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MEMORIAL 
 
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 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN, D.D., LLD. 
 
 5anuarg 4, 1813 
 2>ie& Iflovember 4, 1885 
 
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 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN was born at North Yarmouth, Me., 
 January 4, 1813 ; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1831 ; 
 was teacher in the High School at Ellington, Conn., from 1832 to 
 1834, and Principal of Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., from 
 1835 to 1838 ; was graduated at the Andover Theological Semi- 
 nary in 1837 ; travelled in Europe and the East from 1838 to 1840; 
 was Professor of Oratory and Belles-Lettres in Dartmouth College 
 from 1840 to 1863, and of Intellectual Philosophy and Political 
 Economy from 1863 to 1867 ; was elected seventh President of 
 Hamilton College, November 6, 1866 ; accepted, and entered, in 
 April, 1867, upon his duties in the Presidency and the connected 
 Walcott Professorship of the Evidences of Christianity ; was in- 
 augurated July 17, 1867 ; laid down these offices in June, 1881 ; 
 was Instructor in Intellectual Philosophy in Hamilton College 
 from January to April, 1882, Instructor in Intellectual and Moral 
 Philosophy and Political Economy in Dartmouth College from 
 April, 1882, to June, 1883, and Provisional Professor of Mental 
 and Moral Philosophy in Bowdoin College from September, 1883, 
 to June, 1885. 
 
 In 1827, and before entering college, he had united with the 
 Congregational Church at Hanover, N. H., from whose roll his 
 name was never removed. After preaching for some years as a 
 
4 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 licentiate, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry at 
 Woodstock, Vt., October 6, 1852 ; he was a member of the White 
 River Association, from which he was received by the Presbytery 
 of Utica, January 28, 1868; he retained his connection with this 
 Presbytery until his death. He received the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity from Columbia College in 1852, and that of 
 Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth College in 1868. 
 
 He was a Trustee of Hamilton College from 1867 until his 
 death, and of Auburn Theological Seminary from 1872 to 1884, 
 declining re-election. He was also an Honorary Member of the 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a Life 
 Director of the American Bible Society and of the American Tract 
 Society, a member of the Oneida Historical Society, and of various 
 other organizations with whose purposes he was in sympathy. After 
 his death the announcement was received of his election as an 
 Honorary Member of the Northwestern Literary and Historical 
 Society of Iowa. 
 
 He was married, February 10, 1846, to Mrs. Sarah (Van Vech- 
 ten) Savage, widow of Professor Edward Savage, A.M., of Union 
 College, and daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jacob and Catharine Van 
 Wyck (Mason) Van Vechten, of Schenectady, N. Y., who survives 
 him. They had seven children, of whom five are still living. He 
 died in Utica, N. Y., November 4, 1885. 
 
 On Monday, November 2d, he returned to Utica from a 
 month's visit in New York. He had always enjoyed the life and 
 movement of a great city, and this enjoyment was never more 
 manifest than during these weeks. He spent them chiefly in the 
 companionship of his sister who came to New York while he was 
 there, some of his children, and other near relatives ; taking the op- 
 portunity of greater leisure than had often fallen to his lot to make 
 excursions to neighboring towns also, and renew old friendships. 
 Those who were much with him in the course of these weeks re- 
 member the cheerful serenity of his bearing, the simple and tender 
 directness of his affection, his quick sympathy, the breadth and 
 geniality of his interest in all human affairs, the openness and expect- 
 ancy of his mind toward questions which were occupying the thought 
 of scholars, the gentle firmness of his opinions and judgments, his 
 
MEMORIAL. 5 
 
 charity, and all the unassuming and even unconscious tokens of 
 the hope which he had "as an anchor of the soul." These were 
 not new qualities in him, but they seemed riper, and the whole life 
 more rich and mellow than ever before. The beauty of the world 
 was still a fresh delight to him. " I think I never had so unweari- 
 some a ride from New York," he wrote, on reaching his journey's 
 end, to one from whom he had that morning parted ; " with com- 
 pany nothing could have been more pleasant, even without, it was 
 delightful. The sky and river, mountains and valley, were beau- 
 tiful, till past Albany. Then we found snow, and the clouds again 
 came about us, increasing in thickness till we reached Utica." 
 The unseen cloud was gathering fast over the heads of those that 
 loved him. 
 
 It was afterward learned that when he left New York he had 
 had a sense of oppression in the chest. He had felt it before, and 
 was well aware that it might denote a serious affection of the heart. 
 On Tuesday it had rather increased than diminished. This was the 
 day of the State election, and he walked half a mile to deposit his 
 ballots. In the course of the day he called upon his physician, 
 who, after a thorough examination, recognized the gravity of the 
 case, but hoped that the immediate danger might be averted. He 
 returned to " The Waverly," which for four years had been to him 
 and his family something like a home, spent the evening in writing 
 letters and talking cheerfully with his wife and daughter, and re- 
 tired at his usual hour. His sleep was fitful, and when, toward 
 five o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, November 4th, he was 
 asked if the night had not seemed long to him, he answered, quietly 
 and gently, " Yes, rather long." A few minutes later, peacefully, 
 without word or struggle, he ceased to breathe. 
 
 Funeral services were held in Utica, N. Y., on the morning of 
 Friday, November 6th. 
 
 At " The Waverly " a few verses of Scripture were read, and 
 prayer was offered by the Rev. Thomas J. Brown, D.D., Pastor of 
 the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Utica ; after this, at half- 
 past nine o'clock, the funeral procession moved to the church it- 
 self. The pall-bearers were the Hon. William J. Bacon, LL.D., 
 William D. Walcott, Esq., Professor Edward North, L.H.D., the 
 
6 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, LL.D. all of the Board of Trustees of 
 Hamilton College, and Professor North a member of the Faculty, 
 as W ell, Professor C. H. F. Peters, Ph.D., of the Faculty, Dr. M. 
 M. Bagg, Dr. John P. Gray, and the Hon. John F. Seymour. The 
 Rev. Henry Darling, D.D., LL.D., President of Hamilton College, 
 and all the remaining members of the Faculty, other members of 
 the Board of Trustees, and a large company of kindred and friends 
 gathered in the church. 
 
 As the procession entered the choir sang : 
 
 " Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Brown, Pastor, the Rev. Professor A. 
 G. Hopkins, of Hamilton College, the Rev. Isaac S. Hartley, D.D., 
 Pastor of the Reformed Church, Utica, and the Rev. Thomas B. 
 Hudson, D.D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Clinton, N. Y., 
 occupied the pulpit. 
 
 Dr. T. J. Brown read, as the Scripture lesson, i Corinthians xv. 
 20-58 ; Dr. Hartley offered prayer ; Dr. Hudson announced the 
 hymn, which was sung by the choir : 
 
 " Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear." 
 
 An address, full of delicate appreciation and sympathy, was 
 delivered by Professor Hopkins.* At the close of the address 
 Dr. T. J. Brown announced the hymn, which was sung by the 
 choir : 
 
 " Asleep in Jesus ! blessed sleep." 
 
 Prayer was then offered by the Pastor, who concluded the ser- 
 vice with the benediction. 
 
 An urgent request came from the Faculty of Hamilton College, 
 that the burial of Dr. BROWN might take place in the College 
 Cemetery there. It seemed fitting, however, that he should be 
 laid at rest with his kindred in the earlier home. 
 
 Funeral services were held at Hanover, N. H., on Sunday, No- 
 vember 8th, at two o'clock in the afternoon. From a house 
 
 * This address is printed in full on pp. 9 sqq. 
 
MEMORIAL. 7 
 
 whose doors, with most delicate and affectionate kindness, had 
 been opened to receive his mortal remains, the casket was borne 
 to the College Church by friends and former colleagues, this being 
 their own desire. 
 
 The bearers were Elihu T. Quimby, A.M., formerly Professor of 
 Mathematics in Dartmouth College ; the Hon. James W. Patter- 
 son, LL.D., formerly Professor of Mathematics and of Astronomy ; 
 and Professors John K. Lord, A.M., John H. Wright, A.M., 
 Charles F. Emerson, A.M., and Louis Pollens, A.M. 
 
 The church was filled with friends from the College and the 
 village. In the pulpit were the Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D., 
 LL.D., President of Dartmouth College, and the Rev. S. P. Leeds, 
 D.D., Pastor of the College Church. 
 
 At the opening of the service the choir, consisting of Miss Sarah 
 L. Smith, Mrs. F. A. Sherman, Mr. E. S. Hill, and Mr. C. L. 
 Jenks, accompanied by Mr. G. W. Glass, organist, sang the hymn : 
 
 " Jesus, lover of my soul." 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Leeds read, as the Scripture lesson, John xiv. 
 and other passages, and then announced the following hymn, which 
 was sung by the choir : 
 
 " In vain our fancy strives to paint 
 
 The moment after death, 
 The glories that surround the saint 
 When he resigns his breath. 
 
 " One gentle sigh his fetters breaks ; 
 We scarce can say, ' He's gone,' 
 Before the willing spirit takes 
 Her mansion near the throne. 
 
 " Faith strives, but all its efforts fail, 
 To trace her heavenward flight ; 
 No eye can pierce within the veil 
 Which hides that world of light. 
 
 " Thus much (and this is all) we know, 
 
 They are supremely blest ; 
 Have done with sin, and care, and woe, 
 And with their Saviour rest." 
 
8 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 A comprehensive and impressive address was then delivered 
 by President Bartlett,* and was followed by a few tender and 
 fitting remarks \ from Dr. Leeds. President Bartlett then an- 
 nounced the following hymn, which was sung by the choir : 
 
 " Sleep thy last sleep ! 
 
 Free from care and sorrow ; 
 Rest, where none weep, 
 
 Till th' eternal morrow : 
 Though dark waves roll 
 
 O'er the silent river, 
 Thy fainting soul 
 
 Jesus can deliver. 
 
 " Life's dream is past ; 
 
 All its sin and sadness ; 
 Brightly at last 
 
 Dawns the day of gladness. 
 Under thy sod, 
 
 Earth, receive our treasure, 
 To rest in God ! 
 
 Waiting all his pleasure. 
 
 " Though we may mourn 
 
 Those in life the dearest, 
 They shall return, 
 
 Christ, when thou appearest ! 
 Soon shall thy voice 
 
 Comfort those now weeping, 
 Bidding rejoice 
 
 All in Jesus sleeping." 
 
 The closing prayer was offered and the benediction pronounced 
 by Dr. Leeds. 
 
 After the services .in the church the interment took place in 
 the village cemetery. 
 
 * This address is given in full, pp. 17 sqq. 
 f An abstract is given, pp. 22 sq. 
 
I. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. PROFESSOR A. G. 
 HOPKINS, OF HAMILTON COLLEGE, 
 
 WESTMINSTER CHURCH, UTICA, N. Y., NOVEMBER 6, 
 
 1885. 
 
 A GRACIOUS presence, a beloved companion and friend, 
 has gone from us. Our lips are dumb, our hearts are torn 
 with grief, and tears are the only response which we can 
 make in this bewilderment of sorrow. The suddenness of 
 the event has almost stunned us. It seems but yesterday 
 that he was with us, on our streets, in our homes, apparently 
 in the full tide of health, the same genial greeting and 
 friendly word, the same cheerfulness and hearty enjoyment 
 in life and in work, and with plans for an active future. 
 Surely if any man seemed entitled to long life and length 
 of days it was he, with a temper so gentle and even, lead- 
 ing a life so quiet and unruffled, so full of peace within and 
 peace without that there seemed no place for that friction 
 which sometimes causes the delicate machinery of life to 
 jar or to cease its action. These meetings and greetings 
 the refined and gentle face, the sunshine of his presence, 
 the wisdom of his speech are but memories now. In a 
 moment, by an euthanasia which doubtless he himself would 
 have chosen, that beautiful life was closed. 
 
 In a sermon which was preached by Dr. BROWN, in the 
 Chapel of Hamilton College, on the death of Albert Barnes 
 (after referring to Dr. Barnes* reunion with friends of col- 
 
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 lege days in Philadelphia, Pa., in the summer of 1870), there 
 occur these words : 
 
 " Scarcely five months had passed when one of the most noted of 
 this group, apparently in quite his usual health and vigor, walked out 
 of a Saturday to visit a friend, entered his house, sat down with an 
 expression of fatigue or slight distress, and instantly, as we may say, 
 was forever at rest. A very touching petition in the Litany is the 
 prayer that we may be delivered from sudden death, i.e., says one 
 writer, from death for which we are not prepared. Were the steps of 
 that good man specially ordered as he breasted the strong, cold wind, 
 and so induced that overaction which was too much for a frame less 
 vigorous than it seemed ? Perhaps it was even so ; and his prayer 
 was answered that some disease ' not tardy to perform its destined 
 office, yet with gentle stroke,' might remove him ; and he was merci- 
 fully spared the suffering and anticipation of death which it is said he 
 feared. To his family and friends the shock was of course terrible ; 
 but with him that immediate and painless transition must have been 
 of the nature of a glorious surprise. His lips were hardly silent upon 
 earth before he caught the language of another world." 
 
 Were these words written by Dr. BROWN in unconscious 
 anticipation of the kind of death which he himself thought 
 most desirable and happy ? In writing afterward of Dr. 
 Barnes' death he speaks of it as ''a life so suddenly ended, 
 I think I may say so happily ended." With slight change 
 of circumstances and with change of name Dr. BROWN has 
 described in these words, written fifteen years ago, his own 
 sudden and painless death. A return from a pleasant visit 
 with his children, a happy reunion with his family, a slight 
 sense of uneasiness without positive distress or pain, a night 
 of rest, a question toward daybreak, and, without time even 
 to hear the reply, his spirit had departed. Verily to him, 
 as to Dr. Barnes, "that immediate and painless transition 
 must have been of the nature of a glorious surprise." What 
 constitutes to us perhaps a large part of the bitterness of 
 our grief was certainly to him the happiest feature of his 
 release. He has gone upon a journey which he had long 
 and calmly contemplated, and of which I believe he had no 
 dread. In the graces of his Christian character he had 
 
MEMORIAL. 1 1 
 
 beautifully ripened into fitness for that change, and in the 
 last moments of his life his heart was unruffled. By a 
 blessed transformation, which, I am sure, we all might envy 
 him, in a moment " he was not, for God had taken him." 
 We grieve that he was instantly cut off, in the maturity of 
 his powers when the judgment was never so sound, when 
 the heart throbbed with tenderest affections ; when the 
 mind in full vigor was gathering its ample forces for new 
 excursions in the realm of letters. Is it not rather an occa- 
 sion for gratitude that, after a career of great usefulness and 
 honor, he passed peacefully to his reward in the full posses- 
 sion of his powers ? 
 
 In that memorable discourse which Dr. BROWN delivered 
 in this pulpit, on the 8th of February, 1874, on the character 
 and the public services of Dr. Fisher, he recited briefly, and in 
 language which none but he could command, the touching 
 and pathetic story of the closing years of the life of that dis- 
 tinguished man, his own predecessor in the Presidency of 
 Hamilton College. " The darkened understanding (I quote 
 from that discourse) emerged again into the light or rather 
 into a dim, unchangeable twilight. The weeks and months 
 as they passed brought no return of the thick darkness, 
 but neither did they bring the clear day. It became evi- 
 dent after a while that the work of that busy and over- 
 wrought brain was done ; that no more burdens could be 
 laid upon it, no more tasks accomplished." Are we wrong 
 in counting those happy who fall even with armor on and 
 equipped for further usefulness, as compared with the death 
 in life of a shattered and darkened intellect ? Are we wrong, 
 in view of the possible infirmities of advancing age, when we 
 count our friend happy in the time and manner of his death ? 
 A beautiful life had been well rounded out ; a life abound- 
 ing in pure and gracious influences was moving on toward 
 the inevitable infirmities of age ; an eminently useful and 
 permanent work had been accomplished. There is an ele- 
 ment of mercy even in these bitter experiences of life, and 
 though the sorrows which we suffer seem the heaviest of all, 
 
12 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 yet God is good as well as wise when He does not leave to 
 us the ordering of our days. 
 
 This is not the place for, nor does time admit, any 
 detailed analysis of Dr. BROWN'S character. Indeed, his 
 development was so symmetrical that it is impossible to 
 seize upon this or that trait as pre-eminently characteristic. 
 There was a fulness and completeness in his composition. 
 Birth and inheritance had done much for him ; contact in 
 life and letters with noble minds had added a rare refine- 
 ment to his life ; and to this was added the crowning glory 
 of a truly Christian spirit. Indeed, there must have been 
 a happy combination of inherited and acquired gifts, of 
 graces of mind and of heart, to produce this singularly gra- 
 cious, scholarly, and cultivated man. Those who knew him 
 best were often in doubt as to what they most admired 
 in him ; whether it were his qualities of heart or of mind ; 
 whether it were the genial and affectionate companion or 
 the learned and scholarly man. But certainly in him mind 
 and heart had combined to produce that rare but beautiful 
 flower of our civilization a thoroughly cultivated Christian 
 gentleman. 
 
 No one could see much of Dr. BROWN without being 
 impressed with the amiableness and gentleness of his char- 
 acter. Every bitter ingredient seemed omitted from his 
 composition. Nor was this merely the result of broad 
 culture, which ofttimes smoothes away the sharp edges of 
 life and gives even to rough natures a philosophic calm. 
 The foundation of these qualities in him was a good heart. 
 Goodness, charity, a broad sympathy with men were rul- 
 ing features in his life. He was utterly incapable of narrow 
 prejudice or bitter enmity. Though his opinions were 
 clearly defined, and his convictions positive, he was neither 
 by nature nor practice a controversialist. He had no fond- 
 ness for the strife of words. In the quiet and affection of 
 the home circle, or in the society of friends, his genial nature 
 found contentment and rest. He was generous and warm 
 in his attachments ; there was nothing cautious or calculat- 
 
MEMORIAL. 13 
 
 ing in his friendships. This gentleness, or Christian self- 
 control, manifested itself in all the relations of life. Though 
 passing most of his life as an instructor, a career in which 
 there may be danger of developing dogmatic tendencies, he 
 was uniformly courteous and tolerant toward the opinions 
 of others, a courtesy and tolerance which were perhaps in 
 part the fruit of his wide knowledge of letters and men. 
 The bitter speech, the sharp retort, though doubtless some- 
 times deserved, were never heard from him. Those who 
 knew him well and saw him much, even in times of trial 
 and provocation, affirm that he never was betrayed into 
 speech or conduct which could wound the feelings of an- 
 other, or which could occasion himself regret. These quali- 
 ties of mind and heart, too rare in our age, we do well to 
 emphasize and emulate. Kindred with this was a love of 
 truth, an open, manly directness in speech and action which 
 won the confidence and respect of all. No one ever doubted 
 or impugned his motives. He was utterly devoid of arti- 
 fice. His utterance was fortified by his character, and 
 carried with it all the weight of an earnest Christian life. 
 
 His sympathies in the world of art were as broad as his 
 sympathies with men. No branch of learning was beneath 
 or beyond the range of his interest. His love and percep- 
 tion of the beautiful were naturally keen and delicate, and 
 that love had been strengthened and cultivated by study, 
 by travel, and by intercourse with art in its varied forms. 
 His love of nature was also marked. He saw her beauties 
 and drew lessons from her various forms which were full 
 of wisdom and instruction. All of these things indicate a 
 nature many-sided, with manifold avenues open to the 
 outer world. He received the message of science, of let- 
 ters, of art, and he sent it out again to eager, inquiring 
 minds clothed in the beautiful or the stately garb of an 
 English prose which was the delight and the despair of all 
 who listened. 
 
 But wide as were his sympathies and broad as was his 
 learning, Dr. BROWN'S pre-eminence doubtless was as a 
 
14 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 man of letters. His familiarity with all that was best in 
 literature of the past and present was wide and varied. 
 His excursions in these fields were delightful and instruc- 
 tive. No one who has ever heard his lectures upon the 
 English statesmen, or orators, or poets, can ever forget the 
 charm of that pen or the enjoyment of that hour. In his 
 hands the English language was an instrument of wonder- 
 ful flexibility and power. He had sounded its depths 
 and tested its strength as few men of this generation have 
 done. 
 
 To listen to those wonderful discourses upon Pitt, or 
 Burke, or Fox, or to tread with him the path of English 
 letters from Chaucer down through the centuries, was a rev- 
 elation of the power, richness, and beauty of our English 
 speech. His array of facts was masterly, his presentation 
 of the subject exhaustive, while over all he threw that 
 marvellous grace of speech which made all his discourses 
 models of chaste and elegant composition. He turned his 
 pen to many different kinds of composition, and with sim- 
 ple truth we say of him : " He touched no subject which 
 he did not adorn." His sermons, whether delivered in the 
 College Chapel or on occasions of public interest, were al- 
 ways rich in thought, stimulating in their spiritual tone, and 
 elegant in form. For a young man to have heard his dis- 
 courses, at intervals, during a period of four years, was 
 almost a liberal education. 
 
