With tlie Compliments of
 
 THE CLASS OF 1833.
 
 ^MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CLASS OF 1833 
 
 OF HARVARD COLLEGE 
 
 PREPARED FOR THE 
 
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 anmtergar? of ti&eir 
 
 BY THE CLASS SECRETARY 
 
 WALDO HIGGINSON 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: 
 JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
 
 site 13rrss. 
 1883.
 
 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 HTHE CLASS BOOK and all records of the Class 
 of 1833 were burnt in the great fire in Boston 
 in 1872, when their custodian was in Europe. 
 
 This irreparable loss must necessarily diminish the 
 value of the following pages, as it has certainly in- 
 creased the labor of preparing them. 
 
 It is hoped, however, that the memorials, here sub- 
 mitted, of widely scattered classmates will give as 
 much pleasure to the survivors, as their collection 
 has to the Secretary. 
 
 WALDO HIGGINSON. 
 BOSTON, June i, 1883.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PREFATORY NOTE 5 
 
 LIST OF GRADUATES OF 1833 9 
 
 NECROLOGY OF GRADUATES OF 1833 n 
 
 MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED 17 
 
 NOTICES OF THE SURVIVORS 97 
 
 LIST OF STUDENTS, SOME TIME IN THE CLASS OF 1833, WHO 
 
 DID NOT GRADUATE WITH IT 145 
 
 NOTICES OF STUDENTS MENTIONED ABOVE 147
 
 GRADUATES 
 
 OF THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 ALLEN, JOHN CLARKE 17 
 
 ANDREWS, SAMUEL PAGE 97 
 
 BAKER, JAMES LORING 100 
 
 *BATES, CHARLES JARVIS 27 
 
 *BOLTON, THOMAS 46 
 
 BOURNE, THOMAS ROTCH 21 
 
 BOWEN, FRANCIS 100 
 
 CLARK, LUTHER 103 
 
 CRAFTS, GEORGE INGLIS 104 
 
 CURTIS, HIRAM KEITH 105 
 
 DEHON, WILLIAM 66 
 
 Dix, JOHN HOMER 106 
 
 DRAPER, CHARLES 107 
 
 EATON, GEORGE 78 
 
 ELLIS, GEORGE EDWARD . . .* 109 
 
 FOSTER, ANDREW 84 
 
 GAY, SYDNEY HOWARD 112 
 
 GRAY, HENRY YANCEY 56 
 
 GREENOUGH, DAVID STODDARD 77 
 
 HARDING, FISHER AMES 24 
 
 HARRINGTON, JOSEPH, JR 30 
 
 HARTSHORN, CHARLES WARREN 115 
 
 HIGGINSON, WALDO 116 
 
 JACKSON, CHARLES 53 
 
 JARVIS, WILLIAM PORTER 86
 
 IO THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 KELLY, MOSES 43 
 
 LIVERMORE, ABIEL ABBOT 117 
 
 LOVERING, JOSEPH 121 
 
 LOWELL, ROBERT TRAILL S PENCE 128 
 
 *LYMAN, JOHN CHESTER 91 
 
 MACK, WILLIAM 130 
 
 NICHOLS, GEORGE HENRY 131 
 
 *PARKER, FREDERIC 35 
 
 PECK, WILLIAM DANDRIDGE 132 
 
 PEIRCE, CHARLES HENRY 33 
 
 PENDLETON, ISAAC PURNELL .22 
 
 *POPE, THOMAS BUTLER 37 
 
 *PORTER, HUNTINGTON 19 
 
 PRICHARD, WILLIAM MACKAY 133 
 
 *RUTTER, JOSIAH . 75 
 
 STEARNS, EDWARD JOSIAH 133 
 
 *STONE, JOHN OSGOOD . 71 
 
 *TORREY, RUFUS CAMPBELL 89 
 
 TORREY, HENRY WARREN 136 
 
 TUCKER, NATHANIEL SAVILLE 137 
 
 WATSON, WINSLOW MARSTON 138 
 
 WEBSTER, FLETCHER 38 
 
 WELCH, CHARLES ALFRED 139 
 
 *WELD, CHRISTOPHER MINOT 82 
 
 WHITE, JOSEPH 20 
 
 *WHITING, WILLIAM 57 
 
 WHITNEY, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS 86 
 
 WlGGLESWORTH, THOMAS 141 
 
 WYMAN, MORRILL 141 
 
 WYMAN, JEFFRIES 60 
 
 YOUNG, RICHARD SHARPE 80
 
 NECROLOGY. 
 
 JOHN CLARKE ALLEN. 
 
 Died at North Andover, Mass June 24, 1834. 
 
 HUNTINGTON PORTER. 
 Died at Rainsford Island, Boston Harbor . . June 21, 1836. 
 
 JOSEPH WHITE. 
 
 Died at the McLean Asylum, Somerville, Mass. July I, 1838. 
 
 THOMAS ROTCH BOURNE. 
 
 Died at Sandwich, Mass Oct. 27, 1839. 
 
 ISAAC PURNELL PENDLETON. 
 
 Died at Caroline Co., Eastern Shore, Md. . . Sept. 1840. 
 
 FISHER AMES HARDING. 
 
 Died at Detroit, Mich Aug. 4, 1846. 
 
 CHARLES JARVIS BATES. 
 
 Died at Salmadina, Gulf of Mexico .... Aug. 26, 1847. 
 
 JOSEPH HARRINGTON. 
 
 Died at San Francisco, Cal Nov. 2, 1852. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY PEIRCE. 
 
 Died at Cambridge, Mass June 16, 1855.
 
 12 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 FREDERIC PARKER. 
 
 Died at Lowell, Mass Jan. 29, 1857. 
 
 THOMAS BUTLER POPE. 
 
 Died at Roxbury, Mass Jan. 15, 1862. 
 
 FLETCHER WEBSTER. 
 
 Killed at Second Battle of Bull Run, Prince 
 
 William Co., Va. . . . * Aug. 30, 1862. 
 
 MOSES KELLY. 
 
 Died at Cleveland, O Aug. 15, 1870. 
 
 THOMAS BOLTON. 
 
 Died at Cleveland, O Feb. i, 1871. 
 
 CHARLES JACKSON. 
 
 Died at Boston, Mass July 30, 1871. 
 
 HENRY YANCEY GRAY. 
 
 Died at Charleston, S.C July 4, 1872. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITING. 
 
 Died at Roxbury, Mass June 29, 1873. 
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 
 
 Died at Bethlehem, N.H Sept. 4, 1874. 
 
 WILLIAM DEHON. 
 
 Died at Boston, Mass May 20, 1875. 
 
 JOHN OSGOOD STONE. 
 
 Died aft New York, N.Y. . . , June 7, 1876. 
 
 JOSIAH RUTTER. 
 Died at Waltham, Mass . Sept. 3, 1876.
 
 NECROLOGY. 13 
 
 DAVID STODDARD GREENOUGH. 
 
 Died at Jamaica Plain, Mass March 30, 1877. 
 
 GEORGE EATON. 
 
 Died at Grantville, Mass May 7, 1877. 
 
 RICHARD SHARPE YOUNG. 
 
 Died at San Francisco, Cal Aug. 9, 1877. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD. 
 
 Died at Jamaica Plain, Mass March 14, 1878. 
 
 ANDREW FOSTER. 
 
 Died at Brooklyn, N.Y Sept. 22, 1879. 
 
 WILLIAM PORTER JARVIS. 
 
 Died at Roxbury, Mass May 29, 1880. 
 
 FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY. 
 
 Died at Brighton, Mass Oct. 21, 1880. 
 
 RUFUS C. TORREY. 
 Died at Claiborne, Ala Sept. 13, 1882. 
 
 JOHN CHESTER LYMAN. 
 
 Died at Doylestown, Pa Feb. 27, 1883. 
 
 3
 
 MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED.
 
 MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED. 
 
 JOHN CLARKE ALLEN. 1 
 
 JOHN CLARKE ALLEN was the son of Rev. Wilkes 
 (H. C. 1801) and Mary (Morrill) Allen, and was born 
 in Chelmsford, Mass., November 15, 1812. His father was 
 for a long time minister in that town, and occupied a promi- 
 nent place among the clergy of that part of the State. His 
 mother was the daughter of Mr. James Morrill, for forty 
 years deacon of the First Church in Boston, and a respected 
 and successful merchant in that city. He was fitted for col- 
 lege in his native village, principally at the academy, then 
 under the charge of Cranmore Wallace. During his college 
 life, he evinced a very genial and social temper. In his 
 autobiography in the Class Book, he speaks of himself as 
 having been chiefly interested, when a boy, in books on 
 medicine. In college he early formed the intention of being 
 a physician, and his family represent him as resolved to 
 devote himself to surgery. 
 
 From a near relative the Secretary has the following account 
 of his last sickness : " His early death was occasioned by 
 a sprain of one ankle a few months before graduation. With 
 his class, however, he received his degree ; but this effort 
 
 1 This memoir, and that of all those who died before 1858, were prepared 
 for the " silver wedding " of the class in that year. They arc here reprinted 
 without material alterations. 
 
 3
 
 1 8 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 increased his lameness, and proved to be his last appearance 
 in public. The injury to the ankle soon induced a develop- 
 ment of scrofula, which ended his days. After passing a 
 few months at his father's house, then in Cambridge, under 
 the care of the best surgeons of this vicinity, he went to the 
 Massachusetts General Hospital, where he spent the winter of 
 1833-34; from the hospital, in March, he went to the South, 
 and spent three months in Charleston, S. C., in the hope that 
 change of air might benefit his disease. But in spite of this 
 change, and the assiduous care of friends, the disease went 
 on increasing in severity. In May he returned to his father's 
 house, then in North Andover, and there cheerfully gave up 
 all idea of recovery and of accomplishing his plan of life, 
 laughing at pain, patiently enduring suffering, expressing his 
 firm belief in the Christian religion, and embracing its com- 
 forts and hopes. He was gradually cut off from the outward 
 world, by the loss of hearing and sight, and at last, on June 24, 
 1834, he died." 
 
 At a meeting of the class, held on the succeeding com- 
 mencement, on motion of Mr. Fletcher Webster, it was 
 
 " Voted, That suitable notice be taken of the lamented 
 death of our late classmate, John C. Allen ; and that a com- 
 mittee of one be appointed for this purpose, to address a 
 letter to the parents of the deceased, expressive of our 
 esteem for our late associate, and of our sorrow at his un- 
 timely end." 
 
 Mr. E. J. Stearns was appointed on this committee. It is 
 understood that the duty assigned him was duly performed, 
 and that he received a suitable acknowledgment.
 
 HUNTINGTON PORTER. 19 
 
 HUNTINGTON PORTER. 
 
 HUNTINGTON PORTER was the son of the Rev. 
 Huntington (H. C. 1777) and Sarah (Moulton) 
 Porter, and was born in Rye, N. H., December 4, 1812, 
 where his father was minister. His mother was the daughter 
 of General Jonathan Moulton, of Hampton, N. H. He was 
 a nephew of the Rev. Eliphalet Porter (H. C. 1777), for a 
 long time minister of the First Church in Roxbury, and a 
 member of the Corporation of Harvard College from 1818 
 to 1833. He went to school in the academy at Greenland, 
 N. H., and was fitted for college at Exeter. 
 
 After leaving college he went to his home in Rye, N. H., 
 and spent the next winter in fitting two younger brothers for 
 college. In May, 1834, he left home to seek occupation as 
 a teacher, and was employed in that capacity successively in 
 Philadelphia, in Pittsburg, and in Lexington, Ky. Soon after 
 going to the last-named place, in the spring of 1835, he began 
 the study of medicine at the medical school connected with 
 the Transylvania University. During his residence in Lex- 
 ington he joined the Presbyterian Church in that place. 
 After staying there a year, in the latter part of May, 1836, 
 he returned to New England, to visit his family and friends. 
 A few days after his arrival he was taken sick with small- 
 pox, to which he had been exposed on his journey. He 
 was removed to the small-pox hospital on Rainsford Island, 
 Boston Harbor, and died there June 21, 1836. His remains 
 were deposited in the burial-ground of the island. 
 
 At the class meeting, on the subsequent commencement, 
 it was 
 
 " Voted, That some notice of the recent demise of a 
 classmate, Huntington Porter, is right and proper, and that 
 a committee of one be appointed to address the father of
 
 2O THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 the deceased in a manner expressive of the esteem of the 
 class for their late friend, and of their sympathy with his 
 bereaved relatives." 
 
 Waldo Higginson was appointed on this committee; and 
 in accordance with this vote wrote to the Rev. Huntington 
 Porter, at Rye, N. H., and received from him a reply which 
 contains the following : "It was my privilege to be with 
 my son a considerable part of his very distressing sickness ; 
 and it was surprising to me to notice the patience, fortitude, 
 composure, and resignation he manifested under it; and it 
 was to me no small support to witness the evidence given 
 in this and other ways, of his being prepared for the solemn 
 event he saw before him." 
 
 JOSEPH WHITE. 
 
 JOSEPH WHITE was the son of Stephen and Harriet 
 (Story) White, and was born at Salem, January 24, 1814. 
 His mother was a sister of Judge Story. He was prepared 
 for college chiefly at the Round Hill School, Northampton. 
 After leaving college, he studied no profession, but assisted 
 his father, who was engaged in lumbering on Grand Island 
 in the St. Lawrence, where he owned valuable tracts, and in 
 ship-building at East Boston. 
 
 He died at the McLean Asylum, in Somerville, on the 
 morning of July I, 1838.
 
 THOMAS ROTCH BOURNE. 21 
 
 THOMAS ROTCH BOURNE. 
 
 THOMAS ROTCH BOURNE was the son of Melatiah 
 and Mary (Fearing) Bourne, and was born at Sandwich, 
 Mass., January 6, 1811. His mother was the daughter of 
 Brigadier-General Israel Fearing, a major in the Revolutionary 
 War. He was fitted for college at the Sandwich Academy. 
 At Cambridge he was modest, retiring, and reserved, although 
 he filled with credit the post of President of the " Med. Fac." 
 In person he was thought a model of manly beauty. He 
 died at Sandwich, October 27, 1839. A notice of his career 
 and character, written by Mr. Thomas B. Pope, appeared 
 in the Boston Daily Advertiser a few days after his death, 
 from which the following is extracted. 
 
 " Mr. Bourne shortly after graduating commenced the study 
 of the law, and having spent three years at the Law School 
 in Cambridge, and in the offices of the Hon. H. Vanderpoel 
 of New York and of the Hon. John Reed of Massachusetts, 
 was, upon examination, admitted to practise in the courts 
 of the latter State. Already had his zeal and industry as 
 a student secured for him the esteem and respect of the 
 gentlemen with whom his studies were prosecuted. With 
 a just confidence in his powers, with the knowledge that a 
 faithful apprenticeship in the profession of his choice gave 
 him at least a fair chance of success, and buoyed up with 
 a proud and manly spirit, he sought independence and a 
 home in the West, and established himself at Mt. Clemens, 
 Michigan, as a lawyer and editor of one of the journals of 
 Macomb County. He was prospering in his profession, was 
 winning his way to the favor of his new townsmen, and 
 already had their elective voice placed him in public stations 
 of honorable advancement. When, little more than a year 
 after he was first numbered among them, fever and ague
 
 22 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 seized upon him, his frame became prostrated, and he fell 
 a victim to rapid pulmonary consumption. Having returned 
 to the home of his father, during the past summer, in high 
 hopes of recovering his health, it soon became apparent 
 to his friends that the insidious disease was rapidly doing 
 the work of destruction ; and as the season slipped onward, 
 they foresaw his dissolution could not long be deferred. 
 For several weeks he had himself been aware that his way 
 was plain, and led rapidly to the grave. Calmly and tran- 
 quilly resigned in his sufferings, and in the Christian hope 
 of a happy hereafter, he sunk into death." 
 
 ISAAC PURNELL PENDLETON. 
 
 ISAAC PURNELL PENDLETON was the son of Edmund 
 and Serena (Purnell) Pendleton, and was born in the 
 city of Baltimore, on the :6th of August, 1813. Shortly 
 after his birth, his parents removed to the Eastern Shore of 
 Maryland, where his father died when he was ten years old. 
 He was then placed in the family of his uncle, Philip C. 
 Pendleton, where he lived till he came to Cambridge, in 
 1829. During the last half of the freshman year he was 
 rusticated by the Faculty, and spent that time in the family 
 of Rev. Mr. Ripley at Waltham, where he enjoyed the society 
 and instruction of Mrs. Ripley, whom so many, and none 
 more than he, have greatly venerated. He also passed the 
 first half of the senior year at his home in Maryland. He 
 was the handsome man of the class, and was naturally selected 
 as the captain of the Harvard Washington Corps, the duties 
 of which office he performed with dignity and grace, not 
 unbecoming the successor of Robert C. Winthrop, and the 
 predecessor of Governor Williams of Maine. Though taking
 
 ISAAC PURNELL PENDLETON. 23 
 
 no rank as a scholar, he yet gave evidence of respectable 
 abilities and a character which had much that was attractive 
 and interesting. After leaving college, he resided with his 
 aunt, Miss Purnell, in Caroline County, Eastern Shore of 
 Maryland. Afterwards he spent some years in Martinsburg 
 and in Winchester, Va. He returned to his aunt's residence 
 in 1840, and died there of congestive fever in September of 
 that year. 
 
 A friend who knew him well at Cambridge, and subse- 
 quently, writes thus : 
 
 " The incidents of his life after leaving college were hardly 
 such as friends desire to record. He had quite a comfortable 
 patrimony, which he squandered in dissipation, although he 
 never was reduced to actual want. But it must be mentioned, 
 that he seemed to have reformed a short time before his ill- 
 ness, and his friends entertained for him hopes that he might 
 become a useful man. 
 
 " When under the influence of liquor, he seemed to have 
 a wild ferocity of disposition ; but when sober, he was a 
 gentleman in his whole deportment, and showed great kind- 
 ness of heart and many noble qualities. Indeed, he had a 
 number of very warm friends, who did all they could to 
 rescue him from the habits which tyrannized over him." 
 
 Hon. John Bozman Kerr (H. C. 1830), who was a neigh- 
 bor of Pendleton in Maryland, has also written of the refor- 
 mation spoken of above. It took place in the summer of 
 1840, on his return to his home on the Eastern Shore of 
 Maryland. For some months during this season he was 
 temperate and devoted to his books, and was preparing for 
 practice as a lawyer, for which profession he had never com- 
 pleted his studies. But early in the autumn he was seized 
 with fever, (to which his previous habits rendered him an 
 easy victim,) and died at the age of twenty-seven.
 
 24 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 FISHER AMES HARDING. 
 
 FISHER AMES HARDING was the son of John and 
 Julia (Battelle) Harding, and was born in Dover, 
 Mass., January 23, 1811. His father was a farmer in that 
 town. Having a great veneration for Fisher Ames, in whose 
 household he had formerly lived for several years as a hired 
 man, he named his son for that distinguished statesman. In 
 the village school, Harding was soon distinguished as a boy 
 of quick comprehension and great desire for knowledge ; and 
 he early indulged a longing for a collegiate education. After 
 procuring his parents' consent to do all they could towards 
 sending him to college, he sought the advice of Rev. Ralph 
 Sanger (H. C. 1808), who was fortunately settled at the time 
 over the church in Dover. By his advice and assistance, he 
 was fitted for college, and joined the class at the beginning 
 of the freshman year. 
 
 In college he was distinguished, not only for the observance 
 of college rules, but also for scholarship, easily obtaining and 
 keeping a rank within the first eight. He was respected and 
 beloved by all, and passed through the four years with the 
 reputation of being singularly guileless. 
 
 In his senior year he had the advantage of frequent inter- 
 course with Daniel Webster, whose son was his room-mate. 
 He had designed, after graduating, to keep school, until he 
 should have provided means for studying his profession, 
 which he resolved should be the law. But a short time 
 before leaving college, Mr. Webster made the generous offer 
 of taking him into his office as a law-student, and supporting 
 him handsomely whilst there. This proposal, so honorable 
 to Harding, was substantially accepted, though some of its 
 liberality was modestly declined ; and he spent the two years 
 after graduating in Mr. Webster's office in Boston.
 
 FISHER AMES HARDING. 25 
 
 In 1835, ne went to Chicago, and opened an office in con- 
 nection with Henry Moore, Esq., who had also come from 
 Massachusetts. In 1837, he removed to Detroit, and lived 
 there during the rest of his life. He immediately formed 
 a partnership with Mr. Fletcher Webster, which continued 
 but a short time, in consequence of the latter's removal 
 to Illinois. Afterwards he formed a connection with Mr. 
 William Hale, now of Detroit, which continued till his own 
 death. 
 
 In 1841 he was elected from his county to the State legis- 
 lature. He had always taken an interest in public affairs, 
 which was early instilled by his father's admiration of Fisher 
 Ames and recollection of his conversation, and subsequently 
 increased by his own intercourse with Daniel Webster. His 
 sister writes : " Politics was the dream of his boyhood, and 
 the engrossing subject that absorbed his after life." The 
 conspicuous part he took in the proceedings of the Michigan 
 House of Representatives attested that his early advantages 
 had been wisely improved. 
 
 In 1841, also, he became associated with Mr. Morgan Bates 
 in the editorship of the Detroit Daily Advertiser, then an able 
 Whig journal, and he continued in this connection, except for 
 about a year's interval, during the remainder of his life. 
 
 He was never married, and died of consumption, in Detroit, 
 August 4, 1846, aged thirty-five. 
 
 In the columns of the Advertiser, of August 6, appeared 
 the following : 
 
 "DEATH OF MR. HARDING, 
 
 "It is our painful duty to announce the death of Fisher 
 Ames Harding, Esq., one of the editors of this paper. He 
 died at the residence of William Hale, Esq., of this city, 
 on Tuesday evening at three o'clock. His health had been 
 feeble for nearly two years, but did not assume an alarming 
 
 4
 
 26 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 character until within the past two weeks. The last week 
 of his life was one of mental delirium, and of great apparent 
 physical suffering." 
 
 Here follows a brief account of his life, which is the same 
 as that given above. 
 
 " In the profession of the law, Mr. Harding was known 
 as a thorough student and an upright counsellor, but his 
 natural taste disqualified him for the turmoil and strife of 
 professional life. He loved the shade of retiracy, and it 
 was here, with the friends who saw him daily, that the dig- 
 nity and purity of his character, the brilliancy of his talents, 
 and the extent of his acquirements, commanded their admi- 
 ration, while 'a daily beauty in his life' won their love and 
 esteem. We dare not trust ourselves, under the feeling of 
 the moment, to speak of our late friend and associate as we 
 feel; we shall not exaggerate, however, when we say that 
 his generous nature, his remarkable freedom from selfish 
 feelings and conduct, and his native modesty, were acknowl- 
 edged by, and won the respect of, even casual acquaintances. 
 Though warmly attached to a political party, it disturbed 
 not his social relations, and his political writings were not 
 more distinguished by their purity and simplicity of style, 
 than by their fairness and courtesy to his political opponents. 
 He passed through the political agitations of the past few 
 years an active participant, but we believe without incur- 
 ring the personal animosity of any one, and he died without 
 an enemy. 
 
 " To say that the death of such a man, of so much talent, 
 of so much information, of so much goodness of heart, is a 
 great loss to the community, would be to use a trite phrase 
 to express a solemn feeling. To us personally, the loss of 
 one from whom, after years of daily intercourse, we can 
 recall not one instance of unkind or angry feeling or word, 
 whose sound judgment, extensive knowledge, and social 
 qualities we have had occasion daily to admire, is indeed
 
 CHARLES JARVIS BATES. 27 
 
 irreparable. We may be permitted to grieve over his pre- 
 mature grave ; for we feel 
 
 ' 'T is manliness 
 To be heart-broken here, 
 For the grave of earth's best nobleness 
 Is watered by a tear.' " 
 
 In the same paper, of August 6, appeared a call for a 
 meeting of the members of the bar, at the United States 
 Court-Room, and also for a meeting of the "Detroit Young 
 Men's Society," at their rooms, to make arrangements for 
 the funeral, which took place on that day from the house of 
 Mr. Hale. 
 
 CHARLES JARVIS BATES. 
 
 /CHARLES JARVIS BATES was the son of George 
 ^-" / and Elizabeth (Hall) Bates, and was born in Suffolk 
 Place, Boston, November 24, 1813. His father took the 
 degree of M. D. at Harvard College, 1813, but early relin- 
 quished practice. His mother was nearly connected with 
 Governor Brooks and Judge Joseph Hall and Chief Justice 
 Parker. She died in 1821. He went to a private school in 
 Charlestown, kept by Mr. Gates, until in 1826 he entered 
 the Boston Latin School, where he was fitted for college. 
 He inherited from his mother a feeble constitution, was 
 sickly as a boy, and his college studies were often inter- 
 rupted by dyspepsia; nevertheless, he took a respectable 
 rank as a scholar, and was exemplary in the performance 
 of all his duties. His highest rank, however, was in the 
 hearts of his classmates. He was not only generally beloved, 
 but great confidence was felt in the firmness of his principles 
 of truth and honor.
 
 28 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 After leaving college he devoted himself immediately to 
 the study of medicine, entering the office of Dr. William 
 J. Walker, then living in Charlestown, in company with 
 John O. Stone and Morrill Wyman. In 1836 he received 
 the degree of M. D. He subsequently attended a course 
 of medical lectures at the Pennsylvania University, Phila- 
 delphia, but did not take a degree. In March, 1838, he 
 received permission to present himself before the Board of 
 Naval Surgeons, and being successful was appointed Assist- 
 ant Surgeon. On examination by another board, in May, 
 1845, he was promoted to the rank of Passed Assistant Sur- 
 geon, to date back to November, 1843, on account of absence 
 from the country when others of his own standing had been 
 promoted. 
 
 The following is taken from a letter of his to the class 
 secretary, dated " U. S. Ship North Carolina, March 29, 
 1846":- 
 
 " My naval experiences have been considerable. I have 
 been six and a half years at sea out of eight. Nearly three 
 and a half I spent in the Mediterranean, and consider them 
 to be the happiest of my life. I passed two years on the 
 west coast of Africa, and these were perhaps the most un- 
 thankful of all. The rest of my sea life was on our own 
 coast. I am much attached to the service ; with all its 
 d&agrhnmSt there is much good in it. I prefer my asso- 
 ciates to those of the shore; for I think I find more true 
 friendship, its candor, its warmth, its generosity, its feel- 
 ing always undisguised. The navy officer has perhaps an 
 advantage over the civilian in the choice of a friend, for 
 he knows by reputation every other in the service, the 
 black mark always goes with its victim, and he can 
 therefore choose with safety, or rather he can avoid with 
 certainty." 
 
 At the time of his death the Rev. George E. Ellis was 
 much with his father's family. In a letter dated Charles-
 
 CHARLES JARVIS BATES. 29 
 
 town, August 29, 1848, he gives the following information 
 about his life in the navy, and his death : 
 
 " He used the opportunities which offered when on service 
 in our ships, to travel in Italy and other countries. His in- 
 terest in his profession was great, and he cultivated a taste 
 for some of the departments of natural science. I have 
 occasionally met with his companions in the public service, 
 and with his acquaintances of the last few years; and a 
 fortnight ago I met in New York Dr. Wright of the navy, 
 who saw Dr. Bates shortly before his death. All concur in 
 commending his quiet virtues, his amiability, and his profes- 
 sional faithfulness. In a season of prevailing and danger- 
 ous sickness in our squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, he 
 devoted himself with entire self-forgetfulness to his duties, 
 and assumed from sympathy and zeal those which primarily 
 belonged to others. I understand that all the other medical 
 gentlemen who were with him were prostrated with disease, 
 or not immediately at hand, when he himself was seized, 
 after most exhausting occupation, with the suffering. He 
 died at a temporary hospital (on land) at Salmadina, Gulf 
 of Mexico, August 26, 1847. His remains were brought 
 home, a funeral service was held in the chapel of Mount 
 Auburn, by his pastor, Rev. Mr. Lothrop, of Boston, and 
 they are deposited under the monument erected to him in 
 that cemetery." 
 
 It is worthy of mention, that, at the time of the sick- 
 ness spoken of in this letter, Dr. Bates Jiad received from 
 Washington leave of absence. But, at Commodore Perry's 
 request, he postponed using it, out of regard to the ex- 
 igencies of others, and his own sense of duty, and thus 
 fell a victim to the prevailing disease, which was yellow- 
 fever. 
 
 The monument alluded to above is a handsome white- 
 marble sarcophagus, and bears the following epitaph, writ- 
 ten by Mr. Ellis :
 
 3O THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 "CHARLES JARVIS BATES, 
 
 Born in Boston, Nov. 24, 1813, Graduated at Harvard University, 1833, 
 
 Served as Past Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy, 
 Died in the discharge of his duties, at Salmadina, Gulf of Mexico, Aug. 26, 1847. 
 
 Beloved by the Inmates of his Home, for his filial and fraternal virtues, 
 
 Esteemed by his Companions, for the Purity of his Youth and Manhood, 
 
 His early death is deplored by those who shared with him 
 
 the Duties and the Perils 
 
 Of Professional Service, and who bear a united testimony to his 
 Devotion and Fidelity." 
 
 On one end of the monument a coat of arms is cut, with 
 the motto, so appropriate in this case, 
 
 Et manu et corde. 
 
 JOSEPH HARRINGTON, JR. 
 
