thomas Rogers and adopted son of John Halsey, both 
 of Brooklyn, was born in that city, September i6th, 1843. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the school of Rev. B. W. 
 Dwight in Brooklyn, entered Williams as a member of 
 the class of 1864, and remained about two years, when he 
 was compelled by ill health to leave. He never engaged 
 in business, but married, on the 24th of October, 1864, 
 Josephine H. Newell, also of Brooklyn, went abroad for 
 his health, and, after travelling extensively, died of con- 
 
232 Biographical Record of the [1861. 
 
 sumption of the stomach at Nice, France, March loth, 
 1866, leaving no children. 
 
 He was a whole-hearted, genial, companionable gentle- 
 man, to whom his associates were warmly attached. 
 
 Frederic Barnard Hawley, of Brooklyn, N. Y., son 
 of Henry Q. and Frances J. [Barnard] Hawley, was born 
 at Albany, N. Y., his parents' place of residence, February 
 5th, 1844. 
 
 He was fitted for college in Albany Academy, entered 
 Harvard in i860, as Freshman, after a year there left and 
 entered Williams ad eutidem, and was graduated thence in 
 1864. 
 
 He then studied law in Albany with Hon. J. H. Rey- 
 nolds, for a year, after which he went into the lumber 
 business in that city. In the spring of 1876 removed to 
 New York, and became engaged in cotton buying and 
 brokerage, his present business. 
 
 Mr. Hawley married, in 1871, Frances W. Jenkins, of 
 Saratoga Springs, and has by this marriage two daugh- 
 ters. (1880.) 
 
 x\delphic Un. Ex., 1863. 
 
 Rev. RuFUS Wheelwright Clark, Jr., of Detroit, 
 Mich., son of Rev. Dr. R. W. and Eliza [Walton] Clark, 
 now of Albany, N. Y., brother of Rev. W. W. Clark, and 
 nephew of Rev. J. E. Walton (pp. 240, 179), was born at 
 Portsmouth, N. H., then his parents' place of residence. 
 May 29th, 1844. His father, a well-known minister of the 
 Congregational and Reformed Churches, and brother of 
 Bishop Clark of Rhode Island, is a descendant of Thomas 
 Clark, mate of the Mayflower, and has four sons, as his 
 own father had, in the ministry. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the 
 school of Clark and Brownell, in Brooklyn, N. Y. (where 
 his father was then settled), entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 
1 86 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 233 
 
 man, in 1861, took his Sophomore year at the University 
 of New York, where he became a member of the Psi 
 Upsilon Society, returned at its close to Williams and 
 there completed his course, graduating in 1865. 
 
 After teaching at Auburn, N. Y., during the winter 
 following graduation, he entered the Episcopal Divinity 
 School at Philadelphia, where he took one term of the 
 first and the whole of the second year. He completed 
 his course at the General Theological Seminary in New 
 York, acting at the same time as assistant in Calvary 
 Church in that city, a position for which he was eligible 
 by virtue of ordination received from his uncle at the end 
 of his second year. In October, 1868, became rector of 
 St. John's, Portsmouth, where he remained until 1871, 
 when he took charge of Trinity, Columbus, O. During 
 his settlement there he married, in 1874, Lucy, daughter 
 of ex-Governor and ex-Postmaster-General Dennison, of 
 that city, by which marriage he has a son and two daugh- 
 ters. In 1877 became rector of St. Paul's, Detroit, his 
 present charge, the most important of its denomination in 
 the State. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Clark was a Trustee of Kenyon College from 
 1873 to ''jd. Is a member of the Standing Committee of 
 the diocese, and of the Church Missionary Board ; and 
 has served as delegate to General Convention. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Adelphic Un., 1865. 
 
 James Verree Ingham, m.d., of Philadelphia, Pa., son 
 of John Howard and Anne [Verree] Ingham, and grand- 
 son of Hon. S. D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury un- 
 der President Jackson, also cousin of George and Arthur 
 Hale (see Index), was born in Philadelphia, July 5th, 
 1843. He was fitted for college at the Classical and Com- 
 mercial High School, Lawrenceville, N. J., entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1861, but was compelled 
 by ill health to leave about the middle of Sophomore 
 year. Began the study of medicine later in the same 
 
234 Biographical Record of the [1861. 
 
 year (1863), and was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania in March, 1866. 
 Spent fourteen months as Resident Physician in the hos- 
 pital of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, after which 
 he passed nearly two years in the hospitals of London and 
 Paris. Returned to Philadelphia in 1869, and has since 
 been in practice there. 
 
 Dr. Ingham is Obstetrician to the State Hospital for 
 Women and Infants ; Fellow of the Gynecological So- 
 ciety, of the College of Physicians, and of the Obstetrical 
 Society, of Philadelphia ; and editor of the American Sup- 
 plement to the Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and 
 Ireland. He is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Romulus Curtiss Loveridge, of Mt. Murphy, Poca- 
 hontas County, West Virginia, son of Curtiss and Mary E. 
 [Clark] Loveridge, — the latter originally of Washington,, 
 Conn., — was born at Northville, Litchfield County, Conn.,. 
 October 27th, 1838. Was fitted for college at the Literary 
 Institute, Suffield, Conn., and at Williston Seminary, and 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, during the fall term of 
 1 86 1. At the close of spring term, 1862, he left college,, 
 and in August following enlisted in Company H, Nine- 
 teenth Connecticut Volunteers. Was appointed Sergeant, 
 and as such served eleven months in the defences about 
 Washington. Was then commissioned First Lieutenant, 
 in Third U. S. Cavalry troops, and was mustered out as 
 Captain in this regiment, October 31st, 1865. Was Acting 
 Assistant Adjutant-General of the Post and District Pro- 
 vost-Marshal and Commandant at Fort Clinch. Was 
 connected with the army a little over three years, and 
 upon the reconstruction of Florida was appointed Clerk of 
 Courts for Jefferson County for four years, serving also 
 for a while as County Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 The subject of this notice left the South in the summer 
 of 1873 with impaired health, and has been variously oc- 
 cupied since that time. Has spent five years of this 
 period in religious work, one of them as a student in. 
 
1 86 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 235 
 
 Hartford Theological Seminary. Was licensed to preachy 
 and spent somewhat more than a year in Minnesota, hold- 
 ing a commission for six months from the American 
 Home Missionary Society. Health again failing, he 
 sought rest with friends at his present residence. 
 
 Mr. Loveridge married, May ist, 1865, at Fernandina,. 
 Fla., Mary E. Burch, of Camillus, N. Y., who deceased 
 February i6th, 1872. (1880.) 
 
 Smith Thompson, of Hudson, N. Y., son of Hon. 
 Smith Thompson, a Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court,, 
 and Eliza [Livingston] Thompson, was born at Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., February 14th, 1843. Entered Union Col- 
 lege as a member of the class of 1864, and joined our So- 
 ciety there in 1861. His Senior year he took at Williams. 
 
 Is engaged in business in Hudson, as agent of the Lon- 
 don Assurance Corporation. Married, June 26th, 1877, 
 Sarah H. Moon, of Hudson, and has by this marriage a 
 daughter. (1880.) 
 
 George Hale, Jr., m.d., of Frankford, Pa., son of Rev. 
 Dr. George Hale, Secretary of the Board of Relief of the 
 Presbyterian Church, a graduate of Williams, and Mrs. 
 Eliza [Ingham] Hale, daughter of Hon. S. D. Ingham, 
 Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson, was 
 born at Pennington, N. J., May 31st, 1844. ^^ is brother 
 of Arthur Hale and cousin of Dr. J. V. Ingham (see 
 Index). Was fitted for college at Lawrenceville (N. J.) 
 Classical and Commercial High School, entered Williams,. 
 as Freshman, September, 1861, and was graduated in 1865. 
 He then taught for two years in the school just named,, 
 and in October, 1867, entered the Medical Department of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received 
 the degree of M.D. in 1870. After a brief service in the 
 Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, became Resident 
 Physician in the Philadelphia Hospital, remaining until 
 April, 1872. The following month settled for practice ia 
 his present place of residence, a suburb of Philadelphia. 
 
236 Biographical Record of the [1861. 
 
 Dr. Hale is a member of the Pathological and Ob- 
 stetrical societies of Philadelphia, and trustee, as well as 
 organist, of the Frankford Presbyterian church. Unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 4524 Paul Street. 
 
 Editor Wms. Quarterly y 1864. Commencement, 1865. 
 A.M. in course. 
 
 * Emory Washburn West, of Brooklyn, N. Y., son of 
 Charles E. West, LL.D., — a member of the K.A. Society 
 in Union College and formerly Principal of Rutgers Fe- 
 male Seminary in New York City, — and Mrs. Elizabeth 
 G. West, was born in New York, February nth, 1844. 
 He was fitted for college at Buffalo Academy, under his 
 father, and with Rev. J. E. Woodbridge at Auburndale, 
 Mass.; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1861, and was 
 graduated in 1865 with an Honorary Oration. He soon 
 after entered the Law School of Columbia College, and 
 on the 23d of January following (1866), after three weeks' 
 sickness of rheumatic fever, died at the age of twenty-one. 
 He was buried at Pittsfield. 
 
 This deceased brother was always fond of study, and 
 at twelve years of age made regular meteorological ob- 
 servations thrice a day and recorded them. At fourteen 
 he was an excellent French, Latin, and Greek scholar, and 
 was at all times a student in the best sense. His social 
 qualities were of an equally high grade. He possessed a 
 genial temper, a well-balanced mind, a keen appreciation 
 of wit, and a thoroughly unselfish nature. He was a 
 diligent student of the Bible, which he had read through 
 at the age of five years. During the winter of 1864 he 
 was converted, and on his dying bed his simple faith did 
 not forsake him. As he passed from time to eternity, it 
 was with words of blissful anticipation on his lips and a 
 face calm with heavenly peace. 
 
 Obituary Record^ 1 Zd^y-^J, 
 
1 86 1.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 237 
 
 Prest. Lyceum of Nat. Hist., 1865. Phi Beta Kappa^ 
 1865. Honorary Or., Commencement, 1865. 
 
 Rev. Richard Patrick Hart Vail, of Stamford, Conn., 
 son of David T. and Phebe B. [Hart] Vail, was born at 
 Troy, his parents' home, December 28th, 1843. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Charlier Institute, New 
 York, and by Prof. N. H. Griffin at Williamstown, en- 
 tered Williams in i860, as Freshman, and was graduated 
 in 1864. He then entered Princeton Theological Semi- 
 nary, from which he was graduated in 1867; spent a year 
 in foreign travel; upon his return in 1869 became pastor 
 of the Presbyterian church in Waterford, N. Y., and so 
 remained until 1876, when he accepted the charge of the 
 church of the same denomination in Stamford, Avhicb 
 he still retains. 
 
 Mr. Vail married, April 6th, 1870, Mary A. Sanford, 
 of Albany, and by this marriage he has had four children, 
 of whom three are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Williams Art Association, 1864. Orator, Class- 
 day, 1864. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. Commencement, 1864. 
 
 1862. 
 
 Henry Wing Griiviwood, of New York City, son of 
 Joseph C. and Susan A. Grimwood, was born at Albany, 
 N. Y., July 26th, 1842. Was fitted for college at Albany 
 Academy, and entered Williams, as Freshman, in the class 
 of 1865, January 1862. He remained somewhat over a 
 year, when he was compelled by failure of health to leave. 
 In the spring of 1863 entered the house of Booth & Edgar, 
 sugar-refiners, in New York, with whom he continued 
 until 1878, when he formed his present connection with 
 the Lawrence Rope Works in the same city. 
 
 Mr. Grimwood married, in October, 1873, Edna 
 Waring, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1880.) 
 
22,S Biographical Record of the [1862. 
 
 Justin Kellogg, of Troy, N. Y., son of Giles B. 
 Kellogg, a graduate and Trustee of Williams, and Adeline, 
 •daughter of Justin Kellogg, Sr., was born at Troy, April 
 1 8th, 1845. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Troy Academy, by Prof. 
 N. H. Griffin in Williamstown, and at Troy University 
 -during i860. Entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1861, 
 and was graduated in 1865. He then began the study of 
 law, and was duly admitted to practice after a course in 
 the Albany Law School, at the close of which he received 
 the degree of LL.B. from the University of Albany. 
 Since that time he has been engaged, in partnership with 
 his father, in professional practice. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Kellogg married Mary B. Leake, of 
 Troy, and by this marriage he has two children now 
 living. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Class-day, 1865. A.M. in course. Sec'y In- 
 corporated K.A. Soc. from incorporation to present time. 
 
 Charles Bennett Tillinghast, of Albany, N. Y., son 
 of William and Caroline [Sperry] Tillinghast, was born 
 at Albany, his parents' residence, March 31st, 1846. His 
 father, a native of Wickford, R. I., was a descendant of 
 Rev. Pardon Tillinghast, an Independent preacher who 
 emigrated from England about 1630 and soon after 
 founded the First Baptist Society, and built the church 
 for it, at Providence, R. I. His mother was a grand-niece 
 of Commodore Perry. 
 
 He was fitted for college by Professor Swan at Albany 
 Academy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1862, and was 
 graduated in 1866. He then studied medicine for a short 
 time, but abandoned it on account of ill health, and after 
 ■spending nearly three years in foreign travel returned to 
 Albany and became engaged in the business there in which 
 he has since continued. 
 
 Mr. Tillinghast married, April 8th, 1874, Florence, 
 -daughter of William Morgan, Esq., of Poughkeepsie, and 
 
1 862.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 239 
 
 by this marriage he has had three children, of whom two 
 are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Lyceum of Nat. Hist, 1865. Commencement, 
 1866. 
 
 Oliver Grant Barton, of New York City, son of 
 William and Eliza P. [Whittemore] Barton, was born in 
 New York, February 20th, 1844. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Charlier Institute in that 
 city, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1862, and was 
 graduated in 1866. Since then has been engaged in busi- 
 ness in New York, and excepting one year, with the New 
 York Life Insurance Company. 
 
 Mr. Barton has for a number of years had charge of 
 the arrangements for the Society's annual dinner in New 
 York, which he has very acceptably managed. Is un- 
 married. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1866. 
 
 Orrin Day, of Catskill, N. Y., son of Samuel S. and 
 Cornelia E. [Spencer] Day, — the latter of Utica, N. Y., 
 before marriage, — and brother of Dr. W. D. and J, S. Day 
 (see Index), was born at Catskill, September 24th, 1840. 
 
