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 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA 
 
 RESPECTING 
 
 ALL WHO E\^ER WERE MEMBERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CLASS OF 1832 
 
 IN 
 
 YALE COLLEGE 
 
 EDITED BY THE CLASS-SECEETARY 
 
 FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. 
 
 NEW HAVENi 
 
 ttJTTLE, MOREHOUSE AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS-. 
 
 1880.
 
 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 lu August, 1878, a circular was issued l)y tlie Secretary, as follows : 
 
 "To ALL Yale Men uf the Ceash of 1832, and their Friends: 
 
 "The subscriber desires to collect statistics respecting each man who was at any 
 tiinc a member of the Class of 1832, in Yale College; including parentage, place and 
 date of birth, and of death, if deceased; date of marriage, if married, and to whom ; 
 with any other family-items, at pleasure; and all the particulars of his life-work 
 which he, or any one for him, may see fit to communicate. 
 
 "The object is to collect materials for a record which may be printed for our own 
 use, and for the information of others interested. 
 
 "An early response to this circidar is requested. 
 
 "EDW. E. SALISBURY. 
 "New Haven, Conn., August, 1878." 
 
 The following memoranda, now presented to the members of the Class of 1832, 
 and to their fellow-graduates and friends, are the fruit of inquiries thus set on foot 
 It is the pleasant duty of the Secretary, first of all, to thank those who have 
 kindly aided him to olitain the information here given, or have themselves communi- 
 cated the facts : his acknowledgments are esjjecially due, among members of the Class, 
 to Eev. Seth C. Brace, John Angus Manning, Esq., and N. Winthrop Starr, Esq. ; 
 and, out of the Class, to Prof. Franklin B. Dexter and Eev. Prof. George E. Day of 
 Yale College ; and to Major CJharles F. Ulrich of New York, Judge George W. 
 Brown of Baltimore and Judge Joshua Baker of New Orleans, who gave important 
 aid in respect to some of the men from the Soutli. He has had unusual success in 
 his incpiiries, for not one of the hundred and nineteen names, included in his plan, is 
 left without at least a note of commemoration. Many names, however, which had 
 become unfamiliar at Yale, will be foitnd here recorded. These it is a special pleasure 
 to reclaim as belonging to us, both on account of the thinness of our raiilcs withotit 
 them, and for the honors which many of them add to tlie Class. Not a few, it is true, 
 of these, as well as of the names of those who gradttated with us in course, must be 
 starred ; but more than twenty others are added to our living fellowship. Of these 
 survivors of the long-lost companions of our college-days sixteen, we are happy to 
 add, liave been lately made fellow-graduates with us, by the action of the President 
 and Fellows of Yale — the honorary degree of Master of Arts having been conferred 
 
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 on cacli of tlieni in 1879 — and these sixteen are, accordingly, so distinguislied in the 
 following memoranda. Two others of onr lost ones had previously receired the same 
 degree from our Alma Mater ; and one who did not receive his Bachelor-degree 
 with us was made Master of Arts, in course, in 1835. 
 
 This action of the Corporation, so far as the sixteen above referred to are con- 
 cerned, is explained by the folloAving petition, presented in June, 1879, which was 
 signed by twenty-seven out of twenty-nine survivors of the Class graduated in 1832 : 
 
 "To the President and Fellows of Yale College: 
 
 "We the subscribers, members of the Class graduated at Yale College in 1832, 
 anticipating our fifueth anniversary, and deeply feeling our maimed condition 
 consequent upon a disruption of our Class in the year 1830, through an exercise 
 of college-authority, do now respectfully petition your reverend and honorable 
 body to give back to us, as fellow-graduates, the survivors whose names are hereto 
 appended of those whom we thus lost, by conferring on each of them the honorary 
 degree of Master of Arts. Many of these men, we are happy to know, are distin- 
 guished in various walks of life, while no one of them, it is believed, is unworthy 
 of the honor proposed, not to speak of others who have passed beyond the reach 
 of human praise or blame. 
 
 " Further to fill up our ranks, wt likewise respectfully petition you to restore 
 to us, with the same degree, a few other men still living, named below — highly 
 respectable and respected — whom, for various reasons, we lost during our college- 
 days. 
 
 "FIRST LIST. 
 
 ■Henry W. Archer, Esq., . 
 Mr. Henry T. Bulkley, 
 Mr. Edward Carrington, 
 Hon. William Frazier, 
 Rev. Dr. John F. Hoff, . 
 William J. Hoppin, Esq., 
 
 Rev. John T. Keep, 
 Cortland L. Latimer, Esq., . 
 Robert J. Livingston, Esq., 
 John Angus Manning, Esq., . 
 Judge John S. Patterson, 
 Hon. George Schley, . 
 Nathaniel W. Starr, Esq., 
 Prof. Alfred Stille, M.D.,* 
 Peter A. Van Bergen, Esq., 
 Mr. William Craig Wharton 
 Mr. Charles A. Winthrop, 
 
 Harford Co., Md. 
 
 Southport, Conn. 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 Staunton, Va. 
 
 Towsontown, Md. 
 
 First Secretary of the American 
 
 Legation in London. 
 Oberlin, Ohio. 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 New York. 
 New York. 
 New York. 
 Hagerstown, Md. 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Flushing, L. I. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 Dr. Stille, having received the honorary degree of Master of .'irts nt Yale in 1S50, was excepted from 
 
 this list.
 
 PKEFATOKY NOTE. 
 
 ''SECOND LIST.'" 
 
 "Rev. Prof. Samuel M. Hopkins, D.D., . Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 Dr. J.-^mes a. McCrea, . . . Pliiladclpliia, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Earl E. Miles, . . . Brooklyn, L. I. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Charles H. Read, . . Richmond, Va. 
 
 Rev. Henry H. Saunderson, . Svvanzcy, N. H." 
 
 Two other men — namely, Dr. J. Hampden Lewis of New Orleans, and Horace B. 
 Goiild, Esq., of St. Simon's Island, (-Jeorifia — having been traced since the foregoing 
 First List was prepared (where their names should have ap])eared), and fonnd to be 
 living, received the same honorary Master's degree at the Commencement in 1880. 
 
 It was not the intention of tlie Secretarj' to make an}' reference, liere, to the 
 circumstances of that "disruption" of the Class which is spoken of in the fore- 
 going petition, especially as the only records of the case, known to be in existence, 
 are two papers which were printed at the time — one from the side of the college- 
 authorities, and one from that of the Class — both, perhaps unavoidably, somewhat 
 ex parte in their character; beside that the graceful action of the President and 
 Fellows in conferring an honorai-y degree upon the survivors of those whom we 
 lost in that unfortunate affair, seemed to require silence of us. But tlie wi-iter of 
 the very learned and interesting Historical Sketch in that magnificent book entitled 
 " Yale College " — jjublished by Messrs. Holt & Co., of New York, last year — has 
 devoted considerable space (vol. i. 137-8) to the so-called Conic Sections Rebellion, as 
 having constituted an important crisis in the history of college-discipline. It may be 
 proper, therefore, for the Secretary to express the opinion, entertained by him in com- 
 mon, as he believes, with all his classmates, that college-discipline was not maintained, in 
 that sad affair, without great injury to a large mimber of young men, most of whom 
 threw themselves into the breach, in a generous spirit, in behalf of companions no 
 more guilty than themselves, rather than intended any absolute or persistent resistance 
 to college-rules. The point raised between the Faculty and certain members of the 
 Class, as to the mode of reciting Conic Sections, was given up by all, before the with- 
 drawal of any of them from the college, on condition, only, that some nine of them, 
 who, having been called upon to recite, had represented the revolting element in the 
 Class, in an overt act, should not be excepted from the privilege of returning to duty. 
 The course pursued by the college-authorities of the time, it is stated by those likely 
 
 * The second part of this petiliou was not granted, which we very much regret, thou'^h its rejection was 
 doubtless due only to tlie fear of enacting a troublesome precedent. Dr. Hopkins, however, had received the 
 degree in 1835. The names of Dr. Holhngsworth and Dr. Shelton would have been added to this list, had they 
 been traced soon enough. Dr. Hollingsworth writes that lie has "ever yearned for a degree from Good 
 Old Tale."
 
 J'KKl'A'l'Oli'Y NO'l'K. 
 
 to know, failed to meet the approval of at least two of the most prominent members 
 of the Faculty. 
 
 The classification usually adopted in similar records, of graduates and non-grad- 
 uates, has been abandoned, here, for a more brotherly arrangement of the names in one 
 alphabetical series ; though, of course, the fact as to graduation is, in each case, 
 made clear by the statement given. 
 
 The Secretary' wishes it to be also noticed, that he has avoided the presumption of 
 attempting by his own judgment to extract the essence of the lives of his classmates. 
 Even if it had been possible for him to form an iii(le])endent opinion of each character 
 to 1)6 presented, justice \v()uld not have l)een so likely to be done. On the contrary, 
 in the case of living persons, whether the form of presentation or the substance of 
 the statement were to be considered, characteristic traits seemed more sure to find 
 expression by each one's speaking for himself; and, in respect to those deceased, 
 as the ]iortrait-painter, both in the interest of art and for tnith's sake, always 
 endeavors to seize and fix upon his canvas the most pleasing expressions of counte- 
 nance, attitudes and active movements of his subjects, so, in biography, the views 
 of nearest friends, if obtainable, seemed likely, upon the whole, to do the fullest 
 justice. Are not imperfections of character too generally made prominent, even to 
 the hiding of l:)etter qualities, when observation is not quickened and guided by 
 affection 'i Besides, if the presentation of models for imitation, rather than a ci-itical 
 exposure of the faults of humanity, is the object of biography, that is to be secured 
 only by portrayals which emphasize the better aspects of life and character. The 
 Secretary has taken some editorial liberties, but is not conscious either of having 
 admitted into these records anything of an untruthful bearing, or of any " suppressio 
 veri " in respect to character. 
 
 An abstract of reports of several meetings of the Class will be found in an 
 Appendix ; and the Secretary is permitted to make an apjjropriate ending to this 
 volume by reprinting " Sketches from Memory " — a paper of sprightly reminiscences 
 of our college-days, read by our classmate Charles Tracy, Esq., before the Yale 
 Alumni Association of New York, of w^iicli he is the President, Dec. 12, 1873, and 
 lately published Ity request of that association. 
 
 The Secretary regrets that his work is not quite free from typographical errors, 
 
 though, it is believed, none of them are important enough to be specified. He 
 
 ventures to hope that no errors of fact will be discovered ; should it be otherwise, 
 
 he solicits correction. 
 
 EDWAED ELBEIDGE SALISBUEY, 
 
 Class-Secretary. 
 
 Kew Haven, Conn., October, 1880.
 
 MEMOEANDA. 
 
 ARCIIP]R, HENRY WILSON, AM IST'.i. 
 
 From Hock L'i(i>, Mil 
 Present address: H. W. Archer, Ei^(]., Belair, Ihiri'unl Co., Md. 
 
 "July, 1.S79. 
 
 .... "I am tlie second son of Dr. John Archer and Ann his wife, 
 of Harford T'onnty in the State of MaryhuKl Was born the IStli April, 
 1<S13, at a place called Stafford, in the beautiful valley of Deer Creek, in 
 the siune county in which I still reside. Was educated by private tutors, 
 and ^\ent to college soon after my father's death. When I left Yale, it 
 was with a determination to find some other college where I coidd com- 
 plete my education. I went first to Geneva College on Seneca Lake in 
 Central New York, where 1 remained — in (piannitine as it were — only 
 long enough to obtain a clean bill of health ; and when supposed to be 
 entirel)^ disinfected I entered Union C*ollege, of which Dr. Nott was then 
 President, where I ■was graduated in the usual conrse. 
 
 "After leaving college, and going through a course of reading in 
 history and general literature, I commenced the study of law^, withont 
 any intention of following it as a, profession, Imt because I considered it 
 good mental training, and an essential ])art of a good education. But I 
 soon became fond of the study, and afterwards of the practice of law, 
 which I have followed as a profession to the present time, relieving- the 
 somewhat arduous duties of a lawyer's life with such attention as I have 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 t'oinid time to devote to :i<j;Ticultiiral pursuits, in which 1 htL\e always taken 
 a lively interest. 
 
 "In June, 1849, I was married to ]\rary E., eldest daughter of John 
 W. Walker, Esq., of Kent County, Mi\., who has Ijlessed me with eleven 
 children, of whom nine are now living-; and with them, and the many 
 other blessings for which I have to be thankful, I am enjoying about the 
 happiest life this world is capable of affording. 
 
 " I have occasionally taken part in public affairs, but only to a very 
 moderate extent, and only so far as duty has seemed to require. I have 
 served in our Legislature, and was a member of the State Convention 
 which formed the present Constitution of the State of Maryland ; but my 
 cliief occupations and pleasures have been found in the retirement and 
 quiet duties of private and professional life. 
 
 " It would give me great pleasure to renew my acquaintance with the 
 fellows of our old Class, most of Avhom I suppose are now^ grave seniors 
 — most unlike the gay boys we were when we parted, so many years ago. 
 I shall ever entertain a most kindlv regard for them, and shall ho})e that 
 vou and all the rest of them will ever remember, kindly, Yom's Truly." 
 
 [Letter by liimself.j
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 BACKUS, WILLIAM WABNER, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Ithaca, N. Y. 
 Present address : Mr. W. W. Backus, Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
 William Warner Backus, son of Thomas and Rebecca Backus of Lee, 
 Berkshire Co., Mass., was horn in Lee, Jan. IG, 1807, and until he went to 
 Yale lived there and in Ithaca and Lansing, N. Y. Pie was licensed to 
 preach in New Haven in July, ISPtf), and was ordained Pastor, over his 
 lirst charge, in Gallipolis, Ohio, in the winter of 1837. In Sept., 1837, 
 he was married, at Newark, N. J., to Miss Frances Ward. The place of 
 his next settlement was Benton, Yates Co., N. Y., where his first son was 
 horn. In 1839 he removed to Castile, Genesee Co., N. Y. ; and in 1841 
 to Bloomfield, Hartford Co., Conn. Here he lost his wife, who left him 
 Avith four children, the eldest of whom, now dead, lived to become one of 
 the best and most respected and influential men of Cleveland, Ohio. From 
 Bloomfield he was called to Fremont (then Lower Sandusky), ( )liio, where 
 Pi'esident Hayes was a member of his congregation ; and afterwards to 
 Chester, Geauga Co., (_)]iio, Avliere he was married to Miss Mary Hawes. 
 From Chester he went to Friendship, Alleghany Co., N. Y. ; thence, to 
 Camden, 111. ; and from tliis place to Decatur, AVisc. In 1856 he removed 
 to Leavenworth, Kansas, and assumed the responsibility of building the 
 first brick meeting-house in that State, after organizing tlie church. In 
 1857 he was one of three men who in convention organized a movement 
 that gave the death-blow to the Lecom23ton Constitution. To pay for his 
 meeting-house, he had to become a land-agent, and he soon became so
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 involved in tin's l)n8iness that he could not feed his sheep, and therefore 
 surrendered tlie charge. This was in 1859, since which time he has not 
 lived l)y iiicadiinii'. In 1860 he lost his second wife, by whom he had five 
 children : and in 1 S(;2 was married, in Dayton, ( )hio, to Mrs. Berelda Davis. 
 Durini;- the latter year he was f<tr a short time with the army in Missouri 
 and Arkansas. In ISTi.'') he entered into the •^•old-mine business, in one 
 season organiziiii^- four gold-companies, and getting them into operation, 
 but did not reap a fortune. He is the author of three lectures on creation, 
 published in the "Popular Science Monthly," which were highly compli- 
 mented b}' the late Professor Silliman ; and is now engaged in writing 
 a digest of history from the reign of Elizabeth down to the American 
 Revolution, the introduction to which was published in the "AVestern 
 Homestead" for February, ISTfl. 
 
 He has had ten children, of whom nine are still living, scattered 
 from the Pockv Mountains to New York City; and he boasts of eleven 
 grandchildren. 
 
 [From a coinimiiiioatioii by himself. April, 1879. — E. E. S.J
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BAKER, SAMUEL GEORGE, A.K 1832. 
 
 *1841. From Baltimore, Md. 
 
 «i 
 
 "Dec. 22, 1878. 
 
 "My dear brother Samuel George Baker was born in Baltimore in 1813; 
 he died in 1841; so that he was just twenty-eight at tlie time of liis death. 
 He was the second son of Dr. Samuel Baker, of Baltimore, who was an 
 eminent physician, and professor of Materia Medica in the University of 
 Maryland for more than twenty years. My brother was married in 1839 to 
 Marianne Read, daughter of Judge Read of Newcastle, Delaware, a very 
 lovely and accomplished woman. Even at the early age at which he died, 
 he had held for several years the same chair at the University which his 
 father had so well tilled [he himself having i-eceived the degree of M.D. at 
 Baltimore in 1835], and had already gained a large and lucrative jiractice. 
 
 "I will copy for you a few lines from a dear friend of his, giving a 
 description of his character, and, it seemed to us all, a just estimate of him. 
 'He was endowed by nature with a strong, vigorous intellect, with the 
 highest order of energy, perseverance and personal courage, with a keen 
 sensibility and a nice sense of lionour, and witli a capacity for the indulgence 
 of the affections Avhich, whilst it attaclied others to him by the strongest 
 ties, made him the object of the unlimited devotion of his family and friends. 
 The zeal with which he devoted himself to the labours of his profession, had 
 a'ained for him hio-h rank among- its members, even at the early age of 
 twenty-eight; and the affectionate assidiiity with which he discharged his 
 duties to his patients, had endeared him to them in an extraordinary degree.
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 lie was C'liiiiifnt for tlie sincerity and faitlifuliiess of his cliaracter. The 
 warmth and enthusiasm of his temperament were manifested in everytliing 
 he imdertook, and in nothing- more honourably than in tlie intrepid and 
 uncalcidating spirit witli wliich lie discharged any duty which friendship 
 might devolve upon him. He was incapable of artifice or meanness, but was 
 brave, just and candid.' " 
 
 [Letter by a sister.]
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BARCULO, SEWARD. 
 
 *1854. From FisMciU, N. Y. 
 
 Seward Barcuk) was tlie sou of Rev. Georyu Barciilo, wlio, at the time 
 of his son's birth, on the 2'2d Sept., 1808, was pastor of tlie two elmrches of 
 Hopewell and New Hackensack, in Dutchess County, State of New York. 
 As a boy, he was remarkable for tlie active, though mischievous, turn of 
 his mind, while at the same time he was truthful and generous, fearless and 
 firm, lie had a quick and retentive memor)', and committed his lessons 
 whh rapidity and ease. He was designed for a farmer, and -was sent to a 
 district-school ; Init liis uncle Jacobus L. Swartwout, by whom he had been 
 adopted, observing that his leisure-moments were spent in the study of 
 algebra and mathematics, changed his plans in regard to him, and concluded 
 to give him a liberal education. His academic life began in Fishkill, under 
 the charge of Rev. Cornelius D. Westbrook ; but his prepai-ation for college 
 was completed at Cornwall, Conn., in the home of his early friend and 
 teacher, the now well-known Evangelist of the Catholic Apostolic Church, 
 Rev. William W. Andrews. He entered Yale in 1828, and remained there 
 till the summer of 1830, one of tlie foremost scholars in liis Class, when he 
 removed to Rutgers College ; but he took no college-degree. He studied 
 law in the office of Stephen Cleveland, Esq., in Poughkeepsie, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 18.-54. From the first, he had aimed not only to 
 perfect himself in the elements of legal science, but to become an accom- 
 plished advocate. Into every debating-school, moot-court, or club, where 
 mind comes into collision with mind, he went. Law, literature, science, 
 politics, social and national questions, were all propounded and discussed in
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 these liunil)le foniins, with a force fiiul ability not often surpassed upon a 
 wider arena, and in more public councils. He commenced the practice of 
 his profession stimulated by the glories, then fast passing away, of some of 
 the brightest lights of the law in the State, as well as by the examples of 
 others witli \'\liom he had to enter into competition; and he soon showed 
 himself to be no unworthy competitor. In Ajtril, 1S45, he was appomted 
 First Judge of the County Court of Dutchess, by Gov-. Wright, upon the 
 unanimous recommendation of the Dutchess County bar, who without dis- 
 tinction of party acknowledged his ])C('uliiir fitness for that position, and 
 prevailed on him to acce])t it. In 1S4G he Avas appointed Circuit Judge; 
 and entered iipon this new sphere of duty with modesty and diligence, yet 
 with a firmness and dignity not usual for one of his age. He felt the 
 delicacy and difficulty of occupying a seat recently filled by liuggles and 
 Emott, but it is sufficient to say that the robe worn by his predecessors was 
 neither sullied nor disgraceil on his shoulders. He soon developed those 
 qualities of mind for which he afterw ards became somewhat remarkable, an 
 almost intuitive insight into the lieart of the case before liini, and of the 
 principle, of law or equity, l)y which it was governed. When the new 
 constitution of 1S47 went into effect, he was elected one of the Justices of 
 the Supreme Court for the Second District, and drew the longest term. 
 His predilections were ultra democratic and })rogressive, but when he saw 
 the veneralde and sacred ark of the hnv profaned, and its time-honored 
 principles and practices swept away, by the code of practice introduced 
 under the new constitution, the last remains of a radical and reforming 
 spirit were extirpated from his mind, and he rebelled with his whole 
 spiritual force against the desecration. He held his position of Justice of 
 the Supreme Court, luider the new constitution, for six and a half years, 
 Avith ability and success, rapid in coming to his conclusions, open and 
 fearless in the avowal of them, yet without any j)ride of oj)inion to ])revent 
 him from seeing his own errors, on a re-examination of cases at circuit, and 
 uniting promptly to correct them. 
 
 He was a most varied and voracious reader, and mastered the contents 
 of a book with great facility. He spent considei'able time and money in
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 horticulture. He visited Europe three times, as inucli to be on tlie ocean in 
 liis passage (having a passion for the •\vatei'), as to ol)serve for liiniself tlie 
 manners and customs of foreign society, and the machinery of Em-opean 
 social and political life. 
 
 The same year in which he came to the bar, he married Cornelia, 
 daiighter of John H. Tallman, Esq., of New York, by whom ho had one 
 son, Sidney, who died soon after his father, and three daughters. 
 
 Judge Barculo died in New York, on the 20th Jime, 1854. He was 
 a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and met death as a 
 Christian, after a painful and lingering- illness which he bore with manly 
 fortitude and Christian resignation. 
 
 [Mostly abr. from Appendix to Barbour's Supreme Court Reports, xx. (;61-72. — E. E. S.]
 
 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 *BEATTY, EDWAIU) W. 
 
 *1864. From Ilagerstown, Md. 
 
 ",Jmi. 30, 1879. 
 " p](l\vnnl W. Bentty was born in TTanxTstown, ^Id. His father, Elie 
 Beatty, was cashier of the Ilagerstown Bank for very many years . . . He 
 read Uiw, was admitted to tlie bar, but nevcn- practised. I liad but a slight 
 acquaintance with him, whilst at college, but after I came here to reside 
 knew him well. He farmed for many years, and then became an officer in 
 the Custom-House at Baltimore, and, at the breaking out of the civil war, 
 went into the Southern army, and was killed at tlie liattle of Cedar Creek 
 [1864]. He married Maria, the daughter of General ( )tho Holland Williams 
 (a relative of the Revolutionary general ttf that name). He and his wife, 
 and all their children, save a married daughter, are dead." 
 
 [From Ills olassniiite G. S.] 
 
 His name first appears, as one of the Class, in the Catalogue for 1829-30, and lie 
 left college in 1830. Says his classmate J. A. M. : "He had a mild and gentle spirit, 
 with a very slender ligure." — E. E. S. 
 
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 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 ^BENEDICT, GEORGE A., A.M. 1858. 
 
 *1876. From Watertoivn, N. Y. 
 
 ■; 
 
 "George A. Benedict was boi-n in WatertoAvn, N. Y., Aug-. .5, 1812, 
 and died at Cleveland, ( )hi<), May 12, 187G. At an early age lie was sent 
 to Pittsfield, Mass., where he pursued a preparatory course of study, and in 
 1828 he entered Yale College. He left college in 1830; hut twenty-eight 
 years afterwards, the Corporation, without his knowledge, but much to his 
 gratification, conferred upon him the degree of M.A. Leaving college, he 
 entered upon the study of law in the office of Judge Robert Lansing in 
 Watertown, and completed his legal studies with Sterling & Bronsoii of the 
 same place. Shortly after being admitted to practice in his native State, he 
 removed to Ohio, and established himself at Cleveland. In 1836 he formed 
 a pai'tnership with John Erwen, Esq., \\'hich continued until 1839, when this 
 connection was dissolved, and a new one formed under the name of Benedict 
 & Hitchcock. In 1848 he was appointed Clerk of the Superior Court of 
 Cleveland, and, when that court was abolished in 1853, he purchased an 
 interest in the "Cleveland Daily Herald," to which he had been an occasional 
 contributor, and became its associate-editor. From this time forward, and 
 after he became its editor-in-chief in 1858, almost the whole management 
 and condixct of this joimial devolved upon him ; and its standing and rank 
 as the leading newspaper of Northern Ohio, which it holds to this day, are 
 chiefly, if not wholly, due to him. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "He was a man of strong convictions, holding tlieni tenaciously, yet 
 always tolerant where honest differences of opinion might exist ; outspoken 
 against wrong, yet never suffering the columns of his paper to be made the 
 vehicle of private prejudice or personal abuse. If injury were done, the 
 same columns were open to the aggrieved jjurty to rejiair the wrong. In 
 politics a Whig, and afterwards a Republican, zealous in his support of party- 
 principles, he never sought or desired political preferment. In 1842 he was 
 City- Attorney, and in 1843 was President of the City-Council. In 1865 he 
 was, without solicitation, tendered the appointment of postmaster at Cleve- 
 land, and he held that office four years. He refused a re-appointment, under 
 the influence of a conviction, which personal experience had impressed upon 
 him, that the editor of a political journal should hold no political office. As 
 a citizen, he always was interested in the prosperity of the vState and city of 
 his adoption, and took an active part in all measures of public benefit- 
 During tlie Rebellion, he devoted all his energies and iafiuence, })ersonal 
 and editorial, to the support of the Union-cause. All benevolent and chari- 
 table enterprises found in liini a warm supporter and liljeral friend. A 
 faithful mendjer of St. Paul's Episcopal church, he was for many years one 
 of its Vestry. In private and social life, the esteem and love of a wide circle 
 of warm friends surrounded him." 
 
 [Comimm. by a sou-iu-law.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BISHOP, EBEKEZER. 
 
 *1837. From Woodsforl; Cuuu. 
 
 "Ebenezer Bishop, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Lyon) Bishop, was 
 born 12th Oct., 1812, in North Woodstock, Conn. His father was for 
 many years a practising- physician in that phice. He joined the Class in 
 1828, left Yale in 1830, and was graduated at Washington College, Hart- 
 ford, in 1832. He qualitied himself to l)e a lawyer, settled at New Albany, 
 Indiana, in the summer of 1836, and died of consumption in the summer 
 of 1837." 
 
 [Mostly cnmmiin. )iy an nnolc] 
 
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 MIOMOKANDA. 
 
 *1{()WERS, JOHN, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1863. From Dudleij, Mass. 
 
 " Jolm Bowers died iu St. Jo]ni,sl)iu'y, Vt., Ful). 1, 1863, aged fifty-seven 
 years jnid tour montlis. 
 
 "lie was the sou of Alpliens and Anna (Sumner) Bowers, and was 
 luirn in Tliompsou, Conn., Sept. 14, ISO;"). After graduatini;' in tlic Tlieo- 
 lo"ifal Seniinarv at Princeton in 1836, lie tauylit for a \far in Nichols 
 Academy, Dudley, Mass., and, having been licensed to preach Ijy the 
 Presbytery of Long Island in 183."), he was ordained pastoi" of the Congre- 
 gational church in AVill^rahain, ]\Iass., Dec. 13, 1837. This church he left 
 in the spring of 1856, ;ind, after preaching nearly a j^ear at Agawam Falls, 
 he was invited to become ])astor of the Third Congregational church in 
 St. Johnsbury, where he was installed Fel). 4, 1X58. He was married in 
 1836 to Miss Maria Healey of Dudley, Mass. 
 
 "He published a Thanksgiving discourse in 1843, and two discoui'ses 
 at the close of his ministry in Wilbraham." 
 
 [From Obit. Record of Graduates of Yale College, No. 4 of the printed series.] 
 
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 MKMORANnA. 
 
 *BOWIE, WALTER B. 
 
 *1833. From Prince Gcon/c Co., Md. 
 
 "Walter B. Bowie, son of William and Catherine (Dnckett) Bowie, was 
 born at Fairview, Prince George County, Maryland, in 1812." He left 
 College in 1830, "and died in 1833, of consnmption, nnmarried." 
 
 [CommuD.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 BRACE, SETH COLLINS, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Wethersjidd, Com/. 
 Present address: Eev. S. C. Brace, Mercantile Library, Pliiladelpliia. 
 
 "Setli Collins Brace, son of Rev. Joab, D.D. (Y. C. 1804), and Lucy 
 (Collins) Brace, of Newington, Conn., was born at that place Aug. 3, 1811. 
 Was fitted for college by Jiis father, who, in a pastorate of fifty years at 
 Newington, pi-epared many young men for Yale. From 1832 to 183,5 
 was teacher at Lenox, Mass., and at Northampton, Mass., and, for a short 
 time, editor of the 'Massachusetts Eagle' at Lenox. From 1835 to 1838 
 was tutor and theological student at Yale. In March, 1839, became the 
 editor of the 'North American,' then commenced in Philadelphia, and was 
 connected with the editorsliip, at intervals, until 1845. From 1842 to 
 1843 was Professor of Mathematics in Delaware College, and there 
 licensed as a preacher by the Presbyter}^ of Wilmington. From 1847 to 
 1851 was teacher in the Young Ladies Seminary at Pittsfield, Mass. 
 From 1855 to 1856 was Librarian of the IMercantile Libra rv in Philadel- 
 })hia. (Subsequently, was a preacher at Newark, Del., and at Curtisville 
 (Stockbridge), Mass.; and from 18G0 to l.S(;4 ])ast<n- of the Congregational 
 church at l^)ethany. Conn. From 1S()4 to ISTO was occupied, in New 
 Haven, in instructing private pn])ils. Since INTO has resided in Pliiladel- 
 phia, engaged in ])rivate studies. Has written nuu'h for the newspaper- 
 jiress, and some articles for magazines. In 1S41 prepared an enlarged 
 edition of the 'Scholar's Companion,' and in 1843 compiled the 'Parisli 
 Hymns.' 
 
 "Two younger lirothers of his were Yale graduates; Rev. E. Joab 
 (1837), and Samxiel (1841) — see Class Histories. One of his sisters was 
 married to Rev. John Todd, D.D. (Y. C 1822), the other to Rev. Sanmcl 
 N. Shepard (Wms. Coll. 1821)." 
 
 [<jOiiiiuiin. by himself, Nov., 1878.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BRINCKERHOFF, ED WARD. 
 
 *1857. From Albany, N. Y. 
 
 "Jan. 10, 1S7!). 
 "My dear brother Edward was the yoiingest child and second son of 
 Peter and Elizabeth Brinckerhoti". He was born in New York City, tlie 
 24th of Dec, 1810, and was thirteen months old when liis father died; 
 his mother then moved to Albany, her native city. My brother died 
 Jan. Gth, 1857, in his forty-eighth year. He never married. I copy an 
 obitnary notice : 'The death of Edward Brinckerhotf, which was annonnced 
 to-day, is the termination of a long- conrse of illness, which he bore with 
 Christian and cheerful resignation. . Of old and much respected families, 
 well educated, he commenced life under apparently the most promising- 
 circumstances. In physical conformation, he was a model of manly and 
 vigorous health, but a sjiinal disease crippled his strength, and confined him 
 to the house ten years: its source was traced to a fall from his horse while 
 acting as marshal at a funeral.' " 
 
 [Letter by a sister.] 
 
 He entered Yale with the Class, left in LSoO, was "a graduate of 
 Rutgers College in 1832, and died in Albany, where he always lived — a 
 lawyer by profession, and a most estimable gentleman." 
 
 [Mostly from his classmate J. A. M.] 
 
 23
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BROWN, SAMUEL BOBBINS, A.B. 1832. 
 *1880. From Moi/soi/, Mass. 
 
 "My life, by God's providence, lins been so prolonged and varied in its 
 incidents, ocenpations and places of alxxle, that I find it ditficnlt to write a 
 sketch of it in a condensed form. 1 have attempted to do so repeatedly, 
 l)oth in .lapan and since my retnrn to the United States, but found myself 
 runnino- so much into details that 1 i^ave it up, and had come to regard 
 the story of m}- life as belonging only to my children, who have often 
 asked me to give it to them, and to whom sucli a redundanc}' of particulars 
 would be acceptable. But now I am urged to furnish some account of my 
 life-work for the record of the Class of 1832, and must endeavor to comply 
 with tlie request. 
 
