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A CATALOGUE, 
 
 WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES, 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Portraits, Busts, etc 
 
 BEI/ONGING TO 
 
 yALE UNIVERSITY 
 
 1892 
 
 Printed by order of the Corporation 
 
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 JHIVERSITTj. 
 
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 PRESS OF TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE A TAYLOR. 
 
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 PREFATORY NOTE 
 
 A "Catalogue of Paintings, belonging to Yale College; deposited 
 in the South Room of the Trumbull Gallery," edited by Mr. Edward 
 C. Herrick, was printed in 1852 (odlavo, 31 pages); but the edition 
 was soon exhausted, and the pamphlet has never been reprinted. 
 
 In the present catalogue it has been thought best to include, with 
 the separate portraits, busts, statues, and bas-reliefs, owned by the 
 University, the miniatures by Colonel John Trumbull, contained in 
 the colledlion of his paintings deposited in the Art School ; there will 
 also be found in an Appendix lists of the authentic portraits in the 
 well-known series of Revolutionary paintings by Colonel Trumbull 
 comprised in the same colledlion. Free use has been made of Mr. 
 Herrick's Catalogue in the following descriptions ; and valuable aid in 
 the additional notices has been received from many friends. 
 
 The size of the canvas in the several paintings is given, in inches ; 
 the Trumbull miniatures are all of uniform size, oval, 2>% x 2,H inches. 
 
 F. B. D. 
 
 Yai<e University, 
 March, 1892. 
 
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 CATALOGUK 
 
 PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS 
 
 John Adams, second President of the United States, was 
 born in that part of the town of Braintree, Mass., which 
 was afterwards made the town of Quincy, October 31, 
 1735, and died in Quincy, July 4, 1826. 
 
 Among the miniatures (oval, 3^x3^) in the Trumbull 
 Collection, in the Yale School of the Fine Arts, is one of 
 the head of President Adams, painted in Philadelphia in 
 1792, when Trumbull was in that city for the purpose of 
 painting General Washington. The artist had known 
 Adams familiarly from 1780 to 1788, in Paris and lyondon, 
 and was highly esteemed by him. 
 
 DR. ALLEN 
 
 A miniature by Colonel Trumbull, painted in 1827, 
 bearing this name, has not been further identified. It 
 represents a gentleman (apparently a civilian) not over 
 fifty years of age, with brown hair, smooth face, and fresh 
 complexion. 
 
 HON. FISHER AMES 
 
 Fisher Ames was born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758, 
 and died in the same place, July 4, 1808. 
 
 Mr. Ames, after a distinguished career as a lawyer and 
 orator in his native State, was ele(5led to the Federal Con- 
 gress in 1788, and withdrew from that ofiice in 1796, on 
 account of failing health. 
 
 The painter, John Trumbull, executed this miniature of 
 Mr. Ames in Philadelphia in 1792. 
 
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 HON. ROGER SHERMAN BAI^DWIN 
 
 Roger Sherman Baldwin, a son of the Hon. Simeon 
 Baldwin (Yale 1781), of New Haven, and grandson of the 
 Hon. Roger Sherman, was born in New Haven, January 4, 
 1793, and was graduated at Yale in 181 1. His life was 
 spent in his native city, where he attained the first rank in 
 the profession of the law. The inscription on his monu- 
 ment gives succindlly the events of his public career : 
 
 Admitted to the Bar in this city 
 
 in 1814 ; 
 
 Senator of the State 
 
 in 1837 and 1838 ; 
 
 Representative in the General Assembly 
 
 in 1840 and 1841 ; 
 
 Governor of Connedlicut 
 
 in 1844 and 1845 ; 
 
 United States Senator 
 
 from 1847 to 1 85 1 ; 
 
 Presidential Eledlor 
 
 in i860 ; 
 
 Member of the National Peace Convention 
 
 in 1861. 
 
 Governor Baldwin died in New Haven, after a briet 
 illness, on the 19th of February, 1863, at the age of 70. 
 
 This portrait (281^x36), presented by the family, is a 
 replica by Rufus Wright of one which he painted for them 
 soon after Governor Baldwin's death. 
 
 JOSEPH BATTEI.L 
 
 Joseph Battel! was born in Norfolk, I^itchfield County, 
 Connedlicut, on the 17th of April, 1806. His father, 
 Joseph Battell, a native of Torrington in the same county, 
 was an enterprising and successful merchant in Norfolk, 
 where he married in 1805 Sarah Robbins, a daughter of 
 the minister of the town. 
 
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 The son was graduated at Middlebury College in 1823, 
 and until 1830 was a mercnant in his native place. He 
 then removed to New York City, where he was actively- 
 engaged in mercantile business until his death, which 
 occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 8th of July, 1874. 
 
 Mr. Battell gave $5000 in 1854 as a fund to be devoted 
 to encouraging and sustaining sacred music in the chapel 
 of Yale College ; and when the project of eredling a new 
 chapel was first entertained, he responded to the suggestion 
 with a gift of $30000, afterward increased by $5000. At 
 the time of his death the projected building was in process 
 of erection, and an unrestricted bequest to the College 
 contained in his will, of $50000, was applied to the com- 
 pletion of what was in consequence named the Battell 
 Chapel. A brass tablet on the inner walls of the chapel 
 bears a commemorative inscription. 
 
 This portrait is a copy (28x36) made by Thomas 
 Hovenden in 1889, of one painted from life about 1852 by 
 C. ly. Elliott of New York, and was presented by the 
 Hon. Robbins Battell in i 
 
 REV. DR. LYMAN BEECHER 
 
 Lyman Beecher was born in New Haven, Conn., October 
 12, 1775, the son of David and Esther (Lyman) Beecher, 
 and was graduated at Yale in 1797. 
 
 After a brief course of theological study under President 
 Dwight's dire(5lion, he began preaching in East Hamp- 
 ton, Long Island, in December, 1798, and was ordained 
 there in September, 1799. He was dismissed in April, 
 18 10, on account of insufficient support, and settled imme- 
 diately in Litchfield, Connec5licut, where he spent sixteen 
 years as pastor of the Congregational Church. Early in 
 1826, he accepted a call to the Hanover Church in Boston, 
 where he stood as a pillar of orthodoxy until the summer 
 of 1832. He then removed to Cincinnati, as President of 
 
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 I^ane Theological Seminary, where his acflive career closed 
 in 1850, at the age of 75. In 185 1 he returned to the east, 
 and he died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 
 10, 1863, in his 88th year. He was buried, at his own re- 
 quest, in New Haven, by the side of his intimate friend, 
 the Rev. Dr. Taylor. 
 
 A portrait (24 x 29^) by Chester Harding, painted 
 about 1 830, hangs in Alumni Hall ; and a copy (24}^ 
 X 2g%) of the same, presented in 1886 by W. T. R. Mar- 
 vin, of Boston, hangs in the I^ibrary of the Divinity School. 
 
 PROFESSOR TIMOTHY P. BEERS, M.D. 
 
 Timothy Phelps Beers, son of Deacon Nathan Beers, was 
 born in New Haven on December 25, 1789, and was grad- 
 uated at Yale College in 1808. He pursued medical studies 
 here under his brother-in-law, Dr. EH Ives, and here began 
 the practice of his profession in 181 2. In 1830 he was ap- 
 pointed a Professor in the Medical Institution of Yale Col- 
 lege, and he filled acceptably the chair of Obstetrics until 
 his resignation in 1856. After a short illness he died in 
 New Haven on September 22, 1858, in his 69th year. 
 
 His portrait (24^ x 30 j4), painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn 
 of New Haven, about 1825-30, hangs in the Faculty-room 
 at the Medical College. 
 
 JUDGE EGBERT BENSON 
 Egbert Benson was bom in New York City, June 21, 
 1746 ; and died in Jamaica, N. Y., August 24, 1833. 
 
 He was graduated at Kings (now Columbia) College in 
 1765, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was a staunch 
 patriot during the Revolution, a member of the Continental 
 Congress from 1784 to 1788, and of the first and second 
 United States Congresses, from 1790 to 1793. In later life 
 he occupied with credit high judicial positions. 
 
 The miniature in the Trumbull Colle(5lion was painted by 
 Colonel Trumbull in Philadelphia in 1792. 
 
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 BISHOP BERKEIvBY AND HIS FAMILY 
 
 George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne, was born of 
 an English family, near Thomastown, in the County of 
 Kilkenny, Ireland, March 12, 1685. At the age of fifteen 
 he was matriculated in Trinity College, Dublin, where he 
 spent the next thirteen years, being admitted to the degree 
 of B.A. in 1704, and to that of M.A. in 1707; in June, 
 1707, he was elected a Fellow of the College. His publica- 
 tions began as early as 1707, and in February, 1709, he re- 
 ceived Deacon's orders in the Irish Church. From 17 13 to 
 1 72 1 he was absent in England and on the Continent. In 
 August, 1 72 1, he returned to Dublin, as one of the chap- 
 lains of the Duke of Grafton, who was just appointed lyord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland, and in the following November he 
 was advanced to the degree of Do(5lor of Divinity. He 
 continued in residence at Trinity College as Senior Fellow 
 until his nomination to the Deanery of Derry, worth about 
 ;^iioo a year, in April, 1724. Meantime, in 1723, he had 
 unexpec5ledly fallen heir, by the death of a mere acquaint- 
 ance— Miss Esther Vanhomrigh (the ' ' Vanessa ' ' of Dean 
 Swift's correspondence) — to half her estate, or about four 
 thousand pounds. 
 
 Almost immediately after these events, and as . a conse- 
 quence of his increased means, he went to London, and for 
 the next four years devoted himself to obtaining a charter 
 and funds for a college in Bermuda, a cherished missionary 
 projedl designed, in his own words, " for the Better Supply- 
 ing Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Convert- 
 ing the Savage Americans to Christianity." A charter 
 which named him as the Principal of the proposed College 
 was secured in 1725, and more than ;^500o was subscribed 
 for an endowment ; the House of Commons also voted in 
 favor of a grant of public money, and Sir Robert Walpole, 
 the Prime Minister, promised accordingly ;^20ooo. This 
 promise was still unfulfilled when, on September 6, 1728, 
 
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 at the age of 43, Berkeley set sail in a ship which he had 
 hired for Rhode Island, where he intended to winter and to 
 purchase an estate, in order to settle a correspondence and 
 trade between that island and Bermuda. In the previous 
 month he had married Anne, daughter of John Forster, who 
 had been Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and 
 Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin. 
 Mrs. Berkeley accompanied her husband on his voyage, with 
 a friend of hers, Miss Handcock of Dublin ; the other mem- 
 bers of the party were John James, an Englishman, about 
 34 years of age, of Bury St. Edmonds, who succeeded to a 
 baronetcy in 1736, and died in 1741 ; Richard Dalton, an- 
 other wealthy young Englishman, from Lincolnshire ; and 
 John Smibert, the painter of the pidlure. Smibert was a 
 native of Edinburgh, of nearly the same age as Berkeley, 
 whose acquaintance he had formed in Italy, and had re- 
 newed in London, where he had painted Berkeley's portrait 
 in 1725. 
 
 On January 23, 1729, the vessel arrived at Newport, 
 where the Dean remained until midsummer ; meantime he 
 purchased a farm of about ninety-six acres, some three 
 miles to the eastwards, and built a house (still standing) 
 which he named Whitehall, and which he occupied for over 
 two years. During these years he became interested in 
 Yale College, through an acquaintance with the Rev. Sam- 
 uel Johnson (Yale 17 14), of Stratford, Connecticut, and 
 others ; and accordingly after his return to England (at the 
 end of 1 73 1, on the collapse of the Bermuda scheme) he 
 sent to the Trustees of Yale College a conveyance of his 
 farm at Whitehall, for the encouragement of classical learn- 
 ing. This handsome gift (which supports the Berkeley 
 Scholarship, still offered to each graduating class) was sup- 
 plemented in 1733 by the present of nearly nine hundred 
 volumes for the Library. 
 
 Dean Berkeley was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne, in the 
 south of Ireland, May 19, 1734; and died in Oxford, Jan- 
 
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 uary 14, 1753, in his 68th year. He was buried in the 
 Cathedral of Christ Church, Oxford, where a tablet is 
 ere(5led to his memory. 
 
 This painting (93 x 69^) was executed by Smibert at 
 Whitehall, probably in the fall of 1729, though there is a 
 tradition that the outline was sketched on the voyage from 
 Europe.* The principal JSgure is the Dean, in his clerical 
 habit. The lady with a child is his wife ; and the second 
 lady Miss Handcock. The gentleman writing at the 
 table is Mr. Dalton, and the gentleman standing behind 
 the ladies is Mr. James. The other gentleman in brown is 
 said to be Mr. John Moffat, a friend of the artist ; and the 
 remaining figure is Smibert himself. The Dean rests his 
 hand on a copy of Plato, and is supposed to be dicflating to 
 Mr. Dalton. 
 
 The painting was presented to the College by Isaac 
 Lothrop, Esq., of Plymouth, Mass., in 1808 ; it had long 
 been preserved in a room in Boston, which Smibert is said 
 to have occupied, and was purchased by the donor for the 
 college earlier in the same year from a Major Johnson of 
 Boston. 
 
 This is said to have been the first painting executed 
 in America, containing more than a single figure. Mr. A. 
 T. Perkins has printed in the Proceedings of the Massachu- 
 setts Historical Society for 1878 and 1879 lists of over fifty 
 other portraits by Smibert which are still extant. 
 
 An engraving of the head of Berkeley from this portrait 
 is prefixed to Professor Fraser's I^ife of Berkeley (Oxford, 
 1 871) ; and an artotype of the whole painting appeared in 
 President Porter's Discourse on Berkele}'- (New York, 1885). 
 
 An attempt was made by President Dwight in 1804 to 
 attach Berkeley's name to one of the College buildings 
 completed in 1803 ; but the attempt was unsuccessful, and 
 
 * A head of Berkeley by Smibert, which is said to have been painted 
 on the passage from Europe, is owned by the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society. 
 
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 the building named Berkeley Hall has always been known 
 as North Middle College. A decorated w^indow in the 
 Battell Chapel bears an inscription in Berkeley's honor. 
 
 HON. CIvARK BISSHLL 
 
 Clark Bissell, the eldest son of Joseph Bissell, a farmer in 
 I^ebanon, Connedlicut, was born in that town on the 7th of 
 September, 1782. He was graduated at Yale College in 
 1806, pursued the study of law in Fairfield, Connedlicut, 
 under the Hon. Samuel B. Sherwood and the Hon. Roger 
 M. Sherman, and in June, 1809, began practice in Norwalk, 
 Conne(5licut, which continued to be his residence through 
 his life. He was a member of the House of Representatives 
 of Connecfticut in 1829 and 1850, and of the State Senate in 
 1842 and 1843. From 1829 to 1839 he was a judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Errors in Connedlicut, and from May, 
 1847, to May, 1849, he served as Governor of the State. 
 
 In 1847, shortly before his eledlion as Governor, he ac- 
 cepted an invitation to succeed Judge Daggett as head of 
 the Yale I^aw School, and he continued in this relation un- 
 til his resignation, on account of age and infirmity, in 1855. 
 He closed his honored and useful life at his home in Nor- 
 walk, on the 15th of September, 1857, at the age of 75. 
 
 His portrait (21 x 26) was presented to the Law School 
 by the family of Governor Bissell, being a copy by C. Noel 
 Flagg, of New York City, from an original in their posses- 
 sion. 
 
 HON. JOHN BROOKS 
 
 John Brooks, son of Captain Caleb Brooks, was born in 
 Medford, Mass., in May, 1752, and died in the same town, 
 March i, 1825. 
 
 He had just begun prac5lice as a physician at the out- 
 break of the Revolution, during which he ser\^ed faithfully 
 
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 in the field, and attained the rank of colonel. For many 
 years from 1786 he was major-general of militia, and firom 
 1 8 16 to 1823 was Governor of the State. 
 
 John Trumbull painted his miniature (preserved in the 
 Trumbull CoUedlion) in Boston in the fall of 1790. 
 
 HON. JOHN BROWN 
 
 John Brown, the eldest son of John Brown, a Presbyte- 
 rian clergyman, and one of the earliest graduates of Prince- 
 ton College, was born near Staunton, Virginia, on Sept. 12, 
 1757. While a student at Princeton he enlisted in the army 
 as a volunteer aid to I^afayette ; and after the close of the 
 war he resumed his studies in William and Mary College, 
 Virginia, and then taught school while studying law. In 
 1782 he was admitted to the bar and began practice in 
 Frankfort, Kentucky. He was soon elecfted to the Vir- 
 ginia legislature as Senator from the counties composing 
 the Distric5l of Kentucky, and in 1787-8 was a delegate 
 from the same Distric5l to the Continental Congress. He 
 was a<5live in the movements for securing to the West the 
 navigation of the Mississippi, and in 1789 was eledled to 
 the I St United States Congress from this secflion of Virginia, 
 and served until the admission of Kentucky as a State, a 
 result which he was prominently conspicuous in securing. 
 He then became the first United States Senator from Ken- 
 tucky, serving from November, 1792, until March, 1805, 
 when he retired from public life. 
 
 He was the youngest member and the last survivor of the 
 Continental Congress, dying in Frankfort on August 29, 
 1837, at the age of 80. His son, Mason Brown, was grad- 
 uated here in 1820, and his grandsons, B. Gratz Brown and 
 John Mason Brown, in 1847 and 1856 respectively. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in . Philadelphia 
 in 1792. 
 
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 GEORGE TEMPIvE NUGENT GRENVII.LE, MAR- 
 QUIS OF BUCKINGHAM 
 
 George Temple Nugent Grenville, second son of the 
 Hon. George Grenville, was born on June 17, 1753. He 
 was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and entered Par- 
 liament in 1774. He succeeded an uncle as Earl Temple 
 in 1779, and in the later years of the American war was out- 
 spoken in his criticism of Government measures. In 1782 
 he went to Ireland as I^ord-Iyieutenant ; and on his return 
 to England a year later the King showed him marked 
 favor. He held office for a few days at the end of 1783 as 
 Secretary of State, and the next j^ear was created Marquis 
 of Buckingham. He served again as Ivord-I^ieutenant of 
 Ireland in 1787-89, but did not afterwards enter political 
 life. He died at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, on February 
 II, 18 13, in his 60th year. 
 
 This portrait (27^ X35}^) was painted by Trumbull in 
 England, probably in the last decade of the last century ; 
 it was presented to Yale College in 1845 by Robert Gilmor, 
 Esq., of Baltimore. 
 
 GOVERNOR WM. A. BUCKINGHAM 
 
 William Alfred Buckingham, eldest son of Deacon Sam- 
 uel Buckingham of lycbanon, Conn., was born in that town. 
 May 28, 1804. At the age of twenty he left his father's 
 farm for a clerkship in a dry-goods store in the neighboring 
 town of Norwich ; and there in 1826 he established himself 
 in the same business. He became interested soon in man- 
 ufadlures, which led to his withdrawal in 1848 from his 
 former business. He was mayor of the city for four years 
 between 1849 and 1858, when he was eledled Governor of 
 the State. To the last-named office he was re-eledled seven 
 times, and then declined further service. During the war 
 he co-operated promptly and heartily with President I^in- 
 
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 coin, and was untiring in his efforts to sustain the govern- 
 ment. After two years in private life, he was elected to the 
 Senate of the United States in 1868, and died at his home 
 in Norwich a few weeks before the expiration of his term, 
 on February 3, 1875, in his 71st year. 
 
 His private charac5ler was singularly pure and elevated, 
 and he was deeply interested in the leading religious and 
 philanthropic movements of the day, and contributed lib- 
 erally to their support. Besides other liberal gifts to the 
 Yale Divinity School, he gave in April, 1864, the sum of 
 $25000 to this Department, in recognition of which the 
 Professorship of New Testament Criticism and Interpreta- 
 tion has been called by his name. 
 
 The Divinity School has a portrait (28^^ x 35^) of Gov- 
 ernor Buckingham, which was painted in 1882 by Miss 
 Rebecca T. Porter, of New Haven, from a photograph. A 
 bust in plaster, by Henry Dexter, of Cambridge, Mass., 
 executed in i860, is in the University lyibrary ; the sculp- 
 tor undertook a series of the busts of the Governors then in 
 office in the United States, to be placed in the Capitol in 
 Washington, but the Civil War interfered with the consum- 
 mation of the plan. 
 
 REV. JOSEPH BUCKMINSTER, D.D. 
 
 Joseph Buckminster was a son of the Rev. Joseph Buck- 
 minster (Harvard College 1739), minister of Rutland, 
 Massachusetts, where he was born on the 14th of Odlober, 
 1 75 1. His mother was Lucy Williams, a niece of Redlor 
 Williams of Yale College, and first cousin of Jonathan Ed- 
 wards. Through the influence of his mother's family he 
 was sent to Yale, where he was graduated in 1770, and 
 where he remained as Berkeley scholar and as Tutor until 
 1778. The future President Dwight was associated with 
 him for three years in the tutorship, and remained his 
 warm friend through life. He was then called to the 
 
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 North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which 
 had just given up its pastor-eledl, the Rev. Dr. Stiles, to 
 the Presidency of Yale. Mr. Buckminster was ordained in 
 Portsmouth on January 27, 1779 ; and retained this charge 
 with distinguished credit until his death. The degree of 
 Dodlor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1803 by the 
 College of New Jersey. A serious illness in the autumn of 
 181 1 left him in a state of debility and mental depression, 
 and a journey to Saratoga Springs was at length decided 
 upon for his relief. He left home on the 2d of June, 181 2, 
 but was overtaken on the way by a severe relapse, and his 
 death occurred at Reedsborough, in Vermont, on the loth 
 of the same month. His memoirs by his daughter, Mrs. 
 Eliza Buckminster I^ee, were published nearly forty years 
 later, together with the memoirs of his gifted son, the Rev. 
 Joseph S. Buckminster (Harvard College 1800), of Boston, 
 who died the day before his father. 
 
 Throughout his life Dr. Buckminster retained a strong 
 attachment to the place of his early education, and in re- 
 sponse to this feeling his daughter, Mrs. Lee, gave to the 
 College in 1864 the only portrait (30 x 35) of him which 
 was ever taken ; it was painted in 1789 when he was about 
 38 years of age, and an engraving from it is prefixed to the 
 Memoirs already mentioned. 
 
 GENBRAI, RICHARD BUTI.ER 
 
 Richard Butler was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the ist 
 of July 1743, and was brought to America in his infancy by 
 his parents, who settled in the southern part of Pennsyl- 
 vania. About 1770 Richard and an older brother became 
 Indian traders in Pittsburgh. He entered the military ser- 
 vice of his adopted country in 1776, and was soon commis- 
 sioned as colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment. At 
 the close of the war he was raised to the rank of Brigadier 
 General. Subsequently he filled various civil ofl&ces, and 
 
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 in 1 79 1 he was made second in command, with the rank of 
 Major-General, in St. Clair's ill-fated expedition against 
 the western Indians. He fell in the defeat encountered on 
 November 4, 1791, on the borders of Ohio and Indiana, 
 while in command of the right wing of St. Clair's forces. 
 
 The miniature owned by the University was painted by 
 Trumbull in 1790 in Philadelphia, where General Butler 
 was in attendance as a member of the State Senate. 
 
 HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN 
 John Caldwell Calhoun, the son of Patrick Calhoun (a 
 native of Ireland) and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun, was 
 born in Abbeville Distri(5l, S. C, March 18, 1782. 
 
 After graduation at Yale in 1804, he studied law, partly 
 in South Carolina, and partly in the lyitchfield (Conn.) I^aw 
 School. He was soon eledled to the State lyCgislature, and 
 in 181 1 entered the National Congress. Throughout Mon- 
 roe's presidency (1817-25) tie was a member of the Cabinet, 
 as Secretary of War. He was ele(5led to the Vice-presi- 
 dency in 1824, and retained that office from March, 1825, 
 until December, 1832, when he resigned it in consequence 
 of the passage of the nullification ordinance. He was at 
 once eledled to the Senate of the United States, where he 
 remained until his resignation in March, 1843. President 
 Tyler called him into his Cabinet as Secretary of State, in 
 March, 1844, and on the expiration of his term a year later, 
 he resumed his place in the Senate, which he retained until 
 his death, in Washington, March 31, 1850. 
 
 Trumbull painted his miniature in Washington in 1827. 
 
 MAJOR HENRY WARD CAMP 
 Henry Ward Camp was born in Hartford, Conne(5licut, 
 February 4, 1839, the son of the Rev. Henry B. Camp (Yale 
 College 1 831). He was graduated at Yale College in i860, 
 
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 and left iipon his classmates a rare impression of the strength 
 and beauty of his Christian chara(5ler. After six months of 
 school- teaching, he began the study of law in Hartford, but 
 in December, 1861, accepted a commission as I^ieutenant in 
 the Tenth Volunteer Regiment of Conne<5licut Infantry. 
 He joined his regiment at once at Annapolis, and remained 
 in connection with it, as Adjutant from August, 1862, and 
 as Major from September, 1864, until his death. In July, 
 1863, after the unsuccessful assault on Fort Wagner, in 
 Charleston Harbor, during an armistice for the burial of 
 the dead and removal of the wounded, he was captured, and 
 spent the next nine months in prison in Columbia and Rich- 
 mond. He was killed on the 13th of Ocftober, 1864, while 
 leading an assault on the enemy's works, about four miles 
 from Richmond. 
 
 The record of his noble life, written by his most intimate 
 friend, the chaplain of his regiment, the Rev. Henry Clay 
 Trumbull, was published in 1865, under the title of ''The 
 Knightly Soldier." 
 
 This portrait (40 x 53) was painted in Boston about 1868 
 l^y J. Harvey Young, for Count Schwabe's proposed gallery 
 of Union soldiers, and was subsequently purchased by the 
 father of Major Camp and by him presented to the College 
 in 1872. 
 
 BIANCA CAPEIvLO 
 
 Bianca Capello, daughter of a Venetian noble, was born 
 in 1547, and in 1563 eloped to Florence, where she became 
 the mistress and afterwards the wife of Francesco de' 
 Medici. Grand Duke of Tuscany. She died in 1587. 
 
 In the Jarves Colle(5lion is a portrait of Bianca (No. 107, 
 17 X 23^), attributed by some authorities to Bordone 
 (1500-1570). 
 
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 MRS. CHARLES CARROIvIv, JR. 
 
 Harriet Chew was born in Philadelphia, 0(5lober 22, 
 1775, a daughter of Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew, by his 
 second wife, Klizabeth Oswald. 
 
 She was a great favorite of Washington, during his resi- 
 dence in Philadelphia as President ; and on occasion of his 
 sittings to Stuart for his portrait in 1796 he is said to have 
 secured when possible her company, saying that her con- 
 versation would bring out his most agreeable expression. 
 In 1799 she married Charles Carroll, of Home wood, near 
 Baltimore, the only son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. 
 She died April 10, 1861, in her 86th year. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in Philadelphia 
 in 1793. 
 
 GIUSEPPE CERACCHI 
 
 Giuseppe Ceracchi, an Italian sculptor, born in Rome on 
 July 4th, 1 75 1, came to Philadelphia in 1791, and executed 
 busts or medallions of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, 
 Madison, and other public men. Colonel John Trumbull 
 painted his miniature in 1792, which is preserved in the 
 Trumbull Colledion. 
 
 He soon after returned to Europe, and in October, 1800, 
 was engaged in a scheme to assassinate Napoleon Bona- 
 parte, for which he was executed in Paris on the 31st of 
 January, 1801. 
 
 CHARI.ES V, EMPEROR OF GERMANY 
 
 A portrait in the Jarves Collecftion (No. 118, 12 x 17), 
 attributed to Holbein, purports to represent the Emperor 
 Charles the Fifth (born 1500, died 1558) in middle life. It 
 appears, however, improbable that Holbein, who died in 
 1543, ever painted the Emperor. 
 
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 MRS. JOHN CHBNBVARD 
 
 Mary Julia Seymour, daughter of Colonel Thomas Sey- 
 mour (Yale 1755), was born in Hartford, Conn., on Febru- 
 ary 6, 1769. She was a celebrated beauty, and her minia- 
 ture was painted by Colonel Trumbull in 1792. 
 