 In the more difficult field of metaphysical inquiry, his 
 studies were equally thorough, his discourses equally instruc- 
 tive and luminous. His mind seemed admirably fitted to 
 deal with the abstract ideas and subtle distinctions of mental 
 science. When following his guidance here, one argued that 
 he should never leave the chair of the instructor ; when 
 hearing his admirable discourses, one was equally convinced 
 that his sphere was pre-eminently the pulpit and the plat- 
 form. In all his public addresses he was singularly happy. 
 Such discourses as those already referred to on Dr. 
 Barnes and Dr. Fisher, or the later one on the life of Mr. 
 
MEMORIAL. 15 
 
 Marsh were received with universal favor, and two of them 
 at least he was called upon to repeat on several different 
 occasions. His delicate sense of propriety, and of what was 
 suitable to time and place, led him always to say what 
 seemed exactly the right thing, so that one who knew and 
 admired him said : " Dr. BROWN never makes a mistake." 
 It is possible, as has been said, that the highest honor of 
 his life came to him with the Presidency of Hamilton Col- 
 lege. Yet he bore his honors so quietly that apparently no 
 station seemed too high, nor any useful station too low. 
 For fifteen years he adorned that honorable position by his 
 virtues and his learning. He has left the impress of his life 
 and character upon all who knew him. During that period 
 five hundred young men shared his instruction and were 
 moulded, to some degree, by his influence. As a citizen, as 
 a neighbor, as a colleague, his name in yonder little village 
 and in that institution of learning will be held in honored 
 and loving remembrance. He has left his monument in 
 human hearts, more enduring than any sculptured column. 
 Our poor words can do him no honor. The truest tribute 
 to his memory would be to imitate his virtues ; to repro- 
 duce the gentleness of his life, its sterling integrity, its 
 Christian meekness, and to try to diffuse through the life 
 which is about us those gracious elements of character 
 which we have admired in our departed friend. 
 
 And to you, my Christian friends, I need surely speak 
 no word of counsel or of comfort. You were the members 
 of his household. The faith which he shared was your faith 
 also. The blessed hopes of immortality which he indulged 
 are also yours. What we vaguely speak of as the other 
 world, as friend after friend departs, comes finally to be the 
 world in which our thoughts tarry with the greatest interest. 
 That world is no other world to him. It is the world in 
 which much of his life had been spent ; the world of spiritual 
 influence, of pure thought, of useful and innocent activities, 
 of holy desires, of service to God and to man. You have 
 all the consolations which may come from the memory of a 
 
16 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 good life usefully spent and peacefully ended in the hopes 
 of a glorious immortality. 
 
 It certainly was a blessed privilege, and one hardly to 
 be expected, that so many of you should have seen his face 
 and enjoyed his presence so shortly before his death. Had 
 a kind Heavenly Father graciously ministered to your desire 
 in this regard, as perhaps He did, you could hardly have 
 asked for more at His hands. He has gone to no strange 
 country. Surely there were beckoning hands and loving 
 voices on that other shore to give him greeting. Let us 
 not mourn our pious and sainted dead as though some 
 great calamity had befallen them. What he said of another 
 was doubtless true of him : " Hardly had his ear lost the 
 accents of this world when it caught the language of an- 
 other world." His memory, his virtues, his Christian char- 
 acter are your priceless legacy. 
 
 " His life was gentle ; and the elements 
 
 So mixed in him that Nature might stand up, 
 And say to all the world, ' This was a man ! ' ' 
 
II. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. S. C. BARTLETT, D.D., 
 LL.D., PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 
 
 IN THE COLLEGE CHURCH, HANOVER, N. H., NOVEM- 
 BER 8, 1885. 
 
 WE have come hither to pay our tribute of respect to a 
 well-rounded character, a long, useful, and honored life, and 
 to a history closely, not to say centrally, related to Dart- 
 mouth College. 
 
 Eighty-four years ago Francis Brown, * the father of 
 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN, came as a student to this in- 
 stitution ; and during somewhat more than half the time 
 that has since elapsed some member of that family has been 
 here as student, Professor, or President indeed, jointly 
 and separately, for more than half a century. The father, 
 raised up by a good Providence for a special work, ten 
 years after his graduation was elected President of the in- 
 stitution in the critical time of its history, and went through 
 the stormy struggle with the Legislature and the Judiciary 
 of New Hampshire for the chartered rights and existence 
 of the College. A man of singular attractiveness of spirit 
 and of remarkable skill and ability, he accomplished his try- 
 ing task, but sank under its terrible burden and strain. 
 He saved the College, and lost his life. His wife survived 
 for many years, to train her son in his father's ways and 
 
 * See Appendix IL 
 
1 8 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 traits, and to witness, in her old age, his well-earned honors. 
 Some of us here remember her well, and her rare excellence 
 of mind and manner, of heart and life.* 
 
 The child of such a noble parentage, SAMUEL GlLMAN 
 BROWN came to this place a boy two years of age. Here 
 he completed his College course at the age of eighteen. 
 Hither, nine years later, he returned to be for twenty-seven 
 consecutive years in the Professor's chair. After some four- 
 teen years in the Presidency of Hamilton College, hither he 
 returned to give us two more years of his pleasant society and 
 ripened experience as an instructor ; and nearly if not quite 
 the last of his correspondence was directed to this place, 
 and concerned the College that he loved so well. Here, 
 continuously or at intervals, for nearly seventy years his face 
 and form were a familiar sight ; here his hospitable mansion 
 was for more than a quarter of a century an attractive 
 resort ; here he formed and maintained life-long, unbroken 
 friendships ; here he gained a wide circle of literary ac- 
 quaintance, and established an enviable reputation ; and 
 here more than fifteen hundred graduates passed under his 
 moulding hand. To this place he always turned with an 
 enthusiasm that grew with his advancing years. He dwelt, 
 in his later days, upon this scenery around us with more 
 than youthful delight ; and so deep-seated was his interest 
 in this, his childhood's and manhood's home, that he said 
 he loved the very stones in its streets. To this place he 
 longingly looked as the home of his declining years, and 
 here to-day he finds his last resting-place on earth. 
 
 Dr. BROWN'S life was connected with some of the best 
 days and best men that the College has ever seen. He was 
 associated with those two men, rare in their different ways, 
 alike in fervor of piety, Presidents Lord and Smith the one 
 massive in character, deep and speculative in thought, the 
 other active, enterprising, versatile, and genial ; with the 
 ourtly and accomplished Haddock, of Websterian blood 
 
 * See Appendix III. 
 
MEMORIAL. 19 
 
 and reserved power ; with the earnest and clean-cut mathe- 
 matician Chase ; with Long, that acutest of metaphysicians 
 and kindliest of men ; with Alpheus Crosby, unsurpassed in 
 the country, in his day, for his knowledge of the Greek lan- 
 guage and literature ; with Putnam, model of all that was 
 lovely in spirit, and broad and high in culture ; with Young, 
 the admirable father and his distinguished son ; and with other 
 men of like intellect and power, still among the living, whom 
 therefore I will not mention, except to speak of the ency- 
 clopaedic Sanborn, then robust and stimulating, now tot- 
 tering on the utmost verge of life. These were the men 
 with whom he found his sympathetic sphere of literary 
 labor. 
 
 Dr. BROWN'S literary productiveness commenced soon 
 after the close of his theological studies at Andover Semi- 
 nary. A review of the great preacher, Thomas Chalmers, in 
 the " Biblical Repository," first displayed to the public the 
 drift of his character, the clearness of his discernment, and 
 the vigor of his style. At the age of twenty-four he was a 
 man of mark, and three years later he was installed in the 
 Professor's chair. 
 
 To follow his long and successful career this is not the 
 time or place. The best indications alike of his own instinc- 
 tive sympathies and of the general estimate of his literary 
 qualities may be found in the fact that he was the man 
 selected to edit the works and write the life of that eminent 
 genius, Rufus Choate ; to deliver the Historical Oration of 
 Dartmouth College at its hundredth anniversary ; to pro- 
 nounce before the Alumni at Chicago the centennial birth- 
 day discourse on the great statesman, Daniel Webster ; and, 
 again, to give the Memorial Address and write the life of 
 that distinguished scholar, George Perkins Marsh. These 
 are specimens. The full details of his literary labors 
 Lowell Lectures, public orations, sermons in many a pul- 
 pit, essays, baccalaureates, lectures in the class-room, faith- 
 ful services in the Presidency at Hamilton College, and 
 the unfinished literary task of his closing days must be 
 
2O SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 written by some loving hand as skilful in characterization 
 as his own. 
 
 It might seem presumptuous in me, though I had been 
 brought in contact with Dr. BROWN at times for more than 
 forty years, to attempt even an outline of his character in 
 the presence of those who have known him so much more 
 intimately. But to me he seemed a Puritan without ascet- 
 icism or ostentation, a scholar of broad and cultivated taste, 
 a companion both thoughtful and playful, an observer of 
 men both watchful and kind, a man self-poised and self- 
 contained, without repulsions, and of spirit cheerful and 
 hopeful, a friend of many and an enemy of none. Of his 
 life in the home circle it does not become me to speak. 
 Notably enough, one of the last acts of his. life was an act 
 of twofold filial affection. Less than forty hours before his 
 death I received from him a letter completing the arrange- 
 ment for a memorial window to his honored father in the 
 new Chapel of his beloved Alma Mater. 
 
 Indeed, I know not how I can more clearly set before 
 you the inner spirit and outer exhibition of the man, the 
 scholar, the thinker, and the Christian teacher, than as ex- 
 emplified in one of his ardent utterances at that centennial 
 of the College. Shall I read those weighty sentences, hard 
 by the place where they were uttered, and before the silent 
 tongue that uttered them shall have passed away from this 
 house where so often it has been heard ? After his rapid 
 sketch of the history of the College, and before his clear 
 characterization of the intellectual breadth and vigorous 
 mental gymnastics of the curriculum on which such a body 
 of Alumni have been trained to their manly work, he thus 
 utters himself on its great central force : 
 
 " As the motto on its [the College's] seal indicated and expressed the 
 religious purpose of its founders, so this purpose never has been lost 
 sight of. Through lustrum after lustrum and generation after genera- 
 tion, while classes have succeeded classes, while one corps of instruc- 
 tors have passed away and others have taken their places, the high 
 purpose of presenting and enforcing the vital and essential truths of 
 
MEMORIAL. 21 
 
 the Christian religion has never been forgotten or neglected. The 
 power of Christianity in modifying, inspiring, and directing the ener- 
 gies of modern civilization its art, its literature, its commerce, its 
 laws, and its government has been profoundly felt. Nor has it been 
 for a moment forgotten that education, to be truly and in the largest 
 sense beneficent, must also be religious ; must affect that which is 
 deepest in man ; must lead him, if it can, to the contemplation of 
 truths most personal, central, and essential ; must open to him some 
 of those depths where the soul swings almost helplessly in the midst of 
 experiences and powers unfathomable and infinite, where the intel- 
 lect falters and hesitates, and finds no solution till it yields to faith. 
 Within later years there have been those who have advocated the 
 doctrine that education should be entirely secular, that the college 
 should have nothing to do with religious counsels or advice. Now, 
 while I do not think this would be easy, as our colleges are organized, 
 without leaving or even inciting the mind to dangerous scepticism, 
 nor without depriving the soul of that food which it specially craves, 
 and destitute of which it will grow lean, hungry, and unsatisfied, as 
 matter of history no such theory of education has found favorable re- 
 sponse among the guardians of Dartmouth." 
 
 So spake out once more the old Puritan soul of Eleazar 
 Wheelock, and the resolute heart of Francis Brown, through 
 the lips now sealed in death. So rang out loud and clear 
 the key-note of the College for the second century, to re- 
 verberate in the ears of its guardians, teachers, and students 
 for all coming time. And so, " being dead, he yet speaketh " 
 words of the century and for the centuries. 
 
 And now from the scenes where he faithfully labored so 
 long, enjoyed so much, and drew around him so many cords 
 of interest and affection, we shall tenderly take up our de- 
 parted friend this cultivated scholar, experienced teacher, 
 finished writer, impressive preacher, courteous gentleman, 
 genial companion, and steadfast Christian and shall carry 
 him to another spot near by, not unfamiliar to his thoughts 
 and his footsteps, thickly thronged, as he was wont to say, 
 with precious dust, and, by the side of his father and his 
 mother, his brother and his children, not far from a cluster 
 of lovely and beloved relatives, and surrounded by many 
 a friend who knew and loved him well, we shall lay him 
 down till the heavens be no more. 
 
III. 
 
 REMARKS BY THE REV. S. P. LEEDS, D.D., 
 
 IN THE COLLEGE CHURCH, HANOVER, N. H., NOVEM- 
 BER 8, 1885. 
 
 [The remarks of Dr. Leeds were unwritten, and the following sentences are 
 based upon notes, taken as he spoke, by one who was kind enough to attempt 
 this difficult service.] 
 
 Two pictures present themselves to me : one, of a little 
 boy coming here seventy years ago with his father ; the 
 other, of a man approaching old age, returning here in the 
 November of life, before the winter's snow had appeared. 
 Between these are two others, one showing him in his 
 prime, not yet fifty, active amid his associates Professor 
 Long, a few years older than he ; Professor Noyes, fourteen 
 months his senior ; Professor Hubbard, about his own age ; 
 and then the younger Professors Patterson and Fairbanks, 
 Putnam, whom he so much loved ; Aiken, Packard, and 
 Varney. In the other picture he is at home in his parlor, so 
 genial and courteous, or in a little room beyond, with his 
 family and a few others, assembled by an open fire, happy, 
 appreciative of his friends, and beloved by them. . . . 
 I think of him as a man who had had a wise, steady-handed, 
 good mother. His father was taken from him when he 
 was a child. The wisdom and grace of the mother passed 
 into the son. ... He was extremely careful not to 
 utter criticism. He would defend others from it. His 
 extreme tenderness was very noticeable ; as expressed by 
 
MEMORIAL. 23 
 
 one to whom he was as kind as a brother, it was " an un- 
 utterable tenderness." ... In his later years I was 
 impressed with his love of the past and his interest in the 
 future. He was sensitive to change, yet he kept up fully 
 with the present. Every old tree he was fond of; every 
 object with which he was familiar he was fond of, and yet 
 how interested he was in the present. In his last visit to 
 this village I was struck with his interest in all its changes 
 and improvements, and almost every change seemed to him 
 an improvement. He loved the present, he took pleasure 
 in the society of men ; to a remarkable degree he enjoyed 
 the present life without selfishness, illustrating how a good 
 man may enjoy. 
 
 That he was a Christian man we all knew. ... Of 
 late I was impressed with the deepening Christian spirit 
 and influence manifest in him, an example of a true Chris- 
 tian experience, of one that had been enriched by the Spirit 
 of God. [Here followed a short account of the close of his 
 life.] 
 
 We have come to-day as Christians to speak of a Chris- 
 tian. We recall a long career, and a useful one ; as the 
 Professor who fills the chair he used to fill expressed it to 
 me the other day, " a splendid career." But best of all is 
 that he was a follower of Christ. We have not met as un- 
 believers ; we rejoice for one who has finished his course in 
 the love of Jesus Christ ; we sorrow, too, with those who are 
 Christians and have Christian hopes. He has gone away 
 from us, but he has not gone into a strange place. We 
 are in the strange place. He is not an exile ; we are the 
 exiles. We must wait yet a little longer ; he has gone 
 where he will be forever with the Lord. 
 
IV. 
 
 REMARKS BY THE REV. PROFESSOR HENRY L. 
 CHAPMAN, A.M., OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, BRUNSWICK, ME., SUNDAY 
 EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1885. 
 
 [These remarks were published in The Boivdoin Orient of November n, 
 1885, with the following words prefixed : "It was with deep and sincere regret 
 that we learned of the death of Professor SAMUEL G. BROWN, D.D., upon the 
 4th of November. During the two years of his Professorship at Bowdoin he 
 won many friends by his kindly interest and unostentatious devotion to duty, 
 and when he left, last Commencement, he bore with him the respect and love of 
 the students."] 
 
 WITHIN these few days we have received intelligence of 
 the death of one whom many of us have had reason to 
 regard with sincere respect and affection, and whose death 
 touches us with a sense of personal loss. It seems fitting 
 that in this place, where he has so often led our Sabbath- 
 evening devotions, joining with us in our hymns of praise, 
 and presenting our common needs and aspirations at the 
 throne of grace it seems fitting that we should devote a 
 few moments this evening to the grateful remembrance of 
 his association with us, and to the recognition of his per- 
 sonal virtues and of his services to the college. 
 
 Dr. BROWN, as you know, was not a graduate of this 
 College, and the service to which he was called here was 
 understood from the first to be a temporary service. It is 
 with special feelings of gratitude, therefore, that we may 
 recall his varied and unselfish labors in behalf of all the in- 
 terests of the College. He could not have exhibited more 
 
MEMORIAL. 25 
 
 genuine solicitude for the welfare of his own Alma Mater 
 than he exhibited for that of the College which called him 
 to a brief service in the very evening of his days. Without 
 abating, so far as could be seen, one jot of the loyalty that 
 he owed to other institutions with which he had been more 
 closely connected, he nevertheless espoused the interests of 
 this institution with a generosity and heartiness that could 
 not fail to win our affectionate regard. 
 
 Not content, as many might have been in similar cir- 
 cumstances, with performing, however faithfully, the duties 
 of his department of instruction, he was always ready to do 
 what lay in his power to further the general interests of the 
 College, and to contribute what was always a most impor- 
 tant and delightful element to the social and intellectual life 
 of our little community. 
 
 Those who enjoyed the benefit of his regular instructions 
 have gone out from among us ; but we who remain will 
 certainly bear willing witness to the value of his thoughtful 
 and manly discourses in the pulpit, of his stimulating and 
 eloquent lectures before the Literary Association, of his 
 earnest and reverent ministrations at this desk. By these 
 labors of love, wrought with a cheerfulness that added to 
 their charm, he made us all his debtors, and the remem- 
 brance of the debt renews our reverence for his memory. 
 
 It may well give us satisfaction also to know, from his 
 own hand, that his residence among us was a source of 
 pleasure to himself as well as to us. In a letter received 
 from him shortly after his departure, a letter filled with the 
 kindliness which always characterized his intercourse with 
 others, he uses these words, which it is a pleasure to repeat 
 in this presence : " In all my experience of college life I 
 cannot recall any two years which have passed more agree- 
 ably, with classes more diligent and faithful, or with less 
 to interrupt the steadfast and constant labors of the depart- 
 ment. I shall always recall those classes with affectionate 
 interest." 
 
 And these very words give us a glimpse of one of the 
 
26 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 winning characteristics of our departed friend. He was 
 quick to perceive what was good in those about him. It is 
 the mark of a generous and a Christian spirit. A selfish and 
 suspicious nature misses the good in its eagerness to detect 
 the weakness and the wickedness of men. But Dr. BROWN 
 was eager to respond to every sign of friendliness, of 
 courtesy, of faithful effort, and of personal worthiness in 
 those with whom he came in contact. The breadth and 
 fineness of his culture did not separate him from men, but 
 gave a certain graciousness to his intercourse with them, 
 which is the most attractive fruit of culture. 
 
 With a heart that never seemed to feel the touch of age, 
 with sympathies that broadened as his years increased, 
 with tastes that were sensitive to every form of beauty, 
 powers that were consecrated to the service of truth, and 
 affections that were fixed unchangeably upon the good, 
 he went in and out among us for two brief years, respected 
 and beloved, and has now passed beyond all earthly asso- 
 ciations. His work was done. He had passed a most hon- 
 ored and useful life, and was ready to hear the sentence, 
 the anticipation of which robs death of all its terror, 
 "Well done, good and faithful servant." "Above all," 
 says Lord Bacon, " believe me, the sweetest canticle is 
 1 Nunc dimittiSy when a man hath obtained worthy ends 
 and expectations." 
 
 And let us receive this lesson of God's providence, of 
 our own mortality, and of the opportunities of human life, 
 with reasonable and reverent minds, and in the exercise 
 of a humble faith. 
 
 Directly in the respective pathways we are following, 
 somewhere in the uncertain future, lies the shadow of death, 
 into which we shall enter and straightway be lost to earthly 
 eyes. Every returning Sabbath, every setting sun, nay, 
 every fleeting breath, brings us nearer to that shadow. 
 Shall we enter it to-night, or to-morrow, or after many 
 days ? Will it be in the spring-time, when nature is 
 waking to new life, or in autumn, when the fading leaf 
 
MEMORIAL. 27 
 
 teaches us the lesson of our mortality? Will it be this year, 
 or next, or are there many years to come, each laden for us 
 with its pleasures and its cares ? 
 
 Certainly no one can answer these questions, nor need 
 we greatly care to answer them. There are other questions 
 of graver import that press upon us. Is that shadow some- 
 thing to shrink from and to fear ? Is it the end of our 
 being and all our hopes ? Are we really lost when we 
 enter it? Is it the great misfortune of our lives, which, as 
 long as possible, we are to avoid at whatever cost of other 
 things, and to yield to, at the last, in utter despair ? 
 