 " My parents were Timothy Hill Brown and his wife Phelje Hinsdale, 
 the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Canaan, N. Y. They 
 had four children, three daughters and one son. My elder sister was born 
 in East Windsor, Conn., in wliat ^^■as then called Scantic Parish, in 180G. 
 I was born in the same place Jiuie 1(!, 1810. My father removed to the 
 adjoining town of Ellington when I Avas about two years old, and there 
 remained nearly six years, during which time my two younger sisters 
 were born. In 1S18, my father removed to Monson, Mass., in order to 
 avail himself (if the advantages of the academy at that place in the educa- 
 tion of his children, for, though n\\ [)arents were in very straitened circum- 
 stances, thev were not willing that their cliildren should grow up without 
 the educational advantages which were within their means. At Monson 
 mv father resided till his death, Dec. 2!l, 1853. He was by trade a house- 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 joiner, but being- ing-enious, and given to much reading-, he could readily 
 turn his hand to various mechanical operations, l^y sucli means, together 
 witli the culti\ ation of tifteen or twenty acres of land that he boug-ht in Mon- 
 son, lie supported his family. My mother, who was left an orj)han when 
 two 3'eais old, was a woman whose early oi-])lianag-e, sufferings and priva- 
 tions wduld Iiave made havoc of the constitution iuiil character of most 
 wonii-n, and of licrs, l)ut for the grace of (iod nnd native ment;d powers, 
 and moral qualities, condjined with an indomitable courage and resolution 
 that caused the endurance of diabolical crueh\' to make her a Chris- 
 tian of the noblest type, and a true heroine, if there ever was one. I 
 attribute all my success in life, and whatever good I have been enabled 
 to do, to the home of my childhood and its hallowed influences, and to the 
 'golden vials full of odors' laid up in lieaven by this mother for her only 
 son, and count them a richer inheritance than mix amount of gold and 
 silver. When I was eight years old, I was put to the study of Latin. I 
 camiot say nnicli for the teaching of those days. Though I entered 
 Monson Academy at nine ^•ears of age, 1 really believe that, for two or 
 three years after I took up Adams' Latin Grammar, I thought Latin %\as 
 only a puzzle invented for scliool-boN.s. I was left to find out for myself 
 tliat it was a language once spoken bv a great ))eople. According to the 
 standard of those days I was said to be fitted for college at the age of 
 sixteen. Poverty, however, prevented my going an^' further, and I knew 
 that I could not look to mv father for support in a college-course. The 
 only way open to me wa.s to rely upon my own exertions to pay my 
 expenses. Here let me sav that from early childhood, I scarcely know 
 why or how, I had fixed in nn' mind a plan of life, from which I never 
 swerved, and other than wliich I liad no desire to pursue. It was, first 
 to acquire a liljeral education, then to study theology, and finally to be a 
 foreign missionary. How this could be accomplished Avas more than I 
 could tell, but that it would l)e I did not allow myself to doubt. If I did 
 forecast the difficulties to be encountered, I thought of the mountains my 
 beloved mother had surmounted, and the terrible obstacles she had over- 
 come in her vouth, and felt assured that those which lay in my way might
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 bo removed bv a like 'lie;irt for any fate,' fortified l)y trust in (Jod and a 
 worthy end in view. To try my hand at teaehiny, I took a, district-.scliool 
 in the winter after I was seventeen years old, earning- '$•27 in tln-ee niontlis, 
 and handed the money to my father. The folh)win<>- sunnncr I taiii^lit a 
 so-called select school in the town-hall at West 8i)rin,i;field, Mass., the 
 avails of which in three months amounted to $3(!, which I also i^axc to 
 m\ father. I was now eighteen years old, and 1 felt that 1 must enter 
 college that year (182(S), though I had no means of doing- so, and my 
 father could not help me, for his property was mortgaged for three-fourths 
 of its cost. I told my ftither that I wished to enter Amherst College, and 
 that, if he would give his consent, I would devote my first earnings after I 
 was graduated to paying off his deltts. He assured me that he greatly 
 desired to see me educated, but he thought I should need all the money I 
 could earn after graduation to pay my own debts. He, however, was 
 willing that I should make the ex})eriment, and gave nie a hat and an 
 empty j^ockft-book, and the use of his horse and Ijuggy to drive to 
 Amherst. I went, with change enough in my jiocket to i)ay for the horse's 
 feed, and buy myself some crackers and cheese, and entered the Freshman 
 Class at Amherst, received from President Humphrey a cop}' of the college 
 by-la\vs and returned to Monson. Now commenced the struggle as to 
 ways and means. I took a school in Wales, Mass., for three months at ^^18 
 a month and mv board, and at the close of the school, in the dead of 
 winter, went home with >>54 all my own in my pocket. After a consulta- 
 tion with my mother I concluded to take a dismission from Amherst 
 College and go to Yale. There were too many indigent students like 
 myself in Amherst, which was but a country-village, to leave room for 
 another to hope that he could find opj)ortunities to work his way through. 
 Besides, Mr. Arthur Tappan had just published a notice that he would 
 pay the tuition-bills of any number of young men not exceeding one 
 hundred, who would enter Yale College that year with a view to the sacred 
 ministry. Accordingly I went to Amherst and paid the bills due there, 
 and then, with the poorest and meagerest outfit, I think, that a college- 
 student ever had, I went to New Haven, and entered college near the
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 l)po-iiiiiino- of the second term of Freshman-vear. Wlien settled in mv room 
 I liad ^37 in hand to d(ifray expenses. T will not dwell npon the strii<i-<^les 
 I had to make against poverty for nearly four years after I went to Yale. 
 1 was never absent from eolleye l»ut two weeks in term-time. Three months 
 before Commencement a friend in Philadel]»hia wrote to me offering to pay 
 all mv expenses, if 1 would go to Princeton to studv theology; but I 
 declined his generous offer, telling him that I was too green, too little 
 acquainteil with men and things to commence the .study of theology 
 innnediately after graduation, and furthermore that I had promised my 
 father to devote my first earnings, after leaving college, to lifting a mortgage 
 from his property. Just before this offer was made me, I received a call 
 to go to the Xew York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, as a teacher, 
 ;ind I went there at the beginning of our Senior-Vacation. Returning to 
 Xew Haven a iew days before Conmiencement, I paid all the outstanding 
 l)il]s against me, and, on the day when I received the baccalaiireate degree, 
 started in the world with all my debts paid and a balance of fifty dollars 
 to \ux credit. In the autunm I returned to mv })lace in Xew York, where 
 I remained for three years and a half, fulfilling, in about eighteen months, 
 the promise I had made to [)ay my father's debt. A sevei'e attack of pneu- 
 monia, v\]iile I was on a visit in Boston in the summer of 1835, so prostrated 
 me that my physician advised me to go to a warmer climate. I therefore 
 Avent to Columbia, South Carolina, where I studied theology two years, in 
 the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, until my health was completely 
 restored, and, returning to New Y'ork in 1837, I finished my theological 
 course at the Union Theological Seminary, being one of a class of six who 
 graduated there in 1838. While in the Theological Seminary I had gone 
 back to the New Y'ork Institution for the Deaf and Dumb as a teacher, and 
 was so engaged when I was licensed by the Third Presbyteiy of New Y^ork, 
 in August, 1838. Soon after, I offered myself to the Am. Bd. of Com. for 
 For. Missions, as a foreign missionary, and was accepted, Ijut I was soon 
 informed bv the Seci'etary that I should have to wait another year in 
 this country before going abroad, because the Board had fifty accepted 
 missionaries, without the funds requisite to send them to their destinations. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 T therefore eno-ao-ed to reniain at tlic Tnstitiition for tlic Dejif ;iinl Diiinl) ;i 
 year longer. Tliis, liowcvci-, was not to \h\ 
 
 "Oil the 4tli of < )ct., 1S,")S, I was iuviteil to go to Canton, ('liinn, in lln- 
 service of the .Morrison Kdncatioii Society, which had been foniicd tlicrc hy 
 the niis.sionariew and foreign niercliants of mH nationalities, for tlui pin'))ose 
 of edncating Chinese liox's in Ixith iMinlish and ('hinese, tluis ])uttini:' in 
 tlieir hands the key to sources of knowledgi^ ironi \\hich thc\' h;\d up to 
 that time been exehuh'd, of instructing them in the principh's of Chris- 
 tianity, and of founding an institution that should serve as a memorial of tlu- 
 Rev. Dr. Robert Morrison, the first missionary to China, who die<l in IS.'U. 
 
 "Mr. 1). W. C. ( dyphant, the head of the firm of Olypliant tV: ( 'o. in New 
 York, who also had a house in Canton, and was one of the original 
 mend)ers of the M. E. Society, called on me at the Institntion for tlie Deaf 
 and Dumb on the 4th of October, at the request of a conmiittee of the 
 Faculty of Yale College, who had been asked to select a teacher for the 
 Morrison Education Society, and informed me that the committee Avislied 
 me to go to (*anton in the sliip ^lorrison, to sail from New York on 
 the Ifith of that month. There were scarcely twelve days in wliich to make 
 preparation for the voyage, but I went to New Haven on tlie .")th, and 
 received my connnission from Messi's. Silliman, Gibbs and Goodrich, and 
 returned the next uKirning to New York, where I made some preparation 
 for my outfit, and took niv dismission from the Institution for the Deaf and 
 Dumb, then went to Monson, Mass., to say farewell to my friends. I spent 
 one night there, and the next day went to East Windsor, Conn., and was 
 married the same dav to Miss Elizabeth Goodwin Bartlett, daughter of 
 Rev. Shubael Bai-tlett, and on the following day went to T.iyme, Conn., to 
 see my mother, and a sister whose husliand lav sick of t\phoid fever, and 
 the next day to New York, where I was ordained l)y the Third Presbytery, 
 finished n\\ hurried preparations for sailing, and end»arked for ( 'liina 
 on the morning of the ITtlL in the ship l)efore mentioned. We arrived in 
 the Macao Roads on the '2ijd of Feb., 1S.')U, having made the passage in 
 one hundred and twenty-nine days. At the anchorage we were met by 
 j\Ir. S. W. Williams, now Prof S. W. Williams, LL.D., of Yale, who came 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 oft' ill a covered boat to convey us to his liouse in Miicao. At tliat time no 
 ladv was allowed to yo to the city of Canton, and I'oreij^n ladies were 
 forbidden by the Chinese authorities to land even at Macao ; but, as the 
 government of that place was li;df Portuguese, the latter winked at the 
 violation of this prohiliitioii, and by landing at the Portuguese Custom 
 House the ladies from our slii)) were safely and easily housed on shore. 
 
 "After going to Canton to report m\ self to the otliccrs of the Morrison 
 Kducation Society, 1 returned to Macao and resided in Mr. Williams' hrmse 
 about seven months, spending my time chiefly in the studv of the Canton 
 dialect of the Chinese language, to prepare myself for teaching when the 
 time should come for it. 
 
 "The troubles that soon after culminated in the iirst w ar lietweeii Eng- 
 land and China, commenced about the time of our arrival, and made it by 
 no means easy to open a school. The peojde were not eager to have their 
 sons educated by a foreigner. In the autumn of that year, when all British 
 subjects had been obliged to leave Macao, and betake themselves for safety 
 to the merchants' fleet lying tbrty miles off" in Hongkong harbor, I suc- 
 ceeded in renting a large and commodious house with extensive teiTaced 
 grounds attached to it, where I could reside and open a school. I suc- 
 ceeded also in getting half a dozen lads, from ten to fifteen years old, as 
 pupils. Some of them were orphans or half orphans, and those who had 
 parents living I required to give me, from tlieni, a written agreement that 
 their sons should remain at school for a term of years. Doubtless they did 
 this the more readily because they knew that they could break the conti'act 
 with impunity. This class of six boys constituted the whole number of my 
 pupils for the ftrst year. They became interested in their studies, and made 
 good progress in Chinese, and in lea7niing to speak, read and write English. 
 
 "At the beginning of the next school-year, I received as many more 
 boys under my care, and so continued to do for four years, until I had 
 twenty-four pupils. Thus the old Roman Catholic town, through its Por- 
 tuguese government, furnished a place where, notwithstanding- the war, the 
 Morrison School could be opened and carried on four years. Hongkong 
 having been ceded to the British government })y the treaty of Nanking, in 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 1842, the governor of the ishmd offered the M. E. Society a very ehg-ible 
 site there, for the erection of a building for the residence of the instructors, 
 and for the scliool-rooni, Hbniry, and doniiitorics for tlie ])upils. This offer 
 was accepted, and a large, connnodious building was erected, with the 
 required outbuildings for servants, offices, etc. The president of the 
 society gave $3,000, and the membei'S contributed enough more to pay 
 for these buildings. Near the end of lS4'i the school was removed from 
 Macao to Hongkong. In 1846 Mr. William A. Macy, a graduate of Yale, 
 was sent out from New Haven as my assistant. He was a man eminently 
 fitted for the place, and when in 1847 it became necessary for me to return 
 to the United States, on account of my wife's protracted illness, he took 
 the entire charge of the school, and sent for his mother to join him at 
 Hongkong. She did so, and remained there till I\Ir. Macy closed the 
 school in 1849, and returned to America to study theology. Of the six 
 boys first received into the school, and who had been nearly eight years 
 under instruction, I brought three \\ ith me to the United States, at the 
 request of four gentlemen, members of the ^Vlorrison Education Society, 
 who put into my hands the funds to defray the expense. I jdaced these 
 young men at Monson Academy, and they i)oarded at nn' father's house. 
 I had leave of absence for two or two and a half years fi'om China, and these 
 pupils were to return with me. After remaining in Monson eig'hteen months, 
 it was thought inq")ossible for my wife to resnnu' licr residence in Southern 
 China, with any pros})ect of enjoying comfortable health, and I reluctantly 
 sent my resignation to the M. E. Societ>-. ( )f the three Chinese under my 
 care, I sent one, Wong Eun, after he had remained between two and three 
 years at Monson Academy, where he studied Latin and Greek, and other- 
 wise was partially prepared for college, to Edinburgh, Scotland. At Edin- 
 burgh University he spent four years, and was graduated w ith the degrees 
 of Bachelor of Medicine and SurgerA. He then spent the two follow ing 
 years in hospital-practice, and linal]\- was commissioned bv the London 
 Missionary Society as a medical missionary to China. During his luu- 
 versity-course he twice took first ])rizcs in his class, once for (ireek, and 
 again for botany, and when he was graduated he received high compliments 
 
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 MEMOEANDA. 
 
 from Prof. Simpson, for liis cliai-acter and jittiiinnicuts, as tlic fii'st Chinese 
 graduate of tliat univei'sity. At Canton, Dr. Wono- opened a large niis- 
 sionary-liospital, of wliicli lie had the charge for two or tln-ee v(!ars, ))iit 
 for reasons tliat need not lie mentioned here, reasons honoral)le to liimself, 
 lie resigned his connection witli the i^ondon Missionai-y Society's mission, 
 and began to teach a class of (-hinese in medicine, and instruct his two 
 nieces in the Chinese language and literature, and to lecture to them on 
 th(i New Testament. The result was that these young ladies became 
 proficient in their abilit}' to read and write Chinese prose and poetry, as 
 few if any others of their sex liave been in Cliina. When I visited Canton 
 in 1S77, Dr. Wong in speaking of his nieces said: 'I have done what I 
 could to teach them Christianity, but 1 cainiot uiala them Christian.s. That 
 is a work that requires the agency and power of the Holy Spirit.' 
 
 "For nearly fourteen years Dr. Wong was the medical practitioner 
 among all the resident foreigners and foreign families at Canton, and when 
 he died, Oct. 10, ISTS, he was lamented by all who knew him. An elderly 
 gentleman who was for many years the Colonial Surgeon at Hongkong 
 once said to me: ' Dr. AVong is head and shoulders above any other surgeon 
 or physician in China.' 
 
 "Another of the three brought by me to this country is Wong- Shing, 
 now the Chinese Vice-Consnl at San Francisco. He staid ^\•ith me but two 
 years, on account of impaii'ed health, and for family reasons reqiiiring his 
 presence in China. His father would not consent to his coming to America, 
 unless he would first be married to his betrothed. To this Wong Shing 
 assented, onh' ujion condition that there should Ije no heathen ceremonies 
 at his wedding. He had lieen a true Christian for six years at that time, 
 and was very desirous to accompany me to this country. On his return 
 to Hongkong he went as an apiirentice into the printing-office of the 'China 
 Mail,' and learned the printer's trade. He then was employed by Rev. 
 Dr. Legge as the manager of the London Missionary pi-inting-office, and 
 as Dr. James Legge once said of him, 'He has been my right-hand nnni,' 
 both in the ])rinting-office and in the native church. He is the first Chinese 
 who ever was put upon the jury-list at Hongkong, and there has been 
 but one other since.
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "WlicTi tlio |)vintiii<>-oflHce was closed at iron<;koiip-, Wnnp- Sliiiia' was 
 appoiutccl tliu tcaclicr of an English school at tShanghai I'onndcd by the 
 g-overnment. After the Chinese educational mission was sent to America, 
 he was sent hither in charge of the second band of thirty Chinese •who 
 came to this conntry to be educated. He again returned to China, and, 
 when the present Chinese Embassy came to Washington, he was attached 
 to it as interpreter and secretary to Minister Chin Lan Pin. He is now, 
 as has been said, the Chinese Vice-Consul at San Francisco. He has 
 three sons, who are receiving their education at Hartford, Conn., whom he 
 supports at his own expense, and is interesting himself in all the (Christian 
 efforts in behalf of the ( 'hinese on our western coast. 
 
 "The third of the Chinese lads who came Avith me to this country in 
 1-S47, is Yung Wing, now^ H. I. C. Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and 
 Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington. He entered the Morrison Edu- 
 cation Society's school in 1840, and remained there till he came to America. 
 He entered Yale College in 1850, received his baccalaureate degree in 
 1854, and returned to China with his friend Rev. William A. Macy. 
 His education led him to reflect much upon the condition, social, political 
 and religious, of his countrymen, and, even before he left America, he longed 
 to devise some plan by which the educational advantages he had enjoyed 
 might be given to other Chinese voung men in large nmnbers. He desired 
 thus to infuse new ideas and new life into his countrymen, and to place the 
 Chinese empii-e upon a better footing among the great powers of the earth. 
 J:5ut, being without rank or influential friends in China, the ditHculties in 
 his way were well-nigh insurmountal)le, and mig-ht have utterly discouraged 
 a man of less determination and hopefulness. He first sought to enter some 
 lawyer's office at Hongkong as a student, but British prejudice prevented 
 a C'hinese from studying law there, and he had to give it up. He then 
 went to Shanghai, seeking occupation as a business-man. For several vears 
 he was employed by a wealth\' British firm at Shanghai as their agent for 
 the purchase of teas, silk, etc., in the interior. His tried business-capacity 
 and fidelity to his employers won for him their esteem and confidence, and 
 were at the same time to his own peciuiiar\' advantage, and he accumulated 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 some $15,000 wliilc in tliciv oni])lov. Subsequently he went to tlie port 
 of Kin Kiang- on the Yiuigtsz river, anil went into business on ln"s own 
 account, and wliile tliere added !:>1(),00() to liis ])ro})ert\-. All tlii.s time he 
 was watching- tor an o|)i)ortunity to carr\' out liis educational sclieme, and 
 at length the ojii)ortiinit\' came in an nnlooked for w^ay. The viceroy of 
 Kiang' Su province, Tsang Kwo Fan, who was a m;in of more progressive 
 views than most other men of the countrN', was desirous to open a jilace 
 for building- ships of war, anrl manufacturing- all sorts of arms and ordnance, 
 Ijut knew of no ( 'hinese wlif) could Ije sent abroad to buv the machinery 
 for these purposes. He heard through a subordinate officer of Yung- Wing, 
 who wiis tlien at Kin Kiang, as behig a trustworthy man educated in 
 America, and competent to transact the bu.siness required. He therefore 
 sent for Yung A\"ing to come and see him, and the viceroy was met by him 
 at Gan King. When Tsang Kwo Fan saw Yung Wing, he eved him for a 
 minute or t^\■o in silence, as if taking his measure. He then asked him if 
 he could connuinid a regiment. Yung Wing rejdied that he had no know- 
 ledge of militar\' affairs, and should l)e sorrv to undertake what he could 
 not perform. I'liis answer pleased the viceroy, for he saw in it the proof 
 of Yung Wing's modesty and honestv. He therefore asked no more round- 
 about questions, 1)Ut came at once to the business in hand, and told him 
 what he wished to do, and then inquired whether he could go to foreign 
 countries and make the necessary purchases of machinery for the work- 
 shops it Avas ])roposed to erect at Shanghai. Yung Wing told him he 
 tlioug'ht he could do that. He remained at (^an King about a month, 
 wlien lie received his commission to go abroad and buy machinery wher- 
 ever he thought best, and was at the same time raised to the brevet-rank 
 of a prefect, or chief officer of a departnu'ut, in the province of Kiang Su. 
 When all was ready, Yung Wing left China and went tirst to London, 
 where he staid but a short time, and then crossed the Atlantic to the United 
 States, wdiere he was more at home than in England, and after due 
 inquiries, and inspection of vai-ious machine-.shojis in this country, made 
 his purchases, and shipjied the machinery to Shanghai, and soon followed 
 to make his report and render his account to the govermnent. W lien all
 
 MKMOJtANUA. 
 
 this \v;is (lone, his lit'th laiik li\ liicNct was made an active omv 1)\ the I'lni- 
 pcror, iind he was gazetted accordnigl y in tlie 'Pekiiiii- (iazette.' The 
 Imperial rescript annonneinji' this was sent to me in dapaii liy Dr. Williams, 
 then Secretary and Interpreter to the American Legation ;it Peking, ^'uni;' 
 Win"- was therein descrilx'd as a man (ifhio-h attainments in l'(irci:;n litci-atnr(' 
 and science, and also as a man of integrity, as had heen prosed l'\' his 
 fidelity in performinij;- the duties of his connnission to America, all which 
 ha'd been done to the entire satisfaction of H. I. Majesty, and t'oi- this he had 
 received his promotion. 
 
 "lie was now in a, ])osition where he could present his educational plan 
 to any hiyh oHicial of the empire, and he took it to Tsang Kwo Fan, asking 
 him to give it his careful consideration, and, if he appi-ovc(l ot' it, to 
 memorialize the ("onncil of State on the subject; but the states of affairs in 
 China, in the view of the viceroy, did not then seem favorable to the carry- 
 ing out of the project, though he cordially aj)])roved of the scheme. In ISTO 
 a large nundjer of high otticials assend)led at Tientsin to settle the claims 
 of the French governuHmt on at-comit of the Tientsin massacre. Yung- 
 Wing was sunnnoned to meet them, but did not arrive there mitil the 
 business was amicably concluded. He, however, found the great otKcers 
 still there, and to(jk the o])porturnt3' to lay before them foiu- propositions for 
 their ap[)roval and adoption. ( )ne of these was his scheme for the education 
 of Chinese lads in this country. Another was the ])ro[)osal to subsidize 
 the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company for the transportation 
 of the tribute-rice from the south to Tientsin. These and two others were 
 considered and adojited. A school was opened at Shanghai for the instruc- 
 tion of one hundred Chinese boys in English, preparatory to their lieing sent 
 abroad, and after a year's studv thirty of them were selected tln-ongh a com- 
 petitive examination, and sent to the United States. The school was then 
 filled up again, and the same course pursued in the three following years, 
 imtil one hundred and t\\ entv lads had been sent out. The "-overnment set 
 a])art, from the Customs receipts, a sufficient sum of money for the purpose, 
 and made Yung Wing the second commissioner for the management of the 
 business, the first being one of the high literary men of the Hanlin at Peking, 
 
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 in compliance with Yung Wing's request. Both commissioners, however, 
 received tlie same salary. The fruits of this educational scheme begin to 
 be seen in this country. One hundred and twenty lads have been sent liere, 
 and at the present time one hundred and four are at school here, the head- 
 quarters of the mission being at Hartford, Conn. When the Chinese govern- 
 ment in 1878 determined to send ministers to Washington, Yung Wing Avas 
 appointed by the Empress Mother as Assistant Minister Plenipotentiary and 
 Envoy Extraordinary to the United States. I am writing this account at 
 his house in Washington. I see here what except for the Morrison Educa- 
 tion Society might never have come to pass, and am thankful that I live 
 to see these results. 
 
 "For two years and a half, 1848-51, I had charge of an academy at 
 Rome, N. Y. In 1851 I resigned that })f>st and went to the outlet of 
 Owasco Lake, near Auburn, N. Y., as pastor of a very feeble Reformed 
 Dutch church, that promised to pay me annually, in semi-annual instal- 
 ments, the sum of >>232.50 ' to relieve me from worldly cares and avoca- 
 tions.' Of course I had to devise some means of supporting myself, and 
 accordingly bought a farm on the lake-shore near the church, and built a 
 laro-e house suited to the accommodation of twenty-five Ijoardiug pupils. 
 Here I remained, with a jjarish, a farm and a school to look after, for eight 
 vears. I accepted the call of the cluirch because I desu'ed to work where 
 I could ho})e to see the fruits of my labors growing up around me. I 
 never asked my parishioners to increase my salary, but I aimed from the 
 first to lead them to give to other objects. They had, up to the time of my 
 settlement among them, been receiving aid from the Board of Domestic 
 Missions. I insisted that this should be stopped, and that I should be 
 authorized to write to tliat Board that they would thenceforth contribute to 
 their funds. To this they agreed, and the first year I sent to the Board 
 $51, the next over SlOO, and so on until the amount of the church's con- 
 tributions reached $400 per annum. I also preached a sermon on the 
 necessity of providing a more attractive and comfortable church-building, 
 and called a meeting of the parish to take the matter into consideration. 
 The meeting was well attended, and to my surprise all who were present 
 
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 voted, not to enl;ir<^-e and cnibellisli tlie old cliurcli, l)nt to l)uild a new one. 
 Hiis was done, and a new brick clmrcli in tlio Norman style of architecture 
 was erected, and paid for by the peo})le. Tlie bell from the to\v(;r of that 
 church was the iirst ever heard calling- worsiii[)ers to the s])ot. 
 
 "Early in 1859 the Reformed Dutch Church's Board of Foreign Missions 
 determined to semi a mission to .liijiiui, where ports were to be opened foi- 
 trade with foreign nations in July of that year. I offered m\seif as a 
 member of the mission, and was accepted. I left the Owasco ()utlet 
 Church with many expressions of regi'et on the part of im- parishioners, 
 and sailed for Shanghai, China, in April, accompanied bv^ my wife, our 
 younger son, and our two daughters, leaving our elder son, thirteen years 
 old, in the United States, to go through college. 
 
 "We reached Shanghai in October ; there I left niA- fmnily and went 
 over to Japan to prepare a place for their reception. I arrived at Kana- 
 gawa- Yokohama on the 1st of Nov., almost four months after the opening 
 of the ports to foreign trade. My family joined me on the 29th Dec. fol- 
 lowing-. From that time until last July Japan was our residence, with the 
 exception of about two years, from June 1867 to August 1869, when we 
 were on a. visit to the United States. To describe my work in Japan, and 
 its results, and to show the great and various changes, political, social, and 
 religious, that have taken place in that coimtry during the last twentv 
 years, is impossible here, except in the merest outline. When I landed in 
 Japan the country was almost entirely in the same conditicjn in which it 
 had been for three centuries. The only innovation was that three ports 
 had been opened to foreign commerce. At these the number of foreigners 
 was very small, and they were so restricted in their movements, to those 
 ports and a limited extent of the country around them, as to have produced 
 little effect iipon the Japanese people by their presence. Since then the 
 number of ports of entry has been more than doubled, and the foreign resi- 
 dents have greatly increased in number. Twenty years ago, the old system 
 of government, Avith a secluded Emperor living at the ancient ca])ital Kioto, 
 and the Shogun at Yedo, exercising most of the powers of a sovereign, was 
 then in existence. The country at large was under the divided rule of 
 
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 (laimios or fciidnl haroiis, with iiiiuiy tliDUisaiuls lA' t\v()-s\v()i-<l retainers, 
 vvlio were supported hy tla-ir lords and masters, and suljject to their 
 authority. All these dainiios were oblig-ed to keep their families at Yedo, 
 under the eye of the Shri^ini, thoUL;h tlicx' tlicnisclvcs couhl visit their 
 sevei'al domains, and he abst'ut iVoui \'edo six UKinths cju-h ^■eilr, or a 
 twcK'cnionth every otlier yeiir. The connti'N' swannctl with the two- 
 sword gentry, \\ho were a heav\' incuhus upon tlic nuiss of the ])eople 
 below them, devourinfj;- the fruits of the soil, ;uid pro(lueinii' nothing-. ( )f 
 pulilic schools there were none exeej)! a school where the two-sword class 
 might study the Chinese Classics, in the city of Yedo. With few exceptions, 
 the roads of Jajjan were mere bridle-paths. The liuddhistic religion was 
 with Shintoisni the religion of the St;ite and richly endowed Buddhi.st 
 temples abounded in all parts of the land. Of Christianity the natives of 
 Japan knew scarcely more than the alarming traditions al)out the lioman 
 Catholic missionaries, who had been expelled from the country two ;ind a 
 half centuries before, and the name Kiristan (Christian) was uttered with 
 bated breatli. In all parts of the country edicts were posted by the 
 government ofl'ering rewards for the detection of a Christian, and threaten- 
 ing the severest penalties for l)eing a Christian, or secretly liarbormg one- 
 " Such, in brief, A^as the state of things that confronted the pioneers of 
 Protestant missit)ns in Japan, and for eig-ht years or more from the time of 
 my arrival there I knew of lint one Japanese wdio embraced the Christian 
 faith. The first thing to be done was, of com-se, to learn the Japanese 
 language, a task rentlered nuich greater by the fact that the Japanese had 
 from the fourth or fifth century of our era adopted the Chinese written 
 characters, in their books, along with their own s\llabarv. There Avere no 
 foreign books, that would materially aid the student, then in existence. 
 All the reallv valuable aids of this kind have been produced by mission- 
 aries, and by interpreters attacheil to the foreign legations. One of the 
 earliest was my work on the colloquial Japanese, published in 1862. Dr. 
 J. C. Hepburn of the American Presbyterian ]\Iission has made the best 
 Japanese English Dictionary hitherto printed. 
 
 " For about five years I conducted the only religious service for 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 foreig'iier.-^, first whWv residing at Kanag-awM, iiiid afterwards, by request of 
 some of tlie foreign nuu-cliants, at Yokoluiriui, on the opposite side of the 
 Iiarl)or. 1 drew the phuis and speeifieations ;md tlie conti-nct for Imiiiling 
 the first Protestant church erected at Yokohauiii, there being then no 
 architect tliere ; and that is now the Enghsli Clmrcli of that city. 
 
 "In 1863 I was obhged to take up my residence at Vokoliama, in con- 
 se(pu^nce of an agreement nuuUi l)y tlie U. S. (\>nsid with the Japanese 
 g'overnor. Here as soon as possi1)le I bouglit a h)t in the torcign con- 
 cession, and liuiU a liouse for niv family to reside in. The dapanese 
 governor, having- some sixty boys and young men attaclied to the Custom 
 House, as student interpreters, requested me and three other missionaries 
 to give them instruction in iMiglish. We did so for more than two years, 
 gratuitously, each of us devoting an hoiu- a da\- to their instruction. One 
 of my pupils is now the chief interpreter at the Foreign Office in the 
 capital; another, after coming to America and going through the scientific 
 course at Cornell Universit\-, is now a |)rofessor of Natvu'al History in the 
 Imperial College, and curator of the hnperial Museum. 
 
 "In Mav 1807 mv house was destroyed by five, with most of its contents, 
 including all niv lilu'ary. Fortunately [ had had it insiu-ed alxiut five 
 months liefore, but, lieing withont a home, or books for my studies, I 
 visited the United States with my family. When in the spring- of 1869 
 I was preparing- to return to Japan" again, 1 was invited by the Japanese 
 government to enter its service, and go to the new jxirt of Niigata on the 
 west coast, to open an English school in that town. With the a])])roval of 
 the Board of IMis.sions, I acce])te<l tlie invitation and went to Niigata, 
 ■where I opened the school and remained nine months, when the Yokohama 
 governor made an arrangement with the governor of Nugata for me to 
 return to Yokohama, and open an fhiglish school there. I therefore went 
 back to Yokohama. Here I remained three years as a teachci-, and at the 
 expiration <if my term of service I built an addition to the house I had 
 erected, where at the re([Uest of a Japanese merchant, and some fifteen of 
 my former pupils in the government-school, I carried on the instruction of 
 the latter i\)V over two years. These pupils became (juite pi-olicieiit in
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 their studies, and some of tlicni ai'C now nt tlie liead of" their classes in tlie 
 Tokio University. Afterwards I received a nuiulicr of ('hristian voiinj'- 
 men as pupils, who remained with me over two yeais, preparing to enter 
 our Missionary Theological School at the capital. I have since had the 
 ])leasure, as ])resi(lent of our ecclesiastical l)od\-, of licensing seven of these 
 A'oung men to preach the gospel. ( )iie has become the pastor of a ntitive 
 church in the interior of the countrx' where no foreigner can I'esidc^ ; one is 
 a teacher in the Ferris Seminary for younii- ladies ;it ^'okohama ; one has 
 acted as interpreter for the missionar\' gentlemen who are ap|)ointeil 
 professors in the theological seminary ; and another is a very excellent and 
 usefid evano-elist in regions where missiouaries cannot reside. The oldest 
 man now a native preacher in Japan was converted while helping me 
 to translate the gospels into Japanese ; he is invaluable as an evangelist. 
 
 " For tlie last four years I have again been in the service of tlie Boai'd 
 of Missions, as one of the translators of the New Testament, receiving my 
 salary from the American Bible Society, and acting as chairman of the 
 translating-connnittee, composed of representatives from the A. B. C. F. M. 
 Mission, the Am. Presb. Mission, and that of the Reformed ("hurcli in 
 America, and working for the American Bible Society. I had the satis- 
 faction last July, a few daj^s before leaving Japan, of finishing the transla- 
 tion of the last book of the New Testament. Long continued illness obliged 
 me to retm-n to this countr^', where I ai'rived with my wife and younger 
 daughter Sept. 24, 1879. There are now probably 4,000 native Protestant 
 Christians in Japan. The government has long since ceased to prohibit 
 and persecute the Christian faith. The policy now is to let the people 
 alone, and leave them to choose for themselves what religion they will adopt. 
 
 "The government is concentrated in the hands of the Mikado, and the 
 court removed to Tokio, formerly called Yedo. The feudal system is 
 abolished, and the feudal barons are now a pen.sioned nobility. Men 
 wearing two swords are no longer seen in Ja})an. A mmierous jjolice is 
 posted in all parts of the country, dressed in the foreign manner, and 
 uniformed. Buddhism is no longer the state-religion, and Shintoism, which 
 is really not a religion, is adopted in its stead. There are one hundred and 
 
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 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 fifty -three iiiitioiuil l)anks in the country, orj^uiiized on the Anieric;in plan. 
 A c'onunon-sehool system copied after ours has been adopted by tlie Mika- 
 do's government, and colleges and high schools are supported b}' it. A 
 wondrous change has come over Japan within the last twenty years. Ten 
 years more will make a still greater difference between the condition of the 
 people of Japan as it was, when I first saw the country, and that which will 
 then be. 1 am thankful that I was permitted to go there when I did, and 
 to be an eye-witness of the great revolution that has taken place. It is a 
 joy to me that I have spent twenty-nine years of my life as a jjioneer worker 
 in (Jliina and the land of the llising Hun. All that far East has ])egun to 
 move, and to fall in with the march of the nations of the West. I almost 
 envv those younger than myself, who will live to see the future advance. 
 
 "Note. — My jjublications in China and Japan were: 
 
 "1. The Canton Colloquial portion of Dr. James Legge's Lexilogus — a 
 book in English, Malay, the Chinese literary style, and the Fohkien and 
 Canton colloquial dialects, designed for Chinese pupils studying English. 
 This Avork was prepared during a seven weeks' visit to Malacca in 1841. 
 
 "2. An elementary work on Political Economy in the Chinese 
 language, published at Canton in 1S47. 
 
 "3. A Avork on the Japanese Colloquial, comprising a treatise on the 
 grammar of the Japanese language, containing 1,270 sentences in Japanese, 
 with their English equivalents, and seven dialogues in Japanese and 
 English. 
 
 "4. A translation of the Sei Yo Ki Bun, an account of the arrest, 
 imprisonment and judicial examination of the Abbe Sidotti, an Italian 
 priest who landed in Japan in 1709, and died at Yedo, in prison, after 
 seven years' confinement. Published in the Transactions of the North 
 China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, at vShanghai. 
 
 "5. The Mastery System of Prendergast applied to the Japanese lan- 
 guage — intended to aid foreigners in teaching the English language to 
 Japanese learners. Used in the preparatory school connected with the 
 Tokio University, and in mission-schools for the Japanese. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "G. Several books of" tlie New Testament translated into Japanese. 
 
 "7. The Lives of Yung Wing, Wong Sliing and Dr. Wong Fun, in 
 Ja])anese. Intended as a stimulus to young men in Japan to aim liigli, 
 and to become benefactors of their country. 
 
 "<S. A tract 'The Lucky Loaf;' and a number of Hymns and Chants 
 ill Japanese, together with the music foi- tlie same. 
 
 "9. Also, a nundjer of articles published in the Chinese Repository, 
 during my residence in China." 
 
 [Comrami. liy himself, Feb., 1880.] 
 
 Dr. Brown died in Munson, Mass., under the roof of tlic widow of his classmate 
 Dewey, June 20, 1880.— E. E. S. 
 
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 MI'.MOliANDA. 
 
 BULKLEY, HENRY THOMP, A.M. isTli. 
 
 From Fairfield, Conn. 
 Present address : II. T. Bulklet, Esq., Southport, Conn. 
 
 "Hemy Thorp Bulklov was l)oni at Mill River (now SoiitliiMirt), in 
 the town of Fairfield, Conn., Jan. •2."), 1S13; son of Jonathan and Miranda 
 (11i(.rp) Bnlkley. 
 
 "A student in Yale from 1.S2.S to 1830, he was g-raduated at Rutgers 
 Colleg'e in 1832, and soon after went into mercantile business in New York 
 City, and subsequently became a memljer of his grandfather's firm, E. 
 Bulkley & Sons, shippers. South st.. New York. The business was discon- 
 tinued owing to the death of some of the partners, and to changes in the 
 shipping-interests, and since then Mr. Bulkley has been in no active 
 employment. For many years his i-esidence has been in Southport, Conn. 
 He mai-ried, Feb. 10, 1862, Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy, daughter of Ben- 
 jainiu Pomeroy, Esq., of Stonington, Conn." 
 
 [Commiiii. by a brother-in-law, Mec, 181S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *BUNKER, JAMES MADISON, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *l.S7o. From Nantucket, Mass. 
 
 "James Madison Hunker was Iwrn in Nantucket, Mass., Mareli 5, isil, 
 and died at the same place Nov. 19, 1873. 
 
 "He was educated as a lawyer at the Cambridge (Mass.) Law School, 
 where he graduated in 1835. He i)racticed his iirofcssion in liis native 
 town, and also taught school there for some years. He after waixls removed 
 to New Bedford, Mass., where he continued to practice law. He again 
 returned to Nantucket, and at the time of his death wns Judge of the 
 Probate Court. He left several children." 
 
 [Prom Obit. Rec, etc., No. 4 of the second printed series.] 
 
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 MKMOWANDA. 
 
 *CALHOUN, ANDREW PICKENS. 
 
 *1865. En»n J'ci/dJrfoii, S. (J. 
 