 In November, 1794, she married Captain John Chenevard, 
 Jr., a merchant of Hartford, who died in 1808; she survived 
 until June 8, 1843, when she died at her daughter's house 
 in Hartford in her 75th year. 
 
 HON. SIMEON B. CHITTENDEN 
 
 Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was born in Guilford, Con- 
 necticut, March 29, 18 14, the son of Abel and Anna H. 
 (Baldwin) Chittenden. His mother was early left a widow, 
 with limited means, and he had begun to prepare for Yale, 
 when in his fifteenth year a clerkship in a store in New 
 Haven was offered him. He continued in New Haven un- 
 til 1842, when he engaged in the wholesale dry-goods trade 
 in New York City, in which he attained marked and contin- 
 uous success. His residence was in Brooklyn, where he was 
 closely identified with many public enterprises. 
 
 He took no adlive part in politics prior to the notable 
 presidential canvas of i860, in which he spoke in behalf of 
 the Republicans. After the close of the war for the Union 
 he took an intense interest in the financial problems with 
 which the government was confronted, and joined vigor- 
 ously in the discussions on these questions. At the close 
 of 1874 he retired from adlive business, having been in the 
 autumn of that year elec5led a representative in Congress for 
 the unexpired term of the Hon. Stewart I^. Woodford, re- 
 signed, and for the full term of the 44th Congress. He was 
 twice re-eledled, serving in all seven years. He was for 
 most of this time a member of the Committee on Banking 
 and Currency, and took an a(5live part in the financial and 
 fiscal legislation of the period. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 21 
 
 Throughout life he retained a warm affecftion for the Col- 
 lege where he had hoped to be educated ; and this feeling 
 was repeatedly manifested by generous gifts. Thus, in 
 1863, he gave $30000, which was combined with an earlier 
 gift of $5000, as an addition to the endowment of the Col- 
 lege Pastorate, in recognition of which the chair was subse- 
 quently named the Chittenden Professorship of Divinity. 
 He also contributed $1000 towards the eredlion of East Di- 
 vinity Hall in 1870. In January, 1887, he offered to bear 
 the expense of the construdlion of a new Library building, 
 which should be in part a memorial of his only daughter, 
 Mary Chittenden lyusk. He took great pleasure in the 
 progress of the work, which was begun in April, 1888 ; but 
 his health was already seriously impaired, and after a few 
 months of increasing feebleness, he died at his residence in 
 Brooklyn, on the 14th of April, 1889, in the 76th year of 
 his age. 
 
 A bust by F. Edwin El well, of New York City, executed 
 in 1890, and presented by Mr. Chittenden's family, stands 
 in the Reading Room of the Chittenden Library. 
 
 SHELDON CLARK 
 
 Sheldon Clark, son of Thomas Clark, Jr., and Susanna 
 Clark, was born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., 
 January 31, 1785. In early life he manifested a strong de- 
 sire for a liberal education, but during this period the death 
 of his father left him penniless, and he remained with his 
 grandfather, employed in the labors of the farm, until the 
 death of the latter in 181 1. Being now pecuniarily inde- 
 pendent, and at liberty to gratify his thirst for learning, he 
 passed several months in New Haven in 1811-12, in attend- 
 ance on the recitations and discussions held by President 
 Dwight and the lec5lures in natural philosophy and chemis- 
 try. He then returned to his farm in Oxford, and there 
 
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 pursued a course of adlive industry and close economy. But 
 his earnings were not for himself. He had, to use his own 
 words, ' ' determined to do all he could to patronize and 
 encourage literature and science." It was his own thought 
 to make Yale College the channel of his liberality, and 
 when his circumstances and his means are considered, his 
 bounty may well be termed munificent. 
 
 In 1823 he proposed to deposit with the college five thou- 
 sand dollars to be put at compound interest until it should 
 be quadrupled, and then to become the foundation of a pro- 
 fessorship, which was subsequently designated by him as 
 the " Clark Professorship of Moral Philosophy and Meta- 
 physics." The proposal being accepted, the amount was 
 deposited in June, 1823, and in 1846 the professorship thus 
 named was established. 
 
 In 1824 he presented the sum of one thousand dollars, to 
 be kept at interest for twenty-four years, on condition that 
 at the end of that period the corporation should appropriate 
 the sum of four thousand dollars, to found two scholarships. 
 The income of two thousand dollars is given for two years 
 to that applicant from each Senior Class in the College who 
 has the highest mark for scholarship, provided he resides in 
 New Haven each year, pursuing a course of study prescribed 
 by the Faculty. On failure of suitable candidates the 
 income is expended in premiums to undergraduates for 
 the encouragement of English composition or other branches 
 of learning. The first ele(5lion of a scholar on this founda- 
 tion was made in 1848. 
 
 Soon after the loss (by the wreck of the Albion in 1822) 
 of the large telescope belonging to the College, Mr. Clark 
 conceived the idea of replacing it with a better one. Ac- 
 cordingly in 1828-29 he paid into the treasury twelve hun- 
 dred dollars with which were purchased an excellent refrac- 
 tor (made by Dollond of London) of five inches aperture 
 and ten feet focus, and a pair of globes of 2 1 inches diam- 
 eter. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 23 
 
 By his last will (which was executed in 1823, before the 
 acceptance of his first benefa(ftion) he bequeathed to the 
 College nearly the whole of the residue of his estate. The 
 amount received in this way was $7043.22, and ab6ut four 
 hundred acres of land in Oxford (valued at $5789) which 
 by the terms of gift cannot be sold, but must be leased or 
 rented ; the income received from the land thus described 
 is, however, very scanty. 
 
 These various gifts amounted in value, as described, to 
 over $20000, — a larger sum than had up to that time been 
 received by the College from any single individual, 
 
 Mr. Clark served as a representative in the legislature of 
 the State in 1825, 1826, and 1835 ; and was the author of 
 several pamphlets on theological, moral and political sub- 
 jects. 
 
 He died in Oxford, suddenly, as the result of a fall from 
 a scaffolding in his barn, April 10, 1840, in his 56th year. 
 He was never married. 
 
 The portrait (24 x 30) in possession of the College was 
 painted in 1825 by S. F. B. Morse ; an engraving from it 
 was printed in the American Journal of Science for 1841, in 
 connec5lion with a biographical notice by Professor Silli- 
 man. 
 
 POPE CLEMENT VIII 
 
 Ippolito Aldebrandini was eledled Pope in 1592, and as" 
 sumed the name of Clement VIII. He died in 1605, at the 
 age of 69. He is the subjedl of a portrait in the Jarves Col- 
 ledlion (No. 76, 19 x 25) by an unknown hand. 
 
 DANIEI. T. COIT, M.D. 
 
 Daniel Tyler Coit, the only child of Daniel T. and Re- 
 becca (Coit) Coit, was born in the North society of Preston, 
 afterwards Griswold, Conn., April 7, 1806. His father. 
 
24 Yale University 
 
 who was a farmer, died in his infancy, and his mother mar- 
 ried in 1 8 15 Joseph Williams, of Norwich, Conn., a grad- 
 uate of Yale in 1797. 
 
 In 1828 he was graduated at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, and settled in Boston, Mass. , where he 
 had a long and successful professional career. In the spring 
 of 1875, soon after his wife's death, he returned to Norwich, 
 to make his home with his two half-sisters, and there he 
 died on July 2, 1880, in his 85th year. 
 
 By his last will he left the sum of one hundred thousand 
 dollars to the President and Fellows of Yale College, sub- 
 ject to annuities of $1000 each to his half-sisters. This 
 fund has been added to the University Funds. 
 
 His portrait (oval, 27 x 34) was painted bj^ Chester 
 Harding in Boston about 1834. 
 
 MRS. DANIBIy T. COIT 
 
 Jane Griswold Lanman, a daughter of the Hon. James 
 I^anman (Yale 1788), was born in Norwich, Conn., Febru- 
 ary 23, 1806. 
 
 On the 6th of Odlober, 1829, she was married to Dr. 
 Daniel T. Coit, of Boston, and her home continued in that 
 city until her death, which occurred there on December 14, 
 1874, in her 69th year. She was buried in Norwich by the 
 side of her only child, a daughter, who died in 1848, at the 
 age of five years. 
 
 Her portrait (oval, 27 x 34) was painted by Harding, at 
 the same time as that of her husband. 
 
 VITTORIA COI.ONNA 
 
 A portrait of this illustrious poetess (bom 1490, died 
 1547) is in the Jarves Colle(5lion (No. 104, 19 x 25). It is 
 ascribed to Fra Sebastiano del Piombo, the eminent Italian 
 painter. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 25 
 
 HERNANDO CORTfiS 
 
 Hernando Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, was born in 
 Spain in 1485, and died in 1547. A portrait by an un- 
 known painter is preserved in the Jarves CoUedlion (No. 
 103, 19x25). 
 
 RKV. TIMOTHY CUTI.ER, D.D. 
 
 The Reverend Timothy Cutler,, D.D., third Rector of 
 Yale College, was a son of Major John and Martha (Wis- 
 wall) Cutler, of Charlestown in Massachusetts Bay, where 
 he was born May 31, 1684. He was graduated in Harvard 
 College in July, 1701, just as the projecft of a Collegiate 
 School in Connecticut was taking final form. On Septem- 
 ber 16, 1709, he was called to settle over the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Stratford, Connedlicut, as successor to the 
 Rev. Israel Chauncy, one of the founders of Yale College. 
 He accepted the call, and was ordained there on January 
 II, 1710. He soon married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. 
 Samuel Andrew, of Milford, who had been serving since 
 Redlor Pierson's death in 1707 as Rec5lor of the College. 
 Mr. Cutler's record as a parish minister was creditable, and 
 in March, 1719, he was appointed pro tempore Redlor, in 
 his father-in-law's place, — an appointment which was for- 
 mally ratified in September. 
 
 Three years later, on Ocflober 16, 1722, Rector Cutler, 
 together with the tutor associated with him in the instruc- 
 tion of the College, declared for episcopacy ; and the next 
 day, at a special meeting of the Trustees, it was ' ' voted, 
 that the Trustees, in faithfulness to the trust reposed in 
 them, do excuse the Rev. Mr. Cutler from all further ser- 
 vice as Rec5lor of Yale College. ' ' 
 
 Mr. Cutler left New Haven the next week for Boston, 
 where he had already been agreed upon as the minister for 
 a new Episcopal Church about to be eredled. He embarked 
 for England on November 5, and was ordained in I^ondon 
 
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 in March, 1723, by Dr. Thomas Green, Bishop of Norwich. 
 He received the degree of Dodlor of Divinity from the Uni- 
 versities of Oxford and Cambridge, and sailed on his return 
 in July, arriving in Boston on September 24. He preached 
 his first sermon in the North (or Christ) Church on Decem- 
 ber 29, 1723, and he served as rector of that church until 
 his death on August 17, 1765, though disabled by a para- 
 lytic stroke from April, 1756. His residence was at the 
 corner of Salem and Tileston streets. 
 
 According to President Stiles, whose impressions were 
 derived from his father, a graduate of 1722, " Recftor Cutler 
 was an excellent linguist — a great Hebrician and Oriental- 
 ist. He was a good logician, geographer, and rhetorician. 
 In the philosophy and metaphysics and ethics of his day he 
 was great. He spoke Latin with fluency and dignity and 
 with great propriety of pronunciation. He was of a com- 
 manding presence and dignity in government. He was a 
 man of extensive reading in the academic sciences, divinity, 
 and ecclesiastical history. He was of a high, lofty, and 
 despotic mien. He made a grand figure as the head of a 
 college. ' ' 
 
 The qualities implied in these sentences continued to be 
 his characteristics in the ministry ; and it is the general 
 testimony that a certain haughtiness of manner interfered 
 seriously with his success. 
 
 The portrait (11^ x 14) in possession of the University 
 was painted by Henry Willard in Boston, in 1835, from the 
 engraving by Peter Pelham, who also painted a portrait, 
 which has not been preserved. 
 
 CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID DAGGETT 
 
 David Daggett was born in Attleborough, Bristol County, 
 Mass., December 31, 1764. His father, Thomas Daggett, 
 was a first cousin of the Rev. Dr. Naphtali Daggett, Pro- 
 fessor of Divinity and President of Yale College, who died 
 
Catalogue of Portraits^ etc. 27 
 
 in 1780 ; but the influence which led young Daggett to en- 
 ter the Junior class here in 1781 was rather the example of 
 his townsman, Elijah Leonard, who had entered the same 
 class a year earlier, and the encouragement of the Rev. 
 Samuel Wales, afterwards Professor, who was a friend of 
 the boy's teacher, the Rev. Perez Fobes of Raynham. 
 
 He was graduated in 1783 and began at once the study of 
 law in New Haven with Charles Chauncey, Esq., support- 
 ing himself during part of the time by performing the duties 
 of College Butler and of Re(5lor of the Hopkins Grammar 
 School. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1786, and 
 three months later was offered a tutorship in College but 
 declined. He espoused warmly the Federal side in politics, 
 and his talents were early employed in the public service. 
 In 1 79 1 he was chosen to represent the town in the General 
 Assembly, and was annually re-elec5led until 1797, when he 
 was chosen a member of the Council or Upper House. He 
 retained his seat in the Council until 1804, when he re- 
 signed ; and in 1 805 he was again a member of the House 
 of Representatives. In 1809 he was re-eledted to the Upper 
 House, and in that body he continued until May, 18 13, 
 when he was chosen United States Senator. At the close 
 of his senatorial term, in March, 18 19, he returned to his 
 extensive legal pracftice. In November, 1824, he became 
 associated with Samuel J. Hitchcock, Esq., in the charge 
 of the Law School founded by Seth P. Staples ; and two 
 years later he was appointed Professor of Law in Yale Col- 
 lege on the foundation provided by a number of the friends 
 of Chancellor Kent and called by his name. Meantime, in 
 May, 1826, he had been appointed Judge of the Superior 
 Court of the State, by a Legislature, the majority of whom 
 were opposed to him in politics. From June, 1828, to 
 June, 1830, he was Mayor of the city. In May, 1832, he 
 was made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connec5li- 
 cut, and discharged with eminent success the duties of that 
 office until the close of 1 834, when he retired by reason of 
 
28 Yale University 
 
 his age. His connec5lion with the College and with the 
 lyaw School continued until 1848. He died in New Haven, 
 April 12, 1 85 1, in his 87th year. 
 
 Copies of his bust in plaster are in the possession of the 
 University lyibrary and the Law School. There is also a 
 portrait (24 x 29) in the Law School, copied by C. Noel 
 Flagg from one by Nathaniel Jocelyn in possession of the 
 family, and presented in 1875 by Judge Daggett's grandson, 
 David L. Daggett, M.D. 
 
 HON. TRISTRAM DAYTON 
 
 Tristram Dalton, son of Michael Dalton, a merchant, was 
 born in that part of the town of Newbury, in Massachu- 
 setts Bay, which afterwards became Newburyport, May 28, 
 1738. 
 
 He was graduated at Harvard College in 1755, and 
 studied law, but engaged early in commercial pursuits. In 
 the time of the Revolution he was one of the leading 
 patriots in Essex county. After serving as Speaker of the 
 Massachusetts House of Representatives, and as a member 
 of the State Senate, he was eledled in 1 789 a Senator in the 
 First Congress of the United States ; he drew by lot the 
 short term, ending March, 1791, and was not re-elecfted. 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in Philadelphia 
 in 1792. He was distinguished for his courtesy and pol- 
 ished manners. 
 
 He died in Boston, May 30, 18 17, at the age of 79. 
 
 PROFESSOR JAMES D. DANA 
 
 A bas-relief in plaster of Professor Dana, executed about 
 1870, hangs in the Library. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits^ etc. 29 
 
 DANTE AIvIGHlKRI 
 
 In the Jarves Collec5lion is a portrait (No. 102, 22 x 27), 
 of Dante, by an unknown artist, derived from the well- 
 known mask which is said by tradition to have been taken 
 from the face of the poet after his death (in 132 1). 
 
 REV. JOHN DAVENPORT 
 
 John Davenport was born in the year 1597 (baptized 
 April 9), in Coventry, England, of which city his father 
 Henry Davenport was afterwards mayor. He spent twa 
 years (16 13-15) at Oxford University, and immediately 
 afterwards found employment as a preacher. In 161 6 he 
 removed to lyondon, and in June, 1619, was appointed cur- 
 ate in the parish of St. I^awrence Jewry. From this post 
 he was transferred in November, 1624, to the vicarage of 
 the neighboring parish of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street. 
 In the following year he took the degree of Bachelor of 
 Divinity at Oxford. L^aud became Bishop of lyondon in 
 1628, and Davenport early incurred his displeasure for 
 sympathy with Puritan notions. In 1629 he took part in 
 the enterprise for incorporating and settling the Massachu- 
 setts colony. Gradually his convidlions on the subjedl of 
 conformity to the ceremonies of the church changed, and he 
 had by this means so far incurred the displeasure of his dioc- 
 esan, that when I^aud's appointment as Archbishop was 
 announced in August, 1633, Davenport at once withdrew 
 from his parish and took refuge in Holland. After a so- 
 journ there of over three years, he returned to England to 
 join some of his old friends in a new colony for America. 
 
 He arrived in Boston in June, 1637, with Mr. Eaton, 
 Mr. Hopkins, and others ; and sailed thence in March, 1638, 
 with his company for Quinnipiac, or New Haven, where 
 they kept their first Sabbath on the 15th of April ; on this 
 occasion Davenport preached under a large oak, to the east 
 of College Street, near George, from Matt, iv, i. As the 
 
30 Yale University 
 
 first minister of the town, and continuing in that office for 
 thirty years, he had great influence in all the concerns of 
 the colony. 
 
 In September, 1667, after the absorption of New Haven 
 Colony in Connecfticut, he was invited to succeed John 
 Wilson, the original minister of the First Church in Boston ; 
 and he removed thither accordingly in April, 1668. He 
 died in Boston, as the result of a paralytic stroke, on 
 March 16, 1670, at the age of 73. 
 
 The portrait (22 x 26) represents him in his old age, and 
 an inscription on the canvas gives the date of his death ; it 
 is probable that it was painted soon after his decease, but 
 its history is unknown. The canvas has evidently at some 
 time been cut down to fit the present frame. 
 
 This portrait has been repeatedly engraved ; as in 
 Bacon's Historical Discourses, and in A. B. Davenport's 
 History of the Davenport family. 
 
 PRESIDENT DAY 
 
 Jeremiah Day, the eldest son of the Rev. Jeremiah Day, 
 was born in New Preston Society, in the present township 
 of Washington, Conne(flicut, August 3, 1773. He entered 
 College in 1789, but was absent for two years in the middle 
 of the course on account of ill-health, and was graduated in 
 1795. I^eaving College just as Dr. D wight entered on his 
 Presidency, he took charge for a year of the Academy in 
 Greenfield, Connecticut, which Dr. Dwight had taught. In 
 1 796 he was ele(5ted tutor in Williams College, then in its in- 
 fancy, and after two years' service, he was called to a similar 
 position at Yale. During his tutorship here he also studied 
 theology, and in 1800 was licensed to preach. His health 
 failing in 1801 he made a voyage to Bermuda, and spent a 
 winter there. During his absence he was eledted to the 
 professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, just 
 vacated by Professor Meigs, but his health did not allow 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 31 
 
 him to enter on this duty until 1803. For the next fourteen 
 years he was occupied with College instru<5lion, and during 
 this time he published his series of mathematical text- 
 books. 
 
 President Dwight before his death (which occurred in 
 January, 181 7) had indicated Professor Day as his chosen 
 successor ; and in July, 18 17, he was inducted into the pres- 
 idency and at the same time ordained to the Christian min- 
 istry. He continued in office until 1846, resigning at the 
 age of 73, in feeble health, but with mental faculties unim- 
 paired. For twenty-one years longer he remained in the 
 membership of the corporation, retiring only a few weeks 
 before his death, after a continuous official connecflion with 
 the College of sixty-nine years, an unparalleled fac5l in our 
 history. He died in New Haven on August 22, 1867, hav- 
 ing just entered on his 95th year. 
 
 An address commemorative of his life and services, by 
 President Woolsey, was published both in the New Kng- 
 lander and separately. 
 
 The portrait (39)^ x 49^^) belonging to the University 
 was painted in 1823 by S. F. B. Morse, and was presented 
 to the institution by the graduating class of that year. 
 
 In the library is a marble bust of President Day, executed 
 in Florence in 1847 by Chauncey B. Ives. 
 
 HON HENRY DUTTON 
 
 Henry Dutton, the son of Thomas Dutton, of Plymouth, 
 Connedlicut, was born February 12, 1796. His youth was 
 spent on his father's farm, and at the age of twenty he had 
 qualified himself, almost unaided, for admission to the Jun- 
 ior class in Yale, where he was graduated in 18 18. He 
 then taught in the academy in Fairfield, Conn., at the same 
 time studying law under the Hon. Roger M. Sherman. 
 From 1 82 1 to 1823 he was a Tutor in this College, and then 
 
32 Yale University 
 
 began the pracflice of law in Newtown, Conn. In 1837 he 
 removed to Bridgeport, and acquired a very successful prac- 
 tice in Fairfield County. In 1847, on his appointment as 
 Professor of Law in Yale College, he settled in New Haven, 
 where he continued until his death, on April 12, 1869, in 
 his 74th year. 
 
 During his entire residence in New Haven he remained 
 conne<fled with the I^aw Department of the College, though 
 his professional engagements prevented his giving his time 
 exclusively to its service. He served also for one year 
 (1854-5) as Governor of the State, and from 1861 until 1866 
 as a justice of the Superior Court. 
 
 His portrait (25 x 29), painted by U. D. Tenney, of New 
 Haven, was presented to the University by his son-in-law, 
 the Hon. George H. Watrous (Y. C. 1853), in 1875. 
 
 COI.ONBI. HENRY W. DWIGHT 
 
 Henry Williams Dwight, the eldest child of Henry W. 
 Dwight, and brother of the Rev. Edwin W. Dwight (Yale 
 1809) and the Rev. Louis Dwight (Yale 18 13), was born in 
 Stockbridge, Mass., February 26, 1788. 
 
 He was partially ^educated at Williams College, and set- 
 tled as a lawyer in his native town, early acquiring distinc- 
 tion among the leaders of the bar in Berkshire County. In 
 the war of 1812 he gained the title of Colonel as aid-de-camp 
 to Major- General Whiton. He was a member of the State 
 Legislature in 181 8, and Member of Congress for five suc- 
 cessive terms, from 1821 to 1831. The miniature by Colo- 
 nel Trumbull was painted in Washington in 1827. 
 
 He died in New York City, February 21, 1845, at the 
 age of 57. 
 
 PRESIDENT TIMOTHY DWIGHT, THE ELDER 
 
 Timothy Dwight was the oldest of a family of thirteen 
 children of Major Timothy Dwight (Yale 1744) by his wife 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 33 
 
 Mary, daughter of Jonathan Edwards ; and was born in 
 Northampton, Massachusetts, May 14, 1752. 
 
 He was graduated at Yale in 1769, at the age of seven- 
 teen, with a high reputation for scholarship, and remained 
 for the next eight years in New Haven, — for two years in 
 charge of the Hopkins Grammar School, and for six years 
 as tutor in the College with distinguished success. On his 
 retirement from the tutorship he was appointed a chaplain 
 in General Parsons' s Connedlicut Continental Brigade, but 
 resigned in March, 1779, on learning of his mother's need 
 of his presence at Northampton, on account of his father's 
 death. He remained there, teaching and preaching, until 
 July, 1783, when he accepted a call to the church on Green- 
 field Hill, in Fairfield, Connecticut. While at Greenfield 
 he established an academy, which enjoyed a high reputa- 
 tion. 
 
 On the death of President Stiles, in May, 1795, he was 
 invited to the presidency of Yale College. Much was ex- 
 pelled of him in this position, and public expedlation was 
 in no respedl disappointed. By his exertions as an instruc- 
 tor, and by a judicious system of discipline, the reputation 
 of the College was greatly increased and extended. In the 
 midst of his usefulness, he was attacked by a painful and 
 incurable disorder, which terminated his life on the nth of 
 January, 181 7, in his 65th year. 
 
 The portrait (40 x 50) by Trumbull was painted in 1804 
 or 5, and was presented to the College by individuals of the 
 class which was graduated in 18 17. 
 
 TIMOTHY DWIGHT, ESQ. 
 
 Timothy Dwight, the eldest son of President Timothy 
 and Mary (Woolsey) Dwight, was born in Stratford, Con- 
 nedlicut, March 29, 1778. In 1794 he went to New York 
 City as a clerk, and after acquiring a knowledge of mercan- 
 
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34 Yale University 
 
 tile business there he removed in 1801 to New Haven, where 
 he was engaged in the hardware business for the rest of his 
 life. He died in this city, June 13, 1844, aged 66 years. 
 He was a man of vigorous intelle(5l, improved by study, 
 and his services to the church and community of which he 
 was a member, were of great value. 
 
 In the year 1822, when an effort was made to establish a 
 Theological Department in Yale on a permanent basis, Mr. 
 Dwight subscribed five thousand dollars to the fund for 
 founding a Professorship of Didac5lic (or Systematic) Theol- 
 ogy, and pledged himself to give another equal sum, should 
 it be needed to complete the requisite amount. His prompt 
 and generous offer secured the desired result, and it was 
 not found necessary to call for the sum thus conditionally 
 pledged. No donor to the College funds had ever given as 
 large a sum as this ; although business reverses postponed 
 the payment until 1824. 
 
 One of his sons was graduated at Yale in 1838. 
 
 The portrait (28 x 35)^) belonging to the University was 
 painted by J. H. Shegogue, N. A., and was presented in 
 1846 by two of Mr. Dwight' s cousins, Messrs. T. D. and 
 T. W. Porter (Y. C. 1816 and 1819), of New York City. 
 
 JONATHAN EDWARDS 
 
 Jonathan Edwards, the most distinguished graduate of 
 Yale College, was the only son of the Rev. Timothy Ed- 
 wards (Harvard 1691), minister of the east parish in Wind- 
 sor, now South Windsor, Connedlicut, and was bom on 
 Odlober 5, 1703. He was graduated, with a high reputa- 
 tion for scholarship, in 1720, and spent the next two years 
 here in theological study. He also served as Tutor in the 
 College, from June, 1724, to September, 1726. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1727, he was ordained in Northampton, Massachu- 
 setts, as colleague-pastor to his grandfather, the Rev. Solo- 
 mon Stoddard, who died two years later. In June, 1750, 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 35 
 
 he was dismissed from his pastorate, in consequence of a 
 bitter dispute with his people over the pra(5lice of the Half- 
 way Covenant, and in August, 1751, he undertook the care 
 of the Indian mission in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which 
 was supported by the British Society for Propagating the 
 Gospel in New England. He continued to pursue his 
 studies in that very retired village until January, 1758, 
 when he accepted the presidency of the College of New 
 Jersey, then vacant by the death of his son-in-law, the 
 Rev. Aaron Burr. His death occurred at Princeton on 
 March 22, within five weeks after his entrance on his new 
 office. 
 
 His three sons were all graduated at Princeton, but many 
 of ^is later descendants have been educated at Yale, — among 
 them three Presidents of the University. 
 
 The portrait (20}^ x 24)^) in this collec5lion is a copy 
 from the original (supposed to be by Smibert), preserved in 
 the family of the late Jonathan Walter Edwards, Esq. (Yale 
 1789), of Hartford, a grandson of President Edwards; it 
 was presented in i860 by the Hon. Jonathan Edwards (Yale 
 1819), of Troy, N. Y., one of the sons of Jonathan Walter 
 Edwards. 
 
 One of the transept windows in the Battell Chapel bears 
 an inscription in honor of President Edwards. 
 