 There is an answer to these questions. The revelation 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, to him who will receive it, makes 
 that shadow as harmless, and as little to be feared, as the 
 mist that closes around one who climbs some high moun- 
 tain in the assured faith that he will find sunlight at the 
 top. 
 
 We may live, as he of whom we have been thinking 
 lived, in the light and comfort of that revelation, doing our 
 work humbly and faithfully as good stewards of the mani- 
 fold grace of God. Like him, realizing the familiar and 
 beautiful words of one of our own poets, we may 
 
 " So live, that when our summons comes to join 
 The innumerable caravan that moves 
 To that mysterious realm, where each shall take 
 His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
 We go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust approach the grave, 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 
 
V. 
 
 OBITUARY NOTICE BY THE REV. PROFESSOR 
 HENRY E. PARKER, D.D., OF DARTMOUTH 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 [At the regular meeting for conference and prayer, held in Hanover, Sunday 
 evening, November 8th, Professor Parker paid a tribute to the memory of Dr. 
 BROWN. The following notice was published in The Dartmouth, November 13, 
 1885 :] 
 
 DIED suddenly, from affection of the heart, in Utica, 
 N. Y., Wednesday, November 4th, SAMUEL GlLMAN 
 BROWN, D.D., LL.D. Thus has passed away another of 
 our illustrious Alumni, and one who was long and most 
 honorably connected with the Faculty of the College. 
 Born in 1813, at North Yarmouth, Me., he graduated at the 
 early age of eighteen in the Class of 1831. He studied di- 
 vinity at the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., gradu- 
 ating from there in 1837. Two years subsequently were 
 spent in foreign travel, when he returned to his Alma 
 Mater to assume the duties of the Chair of Oratory and 
 Belles-Lettres. This Professorship he successfully filled for 
 twenty-three years, when he was transferred to the Pro- 
 fessorship of Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy. 
 After filling this Chair also successfully for four years he 
 was elected to the Presidency of Hamilton College, which 
 office he filled for fourteen years, resigning in 1881. He 
 afterward, for a while, filled his former Chair here, then 
 vacant, and subsequently a similar position at Bowdoin. 
 
 Dr. SAMUEL G. BROWN was the son of the Rev. Dr. 
 
MEMORIAL. 29 
 
 Francis Brown, third President of the College, a man 
 of rare endowments of person, mind, and character. Called 
 to the administration of the College at a most critical period 
 in its history, when its very existence was pending upon 
 the decisions of the Courts, he filled a peculiarly arduous 
 position with great efficiency, acceptableness, and success, 
 but with the sacrifice of his valuable life, for he died at 
 thirty-six, the year following the decision of the United 
 States Supreme Court in favor of the College. 
 
 The son repeated the father's superior and agreeable 
 traits ; and though but a boy of seven at his father's prema- 
 ture decease, he continued to have the nurture and guid- 
 ance of a mother of rare wisdom and worth. He grew up 
 to a beautiful manhood. Of handsome face and form, dig- 
 nified and engaging, affable and most courteous, mind and 
 character corresponded to all that was externally attractive. 
 Admirably filling all home relations, of son and brother, 
 husband and father, he was the faithful associate, the warm- 
 hearted friend, the genial, delightful companion. A de- 
 votee of books, his reading was very extensive, choice, and 
 available. He had a mind exceedingly well disciplined and 
 stored. His voice, which as an instructor in oratory he had 
 cultivated with especial care, was unusually rich in its tones 
 and of wide and varied compass. His style of speaking 
 was finished and effective. His style of writing, too, was 
 classic in its beauty. He wrote much and he wrote well 
 lectures, discourses, addresses, essays, and reviews. His 
 biography of Rufus Choate gained him a wide and de- 
 served reputation. He leaves unfinished a biography of 
 the late George P. Marsh, upon which he was engaged. 
 
 The society of Dr. BROWN was very pleasant as it was 
 improving ; his intelligence made it so, with his cordial 
 ways, his animation of feature thought, and voice, his 
 high-mindedness, freshness, and freedom from common- 
 place. Culture marked his thoughts, his expressions, his 
 tones and manner, with now and then a delightful spicing 
 of pleasantry and quiet fun, with never a shade of bitter- 
 
3O SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 ness or malevolence. He was a good raconteur. He 
 heartily enjoyed a good thing said or told by another, and 
 seldom failed to match it by something as good of his own. 
 But everywhere and always he was the Christian gentle- 
 man. Indeed, religious principle characterized all that he 
 was and did. He was a sturdy champion of what he be- 
 lieved to be the true and the right, and it would be difficult 
 to find an instance of his swerving from their practical ex- 
 emplification. It was this which perfected the grace and 
 finish of what he was. He loved religious observances. 
 He loved Christian words and ways. It was his genuine 
 and living piety, with its inward and outward blossoming 
 and fruitage, which made so sweet and redolent and valu- 
 able that life now hidden from our eyes, but never to be 
 forgotten. One who has known him long and well, early 
 enough to be his pupil, and late enough to have been as- 
 sociated with him in instruction, may be permitted fervently 
 to speak of a character and life of such rare symmetry and 
 beauty, where there seemed so little lacking and nothing 
 in disproportionate excess. His very death seemed con- 
 sonant and fitting no wasting, suffering illness nothing 
 but the simple, peaceful transferrence from this life to the 
 next. And such a death was his own desire. It reminds 
 us of Dr. Jeremy Belknap, the historian of New Hampshire, 
 whose similar wish was similarly gratified, and among 
 whose papers, after his decease, were found the following 
 lines : 
 
 " When faith and patience, hope and love, 
 
 Have made us meet for heaven above, 
 
 How blest the privilege to rise, 
 
 Snatched in a moment to the skies ; 
 
 Unconscious to resign our breath, 
 
 Nor taste the bitterness of death." 
 

 VI. 
 
 MEMORIAL PRESENTED BY THE HON. WILL- 
 IAM J. BACON, LL.D., OF UTICA, N. Y., 
 
 To THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE, 
 CLINTON, N. Y., NOVEMBER 17, 1885. 
 
 As we come together again after the annual convocation 
 in July last, we naturally look around us to recognize and 
 to greet those from whom we then separated, and at once 
 we realize with a sad certainty that there is here a vacant 
 chair. It was occupied by one we always met with a cheer- 
 ful look and a loving word. In the felicitous language of 
 another on the occasion of his funeral obsequies, " a gra- 
 cious presence, a beloved companion, has gone from us, 
 and our lips are dumb, our hearts torn with anguish." 
 
 SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN, D.D., ex-President of Hamil- 
 ton College, suddenly departed this life in the early hours 
 of the morning of November 4> 1885. The event was en- 
 tirely unlocked for, and our whole community was startled 
 as by an electric shock. All who knew him felt that a great 
 and good man had gone from us, and the mortal had by 
 an instantaneous transition " put on immortality." To us 
 who were so intimately and happily associated with him, 
 the loss of his pleasant companionship, his benignant man- 
 ner, his gentle courtesy, his wise and conservative counsels 
 can hardly be expressed, while it is profoundly felt. 
 
 We do not propose to dwell at any length upon the in- 
 cidents of his public career, on the special and attractive 
 features of the life he lived among his friends, and those 
 which pre-eminently marked that life in the sacred precincts 
 of that home which was to him the very centre of his being, 
 the place where he had garnered up his heart, and upon 
 
32 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 which he shed the radiance of perpetual sunshine. These 
 have to some extent been already publicly and most ap- 
 propriately noticed, and doubtless will be hereafter more 
 fully and amply commemorated. 
 
 It will be enough here to say that he was born at North 
 Yarmouth, in Maine, on January 4, 1813 ; that he graduated 
 at Dartmouth College, of which his distinguished father, 
 Dr. Francis Brown, was President, and subsequently from 
 the Theological Seminary at Andover ; that he travelled 
 somewhat extensively in Europe from 1838 to 1840, and 
 returning home was almost immediately engaged in instruc- 
 tion at Dartmouth, first in the department of Oratory, and 
 subsequently as Professor of Intellectual Philosophy. From 
 this position he was called, in 1866, to the Presidency of 
 Hamilton College, in which office, with conspicuous ability, 
 he remained until his resignation in 1881. Since that date 
 he has made his home in Utica, but has been engaged for 
 portions of three years in giving instruction both in intel- 
 lectual and moral philosophy at Dartmouth and at Bowdoin 
 Colleges, and in other literary labors. At the time of his 
 death he was gathering materials for what would doubtless 
 have been his crowning, as it was to him a most congenial, 
 work, the life of that learned scholar and eminent states- 
 man, George P, Marsh, of Vermont. 
 
 Dr. BROWN was a scholar of wide and varied attainments, 
 and enjoyed a large reputation as a master of that mother 
 tongue that seems to us the most happy and appropriate 
 vehicle for pure and lofty thought, and strong as well as 
 polished diction. He was familiar with the whole range of 
 English literature, from its crudest, roughest elements and 
 uncouth forms in Chaucer and Gower to the latest and most 
 refined and polished numbers of Tennyson and the mascu- 
 line and magnificent periods of Macaulay. His own style 
 was formed upon the highest models, and was distinguished 
 in his public addresses no less by clearness and elevation 
 of thought than a peculiar felicity of diction that left noth- 
 ing uncompleted or unfinished. Of him as truly as of 
 
MEMORIAL. 33 
 
 Goldsmith it could be said : " Nihil tetigit quod non 
 ornavit" 
 
 The transparent beauty as well as the strength of his 
 thought, and the almost unmatched perfection of his style, 
 appeared to great advantage in his addresses to the gradu- 
 ating classes in the college, and those other discourses de- 
 livered on several memorable occasions, and notably those 
 at the service commemorative of President Fisher, and the 
 memorial address on the life and public career of George P. 
 Marsh. 
 
 In his pulpit discourses the same finish of style ap- 
 peared, applied to themes inspired by profound thought 
 and deep and holy meditation. We have the authority of 
 one well qualified to judge, and whose opportunities of hear- 
 ing him from the pulpit as well as the platform were most 
 frequent and favorable, for saying, as we do in his own 
 appreciative words: "His sermons, whether delivered in 
 the College Chapel or on occasions of public interest, were 
 always rich in thought, stimulating in their spiritual tone, 
 and finished in form. For a young man to have heard his 
 discourses at intervals during a period of four years was 
 almost of itself a liberal education." 
 
 Of the private character and personal traits of Dr. BROWN, 
 it is difficult to speak without using terms that may seem to 
 border at least upon extravagant eulogium. But surely it 
 may be truthfully said that no one who enjoyed the in- 
 estimable privilege of his friendship could be brought into 
 close communion with him without a profound and lasting 
 impression of the purity and elevation of his character, the 
 extent and thoroughness of his culture, and a wonderful 
 increment of deep admiration and reverent love for the daily 
 beauty of the life that diffused while it received so much of 
 genuine enjoyment. His natural temperament was serene 
 as well as buoyant, and he had so disciplined both his in- 
 tellect and his heart that he had acquired an absolute self- 
 control that manifested itself even amid circumstances of 
 great trial and provocation. No one to whom he had given 
 3 
 
34 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 his confidence had any reason to fear its withdrawal save by 
 his own ill desert, and so frank and ingenuous was his nature 
 that having no disguise himself he was very slow to suspect 
 its existence in others. 
 
 It was most fitting that a life so gentle, so symmetrical, 
 so complete, should have an ending so beautiful that it hardly 
 calls forth any emotions save those of holy joy and sincere 
 congratulation. He was apparently in good health, and to 
 the outward eye his physical condition exhibited no sign of 
 the hidden foe that was making, all unseen, his stealthy 
 approaches toward the citadel of life. He was in full pos- 
 session of all his fine powers and attainments. He felt 
 comparatively little of the infirmities that commonly attend 
 advancing years or the decrepitude of coming age. He 
 was most mercifully spared months or even weeks of rack- 
 ing pain, or the solemn and sometimes disturbing appre- 
 hensions that not infrequently are the precursors of ap- 
 proaching dissolution. He had no occasion to bid "fond 
 nature cease her strife" and let him "languish into life," 
 the life upon whose inner verge he doubtless unconsciously 
 stood. 
 
 With the composure of one that lies down to quiet 
 dreams, with a comparatively short season of previous 
 bodily suffering, without a struggle or a sigh, he gently 
 yielded his soul to his Creator, and literally " fell on sleep." 
 And thus it was that with a bound his emancipated spirit, 
 dropping the fleshly tabernacle that held it, passed from the 
 side of the dearest companionship of earth to the immediate 
 presence of the Father whom he reverently adored, and the 
 Saviour whom he wholly trusted and supremely loved, and 
 so in a moment he was translated, and was " forever with 
 the Lord." Who would not be happy to have lived such a 
 life who is there that envies not such a death ? 
 
 " Of no contagion, of no blast, he died, 
 
 But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. 
 So freshly he ran on three score and ten, 
 And then the busy wheels of life stood still." 
 
VII. 
 
 REMARKS BY THE REV. THOMAS J. BROWN, 
 
 D.D., 
 
 IN THE WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, UTICA, 
 N. Y., JANUARY 3, 1886. 
 
 [THE COMMUNION SUNDAY FOLLOWING DR. BROWN'S DEATH.] 
 
 WHETHER or not our custom is a wise one of coupling 
 with the commemoration of our Lord's death mention of 
 our own dear ones who have died I do not know, but this 
 is true, that easily and almost inevitably the thought of His 
 death sets us thinking, too, of those who have died in Him. 
 All our hope for them, the hope for ourselves that we may 
 see them again and know them, centres in Him. If we are 
 to " sorrow not as others who have no hope," it must be 
 by our believing " that as Jesus died and rose again, even 
 so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." 
 Moreover, our thoughts of them as they now are, indistinct 
 at best, all associate them with Him, where He is. " With 
 the Lord" is the best account we can give, even to our 
 own hearts, of their present state and station. Whatever is 
 uncertain, of this we are confident, that in their behalf is 
 fulfilled His prayer, " Father, I will that they also whom 
 thou hast given me be with me where I am." How, then, 
 shall we think of Him and not of them ? Nor need we 
 fear lest He should be offended at this offended if even as 
 we sit at this table, in holy contemplation of our Lord, there 
 
36 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 rise also before us these other familiar forms, not inter- 
 vening between Him and us, but so associated with Him 
 that, we cannot think of them apart. We fully appreciate 
 that, "with the Lord " and ''beholding His glory," they 
 already have experiences of which we cannot form even a 
 conception ; but their hearts we know have not changed. 
 They are the same to us that they ever were. No height 
 or depth of experience, no time or distance, can ever change 
 their love to us. Why should we not think of them, and 
 speak of them here and now ? Nothing will more endear 
 our Lord to us than the thought of what He was to them. 
 Nothing will so prompt us to self-surrender as the remem- 
 brance that into His hands they committed their spirits. 
 The name they confessed, shall it not be doubly dear to 
 us, now they are gone ? The world is cold because the 
 best and warmest seem to have left it, but here in spirit 
 our hearts meet with them again, as, pledging anew in this 
 holy cup our love to Christ, we receive assurance from Him 
 that they are not dead but only sleeping, and that for us 
 He will keep against that day all that we have committed 
 unto Him. 
 
 But, however it may be of others, of one, surely, it is 
 fitting that mention be made here to-day of that noblest 
 of Christians and saintliest of men, SAMUEL OILMAN 
 BROWN. So often of late has he sat beside me at this table 
 that I turn instinctively, as I speak his name, almost as if 
 expecting to behold him. How many times within the last 
 few years has he broken for you this bread, or poured out 
 this cup. He stood here almost as a spiritual presence, so 
 pure and good we knew him to be. Before his lips opened, 
 we read in the gentle lines of his lovely face the peace of 
 God which passeth understanding, and the holy calm of a 
 spirit in communion with its Lord. Then he spoke to us, 
 and listening we were lifted toward his own level. Simple 
 words they always were, as suited^ the occasion, truths to 
 Christian ears the most familiar, but his speaking them 
 seemed to make them new to us, and more than ever true. 
 
MEMORIAL. 37 
 
 The words and the man helped us to realize, as we could not 
 otherwise, what we do as often as we eat this bread and drink 
 this wine. Or if he prayed, as we followed him access to 
 the throne of grace seemed easy, prayer real and blessed, 
 and even while he yet pleaded the answer seemed to rest in 
 peace and blessing upon our souls. Rare occasions these, 
 dear friends, never to be ours again. Yet I doubt me if we 
 could have prized them more, even had we known but four 
 short months ago that then for the last time we bowed to 
 receive his favorite benediction : " Now the God of peace, 
 that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great 
 Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 
 covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His 
 will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, 
 through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory forever and ever. 
 Amen." 
 
 Others know better than we, and can better tell, how 
 great the loss sustained in the death of President BROWN 
 in all the broader avenues of life in which he walked, by the 
 cause of higher education, for instance, to which he had de- 
 voted his life, and by the Church at large, in whose progress 
 and welfare he maintained so true an interest. 
 
 And as for what he was in his own home, and to his 
 family, it is not for any to tell, none can tell. The hearts 
 most bereaved by his death know, not their own bitterness 
 only, but the rich treasures they have held, and still hold 
 forever and forever. It is not for a stranger, nor even for 
 a friend, to intermeddle therewith. There are fathers who 
 enable us to understand what God means when He says : 
 "Thou shalt call me, My Father." There are homes that 
 anticipate Heaven. 
 
 But what Dr. BROWN was to us we know, and now 
 that he is gone we delight to tell it. Not soon again 
 shall we have to speak of such a man a man so wise and 
 noble a Christian so simple and strong, pre-eminent in 
 every relation, and yet to the plainest of his brethren a 
 wise counsellor, a generous helper, a true and abiding 
 
38 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 friend. The fellowship which we, as a church, were per- 
 mitted to enjoy with him was brief, to be sure, and much 
 interrupted by his absences from home, but his coming 
 among us was of itself a blessing from the Father, and his 
 presence here was a continual benediction. He was always 
 ready to render kindly aid, and therefore often preached 
 from this pulpit, and, as often as he did, we were both at- 
 tracted and impressed, both instructed and encouraged, by 
 his words. To look into his face, it was often said among 
 us, to behold " the beaming light and sweetness of his 
 countenance," was as good as a sermon, so radiant was it 
 with kindly feeling. In his sermons, as in himself, there 
 was always a blending, in happiest proportions, of strength 
 and beauty. There were precision of language and logi- 
 cal sequence, with all the graces of a chaste and flowing 
 rhetoric. And over all, and in all, there was an undefined 
 influence, purifying and elevating, breathing with spiritual 
 life. In all that he regarded as fundamental to Christianity 
 he had unfaltering faith ; his frequent and happy expression 
 of that faith was to more than one mind among us, prone 
 to doubt, most reassuring. He was intensely alive to all 
 that is new in religious thought and criticism, yet he held 
 with firm grasp the old that is true. Above all, his faith 
 in Jesus the Christ knew no wavering ; nay, it grew ever 
 stronger and deeper, until now that faith is lost in sight. 
 Those sermons will not soon be forgotten, and, when for- 
 gotten, their influence will abide, inciting us to something 
 of his own benignity and saintliness. 
 
 In personal contact with Dr. BROWN, even more than 
 from the pulpit, was felt the singular fascination of his 
 beautiful character. Truly, he was a man to draw every- 
 body's love. Serene in his strength, maintaining always 
 the reserve of a true Christian dignity, how gentle he was, 
 and how affectionate. Even if he were reviled, he reviled 
 not again. Mention was once made to him, in my hearing, 
 of one who had done him a most manifest wrong, and, ap- 
 pealed to for his opinion, Dr. BROWN would only say : 
 
MEMORIAL. 39 
 
 " I so little understand the nature of such a man that I am 
 sure I am not competent to judge him." Such chanty of 
 judgment he always manifested. His views on all subjects 
 were positive and well defined, and where principle was 
 concerned he was firm as a rock, yet such was his trans- 
 parent goodness and integrity that he was as little apt to 
 give as to take offence. Gentle in his speech, thoughtful of 
 others, exemplary always and in all things, no wonder that 
 we loved him so well. 
 
 We may never again have such a man among us ; that 
 we have had him, even for a little while, we will ever re- 
 member as one of God's great blessings to this church. We 
 give him back his own words, spoken from this pulpit, of 
 the late Dr. Samuel W. Fisher : 
 
 " The lessons of a noble and faithful life, whose last years were 
 spent among us, are patent to us all ; excellences which we see we 
 may try to imitate, defects to avoid, but even to recognize and ac- 
 knowledge the truly good and great is itself a step toward the good. 
 
 " Happy for us, if we each, as the shadows lengthen, are filled with 
 the hope which sustained him, and, as the evening draws on, can as 
 serenely give up our account for the day's work, feeling that it has 
 been faithfully done." 
 
 'UNIVERSITY) 
 
VIII. 
 