 He was fitted for college at that place and by Profes- 
 sor N. H. Griffin at Williamstown, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in 1862, and was graduated in 1866. Read law 
 for three years and was admitted to the bar in 1869, al- 
 though not intending to practice. He then entered the 
 Tanners' National Bank of Catskill, of which his father is 
 president, where he still remains. 
 
 Mr. Day married, October 30th, 1877, Rosalie Sunder- 
 land, of Washington, D. C. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1866. 
 
240 Biographical Record of the [1863, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Rev. Francis Theodore Ingalls, of Atchison, Kan- 
 sas, sixth child of Elias T. and Eliza [Chase] Ingalls, was 
 born at Haverhill, Mass., January 3d, 1844. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the public school of his 
 native town, entered Williams, as Freshman, in Septem- 
 ber, i860, and was graduated in 1864 with the Valedictory 
 Oration. He then entered Princeton Seminary, where he 
 took the first year of his theological course, after which 
 he was engaged for three years in a private tutorship. 
 During this period he visited Europe with his charge, re- 
 maining about a year, most of which was spent in France. 
 In September, 1868, entered Andover Seminary, where he 
 completed his theological course in 1870. In September 
 of the same year went to Kansas " to see the West," and 
 accepted a call to the Congregational church at Olathe in 
 that State, over which he was ordained in December fol- 
 lowing. In July, 1872, resigned this pastorate, and ac- 
 cepted a call to the church of the same denomination in 
 Atchison, his present charge. 
 
 In March, 1873, Mr. Ingalls was appointed by the Gov- 
 ernor a Regent of the University of Kansas, for a term of 
 three years, and he has been twice reappointed to that 
 trust. He has permitted the publication of occasional 
 discourses, and has been actively engaged in the various 
 religious and reformatory enterprises of the section in 
 which he lives. At present date is about to travel abroad 
 for a year. Is unmarried. (Nov., 1880.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian, 1863. Ivy Oration, Class-day, 
 1864. Phi Beta Kappa, 1864. Valedictory, Commence- 
 ment, 1864. 
 
 Rev. William Walton Clark, of Brighton Heights 
 (S. I.), N. Y., brother of Rev. R. W. Clark, Jr. (p. 232), and 
 nephew of Rev. J. E. Walton (p. 179), was born at Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., May 8th, 1846. 
 
1863.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 241 
 
 He was fitted for college at the school of Clark and 
 Brownell, Brooklyn, N. Y., entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, September, 1862, and was graduated in 1866. The 
 same year went into business in New York; in 1 871, in 
 connection with his business, put up the entire works of 
 the Buffalo Mutual Gaslight Company, without any pre- 
 vious experience in that line, and in 1872 erected those of 
 the Citizens' Gas Company in Rochester. In 1874 he re- 
 tired from business in consequence of ill health, and he 
 then spent a year in Europe. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Clark, who had for some time been active- 
 ly interested in religious affairs, felt constrained to turn 
 his thoughts towards new plans in life, and entered Union 
 Seminary, where he completed his course in 1877. ^^ 
 1878 was ordained pastor of the Congregational church 
 in Painesville, O., which the state of his health compelled 
 him to leave at the end of a year. Recently he has been 
 able to take the pastorate of the Reformed (Dutch) 
 church at Brighton Heights. 
 
 He married, in March, 1868, Elizabeth W)^ckoff, of 
 Brooklyn, and by this marriage he has three daughters. 
 
 (1880.) 
 
 Poem, Adelphic Un. Ex., 1866. Commencement, 1866. 
 
 Ralph Edward Starkweather, m.d., of Chicago, 
 111., son of Charles R. and Mary [Eager] Starkweather, — 
 the latter originally of Worthington, Mass., — was born at 
 Chicago, June i6th, 1844. 
 
 Was fitted for college at the Collegiate Institute of 
 L. J. Dudley, Northampton, and the Elgin and Lake For- 
 est academies, 111. Entered Williams, as Sophomore, in 
 1862, and was graduated in 1865. Studied medicine three 
 years with Dr. Gurdon Buck, of New York, and at the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical depart- 
 ment of Columbia, in that city, from which he received 
 his M.D. in 1868. He then became Assistant Resident 
 Physician in St. Luke's Hospital, New York, and in 1869 
 16 
 
242 Biographical Record of the [1863. 
 
 in Kings County Hospital. In 1870 returned to Chicago, 
 and has been successively Attending Physician to the 
 Brainard Dispensary, same to the Chicago Relief and Aid 
 Society (1871-72), Sanitary Inspector of the City Health 
 Department (1874), Visitor of the Free Dispensary (since 
 1873), and Physician of the Southside Dispensary (since 
 1876). In 1878-9 was Clerk of State Board of Health. 
 Is member and officer also of local medical societies. 
 
 Dr. Starkweather married, February 24th, 1870, Ada 
 M. A. Gay, of Providence, R. I. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 368 Michigan Avenue. 
 
 Vice-President Williams Art Association. A.M. in 
 course. Mass. Med. Soc. 
 
 John Howard Cowing, of Buffalo, N. Y., son of 
 James A. Cowing, a native of Chesterfield, Mass., and 
 Julia M. [Radcliffe] Cowing, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 his parents' place of residence, December 2d, 1846. 
 
 Was fitted for college at the school of Clark and Brown- 
 ell, in Brooklyn, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1863, 
 and graduated in 1867. Intending to follow the profession 
 of law, studied for a short time, but was compelled by 
 the state of his eyes to abandon his purpose, and in con- 
 sequence entered upon mercantile pursuits. Was for 
 several years engaged in a leading New York banking- 
 house, and in 1874 became manager of the Buffalo Mutual 
 Gaslight Company, which position, with that of treasurer, 
 he now holds. Has made a visit to Europe during the 
 present year. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1867. A.M. in course. 
 
 John Dodd Canfield, of Morristown, N. J., son of 
 Judge Benjamin O. and Louisa [Dodd] Canfield, — the 
 latter originally of Bloomfield, N. J., — was born at Mor- 
 ristown, the home of his father's family for four genera- 
 tions, April 19th, 1845. 
 
1863.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 243 
 
 Was fitted for college at Morris Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1862, and graduated 
 in 1866. He was then engaged for two years in the 
 Treasurer's Department of the Morris and Essex Railroad 
 Company, after which he studied law with Hon. Alfred 
 Mills, at Morristown, and was admitted to the bar in June, 
 1872. Since that time has been engaged in professional 
 practice at Morristown, filling, in the mean time, the 
 offices of City Treasurer and Attorney. Is unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. AdelphicUn., 1866. Commencement, 1866. A.M. 
 in course. 
 
 Charles Warren West, of Brooklyn, N.Y., brother 
 of Emory W. West (p. 236) and son of Dr. Charles E. 
 West, K. A. of Union, was born in New York City, then 
 his parents' residence, December 23d, 1846. Was fitted 
 for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic 
 Institute and at a private school, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in the fall of 1863, and was graduated in 1867. 
 He then entered the Law School of Columbia College, 
 from which he received his LL.B. in 1869, and since that 
 time has been engaged in professional practice in New 
 York. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 22 Nassau Street. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Rev. John Hoyt Lockwood, of Westfield, Mass., 
 son of Charles U. and Mary E. [Fry] Lockwood, — the 
 latter originally of Danbury, Conn., — was born at Troy, 
 N. Y., his parents* place of residence, January 17th, 1848. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Troy Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1864, and was graduated in 
 1868. He then took a full theological course at Princeton 
 
244 Biographical Record of the [1864. 
 
 Seminary, was graduated thence in 187 1, and on November 
 15th of the same year ordained pastor of the Reformed 
 (Dutch) church in Canastota, N. Y. Leaving that charge, 
 he became pastor, June i8th, 1873, of the New England 
 Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and May 14th, 
 1879, c>f the First Congregational, Westfield, Mass., in 
 which he was a successor of Rev. Dr. Emerson Davis, 
 Vice-President of Williams. Soon after this settlement 
 Mr. Lockwood preached a discourse on the occasion of 
 the Bi-centennial Anniversary of the church, which was 
 highly appreciated by his people, warmly commended by 
 the press, and printed by general desire. The appendix 
 is enriched with copies of some peculiarly entertaining 
 documents. 
 
 Mr. Lockwood married, July 19th, 1871, Sarah C, 
 daughter of E. P. Bennett, M.D., of Danbury, Conn., and 
 by this marriage he has a son and a daughter. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1865. Commencement, 1868. A.M. in 
 course. 
 
 James Somerville Knowlson, Jr., of Aurora, III, 
 eldest son of James S. and Jane E. [Kellogg] Knowlson, 
 and brother of William H. Knowlson (see Index), was 
 born at Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, N. Y., March 
 5 th, 1847. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Troy Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1864, and was graduated in 1868. 
 He then followed mercantile life for a time, was after- 
 wards for three years in the law-office of J. C. Haines, Esq. 
 (p. 249), in Chicago, and is at present engaged with the 
 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, at 
 Aurora. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Rev. Henry Lyman Griffin, of Williamstown, Mass., 
 son of Professor N. H. and brother of Professor E. H. 
 and of Solomon B. Griffin (see Index), was born at Wil- 
 liamstown, December ist, 1849. 
 
1864.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 245 
 
 He was fitted for college by his father, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1864, and was graduated in 1868. 
 Studied theology at Princeton and New Haven Semina- 
 ries, and was settled over the South Congregational 
 Church, New Britain, Conn., from 1873 to 1878, when he 
 resigned his charge and went abroad for study and 
 travel. From this trip he has just returned. Is unmar- 
 ried. (Nov., 1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1868. A.M. in course. 
 
 John Howell Jones, of Philadelphia, Pa., son of 
 Caleb and Mary A. Jones, was born in that city, his pa- 
 rents' place of residence, June i8th, 1847. 
 
 He was fitted for college by Professor S. M. Cleve- 
 land of Philadelphia, at the same time with Henry C. 
 Miller (p. 246), in whose company he came to Williams. 
 He entered, as Freshman, in 1864, graduated in 1868, and 
 with the same friend (who had graduated a year earlier) 
 entered a private laboratory in Philadelphia. Subse- 
 quently they opened an analytical laboratory together. 
 This was given up after some months, and the subject of 
 this sketch then became chemist to the Gloucester (N. J.) 
 Print Works, near Philadelphia. In that position he re- 
 mained for seven years, when, finding laboratory work 
 detrimental to his health, he abandoned it, and was en- 
 gaged for eighteen months in various mercantile pursuits. 
 In October, 1879, became the representative in Philadel- 
 phia of the Boston house of Henry A. Gould, importer 
 of specialties in drugs and dye-woods, and so continues. Is 
 unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 47 South Front Street. 
 
 Commencement, 1868. A.M. in course. 
 
 Joshua Spencer Day, of CatskiU, N. Y., son of 
 Samuel S. and Cornelia [Spencer] Day, — the latter origi- 
 
246 Biographical Record of the [1864. 
 
 nally of Utica, N. Y., — and brother of Dr. W. D. and of 
 Orrin Day (see Index), was born at Catskill, December 
 nth, 1846. 
 
 He was fitted for college by Professor N. H. Griffin 
 in Williamstown, and entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1864, but left during his Sophomore year. He then en- 
 tered the Tanners' National Bank of Catskill, of which his 
 father is president, and remained three years, after which 
 he was connected for about two years with a commission 
 house in New York. In the spring of 1871 went to St. 
 Paul, Minn., and engaged in railroad-building as one of 
 the firm of Allin & Day, who graded the Sioux City and 
 St. Paul R. R. In the spring of 1872 went into the lum- 
 ber business at Anoka, Minn., and continued in that con- 
 nection (Anoka Lumber Co.) for nearly three years, when, 
 in view of the depression of business, he sold out and 
 returned to the Tanners* Bank, in which he still is. Un- 
 married. (1880.) 
 
 Henry Clay Miller, of Jersey City, N. J., son of 
 George H. and Emma M. [Stellwagon] Miller, both of 
 Philadelphia, Pa., was born in that city, May 19th, 1844. 
 Was fitted for college in company with John H. Jones, 
 afterwards his chum (p. 245), under Professor Samuel 
 M. Cleveland, and efitered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1864. After spending two terms in this class, 
 he resolved to "study up" during the summer and, if pos- 
 sible, " skip" one year, so as to join the class of 1867. This 
 he succeeded in accomplishing the following January, and 
 in due time graduated as a member of that class, with 
 the ^sthetical Oration — a somewhat unique achievement. 
 
 After graduation taught for a year in Lake Forest 
 Academy, near Chicago, under Principal L. M. Johnson 
 (p. 216), then returned to Philadelphia and entered the 
 chemical laboratory of Dr. Bruckner, whose assistant he 
 shortly after became. In this business he continued for 
 two years, part of the time in company with his friend 
 Jones, when it became merged in that of importing drugs 
 
1 864-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 247 
 
 and sundries, in which he was actively occupied for the 
 next three years as a member of the firm of Miller & Cum- 
 mings. Health failing, he then retired from business, and 
 for eighteen months led a rough life in the Rocky Moun- 
 tain region, engaged in mining and other schemes. 
 
 Returning East, he next accepted a second offer from 
 Principal Johnson, then of the State Normal School of 
 New Jersey, at Trenton, in which he became Instructor 
 in Latin and German. After remaining a year in this po- 
 sition he withdrew, and, in company with the Professor 
 of Mathematics, took charge of the Hasbrouck Institute 
 in Jersey City, which they are now prosperously manag- 
 ing. During the present season they have opened a col- 
 legiate branch of this institution at the corner of Broadway 
 and Forty-third Street in the city of New York. 
 
 Mr. Miller married, December 24th, 1878, Effie Wilkes. 
 
 (Nov., 1880.) 
 
 Valedictory, Adelphic Un., 1867. Phi Beta Kappa 
 1867. ^sthetical, Commencement, 1867. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Jacob Maus Schermerhorn, Jr., of Syracuse, N. Y., 
 son of Jacob M. and Louisa A. [Barber] Schermerhorn, — 
 the latter originally of Homer, N.Y., — was born at Homer, 
 March 15th, 1847. His father, who was of Dutch descent 
 was a native of Schenectady and a graduate of Union 
 College, whither he sent an older son, George J., who there 
 became a member of our Society. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at 
 Russell's Institute, New Haven, Phillips Academy, Ando- 
 ver, and Williston Seminary ; entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, September, 1865, and was graduated in 1869. He 
 was then engaged in business for three years in Homer, 
 after which, about seven years since, he became Treasurer 
 of the Sweet's Manufacturing Company of Syracuse, steel 
 manufacturers, in which position he still remains. 
 