 JOSEPH HARRINGTON, JR. was the son of Joseph and 
 j Mary (Smith) Harrington, and was born in Roxbury, 
 February 21, 1813. His father was a lawyer, who practised 
 in the counties of both Norfolk and Suffolk. His mother 
 was the daughter of Mr. Ralph Smith, of Roxbury, at one 
 time a noted politician of the Democratic school. After 
 the ordinary preliminary training in his native town, he went 
 to Exeter Academy, and passed two years there, previous 
 to entering college. In the Class Book he pays a tribute to 
 Dr. Abbot, of Exeter, and to Mr. Edward B. Emerson, who 
 was one of the instructors in Roxbury. In college he main- 
 tained a respectable rank as a scholar, and graduated among 
 the first sixteen. A letter from him to the secretary, dated 
 Hartford, August 12, 1848, describes his course after leaving 
 college : 
 
 " Before I was graduated, I had entered upon my duties as
 
 JOSEPH HARRINGTON, JR. 31 
 
 principal of Kent Academy, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. 
 I continued in that station about six months, when I made 
 application for a mastership in one of the grammar schools 
 of Boston. I was successful ; and about the beginning of 
 the year 1834 commenced my career in that city as master 
 of the Hawes Grammar School. I held this office till June, 
 1839. The last few years of my labors as an instructor, I 
 was also pursuing the study of theology with Dr. Putnam of 
 Roxbury. I preached my first sermon at Fall River, the 
 last Sunday in June, or first in July, 1839. In the following 
 autumn I was ordained as an evangelist in the Federal Street 
 Church, Boston ; and about the beginning of October started 
 for Chicago, Illinois, on a short tour of missionary duty. My 
 labors there were unexepectedly prospered. My position 
 grew more and more interesting; and my stay there was pro- 
 longed from year to year, until the summer of 1844, when I 
 dissolved connection with the society, leaving it prosperous 
 and self-subsistent. I was never regularly settled over the 
 parish in Chicago. While there, on the 6th day of April, 
 1841, I married Helen Euphaine Griswold, then recently 
 from Baltimore, Maryland. The remainder of the year 1844, 
 and the whole of 1845, I lived with my family at Roxbury, 
 Massachusetts. During the year 1845 I officiated as pastor 
 of the Suffolk Street Chapel, Boston. The first Sunday in 
 January, 1846, I entered upon the duties of a new parish in 
 Hartford, Connecticut, to the charge of which I had been 
 invited. In April of the same year I was installed as pastor 
 of the society. I have had three children ; one, an infant 
 son, was buried at Chicago; another at Roxbury. Our 
 eldest, a daughter, is living, at this date, about six and a 
 half years of age." 
 
 Mr. Harrington remained in Hartford until the summer 
 of 1852, and then accepted a call to take charge of the 
 Unitarian Church at San Francisco, California. He sailed 
 from New York on the 2Oth of July, and reached San Fran-
 
 32 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 cisco on the 2/th of August, after a fatiguing and suffering 
 trip. He began, however, under bright auspices, and his 
 church during the three Sundays on which he preached 
 was thronged by hearers. But he was soon prostrated by 
 illness. He had been indisposed from May of that year, 
 probably because of the excessive labors of the few preced- 
 ing months. This indisposition was much aggravated by 
 the exertion and excitement incident to his removal. The 
 disease which now attacked him was pronounced Panama 
 fever. He was taken sick early in October, and died Novem- 
 ber 2, 1852, at the age of thirty-nine. 
 
 He was much respected in his various homes after leaving 
 college, South Boston, Chicago, Hartford, and San Fran- 
 cisco, and died regretted by a wide circle. 
 
 Such are the outlines of his successful life. They have 
 been wrought into an interesting memoir by his classmate, 
 William Whiting, which is prefixed to a small volume of his 
 sermons, published by Crosby and Nichols, (Boston, 1854,) 
 to which the class are referred. This volume contains also 
 a good likeness. 
 
 After Mr. Harrington's death, the church at St. Francisco 
 raised a fund for his widow and daughter. This, supple- 
 mented by lessons in music, in which Mrs. Harrington was a 
 proficient, supported them comfortably, particularly as the 
 daughter, on growing up, became herself an accomplished 
 music-teacher. So they lived in Roxbury, Mass., the home 
 of the Harrington family; in Baltimore, where they were in 
 1858; and in Chicago. From the last-named place they 
 moved to New York and made their home in Haerlem. Here 
 Mrs. Harrington died, about ten years ago. A year or two 
 after, the daughter, Helen Josephine, married Mr. Joseph 
 Gandolfo, a New York gentleman of ample means. They 
 have three children.
 
 CHARLES HENRY PEIRCE. 33 
 
 CHARLES HENRY PEIRCE. 
 
 /CHARLES HENRY PIERCE was the son of Benjamin 
 ^ / (H. C. 1801) and Lydia Ropes (Nichols) Peirce, and 
 was born in Salem, January 28, 1814. His father was Col- 
 lege Librarian, 1826-31. The great mathematician, who 
 graduated four years before, was his elder brother. 
 
 In boyhood he was amiable and affectionate, and remark- 
 able for his conscientiousness, love of truth, and disinterested 
 generosity. He was quiet and observing. This faculty always 
 remained with him, and was of great use in his professional 
 studies and occupations. 
 
 At the age of twelve, he went to Mr. Putnam's academy, 
 in Andover, where he remained a year. In July, 1826, he 
 removed with his parents to Cambridge. In August, 1828, 
 he entered Exeter Academy, and remained there a year also. 
 In the Class Book, he bore, as so many have done, a grateful 
 testimony to Dr. Abbot, the honored head of that institution. 
 When nearly fitted for college, he returned to Cambridge, 
 and, after studying a few months with Mr. Timothy Walker 
 (H. C. 1826), entered college in December, 1829. 
 
 Here he was marked by the traits which had distinguished 
 his boyhood. He was popular among his classmates, and 
 had many warm friends. 
 
 Immediately after graduating, he commenced the study 
 of medicine with Dr. G. C. Shattuck, and continued with 
 him for three years. During the same time he attended 
 three full courses of lectures at the Massachusetts Medical 
 College. In August, 1836, he took the usual degrees, and 
 then established himself at Buffalo, N. Y., as a physician. 
 He remained there only until the beginning of 1837, and 
 then returned to Boston, where he practised until June, 
 1838. Then he removed to Salem, and remained there as 
 
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 34 TH E CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 a medical practitioner until the middle of April, 1847, when 
 he removed to Roxbury, where he continued to practise 
 until the middle of September of the same year. 
 
 Dr. Peirce then relinquished medicine, and entered the 
 chemical department of the Lawrence Scientific School, 
 under Professor Horsford, and remained there until January 
 12, 1849. He was one of the first two who entered this 
 department. 
 
 On the 2 ist of August, 1850, he was appointed United 
 States Examiner of Drugs, &c. for the Port of Boston. 
 He discharged the duties of this office with great skill and 
 fidelity, and with characteristic fearlessness. He was re- 
 moved on January 14, 1855. 
 
 In September, 1850, he superintended the translation from 
 the German of Stockhardt's " Principles of Chemistry," pub- 
 lished by Mr. John Bartlett, of Cambridge. This work was 
 stereotyped, and had a very large sale. The German author 
 has spoken of the faithfulness and spirit of the translation in 
 terms of the highest admiration. 
 
 In March, 1852, he prepared a work entitled "Examina- 
 tions of Drugs, Medicines, &c.," giving some of the results 
 of his official labors. It was published by Mr. Bartlett, 
 whose interest was subsequently bought by Mr. Henry C. 
 Baird, of Philadelphia. This book was much prized, both 
 in Europe and in this country, and commanded a large sale 
 for a work of the kind. 
 
 Dr. Peirce died at Cambridge, after a long and painful 
 illness, June 16, 1855, at the age of forty-one.
 
 FREDERIC PARKER. 35 
 
 FREDERIC PARKER. 
 
 F'REDERIC PARKER was the son of Joseph and Olive 
 (Bailey) Parker, and was born at Carlisle, Mass., Sep- 
 tember 2, 1813. He was fitted for college at schools in the 
 adjoining towns. At Cambridge he sustained a respectable 
 rank as a scholar, and manifested energy and perseverance 
 in pursuing means of improvement not prescribed by the 
 Faculty. After graduating, he taught school in Gloucester 
 for about nine months, then in Billerica for two years and 
 a quarter, and lastly in Hallowell, Maine, for one year and 
 three quarters. Early in September, 1838, he began the 
 study of the law with Hon. Samuel Wells, of Hallowell, 
 subsequently Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine. In 
 September, 1839, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, 
 where he completed his studies, and received the degree of 
 LL. B. in 1841. He then established himself in Lowell. 
 After spending a short time in the office of Joel Adams, 
 Esq. (H. C. 1805), of that city, he was admitted to the bar. 
 In October, 1844, he married Miss Harriet M. Kimball of 
 Lowell. In 1845, he experienced a long and severe illness, 
 the effects of which never left him, and from that time he 
 was forced to struggle with ill health. In the same year, 
 he was chosen one of the school committee, and held that 
 office during four successive years. The cause of education 
 always interested him, and during his term of office he sug- 
 gested and supported several important changes in the man- 
 agement of the Lowell schools. In 1846 he was chosen 
 clerk of the Salem and Lowell Railroad Company, which 
 office he continued to fill until his last sickness. In 1849 
 he was instrumental in forming the Howard Fire Insurance 
 Company, of which for several years he was secretary and 
 treasurer. In 1852 he opened a book and print store in
 
 36 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Lowell, and soon after another in Boston. The former was 
 soon closed, and he devoted his energies to the latter. In 
 this employment he manifested great taste and enterprise. 
 In the summer of 1856, his business in Boston became 
 unsuccessful, and he was forced to abandon it. He then 
 retired to Lowell. In the autumn of that year, he had 
 repeated attacks of hemorrhage, and died of consumption, 
 January 29, 1857. 
 
 He showed through life the grave and earnest character 
 he displayed in college, and kept up to an unusual degree 
 the literary tastes which he there acquired. He encountered 
 reverses, but maintained through them all energy of spirit 
 and unsullied integrity. 
 
 His widow continued to live at Lowell, with his two sur- 
 viving children, Charles Edward, born in 1848, and Frederic 
 Augustus, born in 1853. After the lapse of some time, Mrs. 
 Parker married Mr. Sidney Spalding, of Lowell, a gentleman 
 of wealth and liberality. He adopted her two sons, who took 
 his name. The eldest, Charles Parker Spalding, graduated at 
 Harvard in 1870, and took the degree of M. D. in 1877. In 
 1882, he went abroad and studied at Paris and Vienna, taking 
 lip the eye and ear as a specialty. He is now established as 
 a physician in Lowell. The youngest, Frederic Parker Spal- 
 ding, graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 in 1878. He is now employed in the City Engineer's office 
 at Boston. In June, 1881, he married Miss Alice French, of 
 Lowell, and has an infant daughter, born January 19, 1883.
 
 THOMAS BUTLER POPE. 37 
 
 THOMAS BUTLER POPE. 
 
 THOMAS BUTLER POPE died at his residence in 
 Appleton Place, Roxbury, near Longvvood, January 15, 
 1862, aged forty-eight years lacking seven days. He was son 
 of Lemuel and Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, and was born 
 in Boston, January 22, 1814. His father was a very respect- 
 able citizen, for many years President of the Boston Insur- 
 ance Company. His mother was sister to the late Nathaniel 
 Pope Russell, Esq., and second-cousin to Rev. Dr. Jeremy 
 Belknap. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
 School, and entered at the beginning of the sophomore year. 
 After graduating he enlered the Law School of the Univer- 
 sity, and subsequently studied in the office of Hon. Charles 
 Loring, of Boston. In the summer of 1836 he was admitted 
 to the Suffolk Bar, and began to practise. In 1840 he formed 
 a partnership with Charles Henry Parker (H. C. 1835), which 
 continued until 1853, and then terminated on that gentleman 
 becoming Treasurer of the Suffolk Savings Bank. 
 
 Though beginning the practice of law under good auspices, 
 and in some ways manifesting proficiency, he was tempted 
 to enter into speculations quite foreign to his profession. In 
 this he simply followed the example of many other lawyers. 
 But with him his ventures met with disaster, and, being con- 
 tinued, resulted in bankruptcy of fortune, though his integ- 
 rity was unscathed. His affairs were so much embarrassed 
 in 1858, the year when the class celebrated their "silver 
 wedding," that he was with difficulty induced to attend the 
 meeting. In 1859 he went into insolvency. His pecuniary 
 misfortunes preyed upon him, and, it was thought, some- 
 what affected his mind for several of the last years of his 
 life. The disease of which he finally died was softening of 
 the brain, which began to come on, it was thought, about
 
 38 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 two years before his death. On the 1st of April, 1861, 
 whilst driving from Boston, he was seized with an attack 
 of paralysis, affecting his lower limbs. He was conveyed 
 to his home, and never left it again. After lingering more 
 than nine months, he died. 
 
 He married, June 3, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of the late 
 John Binney, Esq., of Boston, who survived him. He left 
 also three daughters; Gertrude Binney, born 1847; Louisa 
 Binney, born 1855; and Mary Binney, born 1858. 
 
 Mrs. Pope died at Boston, January 29, 1881. The eldest 
 daughter married Bryant P. Tilden (M. I. T. 1868), and 
 died at Phillipsburg, Montana, March 26, 1878, leaving chil- 
 dren. The youngest died in Boston, November 21, 1876. 
 Louisa alone survives, who is the wife of Rev. J. Frederic 
 Button, of South Boston. 
 
 FLETCHER WEBSTER. 
 
 "PLETCHER WEBSTER, son of the eminent statesman 
 and orator, Daniel Webster, was born in Portsmouth, 
 N. H., July 23, 1813. His preparatory studies having been 
 completed at the public Latin School in Boston, he entered 
 Harvard College in 1829, and graduated in 1833, obtaining 
 the distinction of being chosen class orator at graduating, 
 an honor more gratifying to his social disposition than 
 academic laurels. 
 
 Upon leaving college he studied law, partly With Samuel B. 
 Walcott at Hopkinton, Mass., and partly with his father in 
 Boston, and was in due time admitted to the Suffolk Bar and 
 began the practice of his profession in Boston. In the autumn 
 of 1836 he married Caroline Story, daughter of Hon. Stephen 
 White, of Salem, Mass., and immediately after his marriage 
 put in execution a plan previously formed of trying his pro-
 
 FLETCHER WEBSTER. 39 
 
 fession at the West. He went first to Detroit, where he 
 remained till the close of 1837, anc ^ then removed to La Salle, 
 111., where he made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln, 
 an incident kindly recalled by the latter during his presidency, 
 in 1861. 
 
 Notwithstanding the possession of qualities strikingly 
 adapted to insure success in his chosen profession, Webster 
 seems never to have contemplated with pleasure a permanent 
 practice of the law; and when, in 1840, his father was ap- 
 pointed Secretary of State under President Harrison, he 
 repaired to Washington, where the office of private secretary 
 to Mr. Webster proved much more congenial to his tastes 
 and temperament. The affectionate relations which sub- 
 sisted between father and son during this period of mutual, 
 confidence form an interesting episode in their lives ; and to 
 his son's talent and perception Mr. Webster gladly intrusted 
 the management of important affairs, while he found in him 
 delightful companionship. In 1843, when the late Caleb 
 Gushing was appointed Commissioner to China, Webster ac- 
 companied him as Secretary of Legation, returning in 1845. 
 In 1850 he was appointed by President Taylor Surveyor of 
 the Port of Boston, an office which he retained until March, 
 1 86 1, when a successor was nominated by President Lincoln. 
 In these various capacities Webster manifested much practi- 
 cal ability, being always noted for popular qualities of mind 
 and heart, which, though they may have retarded higher 
 ambition, served to endear him to those with whom he was 
 associated. 
 
 Immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, he responded 
 to an appeal made to the patriotic citizens of Massachusetts 
 by the following notice, which appeared in the Boston papers 
 of Saturday, April 20, 1861 : 
 
 " Fellow-citizens, I have been assured by the Executive 
 Department that the State will accept at once an additional 
 regiment of infantry. I therefore propose to meet to-morrow
 
 40 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 at ten o'clock, in front of the Merchants' Exchange, State 
 Street, such of my fellow-citizens as will join in raising this 
 new regiment. The muster roll will be ready to be signed 
 then and there. Respectfully, 
 
 " FLETCHER WEBSTER." 
 
 At the appointed hour on Sunday, April 21, an immense 
 crowd appeared in State Street ; and such was the enthusi- 
 asm produced by the meeting that in three days the muster- 
 roll was filled; and, after various vicissitudes incident to 
 preliminary drill, during which the discipline of the men was 
 perfected, the regiment with full ranks joined the Army of the 
 Potomac. Early in 1862 the regiment was ordered into Vir- 
 ginia for more active service, and for several months remained 
 guarding the upper Potomac, in order to prevent the enemy 
 from crossing irtto Maryland. During this time Colonel Web- 
 ster displayed many of the traits of an excellent commander. 
 His discipline was not alloyed by petulance and passion. The 
 soldierly appearance of his men and the order of the camp 
 gave a good name to the regiment. To use the words of his 
 biographer, " His men were warmly attached to their colonel. 
 They appreciated his manly frankness, his simplicity of char- 
 acter, his kindness of heart, and the cheerfulness with which he 
 bore the hardships and privations of the service, though he had 
 no longer the unworn energies of youth to sustain him." 
 
 It was while Colonel Webster was absent on leave, being 
 called home by the death of a favorite child, that the regi- 
 ment was for the first time seriously engaged, in the battle 
 of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. The behavior of the 
 officers and men under a galling fire showed their discipline. 
 Upon the return of Colonel Webster to his regiment, they 
 were ordered to join McDowell's corps, under General Pope, 
 moving toward the north fork of the Rappahannock, in order 
 to hold the passes in that vicinity. On the 28th of August, 
 their division, under General Ricketts, encountered General
 
 FLETCHER WEBSTER. 41 
 
 Longstreet's advance, and were sharply engaged, Colonel 
 Webster " behaving splendidly " according to the report of 
 one of his officers. Two days after, on August 30, they were 
 stationed on the left in the second battle of Bull Run, being 
 confronted by the main force of the Rebel army. The on- 
 slaught of the enemy was fierce and irresistible. The regi- 
 ment was overbprne by superior numbers, and while it was 
 falling back in good order, and without breaking ranks, Colo- 
 nel Webster received a mortal wound. Lieutenant Haviland 
 was near him when he fell, and with two men went with him 
 to the rear. They laid him under a sheltering bush, but 
 Lieutenant Haviland being himself shortly after taken pris- 
 oner, the wounded Colonel was left to die alone. 
 
 His body was after the battle recovered by the exertions of 
 Lieutenant Arthur Dehon, the eldest son of his life-long and 
 intimate friend, William Dehon. It was carried to Boston, 
 and the funeral took place in that city on the 9th of Septem- 
 ber, 1862. It was the wish of Colonel Webster that, if he 
 died in the war and his body was brought home, it should 
 repose one night on the table in the library of his father's 
 house at Marshfield. Accordingly, immediately after the fu- 
 neral, a hearse, drawn by fleet black horses, and attended only 
 by one carriage containing our classmates Dehon and Eaton, 
 and Mr. Peter Butler, an intimate family friend, set out for that 
 place, arriving early in the evening. His wish was reverently 
 complied with, and the next day all that was mortal of 
 Fletcher Webster was interred on that desolate bluff which 
 overlooks the ocean, and where repose the remains of his 
 father and kindred. 
 
 To quote again from his memoir, prepared for " Harvard 
 Memorial Biographies" by George S. Hillard: "Colonel 
 Webster was long mourned and affectionately remembered 
 by the officers and men who had served under him. And 
 there were others who grieved for his loss ; for though not 
 widely known, he had many faithful friends who had known 
 
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 42 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 and loved him from boyhood, and had stood by him in all the 
 changes and chances of life. His own heart was warm, his 
 nature generous and open, and his temperament cordial and 
 frank. His tastes were strongly social, and his powers of 
 social entertainment were such as few men possess. He had 
 an unerring sense of the ludicrous, his wit was ready and 
 responsive, and no man could relate an amusing incident or 
 tell a humorous story with more dramatic power. Nor was 
 he without faculties of a higher order. His perceptions were 
 quick and accurate; he was an able and forcible speaker; he 
 wrote with a clearness and strength that belonged to him by 
 right of inheritance. The value which his friends had for 
 him was higher than the mark which he made upon the 
 times. The course of his life had not in all respects been 
 favorable to his growth and influence, and he had not the 
 iron resolution and robust purpose which makes will triumph 
 over circumstance." 
 
 Colonel Webster was peculiarly fortunate in his death. To 
 none was the country so much indebted as to his father for 
 the faith that was in them in regard to the unity of the 
 nation. When, however, in the process of events, this ques- 
 tion drifted into war, when that unity was at stake, and 
 was to be settled in the dread arbitrament of battle, then 
 it was meet that the son of Daniel Webster should die to 
 defend the position for which his father had contended so 
 triumphantly, and which accorded thoroughly with his own 
 well-grounded belief; and he died gallantly, at the head of 
 his regiment, with his face to the foe. 
 
 Colonel Webster left a widow and three children, two 
 sons and one daughter. His eldest son, Daniel, died at 
 Marshfield in 1865, at the age of twenty-five. The youngest 
 son, Ashburton, died at New York in 1879, aged thirty. His 
 daughter, Caroline, widow of James Geddes Day, died at 
 Marshfield, August 16, 1881. None of these left issue.
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 
 
 43 
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 
 
 MOSES KELLY. 
 
 TV/TOSES KELLY died at Cleveland, Ohio, August isth, 
 LVJ. 1870, of pulmonary consumption, after an illness of 
 some months. 
 
 Mr. Kelly was born at Groveland. Livingston County, New 
 York, on the 2ist of January, 1809. His father, Daniel 
 Kelly, emigrated from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 
 to the valley of the Genessee, where he bought large tracts 
 of land and carried on a farm. His mother's maiden name 
 was Mary Roupe, a Philadelphian of good family. He was 
 prepared for college at the celebrated school at Temple Hill, 
 Geneseo, N. Y., then kept by three young Harvard gradu- 
 ates, afterwards distinguished in their several professions, 
 the late Rev. Dr. Seth Sweetser of Worcester, the late Presi- 
 dent Felton, and the late Mr. Henry R. Cleveland. He was 
 the oldest person in the class, being over twenty when he 
 entered. The rank, however, he immediately took, was by 
 no means due to this alone. He early showed himself a 
 good scholar, and easily maintained throughout his college 
 course a high standing in this respect. But what more im- 
 pressed the class was a certain weight and judicial gravity 
 of character, which made him facile princeps in all class 
 gatherings. 
 
 Immediately after graduating, he entered the law office 
 of Orlando Hastings, Esq., of Rochester, N.Y., where he 
 read for three years. In 1836 he went to Cleveland, Ohio, 
 and formed a partnership with his intimate friend, classmate,
 
 44 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 and college chum, Thomas Bolton. This partnership con- 
 tinued for twenty years, and was dissolved only by the latter 
 being elected to a seat on the bench of the Court of Common 
 Pleas. After the termination of this connection, Mr. Kelly 
 continued till his death chiefly devoted to his profession. 
 He made commercial law and equity a specialty, and as an 
 equity lawyer was esteemed in Ohio to be one of the fore- 
 most in this country. 
 
 In 1839 he was chosen city attorney. In 1844-45 he 
 served two years in the State Senate. " In this body," says 
 the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "though avowedly a Whig, he 
 maintained a manly independence, and voted against his party 
 whenever a nice sense of right so prompted him." In Sep- 
 tember, 1866, President Johnson appointed him attorney for 
 the Northern District of Ohio; he held the office until March 
 following, when the Senate refused to confirm his appoint- 
 ment, on the ground of his having been a member of the 
 Philadelphia Convention the previous summer. 
 
 In 1839 he married Jane, daughter of General Howe, of 
 New Haven, Conn., an extensive publisher and book importer 
 of that place. He had six children, of whom four, two 
 sons and two daughters, with their mother, survive. 1 
 
 In 1850 he 'purchased a tract of thirty acres on Euclid 
 Avenue, in Cleveland, then known as the Giddings Farm, 
 where he built a house which was thenceforward his home. 
 
 At a meeting of the Cuyahoga County Bar held at Cleve- 
 land, immediately after his death, the following resolutions 
 were passed. 
 
 " In view of the recent death of Hon. Moses Kelly, the 
 members of the bar of Cuyahoga County, here convened, 
 adopt the following Resolutions : . 
 
 " I. That while we submit with humble resignation to the 
 dispensation of Providence in removing from our midst our 
 
 1 See note A, p. 52.
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 
 
 45 
 
 friend and brother, we can never cease to lament the loss of 
 one who, by reason of his intellectual superiority, his careful 
 study and training, his genial disposition, his sound judgment, 
 became eminent in his profession, beloved and respected as 
 a citizen, and whose death creates a void which cannot easily 
 be filled. 
 
 " 2. That in the death of Moses Kelly the bar has lost one 
 of its most distinguished members, a man of great industry 
 and perseverance, faithful as a friend, wise, just, and scrupu- 
 lously honest as a man and counsellor, and firm and unwaver- 
 ing in the discharge of every duty. 
 
 " 3. That we tender our deepest sympathy to the family of 
 the deceased, and join in a body in the funeral ceremonies. 
 
 " 4. That the President of this meeting be requested to 
 communicate a copy of these resolutions to the family of the 
 deceased, and to the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga 
 County, Ohio, and ask to have them entered on the journal 
 of the court; and that George Willey, Esq. be a committee 
 to present these resolutions to the District and Circuit Courts 
 for the Northern District of Ohio, with a request that they 
 be entered upon their journals." 
 
 These resolutions were supported by feeling and eloquent 
 speeches ; among others, the following words from Bushnel 
 White, Esq., U. S. Commissioner, will find a response with 
 all who have ever known Mr. Kelly: 
 
 " Moses Kelly was too quiet, too honest, too pure and 
 noble in character, to be a favorite subject of earthly eulogists 
 in this age of greed, and pride, and ism. He loved his pro- 
 fession, not for the money or reputation it brought him, but 
 for the good it enabled him to do his fellow-man. He 
 guarded and protected the estates of widows and orphans 
 committed to his care, to benefit them, not to enrich him- 
 self. Of the value of money, for brilliant equipage and 
 costly entertainment, he was wholly indifferent; in feeding
 
 46 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 the hungry and clothing the naked, he was fully cognizant, 
 as many a poor man can testify. He was not envious of 
 the professional success of his contemporaries in the law, 
 for he was not capable of such a feeling ; he stood too high 
 to be affected by that passion, which has dragged even 
 angels down. Indeed, he stood pre-eminent as a chancery 
 lawyer at this bar. Nor was this wonderful. His entire up- 
 rightness, his perfect purity of character, ever leading him to 
 love equity and do equity, taught him to know equity. He has 
 gone where not a single principle governing him for sixty- 
 two years of earthly existence will need change to bring him 
 safely through that narrow gate which leads to life eternal." 
 
 Other speakers laid stress on the great strength of intellect 
 shown by Mr. Kelly, and on his uncommon modesty. To 
 his influence, also, was largely ascribed the courtesy between 
 attorneys observable at the Cleveland Bar. 
 
 In presenting the above resolutions to the United States 
 Circuit Court, Mr. Willey, in the course of his remarks, 
 said : " Of unquestioned and recognized ability as a lawyer, 
 and especially learned in at least one great department of 
 the law, it was true of him, that high above professional 
 achievement and success rose his character as a man" 
 
 THOMAS BOLTON. 
 
 HpHOMAS BOLTON died suddenly at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 -* February ist, 1871, of neuralgia of the heart. He was 
 born at Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y., where his father was 
 an extensive farmer, on the 29th of November, 1809. He was 
 prepared for college at Geneseo, N. Y., at the same school 
 and under the same distinguished masters as his friend, the 
 subject of the previous notice, and entered with him after 
 the winter vacation, in February, 1830. He had a respecta-
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 47 
 
 ble rank as a scholar, and took a lively interest and a prom- 
 inent part in all that concerned the class. Before he left 
 Cambridge it was felt that his incisive character and great 
 energy would make his presence felt wherever he finally 
 found a home. 
 
 Upon graduating, he read law rather more than a year in 
 the office of John C. Spencer, Esq., at Canandaigua, N. Y. 
 Then, after due travel and deliberation, he finally selected 
 Cleveland, Ohio, as his residence, where he established him- 
 self in the autumn of 1834, and was admitted to the bar in 
 September, 1835. After remaining in connection with James 
 L. Conger, Esq., for about a year, he sent for his classmate 
 and life-long friend, Moses Kelly, and the two formed a part- 
 nership in the autumn of 1836. This connection continued 
 for twenty years, having a leading position in the northern 
 part of Ohio, and lasting until 1856, when Mr. Bolton was 
 elected one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. 
 This office he held for ten years. After his retirement from 
 the bench, in 1866, he devoted himself to his private affairs. 
 He had amassed a fortune, the care of which occupied his 
 time. 
 
 Judge Bolton married, September 7, 1837, Elizabeth L. 
 Cone, who died January 26, 1846, having had five children, 
 four of whom three sons and one daughter are living. 
 December I, 1846, he married Emeline Russell, who, with 
 one of her sons, survives. 1 He lived on Euclid Avenue, the 
 great ornament of the suburbs of Cleveland, at a place ad- 
 joining that of Mr. Kelly, and in a house exactly like that 
 of his friend. He always maintained interest in his Alma 
 Mater, and of his four sons three have been Harvard stu- 
 dents. 
 
 In the Cleveland Daily Leader of February 2, 1871, may 
 be found the following : " Few men in this community are 
 so widely known as Judge Bolton. His long prominence as 
 
 1 See note B, p. 52.
 
 48 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 a lawyer, judge, politician, and man of wealth, made him 
 known among all classes, and if candor requires it to be said 
 that he had enemies, it is equally true to say that he had his 
 portion of friends. As a man he had peculiarities that did 
 not contribute to his popularity with the masses, his manner 
 being generally cold and often even stern; but behind this 
 external crust of seeming harshness those who could touch 
 him nearest knew there lived a warm heart and a genial 
 nature, and to his friends, and particularly in the circle of 
 his home, he was the most companionable and social of men. 
 As a lawyer, when in the full tide of his practice, he was the 
 peer of the ablest of his contemporaries. The firm of Kelly 
 and Bolton held, during its existence, a leading and enviable 
 position. As a judge he was fearless and impartial, looking 
 only to the side of justice, whether the issue affected the 
 lowly or the great, the poor or the rich. In his private deal- 
 ings he was distinguished by a strict integrity and a faithful 
 adherence to his engagements, and the well-defined principles 
 which governed his conduct in this regard he exacted of 
 others. In every position he brought to his work untiring 
 energy, indomitable perseverance, and the will to succeed. 
 The marked success of his life bears the best testimony to 
 his ability and his sagacity." 
 
 At a meeting of the Cleveland Bar, held a day or two after 
 Judge Bolton's death, the following resolutions were unani- 
 mously adopted : 
 
 " Whereas, It has pleased God to remove by death Thomas 
 Bolton, a distinguished member of this bar; and 
 
 " Whereas, The members of this bar desire publicly to 
 express their sense of the loss sustained by them in this 
 dispensation of Divine Providence; therefore be it 
 
 "Resolved, That Judge Bolton, by devotion to the duties of 
 his profession, by observing and maintaining under all cir- 
 cumstances the true relations which exist between the lawyer
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 
 
 49 
 
 and his client, by his integrity, his ability, and the aid and 
 encouragement given by him to young men, has afforded us 
 an example worthy of commendation and imitation. 
 
 " Resolved, That his career as a judge of this district was 
 marked by that devotion to duty, that regard for the right 
 of suitors, and that independence and impartiality, which 
 commanded the respect and approval of the profession and 
 of this community. 
 