 OTHER MEMORIAL PAPERS AND RESOLU- 
 TIONS. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE FACULTY OF HAMILTON COLLEGE. 
 ADOPTED NOVEMBER 4, 1885. 
 
 AT a special meeting of the Faculty of Hamilton College, held 
 in the Library, November 4, 1885, President Darling announced the 
 death of his predecessor in office, and the following resolutions were 
 adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Rev. SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN 
 we mourn the sudden departure of an accomplished educator, author, 
 and preacher, who for fifteen years adorned the highest office of Ham- 
 ilton College with the highest gifts of scholarship, wisdom, and per- 
 sonal worth, and who in all the duties and amenities of life, as an ex- 
 ecutive officer, as teacher, companion, and friend, was always true 
 to the noblest standard of Christian character. 
 
 Resolved^ That we tender to the afflicted family and friends of our 
 departed ex- President the assurances of our heartfelt sympathy with 
 them in their irreparable bereavement, and that we invoke for them 
 the consolations that can only come from the Supreme Comforter. 
 
 Resolved^ That it would be in keeping with our wishes and our 
 estimate of what is most befitting, that the grave of our venerable ex- 
 President should be made in our College Cemetery, where it would be 
 surrounded with memorials of the crowning labors of his most useful 
 and honorable life, and where it would help to perpetuate the good 
 influences of his exalted character. 
 
 Resolved^ That we, as a Faculty, attend the funeral service of ex- 
 President BROWN, and that our College exercises be suspended on 
 the day of this service. 
 
MEMORIAL. 41 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the minutes of 
 the Faculty, that they be presented to the family of ex-President 
 BROWN, that they be read in the College Chapel, and that they be 
 published. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE FACULTY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. 
 
 The Faculty of Dartmouth College desire to place on record their 
 high appreciation of the life and character of the late SAMUEL OILMAN 
 BROWN, D.D., LL.D., and of the excellent services rendered by him 
 to the cause of good literature and sound Christian education. They 
 gratefully recognize his long and useful connection with this College, 
 and his influence upon its culture and its reputation ; and they will 
 ever hold him in affectionate remembrance as an accomplished scholar 
 and writer, a diligent instructor, a wise counsellor, a genial companion, 
 and a Christian gentleman, who closed a most honorable career at a 
 ripe age and widely lamented. 
 
 They would also tender their cordial sympathy to his afflicted 
 family, and rejoice with them in the abundant consolations that are 
 connected with the history of such a life. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE FACULTY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 ADOPTED NOVEMBER 4, 1885. 
 
 Died at Utica, N. Y., November 4, 1885, Rev. SAMUEL GILMAN 
 BROWN, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in 
 Bowdoin College, 1883-85. 
 
 At a meeting of the Academical Faculty of Bowdoin College, No- 
 vember 4th, the following Memorial was adopted to be incorporated 
 with the records of the Faculty, and to be communicated to the family 
 of the deceased. 
 
 The sad intelligence of the death of our former colleague, and our 
 beloved friend, Rev. Dr. BROWN, brings to us a keen sense of per- 
 sonal bereavement to which we cannot forbear to give utterance, while 
 it permits us also to unite in an expression of profound respect for his 
 character, and of affectionate veneration for his memory. 
 
 The years during which he was associated with us in the service of 
 the College were so filled with the evidences of his gracious and kindly 
 spirit ; his intercourse with us, and with all whom he met, had in it 
 
42 SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN. 
 
 such a charm of courtesy and of Christian culture, that he bound us 
 all to himself by ties of no common regard. 
 
 It gives us pleasure, even while we mourn his death, to remember 
 and to bear grateful witness to the unselfish devotion and ability with 
 which he served the interests of the College and the pupils who enjoyed 
 his instruction ; the cheerfulness with which he undertook, and the suc- 
 cess with which he performed, the special services that were asked of 
 him from time to time ; the enthusiasm with which he entered into all 
 plans that were formed to promote the welfare of the College, and 
 labored to make them effective ; and the generosity with which he 
 strove, in all ways, to enlarge the influence and maintain the honor 
 and the Christian character of the College. 
 
 We desire to offer to the family of this departed servant of God, 
 who has been permitted to fill his life with so much of useful and dis- 
 tinguished service, the assurances of our respectful, and sincere sym- 
 pathy in their bereavement, while we give thanks, with them, for a life 
 which has been so rich in the fruits of a consecrated discipleship. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF CHI ALPHA.* 
 
 PRESENTED BY THE REV. ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D., LL.D., 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, AND 
 
 ADOPTED BY CHI ALPHA NOVEMBER 21, 1885. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN, D.D., LL.D., was born in North Yar- 
 mouth, Me., January 4, 1813, and died in Utica, N. Y., November 4, 
 1885. 
 
 His father was Francis Brown, President of Dartmouth College from 
 1815 to 1820. The son graduated at Dartmouth in 1831, and at An- 
 dover Theological Seminary in 1837. From 1838 to 1840 he travelled 
 and studied in Europe. For twenty-seven years he was Professor in 
 Dartmouth College, first of Oratory, from 1840 to 1863, and then 
 of Mental Philosophy, from 1863 to 1867. From 1867 to 1881 he was 
 President of Hamilton College. In the last two years of his life he 
 
 * An association of ministers in New York City. 
 
MEMORIAL. 43 
 
 had charge of the Senior Class in Bowdoin College, in whose neighbor- 
 hood the first two years of his life were spent. 
 
 In all these positions he earned for himself an enviable reputation. 
 He was an accurate scholar, and an admirable teacher ; of catholic 
 judgment, unerring taste, fine, gracious manners, and lofty Christian 
 purpose. 
 
 Chi Alpha remembers him with lively interest and affection. For 
 the last eighteen years of his life he was frequently our guest. On Oc- 
 tober 17, 1885, less than three weeks before he died, we showed our 
 esteem for him by a vote of permanent hospitality. Our sense of per- 
 sonal bereavement could hardly be keener, had his name been stand- 
 ing on our Roll of Members. 
 
 To his son, our brother, Professor Francis Brown, to his widow, 
 and to all the surviving children and grandchildren, we tender the 
 assurance of our sincerest sympathy. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE ONEIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 OFFERED BY GENERAL CHARLES W. DARLING, AND 
 
 ADOPTED NOVEMBER 30, 1885. 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His all-wise and mys- 
 terious providence, to remove from the sphere of his earthly labors to 
 his eternal rest His faithful servant, Rev. SAMUEL G. BROWN, D.D., 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Rev. Dr. BROWN this society has 
 lost a faithful, earnest member, endowed with many noble and Chris- 
 tian virtues. 
 
 Resolved, That to the bereaved family we tender our heartfelt 
 sympathy, with the assurance that he whom they mourn will ever be 
 held in remembrance by us ; and we request that the officers of this 
 meeting communicate to them that expression of our sympathy, with 
 a copy of this preamble and resolution. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE PRESBYTERY OF UTICA. 
 ADOPTED APRIL 14, 1886. 
 
 Whereas, The death of Rev. SAMUEL G. BROWN, D.D., LL.D., 
 has occurred since our last regular meeting, therefore 
 
 Resolved, That we put on record our sense of personal and public 
 loss in his death. Coming into our body on being called to the Presi- 
 
44 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 dency of Hamilton College, he won our admiration and respect as a 
 superior educator, and a gentleman of rare culture and refinement. 
 Though seldom prominent in the councils of the Presbytery, we sadly 
 miss his genial presence and the sweet influence of his high-toned 
 Christian character. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF "THE CLUB," UTICA, N. Y. 
 
 "The Club," ofUtica, N. Y., an association of gentlemen for literary 
 purposes, of which Dr. BROWN was an active member, has printed 
 since his death a paper on the history of the Club, prepared by him 
 and read in 1879. To this paper, as printed, is prefixed an artotype 
 portrait from the same negative with that used for this Memorial 
 and a commemorative note, from which the following is an extract ; 
 it is understood that the writer is the Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, LL.D. : 
 
 " His wide range of reading and meditation, his acquaintance with 
 the themes which occupy men's minds and concern institutions and 
 government, his familiarity with distinguished persons in many fields 
 of labor, and his intimate conversance with the best authors in prose 
 and poetry, in our own and other tongues, illustrated the ripeness of 
 culture, the activity and scope of intellectual life, the fulness of man- 
 hood which we all recognize. , 
 
 " His mastery of the English language was as apparent in the in- 
 formal talks of our little circle as in his most elaborate productions, 
 and it was the simple beauty and richness of beaten gold at hand for 
 daily use. His social and moral qualities were such as few attain. 
 They were the expression of a soul unselfish, aspiring, true, and 
 worthy, taking thankfully the good in his fellows, generous but not 
 blind to their faults, attuned to the perpetual melody of principle and 
 thought and life. 
 
 " ' Such harmony is in immortal souls.' " 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE DARTMOUTH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 
 OF THE NORTHWEST. 
 
 ADOPTED AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION, JANUARY 15, 1886. 
 
 Whereas, Recently, three of the most eminent members * of the 
 Faculty of Dartmouth College during the last half century have de- 
 parted this life, 
 
 * See Appendix VIII. 
 
MEMORIAL. 45 
 
 Resolved, That we desire to express our appreciation of the val- 
 ue of their long and faithful service in their respective departments ; 
 and as many of us were under their instruction, we gladly put on rec- 
 ord our testimony to their ability and success as teachers ; and we 
 desire also to express the hope that our Alma Mater may ever have 
 in her corps of instructors men of the accomplished scholarship and 
 refinement of Professor BROWN, the fidelity and gentle spirit of Pro- 
 fessor NOYES, the full knowledge and "large roundabout common- 
 sense " of Professor SANBORN. 
 
 Attention was called to the death of the three ex-Professors at other 
 meetings of Dartmouth Alumni, during the winter of 1885-86, e.g., in 
 Boston, New York, Washington, and Cincinnati, and honors were paid 
 to their memory. Special mention may be made of the meeting in 
 Boston, January 27, 1886, the remarks there of the Hon. Walbridge 
 A. Field, and the warm tribute of the Hon. John L. Hayes to the 
 character of Dr. BROWN, his college classmate and life-long friend. 
 
 The Faculty of Dartmouth College has requested the Rev. WILL- 
 IAM J. TUCKER, D.D., Professor in Andover Theological Seminary, 
 a graduate of Dartmouth in 1861, and now a member of its Board of 
 Trustees, to deliver in Hanover an address commemorative of Drs. 
 BROWN, NOYES, and SANBORN. 
 
IX. 
 
 [A few contributions to this Memorial from friends who saw much of Dr. BROWN 
 during the later years of his life are here grouped together.] 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR EDWARD NORTH, L.H.D., OF HAMILTON 
 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 THE leading events in President BROWN'S administration, briefly 
 stated in their historical order, were these : 
 
 1. The erection in 1867 of the new President's house, to replace 
 the house built for President Backus in 1813. 
 
 2. The election in 1868 of Professor E. W. Root to the Childs 
 Professorship of Chemistry, and the election of Professor A. H. Ches- 
 ter to the same chair, after the death of Professor Root in 1870. 
 
 3. The interior renovation of the College Chapel in 1868, and the 
 introduction of the Chapel organ in 1870. 
 
 4. The election in 1869 of Rev. A. G. Hopkins to the Latin Pro- 
 fessorship, as the successor of Professor W. N. McHarg. 
 
 5. The first New York Reunion of Hamilton Alumni, held at the 
 Astor House, January 21, 1869, with addresses by the Hon. Charles 
 P. Kirkland, President BROWN, Chancellor Pruyn, Daniel Hunting- 
 ton, Professor T. W. Dwight, and others. 
 
 6. The election in 1870 of Professor Samuel D. Wilcox to the 
 Kingsley Chair of Rhetoric and Elocution, as the successor of Pro- 
 fessor Anson J. Upson ; and the election in 1872 of Professor Henry 
 A. Frink as the successor of Professor Wilcox. 
 
 7. The election in 1870 of Professor Chester Huntington to the 
 Chair of Physics, after he had served the College one year as a tutor. 
 
 8. The election in 1871 of Rev. Dr. John W. Mears to the Albert 
 Barnes Professorship of Moral Philosophy. 
 
 9. The inauguration in 1872 of the Perry H. Smith Library Hall 
 and Art Gallery, with addresses by President BROWN, Rev. Dr. N. 
 
MEMORIAL. 47 
 
 W. Goertner, Hon. O. S. Williams, Rev. Dr. Henry Kendall, Rev. Dr. 
 James Eells, and others. 
 
 10. The dedication in 1873 of the monument in the College Cem- 
 etery to Rev. Samuel Kirkland, with addresses by President BROWN, 
 Hon. O. S. Williams, Hon. Horatio Seymour, Dr. S. B. Woolworth, 
 Daniel Sconondoa, and others. 
 
 11. The restoration and reopening of South College in 1874, under 
 its new name of Hungerford Hall, in honor of Hon. John N. Hunger- 
 ford, of Elmira. 
 
 12. The public services commemorative of Rev. Dr. S. W. Fisher 
 (who died January 18, 1874), with addresses by Judge W. J. Bacon, 
 President BROWN, and Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Brown. 
 
 13. The appointment in 1874 of Professor H. C. G. Brandt as In- 
 structor in Modern Languages. 
 
 14. The amendment of the College Charter, in 1875, giving to the 
 graduates of the College the privilege of electing four representatives 
 in the Board of Trustees. 
 
 15. The Utica reception of Dr. C. H. F. Peters, in June, 1875, after 
 his return from New Zealand, with addresses by Judge W. J. Bacon, 
 Judge Johnson, Dr. John P. Gray, and others. 
 
 1 6. The placing in the Chapel belfry, June 4, 1877, of the Howard 
 Clock, presented to the College by Mr. John Wanamaker, of Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. 
 
 17. The election in 1878 of Professor Ambrose P. Kelsey to the 
 Chair of Natural History, endowed by Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Mai- 
 den, Mass. 
 
 1 8. The election in 1880 of Professor Oren Root, Jr., to the Pro- 
 fessorship of Mathematics, as the successor of Professor Oren Root, Sr. 
 
 That the administration of Dr. BROWN was fruitful of good results 
 is clearly inferable from the foregoing statement of facts. His record 
 may be looked at in another way by comparing it with the record of 
 his predecessors in the same office. Dr. Azel Backus held the Presi- 
 dency three years, and gave 33 diplomas to graduates and honorary 
 alumni. Dr. Henry Davis gave 329 diplomas in seventeen classes ; 
 Dr. Sereno E. Dwight gave 39 diplomas in two classes ; Dr. Joseph 
 Penny 53 diplomas in three classes ; Dr. Simeon North 661 diplomas 
 in nineteen classes ; Dr. Samuel W. Fisher 306 diplomas in eight 
 classes ; Dr. SAMUEL G. BROWN 775 diplomas in fifteen classes. 
 
 Memories of the daily life of Dr. BROWN bring unfailing satisfac- 
 tion to one who walked with him, talked with him, and worked with 
 
48 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 him, on College Hill, for fourteen busy, anxious years. To meet^him 
 as he started for the morning chapel was finding new sources of enjoy- 
 ment and new strength for the duties of the day. His sensitive nature 
 was quickly responsive to the inspirations of a new day in early sum- 
 mer, to the subtle fragrances from the trees and the lawns, to the 
 changing colors of the distant hills, and the songs of birds. His 
 manner of conducting a religious service was very impressive in its 
 simplicity, its reverent earnestness, and the entire absence of anything 
 like personal display. His sermons were wholesome food for thought, 
 solid material for the building of a noble character, generous helps to 
 young men who were striving to be made beautiful within. His wide 
 reading brought to him for argument or illustration all the treasures of 
 the past, and, in the use of history and literature, his trained intellect, 
 his ripe wisdom, his rhetorical skill were unerring guides. A volume 
 of his sermons and addresses would be a valuable addition to our na- 
 tional literature. 
 
 At meetings of the College Faculty, where character sometimes 
 meets its crucial test, President BROWN never lost his self-control, or 
 his habitual courtesy and love of even-handed justice. His hatred of 
 all crooked self-seeking was intense. In dealing with selfish intrigues 
 and shams it was possible for him to " be angry and sin not," when his 
 own daily life and conversation were so exemplary in all that is pure, 
 unselfish, honorable, and of good report. To say these things is only 
 repeating what has been already said in more befitting words in the 
 addresses that followed the sudden death of Dr. BROWN. His life and 
 character will bear the light of close analysis and scrutiny. He will 
 be enrolled on the list of prominent Americans as one whose profound 
 and accurate learning was a power used without pedantry or osten- 
 tation, whose intellectual strength was a sword wreathed with myrtle, 
 whose home-life was as beautiful and sweet as his public career was 
 honorably useful and blameless. 
 
 FROM THE REV. ISAAC S. HARTLEY, D.D., OF UTICA, N. Y. 
 
 No words at my command can adequately express the loss I have 
 sustained in the sudden death of your loved and honored father. 
 While I had known him many years, and occasionally visited him at 
 his home, it was not till he became a fellow-townsman that my ac- 
 quaintance grew into friendship, and that that friendship bloomed and 
 ripened into love (may I say?) as pure and unsullied as bud that ever 
 unfolded. 
 
 During the last few years, when he was comparatively free from 
 
MEMORIAL. 49 
 
 active duties and at home, he honored me almost daily with his com- 
 panionship ; and as in many respects we had common interests and 
 common pleasures, these many hours will long be remembered. . . . 
 His simplicity and gracefulness of manner, his ease, sincerity, and 
 naturalness were exceedingly winsome, and led you at once to feel that 
 you were in the society of one to whom you could tell, if need be, your 
 most hidden secrets, and experience no check, nor suffer betrayal. 
 Few sooner gained your confidence or were more easily approached ; 
 fewer still more sympathetic and listening. His extensive and varied 
 reading, his close and exhaustive study, his knowledge of philosophy 
 and familiarity with the teachings of the schools, made him quick and 
 ready in thought ; while his scholarly taste, united with a faultless 
 style, brought that thought to you clothed in the richest yet simplest 
 apparel. I believe few could more easily command their attainments, 
 or have them respond more promptly to appeal. When, as frequently 
 happened, questions relating to the State came up for remark, the 
 readiness with which he discussed them and his reference to errors 
 made by other nationalities in solving like or similar difficulties were 
 truly phenomenal. . . . Themes social, economic, and philan- 
 thropic found in him also a devout student ; and whenever alluded to 
 he discussed them with unusual fluency, his words ever revealing 
 previous reflection, as well as the possession of the calm, judicial 
 mind. 
 
 But the subject to which, perhaps, he most frequently reverted in 
 these hours by the way, as well as when surrounded with his more 
 intimate friends, was Christianity and its influence ; what it had 
 wrought, what it was working, and what he believed it would some 
 day include in its holy grasp. With him it was no mere creed or set 
 of defined doctrines, but a life, a force and a divine life and force. 
 . . . No one could spend an hour with your father without ad- 
 miring his catholicity of spirit. ... In the ministerial meeting 
 his presence was anxiously looked for, and when he spoke on the ques- 
 tion under discussion, his wisdom, humility, and sweetness of spirit 
 wooed and won. . . . While most judicious in commending, he 
 was very courteous in reproof. His courteousness was not artfulness, 
 any more than his honesty and integrity were guarded. I never knew 
 him speak a harsh word. He seldom talked about the living, there 
 seemingly being a sacredness about personality which he was unwill- 
 ing to disturb. Nor did he carry any concealed armor. ... I 
 pray that the spirit of his life may not be lost upon me. Sometimes 
 I find myself 
 
 . . . " Waiting for a hand, 
 A hand that can be clasp'd no more." 
 
50 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 As he looks down upon me from my study wall, I feel I am the 
 constant recipient of a silent benediction. In our common loneliness 
 and sorrow, how comforting, however, to know that 
 
 41 The dead are like the stars by day, 
 
 Unseen by mortal eye, 
 But not extinct ; they hold their way 
 In glory through the sky." 
 
 FROM THE REV. WILLIAM P. FISHER, PASTOR OF THE CONGRE- 
 GATIONAL CHURCH, BRUNSWICK, ME. 
 
 In the two years of Dr. BROWN'S teaching in Bowdoin College, the 
 esteem and appreciation were generally accorded to him which were 
 naturally his due. . . . But I accounted myself especially fortu- 
 nate in the circumstances which allowed me his intimacy. The varied, 
 entertaining, and instructive conversation, the inexhaustible familiarity 
 with men and things, the unfailing courtesy and uniform cheerfulness, 
 the prudent counsels, the hearty sympathy and aid in emergencies, 
 were greatly valued at the time as they are held in grateful remem- 
 brance. That benevolent face, handsome with its fresh color and 
 white locks, remains to me the representative of a graceful, gracious, 
 and devout old age. It was a rare friendship. I used sometimes to 
 ask myself what must be the value and delight of such a companion- 
 ship in all the life. It was delightful to see the exceptional charm of 
 his good-fellowship in society, continued in the intimacy of the home 
 circle, and only improving with intimacy. 
 