248 Biographical Record of the [1865, 
 
 Mr. Schermerhorn married, September ist, 1870, Mary 
 B., only daughter of George H. Browne, of Providence, 
 and niece of Mrs. Joseph White of Williamstown. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Commencement, 1869. A.M. 
 in course. 
 
 John Boyd Thacher, of Albany, N. Y., son of George 
 H. and Ursula J. [Boyd] Thacher, — the latter before mar- 
 riage of Schenectady, — was born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., 
 September nth, 1847. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Sand Lake, N. Y., entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1865, and was grad- 
 uated in 1869. He then took a position in the Albany 
 Car- Wheel Works of Thacher, Lathrop & Co., in which 
 his father was senior partner ; became himself a partner, 
 January, 1873, and is still engaged in that business. 
 
 Mr. Thacher married, September nth, 1872, Emma 
 Tread well, of Albany. (1880.) 
 
 A.M. in course. 
 
 1866. 
 
 Francis Ellington Leupp, of Syracuse, N. Y., only 
 son of John P. and Emeline M. [Davis] Loop, was born 
 in New York City, his parents' home, January 2d, 1849. 
 The family name, which is of German origin, and was at 
 first written Lupp, was subsequently anglicized into Loop 
 by one branch, and finally settled, by general consent, as 
 now written by the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Sedgwick Institute, Great 
 Barrington, Mass., and at the High School, Lawrenceville, 
 N. J.; entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1866, 
 and was graduated in 1870. The following autumn en- 
 tered Columbia College Law School, from which, after a 
 brief European trip in the summer of 187 1, he received, in 
 May, 1872, his degree of LL.B. Was admitted to prac- 
 
1 866.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 249 
 
 tice, and with another formed the partnership of Eggles- 
 ton & Loop, which continued about a year. Having 
 then recently pubhshed a successful story in the Galaxy^ 
 he drifted into literary work, became a contributor to 
 various popular publications, in the autumn of 1873 re- 
 tired from his partnership, and in August, 1874, accepted 
 an editorial chair on the staff of the New York Evening- 
 Post, which he occupied for four years. In September, 
 1878, he became leading editorial writer of the Syracuse 
 Evening Herald, which position he still occupies. Mr. 
 Leupp edited, and in part wrote, the Evening Post's vol- 
 ume in memorial of William C. Bryant. 
 
 He married, October 13th, 1874, Ada L., daughter of 
 U. A. Murdock, Esq., of New York, and by this marriage 
 he has two sons and a daughter. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1868. Commencement, 1870. A.M. in 
 course. 
 
 Joseph Matteson, m.d., of Chicago, 111., son of Joseph 
 and Cecilia Matteson, and brother of Chas. C. Matteson 
 (p. 253), was born in Chicago, his parents' place of resi« 
 dence, July 20th, 1849. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lake Forest Academy^ 
 near that city, entered Williams, as Freshman, at the 
 beginning of fall term, 1866, and was graduated in 1870. 
 Studied medicine at the Chicago Medical College, from 
 which he received his M.D. in 1878, and since that time 
 has been occupied with professional practice in his native 
 city. Is married, and has a son. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 475 West Randolph Street. 
 
 John Charles Haines, of Seattle, Washington Ter~ 
 ritory, son of Hon. Elijah M. Haines, of Chicago, was 
 born at Waukegan, 111., was fitted for college at Lake 
 Forest Academy, entered WilHams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1866, and was graduated in 1870 with a Philo- 
 
250 ' Biographical Record of the [1866. 
 
 sophical Oration. After graduation studied law, and in 
 1 87 1 was admitted to the bar in Chicago. The same year 
 was appointed justice of the peace, which office he held 
 for eight years. Was Democratic candidate for Judge of 
 Probate, and although defeated, ran largely ahead of his 
 ticket. After the expiration of his term as justice he 
 practised about a year in Chicago, and then removed to 
 Seattle, W. T., where he is now engaged in professional 
 pursuits. 
 
 Married, in 1872, Belle Burton, of Waukegan. (1880.) 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex. Poet, Class-day, 1870. Philo- 
 sophical, Commencement, 1870. 
 
 Augustus White Durkee, of New York City, son of 
 Harrison and Mary [Hart] Durkee, was born in Troy, 
 N. Y. Is cousin of Rev. R. P. H. Vail, J. A. Griswold, 
 and W. F. and H. H. Burden (see Index). Entered Wil- 
 liams first term Junior, fall of 1866, taking the University 
 course, which he completed in 1868. Since that time has 
 been engaged in partnership with his father in the busi- 
 ness of banker and broker in stocks. 
 
 Mr. Durkee married, April i8th, 1871, Margaret Acton, 
 of Cincinnati, O. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. 
 
 Edward Allen Durant, Jr., of Albany, N. Y., son of 
 Edward A. and Margaret [Styles] Durant, was born at Al- 
 bany, his parents' home, April nth, 1849. Was fitted for 
 college at the Albany Academy, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in 1864, and was graduated in 1868. Since 
 then has been engaged in business as one of the firm of 
 Durant & Elmore, produce commission merchants. Is 
 unmarried. (June, 1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 505 Broadway. 
 
 Prest. Class-day, 1868. 
 
1 866.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 251 
 
 Frank Blaisdell Wilder, m.d., of Boston, Mass., son 
 of George G. and Martha F. [Snow] Wilder, was born in 
 Boston, December nth, 1848. His father, a resident of 
 Attleboro, Mass., was a nephew of President Griffin of 
 the college. His mother resided, before marriage, in 
 Fitchburg. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, 
 entered Williams in the fall of 1866, as Freshman, and 
 was graduated in 1870. He then studied medicine in 
 Harvard Medical School, from which he received his 
 degree in 1874. Practised for three years at Newton, 
 after which he settled in Boston. 
 
 While in college was leader of the Williams Glee 
 Club. Has been a member of the Apollo, of Boston, from 
 its establishment, and is still much interested in musical 
 matters. 
 
 Dr. Wilder married, in 1873, Marie L. Huse, of Evans- 
 ton, 111., and by this marriage he has two sons. (June, 
 1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 331 Columbus Avenue. 
 
 Massachusetts Med. Soc. 
 
 William Saltonstall Gould, of Brooklyn, N. Y., son 
 of William R. and Matilda S. [Howe] Gould, — also related 
 to F. Howe, Jr., (see Index), — was born in Brooklyn, his 
 parents' home, February 7th, 1849. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate 
 and Polytechnic Institute, and at the High School, Law- 
 renceville, N. J. ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in Jan- 
 uary, 1867, and was graduated in 1870. Has since been 
 engaged in the business of banker and broker, in the 
 house of W. R. Gould & Co., New York. Is unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 54 Wall Street. 
 A.M. in course. 
 
252 Biographical Record of the [1867. 
 
 1867. 
 
 Charles Evelyn Fargo, of Topeka, Kansas, son of 
 Charles H. Fargo, of Chicago, III., was born in 1850^ 
 Was fitted for college at Lake Forest Academy, entered 
 Williams in 1867, as a member of the class of 1870, but 
 left before completing his course. Has been since Janu- 
 ary, 1872, a member of the Chicago firm of C. H. Fargo 
 & Co., manufacturers of boots and shoes, though residing 
 for some time past at Topeka. 
 
 Married, in December, 1872, Miss Coffin, of Wiscasset^ 
 Me., who deceased in July, 1873. Subsequently married 
 Miss Kent, of Alton, 111. 
 
 John Wood Griswold, of Troy, N. Y., son of Hon. 
 John A. and Elizabeth [Hart] Griswold, and cousin of Rev, 
 R. P. H. Vail, A. W. Durkee, and W. F. and H. H. Bur- 
 den (see Index), was born at Troy, August 30th, 1850. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Troy Academy, and entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1867; but left the 
 following year, and was afterward for a time a member of 
 the Yale Scientific School. Has since been engaged in 
 the manufacture of wire in Troy. 
 
 Mr. Griswold married, January 15th, 1878, Sarah W. 
 Tibbits, of Troy, and has by this marriage two daugh- 
 ters. (1880.) 
 
 Edward Gould Shumway, of Chicago, 111., son of 
 Edward S. and Ellen B. [Gould] Shumway, — the latter 
 originally of Essex, Essex County, N. Y., — was born at 
 Essex, April 9th, 1850. Was fitted for college at Lake 
 Forest Academy, near Chicago, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, September, 1867, but left in April, 1870. 
 Has since resided in Chicago, engaged in busmess in the 
 firm of Shumway, Burgess & Co., of the Continental Bolt 
 and Manufacturing Works. 
 
 Mr. Shumway married, August 12th, 1875, Lavinia S. 
 Ballard, and has had by this marriage three daughters, of 
 whom two are now living. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Cor. Michigan and Franklin streets. 
 
1867.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 253 
 
 William Hale Low, Jr., of the U. S. Army, son of Wil- 
 liam H. and Sarah J. [Ross] Low, was born at Whitehall, 
 N. Y. Was fitted for college at Lake Forest (111.) Acad- 
 emy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1867, but left in 
 the fall of 1868, entered the U. S. Military Academy at 
 West Point, and was graduated there in 1871. 
 
 Since graduation has been Captain in the Twentieth 
 U. S. Infantry. Is at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Tex. 
 
 During the Indian war, in which General Custer was 
 killed, he organized and commanded a Gatling battery of 
 artillery. He was also a volunteer in the recent Howgate 
 Arctic Expedition. (1881.) 
 
 * Charles Cobb Matteson, m.d., of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., brother of Dr. J. Matteson (p. 249), was born at Chi- 
 cago, 111., September 5th, 185 1. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lake Forest Academy, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1867, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1 87 1 with high reputation. He then studied medi- 
 cine in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was 
 highly popular with both Faculty and students, was Class 
 President, worked hard, and received his M.D. with hon- 
 orable mention in March, 1874. His thesis at graduation 
 was published in the American Supplement to the Edin- 
 burgh Obstetrical Journal, and was quoted in various 
 medical publications at home and abroad. Immediately 
 afterward he took charge of the Philadelphia Children's 
 Hospital as Resident Physician, but after six months re- 
 signed and went to Paris for further study. While there, 
 in the early part of 1875, he was attacked by hemorrhage, 
 night-sweats, and similar indications, and was compelled 
 to relinquish his studies. In July of the same year came 
 home, and then tried the climate of Colorado for two or 
 three months, but finding it of no benefit, returned East, 
 and the same fall was elected one of the Resident Physi- 
 cians in the Philadelphia Hospital. " But prolonged ex- 
 posure in the post-mortem room was probably the 
 immediate cause of the hemorrhage which ushered in his 
 
2 54 Biographical Record of the [1867. 
 
 final illness." In January following a similar but severer 
 attack prostrated him upon his bed, which he never left 
 again. He lingered until the 27th of April succeeding 
 (1876), and then passed away. Rarely was there given 
 fairer promise of a useful and honorable life. 
 
 Mr. Matteson was very warm and enthusiastic in his 
 attachment to our Society. 
 
 Obituary Record, 1876, mainly. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Charles Abraham Lansing, of Colorado Springs, 
 Col., son of Charles B. Lansing, of Albany, a graduate 
 of Williams, and Catherine [Townsend] Lansing, was 
 born in Albany, N. Y., May 30th, 1845. Was fitted for 
 college at the Albany Academy, entered Williams, as 
 Sophomore, and was graduated in 1868. Returning to 
 Albany, he was for some time partner in the firm of Lyon 
 & Lansing, wholesale provision dealers. But an attack of 
 hemorrhage from the lungs compelled him to seek the dry 
 air of the far West, where he was in a measure restored, 
 and has since thought it best to remain. Is engaged in 
 the business of raising cattle and sending them to the 
 Eastern markets, and has a fine ranch. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 A.M. in course. 
 
 Francis Henry Davenport, m.d., of Boston, Mass., 
 son of Henry and Caroline [Howe] Davenport, was born 
 in Roxbury (now a part of Boston), his parents* home, 
 March 27th, 1851. Was fitted for college in the Roxbury 
 Latin School, entered WiUiams in the fall of 1866, as 
 Freshman, and was graduated in 1870 with a Philosophi- 
 cal Oration. He then studied medicine at the Harvard 
 Medical School, from which he received his degree of 
 M.D. in June, 1874. The year 1871-72 he spent in foreign 
 travel, and after his second graduation, health being some- 
 
1 868.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 255 
 
 what slender, he again travelled for a year, and then stud- 
 ied in German universities for the greater part of two 
 years. 
 
 In the autumn of 1877 settled in Boston, where he 
 has remained, engaged in practice. Has served under 
 appointments as Physician to the Boston Dispensary and 
 to St. Luke's Home, and as Assistant Physician to the 
 Children's Hospital. 
 
 Dr. Davenport married, in June, 1879, Elizabeth A. 
 Brewster, of Roxbury. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 156 Mt. Vernon Street. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1868. Prest. Philologian. Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1869. Philosophical, Commencement, 1870. 
 
 Charles Tracy Barney, of New York City, son of 
 Ashbel H. and Susan [Tracy] Barney, was born in Cleve- 
 land, O., January 27th, 1850. Entered Williams third 
 term Sophomore, in 1868, taking the special course, which 
 he completed in 1870 with his class. Has since been en- 
 gaged as a banker and broker in stocks. 
 
 Mr. Barney married, October 20th, 1875, Lilly Whit- 
 ney, of Brookline, Mass., and by this marriage he has two 
 sons. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 82 Broadway. 
 
 William Davis Granger, m.d., of Buffalo, N. Y., son 
 of Rev. Dr. James N. and Anna B. [Davis] Granger, was 
 born at Providence, R. I., his parents' place of residence, 
 in the old First Baptist parsonage, December 22d, 1847. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Highland School, Worcester, 
 Phillips (Andover) Academy, and the University Gram- 
 mar School, Providence. Entered Williams third term 
 Junior, May, 1868, taking the partial course, which he 
 completed at the graduation of his class in 1869. He 
 then began the study of medicine, in which he received 
 
2^6 Biographical Record of the [1868. 
 
 his degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
 York, in 1879, ^"^ subsequently settled for practice in 
 Buffalo, where he has since remained. 
 
 Dr. Granger has communicated several reports of 
 special surgical operations to the Buffalo Medical and Sur- 
 gical Journal, Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 7 West Chippewa Street. 
 