 Andrew Pickens Calli(Miii, tlie eldest son of Hon. .lolm C. (V. C. 1804) 
 and Floride C'allionn, was Ixnn at Keowee, the lionic of his maternal 
 grandfather John Ewing Calhonn, in Pickens District, S. (J., October 15, 
 ISll; and died at Fort Tlill, S. ('., March, IG, 18G5, "after an illness of 
 about two hom-s. He thus li\ed to the very end of life in its cares and 
 duties. Anil with him these were never limited to ])ersonal ends, but, 
 embracing- a ^^•ide circle, were well considered and kindly pursued. He 
 was th.e centre of valuable social benetits and iiiHuences. Few men live 
 so nnudi ujxm a plan as he did. Fewer still feel and illustrate so happily 
 the obligation of the truth that 'no man livetli to himself 
 
 "He had enjoyed the advantages of a college-course, partly at Yale, 
 l)nt chiefl}' at the South Carolina College. Here he was deeniecl woi-thy 
 to receive its highest honor; ])ut a proposition to divide it with another 
 was met by his withdrawal from the competition. To a strong and clear 
 mind, improved by habitual culture, and invigorated by reflection, he 
 added a soundness of judgment which secured him success in life, and 
 high })Osition in every sphere in which he was placed. The eldest of a 
 tiunily, the distinguished head of which was absorbed in j)nblic affairs, it 
 became his duty to engage actively in the management of the paternal 
 estate. This gave him not onl\' an early experience of usefulness to 
 others, but also direction to his own pursuits and tastes. He became the 
 careful, intelligent and prosperous planter, for some years in the fertile 
 fields of Alabama, and afterwards in South Carolina ; diftusing abundance 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 and cniiifort among" all alxmt liiin, iiicludliij;' those whose lahoi- he 
 employed. He understood well the general characteristics of his laborers, 
 and, having a ready ])erce2)tion of individual character, his nianag-ement 
 was eminently successful. His authority was firm but mild ; his discipline 
 exact, but just ; his demeanor friendly and kind. 
 
 "He took a deep interest in public affairs. His information of events 
 was full and accurate, and his spirit met the reijuirements of the times. 
 Physical causes denied him the ability to assmne a personal part in the 
 late war; l)ut by his means, and Ijy his influence, he sustained nobly and 
 liberally those who took the field. . . . An earnest sharei- in the solicitudes 
 of the times, public and private, he never sought to make the times trilui- 
 tary to his advancement or his wealth. . . . 
 
 "His tastes were those of retirement, but not of seckision. He never 
 sought pviblic ofKce, and declined permanent political relations ; but cheer- 
 fully accepted positions of responsibilit}' and usefulness, when circumstances 
 seemed to make them matters of duty. In the progress of the late 
 revolution he took his ])art in public bodies formed for the guidance and 
 concentration of public sentiment, manifesting in them his good sense, 
 firmness and independence. In ISfiO, he was sent by the Convention of 
 South Carolina as Commissioner to the Convention of Alabama, which 
 body he addressed in rlanuary, lS(il. A cotemporary notice of this 
 addi-ess says: 'The delicate and embarrassing questions involved were 
 touched b^■ him in a manner to reflect the highest credit on his taste, 
 discretion and diplomatic ability.' 
 
 "In the department of life he had selected, he was always ready to 
 afford the benefits of his knowledge and experience. His deep interest in 
 the advancement of agriculture and the arts connected with it, was con- 
 spicuous in the zeal and energy with which he exercised the office of 
 President of the State Agricultural Society ; using his high position to 
 extend the usefulness of its annual fairs, and to direct attention to those 
 substantial advances of the day by which efficiency and economy in 
 agricultm-e are alike promoted. His sensible addi-esses before that society 
 ■will not have been forgotten. The success which attended his efforts in 
 
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 MKMdl.'ANDA. 
 
 this prinuirv interest of the Soutli, will, we trust, in more auspicious times, 
 lend to iui emulation of the spirit he l)rought to it. 
 
 "l>ut tliev who knew him iit his home and in his own fiunil}', can hest 
 a])preci;itc his worth. Soci;il, without faniiliarit}', lie nuule his liuiisc 
 pleasant and protitable to the intelligent, congenial to the ivlincd, imd 
 joyous to the youngc. The seat of a refined hospitality, it dwells in vivid 
 lines ui)Oii the memor\' of all visitors. Wiirm in his ;iliccti<nis, lie was 
 con.siderate, earnest find constant in his friendship. lie |M>sscssed gi-cat 
 decision of character, hut never manifested temper. I'ndei- the circum- 
 stances which usually excite anger, or cause depression, it was his lialiit 
 to retire, and soon to resume his part in business, or in the family, with 
 his wonted cahnness and cheerfulness. To his genial cordiality he adde(l 
 a personal relation to every nieml)er of his faniih' that ^\•as peculiar. 
 Always dianified, he was vet intimate with each. There was a nearness 
 and tenderness which made him their confidant and friend. He gave them 
 his sympathy, not only in the more serious concerns of life, hut in the 
 incidents and minor cares which disturb equally the child and the adult. 
 It was his habit and his pleasure, to adopt his own expression, to help 
 them over the shoals of life. 
 
 "Mr. Callionn was a constant reader of the Holy I^ible, and recom- 
 mended its habitual use to his family. The tenor of his life gives assurance 
 that he desired and strove to conform it to the will of the Most High. In 
 harmonv with his tastes and habits, he desired that his body should repose 
 upon his farm, at a spot which he designated. This spot had been selected 
 \>\ his father for the rejiose of his own remains. The fiither rests else- 
 where. The choice of the son was, doubtless, a pious tribute to the 
 memory of his venerated pai'ent." 
 
 Mr. Calhoun was married, first, to fhigenia Chappell, daughter of Col. 
 .lolm ( "ha})pell of ('oluml)ia. Miss., and, secondly, in Washington ( 'ity, on 
 the oth of ^[av, ISHfi, to Margaret Maria, daughter of General DuH' (Jreen, 
 who survived him, with fi\-e sons and two daughters. Three sons and one 
 daughter have died since. ( )ne son, bearing the name of his paternal 
 grandfather John Caldwell, is a large and successful planter in x\lal)ania ; 
 
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 the remaining son, Patrick, is a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. The last 
 named says beautifully of" his father's life : "It was a straight, sniodth road, 
 running through a smiling country. While taking a deep interest in public 
 affairs, no offer was temjjting enough U> induce him to leave the sweet 
 seclusion of his beautiful and charming home ; and, while he had read 
 both law and medicine, his inclinations never leil him to practice either." 
 
 [From notes by a son, March, 1880, and an obituary by a friend. — E. K. S.J 
 
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 MEMOUANDA. 
 
 *CANFIEL1), SHERMAN BOND. 
 
 *1871. From Clianhi/, Ohio. 
 
 "Slieinuui Hdiid Caiifield was Ixini on tlie "JAtli day of Decern! )er, ISIO, 
 in' Boiidstowu (now Hamden), Geauga Co., Ohio. His father Norman 
 Canfield, Esq., and his mother Mrs. Susannah (Bond) Canfield, w^ere 
 natives of Massachusetts, and botli of Puritan descent in the direct line. 
 They were married in Litchtield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. (where lier parents 
 then resided), and emigrated to Boudstown (named after her family) in 
 Northern Ohio, in 1 80G. He was an affirmative man, of marked ability, 
 always walking fviHy abreast with the best minds around him, and by his 
 energy and zeal succeeded, in a great degree, in moulding that new and 
 rapidly growing' coumiunity into the doctrines and faltli of his fathers. 
 He died at the early age of forty-two, having discharged ^^•itll ability and 
 scrupulous fidelity the duties of several judicial and financial oftices with 
 which he had been intrusted. 
 
 "Up to this time, the opportunities of young Canfield (now twelve 
 years old) to acquire knowdedge, particularly of the classical sort, were' 
 exceedingly limited ; and his want of early facilities no doubt very nuudi 
 led to the development of that determination to educate himself, by his 
 own industry and application, which was a marked feature in his subsequent 
 life. Left now an orphan at this tender age, his energies seemed to 
 increase \\ith the ditHculties that surrounded liini, and, availing himself 
 somewdiat of the aid and services of a private teacher, he applied himself 
 for tlu-ee years, at Chardon, Ohio, to the study of tlie classics, and to 
 ancient and modern history, and the lives and characters of eminent men. 
 
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 MKMOK'ANDA. 
 
 "At the aj^e ut" seventeen, with a mind now well (liscipUucil and stored 
 with knowledg'e, he entered tlic aciMh^nix' at r>niton, ( )liio, placing' liiniself 
 under the immediate care and tuition of I'rot'. IumiImmi Hitchcock, a 
 <i;raduate of Vale College, an excellent mathematician, wlio at once became 
 attached to, and ever afterwards took a deep interest in, his pupil. Aliout 
 two years later, on the Ktli day of September, 1829, the subject of this 
 notice became a mend)er of the Sophomore class at Yale; and, having 
 already read nearly all the Latin and Greek of the course, and anticipated 
 most of tlie rhetorical studies, aided too by his well disciplined mind, and 
 his peculiar habits of industry, he could not only keep up with his class, 
 but had much time to devote to other studies and pursuits. He joined the 
 society of ' Brothers in Unity,' and took an active and leading part in their 
 exercises, particularly in their debates, in which he excelled. 
 
 "In 1(S31, being then still at New Haven, young Canfield, after much 
 th(Uight, research and meditation, acce})ted the Christian religion, and 
 received Christ as his Saviour. Prior to this his mind had inclined to the 
 law as a profession, for nhich his close reasoning and power of analysis 
 particularly fitted him, and in which he would have been eminently suc- 
 cessful ; Imt from this moment his mind steadily turned towards the 
 sacred ministry. 
 
 " On leaving New Haven he became a private tutor in the family 
 of Hon. John S. Spence, then a member of Congress, and afterwards 
 elected to the United States Senate, residing on the eastern shore of 
 Maryland. Here he diligently devoted his hours of leisure to perfecting 
 himself in studies not usually included in academic and collegiate courses. 
 Closing his engagement here, and now in the twenty-second year of his 
 age, lie returned to his former home in Northern Ohio, where he divided 
 his time Ijetween Chardon and Claridon, teaching, and studying history 
 and theology. 
 
 "()n the nth day of December, 1836, he was licensed to preach the 
 Gospel bv the Presbytery of Portage, and in May, 1837, was ordained and 
 installed pastor at Bainbridge, Ohio. He adopted the following as the 
 motto of his ministry: 'Let me jilease God, and, if men are pleased, well;
 
 !-) 
 
 MKMOKANUA. 
 
 ii' not, well ;' ;ni(l now, entering;- u|i(>ii liis manhood, wo are iiidccl l)y ii liolit 
 ;-leaiiiiiiii' tVoiii the ]i;ist, \'i>v his lil'c proved tlio old adage true: 'Tlic diild 
 18 fiitlier of the iiuin;' and, in ;iccc|itinn- ;i call to this retired clnncli in 
 which to heii'iu his ministerial lidiors, i-athei' than a more prominent posi- 
 tion, to which amhition mij^lit ha\(; iu\ited him, he exiiihited that cantions 
 self'-measni'eTnent so strikingly illustrated throughout his life. On the 
 same da\- on which he was to deliver his inaugural sermon, another dis- 
 eimrse was to be deli\cre<l in the same house by an able and experienced 
 minister, who, thinking it might be embarrassing for a \ oimg man to follow 
 him, kindl\- suggestetl that the latter might deliver his discourse in the 
 morning, and he would follow him in the atternoon. 'i'he ]n'opositi<in was 
 accepted, and the '\inuig man' delivered a discourse so deep in thought, 
 clear in analysis, beautiful in language, and fluent in deliver^', that, at its 
 close, the elder nnnister said the tables were turned, that it was himself 
 who was to be eudjarrassed by following the young man. After a suc- 
 cessful pastorate of about two years over this church at P)aiidjridge, he 
 accepted a call to a chiu'ch in ( )hio (Jity, organized for him, wdiicli was 
 afterwards merged in wdiat is now known as the West Cleveland Congre- 
 gational Church. During this ])astorate, in the year 1840, when Oljerlin 
 perfectionism was having such a run in the West as 'to draw all men 
 after it,' the subject of this notice was appointed by the Presbytery (which 
 ajjpointment was endorsed by the Synod of the Western Reserve) to reply 
 to President Mahan of ( )lterlin College ; a task wdiicli he performed so ably 
 and faithfully as not onl}' to check, but to turn back, the current that was 
 so rapidly disseminating the new theories promulgated by that institution. 
 That rei)ly was published in pamphlet-form under the title of 'Oberlin 
 Perfectionism,' and had a very large and general circulation throughout 
 the Western Reserve. 
 
 "In 1844 he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian cluu-ch in 
 Cleveland, Ohio, and was installed pastor on the 3d day of September of 
 that }'ear. This ^^•as a very successful pastorate of about ten years ; during 
 which he prepared and delivered, by request, an exhaustive lecture on the 
 'Life and Character of (Oliver Cromwell,' showing- a wonderful knowleda-e 
 
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 MKMOKANDA. 
 
 of the history of" tho«e times, and of the antecedents and ni(iti\('s of tliat 
 remarkable man. This lecture was also ])ublished in pamphlet-form, and 
 had a very large circidation. He was also selected, by the General 
 Assembly of the Presbytei-ian Church in the United States, to deliver a 
 discourse on Presbyterianism at the then next General Assembly ; which 
 was published in the minutes of the General Assembly, and was a paper 
 of great clearness and i)ower. 
 
 "In 1854 he received and accepted a call to the First Presbyterian 
 church in Syracuse, N. Y., and was installed pastor in September of that 
 year; and soon afterwards Hamilton College conferred upon liim the degree 
 of Doctor of Divinity, an honor most worthily bestowed. Dr. Canfield 
 had now arrived at the fulness of his manhood and ministerial powers, 
 and entered uj)on a field sufficiently broad for their full exercise. The 
 central position of the church, and the learning and high character of 
 the pastors of the surrounding churches, as well as the classical and theo- 
 logical institutions on either side, made it indispensably necessary that 
 its pastor, in order to maintain his position, should be a man of peculiar 
 tact, talent, culture and learning. Dr. Canfield was equal to the task. 
 Thoroughly schooled in theology, familiar with ancient and modern history, 
 learned in the classics, and practised in debate, he was never taken by 
 surprise, but ^^•as always read}' for and ecpial to any emergency, how- 
 ever sudden. In pronunciation he was peculiar, always seeking and u.sing 
 that which was right rather than that which was popular. He made the 
 studv of the meaning of words a specialty, and used only those which wei*e 
 necessary and Ijest calculated to bring out clearly the ideas he wished to 
 convey. As a sermonizer, he was clear, concise, logical and convincing ; 
 drawing readily and aptlv on history for illustrations to elucidate his 
 subject. Even in the most intricate discoiirse he kept his pathway illu- 
 minated, as he progressed step by step. It was the custom of the early 
 sm-veyors of this country, when survepng dense forests, to cut away 
 enough of the underbrush and trees to let the sunlight in upon their line; 
 this they called 'bushing the line.' So C^anfield always bushed his line. 
 He understood the Book of Discipline well, was a thorough disciplinarian, 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 ;iii(l both ;i leader and a liL;ht in the judicatures of the churcli (if wliicli 
 ho was often a member, lie was conscit'ntiou.sly lioiiest in liis ()])inions, 
 indef'ati<i-ii,ble in researcli, strong- in bis convictions, iind bobl and Icinb'ss 
 in tlie ;uniunciiiti<in of trutb. IFewas a I'aitbt'ul nuinstc^r. His was no 
 teninorizinj^- jiatriotisni ; l)ut, wlicn tbc \\ar of the Kclicllinn came, be 
 struck out boblly for tlie Union. He was apt at repartee, and possessed a 
 ready and refined wit. ( )n one occasion, wbcn be was of a very Uijlit 
 iiiiurc, be and Uev. Henry Ward Beeeber, witb sescral otber enilncnt 
 divines, wen; at tlie (Mifton Spriiii^s to<.;'etIier ; and ^fr. I'eecber, strong and 
 rol)nst, canglit Inni up in bis arms, and was running rapidly down tbe 
 veranda witb liim, to tbe great amusement of bimself and otbers ; wlien 
 Dr. Canfiebl suddenly cbecked tbe merriment by exclaiming: 'A triumpli 
 of matter over mind!' After tbe close of tbe Mexican war, a returned 
 general officer, who had taken part in every battle, from tbe Rio Grande 
 to tbe city of Mexico, was introduced to Dr. Canfiel(b and, after a con- 
 versation of several hours' b^ngth witli In'm, said to tlie writer that lie 
 wished to meet him again 'in order to learn more alxiut tbe Mexican war.' 
 In society, his refined wit, good-humor and abundant fund of anecdote 
 made him the light of tbe circle. 
 
 "His })astorate was a sxiccessful one until his constitution, always 
 delicate, began to yield to tbe pressure of tbe arduous duties devolving 
 iipon him. In 1865, the society liaving given him leave of absence, he 
 made tbe tour of Europe witb his family, but returned with health only 
 partially restored. Previous to this his sermons had been decidedly of a 
 logical character ; but, on returning to his people after one of his rests, he 
 prefaced bis morning-discourse by saying : 'Henceforth I shall try to preach 
 to you Jesus.' From this time forward bis life was a constant struggle 
 with disease, and most nobly did he fight the battle, contesting every inch 
 of ground, beating back the insidious foe with one hand, and holding aloft 
 the banner of the Gospel with the other. As his physical powers gradually 
 lessened, his mind seemed to grow brighter and brighter, so that his last 
 mental efforts were the most brilliant of his life. 
 
 "But he was imwilling to hold his position, after his health had become
 
 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 SO lin})aire(I that lie could no lono^er faitlifulh' discliiiroe its duties, and late 
 ill tlio year ISTO lie toiidcvcd his resignation. This was accepted with 
 iiiiich regret, and only upon the condition that he should receive from the 
 society an annuity of twelve hundred dollars, so long as he should live. 
 The proceedings in the I'lesbytery on the occasion of his resigning his 
 charge Avere not only very solemn and interesting, luit clearly showed 
 tlnit he held a deep place in the esteem and affection both of his cjnircli 
 iind congfreyation and of liis ministerial brethren in Central New York. 
 
 "Early in 1S71 he sought relief from his maladies by joimieying in 
 the West, anil, on being the guest of Rev. Mr. Nott of St. T^ouis, preached 
 in his church, on Sabbath morning March 5th, a most powerful sermon. 
 This was the last ! It was the fitting close of an eminently faithful and suc- 
 cessfid ministry. His work was done, all done, well done. After the shadows 
 of the evening of that eventfid day had curtained the earth, and as he qiiietly 
 and jieacefully retired to rest, his bright spirit, no longer bound to earth 
 by that frail body, as quietly and peacefully took its departure, and the 
 soul of Canfield went home to heaven. His remains were brought back 
 to his home in Syracuse ; where his afflicted people assembled, and, i)i 
 resolutions prepared by the chaimian of a committee, expressed their 
 ardent love for him, and deep sorrow at their loss, and their jiro found 
 respect for and sweet recollections of him. ( )ii the Htli of the same month 
 his obsequies were attended in the beautiful church in which he had so 
 long preached ; and the large edifice was filled to overflowing by his 
 bereaved friends — nearly if not all the clergy of the city, together with 
 delegations from Hamilton College, Auburn Theological Seminary, the 
 city of Utica, and many other places in Central NeAv York, being present. 
 After the solemn and imposing services, the remains were laid away, by 
 gentle hands, in the beautiful shades of Oakwood, there to lie until sum- 
 moned to the First Resurrection. A beautiful tablet in the cliurch bears 
 an nppropriiite inscription to his memory. 
 
 "His wife, IMrs. Sarah Winston Canfield, and tv.o sons, Sherman I), 
 and Edward IL, survive him." 
 
 [Coiiumiii. by an intimate fi-ienil, April, 1S79.] 
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 JIKMOKANDA. 
 
 *CAPEIiT()N, ALLEN TAYLOR, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1<S76. Fmin' Moniue Co., Virginia. 
 
 "Allen Taylor Oiniertdii, son of TTiig-li and Jane Caperton, of an 
 old Virginia family, was born in Union, Moxn-oe Co., Va., Nov. 21, 1810. 
 His ancestors on the paternal side were English, and on the maternal 
 Scotch. His great graiidpan^nts on both sides were among the earliest 
 settlers on the headwaters of the Kanawha; and the grand old monntain- 
 scenery of the Allegiuuiies — uniting a hold freedom with picturesque 
 heauty — seems to have made its ennohling and purifying impression upon 
 his mind and character, from early years. At the age of fourteen he went 
 to lluntsville, Ala., for scho(d-instructioii ; afterwards, he was for a time in 
 the University of Virginia; lie entered Yale as a Junior in LSoU-l. After 
 graduation, he studied law under the late Judge Briscoe Baldwin of 
 Staunton, Va., was admitted to the liar in 1834, began, the practice of his 
 profession in his native town, and rose rapidly in public confidence as a 
 counsellor, advocate and man, though removed bv afHuence from the 
 necessity of pursuing any profession as a means of livelihood. Ju 1,S41, 
 at the solicitation of friends and neiglibors, he took a |)art in politics, and 
 was elected to the House of Delegates of his native State; in 1844 he was 
 made State Senator: both positions he repeatedly held, later, up to ISGO. 
 In 1850, he was a mend.)er of the Convention assembled for a revision of 
 till' Constitution of the State of Virginia. He was also a memlier of the 
 Virginia Convention of 1S()1, and came into that bod\' eaniestK opjiosed 
 to a separation of the States, being ardently and devotedly attached to the 
 Union : ;ind he was instrumental in inaugm'ating the Peace Cong-ress. But 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 wlicn tlic iiKiiiitciiaiice of tlie Union l)v force of arms came to be in ques- 
 tion, he felt it liis duty to follow the fortunes of his native State. Fioni 
 l.S()2 to 1805 he was elected by the lA^yislature of Virginin to be a mem- 
 ber of the Confederate vStates Senate. At the close of the war he returned 
 to liis home, accepted the result in good faith, and resumed the practice of 
 his profession, devoting much of his time and energies, as in the past, to 
 the opening and develoj)ing- of tlie resources of West Virginia, where, ])y 
 the creation of this new State, his own honu^ was cast, on a hirgc landc(l 
 estate which he had iidierite<l at the death of his father, in the year 1S47. 
 In ISTf) he was almost unaniuiously elected to the I'liited States Senate. 
 His death occurred, suddenly, at Washington, on tiie 2(ith of duly, ISTC, 
 near the close of a long and toilsome session, while devoted to the conmion 
 welfare of the whole Republic, ami enjoying the respect and affectionate 
 reo-ard of all his associates. 
 
 "He was married, in the twenty-second year of his age, to Miss Harriet 
 Echols, whose acquaintance he made w hile a student at Yale, who survived 
 him, with six children. 
 
 "His career, so full of manifestations of [)ublic esteem, gives evidence 
 
 of rare mental and moral endowments His intellect was active, 
 
 acute and vigorous, with a substratum of sln-cwd and masculine common 
 sense, wliich ct>nstituted liim a wise and sagacious counsellor. He had 
 imaginative powers superadded, wliicli gave fervor and earnestness to his 
 convictions, and made him an able and often an clocpient advocate at the 
 bar, on the hustings, and in the Senate. His culture was liljeral, and, 
 while his stud}' of his profession and of political science did not rank 
 him with the most learned and profound lawyers of the country, yet he 
 was most efficient in the conduct of his cause, very successful in the 
 management of business, eminently safe as an advisor, and an able 
 public servant. 
 
 "In the very depths of his soul he was l)rave, disinterested, generous 
 and true. He was sincere and constant in his friendships; open, manly 
 and inag-nanimous, thouah stern and resolute, to his foes. Deceit could not 
 cross the confines of a heart whose inmost citadel was held 1)y honor and 
 
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 truth. He was frank and candid, ;ind in his wofd alisdhitc rchjiiice was 
 reposed: for, as Iiis sincerity wiis un(h)ul»t(Mh sd his courjij^c^ was a, ])]ed<i'0 
 to make it yood to his friend or against his (ippdncnt. 
 
 "To these sterling' and nuinly virtues was united all the gentleness of a, 
 tciiider and hiving- nature*. 'J'o his friends his society was a genial sunshine, 
 tiood sense, with \\'\t and lunnor; carncistness ot purpose, with ])ereiniial 
 pleasantry; the manly activities of a firm ;nid resolute nature, with a taste 
 for poetry ;nid nuisic ; gentle loves and jirdcuit friendships, in the midst of 
 the* tierce struggles with adverse fortune or malign infiucnces — these were 
 nn'ngled in beautiful proportions on the page of his histiu'v. 
 
 "His mountain-home was a seat of hospitality where his guest 
 forgot it was not his own, or only recalled it as he admired the easy free- 
 dom nnd graceful dignitv of a host who Ijanished all formality, in the noble- 
 ness of his welcome and the simplicity and generosity of his entertainment. 
 
 "He had the warmest sympathies for his own peoj)le. 'The short Ijut 
 simple annals of the poor' ever found his ear attentive. Their early tradi- 
 tions, their homeh' thoughts, their sturd}' and healthful sentiments, heheard, 
 appreciated and cherished. To his ecpials he seemed jinnul and reserved, 
 until friendship melted the surface, beneath wliich was the warm current 
 of his atfections ; l)ut he was never haughty to tlie lowlv, the poor, or the 
 helpless. To these he was gentle, tender, and sympathetic; so that ])o])u- 
 larity followed liim unsought. He charmed childhood b\ In's ]ilMyfulness ; 
 won the esteem of the gentler sex Ijy his attractive manners, his cordial 
 deference, his genuine respect; and his chivalrous courtesy and manhood 
 })aid homage to his liberality, his courage, his honesty, his magnaninn'ty, 
 and his good sense. 
 
 "In his own household — I pause upon its sacred threshold but to utter 
 one word. As husband and father lie merited the grief which can only be 
 assuaged by Him whose promise is sure, to be the husband of widowhood 
 and tlie fsither ot' orphanage. 
 
 "As a public man, he was animated by a high public spirit, lending 
 his aid to all schemes which would benefit and advance the interests of his 
 comnnniity, In's State, and his countrx-, in its largest sense. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "He was a Whig in ])()litics in early life, and adlicn-eil lu tliat |)arty 
 until 18G0 with consistent and unshaken tidehty 
 
 "But Mr. Caperton was no visionary or dreamy abstractionist. His 
 mind was sagacious and practical. In the overtlirow of tlie (Jonfederacy 
 he saw the divine decree that the future fortunes of tlie Houtli were bound 
 up in the restored Union under its ( Constitution, and tliat duty demanded 
 of him to devote liis future life t<i building up the waste jdaces of his own 
 loved land, to repairing the breaches in the Federal system, and to pi-duiot- 
 ing the liberty and the progress of the people of the i-(^-united States. 
 
 "He fell at the j)ost of his dutv, and has left to his friends and to his 
 countrymen a name without a stain, a character for spotless and lofty 
 integrity, aiul the perpetual memory of a noble and honoi'able life." 
 
 [Abr. from Memorial Addiesses on the Life and (character of Allen T. Caperton . . . especially, the 
 address of Mr. Tucker of Virginia, publ. by order of Congress, Washingtou, 1877. — K. K. S.] 
 
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 MJOMOKAiNDA. 
 
 CARRINGTON, EDWAIHK \M. isTii. 
 
 I''ntiii Providence, B. I. 
 Present adilicss : E. Carrington, Es(|., Proviileiice, R. I. 
 
 "Kdward CaiTing-ton, son of ({eneral Edward and T^orania (Ilupjtin) 
 Carriniiton, was born in Providence, R. T., May 10, iSl;). lie was an 
 only son, and, after the death of a twin sister at air early aj>'e, the only 
 cliild, of his parents. Was sent to school at Middletown, (Itnni. After 
 leavini;- Yale, lie was oi-aduated at Middlelinry College in 1832. ( )h his 
 return to Providence he followed the btisiness of his father, as an East- 
 India tea-merchant; and, when liis fatlier died, inherited from liim a very 
 large fortune. Pie married, Feb. 22, IS-H, Candace C, daughter of 
 Sidlivaii Dorr of Providence, one of three sisters celebrated for queenly 
 beaut\-, wit and sense ; and has liad two children, a dattghter, and a son 
 Edward, both of whom are living. For some years past, Mr. Carrington 
 has lived retired from society, seldom even leaving his house." 
 
 [Oommim., Dec, 187!!.] 
 
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 MKMOK'ANHA. 
 
 CAKRUTJI, JAMES HAIUIISON, A.B. 18;}2. 
 
 Frmii ThUippsUm, Mass. 
 rresL'iit address : liuv. Trol. J. 11. Cakkl'th, Lawrence, or Topt-ka, Kansas. 
 
 James llarrisuu ('iirrutli was born uii the lOtli of Ful)., ISOJ, in I'hilipp.s- 
 toii, Worcester Co., Mass. His father was a farmer, and lie \\'as tlie eldest 
 of seven clnldren. He was fitted tVir college at Auilicist Academy, entered 
 Amherst Colleiic in tlie fall of IS'Jd, and left early in 1 S2S. In Fek, 1830, 
 he entered tlie Sophomore Class at Yale. After yra<luation he tanght 
 three years; then studied theology, two years at Aubm-n, N. Y., and one 
 year in New Haven ; and taught, preached, and took daguerreotypes, mostly 
 in the State of N. York, till the spring of IS")!;. In jMay, ISSG, he went to 
 Kansas, and 'squatted' near Usawatomie, whicli lie saw l)urnt. V\\\\\ some 
 help he preempted a ([uarter-section, got some cows, and lived as lie cordd 
 for seven years. In the spring of 18(!3 \w went to IJaldwin, and was 
 Profes.sor of Natural Sciences in Baker rniversit\-, a Aoung Methodist 
 institution, nearly three years, after wliicli lie was (hsmissed to make room 
 for a Methodist. In the fall of lS(i(i he renio\ed to Lawrence, and since 
 that time his work has been mostly miscellaneous- — writing for tlie '('liiirch 
 Union,' for a grange-paper articles on botam-, a lecture on the claims of 
 women to vote, studying, writing and deli\'ering- lectures on. Spiritualism, 
 etc. For some time past he has been studying tlie botany of Kansas, and 
 making a collection, and witli the lielp of correspondents has brought the 
 catalogue of Kansas j)lants up to the numlier of l,l.')(l — in a paper prepared 
 
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 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 lor the Kau.sii.s Acadeiu)' of (Science— liopiiiy to contiuiie the work, and tu 
 })repare a Flora of Kansas.* 
 
 He was married in Se])t., 1841, to Miss Jane Grant of Htenben (Jo., 
 N. Y., and lias had two (huigliters and five sons, tlie eldest and \'oiuigest of 
 whom died in infancy. A daughter and two sons, still livinf^-, are luiinicd, 
 and he has a f^Tandson. His Avife died in March, \X1F>. Except ;i tluoh- 
 l)inii- in tlie liead, immediately consequent npoii too close aiiplication to 
 botanical stndies in 1S7(>, he is well, and c;ni handle a Hail, or a hoe, as 
 well iis he could fifty years ago, and can easily walk twenty miles in a day. 
 
 * Later inforiiiiitioii brings the Flora <if Kansas, as idciititicil liy ^Ir. t'arnitli, U]) to 
 the number t)1' al)()ut 1,270; and he has been lately engaged in arranging and classifying 
 a collection of tlie birds of the State. 
 
 [From a coiiiinun. Ipy liiinsolf, Feb., 187!). — E. E. S.] 
 
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 MKMOlfANDA. 
 
 *CARVEK, ROBERT. 
 
 *1863. Fio)ii Tdiiiifdi/, Mass. 
 
 Rol)ert Civrvcr, son of David and TJ^•dia (Dean) Carver, and a lineal 
 descendant of tlie first (iovernor of Plvmoiith Colony, was l)orii in Taunton, 
 Mass., Apr. 22, 1810. He entered Yale Colle^-e in 1.S2S, ]n\t was nradnated 
 in the Class of IS,").'!. He stndi('(l tlieology at Andover, Mass., and was 
 ordained pastor of the Conoreyational cluircli in Berlin, Mass., in 1S38; 
 where he remained till 184.'!. In 1S47 he was installed pastor of the Con- 
 gregational ehurch in Rayidiani, near l\iunton. He represented the town 
 of Raynham in the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1X57, and afterwards 
 supplied the ]iulpit of a small cliurch in Fraidclin, Mass., where he had l)een 
 about a year, when in dune, 1S(;1, he accepted the position of C]ia})lain in 
 the Seventh Regiment of Mass. Volunteers, and entered upon his work 
 in that capacity with earnest patriotism and devoTit tlianksgiving. In the 
 summer of 1X02 he was attacked with (•In-onic diarrhoea, by which in Jan., 
 1863, on a visit to Washington on lousiness for the regiment, he was finally 
 prostrated. He was removed to ( )rient, L. I., the home of his wife, and 
 died there P^eb. 28, 18(!3. Among his last words were : "If the Lord has 
 no more work for me to do, I have nothing to sav." 
 
 He was married ()ct. Id, 1.S4."), to .Jane V>., widow of liev. S. B. 
 Ingram, and daughter of Rev. Daniel Beers of Orient, who survived him. 
 He left no children. 
 
 [Mostly abr. from Third Record of the Class of 1833 in Yale College.— E. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *CHAPPELL, FRANKLIN. 
 
 *1849. From New London, Conn. 
 
 "Frauklin Cliaj)}K'll, eldest son of P^zra and >\'caltliy ( 'lia|i|)cll, was 
 born in New London, ( 'onn., ( )ct. 10, ISl)}; married Nov. 10, 1S41, at 
 Canipello, Mass., Hannali S., dangliter of Rev. Daniel llinitini;t(in ; and 
 died at New London Fel). IN, 1S4!I, leaving- thi'ee sons, now livinj^- in 
 New London." 
 
 [Letter by a son.] 
 
 •'He Avas in the lumber-business in New London foi- many years." 
 
 [Commun.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 CLiVY, CASSIUS MAUCKLLUS, A.15. l.s;{2. 
 
 Fro)u Madisou Co., Ki/. 
 Present address: Hon. C. M. Clay, White Hall P. ()., Madison (\>., Ky. 
 
 "Oassius Man-ellus Clay, sou of Gen. ({reen and Sally (I^ewis) Clay, 
 was l)(ii-n in Madison Co., Kentucky, IDtli ( »(t., ISIO. He was educated 
 in Latin bv .losliua Fry of Garrard Co. in liis native State, wlioni lie fol- 
 lowed to Centre ( '()lleij;(', Kcntiick)- : tlien studied French at St. Joseph's 
 ('ollege with a native French priest Fouche. He entered Transylvania 
 University, and was on the eve of yvaduation, when President Alva Woods 
 left for the University of Alabama, b\' whom lie was offered a professorship 
 in that institution, but he (hjclined it. After this he entered the Junior 
 Class at Yale in 1830, and was graduated there in covu-se, readini;- at ( 'om- 
 mencement a dissertation '<)n the Character of Daniel Boon.' J)uring- his 
 Senior-year he was chosen h\ the students to deliver an oration on the 
 centennial anniversary of the birth-day of Washington, afterwards ])ub- 
 lished in 'Clay's Speeches and Writings,' New Y'ork, ls4s. In ]S;5.3 he 
 mari'ied. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Kentucky, 
 from Madison Co., in iS.'jo, and again in 1S.')7, advocating free schools, 
 internal im|)rovenients, and an improved jur\-SAstciii. Ivemoving to 
 Fayette Co. and the city of Lexington, he was again chosen Representative 
 in 1S40. '^riie same year he was made a delegate to the National A^'hig■ 
 Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., wdiich nominated Harrison and Tyler for 
 President and Vice-President of the United States. In 1<S41, declaring for 
 the freedom of the slaves, he was not sent to the Legislature. In 184.") he 
 commenced the 'True xVmerican,' in favor of gradual emancipation ; and 
 
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 wliat an iiiie(]iial strife liu iiiaiutaiued, attoiided by iiioltltiiig ot'tlu; press, etc., 
 and liow lie liiially triiiiHi)lied, is matter of puljlie liistury. Uii the 7tli of 
 June, 1S4(I, lie viduiitccred for the Mexican war, and was chosen Captain 
 of tlie 'Old Infantry,' now made m<»nnted men; was captui'e<l at l'>ncarnu- 
 (;ion, on a scoiitiny expedition ; al'tei- having saved his men from massacre 
 at Saltillo was taken to Mexico, refused to join in an escape Ijy violation 
 of pande, and was carried to 'l^dnca, from whence he was returned to 
 General Scott, on parole, to l)e excdiangeil (with his men) after tlu^ captnre 
 of Mexico. At the close of the war, in Dec, 1847, lie returned to Lexing- 
 ton, receiving an extraordinary ovation. In 1851 he became a candidate 
 for the governorship of Kentucky, and hiY.ke doAvn foi-ever tlie Whig party 
 of the State, hut was beaten on account of his anti-slavery ojunions. He 
 acted with the Free Soilers in LSaG, supported Lincoln in ISdO, and was 
 by him promised the post of Secretary of War, which he lost through 
 political chicaTierv, though he had stt)od, next after Handin, the highest in 
 the vote for nomination as Vice-President, at the ( 'hicago ( 'onvcntion. 
 lie was made Minister to S|(ain, but refuseil the apjiointment : then Minis- 
 ter to Russia. But meanwhile, the civil war having begun, he defended 
 Washington, as ^lajor of Volunteers, till the troops from New York and 
 Massachusetts arrived; and was for this service presented with a jiistfd by 
 tlie President, through the Secretary of War ; and was offered, but declined, 
 the position of Major CleneraL In tlie fall of 1802 he was sent to Ken- 
 tucky l)V Lincoln, on a private mission, to ascertain the sentiments of that 
 State in regard to the emancipation of slaves by tlie Avar-power of the 
 General Government. 'J'his trust he executed, speaking to the Senate and 
 House then in session, in the hall of the House of Representives at Frank- 
 foi-t. He reported favoraliK, and on the "22(1 of Sejjtember President 
 Lincoln issued his famous proclamation of freedom. He was recalled from 
 St. Petersburg in 18(12, and received the ajiiiointment of Major General ; 
 in 18(j.') he was returned Minister I'lenipotentiary to St. Petersbm-g, and 
 he served in that capacity during the administrations of Lincoln and John- 
 son, and, for ])art of the year 1809, under Grant. In 1869 he was made 
 ['resident of the Culian Aid Society, Horace Greeley being Vice-President, 
 
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 and Charles A. Dana Treasnror. Tlic lil)er;il movement, in t'nvov of wliicli 
 he s])oke at Lexino-ton and St. Louis in 1871, was on<>iii;itc(l \<y liim ; nnd 
 lie w;is n member of the ('iiiciiiuati ('(invention which numiiiiitcd (Ircclcy 
 iuid i)i-(i\vii, ^'oiiifi' a;4-ainst Adams, but refusing all votes for liinisclf. hi 
 1S7() he was the choice of the Kentucky delegation, aud many others, I'oi- 
 Vice-President on tlic Democratic ticket; there was, however, no eifort 
 made in his l)cha,lf lie was President of the Kentucky Convention at 
 Louisville in 1877, and in favor of a count in the old constitutional way 
 for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States. But, 
 Avhen the 'Commission' decitled for Hayes, he was for acquiescence in it 
 as the true legality. 
 