 CHIEF JUSTICE OI.IVER ElyLSWORTH 
 
 Oliver Ellsworth, youngest son of WilUam and Mary 
 (Oliver) Ellsworth, was born in Windsor, Connecfticut, on 
 March 24, 1747. He entered Yale in 1762, but in 1765, at 
 the time of the disorders near the close of President Clap's 
 administration, took a dismission to the college at Prince- 
 ton, where he was graduated in 1766. He began the study 
 of theology, but soon abandoned it for the law, and was 
 admitted to the bar in Windsor in 177 1. In 1775 he re- 
 moved to Hartford, and after serving in the Colony Assem- 
 
36 Yale University 
 
 bly was sent in 1778 to the Continental Congress. In 1780 
 he was chosen into the Upper House of the Connecticut 
 Legislature, and left that House in 1784 for the Superior 
 Court bench. In 1787 he was a member of the convention 
 for the formation of the Federal Constitution, and took a 
 leading part in supporting the rights of the separate States. 
 On the settlement of the new government he was eledled to 
 the Senate, where he was chairman of the committee for 
 organizing the judiciary. In 1796 Washington nominated 
 him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and he served 
 in this position until 1799 when he was sent as Envoy Ex- 
 traordinary to France. While absent he forwarded the 
 resignation of his Chief-Justiceship, on account of impaired 
 health. He died in Windsor on November 26, 1807, in his 
 6 1 St year. 
 
 He received the degree of Doc5lor of Laws from this Col- 
 lege in 1790. Two of his four sons were educated here, in 
 the class of 18 10, and a daughter married the Hon. Joseph 
 Wood, of the class of 180 1. 
 
 President Dwight, his intimate friend, wrote of him that 
 ' ' in every assembly, public and private, in which he ap- 
 peared, after he had fairly entered public life, there was 
 probably no man, when Washington was not present, who 
 would be more readily acknowleged to hold the first char- 
 aaer." 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in Philadelphia 
 in 1792. 
 
 HON. JAMES E. ENGLISH 
 
 James Edward English was bom in New Haven, March 
 13, 181 2, the third son of James and Nancy (Griswold) 
 English. He served his apprenticeship as a carpenter, and 
 on reaching his majority started in business for himself as 
 a house-builder. Later he became a lumber-merchant, and 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 37 
 
 by judicious investments, especially in real estate in New 
 Haven, he amassed a large fortune. 
 
 After being a(5tive in local politics he was elected to the 
 State Legislature in 1855, and to the State Senate in 1856- 
 58. In i860 he was elec5led to Congress as a Democrat, 
 and served from 1861 to 1865. He was prominent as a 
 ' * War Democrat, ' ' and voted with the Republicans for the 
 abolition of slavery in the Districfl of Columbia and also for 
 the fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In 1867 he 
 was elecfled Governor of Connecfticut, serving for two terms, 
 and again for a third term in 1870-71. In 1875 he was 
 appointed by the Governor to fill the unexpired term of 
 the late Senator Ferry in the Senate of the United States, 
 and served until the spring of 1877. 
 
 He died in New Haven on the 2d of March, 1890, at the 
 age of 78. 
 
 Early in 1873 ^^ gave ten thousand dollars as a fund for 
 the maintenance and increase of the I^ibrary of the Yale 
 I^aw School ; and by his last will he bequeathed twenty 
 thousand dollars as an endowment for a chair of Mathema- 
 tics in the Shefiield Scientific School, and ten thousand dol- 
 lars to the University library. The honorary degree of 
 Master of Arts was conferred upon him by the Corporation 
 in June, 1873. 
 
 The full length portrait (39 x 63^), by Jared B. Flagg, 
 was presented by Governor English to the I^aw School in 
 1873 or 4- 
 
 HON. HENRY FARNAM 
 
 Henry Farnam was born in Scipio, Cayuga County, N. 
 Y., November 9, 1803 ; the families of his father, Jeffrey 
 Amherst Farnam, and his mother, Mercy Tracy, had emi- 
 grated about 1780 to New York State from Preston, Con- 
 ne(5licut. His early years were spent on his father's farm, 
 but before he was eighteen he sought and found employ- 
 
38 Yale University 
 
 ment in the survey for the Erie Canal. After the comple- 
 tion of that canal he came to New Haven, in the spring of 
 1825, as assistant-engineer on the Farmington Canal ; two 
 years later he was made chief-engineer, and held the office 
 as long as the canal was in operation. It was at his sug- 
 gestion in 1845, when it had become clear that the canal 
 was losing ground in competition with the railroads, that a 
 new railroad was proposed to be built along the line of the 
 canal, and the canal itself abandoned. Work was begun 
 upon this scheme in 1847, under Mr. Famam as superin- 
 tendent and chief- engineer, and the road had been opened 
 to Collinsville in 1850, when he resigned his position. 
 Since his marriage, in 1839, his home had been in New 
 Haven, but he was now attradled by the openings for rail- 
 road enterprise in the West, and in connedlion with his 
 friend, Mr. Joseph B. Sheffield, he engaged successively in 
 the construcftion of the first railroad connedling Chicago 
 with Eastern roads, the first railroad from Chicago to the 
 Mississippi, and the first bridge over the Mississippi. He 
 continued to be engaged in similar undertakings, and in 
 the management of the leading railroad system of the 
 Northwest until 1863, his residence in these later years 
 being in Chicago. In the summer of 1863, being nearlj^ 
 sixty years of age, and feeling the need of rest after so 
 long a period of heavy responsibility, he withdrew from 
 adlive business. The next five years were mainly spent in 
 travel abroad, and on his return he took up his residence 
 again in New Haven, where he formed the center of a circle 
 of deeply attached relatives and friends, until his death, 
 from paralysis, on Odlober 4, 1883, at the age of 80. 
 
 Mr. Famam gave $30,000 to the College in 1863 for a dor- 
 mitory ; to this gift he added subsequently as much more, 
 and Farnam Hall, the first strudlure in the new quadrangle, 
 was occupied in 1870. He was also a generous benefadlor 
 of the Divinity School, contributing $5000 to the erecflion 
 of East Divinity Hall in 1869, and a like sum for West 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc, 39 
 
 Divinity Hall in 1873, besides $10,000 to the general fund 
 and other gifts. His gifts to the College I^ibrary and to 
 the Art School were also frequent and liberal. 
 
 A portrait (40 x 49 >^) of Mr. Famam by George A. 
 Baker, N. A., painted in 1874, hangs in Alumni Hall ; and 
 a marble bust executed by Miss Margaret Foley in 1875, 
 was presented in that year to the I^ibrary. 
 
 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER M. FISHER 
 
 Alexander Metcalf Fisher, the eldest child of Caleb and 
 Sally (Cushing) Fisher, was born in Franklin, Mass. , July 
 22, 1794. He was of small and very slender physique, but 
 of such mental quickness that he was graduated from Yale 
 College in 18 13, at the age of 19, at the head of his class. 
 After his graduation he spent a year in study under the 
 diredlion of his pastor, the Rev. Dr. Nathanael Emmons, 
 and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, but 
 in the course of the year returned to his father's farm on 
 account of ill-health. He was eledled in 1815 a tutor in 
 the College, and notwithstanding the fears of his friends 
 entered upon his duties at once. His favorite studies ap- 
 peared to invigorate his health, and in 1 8 1 7 on the eleva- 
 tion of Professor Day to the Presidency, he was elected to 
 an adjundl professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phil- 
 osophy. In 1819 he was promoted to the full professorship. 
 In the spring of 1822 he determined to visit Europe, mainly 
 with the design of improving himself in his profession by 
 observing the condition of foreign institutions. He sailed 
 from New York for Liverpool, on April i, in the packet 
 Albion, and perished by shipwreck on the morning of April 
 22, not far from Kinsale on the south coast of Ireland, in 
 the 28th year of his age. 
 
 Professor Fisher was a man of superior mental endow- 
 ments, and of uncommon attainments in various depart- 
 ments of knowledge. In the mathematical and physical 
 
40 Yale University 
 
 sciences especially, his genius was conspicuous, and his 
 published papers gave promise that their author would 
 soon have reached a high rank among the philosophers of 
 his time. His early death caused a profound and wide- 
 spread sorrow. 
 
 He was engaged to be married to Miss Catherine E. 
 Beecher, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. 
 
 The portrait (34 x 44) belonging to the College was 
 painted immediately after his death by Samuel F. B. Morse, 
 the face being taken from an original painting by Lucius 
 Munson with variations ; it was presented by Professor 
 Fisher's colleagues in office. This has been repeatedly en- 
 graved ; as for instance by S. S. Jocelyn in the American 
 Journal of Science for 1822. 
 
 In the Library is a bust which was executed by Heze- 
 kiah Augur, of New Haven, in 1827, and was presented by 
 members of the Class of 1813. 
 
 REV. PROFESSOR E. T. FITCH 
 
 Eleazar Thompson Fitch, a descendant of the Rev. James 
 Fitch, first minister of Norwich, Connec5licut, and the 
 youngest child of Captain Nathaniel and Mary (Thompson) 
 Fitch, of New Haven, was born here, January i, 1791. 
 
 He evinced very early a decided taste for learning, and 
 won distin(5tion for scholarship in the College, where he was 
 graduated in 18 10. After teaching school for two years he 
 entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he re- 
 mained until 1 81 7, when he was eledled to the Professor- 
 ship of Divinity, vacated by the death of President Dwight. 
 One branch of his work in this office was the instrudlion of 
 graduate students in theology ; and out of this grew the 
 founding of the Divinity School, which was organized in 
 1822. In this Department he filled the chair of Homiletics, 
 while in College he was both preacher and instrudlor in 
 
Catalogue of Portraits^ etc. 41 
 
 Natural Theology and the Evidences of Christianity. In 
 1852 his growing infirmities induced him to resign his pro- 
 fessorship ; but he retained a connedlion with the Divinity 
 School as ledlurer until 1861. He died in New Haven, 
 January 31, 1871, in his 81 st year. 
 
 The portrait (28)^ x 35^^) owned by the Divinity School 
 was presented a few months after Dr. Fitch's death by his 
 widow, and is a copy made in 187 1 by Montague Flagg from 
 one painted by Wm. O. Stone in 1855. 
 
 A window in the Battell Chapel also commemorates Dr. 
 Fitch's services to the College. 
 
 WII.LIAM TEMPLE FRANKLIN 
 
 William Temple Franklin was the only son of William 
 Franklin, the last royal Governor of the Province of New 
 Jersey (1762-76), who was the only son of Dr. Benjamin 
 Franklin. Governor Franklin accompanied his father to 
 Europe in 1757, and this son was born in England of an 
 unknown mother in 1760 or 1761. 
 
 He was educated from his infancy by Dr. Franklin, who 
 took him to France in 1776, and finding his services as pri- 
 vate secretary almost indispensable, detained him in Paris 
 in that capacity until August, 1784. 
 
 He returned to America with his grandfather in 1785, 
 and remained with him until his death in 1790. By Dr. 
 Franklin's will his books and manuscripts were given to 
 his grandson, who immediately rejoined his father in Eng- 
 land. He announced his intention of preparing at once a 
 complete edition of his grandfather's writings ; but the ful- 
 filment of this promise was so long delayed as to cause the 
 suspicion that the pension from the British Government 
 which Governor Franklin enjoyed as a loyalist, restridled 
 his son's freedom in dealing with the papers of so noted a 
 rebel against the mother country. 
 
42 Yale University 
 
 Temple Franklin's life was mainly spent in lyondon and 
 in Paris. He married a French lady, and died in Paris, 
 May 25, 1823. 
 
 This miniature was painted by Trumbull in Philadelphia, 
 and though dated in 1791 by the artist must have been 
 done from a sketch made in 1790, as the subje(5l left these 
 shores before the close of the last-named year. 
 
 GEORGE I., KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND 
 IRELAND 
 
 George I. was born in Hanover, March 28, 1660, the 
 eldest child of Ernest Augustus, subsequently Eledlor of 
 Hanover, and of Sophia, daughter of Elizabeth Stuart, 
 Queen of Bohemia, and granddaughter of James I. of Eng- 
 land. He succeeded his father as Eledlor in 1698, and on 
 his mother's death (June 8, 17 14) became heir-presumptive 
 to the British throne. He succeeded Queen Anne (his 
 second cousin) on August i following, and reigned until 
 his sudden death, while on a visit to Hanover, June 12, 
 1727, in his 68th year. 
 
 This portrait (39^ x 49) was painted soon after his acces- 
 sion to the throne by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and was sent 
 from lyondon to the College by Governor Yale, with an 
 escutcheon representing the royal arms, and a large box of 
 books, in June, 1718 ; they were received in New Haven at 
 the end of October. Some over- zealous patriot destroj^ed 
 the king's arms, during the Revolutionary war. 
 
 COIvONElv GEORGE GIBBS 
 
 George Gibbs, the eldest son of George and Mary (Chan- 
 ning) Gibbs, of Newport, was born in Portsmouth, on the 
 island of Rhode Island, January 7, 1776. 
 
 Being interested in the study of mineralogy he purchased 
 during his travels in Europe a rich and extensive cabinet 
 
Catalogue of Portraits y etc. 43 
 
 of minerals. This colledlion he brought to Newport in 
 1805, and there Professor Silliman visited it in 1806 and 
 1807. In the winter of 1809-10 Colonel Gibbs (his title 
 being an honorary one, derived from his rank as a member 
 of the staff of the Governor of the State) offered to place 
 the colle<5tion, which had not yet been fully unpacked, on 
 exhibition at Yale College, if suitable accommodations 
 were provided for it. The two suites of rooms at the north 
 end of the second floor of South Middle College were 
 thrown into one, and there the cabinet was opened to the 
 public in the summer of 181 2. The collecftion of over 
 12000 specimens remained on exhibition, without charge, 
 until 1825 (being removed to the upper story of the new 
 Commons Building in 1820), and was instrumental in creat- 
 ing and fostering in this country a love of the science of 
 mineralogy. In May, 1825, the owner announced his in- 
 tention of selling his cabinet, and offered the College the 
 first chance to purchase ; it was accordingly purchased for 
 the sum of $20000, of which sum half was contributed by 
 citizens of New Haven (including $1500 given by the per- 
 manent ofl&cers of the College), about $3000 was pledged 
 in New York, $700 in South Carolina, $500 each by two 
 individuals in Connec5licut, and a few hundreds more in 
 other places. 
 
 Colonel Gibbs was a man of extensive and varied knowl- 
 edge. He was the author of several papers on scientific 
 subjec5ls, published in the American Mineralogical Journal 
 and the American Journal of Science. In 1822 he was 
 eledted vice-president of the New York I^yceum of Natural 
 History. 
 
 He married in December, 18 10, I^aura, elder daughter of 
 the Hon. OHver Wolcott (Yale Coll. 1778), of Litchfield, 
 Secretary of the Treasury under Washington and Adams, 
 and Governor of Conne(5licut. Their country home, the 
 seat of widely famed and elegant hospitality, was at Suns- 
 
44 Yale University 
 
 wick, near Astoria, Long Island, where Colonel Gibbs died 
 on August 6, 1833, in his 58th year. 
 
 The portrait (24 x 30) of Colonel Gibbs which hangs in 
 Alumni Hall is a copy of one painted by Stuart about 
 1825-30, which belongs to his son, Professor Wolcott Gibbs, 
 of Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 PROFESSOR JOSIAH W. GIBBS 
 
 Josiah Willard Gibbs, the third son of Henry Gibbs 
 (Harvard College 1766), a merchant of Salem, Mass., was 
 born in Salem, April 30, 1790, and was graduated at Yale 
 College in 1809. While a tutor here (1811-15) he pursued 
 theological studies, and was licensed to preach, though he 
 seldom entered the pulpit and soon ceased preaching alto- 
 gether. On leaving the tutorship he went to Andover, 
 where he devoted himself mainly to the study of Hebrew 
 and the cognate languages under the guidance of Professor 
 Stuart. As one result he prepared a translation and revis- 
 ion of the Hebrew Lexicon of Gesenius, which was pub- 
 lished in 1824, and was of great service to American 
 students. 
 
 In 1824 he returned to New Haven, and from that time 
 to his death was connec5led with the Yale Divinity School, 
 at first as Lecturer, and from 1826 as Professor of Sacred 
 Literature ; he was also Librarian of the College from 1824 
 to 1843. In biblical criticism and in comparative grammar 
 he ranked as one of the most eminent American scholars of 
 his generation. He died of old age in New Haven, March 
 25, 1861, in his 71st year. 
 
 The portrait (33 x 39) of Professor Gibbs, which hangs 
 in the library of the Divinity School, was painted in 1856 
 by F. B. Carpenter, of New York, and was presented by a 
 few friends, chiefly his theological pupils. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 45 
 
 MRS. ARTHUR N. GIFFORD 
 
 Ellen Martha Gifford, widow of Arthur N. Gifford, of 
 New York City (to whom she was married in 1858), died 
 at her residence in New Haven on September 7, 1889. She 
 left her portrait (27^^ x 35) painted in Boston about 1833, 
 by Francis Alexander, to the Yale Art School. 
 
 Mrs. Gifford was the only child of Philip Marett, Esq., 
 of Boston and New Haven, who died in March, 1869, and 
 who was a distinguished benefadlor of Yale College and this 
 city ; and of her own fortune nearly $800,000 was devoted 
 in pursuance of the provisions of her will to charitable in- 
 stitutions, of which amount upwards of $300,000 was given 
 to the New Haven Hospital. 
 
 PROFESSOR CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH 
 
 Chauncey Allen Goodrich, second son of the Hon. EHzur 
 Goodrich (Yale College 1779), of New Haven, was bom in 
 this city, October 23, 1790, and was graduated at the Col- 
 lege in 1 8 10. 
 
 After graduation he was Redlor of the Hopkins Grammar 
 School for two years, and was then a tutor in College for 
 an equal period. During his tutorship he began his studies 
 for the ministry under President Dwight. In July, 1816, 
 he was ordained pastor of the First Church in Middletown, 
 Conn., but withdrew from this charge after a few months, 
 on account of the failure of his health. Meantime he was 
 invited to the chair of Rhetoric, established in Yale College 
 after Dr. Dwight' s death, which he filled for twenty-two 
 years. In 1839 he was transferred from the Academical 
 Department to the new chair of the Pastoral Charge, in the 
 Divinity School, to the founding of which professorship he 
 had been a principal contributor ; and in this office he 
 remained until his death, on February 25, i860, in his 70th 
 year. 
 
46 Yale University 
 
 Professor Goodrich was conspicuous during his long 
 term of residence in the College for his devotion to the 
 religious welfare of the students. He was one of the chief 
 promoters of the foundation of the Divinity School in 1822, 
 and both then and subsequently one of its most liberal 
 benefadlors. 
 
 The portrait (35>^ x 44) hanging in Alumni Hall was 
 painted in 1830 by Nathaniel Jocelyn, of New Haven, and 
 was presented by members of the College Class of 1827. 
 A later portrait (oval, 23 x 29), in the library of the 
 Divinity School, painted by Robert M. Pratt, in 1856 or 7, 
 was presented by Dr. Goodrich's son, the Rev. William H. 
 Goodrich, D.D., in 1872. 
 
 There is also a bust in the University I^ibrary, in marble, 
 which was executed by Chauncey B. Ives, in Rome, in 
 1873, and was presented by the Rev. Dr. W. H. Goodrich ; 
 and a window in the Battell Chapel is dedicated to his 
 memory with an appropriate inscription. 
 
 HON. CHRISTOPHER GORE 
 
 Christopher Gore was born on September 21, 1758, the 
 youngest son of John Gore, a painter and merchant of 
 Boston, who adhered to the British side in the Revolution. 
 He was graduated at Harvard College in 1776, and soon 
 rose to distindlion in the legal profession, in Boston, his 
 specialty being commercial law. In 1789 he was President 
 Washington's choice as Distridl Attorney for the State, 
 and he held this honorable position until 1796, when he 
 went to England on the Commission, under Jay's treaty, 
 for the settlement of spoliation claims. He remained in 
 lyondon until 1804. In 1809 he was elec5led by the Fed- 
 eralists as Governor of Massachusetts, but was not re- 
 elecfled, owing to a distrust of his aristocratic habits. He 
 did not again engage in the pracftice of his profession, but 
 retired to his country residence in Waltham. In 18 14 he 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 47 
 
 was appointed to the United States Senate, to fill a vacancy, 
 and continued in that body until 181 7, by which date his 
 health had become very infirm. He died in Waltham, 
 March i, 1827, in his 69th year. He made Harvard Col- 
 lege his residuary legatee, and Gore Hall, now used for a 
 part of the library, was built with a portion of the fund 
 thus constituted. 
 
 Colonel Trumbull was one of Mr. Gore's fellow-commis- 
 sioners in London, and painted his portrait at least thrice 
 about 1800. The head in the Yale Art School (25 x 30) 
 is very similar to that owned by the Massachusetts Histor- 
 ical Society, and copied in their Proceedings, volume 13. 
 
 JUDGE GEORGE GOULD 
 
 George Gould, the fifth son of Judge James Gould, was 
 bom in Litchfield, Conne(5licut, September 2, 1807. After 
 graduation here in 1827 he studied law in the celebrated 
 law school condudled by his father, and in 1829 removed to 
 Troy, N. Y., where he was admitted to the bar in 1830. 
 He continued in the pra<5lice of his profession there, with 
 constantly increasing success and reputation, until 1855 
 when he was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court 
 of the State. He served in this position for the full term 
 of eight years, and then resumed professional pracftice. 
 After an illness of some months he died at his home in 
 Troy, December 6, 1868, in his 62d year. 
 
 His portrait (oval, 19 x 23)^) was presented to the 
 university by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Vail Gould, in 1890, 
 to be hung by the side of the portrait of his father. 
 
 JUDGE JAMES GOULD 
 
 James Gould was a son of Dr. William Gould, Jr., of 
 Branford, Connedlicut, where he was born on December 5, 
 
48 Yale University 
 
 1770. He was graduated at Yale College in 1791, and from 
 1793 to 1795 served as tutor. He then entered the law 
 school established in Litchfield, Connecfticut, by Judge 
 Reeve, and after his admission to the bar became associated 
 (in 1798) with his preceptor in the condudl of that institu- 
 tion. In May, 1816, he was appointed a Judge of the Su- 
 preme Court of Connedlicut, but was displaced by the 
 adoption of the new State Constitution ini8i8. Ini8i9 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale, and the next 
 year, on the retirement of Judge Reeve, he succeeded to 
 the superintendence of the law school, which he carried 
 on with distinguished success until 1833. He died in 
 I^itchfield, May 11, 1838, in his 62d year. Three of his 
 sons were graduated here — in 181 6, 1824, and 1827, re- 
 spectively. 
 
 His portrait (24^^ x 29^) by Waldo, was presented to 
 the College in 1872, by his son, Edward S. Gould, Esq., 
 of New York City. 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERAI, NATHANAEI. GREENE 
 
 Nathanael Greene, the fourth son of Nathanael Greene, 
 a Quaker farmer of Warwick, R. I., was bom June 6, 
 1742. Early in his teens he fell under the notice of the 
 Rev. Ezra Stiles, of Newport, afterwards President of this 
 College, who gave him advice about his studies. In 1770 
 he removed to Coventry, Rhode Island, to superintend the 
 business of a forge owned by his family. He became an 
 ardent patriot, and in 1774 enlisted in a military company 
 formed in his neighborhood. On the news of the battle of 
 Bunker Hill, the Assembly authorized the raising of a 
 brigade of troops, and commissioned Greene as commander. 
 In this position he soon won General Washington's confi- 
 dence. His subsequent career is identified with some of 
 the most brilliant military passages of the Revolution, cul- 
 
Catalogue of Portraits^ etc. 49 
 
 minating in the remarkable series of Southern campaigns 
 in 1780-81. 
 
 In 1785 he removed to a plantation at Mulberry Grove, 
 a few miles from Savannah, which had been given him by 
 the State of Georgia. His death there, on June 19, 1786, 
 at the age of 44, was due to a sunstroke. 
 
 Colonel Trumbull, who knew him well, painted his 
 miniature from recolledlion in 1792 ; it has been repeatedly 
 engraved, e. g., in volume i, of lyongacre's National Por- 
 trait Gallery (N. Y., 1834). 
 
 HON. JOHN F. GRIMKfi 
 
 John Faucheraud Grimke, son of John Paul Grimke, was 
 born in South Carolina, December 16, 1752. His ances- 
 tors were German on the father's side, and French Hugue- 
 not on the mother's. He was sent to England for his 
 education, and studied law and practiced for a while in 
 London. At the beginning of the Revolution he hastened 
 home, raised a company of soldiers in Charleston, and 
 fought through the war as a lieutenant-colonel of artillery. 
 After the war he began the practice of his profession in 
 Charleston, but in March, 1783, he was elected a Judge of 
 the Superior Court of the State — of which court he continued 
 a member for over thirty years, becoming the senior Asso- 
 ciate Justice, and virtually Chief Justice, in 1799. 
 
 About 1 818 his health failed, and in 1819 he went to 
 Philadelphia to consult a physician ; he was sent to Long 
 Branch, N. J., and died there on August 2, in his 67th 
 year. 
 
 Colonel Trumbull painted his miniature in Charleston, 
 in 1791. 
 
 Two of his sons, Thomas S., and Frederick, were gradu- 
 ated here — in 1807 and 18 10, respectively. 
 
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50 Yale University 
 
 ANDREA GRITTI AND HIS SISTERS 
 
 Andrea Gritti was born in Venice in 1454, and after an 
 eminent military career in the wars of his native city, was 
 elected Doge in 1523. He died in 1538. 
 
 This portrait of Gritti, and two of his sisters (No. 78 of 
 the Jarves collection, 28 x 26), is supposed to have been 
 painted about 1500 by the famous Giorgone, the founder of 
 the Venetian school of painters. 
 
 AI.EXANDER HAMILTON 
 
 Alexander Hamilton was born a British subject, on the 
 diminutive island of Nevis, in the West Indies, January 
 II, 1757, his reputed father being James Hamilton, a mer- 
 chant from Scotland. His manifest precocity led to his 
 being sent, when not yet 16, to the American continent for an 
 education. A year later he entered Columbia (then King's) 
 College, in New York City, but early in 1776 he took the 
 field as captain of a company of artillery, and his bravery 
 and competency soon led to his appointment on General 
 Washington's staff. After the war he settled in New York 
 as a lawyer, and had a brief experience as a member of the 
 Congress of the Confederation. His perception of the 
 need of a strong government led to his advocacy of a new 
 Constitution, and his prominence in this movement gave 
 him a national reputation. On the organization of the 
 new government he was made Secretary of the Treasury, 
 and in that office, for nearly six years, he practically 
 determined the development of the financial policy of the 
 nation for generations. On resigning from the Cabinet he 
 resumed the practice of law, and was soon recognized as 
 the head of the New York bar. He was also the leader of 
 the Federalist party in politics, and in this relation in- 
 curred the enmity of Vice-President Burr, who challenged 
 him to fight a duel, in which Hamilton was killed, on July 
 II, 1804, in his 47th year. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 51 
 
 Colonel Trumbull, who had known him intimately, 
 painted several portraits of him in Philadelphia, in 1792 — 
 one for the merchants of New York City, preserved in the 
 Chamber of Commerce ; and two others for personal 
 friends, George Cabot and Oliver Wolcott. The last 
 named portrait was copied by the artist in 1832, and this 
 copy (24 X 30) now hangs in the Trumbull collection in 
 the Art School. 
 
 HON. GEORGE HAMMOND 
 
 George Hammond, the younger son of William Ham- 
 mond, of Kirk Ella, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 
 England, was born in 1763, and was matriculated at Mer- 
 ton College, Oxford, in 1780. In 1783 he went to Paris as 
 secretary to David Hartley, one of the commissioners for 
 the negotiation of the definitive treaty of peace between 
 Great Britain and the United States. He returned to 
 Oxford to take his B. A. degree in 1784, and was elecfted 
 fellow of his college in 1787. After serving as charg6 
 d'affaires at Vienna, Copenhagen, and Madrid, he was sent 
 to Philadelphia by Lord Grenville in the autumn of 1791 
 as Minister Plenipotentiary, being the first British envoy 
 to this government since the peace. After nearly four 
 years' service, he was recalled in 1795. He then became 
 under-secretary at the foreign office in lyondon, remaining 
 in office until February, 1806, and serving again in the 
 Duke of Portland's administration from March, 1807, to 
 October, 1809. He died in lyondon on April 23, 1853, aged 
 90. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in Philadelphia 
 in 1792. 
 