 Alexander Boyd Cummings, of Washington, D. C, 
 son of Alexander and Sarah [Yard] Cummings, — the for- 
 mer a native of Williamsport, Pa., and the latter of Phila- 
 delphia, — was born at Philadelphia, his parents* place of 
 residence, September i8th, 1849. 
 
 Was fitted for college by Professor S. M. Cleveland 
 of Philadelphia, entered Williams, as Sophomore, in the 
 class of 1 87 1, but left during his Senior year. He then 
 studied in Harvard Law School, but without entering 
 upon professional practice was engaged for a while edito- 
 rially, until appointment as a clerk in the Sixth Auditor's 
 office, Treasury Department, at the Capital. 
 
 He married, May 17th, 1876, Julia B. Jones, formerly 
 of Bradford County, Pa. (1880.) 
 
 * Joseph Berens, m.d., of Philadelphia, Pa., son of 
 Dr. Bernard Berens and Mrs. R. S. [Passmore] Berens, 
 was born in Philadelphia, his parents' home, March 23d, 
 1851. 
 
 He was fitted for college in that city, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the autumn of 1868, and was grad- 
 uated in 1872. He then studied medicine in the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, from which he received his M.D. in 
 March, 1874; soon after was elected Resident Physician 
 in the Philadelphia Hospital ; and upon the completion of 
 his term of service there, engaged, with eminent success, 
 in a private professional practice not exceeded in extent 
 by that of many of the most prominent physicians in the 
 oity. He also devoted much of his time to his duties 
 
1 868.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 257 
 
 as Pathologist to the hospital already named, a position 
 to which he was elected not long- before his decease. 
 
 His success, although due in part to favoring circum- 
 stances, was owing also to a rarely happy combination in 
 himself of certain intellectual and moral traits, which en- 
 abled him to improve the opportunities afforded him. 
 His professional attainments were of the highest charac- 
 ter. Thoroughly instructed in both the science and the 
 art of medicine, remarkably bold and self-reliant in prac- 
 tice, he was eminently successful in the treating of dis- 
 ease. Though energetic and determined, he was kind 
 and considerate, and had a singular appreciation of the 
 mental states of the sick, which enabled him at once to 
 win their confidence, and in a short time their affection. 
 The few professional papers written by him show that he 
 possessed true scientific originality. 
 
 Dr. Berens died in Philadelphia, May 22d, 1880, after 
 an illness of only four days, the result of blood-poisoning 
 by inoculation from a surgical patient. 
 
 Phila. Daily Evg. Bulletin^ May 25///, 1880, mainly. 
 
 Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1871. Poem, Adelphic Un. Ex., 
 1872. Commencement, 1872. 
 
 Fisher Howe, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., youngest child 
 of Fisher and Elizabeth [Leavitt] Howe, was born in 
 Brooklyn, his parents' home, April 19th, 185 1. 
 
 He was fitted for College at the High School, Law- 
 renceville, N. J., entered Williams, as Freshman, in Sep- 
 tember, 1868, and was graduated in 1872. During the 
 two years following graduation he travelled in Europe, 
 and upon his return was for some time in the New 
 York office of the Brooklyn White Lead Company. He 
 then studied in the Law School of Columbia College, 
 from which he received the degree of LL.B in 1880, and 
 was thereupon admitted to practice. 
 
 Mr. Howe married, April 7th, 1875, Lizzie B., daugh- 
 ter of the late Charles Cronkhite of Brooklyn, and by this 
 marriage he has a daughter and a son. (1880.)] 
 17 
 
258 Biographical Record of the [1868. 
 
 Address, No. 128 Willow Street. 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex. Marshal, Class-day, 1872. A.M. 
 in course. 
 
 Benjamin Ives Gilman, of Sparkill, Rockland Co., 
 N. Y., brother of W. S. and Theodore Gilman (p. 220), 
 was born in New York City, February 19th, 1852. Was 
 fitted for college at the schools of Dr. J. N. McElligott 
 and Rev. J. McDougal in New York, entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, in September, 1868, but left, in consequence 
 of trouble with his eyes, in the spring of 1 869. After leav- 
 ing college he was engaged for five years in the business 
 of banking with his father and brothers in New York. 
 He is now occupied as a graduate student in Johns Hop- 
 kins University, Baltimore. 
 
 Mr. Gilman this year received the degree of A.B. from 
 Williams, restoring him to the roll of his class. (1880.) 
 
 Joseph Warren Burden, of Troy, N. Y., son of Peter 
 A. and Abbie [Shepherd] Burden, and cousin of W. F. 
 and H. H. Burden (pp. 271, 272), was born at Troy, Sep- 
 tember 24th, 1852. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Troy Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1868, and was graduated in 1872. 
 Is not engaged in business. Married, April 21st of the 
 present year, Harriette H., daughter of the late Hon. John 
 A. Griswold of Troy. (188 1.) 
 
 Commencement, 1872. 
 
 George Dale Rumsey, of Chicago, 111., son of Julian 
 S. and Martha A. [Turner] Rumsey, was born in Chicago, 
 his parents' place of residence. May 20th, 1849. 
 
 Was fitted for college by Prof. N. H. Griffin at Wil- 
 liamstown, entered Williams in 1869, and was graduated 
 in 1872. Has since been engaged in business as a member 
 
1 868.] JCappa Alpha in Williams, 259 
 
 of the pioneer commission house of Rumsey, Brother & 
 Co., which in 1839 inade the first shipment of grain ever 
 sent from Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Rumsey married Alice C. Garfield, of Chicago, 
 June 13th, 1878. 
 
 Address, No. 16 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1871. Commencement, 1872. Phi 
 Beta Kappa, 1872. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Edward Prime Coe, of Englewood, N. J., son of 
 George S. and Almira [Stanley] Coe, was born in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., February 2d, 185 1. Was fitted for college at 
 Englewood, entered Williams, as Sophomore, September, 
 1869, and was graduated in 1872. Since then has been 
 engaged in business as a commission merchant in the 
 South American and West Indian trade. Is a member of 
 the firm of Cadenas & Coe. 
 
 He married, October nth, 1877, Margaret Duryee, 
 and by this marriage he has two daughters. (1881.) 
 
 Address, No. 63 Pine Street. 
 
 Commencement, 1872. 
 
 Solomon Bulkley Griffin, of Springfield, Mass., son 
 of Prof. Nathaniel H. and Hannah [Bulkley] Griffin, and 
 brother of Prof. E. H. and Rev. H. L. Griffin (see Index), 
 was born at Williamstown, August 13th, 1852. 
 
 Was fitted for college by his father, and entered 
 Williams, as Sophomore, in 1869, taking the University 
 course, which he completed in 1872. Immediately after- 
 ward went to his present residence to work upon the 
 Springfield Republican; is now the managing editor of 
 
26o Biographical Record of the [1869. 
 
 that leading paper, and is likely to make journalism his 
 life-work. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Poet, Class-day, 1872. 
 
 I 870. 
 
 Arthur Hale, of Lincoln, Nebraska, brother of G. W. 
 Hale, Jr. (p. 235), was born at Pennington, N. J., Decem- 
 ber 5th, 1852. Was fitted for college at the Lawrenceville 
 (N. J.) High School, under Rev. S. M. Hamill, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1870, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1874. After graduation was appointed Aid upon 
 the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, by Professor Lesley 
 of Philadelphia, and served in the iron and oil districts of 
 the State from the summer of 1874 until the spring of 
 1878, when he resigned. Since November, 1877, has been 
 engaged in the production of crude petroleum. Is at 
 present in Milford, Nevada, with a view to entering into 
 business there. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1872. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1873. Presi- 
 dent, Class-day, 1874. Commencement, 1874. 
 
 Charles Bulkley Hubbell, of New York City, son 
 of Dr. Charles L. Hubbell of Troy, N. Y., and Juliette E. 
 [Bulkley] Hubbell, daughter of Major Gershom Bulkley, 
 who emigrated to Michigan from Williamstown shortly 
 after the birth of this daughter, was born at Williams- 
 town, July 20th, 1853. He is cousin to Daniel Dewey, the 
 Griffins, S. T. Bulkley, and A. Pleasants (see Index). 
 
 Was fitted for college in schools at Troy, whither his 
 father had removed from Williamstown during this son's 
 infancy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1870, and was 
 graduated in 1874. During his course he was much in- 
 terested in the formation of the Intercollegiate Literary 
 Association, instituted for the purpose of holding annual 
 
1870.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 261 
 
 contests in the city of New York, and he was the first 
 president of this organization, as well as the representative 
 from Williams at its first contest. 
 
 After graduation he spent a year in New York, en- 
 gaged in study and in writing for the New York Tribune. 
 Then returned to Troy, where he began the study of law ; 
 also attended lectures in the Albany Law School, from 
 which he received, in 1876, the degree of LL.B. Being 
 admitted to practice in May of that year, began busi- 
 ness in Troy, was shortly after elected Alderman and was 
 made Chairman of the Common Council's Law Committee. 
 
 The following year removed to Milwaukee and became 
 a member of the law-firm of Davis, Hubbell & Riess, but 
 after a short time returned to Troy and eventually settled 
 in New York in professional practice. 
 
 Mr. Bulkley married, June 5th, 1879, ^^ youngest 
 daughter of Hon. Wm. H. Chandler, of Thompson, 
 Conn., and has by this marriage a daughter. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 239 Broadway. 
 
 Poem, Adelphic Un. Ex., 1872. Prize, Rhetorical Ex., 
 1873. Editor F2<^^//^ for three years. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1874. 
 
 Barclay Jermain, of Albany, N. Y., son of James B. 
 and Catherine [Rice] Jermain, was born at West Troy, 
 N. Y., July I2th, 1852. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Albany Academy, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in 1870, and pursued an inter- 
 rupted course until 1873, when he left college and began 
 the study of law in the Albany Law School, from which 
 he received the degree of LL.B. in 1876. Has since been 
 engaged in mercantile business, never having practised his 
 profession. In 1879 i"eceived his first and second degrees 
 from Williams and was restored to the roll of his class. 
 Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Horace Lyman Hicks, of Troy, N. Y., son of Edward 
 
262 Biographical Record of the [1870. 
 
 J. and Helen M. Hicks, was born at St. Albans, Vt., May 
 28th, 1854. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Troy Academy and High 
 School, entered Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1 870, 
 and was graduated in 1874. Studied law at the Albany 
 Law School, from which he received his LL.B., and has 
 since admission been engaged in professional practice. 
 Is a member of the firm of Ballard & Hicks. Unmar- 
 ried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 39 Second Street. 
 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1874. Commencement, 1874. 
 
 Frederick Fenner Neyhart, of Lake Ridge, Tomp- 
 kins Co., N. Y., son of Daniel and Sarah A. [Fenner] 
 Neyhart, was born at Auburn, N. Y., November 15th, 
 1852. Was fitted for college at Mount Pleasant Acad- 
 emy, Sing Sing, N. Y., entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 the fall of 1870, and was graduated in 1874. He then 
 became partner with his father in the grain and flouring 
 business, and in July, 1879, joined in forming the new firm 
 of Watson & Neyhart, bankers and brokers, in Auburn. 
 
 Mr. Neyhart married, February 26th, 1878, Kate H. 
 Coffin. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Cor. Genesee and South Streets, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 Charles Sumner Holt, of Chicago, 111., second son of 
 De Villo R. and Ellen M.[ Hubbard] Holt, and brother of 
 A. L. Holt (see Index), was born at Chicago, October 
 2ist, 1855. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Lake Forest Academy, near 
 Chicago, entered Williams, as Freshman, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1874. Is by profession a lawyer, practising in 
 Chicago. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 97 Clark Street. 
 
1870.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 263 
 
 Editor Williams F;5<af^//^. Prize, German, 1873. Second 
 Benedict Prize, Nat. Hist, 1874. Phi Beta Kappa, 1874. 
 Adelphic Un. Ex., 1874. Commencement, 1874. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Henry Foster Boardman, of Troy, N. Y., son of Der- 
 
 ick L. Boardman (p. 105) and Mary N. [Foster] Board- 
 man, and nephew of Dr. J. Boardman (p. 132), was born at 
 Rome, N. Y., then his parents' home, May 24th, 1854. Was 
 fitted for college at Buffalo, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in 1871, and was graduated in 1875. He then began 
 the study of law in Columbia College Law School, re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.B. therefrom, and has since been 
 engaged in business, in which he was recently admitted 
 to partnership with his father. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Christie & Boardman. 
 
 Prize, French, 1874. Editor Williams Vidette, Mar- 
 shal, Class-day, 1875. Commencement, 1875. 
 
 William Henry Knowlson, of Troy, N. Y., fifth son 
 of James S. Knowlson, Sr., and brother of J. S. Knowlson, 
 Jr. (pp. 94, 244), was born at Troy, May 17th, 1853. 
 He was fitted for college at Troy Academy, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in 1871, left at the end of his Sopho- 
 more year, was for a time engaged in the book and sta- 
 tionery business, and is now in the office of the Troy and 
 Boston R. R. Company at North Adams. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 * Samuel Winthrop Darling, of Nassau, New Provi- 
 dence (Bahama Islands), fourth son of Hon. Timothy Dar- 
 ling and brother of Edwin H. and Rev. Dr. T. G. Darling 
 (pp. 205, 230), was born Sept. 21st, 1854, at Nassau, where 
 his father resided for many years as U. S. Consul. 
 
264 Biographical Record of the [1871. 
 
 At about eleven years of age the subject of this sketch 
 was sent to the United States for the acquisition of an 
 education, and was placed in charge of his brother Timo- 
 thy, then a member of Princeton Seminary, with whom 
 he remained about a year. He then spent four years in 
 Williston Seminary, where he was considered one of the 
 finest and most promising scholars ever in that institution, 
 and was graduated in 1871 with the Valedictory Oration. 
 Entered Williams, as Freshman, in September of the 
 same year, but was almost immediately attacked by 
 typhoid fever, the seeds of which he probably brought 
 with him, and died in about a fortnight, on the 13th of 
 September, 1871. 
 
 Although of brilliant talent and rare promise, he was 
 very simple and unostentatious, of a free and joyous, yet 
 mature, disposition, " a child among children and a man 
 among men." He was a true and conscientious Chris- 
 tian, having early consecrated himself to God, and his life 
 to His service. He was earnest in all religious work, and 
 one of his last acts was to creep down from his bed of 
 sickness to the recitation-room to aid in establishing a 
 class prayer-meeting. His life came and went "like a 
 perfect day, without cloud or chill, full of freshness and 
 song and gladness and clear shining." 
 
 18 72. 
 