 In connection with a memorial window in the Congregational 
 Church at Brunswick, Me., commemorating the Rev. Professor Alpheus 
 Spring Packard, D.D., of Bowdoin College,* the Rev. W. P. Fisher 
 made, on Sunday, November 15, 1885, a few remarks about Dr. 
 BROWN, to which the following extract refers : 
 
 * Alpheus Spring Packard, D.D., was born at Chelmsford, Mass., December 
 23, 1798 ; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1816 ; tutor there from 1819 to 1824 ; 
 Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages from 1824 to 1865 ; and Collins Pro- 
 fessor of Natural and Revealed Religion from 1865 until his death. He was or- 
 dained to the Congregational Ministry May 16, 1850, and received the degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College in 1869. He died suddenly at Squirrel 
 Island, Me., July 13, 1884, having made the excursion from Brunswick in the com- 
 pany of a few friends, of whom Dr. BROWN was one. 
 
MEMORIAL. 51 
 
 {Brunsivick Telegraph, November 20, 1885.] 
 
 The choice of the style of window was greatly due to the efforts of the late Rev. 
 Dr. BROWN, whose knowledge of men across the water and the architectural de- 
 signs of foreign windows aided very much to secure the tasteful and appropriate 
 memorial which has been placed in the north transept gallery of the Congregational 
 Church, of which Professor Packard was so long a member and officer. The tender 
 and appreciative tribute paid to the memory of Rev. Dr. BROWN by the pastor 
 was listened to with deep interest by all his hearers. The two venerated officers 
 of the College were in intimate association during the two years of Dr. BROWN'S 
 residence among us, and were together when the final hour came for the beloved 
 Professor Packard. They were alike in their Christian courtesy, their literary 
 tastes, and both, while deeply religious men, were genial and social to a remarkable 
 degree, and interested in the welfare of all around them. The window may there- 
 fore be considered a memorial to both. 
 
X. 
 
 [Out of many notices published in the daily and weekly newspapers, the follow- 
 ing have been selected :] 
 
 FROM THE UTICA MORNING HERALD. 
 NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
 
 THOSE who knew Dr. BROWN well could not fail to be charmed by 
 the graces of his character and the generous and catholic spirit which 
 pervaded all his acts. His Christian charity under trial was a model 
 for imitation. It was the fruit of inwrought conviction and principle, 
 as well as of a disposition naturally attractive. His scholarship was 
 very thorough and without a particle of affectation. He was deeply 
 versed in English literature of every period, and was a master of the 
 works of the great orators who have made glorious our mother tongue. 
 In command of the English language he had very few peers, and his 
 mastery was manifest on the least formal occasion. 
 
 Dr. BROWN mingled with men and attracted them to him. His 
 acquaintance was large with the most noted and the most accomplished 
 of our scholars and statesmen, as well as with clergymen of all de- 
 nominations. He enjoyed the society of well-informed persons, and 
 always had something to communicate calculated to arouse thought. 
 His companionship was delightful, and without any assumption he 
 was recognized in every gathering as a leader of men. With the 
 modesty of scholarship, he had the strength of a full and true char- 
 acter, of opinions well founded, of accomplishments which were the 
 fruitage of a life of study and of work. 
 
 As President of Hamilton College, Dr. BROWN accomplished re- 
 sults which will be remembered as long as the institution endures. 
 He won the affection as he commanded the esteem of all of his pupils. 
 His teaching was without the least attempt at sensation. It was ear- 
 nest, genuine, and suggestive, and fruitful. No student ever gave 
 heed to his instruction without permanent effect upon his training and 
 culture. Since his resignation as president he has retained his posi- 
 tion as trustee and as a member of the Executive Committee, and has 
 
MEMORIAL. 53 
 
 rendered valuable service to the institution. His loss will be felt in 
 its councils. As an educator he held to the conservative methods, to 
 thoroughness of discipline, and to study for its own sake and for the 
 enlightenment and elevation of character. Such a man is a torch- 
 bearer wherever his steps lead. 
 
 FROM THE UTICA OBSERVER. 
 NOVEMBER 4, 1885. 
 
 So symmetrical a character as Dr. BROWN'S is not easily analysed. 
 In all directions so evenly developed was he, that it is difficult to point 
 to this quality or that as the secret of his greatness. There was in 
 him the rarest combination of strength and gentleness. No man was 
 firmer in his convictions or truer to the Christian principles by which, 
 throughout all his life, he had sought to guide both thought and action. 
 At the same time none was ever more tolerant and charitable, both 
 because a tender, loving, sympathetic heart controlled and directed 
 his strength, and because his large knowledge as a student of history, 
 of humanity and human affairs, delivered him from partisanship, and 
 made him incapable of the egotism which manifests itself in zeal 
 against all opinions and practices which are not its own. He was pre- 
 eminently a scholar, broad and liberal, bringing to every subject a 
 sincere and earnest mind, capable by nature and through long training 
 of calm, independent, and thorough investigation. His enthusiasm 
 was most kindled by his life-long labors as an instructor, to which 
 work he brought inspiration joined with unlimited painstaking. 
 Everywhere he was recognized as one of the foremost teachers of our 
 country. He was, too, a most graceful writer and speaker, and some 
 of the best work of his life was done in the pulpit, where the strength 
 of his mind and the goodness of his heart were equally manifested. 
 
 FROM THE UTICA DAILY PRESS. 
 NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
 
 Dr. BROWN was a man of many amiable qualities and rare ability. 
 As a scholar he had few equals, and he was a man of remarkable liter- 
 ary culture. He was a strong and clear writer, and his articles were 
 always both entertaining and instructive. He was best known in this 
 vicinity as President of Hamilton College. In his administration of 
 the affairs of that institution, his work was characterized by honesty 
 
54 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 of purpose and faithful discharge of every duty. Of a gentle man- 
 ner and a kindly heart, he won the respect of all who knew him. He 
 was a man of firm conviction and unswerving devotion to what he 
 regarded as right. Wherever he spoke, and whatever the occasion, 
 Hamilton had an able representative. In his intercourse with the 
 students he was friendly, and bore himself in such a way as to impress 
 them in his favor. As a disciplinarian he had the courage to do 
 whatever he thought the case required, but preferred mild measures 
 where they would accomplish the desired result. His sermons were 
 always full of thought and power, and were listened to attentively. 
 His services as a preacher were much sought, and he spoke to large 
 audiences when he could do so consistently with his duties at the col- 
 lege. It was, however, in the class-room that Dr. BROWN was most 
 at home. He was as familiar with his subjects as with the merest 
 rudiments of science, and had invaluable resources of mind and in- 
 formation. He taught all the text-book suggested and more, and 
 added observations and ideas of his own that were of priceless 
 worth. His kindly way endeared him to the students and gained their 
 affections. His lectures to the classes showed his wonderful scholas- 
 tic attainments, and never failed to win the admiration of his hearers. 
 No one was ever absent from his place when Dr. BROWN was to 
 lecture. His relations with the Faculty were such as to gain for him 
 their hearty support. In his family he was an affectionate husband 
 and father, and his home life was always pleasant. To know Dr. 
 BROWN was to admire his ability, to be charmed by his manner, and 
 to respect his Christian manliness. 
 
 FROM THE HANOVER (N. H.) GAZETTE. 
 NOVEMBER 7, 1885. 
 
 The death of Rev. Dr. SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN, announced by 
 telegraph Wednesday, brings sadness to the hearts of the old friends 
 and neighbors in Hanover, to whom he was so well known, and by 
 whom he was so greatly beloved. This is not the time and place for 
 an extended eulogy, but it seems fitting to say a few words here and 
 now of one whose life among us for many years was so helpful, so 
 courteous, and so kind ; whose departure has been so permanently 
 regretted, whose work in the College has left such enduring influence, 
 and whose sudden death, at Utica, N. y., will be so deeply deplored. 
 
 It was greatly desired and hoped that after his work there [at Ham- 
 ilton College] was finished, and he could turn to less wearing and per- 
 
MEMORIAL. 55 
 
 plexing duties, we might have him back again in the old familiar home, 
 and among the friends of his early life. It will always be a source of 
 regret to those who loved him here that this hope was frustrated. 
 But it has been very pleasant for us to know how fully his heart was 
 here, and to receive the cordial clasp of his hand in his not infrequent 
 visits to Hanover. In Dr. BROWN'S death the last link seems to be 
 severed which bound us to those early days of the College, when his 
 father's young hand had the helm amid the troubled sea of a conflict 
 which came near destroying its very life. One by one we are going to 
 join the peaceful sleepers in the old graveyard. But our work does 
 not go there with us. Force is never lost. We are glad to know that 
 every blow struck for the right will vibrate on forever, and every 
 example of a pure and noble life will continue to do good somehow 
 and somewhere throughout the coming ages. The words of Dr. Gur- 
 ley's hymn express the aspirations of our hearts : 
 
 " Kept peaceful in the midst of strife, 
 
 Forgiving and forgiven ; 
 So may we walk the pilgrim life, 
 And find the path to heaven." 
 
 FROM THE NEW YORK EVANGELIST. 
 NOVEMBER 12, 1885. 
 
 The sudden death of ex-President BROWN, of Hamilton College, 
 has carried unusual keenness of grief to a very large circle of devoted 
 and admiring friends. His rare antecedents and opportunities, his 
 noble qualities of head and heart, his broad and varied culture, his 
 fine Christian character, and his long, distinguished service in conspic- 
 uous positions, are now all gathered to a focus in our recollection of 
 the man and his work. Such completeness and symmetry, both of 
 character and career, are seldom achieved. . . . His pupils always 
 spoke of him with great affection, reverence, and gratitude. 
 
 The last few weeks of his busy life were passed in New York City 
 with his son, Francis Brown, Professor in the Union Theological Sem- 
 inary [and other friends]. On Friday, October 3oth, he was present 
 in Adams Chapel to hear Archdeacon Farrar, and offered the intro- 
 ductory prayer. Saturday evening, October 3ist, he attended the 
 regular weekly meeting of Chi Alpha, a clerical association, of which 
 he had been made a permanent guest. The Monday following he re- 
 joined his family at Utica. On Tuesday he complained of pectoral 
 
56 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 oppression, indicative of heart disease, and early on Wednesday morn- 
 ing, the 4th of November, died instantaneously, without a struggle, and 
 apparently without pain. There was no movement of hand or feature. 
 The heart simply stood still, and the face looked calm and sweet in its 
 last repose. 
 
 On Friday morning, November 6th, a funeral service was held in 
 the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Utica (which President BROWN 
 had attended), conducted by the pastor, Dr. Thomas J. Brown, as- 
 sisted by Dr. Isaac S. Hartley, of the Reformed Church, Utica ; Dr. 
 Thomas B. Hudson, of Clinton ; and Professor A. Grosvenor Hopkins, 
 of Hamilton College. The latter made a somewhat extended address, 
 which was singularly appropriate, touching, and impressive. 
 
 The body of the dead President was borne on Saturday to his old 
 home, in Hanover, N. H., where his parents and two of his children lie 
 buried. The interment was on Sunday afternoon, the 8th of November. 
 
 FROM THE INDEPENDENT. 
 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 1885. 
 
 From his father Dr. BROWN inherited many of his characteristics, 
 and, to a singular degree, his career. From him was derived his re- 
 fined elegance of person and manner, his academic type and scholarly 
 tastes, his love of philosophy and of music, and the faultless style and 
 diction which were the delight of his friends. 
 
 Like his father, he was invited to the Presidency of Hamilton, 
 though, unlike him, he was persuaded to accept the office. He was 
 a finished and thoughtful preacher, a useful teacher, a fine scholar, 
 and a man of the highest refinement, purity, simplicity, and fidelity. 
 As professor and as president he sustained himself with dignity and 
 wisdom, which shone the brightest in adverse circumstances. The 
 administrative power, as a ruler of men and manager of affairs, which 
 enabled the father to carry Dartmouth triumphantly through its con- 
 test against President Wheelock and the State of New Hampshire, 
 and which won the admiration of Webster, Jeremiah Mason, and Rufus 
 Choate, took, in the son, a different direction, and appeared in the 
 fine qualities of his mind and heart. 
 
MEMORIAL. 57 
 
 FROM THE ABBOT COURANT. 
 ANDOVER, MASS., JUNE, 1886. 
 
 It may be said of Dr. BROWN that, as his spirit and speech were 
 under strong self-control, so were his mental powers held under the 
 same masterful command. In his home, always made sunny by his 
 presence, " the study" was the favorite family resort. Wife and chil- 
 dren and other members of the household, with guests not a few 
 who so often and so cordially were counted among them were always 
 welcomed there, and however he might be absorbed in writing or read- 
 ing, his heart was always so "at leisure from itself" that book or pen 
 could at once be laid aside, to give undivided attention to whatever 
 called for his sympathy or interest from the oldest to the youngest of 
 his large family. No interruption could break the calm flow of his 
 thoughts. The pen would be again taken up, and the thread of thought 
 run on as if the silence had been unbroken and no jar felt. It was 
 an extraordinary exception, and only when writing under great press- 
 ure of time, that he would ask to be alone. His fondness for music 
 was so great that, so far from being annoyed at the sound of the piano 
 when writing a sermon or a lecture, it was to him an unconscious in- 
 spiration, and he would say, "I write the better for it." 
 
 The higher forms of music were to him a great delight. He often 
 said that whatever of correct taste he had in this direction was largely 
 due to his familiarity when in college with the old Handel and Haydn 
 collection of church music. 
 
 The symphonies of Mendelssohn and Beethoven his favorite Ora- 
 torios of " The Messiah," " The Creation," and " Elijah "the Masses 
 of Haydn and Mozart, yielded rich satisfaction to a soul so attuned to 
 all that is high and grand and sacred in art no less than in letters. 
 This keen sensitiveness to the beautiful, the delicate, the noble, where- 
 ever found, which gave such freshness and intensity to his enjoyment 
 of life, never lost its fine edge. 
 
XI. 
 
 [Many letters of sympathy have been received from all parts of the country 
 and from other lands. A few extracts are here given, the first being from a 
 recent graduate of Hamilton College :] 
 
 THREE men stand out as great factors in my life : Dr. N , Dr. 
 
 BROWN, and my father. I cannot be too thankful that before enter- 
 ing college I had the advantage of the high estimate which Dr. N 
 
 and my father had of Dr. BROWN, and so was prepared to give him 
 my confidence. I think that it was during the summer of the year in 
 which I went to Clinton that he occupied Dr. N 's pulpit. I re- 
 member very well the pleasure which his sermons gave my father. 
 . . . Then followed the four years at Hamilton, during which I 
 learned to love as well as to admire Dr. BROWN. 
 
 The afternoon on which I received the news of his death I read to 
 myself, and then to a friend, the address which he delivered in memory 
 of his predecessor, Dr. Fisher, and went to the Public Library for his 
 " Life of Choate," but it was out. I came back to my room and sat 
 down, thinking I would send some expression to the Evangelist, for it 
 seemed as though a tribute should appear from some one of the many 
 students who were under him ; but I found that I could not carry out 
 this wish. If I had loved him less, if he had been more angular, 
 I might have written something ; but he stood before me in such 
 completeness as a Christian scholar that I was afraid to touch his 
 memory. 
 
 Some men put much of themselves into favorite phrases. How 
 often Dr. BROWN used to say in eulogy upon some man of letters, like 
 G. P. Marsh, that "he was a lover of learning." Surely he himself 
 was that ; and in such an unpretentious way, after the manner of 
 Socrates, who preferred the title of " a lover of wisdom " to that of 
 "a wise man," he would, perhaps, have described himself upon his 
 intellectual side. Into his estimate of himself in this and in other 
 directions there entered a fine Christian humility, which added its 
 
MEMORIAL. 59 
 
 charm to those rare intellectual qualities and qualifications, into the 
 possession of which he had come by inheritance and training. 
 
 I am thankful to be able to retain the memory of a college presi- 
 dent who was not disproportionately developed so as to invite an un- 
 fortunate imitation of special points, but who set before me the model 
 of a complete Christian education. He was instinctively and by cult- 
 ure a gentleman. How large in conception and faultless in execution 
 was all his literary work ! How varied and profound his attainments ! 
 Indeed, he was a true lover of all learning. More than all this, he 
 was in possession of a Christian character, which trial only served to 
 refine and make visible to others. " It has not been my fortune," said 
 Senator Hawley at our Alumni dinner, " to come in contact with a 
 sweeter Christian spirit." 
 
 We are inclined to feel in such a death that too much is buried ; 
 but we ought rather to be thankful that the best is imperishable, that 
 " life in death survives, and the uninterrupted breath inspires " many 
 and many a life. 
 
 [Other friends sent the following :] 
 
 How loyally, how royally, he loved his friends ! With what a brave 
 and cheery spirit he met the trials of every day with what patience 
 and forbearance he met wrong-doing with what courage and persis- 
 tency he battled for the right ! It seems fitting that he should have 
 been spared long suffering, and the decay of mental power, and the 
 anguish of parting from those he loved so fondly and that the one 
 little moment should have placed his feet on the other side. 
 
 He who always was so full of bright, loving, gracious life it hardly 
 seems possible to associate death with him I would rather think of 
 the life immortal with Christ which he has entered, where there is 
 no more death, nor sorrow, nor pain, and where all tears are wiped 
 away. 
 
 How beautiful it is to go out of life so peacefully ! It seemed so in 
 keeping with the repose which President BROWN always carried in 
 his presence to almost without pain pass out of life into the unknown 
 blessedness of the heavenly life so like his Master here, to be made 
 perfect "even as He is perfect" there. Aside from the loss to the 
 dear ones, how great is that to the world when such a great, true 
 heart and noble intellect is taken from it ! But I like to think that 
 
60 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 the power of such lives in the world does not end at death, but that 
 God may use them and permit them to finish their work in His own 
 way. 
 
 After such a noble, honored, and useful life, translation seems 
 rather the saint's reward than a calamity to be prayed against, and 
 the petition of the Litany seems needed most for the friends bereft. 
 
 I congratulate you on the blessed memories and the full assurance 
 of hope that your dear father has left to you. 
 
 I believe I may say with the most perfect honesty, that of all faces 
 which ever brightened my little private office, there never was any 
 which I was more glad to see, or which brought more geniality, bright- 
 ness, and purity with it, than that of your honored father. I never 
 enjoyed the pleasure of intimacy with him, but he so impressed me 
 with the sweetness and worth of his humanity, the genuineness of his 
 character as a scholar, and the refinement of his whole nature, that I 
 always felt his presence as a benediction. 
 
 . . . I do not see how we can be otherwise than glad for those 
 who have been spared the long agony of dying, and the long wear of 
 pain who fall at their posts, in the ripeness and fulness of their 
 powers. 
 
 I never knew your father, but he made the same impression upon 
 me that he seems to have made upon all who met him, even in the 
 slightest intercourse the impression of a calm, sweet, and wholly har- 
 monious nature, with the large wisdom that comes from a deep knowl- 
 edge of books and life and men. The charm of his written and spoken 
 word was felt to spring from a perfectly well-rounded and gracious 
 personality, as well as from his full mind and varied knowledge. I 
 think such men strengthen our belief greatly in the possibilities of 
 humanity, and through their completeness give more than a hint and 
 suggestion of the perfect development of the life beyond life. 
 
XII. 
 
 [One of the letters written by Dr. BROWN after his return to Utica, No- 
 vember 2d, was addressed to the Rev. Frederick A. Adams, Ph.D., of Brick 
 Church. N. J. , who was an old friend of College and Seminary days. It is 
 fitting that Dr. Adams' letter addressed to one of Dr. BROWN'S children, under 
 date of November 5, 1885, should close this series of extracts :] 
 
 I WAS startled this morning on seeing in The Tribune the an- 
 nouncement of the death of Rev. SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN, D.D., 
 LL.D., the more because it is but a few days since your father 
 visited me in my house, kindly taking the pains to come from 
 New York City for that purpose. It was very pleasant, cheering, 
 and precious. . . . S. G. BROWN and I had been friends from 
 an early time in my college life, drawn together partly by our 
 common interest in the Handel Society. ... I was witness 
 of his growing power, and his harmonizing influence in the College 
 and afterward in the Seminary. It is pleasant now to remember 
 how, when under some unfair pressure, he had it in him to waive 
 his own clear rights for the sake of the harmony of others. Stand- 
 ing where I now do, it would be right and pious to forget what it 
 would be painful to remember. But in S. G. BROWN I know of 
 nothing that it would be painful to remember. 
 
 P. M. I had written thus far this morning, when I was 
 called away to the city ; and on my return I found awaiting me 
 the inclosed letter in your father's own hand. It would have been 
 a pleasant surprise in any case to receive a letter so soon after his 
 visit ; what memories does it now awaken now that the hand 
 that wrote it is still ! Happily was his own prayer fulfilled he 
 was not called to witness the decay of his own powers ! 
 
 This letter, it occurs to me, may possibly be among the last 
 that your father wrote. With this thought in mind I will make a 
 copy of it for my own use, and send the original to you, which 
 you may keep if you desire. 
 