 "On the 11th of Febi'uarv, l!^7!t, at the first annual meeting of the 
 Kentucky Historical Society, he was made one of the twelve vice-])residents 
 (the Governor being p.x-ojficio jjresident), and made an extemjioraneous 
 address before them, at Frankfort, which has been published by the 
 Society. 
 
 "He is a member of a great nund)er of literary and scientific societies 
 in America, France and Russia." 
 
 [Coiimuin. by himself, March, 18111.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 CLEVELAND, EDWAliD, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Shiphm, L. Canada. 
 Present addi-ess : Ilev. E. Cleveland, Burlington, Coffey Co., Kansas. 
 
 "Oct. 28, 1878. 
 "Ill 1638, Moyses CleveUiiid came froni York, England, to Wolmrn, 
 Mass., and reared a large family there. One of his sons, Edward, had a 
 son Saninel, and Samuel had another Edward. Edward settled and married 
 in I'onifret, Conn., and liad a son Hosmer who was my father.' ]\Iy grand- 
 father was at tlie battle of Bunker Hill, and died tliere soon after. My 
 father married Fluvia Bissell of East Windsor, Conn., lived f(»r a while in 
 Massachusetts, then in Vermont, and finally moved to Shi})ton, Canada 
 East. I was born there Dec. Uth, 1804. I worked on a farm and at 
 mechanical business till I was twenty-one years old. Then I went to 
 Amherst, Mass., and htted for college. I entered Yale in the Chxss of 
 1832, and took my first and second degrees there, in reguhir course. I 
 taught an academy in Danbnry, Conn., the first year after graduation, and 
 spent the next two years, princijially, in the Theological Seminary of Yale. 
 I then preached a year in Lisbon, Conn., and then a year in Rochester, 
 N. II., and a part of the next year in Montpelier, A't. I then spent several 
 years in teaching New England academies. In 1843, Feb. 14t]i, I went 
 to Bath, N. H., and for seven years I preached there. I formed the church 
 out of the fragments of two old and broken ones, and was settled over it 
 five years. I built an academy during mv ministrv there, and was the 
 principal of it two years ; then left the place. I was then settled in 
 Cabot, Vt., for five years, the bright spot of my life, as far as ministerial 
 
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 success is concerned. ... I was invited to leave that ])lace to take 
 the cliarge of" a new seminary wliicli had just been establislied in 
 Barnet, Vt, and to supply the pulj)it uu the Sabbath. I continued there 
 two years. I then had an ai)})lication to become the jn'incipal of a college 
 in Richmond, Canada East, my native place. I was there in this capacity 
 five years, when I left with considerably impaired health. 1 preached two 
 years in the State of 1()a\ a, and tlien Ijecame pi-ofessor of lang'uages and 
 chaplain in the Western Union College and Military Academy in Fulton, 111. 
 At the close of the war \vith the South, I left that place and came 
 here [Lawrence, Mich., from which place he wrote]. I was the acting 
 pastor of the church five years, and the superintendent of the schools of 
 the county three years, when, on account of chills and fever, I was obliged 
 to return to New England. I served my former charge, there, in Bath, 
 N. H., foiu" years, and helped to build a new meeting-house, in place of the 
 old one burnt down, and to change the academy which I had built in former 
 years into a graded school. I then preached a year in Burling-ton, 
 Kansas. As I owned a homestead here, and the church invited me to 
 become their minister again, I returned here a year since, and am still 
 occupying the place of pastor. 
 
 "During nn- ministry, conversions have taken place from time to time 
 in my field of labor, and four or five very interesting revivals. Other 
 tokens of good have occvirred. During the twenty years of my teaching, 
 thirty-three hundi-ed pupils were named on my catalogues. I have written 
 and published a history of my native town; also a poem 'The Stream of 
 Time' ... I have two other poems written, prepared to print — ' The 
 Kingdom of Christ' and 'The Pioneei's of Christianity.' 
 
 "I was married in Bath, N. H., Nov. 1, 1843, to Miss Mary M. Lang 
 of that place. I have two sons, a physician and a merchant, and two 
 daughters who have been teachers several years, three of them graduates 
 of colleges, and all, I trust, useful in their callings. Thoiigh I am almost 
 seventy -four years of age, my health is perfect, and I feel able to discharg-e 
 the duties of my office as well as ever. I compose one or two sermons every 
 week, and study as diligently as I did when I began my course. A good 
 
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 providence has followed me through life . . . and T look t'orwiird w itli 
 cheerful hope to the future, when I hope to meet nil my elassuiate.s and 
 friends who through faith and i)atience inherit the promises." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
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 COI/rON, EUASTUS, A.li. 1832. 
 
 From Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Present address: Rev. E. Colton, Willingtoii, Couu. 
 
 Enistiis Colton, son of Rnfus iind Mary Colton, was Ixirn in West 
 Springfield, Mass., Apr. 12, 1806. He united with the clnirch in 1822, in 
 Albany, N. Y., under the ministry of Dr. John Chester, who was his 
 pastor for over four years, he being- at the time employed in a mercantile 
 establishment of that city. When his employer died, in 182,^)-(), he began 
 to stud}' with a view to entering the ministry — a course already, indeed, 
 determined upon from a sense of duty. At the Commencement in 1832 
 he was the Sahitatorian of the Class. After graduation he taught for two 
 years in the Preparatory Department of Illinois College, and, having been 
 graduated, in 1837, at the Yale Theological Seminary, commenced preach- 
 ing in Cheshire, Conn., where he was ordained Jan. 17, 1838. His next 
 settlement was in Michigan City, Ind., in Nov., 1844; a third was in Niles, 
 Mich., in Nov., 1850 ; a fourth in Southwick, Mass., in Oct., 1858 ; and he 
 was settled at Willington, Conn., Oct. 10, 1876. 
 
 He was first married, Sept. 13, 1838, to Jennette Maria Allen, daughter 
 of Levi Allen, Esq., of Meriden, Conn., descended from an Allen who was 
 high in civil service in London. She died in Michigan City, Ind., Feb. 1, 
 1849, without children. A second marriage, on the 5th Aug., 1850, was 
 to Jane Aim ira Prudden, daughter of Dea. Joseph Prudden of ( )range. 
 Conn., a descendant of Peter Prudden, the first minister of Milford, ( 'diin. ; 
 who died in Millville, N. Y., Mar. 17, 1856, leaving two children, a son 
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 son having- a daughter. He was married again, Nov. 9, ISfjS, to ]\frs. 
 Mary Ann Mathei', widow of William Mather of Cromwell, Conn., having 
 four children ; her father was Samuel Brower of New York, a descendant 
 of the old Dutch dominie Avarardus Bog'ardus. With such helpmeets, he 
 thinks he should have been a much better minister ; and, though not with- 
 out fruits of his ministry, he laments that, for the last twenty years, his 
 labors have been, comparatively, unproductive of residts. From June, 
 1864, for over a year, he was engaged in the Christian Commission work 
 in the army ; thereafter, for four years, in obtaining funds for the relief 
 and education of the freedmen ; and, subsequently to tliis, in different 
 agencies until Apr., 1.S7.5, when he went to Willington. 
 
 [Mostly from a commim. by himself, Sept., 1878. — E. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *C0LTON, JOHN OWEN, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1840. From Uotjalton, N. Y. 
 
 John (_)\veii Coltuii, greiit gnuidson of Rev. Beiijainin Colton (Y. C 
 1710), grandsou of Deacon Abijali Colton of West Hartford, Ct., and grand- 
 nephew of Rev. George Colton (Y. C. 1756) — known as "high-priest 
 Colton of Bolton," the eldest son of Rev. George (Y. C. 1804) and Lncy 
 (Cowles) Ciilt(:>n, was l)oru on the 14th of March, 1810, in Westford, 
 Otsego Co., N. Y., where liis father was at that time pastor of the Congre- 
 gational church. The family removed to Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y., in 
 1823. Up to the age of fifteen the son pursued the ordinary studies taught 
 in the common schools, and, in the more important branches, under his 
 father's tuition. In 1824 he entered the mercantile establishment of a 
 distant relative in the village of Lockport, N. Y., where he united with the 
 Presbyterian church. Now moved by a strong desire to devote his life to 
 religious duties, and to enter the ministry, he commenced the requisite 
 preparatory studies, under the instruction of his father, and was finally 
 fitted for college at the academy in Homer, N. Y. His name first appears 
 on the college-catalogue for 182'J-.')0, he having joined the Class after the 
 first term of its Freshman-year. He was graduated with the highest honor, 
 delivering an oration "On the Sentiments proper to be entertained at the 
 Close of a Collegiate Life," with the valedictory addi-ess. For two years 
 after graduation he was engaged, first, as a teacher of languages in the 
 Mount Hope College of Baltimore, and, afterwards, in the Hopkins 
 Grammar School of New Haven. In 1834 he became a member of the 
 Yale Theological Seminary, and in the spring of 1835 entered upon the 
 
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 duties of Tutor in Greek in Yale College. Tie held his tutor-ship till the 
 spring of IS.'IS, pimsuiiig, ineuiiwliile, in addition to other studies, the study 
 of law, and jtreparing the first edition of his "Greek Reader," which was 
 published a few months before his death, a work of which a second edition 
 appeared in 1846, and a third in 1855 — both edited by brothers of the 
 author. In November, 1839, he was ordained pastor of the Chapel Street 
 Congregational ('hurcli in New Haven, in wliicli office he remained, giving 
 great j)r()mise of usefulness, until in ]\Iarcli, 1840, death suddenly came to 
 him as he was sitting in his chair, the seeds of a fatal disease having been 
 laid in his system during his residence in ]3altimore. 
 
 He was his father's pride and joy, and liis early death was a great blow 
 to })arental affection, nor a less severe trial to that fraternal love, uniting 
 him and several brothers together, which moved liim first, and others of 
 them after him, following his example, watchful)}' to initiate the younger 
 ones in a liberal education, so that for about a quarter of a century this 
 brotherhood was represented on the annual catalogues of Yale, and always 
 lionoraljly.* He never married. 
 
 He was in youth, as in his maturer years, of a very quiet and studious 
 disposition, thoughtful, deeply conscientious and truthful, and possessed a 
 most kind and affectionate nature. One of his brothers has appropriately 
 summed up his character as follows: "He was eminently honest and 
 straightforward ; lie hated shams. Pretended scholarship, sham goodness, 
 shallowness and show of any sort he could not endure. He loved truth 
 himself, and wanted, with all his soul, that others should do so likewise. 
 He was a man of intense earnestness. He never went around a corner, if 
 he could 'go across lots.' When he went down town from the College, 
 he always jumped the fence, if he could ; and that was characteristic of his 
 life. Life, in his view, was too short, and too tremendous, to be wasted. 
 Emphatically, he did with his might what his hands found to do. He had 
 a singular love of justice. What was right was always the main thing 
 with him. Those lines of Horace: 'Justum et tenacem propositi virum, 
 
 * One of these brotliers, George II. C'olton, was the author of ''Tecumseh;" and 
 established the " Am. Whig Review," in whicli Foe's " Raven" first appeared. 
 
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 etc.,' vvliich are iiisoril)e(l ujkih liis iiiuiiiiiiient, duscrilx^ him e.xactly- 
 He was, remarkably, a man of method, system and exact order in 
 everytliing. Finisli lie nuist and would have, if possible. As a private 
 Christian, and as a pastor, he was deejdy devoted, a fully conse('i-;itc(l 
 man." But with all his graver qualities lie had a genuine love of plii} liil 
 hinnor, with a lively sense of the ludicrous. 
 
 [Mostly from a commun. by two lirothors. — K. K. S.] 
 
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 CONOLLY, HOBACE LUDLOW. 
 
 From Salem, Mass. 
 Present address: Horace Ingersoll, Esq., Salem, Mass. 
 
 "Horace Ludlow Conolly was born in Salem, IVIass., in TTawtliorne's 
 'Honse of the Seven Gables.' A Mrs. Ingersoll adopted liini, Ijrouylit liini 
 up, and educated him ; and at her death bequeathed to him all the i)rop- 
 erty she had — whei'eupon he changed his name to hers. After leaving 
 Yale College [in the Junior-year of the Class], he studied theology, and 
 became an Episcopal clergyman. Subsequently he entered a law-office, 
 and practised law. After that lie took to medicine, and became a physi- 
 cian ; and then again returned to the law. He lost his property, by some 
 means, and is now living a retired life in Salem. He never married." 
 
 [Comnnm. July, 1880,] 
 
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 *1)E FOREST, HENBY ALFBED, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1,S5S. From Himiphmjsvillc, Conn. 
 
 "His father was John H. DeForest of Humphreysville (Seymour), 
 Conn., brother of David DeForest of New liaven, founder of the DeForest 
 schohirships and medal ; his mother was Dotha Woodward, a native of 
 Watertown, C'onn. 
 
 "He was born at Watertown, (•onn., May 15, 1S14; was g-raduatcd 
 from Yale College and tlic Yale Medical School; settled as a physician in 
 Rochester, N. Y. ; married there, Aug. G, 1S40, Catharine Sedgwick Ser- 
 geant of Stockbridge, Mass., a descendant of John Sergeant tlie preacher 
 to the Indians, and translator of i)art of the Scriptures into the Indian 
 tongue ; went in 1841-42 to Syria as a missionary ; lost his health entirely, 
 there, and returned in 1854; died at Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1858 ; was 
 buried in the old cemetery at New Haven." 
 
 [Letter by a brother.] 
 
 In the " Women of tlie Arabs," p. 75, Rev. Dr. H. H. Jessiip says : 
 
 "In 1854 Dr. DeForest was obliged, from failing health, to relinquish his work 
 [in Syria], and return to the United States. A nobler man never lived. As a pliysician 
 he was widely known and universally beloved, and as a teacher and preacher he 
 exerted a lasting intluence. The good wrought by that saintly man in Syria \vill 
 never be fully known in this ^vorld. The lovely Christian families in Syria, whose 
 mothers were trained by him and liis wife, will be his monuments for generations to 
 come.'' . . . 
 
 Commander Lynch, also, in his " Narrative of . . . Expedition to the lliver J(jrdan 
 and tlie Dead Sea," p. 506, speaks of Dr. DeForest and his wife witli enthusiasm. 
 
 [E. E. S.] ' 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *L)EWEY, AMASA, A.B. 18^!2. 
 
 *1840. From Lebanon, Conn. 
 
 Auiasa Dewey, son of Asahel and Liicina Dewey, of Lebanon, Conn., 
 was born there March 12th, 1804. At twelve or fourteen years of age he 
 became hopefully a Cln-istian, but lie did not make a public profession of 
 his faith in Christ until he was eighteen. He commenced preparation for 
 the nn"nistry four years after, at Monson Academy. After completing liis 
 preparatory course, in 1828, he entered Yale College. His theological 
 education was acquired at New Haven, and in 1835 he was licensed to 
 preach. 
 
 While preparing feu- the ministry, Mr. Dewey formed the determination 
 to s]iend his life as a missionary to the heathen, but, when ready to enter 
 upon his work, he found his health so much impaired as to render this 
 course unadvisable, both in his own view and in that of his friends. While j 
 looking for temporary employment, that, in the meantime, the question of 
 duty as to his future life might be fully determined. Providence directed 
 him to the place of his future labours. Making a village in the soutli part 
 of Petersham, since known as Storrsville, Mass., the centre of operations, 
 a few friends of evangelical trutli lioped to gather a congregation from 
 portions of Petersham, Dana, Hardwick and Barre. Mr. Dewey came 
 among them when little more had been done than to devise a plan. It 
 was about the first of July, 1836. At once he entered with interest and 
 ardoi- into the work to which he was called ; and, finding ample room for 
 all the devotedness and self-denial which might have been required else- 
 where, and seeing a prospect of usefulness as great, perhaps, as he could 
 
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 iiiiticipiit(i ill ;my station, and witnessing- tlie interest with wliicli the little 
 band, in whose service he was, were looking- to him as their future jiastor, 
 he felt that the question of duty as to his future life was fully settled. 
 
 Great and various difficulties were to be encountered ; but he engaged 
 in the work with such ardor, patience, and prudence, as were adapted to 
 the attainment of the end he sought. In the November following- he had 
 the pleasure of witnessing the organization of a churcli consisting of twelve 
 members. Jan. lltli, 1837, he became their pastor — marrying, in the same 
 month, Hadassah Thompson of Monson, Mass. In the course of the fol- 
 lowino- year the nvimber of members was doubled ; while, in tlie mean- 
 time, a commodious house of worship had been erected. 
 
 The health of Mr. Dewey had been uniformly feeble, from the com- 
 mencement of his labours among the i)eople of his charge ; and during- the 
 last year and a half of his life there were long periods of necessary relin- 
 quishment of public labour. But for a few weeks previous to his death, 
 when he could no longer appear in the house of God even as a worshipper, 
 he united with his flock in religious worship at his ow-n house. In much 
 debility he came, gradually and peacefully, to his dying hour ; and on the 
 Sabbath Jan. 5tli, 1840, closed his eyes forever on this world. He left a 
 widow and one child. 
 
 As a Christian, he w'as eminently consistent, and distinguished by a 
 deep sense of his own unworthiness ; as a minister, he was affectionate and 
 fiiithful, combining forbearance and prudence with plainness of dealing, 
 and enjoA-ed, in an uncommon measm-e, the affections of his people. 
 Their mutual affection was that of first love. 
 
 [Mostly abr. from Notice prefatory to the Token of Remembrance or Pastor's Offermg, cons, of selections 
 from the writings of the Rev. Amasa Dewey . . . N. York, 1842.— E. E. S.] 
 
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 DICKSON, CHARLES, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Groton, Mass. 
 Present address : Dea. Charles Dickson, Queneuio, Osage Co., Kansas. 
 
 "Feb. 8, 1879. 
 ... "I have nothing of particular note to record concerning myself, 
 but have endeavored to do what good I could in a quiet way. On 
 account of failure of health, after leaving college, I never studied a pro- 
 fession ; but taught school about ten years, after which continued ill 
 health compelled me to relinquish that. Since then I have been mostly 
 occupied in fanning. My parents were Walter and Anna (Tufts) Dickson : 
 I was born in Groton, Mass., Aug. 8, 1809. In Aug., 1835, I \^■as married 
 to Rebecca F. R. Mills of New Haven (in presence of our Class, the day 
 after Commencement). She died in Kansas, Jan. 17, 1868. I afterwards 
 married Lydia Aim Herrick of Kansas. I have two sons and four daugh- 
 ters living, all of whom but the youngest ai'e members of evangelical 
 churches. I have held the office of deacon in three churches, about 
 twenty -five years in all ; and that of Sabbath-school superintendent in 
 five schools, about thirty years. In 1854 I came to Kansas, to help make 
 it a free State; and took an active part in the 'border ruffian war' of 
 1855-6, serving as lieutenant in a volunteer company of free-State men. 
 In the war of the rebellion I served two years, iinder a captain's com- 
 mission, in our State-forces. I had my house and most of its contents 
 bm-ned, and other property destroyed, by Quantrell, during his raid on 
 Lawrence in 1853. I have held various civil offices in Kansas, those of 
 county-commissioner, justice of the peace, post-master, road-commissioner, 
 school-director, etc." 
 
 [Letter by himseli.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *DRYSDALE, ALEXANDER. 
 
 *1859. From Savannah, Ga. 
 
 ■) 
 
 Alexander Drysdale "died in Savannah, Ga., in 1859. He was a 
 lawyer by profession, and a man of high social, literary and professional 
 standing-. When quite a young man, he represented his county in the 
 Legislature, and to the close of his life was elected, for several terms, to 
 the city-judgeship. He was held in luiiversal esteem because of his 
 manhood, his high and scrupulous sense of lionor, and his large and lively 
 sympathies." 
 
 A son of his is now the Rector of Clu'ist Church in Mobile, Ala. 
 
 [Mostly commiin. by a son.] 
 
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 *L)UNN, WILLIAM. 
 
 *1S44. FroiH C/ii/foi/, La. 
 
 Tlie pai'eiits of William Dunn wei'e South Carolinians, but he was 
 born in East Feliciana, La., in 1804 or 1805. He never married, and died 
 at Liberty, Miss., in March, 1844. After his return to the South, on 
 leaving college, he fell into bad company 'and turned out Ijadlj-.' 
 
 fComrauii. .Vug., 1880.] 
 
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 *DUNNING, EDWAltT) OSBORNE, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1874. From New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Edward Osborne Dunning, son of Leman and Mary Elizabeth (Osborne) 
 Dunning, was born in New Haven, Conn., March 12, 1810; and died in 
 the same city March 23d, 1874. He was prepared for college at the 
 Hopkins Grannnar School in New Haven, and at Andover, Mass. During 
 his college-coiarse he became personally interested in religion, under the 
 preaching of Dr. Joel Parker. In 1833 he entered the Theological Sem- 
 inary of Yale, from which he was graduated in 1836. He was licensed to 
 preach by the New Haven East Association. On the 26th May, 1840, he 
 was ordained at Clinton, N. Y., while supplying the First Congregational 
 church of Rome in the same State. In 1842 he was installed pastor of the 
 Reformed church in Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1850 he was appointed general 
 agent of the American Bible Society in Virginia, where he continued to 
 labor until the breaking out of the late civil war, his family-residence 
 being in New Haven. In June, 1862, he was appointed army-chaplain 
 by President Lincoln, and was stationed at the United States General 
 Hospital in Cumberland, Md. This office he held until the close of the 
 war, August, 1865. His long and arduous hospital-services had so broken 
 down his health that he was soon after this obliged to retire from the active 
 duties of his profession ; and, finding an out-of-door life essential to his 
 nervous condition, he undertook the exploration of the ancient mounds in 
 Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. He examined a large number, 
 and obtained many rare and valuable relics for the archeological museums 
 of Yale and Harvard. He also wrote a lecture on the ancient mound- 
 
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 builders, giving details of his researches among their marvellous works. 
 " He rendered valuable services to science by his discoveries, throwing 
 much light upon the history of those remarkable remains of an extinct 
 civilization." 
 
 He had strongly marked literary tastes, though liis busy life allowed 
 but little opportunity to indulge them ; and yet his occasional contri- 
 butions to periodicals, chiefly to the "New Englander," as well as many 
 of his un})u])lislied sermons, show of what he was capable. In his youth 
 the members of the college-society of Brothers in Unity were often 
 delighted by his dramatic and other literary performances. A friend of 
 more than forty years has spoken of "his attractive mind, true heart, and 
 faithful words as a preacher and a writer." He Avas exti'emely averse to 
 all cant and j^arade, and nervousl}^ sensitive ; so that his personal religious 
 views and feelings were kept from the knowledge of most persons. By 
 his college-associates he will be especially remembered as "a man of 
 uncommon humor and genial disi^osition ;" for their sakes, therefore, some 
 extracts from a letter of his addressed to the Class in 1845, which happily 
 illustrate the humorous side of his nature, are here given : 
 
 " Herkimer, Aiigust 18, 1845. 
 " ClMssmates : 
 
 I should be glad to meet you at the coming Commeucement, but circumstances 
 of a family-kind — see Matth. let chap. 2d verse — oblige me to send my greeting . . . 
 Whatever have been our employments, and whatever success has attended our efforts, 
 of one thing we are all convinced, viz : that we are not such everlastingly great men 
 as we expected to be, in oiir first ambitious dreams — that we have not given the world 
 such a shove as we threatened — that we have not yet revealed all the mysteries of 
 nature, nor shed all the light that is ever to shine on the world, but that there are 
 spots still on the face of the sun, and stars beyond the reach of our telescopes. But, 
 if we have not done wonders, and set the world agape, we are just as well satisfied 
 with ourselves. . . . There is but one event in my liistory deserving of a particular 
 notice, and that is my transformation into a Dutch dominie. The process is somewhat 
 painful, re(^uii"ing some twinges of conscience, besides an elongation of the nether 
 jaw, to say nothing of the loss of brains. But, if you can pass alive, the Dutch Church 
 offers as quiet a rest as a man of large orthodoxy and slender piety — ' great function 
 
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 ME.Moi; AMIA. 
 
 and little iiiictiDir — could desires* In accordaiic'O with the pi'evailini;- idii)in of New 
 Aiii.sterdaiii, I have assumed tlie cogiioiiicn of Van; so that now yon may consider 
 Van Diiiiiiiiiii- the tvnr. ortlHi<;r:i|ili y. I hope our secretary will s(H' that the correction 
 is made in the next Triennial (!atalogne ... If any of yon ])a.ss this way, hy all 
 means call and see yonr old friend and classmate 
 
 E. O. VAN DUNNlNd." 
 
 He married, Se])t. IS, IS,'!!), Miss Catharine Bent of Middlcl. my, Vt., 
 wlio survives In'ni, with tour of tlieir five chihh'en. 
 
 [Mostly TOiiimun. hy his widow, Mareli, 187!).] 
 
 *A jeaIo>isy of any pussihlo (le])arture from the old Dort standard of ralvinistic 
 faith had made it not easy for Mr. Dunning to "pass alive" into the Dutch church. — 
 E. E. S. 
 
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 MKMOK'ANDA. 
 
 *EBBET8, JOHN JACOJJ ASTOll, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1861. From New York. 
 
 "Jolni Jacob Astov Ebbets died of eonijiunptioii, after a long iUnesy, in 
 New York, Nov. 17, 1861, aged 48. 
 
 "He was born at Newtown (L. I.), N. Y., March 30, 1813. His father 
 was Capt. John Elbbets, a favorite shipmaster of John Jacob Astor. 
 
 "From childhood he resided in New York. After leuviny collcfie lie 
 entered upon the business of a broker, which he pursued witli diligence 
 during the most of his life, cultivating, at the same time, a gentle disposition 
 and a fine intellectual taste. In later years declining health and adversity 
 kept him from public observation, Imt the excellence of his life was 
 acknowledged by all who knew him. 
 
 "He married Miss Catherine Vanderburgh of Troy, N. Y., and left no 
 children." 
 
 [From Obit. Rec, etc., No. 3 of the printed series,] 
 
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 MKMOKANDA. 
 
 *K1)1)Y, injxitv, A. 15. is;;2. 
 
 *1S72. f'roiii llcrliii, Coiiii. 
 
 "Henry Eddv, son of 'riiomas and Al)i (Lewis) Kdilx of Now llritaiii, 
 Conn., was bom in New liritain, Oet. 1st, LSOo; and died in Nortli 
 Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., Sept. 'iod, 1H72, aged (i7. 
 
 "He studied theologv for due or two years after i>raduatini;-, at Andover 
 Theological Seminary, and then continued his studies in the Vale Semi- 
 nary. He was ordained Feb. IGtli, ISoti, pastor of the Congregational 
 church in West Granville, Mass., from which charge he was dismissed 
 Sept. 'ioth, 1839. He was installed over the Congregational church in 
 Stoughton, Mass., Nov. 4th, 1840, and dismissed in 1844. He then sn[)- 
 plied, for two years, the pvdpit of the Congregational church in Turner, 
 Me. ; and was next settled, for two years, over a church in Keuuebuukport 
 in the same State. At this time, tinding that his voice was failing, he 
 thought it best to prepare himself for another profession, and, wdn'le sup- 
 ])lying the Congregational church in North Guilford, Conn, (from Jan., 
 1849 to March, 1851), studied medicine in New Haven, and was gi-aduated 
 from the Medical School of Yale College in 1851. From that date until 
 his death, he resided in North Bridgewater, Mass., at first ])ractising medi- 
 cine ; but after a few^ years he engaged in farming, and in business grow- 
 in"' out of inventions of his own and the i)atent-riiihts connected with 
 them. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "He iiiaiTicd, first, Miss Cornelia, daughter of" Rev. Luke Wood of 
 ('liiit(»ii, Conn., Jan. 25tli, iS.'Jf). She died Feb. (itli, 1S41, leaving one 
 daughter who is still living. He married, secondly. Miss Snmli II. Torrey 
 of North Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 23d, 1843, who survives him. He left 
 two sons, graduates of Yale in 1867 and 1870, and one daughter, a 
 graduate of Mt. Ilolyoke Seminary at South lladley, ]\Iass." 
 
 [From Obit Rec, etc., No. .1 of the secoud printed series, witli corrcetions by his widow.] 
 
 102
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 EDWARDS, GEOnaE WTLLTAM, \.V>. 1S32. 
 
 From Ihirffoid, Conn. 
 Present address : (4. W. Edwards, Esq., Brooklyn (E. D.), N. Y. 
 
 Cleorge William Edwanls was Ixirii in llarttbnl, (Joim., Nov. 1st, Isll, 
 son of Jonathan Walter Edwards (Y. C. 1789), a distinguislied law}'er of 
 that place (and son of the younger President Edwards), and of Elizabeth 
 his wife, daughter of Capt. Moses 'J^ryon of Wethersfield, Conn. He was 
 one of six brothers, all gviuluates of Yale, the others in the Classes iSll), 
 1S20, 1828 and 183i). After graduation he went to New York City to 
 engage in mercantile pursuits, \\hcre he has since remained, occupied in 
 various branches of business, but making the city of Brooklyn, for most of 
 the time, his home. Prosperity and adversity have alternated in his lot: 
 sometimes he has transacted business for himself, and sometimes, in situa- 
 tions of responsibility, for others ; at one time, partly for the benefit of 
 children deprived of a mother's care, he withdrew from connnercial life, 
 and occupied himself with a school for boys ; in 1875 he took a position as 
 book-keeper and proof-reader in a large printing and publishing house in 
 New York, where he is still employed. In all his experience, he has had 
 openings for business or employment as he has needed them — they have 
 seemed to offer themselves witlmut his seeking. 
 
 He was married Nov. 27th, 183'J, to widow Dorinda Cheney (nee 
 Barker) of New York, who died Aug. 25tli, 1850; by whom he liad two 
 daughters, one still living, with children, and a son, who has a son. lie 
 was married, a second time, Oct. 13th, 1864, to Miss Hannah L. Abbott of 
 Bath, Me., who still lives to make his home happy. 
 
 103
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 PVom his earliest years lie was traiucil in the principles lA' ti'iio rclioion, 
 and tli(! impression i>{' tlieni went witli liiiii to college; yet he now looks 
 back upon his collooe-liie witli rejiret, as niis-s])ent ; and after leaving 
 college he i)lunged still more into tlie gaieties and follies of citv-life, until, 
 at length, the inthience of ;i iViend, ;nid the ])reachiug of 1 )r. Krskine 
 Mason, led his wite and himself to a change of life.* Tn 1 S47 he removed to 
 Bi'ooklvn, E. 1)., and joined the first Presbyterian church, then under the 
 pastoral care of liev. Dr. McLean, witli which he has ever since been con- 
 nected — for twenty years as an elder, and for most of that time as clerk 
 of the Session. As an elder, he has fi-equently done pastoral work ; for • 
 twelve years was superintendent of the Sabbath-school : and for the last 
 fifteen years has been teaclier of a ladies' l^ilde-class, with a measure of 
 success which leads him to hope for ;i crown, jit the last, not utterly 
 starless. 
 
 [Comimin. hy himself, Jan., 187!).] 
 
 *S<.'e his letter of teiiilei- s<'iitiineiit on pp. 3-4 of the Appendix. — E. E. S. 
 
 104
 
 MKMUIJANDA. 
 
 *FAA) 111 1 )U E, FBJ^UJIUCK A UG USTUS. 
 
 *1836. From Dimstahlc, N. H. 
 
 "Frederick Augnstii.s Eldridg-e, son of Dr. Micah and Sally (Bnttrick) 
 Eldrid^e, was born in Dnnstalde, N. H., Mar. 25, 1810. He left Yale in" 
 his JTUiior-vear, and went to Dartiiioutli ('ollcne, wlicre he was "-radnated 
 in 1832. After leaving college he taught school for aliont four years, till 
 his death, Avhich occurred Jan. 13, 183G. He was an active Christian, 
 labored much for the moral and religious improvement of tlie factors- 
 operatives in Nashua, N. H., wlicrc lie died, and had the ministry in view. 
 He never married." 
 
 [Mostly ooiniiiiiT). liy his elnssmnte C. D.] 
 
 105
 
 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 *ERNST, FllEDElllVK STEINMAN, A.B. 18:52. 
 
 *1854. ■ From Lancaster, I'd. 
 
 Frederick 8teininiMi iM'iist was born in Ea,st(Hi, Pa., Feb. 2, 1810. 
 His father, John C. Ernst, ^vas ii fanner and merchant of Easton. His 
 grandfather, J. C. Ernst, was a Lntlieran clergyman. His motlier was 
 Sybilla Amelia Steinuiini of Lancaster, Pa. After g-radnation he stndied 
 theology at Princeton, N. .J. He connnenced liis ministerial hibors at 
 Natchez, Hinds C!o., Miss., as a licentiate of the Presbyterian Church, 
 ;ni(l lalxtrt'd tliere several years. Receiving a call to liuhler's Plains, 
 La., near Baton Rouge, lie removed thither in 1S41, and was pastor of 
 the "Plains Store Clmrch" from that time till death closed his hilxirs. He 
 was instrumental in bringing into the church most of the young people of 
 the neighborhood, who were bound to him by a strong filial affection. 
 He was an earnest worker. His sermons were heart-reaching and inij)res- 
 sive. H'ls character was strong, unseliish and true; a man greatly beloved.* 
 It was sniil of him that [.lOuisiana could not afford to lose so good a man. 
 Oil the last Sunday in Julv, just before his death, he preached ;i sermon 
 in n^xiew of his ministry and life-work, commending his flock to God for a 
 brief absence at the North. Passing through New ()rleans, lie cauglit the 
 yellow fever, but reached Montgomery, Ala., and died there Aug. !», 1S54. 
 
 * All affectionate eiithusiasin of nature ajipeavs in his letter to liis classmates on p. •'! 
 of the Apjiendix. — E. E. S. 
 
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 MKMillfANDA. 
 