 George Vail Gould, of Troy, N. Y., son of Hon. 
 George Gould, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State 
 of New York, and Sarah M. [Vail] Gould, and cousin of 
 Rev. R. P. H. Vail (p. 237), was born at Troy, his pa- 
 rents' home, October 24th, 185 1. Was fitted for college 
 at Williston Seminary, entered Yale, as Freshman, in 1869, 
 remained until the third term of Junior year, during 
 which year he became a member of the Psi Upsilon So- 
 ciety, but in 1872 came to Williams, where he com- 
 pleted his course and was graduated in 1873. He then 
 studied law, received the degree of LL.B. from Albany 
 
1872.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 265 
 
 Law School, and has since been engaged in professional 
 practice. Is unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Adelphic Un. Ex., 1873. A.M. 
 in course. A.M. ad eundem, Yale. 
 
 Benjamin Norton, of New York City, son of Chris- 
 topher F. and Sarah [Chase] Norton, — the latter origi- 
 nally a resident of Claremont, N. H., — was born at Erie, 
 Pa., in 1856. Fitted for college with Prof. N. H. Griffin 
 in Williamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, Septem- 
 ber, 1872, and was graduated in 1876. He then studied 
 law in the office of Palmer, Weed & Smith in Platts- 
 burg, his home and that of his parents, and practised 
 there, as a member of the firm of Norton & Riley, until 
 his removal to New York in May of the present year. 
 Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1877. 
 
 Francis Henshaw Dewey, Jr., of Worcester, Mass., 
 son of Hon. Francis H. and Sarah B. [Tufts] Dewey, was 
 born at Worcester, March 23d, 1856. Is brother to J. C. 
 and G. T. Dewey, nephew to Hon. C. A. and Dr. G. C. 
 Dewey, and nearly related to D. Dewey, C. D. and G. F. 
 Betts, and J. B. Metcalf (see Index). 
 
 Was fitted for college at St. Mark's School, South- 
 boro, Mass., entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 
 1872, and was graduated in 1876 with a Philosophical Ora- 
 tion. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
 from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1878, and 
 thereupon settled in practice at Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Dewey married, December 12th, 1878, Lizzie D. 
 Bliss, of Worcester. (1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1875. Phi Beta Kappa, 1875. Philo- 
 sophical, Commencement, 1876. A.M. in course. 
 
266 Biographical Record of the [1872. 
 
 Giles Kellogg, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, brother 
 of Justin Kellogg (p. 238), was born at Troy, N. Y., 
 December 21st, 1855. Was fitted for college at Troy 
 Academy and at the school of Professor Allen, Newton, 
 Mass. ; entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1872, and was 
 graduated in 1876. Studied law in Albany ; in 1877 received 
 the degree of LL.B. from Union University (formerly, in 
 this department, Albany Law School) ; was admitted to the 
 bar, and practised for a time in Troy. Removed in Jan- 
 uary, 1879, to Chicago, thence to Wisner, Neb., again in 
 March, 1880, to Pueblo, Col, and recently to Las Vegas, 
 where he is engaged in banking. (1881.) 
 
 Commencement, 1876. 
 
 Frank Williams Olds, m.d., of New York City, son 
 of Chauncey N. and Mary B. [Williams] Olds, — the latter 
 a resident of Cincinnati before marriage, — was born in 
 Circleville, O., June 19th, 1853. Was fitted for col- 
 lege at Williston Seminary, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, in the fall of 1872, and left with his class in 
 1876, but, in consequence of sickness, without graduat- 
 ing. In the autumn of the same year entered the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, whence 
 he was graduated in the fall of 1877. Since then has prac- 
 tised in various hospitals in the city, is now surgeon at 
 Bellevue Hospital, and intends eventually to open an office 
 in the city for practice. Unmarried. (1881.) 
 
 Prest. Philotechnian. Poet, Class-day, 1876. Editor 
 Vidette and Athenceum, three years, and Gulielmensia?i, 1876. 
 
 Charles White Huntington, of West Brookfield, 
 Mass., son of Charles T. and Sarah H. [White] Hunting- 
 ton, — the latter of Hinsdale before marriage, — was born at 
 Stockbridge, Mass., May 22d, 1854. Was fitted for college at 
 Williston Seminary, entered Williams, as Freshman, Sep- 
 
1872.] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 267 
 
 tember, 1872, and was graduated June 28th, 1876, with the 
 Valedictory Oration (subject, '' The Unseen"). 
 
 After graduation read law for a year in Boston, and 
 in the autumn of 1877 entered Harvard Law School in the 
 second year, but being compelled by failing health to 
 leave in a short time, soon after went abroad for three or 
 four months. On his return in the fall of 1878 he entered 
 the Theological Seminary at Andover, of which he is now 
 a member in the Senior class. Unmarried. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 First Prize, History, 1875. First Prize, French, 1875. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 1875. Second Benedict Prize, Nat. Hist, 
 1876. Prest. Philologian. Editor WiUiams AthetKBum. 
 Valedictory, Commencement, 1876. 
 
 Adair Pleasants, of Rock Island, 111., son of Hon. 
 George F. and Sarah T. [Bulkley] Pleasants, was born at 
 Rock Island, April 8th, 1854. His father, a Williams 
 graduate, was originally from Washington, D. C, and his 
 mother, a daughter of Solomon Bulkley, Esq., was from 
 Williamstown. Through the former he is cousin of Rev. 
 F. Noble, and upon the side of the latter, nephew of 
 Prof. N. H. and cousin of Prof. E. H., Rev. H. L., and 
 S. B. Griffin (see Index), and related to other members of 
 our Society. 
 
 He was fitted at the High School, Rock Island, en- 
 tered Knox College, Galesburg, 111., in September, 1871, 
 as Freshman, remained one year, and in September, 1872, 
 became a member of the Sophomore class at Williams, 
 where he was graduated in 1875 with the First Philosophi- 
 cal Oration. He then read law in his father's office and 
 in that of W. H. Gest, Esq., in Rock Island, was admitted 
 to the bar in July, 1878, and has since been engaged in 
 practice. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 First Junior Rhetorical Prize, 1874. Second Benedict 
 Prize in German, 1874. Phi Beta Kappa, 1875. Ivy Ora- 
 tor, Class-day, 1875. First Philosophical, Commencement, 
 1875. 
 
268 Biographicul Record of the [1872. 
 
 Arthur Haynesworth Masten, of New York City, 
 son of James H. and Almeda [Arthur] Masten, — the latter 
 a daughter of Rev. Dr. William Arthur, of West Troy, 
 N. Y., — was born at Cohoes, N. Y., his parents' place of 
 residence, September nth, 1855. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, from 
 which he was graduated in the summer of 1872. Entered 
 Williams in the following autumn with the class of 1876, 
 but left in the middle of Sophomore year, and was en- 
 gaged in business in Cohoes until January, 1877, when he 
 began the study of law in the office of Earl L. Stimson, 
 Esq. (K. A. of Union), also of Cohoes. In October, 1877, 
 removed to New York, and entered Columbia College 
 Law School, from which he was graduated with LL.B. in 
 May, 1879. ^^s since been engaged in professional prac- 
 tice in the office of the Corporation Counsel of the city. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Masten published a History of Cohoes, 
 N. Y., in one volume. (1880.) 
 
 Editor Williams Vidette, 
 
 18 73. 
 
 William Gerard Hallock, of Linden, N. J., son of 
 WiUiam H. and Julia [Mack] Hallock, — the latter a native 
 of Plainfield, Mass., — was born in the city of New York, 
 June 15th, 1852. His grandfather, the late Gerard Hal- 
 lock, Esq., a native also of Plainfield, was a Williams 
 graduate, and for many years one of the editors of the 
 New York Journal of Commerce, The family name was 
 originally written Halleck. 
 
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college at 
 Williston Seminary, from which he was graduated in 
 1873. Entered Williams in the fall of the same year, as 
 Freshman, and remained until the end of first term Jun- 
 ior. The following year entered a commercial house in 
 New York, with which, after a year spent with another 
 fi rm, he is now again connected. His place of residence 
 
1 8 73-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 269 
 
 while in college was Brooklyn, N. Y., but since 1877 it has 
 been as above. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 Gaylord Parsons Clark, m.d., of Syracuse, N. Y., 
 son of ex-Mayor Charles P. and Aurelia L. [Nolton] 
 Clark, was born in Syracuse, his parents' place of resi- 
 dence, November 12th, 1856. His father is of the North- 
 ampton family, of which there have been several in our 
 Society (see pp. 11, 126), and upon that side he is also 
 related to Rev. Dr. Parsons (p. 117). 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Syracuse Classical 
 School, under Professor Isaac Bridgman, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1873, and was graduated 
 July 4th, 1877 with a Philosophical Oration. He then be- 
 gan the study of medicine at the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons connected with the University of Syracuse, 
 from which he was graduated June i6th of the present 
 year, receiving the degree of M.D. and the Didama prize 
 for the best set of examination papers. Immediately 
 afterward he was appointed Teacher of Anatomy by the 
 Faculty of the college, in place of a Professor who had 
 resigned^ and he is now engaged in discharging the duties 
 of his position as such. (Dec, 1880.) ^ 
 
 Address, No. 126 South Salina Street. 
 
 First Benedict Prize, German, 1876. Phi Beta Kappa, 
 1877. Philosophical, Commencement, 1877. 
 
 George Dennick Wick, of Cleveland, O., son of 
 Paul Wick, was born at Youngstown, O., his parents' 
 place of residence, June 24th, 1854. His mother was orig- 
 inally from Hartford, Conn. He was fitted for college at 
 Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, entered Wil- 
 liams, as Sophomore, in the fall of 1873, and left at the 
 close of the year (June, 1874). Was then in Youngstown 
 for a year, at Oil City, Pa., for another, and since 1877 has 
 
270 Biographical Record of the Sj^'^lZ- 
 
 been settled in business in Cleveland, as a member of the 
 firm of Condit, Wick & Co., iron manufacturers and mer- 
 chants. 
 
 He married, October ist, 1879, Mary C. Chamberlain, 
 of Cleveland. (1880.) 
 
 Address, Nos. i and 3 River Street. 
 
 John Clarke Dewey of Worcester, Mass., son of 
 Hon. Francis H. and Sarah B. [Tufts] Dewey, and 
 brother of F. H. Dewey, Jr., and of George T. Dewey 
 (see Index), was born at Worcester, May 19th, 1857. 
 Was fitted for college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, 
 Mass., entered Wilhams, as Freshman, in 1874, and was 
 graduated in 1878. Is now engaged in the study of law 
 in Worcester. ( 1 880.) 
 
 Commencement, 1878. 
 
 William Gardner Alcott, of Kansas City, Mo., 
 was fitted for college at Greylock Institute, South Wil- 
 liamstown, entered Williams, as Sophomore, in 1873, from 
 Cleveland, O., then his home, but remained only until the 
 close of first term. He has since been engaged in busi- 
 ness in Cleveland, and about two years ago removed to 
 his present residence, where he is in the wholesale notion 
 trade. Married in 1876. (1881.) 
 
 1874. 
 
 Adonijah Bidwell, of South Pueblo, Col., oldest son 
 of Orlando B. and Candace [Ransom] Bidwell, and brother 
 of Curtis Bidwell (see Index), was born at Monterey, 
 Berkshire County, Mass., December 19th, 1854. He is a 
 descendant of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, the first Congre- 
 gational minister of Monterey (then South Tyringham), 
 
1 8 74-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 271 
 
 and others of his father's family have borne the same 
 name. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, entered 
 the Junior class at Williams in the fall of 1875, upon the 
 scientific course, and remained one year. Has since been 
 in the hardware business in Abilene, Kansas, and recently 
 removed to South Pueblo, where he is a member of the 
 firm of Sweet & Bidwell, commission produce merchants. 
 
 Mr. Bidwell married, in 1879, Clara Willard, of Chi- 
 cago, who recently deceased, leaving an infant child. 
 
 (Jan., 1 88 1.) 
 
 Henry Colt, Jr., of Pittsfield, Mass., son of Henry 
 and Elizabeth [Bacon] Colt, and second cousin of Hons. 
 James D. and Thomas Colt (pp. y^^ 93), was born in Pitts- 
 field, his parents' home, November 9th, 1856. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Pittsfield High School, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1874, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1878. He then began the study of medicine in 
 Pittsfield with Drs. Paddock and Adams; in February, 
 1879, entered the Boston Medical School, and is now en- 
 gaged in study there. (1880.) 
 
 George Henry Tucker, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of 
 
 George J. and Harriet [Sill] Tucker, was born in Lenox, 
 his parents' home, September 12th, 1856. Was fitted for 
 college in Pittsfield High School, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in the fall of 1874, and remained until the end 
 of October, 1875. He was then in his father's office un- 
 til September 26th, 1878, when he became County Treas- 
 urer of Berkshire County, which position he now holds. 
 Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 William Fletcher Burden, Jr., of Troy, N. Y., 
 son of WiUiam F. and Julia A. Burden, brother of 
 Howard H. and cousin of J. W. Burden, also cousin 
 
272 Biographical Record of the [1874. 
 
 of Rev. R. P. H. Vail, A. W. Durkee, and J. A. 
 Griswold (see Index), was born at Troy, October 27th, 
 1856. Was fitted for college in Williamstown by Prof. 
 N. H. Griffin, entered Williams with the class of 1878, 
 but spent the year following Freshman in foreign 
 travel, and upon his return joined the class of 1879, with 
 which he was graduated. Has since been engaged in the 
 manufacture of steel at the Bessemer Works. (1880.) 
 
 Howard Hart Burden, of Troy, N. Y., brother of the 
 preceding, was born at Troy, December i8th, 1857. Was 
 fitted for college in Williamstown by Prof. N. H. Griffin, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1874, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1878. Has since been engaged in reading law with 
 Peck and Tracy, Esqs., of Troy. Unmarried. (1880.) 
 
 1875. 
 
 Richard Dickinson Jewett, of New York City, son 
 of Rev. Dr. A. D. L. and Elizabeth H. [Dickinson] Jewett 
 (see p. 166), was born at Piermont-on-Hudson, July 6th, 
 1857. Was fitted for college at M. W. Lyon's Collegiate 
 School in New York, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1875, and left during the third term of his Junior year. 
 The succeeding fall (1878) entered the Law School of Co- 
 lumbia College, from which he was graduated LL.B. in 
 May of the present year. Was admitted to the bar June 
 2d, following, and is now engaged in practice in New 
 York. Mr. Jewett is a non-commissioned officer in Com- 
 pany 10, Seventh Regiment N. G. S. N. Y. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 George Tufts Dewey, of Worcester, Mass., son of 
 Hon. Francis H. and Sarah B. [Tufts] Dewey, and 
 brother of F. H., Jr., and J. C. Dewey (pp. 265, 270), 
 was born at Worcester, September 12th, 1858. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Mt. Pleasant Institute, 
 
1 875-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 273 
 
 Amherst, entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 
 1875, and was graduated in 1879 with the First Philo- 
 sophical Oration. Is now engaged in studying law in 
 Worcester. (1880.) 
 