 " Resolved, That in all the walks of life, whether as a citizen, 
 a counsellor, or a friend, or in the more intimate relations of 
 social and domestic life, we have ever found him in the high- 
 est degree exemplary, faithful to his obligations, and true to 
 his profession. 
 
 " Resolved, That we will ever cherish his memory with that 
 affection which a life true to its high duties, a professional 
 career devoted to its noblest purposes, and intercourse with 
 us for years marked by kindness and integrity, necessarily 
 inspire. 
 
 " Resolved, That we tender his family our warmest sym- 
 pathies in their sore bereavement, and ask the privilege of 
 following his remains to the grave, as those bereaved of a 
 friend and brother. 
 
 " Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be requested 
 to move the Court of Common Pleas, at its next session, to 
 place these resolutions on the records of said court, and that 
 Hon. George Willey be requested to procure the same action 
 in the United States Court for this district, and that a copy 
 of them be sent to the family of our departed brother." 
 
 These resolutions were followed by several speeches eulo- 
 gistic of the deceased. Among others, Judge J. P. Bishop 
 spoke of him as a judge, as follows : 
 
 " But Judge Bolton was not only the successful lawyer and 
 eminent man I have before spoken of, but he was honored 
 by being elected twice as Judge of the Court of Common 
 
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 50 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Pleas. It was in this capacity I best knew him. And here 
 let me say that, as a lawyer, it was faithfulness to his client's 
 interest that was a great distinction in his character, and 
 when he was on the bench it was his impartial, unflinching 
 determination to administer the law as applicable to the tes- 
 timony that was the most distinguishing feature of his judi- 
 cial character. 
 
 " These characteristics at the bar and on the bench made 
 him appear at times arbitrary ; but when one came to know 
 him, they would readily see he was only carrying out what 
 he deemed was his duty to client and litigant. But he was 
 not arbitrary in any natural sense; it was rather apparent 
 than otherwise. I had occasion to know him intimately in 
 our associations together on the bench, and in all our private 
 consultations and deliberations, officially, at home; and on 
 the circuit, no person was more desirous to get at the exact 
 truth and right than he, and no person was more ready to 
 yield an opinion the moment he came to see that he was 
 mistaken. 
 
 "Judge Bolton had this distinguishing trait of character, 
 that of positiveness, and this I observed more on the bench 
 than anywhere else, and it had in many cases a very useful 
 result, that was to quiet litigation." 
 
 Thus lived and died the subject of the last notice and of the 
 preceding one. "Bolton and Kelly" were household words 
 for the four years of their college life, and have continued 
 so with scores of their classmates and college friends. Their 
 whole connection was remarkable. Coming to Cambridge, 
 towards the close of 1829, from the same birthplace, West- 
 ern New York, and the same preparatory school, of nearly 
 the same age and five years older than the average of their 
 classmates, they at once took a stand higher than that
 
 BOLTON AND KELLY. 51 
 
 belonging to simple seniority. Inseparable through their col- 
 lege life, parted only in their professional preparation, they 
 came together again, three years after graduating, in the city 
 of Cleveland, to form a partnership which continued for 
 twenty years, and was eminent throughout a wide territory, 
 and to resume a friendship which lasted until death, in 
 which event they were separated by a space of less than six 
 months. 
 
 This life-long intimacy was the more remarkable, because 
 of the wide difference in the characters of the two. Their 
 tastes, motives, and habits of mind, indeed, were not only 
 wholly unlike, but diametrically opposite. Mr. Kelly was a 
 churchman and a conservative; Judge Bolton, a radical in 
 church and state. The former had much benevolence, the 
 latter much thriftiness. Mr. Kelly possessed trained powers 
 of thought and learning; Judge Bolton, homely common- 
 sense and sagacity. Each was consistent and faithful to his 
 ideal. 
 
 Very seldom can Harvard expect to send out two grad- 
 uates, who, from their long and unbroken harmony and rare 
 blending of opposite virtues, are able to affect a wider circle 
 or leave a deeper impression.
 
 52 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 NOTE A. 
 CHILDREN OF MOSES AND JANE (HOWE) KELLY. 
 
 Frank Howe, born May 21, 1840; attorney at law, Cleveland, Ohio; three 
 years at Kenyon College ; married, and has two children ; a son, living with 
 him; and a daughter, married in January, 1883, to J. C. Barney, of New York. 
 
 Jane Eliza, born Jan. 28, 1842 ; died January, 1872. 
 
 George D., born November, 1844 ; educated at Western Reserve College ; 
 married November, 1871, and has three children; now resides in Pennsylvania, 
 and is in the iron business. 
 
 Margaret S., born June 16, 1846; lives with her mother. 
 
 Mary, born July, 1848 ; died July, 1863. 
 
 Clara, born June, 1850; married Earle J. Knight, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 
 December, 1879, and has one son. 
 
 Mrs. Moses Kelly lives in Cleveland, on the old place, but not in the old 
 homestead. 
 
 NOTE B. 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH L. (CONE) BOLTON. 
 
 Festus Cone, born June 7, 1838 ; died Feb. 8, 1839. 
 
 Thomas Kelly, born March 25, 1840 ; graduated at Harvard, 1861 ; a lawyer 
 by profession ; died of hemorrhage of the brain, July 10, 1879. 
 
 Elizabeth Cone, born Aug. 16, 1841 ; married, and has two sons; lives in 
 Brunswick, Germany, where she has been settled for ten years. 
 
 Festus Cone, born Jan. 12, 1844; lives as a farmer in Leicester, N. Y. ; 
 married, and has two children, one son and one daughter. 
 
 James Henry, born Jan. 20, 1846; educated at Western Reserve College, 
 1866; LL. B. at Harvard, 1869; is Clerk of the Court in Sioux City, Iowa; 
 has been in the Iowa Legislature ; married, but has no children. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND EMELINE (RUSSELL) BOLTON. 
 
 George Russell, born Jan. 31, 1851 ; died Sept. 9, 1859. 
 
 Charles Chester, born March 23, 1855 ; was some time a student in the class 
 of 1878, H. C. ; lives with his mother in the old homestead at Cleveland, Ohio; 
 is in the wholesale iron trade ; married, and has one son.
 
 CHARLES JACKSON. 53 
 
 CHARLES JACKSON. 
 
 /CHARLES JACKSON was the son of Charles and Fanny 
 V/ (Cabot) Jackson, and was born in Boston, March 4, 
 1815. His father, a distinguished jurist, was on the bencji 
 of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts from 1813 to 1823, 
 and during a long life commanded the respect and reverence 
 of the entire community. 
 
 He was fitted for college chiefly at the schools of Mr. 
 Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham and Mr. William Wells. Some- 
 what retired from his fellows, he devoured books, con- 
 structed curious machines, discussed grave questions, and 
 in various ways showed the remarkable acuteness and 
 versatility which distinguished his later life. 
 
 Entering college at the beginning of the sophomore year, 
 at Commencement, 1830, he was soon recognized as the 
 genius of the class. He disregarded college rank, satisfied 
 in this respect with being admitted among the second 
 " eight " to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His time as an 
 undergraduate was devoted to desultory reading, principally 
 in English belles-lettres, and the fascinations of chemistry. 
 
 After graduating he began the study of the law with his 
 father, and continued it in the office of Hon. Charles G. Loring. 
 He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1836. The years 1837 
 and 1838 he spent in Europe. On returning, he attended to 
 civil engineering, which he prosecuted on the Western and 
 Eastern railroads in Massachusetts during the years 1839 and 
 1840. His natural tastes and talents, largely mechanical, well 
 fitted him for the last-named profession ; and his remarkable 
 quickness of mind and immense fund of miscellaneous knowl- 
 edge would have rendered him eminent in the former. But 
 after 1840 he abandoned both, and turned his attention to 
 iron-making, styling himself thenceforward an " iron-master."
 
 54 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 After passing through a season of disaster and surmounting 
 it, his ability made his tasks so light that he found ample 
 leisure for various studies, which almost to the last had an 
 ever-increasing attraction, and for that simple and hearty hos- 
 pitality which for a quarter of a century delighted its favored 
 recipients, whether they were the distinguished of this or 
 other lands, or simply old friends with little learning or talent. 
 
 He married, February 16, 1842, his cousin, Susan C., 
 youngest -daughter of the late Dr. James Jackson, who sur- 
 vives him. 
 
 He died in Boston, July 30, 1 871, after a lingering and 
 painful illness of many months. 
 
 He left two sons and one daughter. His eldest child mar- 
 ried the Rev. George McKean Folsom, and died a short time 
 before him, leaving one daughter. The sons are successful 
 stockbrokers in Boston. The eldest is married and has 
 children. They both graduated at Harvard. 
 
 The following biographical notice of him appeared in the 
 columns of the Boston Daily Advertiser, a few days after 
 his death. 
 
 " After a long-protracted illness, endured with uncomplain- 
 ing patience, Mr. Charles Jackson, the second of that name, 
 son of the eldest of the three brothers Charles, James, and 
 Patrick, all very honored and well remembered in our com- 
 munity, has laid down the burden of a suffering life. He was 
 less known to the world than many men of his force of mind 
 and character, having cared little for any distinction he might 
 have gained by the display of his remarkable abilities. Ex- 
 cept on a single occasion, the delivery of a lecture in a course 
 instituted by the American Academy, he has hardly been 
 before the public at all. Those who remember the freshness 
 and originality of that effort know with what effect he could 
 handle facts and arguments, and can judge how powerful an
 
 CHARLES JACKSON. 55 
 
 advocate and how dangerous an opponent he would have 
 shown himself in any discussion into which he might have 
 thrown his swift and subtle intelligence. 
 
 " But his business was a practical one, and he was content 
 to devote his energies mainly to building up that large manu- 
 facturing establishment which owes its existence mainly to his 
 enterprise. The difficulties of his early career would have dis- 
 heartened and broken any but a strong and brave man. His 
 indomitable will and steady courage carried him through the 
 season of doubt and danger, and left him, worn by an amount 
 of overwork which doubtless shortened his life, to enjoy his 
 remaining years in that happy hc-me where he found his chief 
 pleasure. In that home and the circle of immediate friends 
 he was the centre of a love and an admiration such as few can 
 hope to claim. He loved so well to see others happy, and 
 knew so well how to make them so, especially the young, 
 in whose company he always delighted, that he was sure of 
 their affection in return. His conversation must of necessity 
 have gained him admirers, for it was of a very rare and fasci- 
 nating quality. He was full of knowledge on a great variety 
 of subjects, pointed and penetrating in statement, keen in 
 argument, in which he seldom found his match, copious in 
 expression, affluent in resources, an iconoclast among the 
 commonplaces of ignorant belief, to whom it was always 
 wholesome to listen. His letters were as remarkable as his 
 conversation. He went straight to the heart of his subject, 
 with the directness of a telegraphic message. He would 
 shake a question to pieces in less time than most men would 
 take to make a statement of it. His wonderful memory, of 
 which remarkable facts are recorded, his very wide range of 
 reading, which with him meant getting out of a book all that 
 was in it, his use of words for their sense, and not for sound 
 or show, give a solid significance to all his letters on matters 
 that interested him, letters often written so hastily that 
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 56 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 back, and yet marrowy with meaning from the half-illegible 
 address to the blotted initials which stood for his signature. 
 There are more able men that do not take the trouble to be 
 famous than the world thinks or dreams. There are more 
 heroic lives than biographers to tell of them. This was a 
 man of strong and searching intellect, of heroic force in the 
 day of trial, and of very many endearing personal traits which 
 will live in memory as long as those who loved him." 
 
 H. 
 
 HENRY YANCEY GRAY. 
 
 THE following notice of Henry Yancey Gray was written 
 by his fellow-townsman, intimate friend, and college 
 chum, George Inglis Crafts. The subject of it had a peculiar 
 charm of manner, which those who knew him in Cambridge 
 must freshly remember. 
 
 Born November 23, 1813; educated at grammar school 
 of Charleston College, Charleston, S. C. ; admitted fresh- 
 man same college, where he remained until senior year, when 
 Crafts and himself determined to go to Cambridge ; entered 
 in 1831 junior class Harvard University; graduated in 1833; 
 returned to Charleston, and commenced studying law; was 
 admitted to the bar, December 16, 1838; served in one of the 
 volunteer companies which went from Charleston to St. Au- 
 gustine for its defence, at the commencement of the Seminole 
 war, as sergeant of his company; was appointed, November 
 22, 1839, United States District Clerk for South Carolina; 
 occupied this position until the State seceded, and the court 
 became the Confederate State District Court, in which he 
 retained his position until the dissolution of the Confederacy 
 and the court with it. When the United States and its Dis-
 
 WILLIAM WHITING. 57 
 
 trict Court were reconstructed, he became assistant to the 
 clerk then appointed, in which position he remained until his 
 death, in 1872. 
 
 He was married to Miss Elizabeth Cart, in April, 1840. 
 She died many years previous to his own death, leaving no 
 issue. He never married again. 
 
 He himself, after many months of failing health, died in 
 Charleston on the 4th of July, 1872. 
 
 His remains were attended to their last resting-place by 
 many friends and acquaintances, all of whom could have 
 borne testimony to his gentle, winning manners and genuine 
 originality of thought. He was too modest and unobtrusive 
 ever to have attained public honors in this rough and half- 
 civilized country of ours, nor did he ever seek them. 
 
 His death was put down by the physicians as arising from 
 nervous prostration. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITING. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITING was the son of William and 
 Hannah (Conant) Whiting, and descended from 
 Rev. Samuel Whiting, minister of the church in Lynn, 
 whose wife was the daughter of Rt. Hon. Oliver St. John, 
 Chief Justice of England in Cromwell's time. 
 
 Born in Concord, March 3, 1813, he pursued his preparatory 
 studies in the academy of that town, and graduated at Harvard 
 College in 1833. He was third scholar, Professors Bowen and 
 Torry being before, and Professor Lovering just after him. 
 
 After graduating, he took charge of a school for young 
 ladies in Plymouth. Remaining there about a year, he re- 
 turned to Concord, where he taught a similar school. In the 
 autumn of 1835 he entered the office of Ellis Gray Loring, 
 counsellor at law, Boston, where he remained a year and a
 
 58 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 half. Then, after travelling for a few months in the West, he 
 entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he took his 
 degree as LL. B. in 1838. Admitted to the Boston Bar in 
 November of the same year, he opened an office in Court 
 Street in that city. 
 
 In the Court of Common Pleas his talents and industry at 
 once commanded attention and respect, and enabled him to 
 achieve early and enduring success, his pre-eminence being 
 illustrated by the term " Whiting's court " often then applied 
 to that tribunal. 
 
 He was soon prompted, however, to seek a wider field of 
 activity in the higher courts of this and other States, and of the 
 United States. In these, he attained his chief eminence from 
 his success in important suits arising under the patent laws. 
 To these cases he devoted years of careful research, and in 
 them he developed great mechanical aptness. The minutiae 
 of questions to which they gave rise were scrupulously exam- 
 ined, and no pains spared to insure a thorough command of 
 the case in hand. In this manner he acquired the confidence 
 of his clients, and won for himself a distinction seldom equalled 
 in this department of his profession, together with a fortune. 
 
 Although Mr. Whiting was much absorbed in his profession, 
 yet, when the great crisis of the nation approached, he was 
 especially interested in the legal and constitutional questions 
 which were forced into prominence. He was one of the first 
 among lawyers to claim for the United States full belligerent 
 rights against those who inhabited the States in rebellion. 
 His views on this subject were subsequently incorporated in 
 his work on War Powers under the Constitution of the United 
 States, which, says his biographer, 1 " contributed more than 
 any other single agency to the solution of many of the diffi- 
 cult questions arising in the course of the war." 
 
 " The early editions of the work," says the same memoir, 
 " were adopted by the President and the Departments as an 
 
 1 The late Mr. Delano A. Goddard.
 
 WILLIAM WHITING. 
 
 59 
 
 authority on the questions treated in it, and new editions 
 followed as rapidly as new questions called for examination 
 and decision. The value placed upon it is best attested by 
 the remarkable fact, that within a period of eight years forty- 
 three l editions were printed." 
 
 In November, 1862, Mr. Whiting was requested by the 
 President to act as solicitor and special counsellor of the 
 War Department, and this office, created by statute in 1863, 
 he filled until the end of the war. 
 
 Mr. Whiting's first public service after the war was that of 
 Presidential Elector in 1868, when he gave the vote of his 
 district for General Grant. In 1872, he was elected to the 
 Forty-third Congress. He was so equipped for this post, 
 that he must have taken a high place in its councils. He 
 had at command much learning. He spoke easily and with 
 force. He had been very successful in the courts. He was 
 used to affairs, and accustomed to influence men in high 
 stations. Above all, his capacity for patient and effective 
 work was immense. 
 
 But death, who seeks alike the distinguished and the 
 humble, suddenly struck him down, in the midst of his 
 usual health and of the high anticipations of his position. 
 
 He died at his house on Montrose Avenue, Roxbury, on 
 the 29th of June, 1873, aged sixty years. He had been con- 
 fined within doors but a few days, and his illness excited no 
 apprehensions. Late in the afternoon of that day, whilst 
 resting quietly on his pillow, he was seized with sharp pains 
 about the heart, and expired in a few moments. 
 
 He was married in October, 1840, to Lydia Gushing 
 Russell, daughter of the Hon. Thomas Russell of Plymouth, 
 who with three children two sons and one daughter 
 survived him. 
 
 Mrs. Whiting died May 7, 1881. Miss Whiting resides in 
 
 1 To which may be added that at least one edition was prepared for foreign 
 distribution.
 
 60 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Boston. The eldest son lives at Barre, Mass. The youngest, 
 Harold, graduated at Harvard in 1877, the fourth in his class, 
 took the following year the degree of A. M., and is now an 
 assistant teacher at the University in the department of 
 Physics. 
 
 Mr. Whiting by his will left five thousand dollars to Har- 
 vard College, for a scholarship. 
 
 At the end of the biography referred to above, which 
 was prepared for the Historic Genealogical Society, there 
 is appended a list of Mr. Whiting's separate publications, 
 thirty-two in number, mostly legal and political, partly 
 historical. 
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN, son of Rufus and Ann (Morrill) 
 Wyman, was born at Chelmsford, Mass., August 1 1, 1814. 
 His father was the first physician of the McLean Asylum 
 for the Insane, the earliest institution of the kind in New 
 England. He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, 
 Exeter. Professor Bowen, a schoolmate, says of him while 
 there, " He would take long rambles in the woods, and go 
 into water or a-fishing, and draw funny outline sketches in his 
 school-books, and whittle out gimcracks with his penknife, 
 and pitch stopes or a ball farther and higher than any boy in 
 the Academy, when he ought to have been studying his les- 
 sons." He adds, " The boy was very like the man, only with 
 age, as was natural, he became more earnest, persistent, and 
 methodical." 1 He entered Harvard College in 1829, complet- 
 ing the regular course and graduating in 1833. He took no 
 rank as a scholar, and his name does not even appear among 
 the thirty-three who had " parts " at Commencement. 
 
 1 Contained in a memoir of Professor Wyman, by Dr. O. W. Holmes, in the 
 Atlantic Monthly for November, 1874.
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 6l 
 
 The bent of his mind was, however, early manifested, and 
 while he was yet an undergraduate much of his time was spent 
 in the dissection and preparation of anatomical specimens. 
 
 The profession of medicine seemed to offer him an oppor- 
 tunity for the continued pursuit of his favorite occupations, 
 and under the guidance of Dr. John Call Dalton and the 
 counsel of his own father, himself a physician of eminence, 
 he made noted progress, taking his medical degree in 1837. 
 Dr. VVyman seems never to have entered on the practice of 
 his profession, which appeared to have no more charms for 
 him than for Agassiz and Gray. But as a teacher he was 
 devoted to the numerous medical students who afterwards 
 entered his laboratory. His remarkable promise as a student, 
 however, was quickly recognized. His first appointment, 
 after he had taken his medical degree, was as Demonstrator 
 to Dr. John Collins Warren, the Hersey Professor of Anat- 
 omy and Surgery in Harvard University, whose chair he was 
 destined to fill. Soon after, he received the appointment of 
 Curator of the Lowell Institute. In 1841, he delivered a 
 course of lectures before the Institute, and with the money 
 received for this service he was enabled to visit Europe for 
 the purpose of pursuing his favorite branches of study. He 
 gave his time chiefly to the study of human and compara- 
 tive anatomy, and natural history and physiology, attending 
 the lectures of the most distinguished masters of Paris and 
 London. He was thus busied when the news of his father's 
 death summoned him back to his home. In 1843, he was 
 appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Medi- 
 cal Department of Hampden Sydney College, Richmond, Va. 
 This position he resigned in 1847, at which time he was chosen 
 Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University. To 
 illustrate two lectures, he began the formation of that Museum 
 of Comparative Anatomy to which the best energies of his 
 life were devoted, and which to-day remains the most elo- 
 quent memorial of his skill and industry.
 
 62 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Nothing can convey so good an impression of Professor 
 Wyman's life for the next twenty years as the following 
 extract from the Memoir by Dr. Holmes referred to above. 
 
 " He made several voyages, partly, at least, with the object 
 of making additions to his collections; one in 1849 to Labra- 
 dor, where he came into relation with the Esquimaux and 
 learned something of their mode of living. 
 
 " In the spring of 1833, while a senior in college, he had 
 suffered from a dangerous attack of pneumonia, which seems 
 to have laid the foundation of the pulmonary affection that 
 kept him an invalid and ended by causing his death. The 
 state of his health made it necessary for him to seek 
 a warmer climate, and in 1852 he went to Florida, which 
 he continued to visit during many subsequent years; for 
 the last time during the spring of 1874. Besides these 
 annual migrations, he revisited Europe in 1854 and 1870, 
 and made a voyage to Surinam in 1856, and one to La 
 Plata in 1858. 
 
 " All these excursions and seasons of exile, rendered neces- 
 sary by illness, were made tributary to his scientific enterprise. 
 His Museum kept on steadily growing, and the students who 
 worked under his direction or listened to his lectures, the 
 associations with which he was connected, and the scientific 
 journals, reaped the rich fruit of his observations and his 
 investigations during these frequent and long periods of 
 absence. 
 
 " So he went on working for about twenty years, quietly, 
 happily, not stimulated by loud applause, not striking the 
 public eye with any glitter to be seen afar off, but with a 
 mild halo about him which was as real to those with whom 
 he had his daily walk and conversation, as the nimbus around 
 a saint's head in an altar-piece." 
 
 It was near the end of these twenty years, in 1866, that 
 Mr. George Peabody laid the foundation of an archaeologi- 
 cal and ethnological museum. The position of Curator was
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 63 
 
 offered to Professor Wyman, and he entered with the enthu- 
 siasm of youth upon its duties. This office, and that of 
 Hersey Professor of Anatomy, he held until the time of his 
 death. 
 
 From 1856 to 1870, when the state of his health forced 
 him to resign, he held the office of President of the Boston 
 Society of Natural History. In 1857 he was chosen Presi- 
 dent of the American Association for the Promotion of 
 Science. He never courted such honors, they came to 
 him unsought. 
 
 In August, 1874, after putting both his museums in perfect 
 order, Dr. Wyman went to the White Mountains. He had 
 experienced several slight attacks of bleeding, and when 
 temporarily at Bethlehem he had a sudden and copious 
 hemorrhage, which proved fatal, on Friday, September 4. 
 On the next Tuesday his funeral services were held at 
 Appleton Chapel in Cambridge, and he was interred at 
 Mount Auburn. The following classmates acted as pall- 
 bearers: Welch, Whitney, Prichard, H. W. Torrey, Bowen, 
 Levering, and Higginson. 
 
 At the next meeting of the Boston Society of Natural 
 History, of which Dr. Wyman had been so long President, 
 Dr. Asa Gray delivered a memorial address, in the course 
 of which, after stating that Dr. Wyman was a believer in the 
 theory of evolution, he said, " Holding to this theory, he was 
 an earliest Theist, and a devout and habitual attendant upon 
 Christian worship, and the psalm, ' The heavens declare the 
 glory of God,' had never more fitting place at funeral ser- 
 vice than when the words were said over Jeffries Wyman." 
 At the conclusion of the address, the following resolutions 
 were adopted. 
 
 " Resolved, That in the death of Jeffries Wyman the Boston 
 Society of Natural History mourns the loss of a most honored 
 member and efficient officer, one who was untiring in his
 
 64 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 labors for the society during his long and active connection 
 with it as Curator, Secretary, and President; and that in his 
 death science has lost a most thorough and careful investi- 
 gator, and the cause of education and truth a most devoted 
 and conscientious disciple. 
 
 " Resolved, That as members of a society who gave to 
 Professor Wyman the highest honor and position we could 
 bestow, we acknowledge our indebtedness to him for the 
 thoroughness and care with which he guided our labors for 
 so many years, and, while filled with sorrow at our own loss, 
 we ask the privilege, by transmission of these resolutions, of 
 extending our sympathy to his bereaved family in their great 
 trial." 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Overseers held, a few weeks 
 after Dr. Wyman's death, in Memorial Hall, Cambridge, the 
 Hon. Charles Francis Adams, President of the Board, in the 
 chair, Dr. Edward H. Clarke, from a committee appointed 
 at the previous meeting, submitted the following tribute to 
 Professor Wyman, which was adopted and ordered to be 
 entered on their records. 
 
 " The Overseers of Harvard College desire to express their 
 sense of the great loss which the University, the cause of 
 science, and the community have sustained in the death of 
 Dr. Jeffries Wyman. 
 
 "They recognize in him a man whose uprightness of 
 character, singleness of aim, purity of manners, and devo- 
 tion to duty, presented to the community in which he lived 
 a noble example of a life well spent. 
 
 " Science found in him an ardent, patient, intelligent, and 
 loyal disciple. Indefatigable in the pursuit of truth, suc- 
 cessful in tracing nature's hidden footsteps, conscientious in 
 drawing conclusions from his investigations, modest to a 
 degree rarely known in asserting his rightful claims as a 
 scientific discoverer, he was unexcelled as a comparative
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 65 
 
 anatomist. His researches have increased the sum of human 
 knowledge. 
 
 " As a teacher he earned and deserved not only the respect 
 but the admiration of those he instructed, and to whom he 
 communicated with singular success something of his own 
 constant and impartial love of truth. His labors have hon- 
 ored and enriched the University. 
 
 " Resolved, That in grateful remembrance of his character 
 and services, this tribute to his memory be placed upon the 
 records of the Board of Overseers, and that a copy of it be 
 transmitted to his family." 
 
 The following lines appeared in " The Nation " for October, 
 1874. 
 
 JEFFRIES WYMAN, 
 DIED SEPTEMBER 4, 1874. 
 
 THE wisest man could ask no more of Fate 
 
 Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, 
 
 Safe from the Many, honored by the Few ; 
 
 Nothing to court in World, or Church, or State ; 
 
 But inwardly in secret to be great ; 
 
 To feel mysterious Nature ever new, 
 
 To touch, if not to grasp, her endless clew, 
 
 And learn by each discovery how to wait ; 
 
 To widen knowledge and escape the praise ; 
 
 Wisely to teach, because more wise to learn ; 
 
 To toil for Science, not to draw men's gaze, 
 
 But for her lore of self-denial stern ; 
 
 That such a man could spring from our decays 
 
 Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn. J. R. L. 
 
 Professor Wyman married, December 19, 1850, Adeline, 
 daughter of William and Susan C. Wheelwright, of New York, 
 and, secondly, August 15, 1861, Annie Williams, daughter 
 of Benjamin Duick (H. C. 1828) and Elizabeth (Williams) 
 Whitney. His first wife died June 25, 1855, leaving two 
 
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 66 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 daughters, Susan, born September 15, 1851, and Mary Mor- 
 rill, born May 15, 1855. The second wife died February 20, 
 1864, leaving one son, Jeffries, born February 3, 1864. 
 
 Any notice of Jeffries Wyman, designed for the class, 
 should not fail to mention the constant interest he felt for 
 his classmates. 
 
 A year after our pleasant gathering at Professor Bowen's 
 house on the Commencement of 1867, Wyman sent the 
 following note to the Secretary: "I shall be proud to have 
 my Laboratory at the disposal of the class on Commence- 
 ment day, if anatomical associations are not too much for 
 them. Clary, the colored ' Mills,' who cooled our cider for 
 us two years ago, will, I have no doubt, be glad to officiate 
 again in the same capacity, and will insure, as far as in him 
 lies, ' quod bonum, faustum, felixque sit,' being well served." 
 Accordingly, that year, and in 1869, 1870, and 1871, those of 
 us who were in Cambridge met there. In 1872, the Secretary 
 being in Europe, no meeting took place. But in 1873 these 
 gatherings were resumed. Since Professor Wyman's death, 
 however, none have been held. No one who was present at 
 these reunions can ever forget the affectionate cordiality of 
 his greeting. 
 
 WILLIAM DEHON. 
 
 T T 7ILLIAM DEHON was born in Boston, February 2, 
 1814. He was the son of William and Betsey (Bicker) 
 Dehon, and nephew of Bishop Dehon of South Carolina 
 (H. C. 1795). On the father's side he was of French 
 descent. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, under 
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould (H. C. 1814), of whom he used to 
 speak with affection and respect. He entered Harvard Col-
 
 WILLIAM DEMON. 67 
 
 lege in the class of 1833 ; but having failed to pay his college 
 dues within the prescribed time, in consequence of a sudden 
 summons to the death-bed of his youngest brother, he did 
 not take his degree with the class. The degree was however 
 given him after a year's delay. 
 
 At Harvard, he had the advantage of an early development 
 of extremely good manners. This gave him an influence in 
 class gatherings always attendant upon this accomplishment. 
 To it he owed in part his election as President of the Institute 
 of 1770. He was Librarian of the Porcellian Club, and always 
 one of the leaders in that coterie, between whom and the 
 Hasty Pudding Club there were then " no dealings." 
 
 His scholarship was sufficiently good to enable him to have 
 Parts at the two exhibitions and at Commencement. At the 
 Junior Exhibition (Oct. 18, 1831), he took the part of Brutus 
 in a Latin dialogue. 
 A Dialogue in Latin. " Caesar, Brutus, and Flavius." 
 
 LUTHER CLARK, Waltham. 
 WILLIAM DEHON, Boston. 
 THOMAS WIGGLESWORTH, Boston. 
 
 His position on the programme of the Senior Exhibition 
 (Oct. 16, 1832) indicates an improvement in rank: 
 
 A Forensic Disputation. " Whether the Utilitarian Character of the 
 Present Age be more conducive to Intellectual Improvement 
 than the Chivalrous Character of the Middle Ages." 
 
 WILLIAM DEHON, Boston. 
 