 MAJOR JONATHAN HASKEIvL 
 
 Jonathan Haskell was born in Rochester, Plymouth 
 County, Massachusetts, March 19, 1755, and was occupied 
 
52 Yale University 
 
 upon a farm at the outbreak of the Revolution. In Janu- 
 ary, 1777, he received a commission as ensign in the regi- 
 ment commanded by Colonel Gamaliel Bradford of Dux- 
 bury, and two years later was appointed aide-de-camp to 
 Brigadier-General John Paterson (Yale College 1762), with 
 the rank of Lieutenant. 
 
 He emigrated to Ohio in the autumn of 1788, and was 
 one of the poineer settlers in the town of Belpre, Wash- 
 ington county. On the breaking out of the Indian war in 
 1 79 1 he received the appointment of captain in the 2d 
 regiment of United States Infantry, and recruited a com- 
 pany in his native town. He was stationed at Marietta 
 and at Fort St. Clair, and in 1794 received a commission as 
 major. After the close of General Wayne's successful 
 campaign in that year against the Miami Indians, he re- 
 turned to his farm in Belpre, where he died in December, 
 1 8 14, in his 60th year. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in Philadelphia 
 in 1791. 
 
 EDWARD C. HERRICK 
 
 Edward Claudius Herrick was born on the site now oc- 
 cupied by the Battell Chapel, on February 24, 181 1, the 
 youngest child of the Rev. Claudius Herrick (Yale College 
 1798), a much respecfted teacher of New Haven. His two 
 older brothers were graduated here (in 1822 and 1824), but 
 a chronic inflammation of the eyelids and other circum- 
 stances combined to prevent his following their example, 
 although he had already shown abundant intellecftual pro- 
 mise. From 1827 to 1835 he was employed as a clerk in 
 the bookstore of General Hezekiah Howe of New Haven. 
 He then succeeded to the business, with Mr. Benjamin 
 Noyes as partner, under the style of Herrick & Noyes, 
 but the partnership was dissolved in 1838. After a few 
 years of miscellaneous employment he was appointed 
 
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 Librarian of the College in 1843, at the time when the 
 Library building was about to be first occupied. He proved 
 his efl&ciency here by fifteen years of valuable service. 
 Meantime, having been led by the feeble health of the 
 Treasurer to render some assistance in that office, he was 
 appointed Treasurer of the College in 1852, and held that 
 place until his sudden death, on June 11, 1862, in his 52d 
 year. 
 
 His enthusiastic devotion to the College, his knowledge 
 of its history, and his varied services in its behalf, no less 
 than his attainments in science and literature, and his rarely 
 beautiful character, led a few friends to perpetuate his 
 memory by placing in the Library a bas-relief of his head, 
 executed soon after his death by E. D. Palmer, of Albany. 
 
 Mr. Herrick is also remembered by the oak tree which he 
 planted on the spot where he was born, and which was 
 transplanted in 1877 to the space between North College 
 and Durfee Hall ; and one of the windows in the Chapel 
 contains an inscription in his memory. 
 
 HON. JAMES HILLHOUSE 
 
 James Hillhouse was born in Montville, Conn., Odlober 
 21, 1754, the son of the Hon. William Hillhouse, and 
 grandson of the first minister of the parish. He w^as 
 adopted early by his childless uncle, James Abraham Hill- 
 house (Yale College 1749), of New Haven, and was gradu- 
 ated here in 1773. His uncle's death, in 1775, hastened 
 his entrance on his chosen profession of the law in New 
 Haven. When the town was invaded by a British force, in 
 July, 1779, Mr. Hillhouse commanded the local company 
 of Governor's Foot-Guards ; and it was owing in no small 
 degree to his sagacity and intrepidity that the enemy were 
 able to do so little injury. As early as 1780 he represented 
 the town in the State legislature, and in 1790 he waseledled 
 as a representative of Connedlicut in the Congress of the 
 
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 United States. In 1796 he was transferred to tlie Senate, 
 and he continued an adlive and influential member of that 
 body until 18 10, when he resigned his seat to accept the 
 office just created in Connedlicut of Commissioner of the 
 School Fund. The duties of this office he discharged for 
 fifteen years with very great ability, fidelity, and success. 
 About the time of his retirement he was induced to engage 
 in the enterprise of construdling a canal from New Haven to 
 Northampton, Mass. ; in the superintendence of this work 
 his perseverance and industry were unexampled. He re- 
 signed this charge a few months only before his death, 
 which took place in New Haven, December 29, 1832, in 
 the 79th year of his age. 
 
 Mr. Hillhouse was the Treasurer of the College from 
 1782 until his death ; and he spared no labor to promote 
 the interests of the institution. It was owing chiefly to 
 his efibrts that a grant was made to the College by the 
 State Legislature in 1792, which ensured its subsequent 
 prosperity. He was likewise a generous contributor to 
 the College funds from his private resources. 
 
 The College owns a copy (21^ x 25) by Nathaniel 
 Jocelyn of his portrait by John Vanderlyn ; also a second 
 copy (22 X 25^) of the same, painted in 1867 by Miss 
 Rebecca T. Porter. 
 
 JUDGE SAMUEL J. HITCHCOCK 
 
 Samuel Johnson Hitchcock was born in Bethlehem (then 
 part of Woodbury), Connedlicut, February 4, 1786, and 
 w^as graduated at Yale College in 1809 with the highest 
 honors. Two years later he was chosen a tutor in the 
 College, and he remained in this employment for four years. 
 During this period he had fitted himself for the legal pro- 
 fession, and on leaving the tutorship in 181 5 he was admitted 
 to the bar and entered on pradlice in New Haven. He 
 soon reached a high position in his profession, and always 
 
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 maintained it. About 1822 he became associated with Seth 
 P. Staples, Esq., as a teacher in the private I^aw School 
 which in 1824 was first recognized as a part of the College. 
 To this school for the rest of his life he devoted much of 
 his time and energy, with great success. 
 
 Although he preferred to avoid public office, he served 
 as Judge of the New Haven County Court from 1838 to 
 1842, as Mayor of the city from 1839 to 1842, and as Chief 
 Judge of the City Court from 1842 to 1844. He died in 
 New Haven, August 31, 1845, in his 60th year. 
 
 The portrait (29)^ ^ 35) belonging to the University, 
 now deposited in the rooms of the Law School, was one of 
 the earliest paintings of Jared B. Flagg, in 1839 or 1840. 
 
 DR. CHARLES HOOKER 
 
 Charles Hooker, son of William Hooker, was born in 
 Kensington Society, Berlin, Conne(5ticut, on March 22, 
 1799, and died in New Haven, on March 19, 1863, aged 
 64 years. 
 
 He was graduated as B.A. at Yale College in 1820, and 
 as M.D. at the Yale Medical Institution in 1823. He began 
 immediately the pradlice of his profession in New Haven, 
 and pursued it with constancy and success during a period 
 of forty years. In 1838 he was appointed a Professor in 
 the Medical School, and was assigned to the chair of 
 Anatomy and Physiology which he filled until his death, 
 adling also as Dean of the Faculty. 
 
 His portrait (30 x 38)^), painted by U. D. Tenney, of 
 New Haven, in 1873, was presented to the Medical School 
 at that date by his daughter, Mrs. A. Baldwin, of Newark, 
 N.J. 
 
 DR. WORTHINGTON HOOKER 
 
 Worthington Hooker was the son of Judge John Hooker 
 (Yale Coll. 1782), and was born in Springfield, Mass., on 
 
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 March 3, 1806 ; his father's mother was by birth a Worth- 
 ington, and sister of Col. John Worthington (Y. C. 1740). 
 He was graduated at Yale College in 1825, and then pur- 
 sued medical studies in Philadelphia and in Boston, receiv- 
 ing the degree of M.D. from Harvard College in 1829. He 
 was engaged in the pra(5lice of his profession in Norwich, 
 Connedlicut, until 1852, when he was chosen to a professor- 
 ship in the Medical Department of Yale College. In addi- 
 tion to the duties of the chair of Theory and Prac5lice, 
 which he held until his death, and his professional pradlice. 
 Dr. Hooker performed a large amount of literary labor, his 
 publications numbering about a dozen volumes. He died 
 in New Haven on November 6, 1867, in his 62d year. 
 
 His widow presented to the Medical School a copy of a 
 medallion of Dr. Hooker, in plaster, executed some years 
 before his death by Mr. I^ouis Bail, of New Haven. 
 
 DR. IvBMUKIy HOPKINS 
 
 Lemuel Hopkins, son of Stephen Hopkins, a farmer in 
 that part of Waterbury, Conn. , which is now Naugatuck, 
 was born June 19, 1750 ; his father was a first cousin of 
 the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins, the theologian. 
 
 He studied medicine with Dr. Jared Potter, of Walling- 
 ford, and with Dr. Seth Bird, of Litchfield, Conn.; and 
 about 1776 began pradlice in Litchfield, but about 1784 
 removed to Hartford, where he spent the remainder of his 
 life. He was one of the most distinguished physicians of 
 the State, and especially acute in diagnosis. He was also 
 well known as one of the coterie of " Hartford Wits," with 
 some of whom he was associated in the preparation of The 
 Anarchiad and other satirical poems ; after the poet Trum- 
 bull, he was the most eminent satirist of his day. He died 
 April 14, 1 80 1, in his 51st year. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull at Hartford, in 
 1793- 
 
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 COMMODORE ISAAC HULL 
 
 Isaac Hull, eldest son of Joseph Hull, a sea-captain of 
 Derby, in New Haven County, Connecflicut, was born on 
 March 9, 1773. His uncle, General William Hull, wished 
 him to graduate at Yale ; but at the age of fourteen he 
 chose a sea-faring life, and by rapid promotion became 
 master of a ship before he was 21. At the age of 25 
 he received the appointment of a Lieutenant in the United 
 States Navy. In the Tripolitan war he was promoted to 
 the rank of Master-Commandant, and in 1806 was made a 
 Captain. During the war with England, while he com- 
 manded the frigate Constitution, his skill and heroism 
 gained him high renown. In later years, with the rank of 
 Commodore, he was at the head of the Boston and Wash- 
 ington navy-yards, and commanded the Paciific and Med- 
 iterranean squadrons. He died at his residence in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., February 13, 1843, at the age of 70. 
 
 The portrait (22 x 28) in Alumni Hall was copied in 
 1834, by Waldo and Jewett, from an original painted by 
 Stuart in 1807. 
 
 GENERAL WILLIAM HULL 
 
 William Hull, son of Joseph Hull, a farmer in Derby, 
 Conne(5ticut, was born on June 24, 1753, and was graduated 
 at Yale College in 1772. He studied law under Judge 
 Reeve in Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1775. 
 On the news of the battle of Lexington he was chosen 
 Captain of a company of soldiers raised in Derby, which 
 joined the army in Cambridge. After the battle of Trenton 
 he was commissioned Major in the 8th Massachusetts regi- 
 ment, and in 1779 he was made Lieutenant-Colonel. After 
 the war he settled in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1805 
 Jefferson made him Governor of Michigan Territory, which 
 office he still held in 181 2, when he was against his own 
 judgment put in command of the north-western army. On 
 
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 August 15, 18 1 2, lie surrendered Detroit to the enemy, for 
 which in January, 18 14, he was tried by court-martial, and 
 sentenced to be shot on charges of cowardice and negledt of 
 duty ; the execution of this sentence was, however, remitted 
 by the President, in consideration of his age and former 
 services. General Hull claimed that his a<5lion at Detroit 
 was necessary, in view of the failure of the government to 
 furnish him with supplies, and the size of the force opposed 
 to him. He died in Newton, on November 29, 1825, in 
 his 73d year. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in 1792. 
 
 MRS. JAMES HUMPHREY 
 
 Urania Battell, third daughter of Joseph Battell, Esq., 
 of Norfolk, Connecticut, was married on Oc5lober 12, 1836, 
 to James Humphrey, a graduate of Amherst College {1831), 
 and son of the Rev. Dr. Humphrey, who was so long the 
 President of that Institution. Her husband was success- 
 fully engaged in the pradlice of law in New York City, from 
 1838 until his ele<5lion to the United States Congress in 1858. 
 He died in Brooklyn on June 16, 1866, and his widow died 
 in New York City on November 19, 1887, in her 74th year. 
 
 During her lifetime Mrs. Humphrey had shown in many 
 ways her generous interest in the University, and by her 
 last will bequests amounting to $26000 were received, — 
 $15000 for the general funds, and the rest in augmentation 
 of special funds established by her sister, Mrs. Larned. 
 
 A portrait of Mrs. Humphrey, copied from one by George 
 A. Baker, was presented in 1892 by her brother, the Hon. 
 Robbins Battell. 
 
 GENERAL DAVID HUMPHREYS 
 
 David Humphreys, son of the Rev. Daniel Humphreys 
 (Yale Coll. 1732), was born in Derby, Connedlicut, July 
 
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 10, 1752. In 1771 he was graduated at Yale, and he was 
 then engaged for a time as instrudtor in a private family. 
 In the summer of 1776 he joined one of the Connec5licut 
 militia regiments at New York as a volunteer, and six 
 months later was appointed Captain in the Sixth Conne6l- 
 icut. In December, 1778, General Israel Putnam ap- 
 pointed him one of his aids ; and in June, 1 780, he became 
 an aid on Washington's staff, in which capacity he served 
 until the close of the war. 
 
 In 1784 he went abroad as Secretary to the Commission 
 for negotiating treaties of commerce with foreign powers. 
 Returning in 1786 he was subsequently a member of 
 Washington's family for most of the time until his ap- 
 pointment in 1 79 1 as the first United States minister to 
 Portugal. In 1797 he was transferred to the Court of 
 Spain, but returned to his native town in 1802, and became 
 much interested in the encouragement of domestic manu- 
 fadlures. He had imported from Spain the first flock of 
 merino sheep introduced into this country, and was for 
 some time engaged in the manufadlure of woollens. In the 
 war of 18 1 2 he was made Brigadier General of the State 
 Militia. He died in New Haven, February 21, 18 18, in 
 his 66th year ; the monument over his grave in the Grove 
 Street Cemetery bears a fitting inscription in I^atin from 
 the pen of Professor Kingsley. 
 
 The University owns a portrait (29 x 38}^) by Stuart of 
 General Humphreys, presented by his widow in 1830, which 
 has been often engraved ; also, a bust presented by his 
 widow in 1820. The University also owns a fancy piece, 
 painted in Spain, and representing his arrival at Congress 
 Hall in Philadelphia, on November 3, 1781, with the 
 standards taken at Yorktown. 
 
 "THE INFANT," AN INDIAN CHIEF 
 
 "The Infant," a chief of the Senecas, was one of a 
 deputation from the Six Nations which visited Philadelphia 
 
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 in March, 1792, for a conference with the officers of the 
 United States government. 
 
 While there his miniature was painted by John Trum- 
 bull. 
 
 DR. KI.I IVKS 
 
 Bli Ives was a son of Dr. I^evi Ives, of New Haven, and 
 was born on February 7, 1779. He was graduated at Yale 
 College in 1799, spent two years as Redlor of the Hopkins 
 Grammar School, at the same time studying medicine with 
 his father and with Dr. Bneas Munson. In 1801 he began 
 to pra(5lice his profession in New Haven, and was continu- 
 ously engaged in a widely extended field during a period 
 of over fifty years. 
 
 He was one of the originators of the Yale Medical School, 
 and at its organization in 18 13 was appointed to the chair 
 of Materia Medica and Botany. In 1829 he was transferred 
 to the Professorship of the Theory and Pracflice of Medicine, 
 and in 1853 he was made Professor Emeritus. He died in 
 New Haven, Odlober 8, 1861, in his 83d year. 
 
 His portrait (33x42}^), painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn 
 in 1827, was presented by the Medical Class of that year. 
 
 HON. RALPH IZARD 
 
 Ralph Izard, the son of Henry Izard, a wealthy planter, 
 was born near Charleston, S. C, in 1742. 
 
 He was educated in England, at the University of Cam- 
 bridge, and afterwards settled in London, but left the 
 country in 1774, in consequence of the strained relations 
 with America. In 1776 Congress appointed him minister 
 to the Grand-Duke of Tuscany. In 1780 he returned to 
 this country, and was most liberal in the pecuniary support 
 of the w^ar. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress 
 
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 in 1782-3, and a member of the United States Senate from 
 1789 to 1795. He died near Charleston, May 30, 1804, in 
 his 62d year. 
 
 Trumbull painted his miniature in Charleston in 1791. 
 
 HON. JOHN JAY 
 
 John Jay was born in New York City, the son of Peter 
 Jay, of Huguenot descent, on December 12, 1745, and 
 was graduated at King's, now Columbia, College in 1766. 
 He settled in New York in the pracflice of the law, and was 
 engaged in the earliest movements of resistance to Great 
 Britain. He was a member of the First and Second Conti- 
 nental Congresses, and drafted the constitution for the 
 State of New York. On the organization of the State 
 government he was appointed Chief Justice, but was again 
 sent, in 1778, as a delegate to Congress, of which he was 
 at once eledled President. In 1779 he was appointed min- 
 ister to Spain, and in 1781 Congress added him to the 
 commission for the negotiation of peace, in which capacity 
 he rendered indispensable service. He returned to New 
 York in 1784, and until the establishment of the Federal 
 Government in 1789 served as Secretary for Foreign Aflfairs. 
 On the organization of the new government he was made 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and he retained this 
 post until 1795, serving during 1794-5 as special envoy to 
 Great Britain for the negotiation of a commercial treaty. 
 Before his return he was elec5led Governor of the State of 
 New York, and having resigned his judicial office he served 
 as Governor until 1801. He spent the rest of his life in 
 retirement at his country-seat in Westchester County, N. Y., 
 where he died on May 17, 1829, in his 84th year. 
 
 Trumbull, who accompanied him to Great Britain as 
 Secretary, painted his miniature in 1793. 
 
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 DR. PI,INY A. JEWKTT 
 
 Pliny Adams Jewett, the son of the Rev. Stephen Jewett, 
 was bom in Hampton, Washington County, New York, on 
 October 4, 18 16, and was graduated from Trinity College, 
 at Hartford, in 1837. He received the degree of M.D. from 
 the Yale Medical School in 1840, and after an additional 
 year or two of study in I^ondon and Paris entered on medi- 
 cal and surgical pra(5lice in New Haven. He continued to 
 be thus employed with great acceptance until the Civil 
 War, when he relinquished other professional engagements 
 to devote himself to the care of the soldiers at the Knight 
 Military Hospital. He also filled from 1856 to 1863 the 
 Professorship of Obstetrics in the Medical School. After a 
 brief residence at the South he returned to New Haven, 
 and was occupied as a consulting surgeon until his death, 
 which occurred in Providence, R. I., on April 10, 1884, in 
 his 68th year. 
 
 Dr. Jewett during his lifetime presented his portrait 
 (oval, 10 X 14), taken at an early age, to his colleague, Dr. 
 I^indsley, with the desire, which has been fulfilled, that it 
 should be finally placed among the portraits of deceased 
 professors of the School. 
 
 HON. WIIvIylAM SAMUEL JOHNSON 
 
 William Samuel Johnson, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. 
 Samuel Johnson (Yale Coll. 17 14), first President of King's, 
 now Columbia College, N. Y., was bom in Stratford, Conn., 
 October 7, 1727. He entered Yale College in September, 
 1740, before he was thirteen years old, and was graduated 
 in 1744, greatly distinguished for his attainments in clas- 
 sical literature, — a department of knowledge which he 
 valued highly, and continued to cultivate through life. In 
 1 747 he entered on the study of the law, in which profes- 
 sion he soon achieved distinc5lion. Having repeatedly rep- 
 resented his native town in the General Assembly, he was 
 
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 sent in 1765 as a delegate from Connedlicut to the Stamp- 
 Act Congress in New York ; the address of the Congress 
 to the King was principally written by him. In 1766 Dr. 
 Johnson was eledled into the Upper House or Council of 
 Connec5licut ; and the same year he was appointed a special 
 agent at the British Court, to present the defence of the 
 Colony in its lawsuit with the Mohegan Indians. He re- 
 turned in 1 771, and in 1772 was appointed a Judge of the 
 Superior Court of Connec5licut, but retained the office for 
 only a few months. He was nominated as a delegate to the 
 Continental Congress of 1774, but declined to serve, on 
 account of professional engagements. Before the Declar- 
 ation of Independence he resigned his place in the Council, 
 and being unable conscientiously to join in a war against 
 England, he lived in retirement in Stratford until hostilities 
 were over. From 1784 to 1787 he served as a member of 
 Congress ; and in the latter year he was placed at the head 
 of the Connedlicut delegation to the Convention for the 
 formation of a Federal Constitution, in which capacity he 
 did excellent service. In the same year he resumed his 
 place in the Upper House of the Connedlicut Assembly, 
 which he held until 1789, when he was eledled as the first 
 senator from the State in the first United States Congress 
 under the new constitution ; this office he held until his 
 resignation in 1791. Meantime, in 1787, he was eledled 
 President of Columbia College, — an office which he re- 
 signed in 1800 on account of ill health. The rest of his 
 life was spent quietly in Stratford, where he died November 
 14, 1 8 19, in his 93d year. Connedlicut has produced no man 
 who was his superior in talents, learning, eloquence, and 
 integrity. 
 
 The painting (27 x 35) owned by the University is a copy 
 by Fitch, of L^ebanon, Connedlicut, from an original painted 
 by Stuart in 1792 (now owned by Professor Charles F. John- 
 son, of Hartford), and was presented by Samuel Wm. John- 
 son, Esq., of Stratford, a son of the subjedl. 
 
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 HON. RUFUS KING 
 
 Rufus King, the son of Richard King, a merchant of 
 Scarborough, in the Distridl of Maine, was born in 1755, 
 and was graduated at Harvard in 1777. Beginning the 
 pracftice of law in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he soon 
 made his mark, and was eledled to the General Court in 
 1783. He distinguished himself in that body by his 
 speeches on public questions, and in 1784 he was sent as a 
 delegate to Congress, in which he served until 1787, being 
 also a member of the Convention for forming the Constitu- 
 tion. He removed to New York City in 1788, and in 1789 
 was eledled to the United States Senate, where he did emin- 
 ent service until 1796, when he was appointed Minister to 
 England. In 1803 he was relieved at his own request, and 
 retired to a country-seat on Long Island. In 18 13 he was 
 again elec5led to the Senate, and served until 1825, when he 
 went again to England as Minister. After a few months he 
 was obliged to return by failing health, and he died in New 
 York City on April 29, 1827, at the age of 72. His career 
 had shown him to be a man of eminent abilities and the 
 purest patriotism. 
 
 The Trumbull colledlion contains a portrait (25 x 30), 
 painted in London in 1800 ; and also a miniature painted 
 in Philadelphia in 1792. 
 
 HENRY C. KINGSLEY 
 
 Henry Coit Kingsley, the second son of Professor James 
 L- Kingsley, was born in New Haven, December 11, 181 5. 
 After graduation at Yale College in 1834, he studied law in 
 New Haven, and established himself in practice in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, in 1837. In 1853 he returned to New Haven, 
 and in July, 1862, he was ele(5led Treasurer of Yale College, 
 in which office he remained until his death, on December 
 19, 1886, at the age of 71. 
 
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 Mr. Kingsley's assiduous care and good judgment in the 
 administration of the finances were invaluable to the Col- 
 lege, as were also his inherited devotion and loyalty. 
 
 His portrait (24 x 30) was painted in 1887 by Harry I. 
 Thompson, of New Haven, and was presented in that year 
 to the University by Mrs. Kingsley. 
 
 PROFESSOR JAMES I.. KINGSLEY 
 
 James Luce Kingsley, son of Jonathan Kingsley, was 
 bom in Scotland, a parish of Windham, Connecfticut, on 
 August 28, 1778. He entered Williams College in 1795, 
 but spent only the Freshman year there ; and in May, 
 1797, he entered Yale, where he was graduated in 1799. 
 After two years' experience in teaching he was appointed 
 tutor in the College in 1801 ; and after having discharged 
 the duties of that office with singular success, he was 
 eledled in 1805 Professor of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin 
 Languages and of Ecclesiastical History. After 1831 his 
 title was changed to Professor of Latin, and in 1851 he was 
 made Professor Emeritus. He died in New Haven, Au- 
 gust 31, 1852, at the age of 74 years. Professor Kings- 
 ley excelled in Latin scholarship, and was no less distin- 
 guished for the keenness of his wit and his critical acumen, 
 and the accuracy of his historical knowledge. 
 
 His portrait (35 x 44) was painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn 
 in 1828, and was presented by the graduates of the class of 
 1829, Yale College ; and one of the windows in the Battell 
 Chapel is inscribed in his memory. 
 
 CAPTAIN CHARLES KNAPP 
 
 Charles Knapp, son of Josiah Knapp, of Boston, was 
 bom in 1785 ; a brother, John Knapp, was graduated at 
 Harvard College in 1800. He was a sea-captain, but much 
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 interested in art and a warm personal friend of Stuart and 
 Allston. He died in Boston in October, 1859, aged 74 
 years. 
 
 His portrait (21}^ x 26^^), painted by Stuart about 1840, 
 was bequeathed to the Art School in 1889 by his niece, 
 Mrs. Ellen (Marett) Gifford, of New Haven. 
 
 DR. JONATHAN KNIGHT 
 
 Jonathan Knight, a son of Dr. Jonathan Knight, a sur- 
 geon's mate in the Revolution, was born in Norwalk, Con- 
 nedlicut, September 4, 1789. He was graduated at Yale 
 College in 1808, and after an interval of school teaching 
 returned here as Tutor in 18 10. Meantime he was also 
 studying medicine, and he left the College in 181 1, for 
 further medical study at the University of Pennsylvania. 
 In 1 8 13 the Medical Institution of Yale College was organ- 
 ized, and Dr. Knight was appointed the Professor of Anat- 
 omy and Physiology. Twenty-five j^ears later he was 
 transferred to the chair of Surgery, which he held until his 
 resignation in May, 1864. During all these years he was 
 engaged in extensive pradlice, and his skill and experience 
 won for him a distinguished rank among American physi- 
 cians of his time. He died in New Haven, August 25, 
 1864, at the age of 75. 
 
 His portrait (34 J^ X43^) painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn 
 in 1828, was presented by the graduates of the Medical 
 School of that year. His bust in marble, executed in 1865, 
 by Truman H. Bartlett, and presented by a few friends and 
 pupils, is also in the Medical College ; and a copy in plaster 
 belongs to the University Library. 
 
 GOVERNOR JOHN LANGDON 
 
 John Langdon, son of John Langdon, was born in Ports- 
 mouth, New Hampshire, June 25, 1741, and settled in his 
 
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 native town as a merchant. He was ele<5led a delegate to 
 the Continental Congress in 1775, and was Speaker of the 
 New Hampshire Assembly in 1777. He was also an officer 
 in the field during the Revolution. In 1788 he became 
 Governor of the State, and in 1789 was eledled to the Senate 
 of the United States, of which he was at once chosen Presi- 
 dent. He left the Senate in 1801, and in 1805 was again 
 eledled Governor, retaining that office (with the exception 
 of two years) until 181 2, when he retired from public life 
 on account of age and infirmity. He died in Portsmouth, 
 on September 18, 18 19, in his 79th year. 
 
 Trumbull painted his miniature in Philadelphia in 1792. 
 
 HON. JAMES LANMAN 
 
 James Lanman, son of Peter Lanman, was bom in Nor- 
 wich, Connedlicut, on June 13, 1769, and died there on 
 August 7, 1 84 1, in his 73d year. He was graduated at 
 Yale in 1788, and became a lawyer in Norwich. After 
 membership of both houses of the State lyCgislature and of 
 the Convention which revised the State Constitution, he 
 was eledled to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 
 1 8 1 9. Later he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Con- 
 nedlicut, from 1826 until debarred by age in 1829. One of 
 his sons was graduated here in 18 14. 
 