 First Benedict Prize in Latin, 1878. First Ditto Mathe- 
 matics, 1878. Moonlight Ex., 1878. First Philosophical, 
 Commencement, 1879. 
 
 1876. 
 
 Almon Whiting Griswold, Jr., of New York City, 
 son of Almon W. and Mary A. [Perry] Griswold, was 
 born in New York, November 4th, 1859. 
 
 He was fitted for college by a private tutor, and en- 
 tered Williams at the beginning of second term, January, 
 1876, as a member of the Freshman class. Remained 
 until the end of the year, when he left and was obliged to 
 refrain from study for a while. In the autumn of 1877 
 entered Harvard University, and is now a member of the 
 Senior class in that institution. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Curtis Bidwell, of Albany, N. Y., son of Orlando B. 
 and Candace [Ransom] Bidwell, and brother of Ad. Bid- 
 well (pp. 152, 270), was born at Freeport, III, July ist, 
 1856. Was fitted for college at Grey lock Institute, South 
 Wilhamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 1876, 
 but was compelled by sickness to leave in the spring of 
 1878. He was then, for a time, in the bank of which his 
 father is president, and is now engaged in fruit-farming, 
 near Albany, in company with R. H. Hawkins (p. 274) 
 of his class. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 William Berry Roberts, of Washington, D. C, en- 
 tered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1876, and was 
 graduated in 1880. Is now studying law in Washington. 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 18 
 
2 74 Biographical Record of the [1876. 
 
 Thomas Scott Lambert, Jr., of New York City, son 
 of Dr. Thomas S. and Mary J. [Osborn] Lambert, — the 
 latter a native of Cairo, Greene County, N. Y., — was 
 born at Peekskill, N. Y., March 12th, 1855. His mother's 
 family is remarkable for its longevity. His great grand- 
 mother on that side, before her death, which occurred at 
 the age of ninety-eight, could say, " Arise, daughter, and 
 go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's daughter hath a 
 daughter." 
 
 He was fitted for college at Meriden, N. H., and at 
 Northfield, Vt., entered Williams, as Senior, in the fall of 
 1876, taking the partial course, which he completed at the 
 graduation of his class in 1877. Has since then been en- 
 gaged in medical studies. Married Lillie Fraser, of 
 Brooklyn. (1880.) 
 
 18 7 7. 
 
 RosELLE Hough Hawkins, of Albany, N.;Y., son of 
 H. D. and L. A. [Davis] Hawkins, was born at Albany, 
 June 15th, 1859. 
 
 Was fitted for college at Greylock Institute, South 
 Williamstown, entered Williams second term Sophomore, 
 January, 1877, taking the partial course, and remained 
 until December, 1878, when he left and was for a time en- 
 gaged in a wholesale dry-goods house in Albany. Is now 
 employed in fruit-farming near that city in company with 
 Curtis Bidwell (p. 273) of his class. 
 
 He married, on the 8th of the present month, Emma, 
 daughter of Daniel J. and sister of Louis W. Pratt (p. 281), 
 also of Albany. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Henry Harris Cooper, of Montrose, Pa., son of Wil- 
 liam H. and Mary D. [Paxson] Cooper, — the latter a resi- 
 dent before marriage of New York City, — was born at 
 Montrose, January 28th, 1858. Is nephew of the Gilmans 
 (see Index). 
 
1 877-] Kappa Alpha in Williams. 275 
 
 Was fitted for college at Greylock Institute, South 
 Williamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, in the 
 autumn of 1877, but left after about a month on account 
 of sickness. He re-entered in the class of 1882, but was 
 again compelled by failure of health to desist from study 
 early in the present year. Is now engaged in a bank at 
 Montrose. (1880.) 
 
 George Livingstone Nichols, Jr., of Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., son of George L. and Christina M. [Cole] Nichols, 
 was born in Brooklyn, May 9th, i860. 
 
 Was fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and 
 Polytechnic Institute, entered Williams, as Junior, Sep- 
 tember, 1877, upon the partial course, which he completed 
 in 1879. Re-entered the present fall, as a member of the 
 Senior class, studying for his degree. (Nov., 1880.) 
 
 James Wilson Bullock, of Mt. Auburn (Cincinnati), 
 O., son of Anthony D. and Sarah [Wilson] Bullock, and 
 brother of George Bullock, K.A. of Cornell, was born at 
 Cincinnati, July 4th, 1 860. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Greylock Institute, South 
 Williamstown, entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 
 1877, and is now a member of the Senior class. (Dec, 
 1880.) 
 
 Walter William Page, of Bay City, Mich., son of 
 Freeborn H. Page, was born at Westport, Essex County, 
 N. Y., his parents' home, January 5th, i860. Was fitted 
 for college at Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, 
 .and entered WiUiams, as Sophomore, in 1877, upon the 
 partial course, which he completed in the summer of the 
 present year. Is engaged in the lumber business at his 
 present place of residence. (1880.) 
 
 Haynes Hanford Chilson, Jr., of Northampton, 
 Mass., son of Haynes H. and Catherine S. [Bates] Chil- 
 
276 Biographical Record of the \y^n» 
 
 son, — the latter a daughter of Hon. Isaac C. Bates, col- 
 league of Daniel Webster in the U. S. Senate for many 
 years, — was born at Northampton, April ist, 1858. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the Northampton High 
 School ; entered Williams, as Sophomore, September, 
 1878 ; left at the close of Junior year; married, on the 6th 
 of the present month, Kate P., daughter of the late 
 Charles S. Blake, of Boston, and has gone abroad to re- 
 main some time for the study of vocal music. While in 
 college was prominent in its musical affairs. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 First Sophomore Prize, Moonlight Ex., 1879. 
 
 i878. 
 
 Morrison Isaac Swift, of Ashtabula, O., son of 
 Charles E. and Emily [Folger] Swift, was born at Ra- 
 venna, O., then his parents' place of residence, January 
 6th, 1856. 
 
 He was fitted for college in the High School at Ashta- 
 bula, whither his family had removed, and at Grand River 
 Institute, Austinburg, in the same State. Entered Western 
 Reserve, as Freshman, in the fall of 1875, and remained 
 two years; then left and came to Williams, entered ad 
 eundenty and was graduated in 1879. Since that time has 
 continued his course of study, as a Graduate Student in 
 Greek and Philosophy, in Johns Hopkins University. 
 Near the close of his first year in that institution he pre- 
 sented a thesis on the Ethics of Spencer and Kant which 
 was so favorably regarded that he was thereupon ap- 
 pointed to a Fellowship in Philosophy for the present 
 academic year. The University Fellowships, limited in 
 number, are worth several hundred dollars per annum. 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1878. Graves Prize for Essay, 1879. 
 Commencement, 1879. 
 
1878.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 277 
 
 William Foote Seward, of Portland, Me., son of Rev. 
 Dr. Dwight L. and Mrs. L. H. Seward, was born at Yon- 
 kers, N. Y., — where his father was for many years pastor 
 of the First Presbyterian Church, — in 1853. Was fitted 
 for college by a tutor, entered WiUiams, as Junior, Nov. 
 1878, and was graduated the present year. (1880.) 
 
 Prize Moonhght Ex., 1878. Van Vechten Prize for 
 Extemporaneous Speaking, 1880. Orator, Class-day, 1880. 
 First Prize in Oratory at Intercollegiate Contest, N. Y. 
 Academy of Music, January, 1880, and also at the pre- 
 liminary contest at Williams in June preceding. 
 
 William Buckingham Dyer, of Cordova, 111., son ot 
 Charles E. and Sarah E. [Root] Dyer, — the latter before 
 marriage of Sandusky, O., — was born at Racine, Wis., his 
 parents' place of residence, August 7th, i860. Was fitted 
 for college at Racine Academy, entered Williams, as 
 Freshman, in September, 1878, left at the end of the year, 
 and has since been engaged at Cordova as agent of the 
 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, his present 
 position. (1880.) 
 
 Frederic William Downer, Jr., of New York City, 
 son of Frederic W. and Sarah Downer, was born in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., October 8th, 1859. Fitted for college 
 at Greylock Institute, entered WiUiams, as Freshman, 
 September, 1878, and is now a member of the Junior class. 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 13 West Thirty-seventh Street. 
 
 * Montague Ripka Ely, of Cleveland, O., only son of 
 George H. and Amelia [Ripka] Ely (p. 139), and nephew 
 of S. P. Ely (p. 133), was born at Erie, Pa., March 31st, 
 1 86 1. Was fitted for college at Cleveland Academy and 
 
278 Biographical Record of the [1878. 
 
 at the Brooks School, in the same place ; entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, September, 1878, left at the end of the first 
 year, and entered Princeton, ad eundemy September, 1 879. 
 In the latter part of May following he was attacked by 
 malarial fever, due to defective drainage about the college 
 premises, and, after a sickness of but little more than a 
 week, died at Princeton, May 26th, 1880. So favorable 
 had been his symptoms, and so sudden and rapid was the 
 change for the worse in his case, that his parents had 
 barely time to reach him after receiving the summons to 
 his side. This they did at six o'clock in the evening of 
 the 25th, and at four the next morning he passed away. 
 
 From President McCosh and others they received 
 most comforting assurances in regard to their son's sub- 
 mission and resignation, and his hope of eternal life. As 
 they left Princeton in the evening of that sad day, bearing 
 his precious remains away to their own home, the college 
 bell was tolled, the class of which the deceased had been 
 a member preceded his body as mourners, while the re- 
 maining classes attended it as an escort to the station. It 
 was, the President remarked, an entirely spontaneous 
 tribute of admiration and love. 
 
 Resolutions of regret and sympathy were passed by 
 the class of the deceased, the American Whig Society of 
 the college, to which he belonged, and by his former class 
 in Williams, and were published in the periodicals of 
 both colleges, as well as in the Cleveland daily news- 
 papers. 
 
 Mr. Ely was a young man of singularly attractive ap- 
 pearance, and he gave promise of unusual mental force as 
 well as personal grace. His disposition was resolute, yet 
 gentle, warm, and generous, and he was popular and be- 
 loved not only in the colleges of which he was a member, 
 but throughout the community in which was his home. 
 Cleveland Herald, May 2gth, 1880, in part. 
 
 Note, — This death was the first of a series of similar 
 occurrences among the Princeton students, which made 
 it necessary to suspend the college exercises and to dis- 
 
1878.] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 279 
 
 pense with the ordinary celebration of Commencement. 
 The whole number of deaths was eleven. (1880.) 
 
 WoLCOTT Howe Johnson, of Boston, Mass., son of 
 Samuel and Mary [Stoddard] Johnson, and cousin of 
 Samuel Johnson (p. 280), was born in Boston, April 9th, 
 i860. Was fitted for college at a private school in that 
 city, entered WilHams, as Freshman, in 1878, taking the 
 partial course, but at the end of a year entered upon the 
 full course and is now a member of the Sophomore class. 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Address, No. 7 Commonwealth Avenue. 
 
 Frederic Wild, Jr., of Racine, Wis., son of Frederic 
 and Eliza M. [Ames] Wild, — the latter a resident before 
 marriage of Syracuse, N. Y., — was born at Kenosha, Wis., 
 October 13th, 1859. Was fitted for college at Racine 
 Academy, entered WilHams, as Freshman, in September, 
 1878, but left during his Sophomore year. Is now in the 
 General Freight office of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 
 Paul Railroad, at Racine. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Charles Herrick Keith, of East Bridgewater, Mass., 
 son of Marcus M. and Mary A. [Bailey] Keith, was born 
 in Boston, June 14th, 1859. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ college at 
 Adams Academy, Quincy, entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, October, 1878, left at the end of his first year, and is 
 now engaged in business. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 1879. 
 
 Frederic Jennings Parsons, of Auburndale, Mass., 
 son of Rev. Dr. Justin W. and Catherine [Jennings] Par- 
 sons (see p. 117), was born at Nicomedia, Turkey in 
 Asia, December 3d, i860. He attended Robert College 
 
28o Biographical Record of the [1879. 
 
 in Constantinople from September, 1871, until his depart- 
 ure for the United States, which he reached August ist, 
 1875. Was fitted here at the High School in Newton, 
 Mass., residing in Auburndale ; entered Williams, as Fresh- 
 man, September, 1877, ^^^ is now a member of the Senior 
 class. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Second Benedict Prize, in Latin, 1879. Same in 
 Greek, 1879. Same in Nat. Hist, 1879. Honorable 
 Mention, Math., 1879. Second Benedict Prize, German, 
 1880. Phi Beta Kappa, 1880. Editor Gulielmensian. 
 First Philosophical, Commencement, 1881. 
 
 Samuel Johnson, of Salem, Mass., son of Amos H. 
 and Frances S. [Benjamin] Johnson, and cousin of Wol- 
 cott H. (p. 279), was born at Middleton, Mass., July i6th, 
 i860. Was fitted for college at Salem High School, entered 
 Williams, as Freshman, in the fall of 1879, ^"^ is now a 
 member of the Sophomore class. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Frederic William Barns, of Oakland, Neb., son of 
 Caleb P. and Elizabeth [Eddy] Barns, — the latter of 
 Whitehall, N. Y., before marriage, — was born at Burling- 
 ton, Wis., November loth, i860. Was fitted for college 
 at Racine Academy, entered Williams, as Freshman, in 
 1878, left during the early part of Sophomore year, and 
 is at present engaged in a bank in Oakland. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 John Tatlock, 3d, of Hoosac Falls, N. Y., son of 
 Rev. John and Lucy B. [Whitman] Tatlock, grandson 
 of Professor John, nephew of Rev. Dr. WiUiam, and 
 brother of S. W. Tatlock (see Index), was born at Wil- 
 liamstown, Mass., March 12th, i860. Was fitted for col- 
 lege at the Park Institute, Rye, N. Y., entered WiUiams, 
 as Sophomore, September, 1879, ^^<^ ^^ now a member of 
 the Junior class. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
1 879-] Kappa Alpha in Williams, 281 
 
 Louis Whipple Pratt, of Albany, N. Y., son of 
 Daniel J. Pratt, Ph.D., N. Y. State Librarian, and Eliza 
 [Whipple] Pratt, was born at Fredonia, N. Y., August 
 14th, 1862. Was fitted for college at Albany High School, 
 entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 1879, ^^^ is 
 now a member of the Sophomore class. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Moonlight Ex., 1881. 
 