 HENRY YANCEY GRAY, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 His position on the Commencement programme (Aug. 28, 
 1833) indicates still higher rank; but he did not speak. 
 
 A Literary Discussion. " The Poet of an Early Age and of a Civil- 
 ized one." 
 
 WILLIAM DEHON, Boston. 
 
 CHARLES ALFRED WELCH, Boston. 
 
 While in college, his father failed in business, on account 
 of the dishonesty of others, and died shortly afterwards.
 
 68 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 In consequence he was in straitened circumstances during 
 the latter part of his college course and for some years 
 afterwards. 
 
 Immediately after leaving college he entered as a student 
 the law office of Hon. Charles G. Loring. There he dis- 
 played such marked ability, that, on being admitted to the 
 Suffolk Bar (July, 1836), he was taken into partnership. 
 During all this time, and afterwards, he was the head of his 
 widowed mother's house, making himself responsible for her 
 comfort and that of his sisters, and as soon as possible con- 
 tributing largely to their support. 
 
 The new partnership then composed of Messrs. C. G. 
 and F. C. Loring and William Dehon in which the last 
 remained till the summer of 1844 did more business than 
 any other law firm in Boston, save perhaps that of Messrs. 
 C. P. and B. R. Curtis. 
 
 In 1844 Dehon opened an office by himself. For the next 
 fifteen years he enjoyed a large practice of the best kind. 
 Concerning much of his subsequent career, Mr. John D. 
 Bryant, who became his partner, writes a letter, from which 
 the following extracts are taken. 
 
 " My first acquaintance with Mr. Dehon was in the fall of 
 1854, when I became a law student in his office. He was 
 then at the height of his professional success, and was enjoy- 
 ing the rewards of a well-earned reputation. The judicial 
 qualities of his mind caused him to be largely sought for, 
 at this period, as a referee. In this capacity, he aided in 
 the decision, out of court, within the first five years of the 
 writer's acquaintance with him, of causes of great commer- 
 cial importance and involving large sums of money. This 
 practice was not of a kind to bring him prominently before 
 the public, or to win for him popular applause. But it 
 brought him what he valued more, the reputation, with the 
 profession and with laymen conversant with the profession, 
 of a sound lawyer and a discriminate judge. The writer has
 
 WILLIAM DEHON. 69 
 
 been told by one who recently occupied the highest judicial 
 position in this Commonwealth, and who now sits on the 
 bench of the highest court in the nation, that Mr. Dehon 
 might long ago have held a place on our Supreme Bench 
 had he been so disposed. His work was done with the 
 facility indicative of genius, rather than with the tedious toil 
 of the plodder. His written productions, such as opinions 
 and legal instruments, were at the same time distinguished 
 by a clear comprehension of the principles involved, and by 
 terseness and accuracy of expression." 
 
 The only public civil service of Dehon was as one of the 
 Convention of 1853, to revise the Constitution of Massachu- 
 setts, an assembly distinguished by the high character of 
 its members. 
 
 Dehon had married, December 26, 1839, Caroline Maria 
 Inches, daughter of Henderson Inches, a well-known citizen of 
 Boston. She possessed great beauty, and singular loveliness 
 of character. She died December 29, 1859, leaving two sons 
 and one daughter. After her death his own health gave way, 
 and he never again attempted the harder work of his profes- 
 sion. Mrs. Dehon's serious illness for the last two years of her 
 life had withdrawn him from his office and business cares. "I 
 seem," he said to Mr. Bryant, " compelled to choose whether 
 I will neglect my profession or my wife; and it certainly 
 shall not be my wife." 
 
 " From the death of Mrs. Dehon," adds Mr. Bryant, " Mr. 
 Dehon seemed to lose interest in his profession. He sought 
 relief from his afflictions in rural pursuits, devoting much of 
 his time to horticulture, and making for himself and family 
 a suburban home in Quincy." 
 
 From 1858 to 1864 he was interested in the Quincy Horse 
 Railroad, of which he was President and a large stockholder. 
 It proved, however, more profitable to the public than to 
 the owners. 
 
 His political idol had always been Daniel Webster. He
 
 70 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 believed his teachings fully sanctioned the maintenance of 
 the Union at any cost. So, when Fort Sumter was fired 
 upon, he sided with the government in its efforts to put down 
 the rebellion. It was not long before opportunity offered for 
 him to render great service to the national cause. 
 
 April 20, 1861, Fletcher Webster undertook to raise an 
 additional regiment for the war. An enthusiastic meeting 
 was held the next day in State Street, Boston, though it 
 was Sunday, to take measures for raising " the Webster 
 Regiment." Into this design Dehon threw himself with 
 great ardor, and was put at the head of the Executive Com- 
 mittee appointed at the meeting. 
 
 He had been from boyhood the intimate friend of the gal- 
 lant man who, at forty-seven, proposed to enter upon the hard- 
 ships and dangers of campaign life, and well did he respond at 
 this crisis to the calls of friendship and patriotism. < 
 
 Mr. John D. Bryant, who was at that time in the best 
 position for knowledge, speaking of Dehon's labors before 
 the regiment was mustered into service, says : 
 
 " He generally did all that man could do for the organi- 
 zation and success of the regiment. The arnount of his 
 pecuniary contributions, first and last, to it, I cannot state; 
 but if time is money, I think he gave more than any other, 
 almost more than all others." 
 
 Besides giving thus of his time and energy, he sent to the 
 field his eldest son Arthur, who first served as Lieutenant 
 in the I2th (Webster) Regiment. In this capacity, after the 
 second battle of Bull Run, where Colonel Webster fell, this 
 young officer returned to the field, at imminent risk to him- 
 self, and succeeded in finding the body. He buried it with 
 his own hands, but afterwards, having obtained an ambulance, 
 went back, and removed it. Its subsequent transmission to 
 Boston was then procured by the untiring efforts of Lieu- 
 tenant Dehon, without which, his biographer (Mr. O. W. 
 Holmes, Jr.) writes, it would never have been sent.
 
 JOHN O. STONE. 71 
 
 It was fit that the son should thus piously perform the last 
 services for one to whom the father had been so devoted. 
 Three months afterwards, that son himself fell at Fredericks- 
 burg, while serving on the staff of General Meade, and when 
 carrying an important order for his commander. 
 
 In 1867 Dehon lost his youngest son, Henderson, then a 
 Senior at Harvard, who died in Boston after a short illness. 
 He was a young man of great promise, whose death was 
 sincerely mourned by all who knew him. 
 
 In 1871 Dehon went to Europe with his only surviving 
 child, (the wife of Prof. A. S. Hill, of Cambridge,) and her 
 family. Returning in 1873, he lived a retired life in Boston 
 till his death, May 20, 1875. 
 
 JOHN OSGOOD STONE. 
 
 JOHN O. STONE was born in Salem, Mass., February I, 
 1813. His father was Robert Stone, for many years an 
 East India merchant in that town. His mother was Rebecca, 
 daughter of Captain John Osgood, also a merchant of the 
 same place. 
 
 Dr. Stone was prepared for college at the Salem Latin 
 School, and entered Harvard in 1829. 
 
 He was a respectable scholar at Cambridge, and had a 
 part at graduation. William M. Prichard says of him : 
 
 " Dr. Stone had in college a certain bluff sincerity, which 
 he retained through life. ... He was not ambitious of mere 
 college distinction, devoting himself to such studies as suited 
 his tastes and purposes, rather than attempting to master the 
 whole prescribed routine of the University." 
 
 After graduating he entered the Harvard Medical School, 
 and in commencing the study of the profession of his choice 
 he showed new zeal and increased diligence, because his
 
 72 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 heart was in the work. After receiving his degree as Doctor 
 of Medicine in 1836, he continued for a time under his 
 previous teacher, Dr. William J. Walker, who was one of the 
 most distinguished surgeons of the time. 
 
 He next visited Europe, and spent nearly two years in the 
 hospitals and lecture-rooms of London and Paris. 
 
 On his return he became established, in the autumn of 
 1838, in the city of New York, and devoted himself with 
 ardor to the duties of his profession. He served as physician 
 at the New York Dispensary from 1845 to r ^47> and was 
 subsequently, from 1855 to 1861, one of its trustees. About 
 1850 he became one of the attending surgeons of the Belle- 
 vue Hospital. This post he filled for seven years, and then 
 felt bound to retire on account of his increasing private 
 practice. Commencing without any special influence or 
 acquaintance, he won his way steadily; and as he gained 
 patients, his personal qualities made them friends. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows says of him : 
 
 " Few men were more affectionate in disposition, and took a 
 livelier interest in those committed to their professional care. 
 His cordial smile in the sick-room was a medicine in itself. 
 ... I have seldom known a man who had more genuine con- 
 fidence in the safety and value of truth. . . . Perhaps he would 
 have risen to a more positive exceptional eminence, if he had 
 not always been somewhat independent in his circumstances, 
 or had possessed a more selfish and exacting ambition. But 
 he was not clamorous for honor. . . . He belonged to the 
 highest grade of the pure physician, and it is to be doubted 
 whether Dr. Stone had many superiors in that class." 
 
 In our civil war Dr. Stone went several times, with other 
 surgeons, to aid the suffering after the great battles in Penn- 
 sylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and while in charge of the 
 wounded Confederates at Williamsburg and Yorktown they 
 became so attached to him as to beg him to remain per- 
 manently.
 
 JOHN O. STONE. 73 
 
 He was one of the earliest members of a society formed 
 for the relief of widows and orphans of medical men. After 
 serving it in various capacities for many years, he was elected 
 its President from 1872 to 1874. 
 
 When the Metropolitan Board of Health was established 
 in New York, Dr. Stone was appointed one of the Commis- 
 sioners. He held the office during the whole existence of 
 the Board, which was four years, from 1866 to 1869 inclusive. 
 The reputation of this organization for effective and non- 
 partisan work is well established, and no small part of its 
 success may be attributed to the energy of Dr. Stone. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Emerson, Dr. Stone's medical partner, says of 
 him in this office : 
 
 " His sturdy integrity, shrewd common sense, great execu- 
 tive ability, and directness of purpose, materially aided his 
 able coadjutors in establishing the new Board in the good 
 opinion of the medical profession and the public. He in- 
 spired the greatest confidence in the young medical men who 
 were selected as Health Inspectors, for they quickly found 
 that merit, and no meretricious service, was the only way to 
 secure his friendship and support." 
 
 One of his colleagues on the Board, Dr. James Crane of 
 Brooklyn, thus writes : 
 
 "There was something about him which at once secured 
 confidence. His large, well-shaped head, and broad, over- 
 hanging brow, his plain and unpretending outward appear- 
 ance, his somewhat austere and self-reliant manner, all gave 
 assurance of the vigor and breadth of his latent powers. He 
 was an honest man, and his integrity was unflinching and un- 
 spotted. Amply liberal and conciliatory in his differences 
 with the opinions of others, he held to his own convictions 
 with unyielding adherence. In our frequent deliberations 
 the question of mere policy never seemed to arise in his 
 mind, but right and truth had to be the absolute conditions 
 of all procedures. This was his eminent characteristic." 
 
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 74 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Dr. Stone always took an interest in his Alma Mater, and 
 gave heartily to its needs. In 1868 he was chosen President 
 of the Harvard Club of New York, and served a year in 
 that capacity. The following note in this connection speaks 
 for itself. It is to the Secretary, under date of August 
 1 6, 1864. " Let me have three copies of the Harvard 
 Necrology. These will be more than enough for me during 
 these times, when every cent should be spent to assist the 
 government or encourage the soldiers." 
 
 On June 7, 1876, Dr. Stone saw his patients, and appeared 
 as usual, but about noon, whilst crossing Broadway near 
 Liberty Street, he suddenly fell, and expired immediately, 
 from disease of the heart, a death which he had ex- 
 pected. 
 
 His biographer 1 thus sums up his life and character, in a 
 passage which finds its echo in many hearts : 
 
 " The story of his life is one unbroken record of honest 
 and intelligent usefulness; of absolute loyalty to every duty; 
 of great kindness in the sturdy maintenance of his own ideas 
 of justice and truth." 
 
 In December, 1848, Dr. Stone married Catherine C., 
 daughter of the late Patrick T. Jackson, an eminent mer- 
 chant of Boston. They had five children, viz. Annie, Ellen 
 J., Robert, Sarah J., and John. Both sons died: John in 
 1860, when an infant; Robert in 1867, when nearly fifteen 
 years of age. The youngest daughter, Sarah, married, Oc- 
 tober 22, 1 88 1, Mr. Edwin Morgan Grinnell of New York. 
 They have one child, a daughter, born December 9, 1882. 
 
 1 Dr. John C. Peters, who prepared a memoir of Dr. Stone for the New 
 York Academy of Medicine, to which the Secretary has been much indebted in 
 preparing this sketch.
 
 JOSIAH RUTTER. 75 
 
 JOSIAH RUTTER. 
 
 JOSIAH RUTTER, son of Micah Maynard and Nancy 
 (Plympton) Rutter, was born at East Sudbury, now Way- 
 land, Mass., March 2, 1813. His father, a farmer by occupa- 
 tion, was Major-General of militia, Deputy Sheriff", and for 
 several years State Senator. He was fitted for college at the 
 Framingham and Stow Academies, and entered as Freshman 
 in 1829. As an undergraduate he was unexceptionable in 
 conduct, but took no rank as a scholar. Modest and retiring, 
 he did not show the talent and character he afterwards mani- 
 fested. Through the four years of college life he was the 
 chum of Charles Draper, who came from the same section of 
 the State, and " Rutter and Draper" have a very familiar 
 sound to the Class. 
 
 After leaving college he had charge of the VValtham High 
 School, and afterwards kept a private school in Brighton. 
 He then studied law in Wayland with Judge Mellen, and at 
 the same time taught the languages in the High School of 
 that town. 
 
 Having been admitted to the bar in Middlesex County, he 
 established himself as a lawyer in VValtham, in July, 1843. 
 A few years after, January u, 1848, he married Abby E. 
 Baldwin. He died September 3, 1876, of apoplexy, at the 
 age of sixty-three years and six months, leaving four sons : 
 William Baldwin, born November 9, 1848; Frederic Plymp- 
 ton, born August 16, 1851 ; Frank Josiah, born September 8, 
 1854; and Nathaniel Plympton, born July 25, 1857. Of 
 these the second and third sons are married, and the former 
 has issue. 
 
 From the notices of his death published in the Waltham 
 papers the following extracts are made. 
 
 " A near neighbor " writes : " He was widely known and
 
 76 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 universally respected among the members of the bar, and 
 every client he defended was a firm friend for life. He was 
 the first to receive the appointment of Trial Justice in this 
 section, and held the position for about fifteen years, resign- 
 ing about two years since. Though of late years he has 
 taken but little active part in political and town affairs, in 
 times gone by he was prominently identified with town and 
 public interests. He represented the town in the legislature 
 for one term, and for a period covering at least fifteen years 
 was a member of the Board of Selectmen, and was Chairman 
 of the Board during the largest portion of his term of service. 
 For an equal term he was Chairman of the School Board ; 
 and hundreds of the young of both sexes would testify to his 
 faithful and assiduous efforts for the educational interests of 
 the town. For many years he was a Director of the Waltham 
 Bank. On the Fourth of July last he delivered the Centen- 
 nial Oration on the Common. Mr. Rutter was a gentleman 
 of culture and scholarly attainments. His writings were 
 models of conciseness, and he expressed his thought in 
 the choicest words of the English language. When moved 
 by the death of a friend, his writings were exceptionally 
 eloquent, and no more touching and expressive words were 
 spoken in memory of the lamented Sumner than those tcr 
 which he gave utterance. He was courteous in his man- 
 ner, retiring in his disposition, and honorable in all his 
 dealings." 
 
 The following is from an editorial in the Waltham Free 
 Press : 
 
 " There is no better or more lasting monument to a man's 
 memory than that reverence and respect he has awakened 
 among the more lowly. It was the fortune of but few men 
 who have mingled to any extent in public affairs to become so 
 popular among the laboring classes as did Mr. Rutter, and there 
 were always many willing to do a favor for the ' Squire,' as 
 he was familiarly called. The position of Trial Justice, which
 
 DAVID STODDARD GREENOUGH. 77 
 
 he held for so many years, is one a man would not seek, if he 
 would be popular with the masses; and yet few persons ^had 
 a smaller number of enemies. His manner of conducting a 
 legal suit was always satisfactory to his clients, and it is said 
 that the hundreds he has defended were stanch friends for 
 life." 
 
 A few days after his death the Waltham Sentinel repub- 
 lished a poem of Mr. Rutter's, entitled " Crazy Loker," which 
 was written for that paper twelve years before. This, occupy- 
 ing nearly two columns of the paper, well sustains the opinion 
 of " a near neighbor " by the conciseness of the narration, and 
 by the ease and harmony of the verse. 
 
 DAVID STODDARD GREENOUGH. 
 
 DAVID STODDARD GREENOUGH was born in the 
 old Greenough mansion at Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, 
 Mass., July 10, 1814. His father (H. C. 1805) and grand- 
 father were of the same name. His mother, Maria F. Doane, 
 was the only daughter of Elijah Doane, of Cohasset (H. C. 
 1781). His father practised law, and might have attained 
 eminence in his profession had he felt the stimulus of neces- 
 sity. He died in 1830, when his son was in his Sophomore 
 year. 
 
 In college our classmate took respectable rank as a scholar, 
 and had at Commencement when we graduated a part entitled, 
 " A Conference. ' Common Sense, Genius, and Learning. 
 Their Characteristics, Comparative Value, and Success." " His 
 companions were George Inglis Crafts, of South Carolina, and 
 Fletcher Webster. His name occurring between the other 
 two denotes that it was " Genius " whose cause he was assigned 
 to espouse. He was an officer in the Harvard Washington 
 Corps, and had the Class Poem at graduating. On leaving
 
 78 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 college, he studied law, and took the degree of LL. B. in 1836. 
 He then opened an office in Boston, but did not practise, pre- 
 ferring the care of his property to the assiduous toil of a young 
 lawyer. He was for some years Colonel of the Independent 
 Corps of Cadets, as his father had been before him. His 
 health began to fail early. The last ten years of his life were 
 spent in the sick-chamber, lame (from a broken hip-joint), 
 stone deaf, and every organ except his brain partially para- 
 lyzed. He bore all these ills with a rare stoicism, retaining 
 ever his quickness of apprehension and wit. In spite of his 
 infirmities, he could hardly be said to be life-weary at any 
 time. He died suddenly, of pneumonia, March 30, 1877. 
 
 He married, on the loth of October, 1843, Anna A., daugh- 
 ter of the late John Parkman, of Brighton, Mass. They had 
 five children, four sons and one daughter. Three of the 
 former survived him: David Stoddard, born July 16, 1844; 
 John, born March 25, 1846; Arthur Temple, born Decem- 
 ber 3, 1857. They are all in business pursuits and pros- 
 perous. The eldest and second son (H. C. 1865) are married. 
 The former has a son. 
 
 GEORGE EATON. 
 
 EORGE EATON, son of Amherst and Mary (Marvin) 
 Eaton, was born in Worcester, Mass., where his father 
 then resided, August 19, 1812. He was fitted for college 
 principally at the Derby Academy in Hingham. In college 
 he roomed at No. 3 Hollis, chumming with our classmate 
 Sydney Howard Gay, who came from the same preparatory 
 school. 
 
 After graduating, he kept school in Stow, Mass. In 1837 
 he opened a school for young ladies in Springfield. He was 
 highly esteemed as a teacher, and his school was in every
 
 GEORGE EATON. 79 
 
 way successful. He built a very expensive house, however, 
 on a valuable lot, given him by his father, which was too 
 much for his means. This he was forced to mortgage, and, 
 after years of embarrassment, to part with. It proved, in 
 short, his pecuniary ruin. 
 
 He left Springfield in 1845, an d removed to Boston, where 
 he opened a similar school in Bumstead Place. 
 
 In the years 1852 and 1853 he represented his district in 
 the legislature. In the latter year he abandoned his school, 
 being advised by his physician to seek some occupation less 
 confining. But in the year 1858 he was one of the sub- 
 masters in the Boston Latin School. 
 
 When the Webster regiment was proposed, in the spring 
 of 1 86 1, Eaton, who heartily sympathized with that patriotic 
 enterprise, was placed on the Executive Committee of five, 
 and made its Secretary. The friends of the undertaking were 
 bent on sparing neither money nor work in making that 
 regiment the best yet sent forth from Boston, and the office 
 was no sinecure. This threw him into intimacy with the 
 Webster coterie, one result of which was his ultimately be- 
 coming guardian of Ashburton, the youngest son of Fletcher 
 Webster. 
 
 In 1862 he again represented Boston in the General Court. 
 In 1863 he became manager of the Quincy Horse Railroad, 
 an undertaking of which his classmate Dehon was President, 
 and which ultimately proved unsuccessful. He lived in the 
 town of Quincy, where he had a garden and nursery, until 
 1869, when he went to the city of Para, South America, for 
 the purpose of introducing horse railroads there. He con- 
 tinued in that employment, which was moderately suc- 
 cessful, until 1874. In the course of it he went four times to 
 Brazil. His health, however, was seriously affected by the 
 climate of South America, and he died, May 7, 1877, of 
 Bright's disease of the kidneys, at Grantville, Mass., where his 
 family had resided since 1869.
 
 80 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 In 1838 he married Anne Townsend Moorfield, of Hing- 
 ham, Mass., to whom he had become early attached. She 
 was the daughter of Mr. James Moorfield, for some years a 
 Cuban merchant. Mrs. Eaton died in the spring of 1868. 
 They had eight children, only three of whom survived him. 
 These are Anna Moorfield Eaton, born May 22, 1847; 
 Charles Marion Eaton, born August 20, 1849; and Hannah 
 Andrew Eaton, born January 22, 1852. 
 
 George Eaton was sixty-five at the time of his death. He 
 lived a life of frequent change and excitement, one filled 
 with various projects, into which he entered with the ardor of 
 a boy, but in which he soon found perseverance distasteful. 
 He was kind and genial in his feelings, and possessed of 
 pleasing manners. He had much general information, and 
 was an agreeable talker. His record in the legislature was 
 highly respectable, serving on the Committee on Education, 
 and being placed second on the list. But the bright hopes 
 of his early life were not fulfilled. 
 
 RICHARD SHARPE YOUNG. 
 
 ICHARD SHARPE YOUNG was the fourth son and 
 J- v youngest child of Alexander and Mary (Loring) Young. 
 His father was a printer, of the firm of Young and Minns, 
 and published the New England Palladium. He was born 
 in Boston, February 22, 1813. 
 
 He attended the Boylston School, and afterwards went to 
 the Latin School, in 1824. He entered college in 1829, and 
 graduated in 1833. At Commencement he had a part, thus 
 described in the order of performances : " A Conference. 
 ' Contemporary and Subsequent Narrations of Historical 
 Events.' Charles Jarvis Bates and Richard Sharpe Young."
 
 RICHARD SHARPE YOUNG. 8l 
 
 An incident is recalled of his freshman year. During that 
 year, some of the class, impatient that their membership in the 
 Institute of 1770 was so long deferred, got up a new society 
 for literary purposes. This was called the I. O. H., which at 
 the beginning signified " Imitators of Henry," meaning the 
 Revolutionary orator, Patrick Henry. We soon became aware 
 of the flatness of the name, and rather ashamed of it, which 
 indeed showed we had come to college at fourteen or fifteen 
 instead of eighteen. How to change the name and still pre- 
 serve the initials, was the puzzle. At last Young extricated 
 us from the dilemma by suggesting the following : " Imita- 
 tores omnium honestorum." His proposition was unani- 
 mously accepted, and the society flourished for many years. 
 
 After leaving college, Young studied medicine with Dr. 
 Walker of Charlestown, graduated at the Harvard Medical 
 School in 1837, was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, and practised Medicine in Boston. He wrote often 
 for the press over the signature of " Digby." In 1850 he 
 went to California, where he continued the practice of his 
 profession and his literary labors. In the midst of his work 
 he was seized with rheumatic fever, which left him in a feeble 
 state of health, from which he never recovered. His hands 
 were bent and drawn together, so that he was obliged to 
 have an attendant a great deal of the time. He died in San 
 Francisco, August 9, 1877, aged sixty-four years and five 
 weeks, and his body was buried in the cemetery at Mount 
 Auburn. 
 
 The testimony of those who knew him best is that he 
 was very kind and gentle, generous, unselfish, and that he 
 would do more for others than for himself. He was fond of 
 children, and played with them. He had a love for music, 
 and possessed a good voice. A sensitive disposition, natu- 
 rally shy and diffident, made him reserved, and prevented 
 him from doing justice to his powers. 
 
 He was in full sympathy with the movement for the aboli- 
 
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 82 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 tion of slavery, and was a friend of Sumner and other leaders 
 in that struggle. 
 
 Most of the above sketch was furnished by a relative. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD was the son of William 
 V-< Gordon and Hannah (Minot) Weld of Boston, and 
 was born in that city, January 19, 1812. He went some time 
 to the Latin School, but was fitted for college at the school 
 of his brother, Stephen M. Weld, at Jamaica Plain, where he 
 afterwards taught during his college vacations. He entered 
 Harvard at the beginning of the sophomore year, and gradu- 
 ated in due course. 
 
 He studied medicine with Dr. George C. Shattuck, and 
 became a convert to homoeopathy about the year 1838. 
 He began practice in Boston, but soon removed to Jamaica 
 Plain. In 1839 he married Miss Marianne P. Jarvis, of 
 Boston, sister of our classmate William P. Jarvis. 
 
 His business soon became large, and for nearly a quarter 
 of a century he stood in his lot, spending and being spent 
 for others. There are different opinions as to the value of 
 his mode of practice, but there was no question in the minds 
 of those who knew him then as to the untiring devotion and 
 faithfulness with which he performed all the duties incident 
 to a large practice. This was more onerous in his case 
 because of there being no other homoeopathic physician 
 within a considerable distance. At length, the professional 
 labors so heartily performed proved beyond his strength. 
 His health gave way, and he was forced to relinquish prac- 
 tice. This occurred in 1862. He immediately went abroad, 
 accompanied by his wife. He remained in Europe nearly
 
 CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD. 83 
 
 four years, passing much time in England, France, and Italy, 
 and three months in Spain. He returned with improved 
 health, but was unable to resume practice. In 1872 he made 
 a second visit to Europe, and remained two years. His health 
 after his return was not good, and, though he continued to 
 attend Commencement, he looked more and more like a 
 confirmed invalid. His last sickness was pneumonia, and 
 he died at Jamaica Plain, after an illness of a week, March 
 14, 1878 
 
 For his classmates he ever preserved a lively and affec- 
 tionate remembrance, and there was none whose smiling face 
 was more welcomed in all class gatherings. He was noted, 
 in fact, for his fervent attachment to everything that con- 
 cerned his Alma Mater, in season and out of season her 
 welfare was to him an agreeable theme, and he was always 
 ready to promote it in any manner in his power. 
 
 Immediately after the death of Dr. Weld, the following 
 announcement appeared in the Boston papers. 
 
 " BOSTON HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. The Late 
 Dr. Weld. At the regular meeting of this Society, held at the 
 Medical College, East Concord Street, on Thursday evening, 
 the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 " Whereas, Death has removed our respected associate 
 and beloved friend, Christopher Minot Weld, M. D., a man 
 whose knowledge, skill, and conscientious devotion to his 
 profession, whose upright character, gentle spirit, and warm 
 sympathies, placed him in the rank of the true physician, 
 and gave him a position of great influence and respect in 
 this community ; and 
 
 "Whereas, With a mind receptive to all truth, he, early 
 in his professional life, now nearly forty years ago, examined 
 homoeopathy, believed in it, and though it ostracized him 
 from many of his professional brethren, and subjected him
 
 84 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 to obloquy and harsh criticism, yet with a high sense of 
 duty adopted it ; and 
 
 " Whereas, For a quarter-century, until failing health com- 
 pelled him to relinquish active practice, in a very extensive 
 circle of patients, he exhibited its curative power and benef- 
 icent results, and up to his latest moments maintained an 
 unswerving belief in its truth, and sought to add to its prac- 
 tical importance, therefore, 
 
 " Resolved, That we cordially testify our respect for one 
 so noble and so good, who sacrificed so much for the welfare 
 of others, and who accomplished so much for his profession 
 and for humanity. 
 
 " Resolved, That we invite the physicians of Massachusetts 
 to unite with us in the last sad obsequies to our departed 
 brother." 
 
 ANDREW FOSTER. 
 
 A NDREW FOSTER, eldest son of Andrew and Mary 
 ^A- (Conant) Foster, was born January 5, 1815. His father 
 (H. C. 1800) was established as a physician successively in 
 Dedham, Roxbury, and Cambridge, Mass. His parents were 
 married in Cambridge, November 19, 1813, and his father 
 died in that town in 1831. 
 
 Foster took no rank in his class, but went through the 
 prescribed course, and graduated in 1833. 
 
 Very little is known of his life for the first twenty-five years 
 after leaving college. There seems to have been a peculiar 
 mortality among his early friends and companions ; even his 
 three brothers, all younger than himself, having died before 
 him. It is thought that he pursued the study of the law 
 for a while. He is believed, again, to have been attached to 
 the editorial staff of some Boston newspaper. About ten
 
 ANDREW FOSTER. 85 
 
 years after graduating, at the death of the widow of his only 
 maternal grand-uncle, Mr. Andrew Craigie, who owned and 
 occupied the fine old mansion in Cambridge so well known 
 subsequently as the home of Longfellow, he inherited with 
 his three brothers that house, and the extensive fields adjoin- 
 ing, now covered with scores of pleasant homes. 
 
 September 16, 1849, whilst living at Lawrence, Mass., he 
 married Delia, widow of his brother, James Foster, U. S. N. 
 
 At our twenty-fifth anniversary, in 1858, he was set down 
 on the " Roll Call " as of New York, and a merchant. This 
 is doubtless correct. He was probably then in the iron trade 
 there, with his brother George, who owned an iron foundry. 
 
 Before leaving Massachusetts, he was for a time a stock- 
 broker in Boston. On moving to New York, he resumed 
 that vocation, either before his experience as an iron mer- 
 chant or afterwards. 
 
 About 1860 he became a sufferer from asthma, and to 
 relieve his pains had recourse to stimulants. This grew into 
 a habit, and greatly aggravated his complaints. His decline 
 nevertheless was gradual; so lately as 1876 he retained 
 enough of his old self to obtain admission into the society 
 of " The Cincinnati," as successor of his grand-uncle, Andrew 
 Craigie. But after this time his habits grew upon him until 
 he was overpowered by them. 
 
 He became a Roman Catholic before his death ; and, sep- 
 arated from family and friends, he expired, September 22, 
 1879, at the Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
 was buried in the Flatbush Cemetery. 
 