 ( )ii tilt' (Suiida) follow iiiii a tcli-^^nnii was i-cad to a weeping- (tongreg'ation, 
 that their beloved pastor had passed awaw 
 
 He was twice inarrii'd : iirst, on the Kith ol' April, IKP), to IMai'tlia 1\. 
 Marshall of Hartford, Conn., who (lic(l .Iimk! II, 1.S42, leaving one cliild, 
 Benjamin ( "hase Ernst; and secondly, on the 1st of Jnly, 1841), to 
 Elizabeth Ann Hauiniond of Boston, Mass., by whom he had two childi-en, 
 a daug'liter who died in childhood, and a son, Frederick \V illiam I^rnst, 
 who lately completed his studi(\s in the Yale 'J^heological Scminai'w His 
 second wife is still living. 
 
 [Ciimuiiai. Iiy liis widow nnd sons, A])r.-Ma_v. 1871).] 
 
 lOS
 
 mi;.\I(ii;ami \ 
 
 *EVAirrS, .loliy .JA)\ \.\\. is;;2. 
 
 *l<syo. From IJustou, M((s». 
 
 .loliii Jay Evarts, eldest son of Jeremiah (Y. (J. 1802) and Mehetahle 
 (Sherman) Evarts — a <>rands(tn of Roger Sherman and brother of the 
 present distinguished Secretary of State — was born in Charlestown, Mass., 
 Dec. G, IcSri. His parents removed to tlie neighboring city of iV)ston 
 while he was very yonng. "He was always a rather (juiet, thoughtful boy 
 . . . attentive to his studies ... a favorite with his teachers . . . fond of 
 reading." lie was htted for college at the Latin School in I'ostoii, under 
 the late Frederick P. Leverett as piincipal. After graduation "he pro- 
 posed to study law, but intended to teach awhile. ^Ir. Leverett had left 
 the Latin School, and set up a private school in Boston, and ofltered John 
 the place of assistant, which he accepted. He taught for one term, and 
 commenced the second, Init was ol)liged to give it up in Eeljruary, 1833, 
 when he was attacked with his last sickness." Li January of that year he 
 paid a handsome subscription for Yale College, out of his lirst (juarter's 
 salary. He died in New Haven, Sejtt. 1, 1833. 
 
 Of so brief a life there can Ite little siiid but of what it proniised. Li 
 this case, however, the promise was of no ordinary kind or degree. It 
 Avas evident to those who knew Evarts in college tluit, with his Sherniaii 
 blood, and a father of sucli m;irked power as his was, 1h' IkkI inherited rare 
 ability; high scholarship was for him a matter of course, and he easily 
 oxitranked most of his companions in study. Yet, even in the immaturitv 
 of his Youth, lie gave indications of possessing qualities, partlv moral and 
 partlv mental, such as })o\v(;r of connnand, independence of sjjirit, lofty 
 
 109
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 iisjiii-nliiHi, not iiiiiiiixcd witii soiiiclliiiiL;- ut' (•(iiitciii|)t lor all tliiii;;s cstcciucil 
 l)y liiiii low (ir iudlisli, \\lii(li promised a t'ai' wider and liiglier distinction 
 llian lie could attain in liis siioi't eartldv career. Pjspeciidly was tliis triK^ 
 after religion had, during liis college-lite, })enetrated and hallowed his 
 lieing. The justest tribute to his nie:nor\', therefore, will be a citation of 
 some few passages fiom his prixatc^ notes, and otlier writiiig-s, which g;ive 
 aiigurv of wliat lie would have been — nay, more certainly, of what he 
 now is, in tliat better state of existence to which he aspired, sometimes 
 imi)atientl\-, amid the felt imperfections of earth. For the privileg'e of 
 using, for this piu'pose, some of the pa[)ers he lett behind him, we are 
 indebted to the; kindness of a surviving sister, who has, also, given us the 
 few notes 'on his early days which we have quoted. It should be borne 
 in mind, that the writer was only about twenty years old. 
 Tiider date of Jan. 2S, 1S32, he says: 
 
 " Ainoiig- id! the ditKculties which thu anient asjjiraiit after excelleiicu iiuist meet 
 with, in endeavoring to form a manly and elevated character, there is hardly any which 
 occurs moi'e frequently, or which requires greater efforts to overcome, than the 
 uniting of decision with sientleness. He indeed may he reverenced as a perfect man 
 who can comhine the most unswerving adherence to the principles of honor and religion 
 with tlie kindest charity for the failings of others, and the most generous liberality 
 towards all men regarding mere forms and ceremonies. Such a character seems 
 especially to be demanded from those who at tlie present day are to engage in any 
 endeavors to promote the welfare of their fellow-men. The spirit of this enlightened 
 age will not endure any narrowness or illiherality of sentiment, and there is ])erhaps 
 some danger that, while we seek to avoid ])igotry, we may become indifferent to 
 truth." 
 
 Again, in Feln'uary of the same year he writes: 
 
 ..." I think that there never can be a truly noble spirit which does not, occa- 
 sionally at least, feel dissatisfied with this present state of existence, and long to be 
 freed from the load of earthliness and sin which here weighs down the immortal 
 spirit. How glorious nuist be the transition from the restraint and weakness of our 
 highest efforts here to the perfect freedom and the rejoicing vigor of oiir moral and 
 intellectual progress in another state ! Who would not pant for a deliverance from 
 no
 
 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 iill tli;it (leirrades and wraUctis our iii)l)lcr nature^ . . . Tlicrc is sornctliiiiij in 
 Mian . . . which longs for a lii^licr suhliinity, a inon^ r('tinL'(l and C'tJK'rc'al iioanty, and 
 a iiol)icr order of things, tiian hei'c oxists/' . . . 
 
 I'^-oni iiii oviitioii oil tlu' I'rogi'css oi' tlic Spirit <)\' I'lnqiiiry \vc tiiKc tlic 
 Inllowiiio- iiitrodiictory scntcnicos : 
 
 "It can not l)c denied tliaf we live in a remarkalilc era, . . . Aniid all tlie di\crsc 
 aspects whicli the present period has assumed, one chai-acteristic. may l)e ilistinctly 
 recognized. The spirit of this age is one of free and l)old discussion . . . I.ihi'rty of 
 tliought, of speech and of action, is unsliaekled. . . . Whatever otJiers may think, I 
 rejoice that it is so . . . In view of the eager and daring spirit of enipiiry now at 
 work among the nations, tliere is ground for lofty hopes and (dieering anticipations. 
 My feelings have little sympathy with thiit cautions and timorous sjiiiit wlii<li i-egards 
 these signs of the times as ominous of evil. Truth fears no discussion. It <le|ienils 
 not upon creeds fir ceremonies of human invention. It desires no support Ironi the 
 authority of great names, or timedionored usage. Springing from the throne (jf (!od, 
 it partakes of the majesty of the source from which it emanates. Its jKiwi-r in over- 
 coming errors consists not in its agreement with hereditary forms of helief, however 
 orthodox, hut in its own divine energy. The institutions of man hut impair its 
 strength and retai'd its progress." 
 
 Our last extracts are from a |)a})('r()ii Aiiierifan Klo([ueiice: 
 
 "Eloqnence is the power of transfusing our own feelings into the ho.soms of 
 others . . . The orator differs from the poet more in the extent than in the kind of 
 influence wliich he exerts. He operates ujwn those feelings and passions which are 
 common to all men. He studies man in his more general relations and suscej^tibilities. 
 The poet, on the contrary, devotes himself to the illustration of finer influences and 
 more delicate sensibilities, hy which he is distinguished above his fellow-men. He is 
 less ac(piainted with mankind than with his own heart." . . . 
 
 Hut it is not tlie writer's design to compare the arts of elocpience and 
 })oetry, and so, after showing- that the progress of culture does not neces- 
 sarily impair the strength and warmth of feeling on which eloquence 
 depends, and that American scenery and institutions are special incentives 
 to eloquent exjiression of thought, he tiu-ns his subject to practical account, 
 
 with much foresight and sagacity, as follows: 
 
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 MF.MOK'ANKA. 
 
 "We are contiiiiially hccoiniiiir more (Iciiiocrutic. T\m tide is tiiriiiiif;, with 
 increasing force, to increase the power and influence of the jjcople uikhi all pnhlic 
 affairs. Whatever may be oiir opinion of the l)enefits to be expected from this tendency 
 incur age and country, it cannot be resisted. It lias gathered such strengtli in its 
 progress tliat no human miglit is able to stay its advancement. Thus the power of 
 moving the hearts of men is becoming more and more necessary as the passjjort to 
 iiiHiK'ncc anil distinction. It is highly incumbent, then, on every well-wisher of liis 
 country to make use of the only means of resisting the intrigues of designing men 
 within his power. If strong appeals arc made to the passions and interests of the 
 multitude Ijy the unprincipled, they must be met and rej^elled by similar appeals from 
 the virtrUous and the patriotic . . . Such a contest between vice and virtue, between 
 the iiriiiei|iles of order and patriotism and those of confusion and party-spirit, there is 
 reason to expect, will ere long commence in this country. If we consult the records 
 of ex]ierience, or consider the appearances at the present time, we shall discover many 
 omens of an approaching crisis in the destinies uf our country. ( )ur duties maj' be no 
 less arduous, as they are certainly no less important, than those of our fathers in the 
 Revolution. . . . Who does not foresee that, at no very distant day, when the fury of 
 party-spirit, the contrariety of local interests, and the restlessness under due restraint, 
 now beginning to inaTiifest themselves, have become augmented, and when the 8])arks 
 of dissension arc kindled into flame, liy the acts of abandoned politicians, that there 
 will be an occasion and demand for the loftiest powers of eloquence?" . . . 
 
 [E. K. S.] 
 
 112
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 FARLEY, BENJAMIN F., A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Hollis, N. H. 
 Present address: Mr. B. F. Farley, Worcester, Mass. 
 
 "Dec. 11, 1<S78. 
 "I was born at llollis, N. IT., Nov. 'if), 1S08. My father was Benjamin 
 M. Farley of the same town ; my mother, Lncretia Gardner, danghter of 
 Rev. Francis Gardner of Leominster, Mass. I was married at Boston, 
 March f), 1 S4(), to Mary K. White of Keene, N. H. I have spent most of 
 my life on a farm, a very humble occupation, but a very desirable one to 
 those whose talents seem best adapted to it." . . . 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
 U3
 
 MKMOUANDA. 
 
 FKLLOWES, /.7r7/J/.7> S/MI'SON, A.T3. 18.'52. 
 
 From New Yorl: 
 Presoiit :i(ldi'u.ss: li. S. Fellowes, Esq., New Uuveu, Conn. 
 
 "Alio-. 14, 1S7S. 
 
 ... "I was linni in Tvoy, N. Y., Marcli 4tli, 1S14; \\\\ father's iiaiiic 
 was James, iiiv motlier's, Waite T. Soon after iiradiiation I entered upon 
 a mercantile life, tlie active \r,\vt of which I laid ilown In lsr).S, nnd left it 
 entirely in iNliP,. 
 
 "I was niaiTied in 1839 to JMunia Wistar of Philadelphia, and became 
 a, widower in 1(S52. Of four diildren, onr eldest, a son, died at the ag'e of 
 thirty; and three daughters are still living, two of tliciii married. 
 
 "I have the liope that, when my course here reaches the end, T shall 
 rest in Him who is the 8n\ionr of men." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
 To this very brief note may he added tliat Mr. Fellowes has for years devoted liis 
 leisure to works of ptd)lic and jirivate charity, varied by foreign travel, and the culti- 
 vation of tlie tastes of his collegedife. From the establishment of the State Hospital 
 for the Insane at Middletown, Conn., in lSfi6, he has been a member of its Board of 
 Trustees; and he has tilled various other positions of trust i)ef ore the public. — Aj>r., 
 1880, E. E. S.
 
 Ml'.MUK'ANHA. 
 
 *FISHER, WTLTJAM. 
 
 *1S47. I''n>iii riiihiilrlpliid, I'll. 
 
 William Fisher, son of Samuel W. and Sarah Wc^st (('(xipci-) FIslicr, 
 was liorii in I'liila(lel])liia, Jan., lS],'i. lla\iti^- loft ^'alc in ls;;(), \n- was 
 •^•raduated at liut^'ers ('ulleye in 1S;V2; and, after stiidxiiii;' law in tlic 
 office of John Cadwalader f>f Philadelphia — afterwards dndi^e of I'nitcd 
 States Court — was admittetl to the bar ( )ct. S, ISyf). lie lia<l y-reat achnira- 
 tion and esteem for Judg-e Cadwalader, whose friend and companion, as 
 well as pupil, lie had been. In 1S.')4 he married Julia Palmer of j'lliza- 
 bethtown (now Elizabeth), N. J., and "for the few years his wedded life 
 continued, until his eai'lj' death, his poi-tion was a very happy one. . . . 
 Though possessed, by inheritance from his fiither, of a competent fortune, 
 he buckled to the law vig-orously, and continued in its ])ractice until his 
 death. Ilis temperament was naturally genial and jovial, and he belonged 
 to a family largely connected and affiliated with the most prominent cii'cle 
 of Philadelj^liia society. His social life, therefore, was always easy and 
 pleasant. While always mindful of the observances of his chm*ch — the 
 Protestant Episcopal — the bent of his mind, some time prior to his death, 
 became especially serious . . . and when he died he was a very devout 
 Christian man." He died June 3d, 1847, leaving five children, of whom 
 one died a prisoner at Andersonville, being a soldier in the Union army. 
 On his decease a meeting of the Philadelphia ])ar was held, at which his 
 early friend and teacher Cadwalader made an address, and presented 
 resolutions highly eulogistic of Mr. Fisher's professional and personal 
 character. The directors of the ])ublic schools, also, adopted similai- 
 resolutions, testifying to his "many noble, amiable and Clmstian quali- 
 ties," as well as to "his active zeal, untiring exertions and most useful 
 labors in the cause of public education." 
 
 [Commvin. by liia classraatus S. 0. B. .inel .J. A. M.] 
 
 u-
 
 MKMOlfAN'DA. 
 
 FOOTK, \V I LI A AM (AJJAAAV, AA). 1832. 
 
 From North IJareit, (Joiui. 
 Present address: Rev. W. C. Foote, Yonkei-s, N. Y. 
 
 "Nov. 25, 1.S7.S. 
 
 "I was born in North Ilavcn, (*onn., Nov. fitli, ISll; my f'allicr \v;is 
 Joseph Foote, M.D. I married in 1S4!I a daughter of Geo. Davis, Esq., 
 a la.\v\er of Sturbridge, Worcester Co., Mass., who is still living. We liave 
 had two children, a son who died at the age of six years, and ;i daughter 
 who still lives. 
 
 "As for my life-work, it has not amounted to as much, by ;iiiy means, 
 as I could have desired. 1 studied theology, and it was my purpose to 
 spend my life in the ministry ; l)ut my liealth tailed, and I felt obliged to 
 occui)y another field of labor. I got sick in, not of, the ministry. My 
 views of the preeminence of that profession have never changed. 1 was 
 never settled in the ministry, nor ordained. After giving up my chosen 
 profession, I devoted myself to teaching as the most promising field (tf 
 usefulness. In the spring of 1'S;j9 I took charge of a young ladies' semi- 
 nary at Newburgh, N. Y., where I remained six years, and then transferred 
 my schoitl to this place [Yonkers], where for ten years longer \n\ wife 
 and myself labored, too severely, in a successful boarding- and day-scliool. 
 We gave it up then, in the full tide of success, because health (especially 
 that of my wdfe) failed. A-fter a rest of two or three years, I had a day- 
 school foi' a nund)er of years, and then, on account of failing health, gave 
 up teaching. For a number of years past I have not been engaged in any 
 business, except of a miscellaneous kind, occasionally oftefing itself. 
 
 110
 
 MKMOK'ANDA. 
 
 "Ill tlic review of lile, I li;ive v(!ry iniieli to be {iTatoliil for. Tlioiig-h 
 as teachers we have often been disheartened 1)\' the apparently little 
 resnlt of our labois, yet, as we have followed onr yirls, develo])inji- and 
 inaturiiiL;- into noble women, we have felt that onr liiboi's were iu)t in vain." 
 
 [Letter by liirnself.] 
 
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 MKMOKANIM. 
 
 FRAZIER, WILLIAM, XM. 1S70. 
 
 From Sfuuidon, I'd. 
 
 I 'resent address : Hon. W. Fraziek, Stauiitdii, Vii. 
 
 "Jan., 1S7!». 
 "I was born at Jt-nning's Gap, Angnsta Co., Va., on the lUtli ot' Nov., 
 1812. My parents were James A. and Martha (Rankin) Frazicr. I was 
 fitted for college iit the classical school of the Rev. Dr. John llcndren, of 
 Augusta Co. After leaving Yale in Aug., ISoO, I entered the University 
 of Virginia, where I continued as a student four years, and, after graduation 
 in some of the Academic Schools, 1 studied law, and was graduated with 
 the degree of l^achelor of Law, taking also the dii)loma in medical juris- 
 prudence. I was admitted to the jjractice of my profession at the Staunton 
 bar in Oct., 1834. On the 17th of Nov., 1847, I married Miss Sue Massie 
 Lewis, daughter of James A. Lewis of Charleston, Kanawha Co., Va. ; by 
 whom I have had eleven children, nine still living. After practising my 
 profession for nearly twenty years, with gratifying success, a sudden 
 change came which took me from my profession, my home and my county, 
 and placed me in a })erfectly new and untried business. My elder brother, 
 a man of great energy and enterprise, had recently bought the 'Rockbridge 
 Alum Springs' for >;150,000, and endjarked for a great enlargement of its 
 capacity. lie had been in possession only five months, had paid little or 
 none of the purchase-money, and was most vigorously pushing forward a 
 large number of new buildings, when he suddenly died. I was on his 
 paper for the cntiic i)urchase-monev. I had to dro|) everything, and went 
 to Rockbridge, took charge of the springs, carried forward the buildings, 
 
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 and lijul tliciii all rcadx lor the a|i|ir(iacliinL; \vaterin<jf-seas(»n, a)i(l coiitiiiued 
 to hiiild every year dowu to the war; 1)\- w liicli lime I liad cidarged tlie 
 place to tlire(! times its capacity as lirst |nircliascd 1)V' us, and <>reatly 
 exteiidi'd its reputation as a sanitars resort, and paid otV tlie delit. 1 
 continued to conduct the cstablislnnent till ISdS-'.l. ... 1 then retuincd to 
 my old home here at 'Oakeiivvold,' wliich 1 liiiilt shortly after my marriage. 
 After sixteen years of absence from the bar, especially witli the great 
 chang-es Avrou<>lit bv the war in tlie organization of our courts under luili- 
 tary law, etc., I had no desire to return to the ])racti(;e. 1 tried doing 
 nothing for two years, ami it w'as the heaviest woi'k I ever engaged in. 
 So, having jtut m\ place in nice order, I leased ('a])on Sj)rings House in 
 Hampshire (!o.. West Va., and condiuted it for six >'ears, down to the 
 close of ISTG: and now here again 1 am, tor two years, idle. . . . 
 
 "1 may aild that I representeil this county in the Virginia Legislature 
 in 1S4'_*, 1S4;>, 1S44 and 1845; and during the whole four years of the 
 'war between the States' (that is what we call it), or the 'civil war, I 
 represented the Rockbridge l^atli and Highland District in the Virginia 
 Senate at Richmond. 
 
 "How well I remeud)er good old 'Prex. Hay,' and lienjamin Silliman 
 and my guardian Denison Olmsted, and most of all ni)* friend and tutor, 
 the excellent and lamented, Amos Pettengill !" 
 
 [Lelter liy himself.] 
 
 Mr. Frazier should not Lave called himself " idle," fur lie still interests himself 
 in public affairs, aud lias lately written articles for the Richiiioud and Staunton 
 journals, urging the maintenance of the financial honor of his native State, " with 
 manly and honest vigor." More recently, hy a sad change of fortune, in consequence 
 of endorsements, Mr. Frazier has been obliged to abandon his loved " Oakenwold," 
 the home of thirty years, embellished by bis wealth and taste ; but so honorahly has 
 he met this personal misfortune that his classmates have the more reason to he proud 
 of him.— Nov., 1879, E. E. S. 
 
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 *FRENCH, WILLIAM. 
 
 *1852. From Ihitou noni/c, La. 
 
 "May and ,huu:, ISSO. 
 "My brotlier Dr. William Frcncli was the oldest child of Dr. ( '. K. 
 French of Ijuton Rouge, La. He was born at that place on the l;")t]i of 
 March, 1812, and was sent to Vale College at the age of fifteen years. 
 After his retui-n iVoin there he was a. student of medicine in I'liiladelphia. 
 In 1831) lie was a practising pli\siciaii in the parishes of (loncordia and 
 Tensas, lie married, in 184,-5, a widow named Keeton, and died May 4th, 
 1852, much regretted, leaving two sons, both of whom are now living. ITis 
 health l)eing delicate, he h.ad abandoned his profession, and become a 
 planter, cultivating a large estate in C/oncordia very successfully. He 
 was social and genial in his disposition, and always seemed to enjoy pleas- 
 ant recollections of his college-friends ; a fine scholar, and an intelligent 
 and refined gentleman." 
 
 "I now enclose a few lines of his |)oetrv, in liis own liandwriting: 
 
 •Tu , .hiiie, 1S?,± 
 
 'I've thought lit' thee wlieii on the deep, 
 
 When all was caiin, serene and clear. 
 
 When every wave was liiishM in sleep, 
 
 And not a thought of danger near; 
 And when the storm my l)ark has hish'd. 
 
 Upon the wild and startled sea. 
 When the winds howl'd and liglitnings flash'd, 
 E'en then I've thonght alone of thee. 
 
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 ' I've stood u|ioii tlic inoiiiitain's lirow, 
 
 VVluui clouds wci'u i^atlitT'd ;it my foct, 
 And liiidc Kiiiiit Eclio tlH^iicefortli know 
 
 Tlie only name she should repeat; 
 Aye, there upon tlie dizzy heiglit 
 
 Where l)lo()ni'd nor sliruli nor flower noi- tree, 
 Whei'e scarce iniglit reach the eajrle's Hiyht. 
 
 I've stooil and fondly tliou<i-ht of thee. 
 
 ' And oft when some old-fashion'd son<j 
 
 Has stolen on my ear at eve 
 And wak'd to life, with feeling strong, 
 
 The past for which we vainly grieve, 
 Then, when my lieart yet felt the glow 
 
 Of hoyhood's yeai's, when hope was free, 
 Kre it of love or sorrow kn(>w. 
 
 E'en while I wept I thought of thee.'" 
 
 [Letters liy ii sister.] 
 
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 *FRLS1}Y, JAMES KDWAllbS, kA\. l.S.'5-2. 
 
 *18o8. From BuHiiiiorr, Md. 
 
 Jame.s Kdwards FrLsb}', son of Ricliard and Elizaljetli (Urown) Frisljy, 
 was l)oni at "Oxford," the family-seat of his grandmother Mrs. Elizalieth 
 Edwards, about one mile from Baltimore on the York Road, Dee. 22, ISi;;. 
 His name first appears in the catalogue of Yale for ISoO— 31. lie married, 
 March 11, 1834, Eleanor Merryman, daughter of Nicholas and Nancy 
 Merryman of "Bacon Hall," P>alt. Co., near (ilencoe. Tlie only issue of 
 this marriage Avas Elizabeth Edwards Frisbv, born at "Oxford" Feb. 12, 
 1835. He died Jan. 6, 1838; his wife died June 7, 1838. Tlieir daugliter 
 was married at Norfolk, Va., May 4th, 1858, to William Millson Pendleton, 
 nephew of Gen. Jolm S. Millson, Representative in Congress from that 
 district. From tliis union came three children, of whom two died in 
 infancy, and the last, named Wilhelmina Elizabeth, born at Norfolk, Va., 
 Dec. 23, 1861, still lives — "a young lady of distinguished beauty of 
 person, and most agreeable and attractive manners." 
 
 [Mostly from a commun. liy a brother-in-law, .Ian., 1879.] 
 
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 GOULD, IK) HACK JJUNCH, A.M. 1,S8(). 
 
 Fro)ii. GlcHii Co., (id. 
 Present address: 11. 1>. GouLU, Es(j., St. Siiuou's Mills P. ()., St. Siiiuurs Ishuid, (la. 
 
 "I received two days since v<nir kind letter witli the ciiclosurcs, and 
 will cheerfully cuini)lv with \(mr I'ecjiiest. It <^ives nie pleasure to he 
 reminded of my college-friends, and to Ije associated in any niainici- with 
 them. 
 
 "A half-century has passed, and vet the personal apjiearaiice of some 
 is remembered, though their names have ])assed from my mind. 
 
 "My fatlier was the son of a Jievolutionai'v soldier, who died at the 
 battle of Saratoga. He was born in Rome, N. Y., moved to Georgia 
 early in the century, and married Jane Harris of Nassau, N. V. T w^as 
 born in 1812, and this island has ever since been my home. After my 
 return from New Haven I led an unsettled life the following- seven years, 
 and then connnenced the eidtivation of the Sea-Island cotton, in which 
 business I have since continued. In 1845 I married Deborah Abbott, a 
 native of Dublin, and a lineal descendant of John Abbott, liisliop of 
 Sussex, and brother of George the Primate in the reign of the second 
 James. We have ten children, all living, and all grown up, excepting the 
 youngest boy now at school in Utica, N. Y. 
 
 "My life has been entirely domestic, I liaving always avoided politics, 
 and hehl none but imsolicited county-offices. 
 
 "Should you or any of your friends visit this neighborhood, it would 
 be very pleasing to us if you would favor us with your comjiauA-, at least 
 for a few days." 
 
 [Letter bj' himself, April, ISSO.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *GRIMKfi, THOMAS DUAYTON. 
 
 4830. From Charleston, S. C. 
 
 *i 
 
 "Dec. !)tli, 1878. 
 "In the devastation which followed Gen. Slicrniaii's march through thi.s 
 State, I lost home and furniture and library, with ever\- portrait and every 
 picture of our family ; and all my records perished, leaving a great blank. 
 This will account for the want of particularity in nuiny things, especially 
 in dates. Sly brother Thomas Grimkc Drayton was the eldest of seven 
 sons, the chililren of the late Thomas Smith Grimke, of Charleston, S. C, 
 and his wife Sarah Daniel, the daughter of Thomas Drayton. He was born 
 in Charleston in the month of July (I think), ] S13. His early education was 
 carried on at home, and indeed my father, I Ijelieve, titted him for college. 
 His short career at Yale nmst be fann'liar — he did not graduate, but left 
 college in sympathy with some of his (Hass wlioni he deemed to have been 
 wronged. Returning to South Carolina, he began tlie study of law, but 
 soon abandoned it, finding it uncongenial. His tastes wei'c wlioll\' literary, 
 and he loved the life of the retired student. His cajiacity for acquiring 
 languages was marvellous, and, that he might enjoy greater advantages, 
 he sold some property left him under mv grandfather's will (ujion the 
 condition of his assuming his mother's name DraS'ton — which explains \vh\- 
 his was reversed, Grimke Drayton, instead of Drayton Grindvu), and sailed 
 for Germany, where he first studied under the celebrated grammarian Dr. 
 Carl Becker, at Offenbach, near Frankfort-on-the-Main ; and afterwards 
 removed to Slunich, where he lived until recalled by mv father's deatb, in 
 Oct., 1834. He pursued his studies in Charleston until Feb., iSoG, when 
 
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 liis life, so lull ut" lu'illiaiit pmiiiiso, was suddenly eiit nil', lie had been 
 on a visit to the old faniily-honie in St. Andi'cws parisli, which has been 
 in the family since the be,t;inning' of 1700, and \\ here r6st the remains of 
 six generations; and was upon his return to Charleston, when the horse 
 became excited, and, In the effort to control him, a ,i;nn, whicli lay^ between 
 himself and a little German boy, was discharged, wounding the latter 
 slightly, but burying the greater part of the load in his own side. He 
 was taken back to the house, a few rods distant, a\ here he breathed his 
 last about midnight. 
 
 "He possessed rare talents, and would doidjtless, if spared, have left a 
 name in the world of letters. He was perfectly at home in the classics, 
 wrote and spoke German with the same ease and accvu-acy whi(di charac- 
 terized him in the nse of his native tongue, was familiar with French and 
 Italian, and at the time of his (h^ath was mastenng the Tui-kish. He had 
 translated lai'gely from the works of Goethe and Schiller into En<>lish 
 verse, beside productions of his own mind, some published and some 
 unpublished." 
 
 [Letter from a brother.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *GUP]RNSEY, JAMES AUGUSTUS. 
 
 *1847. From I'if/sfi.nl, X. Y. 
 
 "J;iiues Aug-ustiis Guernsey was tlic sou of Jaincs Kassoii (hienisey, 
 wlio belonged to an old New England family, and Ilainiali Ti-owbridge, 
 whose fatlier was also of English descent. lie was horn at Ijinia, Livings- 
 ton Co., N. Y., on the 2d of Nov., ISII. The family ivniove<l to Pittsford, 
 Munroe Co., in 1S24. When James left Yale College, he (-onnnenced the 
 study of law, in the ofiice of M. F. Delano in Pittsford; and, after being 
 admitted to tlie bar, he continued to jiractise there initil 1841, when he 
 removed to Jackson, Miss., where he died in 1S47. lie was never 
 married." . . . 
 
 [Leltcr from a .sister.] 
 
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 MEMOIv'ANDA. 
 
 *HALE, REUBEN CHARLES. 
 
 *1863. From Letvistown, I'a. 
 
 Reuben Charles Hale, son of Elias White and Jnue Mulhollan Hale, 
 was born in Lewistown, lAl ifflin Co., Pa., Oct. lo, ISl'J. IJefore entering 
 college he studied in Lewistown, in Mifflin, Juniata ('o.. Pa., and at the 
 Militaiy Academy of Capt. Alden Partridge in Middletown, Conn. Leav- 
 ing Yale in 1S.")0 he studied law at Bellefonte, Centre Co., Pa. ; married 
 May 12, ISoO, at West Hartford, Conn., Sarah Jane Mills of that place; 
 and resided and practised law in Lewistown until May l!2, IS."").'!, when, 
 having been appointed Surveyor of the Port at Philadelphia, he rc'mo\ed 
 to that city. In 1857 he resumed the practice of law in I'hiladelphia. In 
 1861 he was made Quarter Master General of Pennsylvania. In 1862 he 
 removed to Harrisburg, Pa,. In June, 1863, after some months of ill 
 health brought i>n l»y (exposure and overwork in tlie discharge of his 
 duties, he went to tlie residence of his brother at Logan's Spi-ing near 
 Lewistown, where lie dicil Jidy 2d, ISi;;;. AVhile residing in Lewistown, 
 he was for many years Major-General of Volunteers, and was connnonly 
 called General Hale. 
 
 His life was one of "lioly, humljle and obedient walking before God." 
 He had eight children, of Avhoni two died in infancy, and three sons 
 and three daughters are still living. The eldest is Rev. Dr. Charles R. 
 Hale of the Episcopal Church in Baltimore. 
 
 [Conimuu. liy <a son.] 
 
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 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 HKIJAKI), ALFUEl), A.H. 18;52. 
 
 Fru)it. IViiulliaiii, Conn. 
 Present address: Hon. A. IIebabd, lied Oak, Muntgunicry Co., Iowa. 
 
 Alfred II(d)iir(l, son of Am^iistiis niid IJatlislud);! (LcnniL'd) llcljard, was 
 boni in Wiiidliaiii, Coim., JMay 10, 1<S10. ( )ii leaving college he engag-ed 
 at once in teaching, at Princeton, N. J., in the Edgehill Seminary, under 
 the care of Pr<d". iudxM't I'atton and afterwards of Rev. E. C Wines. .Mxnit 
 two years later he took charge of a. scho<d for the education of ho\s in 
 New London, ("onn. After about two years more of service as a teacher 
 he became infected with the spirit of Greelyisni, went to the West, and was 
 engaged in engineering service on a projected railroad from La w renceburg 
 to Indianapolis, in Indiana,. The following year, improvements (»f that 
 kind being suspended, on account of financial stringency, he again went 
 westward, and did not halt till he was beyond the Father of Waters, in 
 Southern Iowa, near Burlington. Here he began log-cabin life in "ood 
 earnest, improving speedily a large farm, which became his home for nearly 
 fifteen years. In 1841 he married Anne M. Htmtington of New London, 
 Conn. (_)f four (diildi-en of this marriage two still live, and two were taken 
 aw^ay early in life. From 18f)3 he engaged again in the service and con- 
 struction of railroads for several years. During the late civil war he was 
 employed in maintaining lines of railway in Southern Missouri antl Ten- 
 nessee, being located, while thus occupied, first at St. Louis and afterwards 
 at Nashville. After the close of the war he was eni>-a"ed in rebuildino- 
 bridges in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. He was a member of the 
 last Territorial Legislature that held its session at Burlington: also of 
 
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 MEMOK'ANDA. 
 
 sevenil of the first Log'islatures <if tlio new Stiito of I(i\\;i. Aftci' :ni 
 absence of some eight years, just Ijeforc, (liiriiij>' and after th(! wai-, he 
 returned to Iowa and settkid himself at lied < )ak, Montgomery Co., in 
 tl 10 south-western part of the State. In l.sTf) he was elected to the State 
 Senate for four years; and in 1879 was retnrned for four years more. lie 
 was one of the two United States Commissioners from Iowa to the Paris 
 Ex^josition. 
 
 r)uring the last ten years he has been ])artially occupied in caring for 
 real-estate interests, from which and from other industries he is said to 
 have acquired a moderate fortune for a new country. 
 
 'i'he foregoing statements, substantially at second-hand, liave been 
 made necessary by the reserve of the following letter, received from Mr. 
 Hebard last year: 
 
 "Red Oak, Iowa, Mar. 4, 1879. 
 
 • • • " I found a. note fi'oin yuu on my return fnini Europe in December last, 
 and perliaps 1 have received another since, intimating the purjwse you have in view. 
 . . . Really, I have had but little time on my hands. Detained some seventy days, 
 last winter, at our State Capital, as a mend)er of oiu' Senate, then leaving home, soon 
 after having been relieved of public duties, for a tour in Europe, I have liardly had 
 time, as yet, to become settled again in my ordinary routine of home-affairs. I 
 suppose vou will de])en(l largely, for tlie materials of your book, upon a partial auto- 
 biography of each cliissnuite who is living. That would be rather a delicate matter 
 for me, having always shrunk from notoriety, reluctant to vaunt my virtues or xuiveil 
 my vices before a curious public. Mine has been mostly a frontier-life, as I moved 
 to Iowa l)efore she was a State. Sharing in her councils at the beginning (tf her 
 political life, as well as in her later years, I nnght claim, I suppose, my mite of influ- 
 ence in shaping her institutions and developing her resources. But my life, if not 
 an entire failure, has come far short of what it should have been. I feel that I 
 can really be charged with very little that is meritorious enough to be put in print ; 
 and it appears to me that the recital of the ordinary events of any life would not be 
 very interesting outside of the circle of fannly and personal friends. We ai-e born, 
 live and die, after all, very much alike. Still I know that an active industry, 
 guided Ijy lofty and worthy purposes, is nearly always crowned with marked achieve- 
 ments, which give credit and renown. It has been my ndsfortuue to be severed 
 
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 MEMdlfANDA. 
 
 almost entirely from my classmatefi, since leaving cdllegc, liaviiii;' met vei'y few of 
 them at all, and only one whose society I was privileged to enjoy foi- a sliort time. 
 If they have all made a better use of life than I liave, and have done more good in 
 the world, it shall he with me an occn.sion of rejoicing, and not of regret liecuise I 
 am overshadowed . . ." 
 
 [Fob., 1 880.— E. K. S.] 
 
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 MKMOK'ANDA. 
 
 *inTCH(X)CK, HENRY LAWRENCE, A. II l.Sri2. 
 
 *1873. Erom Burton, Ohio. 
 