 His portrait (24 x 29), by Chester Harding, was left to 
 the College in 1880 by his son-in-law. Dr. Daniel T. Coit. 
 
 PROFESSOR WILLIAM A. LARNED 
 
 William Augustus Larned, the son of George Larned, of 
 Thompson, Windham County, Connedlicut, was bom in 
 that town on June 23, 1806. He was graduated at Yale in 
 1826, and then spent two years in teaching at the South, 
 returning to the College as a Tutor in 1828. Before he left 
 
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 the tutorship, in 1831, he had expedled to become a lawyer, 
 but a change in his religious convidlions about that time 
 led him to take a course in the Divinity School. In 1834 
 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in 
 Millbury, Massachusetts, but he was forced to resign his 
 position after about eighteen months b}^ the state of his 
 health. Later he was engaged for a time as instru(5lor in a 
 theological school which was begun in Troy, New York, 
 but was overthrown by the financial disasters of 1837. In 
 1839 he was elec5led Professor of Rhetoric and English 
 Literature in Yale College, and for the rest of his life 
 devoted himself to this duty with rare fidelity and conscien- 
 tiousness. His useful career was suddenly terminated by a 
 stroke of apoplexy, while he was taking his daily walk, on 
 February 3, 1862, in his 56th year. 
 
 His portrait (28 x 36) was painted by Daniel Huntington 
 in 1847, and presented by the graduating class of that year ; 
 and a bust in marble, by H. K. Brow^n, was bequeathed to 
 the Yale Library in 1877 by his widow. He is further 
 commemorated by a window, suitablj^ inscribed, in the 
 Battell Chapel. 
 
 MRS. WILLIAM A. LARNKD 
 
 Irene Battell, the second daughter of Joseph Battell, Esq., 
 of Norfolk, Conne(5ticut, married Professor William A. 
 Larned of Yale College, on June i, 1843, and died on May 
 5, 1877, in her 66th year. 
 
 During her long residence in New Haven Mrs. Larned 
 was deeply interested in the progress of the College, and 
 the impulse of her cultivated taste was felt here in various 
 dire(5lions, especially in the development of music. In 1862 
 she gave $5000 as the beginning of a fund for a chair of 
 Music, and a year earlier she contributed a smaller amount 
 to the Library to constitute a fund for the purchase of musi- 
 cal books. 
 
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 After her death the College received from her estate 
 $5000 for the lyibrary (for books relating to the English 
 language and literature), $5000 for the fund for maintain- 
 ing the Chapel music, $10000 towards the endowment of a 
 chair of American History, and $15000 for the establish- 
 ment of graduate scholarships. 
 
 In 1892 a cabinet portrait of Mrs. lyarned, copied from 
 one painted by Inman when she was about 24 years of age, 
 was presented by her brother, the Hon. Robbins Battell. 
 
 HON. HENRY IvAURENS 
 
 Henry Laurens was born in Charleston, South Carolina, 
 of Huguenot descent, in 1724. He was trained, in Charles- 
 ton and in London, as a merchant, and retired from business 
 with an ample fortune about 1770. At the approach of 
 the Revolution he was conspicuous in his opposition to 
 British aggression, and was sent in 1776 to the Continental 
 Congress, over which he presided, in succession to John 
 Hancock, in 1777-78. In 1780 he was sent to Europe to 
 negotiate a loan in Holland, but was captured by the 
 British, and imprisoned in the Tower for nearly fifteen 
 months. After his release he served on the commission 
 for the settlement of peace with Great Britain. On account 
 of impaired health he declined all further public ofiice, and 
 he died in Charleston, on December 8, 1792, in his 69th 
 year. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in Charleston 
 in 1791. 
 
 ARTHUR LEE 
 
 Arthur Lee, youngest son of Governor Thomas Lee, and 
 brother of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, 
 w^as born in Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 
 December 20, 1740. He was educated at Eton, and then 
 
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 in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He settled in 
 Williamsburg, Virginia, as a physician, but on the occasion 
 of the stamp-adl excitement threw up his profession, and 
 from 1766 to 1770 studied law in the Temple, I^ondon, with 
 the design of following a political career. He remained in 
 England in the pradlice of law until 1776. He was then 
 intrusted by Congress with several diplomatic commissions, 
 notably as one of the negotiators of a treaty of alliance with 
 France. In 1779 he was relieved of his duties by vote of 
 Congress, partly in consequence of his bitter attacks on 
 Franklin. He then returned to America, and was further 
 employed in the public service until the expiration of the 
 Congress of the Confederation. He was opposed to the 
 adoption of the Federal Constitution, and lived in retirement 
 on his estate in Urbana, Middlesex County, Virginia, from 
 1789 until his death there on December 12, 1792, at the age 
 of 52. His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1790. 
 
 WHvLIAM LEFFINGWElyl. 
 
 William Leffingwell, the eldest son of Colonel Chris- 
 topher Leffingwell, a distinguished citizen of Norwich, Con- 
 necticut, was born in that town on September 28, 1765, and 
 was graduated at Yale in 1786. For some years after grad- 
 uation he remained in Norwich, in partnership with his 
 father in business, but about 1 793 he removed to New York 
 City, where he continued in mercantile business until 1809, 
 when he retired with an ample fortune. The rest of his 
 life was spent in New Haven, where he occupied a stately 
 mansion on the southwest comer of Chapel and Temple 
 streets, which was built by Jared Ingersoll, and was after- 
 wards the residence of Mr. Leffingwell' s son-in-law, Augus- 
 tus R. Street, and of Mr. Street's son-in-law. Admiral 
 Foote. He took a deep interest in the prosperity of the 
 College, and contributed several thousand dollars at various 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 71 
 
 times for its aid. He died in New Haven on October 23, 
 1834, in his yoth year. 
 
 His portrait (22 x 26), painted by John W. Jarvisin 1807, 
 was presented to the Art School by his son, lyucius W. 
 lyefiingwell (Y. C. 1814), in 1874. Another portrait (28 x 
 30), by Nathaniel Jocelyn, painted about 1825, and pre- 
 sented by Mr. L^effingwell himself, hangs in Alumni Hall. 
 
 MRS. WII.I.IAM LKFFINGWBI.I. 
 
 Sally Beers was the daughter of Isaac Beers, a well-known 
 bookseller of New Haven, and was married on the evening 
 before Commencement, 1786, to William Leffingwell of the 
 graduating class. 
 
 Her daughter, Caroline Mary Street, was one of the 
 munificent founders of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. 
 
 Mrs. Lefl&ngwell's portrait (22 x 26), was painted by 
 Jarvis at the same time with her husband's, and was pre- 
 sented by the same donor in 1874. She died in New Haven 
 on August 25, 1830, in her 65th year. 
 
 MRS. I.AWRBNCK IvEWIS 
 
 Eleanor Parke Custis was born in Abingdon, Fairfax 
 County, Va., in March, 1779. Her father. Colonel John 
 Parke Curtis, the last surviving child of the wife of Wash- 
 ington by her previous marriage, died in November, 1781, 
 and she was at once adopted by General Washington, and 
 remained ever after a member of his family. She married 
 in February, 1799, Major lyawrence Lewis, the son of Wash- 
 ington's sister, and died in Audley, Clarke County, Va., 
 July 15, 1852. 
 
 The miniature in the Trumbull collection was painted by 
 Colonel Trumbull in Philadelphia in 1792, when the sub- 
 ject was only thirteen years of age. 
 
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 PRESIDENT ABRAHAM WNCOIvN 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United 
 States, was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, Februar>^ 
 12, 1809, and died in Washington, April 15, 1865. 
 
 A statuette of Lincoln, as the Emancipator, was presented 
 by the artist, Edward J. Kuntze, of New York City, in 
 1868. There is also a plaster bust of Lincoln in the Li- 
 brary. 
 
 DR. JARED LINSLY 
 
 Jared Linsly, the youngest child of Josiah J. Linsly, was 
 born in Northford, a parish of North Branford, Connedli- 
 cut, on October 30, 1803, and was graduated at Yale Col- 
 lege in 1826. He then went to New York City, and was 
 graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons in 1829. The next year he formed a partnership with 
 Dr. William Baldwin, whose daughter he married in 1834. 
 Later he succeeded to Dr. Baldwin's entire business, and 
 continued in a constantly growing pradlice until about 1882. 
 His professional skill, his high charac5ler, and genial nature 
 made him widely beloved and trusted. He was deeply and 
 actively interested in the prosperity of Yale College through- 
 out his life ; and he took special pleasure in adding five 
 thousand dollars to a bequest of three thousand dollars, 
 made by his uncle, Noah Linsly, of the class of 179 1, to the 
 Library funds, and thus constituting the Linsly Fund, the 
 income of which is devoted to the purchase of books in 
 modern European languages. He also gave to the Library 
 a special collec5lion of rare books and pamphlets relating 
 to American political history. 
 
 He made his summer home in his native parish, and died 
 there on July 12, 1887, in his 84th year. 
 
 His son (of the class of 1866 in the Sheffield Scientific 
 School) presented in 1891 a portrait {2^% x 29^) executed 
 in this year by Bayard H. Tyler, of New York, from a 
 photograph taken at the age of 75. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 73 
 
 HON. SAMUEI. LIVERMORE 
 
 Samuel Livermore, son of Samuel Livermore, was born 
 in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1732. He was 
 graduated at Princeton in 1752, and settled as a lawyer, at 
 first in, Portsmouth, and later in Holderness, New Hamp- 
 shire. He was repeatedly a delegate to the Continental 
 Congress, and was chief justice of the State from 1782 to 
 1789. Under the new constitution he was elec5led a repre- 
 sentative in Congress, and served until promoted to the 
 Senate in 1793. He resigned in 1801 on account of fail- 
 ing health, and died in Holderness on May 18, 1803, at the 
 age of 71. 
 
 Trumbull painted his miniature in Philadelphia in 1791. 
 
 PROFESSOR ELIAS LOOMIS 
 
 Elias Loomis, the eldest son of the Rev. Hubbel Loomis, 
 was born in Willington, Tolland County, Connedlicut, on 
 August 7, 181 1, and was graduated at Yale in 1830. He 
 began the study of theology, but from May, 1833, when 
 he entered on a tutorship here, he devoted himself to teach- 
 ing. From 1836 to 1844 he held the chair of Mathematics 
 and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, and 
 then accepted a corresponding chair in the University of 
 the City of New York. In i860 he succeeded Professor 
 Olmsted in the Professorship of Natural Philosophy and 
 Astronomy in Yale College, and this position he retained 
 until his death, in New Haven, on August 15, 1889, at the 
 age of 78. 
 
 Professor Loomis was deeply interested in the progress 
 of the Astronomical Observatory of the University, and 
 provided by his last will that the income of over $300,000 
 of his estate should be eventually devoted to the mak- 
 ing, reducing and publishing of observations in this Obser- 
 vatory. 
 
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 He also bequeathed to the Observatory a portrait (35 x 
 AA%) of himself, which was painted in 1882 by Mrs. Henr>^ 
 A. Ivoop, of New York City. 
 
 REV. ABElv McKWBN, D.D. 
 
 Abel McBwen was the son of Robert EcKwen, and was 
 bom in Winchester, Connedlicut, February 13, 1780. He 
 was graduated here in 1804, and in 1806 was settled as 
 pastor of the First Congregational Church in New lyondon, 
 Connec5licut, where he remained through his life. He died 
 in New lyOndon on September 7, i860, in his 8ist year. 
 For thirty-four years before his death he was a member of 
 the College Corporation, and he was known throughout the 
 State as an able and faithful pastor and wise counsellor. 
 
 His portrait (24 x 29) was given through his son, the 
 Rev. Dr. Robert McEwen (Yale Coll. 1827), to the Divinity 
 School ; it was painted by Mrs. Mary S. (Isham) Dickin- 
 son, of New London, wife of John Dickinson (Y. C. 1827 . 
 
 CAPTAIN MANNING 
 
 Captain Manning, supposed to be a native of Ireland, 
 was distinguished for his intrepidity as an officer in com- 
 mand of the infantry of Lee's Legion at the battle of Eutaw, 
 and elsewhere in the southern campaigns of the Revolution. 
 
 After the war he settled in South Carolina, and held the 
 position of Adjutant General of the State Militia. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in 1791. 
 
 COLONEL JARED MANSFIELD 
 
 Jared Mansfield, son of Captain Stephen Mansfield, was 
 born in New Haven on May 23, 1759, and was educated at 
 Yale in the class of 1777. He taught for several years in 
 
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 New Haven and Philadelphia, and was early distinguished 
 for his attainments in mathematics and the allied sciences ; 
 his "Essays, Mathematical and Physical," published at 
 New Haven in 1802, was the first volume of original mathe- 
 matical research issued in this country. He accepted an 
 appointment in the regular army as Captain of engineers in 
 1802, with the expe(5lation of being employed solely in 
 teaching science at West Point, but in 1803 he was induced 
 to accept another appointment as Surveyor General of the 
 United States for Ohio and the North-west Territory. He 
 held this office until 1812, having meantime attained the 
 rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. From 181 2 until his resigna- 
 tion in 1828 he was Professor of Natural and Experimental 
 Philosophy in the United States Military Academy at West 
 Point. He then removed to Cincinnati, but died while on a 
 visit in New Plaven, on February 3, 1830, in his 71st year. 
 His portrait (24 x 29), copied by Robert W. Weir from 
 an original at West Point, was given to the College in 1840 
 by his son-in-law. Professor Charles Davies. 
 
 FREDERICK AND HETTY MARQUAND 
 
 Frederick Marquand, son of Isaac and Mabel (Perry) 
 Marquand, was born in Fairfield, Connedlicut, on April 6, 
 1799, and was married in the Fairfield Congregational 
 Church, on September 3, 1822, by the Rev. Nathaniel 
 Hewit, D.D., to Hetty, daughter of Uriah Perry, who was 
 born in Southport, a parish of Fairfield, on May 12, 1800, 
 and died in New York City on December 12, 1859. Mr. 
 Marquand died in Southport on July 14, 1882, in his 84th 
 year. 
 
 Henry Marquand, the father of Isaac Marquand, came from 
 the Island of Guernsey to Fairfield in the year 1761, and 
 died there on July 12, 1772, at the age of 35. The family 
 were Huguenots, who took refuge in Guernsey when so 
 many fled from the persecutions in France. 
 
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 Frederick Marquand began his business career at the age 
 of fifteen, and in the following year was taken by an uncle, 
 Josiah Penfield, to Savannah, Georgia, and in a short time 
 was admitted to partnership. In the midst of his prosperity 
 his father, who was engaged in business in New York, 
 made such a strong appeal to him to come to his assistance 
 that with his affedlionate disposition and sense of duty he 
 gave up his prospecfts in Savannah and returned to New 
 York. His untiring energy and good judgment gave simi- 
 lar results there after a little time, and he became the head 
 of the house of Marquand & Co. 
 
 About 1835 he retired and devoted himself to the care of 
 his accumulated property, to travel, and to doing good as 
 he had opportunity. He had no children, but the same 
 disposition which made him give up bright prospecfls to go 
 to his father's aid, led him to unceasing care of a large 
 circle of relatives, and especially to charging himself with 
 providing a liberal education for a long list of nephews and 
 nieces. A retiring disposition made him unwilling to 
 accept any public positions in civil or business life. He 
 was especially reticent in reference to his helpful deeds and 
 generous gifts, though it was seldom, when appealed to for a 
 worthy person or cause, that he did not cheerfully respond. 
 
 In 1 87 1 he eredled for the Yale Divinity School, in mem- 
 ory of his wife, the Chapel afterwards called the Marquand 
 Chapel, at an expense of upwards of $27,000. Two years 
 later he contributed $80,000, one-half the expense of West 
 Divinity Hall. In 1879 he gave $5,000 towards an 
 endowment for instruc5lion in Elocution in the Divinity 
 School, and in 1881 he built the Reference I^ibrary for the 
 same Department, — the amount of all these benefa(5lions 
 being $122,734. 
 
 Marble busts of Mr. and Mrs. Marquand, which were 
 executed by Edward S. Bartholomew in Rome in 1856, 
 were given to the Divinity School in 1883 by Mr. Mar- 
 quand' s brother, Henry G. Marquand. 
 
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 A portrait of Mr. Marquand (25^^ x 32), painted in Edin- 
 burgh by Horsburgli, in 1884, was presented to the Divinity 
 School by Mr. Elbert B. Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe 
 also eredled in 1885-86 on the College grounds, in memory 
 of their uncle, the building called Dwight Hall, — the name 
 being given in token of his known reverence and regard for 
 the elder President Dwight. 
 
 CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHAI^L 
 
 John Marshall, eldest son of Thomas Marshall, was born 
 in Germantown, Fauquier County, Va., on September 24, 
 1755. He was educated privately, and from 1775 to 1781 
 served in the Revolutionary army. Devoting himself after- 
 wards to the law, he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative 
 pracftice in his native State, and was the recognized head 
 of the Virginia bar when he was sent to France in 1797 as 
 one of the special envoys of the U. S. Government. 
 While a member of Congress, in 1 799, he was made Secre- 
 tary of State, and while filling this office was appointed in 
 November, 1800, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a 
 position which he adorned until his death, in Philadelphia, 
 whither he had gone for medical advice, on July 6, 1835, 
 in his 80th year. 
 
 A fine copy of his bust in plaster, executed in 1834 by 
 John Frazee of New York City, is deposited in the Law 
 School. 
 
 COSMO DE' MEDICI, THE GREAT 
 
 Cosmo de' Medici, son of the Italian general, Giovanni 
 de' Medici, was born in 15 19, and on the death of his 
 distant kinsman, Alessandro de' Medici, in 1537, was pro- 
 claimed his successor as Duke of the republic of Florence. 
 
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 In 1569 lie was declared Grand Duke of Tuscany, and died 
 in 1574. 
 
 In the Jarves CoUedlion (No. 100) is his portrait ( 1 8 x 24), 
 ascribed to Jacopo da Pontormo, who died in 1558. 
 
 MAJOR GBNERAI, MIFFI.IN 
 
 Thomas Mifflin was born in Philadelphia in 1744, and 
 was graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1 760. He 
 became a merchant in his native city, and was one of the 
 delegates to the Continental Congress of 1774. In 1775 
 Washington made him his aide-de-camp at Cambridge, 
 with the rank of Colonel. He was soon made quarter- 
 master-general of the army, and rose to the rank of Major- 
 General. After the war was over he was again in Congress, 
 was one of the framers of the Federal Constitution, and 
 Governor of Pennsylvania for nine years. He died in I^an- 
 caster, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1800. 
 
 His miniature is among those painted by Trumbull. 
 
 DR. THOMAS MINER 
 
 Thomas Miner was born on October 15, 1777, in West- 
 field, a parish in Middletown, Connecticut, where his father, 
 the Rev. Thomas Miner (Yale, 1769), was the Congrega- 
 tional minister. He was graduated at Yale College in 
 1796, and was mainly occupied in teaching for about seven 
 years. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. John 
 Osborne, Jr., of Middletown, and settled in 1808 in I^yme, 
 Connedlicut. Two years later he returned to Middletown, 
 where the rest of his life was spent. In 18 19 his health, 
 never robust, gave way, and from that date he was a con- 
 firmed valetudinarian. In the same year he received the 
 honorary degree of M.D. from Yale College. In 1823, in 
 conne(5lion with Dr. William Tully, he published a valu- 
 
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 able work on fevers, and by this and his other writings, he 
 became known as one of the most learned physicians in 
 New England. 
 
 While on a visit in Worcester, Mass., he died on April 
 23, 1841, in his 64th year. 
 
 His portrait (24}^ x 29^), painted about 1835, was pre- 
 sented in 1867 by Mrs. Edward R. Tyler, of New Haven, 
 in whose mother's family Dr. Miner spent all the later por- 
 tion of his life. 
 
 GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN 
 
 Daniel Morgan was born in New Jersey, of Welsh ex- 
 tradlion, about 1736. Early in 1754 he removed to Vir- 
 ginia, and began his military career next year as a teamster 
 in Braddock's army, forming by this means the acquaint- 
 ance of Washington. He also served as a lieutenant in 
 Pontiac's war. In 1775 he joined the Continental army 
 as captain of a Virginia company. In 1776 Congress gave 
 him a colonel's commission, and his subsequent career 
 evinced marked military genius. His promotion to the rank 
 of brigadier-general was in October, 1780. 
 
 After the close of the war he lived mostly in retirement 
 on his farm in the Shenandoah Valley, near Winchester, 
 Va., where he died on July 6, 1802, at the age of 66. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1792. 
 
 MRS. WASHINGTON MORTON 
 
 Cornelia Schuyler, daughter of General Philip Schuyler, 
 of Albany, was born on December 22, 1776, and married 
 Washington Morton, Esq. , of New York City. She died 
 in Philadelphia, after a lingering illness, on June 5, 1808, 
 in her 32d year, leaving a name as "one of the worthiest 
 of women." 
 
 Her miniature was painted by Colonel Trumbull in 1792. 
 
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 GENERAL WILLIAM MOULTRIE 
 
 William Moultrie was born in England in 1731, the son 
 of Dr. John Moultrie, who emigrated to Charleston, S. C, 
 in 1733. At the beginning of the Revolution he espoused 
 the American cause, and was appointed to the command of 
 a regiment. In June, 1776, he defended against a British 
 squadron with conspicuous valor an unfinished fortress 
 (afterwards called Fort Moultrie), at the mouth of Charles- 
 ton harbor. He was soon afterwards commissioned briga- 
 dier-general in the Continental army. In the siege of 
 Charleston in May, 1780, he was taken prisoner, and was 
 not released until 1781. He was twice elected Governor of 
 South Carolina, in 1785 and 1794, and died in Charleston 
 on September 27, 1805, at the age of 74. 
 
 His miniature, painted by Trumbull, in Charleston, in 
 1 79 1, is a masterpiece in modeling, color, and expression. 
 
 REV. ELISHA MULFORD, LL.D. 
 
 Elisha Mulford was born in Montrose, Pa., on Nov. 19, 
 1833, and was graduated at Yale in 1855. 
 
 After extended studies in theology and literature he was 
 ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
 in 1 86 1, but withdrew in 1864 from further service as a 
 parish minister, mainly on account of extreme deafness. 
 The next fifteen years were spent in a retired country 
 home near his birthplace, where he wrote and published 
 a treatise on The Nation. In 1880 he removed to Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., where he published his second great work, 
 The Republic of God, and there died on Dec. 9, 1885, at the 
 age of 52. 
 
 His full-length portrait (29^ x 44), painted by J. Harvey 
 Young, of Boston, from a photograph, was presented by a 
 few of his classmates in June, 1890. 
 
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 ISRAElv MUNSON 
 
 Israel Munson, son of Israel Munson, was born in New 
 Haven on February 3, 1767, and was graduated at Yale in 
 1787. He entered the medical profession, and was for a 
 short time a pra(5licing physician in Branford, Conn. Soon, 
 however, he left the profession, and subsequently estab- 
 lished himself in mercantile business in Boston, Mass., 
 where he resided for the remainder of his life. Few men 
 have passed through so long a period of adlive business with 
 so unblemished a reputation. He was a distinguished 
 benefac5lor of humane and literary institutions ; and his 
 gifts to Yale College in his lifetime and at his death ex- 
 ceeded in amount those of any other individual up to that 
 date. 
 
 In 1833 he contributed $5,000 towards the fund of 
 $100,000 raised about that time, and by his last will he 
 bequeathed to the College $20,000, of which the sum of 
 $5,000 was by him specially appropriated for the benefit of 
 the Medical School. Besides these donations he contrib- 
 uted at other times smaller sums in aid of different 
 undertakings in this institution. In commemoration of 
 his benefadlions his name was attached to one of the Col- 
 lege Professorships. 
 
 He died in Boston on February 3, 1844, his 67th birthda}^ 
 
 His portrait (29 x 36) was presented by Charles Bar- 
 nard, Esq., of Boston, his former partner in business and 
 the executor of his estate. 
 
 JUDGE THOMAS J. OAKI^EY 
 
 Thomas Jackson Oakley was born in Duchess County, 
 N. Y., on November 10, 1783, and was graduated at Yale 
 in I 801. 
 
 He became a pradlicing lawyer in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ^ 
 and served one term in Congress in 18 13-15. In 18 19 he 
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 was appointed Attorney-General of the State of New York, 
 and was re-eledled to Congress, as a Clinton Democrat, in 
 1827. He resigned his seat, however, in 1828, when upon 
 the organization of the Superior Court of New York City 
 he was appointed one of the judges. On the re-organiza- 
 tion of that Court, in 1846, he was elecfted Chief Justice, 
 and filled that office until his death, in New York City, on 
 May II, 1857, aged 73^ years. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1827. 
 
 DAVID B. OGDEN, ESQ. 
 
 David B. Ogden was a son of Colonel Samuel Ogden, of 
 Pennsylvania, and a grandson of the Hon. David Ogden 
 (Yale Coll. 1728), of New Jersey. His mother was a sister 
 of Gouverneur Morris. 
 
 After having become well established as a lawyer in New 
 Jersey, he removed to New York City in 1802, and rose to 
 the very first rank among the lawyers of his generation. 
 He died at his country residence on Staten Island, July 15, 
 1849, aged 80 years. 
 
 Colonel Trumbull painted his miniature in 1827. 
 
 PROFESSOR DENISON OLMSTED 
 
 Denison Olmsted, the son of Nathaniel Olmsted, a farmer 
 of East Hartford, Conn., was bom in that town on the 
 1 8th of June, 1791, and was graduated here in 18 13. He 
 taught school in Newl/Ondon, Conn., until recalled to Yale 
 as a Tutor in 18 15; and was preparing himself for the 
 ministry, when in 18 17 a call to the chair of Chemistry, 
 Mineralogy, and Geology in the University of North Caro- 
 lina, determined his life work. He remained in that Uni- 
 versity until 1825, when he succeeded to the Professorship 
 of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at 
 
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 Yale. In 1836 Mathematics was transferred to a separate 
 chair, but the other departments he retained until his death, 
 in New Haven, on May 13, 1859, at the age of 68. 
 
 His portrait (28 x 36), painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn in 
 1833, was presented by the graduating class of that year; 
 and a window is erec5led in the Battell chapel to his mem- 
 ory. 
 
 CHARIvBS J. OSBORN 
 
 Charles James Osborn was bom on Long Island on 
 January 18, 1840, and died in New York City on November 
 II, 1885. 
 
 In May, 1869, he was admitted to the New York Stock 
 Exchange, and was subsequently one of the most prominent 
 and successful brokers in that city until his retirement from 
 ac5live business nearly two years before his death. 
 
 In 1864 he married Miss Miriam Adaline Trowbridge, 
 eldest daughter of Nelson C. Trowbridge, of Georgia, who 
 survived him, and who erected in his memory on the Col- 
 lege Square a capacious recitation-hall, in 1888-9, ^^ ^^i 
 expense of nearly $200,000. In the entrance-porch is a 
 bronze memorial tablet with a suitable inscription, sur- 
 mounted by a medallion of Mr. Osborn which was modeled 
 by Philip Martiny of New York City. The tablet and 
 medallion were cast in one piece by John Williams of New 
 York in 1890. 
 
 Mrs. Osborn died on March 14, 1891, in her 51st year, 
 and bequeathed to the University a share in her residuary 
 estate. 
 
 HON. THOMAS B. OSBORNE 
 
 Thomas Burr Osborne, son of Jeremiah Osborne, was 
 born in Easton, Conn., on July 8, 1798, and was graduated 
 at Yale, in 181 7. 
 
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 He studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New Ha- 
 ven, and in 1820 began pradlice in Fairfield, Conn. From 
 1826 to 1839 he held the ofiice of Clerk of the County and 
 Superior Courts, and in 1839 he was elecfted a Representa- 
 tive in Congress, and re-eledted in 184 1. In 1844 he was 
 appointed Judge of the County Court. He removed to 
 New Haven in 1854, and from 1855 was Professor in the 
 Yale lyaw School. With the resignation of this oflSce in 
 1865 he retired from public life. He died in New Haven 
 on Sept. 2, 1869, in his 72d year. 
 