 Alfred Lincoln Holt, of Lake Forest, 111., fourth 
 son of De Villo R. and Ellen M. [Hubbard] Holt, and 
 brother of C. S. Holt (p. 262), was born at Lake Forest, 
 January 19th, 1862. Was fitted for college at Lake Forest 
 Academy, entered Williams, as Freshman, September, 
 1879, ^^d is now a member of the Sophomore class. 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Walter Norman Smith, of North Adams, Mass., 
 son of Homer A. and Maria [Foss] Smith, was born at 
 North Adams, October. 23d, 1861. Was fitted for college 
 at Drury Academy in his native place, entered Williams, 
 as Freshman, September, 1879, ^^^ is now a member of 
 the Sophomore class. (Dec, 1 880.) 
 
 1880. 
 
 John Howard James, of Williamsburg, Mass., son of 
 Lyman D. and Helen E. [Field] James, was born at Wil- 
 liamsburg, August 1 2th, 1862. Was fitted for college at 
 Williston Seminary, and entered Williams September 
 last, as Junior. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 John Wesley Harper, of Madison, N. J., son of 
 Charles W. and Harriet W. [Winnek] Harper, was born 
 at Madison, July 9th, 1862. His father is a member of 
 
282 Kappa Alpha in Williams, [1880. 
 
 the publishing house of Harper & Brothers in New York 
 City. Was fitted for college at Madison Classical Institute,, 
 and entered Williams, as Freshman, in September last, 
 
 (Dec, 1880.) 
 
 Seymour Whitman Tatlock, of Hoosac Falls, N. Y., 
 brother of John Tatlock, 3d (p. 280), was born at South 
 Adams, January 8th, 1862. Was fitted for college at Park 
 Institute, Rye, N. Y., and entered Williams, as Freshman,, 
 in September last. (Dec, 1880.) 
 
COLLEGE OFFICERS. 
 
 Alexander Hyde, Trustee. 
 
 Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Trustee, (Columbia.) 
 
 Rev. Nathaniel H. Griffin, D.D., Tutor, Professor, Librarian. 
 
 Rev. David J. Waller, Trustee, (Lafayette.) 
 
 Rev. Robert Crawford, D.D., Tutor. 
 
 John Tatlock, LL.D., Tutor, Professor, Librarian. 
 
 Hon. Joseph White, LL.D., Tutor, Trustee, Treasurer. 
 
 Rev. William Porter, Professor, (Beloit.) 
 
 Hon. James D. Colt, LL.D., Trustee, Professor, (Berkshire 
 Med. Coll.) 
 
 Hon. Francis H. Dewey, LL.D., Trustee. 
 
 John A. Walker, Tutor. 
 
 Rev. Edward Taylor, D.D., Trustee, (Kalamazoo, Olivet, Chi- 
 cago Theo. Sem.) 
 
 Derick L. Boardman, Trustee. 
 
 Rev. Charles J. Collins, Tutor. 
 
 Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne, D.D., LL.D., Tutor, Professor, 
 (also Bowdoin,) President, (also Mass. Agricultural Coll.. 
 and University Wis.,) Trustee. 
 
 Rev. Robert R. Booth, D.D., Trustee. 
 
 Orlando B. Bidwell, Trustee, (Beloit.) 
 
 William Goodell, M.D., Professor, (University Pa.) 
 
 Rev. William Tatlock, D.D., Trustee, (Trinity, General Theo. 
 Sem., N. Y.) 
 
 Samuel M. Cleveland, M.D., Professor, (University Pa.) 
 
 Walter D. Day, M.D., Professor, (N. Y. Coll. Pharmacy.) 
 
 Rev. Samuel H. Kellogg, D.D., Professor, (Western Theo. 
 Sem.) 
 
 Rev. John A. French, Trustee, (Chicago Theo. Sem.) 
 
 Rev. George L. Raymond, Professor. 
 
 Rev. Edward H. Griffin, D.D., Tutor, Professor. 
 
 Rev. James F. Spalding, Tutor. 
 
 Rev. Timothy G. Darling, D.D., Acting Professor, (Union.) 
 
 Rev. Rufus W. Clark, Jr., Trustee, (Kenyon.) 
 
 Rev. Francis T. Ingalls, Regent, (University Kans.) 
 
 Gaylord P. Clark, M.D., (Univ. of Syracuse.) 
 
COMMENCEMENT HONORS. 
 
 Azariah S. Clark, 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1834. 
 
 James H. Ellis, 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1835. 
 
 Charles A. Williams, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1835. 
 
 John Tatlock, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1836. 
 
 Joseph White, Jr., 
 
 First English, 
 
 1836. 
 
 Walter Wright, 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1836. 
 
 John Wells, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1838. 
 
 John A. Walker, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1840. 
 
 Charles Worthington, 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1840. 
 
 Melzer Montague, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1841. 
 
 George P. Briggs, 
 
 First English, 
 
 1842. 
 
 Charles McKinstry, 
 
 Salutatory, (Rutgers,) 
 
 1843. 
 
 Seth S. Mellen, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1843 
 
 Joseph H. Budd, 
 
 First English, 
 
 1844. 
 
 John F. Allen, 
 
 First English, 
 
 1846, 
 
 Samuel P. Ely, 
 
 Mathematical, 
 
 1847. 
 
 James D. Clark, 
 
 Classical, 
 
 1848. 
 
 Daniel E. Safford, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1848. 
 
 Paul A. Chadbourne, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1848, 
 
 Dudley Field, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1850. 
 
 Charles A. Dewey, Jr., 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1851. 
 
 Leonard Bronk, Jr., 
 
 Historical, 
 
 1851. 
 
 William Goodell, Jr., 
 
 Natural History, 
 
 1851. 
 
 James L. McLean, 
 
 Valedictory, (Lafayette,) 
 
 1852. 
 
 Charles M. Freeman, 
 
 Meteorological, 
 
 1852. 
 
 Robert Jackson, 
 
 iEsthetical, 
 
 1854. 
 
 John Tatlock, Jr., 
 
 Mathematical, 
 
 1856. 
 
 John Lamberton, 
 
 Salutatory, 
 
 1856. 
 
 William Tatlock, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1857. 
 
 Samuel M. Cleveland, 
 
 Metaphysical, 
 
 1858. 
 
Commencement Honors, 
 
 285 
 
 Edwin H. Darling, 
 
 Honorary Or., 
 
 1859. 
 
 Joseph W. Hyde, 
 
 ^sthetical, 
 
 i860. 
 
 Gavin Langmuir, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1861. 
 
 John A. French, 
 
 Historical, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Edward H. Griffin, 
 
 Metaphysical, 
 
 1862. 
 
 James F. Spalding, 
 
 Classical, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Timothy G. Darling, 
 
 Ethical, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Henry M. Booth, 
 
 Honorary Or., 
 
 1864. 
 
 Francis T. Ingalls, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1864, 
 
 Emory W. West, 
 
 Honorary Or., 
 
 1865. 
 
 Henry C. Miller, 
 
 ^sthetical, 
 
 1867. 
 
 John C. Haines, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1870. 
 
 Frank H. Davenport, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1870. 
 
 Adair Pleasants, 
 
 First Philosophical, 
 
 1875. 
 
 Francis H. Dewey, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1876. 
 
 Charles W. Huntington, 
 
 Valedictory, 
 
 1876. 
 
 Gaylord P. Clark, 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 1877. 
 
 George T. Dewey, 
 
 First Philosophical, 
 
 1879. 
 
 Frederic J. Parsons, 
 
 First Philosophical, 
 
 1881. 
 
NECROLOGY, 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Samuel Darrow. ... 1834 
 
 Russell Brown 1835 
 
 James H. Ellis 1835 
 
 Azariah S. Clark 1837 
 
 Calvin G. Martin 1842 
 
 James S. Smith 1844 or '45 
 
 Charles D. Betts 1845 
 
 Rufus G. Wells 1845 
 
 William Clark 1846 
 
 Thomas Robbins 1846 
 
 Charles Worthington 1847 
 
 Henry W. Porter 1847 
 
 William R. Benjamin 1852 
 
 Leonard Bronk, Jr 1854 
 
 Job S. Olin 1854 
 
 Moses R. Wright 1855 
 
 Charles McKinstry 1855 
 
 Charles E. Trumbull 1856 
 
 John Lamberton 1857 
 
 John F. Piatt 1858 
 
 George C. Martin 1859 
 
 Converse A. Kellogg i860 
 
 Edwin E. Bronk 1861 
 
 Caleb W. Sanford 1861 
 
 John Foot 1862 
 
 George C. Dewey 1864 
 
 John A. Walker 1864 
 
 Robert W. McClellan 1865 
 
 Hamilton R. Halsey 1866 
 
 Emory W. West 1866 
 
 Hulbert F. Fairchild 1866 
 
 John B. Steele 1866 
 
 William R. Stevens 1867 
 
 Edward P. Taft 1867 
 
 Moses L. Montague 1868 
 
 Joseph Lovell 1869 
 
 Age. 
 
 Initiated. 
 
 Class. 
 
 21 
 
 1833 
 
 1835 
 
 23 
 
 1834 
 
 1837 
 
 25 
 
 1833 
 
 1835 
 
 24 
 
 1833 
 
 1834 
 
 22 
 
 1836 
 
 1839 
 
 
 1840 
 
 1844 
 
 24 
 
 1837 
 
 1839 
 
 32 
 
 1836 
 
 1839 
 
 23 
 
 1843 
 
 1846 
 
 25 
 
 1839 
 
 1840 
 
 25 
 
 1839 
 
 1840 
 
 34 
 
 1839 
 
 1842 
 
 25 
 
 1845 
 
 1849 
 
 23 
 
 1848 
 
 1851 
 
 42 
 
 1834 
 
 1836 
 
 37 
 
 1835 
 
 1838 
 
 36 
 
 1839 
 
 1843 
 
 23 
 
 1850 
 
 1854 
 
 22 
 
 1853 
 
 1856 
 
 20 
 
 1856 
 
 1858 
 
 32 
 
 1843 
 
 1847 
 
 29 
 
 1847 
 
 1851 
 
 32 
 
 1848 
 
 1850 
 
 31 
 
 1846 
 
 1850 
 
 26 
 
 1851 
 
 1855 
 
 23 
 
 1856 
 
 i860 
 
 43 
 
 1839 
 
 1840 
 
 31 
 
 1851 
 
 1855 
 
 22 
 
 1861 
 
 1864 
 
 21 
 
 1861 
 
 1865 
 
 48 
 
 1836 
 
 1838 
 
 52 
 
 1835 
 
 1838 
 
 54 
 
 1837 
 
 1841 
 
 34 
 
 1851 
 
 1855 
 
 45 
 
 1845 
 
 1846 
 
 45 
 
 1841 
 
 1843 
 
Necrology, 287 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Garwood T. Sheldon 1870 
 
 John B. Skinner 1870 
 
 Hasbrouck Davis . . 1870 
 
 Samuel W. Darling 1871 
 
 Lemuel B. Gay 1871 
 
 Melzer Montague 1872 
 
 Anthony T. Hall 1872 
 
 Isaac Bronson 1872 
 
 James Dixon 1873 
 
 James M. Sayre 1874 
 
 JohnF. Allen 1874 
 
 Charles W. Reynolds 1874 
 
 Thomas T. Read 1874 
 
 Rufus R. Williams 1875 
 
 Henry M. Benedict 1875 
 
 Jesse O. Norton 1875 
 
 Benjamin Wilcox 1875 
 
 John Wells 1875 
 
 Hazen Cheney 1876 
 
 Charles C. Matteson 1876 
 
 Nathaniel H. Griffin 1876 
 
 Walter Wright 1876 
 
 Thomas Colt 1876 
 
 Robert Jackson 1877 
 
 Moses C. Robinson 1877 
 
 Edmund A. Benedict 1878 
 
 Austin A. Howard 1879 
 
 Henry Pratt 1880 
 
 Joseph Berens, Jr 1880 
 
 Montague R. Ely 1880 
 
 Justin W. Parsons , 1880 
 
 Dudley Field 1880 
 
 David H. Kellogg 1880 
 
 John E. Blake 1880 
 
 James H. Reed 1880 
 
 Alexander Hyde 1881 
 
 William J. Slidell 1881 
 
 William H. Philip 1881 
 
 Age. 
 
 Initiated. 
 
 Class. 
 