 "Henry Lawrence llitclicock was born in IJurton, Geanga Co., Ohio, 
 Oct. 31, 1813. Ilis father, Hon. Peter Hitchcock, a native of" Cheshire, 
 Conn., graduated at Yale in ISOl, and removed to Burton in iSOd, becom- 
 ing afterwards a member of Congress, and Chief Justice of the State. His 
 motlier was Nabby Cook, daughter of Ehmi Cook of Cheshire. On liis 
 ffraduation he returned home, and for two years had charge of the Burton 
 Academy, at which he had been prepared for college ; and remained in 
 Burton another year, engaged partly in private teaching, and partly in 
 studying theology. In the autumn of 1835 he entered Lane Theological 
 Seminary, then under the care of Dr. Lyman Beecher, where he spent two 
 years. In 1837 he received at Burton his license to preach, and during 
 the same year was ordained })astor of the (congregational clnu'ch in ]\Iorgan, 
 Ashtabula Co., Ohio, where he labored for two and a half years. In 1840 
 he was called to Columbus, to take charge of the Second Presbyterian 
 church then recently formed. Here ho labored with great ardor and 
 success, until elected President of Western Reserve College, ]\Iay 31, 1855. 
 He found the college in a languishing condition, but bv his untiring- energy 
 relieved it of debt, and [)laced it on a firmer foundation. Its greatly 
 improved condition is a visible memorial of his administration, which la.sted 
 fifteen years; during which time he not only performed the duties of 
 President — including the unusual burthen of raising, collecting, investing 
 and superintending the funds of the college — but was also the college- 
 pastor, and instructed in Natural Theology and the Evidences of Chiis- 
 
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 tiaiiity. Uiidcr this ;icciiiiiiil;iti(Hi dl' hilioi's, Iikwcnci-, liis liualtli i^uve way, 
 and Ik; sjx'iit tlic winter of 1SG7-S in Imho])!'. iietiirniiig home in June, 
 iSliS, he (•(iiitiniicd at the licad nf tlie college for three years longer; and 
 then insisted mi (hupjting all the responsibilities of" President, retaining 
 only the duties of pastor and teacher. He died at Hudson, Ohio, after a 
 two w^eeks' illness of" typhoid fever, July 6, 1873. 
 
 "He received the degree of Ductoi- of Sacred Theology from Williams 
 College m 1855." 
 
 Doctor Hitchcock had "great power as a preacher, and was distin- 
 guished for his executive ability ; yet his modesty and self-distrust were 
 such as to make it very hard for him to do his duty, especially in the early 
 part of his public life." . . . "He had wonderful patience, trust and con- 
 tentment, ill doing duty, the result of influences falling upon a mind and 
 heart of singular natural goodness. He was alwaj^s ready for service, no 
 matter how Iiumble the work, how hard, how unpopular. He was amaz- 
 inglv self-sacrificing." 
 
 He "was married in Dec, 1S37, to Miss Clarissa M. Ford, daughter of 
 Stephen Ford of Burton; and had eleven children, of whom five, with their 
 mother, are now living. Two of the sons were graduated at Western 
 Reserve College in 1S5!>; the elder of whom is a clergyman, and the 
 younger was killed at the battle of Stone River in Tennessee, Dec. 31, 
 1862." 
 
 [Obit. Rec, etc., No. -l of the second printed series; aud Iti Meiuoriaiu printed at ('leveland in 1S7H.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *nOI)GKS, ELKANAII II. 
 
 *1861. Frovi TorriiigtoH, Conn. 
 
 Elkanali H. Hodges, son of" Erastus and Lanva (Looniis) Hodges, was 
 l.orii at Torrington, Coim., Jan. 12, 1S12. He left Yale in 1S;{0, and 
 settled in Torrington as a merchant and mannfacturer, but, though talented, 
 was always unsuccessful. A])out 1(S4S-!I lie removed to San Francisco, 
 Ual., became a lawyer, and did very well, but died a })oor man, at 8an 
 Francisco, in Feb., 18G1. He married Mary Purdy, and had one child, 
 who died young. 
 
 [Mostly commun. by a nephew] 
 
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 MEM(H;.\M).\. 
 
 HOFF, JOHN FRANCIS, A.M. ls71i. 
 
 From Litiicdslcr, I'a. 
 Present address: Rev. Dr. .1. 1'', IIoff, Towsmitiiwii, l*>:ilt. <'<)., M<1. 
 
 "Rev. John Frmici.s IIoflF, D.I)., wns honi in Lancaster, Pa,., Jan. 10, 
 1814, the son of Georye and Margaret llott". Entered tlie Hoplioniorc 
 Chiss of Yale in tlie aiitiunn of 182'J. Left the foUowing- si)ring-. In 
 1831 entered the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in IS.;;;. 
 Was for two years a student in the Theological Seminaiy of Virginia, near 
 Alexandria. In 183() was graduated from the General Theol. Seminary of 
 the Prot. Kpisc. C'linrch, in New York. In duly of the same year was 
 ordained deacon, and tor two years was minister of several churches in tlic 
 Juniata, Pa., residing at Lewistown, Avhere he was fortunate in liaving flic 
 active aid of his former classmate in Yale, R. C Hale. In 1838 removed to 
 Georgetown, D. C., and l)ecame rector of Christ Church. Li the follow ing- 
 year married Juliana Johnson Ross, daughter of William and Catherine 
 W. Ross of Fredericktown, Md. In consequence of imperfect health 
 resigned the I'ectorship in 1843, and sought restoration by a sojourn in 
 England, Germany, etc. Returned in 1844, and commenced clerical (lute- 
 in St. Mark's parish, Fredericktown, Md. Thence removed to Millwood, 
 Clark Co., Va., and was rector of CIn-ist Church from 1847 to 1858. Since 
 then has been rector of Trinity Church in Towsontown, Bait. Co., Md., 
 a part of that time having charge, also, of Sherwood clnuch. Ten years 
 since received the honor of Doctorate in Divinity from William and Mary 
 College in Virginia. He is the author of a series of tracts, and of otlicr 
 writings, bearing on questions of doctrine and polity in his oavu church. 
 His family, at present, consists of himself and wife and seven cliildren, 
 four of them sons." 
 
 [Coinniiin. by himself, Feb., ISTO.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 HOLLINGSWORTH, J. YELLOTT. 
 
 From Elkridge, Md. 
 Present address : Dr. J. Y. IIollingsworth, Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss. 
 
 "Elkton by Beauvoir, Aug. 6tli, 1880. 
 "I was born in Baltimore, IMd., April 13, 1813, and was l^aptized by 
 the name of Yellott in memory of" Ca])t. Yellott, a Baltimore merchant 
 wild adopted and brouglit n\) my mothei" — he it was avIio devised the 
 model of the fast sailing 'clippers,' so famous until the introduction of 
 steam -navigation. Being prevented from returning to Yale, after tlie 
 Freshman-j^ear of the Class, I was led to the study of medicine by the 
 advice of my family-physician, Dr. Denny of Ellicott ^lills, who with 
 untiring patience grounded me in the elementary branches, so that I was 
 better prepared than many for the lecture-room. At the University of 
 Pennsylvania I was inider the instruction of my uncle William Gibson, 
 the eminent surgeon and. professor of surgery in that institution; one 
 of whose sayings: 'He is the most skillful surgeon who kno\\s when 
 not to operate' impressed itself upon me for life. Here I had the com- 
 panionship of Henry Tennent, William French, J. Hampden Lewis 
 and Alfred Stille, who had all, like myself, been members of the Class of 
 1832 in Yale College. I took my degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1834. 
 With the prestige of family, and widely extended associations growing out 
 of it, I had every inducement to settle in my native city; but, distrusting 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 my al)ilitios, cliose to seek a home amoiij^- strang'ers. Dr. Tenrieiit had 
 estabhshed liimself near Natchez, and urged me to go to that city ; an 
 intimate friend Dorsey, too (S. W. Dorsey, Y. C. 1830), had gone to 
 Vicksburg to practice law. So I went southward. Instead of remaining 
 in Natchez, however, having heard of a country where it was a matter of 
 hfe or dentil to the unacclimated to reside, I at once plunged into it in the 
 year 183G. There I very soon had a form of disease to combat which 
 was new to me, but, turning away from tlie 'heroic treatment' which 
 prevailed around me, I followed the simple light of my books, and with 
 signal siiccess, thoug-h I myself had for a time to succumb to the disease. 
 This was my first essay in assuming the responsibilities of life. It incul- 
 cated many lessons, which I have since endeavored to live up to; and 
 'sempei' paratus' was truly the motto for me with my vigor of constitution 
 and pliant temperament. My perceptive faculties are, I believe, uncommon; 
 while for my patience and self-denial, I have been often charged by friends, 
 in the way of pleasantry, with being the most domestic of men : the sense 
 of duty has ever held me back from hasty alienations. So, also, from the 
 almost universal folly of that day, of drinking 'as a preventive of the fever,' 
 I forbore, having never, from the age of thirty-five to the present time, 
 partaken of alcoholic drinks, nor felt any desire for them; to which I 
 attribute my buoyancy and equanimity. 
 
 "In 1841 I captured, or was caj^tured by, one of proud Natchez's 
 daughters, Miss Walker, of a very large family- connection scattered over 
 Louisiana and Mississippi, she being the niece and ward of John Routh, 
 then the largest cotton-planter of the South. Up to this time my profes- 
 sional practice had exacted all my time, while it would have been remun- 
 erative beyond my wants, had I been attentive to my collections — which 
 I was not, for I had no fancy for any sort of speculation ; and I may here 
 mention that, with no political aspirations, I had no desire to appear before 
 the public in any marked or popular manner. A night-reader, it has been 
 always my practice to read at that time, and onlv dxiring the past two 
 years have I needed glasses for small print. 
 
 "I settled with my young wife on her plantation, at Hard Tomes 
 
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 Liuifliiig, La., the outlet of lake St. .I(isc|)li, twciity-iive miles of land 
 within its crescent and its entire suridinidin^s belonging to one and the 
 same family. We dwelt there for th(^ next twenty-one years in nninter- 
 rupted conteutnient and prosperity. My six children were horn there. 
 Love for my profession absorbed nie, and my wide circle of fVicnds had 
 given me repute as a successfnl physician. With warm friends, s(»m<' of 
 them sharing- my own literary tastes, onr lives had little alloy, and as we 
 all connnniKMl in the same churcli we had reason to feel blessed. 
 
 "P)}' and by came the year 18G1, and with it war, and from 18G2 to 
 the present time there has been no rest. Of an old Federalist family, 
 whose boast was that they had no democratic blood in their veins, I was a 
 veritable Whig ; so also were all my connections. When one day 'the 
 party' fused know-nothingism into it, we demurred, and some of us 
 dropped the party and politics. When next the party engrafted aboli- 
 tionism upon itself, we could not but regard it as a first blow at the South. 
 ( )ur peaceful, union-loving neighborhood felt that there was nothing left 
 for us but to peacefully retire: our prosperity, nay, even our vitality as a 
 people required this. ... So we foimd ourselves secessionists, and after a 
 time, having been whi^iped out of every thing, we had to give up secession 
 too. The old Whig party grafted on itself yet another branch, which it 
 named republicanism, but we called it radicalism, and had no name remain- 
 ing for ourselves but 'Hard-up' Democrats. . . . And where are all the 
 peace-loving friends of our lake-neighborhood, united together in the 
 sentiments of the old times of the Union t — all gone ! Some of the 
 elders died of grief, many of them battling, as they thought, for their 
 rights ; some of the younger ones tried to plant, but went to ruin, as I did 
 too. I alone am left of the old set, and do not expect to return. 'Fate of 
 war' — yes, but it occm-s to me that my Whig ancestors were somewdiere 
 wrong, else principles lie. . . . Presently came the year 1863, wdien I had 
 the honor of a call, a visit, from General Grant and his 90,000 ... it was 
 a grand show, but I did not enjoy it much ! They were to make the grand 
 entry into Mississippi, rested with me two weeks, and only used my house 
 for their hospital ; and they sent up a yellow flag, for 'protection,' to the
 
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 top of the lig'lituing-rod. T liad liai'd fighting' i'or that flag after the anny 
 left, for every gun-boat that came along blazed away to see how near it 
 could strike and not knock me over ; and then an officer came to know 
 why I did not take down that flag; I answered 'hospital !' and noticed the 
 flag never struck. . . . Presently Gen. Sherman's rear of 25,000 came and 
 rested a week. The only 'treat' I had in all those tla-ee weeks was from 
 Gen. Sherman. He sent for me ; I had been so suiTOunded with dumb 
 show that I regarded it as an order, and went, and found him tented in my 
 garden, the only place left — true, it was clean, not a vestige of grass, nor 
 any thing else ! He was seated with his staff of five and twenty, under a 
 wide spreading fig-tree, and saluted me, on my approach, with: '1 want to 
 have an old secession-talk.' When one's lips have been closed a couple of 
 weeks, and suddenly opened, they are apt to be free ; so, as neither of us 
 was 'afraid,' we did have a talk, up and down, nearly the whole of the day. 
 He thought it 'poor malice to burn ii]) my cottons [which had been done 
 bv order of the Confederate govenmient], because they made poor 
 women's clothing, who had nothing to do with tlie fighting' — a view I had 
 not ta.ken. . . . After the general's departure, I received a letter of pro- 
 tection, which I found of essential service with the camp-followers. 
 
 "The war has passed, followed by its train of demoralization. Self- 
 denial made us ver}^ thin, and but few of us have fattened since. Still we 
 are seeking new life, and hope for prosperity. For myself, with the loss 
 of every thing but my good name, I have been saddened by the loss of my 
 children, only two remaining. My firm constitution gave way luider the 
 shock and from malaria, and admonished me to a change of climate. 
 Accordingly, after living at the plantation for five years in much depriva- 
 tion, we abandoned it in 1870, and rested in New Orleans. There I hoped 
 to meet Dr. J. Hampden Lewis, as I found we were alike members of the 
 Medical Society ; it so happened we did not. . . . My family did not 
 improve in health, so that I paid a visit to this coast, and found it so 
 delightful as a residence, and so healthful, that I called on my friend 
 Dorsey to join me, which he did, and we purchased adjoining properties. 
 The purity of the air was marvellous in its eftect on all of us. . . . The 
 
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 only complaint I have to make is that witli my restored liealth my practice 
 here is circmnscribecl." . . . 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
 To tins interestinjw sketch, so alxnmding in graphic touches, hotli ])lcasiiig iind 
 pathetic, a hrother adds his testimony to "the very general esteem entertained U>r 
 him hy all with whom he has held comjJMiiionslii]!," and says also: " My hrdtlier is 
 passionately fond of horticulture, and is still enjoying his 'otium cum dignitate' in 
 the cultivation of the orange and grape, immediately upon the Gulf of Mexico. 
 Really he lives in his garden, and has the choicest fruits to he found anywhere. . . . 
 He has of late met with a great loss in tlie destruction of his family-residence, and all 
 the out-huildings, hy fire. His lihrary in itself was a great loss, as well as many objects 
 of virtu, paintings, etc., on all of which there was not a dollar <>f insurance." The 
 omission of any reference to tliis loss, by our friend, gives us another glimpse of his 
 character. — E. E. S. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 HOPKINS, SAMUEL MILES, A.M. 1835. 
 
 From Alhnny, N. Y. 
 Present address: Rev. Prof. S. M. Hopkins, D.D., Aiiljurn, N. Y. 
 
 "My father, Samuel M. Hopkins, was a descendant in the direct Une 
 from John Hopkins of Waterbnry, Conn., who died in that place in 1732, 
 through his second son Stejthen. Tlie third son Timothy was the direct 
 ancestor of Dr. ]\Iark Hopkins of Williams Colleg-e. My mother was the 
 daughter of Moses Rogers of New York City, of the firm of Rogers & 
 Woolsey (see 'The Old Merchants of New York'). Her motlier was 
 daughter of Ik^njamin AYoolsey, Jr., son of Rev. Benjamin Woolsey of 
 Dosoris. The other daughter, Mary, was wife of President Dwight of 
 Yale College (see B. W. Dwight's 'Descendants of John Dwiglit,' vol. ii, 
 p. 1005). My father studied at Yale College, and received from it the 
 degree of LL.D., at the time of my entering. Pie began the practice of 
 the law in New York City, was afterwards Judge of the District Court of 
 the United States, and Member of the xiiith Congress. He died in Geneva, 
 N. Y., in 1S37. 
 
 "I was l)orn in the villaga of Geneseo, Livingston Co., N. Y., .4ug. 8th, 
 1813, my father having not long before witlidrawn troni the jtractice of 
 the law, and invested largely in the magiiificent lands of the Genesee flats. 
 In the year 1S21, this enterprise having proved unfortunate from embar- 
 rassments connected with the war, he removed to the city of Albany, and 
 resumed his law-practice. I liere attended for several years at the Albany 
 Academy, then under the head- mastership of Dr. Theodoric Romeyn Beck, 
 one of the most eminent educators our country had at that time produced; 
 a man who had many of the noble qualities, and the genius for controlling 
 
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 iuid developing boy-nature, of Thomas Arnold. I laid the foundation here 
 of a tolerable knowledge of the Latin and Greek, but, through some 
 natural incapacity of my o\vn, or some defect of my teacher, a violent- 
 tempered Irishman, who, especially when di'unk, used the rattan with 
 great liberality, I failed of that most necessary intellectual discipline 
 derived from tlie 'iidoliter didicisse' of the mathematics, and was never able 
 to supply the defect in later years: my memory was always in excess of 
 my logical faculty ; and the fear of the stick, for any failure, led me to 
 begin connnitting my demonstrations to memory, and reciting parrot-like, 
 instead of mastering the process of reasoning. My preferences, even at 
 that age, were for history, biography and poetry. In the years 1826-7 
 I was a i)upil at the Round Hill School of Northampton, Mass., then under 
 the care of its founders Joseph G. Cogswell and George l^ancroft — an 
 enterprise conducted on a very large and liberal scale, containing pupils 
 from all parts of the Union, with accomplished masters in every depart- 
 ment, but which was too expensive, and too much in advance of the 
 educational views of the country, to be long successful. My most intimate 
 friend at this school was Philip Kearney, in whose quiet, retiring manners 
 and delicate figure no one could have imagined there lay hid the germs of 
 that stormy career, and that splendid military leadership, which found its 
 end on the field of ( 'hantilly. 
 
 "I entered Freshman at Yale in 1S2.S, too well prepared for the studies 
 of the venr, and consequently witli nnu-li idle time on my hands — a fact 
 which had mischievous consequences for myself Before the close of 
 Soi)homore-year, the Faculty very wisely judged it would be better for me 
 to pursue my remaining studies somewhere else. May I say, as Augus- 
 tine said of himself at the same age: 'coram te Domirie, Deus meus, cor 
 meum et recordatio mea, qui me tunc agebas abdito secreto providentiae 
 tuae, et inhon.estos errores meos jam convertebas ante faciem meam, ut 
 viderem et odissem?' After a few months I entered Junior at Andierst 
 College, where, soon after, during- a period of religious awakening, I joined 
 the churcli, and was graduated with a moderate reputation for scholarship. 
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 took my second (lojj;rc!t! in coiir.sc tVoiii Yale College. 1 declined a tutor- 
 ship offered u\v. by President Humphrey, but acce]ited one at Hobart 
 Colleg-e in Geneva, where was my fainily-residence. J ha<l always Ijeen 
 destined for the ministry, and in 1S.'54 entered Auliuni Theological 
 Seminary, where the chair ol' theology was filled by \h-. .lames Ivicliards, 
 a teacher whose fame and influence were great at the time, but wlio has 
 left very little behind him to show his admirable qualifications for that 
 position. I then spent another year at Princeton, under Doctors Alexan- 
 der, ]\Iiller, Hodge, Addison Alexander and John C. Breckenbridge. I 
 was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Geneva, and began my 
 ministry at Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y. In 1838 I married Mary Jane 
 Hanson, daughter of R. B. Heacock of Buffalo. Her brother Dr. 
 Grosvenor W. Heacock was for thirty years, or until his death in 1877, 
 pastor of the Lafa^^ette Street church in that city, and one of the most 
 brilliant and eloquent ministers of the Presbyterian Church. My children 
 are: 1. Stephen Grosvenor, now pastor of the Westminster Church in 
 Columbus, Ohio ; he left Hamilton College to enter the army, and served 
 throughout the war ; 2. Mark Grosvenor, professor of the Latin language 
 and literature in Hamilton College ; 3 and 4. Woolsey Rogers and John 
 Hampden, young lawyers in Bufifiilo and Rochester; 5. Hester Rose, 
 wife of Rev. Myron Adams, pastor of the Plymouth church in Rochester. 
 Two of these sons were personally invited by the late Mr. Christopher 
 Robert to accept positions at Robert College in Constantinople, but felt 
 compelled to decline the offer. 
 
 "In 1847 I was called to the chair of ecclesiastical history and church 
 polity in Auburn Theological Seminary, where I have remained ever since, 
 having outlasted two complete sets of professors. My course of instruction 
 has been by means of full lectures, text-books, dictations, etc., generally 
 with a mixture of all of them, ^fy present course includes, for the Junior- 
 year, general study of the history of the chni-eh ; for the Middle year, 
 history of Christian doctrine, history of councils, etc.; for the Senior-year, 
 church-polity, and the philosoph)' of church-history. I may say, without 
 vanity, that I have always enjoyed a reasonable share of popularit}- with 
 
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 tlio students, and tliat my classes now cxliibit as much interest and entliii- 
 siasni in the studies of tliis department as I liave ever known. I liave 
 (iollected matiirials for several works illustrative of chni'ch-liistory, but 
 have published nothing- of any value. The poverty of oui- library has 
 forbidden lue, until lately, those independent investigations wliicli alone 
 woidd justify an appeal to the literary world. In th(! de])artinent of 
 church-politics I have never distinguished myself: I have neither the taste 
 nor the special qualifications for a church-leader. Without any wish or 
 expectation of my own, I was made Moderator of the General Assembly 
 of the Presbyterian Chm'ch at St. Louis in 1<S(J(J. In 1S70-71 I travelled 
 in Europe and the East, reaching Paris just after the convulsion of the 
 Commune. 
 
 "In person I am six feet in height, athletic and Aagorous; of cheerful 
 temper, kept young in my feelings by the love of children and young 
 people; and am waiting calmly for my paralysis, or such other sudden 
 break -down as I have reason enough to expect at my time of life. 
 
 " ' Recordare, Jesu pie, 
 
 Quod siiiii causa tuae viac^ 
 Ne me perdas ilia die.' " 
 
 [('oiiiriiiiii. Ijy liiuisflf, Dec, 187S.] 
 
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 *HOPriN, CAIUUNGTON. 
 
 *1S79. From Providence, R. I. 
 
 CaiTiiigton Iloppiii, son of IJoiijuiniii and Esther (Phillips) Hoppin, was 
 l)orn in Providence, R. I., July 4th, 1812. He left Yale Golleg-e before 
 graduation, on account of ill health; entered Brown University, and was 
 graduated there in the Class of 1834; and studied medicine in Philadelphia 
 for nearly tln-ee years; but on account of poor health never practised his 
 profession. He sjient most of his life, after leaving college, in Europe, an 
 extensive traveller in many lands; and died suddenly of heart-disease at 
 Ziirich in Switzerland, Feb. 17, 1879. He was never married. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 HOPPIN, WILLIAM JONES, A.M. 1879. 
 
 From Providence, R. I. 
 Present address: W. J. IIoppin, Esq., Legation of the United States, Londoii. 
 
 "AVilliam Jones Iloiipin is the eldest child of Thomas Cole Hoppin 
 and Harriet Dnnn (Jones) Hoppin. He was born in Providence, R. I. 
 His grandfathers, Benjamin Hoppin and William Jones, were ])otli captains 
 in Lippitt's regiment of the Rhode Island line in the war of the Revolution. 
 The latter in 177S hecame cajjtain of marines on l)oard the Continental 
 frigate Providence, and took the despatches from Congress aimunncing 
 the reception of the French treaty to Dr. Franklin in Paris. He was 
 afterwards Governor of Tihdde Island from 1811 to LSU;. 
 
 "Mr. Hoppin was prepared for college at the school of Roswell C. 
 Smith in Pi-ovidence, and entered Yale in 1828, being one of the youngest 
 boys in his Class. After leaving Yale in 1830 he passed a year under 
 private tutors at Middletown, Conn., and entered the Senior Class of 
 Middlebury College in Vermont in the autumn of 1831, where he was 
 graduated in September, 1832. 
 
 "He studied law for a year in Providence, and for two years at the 
 Dane College of Harvard University, under the tuition of Jiidge Story and 
 Professor Creenleaf. He was admitted there to the degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws, and soon afterwards called to the Rhode Island bar. In 1S3G he 
 went to Europe, where he made an extended tour. Upon his return in 
 'the autunni of 1837 he removed to New York City, which he has made 
 his lionu' since that time, being engaged in the practice of his profession, 
 and particularly that department of it connected with conveyancing.
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 "He has been more? or less interested in ;i,rt-Tn;itters during- tliis period. 
 He was one of tjie founders of tlie Art llnioii, and the editor foi' tlii-ee 
 years of the 'Bulletin' of that association. He has written papers for tiie 
 'Atlantic Monthly,' nnd also for ' L'Art,' the chief jounud of the iine arts 
 in I'aris. He was also one of tin; originators of the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, and its secretary until his aj^pointment to London. 
 
 "Mr. Hojipin lias written three or four dramatic pieces, winch were 
 produced with some success at Laura Keene's, Burton's, Wallack's and 
 other theatres. He is also the author of a ballad called 'Charlie Machree,' 
 which has been a good deal recited by elocutionists and others at public 
 readino-s. He is one of the dozen survivors of the founders of the 
 Centui'V t!lul>, and one of tlie half dozen who inauo'urated the Union 
 League Club, of which he was the first treasurer and the President fi-om 
 1S71 to 1S73. 
 
 "For ten years past he has made frequent voyages to Em'ope, generally 
 spending three months of every summer- vacation there, chiefly in visiting 
 the galleries of art. Li June, 1S7G, he was ap[)ointed First Secretary of 
 the Legation in London, where he has resided ever since. At the time of 
 this ai)pointment he was the secretary of the New York Society Library, 
 the foreign corresponding secretar}^ of the Ncav Yoi'k Historical Society, 
 and one of the ti-ustees and the secretary of the Astor Library." 
 
 [Coiumim. by liiniself, Dec, 1R78.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *lilIHIUUL), ELIJAH KF.NT. 
 
 *183D. From Middli'toini, Coiiit. 
 
 "Dec. 20, 1S7S. 
 "Mr. P]lijali K. Hubbard was the eldest sou of tlie IIou. Klijali Hub- 
 bard, aud was born at Middletowu, Conn., iu ()ctob(;r, 1812. After Lis 
 leaving Yale he was graduated at Middlebury College in Vermont. In the 
 spring of 1834 he went for the first time to Chicago; and he was married 
 iu September of the same year, not being yet twenty-two years of age, to 
 Elizabeth S. DeKoveu, daughter of Henry L. DeKoven of Middletowu. 
 From thencefortli his home was in Chicago. He seemed to see, as in a 
 glass, the great future of this city, and became speedily identified witli its 
 interests, seeking its prosperity. Mr. Hubljard entered into partnership 
 with Gurdon S. Hubbard, Esq., one of the pioneers of the Northwest, and 
 became for a time a member of the firm of Hubbard &. Co. The brick 
 biiilding in which the business of this firm was transacted, was the first 
 brick building erected in Chicago (Mr. G. S. Hubbard tells me), and the 
 largest at that time north of Vandalia. It is difficult to realize the grand 
 desolation of the Nortlnvest at tliis early day. The first steamer that came 
 round the lakes was chartered by the United States Government, in 1832, 
 during the Black Hawk war, for the purpose of bringing Gen. Scott and 
 his troops to the frontier. The first payment, after the treatv of Tippe- 
 canoe, was made to the Pottowatamie Indians in the antnnni of 1834, about 
 the time of our arrival in Chicago. Their wigwams were u|ion the shore 
 
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 of the lake, and ludiaus in blankets and moccasins were in tlic lialiit of 
 enterinu;- the liouse of Mr. Gurdon >S. Hubbard, wlio was their good friend, 
 without any coreniony, walking- quietly to th(^ tii-e, lighting their pipes, 
 and retiring as stealthily as they came, without woi'd or outward sign. 
 The Northwest was all undeveloped. Mr. 0. S. 11. tells me that in 1S34 
 there was no settlement between Galena and Chicago; houses where 
 ti'avellers fouiul food and lodging were the only landmarks. Galena was 
 the chief place of business for the lead-mining district; small steamers 
 went u[) and down the Mississij)pi between St. Louis and that place. It 
 was settled soon after the war of 1812; adventurers found their way there 
 in search of lead, and it soon became a place of considerable importance, 
 the only commercial to\vn of any note in the Northwest. Mr. Elijah K. 
 Hubbard obtained the charter of the Galena and (Jhicago Railroad, and 
 thus commenced the construction of the first of the many railroads which 
 now concentrate in Chicago. The financial crisis of 1837 })ut a stop to 
 operations in this great enterprise. At that time it was not supposed that 
 the prairies could be sufficiently drained for laying the rails upon their 
 surface in every direction, and Mr. Hubbard commenced his work by 
 driving piles into the g-round, to bridge over the low hind lyiug- between 
 Chicago and the first rising groiind to the w^estward, now known as Oak 
 Ridg'o. The Galena and Chicago Road is now incorporated with the 
 Chicag'O and Northwestern, and forms one of the branches of that road. 
 
 "Mr. Hubbard's life was very short; he died in May, 1839, at the age 
 of twenty-six — one of the early and most respected citizens of a city whose 
 greatness, seen by him dimly, with prophetic eye, is now a chapter in 
 the history of the world." 
 
 A college classmate adds the following notes ; 
 
 "He had very pronounced opinions upon religious and jxditical matter.s, 
 and I have known l)ut few men who had the courage of his opinions to 
 the same extent that he had. He had also admirable literary abilities. He 
 wrote with great force and precision, and, if he had directed his attention 
 to such pursuits, he conld have made a name for himself He was an 
 excellent Inisband and father, and the niost loyal of friends. If lu; had 
 
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 lived, 1 am siirc^ Ik; would lia,ve boon idie ot tlie iii<i«t distiii'^uislicd iiiid 
 influential men of the Northwest." . . . 
 
 [Letter by his widow, now E. S, D., and a ooninnin. by liia claasmato W. J. II.] 
 
 "He lost his heidtli at the West, went to the West Tiidics in \\i>]U' of 
 reg'ainin^' it, and rc^tiii'ned "uly to die. TTo left a widow niid two (•liil(h'(ai." 
 
 [Commiin.] 
 
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 .MKMOl.'ANDA. 
 
 HUNTINGl'ON, JOSlKfA, A.B. 18;}2. 
 
 From Boston, Mass. 
 rrest'ut address: Dr. J. Huntington, W;i.shinj;t(jii, J). (!. 
 
 "Jan. 2, 187i». 
 
 . . . "There lias been notliiiii;- in my life especially worthy of })ublic 
 record, or that vvonld interest any one outside the circle of my intimate 
 friends. My 'life-work' has made no noise in the world, and its results are 
 not very apparent. If the great end of life is, as most men seem to 
 imagine, either fame or wealth, or Ixitli, my life, it must he confessed, has 
 been a failure. But, as I have never aimed at being either famous or 
 wealth}^, tlie failure, if it be one, does not mortify me nuich. . . . 
 
 "I was born in Boston, Feb. 11th, 1812. My father, as you know, 
 was Pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, at the time of his death in 
 1819. I was graduated in medicine at New Haven in 18;57, if I remember 
 rightly, and was an assistant surgeon in the Navy from 18.")8 to 1845, 
 when I resigned. The practice of medicine was always distasteful to me, 
 and soon after leaving the United States service I determined to abandon 
 it. In 1847 I went to Andover to make preparation for the ministry-, and 
 was licensed to preach in 184il. Two years afterwards I gave u[) all idea 
 of preaching, for reasons stated by me in a little book which ax^u nun- 
 have heard of, published by the Catholic Publication Society in New Y(u-k, 
 and entitled 'Gropings after Truth.' In 1853 I opened a boys' school in 
 Brooklyn, L. I., which I carried on for ten years. In 1865, at the close 
 of the civil war, I was appointed to a clerkshii) in the United States 
 Treasury in this city, which I held until Oct., I87(i, when I was dis- 
 
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 cluirji-ed. Since tliun I liave been 'doinji' n()tliiii<^',' iis tlie woi-ld would 
 say: tliut is, nothing tliat is })aid tor in ddllais and cents, tliougli I would 
 fain liope that, even now, my life is not absolutely useless. 
 
 "I have never married. The date of my death I am unaldc to give, 
 l)ut, as I shall enter ujjon my sixty-eighth year in a little more than a 
 month, it is not unreasonable to expect that some one will, before a great 
 while, be able to supply this item <(f information." 
 
 [Letter by himsflf.] 
 
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 INGEKSOLL, ELUIU PAIISONS, A.B. 18^2. 
 
 Froin Lee, Muns. 
 Present address: Uev. E. I'. Ingeksoll, liusevale, Clay Co., Kansas. 
 
 "All- 14, IST.S. 
 ... "I was born, as the record in tlie old t'aniily-lJible says, Sept. 20th, 
 1S()4, ill Lee, Mass. My father's name was David Ingersoll, and my 
 motlier was Sarah Parsons, of Stockbridge, IVIass., a granddaug-hter of 
 President Edwards. I was married t(> Louisa Perry, daughter of Frederick 
 Perry of Stockbridge, in 1835, witli wliom I lived sixteen months, when 
 she was taken to heaven, leaving an infant son six months old. 1 was 
 married again, at Olierlin, Ohio, to Catharine Gillett, daughter of Kev. 
 Moses Gillett of Rome, N. Y., in August, 1838. She is spared to me to 
 the present time, having borne eight children, six of whom are still living. 
 My first year in the ministry was spent at Woonsocket, R. L From 
 thence I was called to Oberlin, where I spent some few years. In 1840 I 
 removed to Michigan, for the purpose of founding an institution of learn- 
 ing similar to that of Oberlin. Ihit this failed, through the great commer- 
 cial disaster that swept over the country, so that the principal part of the 
 funds that I had collected (by subscription) were never paid, and I was left 
 stranded. After spending several years in preaching in Michigan, chiefly 
 at my own ex^^ense, I acce})ted a call from the Congregational church in 
 Bloomington, 111., in May, 1853, where I labored four years. In April, 
 1857, I resigned my pastorship, and removed to Kansas in the time of the 
 'border-ruffian war,' with the view of aiding the great anti-slavery work, 
 the first battle of which was fought here in Kansas. I labored as I was 
 
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 iible, at niv own charge, pruacliing- wherever a tew couhl be asseniljled, 
 chiefly at Burlingame and in tliat vicinity. Here we continued till alter 
 the "Teat famine oi' ISfiO, and the war had broken ont, when we i-enioved 
 to Illinoi.s again, Kansas having- been mostly deserted during tin; bunine. 
 In Illinois, during the war, I supjjlitul the cluirch in Elmwood, wliose 
 pastor had gone as chaplain into the army. Thence I accepted a call 
 from the Congregational church in Maiden, 111., where I continued till the 
 spring of 18(i.S, when I resigned my ]jastorship in consequence of a can- 
 cerous tumor on one of my lips, which was excided by Dr. Andrews of 
 Chicago. This affected my general health so much that I never expected 
 to preach again; and, tvvo of our children being setth^d in Kansas, it was 
 proposed that we should remove thither again. This was done in May, 
 1868, and we located on tlie river Republican in Clay Co., Avliere we now 
 reside, in a delightful countrv, the greater portion of the iidiabitants 
 having come in since our arrival. Since coming to this place I have 
 preached, as occasion offered, at large. For two years I supplied a little 
 church at Milford, about fifteen miles down the river from here. This I 
 did on condition that, as soon as they were able, they should settle a pastor. 
 Thus you have the brief of my life. But in conclusion I wish to say that 
 'goodness and mercy have followed me all my days,' while I am some- 
 times longing to reach my Father's house, where so many of my dear 
 ones have gone before me." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA 
 
 *INGRAHAM, JOSEPH HOLT. 
 
 *1860. From Halhwrll, Me. 
 