62 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN. 
 
 The lovely November day is drawing to its close. As I watch 
 its fading light and think of my departed friend the lines of Her- 
 bert's little hymn come to me : 
 
 " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright ! " 
 
 In the faith expressed in its closing stanza I offer to you my 
 word of sympathy and word of cheer. 
 
 [The letter inclosed by Dr. Adams was as follows :] 
 
 UTICA, 372 Genesee Street, November 2, 1885. 
 REV. FREDERICK A. ADAMS, PH.D., 
 
 MY DEAR DOCTOR : I have no doubt that you have more 
 knowledge of Greek in your little finger than I have in my head, 
 and just as little doubt that your book * has given me a new im- 
 pression, a new conviction, of the extreme delicacy and flexibility 
 of the Greek language, and of the wonderful precision and capa- 
 bility of the Greek mind. If half what you say is true, and I dare 
 say it is all true, no nation seems to be even second to the Greeks 
 in the art of expression, and that really means in the power and 
 facility of thought. You have compressed a marvellous amount into 
 a very little space ; a multum in parvo, indeed, is your valuable 
 little book, only I ought to find a Greek phrase to express it. I 
 have only read a part of it, and I left it, for a time, with my son, 
 who was looking it over with great interest. It is too good a book 
 to make you rich ; if now, it were only a spelling-book ! but you 
 will have your reward. 
 
 It gave me great pleasure, very great, to see you in Orange. 
 Old friends are growing fewer every year, and I wonder that I 
 myself am verging toward my seventy-third year, and yet with my 
 feelings of youth and enthusiasm not much changed, certainly 
 not extinguished. I pray that I may not lose them till I part 
 from all ; I pray that I may have strength and the will to work as 
 long as the day lasts ; I pray that I may never lose the sense of 
 the divine presence and help to the very end. . . . 
 Very affectionately, my dear old friend, I remain, 
 
 Yours as ever, S. G. BROWN. 
 
 * The Greek Prepositions. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE following books and pamphlets by Dr. BROWN have been published : 
 
 1. The Studies of an Orator; Inaugural at Dartmouth, 1840. (See 
 below, b.} 
 
 2. Biography of Self-Taught Men, 1847. 
 
 3. The Spirit of a Scholar ; Address before the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society at Dartmouth, 1847. (See below, d.} 
 
 4. Eulogy on the Life and Character of Henry Clay, 1852. 
 
 5. Address before the Dartmouth Alumni, 1855. 
 
 6. Discourse Commemorative of Charles Brickett Haddock, D.D., 
 1861. 
 
 7. Life, Speeches, and Addresses of Rufus Choate; 2 vols., 1862. 
 
 8. The Functions and Privileges of a Scholar in the Crisis of the 
 State ; Phi Beta Kappa Address at Bowdoin College, 1863. 
 
 9. Discourse Commemorative of Professor John Newton Putnam, 
 1864. 
 
 10. Fourth of July Oration, Claremont, N. H., 1865. 
 
 11. Inaugural Address as President of Hamilton College, 1867.. 
 
 12. Centennial Oration at Dartmouth College, 1869. 
 
 13. Discourse Commemorative of the Rev. Samuel Ware Fisher, 
 D.D., LL.D., 1874. 
 
 14. Life of Rufus Choate (new edition), 1879. 
 
 15. Address Commemorative of Daniel Webster, 1882. 
 
 16. Discourse Commemorative of the Hon. George Perkins Marsh, 
 LL.D., 1883. 
 
 17. Address at the Opening of the Billings Library of the University 
 of Vermont, 1885. 
 
 For the Life of George P. Marsh he had made extensive and thorough prepa- 
 ration, but had hardly begun to write. 
 
 Among his numerous unpublished lectures and addresses may be mentioned 
 those on The Spirit of Early English Literature, The Importance of Rhetorical 
 
64 APPENDIX. 
 
 Study, The Elements of Success in Study, London, The Study of the Fine Arts, 
 an Historical Lecture on New Hampshire, and particularly twelve lectures on Brit- 
 ish Orators, first delivered as the Lowell Lectures, Boston, January 4-February 
 ii, 1859. 
 
 It is impossible to make any complete list of his contributions to periodical lit- 
 erature. Among the most important are : 
 
 a. Dr. Chalmers as a Preacher ; American Biblical Repository, 
 October, 1837. 
 
 b. The Studies of an Orator; ib., April, 1841. (See I, above.) 
 
 c. Dante ; North American Review, April, 1846. 
 
 d. The Spirit of a Scholar; Bibliotheca Sacra, February, 1849. 
 (See 3, above.) 
 
 e. Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms; North American Review , 
 July, 1849. 
 
 f. Winckelmann on Ancient Art ; ib., July, 1850. 
 
 g. Richard H. Dana's Poems and Prose Writings ; ib. t January, 
 1851. 
 
 h. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture ; ib. t April, 1851. 
 /. De Quincey's Writings; ib., April, 1852. 
 j. Life and Writings of Dr. Chalmers; ib., October, 1852. 
 k. Travellers in France ; ib. t April, 1853. 
 /. The Writings of B. B. Edwards ; ib., July, 1853. 
 m. The Works of Fisher Ames ; ib., January, 1855. 
 . The Ottoman Empire ; Bibliotheca Sacra, July, 1857. 
 o. Walter Scott ; North American. Review, October, 1858. 
 P. On Some Indirect Aids in the Cultivation of the Taste (in a series 
 of articles by College Presidents) ; New York Ledger, July 27, 1867. 
 
 II. 
 
 FRANCIS BROWN, D.D. , father of SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN, was the 
 son of Benjamin and Prudence (Kelly) Brown, and was born at Ches- 
 ter, N. H., January n, 1784; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1805, 
 appointed tutor there in 1806, retaining the position until the summer 
 of 1809 ; ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Church, 
 North Yarmouth, Me., January 11, 1810; elected Professor of Lan- 
 guages in Dartmouth College the same year, but declined ; married 
 February 4, 1811 ; elected President of Dartmouth College in August, 
 1815, and inaugurated September 27, 1815 ; he died at Hanover, N. H., 
 July 27, 1820. The Presidency of Hamilton College was offered him 
 under date of March 17, 1817, but declined, May 28th. He received 
 
APPENDIX. 65 
 
 the degree of Doctor of Divinity from both Hamilton and Williams 
 Colleges in 1819. For contributions to the literature of his profession 
 he had little time or strength. Several of his addresses and sermons 
 were published, viz. : Address on Music, delivered before the Handel 
 Society of Dartmouth College, 1809 ; The Faithful Steward; Sermon 
 at the Ordination of Allen Greeley, 1810; Sermon on the Occasion of 
 the State Fast, 1812 ; Sermon before the Maine Missionary Society, 
 1814; Sermon at the Ordination of Jonathan Greenleaf, at Wells, Me., 
 1815 ; Calvin and Calvinism, 1815 ; Reply to the Rev. Martin Ruter's 
 Letter Relating to Calvin and Calvinism, 1815; Sermon before the 
 Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers of New 
 Hampshire, Concord, N. H., 1818. 
 
 [One who was graduated at Dartmouth in 1819, whose entire college life was 
 thus passed under the Presidency of Dr. Brown, whose keen observation and 
 command of language qualified him to give a sketch of character, whose wide 
 and continuous acquaintance with men prominent in the struggle through which 
 the College passed added to his direct knowledge, whose distinguished talents and 
 high position lend weight to his judgment, and whose personal relations with the 
 son of his College-President were most intimate and most affectionately cherished, 
 has given the following estimate of the father :] 
 
 "From the Hon. Rufus Choate,* Member of the Senate of the 
 
 United States. 
 
 " BOSTON, June 20, 1856. 
 
 " MY DEAR SIR : It happened that my whole time at college coin- 
 cided with the period of President Brown's administration. He was 
 inducted into office in the autumn of 1815, my freshman year ; and he 
 died in the summer of 1820. It is not the want, therefore, but the 
 throng, of recollections of him that creates any difficulty in complying 
 with your request. He was still young at the time of his inauguration 
 not more than thirty-one ; and he had passed those few years, after 
 having been for three of them a tutor in Dartmouth College, in the 
 care of a parish in North Yarmouth in Maine ; but he had already, in 
 an extraordinary degree, dignity of person and sentiment ; rare beauty 
 almost youthful beauty of countenance ; a sweet, deep, commanding 
 tone of voice ; a grave, but graceful and attractive, demeanor all the 
 traits and all the qualities, completely ripe, which make up and ex- 
 press weight of character; and all the address, and firmness, and 
 knowledge of youth, men, and affairs which constitute what we call 
 
 * This letter, addressed to the late Rev. William B. Sprague, D.D., was pub- 
 lished by him in his sketch of President Francis Brown in the " Annals of the 
 American Pulpit," vol. ii., New York, 1857, and is here reproduced by the kind 
 permission of the publishers, Messrs. Robert. Carter & Brothers. 
 
 5 
 
66 APPENDIX. 
 
 administrative talent. For that form of talent, and for the greatness 
 which belongs to character, he was doubtless remarkable. He must 
 have been distinguished for this among the eminent. From his first 
 appearance before the students on the day of his inauguration when 
 he delivered a brief and grave address in Latin, prepared, we were 
 told, the evening before until they followed the bier, mourning, to 
 his untimely grave, he governed them perfectly and always through 
 their love and veneration, the love and veneration of the 'willing soul.' 
 Other arts of government were indeed, just then, scarcely practicable. 
 The College was in a crisis which relaxed discipline, and would have 
 placed a weaker instructor, or an instructor unbeloved, or loved with 
 no more than an ordinary regard, in the power of classes which would 
 have abused it. It was a crisis which demanded a great man for Pres- 
 ident, and it found such an one in him. In 1816, the Legislature of 
 New Hampshire passed the acts which changed the charter of the 
 institution ; abolished the old Corporation of Trustees ; created a new 
 one ; extinguished the legal identity of the College ; and reconstructed 
 it, or set up another under a different and more ambitious name and 
 a different government. The old trustees, with President Brown at 
 their head, denied the validity of these acts, and resisted their adminis- 
 tration. A dominant political party had passed or adopted them ; 
 and thereupon a controversy arose between the College and a majority 
 of the State ; conducted in part in the courts of law of New Hamp- 
 shire, and of the Union ; in part by the press ; sometimes by the 
 students of the old institution and the new in personal collision, or the 
 menace of personal collision, within the very gardens of the Acad- 
 emy ; which was not terminated until the Supreme Court of the 
 United States adjudged the acts unconstitutional and void. This 
 decision was pronounced in 1819 ; * and then, and not till then, had 
 President Brown peace a brief peace made happy by letters, by re- 
 ligion, by the consciousness of a great duty performed for law, for 
 literature, and for the constitution happy even in prospect of prema- 
 ture death. This contest tried him and the College with extreme and 
 various severity. To induce students to remain in a school disturbed 
 and menaced ; to engage and inform public sentiment, the true pa- 
 tron and effective founder by showing forth that the principles of a 
 sound political morality as well as of law prescribed the action of the 
 old trustees ; to confer with the counsel of the college, two of whom 
 Mr. Mason and Mr. Webster have often declared to me their admi- 
 ration of the intellectual force and practical good sense which he 
 
 * February ad. The decision was announced to President Brown by Daniel 
 Webster in an. autograph letter, still preserved. 
 
APPENDIX. 67 
 
 brought to those conferences, this all, while it withdrew him some- 
 what from the proper studies and proper cares of his office, created a 
 necessity for the display of the very rarest qualities of temper, discre- 
 tion, tact, and command ; and he met it with consummate ability and 
 fortune. One of his addresses to the students in the chapel at the 
 darkest moment of the struggle, presenting the condition and pros- 
 pects of the College, and the embarrassments of all kinds which sur- 
 rounded its instructors, and appealing to the manliness, and affection, 
 and good principles of the students to help ' by whatsoever things 
 were honest, lovely, or of good report,' occurs to recollection as of 
 extraordinary persuasiveness and influence. 
 
 " There can be no doubt that he had very eminent intellectual 
 ability ; true love of the beautiful in all things, and a taste trained to 
 discover, enjoy, and judge it; and that his acquirements were compe- 
 tent and increasing. It was the ' keenness ' of his mind of which Mr. 
 Mason always spoke to me as remarkable in any man of any profes- 
 sion. He met him only in consultation as a client ; but others, stu- 
 dents, all nearer his age, and admitted to his fuller intimacy, must 
 have been struck rather with the sobriety and soundness of his 
 thoughts, the solidity and large grasp of his understanding, and the 
 harmonized culture of all its parts. He wrote a pure and clear Eng- 
 lish style, and he judged of elegant literature with a catholic and 
 appreciative, but chastised, taste. The recollections of a student of 
 the learning of a beloved and venerated President of a college, whom 
 he sees only as a boy sees a man, and his testimony concerning it, 
 will have little value ; but I know that he was esteemed an excellent 
 Greek and Latin scholar, and our recitations of Horace, which the 
 poverty of the College and the small number of its teachers induced 
 him to superintend, though we were Sophomores only, were the most 
 agreeable and instructive exercises of the whole College classical course. 
 
 " Of studies more professional he seemed master. Locke, Stewart, 
 with whose liberality and tolerance, and hopeful and rational philan- 
 thropy, he sympathized warmly ; Butler, Edwards, and the writers on 
 natural law and moral philosophy, he expounded with the ease and 
 freedom of one habitually trained and wholly equal to these larger 
 meditations. 
 
 " His term of office was short and troubled, but the historian of 
 the College will record of his administration a twofold honour : first, 
 that it was marked by a noble vindication of its chartered rights ; and 
 second, that it was marked also by a real advancement of its learning, 
 by collections of ampler libraries, and by displays of a riper scholarship. 
 
 " I am, with great regard, your obedient servant, 
 
 " R. CHOATE." 
 
68 APPENDIX. 
 
 III. 
 
 ELIZABETH OILMAN, wife of Francis Brown, and mother of 
 SAMUEL OILMAN BROWN, was a daughter of the Rev. Tristram and 
 Elizabeth (Sayer) Oilman. Her father was born in Exeter, N. H., 
 November 24, 1735 ; graduated at Harvard College in 1757, and was 
 Mr. Brown's predecessor in the pastorate at North Yarmouth, Me., 
 which he held from December 8, 1769, to April i, 1809, the day of 
 his death. His daughter Elizabeth was born at North Yarmouth, June 
 18, 1776 ; married to Mr. Brown, February 4, 1811, and died at Han- 
 over, N. H., September 5, 1851. 
 
 [An outline of her character was given by the Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL.D.,* 
 as follows :] 
 
 Mrs. Brown belonged to that venerable class of persons who were 
 distinguished in New England, or were educated in the best habits of 
 New England, during the last century. Her father was the Rev. 
 Tristram Oilman, the minister of North Yarmouth, Me., and of great 
 note in that province. He was a graduate of 1757 at Harvard, a man 
 of excellent learning, a Calvinist according to the Westminster As- 
 sembly ; a very earnest and instructive preacher, a beloved and suc- 
 cessful pastor. He was eminently devout and wise, and for nearly 
 half a century was one of the most honorable representatives of a pro- 
 fession which then controlled society, and gave a character to the 
 most remarkable period of American history. 
 
 Mrs. Brown was one of four daughters, and the third of nine chil- 
 dren, of whom but one now remains. f She became the wife of Presi- 
 dent Brown in 1811, soon after he had taken charge of the church in 
 North Yarmouth as her father's immediate successor, and five years 
 before he was elected to the Presidency of Dartmouth College. 
 
 Mrs. Brown inherited largely the peculiar evenness of temperament, 
 the mildness, gentleness, and amiableness of disposition, connected 
 with great strength and tenacity of principle and unpretending firm- 
 ness of purpose, which pertained generally to the times of the fathers, 
 
 * Published in the Vermont Chronicle, September 16, 1851. Dr. Lord was 
 born at Berwick, Me., November 28, 1792; graduated at Bowdoin College in 
 1809, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1815 ; ordained May 22, 1816 ; Pastor 
 at Amherst, N. H., from 1816 to 1828 ; Trustee of Dartmouth College from 1821, 
 and President from 1828 to 1863. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
 from Bowdoin College in 1828, and that of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth in 
 1864. He died at Hanover, N. H. , September 9, 1870. 
 
 t Samuel, youngest child of the Rev. Tristram and Elizabeth (Sayer) Oilman 1 
 born at North Yarmouth, Me., November n, 1790, died in Portland, Me., March 
 25, 1852. 
 
APPENDIX. 69 
 
 and were eminently characteristic of her family name. A beautiful 
 illustration of these combined qualities was given in her care of her 
 husband, when consumption, induced by his well-known exhausting 
 labors of office, obliged him to seek a winter's residence at the South. 
 During their whole absence she was his guide and staff and nurse ;' and 
 between New Hampshire and Georgia, out and home, through the dif- 
 ficult and unaccustomed route, the horse that drew them was driven by 
 her own hand. 
 
 Mrs. Brown was a sincere Christian. Hers was emphatically the 
 spirit of heavenly love, the new life of God, which, when associated, 
 as it naturally is in the theology which she accepted, with profound 
 religious fear, subdues everything to itself, but is never subdued, and 
 prevails to the end, because it subordinates all other loves and fears, 
 and the fear of death itself, to God. It gave a distinctive character, 
 not manifested by mere tones of profession, but a consistent religious 
 life, and made her honorable in the Church of Christ. It quickened 
 all her natural endowments ; and these, matured as they were by 
 Christian discipline, harmonized by generous sentiments and pious 
 affections, and habitually exercised in genial associations, retained 
 their freshness and vigor in old age. She was a dignified, religious 
 woman, an example worthy of her ancestry, of the name which she 
 bore, the stations which she occupied, and the honor which she re- 
 ceived. She fulfilled her probation equally in all her varied condi- 
 tions of prosperity and adversity, of joy and sorrow, with a simplicity, 
 propriety, and integrity peculiarly her own, and which secured to her 
 without her asking or thinking to ask universal confidence, respect, 
 and love. And it was her privilege to die, in a green old age, after a 
 short and not uncommonly painful illness, with the hopes she had en- 
 tertained from her early youth, and none of the terrors she had some- 
 times anticipated, in a society which honored her, in a family circle she 
 had long gladdened, and in the arms of her loving children. 
 
 She lies in the graveyard at Hanover, by the side of her distin- 
 guished husband, and the place of their burial will be gratefully and 
 reverently visited while the name of the institution which they 
 adorned, and whose venerable halls cast their morning shadows upon 
 it, shall be remembered. 
 
 [The following brief sketch is from the hand of one who knew Mrs. Brown dur- 
 ing her widowed life, and loved her tenderly :] 
 
 Mrs. Brown was a woman of rare symmetry of character and devout- 
 ness of spirit. Her manners were of the " old school" full of sweet 
 dignity and a tender graciousness, without taint of condescension. 
 
70 APPENDIX. 
 
 No clouds could linger in that sunny presence. Her broad, sweet 
 charity pervaded every part of her household, which was scarcely 
 ruled, but presided over, with a firmness and wisdom which none could 
 challenge, and none wished to change. Reticent, and self-controlled 
 under the severe discipline of life, every troubled heart turned instinc- 
 tively to her, sure of wise counsel and unfailing cheer. 
 
 Besides those discriminating womanly intuitions which drew one's 
 confidence like a magnet, and offered strong support under indecision 
 and doubt, another secret of Mrs. Brown's singular attractiveness was 
 her love for all that was beautiful, delicate, and noble in art, literature, 
 and society. Distinguished men of her day delighted to do her honor. 
 With all her pressing cares she kept herself informed of the current 
 history of the times, and watched with anxious patriotism the course 
 of our own political affairs. 
 
 Sympathetic and generous to an extreme, her hospitality knew no 
 limit but that of the sternest necessity. Sensitive, also, as deep nat- 
 ures ever are, even to timidity, her fortitude always rose to the emer- 
 gencies that confronted her ; and the sacrifices demanded by friend- 
 ship, at whatever cost of toil or peril, never found her wanting in the 
 cheerfulness and heroism of an unselfish devotion. 
 
 Such is an imperfect outline of the mother, under whose wise and 
 gentle nurture was developed the rare and beautiful character of her 
 honored son. T. S. 
 
 IV. 
 
 FRANCIS, second son of Francis and Elizabeth Brown, was born at 
 Hanover, in August, 1817, and died there January 27, 1818. 
 
 ARTHUR VAN VECHTEN, second son of SAMUEL OILMAN and 
 Sarah Van Vechten BROWN, was born at Hanover, January 20, 1853, 
 and died there April 4, 1857. 
 
 [The following paper, in Dr. BROWN'S handwriting, was found in his portfolio. 
 It was probably written in April, 1857 :] 
 
 SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF A LITTLE BOY. 
 
 I once knew a little boy, very beautiful to look upon. He was 
 of slight frame, lithe and elastic, always in motion, always busy, and 
 capable of finding enjoyment for himself. His hair was soft and gold- 
 en, and, parted in the middle, hung in waving curls about his head. 
 