 His portrait (24 x 30), painted by Mrs. Henry A. Loop, 
 of New York City, after his death, was presented to the 
 Law School by his son in 1876. 
 
 DR. PETER PARKER 
 
 Peter Parker, son of Nathan Parker, was bom in Fra- 
 mingham, Mass., on June 18, 1804, and was graduated here 
 in 1831. 
 
 After graduation he studied for two years in the Yale 
 Divinity School, and also took a full medical course, re- 
 ceiving the degree of M.D. in 1834. Having been appointed 
 by the American Board a medical missionary to China, he 
 was ordained in May, 1834, .and embarked the next month 
 for Canton, being one of the first American missionaries to 
 enter the empire. In furtherance of his labors he opened 
 in 1835 a hospital in Canton for the gratuitous relief of the 
 sick, which was soon recognized as a most beneficial agency 
 and was of inestimable value in disarming prejudice. In 
 1844 he accepted the appointment of Secretary and Inter- 
 preter to the U. S. Legation to China, and his conne(5lion 
 with the American Board ceased soon after, though his 
 labors in the hospital continued until the resignation of his 
 secretaryship on his return to America in 1855. Soon after 
 his return he was appointed U. S. Commissioner to China, 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 85 
 
 with plenipotentiary powers, for the revision of the treaty 
 of 1844, This service occupied him for two years, and left 
 him in infirm health. His later years were spent in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, where he died on January 10, 1888, in his 
 84th year. 
 
 This portrait (21^ x 29), painted by I^amqua, a Chinese 
 artist who received his instru(5lon from George Chinnery, 
 an English painter of repute who resided for many years 
 in China, was presented by Dr. Parker about 1840. 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY 
 
 George Peabody, son of Thomas Peabody, was born in 
 that part of Danvers which is now Peabody, Mass., on 
 February 18, 1795. 
 
 He began his business training as a clerk in a store at the 
 age of eleven, and when he was nineteen he became a part- 
 ner in a dry goods house in Georgetown, D. C. In 18 15 
 his firm removed to Baltimore, and when he left the coun- 
 try, in 1837, to establish a banking house in lyondon, he 
 was already accounted a wealthy man. His career in lyon- 
 don was a conspicuously successful one, and he became a 
 princely giver in his own lifetime to philanthropic and 
 educational objedls. While on a visit to the United States 
 in 1866 he gave to Yale College $150,000 for the endow- 
 ment of a Museum of Natural History. In recognition of 
 this gift the Corporation commissioned Daniel Huntington, 
 N. A., to paint for them a portrait (63^ x 90) of Mr. Pea- 
 body, which was completed in 1867. 
 
 He died in London on November 4, 1869, in his 75th 
 year. 
 
 PELATIAH PERIT 
 
 Pelatiah Perit was the son of John Perit, a merchant in 
 Norwich, Conn., where he was born on June 23, 1785. 
 
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 His father was descended from a Huguenot refugee, and 
 his mother was a daughter of Pelatiah Webster (Y. C. 1746), 
 a noted writer on financial subje(5ls. 
 
 He was graduated at Yale in 1802, and finding himself 
 debarred from the profession of the ministry by a weakness 
 of his voice, he entered a counting-room in Philadelphia. 
 In 1809 he removed to New York City, and retained busi- 
 ness relations there to the close of his life. From 18 17 to 
 1 86 1 he was a partner in the shipping-house of Goodhue & 
 Co., extensively engaged in foreign commerce. From 1853 
 to 1863 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce of 
 the State of New York. Throughout his life he was an 
 adlive supporter of the institutions of Christian benevo- 
 lence. He removed his residence in 1859 to New Haven, 
 where he died on March 8, 1864, in his 79th year. By his 
 will the College received at the death of his widow (in 1885) 
 a legacy of $15,000, which has been applied to the endow- 
 ment of a Professorship. At the same date his heirs pre- 
 sented his portrait (28)^x35^), which was painted about 
 1835 by Messrs. S. L- Waldo and W. Jewett, of New York 
 City, for his elder brother, Mr. John W. Perit (Y. C. 1801), 
 of Philadelphia, who died in 1845. 
 
 DR. ALFRED K. PERKINS 
 
 Alfred Elijah Perkins, son of Major Joseph Perkins, was 
 bom in Norwich, Conn., on April 5, 1809, and was grad- 
 uated at Yale in 1830. 
 
 He attended for three successive years three courses of 
 medical le(5lures, — the first at Boston, and the other two at 
 Philadelphia. ^ At the close of the last course, in the spring 
 of 1833, he was quite suddenly and severely attacked with 
 consumption of the lungs. He was able to pass his exam- 
 ination for the degree of M.D., and spent the ensuing six 
 months in the Southern States. In September he started 
 
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 for Madeira, going thence to the West Indies, and return- 
 ing home in the summer of 1834 by way of New Orleans 
 and the Mississippi. He died in Norwich on October 29, 
 1834, in his 26th year. 
 
 By his will he left a legacy of $10,000 (received in 1836-7) 
 to the College lyibrary, for the purchase of books. So large 
 a sum had not before been given at one time by any indi- 
 vidual to the College. 
 
 His portrait (24^ x 29^) was given to the Library by 
 his sister, Mrs. John A. Rockwell, of Norwich ; it is be- 
 lieved to have been painted about 1833 by Alvan Fisher, of 
 Boston. 
 
 GOOD PETER, A CHIEF OF THE ONEIDA INDIANS 
 
 * * Good Peter, ' ' a convert to Christianity under the labors 
 of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, was one of the sachems who 
 visited Philadelphia for a conference with our government 
 in March, 1792. He died about a year after his return. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in Philadelphia. 
 
 MRS. HENRY PHILIPS 
 
 Sophia Chew, a daughter of Chief- Justice Benjamin 
 Chew, of Philadelphia, was born on November 13, 1769. 
 She married, Odlober 18, 1796, Henry Philips, of Manches- 
 ter, England, son of John and Sarah (Leigh) Philips, of 
 Bank Hall, Lancashire. He was bom January 8, 1767, 
 and died in Philadelphia, February 11, 1800, leaving an 
 only son. She survived until September 3, 1841. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in Philadelphia 
 in 1793. 
 
 REV. JAMES PIERPONT 
 
 James Pierpont, born January 4, 1660, was son of John 
 Pierpont, of Roxbury, Mass., and was graduated at Har- 
 
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 vard College in 1681. He began to preach in New Haven 
 in August, 1684, and was ordained pastor of the church 
 and congregation in this town on July 2, 1685. From his 
 consultations with his ministerial neighbors the movement 
 began which resulted in the founding in 1701 of the col- 
 legiate school which became Yale College ; and during his 
 lifetime he was the most influential of its board of trustees. 
 He died in New Haven on November 22, 1714, in his 55th 
 year. 
 
 His portrait, presented in 1887 by his descendant, the 
 Hon. Edwards Pierrepont (Yale 1837), is a copy on an 
 enlarged canvas (36>^ x 42}^) by Professor Weir of an 
 original in the possession of the family. 
 
 RECTOR PIERSON 
 
 Abraham Pierson was born in 1645, probably in South- 
 ampton, lyOng Island, being the son of the Rev. Abraham 
 Pierson, a graduate of the University of Cambridge (B. A. 
 1632), who emigrated to Boston in 1640. 
 
 The son was graduated at Harvard in 1668. While he 
 was in College his father removed from Branford, Connec5li- 
 cut, to Newark, New Jersey ; and he was settled there, as 
 colleague with and successor to his father in the pastoral 
 office, from 1669 to 1692. After an interval, during which 
 he preached in Greenwich, Conne<5licut, he was settled over 
 the church in Killingworth, now Clinton, Connedlicut, 
 towards the end of the year 1694. His ministry there was 
 terminated by his death, on March 5, 1707, in his 62d year- 
 He was prominent among the ministers who procured a 
 charter for a Collegiate School in 1701 ; and being chosen 
 the first Rec5lor of the School in November of that year, he 
 served in that capacity (without removing his residence) 
 until his death. 
 
 No portrait of Redlor Pierson is preserved ; and the life- 
 size statue by lyaunt Thompson, of New York City, which 
 
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 was eredled on the College grounds in 1874, is an ideal pre- 
 sentation of the man. This statue was the gift of Mr. 
 Charles Morgan, of New York City, who was a native of 
 Clinton, and a duplicate was set up on the grounds of the 
 Morgan School in that town. 
 
 GKNERAI. CHARI.es COTKSWORTH PINCKNBY 
 
 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, son of Chief Justice 
 Charles Pinckney, was bom in Charleston, S. C, on Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1746. He was educated in England, being 
 matriculated at Oxford in 1764, and completing his law 
 studies in the Middle Temple in 1769. He then returned 
 to his native city and began pradlice as a barrister. He 
 was a member of the ist Provincial Congress of South 
 Carolina in 1775, and early entered the army. He was 
 advanced to the rank of colonel in Ocftober, 1776, and 
 ser\^ed for a time as aide-de-camp to Washington. On the 
 surrender of Charleston in May, 1780, he became a prisoner, 
 and was not exchanged until February, 1782. He received 
 subsequently a commission as brigadier-general. 
 
 He was an a(5live member of the Convention for framing 
 the Constitution, and advocated earnestly the adoption of 
 that instrument. After having declined repeatedly a seat 
 in the Cabinet, and also an appointment to the bench of the 
 Supreme Court, he accepted an appointment as one of the 
 commissioners to treat with the French government in 1 796 ; 
 Talleyrand's dishonorable treatment of this commission is 
 part of the history of the country. He was the Federalist 
 candidate for the Vice- Presidency in 1800, and for the Presi- 
 dency in 1804 and 1808. He died in Charleston on August 
 16, 1825, in his 80th year. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in Charleston in 
 1791. 
 
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 GENERAL THOMAS PINCKNEY 
 
 Thomas Pinckney, a brother of Charles Cotesworth 
 Pinckney, was born in Charleston on Odlober 23, 1750, and 
 accompanied his brother to England for an education. 
 
 He returned to Charleston in 1774 and pradliced law in 
 that city. After a brief military career in the Revolution, 
 he resumed his professional life, and in 1789 was eledled 
 Governor of the State. In 1792 he was appointed by 
 Washington Minister to Great Britain, whence he went in 
 1794 on a mission to Spain, where he gained great credit 
 to himself by arranging the treaty which secured to the 
 United States the free navigation of the Mississippi. 
 Returning to Charleston in 1796, he was the Federalist 
 candidate for the Vice-Presidency in that year, and served 
 in Congress in 1 799-1 801. His last public service was as 
 a Major General in the war of 18 12. He died in Charleston 
 on November 2, 1828, at the age of 78. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in Charleston in 
 1791. 
 
 PROFESSOR JOHNSON T. PI,ATT 
 
 Johnson Tuttle Piatt was born in Newtown, Connec5licut, 
 on January 12, 1844. 
 
 He was graduated at the Law School of Harvard Univer- 
 sity in 1865, and the same year began pra<5tice in New 
 Haven. He was one of the three members of the New 
 Haven bar who were intrusted in 1869 with the instru(5lion 
 in the Yale Law School, and who were made Professors in 
 full in 1872. Professor Piatt continued his valuable in- 
 strudlions in the School until his very sudden death, the 
 result of overwork, in New Haven, on January 23, 1890, at 
 the age of 46. 
 
 A portrait (oval, 21 x 26) painted in 1890 by F. Wayland 
 Fellowes, Esq., of New Haven, was presented by the artist 
 to the Law School in the same year. 
 
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 PRESIDENT PORTER 
 
 Noah Porter was born in Farmington, Connedlicut, on 
 December 14, 181 1, the son of the village minister, the 
 Rev. Dr. Noah Porter, a graduate and for nearly forty 
 years a Fellow of Yale College. 
 
 He was graduated here in 1831, and after an interval of 
 teaching in the Hopkins Grammar School, he entered on a 
 tutorship and began his theological studies in 1833. He 
 resigned the tutor's ofi&ce in 1835, and in April, 1836, was 
 settled over the Congregational Church in New Milford, 
 Conn., the native place of the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of whom 
 he was a favorite pupil. At the close of 1842 he removed 
 to the South Church, Springfield, Mass., whence he was 
 called to the newly founded Clark Professorship of Moral 
 Philosophy and Metaphysics in this College in 1846. This 
 professorship he retained until his death ; and besides these 
 duties he was ele(5led to the presidency on President Wool- 
 sey's retirement in 1871, and continued in that office until 
 1886. He died in New Haven on March 4, 1892, in his 
 8 1 St year. 
 
 A portrait (28^ x 35^2) of President Porter, by Daniel 
 Huntington, was painted in 1851, and presented to the Col- 
 lege by the graduating class of that year. There is also in 
 the Library a bronze medallion by Miller. 
 
 GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM 
 
 Rufus Putnam, the son of Elisha Putnam, who was a 
 cousin of General Israel Putnam, was born in Sutton, Mass. , 
 on April 9, 1738. After serving in the Old French War, 
 he settled on a farm in New Braintree, Mass., at the same 
 time perfedling himself in the study of surveying. Imme- 
 diately after the battle of Lexington he joined the American 
 army, and in January, 1783, had attained the rank of 
 brigadier-general. As superintendent of the Ohio Com- 
 
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 pany he founded on April 7, 1788, the first permanent set- 
 tlement in that country at Marietta. In 1790 he was ap- 
 pointed a Judge of the United States Court in the North- 
 western Territory, and in 1796 Surveyor- General of the 
 United States, which office he held until removed by Jeffer- 
 son in 1803. 
 
 He died in Marietta on May 4, 1824, aged 86 years. 
 
 The miniature by Trumbull was painted in New York in 
 1790. 
 
 JUDGE JACOB READ 
 
 Jacob Read was bom in South Carolina in 1752. He 
 studied law in England from 1773 to 1776, and afterwards 
 practised his profession in Charleston. During the Revolu- 
 tion he served as a major of a South Carolina regiment, 
 but was taken prisoner and kept in confinement for four 
 years. From 1783 to 1786 he was a delegate to the Conti- 
 nental Congress, and in 1795 he was elec5ledas a Federalist 
 to the United States Senate. At the completion of his 
 term, in 1801, President Adams appointed him Judge of 
 the United States Court for the District of South Carolina, 
 which office he held until his death, in Charleston, on July 
 17, 18 1 6, at the age of 64. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1783. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN RUTlvEDGE 
 
 John Rutledge, the eldest son of Dr. John Rutledge, who 
 came to South Carolina from Ireland about 1735, was born 
 in Charleston in 1739. He was sent to England to study 
 law at the Temple, and returned in 1761 to Charleston, 
 where he acquired a high reputation as an advocate. Being 
 conspicuous in his opposition to the Stamp Act, he was 
 sent as a delegate to the Congress at New York in 1765. 
 He also represented South Carolina in the First Continental 
 
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 Congress, and in 1776 was eledled the first president of the 
 new state government, retaining this position for nearly 
 the entire period of the war. In 1783 he was returned to 
 Congress, and in 1787 was a prominent member of the Con- 
 vention for framing the Constitution. He decHned a nom- 
 ination to the Supreme Court of the United States, in order 
 to accept the Chief Justiceship of South Carolina ; but later, 
 in 1795, was appointed Chief Justice of the United States, 
 and presided at one term ; but before his name could be 
 adled on by Congress his mind had failed, so that his nomi- 
 nation had to be rejec5led. He died in Charleston on July 
 23, 1800, at the age of 61. 
 
 His miniature was painted in Charleston by Trumbull in 
 1791. 
 
 PROFESSOR EDWARD E. SAIvISBURY 
 
 Professor Salisbury's portrait (24 x 30) was painted at the 
 request of the Corporation for the Library, by George A. 
 Baker, in 1871, shortly after his memorable gift of his col- 
 lecflion of oriental books and manuscripts to the University. 
 
 GOVERNOR GURDON SALTONSTALL 
 
 Gurdon Saltonstall was the son of Col. Nathaniel Sal ton- 
 stall (Harvard Coll. 1659), and the great-grandson of Sir 
 Richard Saltonstall, one of the original patentees of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., on March 
 27, 1666, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1684. 
 In 1687 he began to preach in New London, Conn., where 
 he was ordained pastor of the church in 169 1. In 1707, on 
 the death of Fitz-John Winthrop, he was chosen Governor 
 of Conne(5licut by the legislature ; and was continued in 
 office by an annual election of the people until his death, 
 which took place in New London, on September 20, 1724, 
 in his 59th year. 
 
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 He was ever ready to promote the interests of Yale Col- 
 lege, and on several occasions of peculiar difficulty exer- 
 cised a controling influence in its favor. 
 
 When the College was removed from Saybrook to New 
 Haven, Governor Saltonstall made a donation of ;^50 for 
 its benefit. His second wife. Madam Mary Saltonstall, also 
 contributed liberally to this institution ; and both of them 
 were benefacflors of Harvard College. 
 
 This portrait (40x52) was presented in August, 1783, 
 by Roswell Saltonstall (Yale 1751), grandson of the Gov- 
 ernor, who inherited and occupied his grandfather's man- 
 sion on the eastern borders of I^ake Saltonstall, in Branford, 
 Conne(5licut. 
 
 GBNERAI. PHIIvIP SCHUYI.KR 
 
 Philip Schuyler, son of John Schuyler, was born in 
 Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1733. In the French war he 
 served from 1755 as captain and major, and at the opening 
 of the Revolution he was prominent in the Province of New 
 York as an enterprising manager of extensive business 
 connec5lions and as colonel in the militia. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Continental Congress of 1775, and was then 
 appointed major-general. After most efficient military 
 service, he was also prominent in political life, as a Feder- 
 alist, until 1798, when ill-health obliged him to resign his 
 seat in the United States Senate. He died in Albany on 
 Nov. 18, 1804, at the age of 71. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1792. 
 
 HON. THEODORE SEDGWICK 
 
 Theodore Sedgwick, son of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick, 
 was born in Cornwall, Conn., in May, 1746. He entered 
 Yale in 1761, but did not graduate with his class, receiving 
 
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 his degree seven years later, in 1772. In 1766 he began the 
 pracftice of law in Great Barrington, Mass., removing thence 
 to Sheffield in 1777, and in 1785 to Stockbridge. He was 
 an acflive member of the State Convention for the ratifica- 
 tion of the Constitution in 1788, and a Federalist represen- 
 tative or Senator in Congress from 1789 until 1801. He 
 was Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, from 
 1802 until his death in Boston on January 24, 1813, in his 
 67th year. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Trumbull in 1791. 
 
 HON. WII.UAM H. SEWARD 
 
 William Henry Seward, son of Dr. Samuel S. Seward, 
 of Connedlicut origin, was born in Florida, Orange County, 
 N. Y., May 16, 1801, and was graduated at Union College 
 in 1820. He settled in Auburn, N. Y., in the pra6lice of 
 the law in 1823, and as the result of his professional and 
 political success was eledled the first whig governor of New 
 York in 1838. He was ele(5led to the United States Senate 
 in 1849, and re-ele6led in 1855, resigning his seat in 1861 
 to accept the position of Secretary of State under Lincoln, 
 whose chief competitor he had been for the Republican 
 nomination to the Presidency. He had a narrow escape 
 from death by assassination at the time of Lincoln's murder, 
 but retained his office until 1869. He died in Auburn on 
 Odlober 10, 1872, in his 7 2d year. 
 
 A bronze medallion by Robinson was presented to the 
 Law School in 1873. 
 
 MAJOR THOMAS Y. SEYMOUR 
 
 Thomas Youngs Seymour, the son of Colonel Thomas 
 Seymour (Yale 1755), was born in Hartford, Conn., on June 
 i9> i757> and entered Yale in 1773. In January of his 
 Senior year he was commissioned as a lieutenant in a Con- 
 
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 nedlicut regiment, and he remained in the service continu- 
 ously until November, 1778, though receiving his degree 
 in 1777. He was present at Burgoyne's surrender, and was 
 appointed by General Gates to escort the captive General 
 to Boston. In Trumbull's painting of the surrender he is 
 represented on his black charger in the foreground. 
 
 He afterwards became a lawyer in Hartford, and died 
 there on May 16, 181 1, in his 54th year. 
 
 Trumbull painted his miniature in 1792 ; it is copied in 
 the Memorial History of Hartford County, volume i. 
 
 JOSEPH K. SHKFFIKIvD 
 
 Joseph Karl Sheffield was born in Southport, then a part 
 of Fairfield, Conn., on June 19, 1793. Beginning his busi- 
 ness career as a clerk in Newbern, North Carolina, at the 
 age of fourteen, before he was twenty-one he was admitted 
 to partnership in the house in which he was employed. In 
 18 16 he settled in Mobile, Alabama, and after a lucrative 
 career there he removed to New Haven in 1835, on account 
 of his wife's health and to secure an education for his chil- 
 dren in a non-slaveholding community. Here he took a 
 leading part in the development of the Farmington canal 
 and of the Canal railroad, as well as in the constru(flion of 
 the New York and New Haven railroad. His reputation 
 and his fortune were further extended by his connedlion 
 with large railroad enterprises at the West, in which Mr. 
 Henry Farnam was also associated. 
 
 After the marriage of one of his daughters to Professor 
 John A. Porter, of the Yale Scientific School, in 1854, his 
 interest was enlisted in that institution, and he began the 
 remarkable series of benefa(5lions which have made him the 
 largest individual donor to Yale. 
 
 He died in New Haven on February 16, 1882, in his 89th 
 year. 
 
 A portrait (24 x 29) by Harry I. Thompson, of New 
 Haven, was painted for the Scientific School in 1885. 
 
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 HON. ROGER SHERMAN 
 
 Roger Sherman, son of William Sherman, a cordwainer, 
 was bom in Newton, Mass., on April 19, 1721. He had 
 not the advantages of an early education, and rose to dis- 
 tindlion in a great measure by his own unassisted efforts. 
 He settled in New Milford, Conn., in 1743, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1754. In 1761 he removed to New Haven, 
 and in 1765 he was made one of the Judges of the County 
 Court of Common Pleas. From 1765 to 1776 he was 
 Treasurer of the College. In 1766 he was eled:ed into the 
 Council (or Upper House of the IvCgislature), and he con- 
 tinued a member of that body for nineteen years. The same 
 year he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court, and 
 retained his seat upon the bench until 1789. He was 
 present at the opening of the First Continental Congress ; 
 and in 1776 he was appointed with Adams, Franklin, 
 Jefferson, and Livingston, to prepare a draft of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence. In 1787 he was chosen, in conjunc- 
 tion with William Samuel Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth, 
 a delegate to the Convention for framing a constitution for 
 the United States ; and his efforts, with those of his col- 
 leagues, were conspicuous and successful in procuring the 
 ratification of that Constitution by the State Convention. 
 He was eledled a Representative in the First Congress, in 
 1789, and in 1791 was transferred to the Senate. He died 
 in New Haven on July 23, 1793, in his 73d year. 
 
 The painting owned by the University is a copy (24^ x 30) 
 from the head of the full-length portrait by Ralph Earle, 
 which is in the possession of a descendant in New Haven ; 
 there is a wood-engraving from the original in volume six 
 of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America. 
 This copy was presented in 1835 by Dr. John Skinner, 
 of New Haven, who married one of Roger Sherman's 
 daughters. 
 
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 HON. ROGER M. SHERMAN 
 
 Roger Minott Sherman, son of the Rev. Josiah Sherman 
 (a brother of the Hon. Roger Sherman), was bom in Wo- 
 burn, Mass., on May 22, 1773. In his infancy his father 
 removed to a parish in Connedlicut, and the son was grad- 
 uated at Yale in 1792. Three years later he was appointed 
 a Tutor in this Institution. In 1796 he was admitted to the 
 bar, and forthwith established himself in pradlice in Fair- 
 field County, where he soon rose to eminence. In 18 14, 
 being then a member of the Upper House of the Connedlicut 
 I^egislature, he was appointed by the General Assembly one 
 of the delegates from this State to the Hartford Convention. 
 He continued his professional pradlice with distinguished 
 reputation and success until May, 1840, when he accepted 
 the appointment of Judge of the Superior Court, and left 
 the bar of which he had been for forty-four years a shining 
 light, to dignify and adorn the bench. Ill health obliged 
 him to resign this office after about two years. 
 
 He died in Fairfield on December 30, 1844, in the 72d 
 year of his age. In pursuance of his declared intention, 
 his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gould) Sherman, bequeathed 
 to this College in 1849 the sum of four thousand dollars. 
 
 His portrait (28}^ x 35^^) was copied by Nathaniel 
 Jocelyn, of New Haven, from the original, painted by him 
 in 1840 and still preserved in Fairfield. 
 
 PROFESSOR BENJAMIN SHOWMAN, SENIOR 
 
 Benjamin Silliman, son of General Gold Selleck Silliman 
 (Yale Coll. 1752), of Fairfield, Conn., was born on August 
 8, 1779, in North Stratford Society (now Trumbull), where 
 the family had taken refuge on the alarm caused by British 
 raids along this coast. He was graduated at this College 
 in 1796, and was a Tutor from 1799 to 1804. In the mean- 
 time he had studied law, but was offered in 1802 an eledlion 
 
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 to the chair of Chemistry and Natural History which it 
 was proposed to establish here. He accepted the election, 
 and after special preparatory studies in Philadelphia deliv- 
 ered his first full course of ledlures in 1805 ; and he con- 
 tinued in adlive service until his resignation of his profes- 
 sorship in 1853, or rather until 1855, when the gentlemen 
 seledled to take up his work were ready to assume their 
 duties. His health remained good and his mind clear up 
 to the close of his honored life, on Thanksgiving Day, 
 November 24, 1864, in his 86th year. 
 
 A portrait (24^ x 29^), painted in middle life by 
 Nathaniel Jocelyn, was presented by John B. Legare, Esq. 
 (Yale Coll. 181 5), of Charleston, S. C, and now hangs in 
 the Medical College. Another portrait (26 x 34), now 
 hanging in Alumni Hall, painted by Matthew Wilson 
 about i860, was presented by Mrs. Silliman about 1867. 
 A marble bust of Professor Silliman in the Library, mod- 
 eled in New Haven in i860 and executed in Rome by 
 Chaimcey B. Ives, was presented by a number of his friends 
 and pupils in 1862. A bronze statue, heroic size, by Pro- 
 fessor John F. Weir, was erected on the College grounds 
 in 1884 by the subscription of many of his old friends and 
 pupils ; and he is also commemorated in one of the win- 
 dows in the Battell Chapel. 
 
 MRS. GOLD S. SILLIMAN 
 
 Hepsa Kly was the eldest child of the Rev. Dr. David 
 Ely (Yale Coll. 1769), who was for more than forty years 
 the minister of the First Church in Huntington, Connecfti- 
 cut, and for twenty-eight years a Fellow of Yale College. 
 She was born in Huntington on October 23, 1778, was 
 married to Gold S. Silliman, Esq. (Yale Coll. 1796), on 
 September 17, 1801, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Janu- 
 ary 22, 1864, in her 86th year. Her long life was one of 
 distinguished excellence, alike in her personal character 
 and in her intelledlual superiority and attainments. 
 
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 A colored photograph (3>^ x 5), taken about 1862, was 
 presented to Yale by her children, one of whom, Augustus 
 B. Silliman, was a distinguished benefac5lor of the institu- 
 tion. 
 
 GENBRAIv WILI.IAM SMAI^IvWOOD 
 
 William Smallwood was born in Kent County, Maryland, 
 in 1732. At the beginning of the year 1776 he was ad- 
 vanced to the position of Colonel of the Maryland battalion, 
 and for gallant service at the battle of White Plains was 
 commissioned as Brigadier-General in the following 0(5lo- 
 ber. Four years later he attained the rank of Major- 
 General. 
 
 In 1785 he was eledled to Congress, and in the same year 
 was made Governor of his native State. After these ser- 
 vices he retired to private life, and he died in Prince George 
 County on February 14, 1792. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Colonel Trumbull in 1792. 
 