 Joseph Holt Ino-raliam was a son of James M. Ingrahain, and came 
 to Hallowell, when about ten yeai-s of" aoe, from Porthmd, Me., wliere he 
 was born, not far from 1805-6. He attended tlie Hallowell Academy, and 
 probably was fitted for college there. He left the Class between the first 
 and second years of its course; soon after which, probably, he went to 
 Buenos Ayres, S. A., as clerk to a commercial house. P)Ut about the year 
 1830 he became a teacher, or professor, in a college near Natchez, Miss., 
 where, also, he began that career of authorship which gained him a wide 
 notoriety, publishing first, in 1836, "The Sou.thwest by a Yankee," and 
 quickly following that u]) \\\\\\ "Lafitte," "Burton," and other novels. In 
 later years he wrote and published "The Prince of the House of David" 
 (1855), "The Pillar of Fire" (1859), and "The Throne of David." Al)out 
 the year 1847 he established a seminary for young ladies at Nashville, 
 Tenn., studying, meanwhile, for holy orders. He was ordained a deacon 
 Mar. t), 1851, and priest Mar. 7, 1852; and, after pei-forming missionary 
 work in Mississijjjji for a while, \Yas made rector of St. John's in Mobile, 
 Ala., nnd later took charge of a clun-ch at Riverside, Teini. He removed 
 to Holly Springs, Miss., in 1858, where he was rector of a church, and at 
 the saine time principal of an academy for boys, known as St. Thomas' 
 Hall. In 1859 he received the doctorate of laAvs from the University of 
 Mississippi. He died at Holly Springs, Dec. 18, I860, by an accident thus 
 related in the "Hallowell Gazette" for Jan. 5, 1861: 
 
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 "The reiiovtcd deatli of Prof. J. H. IiigTaliaiii is now coiifiriiied. I'he 
 following- particulars are given. He had lately returnc(l from a visit to 
 his northern friends, when he found that much apprehension prevailed at 
 Holly Springs, Miss., in relation to disturbances growing out of tlie present 
 political excitement, and, as others were preparing their weapons of self- 
 defence, he took a pistol belonging to his son to the locksmitli for repairs. 
 After it was mended and loaded, he placed it in his pocket, wrapped in a 
 newspaper. Having occasion to visit the vestry of his church, on his way 
 liome, he as a matter of j^recaution took out the pistol, to place it on a table, 
 when it accidentally slipped from the paper, and dropj^ed on the floor. It 
 was discharged by the fall, and the ball entered his thigh, passing upwards 
 into his body. Medical attendance was had inmiediately; he continued to 
 linger with great physical pain, l)ut uitliout nnn-niuring, luitil tlie 18th ult. 
 (nine days after the accident), when he died witli great calmness." He 
 was widely known, and greatly respected and esteemed. 
 
 A son Prentiss, who has been living in Ncax' York for many years, and 
 two daughters, survived him. His wife died during the war. 
 
 [From a commun. by D. P. Livermore of HallowoU ; Appleton's CycIoi)oclia, ix, 280; Tlie Church Review, 
 xiv, 1 Si6-7 ; and other sources. — K. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMOh'ANDA. 
 
 KEEP, THEOnOEE JOHN, A.M. l.S7i). 
 
 From Homer, N. Y. 
 Present address: Rev. T. J. Keep, Ohorlin, Ohio. 
 
 Theodore John Keep, son of Rev. John Keep, was born in Blandford, 
 Mass., .Inly 31, 1800. When entering npon his studies at Yale his home 
 was at Homer, N. Y. After leaving- Yale he united with the Congrega- 
 tional church in Homer, in 1831; and studied theology in the Theological 
 Department of Oberlin College, from which he was graduated in 1836. 
 Since graduation he has pursued literary and theological studies; has been 
 a teacher in Oberlin College; and from 18,i7 to 18G1 was the pastor of 
 various churches in Ohio. He was married, Jan. 28th, 1841, to Mary Ann 
 Thom])son, and has had six children, three of whom died in infancy. 
 
 [Oomiiimi. by himself. Pec. 1878.] 
 
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 MKMOIv'AMiA. 
 
 *KELL()(J(;, MARTIN, y\.B. 1832. 
 
 *1.S7;». Fioiii [Vefhcrs/idd, Conn. 
 
 ".I;iii. II, IS?!). 
 
 "1 was l)()rn in Nuvviu^y'ton, Conn., a tormcr parisli of' the murient and 
 liistoric town of Wetlierstield, Nov. 4, 1810. My father. Gen. Martin 
 Kellogg', claimed as his great grandfather Martin Kellogg who was ca])- 
 tured at Deerfield, Mass., by the Indians, and passed several years in 
 captivity in Canada, bnt who afterwards made his escape, mai'ried in 
 Wethersfield, and piirchased the residence and landed estate of Rev. 
 Elisha Williams, Rector of Yale from 1725 to 17oD — a large and roomy 
 residence, which was bimied some six years since. My mother, Mary 
 Welles, was a danghter of Gen. Roger Welles, a graduate of Yale in the 
 Class of 1775, who, from that date till the conclusion of the war of the 
 Revolution at Yorktown, was in the constant service of his country. It is 
 traditional that he secured the favorable notice of Washington and 
 Lafayette. 
 
 "For two years after my graduation I had charge of 8unl)ury 
 Academy [in Gates Co., N. C.]; as a teacher, I secm-ed the approval of 
 my patrons, and promoted, I hope, the welfare of my pupils. During the 
 month of Sept., 1834, I visited Illinois, and in tliat State I resided nearly 
 six years; but the pecuniary depression existing tliere during the years 
 1837 to 1842, was so severe that I thought best tt) return to North Caro- 
 lina and again engage in teaching. In the month of March, 1841), I married 
 Miss Patience Branch (Gordon, daughter of John C. Gordon, Esq., of this 
 county. Subsequently to my marriage, for a period of twelve years, 1 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 constiiutly pursued my vociituni as uu instructor, and, I trust, with satis- 
 faction to the pubhc. But of the hundreds of youth once members of my 
 school perlia])s more tliau three-quarters were killed during the dreadful 
 war. My wife died in the month of Sept., 18G!), leaving- five children, two 
 sons and three daughters. My younger son is now a member of the 
 Junior Class of Amherst College. 
 
 "Since the termination of the war, waged ostensibly for the freedom of 
 the African, and resulting in the thraldom of poverty, with all its count- 
 less woes, to the Caucasian race, I have no historical details to give respect- 
 ing myself If we had enjoyed the blessing of a strong government, an 
 energetic, wise, resolute Executive, from the year ISf)? to 1861, the dis- 
 astroiis war, with all its untold horrors, would not have taken place. 
 What is needed, in order to give freedom to the masses, is a strong- govern- 
 ment, a government that never smiles on leading traitors, or frowns on 
 loyal citizens." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
 In prepanitiou for college Mr. Kellogg studied with Rev. Dr. Joab Brace, 
 the father of his college-classmate of that name. He died on the 6th of September, 
 1879, at the Hospital in Hartford, Conn., where he had placed himself for a 
 surgical operation. — E. E. S. 
 
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 mi;.M(pi;aniia. 
 
 *KTN(;SLKY, GEORGE THEODORE, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1842. From New Haven, Conn. 
 
 "George Theodore Kinjisley, eldest son of Professor James L. and 
 Lydia (Coit) Kingsley, was born at, New Haven, Conn., Angust 25, 1812, 
 and was prepared for college at tlie Hopkins Grammar School in New 
 Haven. After graduation he spent a year as a private tutor on the eastern 
 shore of Maryland. He retm-ned to New Haven, and studied law at the 
 Yale Law School for two years, and was admitted to the bar in New 
 Haven in 1835; but in the autunni of that year went to Cleveland, Ohiu, 
 where he established himself in the practice of his profession. His brother 
 Henry C. Kingsle}' became his partner in 1837. In 1839 he went to 
 England on professional business, and made a short visit to Paris, but 
 went no further on the Continent. His success in his ])rofession was 
 satisfactorv. In June, 1842, he went from Cleveland to Sandusky City, 
 to attend to a suit, in which he was employed, pending before the Comt 
 in session at that place. He finished his business, and retired to bed at 
 the hotel, but was called at midnight to take a steamboat which had 
 stopped for a short time at the wliarf, on its way to Cleveland. The 
 niglit was dark, the wind high, the bay rough ; he fell from the wharf, 
 became encumbered in his cloak, which he had carried on his arm, and 
 was drowned, on the night of June !Jth, 1842. 
 
 "The members of the bar in Sandusky passed resolutions of warm 
 appreciation of the character of Mr. Kingsley; and his professional 
 brethren in Cleveland passed similar resolutions. Hon. Ebenezer Lane, 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Coiu-t of Ohio, resident at Sanduskv, was a 
 
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 mkm()1;am»a. 
 
 personal Iriciid nt" .Mr. Kiiii^slc)', an<l took <^reat pains to oncpiii'c into all 
 the [)arliciilars of liis visit, to Sandusky, which would tln-ow liglil on the 
 cause of his deatli. lie wrote to Professor Kiiigsley all the details, and 
 the result of his investig'atious, establishinii', beyond (jucstion, Its accidental 
 character. The opening' sentence of Judge Lane's letter is as follows, and 
 is quoted to show the estimation in wliicli he was held: 
 
 " 'Few dispensations of Providence have occurred (tailing forth the 
 sympatliies of the community more fully than the loss of Mr. G. T. Kings- 
 ley. Very few examples can be found in the Western States of gentlemen 
 possessing higher mental culture, more attractive personal qualities, better 
 habits, purer morals, or more elevated aims. Nowhere was to be found, 
 within my acquaintance, the promise of higher professional usefulness 
 and respectability.' 
 
 "Mr. Kingsley was never married." 
 
 [Couitmiii. Ity ;i hrotlier.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 LATIMER, COBTLANT) LUCAS, A.M. 1879. 
 
 From Waterford, Conn. 
 Present address: C. L. Latimer, Esq., Cleveland, Oliio. 
 
 "(!ortliUid Lucas Latimer was born at Waterford, Conn., February 8, 
 1810. His parents were Pickett Latimer and Evmice Douglass, true 
 descendants of martyrs and defenders of civil and religious liberty in 
 England and Scotland. He was scarcely ever out of sight of his father's 
 farm till he was sixteen years old. He was fitted for college at Hamilton 
 Academy in Madison Co., N. Y., and entered Yale College in 1828. In 
 1830, with forty-three others, he 'bit his own nose oft'' in the Conic 
 Sections Rebellion; and yet thinks they were right, or about right. He 
 was graduated at Rutgers College, N. J., in 1832, with twelve others of 
 his Yale-classmates. Rutgers College was then ofticered by men of pro- 
 found leanaing and sound piety — a noble institution. Was married July 
 7, 1834, to Charlotte McEwen, eldest daughter of Abel McEwen, S.T.D., 
 of New London, who, though an invalid through all her life, was as good 
 and noble as her father. Read law at Norwalk, (31iio, with Eljenezer Lane 
 (Judge Lane was a classmate and peer of Edward Everett), and prac- 
 tised law (not litigation) at Norwalk for some thirty years. He never 
 desired or held civil ofiice. For more than thirty years was an elder in 
 the Presbyterian church, the superintendent of the Sabbatli-school, and 
 the 'yoke-fellow' of the late Alfred Newton, D.D., who was pastor of that 
 church some forty years. . . . About 1850 he organized a bank at Nor- 
 walk, and in 1857 made a sad failure. In 1862 he removed to Cleveland, 
 and has since been in the oflice, and the 'minister,' of Joseph Perkins 
 
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 MKMORANDA. 
 
 (another Joseph of Arimathcia). Five little eliildnfii passed away l>efore 
 their mother; she rested in peace Dec. 1, ISTO. ( )iie son survives, the 
 la\v-])artner of his father. 
 
 "His life, from the earliest memo r\ till this day, has heen lull of labor, 
 and full iif sorrow; liut I ('or. If): f)7." 
 
 |l''iiniMiiii. liy hiinsoir. May. l.S71).| 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *LESESNE, JOSEPH WHITE. 
 
 *1856. From Georgetoivn, S. C. 
 
 "Oct. 11, 1879. 
 . . "My late hushand's life, though reasonably pro.sperous, was 
 entu-elv imeveutful, and afforded nothing whatever of interest to the biog- 
 rapher. Had it been otherwise, however. I am unable to afford you 
 infomiation regarding the past, for all our family-papers, books, records, 
 memoranda, together with possessions and property of every kind and 
 description, were entirely destroyed and swept away by the tempests of 
 the war : and since that time the survivors have been too much occupied 
 with the problem of how to live, to think of, or care much about, the past, 
 or anv traditions of the family. 
 
 "Joseph W. Lesesne was bom in Georgetown, S-C, in November of 
 the year 1812. He received his education chiefly in and aromid New 
 Haven, I believe, and entered Yale College at an early age. On quitting 
 Yale [in 1830] he entered the Junior Class in the South Carolina College, 
 and was graduated two years after, taking the first honor. He then engaged 
 deeply in politics, wrote for the 'Columbia Telescope,' a nullification-paper, 
 and became co-editor of that paper. In December, 1834, he man-ied the 
 daughter of Thomas Cooper, ex-President of the South Carolina College, 
 and went to Yorkville, in the northern part of the State, where he practised 
 his profession for one year; after which he removed to Mobile, Ala., and 
 there spent the rest of his life. He pm-sued his profession there with 
 success and honor, and a few years befoi'e his death became Chancellor of 
 the Southern Di\nsion of the State, a position which he afterwards resigned, 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 as taking liim too much from home, and bringing him no emohxment. He 
 was hjst in Mobile Bay, on the evening of the 15th of October, 1856, 
 wliile crossing from Mobile in his yacht. His two eldest sons were with 
 him: one was lost with his father, and the bodies were never recovered; 
 the other served in the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, during the 
 entire four years of the war, and at its conclusion went to California, where 
 he has been ever since, a practising physician among a company of miners 
 in tlio Sierra Nevada mountains. A tliird son died at Petersburg, Va., in 
 tlic tliird year of the war, a member of his l)rother's company. The last 
 and youngest son is in Mobile, in commercial life. Three daughters 
 survive, two married, one single. 
 
 "In politics Joseph Lesesne was of the Calhomi-school, extreme in all 
 his views, and ready to maintain them with life and fortune. In religion 
 he was a liberal, with strong tendencies towards the Romish faith. Firm 
 in his friendships, witty and agreeable in conversation, courteous and 
 dignified in his manners, he was admired and appreciated by a large circle, 
 and could boast of warm friends and enthusiastic admirers. He belonged 
 to, and stood first among, that unique race of gentlemen f'oimd only at the 
 South, and now passing rapidly away, together with our traditions, institu- 
 tions and i)eculiar modes of thought. The like will not soon l)e seen 
 again upon this soil; but the luanner in which their descendants uphold 
 their principles, and bear their reverses, at least proves their ancestry, 
 though adverse circumstances may forbid their arriving at the social and 
 intellectual eminence graced by their fathers." 
 
 [Letter hy his widow.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 LKWIS, .JOHN HAMPDEN, A.M. 1880. 
 
 Fro))i New Orleans, La. 
 Present address : Dr. J. H. Lewis, New Oi'luans, La. 
 
 ^■> 
 
 "July 30tli, 1880. 
 . . . •'Both my tktlier ami iiiotlier Avere Virginians, of families among 
 tlic most [)r()mineut in the State. My grandfather on my mother's side 
 was General Robert Lawson, a member of the House of Burgesses, Avho 
 married a dnugliter of Sir John Pierce. He was with General Green in 
 his southern campaign, commanding with General Stephens the Virginia- 
 Contingent. He was also under the immediate command of Lafayette, 
 and endeil his military career at the surrender of Yorktown. He was a 
 member of the order of Cincinnati. He died at the age of seventy-eight 
 in the Western Reserve. My father, Joshua Lewis, mai'ried America, 
 daughter of General Lawson, in 1796, and emigrated with his father and 
 family to Kentucky, where he studied and practised law, and was elected 
 a member of the Legislature. When the purchase of Louisiana was 
 effected, he was sent by President Jefferson, with Edward Livingston and 
 James BroMU, as a commissioner to receive Louisiana from the French 
 authorities. lie was appointed territorial judge of the Territory of 
 Orleans, now the State of Louisiana, until the State was received into the 
 LTnion ; whereupon he was made Judge of tlie First Judicial District Com-t, 
 wliich office he held until his death in 1833. At the second election after 
 the admission of the State he ran against General Jacques Villere, for the 
 governorship; but was beaten by a small majority, owing to the jealousy 
 existhig between the American and French populations, the latter being- 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 more numerous tlian tlie former. He [)articii)ate(l in tlic mcindi-ahle war 
 of 1814-15, under Jackson, and was in the finiKuis ni^iht-attack on the 
 IMtish on the 23d of Decend^er. 
 
 "My father's family consisted of ten chihh'en, of whom I am the 
 seventli, born September 14, 1810. After leaving- Yale in LS.'K) (in which 
 year my mother died) I determined, in obedience to my father's desire, to 
 study medicine. I went to Cincinnati, where I followed tlie winter- 
 course; after which I returned to New Orleans, entered the Chanty 
 Hospital, and \\'as shortly after appointed assistant surgeon. In 1S,';2 1 
 went to Paris, to continue my studies, remained there eighteen months, 
 returned home, and then took charge of a private infirmary, being gradu- 
 ated, meanwliile, in the Louisiana Medical C(dlege, in the year of its 
 foundation. I afterwards returned to Paris, to perfect myself in my pro- 
 fession, and to be graduated there. In order to be matriculated, it was 
 necessary to show a diploma of ]5aclielor of Arts and Sciences, which not 
 being able to do I entered the Sorbonne, and. studied for and obtained my 
 diploma, was matriculated in the School of Medicine of Paris, and gradu- 
 ated in 1839. I then returned home, and from that time to the ])resent liave 
 been practising medicine with very little intermission. You see, my dear 
 old fellow-student, that my life has l:)een uneventful. The only exception 
 to this is that, during the late wai', I was regimental surgeon to the 
 Chalmette Regiment, commanded by Col. Szymanski, during the siege of 
 the forts near the moutli of the Mississippi, wdaere I, together with the 
 regiment, was captured by Farragut. ... I will add, to complete my 
 autobiogra])hy, that I am a widower, with a family of children and grand- 
 children, and have much to be thankful to the Almighty for, in this, 
 particularly that, althougli in my seventieth year, I enjoy good health, 
 free from the usual infirmities of my age — 'mens sana in corpore sano.' 
 ... If at any time you should stray away from your prosperous home, 
 and come down here amongst us Philistines, yoii niay rest assured, my 
 dear fellow-student of Yale 1832, that yon will be received with open 
 arms and sincere gladness by yom- old con-disciple, etc." 
 
 [Letter by liimself.] 
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 MEMOKANUA. 
 
 *LITTr.E, JOHN. 
 
 *1835. ■ Fnm J'Jdni/o,/, iV. C. 
 
 Jolni Little, tlie ftnivtli son of" Joliii iiiid Annie V>. (Littlejolin) Little, 
 wjis l)oTn in Edenton, N. C, on the I'.ltli of Fel)., 1813, and dicil in 
 Philudelphiii, Aug. 10, 1835, "a young gentleman much beloved by a 
 numerous ac(|iiaintance at home, and by the few friends by whom, during 
 his short illness, he was professionally attended." "His father was a 
 successful and wealthy retired merchant, of the highest social ])osition and 
 private and jjublic iniluence. He was distinguished for great fidelity to 
 his personal friendships, and a remarkable judgment in practical affairs. 
 John Little was distinguished for the same qualities that were conspicuous 
 in his father. After leaving Yale College [in 1S30] he entered the 
 ITniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as an 'irregular student,' 
 Avhere our boyhood-friendship in Edenton was renewed. At Chapel Hill 
 he was i)robably the wealthiest student there, and indulged his tastes, 
 without confining himself closely to his studies ; but his whole conduct 
 was always characterized by the nicest sense of honor and propriety. In 
 the literary college-society of which we were both members, he sometimes 
 took part in the discussions, and was always listened to with profound 
 respect, and his suggestions were ahvays practical, and beyond the com- 
 mon range of a boy's thought. ... I am probably the only person in tliis 
 part of the country who remembers John Little, and your letter has 
 touched a chord that seldom vibrates to these old memoi-ies. The thought 
 has often crossed my mind that North Carolina sustained a great loss when 
 John Little died." In writing to a sister of his religious impressions, he 
 himself once said: "I would prefer having relig'ion to all the lionors and 
 pleasures which this world could afford." 
 
 [From a comiuun. by a, niece, and oue by an early friend, Oct., 1880. — E. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 LIVINGSTON, EGBERT JAMES, A.M. 1879. 
 
 From Neiv York. 
 Present address : R. J. Livingston, Esq., New York. 
 
 "Dec. IS, 1S78. 
 "My parents were Matiuln and Margaret Livingston: my mother was 
 the daug'hter of Gov. Morgan Lewis, whose wife was the sister of Robert 
 R., better known as Chancellor. Livingston. I was born in 1 )utchess Co., 
 N. Y., Dec. 11, ISll, entered Yale College in 1828, and, after leaving Yale 
 in 1830, studied civil engineering, and in 1833 was for some nine months on 
 the Coast-Survey under Mr. Hassler. In Oct., 1833, I married Louisa M., 
 daughter of Garret St()rm, a retired merchant of this city [New York]; 
 gave u]) my profession, became a banker in AVall st., and some ten years 
 later failed, and retired into the countiy; and I have since lived a quiet 
 life, without employment excejjt tiiking care of my wife's property, and as 
 trustee or governor looking after the interests of two or three charitable 
 institutions, such as the ('hildren's Aid Society, the New York Hospital, 
 the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, and the House for Incurables. 
 I have one child living, the wife of Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry, and four 
 grandchildi-en." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
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 MEMOWANOA. 
 
 LONGWOirril, JOSEJ'II, A. 15. l.s;52. 
 
 FrDiii ('ii/cl'itiudl, Ohio. 
 Present address : J. LoNGWORTH, Es(|., ("iiiciuiiati, ( )lii(). 
 
 In a note to a nnitiuil trieml Mr. Longwortli says: "If Prof. Salisbury 
 is bent on ta-king- my life, I can't prevent him; but I will not aid in liis 
 murderous undertaking-." 
 
 l)ut this sort of life-taking is not to be accomplished without some- 
 thing of the spirit of martyrdom in the subject. All we can say in this 
 case, therefore, is that Joseph Longwortli, whose father Nicliolas Long- 
 worth of Cincinnati was identified with the Queen City of the West almost, 
 if not quite, from its fonndation, is believed to have been born in that city 
 within the first fifteen years of the century ; that he joined the Class in 
 our Senior-year; that since graduation he has resided in Cincinnati, 
 pnrsuing "the noiseless tenor of his way" in great afHuence, and with a 
 munificence to certain objects of public interest which has not been unaf- 
 fected by eccentricity of taste and habits ; that he is a father ; and that two 
 sons of his are believed to have been graduated at Harvard. 
 
 [R, K. S.] 
 
 Tsr.
 
 MEMOUANDA. 
 
 LYMAN, ErnUAIM, A.IJ. 1<S32. 
 
 From Goshen, Conn. 
 
 Present address: Eev. E. Lyman, Minneapolis, Min. 
 
 "1 wiis l»orii ill the town of Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn., on tlie od 
 of Jnne, LSIC). My parents were i^rastus Lyman and Abigail Starr, both 
 also natives of the same town, who were married Sept, 3, 1803. They 
 hivd nine cliildren, .six sons and three daughters. I was the fourth child 
 and second son. My father was a successful merchant for many years, and 
 an 'honorable man.' He and my mother lived together in the same family- 
 homestead more than fifty years, and died in a good old age, respected 
 and beloved, not only by their children, but also by the church of which 
 they Avere an ornament, and by the community at large. Jly childhood 
 Avas spent at home till I was twelve years old; then I was placed for two 
 years in the family-school of Rev. Dr. Cooley of Granville, Mass., a man 
 of rare excellence and repute. In my fifteenth year I entered the fine 
 academy just then opened in my native town; and continued there till I 
 entered Yale College as Freshman in the fall of 1828. A number of my 
 schoolmates in the academy were also fellow-students with me in college, 
 and several of them were college-classmates. 
 
 "Early in my Freshman-year, I was chosen, according to the custom 
 of those days, the 'Bvdly' of my Class, an office which I held for all the 
 four years. It was not altogether such an office as the name would seem 
 to indicate; but its principal duty was the chairmanship of the Class on 
 all class-occasions, and, dviring the Senior-year, the chairmanship of all 
 the Classes when convened for united action. Only once dm-ing my term 
 
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 MK.MOKANDA. 
 
 of otlice was 1 callcMl upon to head tlie (Jla.ss as Imlly in reality, and that 
 was in oni- Froslnnan-year, in a not very i:onoral)le affray l>etweeu tlie 
 whole College and the 'town-1'ellows.' It was during- our Junior-year that 
 the opposition to the liulh ship Ijegan to be developed, which, alter several 
 years of hot discussion and conflict, was finally successful in expelling it 
 from college. I myself favored the change, and was joined in that opinion 
 by a large nmnber of my classmates; so that wdien, at the close of the 
 Junior-year, the bully-club was to be handed down from the bully of the 
 retiring Senior Class, I had a mind not to go on the college-campus to 
 receive it. But, as it was generally thought best that I should do so, I 
 took my stand as the incoming bully. It was customary for all the 
 students to form a ring, encircling the retiring and incoming bullies, and, 
 after a speech from the retiring one, in which the office and the club were 
 magnified, the incoming one assumed the office with its badge; after which, 
 if any one of his Class chose to dispute his right of succession, and to 
 contend in open fight for the club, and could wrest it from his gras}), he 
 was at liberty so to do, and he himself became the l)ully of the Class and 
 of the College. No one disputed my right, and I held the club till the 
 close of our Senior-year; wdien I quietly cari-ied it, one evening, to the 
 room of mv successor, and made it over to him without ceremony. The 
 club was a huge one, about three feet long, and as thick as the wrist of 
 an average-sized man, and was painted black. It was said to have been 
 wrested, years before, from a sailor, in a general fight between the gowns- 
 men and townsmen. I have said thus mut-li, on this subject, as possibly 
 of some historic interest in connection with an ancient college-usage. . . . 
 "(3ur Junior-year was made memorable by what has since been called 
 'the Great Revival,' during which, in company Avitli so many of my class- 
 mates, I became, as I trust, a Christian. This was indeed a crisis in respect 
 to my whole character and history, the beginning to me of a new life, when 
 I first aspired to the Christian ministry, and to a service of gratitude to my 
 Saviour and of love for my fellow-men. In the fall of 1832 I entered the 
 Yale Theological Seminary; and took the full three years' course, finding 
 them years of great enjoyment and profit. From the seminary I went 
 
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 iiiiine(liat('l\- lo I'Knioiilli, ('oiiii., to sii|)|il\ the |)iil|iil nf the ( '(tiigruga- 
 tiuiiiil cliuix-li tluTc for a lew wiicks; at tlic ciid of wliicli time I received ;i 
 uiuuiinious call from cliiircli and pai'isli t(i Ixsconie tlieir pastur. Tliis call 
 I accepted, and on the I'Stli dt' ( )ct., IS.'I;"), I was turniall\ didaincd ;iiid 
 installed. The p;irisli was a lai-ge one, covering the whole tow n, and the 
 Sabbath-congreg-ations tilled to overflowing every seat in the large old- 
 fashioned house of worshiji. For more than twenty years this parish had 
 been nnder the ministry of Ivev. Luther Hart, one of the best and most 
 successful pastors in the State, who had died about a year and a half 
 before, in the midst of his years and usefulness, greatly beloved and 
 honored. It was a laborious field, and I was young and inexperienced, 
 but by the grace of God I was enal)le(.l to continue in it, with many 
 vicissitudes of fortune, for nearly sixteen years. In the fall of 1837 it 
 was divided into three parishes. ... I remained over the original one, 
 now about half its former size. My pastorate here was on the whole a 
 prosperous one. . . . For four years after my settlement I i-emained a 
 bachelor; and then, on the 2d of Oct., 1(S3!), was married to Miss Hannah 
 D. Richards of New London, ( *onn., with whom I have lived in happy 
 union till the i)resent time. We have had eight children, four sous and 
 four daughters, of whom three sons and two daughters are still spared to 
 us. On the 8th of June, 1851, at my own request, I was dismissed from 
 my Plymouth-parish; and the following year was spent in travelling and 
 recreation, . with occasional preaching. On the 30th of June, 1852, I 
 again entered on pastoral woi'k, in response to a unanimous and repeated 
 call from the Congregational church and society in Washington, Conn. 
 . . . Here I enjoyed a very happy and successful jiastorate of eleven 
 years, till my health failed, and I was obliged to resign. By the kindness 
 of my people I had spent more than a year in rest and travelling, vainly 
 seeking restoration. The year following my dismission I ])assed in the 
 same way; but from that time to tliis I have never been alile to do more 
 than suj)ply vacant pulpits temporarily. In May, 1864, I removed with 
 my family to Northampton, Mass.; and in -Oct., 1873, to Minneapolis, 
 Mill. Here I am settled with four of my children. My eldest son was, 
 
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 Iioiii 18(14 to IsiiT, coiniL-ricil willi tliu ►Slii^Hit-ld Suiuiitiiic ►School. . . . My 
 yoiino'cst soil wjis a ••raduate of Yale in the Class of" 1873, and afterwards 
 for a year studied at rlie Universities of Berlin and lieidelberg ; he is 
 now one of the e<litors of the New York Tribune. 
 
 "I am enjoyinf)- many mercies, but in such feeble health that I am 
 debarred from all secular business and active Christian work. . . . Ihit 
 'mv times are in Thv hand,' and T am eiial)l('il to wait till mv chaiiife 
 come, in the assurance of faith aii<l patience of hope. Few of mv 
 classmates shall I ever see again on earth, but I anticipate a joyous greet- 
 ing-, on the 'other side,' from raanv who have gone befin-e, and from others 
 who shall come after. So may it be!" 
 
 [Commun. by himself, Feb., IHl'J.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *McCREA, JAMES ALEXANDER. 
 
 *18S0. From I'hihulcJiiliUi, Pa. 
 
 "James Alexander McCrea, son of John and Mary (Pleasant) McCrea, 
 was Lorn in Philadelphia, Sept. 25th, 1813 — of Scotch-Irish descent on the 
 side of his paternal ancestors, and of Quaker descent on the side of his 
 mother, her ancestors (Pembertons) having been, with William Penn, 
 among the early settlers of Philadelphia. In the composition of the social 
 circles of the so-called Quaker cit}-, the Pemberton-family of tliose days 
 
 Very soon a taste tor tne memcai proiession aeA'eio])e<i irseii, nim um 
 study of medicine was prosecuted until the degree of M.l). lind been 
 obtained, in March, 1833, from the University of Pennsylvania. Tlie ti^'e 
 following years were passed by him in the hospitfils of Philadelplua, as 
 resident physician — surgery and the treatment of the insane being- his 
 favorite subjects of study and observation. Dr. Kirkbride, now a leading 
 authority in the latter brancli of the jirofession, was liis innnediate 
 
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 l)-uiii 18(!4 to lS(i7, c()iiiicct(Ml witli tlic Sliettield Scieiitiftc 8diool. . . . My 
 youngest son wjis a <>Tadu<ite ot Vale in tlie Class of" 187.S, and afterwards 
 for a year studied at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg-; Le is 
 now one of the editors of the New York Ti-ilnnie. 
 
 "1 am enjoying" many mercies, but in sueli feeble health that I am 
 debarred tVom all secular business and a(;tive Chi'istian work. . . . Hut 
 'my times are in Thy hand,' and I am enabled to wait till my change 
 come, in the assurance of faith and patience of hope. Few of my 
 classmates shall I ever see again on earth, but I anticipate a joyous greet- 
 inir, on tli(* 'other side,' from manv who have gone before, and from others 
 who shall come after. 80 may it be!" 
 
 [Couimun. by liiuiself, Feb., 1879.] 
 
 Mr. Lyman died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29, 1880, after the printing of 
 this volume was finished. Rev. Prof. James O. Murray, of the College of New Jersey, 
 says of him : " Mr. Lyman united in himself the best traits of a Puritan minister. . . . As 
 I recall his memory, those words of Jlr. Froude come to mind in which, speaking of the 
 Puritanism of the seventeenth century, he says : ' It produced in those who accepted it 
 a horror of sin, an enthusiasm for justice, purity and manliness, which can be paralleled 
 only in the first age of Christianity.' ... It is a satisfaction to his friends to know that 
 the last thing from his pen . . . revealed the man in all his noblest traits, his courage, 
 his warmth and trueness of Christian friendship, his devotion to the things he considered 
 right, his high ideal of the Christian ministry, and the lovely Christian spirit which 
 characterized him always." — E. E. S. 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *McCREA, JAMES ALEXANDER 
 
 4SS0. Eroni I'liilddvlphia, Pa. 
 
 «i 
 
 "James Alexander McCrea, son of John and Mary (Pleasant) McCrea, 
 was bom in Philadel})liia, Sept. 25th, 1813 — of Scotch-Irisli descent on the 
 side of his paternal ancestors, and of Quaker descent on the side of liis 
 motlier, her ancestors (Pembertons) having been, with William Penn, 
 among- the earlv settlers of Philadelpliia. In the composition of the social 
 circles of the so-called Quaker city, the Pemberton-family of those days 
 was conspicuous, and marked by intelligence and high-toned bearing in 
 all relations of life. 
 
 "On Nov. 5th, 183'J, the marriage of James A. McCrea and Ann 
 Bispham Foster was solemnized in this city — bringing together the blood 
 of early Quaker settlers, as Josiah Foster, one of the earliest proprietors of 
 New Jersey, removed from Rli(>de Island to that State, and took a leading- 
 part in its development. 
 
 "He was prepared for college at the well known school of Wylie and 
 Engles in Philadelphia, was entered a Freshman of Yale College in 1828, 
 and continued there until the close of the first term of the Sophomore- 
 year; when, after passing the vacation at home, he concluded to discon- 
 tinue the course at Yale, and enter the chemical laboratory of Dr. John 
 K. Mitchell, tlien a prominent lecturer and teacher in his branch of science. 
 Very soon a taste for the medical profession developed itself, and the 
 study of medicine was prosecuted until the degree of i\I.L). liad been 
 obtained, in Mnrch, 18;);3, from tlie University of Pennsylvania. Tlie five 
 following- years were passed by him in the hospitals of Philadelphia, as 
 resident physician — surgery and the treatment of the insane being his 
 favorite subjects of study and observation. Dr. Kirkbride, now a leading 
 authoritv in the latter brnnch of tlie profession, was his immediate 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 predecessor as 'interne' at tlie Friends Asylum for Persons Bereft of 
 their Reason, and also at the Pennsylvania Hospital, of which last Dr. 
 Kirkhride is now at the head, as he has been since 1840. Hut Dr. 
 McCrea did not retain his interest in the private practice of his profession, 
 and in 1840, after less than three years' experience, abandoned its cares 
 and responsibilities for the rougher life of an ii-on-master. He owned and 
 coaiducted a charcoal-blast-furnace and a four-fire-forge, for the manufac- 
 ture of bar-iron with charcoal, in Berks Co., Pa., but was compelled to 
 close his works in 1844, when the election of Polk and Dallas was 
 followed by such a modification of the protective system as to flood the 
 country with foreign iron, and temporarily to ruin the iron-trade. A quiet 
 residence upon a productive farm, about twelve miles from the city of 
 Philadelphia, afforded a pleasant variety for some ten years, and demon- 
 strated tliat farming could be successfully carried on without personal 
 labor on tlie part of the owner, })rovIded that ordinary intelligence and 
 a systematic direction of i)aid labor should be brought to bear on the 
 operations: in every department of the farm full success was obtained, 
 observed and admitted in the neighborhood. In 1857 circumstances not 
 altogether within control appeared to require bis return to city-life; and he 
 reluctantly relinquished agricultm-al operations ; though he has since then 
 been active in the State Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania, as well as 
 in the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agricultm-e, the oldest 
 agricultural society in the United States ; and he will always, he hopes, 
 retain his fondness for this leading interest of our country. Since 1859 
 he has been a member of the Board of Health of Philadelphia, the duties 
 of wliicli, together \vith membership in several boards of directors of 
 corporate institutions, afford him pleasant employment, without requiring 
 of him an}" great activity." 
 
 [Commim. by himself, Nov., 1878.] 
 
 At tlie date of the foregoing paper Dr. MeCrea was enjoying "excellent health." 
 But in June last his friends and classmates were shocked to hear that he had suddenly 
 died. He left a widow, with two children, a daughter at home, and a married son, 
 will! had adopted the profession of civil engineer. — Aug. 1880, E. E. S. 
 
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 *McFARLANl), ANDREW DAVIS. 
 
 *1836. From Worcesfer, ilfrfs.s. 
 
 Andrew Davis McFarland, son of WilHani and Anna (Davis) McFar- 
 land, was l)orn in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 7th, 1811. His mother was a 
 sister of Gov. .Inlui Davis, sometimes called "Honest John," and through 
 licr his ancestry is traced xip to Dolor Davis, who emigrated to this 
 country from England in 1634, and settled at Camljridge, ]\Iass. He left 
 Yale in 1830, and on the 7tli of May, 1831, was married to Miss Susan 
 Orne, one of the most accomplished young ladies in New England. He 
 was admitted to the bar, but never practised. His death occurred June 
 23d, 1836, and his wife died a. short time after. They left no issue. 
 
 [Comnuin.] 
 
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 MEMOKANIiA. 
 
 *MAGRUr)KR, JOHN 8TRICKER. 
 
 *1848. From BnUliiion; Md. 
 