APPENDIX. 71 
 
 His face, when at rest, had a serious earnestness, and sometimes, as 
 when asleep, a sweet solemnity, but for the most part was full of life, 
 merry and gleeful. His laugh was exquisite. Every feature lent its 
 share to the expression. His eyes especially were full of mirth. His 
 eyes were large, blue shading into hazel, and when fully opened very 
 brilliant; his nose straight and delicate, and his mouth small and 
 of perfect form. His other features were regular, full, and soft. When 
 awake, he was seldom still or unoccupied. His senses were very per- 
 fect, and he was observant of whatever was taking place ; and when he 
 had once seen a thing done, could tell how it should be done again. 
 If anything were left out of its place, of his own accord he would carry 
 it back, because it " belonged there." If a new dress were worn, or 
 an unusual arrangement of dishes made upon the table, he noticed it 
 at once and spoke of it. Once, when there were visitors, his mother 
 cautioned him not to speak of the new things he might see. He sat 
 quiet and watchful until a little bell was rung of a musical tone, when 
 
 he started up and spoke across the table in a soft voice to F : 
 
 " F , isn't that a pretty noise ? " He was very fond of music, and 
 
 would drink it in (making a little motion with his mouth) with the great- 
 est delight. 
 
 He was very sensitive to all pleasurable impressions, and had a 
 capacity for great enjoyment. 
 
 His faculties seemed well balanced and harmonious. He was 
 courageous. No common things made him afraid. He would lie alone 
 in his little bed at night ; and walk alone to the farther end of the gar- 
 den without apprehension. He was self-reliant. When he knew how 
 a thing was done, he felt able to do it himself, and often, untold, at- 
 tempted that which he thought should be performed. So he had much 
 practical efficiency, and was persistent to accomplish his purposes. 
 His perceptions were quick, and he readily adapted his means to his 
 ends. He had a quick perception of the droll and ridiculous. Not- 
 withstanding his eagerness and independence, he was very docile. 
 There was no obstinacy in him, though there would have been much 
 firmness. He could generally be reasoned with, and was very trust- 
 ing and full of confidence. His affections were strong, very strong for 
 a little boy, and his sympathy tender. If his little sister cried, he 
 tried to soothe her, sitting by her side and lending her his playthings. 
 
 He had much fortitude and patience. I saw him when he suffered 
 very much, in his last illness. But though he could not help crying 
 out when he was moved, often saying, " I can't bear it," yet he was 
 uncomplaining. I never knew him to complain unless something was 
 the matter with him. When in health, he was very much a master of 
 himself of his body, seldom taking a misstep or falling and of his 
 
72 APPENDIX. 
 
 feelings, controlling himself when disappointed. Over all was thrown 
 an inexpressible something which I cannot describe, a manly beauty, 
 a beautiful manliness which exalted him and made you respect him, 
 though he was a little boy only four years and three months old. 
 He died very suddenly at two o'clock, Saturday morning, April 4, 1857. 
 I saw him dressed in his jacket and trousers, lying on his couch, his 
 last resting-place. The soft shadow of death was on his eyelids. His 
 little marble hands were folded on his breast. His countenance was 
 placid, quiet, solemn, and beautiful, beyond the power of language to 
 express. I never saw anything so beautiful. This was his body. He, 
 I trust, is with the saints and angels. 
 
 All this, and much more which I cannot tell, I saw of my little son, 
 Arthur Van Vechten Brown. 
 
 [Separate from the foregoing, but in the same hand, was a description of the 
 illness. A few sentences are here given :] 
 
 Increasing delicacy of look. Some failure of vivacity wishing to 
 be carried up and down stairs ; complains of being tired complained 
 of his foot hurting him ; kneels in his play, and cannot rise walks so 
 gently, softly, carefully, by my settee, taking hold of it with his hand, 
 toward the parlor to see what made " that pretty noise " [a flute]. 
 
 [There follow details of the progress of the disease, day after day. The ac- 
 count of the last night ends thus :] 
 
 Suddenly, five minutes before two (Saturday, April 4th), his eye- 
 lids droop, breath fails, is shorter, and in a minute or two, without a 
 struggle or gasp, or motion of a finger, stops. The dear, beautiful 
 little boy is in Heaven. 
 
 HELEN DUNCAN, second daughter of SAMUEL OILMAN and Sarah 
 Van Vechten BROWN, was born at Hanover, N. H., April 28, 1848, 
 and died there August 17, 1867. 
 
 [Of her one writes :] 
 
 Her life was spent mostly in the little New England village which 
 was her birthplace, and her character was the natural outgrowth of a 
 good ancestry, aided by the sweet and healthful influences of home, 
 under the dominant Spirit of a Divine Saviour. 
 
 The eye beaming with happy expectation, the many charms efface 
 and form, the quick sensitiveness and warm impulses of girlhood just 
 slightly veiled by a faint prevision of future possibilities, sympathy for 
 the suffering, tender care, not for the human alone, but for the small 
 
APPENDIX. 73 
 
 and weak among dumb creatures as well, companionship intimate and 
 unreserved with nature in her varying moods, hero-worship ardent 
 and disinterested, these are only a few of the evidences of that 
 vitality, purity, and sweetness which seem expressly fitted to bless this 
 world by their presence in it, but are gone out of it before we fully 
 understand or appreciate them. So it was with her whom we now 
 recall to memory. Until within a few months before her death she 
 had the appearance of perfect health, with a vigorous and sub- 
 stantial physique, regular features, an intellectual forehead, and a 
 complexion clear and fresh with the warm glow of youth. As she 
 verged toward womanhood she gave promise of personal beauty of 
 a noble type. Willing to study, and fond of books, she had neverthe- 
 less a decided taste for the stimulus of the open air. A fearless rider 
 and excellent pedestrian, full of vitality and of enthusiasm for games 
 and contests of skill, she was the life of a company in out-door sports, 
 and easily without a peer among those of her own sex in all that re- 
 quired a keen eye and a firm hand and steady nerves. 
 
 Her modesty and maidenliness were as genuine as her activity, 
 and nothing was more reasonable than to predict for her the noble life- 
 work of a Cornelia or the self-renunciation of a Florence Nightingale. 
 
 Child as she was, during the life-struggle of the nation she fol- 
 lowed its course with the keenest interest. Her young heart swelled 
 with patriotism, and all the ardor of her nature went into her sym- 
 pathies for the wounded and admiration for the heroes of the Union. 
 
 In social circles she was frank and sprightly, without affectation, 
 her conversation not pretentious, but touched with a vein of humor 
 more pleasing than a sharper wit could be. She was by nature com- 
 panionable, and in the home circle she exhibited an unselfishness and 
 hearty loyalty to conscience which helped to make life sweet to all 
 about her. 
 
 In the days of her youth, before the coming of any evil days, she 
 had remembered her Creator and pledged her fealty to the Father of 
 spirits and Redeemer of mankind. Unreservedly she had committed 
 herself to His guidance and keeping, nor did her faith waver when He 
 summoned her from all her happy activities. 
 
 And so the beautiful form melted away, the rosy cheeks became 
 pale and wasted, the blue eyes lost their brightness, the signs of pa- 
 tient suffering showed themselves in face and feature, though the 
 brave heart and cheery spirit never faltered till the day came when 
 she returned unto her Father. 
 [Another :] 
 
 She was active, bright, and independent, from the time she was 
 able to walk alone very affectionate and sympathetic greatly inter- 
 
74 APPENDIX. 
 
 ested in the younger children as she grew older, and fond of imparting 
 bits of knowledge. During the war she would put her little sister 
 through quite a patriotic catechism, and the weighty words she thus 
 put into baby lips entertained those who were no longer children. A 
 vein of humor ran through all her letters, which were also earnest and 
 thoughtful. Never idle, her skilful hands were occupied with her 
 needle for useful or ornamental work, and her industry was repre- 
 sented on every side in our home years after the busy fingers were 
 still. 
 
 In the spring of 1866 there was a gradual failure of strength, appe- 
 tite, and color, without any apparent disease. A short journey and 
 absence of a few weeks so far restored her that in the fall she was 
 to all appearance as vigorous and healthful as ever, full of life and 
 active employment. The next spring the same languor reappeared, 
 but gave less alarm, since she had so easily recovered the year before. 
 This time, however, the progress was wholly downward, and with no 
 suffering no wearisome, wakeful nights indeed, nothing positive in 
 her symptoms ; she grew gradually weaker, and faded from our sight 
 falling asleep on the evening of Saturday, August 17, 1867. She knew 
 the opinion of her physicians, and acquiesced without regret. 
 
 " It is all right," was her frequent expression. " Are you ready to 
 go, dear Helen ? " "I think so I trust so." She had been greatly 
 interested in the thought of a new home for the family, and entered 
 eagerly into all plans for the future. She never saw it. 
 
 Many young friends and relatives were in the place that summer, 
 and while not losing a particle of interest in all that concerned them, 
 she was tranquilly waiting the call to enter upon a new and higher 
 life. At the funeral, six young girls dressed in white companions of 
 her own preceded the casket to the grave, which was lined with 
 flowers by the thoughtful kindness of friends, and overhung with 
 wreaths from the drooping branches of the trees. 
 
 V. 
 
 WHEN he entered upon his duties as Professor at Dartmouth, in 
 1840, Mr. BROWN became a member of the family of Professor San- 
 born.* In 1841, Mrs. Chamberlain, widow of Professor William 
 Chamberlain,f of Dartmouth, returned to Hanover with her children 
 
 * See Appendix VIII. 
 
 t William Chamberlain, A.M., was the son of General William and Jane (East- 
 man) Chamberlain, and was born at Peacham, Vt., May 4, 1797 ; graduated from 
 Dartmouth College in 1818 ; made Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages 
 
APPENDIX. 75 
 
 after some years of absence, and her house was for several years the 
 home of himself and his family. 
 
 Professor Chamberlain had died while Mr. BROWN was in College, 
 and his death had been felt as a severe loss by Faculty and students. 
 He was a man of noble purposes and high courage, of excellence and 
 still greater promise as a scholar, and was valued and leaned upon by 
 his associates. " I feel deeply," wrote President Lord to him, under 
 date of July 3, 1830, when it became evident that the disease would 
 prove fatal, " I feel deeply this afflictive visitation of God. More 
 heavily burdened than others may have known with the unaccustomed 
 responsibilities and labors of my office, I have relied greatly on your 
 better acquaintance with the affairs of College, and on your active ser- 
 vices, for counsel and relief, and encouragement in my own duties, 
 and have looked forward with hope to a time when, free from old 
 cares and embarrassments, we might co-operate in advancing our 
 beloved institution. I must mourn when you say that probably you 
 will return no more." A letter of sympathy sent to Mrs. Chamberlain 
 by a committee appointed by the students, and dated July 12, 1830, 
 the day following his death, says : 
 
 . . . "We cannot but feel that to ourselves, to this institu- 
 tion, and to the community at large, it is a loss of a very painful kind. 
 . . . He has long sustained to us the endearing relation of an affec- 
 tionate and faithful instructor. We remember ... his unwearied 
 labors for our welfare, the tones and looks and words of kindness 
 with which he was wont to hold intercourse with us, his fidelity in the 
 discharge of all the arduous and important duties of his office. . . . 
 W T e almost feel like children whose tears are falling over the grave of 
 a father." * 
 
 With Mrs. Chamberlain and her children, the relations of Professor 
 BROWN and his family were most intimate and affectionate. 
 
 there in 1820, and so continued until his death, which occurred at Peacham, July 
 ii, 1830, 
 
 He was married at Wells, Me., July i, 1823, to Sarah Little Oilman, daughter 
 of Dr. Joseph and Hannah (Little) Oilman, of Wells, who was born at Wells, 
 August 27, 1800, and died at Hanover, N. H., March 15, 1848. They had two 
 daughters, neither now living, and one son. 
 
 * The first signature to this letter is that of Asa D. Smith, then a member of 
 the Senior Class, and the entire letter is plainly in his handwriting. He was born 
 at Amherst, N. H., September 21, 1804 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1830, 
 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1834 ; ordained November 2, 1834 ; 
 Pastor in New York City from 1834 to 1863 ; President of Dartmouth College from 
 1863 to 1877 ; died at Hanover, N. H., August 16, 1877. He received the degree 
 of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1849, and that of Doctor of Laws 
 from the University of the City of New York in 1864. 
 
76 APPENDIX. 
 
 [The following words are written of her by one who knew her well :] 
 
 It would be a most fitting and delightful task, in this connection, to 
 pay suitable tribute to one of the choicest women of her own or any 
 time, Mrs. Chamberlain. But this simple Memorial is already spread- 
 ing itself into a family record, and the words must be few. She was a 
 member of the family of Rev. Francis Brown until her marriage, in 
 1823, to Professor Chamberlain, of Dartmouth College, and her life and 
 interests were closely bound up with theirs. No proper justice can 
 be done to her character in this brief way, and yet one can speak of 
 that rare union of tenderness which could sympathize with strength 
 which could support. One did not shrink from confessing a fault ; 
 for, though it might sadden her brow, her true appreciation of the 
 power of temptation or the weakness of resistance brought ever the 
 word of help and comfort, and inspired stronger resolutions for 
 the future. Self- forgetting and self-denying, she spared no effort in 
 behalf of a friend ; in sickness, her gentle ministrations soothed and 
 calmed ; in trouble or in peril, she was a sure and strong support. 
 
 Intellectual and well read, she was ready to meet and discuss the 
 important questions of the day, and proved in more than one instance 
 the wise counsellor, the helpful adviser, the safe guide to younger per- 
 sons just crossing the threshold of important positions in life. Her 
 own life brought many severe trials, borne bravely in submission to 
 the Master's will, and at His bidding she went to dwell (as her pastor, 
 Rev. Dr. Richards, said) " in yonder magnificence, where all is joy." 
 
 " Her form it was so fair and seeminge, 
 Her eyes so holy in their beaminge, 
 Her heart so pure in every feelinge, 
 Her mind so high in each revealinge, 
 A band of angells thought that she 
 Was one of their bright companie, 
 And, on some homeward journey driven, 
 Hurried her, too, away to Heaven." 
 
 Mrs. Chamberlain died in 1848; in April, 1851, Professor BROWN 
 moved into the house previously owned and occupied by Professor 
 Haddock.* 
 
 It was in this house, a few months later, that Mrs. Chamberlain's 
 daughter was married to Professor John N. Putnam. f 
 
 * See Appendix X. 
 
 t John Newton Putnam, A.M., was the son of Simeon and Abigail Brigham 
 (Fay) Putnam, and was born at North Andover, Mass., December 26, 1822 ; grad- 
 uated at Dartmouth College in 1843 ; teacher in Newport, R. I., from 1843 to 1844, 
 
APPENDIX. 77 
 
 [The following sentences in regard to Professor Putnam are taken from the 
 Eulogy delivered by Professor BROWN at Hanover, July 19, 1864 :] 
 
 How can the story of what he was be told so as not to disappoint 
 you ? How can the lights and shades of a character of such delicate 
 beauty and such singular completeness, of a life so gentle, with all the 
 elements so graciously mixed, be depicted so as to .satisfy your mem- 
 ory of him ? 
 
 The alertness of his mind was something beautiful and almost won- 
 derful. Who more quick than he to perceive and sympathize with the 
 most subtle, airy, and fleeting shades of thought ? who more sure to 
 detect the meaning, and all the meaning, of the comprehensive and 
 quick-minded Greek ? 
 
 His grasp of thought was as certain, as strong, and as positive, as 
 it was quick. It hardly seemed an effort for him to overcome many 
 of the intellectual difficulties which beset the paths of other students. 
 . . . He wrought with unity of strength and purpose. There was 
 no exaggeration, no excess, and no deficiency. 
 
 I do not know that such a mind is so apt to dazzle and excite as 
 one that may be somewhat eccentric and intense, but how much more 
 safe it is, and how its excellences grow upon us, and how much more 
 abiding is its influence. . . . He had a quick and sure insight, a 
 power like that conceded to poets, of looking through the surface of 
 things to the heart. Hence, his judgment was sound, and he was not 
 easily deceived or led astray. . . . And do you not remember 
 how quick was his-ear for the rhythmical music of language ; how choice 
 he was of words ; how rapid in apprehension, penetrating to the very 
 heart of a subtle and pregnant expression, while all the delicate aroma 
 of its most secret thought was shed over his mind ? 
 
 He ever kept the mind of the student curious and active, and re- 
 freshed it with a sense of perpetual attainment. In all this he was 
 
 and in Leicester, Mass., from 1845 to 1847; graduated at Andover Theological 
 Seminary in 1849 ; made Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Dart- 
 mouth College in 1849, and so continued till his death. He was ordained to the 
 Congregational Ministry on the same day with Professor BROWN, October 6, 
 1852, at Woodstock, Vt. He died at sea, between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 
 Boston, Mass., on his way home from Europe, October 22, 1863. 
 
 He was married, August 5, 1851, to Sarah Oilman Chamberlain, second 
 daughter of Professor William and Sarah Little (Oilman) Chamberlain, who was 
 born at Hanover, N. H., November 21, 1829, and died there September 7, 1864. 
 
 Professor Putnam's funeral took place October 26, 1863, from the house of 
 Professor BROWN, which continued to be Mrs. Putnam's home for the brief re- 
 mainder of her life. 
 
78 APPENDIX. 
 
 guided by an instinct as sure as it was sensitive, which led him to 
 adapt himself, unconsciously almost, to the minds which he was guid- 
 ing. This occupation was one that he loved, in which he was con- 
 tented and happy, for he felt himself adequate to it, and he followed 
 with peculiar sympathy and interest those with whom he became thus 
 connected. 
 
 He had a ready and brilliant wit. . . . [In it] there was noth- 
 ing forced or assumed, and nothing reserved for special occasions. 
 . . . These powers he used as charms, as playthings, not as weapons, 
 and I presume that most who knew him but slightly hardly suspected 
 him of possessing [them]. 
 
 He never thrust himself into a place of responsibility, or sought 
 distinction for distinction's sake. Indeed, he would have much pre- 
 ferred that others, who coveted such things, should have the pleas- 
 ure of them. . . . Not to seem, but to be, was his purpose. And 
 yet, when the responsibility came, and the duty was fairly imposed, 
 he did not avoid it, but accepted it as a thing of course, and met it 
 with the thoroughness and simplicity which marked his entire life. 
 
 In a life so gentle and equable as his, one is apt to forget the depth 
 and thoroughness of conviction and purpose which may underlie that 
 external serenity. . . . His love for that unequalled language and 
 literature which he spent his professional life in penetrating and un- 
 folding never betrayed him to a forgetfulness of the moral defects of 
 the people, or the insufficiency of their noblest philosophy. The love 
 of beauty, and fitness, and grace, though so strong in him, was always 
 subordinate to the love of truth. Though no iconoclast, he would have 
 broken the images, if the only alternative were that he must worship 
 them. 
 
 Few lives were more perfect than his whose youth gave so fair a 
 promise, whose riper years so fully redeemed the pledge. 
 
 [One who knew Mrs. Putnam all her life writes thus of her :] 
 
 She was a most engaging child. Bright and intelligent, always 
 lovely and sweet tempered, and as simple and unconscious as she was 
 charming, she was the delight and comfort of her friends. After her 
 sister's death,* when she was twelve years old, she became more 
 
 * Frances Elizabeth, eldest child of Professor and Mrs. William Chamberlain, 
 born at Hanover, October 4, 1824 ; died there January 17, 1842. 
 
APPENDIX. 79 
 
 closely the companion of her mother, but this happy intercourse was 
 ended all too soon, for in March, 1848, the large-hearted, tender 
 mother was called away after a brief illness. Her marriage to Pro- 
 fessor Putnam took place in August, 1851. Seldom could two persons 
 be found more fitted for one another. Refined and cultivated 
 warm-hearted, earnest Christians they presided over their home and 
 dispensed its hospitalities for twelve happy years. "The heart of 
 her husband safely trusted in her," and she was what he called her 
 " God's wonderful gift to him." When he was obliged by failing 
 health to travel, the change and rest were almost as important for her 
 as for him. Their pleasant home was broken up, and, each anxious 
 for the other, they went forth hopefully, if not confidently. When he 
 was suddenly prostrated in a foreign land, where neither of them was 
 familiar with the language, her courage rose with the occasion, and 
 she was his nurse and comforter for six anxious weeks. As he was 
 able to listen, she read from their only book, the Bible, and cheered 
 the wakeful hours of the night with hymns, with which her memory 
 was stored. "I bless your mother for teaching you hymns in your 
 childhood," he was wont to say. For six months after her return she 
 was able to go in and out among us, and then began to fail steadily, 
 though retaining a generous interest in all about her, and even keep- 
 ing her characteristic playful humor to the very end. On September 
 6th she sank into unconsciousness, and through all that night every 
 breath was like the sob of a grieved and tired child. 
 