 His widow survived him ; also two children, Andrew 
 Foster, now employed in a business position in California, 
 and Kate McRay Foster, who at present lives with her 
 mother in New York.
 
 86 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 WILLIAM PORTER JARVIS. 
 
 TT7ILLIAM PORTER JARVIS, son of Benjamin and 
 * * Mary (Porter) Jarvis, was born in Boston, March 5, 
 1 8 12. His father was a merchant and selectman of the town 
 of Boston. He was fitted for college at the school of Stephen 
 M. Weld, of Jamaica Plain. Though he graduated with the 
 class, his name does not appear in the annual catalogue until 
 the sophomore year. On graduating he studied law, but 
 being fond of literary pursuits, and interested in the subject 
 of education, he was for several years engaged in the occupa- 
 tion of teaching. Possessed by inheritance of a competency, 
 and being unmarried, he gratified his taste by collecting a 
 fine library, which he much enjoyed, and also by twice visit- 
 ing Europe, the last time joining his brother-in-law and 
 sister, Dr. and Mrs. Weld, on their first visit abroad, and 
 accompanying them to Spain. 
 
 Commencement was always a field day to him, and it is 
 doubtful whether any of the class attended its services so 
 punctually, or enjoyed them so serenely. 
 
 He died at Boston, after a protracted breaking up, of soft- 
 ening of the brain, May 29, 1880. 
 
 FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY. 
 
 AUGUSTUS WHITNEY, son of the Rev. 
 Peter and Jane (Lincoln) Whitney, was born in Quincy, 
 Mass., September 13, 1812. His father, grandfather, and 
 great-grandfather were ministers, settled nearly fifty years, 
 and until death, over the First Congregational Church at 
 Quincy, Northborough, and Petersham, Mass., respectively.
 
 FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY. 87 
 
 He was fitted for college by his father, and graduated 
 with honor, in 1833. While a student in Harvard College, he 
 was also mathematical tutor in the noted classical school of 
 Mr. William Wells at Cambridge. On graduating, he was 
 employed by Mr. Stephen M. Weld in his equally noted 
 school at Jamaica Plain. 
 
 Having chosen the family profession, he went through the 
 Divinity School at Cambridge, and graduated there in 1838. 
 He was first employed by the American Unitarian Associa- 
 tion, in missionary work in Massachusetts and at the South 
 and West. In April, 1843, he was invited to take charge of 
 the First Congregational Church at Brighton, Mass. He 
 accepted the invitation, and remained pastor of the church 
 for sixteen years. 
 
 January 11, 1853, he married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter 
 of the late William Perkins and Joanna (Stetson) Matchett, 
 of Boston. They had no children. 
 
 Resigning his parochial office in 1859, he continued for 
 more than twenty years to live in Brighton, the circum- 
 stances of his wife allowing him to dispense with a salary. He 
 had made himself during his active ministry much respected 
 and beloved in the parish, and until the end of life he was 
 frequently called on for parochial services. Nor were his 
 public labors confined to his old parish, the whole town 
 came to appreciate his faithfulness and persevering industry. 
 He published, in this connection, thirteen annual reports as 
 chairman of the School Committee, nine annual reports as 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, and 
 the large catalogue of the books therein, the labor on this 
 last being undertaken with insufficient help, and being prose- 
 cuted early and late. 
 
 Besides the several town reports, and sermons on various 
 occasions, Mr. Whitney published the following : 
 
 An Historical Sketch of the Old Church at Quincy, Mass. 
 Biographical Sketches of Josiah Quincy, Jr. and John Hancock.
 
 88 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Biography of James Holton, Founder of the Holton Library (from 
 which grew the Brighton Public Library). 
 
 Oration at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, with an His- 
 torical Appendix. 
 
 Address at the Consecration of Evergreen Cemetery, with an His- 
 torical Appendix. 
 
 Just before he was seized with his last sickness, he had com- 
 pleted the History of Brighton, comprising one chapter in 
 Samuel Adams Drake's History of Middlesex County, Mass. 
 
 In enumerating his writings, the diary he kept should not 
 be forgotten. This was begun, January I, 1827, two years 
 and a half before he went to college, and continued to Jan- 
 uary 1 8, 1880, when illness compelled him to give it up, a 
 period of fifty-three years. This has been more than once 
 referred to as an arbiter of doubtful points. It will remain 
 of value, and ought to be carefully preserved. 
 
 In a volume entitled " Singers and Songs of the Liberal 
 Faith," prepared by the Rev. Alfred P. Putnam, of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., in which several occasional hymns by Mr. Whit- 
 ney were inserted, is found a brief biography. In this, Mr. 
 Putnam speaks of all these biographies, genealogies, sketches, 
 catalogues, and reports, as giving evidence of conscientious 
 and painstaking care in their preparation, as showing a 
 habit of patient research, and altogether forming a valu- 
 able contribution to the department of literature to which 
 they belong. 
 
 He died of disease of the brain, at his house in Gardner 
 Street, Brighton, October 21, 1880, having been ill about 
 nine months. He was buried on Monday, October 25, from 
 his own church, Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Plummer Professor 
 at Harvard, delivering a commemorative address. Though 
 Monday is at Brighton the busiest day of the week, yet the 
 church was filled. The following classmates acted as pall- 
 bearers : Francis Bowen, Joseph Lovering, H. W. Torrey, 
 George E. Ellis, and Morrill Wyman.
 
 RUFUS C. TORREY. 89 
 
 RUFUS CAMPBELL TORREY. 
 
 RUFUS C. TORREY, very thoughtfully, as if with a pre- 
 monition that he should not live to the Commencement 
 of 1883, sent to Professor Bowen, in 1882, the following brief 
 autobiography. 
 
 " Rufus Campbell Torrey, son of John and Sally (Richard- 
 son) Torrey, was born at Oxford, Mass., February 13, 1813. 
 His parents having died while he was quite young, he was 
 removed to Franklin under the charge of a maternal uncle. 
 He pursued his preparatory studies at the Academy in Wren- 
 tham, and entered Harvard College as a freshman in August, 
 1829. He graduated in due course, in August, 1833. His 
 rank as a scholar placed him near the middle of a class of 
 fifty-five. After leaving college he spent three or four years 
 in Fitchburg, engaged mostly in teaching and editing a news- 
 paper. He also wrote a history of the town of Fitchburg, 
 a volume of about 130 pages, which was reprinted in 1865. 
 
 Near the close of the year 1838 he removed to Mobile, and 
 for two years was engaged in teaching, and studying law 
 under the supervision of Judge B. T. Harris, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar at the close of the year 1840. In 1841 he 
 commenced the practice of his profession at Grove Hill, Ala., 
 and removed thence to Claiborne in 1843, where he has con- 
 tinued to reside to the present time. 
 
 In 1844 he was elected Judge of the County Court of 
 Monroe County, which office comprised those of Judge of 
 Probate and presiding Judge of the Court of County Com- 
 missioners. This office he resigned after a tenure of four 
 years. For twenty-five years he was an active member of the 
 Masonic Fraternity, and was elected Grand Master of the 
 R. and S. Masters of the State. He led a quiet and unevent- 
 
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 90 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 ful life till 1875, when he was elected a member of the con- 
 vention called to revise the Constitution of the State. In 
 1876 he was chosen a State Senator for the term of four 
 years. He was married, in 1846, to Elizabeth, only daughter 
 of the late Andrew Henshaw. Four children were the issue 
 of this marriage, three of whom, two sons and a daughter, 
 have reached their majority, and are residing in Mobile. 
 
 Deafness and other infirmities increasing with advancing 
 age induced Mr. Torrey to retire from the practice of the 
 law in 1879. He was in comfortable circumstances at the 
 beginning of the late civil war, but the results of that un- 
 happy misunderstanding reduced him, as they have thou- 
 sands of others, to comparative poverty." 
 
 Rufus C. Torrey died at Claiborne, Ala., September 13, 
 1882, of the pulmonary disease from which he had so long 
 suffered. He was in the active practice of his profession to 
 within a few years of his death, thus showing the wisdom of 
 his emigration, forty-four years ago, to the mild climate of 
 Alabama. 
 
 The Mobile Daily Register, a few days after his death, 
 speaks of him as one of the most estimable men in South 
 Alabama, and as one who left his impress on the people and 
 institutions of the State. The concluding paragraph of its 
 notice is here given, to which those who can recall the amia- 
 ble traits of our classmate will readily respond. 
 
 " He was of a firm yet gentle disposition, supremely up- 
 right in all his transactions, and eminently just to all men, a 
 man noted for his constant observance of the Golden Rule, 
 a man who died leaving not one enemy. In the counties of 
 Clarke and Monroe, where his example shone the brightest, 
 among his near neighbors and life-long friends, where he 
 married and toiled, and whence he but Wednesday passed 
 away, his loss will be deeply felt."
 
 JOHN CHESTER LYMAN. 91 
 
 JOHN CHESTER LYMAN. 
 
 ' I "HE Secretary has received the following from a near 
 -*- friend of Mr. Lyman. 
 
 "He was born in Northampton, Mass., August 8, 1813. 
 He was the son of Jonathan H. Lyman, a prominent lawyer 
 in his day. He prepared for college at Canandaigua Academy 
 and at Round Hill School, Northampton, and went through 
 the collegiate course at Harvard. Afterwards he spent three 
 years abroad. Returning, he entered the Harvard Law 
 School, and, on graduating, opened an office in Boston, but 
 remained in the profession only a short time, being sent by 
 his grandfather, Judge Hinckley, to South America on busi- 
 ness. He never resumed his practice, but, having means 
 independent of his profession, spent much of his time in 
 reading, in society, and in travel. 
 
 "He married, in 1854, Mary, daughter of Hon. Mathias 
 Morris, of Doylestown, Pa. Since his marriage, he has re- 
 sided chiefly in that place. His health has always been more 
 or less delicate, which has been in great measure the reason 
 of his not leading a more active life. He has two sons and 
 two daughters." 
 
 The above was written in September, 1882. From ac- 
 counts of Lyman's health received at the same time, the 
 announcement of his death, six months after, occasioned lit- 
 tle surprise. It occurred on February 27, 1883. From a 
 letter received from Mrs. Lyman, dated March 9, 1883, the 
 following extract is made : 
 
 "Mr. Lyman's death was caused by exhaustion, rather than 
 disease. It was a general breaking up of the system. His 
 health had been decidedly declining for a year or two, and 
 he finally passed away peacefully and painlessly."
 
 92 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Of the four children, the eldest son, Richard Morris, will be 
 twenty-four next October. He is a lawyer, and was admitted 
 to the bar last November. The youngest son, Robert 
 Huntington, is sixteen. The ages of the two daughters are 
 between the above. 
 
 The Bucks County Intelligencer of March 3, 1883, contains 
 the following obituary. 
 
 "DEATH OF JOHN C. LYMAN. 
 
 "John Chester Lyman, one of our oldest citizens, died at 
 his home, corner of Broad and Main Streets, Doylestown, last 
 Tuesday evening, about half-past nine o'clock, in the sixty- 
 ninth year of his age." 
 
 After reciting the early events of his life as given above, 
 the notice goes on : 
 
 " He had some experience at the Boston Bar in certain 
 patent cases ; but his literary tastes and love for travel soon 
 induced him to go abroad, and he made several trips to 
 Europe, one to South America, and also travelled a good deal 
 in this country. 
 
 " It was during one of his trips across the Atlantic that he 
 became acquainted with Miss Mary Ann Morris, daughter of 
 the Hon. Mathias Morris, who represented this Congressional 
 District in the Twenty-fourth Congress, and a niece of the 
 Hon. Henry Chapman. He subsequently married Miss Mor- 
 ris, and, after living a short time in Philadelphia, came to 
 Doylestown about the year 1858, where he has lived ever 
 since. 
 
 " Mr. Lyman has resided here as a private citizen, never 
 holding public office, and never engaging in active business. 
 He was a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church for a 
 number of years before his death. He had a large circle of 
 friends, and those who were on intimate terms with him ad-
 
 'JOHN CHESTER LYMAN. 93 
 
 mired his brilliant talents and his well-stored mind. He was 
 a constant reader almost to the day of his death. He had 
 the reputation of doing many kind acts, in a quiet way, 
 among his neighbors, especially among those who were 
 poor."
 
 NOTICES OF THE SURVIVORS.
 
 NOTICES OF THE SURVIVORS. 
 
 SAMUEL PAGE ANDREWS. 
 
 SALEM, May 3, 1882. 
 
 MY DEAR MR. HIGGINSON, I don't suppose it would 
 be safe to address a President in any less formal way 
 than that, or I should have said, My dear Waldo. Here 's 
 the life of Samuel Page Andrews. Born at Salem in the cold 
 winter, (and he has never got over the chill of that inclement 
 season,) December 8, 1813. Carried in his tender infancy up 
 to Danvers to preserve his precious life from the ferocious 
 British, who were continually threatening his native place; 
 returned with the return of peace to his home, placed in one 
 of the old and many-gabled houses of the town at the age of 
 four, under the care of Marm Oliver, an ancient dame of 
 the very old school, fat and easy, whose chief employment 
 and duty were to take snuff and sleep, while the youngsters 
 under her care were engaged in the serious work of educa- 
 tion ; to wit, skylarking, and catching handfuls of flies and 
 letting them off under her nose, to the great disturbance of 
 her needed and well-merited repose. I think this good old 
 lady good in descent, good to her scholars, and very good 
 to herself was nearly eighty years of age when she took 
 charge of his education. From her, after a year's discipline, 
 he was transferred to Marm Bowditch, a young and flighty 
 dame of not more than seventy years, of whom his recollec- 
 
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 98 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 tions are not so vivid as of his first teacher; from her, at 
 the age of six or seven, transferred to Marm Leach, a still 
 younger dame of thirty-five or forty, of severe countenance, 
 who ruled from her throne her boys with a rod of birch, 
 and at whose head he found it necessary (on the day of his 
 instalment) to throw his primer for some fancied injustice; 
 placed at the ripe age of eight under care of John Walsh 
 (son of Walsh's Arithmetic), where, in company with Ben 
 Peirce, Ingersoll Bowditch, and he thinks Nat also, and a lot 
 of other youngsters and oldsters, most of whom have gone 
 up, he was inducted into the mysteries of Latin grammar 
 and of that same arithmetic of blessed memory. 
 
 After some three years' fighting with the boys of the Public 
 Latin School, he was removed to that school, where, under 
 the sharp discipline of Theo Eames and the somewhat milder 
 rule of Henry K. Oliver (who still survives, and whose joke 
 it is to say that he went to school with me, making himself, 
 with his more than eighty years of age, a contemporary), he 
 was fitted for college, if being crammed with the Latin and 
 Greek Grammars, and all their rules and exceptions, can be 
 called fitting. In college he did n't do much, except have 
 a reasonably good time, and he is satisfied that, if the thing 
 were to be gone over with again, he could neither get into 
 college nor out of it. Instead of devoting himself to the 
 curriculum of the Old Dame, whom in after years we call the 
 "Dear Mother," he spent no inconsiderable part of his time 
 in roving about the country with dear old Jeffries Wyman 
 (of more than blessed memory), dissecting snakes and frogs 
 and cats and dogs, and picking up heaps of stones which were 
 dignified with the name of minerals. These dissections and 
 the stones having taught him the vanity of earthly things, 
 he entered the Divinity School to see if anything substantial 
 could be found there, though with no very strong intention 
 of pursuing the profession for which the studies at that place 
 were supposed to be a preparation. After preaching about
 
 SAMUEL P. ANDREWS. 99 
 
 and about for a year, his health broke down and he dawdled, 
 loafed, for two years, when he went into business in Boston, 
 hoping to make money enough to buy a farm, the living upon 
 which had been, in the phrase of these days, " the dream of 
 his life." He did n't make the money, but bought the farm 
 all the same, a small farm in Framingham, having in the 
 mean time married Rebecca Bacon Scudder, born in Boston, 
 July 4, 1818, but at the time of her marriage living in Barn- 
 stable. This was on October 15, 1845. Here, i.e. in Fram- 
 ingham, he remained for a while, and after seven years of hard 
 but extremely pleasant and congenial work he returned to 
 
 
 
 his old home in Salem, the health of his wife requiring a 
 change, and his two children, Abby Bacon, born August 5, 
 1846, and William Page, 1 born November 22, 1848, needing 
 some better or more convenient educational advantages than 
 could be readily obtained in Framingham. Here he stayed 
 for a year doing nothing ; but finding this to be hard work, 
 he accepted the position of Clerk of the Police Court in 
 Salem, and afterwards of the First District Court of Essex, 
 to which he was appointed by the Governor in June, 1874. 
 And here he has been all these years, and has seen enough 
 of misery and misfortune in others, and of wrong-doing and 
 suffering, to satisfy any reasonable person, and to furnish the 
 groundwork of ten thousand dime novels. 
 
 You wanted his life, (I don't mean criminally,) and you 
 have it. If you had thought he was going to last so long, you 
 probably would n't have asked for it. Make the best or the 
 worst of it that you can. " Drop a tear" over its misfortune, 
 and rejoice over what of success it may have had. If it 
 should last till the fiftieth anniversary, the holder of it will 
 hope to meet the surviving remnants, the "rari nantes." 
 Must have some Latin for the credit of the class (even if it 
 is n't good grammar) of 1833. 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 SAMUEL P. ANDREWS. 
 
 1 See note, page 143.
 
 100 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 JAMES LORING BAKER. 
 
 JAMES L. BAKER, after graduating, studied law. Being 
 admitted to the Suffolk Bar, he opened an office in 
 Boston. He soon abandoned the law to go into the manu- 
 facturing business of his father at Hingham, Mass., in which 
 he continued some years. After giving it up, he continued 
 to reside in Hingham. 
 
 He was a frequent contributor to newspapers, and his 
 papers, printed in the Boston Transcript, were collected and 
 published in a handsome volume under the title of " Men 
 and Things." 
 
 In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he now 
 resides. 
 
 He has been twice married: ist. May 9, 1850, to Nancy 
 R., daughter of Hon. Zabdiel Sampson, of Plymouth, Mass. 
 She died, May 9, 1854. 2d. May 5, 1860, to Susan F. Lunen- 
 burg, of Boston, He has had one son, and three daughters 
 by his second wife, and two of his daughters are now living. 
 
 FRANCIS BOWEN. 
 
 THE following notice is mainly from " The Harvard 
 Book," published in 1874, with some additions and 
 amendments furnished by Professor Bowen. 
 
 Francis Bowen, born in Charlestown, Mass., September 8, 
 1811, received his early education at the Mayhew Grammar 
 School, in Boston. For a few years he was junior clerk in 
 a publishing office in Boston; in January, 1829, he became 
 a pupil in Phillips Exeter Academy, and in August, 1830,
 
 FRANCIS BOWEN. IOI 
 
 he entered the sophomore class in Harvard College. In the 
 winter of 1829-30, he taught school at Hampton Falls, N. H. ; 
 and in the three following winters, successively, at Lexington, 
 Northborough, and Concord, Mass. Graduating at Harvard 
 with the first honors of his class in 1833, he became instructor 
 in mathematics in Phillips Exeter Academy, and continued to 
 act in that capacity till August, 1835. He then returned to 
 Harvard, where he was first made Tutor in Greek, and, a 
 year afterwards, was appointed instructor of the senior class 
 in mental philosophy and political economy. This office he 
 held for three years, being much occupied also with literary 
 pursuits. Tn 1837 he contributed to Sparks's "Library of 
 American Biography " a Life of Sir William Phipps ; and he 
 afterwards furnished for the same work Lives of James Otis, 
 Baron Steuben, and Benjamin Lincoln. He was also a fre- 
 quent contributor to the literary periodicals of that day. In 
 August, 1839, ne resigned his office in the College, and went 
 to Europe, where he spent a year in study and travel. 
 
 On his return, he established his residence in Cambridge, 
 and devoted himself for the next twelve years to literature 
 as a profession. In 1842 appeared his edition of Virgil, 
 with English notes and a considerable amount of illustra- 
 tive and critical matter. At that period comparatively few 
 American editions of the classics had appeared; and this 
 work, though never revised or purged of numerous errors 
 and defects, has been kept in the market by successive 
 issues from the same stereotype plates, and is still in con- 
 siderable use. In the same year he published a volume of 
 " Critical Essays on Speculative Philosophy," devoted chiefly 
 to the systems of Kant, Fichte, and Cousin, and to the evi- 
 dences of Christianity as affected by the developments of 
 metaphysical doctrines. 
 
 In 1843 Mr. Bowen became the owner and editor of "The 
 North American Review," and continued to conduct this 
 work for the next eleven years. He also edited and pub-
 
 102 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 lished, for six years, "The American Almanac and Reposi- 
 tory of Useful Knowledge." In 1849 he published, in an 
 octavo volume, two courses of " Lowell Lectures on the 
 Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the 
 Evidences of Religion." Six years afterwards, this work, 
 revised and enlarged, appeared in a second edition, and 
 continued in use for a considerable time as a text-book at 
 Harvard. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. Bowen was appointed by the Corporation to 
 the McLean Professorship of History in the College, but held 
 this office only six months. In 1853 he was nominated and 
 confirmed as Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral 
 Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and still continues to act under 
 this appointment. In 1879 he received from Harvard Col- 
 lege, with his classmates Professors Levering and Torrey, 
 the degree of LL. D. 
 
 Besides those already mentioned, he has published the 
 following works : 
 
 Behr's Translation of Weber's Outlines of Universal History, re- 
 vised and corrected, with the Addition of a History of the United 
 States. 1853. 
 
 Dugald Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind, revised and 
 abridged, with Critical and Explanatory Notes. 1854. 
 
 Documents of the Constitution of England and America, from 
 ' Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789, compiled 
 and edited, with Notes. 1854. 
 
 The Principles of Political Economy applied to the Condition and 
 Institutions of the American People. 1856. 
 
 The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, collected, arranged, and 
 abridged, for the Use of Colleges and Private Students. 1862. 
 
 De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, edited with Notes, the 
 Translation revised, and in great part rewritten, and the Additions 
 made to the recent Paris Editions now first translated. 1862. 
 
 A Treatise on Logic, or the Laws of Pure Thought, comprising both 
 the Aristotelic and Hamiltonian Analyses of Logical Forms, and 
 some Chapters of Applied Logic. 1864.
 
 LUTHER CLARK. 10$ 
 
 American Political Economy, including Strictures on the Manage- 
 ment of the Currency and the Conduct of the Finances since 
 1 86 1. New York, 1870. 
 
 Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann. 
 New York, 1877. 
 
 Gleanings from a Literary Life, 1838-1880. New York, 1880. 
 
 Professor Bowen served on the U. S. Silver Commission 
 in 1876. His colleagues were Senators Boutwell, Jones of 
 Nevada, and Bogy of Missouri; Representatives Bland, Gib- 
 son, and Willard ; Expert, W. S. Groesbeck. 
 
 Professor Bowen married, November i, 1848, Arabella 
 Stuart, daughter of Charles Stuart, Esq., of Lancaster, N. H., 
 and niece of Rev. Daniel Austin. His only son, Charles 
 Stuart Bowen, was born in July, 1850, and graduated at Har- 
 vard in 1871. He has two daughters surviving, the elder, 
 Maria, the younger, Helen Elizabeth. All three children 
 live at home, unmarried. 
 
 LUTHER CLARK. 
 
 DR. CLARK has sent to the secretary the following 
 particulars. 
 
 " Studied medicine, and after taking his degree as M. D. in 
 1836, commenced practice in Boston, where he has since 
 mostly resided. He has been a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society since joining it in 1836. 
 
 In 1840 he adopted the principles and practice of homoe- 
 opathy, to which he has since adhered, though strongly 
 opposed to the absurd infinitesimals which have brought 
 such discredit upon the system and such wrong to patients 
 in need of medicine. 
 
 In 1843 he married Selina Cranch Minot, of Boston. Has
 
 IO4 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 had five children, of whom a son, Theodore M. (H. C. 1866), 
 architect, and a daughter (Mrs. Geo. Ropes), survive. 
 
 For some years past he has been in poor health ; has now 
 relinquished practice, and resides a part of the time at the 
 South." 
 
 GEORGE INGLIS CRAFTS. 
 
 THE secretary received the following from Mr. Crafts 
 under dates of Charleston, S. C., July 1 1 and Novem- 
 ber 27, 1882. 
 
 I was born in 1812 or '13; then Charleston College to 
 senior year. After graduating at Cambridge returned to 
 Charleston. Studied or tried to study law; was " admitted 
 to the bar" in '35 or '36: never got much practice or repu- 
 tation, and less money. In 1846 went off for a European 
 tour; took two years on it, Palestine and the Nile to the 
 Cataracts, then Greece and Spain, having done Italy and 
 Switzerland previously. Returning to Charleston end of '47, 
 instead of trying law again, as I ought to have done, under- 
 took the cultivation of a small plantation near here, which 
 had been in my family a long time, and which furnished the 
 means of living very economically without too much mental 
 exertion. The summer of 1853 went over to France in charge 
 of a sick cousin ; passed it quietly with Prince Lucien Murat, 
 near Paris, who had married, when living in New Jersey, a 
 cousin of mine, and who, on accession of the Bonapartes 
 to power, removed with his family to France. In the next 
 two years I lived here quietly, attending to my farm business. 
 March, 1855, was married to Miss Mary Anderson of Florida 
 and New York; then made a third trip across the water, 
 returning here and living on very quietly and comfortably 
 until the war broke out in '60. Having received a commis-
 
 HIRAM KEITH CURTIS. 105 
 
 sion as Captain in Quartermaster's Department, was stationed 
 here and served to the end. 
 
 Mrs. Crafts died in April, I865, 1 leaving me with two 
 daughters, now twenty-four and twenty-one, unmarried, and 
 one son, William, 2 now about nineteen. 
 
 Since end of war I have been living here continuously, 
 we having a small income from property of Mrs. C. in New 
 York. 
 
 As regards my bodily health, I keep perfectly sound, 
 nothing but a few headaches ever troubling me, but I weigh 
 only a little more than one hundred pounds. 
 
 Always yours faithfully, 
 
 G. I. CRAFTS. 
 
 HIRAM KEITH CURTIS. 
 
 HIRAM KEITH CURTIS, after graduating, adopted the 
 profession of a civil engineer. He entered the office 
 of Colonel Loammi Baldwin at Charlestown, Mass., then 
 esteemed the best school in that art. He remained there 
 a number of years, and was much valued for his skill 
 and thoroughness. About ten years after leaving college, 
 whilst shooting, he met with an accident, by which he lost 
 one eye and one hand, a very serious loss in his chosen 
 profession. 
 
 The above sketch was sent to Curtis, June 2, 1882. He 
 soon returned it, with the following conclusion. 
 
 1 Her death made one of the many sad tragedies of the war. After the occu- 
 pation of Columbia, S. C., by General Sherman, Mrs. Crafts being separated 
 from her husband, who was obliged to leave her there, and misled by false ru- 
 mors set out, with her three young children, to reach New York, where she 
 had relatives. She succeeded in doing so, after exposures and privations lasting 
 many weeks; but these hardships cost her life. She arrived in New York only 
 to die. 
 
 3 Now a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
 
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 106 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 " After lying by for repairs a year and a half, he gradually 
 began work again, and about five years afterwards retired to 
 East Stoughton and has lain dormant there ever since." 
 
 In a note accompanying the return he says : " Though 
 quiet and useless, I would not have you think me disap- 
 pointed or morose. I feel that I have had more than a fair 
 chance in the world." 
 
 JOHN HOMER DIX. 
 
 MR. HIGGINSON : 
 DEAR SIR, September 9, 1840, I performed the 
 first operation for strabismus, or cross-eye, on this side of 
 the Atlantic. On the following day it was performed at 
 Pittsfield, by Dr. Willard Parker, of New York. 
 
 Soon after, I announced in the Boston Medical and Sur- 
 gical Journal my withdrawal from general practice, and that I 
 should treat only diseases of the eye and ear. This step was 
 regarded unfavorably by my best professional friends, and, 
 so far as I know, was the earliest instance of a man of regular 
 standing in this country adopting an exclusive specialty and 
 adhering to it. In my old age, it is a great satisfaction to me 
 that so many men of large intelligence and thorough educa- 
 tion have taken the same course. 
 
 In 1849 I obtained a Boylston prize for an Essay on Mor- 
 bid Sensibility of the Retina. It was published, and is, I 
 believe, the first work to give what is now generally accepted 
 as the rationale of the disease. It is now admitted that the 
 term above used was a misnomer, and the disease is now 
 called Asthenopia. 
 
 In 1857, against the remonstrance of friends, I began to 
 build the Hotel Pelham, of which Mr. King, in the Handbook
 
 CHARLES DRAPER. 107 
 
 of Boston, says that " it was the first building of the French 
 flats or family hotel class, and that this mode of habitation 
 gained its foothold in America by its introduction here." 
 
 Five years elapsed before a building for this purpose was 
 erected in New York. They are now counted by hundreds 
 in Boston, and by thousands in New York. 
 
 This is all I recall creditable to myself and of interest to 
 others, and if you feel disposed to wonder at the length of 
 the statement, remember that you brought it on yourself, 
 and that you are spared the much longer list of faults and 
 failures. These last I am striving to forget, but if you care 
 to know them, ask my relatives, friends, and patients. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 J. H. Dix. 
 
 June 27, 1882. 
 
 Dr. Dix married, June 9, 1858, Helen Pelham, daughter of 
 the late Thomas Curtis and half-sister to the late Charles P. 
 and Thomas B. Curtis, all three well-known Bostonians. 
 
 CHARLES DRAPER. 
 
 PONTIAC, MICH., June 8, 1882. 
 
 MR. HlGGINSON : 
 DEAR SIR, The year of my graduation I left Mas- 
 sachusetts, and came to Michigan; my place of residence 
 has ever since been at Pontiac. My father, William Draper, 
 was a graduate at Harvard, and he removed to this place from 
 Marlborough about six months before the time I did. 
 
 Early after arriving here I taught an academy for a short 
 time, Pontiac was then a frontier town. I taught the first 
 academic school in Northern Michigan.
 
 108 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 I studied law in the office of my father for several years, 
 and was admitted to practise in 1840. 
 
 The pleasantest part of my life was the first years of my 
 residence in Michigan. All things were new and fresh, 
 the inhabitants, their habits, customs, and manner of living. 
 Society was in no wise hampered by conventionalities. I 
 became a married man in 1840. I have three sons and one 
 daughter. The three sons are lawyers by profession ; and in 
 the providence of God I have been greatly favored, all my 
 children are still living. 
 