 DR. AZARIAH SMITH 
 
 Azariah Smith, son of Azariah Smith, was born in 
 Manlius, N. Y., February 16, 181 7, and was graduated at 
 Yale in 1837. ^^ was also graduated from the Medical 
 School in 1840, and from the Divinity School in 1842 ; and 
 was for the rest of his life a devoted and successful mission- 
 ary of the American Board in Turkey. He died in Aintab, 
 Syria, on June 3, 1851, in his 35th year. 
 
 His portrait (13 x 17), painted (from a photograph) by 
 Miss Addie M. Chase, of Boston, hangs in the I^ibrary of 
 the Divinity School, the gift in 1882 of his classmate, the 
 Rev. Dr. Owen Street. 
 
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 DR. DAVID P. SMITH 
 
 David Paige Smith, eldest son of James Morven Smith, 
 M.D. (Yale 1828), and grandson of Dr. Nathan Smith, the 
 first Professor of Theory and Pracflice in the Medical Insti- 
 tution of Yale College, was borri in Westfield, Mass., on 
 October i, 1830, and was graduated B.A. at Yale in 1851. 
 He was graduated in medicine at the Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, in 1854, and succeeded to his father's 
 pradlice in Springfield, where he became for a wide region 
 the acknowledged head of his profession. In 1873 he was 
 elec5led to a professorship in the Yale Medical School, and 
 at first filled the chair held originally by his grandfather ; 
 but in 1877 ^^ was transferred to the more congenial chair 
 of Surgery, and in this position was of great service to the 
 School, though continuing to reside in Springfield. He 
 died in Springfield on December 26, 1880, in his 51st year. 
 By his will his professional library and his valuable col- 
 le<5lion of medical and surgical instruments were given to 
 Yale College, and after his widow's death the proceeds of 
 two-fifths of his estate are to be devoted to the endowment 
 of the chair of the Theory and Pracftice of Medicine. 
 
 His portrait (25 x 29^) was presented to the Medical 
 School by his widow, — a copy of one painted during life. 
 
 PROFESSOR NATHAN SMITH, M.D. 
 
 Nathan Smith was born in Rehoboth, Mass., on Septem- 
 ber 30, 1762. In his earl}'- youth his father, who was a 
 farmer, removed to Chester, Vermont. He studied medi- 
 cine with Dr. Josiah Goodhue, of Putney, Vt. , and began 
 pradtice in Cornish, N. H., in 1787. After about two years 
 his consciousness of his deficiencies led him to take a year 
 of further study in the Medical Department of Harvard 
 University. In 1796 he projected the plan of a Medical 
 School to be connecfled with Dartmouth College, and in 
 
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 furtherance of his purpose he went in 1797 to Edinburgh 
 for additional study. On his return he was appointed (in 
 1798) a Professor at Dartmouth, and condudled almost 
 alone a successful Medical Department there until his 
 removal to New Haven after the establishment of the Yale 
 Medical School in 18 13. After an eminent career here, he 
 died in New Haven on January 26, 1829, in his 67th year. 
 His pradlice was very extensive, and his influence over medi- 
 cal literature very great. ''The assertion, that he has done 
 more for the improvement of physic and surgery in New 
 England, than any other man, will by no one be deemed 
 invidious," said Dr. Knight in the Eulogium pronounced 
 at his funeral. 
 
 His portrait (33 x 43) was painted by S. F. B. Morse, 
 and presented by the graduating class of the Medical 
 School in 1826. 
 
 HON. WII.LIAM SMITH 
 
 William Smith was born in Baltimore in 1730. He was 
 a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777-78, and a 
 member of the First Congress of the United States (1789-91). 
 He was a Federalist and served as a Presidential Eledlor in 
 1792. He died in Baltimore on March 27, 18 14, in his 
 84th year. 
 
 His miniature was painted by Colonel Trumbull in 1792. 
 
 PROFESSOR ANTHONY D. STANLEY 
 
 Anthony Dumond Stanley, son of Martin Stanley, was 
 born in East Hartford, Conn., on April 2, 1810, and was 
 graduated at Yale in 1830. After leaving College he was 
 an instru(5lor in the Hartford Grammar School until he 
 took a tutorship here in 1832. Four years later he was 
 advanced to the Professorship of Mathematics, and then 
 
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 Spent two years in European travel and study. From 
 1838 to 1849 he lived the uneventful life of a faithful 
 teacher and diligent student. In the fall of 1849 he took a 
 severe cold which left him with a bronchial weakness from 
 which he never recovered. He took a foreign voyage, and 
 was able to resume his College duties for the fall term of 
 the year 1850, and again for the fall term of 185 1 ; but then 
 returned to the home of his childhood, where he passed 
 away on March 16, 1853, at the age of 43. 
 
 His portrait (28 x 36), painted by Daniel Huntington, 
 of New York City, in 1856, was presented by his surviving 
 classmates ; and on the eredlion of the Battell Chapel in 
 1876 one of the windows was inscribed to his memory. 
 
 SBTH P. STAPLES, ESQ. 
 
 Seth Perkins Staples, son of the Rev. John Staples (Coll. 
 of N. J. 1765), was born in Canterbury, Connecflicut, on 
 September i, 1776, and was graduated at Yale in 1797. 
 He studied law with Judge Daggett in New Haven, and in 
 1799 began pradlice here. In the year .1800 he imported 
 from England a very complete law library, much the best 
 at that time in New England. This library drew around 
 him a large number of law students, and he soon found 
 himself at the head of a respedlable private law school, 
 which was the predecessor of the present I^aw Department 
 of the University. 
 
 In 1824 Mr. Staples removed to New York City, where 
 he was in full pra(5lice until about 1856. He died in New 
 York on November 6, 1861, in his 86th year. 
 
 His portrait (28 x 35), a copy by Jared B. Flagg of one 
 in the possession of the family (painted by Waldo and 
 Jewett, of New York about 1848), was presented to the 
 Law School about 1873 by his son George W. Staples, 
 Esq., of New Haven. 
 
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 COtONBIy THOMAS STEVENS, OR STEPHENS 
 
 This miniature was painted by Colonel Trumbull in 
 1 79 1. The subject was probably a Revolutionary officer 
 from South Carolina. 
 
 PRESIDENT STiIvES 
 
 Ezra Stiles, D.D., I^L-D., son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles 
 (Yale 1722), of North Haven, Conn., was born on Novem- 
 ber 29, 1727. He was graduated at Yale in the year 1746, 
 and in 1749 was ele(fted a Tutor, and continued in office 
 for more than six years. In 1753 he was admitted to the 
 bar ; but in 1755 he received and accepted an invitation to 
 settle as pastor of the Second Congregational Church in 
 Newport, Rhode Island. In March, 1776, his flock being 
 dispersed, he retired to Dighton, Mass., and in April, 1777, 
 he engaged to supply the pulpit of the First Church in 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire. While thus engaged, in 
 September, 1777, he was eledled President of Yale College ; 
 and on July 8, 1778, he was inducfted into office. He died 
 in New Haven on May 12, 1795, in the 68th year of his 
 age. He left to the College his collec5lion of manuscripts, 
 comprising about fifty volumes, including his I^iterary 
 Diary, from 1769 to 1795, in fifteen volumes. 
 
 President Stiles was a most indefatigable student, and 
 made extraordinary proficiency in all the great departments 
 of knowledge. He was distinguished for his politeness 
 and affability, dignity of deportment on public occasions, 
 zeal for civil and religious liberty, and for his mild and 
 catholic spirit. During his presidency he devoted himself 
 with great assiduity to the government and instrudlion of 
 the College ; and administered its affairs with success and 
 distinguished reputation. 
 
 This portrait (28^ ^ ZbV^) was executed late in life by 
 Moulthrop of New Haven, and was presented in 1833 by 
 the Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D., of Boston, a grandson 
 of the President. 
 
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 JUDGE WILI.IAM L. STORRS 
 
 William lyucius Storrs, the son of Lemuel Storrs, was 
 bom in Middletown, Conn., on March 25, 1795, and was 
 graduated at Yale in 18 14. He pra(5liced law in his native 
 town, and rose rapidly to distinc5lion. In 1829 he was 
 eledled to Congress as a Whig, and again in 1831 and 1839. 
 In June, 1840, he resigned to accept the appointment of 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of the State. In 1856 he was 
 promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the Court, which office 
 he held until his death, which occurred in Hartford, on 
 June 25, 1861, in his 67th year. In 1846 he was appointed 
 one of the Professors in the Yale I^aw School, but resigned 
 in 1847. In 1889 two of his grand-nieces (daughters of 
 lyucius F. Robinson, Yale 1843) gave five thousand dollars 
 for the endowment of a I^edlureship, named in his memory, 
 in the Law School. 
 
 His portrait (24 x 29^), in the Law School, is a copy by 
 Jared B. Flagg, in 1875, of one by Matthew Wilson in the 
 possession of the family. 
 
 AUGUSTUS R. STREET, ESQ. 
 
 Augustus Russell Street, the son of Titus Street, was 
 born in New Haven, Conn., on November 5, 1791, and was 
 graduated at Yale in 18 12. He studied law with Judge 
 Charles Chauncey, of New Haven, but the state of his 
 health did not permit him to engage in an adlive profes- 
 sional life. He resided in New Haven, following the pur- 
 suits to which his quiet and cultivated tastes inclined him, 
 and though from early life an invalid he did not fail to 
 make his life by his benevolence and public spirit a blessing 
 to the community. From 1843 to 1848 he traveled and 
 resided abroad, and the attention which he gave in these 
 years to the modern languages and the study of art had no 
 doubt an efie(5l in determining the direcSlion of his later 
 gifts. 
 
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 In 1855-63 he founded the Street Professorship of Modern 
 I^anguages in the College. In 1864-66 he erecfted the 
 building for the School of the Fine Arts, at a cost of about 
 $194,000. From his estate large contributions were made 
 to the running expenses of the Art School, and two of its 
 Professorships were endowed, as well as the Titus Street 
 Professorship in the Divinity School. The whole amount 
 of his gifts to the University was nearly $400,000, — making 
 him second to Mr. Sheffield only in the extent of his bene- 
 fadlions to this institution. He died in New Haven on 
 June 12, 1866, in his 75th year. 
 
 His portrait (40 x 50), painted soon after his death by 
 Nathaniel Jocelyn, was presented by his widow. 
 
 PROFESSOR STRONG 
 
 The Rev. Nehemiah Strong, son of Nehemiah Strong, 
 was bom in Northampton, Mass., in February, 1728. In 
 1755 he received his Bachelor's degree at Yale College, and 
 he filled the office of Tutor for three years from 1757. On 
 leaving the Tutorship he was called to the ministry in the 
 Parish of Turkey Hills, now Kast Granby, Conn., where 
 he remained until June, 1767. In September, 1770, he 
 was eledled Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philoso- 
 phy in this College ; and he continued in office until his 
 resignation in December, 1781. In 1784 he published at 
 New Haven a small work entitled * * Astronomy Improved : 
 or a New Theory of the Harmonious Regularity observable 
 in the Mechanism or Movements of the Planetary System." 
 After leaving his professorship he was admitted to the bar 
 in Fairfield county. He resided for some time in Newtown 
 (which he represented in the lyCgislature in 1784) and in 
 New Milford, whence he removed to Bridgeport, where he 
 died on August 13, 1807, in his 8oth year. President 
 
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 Dwight, who was well acquainted with him, says of him 
 that he was "a man of vigorous understanding, and 
 possessed very respedlable attainments in learning and 
 science." 
 
 This portrait (38 x 48) was painted by Ralph Karle. 
 
 PIERO STROZZI 
 
 Piero Strozzi, a son of Filippo Strozzi, the younger, was 
 bom in Florence in 1500, but entered the French military 
 service in 1536. He was created a marshal of France by 
 Henry II., and died in 1558. 
 
 In the Jarves colle(5lion is a portrait (No. 108, 16 x 22) of 
 Piero Strozzi, said to be by Jacopo Bassano, an inferior 
 painter of the Venetian school. 
 
 REV. DR. NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR 
 
 Nathaniel William Taylor was bom in New Milford, 
 Connec5licut, on June 23, 1786, the son of Nathaniel 
 Taylor, and grandson of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor (Yale, 
 1745), who was for more than fifty years the pastor of the 
 New Milford church. 
 
 He was graduated here in 1807, and subsequently studied 
 theology with President Dwight, whose amanuensis he was 
 for two years. In 18 12 he succeeded Moses Stuart in the 
 pastorate of the Center Church in New Haven, from which 
 post he was called in the full tide of success to the Profes- 
 sorship of Didac5lic Theology in the Yale Divinity School, 
 when that Department was organized in 1822. As a 
 teacher of Christian theology he was preeminent in his 
 generation, and his service closed only with his death, in 
 New Haven, on March 10, 1858, in the 72d year of his 
 age. 
 
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 His portrait (35>2 ^ ^lyi) was painted by Alexander H. 
 Bmmons in 1843, ^^^ was presented to the College in that 
 year by the students of the Divinity School ; a copy 
 (31^ X 40) of this portrait of Dr. Taylor, painted by his 
 granddaughter, Miss Rebecca T. Porter, in 1871, was pre- 
 sented to the Divinity School in 1872 by the artist. A 
 marble bust, executed by Chauncey B. Ives in Rome in 
 i860, is in the University Library ; and a copy in plaster, 
 presented by President Porter, is in the Library of the 
 Divinity School. There is also an inscription in his honor 
 in one of the windows of the Battell Chapel. 
 
 MRS. NATHANIEL TERRY 
 
 Catharine Wadsworth was born in Hartford, Connec5licut, 
 in January, 1774, the youngest daughter of Colonel Jere- 
 miah Wadsworth. 
 
 Her miniature was painted in 1792 by Colonel Trumbull. 
 
 On March 14, 1798, she married General Nathaniel 
 Terry (Yale Coll. 1786), a prominent lawyer in Hartford 
 and Member of Congress. She died in Hartford on Octo- 
 ber 26, 1841, in her 68th year. Three of her sons were 
 graduates of Yale ; and one daughter was the wife of the 
 Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, a distinguished alumnus and 
 oflficer of the College, while another was the wife of 
 George Brinley, Esq., of Hartford, a notable benefactor 
 to the Library. 
 
 PROFESSOR THOMAS A. THACHER 
 
 Thomas Anthony Thacher, the son of Peter Thacher, 
 was born in Hartford, Connedlicut, on January 11, 18 15, 
 and was graduated at Yale College in 1835. After teach- 
 ing elsewhere, he entered on the duties of a tutorship here 
 in 1838. From this office he was advanced, in 1842, to the 
 Professorship of Latin, and in this relation to the College 
 
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 he continued until his death, in New Haven, on April 7, 
 1886, in his 72d year. Besides Professor Thacher's emi- 
 nent success as an instrudlor, he was a most valued ofl&cer 
 in the discipline and general administration of the College, 
 and most happy in securing the confidence and regard of 
 successive generations of students and graduates. 
 
 A portrait (oval, 24 x 29), by Charles I^. Elliott, of New 
 York, painted in 1857, and presented by the College Class 
 of that year, belongs to the College ; also another portrait 
 (36 X 42), painted by William A. Coffin (Yale 1874) in 1891, 
 and presented in that year by a number of Professor 
 Thacher's friends. 
 
 REV. JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Joseph Parrish Thompson, son of Isaac Thompson, was 
 bom in Philadelphia, Pa., on August 7, 1819, and was 
 graduated at Yale in 1838. He studied theology, mainly 
 in the Yale Divinity School, and was first ordained over 
 the Chapel Street Congregational Church (now the Church 
 of the Redeemer) in New Haven. From this, charge he 
 was dismissed in 1845 to become the first pastor of the 
 Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York City ; 
 and he continued to occupy this prominent position 
 until compelled by the failure of his health to resign 
 it in 1 87 1. During these years of eminently successful 
 pastoral work and of distinguished pulpit power, he 
 was also largely influential through his published volumes 
 and through his editorial position on the Independent news- 
 paper. When relieved from parish labor, he removed to 
 Berlin, Germany, for purposes of study and authorship, 
 and remained there until his death on September 20, 1879, 
 at the age of 60 years. 
 
 A marble bust of Dr. Thompson, executed by I^aunt 
 Thompson, in 1872, was presented to the Art School by 
 his family. 
 
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 ITHIEI. TOWN 
 
 Ithiel Town, son of Archelaus Town, was born in 
 Thompson, Windham County, Connedlicut, in the year 
 1784, and began his career as a common house-carpenter. 
 Through discouraging obstacles he rose to high distindlion 
 as a scientific architect and civil engineer. The degree of 
 Master of Arts was conferred on him by Yale College in 
 1825. He was the architecft of the State House in New 
 Haven (1827), and of many other important public build- 
 ings, and also the designer of numerous admirable bridges. 
 He also accumulated an extensive collec5lion of works re- 
 lating to architecflure and the allied arts. He died in New 
 Haven, the home of his later years, on June 13, 1844, in 
 his 60th year. 
 
 His bust, executed in marble by Chauncey B. Ives in 1842, 
 is in the lyibrary. 
 
 PROFESSOR ISAAC H. TOWNSBND 
 
 Isaac Henry Townsend, son of Isaac Townsend, was 
 born in New Haven on April 25, 1803. He was graduated 
 at Yale College in 1822, completed his course in the Yale 
 I^aw School in 1824, and was then admitted to the bar of 
 this county, where his ability and industry soon gained 
 him a high rank in his profession. In 1842 he became an 
 associate of Judge Hitchcock in the diredlion of the Yale 
 lyaw School, for which station his uncommon legal learn- 
 ing eminently fitted him. At the reorganization of the 
 School in 1846, he was one of the three Professors of I^aw 
 then chosen, and he continued to perform the duties of this 
 office until his sudden death, on January nth, 1847, in his 
 44th year. 
 
 In 1843 he presented to the Corporation of the College 
 one thousand dollars, on condition that the income be an- 
 nually distributed in five premiums to members of the Senior 
 Class for the best specimens of English composition. 
 
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 This portrait (27 x 35^^) was painted by Nathaniel 
 Jocelyn in 1847, and is now deposited in the I^aw School. 
 
 HENRY STUART TROWBRIDGE, 
 VIRGINIA HUI.I. TROWBRIDGE 
 
 Henry Stuart Trowbridge, son of Henry Trowbridge, of 
 New Haven, was born on November 15, 1862, and died on 
 December 3, 1869, in the 8th year of his age. 
 
 In his memory his father established the Trowbridge 
 Reference Library in the Yale Divinity School ; and upon 
 its walls hangs a canvas (38^^ x 26^) painted by Mrs. 
 Henry A. Loop in 1881, representing the boy and his 
 younger sister, who died on July 28, 1875, at the age of 11. 
 
 REV. DR. BENJAMIN TRUMBULL 
 
 Benjamin Trumbull, son of Benjamin Trumbull (who 
 was first cousin to Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Senior), 
 was born in Hebron, Connec5licut, on December 19, 1735. 
 He was graduated at Yale in 1759, and studied theology 
 with Rev. Eleazar Wheelock. He was ordained in Decem- 
 ber, 1760, as pastor of the Congregational Church in North 
 Haven, Connecfticut, where he continued in office until his 
 death on February 2, 1820, in his 85th year. Besides being 
 remarkably adlive and efficient in all branches of his minis- 
 terial work, he did a great service to the State by his com- 
 pilation of a minute history of Connedlicut, extending down 
 to the year 1764. A large colledlion of his manuscripts is 
 owned by the University Library. 
 
 This portrait (21^ x 26}^) is a copy, made about i86o, 
 of one in possession of his family, painted in 18 18 by 
 George Munger, of New Haven, and engraved in the first 
 volume of the History of Connedticut. 
 
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 JUDGE JOHN TRUMBUI.Iv 
 
 John Trumbull, the only son of the Rev. John Trumbull 
 (Yale Coll. 1735), who was a first cousin of the elder Gov- 
 ernor Trumbull, was born in Watertown, Connec5licut, on 
 April 13, 1750. His precocity was such that he passed the 
 examination for admission to Yale in September, 1757, 
 though his entrance was delayed for six years. He was 
 graduated in 1767, and served as Tutor from 1771 to 1773. 
 He was admitted to the Bar in New Haven in 1773, and 
 after further study with John Adams in Boston began 
 pradlice here in 1774. From 1776 to 1782 he served as 
 Treasurer of the College. In 1777 he returned to his native 
 town, whence he removed to Hartford in 1781. Meantime 
 he had become known as a poet, and in 1782 he published 
 McFingal, which achieved a wonderful popularity. After 
 a useful civil career, he was made Judge of the Superior 
 Court in 1801, and in 1808 received the additional appoint- 
 ment of Judge of the Supreme Court, which he held until 
 18 1 9. In 1825 he removed to the residence of his daughter 
 in Detroit, Michigan, where he died on M^y 13, 1831, at 
 the age of 81. 
 
 His miniature, painted by his cousin in 1794, is in the 
 Trumbull colledlion of paintings. 
 
 COLONKlv JOHN TRUMBUI.L 
 
 John Trumbull, the youngest child of Governor Jonathan 
 Trumbull, was born in I^ebanon, Connecfticut, on June 6, 
 1756, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1773. In 
 1775 he joined the ist Conne(5licut Regiment at Roxbury, 
 and having commended himself by his skill as a draughts- 
 man he was appointed by Washington as his aide-de-camp. 
 Subsequently he joined the army for the invasion of Canada, 
 with the rank of Colonel, but in 1777 resigned his commis- 
 sion and devoted himself to the study of art. In 1780 he 
 
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 went to lyondon, and remained abroad until 1789, returning 
 at that date with an estabHshed reputation as a painter, 
 and mainly for the purpose of obtaining the material for a 
 projected series of national historical picftures. In 1794 
 he went again to England as secretary to Mr. Jay, and in 
 1796 he was appointed one of the commissioners for the 
 execution of Jay's treaty. The duties of this office occu- 
 pied him until 1804, when he returned to America, and 
 settled in New York City as a portrait painter. From 18 17 
 to 1824 he was engaged in painting a series of historical 
 pidlures for the rotunda of the capitol in Washington. 
 In 1 83 1 an arrangement was made with the Corporation of 
 this College by which Colonel Trumbull transferred to the 
 College fifty-five of his own paintings, receiving therefor 
 an annuity of one thousand dollars. A gallery was imme- 
 diately eredled, for the reception of these paintings, which 
 are now deposited in the Yale School of the Fine Arts. 
 
 Colonel Trumbull removed to New Haven in 1837, but 
 in 1 84 1 returned to New York City, where he died on 
 November 10, 1843, in his 88th year. He was buried, at 
 his own desire, in a vault beneath the Trumbull gallery, 
 whence his remains were afterwards removed to a corre- 
 sponding position beneath the Art School. 
 
 His portrait (25^ x3i^), painted by Samuel I^. Waldo 
 and William Jewett, of New York City, jointly, hangs in 
 the Trumbull colledlion in the Art School ; this was en- 
 graved by Mr. A. B. Durand for the National Portrait 
 Gallery, and has been often reproduced. In the Art School 
 is also a bust, purchased in 1851, by Ball Hughes, of New 
 York. 
 
 MRS. COIvONEI. TRUMBUIvL 
 
 The wife of Colonel Trumbull was an English lady, of 
 rare beauty, whom he married about 1800. There was an 
 impenetrable mystery about her earlier life, and her name 
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 and lineage were never divulged. She died in New York 
 City, on April 12, 1824, at the age of 51, and is buried 
 beside her husband underneath the Art School. 
 
 Her portrait (25 x 31^), by her husband, is preserved in 
 the collecftion of his paintings. 
 
 GOVERNOR JONATHAN TRUMBUIvL, SEN. 
 
 Jonathan Trumbull was born in I^ebanon, Connedlicut, 
 on October 12, 1710, the son of Captain Joseph Trumbull, 
 a respecftable and strong-minded farmer, who, feeling the 
 deficiency of his own education, resolved that this son 
 should not suffer similar mortifications. He was therefore 
 sent to Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1727. 
 
 He studied theology and was on the point of entering 
 adlively on his profession, when an elder brother, who had 
 been engaged in commerce, died suddenly (in 1731), leaving 
 no member of the family besides his brother Jonathan, who 
 was qualified to settle the estate. He therefore devoted 
 himself to this duty, and in consequence became completely 
 involved in commercial occupations. He also applied him- 
 self in his leisure hours to the study of law, and soon 
 took a leading position in the General Assembly of the 
 Colony, of which he was elected Speaker in 1739. In 1740 
 he was advanced to membership of the Upper House, and 
 in 1746 was put on the bench of the County Court. A 
 long period of useful public service in these and other 
 capacities was crowned by his eledlion in 1769 to the 
 Governorship of the Colony, which he held until his 
 resignation in 1783. In the critical years of the Revolu- 
 tion few individuals, after General Washington, contributed 
 more efficiently to success than did Governor Trumbull. 
 He devoted his time, his talents, and his influence, with 
 undivided energy and assiduity, to the service of his coun- 
 try, and his example had a powerful effedl on all New 
 England. He died in L,ebanon on August 17, 1785. 
 
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 His portrait (40 x 50) by his son was presented by the 
 artist in 1821. There is also a miniature by the painter in 
 his collecftion in the Art School, which was apparently 
 taken at a more advanced age than the portrait. 
 
 GOVERNOR JONATHAN TRUMBUIyl,, JR. 
 
 Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., second son of the War Gov- 
 ernor, was born in Lebanon on March 26, 1740, and was 
 graduated at Harvard in 1759. At the opening of the 
 Revolution, in 1775, he was appointed paymaster-general 
 of the Northern department of the army, and in 1781 suc- 
 ceeded Hamilton as private secretary and first aide-de-camp 
 to Washington. In 1788 he was Speaker of the Connedli- 
 cut House of Representatives, and in 1789 was elec5ted to 
 Congress, where he served as Speaker from 1791 until his 
 transfer to the Senate in 1795. In 1796 he resigned the 
 senatorship to accept the position of lyieutenant-Governor 
 of Connecfticut, from which post he was advanced in 1798 
 to the Governorship which he filled with credit until his 
 death, in Lebanon, on August 7, 1809, in his 71st year. 
 
 His miniature, painted by his brother in 1792, is pre- 
 served in the Trumbull collec5tion in the Art School. 
 
 MRS. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, JR. 
 
 Eunice Backus, the daughter of Kbenezer Backus, of 
 Norwich, Connedlicut, married on March 26, 1767, Jona- 
 than Trumbull, Junior, afterwards Governor of the State. 
 Her husband died in 1809, and in 18 14 she removed to the 
 residence of her son-in-law. Professor Silliman, in New 
 Haven, where she died on February 3, 1826, aged 77 years. 
 
 Her miniature, painted at Lebanon in 1793 by her 
 brother-in-law, is in the Trumbull collecftion. 
 
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 HON. STEPHEN VAN RENSSEI.AER 
 
 Stephen VanRensselaer, son of Stephen VanRensselaer, 
 seventh patroon of Rensselaerwyck, was born in New York 
 City on Nov. i, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. 
 
 His extensive patrimonial estates at first absorbed his 
 attention, and later he entered on a successful and highly 
 honorable political career. He reached the Lieutenant 
 Governor's chair in 1795, and was advanced to the rank of 
 major-general of the State militia in 180 1. In 181 2 he was 
 requested to take command in person of the United States 
 forces on the northern frontier ; but the refusal of the mili- 
 tia to go outside of the State so hampered the acflion in the 
 field as to cause his early resignation. He was one of the 
 first to propose the great New York canals, and was at the 
 head of the commission for their constru(5tion from 181 1 to 
 1825. He was a Member of Congress from 1822 to 1829. 
 In 1824 he founded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 
 Troy, to further the cause of scientific education. He died 
 in Albany on January 26, 1829, in his 74th year, leaving a 
 distinguished name for benevolence and probity. 
 
 His portrait (27)^ X35^), painted in 1804 or 1805, is in 
 the Trumbull colledlion. 
 
 AMERIGO VESPUCCI 
 
 Amerigo Vespucci, who was fortunate enough to give 
 his name to the New World, was born in Florence in 1451, 
 and died in Seville in 1512. A portrait (17 x 23), by Cris- 
 tofano deir Altissimo, is in the Jarves Collecftion (No. loi). 
 