 " But when the sun in all his state 
 
 Illumed the Eastern skies ; 
 She passed through Glory's morning gate, 
 And walked in Paradise." 
 
 As the morning rays entered her room, the summons came, as if 
 an angel spake, " The Master is come and calleth for thee." And at 
 the word her eyes opened wide, and shone with a depth and brilliancy 
 indescribable, her lips parted with a joyful smile, and she was borne 
 from our sight " through the gates into the city." The lovely, glad 
 look remained till we laid her down by him she loved so well. 
 
 The house purchased by Professor BROWN, in 1851, remained the 
 home of the family until the removal from Hanover in 1868. When 
 he took possession of it his household included, besides his wife, her 
 son and his own three children, his mother and his only sister, 
 as well as his cousin, his mother's niece. In this house four other 
 children were born to him, and here his mother and two of his chil- 
 dren died. The others referred to are all still living. 
 
8O APPENDIX. 
 
 VI. 
 
 AMONG the special tokens of friendship and good -will which gave 
 Dr. BROWN deep pleasure at various times in his professional life, 
 those that marked his departure from Hanover and his resigna- 
 tion of the Presidency of Hamilton College were particularly note- 
 worthy. In the summer of 1867 the graduating class at Dartmouth 
 presented him with a massive chair of black walnut, bearing the words 
 " Dartmouth, '67" carved on its back. The same summer was 
 marked by the gift of a handsome salver and water-pitcher, with cut- 
 glass goblets, a token of remembrance from his warm friends in Han- 
 over. The class of 1881 at Hamilton presented to him a fine set of 
 Mrs. Jameson's works. No such gift touched him more deeply than 
 the last, which is described in the following memorandum, written by 
 himself, and carefully preserved with other relics of the occasion : 
 
 UTICA, January 4, 1882. 
 
 MEMORANDUM : 
 
 This scarlet bag (tied with a white -satin ribbon, and inclosed in a paste- 
 board box), with the accompanying notes, was brought to me in the early even- 
 ing of January 2 (Monday, New Year's Day), 1882, by Mrs. John P. Gray, of 
 Utica. We were then at "The Waverly," No. 372 Genesee Street. It was 
 handed to me as a New Year's gift from a few friends. 
 
 The bag contained one half-eagle, three eagles, fifty double-eagles, and two 
 ten-dollar and one five-dollar bank bills. 
 
 As soon as I know the names of the friends from whom this munificent gift 
 was received I shall record them, so that my children may always remember 
 them.* S. G. B. 
 
 N. B. To this was subsequently added five eagles not received in season to 
 be placed in the bag. 
 
 This gift was accompanied by a graceful note from Mrs. John P. 
 Gray, and by the following letter from the Hon. W. J. Bacon, LL.D., 
 representing the donors : 
 
 UTICA, January 2, 1882. 
 
 REV. S. G. BROWN, D.D., 
 
 DEAR SIR : In the continued absence of Dr. Gray at Washington, there has 
 been assigned to me the pleasant duty of making the presentation which ac- 
 companies this letter. . . 
 
 They [your friends] believe, as I assuredly do, that in the positions you have 
 hitherto held, and not less clearly in the conspicuous one you have just left, you 
 
 * This list was afterward received. 
 
APPENDIX. 8 1 
 
 have done a great and noble work for classical culture, finished scholarship, 
 manly development, and Christian education. 
 
 Believing this, they ask your acceptance of the accompanying gift, as ex- 
 pressive of their faith in the things you have already accomplished, and their 
 hope that something more on the same plane, or on lines coincident and par- 
 allel, yet remains for you to do. 
 
 Wishing you and yours, now and for many years to come, a Happy New 
 Year, I remain, as ever, 
 
 Most faithfully and affectionately yours, 
 
 WM. J. BACON. 
 
 VII. 
 
 THE Memorial Window commemorating President Francis Brown 
 occupied much of his son's thought during the latter months of his 
 life. With filial loyalty and careful attention to details he supervised 
 the execution of the cherished plan ; he selected the place of manu- 
 facture, approved the design, transmitted the measurements, and ar- 
 ranged for the reception of the window in New York. It arrived in 
 this country and was placed in the Rollins Chapel of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege only a few weeks after his death. Toward his relative and friend, 
 his father's namesake, who generously assumed the entire expense, 
 his gratitude was sincere and deep. The following description of the 
 window has been published, with that of the other memorial windows in 
 the Chapel, by President Bartlett : 
 
 [From The Dartmouth, March 5, 1886 :] 
 
 " The window of President Francis Brown is the gift of Hon. Francis 
 Brown Stockbridge, of Kalamazoo, Mich. It was made by F. X. Zettler, at 
 the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Works in Munich another of the most 
 celebrated manufactories of Europe. It contains but a single figure, the 
 Apostle John. He stands, his head encircled by the customary nimbus of 
 the saints, his right hand raised in the mode of the Latin benediction, viz., the 
 thumb and two fingers open and straight, the third and little fingers bent, the 
 open fingers being said to symbolize the three persons of the Trinity, the closed 
 fingers the two natures of Christ. In his left hand the apostle holds the tra- 
 ditional chalice with the serpent, referring, doubtless, to the alleged ineffectual 
 attempts to destroy his life and the promises of Christ, Mark xvi. 18. His 
 tunic is of the traditional green, with red drapery, his attitude graceful, and 
 the expression of his countenance benign and spiritual, and, as is customary, 
 of almost feminine beauty. The figure may be regarded as a fine rendering 
 nearly of the traditional representation of the apostle. It will bear inspection 
 as a work of art, while the entire effect of the window, as viewed at some dis- 
 tance, is bright and striking." 
 
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82 APPENDIX. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Two members of the Dartmouth Faculty, with both of whom Dr. 
 BROWN was long associated, passed away after his death and before 
 the close of the year 1885. 
 
 DANIEL JAMES NOYES, D.D., was born at Springfield, N. H., 
 September 17, 1812; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1832, and at 
 Andover Theological Seminary in 1836. He was tutor at Dartmouth 
 College from 1836 to 1837 ; ordained to the Congregational Ministry 
 May 3, 1837 ; Pastor of the South Church, Concord, N. H., from 1837 
 to 1849 ; Professor of Theology at Dartmouth College from 1850 to 
 1870, and of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Political Econ- 
 omy from 1870 to 1883, and Professor Emeritus of the same from 
 1883 to 1885. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the 
 University of Vermont in 1853. He died at Chester, N. H., Decem- 
 ber 23, 1885, and was buried at Hanover, N. H. 
 
 EDWIN DAVID SANBORN, LL.D., was born at Gilmanton, N. H., 
 May 14, 1808 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1832 ; studied at 
 Andover Theological Seminary from 1834 to 1835 ; was tutor at Dart- 
 mouth College in 1835, Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages 
 from 1835 to 1837, and of the Latin Language and Literature from 1837 
 to 1859. From 1859 to 1863 he was Professor of Classical Literature 
 and History in the Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. ; from 1863 
 to 1880, Professor of Oratory and Belles-Lettres at Dartmouth Col- 
 lege ; from 1880 to 1882, Professor of the Anglo-Saxon and English 
 Language and Literature ; and from 1882 to 1885, Professor Emeritus 
 of the same. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the 
 University of Vermont in 1859, and from Dartmouth College in 1879. 
 He died in New York City, December 29, 1885, and was buried at 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 IX. 
 
 IT is a pleasure to make particular mention, in this Memorial, of two of Dr. 
 BROWN'S predecessors in the Presidency of Hamilton College : Dr. Fisher, whom 
 he immediately succeeded, and with whom his intercourse for four years was fre- 
 quent and pleasant, and Dr. North, the fifth President, whose retired life at Clin- 
 ton did not prevent him from being to Dr. BROWN a wise and trusted counsellor 
 and friend. 
 
 SIMEON NORTH, D.D., LL.D., was born at Berlin, Conn., Sep- 
 tember 7, 1802 ; graduated at Yale College in 1825, and at Yale 
 
APPENDIX. 83 
 
 Divinity School in 1828 ; tutor in Yale College from 1827 to 1829 ; 
 Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Hamilton College 
 from 1829 to 1839, and President of Hamilton College from 1839 to 
 1857. He was ordained at Winfield, N. Y., by the Oneida Associa- 
 tion, in May, 1842. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from 
 Western Reserve College in 1842, and that of Doctor of Divinity from 
 Wesleyan University in 1849. He was a Trustee of Hamilton College 
 from 1839 until his death, and of Auburn Theological Seminary from 
 1840 to 1849. He died on College Hill, Clinton, N. Y., February 9, 
 1884. 
 
 SAMUEL WARE FISHER, D.D., LL.D., was born at Morristown, 
 N. J., April 5, 1814 ; graduated at Yale College in 1835 ; studied at 
 Princeton Theological Seminary from 1836 to 1837, and from 1837 at 
 Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he was graduated in 
 1839 ; was ordained by the Presbytery of Newark, in April, 1839, at 
 West Bloomfield, N. J. ; was Pastor there from 1839 to 1843, in 
 Albany, N. Y., over the Fourth Presbyterian Church, from 1843 to 
 1846, in Cincinnati, O., over the Second Presbyterian Church, from 
 1846 to 1858 ; President of Hamilton College from 1858 to 1867, and 
 Pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y., from 
 1867 to 1871. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from 
 Miami University in 1852, and that of Doctor of Laws from the Uni- 
 versity of the City of New York in 1866. In 1857 he was chosen 
 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, 
 (N. S.)- He was a Trustee of Hamilton College from 1858 to 1871, 
 and of Auburn Theological Seminary from 1860 to 1871. He died, 
 after a long illness, at College Hill, Ohio, January 18, 1874. 
 
 X. 
 
 [The following extract from one of Dr. BROWN'S own addresses finds an ap- 
 propriate place in this Memorial. It commemorates one who was long a colleague 
 of Dr. BROWN at Dartmouth, and who passed out of this life as instantaneously 
 and tranquilly as he ; it expresses his own thought of sudden death some years 
 before the sermon on Albert Barnes was preached, to which Professor Hopkins, 
 in his address, so fittingly alludes ; it notes the unexampled closeness with which 
 one College officer had just followed another, a closeness doubly paralleled in the 
 last two months of 1885; * finally, written in stirring times, but for a purpose 
 which forbade the discussion of public issues, its last words are profoundly char- 
 acteristic of the speaker himself, in their chastened self-restraint, their lofty 
 courage, their steadfast and dauntless loyalty. 
 
 * See Appendix VIII. 
 
84 APPENDIX. 
 
 It consists of the closing paragraphs of the " Discourse Commemorative of 
 Charles Brickett Haddock, D.D.," * delivered before the Faculty and students 
 of Dartmouth College, April 19, 1861 :] 
 
 HE had passed the middle point of life, and was on the declining 
 side. Yet who thought of him as being old ? Who would have spoken 
 of him as verging toward threescore and ten ? Who, at first thought, 
 would have classed him with the elders of the congregation ? His 
 sympathies were with the young. He entered into their hopes, and 
 solicitudes, and wishes, as if he were one of them. He had, indeed, a 
 peculiar power of adapting himself to almost every variety of person 
 or condition, but of the young he was never over-exacting, nor dis- 
 posed to limit their activity or their enjoyment by what was suitable 
 to himself. 
 
 His eye was hardly dim ; his natural force was hardly abated ; his 
 step was firm ; his countenance was healthful ; his spirits equable 
 never unduly elated, never greatly depressed. As you saw him once, 
 you saw him always. You did not naturally associate with him the 
 idea of feebleness, or sickness, or death, but rather of a mild, peace- 
 ful, protracted life. The more startling the shock of that unexpected 
 announcement that he was gone ! 
 
 From one of his publications, his Eulogy on President Harrison, 
 I cannot help quoting a few words, because they are so appropriate to 
 our present thoughts : 
 
 To death we cannot look forward with unconcern. No one can think of 
 meeting it carelessly and without preparation. Its import is too grave and 
 weighty, its consequences too lasting and momentous. One might wish, in- 
 deed, to shun the corporal pang, the pain of dying, the undescribed anguish of 
 the last conflict ; and we sometimes idly covet the fate of those whom death 
 surprises, and by an unfelt blow summons from the midst of life without op- 
 portunity to suffer or to fear. But, upon second thought, who would not choose 
 to be forewarned ? Who would consent to be precipitated upon eternal scenes, 
 to take no leave of life, no deliberate farewell to the cheerful sun, and 
 thoughtful moon, and patient earth ; to forego the last embrace of those we 
 love, the longing, lingering look of departing affection ? Who would lose the 
 
 * Dr. Haddock was the son of William and Abigail Eastman (Webster) Had- 
 dock, and was born at Franklin, N. H., June 20, 1796 ; graduated at Dartmouth 
 in 1816, Professor of Rhetoric there from 1819 to 1838, and of Intellectual Philos- 
 ophy and Political Economy from 1838 to 1854. He had studied two years at An- 
 dover Theological Seminary with the class of 1819, and was ordained to the Con- 
 gregational Ministry, November 3, 1824, at Windsor, Vt., but was never a settled 
 pastor. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College in 
 1843. He died suddenly at his home in West Lebanon, N. H. , January 15, 1861. 
 
APPENDIX. 85 
 
 opportunity of his latest hour for assuring himself of peace with Heaven, and 
 preparation for the limitless and awful future ? It is one of the great common 
 mercies of Providence, that we are brought down to the grave by lingering dis- 
 ease ; wearisome days and nights of pain are appointed to us in mercy. 
 
 These are his words, not mine. They linger as if he spoke them, 
 but how fit to lead our thoughts on this occasion ! It would seem that 
 the sudden, unwarned death which was to release him from the world 
 was not that which he coveted, was not that which he thought most 
 suitable to a change so grand and solemn. Yet it seems to me that, 
 though not to be deliberately chosen, this sudden, unexpected, pain- 
 less translation, from this lower to a higher sphere, was much in 
 accordance with the tranquil tenor of his life. He was not unmind- 
 ful of advancing years, and, on the very day of his departure, spoke of 
 himself as having advanced to that period of life when one must not 
 expect to be free from sickness, and might at any time be taken away. 
 This was but the natural suggestion of a thoughtful mind, since, to 
 the inquiry whether he did not feel well, he replied, " Never better," 
 and congratulated himself on having enjoyed such excellent health. 
 
 There is but one scene more ! a mild, clear, placid winter day ; 
 a gathering assembly, hushed and sorrow-stricken ; an extended form, 
 replete with manly beauty, untouched by disease, unmarked by suffer- 
 ing, slumbering as in natural repose. There was no shock, no tremu- 
 lous jar, no violence, no cry, no anguish, when all the wheels of that 
 life, without premonition, quietly stood still ! 
 
 In a public institution, whose life is perpetuated from age to age, 
 as in every organic body, there is constant change. One goeth and 
 another cometh, and so the marked features of its character are handed 
 down from one generation to another, or changed slowly and without 
 violence. It never before happened in the history of our College, that 
 the two oldest of its recent officers one venerable for age almost 
 patriarchal, whom the ear blessed when it heard him, and to whom 
 the eye gave witness when it saw him * both gratefully remembered 
 
 * Rev. Dr. Shurtleff, who died, at Hanover, February 4, 1861, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-seven. [Roswell Shurtleff, D. D. , was born at Ellington , Conn. , August 
 29, 1773 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1799, was tutor there from 1800 to 1804, 
 Professor of Theology from 1804 to 1827, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Po- 
 litical Economy from 1827 to 1838, and Professor Emeritus of the same from 1838 
 to 1861. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of 
 Vermont in 1834. His term of actual service as instructor has been exceeded by 
 only one in the Academical Faculty, that of Professor Sanborn (1835-1859, 1863- 
 1882, forty-three years), and by only one other in any Faculty, that of Professor 
 
86 APPENDIX. 
 
 for a public service longer than has fallen to the lot of any of their 
 colleagues should have been taken away within three weeks of each 
 other. Yet, though taken away, they still survive, still beckon us 
 along the paths of learning and religion, still teach us by their words 
 and their lives. 
 
 We have fallen upon days when there will be required a discipline, 
 surely not less rigorous, not less exacting, not less comprehensive, not 
 less complete and generous, than in the past, when principles are to 
 be tested, when there may be demanded, not " a fugitive and cloistered 
 virtue, unexercised and unbreathed," but a virtue which sallies forth 
 to meet its adversary, and leaps forward to the race, " where that im- 
 mortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." This dis- 
 cipline, this virtue, may the College ever supply, though one after 
 another of its revered and saintly masters drop from its honored roll ! 
 May it never fail in any of its high functions ! May it always meet 
 the claims of the State and of the Church, ever moving onward, sup- 
 ported by its children and friends, and under the protecting smiles of 
 Heaven ! 
 
 O. P. Hubbard (1836-1883, forty-seven years), whose name still appears in the 
 list of the Faculty as Professor Emeritus, whose precise scholarship and ripe judg- 
 ment are still actively employed for the College in the office of Overseer of the 
 Thayer School of Civil Engineering, and whose many friends may well hope that 
 his entire term of connection with the College, already fifty years, will more than 
 rival that of Dr. Shurtleff. 
 
 Professor Haddock was Charge d'Affaires in Portugal from 1851 to 1855, but 
 did not resign his Professorship till 1854 ; his term of active service as instructor 
 in the College thus appears on the catalogue as thirty-five years. This has been 
 equalled by Dr. Nathan Lord, whose Presidency covered thirty-five years (1828- 
 1863), after he had already served as Trustee from 1821 ; approached by Professor 
 Noyes (see Appendix VIII.) ; surpassed by those named earlier in this note, by the 
 Presidency of John Wheelock, LL.D. (1779-1815), thirty-six years, and also in 
 the Medical Faculty by Professor Edmund Randolph Peaslee, M.D., LL.D.. 
 (1842-1878), thirty-six years. 
 
 Other noteworthy terms of instruction at Dartmouth have been those of Alpheus 
 Crosby, A.M. (tutor, 1828-1831, Professor, 1833-1849, Emeritus, 1849-1874), forty- 
 four years in all, nineteen active ; Dixi Crosby, M.D., LL.D. (Professor in the Med- 
 ical Faculty, 1838-1870, Emeritus, 1870-1874), thirty-six years in all, thirty-two ac- 
 tive ; Edward Elisha Phelps, M.D., LL.D. (Professor in the Medical Faculty, 
 1842-1875, Emeritus, 1875-1880), thirty-eight years in all, thirty-three active.] 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Adams, Rev. F. A. , Letter from 61 
 
 Adams, Rev. F. A. , Letter to 62 
 
 Administration at Hamilton, Events of 46 
 
 Bacon, Hon. W. J. , Memorial by 31 
 
 Barnes, Rev. Albert, Sermon on g 
 
 Bartlett, President S. C, Address by ..., 17 
 
 Bowdoin College, Memorial from Faculty of 41 
 
 Brown, Arthur V. V 70 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth 68 
 
 Brown, President Francis 64 
 
 Brown, President Francis, Memorial Window to 81 
 
 Brown, Francis (son of foregoing) 70 
 
 Brown, Helen D 72 
 
 Brown, Rev. Thomas J., Remarks by 35 
 
 Chamberlain, Frances E 78 
 
 Chamberlain, Mrs. Sarah L 75 
 
 Chamberlain, Professor William 74 
 
 Chapman, Professor Henry L. , Remarks by 24 
 
 Chi Alpha, Memorial from 42 
 
 Choate, Rufus, Letter from 65 
 
 Club, The, Memorial from 44 
 
 Dartmouth Alumni, Memorials from 44 
 
 Dartmouth College, Memorial from Faculty of 41 
 
 Fisher, President Samuel W 83 
 
 Fisher, Rev. William P. , Letter from 50 
 
 Friendship, Noteworthy Tokens of 80 
 
 Funeral Services 5 
 
 Oilman, Samuel 68 
 
 Oilman, Rev. Tristram 68 
 
 Haddock, Professor Charles B 84 
 
 Hamilton College, Memorial from Faculty of 40 
 
 Hanover, Home in 74, 76, 79 
 
 Hartley, Rev. Isaac S. , Letter from 48 
 
 Hopkins, Professor A. Grosvenor, Address by 9 
 
 Leeds, Rev. Samuel P. , Remarks by 22 
 
 Letters, Extracts from 58 
 
 Lord, President Nathan 68 
 
 Newspapers, Extracts from 52 
 
 Noyes, Professor Daniel J 82 
 
 North, Professor Edward, Notice by 46 
 
 North, President Simeon 82 
 
 Oneida Historical Society, Memorial from 43 
 
 Packard, Professor Alpheus S 50 
 
 Parker, Professor Henry E. , Notice by 28 
 
 Presbytery of Utica, Memorial from 43 
 
 Publications 63 
 
 Putnam, Professor John N 76 
 
 Putnam, Mrs. Sarah G 78 
 
 Sanborn, Professor Edwin D 82 
 
 Shurtleff, Professor Roswell 85 
 
 Sketch, Introductory 3 
 
 Smith, President Asa D 75 
 
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