 Michigan was admitted into the Union as a State in 1836, 
 and for twenty years was a strong Democratic State. Soon 
 after the adoption of the State Constitution I was elected 
 County Clerk of Oakland County, and held that office for 
 several years : was subsequently elected for several terms to 
 the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the same county, and 
 in 1867 was chosen State Senator, and finally, so far as office- 
 holding is concerned, was appointed United States Assessor, 
 and then Register in Bankruptcy. You can gather from this 
 that I have been a Republican, and wish it understood I am 
 still such, and in all human probability shall die in that 
 political faith. 
 
 Affectionately your friend and classmate, 
 
 CHARLES DRAPER. 
 
 In a letter received by the secretary under date of April 
 IO, 1883, Draper says: "As for myself, my strength both 
 physical and mental holds out remarkably. Can read and 
 write without the use of spectacles, and with eye and hand 
 as clear and steady as on the day I graduated from Old 
 Harvard, God bless her. My step is as strong and firm 
 as it then was."
 
 GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS 109 
 
 GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS. 
 
 EORGE EDWARD ELLIS, son of David and Sarah 
 (Rogers) Ellis, was born in Boston, August 8, 1814. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, Round 
 Hill School, Northampton, and the school of Mr. William 
 Wells, Cambridge. He entered Harvard College in 1829, 
 and graduated in 1833. 
 
 Choosing the profession of a clergyman, he entered the 
 Theological School at Cambridge, and completed its course 
 of study in 1836. 
 
 Soon after leaving Cambridge he visited Europe. On his 
 return, he preached at various churches in Boston and its 
 vicinity, with great acceptance ; and the Harvard Church in 
 Charlestown, which Rev. Dr. James Walker had recently left, 
 invited him to become their minister. He accepted their 
 offer, and was ordained on March II, 1840. 
 
 In 1857, Mr. Ellis was chosen Professor of Systematic 
 Theology in the Divinity School at Cambridge. Residence 
 not being required, he accepted this office, and performed 
 its duties until 1863. In 1857, also, the degree of Doctor of 
 Divinity was conferred upon him by Harvard College. 
 
 In 1869, after an incumbency of nearly thirty years, he 
 resigned his pastorate at Charlestown, to take effect on the 
 1st of July in that year. 
 
 Since that date, he has preferred to remain without paro- 
 chial cares, and to devote himself chiefly to literary labors. 
 
 On the 1 5th of April, 1840, about a month after his ordi- 
 nation, Mr. Ellis married Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of Mr. 
 William Eager, of Boston. Mrs. Ellis died, April 10, 1842, 
 leaving one son, John Harvard Ellis, born in Charlestown, 
 January 9. 1841. This son graduated at Harvard in 1862, 
 took his degree of LL. B. in 1864, was admitted to the
 
 110 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Boston Bar, and contributed some articles to the American 
 Law Review. In 1867 he edited a sumptuous edition of the 
 works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse. On the 25th 
 of March, 1869, he married Grace Atkinson, daughter of 
 Mr. James L. Little. Up to this time, and somewhat later, 
 he appeared to have as fair prospects of life and health as 
 belong to most young men. He became ill, however, when 
 in Europe, on his wedding tour. His malady was at first 
 obscure; but, on his return to Boston, it soon developed 
 itself in the form of disease of the lungs, and he died in that 
 city, May 3, 1870, at the age of twenty-nine. 
 
 On the 22d of October, 1859, Dr. Ellis married, as his 
 second wife, Lucretia Goddard, daughter of Mr. Benjamin 
 Apthorp Gould (H. C. 1814), for many years head-master of 
 the Boston Latin School. Mrs. Ellis died at Mount Desert, 
 Maine, July 6, 1869, a few days after her husband's connec- 
 tion with his parish in Charlestown had been dissolved. 
 
 The events of Dr. Ellis's life not stated above his ser- 
 vices and honors not already mentioned are best narrated 
 in a passage from his biography, contained in the " History 
 of the Harvard Church in Charlestown," 1 to which the 
 Secretary is already much indebted. 
 
 " During the entire period of his residence in Charlestown, 
 Dr. Ellis took an active interest in the public schools, and in 
 all educational matters, serving several years on the School 
 Committee. He was no less active with his pen, having 
 written much in the interest of education. To the New 
 York Review, the North American Review, and the Atlantic 
 Monthly he has been a large contributor, chiefly on topics of 
 American history, of which he has been a close and life-long 
 student; while he has occasionally written for the Monthly 
 Religious Magazine. He has also contributed several articles 
 to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He 
 
 1 History of the Harvard Church in Charlestown, 1815-1879. Boston: 
 Printed for the Society. 1879. pp. 294.
 
 GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS. Ill 
 
 was at one time the editor of the Christian Register, with the 
 Rev. Dr. George Putnam, and subsequently alone. He also 
 conducted the Christian Examiner for several years. 
 
 "In 1864, he delivered before the Lowell Institute a course 
 of lectures on 'The Evidences of Christianity"; in 1871, a 
 course on ' The Provincial History of Massachusetts' ; and in 
 1879, a course on 'The Red Man and the White Man in 
 North America.' 
 
 " Dr. Ellis early received the honors of the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society, of which he is one of the most prominent 
 members and a Vice-President. He has contributed largely 
 to their published volumes of ' Proceedings,' and has edited 
 several volumes of the Society's ' Collections.' He has also 
 received the diploma of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, of the American Antiquarian Society, and of the 
 Historical Societies of New York and other States. From 
 1850 to 1854 he was a member of the Board of Overseers of 
 Harvard College, and its Secretary, 1853-54. He withdrew 
 his name as a candidate, when presented by the Alumni for 
 re-election to the Board in 1879. From 1871 to 1874 he was 
 a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital." 
 
 At the end of this notice of Dr. Ellis, Mr. Henry H. Edes 
 adds what is believed to be a perfect list of his separate pub- 
 lications up to the time of printing the " History of the Har- 
 vard Church," in 1879. This list, together with a catalogue 
 of his papers in several reviews and magazines, and of his 
 contributions to the Proceedings of the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society, fill 
 ten pages in an octavo pamphlet. 
 
 Since 1879 the following works have been published by 
 him: 
 
 In Memorial History of Boston, Vol. I., 1880, chapter on 
 "The Puritan Commonwealth," pp. 141-191 ; and chapter on 
 " The Indians of Eastern Massachusetts," pp. 241-275. In 
 Vol. II., 1881, chapter on "The Royal Governors," pp. 27-93.
 
 112 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Memoir of Jacob Bigelow, M. D., LL. D. 1880. pp. 105. 
 
 Introduction to the History of the First Church in Boston. 
 1 88 1. pp. 74. 
 
 The Red Man and the White Man in North America, from 
 its Discovery to the Present Time. 1882. pp. xvi., 642. 
 
 Y 
 
 SIDNEY HOWARD GAY. 
 
 y 
 
 SIDNEY HOWARD GAY, for whom some of the class 
 were happy in procuring from the President and Fellows 
 of the University a well-merited degree in 1877, sent the 
 Secretary, in the autumn of 1882, a package of reminiscences, 
 which were placed at his disposal. From these he selects 
 the following. 
 
 Hingham is his native place. His father was Ebenezer 
 Gay, and his family have lived in Hingham since the begin- 
 ning of the last century. The first of the name in Hingham 
 was Dr. Ebenezer Gay (H. C. 1714), who was minister of 
 the parish sixty-nine years and nine months, the longest 
 ministry on record. 
 
 His mother, Mary Alllyne Otis, was a daughter of Joseph, 
 a brother of James Otis. " My ancestry, you see," he says, 
 " was the best part of me." 
 
 He entered college at fifteen years, but remained only to 
 the beginning of the Junior year, when ill health compelled 
 him to leave. Two years of idleness apparently set him up 
 again, and he was put into the counting-house of Perkins & 
 Co., of Boston. He remained in the employ of that house 
 about two years, almost to the dissolution of the firm. Then, 
 after trying the West for a couple of years, he began the 
 study of law in his father's office at Hingham.
 
 SIDNEY HOWARD GAY. 113 
 
 But he soon abandoned the profession, as he says, " from 
 certain scruples of conscience as to the oath to support the 
 Constitution of the United States. For my mind had been 
 turned, by reading history and ethics, to the question of 
 slavery ; and I soon reached the conclusion that, if one really 
 believed slavery to be absolutely and morally wrong, he had 
 no right to take an oath to support a constitution that he did 
 not mean to obey because it upheld slavery." 
 
 Under the circumstances it was almost inevitable that he 
 should soon drift into that little circle of Abolitionists in Bos- 
 ton, of which Garrison was the head, and Phillips, Quincy, 
 the Jackson brothers Francis and Edmund, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ellis Gray Loring, the Chapmans, the Westons, the Childs, 
 the Mays, and others, were shining lights. " This handful 
 of people," he says, " to the outside world a set of pestilent 
 fanatics, were among themselves the most charming circle 
 of cultivated men and women that it has ever been my lot to 
 know." 
 
 In Anti-Slavery he found the first serious aim of his life. 
 In 1842 he became one of the lecturing agents of the Ameri- 
 can Anti-Slavery Society, and in i84|jr the editor of the 4t ' 
 Anti-Slavery Standard, the organ of the Society, published 
 in New York. In that position he remained for fourteen 
 years, with Mr. Edmund Quincy, Maria Weston Chapman, 
 and James Russell Lowell as " corresponding editors " in 
 Boston, for most of the time though at different periods. 
 
 In 185$ it seemed to Mr. Gay that the "cause" no longer 
 required that he should devote himself exclusively to the 
 Standard. He accordingly joined the staff of the New York 
 Tribune. Early in 1862 he was appointed its managing 
 editor, and so remained until the war was over, the sum- 
 mer of i86|. He had broken down under the long strain of 
 responsible editorship, and took two years to recover. Henry 
 Wilson said the man deserved well of his country who kept 
 the Tribune a war paper in spite of Greeley. 
 
 15
 
 114 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 In 1867 he was asked to take the place of managing editor 
 of the Chicago Tribune. He did so, and remained in that 
 position till the great fire in 1871. In the spring of 1872 he 
 was asked to join the editorial staff of the New York Evening 
 Post. He accepted the invitation, and remained there for 
 two years. 
 
 In 1874 a proposal was made to Mr. W. C. Bryant, by 
 Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., to join them in getting out an 
 illustrated History of the United States. He consented, on 
 condition that Mr. Gay would be its author, as that was a 
 task which Mr. Bryant, at the age of eighty, could not under- 
 take, and which they did not ask. He died before the second 
 volume was published. Two of the three partners also died 
 within the same year, the third was compelled to leave the 
 house, and the publication fell into new hands and a new 
 house. "This," Mr. Gay says, "was not a fortunate con- 
 catenation of circumstances." 
 
 Excepting a Preface to the first volume, Mr. Bryant did 
 not write, and never intended to write, a single line ; while 
 the mistake was made by publishers and subscription agents 
 of attempting to persuade the public that he was the author 
 of a work of one half of which not a word was written until 
 after his death, and the first part of which he never saw until 
 it was in printed pages. 
 
 " Whether the work has any merit or not," adds Mr. Gay, 
 " this I may note without immodesty, that on the appear- 
 ance of the first volume a new interest has been aroused in 
 American history, which does not seem a mere coincidence ; 
 for all the authors who have written, or proposed to write, 
 upon the subject, within the last half-dozen years, have fol- 
 lowed the method which I first adopted, and have gone to 
 sources, of knowledge which I was the first to use in this 
 country. A new treatment of American history has become 
 popular." 
 
 Since the Bryant was finished, two years ago, Mr. Gay's time
 
 CHARLES W. HARTSHORN. 115 
 
 has been devoted to newspaper literary work, an occasional 
 magazine article, and a volume upon history for young peo- 
 ple, just finished. He has begun a volume for Mr. Morse's 
 series of American Statesmen ; and another is promised for 
 Warner's series of American Authors. 
 
 In 1845, Mr. Gay married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel 
 Neall, of Philadelphia, and granddaughter of Warfe^ Mifflin, Ti/ 
 one of the most eminent of the Friends of the last century. / 
 They have three living children : Sarah Mifflin, Martin (C. E., 
 graduated, in 1877, at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology), and Mary Otis. 
 
 CHARLES WARREN HARTSHORN. 
 
 TAUNTON, June 20, 1882. 
 
 DEAR HlGGINSON, 
 According to my best recollection, I was born at 
 Taunton, October 8, 1814. 
 
 After graduation I studied law one year with Hon. Horatio 
 Pratt at Taunton, then one year in the Law School at Cam- 
 bridge, then one year with Hon. Emory Washburn at Wor- 
 cester; was admitted to the bar in 1837, and practised with 
 Mr. Washburn till 1843, then alone for one year; then 
 with J. C. Bancroft Davis, till October 6, 1847, when I was 
 appointed Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Worcester 
 County, which office I held for five years and declined a 
 reappointment. 
 
 I then acted as consulting counsel, referee, and. auditor 
 (not going into court for trial of cases) till July, 1856; when 
 I engaged in the manufacture of letter-envelopes, at Worces- 
 ter, in which I continued till 1860.
 
 Il6 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 In 1869, I removed to Taunton, where I have remained 
 ever since. 
 
 Never married. In the interval between 1860 and 1869 I 
 kept up a partial connection with my former profession, as 
 before, by way of consultation, and acting as referee and 
 auditor, and re-editing my solitary literary bantling, " The 
 New England Sheriff." 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 CHARLES W. HARTSHORN. 
 
 WALDO HIGGINSON. 
 
 WALDO HIGGINSON, son of Stephen and Louisa 
 (Storrow) Higginson, was born in Boston, May i, 
 1814. He was fitted for college chiefly by Mr. William 
 Wells of Cambridge. He also spent a year at the Round 
 Hill School of Messrs. Joseph G. Cogswell and George 
 Bancroft, and was for a time at that of Mr. R. W. Emerson 
 at Cambridge. Graduating in 1833, ne spent the subsequent 
 year at the South, chiefly at the home of his brother-in-law, 
 Rev. Dr. Keith of Alexandria, Virginia. In 1834-35 he 
 studied law in the office of Judge Jackson of Boston. In the 
 summer of 1835, he gave up that profession, and entered the 
 office of Col. Loammi Baldwin in Charlestown, as student in 
 Civil Engineering. In the summer of 1837, he accepted the 
 invitation of Mr. W. S. Whitwell, C. E., to go to Georgia on 
 the State Railway across the Alleghanies under charge of 
 Col. S. H. Long, U. S. Topographical Engineers. In the 
 summer of 1839, he left this work to accept the offer of Col. 
 J. M. Fessenden as assistant engineer on the Eastern Railroad 
 between Ipswich and Newburyport. When that work was 
 completed, in 1841, he established himself in Boston as Civil
 
 ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE. 117 
 
 Engineer and Surveyor, and was there nearly four years. In 
 the spring of 1845 he was chosen Agent and Engineer of the 
 Boston and Lowell Railroad Company, which office he filled 
 till May 18, 1853, when he was suddenly, at the age of thirty- 
 nine, struck down by paralysis. This produced a tedious 
 illness, from which he was long in recovering, and was never 
 fully restored. 
 
 In the autumn of 1856, being measurably recovered, he 
 was chosen President of the New England Railroad Mutual 
 Insurance Company. This enterprise was sustained by the 
 best companies in New England, but the President, becoming 
 persuaded in 1859 that the mutual principle of insurance was 
 not adapted to railroads, advised the abandonment of the 
 experiment. This was done, and the company wound up its 
 organization without loss to the insured. In 1860, however, 
 he started a new mutual insurance company designed for 
 manufacturing establishments, the " Arkwright," of which 
 he was chosen and still remains President. This immediately 
 became successful, and has so continued. 
 
 In December, 1845, he married Mary Davies, daughter of 
 William Davies Sohier, of Boston. 
 
 At Commencement, 1869, he was chosen Overseer of Har- 
 vard University. That office he resigned on Commencement, 
 
 1873- 
 
 ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE. 
 
 A BIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE has furnished the follow- 
 ing autobiographical sketch. 
 
 " I was born in Wilton, N. H., October 30, 181 r. My father, 
 Jonathan Livermore, was the eldest son of Rev. Jonathan
 
 Il8 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Livermore, the first minister of the Congregational Church of 
 that town. My mother, Abigail Abbot, was the daughter of 
 Abiel Abbot, of Wilton. My youth, till I was fifteen, was 
 passed, like that of most country boys, in hard work on the 
 farm in summer, and in the district school in winter. A 
 brother older than myself shared with me these toils and 
 pleasures. Wilton is a picturesque town among bold hills 
 and mountains, and deep valleys, and has a vivid climate, and 
 romantic scenery and surroundings, fitted to tempt forth the 
 imagination and sensibilities of a child. 
 
 In 1826 I spent six months in Chelmsford, Mass., with 
 my uncle, after whom I was named, Rev. Abiel Abbot, D. D., 
 and attended the academy kept by Mr. Wallace. In Sep- 
 tember of the same year, I entered Phillips Academy at 
 Exeter, N. H., then under the care of those eminent teachers, 
 Benjamin Abbot, LL. D., Gideon L. Soule, LL. D., and 
 Joseph Hale Abbot, A. M. Here I passed three years fitting 
 for college, but for two winters I was absent keeping district 
 school in my native town. I was examined and admitted to 
 the freshman class in Harvard College, in 1829, without con- 
 ditions. While in Cambridge at that time I heard the splen- 
 did oration of Orville Dewey before the society of Phi Beta 
 Kappa, and caught some inspiration from his stirring chal- 
 lenge to what is best and highest in man. The first college 
 year was passed in Exeter pursuing the Freshman studies. 
 This was done for the sake of economy. During the four 
 years at Phillips Academy I boarded at the Misses Deborah 
 and Hannah Oilman's, on Water Street. Returning to Cam- 
 bridge in 1830, and entering the sophomore class uncondi- 
 tioned, the next three years were passed under the gentle 
 and brooding wings of our beloved Alma Mater. Francis 
 Bowen and I roomed together, and boarded the first year, 
 at Mrs. Nichols's, on the northeast corner of the Common, 
 next door east of Dr. Pollen's. Our teachers were that 
 wise and sainted band who have long since joined " the
 
 ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE. 119 
 
 choir invisible," - - Drs. Hedge, Popkin, Pollen, Ware, and 
 Beck; Professors Farrar, Channing, Felton, Peirce, Sales, 
 Bachi, Surault, Barber, Gushing, and Hopkinson ; our preach- 
 ers, Drs. Ware, Palfrey, and Henry Ware, Jr. ; and our glo- 
 rious President, Josiah Quincy. 
 
 I graduated in 1833, having as a part at Commencement a 
 Dissertation on " The Effect of Maritime Enterprise on the 
 Character of Nations." During college life I belonged to the 
 Hasty Pudding Club, the Institute of 1770, the religious 
 society, the temperance society, the La Reunion Sociale, and 
 the Phi Beta Kappa. 
 
 In 1833 I entered the Cambridge Divinity School, under 
 the instruction of Dr. Ware, Dr. Henry Ware, Jr., and Dr. 
 Palfrey, and had for classmates Samuel P. Andrews, John S. 
 Dwight, George E. Ellis, Oliver C. Everett, Theodore Parker, 
 Reuben Austin, and William Silsbee. 
 
 During the last term of the junior year, through the senior 
 year of the undergraduate course, and for three years in the 
 Divinity School, I was engaged in teaching, and fitting boys 
 for college. Among my beloved pupils were George and 
 Thornton K. Ware, Charlotte and Anne Ware, children of 
 Dr. Henry Ware; John F. W. Ware, son of Dr. Henry 
 Ware, Jr.; Frank Rotch, nephew of Mrs. Professor Farrar; 
 Thomas W. Higginson ; Charles Devens, late Attorney-Gen- 
 eral of the United States; Arthur Devens; and Butler of 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Graduating from the Divinity School in 1836, at the age 
 of twenty-five, I received a call to settle in Keene, N. H., 
 and was ordained over the Unitarian Church in that town, 
 November 2, 1836. I was married, May 17, 1838, to Eliza- 
 beth D. Abbot, daughter of Rev. Jacob Abbot, of Windham, 
 N. H., who deceased September 13, 1879, after a long and 
 happy married life, though unblessed with living children. 
 While pastor of the Keene Society I published a " Com- 
 mentary," in three volumes, on the Gospels and Acts of the
 
 120 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Apostles ; also a " Review of the Mexican War," and several 
 occasional Discourses ; and edited a " Marriage Offering " and 
 Priestley's " Corruptions of Christianity." In April, 1850, 
 I received a call to become the pastor of the Unitarian 
 Society in Cincinnati, Ohio, and removed to that city in 
 May, for the benefit of a milder climate ; my health having 
 become impaired by a severe bronchial affection. 
 
 In the autumn of 1856 I removed to New York, on an 
 invitation to become the editor of the Christian Inquirer, 
 the organ of the Unitarian faith in that city. I became the 
 pastor of the Unitarian Church in Yonkers on the Hudson. 
 The joint duties of the editorship and the pastorate were 
 fulfilled till the summer of 1863, when I was invited to take 
 the Presidency of the Meadville Theological School, which 
 at the close of the present academical term, in June, 1883, 
 will cover twenty years. Beside the duties of the school, I 
 have completed the " Commentary " on the remaining books 
 of the New Testament, in two volumes, and printed several 
 reviews, sketches of travels, syllabuses of lectures, and occa- 
 sional sermons. 
 
 Thus I empty at your feet this basket of dry straw, 
 facts, names, dates, places. 
 
 One great happiness I have had, that of mediocrity in 
 talents, position, possessions, influence, name and fame. Ovid 
 was a wise man : " In medio tutissimus ibis." 
 
 The broad lesson of seventy-one years is gratitude to God 
 and sympathy with man." 
 
 MEADVILLE, PENN., November, 1882.
 
 JOSEPH LOVERING. 121 
 
 JOSEPH LOVERING. 
 
 THE following notice is mainly from "The Harvard 
 Book," published in 1874, with some additions and 
 amendments furnished by Professor Levering. 
 
 Joseph Levering was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 
 on December 25, 1813. He was the son of Robert Levering, 
 surveyor of ice, wood, and lumber. He attended one of the 
 ordinary grammar schools of his native town until he was 
 fourteen years of age, and went through Colburn's Algebra 
 by himself at this school, his teachers having no knowledge 
 whatever of that subject. On leaving school, he was en- 
 couraged by his pastor, Rev. Dr. James Walker (afterwards 
 Professor and President of Harvard College), to fit himself 
 for college, reciting to him daily, and receiving from him in 
 many ways the most valuable aid. He entered the sopho- 
 more class of Harvard College in 1830, and graduated with 
 his class in 1833. During his college course he received two 
 appointments for exhibitions, and a mathematical part which 
 was not spoken. 
 
 At the Commencement he delivered the Latin Salutatory 
 Oration, which at that time was invariably assigned to the 
 fourth scholar in the scale of rank. This Commencement was 
 made interesting by the fact that it was the last one held in 
 the old church, which stood near the spot now occupied 
 by the Law School. Three years later, when his class were 
 entitled to receive the Master's degree, he delivered the 
 Valedictory Oration in Latin, according to the custom of that 
 day. He was a member of the Davy Club, the Institute, the 
 Hasty Pudding Club, and the $ B K Society. During the 
 first year after his graduation, he taught a small private 
 school in Charlestown. In the autumn of 1834 he entered 
 the Divinity School in Cambridge, and remained there for
 
 122 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 two years. During a part of the academical year 1834-35 
 he assisted Professor Peirce in the instruction of the College 
 classes in mathematics. In 1835-36 he was Proctor and 
 Instructor in Mathematics, and during a part of the year 
 conducted the morning and evening services in the College 
 Chapel; all those who usually officiated at the devotional 
 exercises of the College being either sick or absent from 
 Cambridge. In 1836-37 he was Tutor in Mathematics, and 
 Lecturer in Natural Philosophy. In 1838 he was made 
 Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, a 
 position which he still holds. 
 
 In 1853-54 he acted as Regent during Professor Felton's 
 absence in Europe, and in 1857 he succeeded him in that 
 office, and held it until 1870. In consideration of his long 
 and uninterrupted services to the College, he was offered a 
 year's leave of absence in 1868-69, which he passed in 
 Europe. 
 
 In 1879, he received from Harvard College, with his class- 
 mates Professors Bowen and Torrey, the degree of LL. D. 
 
 He was married, in 1844, to Sarah Gray Hawes, of Boston. 
 He has two daughters, Cora Lovering and Eva Levering. 
 His two sons have graduated at Harvard College ; James 
 Walker Lovering in 1866, and Ernest Lovering in 1881. 
 
 Although his best time and thoughts were given to his 
 college duties, he found some leisure for other work. At 
 different times he delivered nine courses, of twelve lectures 
 each, on Astronomy or Physics, before the Lowell Institute in 
 Boston ; five of which were repeated to a different audience 
 on the days following their first delivery, according to the 
 original practice of that institution. He gave shorter courses 
 of lectures at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, 
 the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, and the Charitable Me- 
 chanics' Institution of Boston, and one or more lectures in 
 many towns and cities of New England. 
 
 In 1842 he edited a new edition of Farrar's "Electricity
 
 JOSEPH LOVERING. 123 
 
 and Magnetism," at the request of the author. In 1873, he 
 published a thick quarto volume on the Aurora Borealis, in 
 the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
 Other memoirs, on Terrestrial Magnetism, on the Aurora, 
 and on the Determination of Transatlantic Longitudes, have 
 been published by him in the same series. 
 
 Besides these more important works, he has contributed a 
 large number of scientific articles and reviews to the Pro- 
 ceedings of the American Academy, to the Proceedings of 
 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 to the American Journal of Science, to the Journal of the 
 Franklin Institute, to the American Almanac, to the North 
 American Review, to the Christian Examiner, to Old and 
 New, and to the Popular Science Monthly. 
 
 He was Permanent Secretary of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science for nineteen years (between 
 1854 and 1873), and edited fifteen volumes of its Proceed- 
 ings. He was also its President in 1873. 
 
 He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences in Boston, was its Corresponding Secretary for 
 many years, afterwards Vice-President, and is now its Presi- 
 dent. He is also a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society of Phila- 
 delphia, and of the Buffalo Historical Society. 
 
 From 1867 to 1876 he was connected with the United 
 States Coast Survey, and had charge of the computations for 
 determining differences of longitude in the United States, 
 and across the Atlantic Ocean, by means of the land and 
 cable lines of telegraph. 
 
 For some years he has been one of the Trustees of the 
 Tyndall Fund for the endowment of scientific research. 
 
 The secretary has been furnished by Professor Levering 
 with the following catalogue of his publications, together 
 with subjects lectured on, in different years, at the Lowell 
 Institute.
 
 124 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 1 . An Account of the Magnetic Observations made at the Magnetic 
 
 Observatory of Harvard College. In Two Parts. (Memoirs 
 of the American Academy, Vol. II. pp. 1-160.) 
 
 2. On the Secular Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. (Ibid., Vol. IX. 
 
 pp. 101-120.) 
 
 3. On the Determination of Transatlantic Longitudes by Means of 
 
 the Telegraphic Cables. (Ibid., Vol. IX. pp. 437-477.) 
 
 4. Catalogue of Auroras observed, mostly at Cambridge, after 1838. 
 
 (Ibid., Vol. X. pp. 1-8.) 
 
 5. On the Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. In Two Parts. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. X. pp. 9-351, with plates.) 
 
 6. On the Causes of the Difference in the Strength of Ordinary 
 
 Magnets, and Electro-Magnets, of the same Size and Shape. 
 (Proceedings of the American Academy, Vol. II. p. 105.) 
 
 7. On the Law of Continuity. (Ibid., Vol. II. p. 120.) 
 
 8. On the Aneroid Barometer. (Ibid., Vol. II. p. 186.) 
 
 9. Electrical Experiment. (Ibid., Vol. IV. p. 251.) 
 
 10. On the Connection of Electricity with Tornadoes. (Ibid., Vol. II. 
 
 P- 293-) - 
 
 11. On Coronae and Halos. (Ibid., Vol. II. p. 302.) 
 
 12. On the Stereoscope. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 22.) 
 
 13. On the Bioscope. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 106.) 
 
 14. Apparatus for Rapid Rotations. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 107.) 
 
 15. Shape of Luminous Spots in Solar Eclipses. (Ibid., Vol. III. 
 
 p. 1 60.) 
 
 1 6. Notice of the death of John Farrar. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 38.) 
 
 17. Notice of the death of Melloni. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 164.) 
 
 1 8. New Apparatus and Experiments in Optics and Acoustics. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. III. p. 169.) 
 
 19. Arago's Opinion of Table-moving. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 187.) 
 
 20. On Fessel's Gyroscope. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 206.) 
 
 21. Apparatus to regulate the Electric Light. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 225.) 
 
 22. Does the Mississippi River flow up-hill? (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 229.) 
 
 23. Report on Hedgcock's Quadrant. (Ibid., Vol. III. p. 384.) 
 
 24. On the Boomerang. (Ibid., Vol. IV. p. 12.) 
 
 25. Report on Meteorological Observations. (Ibid., Vol. IV. p. 34.) 
 
 26. On the Ocean Cable. (Ibid., Vol. IV. p. 79.)
 
 JOSEPH LOVERING. 125 
 
 27. On the Polarization of the Light of Comets. (Ibid., Vol. IV. 
 
 p. 100.) 
 
 28. Report on the Polar Expedition of Dr. I. I. Hayes. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. IV. pp. 103 and 423.) 
 
 29. On Records of the Aurora Borealis. (Ibid., Vol. IV. p. 325.) 
 
 30. First Observations of the Aurora in New England. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. IV. p. 336.) 
 
 31. Notice of the death of Biot. (Ibid., Vol. VI. p. 16.) 
 
 32. On the Velocity of Light and the Sun's Distance. (Ibid., Vol. VI. 
 
 p. 114.) 
 
 33. Notice of the death of O. M. Mitchel. (Ibid., Vol. VI. p. 133.) 
 
 34. On the Optical Method of studying Sound. (Ibid., Vol. VII. 
 
 P- 4I3-) 
 
 35. On the Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. (Ibid. Vol. VIII. 
 
 P- 55-) 
 
 36. On the French Republican Calendar. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. p. 348.) 
 
 37. Application of Electricity to the Motion of Tuning Forks. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. VIII. p. 53.) 
 
 38. On Optical Meteorology. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. p. 213.) 
 
 39. On Transatlantic Longitudes. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. p. 502.) 
 
 40. Notice of the death of William Mitchell. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. 
 
 P- I3 1 -) 
 
 41. Notice of the death of Faraday. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. p. 31.) 
 
 42. Notice of the death of David Brewster. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. p. 38.) 
 
 43. Notice of the death of J. F. W. Herschel. (Ibid., Vol. VIII. 
 
 p. 461.) 
 