 PRINCESS VITELLI 
 
 In the Jarves Colledlion is a portrait (No. 68, I7>^ x 22) 
 of a princess of the ViteUi family, of Citta di Castello, in 
 Umbria. The painter is supposed to have been Francesco 
 Francia (bom 1450, died 15 17). 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 117 
 
 DANlEly WADSWORTH, ESQ- 
 
 Daniel Wadsworth was born in Middletown, Connecticut, 
 on August 8, 1 77 1. He was the only son of Colonel Jere- 
 miah Wadsworth, who was the foremost citizen of Hartford, 
 as well as the wealthiest, during the Revolutionary war 
 and the succeeding period ; his mother was Mehetabel 
 Russell, of Middletown. 
 
 During the early part of his life he was engaged in 
 mercantile business in Hartford, but after the death of his 
 father (in 1804) he relinquished this employment. His 
 health was for a long period very feeble, and the care of 
 his large estate furnished him occupation. He was a man 
 of cultivated taste and great liberality, and was widely 
 known as a patron of the fine arts. To him the Wadsworth 
 Athenaeum in Hartford is chiefly indebted for its existence 
 and prosperity. 
 
 In 1824 he gave anonymously to Yale College the sum 
 of five hundred dollars, to constitute a fund, the income 
 of which is to be expended in buying books for the Library 
 on Natural History, including Chemistry and Geology. 
 He also contributed on other occasions to the College funds. 
 
 He died in Hartford on July 28, 1848, in his 77th year. 
 His portrait (28 x 36) was painted by Samuel ly. Waldo 
 and William Jewett, of New York City, in 1833, and was 
 presented by himself in the same year. 
 
 MRS. DANIEI. WADSWORTH 
 
 Faith Trumbull, the eldest daughter of Governor Jona- 
 than Trumbull, Jr., was born in Lebanon, Connedlicut, on 
 February i, 1769. She married Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., 
 of Hartford, and died on October 19, 1846, in her 78th 
 year. 
 
 Her miniature, painted by her uncle in 1791, is preserved 
 in the Trumbull collec5lion in the Art School. 
 
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 MISS HARRIET WADSWORTH 
 
 Harriet Wadsworth was a daughter of Colonel Jeremiah 
 Wadsworth, of Hartford, Connec5licut, and sister of Daniel 
 Wadsworth, Esq. 
 
 Her miniature was painted in 179 1 by Colonel Trumbull, 
 who is said by family tradition to have been devotedly 
 attached to her. She died of consumption in Bermuda, on 
 April 10, 1793, at the age of 24. 
 
 I.IEUTENANT MARVIN WAIT 
 
 Marvin Wait, the son of the Hon. John T. Wait, I^Iy-D., 
 was born in Norwich, Conne(5licut, on January 21, 1843. 
 He entered Union College in i860, with the intention of 
 preparing himself for his father's profession of the law ; 
 but withdrew from college in the fall of 1861 on account of 
 his controlling desire to enter the Union army. He enlisted 
 accordingly as a private in the 8th Connedlicut, on Odlober 
 3, and by March, 1862, had been advanced to the rank of 
 I St lyieutenant. After having made a distinguished record 
 for bravery and endurance in the field, he fell at Antietam, 
 on September 17, 1862, while urging on his men after hav- 
 ing been severely wounded. 
 
 His portrait (40 x 53)^), painted by Alexander H. 
 Emmons, of Norwich, in 1864, was presented by his father 
 (an honorary alumnus of the college) in 1872. 
 
 WYI.I.YS WARNER 
 
 Wyllys Warner, son of Lyman Warner, was born in 
 Plymouth, Connedlicut, on January 6, 1800, and was 
 graduated here in 1826. While a student in the Divinity 
 School he spent some time in soliciting subscriptions for 
 the endowment of a chair in that Department, and with 
 such success as to diredl his future life. In 1829 he was 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 119 
 
 called to a tutorship in the college, and at the next com- 
 mencement was appointed the Financial Agent of the insti- 
 tution. By his personal efforts within the next three years 
 a general fund of $100,000 was secured, and other large 
 additions were made to the resources of the departments. 
 On the death of the Hon. James Hillhouse, in 1832, Mr. 
 Warner succeeded him as Treasurer of the college. This 
 ojB&ce he resigned in 1852, on account of protracfted ill 
 health. His residence continued in New Haven, and as 
 Secretary of the Corporation and as Inspec5lor of the college 
 buildings and grounds, he retained until his death an adtive 
 and honored interest in the progress of the institution. 
 
 He died from heart disease, while in Chicago on business, 
 on November 11, 1869, in his 70th year. 
 
 His portrait (34 x 43}^), painted by Mrs. Henry A. Loop, 
 of New York, was presented by his family soon after his 
 death. 
 
 GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 
 The portrait by Trumbull, a full length, the size of life 
 (63x92)^), was painted in Philadelphia in 1792, for the 
 City of Charleston, South Carolina. It was intended to 
 present the military charac5ler of the great original ; but 
 the citizens of Charleston being desirous rather of a por- 
 traiture of the President in his civil capacity, this remained 
 in the artist's hands until 1806-07, when Governor Trum- 
 bull, General Jedediah Huntington, Hon. John Davenport, 
 Hon. Jeremiah Wadsworth, and Hon. Benjamin Talmadge, 
 joined with him in presenting it to the college. 
 
 Washington is represented, as on the evening previous 
 to the battle of Princeton, standing in full uniform on an 
 eminence near Trenton. 
 
 Another portrait (24x28)^) of President Washington, 
 by Colonel Trumbull, a head, the size of life, painted in 
 Philadelphia in May, 1793, is preserved in the Trumbull 
 coUedlion. 
 
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 The Art School has also a copy by D. C. Fabronius of 
 the head of Washington by Gilbert Stuart (oval, i6}^ x 20), 
 preserved in the Boston Athenaeum ; it was presented in 
 1867 by Professor Salisbury and Professor Silliman, Jr. 
 
 MRS. MARTHA (DANDRIDGB, CUSTIS) WASH- 
 INGTON 
 
 Martha Dandridge, the daughter of Colonel John Dan- 
 dridge, was born in New Kent County, Virginia, in May, 
 1732. In June, 1749, she was married to Daniel Parke 
 Custis, who died in 1757, leaving her one of the wealthiest 
 women in Virginia. In January, 1759, she was married to 
 Colonel George Washington, whom she survived, dying at 
 Mount Vernon on May 22, 1802, at the age of 70. 
 
 Her miniature, painted by Colonel Trumbull in Phila- 
 delphia in 1792, is in the Trumbull collecftion. 
 
 THOMAS GLASBY WATERMAN 
 
 Thomas Glasby Waterman, a son of Joshua W. Water- 
 man (Yale College 1844), and grandson of Thomas Glasby 
 Waterman (Yale College 1806), was born in Detroit, Mich., 
 on August 8, 1862, and was graduated at Yale College in 
 1886. 
 
 Immediately upon graduation he went to Colorado in 
 search of health. His death occurred in Colorado Springs, 
 from consumption, on April i, 1889, in his 27th year. 
 From his estate was received in 1890 a gift of forty thous- 
 and dollars, the income of which is by his desire to be 
 divided annually between two or three undergraduate or 
 graduate scholars of the college, of manly character, limited 
 means, and good scholarship. 
 
 His portrait (47^ x 35), painted by Anne Parish in 1889, 
 was presented by his widow in 1891. 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 121 
 
 HON. DANIBIv WEBSTER 
 
 Daniel Webster was bom in Salisbury, now Franklin, 
 New Hampshire, on January 18, 1782, and died in Marsh- 
 field, Massachusetts, on Odlober 24, 1852, in his 71st year. 
 
 The I/ibrary has a copy in plaster of his bust. 
 
 ARTHUR WEI.I.ESLEY, isT DUKE OF WEI.I.ING- 
 
 TON 
 
 Arthur Wellesley, the celebrated British General and 
 statesman, was born in Ireland on May i, 1769. He began 
 his mihtary career in 1787, and obtained the rank of major- 
 general in the Indian service in 1802. His portrait (25 x 
 30^) by Trumbull, in the Trumbull colledlion in the Art 
 School, was probably painted in lyondon in 1809, after his 
 return from the Peninsular campaign of 1808. He was 
 made Duke of Wellington in 18 14, and died on September 
 14, 1852. 
 
 ELI WHITNEY 
 
 Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Mass. , on Decem- 
 ber 8, 1765, and very early gave striking indications of the 
 mechanical genius for which he was afterwards so distin- 
 guished. In 1792 he took his B.A. degree at Yale College, 
 and went soon after to Georgia. Learning while there that 
 the labor required to separate the raw cotton from the seed 
 was so great as to render the cultivation of the plant almost 
 unprofitable, he set about inventing a machine for facilitat- 
 ing this necessary process. His success was complete ; but 
 before he could secure his patent, his cotton-gin was stolen ; 
 and the public in this way in 1793 became possessed of his 
 invention. After securing a patent, he was involved in 
 almost interminable law-suits, arising out of the numerous 
 violations of his rights. In 1801 the South Carolina Legis- 
 
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 lature purchased the right of using the machine in that 
 State ; and in 1802 the North CaroHna I^egislature did the 
 same. No small portion, however, of the money thus ob- 
 tained was expended in carrying on the law-suits in Georgia ; 
 and no decision on the merits of his claim was given, until 
 thirteen years of his patent term had expired. In 18 12 he 
 made applications to Congress to renew his patent ; but 
 owing to the opposition of those who had been most bene- 
 fitted by the cotton-gin, he was unsuccessful. 
 
 In 1798 he turned his attention to the manufadlure of 
 fire-arms in a suburb of New Haven, and in this enter- 
 prise his success was great. His inventions for facilitating 
 the making of muskets were very numerous, and applica- 
 ble to most other manufadlures of iron and steel. It was 
 the declaration of Fulton, that Arkwright, Watt, and 
 Whitney were the three men who had done most for man- 
 kind of any of their contemporaries. 
 
 In 1823 Mr. Whitney gave five hundred dollars to Yale 
 College, on the condition that the interest should be ex- 
 pended in purchasing for the I^ibrary books on mechanical 
 and physical science. He died in New Haven on January 
 8, 1825, in his 60th year. 
 
 His portrait (28 x 36), painted by S. F. B. Morse about 
 1822, was presented by George Hoadly (Yale Coll. 1801), 
 of New Haven, in 1827. 
 
 PROFESSOR WM. D. WHITNEY 
 
 A medallion in plaster of Professor Whitney, executed 
 about 1863, by the same artist as that of Professor Dana, 
 hangs in the I^ibrary. 
 
 RECTOR WILIvlAMS 
 
 Elisha Williams, son of the Rev. William Williams 
 (Harvard 1683), of Hatfield, Massachusetts, was born on 
 
Catalogue of Portraits, etc. 123 
 
 August 26, 1694, and was graduated at Harvard in 171 1. 
 He began the study of divinity with his father, but soon 
 married and settled in Wethersfield, Connecfticut, and began 
 the study of law. At the time of the break-up of the 
 Collegiate School at Saj^brook, a number of the students 
 availed themselves of Mr. Williams's instrucflions at 
 Wethersfield, and from 17 16 he conduc5led a rival school 
 there, which was finally in 1719 absorbed in the newly 
 named Yale College. In 1720 he took charge of the new 
 parish of Newington, in the western part of Wethersfield, 
 of which he was later ordained pastor. On September 29, 
 1725, he was elec5led to the vacant Rec5lorship of the Col- 
 lege, and was indu(5led into office on September 13, 1726. 
 He resigned his place in Ocftober, 1739, on account of im- 
 paired health, and returned to his estate in Wethersfield. 
 At the next session of the General Assembly he was eledled 
 Speaker of the House, and placed on the Superior Court 
 bench. For the rest of his life he was usually a deputy to 
 the Assembly, and was otherwise prominent in civil and 
 military life. He died in Wethersfield on July 24, 1755, at 
 the age of 61. 
 
 His portrait (25 x 31) hangs in Alumni Hall, a copy in 
 1795 by Moulthrop from an original by Smibert, which is 
 still in possession of the family. 
 
 GENERAL OTHO H. WILLIAMS 
 
 Otho Holland Williams, son of Joseph Williams, was 
 born in Prince George County, Maryland, in March, 1749. 
 In 1775 he was appointed lieutenant in a rifle corps raised 
 in Frederick County, and marched to Boston. He was 
 rapidly promoted, and for brilliant services in the Southern 
 Department was made a brigadier-general by Congress be- 
 fore the close of the war. His later life was spent in Balti- 
 more, where he held the post of Collector of the port until 
 
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 his death, on July 15, 1794, at Millerstown, Shenandoah 
 County, Virginia, while on a journey for his health. 
 
 His miniature painted by Trumbull in 1790 is in the 
 Trumbull collec5lion. 
 
 GOVERNOR OLIVER WOLCOTT, JR. * 
 
 Oliver Wolcott was born in Litchfield, Connedlicut, on 
 January 11, 1760. His father, Oliver Wolcott, was gover- 
 nor of Conne(5licut, as was also his grandfather, Roger 
 Wolcott. In 1778 he was graduated at Yale College. On 
 the organization of the Treasury Department of the United 
 States, in 1789, he was appointed Auditor, and in 1791 
 at the urgent request of the Secretary of the Treasury 
 (Alexander Hamilton) he was appointed Comptroller, — 
 having already held a similar ofi&ce in his native State. 
 On General Hamilton's resignation, in 1795, Mr. Wolcott 
 succeeded him, and continued as Secretary until 1801, when 
 in the new arrangement of the United States courts at the 
 close of President Adams's administration, he was appointed 
 a Judge of the second circuit. When the new courts were 
 abolished in the succeeding administration, he settled in 
 New York City and engaged extensively in mercantile pur- 
 suits. Having returned to Conne6ticut after the close of 
 the war of 18 12, he was elecfted Governor in 181 7, and was 
 annually re-ele(5led until 1827. He died in New York on 
 June I, 1833, ill liis 74th year. In 1807 he gave to the 
 College $2000, the income of which is applied to the in- 
 crease of the Library. 
 
 His portrait (22 x 26>^), by Stuart, was presented to the 
 College by his son-in-law, Colonel George Gibbs. 
 
 PRESIDENT WOOLSEY 
 
 Theodore Dwight Woolsey, the youngest son of William 
 W. Woolsey, was born in New York City on October 31, 
 
Catalogue of Portraits ^ etc. 125 
 
 1 80 1, and was graduated at Yale College in 1820. After 
 beginning the study of theology he held a tutorship in Col- 
 lege (1823-25), and then spent three years abroad, mainly 
 pursuing Greek studies. In 183 1 he was eledled to the 
 Professorship of Greek in this College, and after fifteen 
 years of eminent service he was advanced to the Presidency 
 on President Day's retirement. At the age of seventy he 
 resigned his oflSce, but retained until 1885 a seat in the 
 Corporation. He died in New Haven, of old age, univer- 
 sally honored and venerated, on July i, 1889, in his 88th 
 year. 
 
 A portrait (28 x S5j4)y painted by Nathaniel Jocelyn in 
 1844 and presented by the academical graduates of that 
 year, hangs in the President's Room. Another portrait 
 (24 X 30), by George A. Baker, presented by President 
 Woolsey's son-in-law, the Rev. B. L<. Heermance, in 
 1 87 1, hangs in the Alumni Hall ; a copy of this (24 x 29) 
 by Jared B. Flagg is in the Law School, presented in 
 1875 by Chief Justice Waite. In the University Library 
 is a bronze medallion presented by a few graduates 
 in 1874; and a marble bust, executed by Augustus St. 
 Gaudens, and presented by the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont 
 in 1880. 
 
 In the Battell Chapel is an elaborate window, in honor of 
 President Woolsey and the others of his family name who 
 have been graduated here. 
 
 GOVERNOR KLIHU YALE 
 
 Elihu Yale was the second son of David Yale, a Welsh- 
 man who accompanied his step-father, Theophilus Eaton, 
 to New Haven at the foundation of the Colony here, and 
 who soon removed to Boston, in which town or the vicinity 
 Elihu was born in 1648 or 9. The family returned to Eng- 
 land in 1652, and settled in London, whence this son went 
 to Madras in the employment of the East India Company 
 
126 Yale University 
 
 in 1672. After filling subordinate offices, he was appointed 
 Governor or President of the Company's settlement at 
 Madras in 1687, and served in that office for five years. In 
 1699 he returned to England, enormously rich, and settled 
 in lyondon, where he died on July 8, 1721. He was buried 
 at his country home, in Wrexham, North Wales. 
 
 Governor Yale was approached by Jeremy Dummer, the 
 agent in London for the Colony of Connecticut, as early as 
 171 1 with a representation of the needs of the Collegiate 
 School at Say brook ; and in 1718 Cotton Mather wrote a 
 persuasive letter which appears to have accomplished the 
 objedl ; for in June of that year Mr. Yale shipped to Boston 
 a cargo of goods to be sold for the benefit of the College 
 (by this time removed to New Haven), and other gifts. 
 The money resulting from the goods sent enabled the 
 Trustees to finish the first College building, and in their 
 gratitude they named the institution for its benefa<5lor. 
 
 The last surviving descendant of Governor Yale, Dudley 
 Long North, M.P., who died in 1829, presented in 1789 the 
 full-length portrait (59 x 85) of his great-grandfather, ex- 
 ecuted in 1 71 7 by Enoch Zeeman, a Dutch portrait-painter 
 settled in London. 
 
 THE YOUNG SACHEM, AN INDIAN CHIEF 
 
 ' ' The Young Sachem, ' ' a chief of the Six Nations, was 
 a member of the deputation of sachems which visited 
 Philadelphia in the spring of 1792 for a conference with 
 the United States officials. At this time Colonel Trumbull 
 painted his miniature, now in the Trumbull collec5lion. 
 
 ADDENDUM 
 
 The portrait of Mrs. Humphrey (p. 58) was copied by 
 Thomas W. Wood, President of the National Academy, in 
 1892 ; and that of Mrs. Lamed (p. 69) was copied by Sey- 
 mour J. Guy, N. A., of New York, also in 1892. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 The Trumbull CoUedlion in the Yale Art School contains a series of 
 eight pictures commemorating important events of the American Rev- 
 olution, in which many of the figures were painted from life or from 
 personal acquaintance. The portraits of this description in the vari- 
 ous paintings are as follows : — 
 
 BATTlvE OF BUNKER HIIvL 
 
 Gen. Joseph Warren Gen. Henry Clinton 
 
 Gen. Israel Putnam Maj. John Pitcaim 
 
 Gen. William Howe Maj. John Small 
 
 Ivieut. William Pitcaim 
 
 DEATH OF MONTGOMERY, IN THE ATTACK OF QUEBEC 
 
 Gen. Richard Montgomery Maj. Jacob Cheeseman 
 Maj. Duncan McPherson 
 
 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 
 
 George Wythe Robert Morris 
 
 William Whipple Thomas Willing 
 
 Josiah Bartlett Benjamin Rush 
 
 Benjamin Harrison Elbridge Gerry 
 
 Thomas Lynch, Jr. Robert Treat Paine 
 
 Richard Henry Lee Abraham Clark 
 
 Samuel Adams Stephen Hopkins 
 
 George Clinton William EHery 
 
 William Paca George Clymer 
 
 Samuel Chase William Hooper 
 
 Lewis Morris Joseph Hewes 
 
 William Floyd James Wilson 
 
 Arthur Middleton Francis Hopkinson 
 
 Thomas Heyward John Adams 
 
 Charles Carroll Roger Sherman 
 
 George Walton Robert R. Livingston 
 
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 Thomas Jefferson 
 Benjamin Franklin 
 Richard Stockton 
 Francis Lewis 
 John Witherspoon 
 Samuel Huntington 
 William Williams 
 
 Oliver Wolcott 
 John Hancock 
 Charles Thomson 
 George Read 
 John Dickinson 
 Edward Rutledge 
 Thomas McKean 
 
 Philip I^ivingston 
 
 CAPTURE OF THE HESSIANS AT TRENTON 
 
 Col. Edward Wigglesworth 
 Col. William Shepard 
 Col. Richard Parker 
 James Monroe 
 Col. Joh. Gottlieb Rail 
 Col. William Smith 
 Col. Robert H. Harrison 
 Col. Tench Tilghman 
 
 Gen. George Washington 
 Gen. John Sullivan 
 Gen. Nathaniel Greene 
 Gen. Henry Knox 
 Gen. Philemon Dickinson 
 Gen. John Glover 
 Gen. George Weedon 
 Ivieut. William Washington 
 
 DEATH OF GEN. MERCER AT THE BATTLE OF PRINCETON 
 
 Gen. Thomas Mifflin 
 Lieut. George Tumbull 
 Dr. Benjamin Rush 
 Col. John Cadwallader 
 
 Gen. George Washington 
 Gen. Hugh Mercer 
 Capt. William Leslie 
 Col. Edmund Eyre 
 
 SURRENDER OF GEN. BURGOYNE 
 
 Maj. William Lithgow 
 Col. Joseph Cilley 
 Gen. John Stark 
 Capt. Thomas Seymour 
 Maj. Isaac Hull 
 Col. John Greaton 
 Maj. Henry Dearborn 
 Col. Alexander Scammell 
 Xol. Morgan Lewis 
 Gen. William Phillips 
 Gen. John Burgoyne 
 Gen. Baron Riedesel 
 Col. James Wilkinson 
 
 Maj. Ebenezer 
 
 Gen. Horatio Gates 
 Col. William Prescott 
 Col. Daniel Morgan 
 Gen. Rufus Putnam 
 Lt. Col. John Brooks 
 Rev. Enos Hitchcock 
 Maj. Robert Troup 
 Maj. Jonathan Haskell 
 Maj. John Armstrong 
 Gen. Philip Schuyler 
 Gen. John Glover 
 Gen. William Whipple 
 Maj. Matthew Clarkson 
 Stevens 
 
Appendix 
 
 129 
 
 SURRENDER OF LORD CORNWALLIS 
 
 Count des Deuxponts 
 Duke de L,aval-Montniorency 
 Count de Custine 
 Duke de Lauzun 
 Gen. de Choisi 
 Viscount de Viom^uil 
 Marquis de Saint Simon 
 Count Axel Fersen 
 Count Mathieu Dumas 
 Marquis de Chastellux 
 Baron de Viom^nil 
 Count Louis de Barras 
 Count de Grasse 
 Count de Rochambeau 
 Gen. Benjamin Lincoln 
 Col. Ebenezer Stevens 
 Gen. George Washington 
 
 Gov. Thomas Nelson 
 
 Marquis de La Fayette 
 
 Baron Steuben 
 
 Col. David Cobb 
 
 Col. Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. 
 
 Gen. James Clinton 
 
 Gen. Mordecai Gist 
 
 Gen. Anthony Wayne 
 
 Gen. Edward Hand 
 
 Gen. Peter Muhlenberg 
 
 Gen. Henry Knox 
 
 Lieut. Col. Ebenezer Huntington 
 
 Col. Timothy Pickering 
 
 Col. Alexander Hamilton 
 
 Col. John Laurens 
 
 Col. Walter Stewart 
 
 Col. Nicholas Fish 
 
 RESIGNATION OF GENERAL WASHINGTON 
 
 Thomas Mifflin, Pres. of Congress 
 Charles Thomson, Secretary 
 Elbridge Gerry, M. C. 
 Hugh Williamson, M. C. 
 Samuel Osgood, M. C. 
 Eleazer McComb, M. C. 
 George Partridge, M. C. 
 Edward Lloyd, M. C. 
 Richard D. Spaight, M. C. 
 Benjamin Hawkins, M. C. 
 Abiel Foster, M. C. 
 Thomas Jefferson, M. C. 
 Arthur Lee, M. C. 
 David Howell, M, C. 
 James Monroe, M. C. 
 Jacob Read, M. C. 
 James Madison, M. C. 
 
 Daniel 
 
 William Ellery, M. C. 
 Jeremiah T. Chase, M. C. 
 Samuel Hardy, M. C. ^ 
 Charles Morris, M. C. 
 Gen. George Washington 
 Col. Benjamin Walker 
 Col. David Humphreys 
 Gen. William Small wood 
 Gen. Otho H. Williams 
 Col. Samuel Smith 
 Col. John E. Howard 
 Charles Carroll 
 Miss Carroll 
 Miss Mary Carroll 
 Mrs. Washington 
 Miss Eleanor P. Custis 
 George W. P. Custis 
 Jenifer 
 
INDEX OF ARTISTS 
 
 Alexander, Francis, 45 
 Altissimo, Cristofano dell', 116 
 Augur, Hezekiah, 40 
 Bail, lyouis, 56 
 Baker, George A., 39, 93, 125 
 Bartholomew, Edward S. , 76 
 Bartlett, Truman H. , 66 
 Bassano, Jacopo, 107 
 Bordone, Paris, 18 
 Brown, H. K., 68 
 Carpenter, Francis B., 44 
 Chase, Addie M., 100 
 Cofl&n, William A., 109 
 Dexter, Henry, 15 
 Dickinson, Mary S., 74 
 Earle, Ralph, 107 
 Elliott, Charles L-, 109 
 Elwell, F. Edwin, 21 
 Emmons, Alex. H., 108, 118 
 Fabronius, D. C, 120 
 Fellowes, F. Wayland, 90 
 Fisher, Alvan, 87 
 
 Fitch, , 63 
 
 Flagg, C. Noel, 12, 28 
 
 Flagg, J. B., 37, 55, 103, 105, 
 
 125 
 Flagg, Montague, 41 
 Foley, Margaret, 39 
 Francia, Francesco, 116 
 Frazee, John, 77 
 Giorgone, II, 50 
 Guy, Seymour J., 126 
 Harding, Chester, 8, 24, 67 
 Holbein, Hans, 19 
 
 Horsburgh, , 77 
 
 Hovenden, Thomas, 7 
 
 Hughes, Ball, 113 
 
 Huntington, Daniel, 68, 85, 91, 
 
 103 
 Ives, C. B., 31, 46, 99, 108, no 
 Jarvis, John W., 71 
 Jewett, William, 57, 86, 113, 117 
 
 Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 8, 46, 54, 60, 
 65, 66, 71, 83, 98, 99, 106, 
 
 111, 125 
 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 42 
 
 Kuntze, Edward J., 72 
 
 Lamqua, 85 
 
 lyoop, Jennette S., 74, 84, in, 119 
 
 Martiny, Philip, 83 
 
 Miller, , 91 
 
 Morse, S. F. B., 23, 31, 40,102, 122 
 
 Moulthrop, , 104, 123 
 
 Palmer, Erastus D., 53 
 
 Parish, Anne, 120 
 
 Piombo, Sebastiano del, 24 
 
 Pontormo, Jacopo da, 78 
 
 Porter, Rebecca T., 15, 54, 108 
 
 Pratt, Robert M., 46 
 
 Robinson, , 95 
 
 St.Gaudens, Augustus, 125 
 
 Shegogue, James H., 34 
 
 Smibert, John, 11 
 
 Stuart, Gilbert, 59, 66, 124 
 
 Tenney, U. D., 32, 55 
 
 Thompson, Harry I., 65, 96 
 
 Thompson, Launt, 88, 109 
 
 Trumbull, John, 5, 8, 13, 14, 17, 
 19, 20, 28, 32, 33, 36, 42, 47, 49, 
 51, 52, 56, 58, 60, 61, 64, 67, 69- 
 71, 73. 74, 78, 79> 80, 82, 87, 89, 
 90, 92-96, 100, 102, 104, 108, 
 
 112, 114-21, 124, 126, 127 
 Tyler, Bayard H., 72 
 
 Waldo, Samuel Iv.,48,57, 86, 113, 
 
 117 
 Weir, John F., 88, 99 
 Weir, Robert W., 75 
 Willard, Henry, 26 
 Wilson, Matthew, 99 
 Wood, Thomas W., 126 
 Wright, Rufus, 6 
 Young, J. Harvey, 18, 80 
 Zeeman, Enoch, 126 
 
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