 49 
 
 1837 
 
 1840 
 
 47 
 
 1842 
 
 1842 
 
 43 
 
 1842 
 
 1845 
 
 16 
 
 1871 
 
 1875 
 
 51 
 
 1841 
 
 1843 
 
 54 
 
 1837 
 
 1841 
 
 38 
 
 1853 
 
 1854 
 
 37 
 
 1852 
 
 1856 
 
 58 
 
 1833 
 
 1834 
 
 60 
 
 1833 
 
 1834 
 
 49 
 
 1843 
 
 1846 
 
 30 
 
 i860 
 
 1864 
 
 49 
 
 1837 
 
 1841 
 
 46 
 
 1848 
 
 1852 
 
 47 
 
 1842 
 
 1846 
 
 62 
 
 1833 
 
 1835 
 
 59 
 
 1837 
 
 1841 
 
 56 
 
 1835 
 
 1838 
 
 67 
 
 1835 
 
 1836 
 
 24 
 
 1867 
 
 1871 
 
 61 
 
 1833 
 
 1834 
 
 57 
 
 1834 
 
 1836 
 
 53 
 
 1839 
 
 1842 
 
 42 
 
 1853 
 
 1854 
 
 61 
 
 1836 
 
 1839 
 
 58 
 
 1837 
 
 1840 
 
 63 
 
 1836 
 
 1839 
 
 55 
 
 1849 
 
 1850 
 
 29 
 
 1868 
 
 1872 
 
 19 
 
 1878 
 
 1882 
 
 56 
 
 1843 
 
 1845 
 
 49 
 
 1847 
 
 1850 
 
 58 
 
 1840 
 
 1844 
 
 48 
 
 1848 
 
 1852 
 
 52 
 
 1850 
 
 1852 
 
 66 
 
 1833 
 
 1834 
 
 42 
 
 1854 
 
 1858 
 
 56 
 
 1842 
 
 1846 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Adam, Robt. W., 112 
 
 Alcott, Wm. G 270 
 
 Allen, Jno. F., 121, 284, 287 
 
 Allen, Wm. F., 158 
 
 Allis, Wm. D., 89 
 
 Ames, Jno. H., 215 
 
 Atkins, Jas. A. , 180 
 
 Bacon, Geo. W, , 222 
 
 Barney, Chas. T., 255 
 
 Barns, Fred. W., 280 
 
 Barton, Oliver G., 239 
 
 Bellows, Josiah G., 227 
 
 Benedict, Edm. A. , 80, 287 
 
 Benedict, Hen. M., 115, 287 
 
 Benjamin, S. G. W. , 212 
 
 Benjamin, Wm. R., 151, 286 
 
 Berens, Jos, Jr., 256, 287 
 
 Belts, Chas. D., 79, 286 
 
 Betts, Geo. F., 105 
 
 Bidwell, Ad. , 270 
 
 Bidwell, Curtis, 273 
 
 Bidwell, Orl. B., 151,283 
 
 Bishop, Henry W., 141 
 
 Bissell, Fr. S., 176 
 
 Blake, Geo. A., 143 
 
 Blake, Jno. E 155, 287 
 
 Boardman, Der. L., 105, 283 
 
 Boardman, Henry F., 263 
 
 Boardman, Jno., 132 
 
 Booth, Henry M., 231, 285 
 
 Booth, Robt. R 146, 283 
 
 Briggs, Geo. P., 98, 284 
 
 Bronk, Edwin E., 153, 286 
 
 Bronk, Leon. Jr., 154, 284, 286 
 
 Bronson, Isaac, 188, 287 
 
 Bronson, O. Jr., 198 
 
 Brown, Aug. C, 218 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Brown, Russ., 50, 286 
 
 Brown, Wm. G. , 52 
 
 Budd, Jos. H., 124, 284 
 
 Bulkley, Sol. T., 173 
 
 Bullock, Jas. W 275 
 
 Burden, How. H., 272 
 
 Burden, Jos. W., 258 
 
 Burden, Wm. F. , 271 
 
 Campbell, Dan., 189 
 
 Canfield, Jno. D., 242 
 
 Chadbourne, Paul A., 135, 283, 284 
 
 Cheney, Hazen, 65, 287 
 
 Chilson, Haynes H. Jr 275 
 
 Clark, Az.S 11,284,286 
 
 Clark, Gayl. P., 269, 283, 285 
 
 Clark, Jas. D 126, 284 
 
 Clark, Ruf. W. Jr 232, 283 
 
 Clark, Wm 120, 286 
 
 Clark, Wm. W., 240 
 
 Cleveland, Sam. M.,.. 202, 283, 284 
 
 Cleveland, Treadw., 226 
 
 Coe, Edw. P., 259 
 
 Collins, Chas, J., 113, 283 
 
 Colt, Hen. Jr., 271 
 
 Colt, Jas, D,, 76, 283 
 
 Colt, Thos., 93, 287 
 
 Cooper, Henry H., 274 
 
 Cooper, Sid, W,, 214 
 
 Cowing, Jno. H. , 242 
 
 Crawford, Robt., 38, 283 
 
 Cronkhite, Edg., 145 
 
 Cummings, Alex. B 256 
 
 Curtis, Luc. Q., 28 
 
 Darling, Edw. H., 205, 285 
 
 Darling, Sam. W., 263,287 
 
 Darling, Tim. G., 230, 283, 285 
 
590 
 
 Index, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Darrow, Sam., 34, 286 
 
 Davenport, Fr. H., ... 254, 285 
 
 Davies, Thos. C, 114 
 
 Davis, Hasb., 107, 287 
 
 Day, Dan., 57 
 
 Day, Josh. S., 245 
 
 Day, Orrin, 239 
 
 Day, Walt. D., 205, 283 
 
 Dean, Geo., 125 
 
 Dewey, Chas. A. Jr 150, 284 
 
 Dewey, Chest. P., 128 
 
 Dewey, Dan., 184 
 
 Dewey, Fr. H 78,283 
 
 Dewey, Fr. H. Jr., 265, 285 
 
 Dewey, Geo. C. , 209, 286 
 
 Dewey, Geo. T. , 272, 285 
 
 Dewey, Jno. C 270 
 
 Dixon, Jas,, 17, 287 
 
 Downer, Fred. W. Jr. , 277 
 
 Durant, Edw. A., 250 
 
 Durkee, Aug. W., 250 
 
 Dwight, Jas. F. , 131 
 
 Dyer, Wm. B., 277 
 
 Ellis, Jas. H., 22, 284, 286 
 
 Ely, Geo. H 139 
 
 Ely, Mont. R., 277, 287 
 
 Ely, Sam. P., 133,284 
 
 Fairchild, Egb. H., 186 
 
 Fairchild, Hulb. F., 70, 286 
 
 Fargo, Chas. E., . . 252 
 
 Field, Dudley, 149, 284, 287 
 
 Finch, Martin, 49 
 
 Foot, Jno 185, 286 
 
 Freeman, Chas. M., 160, 284 
 
 French, Jno. A., 221, 283, 285 
 
 Gale, Jno. B 89 
 
 Gay, Lem. B., 104, 287 
 
 Gilman, Benj. I., 258 
 
 Gilman, Theo 220 
 
 Gilman, W. S. Jr., 220 
 
 Goodell, Wm. Jr., 165, 283, 284 
 
 Gould, Geo. V. , 264 
 
 Gould, Wm. S., 251 
 
 Granger, Wm. D., 256 
 
 Griffin, Edw. H 224, 283, 285 
 
 Griffin, Henry L 244 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Griffin, Nath. H 23, 283, 287 
 
 Griffin, Sol. B., 259 
 
 Griffith, Jas. S. , 93 
 
 Grimwood, Henry W., 237 
 
 Griswold, Aim. W. Jr., 273 
 
 Griswold, Jno. W. , 252 
 
 Haines, Jno. C, 249, 285 
 
 Hale, Arthur, 260 
 
 Hale, Geo. Jr., 235 
 
 Hall, Anth. T., 189, 287 
 
 Halley, Eben, 229 
 
 Hallock, Wm. G., 268 
 
 Halsey, Ham. R., 231, 286 
 
 Hammond, Edw. P. , 203 
 
 Harper, Jos. W. , 281 
 
 Hawkins, Ros. H., 274 
 
 Hawley, Fred. B., 232 
 
 Hicks, Hor. L., 261 
 
 Hill, Chas. J., 173 
 
 Hill, Mat. L. P., 215 
 
 Hoes, Wm, M., 217 
 
 Holt. Alf. L., 281 
 
 Holt, Chas.S., 262 
 
 Horton, Benj. L., 142 
 
 Horton, Henry B. , 129 
 
 Howard, Aust. A 74, 287 
 
 Howe, Fisher Jr., 257 
 
 Hoyt, Henry M i6i 
 
 Hubbell, Chas. B 260 
 
 Huntington, Chas 266, 285 
 
 Hyde, Alex 14, 283, 287 
 
 Hyde, Jos. W., 208, 285 
 
 Ingalls, Fr. T 240, 283, 285 
 
 Ingham, Jas. V., 233 
 
 Jackson, Robt., 190, 284, 287 
 
 James, Jno. H., 281 
 
 Jermain, Barclay, 261 
 
 Jewett, Aug. D. L. , 166 
 
 Jewett, Rich. D. , 272 
 
 Johnson, Lew. M., 216 
 
 Johnson, Samuel, 280 
 
 Johnson, Wol. H., 279 
 
 Jones, Jno. H., 245 
 
 Jones, Jno. R 55 
 
 Keith, Chas. H 279 
 
Index. 
 
 291 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Kellogg, Conv. A. 148, 286 
 
 Kellogg, Dav. H., 102, 287 
 
 Kellogg, Giles, 266 
 
 Kellogg, Justin, 238 
 
 Kellogg, Sam. H., 213, 283 
 
 Kidder, Thomp., 33 
 
 Knowlson, Jas. S., 94 
 
 Knowlson, Jas. S. Jr., 244 
 
 Knowlson, Wm. H., 263 
 
 Lambert, Thos. S. Jr., 274 
 
 Lamberton, Jno., 193, 284, 286 
 
 Langmuir, Gavin, 218, 285 
 
 Lansing, Abm 187 
 
 Lansing, Chas. A., 254 
 
 Lansing, Wm., 202 
 
 Leupp, Fr. E., 248 
 
 Lockwood, Jno. H., 243 
 
 Lovell, Jos 103, 286 
 
 Lovell, Wm. F. S 130 
 
 Loveridge, R. C, 234 
 
 Low, Wm. H., 253 
 
 Mackenzie, R. S., 210 
 
 Martin, Calv. G 77, 286 
 
 Martin, Geo. C. , 122, 286 
 
 Masten, Arth. H., 268 
 
 Matteson, Chas. C '"253, 287 
 
 Matteson, Jos 249 
 
 McClellan, Carsw., 196 
 
 McClellan, Ely 181 
 
 McClellan, Robt. W., 183, 286 
 
 McKinstry, Chas,, 97, 284, 286 
 
 McLean, Jas. L., 157, 284 
 
 Meacham, Jas. B., 175 
 
 Meech, Robt. , 205 
 
 Mellen, Seth S., 98, 284 
 
 Merrick, Amb. N., 147 
 
 Metcalf, Jas. B., 221 
 
 Miller, Henry C, 246, 285 
 
 Mills, Jos. A 70 
 
 Montague, Melz., 81, 284, 287 
 
 Montague, Mos. L., 127, 286 
 
 Morss, Leon. W., 208 
 
 Munger, Geo. G., 134 
 
 Neyhart, Fred. F., 262 
 
 Nichols, Geo. L. Jr., 275 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Nicoll, Matt. N 216 
 
 Noble, Franklin, 192 
 
 Noble, Sol. B., 46 
 
 Norris, Geo. H., 20 
 
 Norton, Benj., 265 
 
 Norton, Jesse O., 29, 287 
 
 Noyes, Fr. G.. 169 
 
 Olds, Fr. W., 266 
 
 Olin, Job S., 43, 286 
 
 Otis, Wm. B., 46 
 
 Page, Walt. W., 275 
 
 Parsons, Fred. J., 279, 285 
 
 Parsons, Just. W., 117, 287 
 
 Perry, Albertus, 107 
 
 Perry, Geo., 143 
 
 Peters, J. Hugh, 201 
 
 Philip, Wm. H 114, 287 
 
 Phillips, Edg. L. 124 
 
 Phillips, Nich. E., 123 
 
 Phillips, Ur. B., • 51 
 
 Piatt, Jas. N., 46 
 
 Piatt, Jno. F 206, 286 
 
 Pleasants, Adair, 267, 285 
 
 Porter, Hen. W., 94, 286 
 
 Porter, Wm., 75,283 
 
 Pratt, Henry, 168, 287 
 
 Pratt, Lou. W 281 
 
 Pynchon, Jos. C, 68 
 
 Raymond, Geo. L., 223, 283 
 
 Read, Thos. T., 81, 287 
 
 Reed, Jas. H 170, 287 
 
 Reynolds, Chas. W 228, 287 
 
 Robbins, Thos., 90, 286 
 
 Roberts, Wm. B. , 273 
 
 Robinson, Mos. C, 77, 287 
 
 Rogers, Jas. H., 155 
 
 Rogers, L. C, 197 
 
 Rumsey, Geo. D., 258 
 
 Rutherford, Lew. M., 23, 283 
 
 Sabin, Henry M., 167 
 
 Safford, Dan. E., 127, 284 
 
 Sanford, Caleb W 142, 286 
 
 Sayre, Jas. M., 19, 287 
 
 Schermerhorn, Jac. M., 247 
 
2g!2 
 
 Index. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Scott, Jas. A., loi 
 
 Seward, Wm. F., 277 
 
 Sheldon, Gar. T., 87, 287 
 
 Sherman, Lab. S... 67 
 
 Shumway, Edw. G., 252 
 
 Skinner, Jno, B iii, 287 
 
 Slidell, Wm. J 199, 287 
 
 Smith, Edw. S 172 
 
 Smith, Jas. S loi, 286 
 
 Smith, Walt. N 281 
 
 Spalding, Jas. F., 225, 283, 285 
 
 Spalding, Wm. D , 225 
 
 Stanton, Wm. H 103 
 
 Starkweather, R. E., 241 
 
 Steele, Jno. B 58, 286 
 
 Stevens, Wm. R., 85, 286 
 
 Strong, Edw 42 
 
 Swift, Mor. I,, 276 
 
 Taft, Edw. P., 182, 286 
 
 Tatlock, Jno., 36, 283, 284 
 
 Tatlock, Jno. Jr., 191, 284 
 
 Tatlock, Jno. 3d., 280 
 
 Tatlock, Seym, W 282 
 
 Tatlock, Wm., 195, 283, 284 
 
 Taylor, Edw 96, 283 
 
 Taylor, Jno. E., 181 
 
 Thacher, Jno. B. , 248 
 
 Thompson. Smith, 235 
 
 Tibbits, Jno. A 228 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Tillinghast, Chas. B., 238 
 
 Tingley, Jno. H., 180 
 
 Trimble, Jas. E., 200 
 
 Trumbull, Chas. E., 176, 286 
 
 Tucker, Geo. H. , 271 
 
 Vail, Rich. P. H., 237 
 
 Walker, Jno. A.,, 91, 283, 284, 286 
 
 Waller, Chas. P., 88 
 
 Waller, Dav. J., 31, 283 
 
 Waller, Geo. G., 106 
 
 Walton, Jer. E., 179 
 
 Wells, Jno., 60, 284, 287 
 
 Wells, Ruf. G., 68, 286 
 
 West, Chas. W., 243 
 
 West, Em. W 236, 285, 286 
 
 White, Jos., 40, 283, 284 
 
 Wick, Geo. D. 269 
 
 Wilcox, Benj , 84, 287 
 
 Wilcox, Marshall, 103 
 
 Wild, Fred. Jr., 279 
 
 Wilder, Fr. B., 251 
 
 Williams, Chas. A., 35, 284 
 
 Williams, Ruf. R., 159, 287 
 
 Willis, Edw. J., 99 
 
 Woods, Ruf. D 90 
 
 Worthington, Chas.,. . 92, 284, 286 
 
 Wright, Mos. R., 55, 286 
 
 Wright, Thos 21 
 
 Wright, Walt., 47, 284, 287 
 
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