 44. Notice of the death of Christopher Hansteen. (Ibid., Vol. IX. 
 
 p. 282.) 
 
 45. Notice of the death of Auguste A. de la Rive. (Ibid., Vol. IX. 
 
 P- 35 6 -) 
 
 46. Notice of the death of James Walker. (Ibid., Vol. X. p. 485.) 
 
 47. Notice of the death of Joseph Winlock. (Ibid., Vol. XI. p. 339.) 
 
 48. Notice of the death of Alexis Caswell. (Ibid., Vol. XII. p. 307.) 
 
 49. Notice of the death of John H. Temple. (Ibid., Vol. XIII. 
 
 p. 449.) 
 
 50. Notice of the death of Joseph Henry. (Ibid., Vol. XIV. p. 356.) 
 
 51. Notice of the death of H. W. Dove. (Ibid., Vol. XV. p. 383.) 
 
 52. Address as President on presenting the Rumford Medal to 
 
 J. Willard Gibbs. (Ibid., Vol. XVI. p. 292.) 
 
 53. Anticipations of the Lissajous Curves. (Ibid., Vol. XVI. p. 415.)
 
 126 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 54. Notices of the deaths of Richard H. Dana, of Edward Desor, 
 
 and of John W. Draper. (Ibid., Vol. XVII. p. 399, &c.) 
 
 55. On the Electro-dynamic Forces. (Proceedings of the American 
 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. II. p. 278.) 
 
 56. On a curious Phenomenon relating to Vision. (Ibid., Vol. II. 
 
 p. 369.) 
 
 57. On a singular Case of Interference in the Eye itself. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. VII. p. 23.) 
 
 58. On a Modification of SoleiFs Polarizing Apparatus. (Ibid., Vol. 
 
 VII. p. 24.) 
 
 59. On the Australian Weapon called the Boomerang. (Ibid., 
 
 Vol. XII. p. 45.) 
 
 60. On the Optical Method of studying Sound. (Ibid., Vol. XVI. 
 
 P- 25-) 
 
 6 1. On the Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. (Ibid., Vol. XVI. 
 
 p. 82.) 
 
 62. Sympathetic Vibrations between Tuning-Forks and Stretched 
 
 Cords. (Ibid., Vol. XVII. p. 103.) 
 
 63. On Methods of illustrating Optical Meteorology. (Ibid., Vol. 
 
 XIX. p. 64.) 
 
 64. On Sympathetic Vibrations. (Ibid., Vol. XXI. p. 59, and Journal 
 
 of Franklin Institute, May, 1873.) 
 
 65. Addresses as President at the Portland Meeting. (Ibid., Vol. 
 
 XXII. pp. 417-427.) 
 
 66. On a new Way of illustrating the Vibrations of Air in Organ-Pipes. 
 
 (Ibid., Vol. XXIII. p. 113.) 
 
 67. Address as retiring President. (Ibid., Vol. XXIII. pp. 1-36. 
 
 Republished in the Popular Science Monthly, American Jour- 
 nal of Science, and the London Philosophical Magazine.) 
 
 68. On a new Method of Measuring the Velocity of Electricity. 
 
 (Ibid., Vol. XXIV. p. 35. Also, Journ. de Physique, Tom. VI. 
 
 P- 2 59-) 
 
 69. Shooting Stars. (American Journal of Science, Vol. XXXV. 
 
 P- 323-) 
 
 70. The American Prime Meridian. (Ibid., N. S., Vol. IX p. 184.) 
 
 71. The Aneroid Barometer. (Ibid., N. S., Vol. IX. p. 249.) 
 
 72. On the Velocity of Light and the Sun's Distance. (Ibid., N. S., 
 
 Vol. XXXVI. p. 1 6 1.) 
 
 73. Melloni's Researches on Radiant Heat. (American Almanac, 
 
 1850, pp. 64-81.)
 
 JOSEPH LOVERING. 127 
 
 74. Animal Electricity. (Ibid., 1851, pp. 74-89.) 
 
 75. Recent Discoveries in Astronomy. (Ibid., 1852, pp. 66-90.) 
 
 76. Comets. (Ibid., 1853, pp. 68-88.) 
 
 77. Atmospherical Electricity. (Ibid., 1854, pp. 70-82, and 1855, 
 
 pp. 65-76.) 
 
 78. Lightning and Lightning Rods. (Ibid., 1856, pp. 65-85.) 
 
 79. Terrestrial Magnetism. (Ibid., 1857, pp. 67-84.) 
 
 80. Theories of Terrestrial Magnetism. (Ibid., 1858, pp. 67-80.) 
 
 81. On the Boomerang. (Ibid., 1859, pp. 67-76.) 
 
 82. On the Aurora Borealis and Australis. (Ibid., 1860, pp. 55-76.) 
 
 83. On Meteorology. (Ibid., 1861, pp. 58-80.) 
 
 84. On the Pressure of the Atmosphere and the Barometer. (Ibid., 
 
 1862, pp. 42-67.) 
 
 REVIEWS. 
 
 85. Guyot's Physical Geography. (Christian Examiner, Vol. XLVII. 
 
 p. 96.) 
 
 86. Humboldt's Cosmos. (Ibid., Vol. XLVIII. pp. 53-88.) 
 
 87. Skepticism in Science. (Ibid., Vol. LI. pp. 209-250.) 
 
 88. Spiritual Mechanics. (Ibid., Vol. LV. pp. 1-21.) 
 
 89. Thompson and Kaemtz on Meteorology. (North American 
 
 Review, Vol. LXXI. pp. 5 1-99.) 
 
 90. Elementary Works on Physical Science. (Ibid., Vol. LXXII. 
 
 PP- 35 8 -395-) 
 
 91. Michael Faraday. (Old and New, Vol. I. p. 47.) 
 
 92. Reports on Lighthouses. By Benjamin Peirce and Joseph 
 
 Lovering. (Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. XVIII. 
 p. 249, 1849.) 
 
 93. On the Internal Equilibrium and Motion of Bodies. (Cambridge 
 
 Mathematical Miscellany, Vol. I. pp. 31-41.) 
 
 94. On the Application of Mathematical Analysis to Researches in 
 
 the Physical Sciences. (Ibid., pp. 33-81 and 121-130.) 
 
 95. Encke's Comet. (Ibid., pp. 82-92.) 
 
 96. The Divisibility of Matter. (Ibid., pp. 169-182.) 
 
 97. Boston and Science. (Memorial History of Boston, Vol. IV. 
 
 PP- 4S9-5 26 -) 
 
 98. Article on the Telegraph. (American Cyclopaedia, last edition.) 
 
 99. Address at the Dedication of the Mural Monument to the Mem- 
 
 ory of Dr. James Walker, in the Harvard Church, Charles- 
 town.
 
 128 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 SUBJECTS OF LECTURES AT THE LOWELL INSTITUTE. 
 
 1840-41. Electricity and Magnetism. 
 
 1841-42. Mechanics. 
 
 1842-43. Astronomy. 
 
 1843-44. Optics. 
 
 1845-46. Astronomy. 
 
 1853-54. Electricity and Magnetism. 
 
 1859-60. Astronomy. 
 
 1865-66. Light and Sound. 
 
 1879-80. Connection of the Physical Sciences. 
 
 He also edited, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences. Six volumes, from V. to X. inclusive, and part of Volume 
 XI. 
 
 Also, Proceedings of the same Academy, Volumes VII., VIII, and 
 XVII. 
 
 T 
 
 ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL. 
 
 HE following statement is kindly furnished by Robert T. 
 S. Lowell, under date of Schenectady, July 5, 1882. 
 
 " After graduation, I went through a full course of medi- 
 cine without taking a degree. In 1835 or 1836 went into 
 business under my eldest brother. After leaving that occu- 
 pation, went to Schenectady to study for holy orders, under 
 Rev. Dr. A. Potter, then lately from St. Paul's Church, 
 Boston. Meeting the Bishop of Newfoundland (with Ber- 
 muda), Dr. Spencer, went, at his suggestion, to be ordained 
 by him in Bermuda, having already passed examination and 
 being about to be ordained by Bishop Griswold of Massachu- 
 setts. Was ordained Deacon in 1842 and Priest in 1843, and 
 appointed domestic chaplain to the Bishop. Asked for and
 
 ROBERT T. S. LOWELL. I 2Q 
 
 got an appointment to Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, as mis- 
 sionary under the English Society for Propagating the Gos- 
 pel. Came home and married Mary Ann, eldest daughter of 
 James Duane, of Duane. After a famine in which I broke 
 down by serving and sharing with my parishioners, having 
 received the thanks of the Colonial Secretary, came home. 
 By appointment of Bishop Doane, began a mission in a poor 
 quarter of Newark, N. J., rebuilt a beautiful little church, and 
 after eleven years' service, chiefly among the poor, in 1859 
 accepted the rectorship of Christ Church, Duanesburg, N. Y., 
 a parish founded by Judge Duane, my wife's great-grand- 
 father, who was appointed by Washington United States Dis- 
 trict Judge in New York, by the same act by which my own 
 grandfather, John Lowell, was appointed to the same office in 
 Massachusetts. In 1868, chosen Professor of Belles- Lettres 
 in Racine College, Wisconsin, but declined. After ten years' 
 work among the farmers at Duanesburg, accepted the head- 
 mastership of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. In 
 1873 was chosen Professor of Latin Language and Literature 
 in Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., and in 1879 re- 
 signed that place. 
 
 "Have published the following: 
 
 The New Priest in Conception Bay (several moderate editions). 
 
 Fresh Hearts that failed Three Thousand Years ago, and other Poems. 
 
 Poems by Author of " The New Priest," &c. 
 
 Antony Drade, a Story of a School. 
 
 A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town. 
 
 " Of course many stray things in prose and verse, of which, 
 perhaps, I may mention the Harvard Commemoration Hymn, 
 which Mr. Thomas Hughes has quoted several times, a hymn 
 for the dedication of the Town Hall in Southborough, Mass., 
 and a poem for the Centennial Celebration by the citizens of 
 Saratoga County of the battle (with Burgoyne) at Bemis 
 Heights."
 
 130 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Mr. Lowell also writes, October 20, 1882, that he has six 
 children living, as follows : 
 
 Perceval (H. C. 1870), now General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, 
 
 Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. 
 James Duane (H. C. 1874, and Lawrence S. S. 1877), now among 
 
 the miners in Colorado. 
 Charles is Manager of the Bombay Branch of the Comptoir d'Es- 
 
 compte de Paris. 
 Robert Traill Spence (Union C. 1880) is in Chicago in the service of 
 
 the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. 
 And two daughters, Mary Anna and Rebecca Russell. 
 
 None of his children are married. 
 
 WILLIAM MACK. 
 
 THE secretary has received the following notice of 
 this classmate, from a well-informed and judicious 
 chronicler. 
 
 " William Mack, son of Elisha and Catherine Sewall Pyn- 
 chon (Orne) Mack, was born in Salem, Mass., August 11, 
 1814. Prepared for college at the Latin Grammar School, 
 Salem, then under the charge of Theodore Eames, Esq. 
 Graduated at Harvard University in the class of 1833. The 
 two years following his graduation, was a teacher in New 
 Bedford, Mass. In 1835 commenced the study of medicine 
 with John C. Warren, M. D., of Boston; the last year of his 
 medical course, the House Surgeon in Massachusetts Gen- 
 eral Hospital; received the degree of M. D. in 1838, at 
 Harvard. 
 
 " Passed two years in Europe, devoting his time to his pro- 
 fessional studies in Paris, to visiting the hospitals and schools 
 in some of the principal cities, and to foreign travel. 
 
 "He returned to this country in the autumn of 1840, and
 
 GEORGE HENRY NICHOLS. 131 
 
 commenced the practice of the profession in Salem, where he 
 has continued to the present time, taking a leading position 
 among the physicians and surgeons of this city and its 
 vicinity. 
 
 " He has always been interested in the scientific and literary 
 institutions of his native place, and in some of them held 
 prominent positions ; and has also rendered assistance to the 
 promotion of some of the industries that have from time to 
 time been introduced." 
 
 GEORGE HENRY NICHOLS. 
 
 BOSTON, August 23, 1882. 
 
 DEAR WALDO, I will with pleasure answer your ques- 
 tions. 
 
 I was born in Portland, Me., August 26, 1814. I entered 
 Exeter Academy, August, 1825. I entered Harvard College, 
 August, 1829. After leaving college, having adopted the 
 medical profession, I graduated at the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, March, 1836, after two years' study there, having pre- 
 viously studied one year at Bowdoin College. Was married, 
 November, 1836, to Sarah A. Atherton, of Portland, Me. 
 Practised my profession in Buffalo, N. Y., about one year 
 and a half. Removed to Standish, Me., June, 1839. Prac- 
 tised there twenty years. Removed to Boston, June, 1859, 
 where I still reside, in the same street to which I at first came. 
 Have had six children ; three are living at this date. 
 
 Sincerely your friend, 
 
 GEO. H. NICHOLS. 
 
 The secretary adds to the above the following: 
 
 The eldest son of Dr. Nichols is Dr. John T. G. Nichols, 
 well known as a physician in Cambridge. He took a medi-
 
 132 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 cal degree at Harvard in 1859, and has long been upon 
 the Examining Board of the University appointed by the 
 Overseers. He married a daughter of Dr. Oilman, of Port- 
 land, Me., and has now three children. A younger son, W. 
 A. Nichols, graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School in 
 1865, and is holding an important post in the Engineering 
 Department of New York City. He is unmarried. 
 
 The only surviving daughter married F. L. Hills, a West 
 Point graduate, who has now a responsible position on the 
 New York and New England Railroad. They have three chil- 
 dren. A younger daughter married R. C. Johnson (H. C. 
 1864), and died some years ago, leaving two children. 
 
 So that our classmate has eight grandchildren. 
 
 WILLIAM DANDRIDGE PECK. 
 
 WILLIAM DANDRIDGE PECK, after graduating, 
 studied medicine with Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck 
 (the first of that name), of Boston, completing his prepara- 
 tory studies with Dr. Wilder, of Leominster, Mass. On taking 
 his degree as M. D., he accepted an invitation of Dr. Kendall, 
 an old physician of Sterling, Mass., to begin practice there as 
 his partner. In 1838 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. 
 Wilder. She died in 1853, leaving two daughters. Two years 
 after her death, he married Mary Esther Willard, of Sterling, 
 by whom he had another daughter, born in 1871. He gave 
 up practice a few years after his first marriage, and thence- 
 forth devoted himself to the affairs of the town and county. 
 In connection with that useful avocation, he has been a direc- 
 tor in various important institutions whose central offices were 
 in the cities of Worcester and Fitchburg. In 1848 and 1849, 
 and again in 1854, he represented Sterling in the General 
 Court, and in 1859 he was in the State Senate.
 
 EDWARD J. STEARNS. 133 
 
 WILLIAM MACKAY PRICHARD. 
 
 WILLIAM MACKAY PRICHARD, after graduating, 
 chose the profession of the law. He studied in New 
 York City with Mr. William Emerson (H. C. 1818). On being 
 admitted to the bar, he formed a partnership with that gentle- 
 man. This continued until Judge Emerson gave up practice 
 and retired to spend his last years with his younger brother, 
 Ralph Waldo, at Concord, Mass. Mr. Prichard next formed a 
 connection with William G. Choate (H. C. 1852). This lasted 
 until Mr. Choate was appointed United States District Judge. 
 
 The law firm as originally formed, of Emerson and Prich- 
 ard, and continued to the present time with younger men, of 
 which Mr. Prichard has long been senior partner, has always 
 maintained an eminently respectable and thoroughly reliable 
 position at the New York Bar. 
 
 Mr. Prichard married, in April, 1852, Miss Eliza Plummer, 
 of New York City. 
 
 EDWARD JOSIAH STEARNS. 
 
 FAULKLAND, DEL., September 7, 1882. 
 
 MY DEAR HIGGINSON, 
 I send you herewith, as I promised you two or three 
 months ago, " the most important facts of my life." 
 
 Born in Bedford, Middlesex County, Mass., Feb. 24, 1810; 
 brought up a Puritan of " the straitest sect " ; prepared for 
 College, first at the Academy at Concord, where I boarded in 
 the family of John Thoreau, father of Henry David (or, as he 
 was then called, David Henry) Thoreau, afterwards at the
 
 134 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Warren Academy, Woburn; entered the freshman class at 
 Amherst at the beginning of the third term, May, 1830; 
 entered sophomore at Harvard in September of the same 
 year ; after graduating, went to Norfolk, Va. ; taught in a 
 private family there, from September to February, and (as 
 you may remember) in a classical school in Alexandria, D. C., 
 from March to August; had charge, the next year, of a clas- 
 sical school at the "Five Corners," Dorchester, Mass. ; entered 
 the Theological Seminary at Andover, October, 1835; left 
 there the following January, and studied in private ; " licensed 
 to preach" by the Woburn Association, April, 1836; in 1839, 
 " Preceptor " of the Fuller Academy, West Newton ; became 
 a Churchman that year ; ordained Deacon by Bishop Griswold, 
 on Trinity Sunday, 1840, in St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower 
 Falls, and took charge of St. James's Church, Amesbury; 
 
 1841, Professor in Jubilee College, Peoria County, Illinois; 
 
 1842, instructor in a young ladies' school, Richmond, Va. ; 
 
 1843, ordained Priest by Bishop Whittingham, the fourth 
 Sunday in Advent, in St. Peter's Church, Baltimore, and 
 became Rector of Grace Church, Elk Ridge Landing, Md. ; 
 
 1845, Professor in the College of St. James, near Hagerstown ; 
 
 1846, Professor in the Baltimore " Central Male High School " 
 (now City College) ; 1847, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Elli- 
 cott City; 1849, Professor in St. John's College, Annapolis; 
 1853, instructor in a classical school in Philadelphia; 1854, 
 Professor in St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, near Baltimore ; 
 1856, Submaster of the Public Latin School, Boston; 1857, 
 in ill health and laid on the shelf; 1858, instructor in Mystic 
 Hall Seminary for Young Ladies, West Medford ; 1859, again 
 at St. Timothy's, Catonsville; July, 1860, to May, 1861, at my 
 mother's in Bedford, she being paralytic and bed-ridden, and 
 my brother, Elijah W. (class of 1838), having had a leg 
 amputated, and lying hovering between life and death, all that 
 autumn and winter; April 22, hanged and burned in effigy in 
 
 fr 
 
 my native place by certain " lewd fellows of the baser sort,"
 
 EDWARD J. STEARNS. 135 
 
 and some more respectable ones gone crazy by the war ; it 
 did them good, and didn't hurt me; May i, went from Bed- 
 ford to Newark, N. J., and took charge of The House of 
 Prayer, in the absence of the Rector in Europe (in the Vestry 
 were United States Senator Wright and Ex-Governor Price) ; 
 September 26 (being the Fast Day appointed by President 
 Lincoln) preached a sermon entitled " The Sword of the 
 Lord," from Jer. xlvii. 6; September 30, left Newark for 
 Baltimore ; at the request of friends there and in Newark, 
 published the sermon, through Waters, Baltimore ; it went 
 rapidly to the third edition, more than twelve hundred copies 
 being sold in a few weeks; 1862, Rector of St. Paul's Parish, 
 Centreville, Md. ; February 2, fourth Sunday after Epiphany, 
 preached a sermon entitled " The Powers that Be," from the 
 epistle for the day, Rom. xiii. I ; this was also published by 
 Waters; 1864, again at St. Timothy's, Catonsville ; 1866, in- 
 structor in a classical school at Cambridge, Md. ; 1868, Chap- 
 lain of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane; 1869, Associate 
 Editor of Bledsoe's Southern Review; 1870, in charge of 
 Trinity Parish, Elkton, Md., in the absence of the Rector; 
 1871 to 1878. Rector of St. Mary's Whitechapel Parish, Den- 
 ton, Md. 
 
 Since 1878 I have been pretty much laid on the shelf, 
 except with my pen. Among its productions, besides those 
 already mentioned, are these : 
 
 Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1853. 
 i2mo, pp. 210. 
 
 Afterpiece to the Comedy of Convocation. Hartford : Church Press 
 Company, 1870. i6mo, pp. 168. 
 
 Birth and New Birth : A New Treatment of an Old Subject. Second 
 Edition. Baltimore: George Lycett, 1873. i6mo, pp. 122. 
 
 The Faith of Our Forefathers, being an Examination of Archbishop 
 Gibbons's "Faith of Our Fathers." New York: T. Whittaker, 
 1879. Fifth Edition, 1881. i2mo, pp. 380. 
 
 The Archbishop's Champion brought to Book. New York : T. Whit- 
 taker, 1 88 1. i6mo, pp. 122.
 
 136 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 You will see from the foregoing that I have been a rolling 
 stone, gathering no moss. Cause, inability to 
 
 " Lick absurd pomp, 
 
 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
 Where thrift may follow fawning." 
 
 You will see, further, from the date of this, that I have 
 changed my residence. Faulkland is seven miles and a half 
 from Wilmington by the Delaware Western Railroad. If you 
 ever come to Wilmington, don't fail to come out here and pay 
 me a visit. You will find a hearty welcome. 
 
 If I am alive and well, I shall endeavor to be with you next 
 Commencement. But there 's a good deal in that " if," for I 
 have not the strength that I had a year ago. That I have 
 lasted as long as I have, is in the teeth of the doctrine of the 
 "survival of the fittest"; but I don't believe in that doctrine, 
 at least where mind and heart enter into the problem. 
 I remain, your old classmate and friend, 
 
 EDWARD J. STEARNS. 
 
 HENRY WARREN TORREY. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE, May 21, 1883. 
 
 MY DEAR HIGGINSON, 
 In compliance with your request, I send you a few 
 biographical notes. My life has not been eventful enough 
 for a long record. 
 
 Having spent, after taking my degree, four years in teach- 
 ing, and in work on Leverett's Latin Lexicon, I removed to 
 New Bedford, and began to study law. After being admitted 
 to the bar in 1840, I returned to my previous occupation of 
 teaching. This calling I have followed in school or in col- 
 lege, with little interruption, to the present time.
 
 NATHANIEL S. TUCKER. 137 
 
 From 1844 to 1848 I was a tutor in Harvard College; from 
 1848 to 1856 I kept a private school for girls in Boston; and 
 from 1856 I have been McLean Professor of History in Har- 
 vard College. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 H. W. TORREY. 
 
 In 1879, Professor Torrey received from the College, with 
 his classmates Professors Bowen and Lovering, the degree 
 of LL. D. 
 
 NATHANIEL SAVILLE TUCKER. 
 
 PEORIA, ILL., July i, 1882. 
 
 DEAR HlGGINSON, 
 After getting my degree of M. D. in 1837, I practised 
 medicine in South Boston for a short time. 
 
 In 1840 I came to Peoria, where I acted as county physi- 
 cian for about two years ; then went into the drug business. 
 
 In 1866 my partner and myself gave up the drug business, 
 and since then we have been loaning money, looking after 
 our real estate, and other matters. 
 
 Our firm of Tucker and Mansfield is the oldest in the city, 
 we having been connected in business over forty years. 
 
 I was never married, which sometimes I regret and some- 
 times I do riot. 
 
 Regretting that the details are so meagre and common- 
 place, I remain, with regards to the class, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 N. S. TUCKER. 
 
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 138 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 WINSLOW MARSTON WATSON. 
 
 WINSLOW MARSTON WATSON, soon after gradu- 
 ating, chose the calling of a journalist. After fledging 
 his wings in Boston he went to Troy, N. Y., and his subse- 
 quent career is described in the following communications. 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29, 1882. 
 
 MY DEAR HIGGINSON, 
 
 Your favor of the 2;th is at hand. In reply, " I have the 
 honor to state," as we used to say, or write, in the Treasury 
 Department, that I was editor of the " Troy Daily Whig " 
 from December, 1839, to July, 1845 5 of the "Albany States- 
 man," and "Albany Express," from 1846 to 1850; of the 
 "Syracuse Star" from 1850 to 1852, when I came to Wash- 
 ington ; from which city I corresponded with the " New York 
 Express" from 1852 to 1869. The American Organ was 
 published in 1855 and 1856. I was connected with it more 
 in a financial than an editorial capacity. 
 
 In 1860 I was one of the editors of the "Union Guard," 
 a campaign paper in the interest of Bell and Everett. Dur- 
 ing the past ten years I have written many articles for the 
 " Washington Sunday Herald." I was a very warm politician 
 for many years, but now I feel very much like poor Dr. 
 Maginn when he wrote for the " Noctes " these lines : 
 
 " He would bore us with gabber critical 
 About your curst scribes of verse or prose. 
 Send him to rest with the unpolitical, 
 I never would wish to get drunk with those." 
 
 From April, 1861 to August, 1869 I was in the War and 
 Treasury Departments, and for two or three years thereafter 
 in the Congressional Library and Census Office.
 
 CHARLES A. WELCH. 139 
 
 P. S. Early this morning I was dreaming of our Alma 
 Mater. I am glad to hear the " old lady " is more flourish- 
 ing than ever. Give my love to her. 
 
 I am your sincere friend, 
 
 WINSLOW M. WATSON. 
 
 Under date of Washington, July 21, he writes: 
 
 " My wife and I were married in Grace Church, Newark, 
 N. J., by Rev. John Lee Watson, August 9, 1852. Her name 
 was Louisa E. Gibbons, a daughter of James Gibbons, who 
 came from Oxfordshire, England, to Albany, N. Y., in 1792. 
 His wife, Esther Robinson, a native of Windsor, was often 
 patted on the head by old Queen Charlotte, when a child, 
 
 as she walked along the Castle terrace I copy from 
 
 'Annals of Albany' the following notice of Mr. Gibbons: 
 ' February 8, 1826, James Gibbons, Alderman of the Fifth 
 Ward, died. If ever a worthy man died, he was that man. 
 In the language of Burns, ' he had the patent of his honors 
 immediately from Almighty God.' In every sense of the 
 word his loss will be severely felt.' " 
 
 CHARLES ALFRED WELCH. 
 
 BOSTON, November 8, 1882. 
 
 DEAR HlGGINSON, 
 I taught Latin and Greek at the "Academical Depart- 
 ment of the University of Maryland," in Baltimore, one year, 
 commencing a week or so after I graduated. It went by the 
 name of Baltimore College in common parlance. I com- 
 menced the study of the law in Baltimore, while I was a 
 teacher, in the year 1834; then studied two terms at the
 
 140 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 Law School of Harvard University, went to Springfield in 
 the summer, not being well, and studied that summer, say 
 about four months, with Bliss and Dwight. Mr. Bliss was 
 afterwards President of the Western Railroad. Mr. William 
 Dwight, as you knew, subsequently engaged in manufac- 
 turing, and was treasurer of certain mills. I ended off in 
 Sprague and Gray's office, and was admitted to the bar at 
 the April term of the Court of Common Pleas in Suffolk 
 County, Mass. This term ended May 17, 1837, but the 
 record does not show the date of my admission. I went into 
 partnership with Edward D. Sohier, in March, 1838, and the 
 partnership has continued unchanged, without addition or 
 subtraction, from that date to this, over forty-four years, and 
 I suppose will so continue till death closes the concern. 
 
 Perhaps I should add, that I was born January 30, 1815 ; 
 went to Latin School in September, 1823, a few months 
 before I was nine years old, and was always frightened when 
 asked my age till I became nine, the legal age for entering ; 
 remained at Latin School six years, the last year being what 
 was then called a resident graduate. 
 
 August 20, 1844, I married Mary Love Boott, daughter of 
 Kirk Boott, of Lowell ; have two children, Charles A. Welch, 
 who seems lately to have retired from business, and Francis 
 C. Welch, a member of the bar of Suffolk County, who before 
 studying law was for some years at Washington College, of 
 which that distinguished man, Robert E. Lee, was President. 
 
 I believe that this answers all your questions. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 CHARLES A. WELCH.
 
 MORRILL WYMAN. 
 
 THOMAS WIGGLESWORTH. 
 
 THOMAS WIGGLESWORTH, born and bred in Boston, 
 has always lived in that City. 
 
 After graduating, in 1833, he read law for about two years, 
 at Northampton, and in the office of Hon. Charles G. Loring 
 of Boston. But preferring commerce to law, he went into 
 his father's counting-room on India Wharf, and became a 
 merchant. 
 
 He continued in business for many years, but gradually 
 gave it up, and occupied himself with the care of property, 
 his own and others', and the various trusts incident thereto. 
 
 He is a cultivated and liberal patron of art. He has also 
 responded readily to the demands of his Alma Mater. 
 He has never married. 
 
 W. H. 
 
 MORRILL WYMAN. 
 
 I WAS born, July 25, 1812, in Chelmsford, Middlesex 
 County, Mass. I am the second son of Rufus Wyman 
 and Ann (Morrill) Wyman. My father was born in Woburn, 
 Mass., in 1/78, and died in Roxbury, Mass., in 1842. My 
 mother, a daughter of Deacon James Morrill, was born in 
 Boston in 1784, and died in Roxbury in 1843. 
 
 In 1818 my father moved to the McLean Asylum in 
 Charlestown as its first physician and superintendent, and 
 here was my home for seventeen years. My early education 
 was first with my brothers at the town school in Charlestown, 
 then in Lexington under the care of Rev. Caleb Stetson, then
 
 142 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 in a private school in Charlestown. After a year at an acad- 
 emy in Chelmsford, I went in 1827, with my brother Jeffries, 
 to Phillips Exeter Academy, entered Harvard College in 1829, 
 under President Quincy, and was graduated in regular course 
 in 1833. 
 
 The next Monday morning after graduation I reported for 
 duty as an Assistant Engineer on the Boston and Worcester 
 Railroad to its Chief Engineer, Col. John M. Fessenden. I 
 was then not in good health, but my active duties as an 
 assistant on a railroad on which no rail had as yet been laid, 
 and the open air life, were of great use to me. After a little 
 more than a year's work, finding my health improved, and 
 having earned sufficient money with economy to make it safe 
 for me to attempt the study of a profession, in the autumn 
 of 1834 I entered my name as a medical student with Dr. 
 William Johnson Walker, an eminent physician and surgeon 
 of Charlestown. Under Dr. Walker I studied in the usual 
 manner of those days, reading such books as men presented 
 to me, and seeing such cases as came to my instructor's 
 office, and occasionally visiting with him a few of his other 
 patients, while making his usual medical visits. Listening to 
 the observations and teachings of a most acute observer, and 
 being directed to the best sources of information as to the 
 particular case, I enjoyed opportunities now seldom offered 
 to medical students. At the same time I attended the winter 
 courses of Lectures in the Medical School of Harvard Uni- 
 versity. In 1836 I was appointed House Physician to the 
 Massachusetts General Hospital, residing within its walls one 
 year, and was admitted to the degree of Doctor in Medicine 
 at the Commencement following. On the I4th of September 
 of the same year (1837), I went to Cambridge to establish 
 myself in the practice of medicine and surgery, and there I 
 have remained to the present time. 
 
 On the 1 4th of August, 1839, I was married to Elizabeth 
 Aspinwall Pulsifer, daughter of Captain Robert Starkey
 
 MORRILL WYMAN. 143 
 
 Pulsifer, a Boston shipmaster; with her presence I am still 
 blessed. I was elected a member of the American Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences, June 9, 1843, and in 1856 Adjunct 
 Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine 
 in Harvard College Medical School. From 1875 to the 
 present time I have, been an Overseer of the College, having 
 been elected for two successive full terms. 
 
 In 1850 I invented and gave to my profession a method 
 of removing fluids from the various cavities of the body, 
 especially the chest. It consists essentially of a " trocar and 
 cannula " of a very small diameter fitted to an " exhausting 
 syringe." By these means an operation before considered as 
 always dangerous, and often fatal, has been rendered effectual, 
 safe, and almost painless. In various forms it has gone into 
 general use, and has been applied to a much larger variety of 
 cases than was at first suggested. I hope it may give relief 
 and restore to health the subjects of disease long after my 
 name shall have been forgotten. 
 
 My children are: Elizabeth Aspinwall, born July 23, 1840, 
 cjied March 2, 1862; Anna Morrill, 1 born July 23, 1840; 
 Morrill, born July 10, 1855; Jeffries, born June 15, 1859, 
 died August 26, 1860. 
 
 MORRILL WYMAN. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE, February 15, 1883. 
 
 1 Married Charles F. Walcott, Esq., of the Boston Bar, and has children. 
 
 NOTE TO PAGE 99. William Page Andrews devotes much time to letters, 
 and is a poet. The poems of Jones Very, published many years ago under the 
 auspices of Mr. R. W. Emerson, have just been republished, with an introduc- 
 tory memoir by Mr. Andrews, written in good taste and eloquently.
 
 LIST OF STUDENTS, 
 
 SOME TIME IN THE CLASS OF 1833, WHO DID NOT 
 GRADUATE WITH IT. 
 
 *AMORY, GEORGE WILLIAM. 
 
 BAILLIO, GERVAIS. 
 *BALDWIN, LOAMMI. 
 *CARTER, JAMES. 
 *DUNKIN, CHRISTOPHER. 
 * ONES, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. 
 *Jov, JOHN BENJAMIN. 
 *KEATING, HORACE. 
 
 KING, RUFUS TILDEN. 
 LAWRENCE, RUFUS BIGELOW. 
 *MOODY, WILLIAM HENRY. 
 *MURDOCK, JOHN. 
 OLIVER, FRANCIS EBEN. 
 PARKER, Lucius. 
 PRAY, ISAAC CLARK. 
 PRESCOTT, THOMAS OLIVER. 
 SHIMMIN, WILLIAM. 
 TEMPLE, HENRY WARING LATANE. 
 
 18
 
 NOTICES OF STUDENTS, 
 
 SOME TIME IN THE CLASS OF 1833, WHO DID NOT 
 GRADUATE WITH IT. 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM AMORY. 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM AMORY was born on the 23d 
 of November, 1814. He entered college from Milton, 
 Mass. His name appears on the annual catalogue only in 
 the freshman and sophomore years. During the former he 
 was the chum of Charles A. Welch. 
 
 Soon after leaving college, he went to Evansville, Ind., 
 where his family had extensive landed property. Here he 
 married Mary Phillips, of Utica, N. Y. He remained at Evans- 
 ville about twenty years. He then returned to Massachusetts, 
 and soon established himself at the Coolidge House, Bowdoin 
 Square, Boston, where he spent the rest of his life, and where 
 he died on the /th of October, 1882. 
 
 When after the war the Harvard Alumni proposed to build 
 Memorial Hall at Cambridge, he generously subscribed and 
 paid $1,000 towards the sum raised for that purpose, the 
 largest gift from any individual credited to the class. 
 
 He had three sons. Of these the eldest, John Lowell 
 Amory, lived in Evansville, where he married. He died there 
 in 1872, leaving five children. The other two, Francis and 
 George Kirkland Amory, now live with their mother at the 
 Coolidge House. The youngest of these, George K., is a 
 member of the Nebraska Bar.
 
 148 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 GERVAIS BAILLIO. 
 
 AS nothing has been heard directly from this classmate, 
 the secretary here inserts the substance of a letter 
 written in 1858 by Mr. Baillio, which gives the record of his 
 life to that date. 
 
 He went home to Louisiana in the early part of the senior 
 year, and became engaged in marriage, while fully intending 
 to return and graduate with the class. His mother was so 
 much opposed to his going back, however, that he aban- 
 doned his intention, purchased a tract of wild land, married, 
 and became a planter. 
 
 For twelve years, from 1839 to 1851, he resided in the 
 parish of Avoyelles, and for seven years, from 1839 to 1846, 
 was Parish Judge. This office, now abolished, involved a 
 multiplicity of arduous duties, both judicial and ministerial, 
 the chief of which were those of probate. In 1851, finding 
 his plantation, near Alexandria, required more of his personal 
 attention, he returned to it. He wrote from this plantation, 
 situated in his native parish of Rapides, which in point of re- 
 sources and wealth ranks as the third in the State, and contains 
 a population second to none in intelligence and refinement. 
 
 He has had ten children, six sons and four daughters; the 
 eldest a son then of about twenty- five years of age, the 
 youngest a son born the 7th of April, 1858. His eldest son 
 lived with him, and assisted in his planting affairs. His 
 second had a taste for mechanics, and was, when the letter 
 was written, on his way to a machine-shop at Mount Vernon, 
 Ohio. His third was at one of the Missouri colleges ; and 
 the rest of his children were under his own roof. 
 
 In July, 1882, wishing to hear from this wise old classmate,
 
 GERVAIS BAILLIO. 149 
 
 the secretary wrote to the Postmaster at Alexandria, La., to 
 inquire about him, and received the following answer : 
 
 ALEXANDRIA, LA., July 28, 1882. 
 
 MY DEAR SlR, Your communication to the Postmaster 
 at this place, making inquiry of my father, Gervais Baillio, has 
 been duly received, and in reply I am happy to say that he 
 still lives, enjoys robust health, is in the seventy-second year 
 of his age, splendidly preserved, and weighs about two hun- 
 dred and twenty-five pounds. 
 
 My dear old father remembers you well as a dear friend and 
 classmate, and desires me to say that he recalls with pleasure 
 the sweet reminiscences of the " Coffee Club." 1 
 
 He is off in haste from home in the morning, and requests 
 that I inform you that as soon as he returns it will afford 
 him great pleasure to respond to your much appreciated 
 inquiry. 
 
 I am his youngest child, (am twenty-four years of age,) and 
 it is I to whom he has intrusted the acknowledgment of your 
 remembrance. Hoping to be honored with a letter from you, 
 at your earliest convenience, 
 
 I am, yours very respectfully, 
 
 WM. L. BAILLIO. 
 
 MR. WALDO HIGGINSON, Boston, Mass. 
 
 I answered this cordial letter addressing the father on 
 August 20, 1882, giving a full account of all the changes in 
 his circle of friends that I supposed would interest him. 
 
 Receiving no answer, I wrote again, and have done so re- 
 peatedly, but still no reply. 
 
 Whatever may have been the reasons which led to this 
 silence, it is certain that to those who knew Mr. Baillio at Cam- 
 bridge he must always remain a fitting type of Terence's 
 " Antiqua homo virtute ac fide." 
 
 1 The " Coffee Club " consisted of Baillio, Higginson, Jackson, and Stone, 
 and met every week.
 
 150 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 LOAMMI BALDWIN. 
 
 LOAMMI BALDWIN was the son of B. F. Baldwin, and 
 nephew of those distinguished civil engineers, Loammi, 
 James F., and George R. Baldwin. His grandfather, Colonel 
 Loammi Baldwin, commanded a regiment in the Revolution, 
 and early in this century was intrusted by the proprie- 
 tors with superintending the construction of the Middlesex 
 Canal. 
 
 Our classmate's name appears on the annual catalogue 
 only in the freshman and sophomore years. After leaving 
 college, he followed for a few years the family calling in this 
 vicinity. He then went West, and bought land in Scott 
 County, Illinois. Here he became a farmer, continuing to 
 pursue engineering as opportunity offered. He suddenly died, 
 of disease of the heart, on the 1st of March, 1855. In 1847 
 he had married Helen Avery, of the same county in Illinois, 
 who survived him, but died in 1858. They had two children, 
 a son and a daughter. The son, Loammi F., adopted the 
 profession of the family, and is at present a mining engineer 
 in California. The daughter, Mary E., married Mr. Darius 
 Mathewson, of Pomfret, Conn., where she now resides. 
 
 JAMES CARTER. 
 
 JAMES CARTER entered College at Commencement, 
 1829, from Lancaster, Mass., and died, much lamented, 
 at Cambridge, March 20, 1830.
 
 CHRISTOPHER DUNKIN. 151 
 
 CHRISTOPHER DUNKIN. 
 
 r I ""HE following obituary of this distinguished classmate 
 -- appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser of January 29, 
 1 88 1. It was written by Professor Bowen, who was, during 
 Mr. Dunkin's residence in Cambridge, his intimate com- 
 panion. 
 
 Those who have still some remembrance of the interior 
 history of Harvard College, and of society in Cambridge, 
 from 1832 to 1836, must have read with sorrow the recent 
 announcement of the death of the Hon. Christopher Dunkin, 
 a judge of one of the higher courts in Canada, aged sixty- 
 eight years. He died at Knowlton, near Montreal, January 6, 
 1 88 1, and his remains were brought to McGill College, of 
 which he had long been one of the governing body and in 
 whose affairs he had taken much interest. Most of the mem- 
 bers of the bench and the bar, as well as the faculty of the 
 college, attended his public funeral there on the nth, either 
 as pall-bearers or mourning spectators, the coffin being borne 
 to Christ Church Cathedral, where the last rites were per- 
 formed and interment took place. A meeting of the bar 
 was also held and resolutions were passed, expressing the 
 respect and affection with which they had long regarded 
 the deceased. 
 
 Those who were his friends in his early youth will be 
 struck with the contrast between this dignified termination 
 of his career, ripe in years and honors, and its brilliant but 
 checkered beginning here at Harvard, almost exactly half a 
 century ago. They first knew him as a precocious and viva- 
 cious English boy, fluent in speech and attractive in manners, 
 who had already won for himself, in two universities in the 
 mother country, a high reputation for scholarship and talent,
 
 152 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 and who evidently cherished a firm purpose of becoming still 
 more distinguished in his new home. Born in London, the 
 only son of a widow with small means, he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Glasgow at the age of fifteen, and carried off its 
 highest honors at the end of a twelvemonth, as the first 
 prizeman of his year. Seeking a new field for effort, he 
 spent the next year at the University of London, then just 
 created, with high expectations by the liberal party, as an 
 offset to the aristocratic and Tory institutions at Oxford and 
 Cambridge. Here also he succeeded, being declared first 
 scholar of his class during the single year that he remained 
 with them. During this period his frequent amusement was 
 to attend the strangers' gallery in the House of Commons, 
 in order to hear the debates; and being conscious of his 
 own marvellous command of language in extemporaneous 
 talk, he here first formed and nursed his great ambition of 
 becoming a distinguished debater and statesman.* One may 
 smile at so lofty a purpose to be cherished by a mere boy; 
 but it betokened a generous disposition. Meanwhile his 
 mother had married again, and his stepfather, Dr. Jonathan 
 Barber, having emigrated to this country, was appointed 
 teacher of elocution here at Harvard in 1829, an office for 
 which, in spite of some eccentricities of manner, he had 
 peculiar and high qualifications. I could point out some 
 distinguished clergymen and lawyers in our neighborhood 
 who were indebted for their first success in the pulpit and 
 at the bar to the enthusiasm for the art of rhetorical delivery 
 which was created here by the lectures of Dr. Barber. Nat- 
 urally young Dunkin followed his mother by emigrating to 
 this country and coming to her home at Cambridge, where 
 he was matriculated in his third university by becoming a 
 member in its junior year of the class which had entered as 
 freshmen in 1829. Respected by all his Harvard classmates 
 for his brilliant talents and amiable character, he was a great 
 favorite with a few of them, who soon became his particular
 
 CHRISTOPHER DUNKIN. 153 
 
 friends because they sympathized with his tastes, appreciated 
 his literary attainments, and liked his enthusiasm. He was 
 sanguine, ambitious, and perhaps a little vain ; with such 
 antecedents, he would have been more than mortal if some 
 boyish vanity had not been developed in him. Frank and 
 cheery in temperament, cordial in his manners, generous in 
 disposition, a lively talker and a delightful companion, he 
 was a being made to be admired and loved by all who really 
 came to know him. 
 
 But his great gift, as I have already intimated, was his 
 wonderful fluency and correctness of speech on the spur of 
 the moment. Give him any topic whatever for disquisition 
 or debate, and he would discourse upon it for the hour to- 
 gether, often in stately and ornate diction, and always with 
 so correct use of language, that, if his words had been taken 
 down by a stenographer, and printed just as he uttered them, 
 the verbal critic would have had no fault to find with them. 
 Edward Everett himself, no mean proficient in this difficult 
 art, after once hearing Dunkin lecture extemporaneously, as 
 he always did, remarked: " He must be bewitched to be able 
 to talk thus, for he certainly bewitches his audience." What 
 debates we had in the Harvard Union, a college debating 
 society in those days, when Dunkin was our premier, our 
 William Pitt, our "leader of the house." 
 
 He did not graduate, the routine of fixed hours and set 
 tasks being burdensome to him, and the pleasure and profit 
 of lecturing at country lyceums, then in their first gloss of 
 novelty and popularity, induced him to leave college early 
 in his senior year. Thus he spent about a year in each of 
 three different universities, and graduated in neither. But 
 Harvard almost immediately gave him an honorary degree, 
 and appointed him Tutor in Greek before he was twenty-one 
 years old. He was abundantly qualified for the post in point 
 of scholarship, but in every other respect the appointment 
 was a mistake, both for him and for the College. As a 
 
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 154 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 foreigner, far more conversant with the customs and man- 
 ners of British than of American universities, he did not 
 understand the nature of Yankee undergraduates in those 
 days, who were the most kindly fellows in the world with 
 an instructor whom they liked, but a perfect nest of hornets 
 to one who was unpopular on account of his youth and his 
 nationality, and who was also sensitive in temperament. A 
 series of petty annoyances followed, which were perhaps too 
 sternly repressed by the Faculty, and so the rebellion of 1834 
 broke out, the most formidable tempest in a teapot which 
 Cambridge has witnessed during the present century. Dunkin 
 was made unhappy by it, but he manfully withstood the storm, 
 and continued to be tutor for a second year after the excite- 
 ment had passed away. Meanwhile a family attachment had 
 sprung up, and in 1835 he married the daughter of his step- 
 father, the lady who was the joy and light of his home for 
 his whelp subsequent life, and who survives him to mourn 
 her great bereavement. 
 
 Leaving Cambridge soon after his marriage, he began the 
 study of law, and we next hear of him as private secretary 
 of the Hon. Charles Buller, the associate of Earl Durham 
 in the government of Canada after the Papineau rebellion 
 in that Province in 1837. He aided Buller in drawing up 
 the famous " Canada Report," which prepared the way for the 
 establishment of virtual autonomy in the government of the 
 English colonies. The recall of Earl Durham put an end to 
 this engagement, and Mr. Dunkin then applied himself ear- 
 nestly and successfully to his practice at the bar. His great 
 ability as an advocate in the courts soon became manifest, 
 and he justly acquired an eminent place in the profession, 
 and was henceforward a prosperous man. After a while his 
 ambition for a political career was kindled afresh. He was 
 elected to the Canadian Parliament, became a member of 
 the ministry, and took a leading share in the debates on the 
 perplexing questions respecting the clergy reserves and the
 
 JONES. JOY. 155 
 
 conversion of the feudal tenures. But experience proved that 
 his organization was too delicate and his tastes too refined 
 for the coarse details and intrigues of colonial politics, and 
 he gladly withdrew to the comparative quiet of his labors at 
 the bar. Promotion to the bench soon followed, and the 
 remainder of his career was honored, prosperous, and un- 
 eventful. He had gathered around him -many associates and 
 loving friends in the home of his maturer years ; but by none 
 of these will his death be more regretted, or his memory be 
 more fondly cherished, than by those who were his compan- 
 ions and admirers during his youthful career at Harvard just 
 half a century ago. 
 
 ONE OF HIS CLASSMATES. 
 
 Cambridge, January 27, 1881. 
 
 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS JONES. 
 
 W r ILLIAM AUGUSTUS JONES was with the class 
 only part of the freshman year. After leaving 
 Cambridge, he went into a counting-room, and became a 
 commission merchant in Cincinnati and New Orleans, after- 
 wards a planter in Texas, where he died. He married and 
 had children. 
 
 JOHN BENJAMIN JOY. 
 
 JOHN BENJAMIN JOY was the son of Benjamin and 
 Hannah (Barrell) Joy, and was born in Boston, Janu- 
 ary 3, 1814. Joseph Barrell, the father of Mrs. Joy, owned 
 and occupied the 'farm at Somerville, Mass., afterwards the
 
 156 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 property of the McLean Asylum for the Insane. His house 
 was the large central building of the group now used by 
 that institution. 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Joy died, September 14, 1829, just at the 
 commencement of his son's college life. Our classmate's 
 name appears only on the roll of the freshman year, and 
 again in the senior year, as a university student. In the 
 latter year he had the apartments on Harvard Street sub- 
 sequently taken and still occupied by the Porcellian Club. 
 Of this society he was a prominent member. 
 
 After leaving Cambridge, he returned to Boston. He never 
 studied any profession or engaged in any business. 
 
 On the 6th of January, 1835, ne married Ellen Marion, 
 daughter of Hon. Stephen White, of Salem, Mass. They 
 had six children, but one only survived them, Charles H. Joy, 
 now the head of the house of Joy, Lincoln, and Motley, selling 
 agents for several large manufacturing establishments. 
 
 Mr. Joy was an intimate friend of Fletcher Webster, and 
 closely connected with him by marriage. He was naturally, 
 therefore, often at Marshfield, and remained through life much 
 in the Webster circle, a position peculiarly agreeable to 
 one of his genial temperament. He was the more fitted for 
 it, because he sympathized strongly in that love of field 
 sports which pervaded the atmosphere of Green Harbor. 
 He was a good shot and an expert angler, so that he could 
 offer congenial companionship even to the great statesman 
 himself. 
 
 In the spring of 1858, and again in the autumn of 1859, he 
 visited Europe with his wife and son. 
 
 Mrs. Joy died at their summer residence in Lynn, Mass., 
 May 8, 1861. Her husband survived her just three years, and 
 died at Marshfield, May 5, 1864.
 
 KEATING. KING. LAWRENCE. 157 
 
 HORACE KEATING. 
 
 HORACE KEATING was with the class in the fresh- 
 man and sophomore years, and then left Cambridge. 
 He afterwards went South, and became a planter in Missis- 
 sippi, where he married a widow, and died in 1853 or 1854. 
 
 Of the striplings that went up to be examined the day after 
 Commencement, 1829, none was brighter or handsomer than 
 Horace Keating ; but the above shadowy record gives all that 
 can now be learned of him, even in the city of his birth, in 
 whose immediate vicinity a large family connection continue 
 to reside. 
 
 RUFUS TILDEN KING. 
 
 THE name of Rufus Tilden King appears on the annual 
 catalogue of the first three years. He then left col- 
 lege, subsequently joined the class of 1834, and graduated 
 with it. 
 
 RUFUS BIGELOW LAWRENCE. 
 
 THE name of Rufus Bigelow Lawrence appears on the 
 annual catalogue of the first two years. He then left 
 college, subsequently joined the class of 1834, and graduated 
 with it.
 
 158 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY MOODY. 
 
 'I T 7ILLIAM HENRY MOODY, son of Paul and Susan 
 * L. Moody, was born in Byfield, Mass. His father was 
 a distinguished mechanic, one of those remarkable men 
 whom the Lowells, the Jacksons, and the Bootts had the gift 
 to draw around them in that busy decade following 1820, 
 which ushered in the American factory system. The son 
 came to college from Lowell, but his name appears on the 
 annual catalogue only in the freshman year. At the end of it 
 he left Cambridge and entered upon business pursuits. He 
 married Martha, daughter of Dr. John Brickett, of Newbury- 
 port, and died at that place, November 7, 1841, leaving a 
 widow and three daughters. 
 
 JOHN MURDOCH. 
 
 JOHN MURDOCH, after leaving college in the sophomore 
 year, entered a counting-room in Boston. He left this 
 for a similar position at New Orleans, where he remained 
 several years. 
 
 In 1 850 he returned to Boston, married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Mr. William Smith, a sea-captain of that port, and then 
 went a second time to New Orleans. From that city he re- 
 moved to St. Louis. Then he lived for many years in New 
 York, where he was attached to the water-works. Finally 
 he was employed in San Francisco. 
 
 In each place his longings to become an artist, and his 
 occasional trials as such, prevented his entire success as a 
 clerk. With early instruction in the profession that he loved, 
 he would probably ^have attained distinction.
 
 FRANCIS EBEN OLIVER. 159 
 
 At San Francisco, he was struck down by paralysis. He 
 was removed to the East, and died, May 16, 1871, at country 
 lodgings in Pepperell, Mass. 
 
 His wife died several years before him. They had one son 
 and four daughters. His son John (H. C. 1873) is now at 
 Point Barrow, in Alaska, enlisted in the United States service 
 as Observer, and in that of the Smithsonian Institute as 
 Naturalist. His papers, published in the Boston Daily Adver- 
 tiser, October 21 and November 4, 1882, give an interesting 
 account of scientific life in the Arctic region. 
 
 Mr. Murdoch's daughters live with their relatives at Rox- 
 bury, Mass. 
 
 FRANCIS EBEN OLIVER. 
 
 FRANCIS EBEN OLIVER, son of Francis Johonnot and 
 Mary Caroline (Alsop) Oliver, was born November 24, 
 1813. His father (H. C. 1795), who died in 1858, was a well- 
 known and much respected citizen of Boston. 
 
 Our classmate's name appears in the annual catalogue only 
 in the junior year. He was an invalid from childhood, and 
 while a boy accompanied Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Gould to Europe, 
 whence he returned in 1830. He entered college the follow- 
 ing year, but was obliged to leave before becoming senior, on 
 account of weakness of eyes. This and a great tendency to 
 rheumatic affections prevented him from entering on any pro- 
 fession, and made him an exile. He travelled extensively, 
 preferring the South of Europe and the vicinity of the Medi- 
 terranean, on which he was fond of cruising about in sailing 
 vessels. He was in France and Italy on several occasions of 
 great political excitement, and has left very complete journals
 
 I6O THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 filled with interesting details. He crossed the Atlantic many 
 times, but the state of his health gradually curtailed the length 
 of his Boston visits. The last three years of his life were 
 passed abroad, and he died in London, June 9, 1850, at the 
 age of thirty-seven. His remains were brought home and 
 interred in the family tomb under King's Chapel. 
 
 Such is the short record of a man who was greatly loved 
 and valued by the best of his contemporaries. Though largely 
 cut off, by ill health, from facilities of acquiring knowledge, 
 he yet became a well-read man generally, and a good belles- 
 lettres scholar. He was a cultivated lover of art, and an 
 extremely agreeable talker. It was his character, however, 
 more than his .accomplishments, that endeared him to his 
 friends, a genial, sunny nature, a spontaneous flow of spirits, 
 triumphing over bodily ailments, made him a delightful com- 
 panion, whose presence always brought cheer to a large home 
 circle. But the epithet that best befits him is 
 
 " The grand old name of gentleman." 
 
 With that high ideal he must ever be associated, and it is 
 recalled with the memory of his marked personal appear- 
 ance, his tall, slender figure, his refined expression, and 
 his pale, dark skin, indicative of Huguenot descent. 
 
 LUCIUS PARKER. 
 
 'THHE name of Lucius Parker appears on the annual cata- 
 -*- logue only in the freshman year. He then left col- 
 lege, subsequently joined the class of 1834, and graduated 
 with it.
 
 ISAAC CLARK PRAY. i6l 
 
 ISAAC CLARK PRAY. 
 
 TO those of the class who remember the freshman year, 
 this name will recall an alert young man, prominent in 
 class gatherings, and rather premature in all things, who had 
 already the reputation of an author. It was a joke of Wat- 
 son's that the society of the I. O. H. born of our freshman 
 year " had a library chiefly consisting of Fray's works." 
 
 He left college at the end of the first year, and was lost 
 sight of. Nearly forty years after, Jeffries Wyman, whose 
 loyal heart kept all the traditions of our undergraduate days, 
 says, in a letter dated July 4, 1868 : " I went to Portland a few 
 days since, when a youngish-looking gentleman put his hand 
 on my shoulder, who proved to be nobody else than the poet 
 of our class (not the class poet), on his way to make arrange- 
 ments for a performance of the Bateman Opera Troupe. It 
 was refreshing to learn how large a part he plays in the world, 
 in writing for newspapers, in various services in the cause of 
 the legitimate drama, translating operas into blank verse, 
 aiding indigent individuals to opportunities for usefulness in 
 connection with the press, and ever so much besides. He 
 is the best preserved man of our whole number, and will 
 compete even with Lowell." 
 
 It was not until it became necessary to learn something 
 about him for Commencement, 1883, that the secretary found 
 this sometime classmate had quite surpassed his early prom- 
 ise. In Drake's Dictionary of American Biography appears 
 the following : " Pray, Isaac Clark, editor, author, and dram- 
 atist, born in Boston, 1813, died in New York, November 
 28, 1869. Graduated at Amherst College, 1833. Son of a 
 Boston merchant of same name. Some time connected with 
 the Journal of Commerce, and afterward wrote for the Herald ; 
 was the author of ' Virginius,' and was very successful as a 
 
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 1 62 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 theatrical manager. He trained many celebrities for the stage, 
 among whom was Charlotte Cushman. He was in England 
 in 1846-47, and performed successfully at the Queen's Thea- 
 tre, London, and the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, and Cork, in 
 the highest walk of the drama. Author of ' Prose and Verse,' 
 I2mo, 1835; 'Poems,' I2mo, 1837; 'Book of the Drama,' 
 8vo, 1851 ; ' Memoirs of J. G. Bennett,' 1855 ; and of several 
 burlesques and plays. Edited 'The Shrine,' a monthly, pub- 
 lished at Amherst, 1831-33; 'Boston Pearl,' weekly, 1834; 
 also many other magazines and reviews." 
 
 Dr. Charles Deane, of Cambridge, who kindly discovered 
 the above, writes that Mr. Pray married Miss Helen Henry, 
 of South Hadley, Mass., and had two children, daughters, 
 now married. 
 
 OLIVER PRESCOTT. 
 
 OLIVER PRESCOTT, born in Boston, May 29, 1814, 
 was the son of Samuel Jackson and Margaret (Hiller) 
 Prescott. He entered Harvard College at the commence- 
 ment of 1829, and remained during the freshman year, long 
 enough to show his earnestness as a student ; but before the 
 next year began, he was obliged to leave on account of his 
 eyes. 
 
 In April, 1831, he went to Cuba for the benefit of his 
 health. He remained there a year, and returned much im- 
 proved. He then took a situation in the Woodward High 
 School at Cincinnati, to teach Latin and Greek. He next 
 began the study of the law with Judge Timothy Walker of 
 that city (H. C. 1826). He gave up this profession to 
 become Pastor of the Swedenborgian Church in Cincinnati, 
 in which office he remained till 1847.
 
 PRESCOTT. SHIMMIN. 163 
 
 He then returned to Boston and sailed for Europe, where 
 he travelled one year. In 1848 he took charge of the Swe- 
 denborgian Society in Glasgow, Scotland. Here he mar- 
 ried, June 5, 1849, Jessie Mackie, who died childless in 1854. 
 In this year he took the name of Hiller, after his maternal 
 grandfather, Major Joseph Hiller, a soldier of the Revolution, 
 appointed by Washington the first Collector of Salem, Mass., 
 then an important position. What rendered this change of 
 name more attractive to our classmate was doubtless that 
 Major Hiller was an early admirer of the writings of Baron 
 Swedenborg, and imported the first entire set of his works 
 that came to America. 
 
 Oliver Prescott Hiller went to London soon after his wife's 
 death, took charge of the church there, and in 1864 married 
 Emma Stokes. 
 
 He was all his life a hard student, in spite of defective 
 vision. He is said to have spoken eloquently and to have 
 reasoned closely, and though eccentric and somewhat hot- 
 tempered he was honored wherever known, a reputation 
 easily credited by those who remembered him as a boy. 
 His last literary work was a translation of the Psalms, left 
 incomplete at his death. His last illness was from softening 
 of the brain, brought on, it was thought, by overwork, his 
 labor ceasing only with his life. 
 
 He died in London, May 11, 1870, leaving his widow and 
 three children in that city, where they still reside. 
 
 WILLIAM SHIMMIN. 
 
 \ WILLIAM SHIMMIN was the son of William and Eliza 
 ^ ^ (Parker) Shimmin, of Boston. He entered Harvard 
 College at the Commencement of 1829, and left at the end 
 of the freshman year.
 
 164 THE CLASS OF 1833. 
 
 On leaving college he went into a counting-room, and sub- 
 sequently was in business in Boston and New York. 
 
 He married twice, and had five children, two sons and three 
 daughters. The sons died before him. He himself died at 
 St. Louis, Missouri, July 23, 1876. 
 
 HENRY WARING LATANE TEMPLE. 
 
 TV /TR. TEMPLE was in the class during the freshman 
 i. J. year only. To the secretary's inquiry of the post- 
 master at the place of his residence twenty-five years ago, 
 the following answer came. 
 
 MILLER'S TAVERN, ESSEX Co., VA., 
 October 23, 1882. 
 
 MR. WALDO HIGGINSON : 
 
 Dear Sir, I have been requested to answer your letter of 
 inquiry about Rev. H. W. L. Temple. I am sorry to state 
 that Mr. Temple died eleven years ago, February, 1871. He 
 was for twenty years the faithful pastor of South Farnham 
 Parish (P. E. C.) of Essex. Six children are now alive, 
 three sons and three daughters. The three sons are two in 
 Arkansas and one in Texas. The three daughters live here 
 in Essex. I married the oldest daughter, and will gladly 
 furnish any additional information, if desired. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 WARNER LEWIS, M. D.
 
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