 John Strieker Magruder, son of Hon. Ricliard V>. Magrudin-, a distin- 
 guished Maryhmd lawyer and judge, and grandson of General John 
 Strieker, who commanded the Marjdand forces at the battle of North 
 Point, in defence of J^altimore in the war of 1812-14, was born in 
 Baltimore, Md. Aboiit the year 1830 he was a pupil in the Round 
 Hill School of Messrs. Cogswell and Bancroft, at Northampton, Mass., 
 and from there, probably, he came to Yale. He was one of the class 
 in its Sophomore-year, and left college in 1830. Afterwards he studied 
 law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar of Baltimore about 
 the year 1835. He went, later, to the South, and was a volunteer in 
 Doniphan's expedition from Santa Fe to California. Recovering from 
 a wound which he received in that service, he settled in .Missouri, and 
 died there in 1848. 
 
 [Mostly cominun. by an iutimate friend. — B. E. S.] 
 
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 MANNING, JOHN CLARK ANGUS, AM. is?'.). 
 
 /'/■'//// N(■n^ }<irk. 
 
 Present address: J. A. Manninc, Esq., New York. 
 
 "John ("lark Aiij^us Maiiiiiiij^-, by wliicli iiaiiic lio was liapti/c^d, tlio 
 'Clark' liaving been dropped, however, ssoon after lea\iiii;' college — .son of 
 Jeremiah and Mai-garetta C. (Angu.s) Manning (his father, of a family of 
 English descent, long settled in New Jersey, having been a grandson of 
 Jeremiah Manning, who was the elder brother of Rev. Dr. James I\rainiing, 
 lirst President of Brown University; and his mother a danghter of John 
 Angus, a native Scotch Presbyterian, who was of the best Scotch t)'pe of 
 his period, long resident in Perth Amboy, N. J.), was born in New York, 
 Dec. If), 1814. After leaving Yale in 1830 he entered Rutgers College, 
 and was gi-aduated there in 1832. He then retiunied to New Haven, and 
 joined the Yale Law School, where he remained for the two following 
 years, liaving been thus a member of the University for the full term of 
 fom* years — very pleasant and somewhat profitable years. That they were 
 not more profitable was in no wise the fault, either of commission or 
 omission, of the excellent Day, or of his leainied and faithful coadjutors 
 Silliman, Kingsley, Goodrich, Olmsted, or of his good and accomplished 
 tutor Mr. George Jones. The venerable and respected Judge Daggett, 
 whose memory should always be green, aided by the skill and industry 
 of the thorough lawyer and perfect gentleman Mr. Hitchcock, then nded 
 the Law School, faithfully performing- his whole duty in that legard. His 
 life has been uneventful. xAt })resent, if not able to accomplish much 
 good, he tries, at least, to do but little harm, looking forward, with 
 resignation, to the time, which cannot be far distant, when he will be 
 called away from this earthly scene." 
 
 [Comiumi. by himself, Dec. ISIS.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 MERIAM, MARSHALL. 
 
 From Concord, Mass. 
 
 Present address : I )r. M. Meriam, Deny, N. H. 
 
 Marshall Meriam was born in Concord, Mass., Mar. 1, 1801, and fitted 
 for college at Andierst Academy in Massachusetts. He left the Class 
 before the publication of the Catalogiie of 1829, and was graduated in the 
 Class of 1833. After graduating he resided in Springfield, Ky., two 
 years, teaching, and studying medicine. He afterwards attended medical 
 lectures in Philadelphia, and settled as a physician in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 where he remained about twelve years. His health then became 
 impaired, and he removed, about 1848, to New Hampshire, in which State 
 he has resided ever since — chiefly devoted, of late years, to farming. He 
 has l)een twice married, and has had ten children. His second son was 
 killed in the army. 
 
 [Mostly .il.r. fwiii Tliinl Ree. of Class of 183:).— E. K. S.] 
 
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 MKMOKANDA. 
 
 MILES, EARL E. 
 
 From Sharon, Conn. 
 Present address: Mr. E. E. Miles, Brooklyn, L. 1. 
 
 " I was born June Gtli, 1809, in tSharon, Conn., the young'est of tliree 
 sons of Joseph and Lucy L. (North) Miles, who died in Ehnwood, IlL, 
 where my eldest lirother still resides. My brother Rev. ]\I. N. Miles, a 
 graduate of Yale in 1831, became a frontier-missionary, and now resides 
 in Des Moines, lo^^a. My uncle Dr. M. L. North graduated at Yale in 
 1813, and practised his profession in Sharon and in Saratoga. I married 
 in 1830 Jane M. Carpenter of Jamaica, L. I. . . . We have four children, 
 all living, the eldest of whom, Rev. E. C. Miles, was graduated with honors 
 at the New York University, and is now living at Mont ( Jlair, N. J. My 
 life-work seems valueless in the retrospect, and rather a life-struggle. 
 Commencing with school at the age of seven, I was teaching at fourteen, and 
 prepared for college in nine months ; roomed in college with Gilbert Smith, 
 grandson of the governor of Connecticut ; left college in the spring of 
 1829, for a business-life ; began at Albany, but left in the fall for Phila- 
 delphia, and after that taught a school at Jamaica, L. I., where I found 
 my future wife. After marriage I opened a store in Sharon, Conn., but 
 soon removed to New York, and continued in business there until the 
 famous panic of 1837. Soon after I went into the book- and publishiug-- 
 business, under the firm-name of Saston and Miles . . . and had a 
 successful career until there came another panic . . . Then, in 1849, I 
 caug-ht the "-old-fever, and with a nartv of thirty went overland to Cali- 
 
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 foniia, by tlie .soutliurii route, arriving in uluviiii iuoiitli«. 1 rclunicd after 
 an al)sence of two and a lialf years, nearly dying of a fever; and since 
 tlien have confined my attention to real-estate-business. As to moral life 
 and influence, I joined Dr. Ludlow's churcli in Spring street . . . was 
 deacon, elder, superintendent of Sunday-scliool, etc., and was out witli a 
 military conunission to suppress some of the anti-slavery riots. I was 
 afterwards in l)r. Spear's church in Brooklyn. . . . An original 
 anti-slaver}-- and temperance-man, I was never converted, so far as 1 
 remember; my views were imbibed from the old 'English Reader,' and 
 especially from that glorious poem 'Oh for a lodge in some vast wildei*- 
 ness!' I have ever been esteemed a radical, and never concealed my 
 sentiments, believing that with God on my side I was in the majority. 
 I do not know that the world is any better for my having lived in it, but 
 trust it is no worse." 
 
 [Commun. by liimself, .Tan., 18"9.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *MINOR, LUCIUS 110 RATIO, A.B. 1833. 
 
 *1863. From Frederklishimj, Va. 
 
 "Lucius Horatio Minor was born at Hazle Hill, near Fredericksburg-, 
 Va., the residence of his father Gen. John Minor, on the 22d of Sept., 
 1810. His mother was Lucy Landon Carter, daughter of Landon Cartel* 
 of Cleve, a fine old place on the river Rappahannoc, long since passed 
 out of the possession of the family. Gen. Minor was a lawyer in large 
 practice. He died when his son Lucius was only five years old, leaving- 
 a large family — six sons and a daughter. Much praise is due to their 
 mother for the excellent training which the children received, and she 
 met with an ample reward in their most tender devotion and attention to lier 
 to the very last. Lucius was sent first to Kenyon, and then to Yale, where 
 he entered the Class of 1832. His career there must have been a very 
 creditable one, as he received his diploma as Artium Magister, though 
 family-reasons had compelled him to leave some time before the close of 
 the com-se. [He received the degree of A.B. in 1833.] He became an 
 engineer, and rose to a respectable rank in his profession ; biit he finally 
 left it, as it kept him much from his family, and settled down quietly as a 
 farmer, in Hanover Co., Va., the forniov liome of his fiither-in-law, Di-. 
 Carter Berkeley of Edgewood. He married his wife, Catherine Frances 
 Berkeley, in the year 1832, and was much blessed with domestic felicity. 
 He survived this beloved wife <>uly a few years, and died Oct. 2Gtli, 1863, 
 leaving a family of seven children. 
 
 "The quiet of his happy home was rudely broken bv the mil to 
 arms to defend his native State from invasion in 18G1. Himself too old 
 
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 t(»r luilitan' service, he yliidly giive his two sons to tlie cause, whicli he 
 ardently supported, and which he was ha])])y in not surviving; for failure 
 would have been to him au incurable ill, though to us who are younger 
 it may be God's good pleasure to show how good may come out of evil. 
 In conclusion, I can truthfully say of him that he was a most faithful and 
 devoted husband and father, and a kind and generous master to the slaves 
 under his control, of whom those who survive still respect and honor his 
 memory." 
 
 [Cumiiiiiu. by a son. May, 1879.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *NEAL, ABNEIi, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1874. From Baltimore, Md. 
 
 "Abner Neal, son of a well known bookseller of Baltimore, Md., of 
 the same name, was born in tliat city Ang. 7, LSlO. He was married 
 Feb. 2, 1S37, to Rose E. White, daughter of Abraham White, Esq., also 
 of Baltimore. He was graduated at Yale College in 1832, and was one 
 of a luimber of the graduates of that year who contributed to the relief 
 of Alma Mater by voluntary subscriptions to a fund for extinguishing its 
 indebtedness. He read law Avith James Mason Campbell, a distinguished 
 lawyer of I^altimore, and practised law in that city until 1848, when he 
 removed to the town of Westminster, Carroll Co., Md., where he pursued 
 his profession until his death. He died Aug. 31, 1874. When West- 
 minster was erected into a city he was elected its first mayor, and that 
 office was held by him for some years. He was, also, for many years, 
 auditor of the Equity Court of (Jarroll Co." 
 
 [Oommun. by a brother.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 NUBLK, WILLIAM JIJ^NRV, A. 15. l.S;V2. 
 
 L'roin Eli-ubctlitdini, N. J. 
 Present address: (ieu. W. 11. Noble, Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 "AVilliain Ileiny Noble, son of Rev. Birdsey G. (Y. (J. 1810) and 
 Cluirlotte (Saiitbrd) Noble, was born Aug. 16, 1813, at Newtown, Conn., 
 the lionie of liis mother's family. Until he was fifteen years old he lived 
 with his parents at Middletown, Conn., durhig the hxst four of those years 
 being a pupil in Partridge's Military School. From there he went to Trin- 
 ity (then Washington) College in Hartford, Conn., and passed two years. 
 From 18;50 to 1832 he was at Yale, where he was graduated. For six 
 months after graduation he taught school at Stamford, Conn., then went 
 to Bridgeport, Conn., and studied law. In 1836 he was admitted to the 
 bar of Fairfield Co. ; and for many years he was clerk of the court and 
 State's attorney for that county. In 1839 he married Harriet J. Brooks, 
 daughter of Benjamin Brooks, Esq., of Bridgeport. He ran for Congress 
 in 1850, but was defeated. In 1851 he laid out East Bridgeport, and in 
 1852 reorganized and extended the operation, with P. T. Barnum, building 
 bridges, houses, factories, so laying the foundation of a great city. 
 
 "In 1860 he helped to organize the union-movement in Connecticut; 
 was commissioned in July, 1862, by Governor Buckingham, as Colonel 
 of the 17th Reg. Conn. Vol. ; went out Sept. 3d, destined to the Eleventli 
 Corps, Army of the Potomac ; was stopped by Gen. Wool at l^altimore, 
 and ordered to station at Fort Marshall for a uiontli and a half: was 
 sent thence to the defences of Washington, Fort Kearny and Tenallytown ; 
 thence to the Eleventh Corps at Gainesville, Va. : with the Eleventh Cor2)s 
 
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 MKMOUANDA. 
 
 ill reserve, moved uii l''iV(lerick.s))urj^', at Ikini.side'.s att;ick; passed the winter 
 of 1.S62-63 }it Stafford C'oiirt House and lirooks' Station, Va. ; was at the 
 battle of (lliancellorsville, under Howard (see (Jreeley's '('ontiict,' vol. ii, 
 (•lia|). K), |). '.'>n~( — liis tiie only rej^'inient named); was wounded in the 
 left ann by ii minie, severinj^' the main artery ; was ordered home by 
 surgeon Hubbard, medieal director of tlie Eleventh ( 'or[)s. He was at 
 Innne, wounded, forty davs on leave; then left to meet the advance 
 towards Gettysburg; was at ( letty sburg, on Cemetery-hill, the third day; 
 on the fourth day commanded a brigade which was moved in pursuit of Lee; 
 was at Hagerstown in face of the Confederates preparing to cross the Poto- 
 mac; continued the march into Virginia; thence was sent with Army Brig- 
 ade Eleventh Corps to South Carolina; was on MoitIs and Folly islands 
 about six months ; was at the siege of Sumter and Wagner, for a month, 
 daih' under fire; saw the first gun fired on Sumter, its walls powdered, aiul 
 Wagner surrendered ; was in trenches at Wagner, in command of reserves 
 and sup))orting force, with and without his regiment, many days. In 
 Feb., 1864, he went witli Ames' lirigade to Jacksonville, Fla. : was there 
 j)ut in command of brigade for about a month and a half; was in April, 
 18G4, assigned to the command of St. Augustine; was placed in command 
 of a brigade, and of all the countiy east of the river St. John's ; commanded 
 brigade at the capture and destruction of Baldwin, Fla. ; was sent, in 
 command of cavalry, artillery and four regiments, south to Sand Lakes, 
 and to cripple Cedar Keys railroad ; returned to Magnolia on the St. 
 John's ; commanded in the construction of fort and post at Magnolia, and 
 over forces there, and over the posts and forces east of St. John's, including 
 St. Augustine, in Aug. and Sept., 1864; was ordered during Sept., 1864, 
 with cavalry, infantry and artillery, by land and steamer, up the river St. 
 John's and Uunn Lake, to break up Confederate recruiting-stations, cap- 
 turing an organized company and many disloyal Floridians ; on the 24th 
 of Dec, 1864, Avas captured by rebel scouts between Jacksonville and St. 
 x4.ugustine, while returning across the country from attending a court 
 martial as witness ; was taken to Baldwin, thence to Tallahassee, to Chat- 
 tahoochee, up the river Chattahoochee to Columl)us, and to Macon ; at 
 
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 Macon was under parole ii inoiitli iiiid ;i liiili', in (*;nni) Oi^-lctlioi-ix^ : tlicnoe 
 went to Andersonville for a iiKintli and a lialt'; tlieiice, lor ext-liaii^o, by 
 rail and march across Georgia, Alabama and Mississij)))i, to Vicks])urg; 
 thence to St. Louis, in conmiand of eastern [jaroled Union-men; thence to 
 Annapolis in May, 1865, in conmiand of a thousand Union-soldiers fi'oni 
 rebel-prisons, to be mustered out. 
 
 "He then returned home, and suffered for many years from the ill- 
 health produced by exposure in all weathers and climates — a pensioner 
 for wounds. In June, 1805, he was bre vetted Brigadier General, on the 
 recommendation of General Grant. 
 
 "Since the war, he has devoted himself to the law, real-estate- 
 business, etc." 
 
 [Cominun. by liimself, Dec, 1878.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 NORTON, AUGUSTUS THEODOBE, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Cornwall, Conn. 
 Present address: Rev. Dr. A. T. Norton, Alton, 111. 
 
 Rev. Aiig'iistns Tlieodore Norton, one of the most eminent and distin- 
 guished Presbyterian clergymen of the West, son of Tlieodore and Mary 
 (Judd) Norton, was born in Cornwall, Litchfield Co., Conn., Mar. 28, 1808. 
 
 The original ancestor of the family in this country Avas Thomas Nor- 
 ton of Guilford, Conn., who emigrated to that colony from P^ngland in 
 1639, and was one of the first twenty -five planters of Guilford. 
 
 When only three months old he was deprived of his father. His 
 early life was darkened by sorrow, hardship and poverty ; when a child 
 he was sickly and delicate, but out-door exercise, farm-labor and boyish 
 games, of which he was extremely fond, gave him at length a firm consti- 
 tution ; and he became remarkable for physical vigor and strength. His 
 Christian life began in his fourteenth year, when he was at Litchfield, 
 Conn. At the age of seventeen he taught a district-school, for four 
 months, in Salisbury, Conn.; in the fall of 1826 his preparation for 
 college commenced. He was apt and quick at learning. He entered the 
 Freshman Class of Yale College in 1828, and was graduated witli lionor in 
 1832. After this he taught for two years an academy in Catskill, N. Y., 
 and at the same time read theology with Rev. Thomas Smith, paying- 
 particular attention to the study of the Hebrew, which, indeed, he had 
 commenced while in college, and has continued through all his subsequent 
 life. He was licensed to preach in Sept., 1834, and began his pastoral 
 labors with the Presbyterian clmrch of Windham, Greene Co., N. Y., Apr. 1, 
 
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 1835. Hat liis choice was for tlio field of tlie West, and lie removed to 
 Illinois in 1835. Jle labored in various places till Api'il, 1838, and then 
 accepted an invitation to St. Louis, where under his labors the Second 
 Presbyterian church was organized in the fall of that year. In Feb., 
 1839, he was called to tlie pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of 
 Alton, 111., a position which he retained for eighteen years, tlie cliiirch 
 growing and flourishing under his able and faithful leadership, and his 
 pastoral relations becoming most tender and endearing. In Sept., 1859, 
 he was appointed District Secretary of Church Extension and Home 
 Missions for the West ; and after the union of the Old and New School 
 Assemblies, in 1870, for the more limited field of the Synod of Illinois 
 South, which he still occupies. 
 
 In May, 1845, he originated, and for twenty-three years he edited and 
 published, the "Presbytery Reporter," a monthly, afterwards merged in the 
 "Cincinnati Herald." 
 
 His religious views are, and ever have been, thoroughly evangelical 
 and Calvinistic. Ecclesiastically he is, and has been through his whole 
 ministerial life, a Presbyterian from conviction and preference. 
 
 In many respects he is a remarkable man. He possesses all the strong 
 qualities of the best type of the Pmitan. He loves the truth with a 
 devotion that would make him a cheerful martyr, if need were. He is 
 an indefatigable worker with mind, will and body. Burdened during the 
 later years of his life with many and sore afflictions, his courage and 
 hopefulness have never failed hiui. He is a diligent student of the 
 original Scriptures, and of those works that aid in the critical study of 
 them. In his public addresses Dr. Norton never strives after mere orator- 
 ical effect. His power lies in the matter of his discoiu-se. A leading 
 attraction is its fearlessness. His sermons are models of scholarship and 
 logical acumen, rich in vai'ied information, and ever abreast, or in advance, 
 of the leading thought of the day. In Central and Southern Illinois his 
 usefulness for many years past has been more potent than that of any other 
 one man, in planting and nourishing Christian churches, and in sustaining 
 the interests of education and civil liberty. His friends have ever found 
 
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 him true iuid nnselfisli. Firimicss and gentleness an^ liaii|)il\ Mended in 
 liis character. 
 
 The degree of Doctor of Sacred Tlieology was conten-ed on liim by 
 Wabash College in 1H(JK. 
 
 In early life his political views were those of tlu^ old Federalist party; 
 then of the Whigs; then Hepuhlican ; always anti-slavery, hiiiing tlie 
 late civil war he preached patriotic sermons mi more tlian one Iiuii(h(Ml 
 occasions. 
 
 On the r2th of Nov., 1834, he mamed Eliza Rogers, daughter of Deacon 
 Noah Rogers, of Cornwall, Conn., a lineal descendant of Rev. John Rogers, 
 the first martyr in the reign of Bloody Mary; who still lives. They have 
 had five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom four are living : 
 the eldest son is the present editor of the "Alton Telegraph;" the youngest 
 is in Cape Town, 8. Africa, managing the "Standard and Mail." The two 
 sons have each two children. 
 
 [Abr. from United states Biographical Diet., Illinois Volume — Chicago, ete., 1876, pp. 302-4; with nntea 
 by him.self, Aug., 1878.— E. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 PATTERSON, JOHN STUAliT, A.M. 1879. 
 
 From Cincinnati, Olilo. 
 Present address : Judge J. S. Patterson, New York. 
 
 "Dec. 21, IS 78. 
 "My fatlier was SamiK'l Patterson, an eminent merchant in Cincinnati. 
 My mother, Mary (Stuart) Patterson. I was born in the town of Mercer, 
 Mercer Co., Pa., Feb. 19, 1812. In 1815 my parents removed to Cincin- 
 nati, where they afterwards hved and died. On the 8th of Dec, l.S,^5, I was 
 married to Emily Amanda Ball, youngest daughter of Flamen Ball (Y. C. 
 1787), who at the time of his death, and before, was an eminent chancery- 
 lawyer in New York City, and whose father was Rev. Eliphalet Ball (Y. C. 
 1748), of Ballston, N. Y. (formerly called Balltown), after whom the 
 village was named. It has always been a som-ce of regret to my wife, 
 that she could not say that her graiidtather, father and husband had all been 
 graduated at Yale. After leaving Yale in 1830, and being graduated at 
 Rutgers College, I studied law with my guardian, Hon. Bellamy Storer, in 
 Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1834. A year after 
 my admission I removed to Logansport, Ind., wliere I lived and practised 
 my profession until I removed to New York in 18;")2. While in Indiana 
 I was recorder of the city of Logansport, twice mayor, and prt)bate 
 judge for one term. After my removal to New York I entered into 
 partnership with my wife's uncle, the late Henry M. Western, Esq. In 
 1864 I was appointed by Gov. Fenton Judge of the Sixth District Court 
 of that city, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Barrett, who liad been 
 elected one of the judges of the Court of Connnon Pleas. I was nom- 
 
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 iiiated by tlie Rejmbliciins of my district for the term succeeding- fli(! one 
 I was filling ; bnt Tanniiany Hall and its adjunct the Emerald Isle were 
 too much for me, and I was defeated, tliougli running six hundred 
 ahead of my ticket in the district and the adjoining precinct in which I 
 resided." 
 
 [Letter liy liimself.] 
 
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 *PENA, AUXENCIO MARIA. 
 
 *1861. From Maraculbu, Colninbid, >S. A. 
 
 Auxenciu Maria Pefia, f^ou of SiuKHi and Maria Solidad (Ca!^tilla) Puna, 
 Wcas Lorn in Maracaibo, S. A., Dec. 17, 1811; and is believed to have 
 been sent to tlie United States for education when twelve or thirteen years 
 old. He entered Yale College in 1828, and ended his college-life in the 
 summer of 1829. In the autunui of the same year he sailed from New 
 Haven for Monument on Cape Cod Bay, went thence to Boston, and sailed 
 for St. Thomas, and from there for Maracaibo. Some time afterwards 
 he returned to the United States, and studied medicine in the Medical 
 Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a 
 diploma in 18o(). In the Philadelphia Directory of 1837 his name 
 appears as physician and druggist. He married, Nov. 17, 1835, Rachel 
 Lewis Reece of Philadelphia, and they removed to Maracaibo in 1837, 
 where he entered upon the practice of his profession, being for a time 
 interested in a drug-store which his grandfather and his fatlier liad, in 
 succession, conducted, but afterwards confining himself to the work of a 
 physician. In May, 1838, he spent a month in Canicas, and obtained a 
 diploma there. In 1X42 he re-visited Philadelphia, and there received a 
 diploma in dental surgery. In 1859 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., the 
 continual civil war in Venezuela seeming to have rendered him \\earv of 
 residing there. He died in Brooklyn, Nov. 6, 1861, of intlannnation of 
 the brain. . . . He liad no children. His widow resides in Philadelphia. 
 
 [Ciimiinin. liy his classmate S. C. B. from his widow, Ftb., 1S"9.] 
 
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 *PHYSI(;K, PHILIP. 
 
 *1848. From I'hUaddpltiu, Pa. 
 
 riiilip Pliysick, eldest son of Dr. Philip Syng Physick of Pliihidelpliiii, 
 by his wife Elizabeth, daug-hter of Samuel Euilen, Esq., of Philadel})hia, 
 was born in that city Nov. 12, 1807. He was prepared for college in liis 
 native city, and entered Yale College in 1828, but left in 1830, and was 
 married the same year, (,)ct. 2ot]i, to Caroline Eliza, daughter of Major 
 William Jackson, an Aide-de-camp to General .Washington. He read hiw 
 in the office of Charles Chauncey, Esq., of Philadelphi;i, and was admitted 
 to the bar in lS3(i, but never practised in the profession. His life was 
 occupied with the duties incumbent upon a Guardian of the Poor and a 
 Director of the Public Schools, together with others usual to a man of 
 independent fortune, enterprise and liberal ideas. Attached to pursuits 
 which called for activity and energy, he retired at an early period to a 
 farm near Philadelphia, within the corporate limits of Germantown ; 
 where, while a farmer, he was still a public-spirited citizen, always ready 
 to lend a helping hand towards the public weal ; his sympathies always 
 alive, liis common feeling with humanity always uppermost, he was in 
 fact a guardian of the poor by the very constitution of his nature. The 
 same elements of character were at work in him as a director of public 
 schools ; for his comprehensive affection for the human family made him, 
 in an enlarged sense, a leveller — not downwards, but upwards : he wished 
 all to possess the advantages which would be most likely to develop and 
 exhibit, as it should be seen, the human character : no one more perfectly 
 realized, under all circumstances, that man was his fellow-being. 
 
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 He was particularly fond of music, and excelled in talent for instru- 
 mental execution. 
 
 His personal appearance was prepossessing: being a man of good 
 height, full figure, with features well proportioned, regular and expressing 
 
 genial good natiu-e. 
 
 He had two children, a son (a youth of great promise) and a daughter, 
 both of whom died young. He died Feb. 7, 184.S; and his widow, 
 July 26, 1877. 
 
 [Coramun. by his classmate S. 0. B. from a nephew, Dec, 1818.1 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 PLUMMEK, ISAAC WILLIAM, A. 11 1S32. 
 
 From Glastonhury, CUmn. 
 Present address : Rev. I. W. Plummer, Norwicli, Conn. 
 
 Isaac William I'lunnner, son of Greorge Plummer (Y. C. 1804, A.M.), 
 and Anno Loekwood his wife, dangliter of Rev. William Lockwood (Y. C. 
 1774, A. M.), was born in Glastonbury, Conn., Sept. 19, l<sr2. In 
 preparation for college he studied with Rev. Dr. Joab Brace of New- 
 ington, the father of his college-classmate of that name. He spent the 
 year 1833 in studying medicine at Worcester, Mass. Graduated in 1837 
 from the Theological Seminary in New Haven, he was ordained to the 
 work of the ministry by the Congregational Association of Illinois in 
 1843; and for two years took charge of a small church in that State, 
 and afterwards spent a year in ministerial work in Western New York. 
 Although never quite an invalid physically, he was always disabled 
 mentally, so as never to bear more than a veiy limited amount of intel- 
 lectual activity ; and he has never been able to write or to dictate without 
 peculiar distress. Was married, Oct. 16, 1856, to Abby A. Morton of 
 Boston, Mass. He was most fortunate in his marriage to a lady eminently 
 suited to his quiet habits, whom he loved and honored increasingly as time 
 went on, till she died in the peace of God, Nov. 27, 1874. He spent 
 most of the years 1873 and 1874 In Boston ; and has since resided at 
 Norwich, Conn. Has had five children, two sons nnd three daughters, all 
 now living. 
 
 [('onimiin. liy himself, Aug., 1H80.] 
 
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 MEMOKANLIA. 
 
 *i'()LK, ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 
 
 *1830. From lialdgh, N. C. 
 
 Alexander Hainiltoii Polk was Ijorn in Tennessee, Sejtt. 10, ISlO, 
 whilst liis fatliei' and mother were on a visit to that State ; and died in 
 Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 8, 1830. His father, Col. William Polk, was a 
 colonel in the army of the Revolntion, and was severely wounded on 
 several occasions — an old Federalist, as the name of liis son might 
 suggest. His grandfather was Thomas Polk, who read the "Mecklenhurg 
 Declaration" to the assembled crowd, from the Court House steps, in 
 Charlotte, N. C, May 22, 1775. "He was remarkably well developed, 
 with an immense black beard, and as handsome a man as I ever saw. He 
 returned from the North with a well marked case of consumption, and by 
 the advice of physicians went to Tallahassee for the winter. He returned 
 home in the spring much emaciated, and died in the fall. He was a most 
 excellent young man, beloved by all who knew him, especially by the 
 young men of his age. I was a lad of eleven years when I attended his 
 funeral, and remember his brother Bishop Polk attempted to read the 
 church-burial-service, and broke down in the eifort ; the services were 
 suspended for some minutes, the whole congregation being in tears, some 
 weeping aloud. The services taking place in the dining-saloon of the 
 Polk mansion, the war-scarred veteran of Germantown, Guildford and 
 Eutaw, his father, sat at the head of the coffin, and, at this manifestation 
 of grief from his neighbors and friends, though as stolid as a statue, gave 
 vent to his feelings and wept bitterly." 
 
 [Commun. by a sister, and by a cousin.] 
 
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 MEMOBANIM. 
 
 *l'OWER, WILLIAM, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1852. From Baltimore, 31(1. 
 
 William Power, son of John and Anna Power, was born in 1.S13, and 
 died in Baltimore, Ang. 15, 1852. The year after his graduation he com- 
 menced, in the office of Dr. John Buckler, a course of medical study which 
 until the last year of his life he never ceased zealously to pursue. In 1834 
 he entered, as a resident student, the Baltimore Almshouse Hospital, that 
 institution of which he was destined to become, in later years, the most 
 distinguished ornament. After graduation in medicine, and performing his 
 hosjiital-duties with ability and zeal, he determined to increase his knowl- 
 edge by a course of study and observation in Europe, a step of which, at 
 that time, there were but few examples in his native cit3^. In the midst of 
 the scientific turmoil of which Paris was then the seat, he was animated 
 by an ardent and stedfast enthusiasm for his profession, constant and 
 unwearied in attendance at the hospitals, laboi'ious in I'ecording his 
 observations, intelligent and discriminating in his discussions of the daily 
 lessons of Louis and Chomel, Andral and Rostan, Grisolle and Barth ; 
 and with his astute and penetrating genius profited largely by frequenting 
 the schools of the Society of Observation. Inmiediately on his return 
 home he sought and obtained the post of resident physician in the 
 Almshouse Hospital, and oidy relinquished it when, after nine months' 
 service, he was appointed visiting physician to the same institution. In 
 1841 and 1842 he delivered two courses of lectures on the physical 
 exploration of the chest, at the Baltimore Infirmary, and under the 
 auspices of the Faculty of the University. His health had now become 
 
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 precarious, and lie felt obligud to ((iiit his post, l)oth as cliiiicul teacher and 
 as lecturer, nor did lie resume liis (hitics till l.Sil. In 1845 he was 
 api)oiuted Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the Uni- 
 versity of Maryland. The influence of Dr. Power over the young men 
 who, as students or assistant physicians, followed his daily instructions, 
 was unbounded : one and all caught somewhat of the enthusiasm which 
 inspirited their teacher, and stayed him against tlie crushing weight of 
 disease ; while his whole system of analytical study, as he had learned it 
 from the ablest teacliers of Europe, attracted and delighted all of the 
 maturer and best furnished minds among liis hearers, and gradually raised 
 up a class of ardent cultivators of medical science, which has already 
 given to the world some of the fruits of his instruction. The confidence 
 he inspired was boundless, for, did he make a wrong diagnosis, or misstate 
 a fact, he was the first to admit it, when discovered, and to acknowledge 
 his error. In dealing with the errors and follies of medical systems, while 
 he held truth to be more valuable than ingenuity — a principle which 
 governed his own teachings — he was careful not to forget the claims of 
 charity. On the 14th of Oct., 1847, he married Elizabeth daughter of 
 Judge William Frick of Baltimoi'e ; and he continued to perform his 
 professional duties, with animation and a good degree of vigor, until at 
 length the disease which had so long been baffled by skill and sedulous 
 attention, gave signs that it was obtaining the mastery. During the 
 winter of 1851-52 he was unable to perform his public duties, and in 
 February resigned his professorship. Contented with his share of worldly 
 success, without a syllable of complaint at the disappointment of his 
 hopes, he could still take interest in the science which he loved. Resigned 
 and cheerful, he awaited with patience, yet with sti'ong desii'e, the moment 
 of his departure ; for, while he longed for a release from suffering, he did 
 not disdain the world in which he had been fitted for a better. He had 
 great love for music, which was particularly a pleasure and solace to him 
 dui'ing the last hours of his illness. Ardently devoted to his profession, 
 as we have said, he was yet a man of varied information and extensive 
 reading. As a friend he was sincere and constant ; as a man, noble in 
 
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 his aims, pure in liis nicaiis ; a sconier of tlie falser mid IkiIIow, a lover of 
 the real and true. True to Heaven and luunan duty, he liv(;(l respected 
 even by those who did not share his love, and died as they should 
 die who see beyond the grave an innnortality of knowledge and 
 blessedness. 
 
 [Commim. by a sister-in-law, mostly abr. from a medical journal.] 
 
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 *PRENTICE, CHARLES THERON, A.B. 1832. 
 
 *1863. From Canaan, Conn. 
 
 "Cliarles Theroii Prentice died at Canaan, Coini., Oct. 18, 180.",, 
 aged 58. lie was tlio son of Rev. Cliarles (Y. C. 1802) and Clarinda 
 (Kasson) Prentice, and was born in Canaan, Conn., March Ml, 1805. After 
 leaving college he engaged in teaching- in Bridgeport, Conn. ; and at the 
 same time prepared himself for the ministry, under the tuition of the Rev. 
 T)r. TTowitt. In June, 1836, he was settled as pastor of the Congregational 
 church in the parish of North Fairfield (then part of the town of Weston), 
 now the town of Easton, Conn. Here he faithfully performed the duties 
 of a pastor until 1851, when he was released from his charge. From that 
 time till his death he continued to reside in Easton. For several years 
 after his dismission he taught either a family-school or the academy of 
 the town ; but for the last few years of his life he was chiefly engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits. He was very useful as a citizen and a Chi'istian, 
 and left upon all who knew him the impression of strict integrity of 
 character. He married Miss Harriet Ensign of Canaan, Apr. 28, 1S35, 
 and left a widow and an adopted daughter." 
 
 [From Obit. Rec. etc., No. 5 of the printed series.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 READ, CHARLES HENRY. 
 
 From Sharon, Conn. 
 Present address : Rev. Dr. C. H. Read, Riclimond, Va. 
 
 "Rev. Charles H. Read, U.l)., pastor of the Grace Street Presbyterian 
 Church of Richmond, Va., at the time of this writing-, and a resident of 
 that city for nearly thirty years, was born in Redding, Fairfield Co., 
 Conn., Nov. 12, 1811, tlie son of Aaron and Maria Read. At seven years 
 of age his family-residence was removed to Sharon, Litclifield Co., Conn. 
 The academy at Sharon, as tlien managed, was one of the best in the 
 State. Here the subject of this notice pursued studies preparatory to 
 entering college. His college-course was interrupted by serious illness, but 
 this abndgment and loss were in good measure compensated for by 
 determination and avidity in the prosecution of his studies in private. He 
 studied theology at Princeton, N. J., was licensed by the Presbytery of 
 Troy in the summer of 1843, and was ordained and installed pastor of the 
 Pearl Street Presbyterian Church in the city of New York, in December 
 of that year. In i\Iarch, 1S41I, he accepted a call to Richmond, Va., and 
 was installed pastor of the church then known as the United Presbyterian 
 Church on Schockoe Hill, which had been made vacant by tlie removal of 
 its honored pastor, Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, D.D., to the Mercer Street 
 Church in New York. The United Presbyterian Church was consumed 
 by the great fire in Richmond in April, 1865 ; a new, substantial and 
 beautiful house of worship was built (largely by the personal efforts of 
 the pastor in soliciting funds, far and wide) upon a new site, on the corner 
 of Grace and Fom-th streets — the name being changed to Grace Street 
 
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 Presbyterian (Jluircli. In the coiiflag'ration the lecture-room and study, 
 witli the library of the pastor, and all his manuscripts (the work ot" nearly 
 thirty years) were utterly destroyed. Of course it required no small 
 degree of courage to rise, build and work on, after such a loss and pros- 
 tration. The cliiirch and congregation were held together; the new 
 edifice rose as from the ashes; the pastor stood by his flock and to his 
 work ; the people supported his heart and hands ; and at the time of 
 this writing the church has three hundred and fifty communicants and a 
 vigorous Sabbath-school, and bears its part in the benevolent activities 
 of the day. 
 
 "The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon the subject of 
 this notice by Delaware College, on the 2d of July, 1856. 
 
 "In a ministrv, now, of more than thii'ty-five years, the subject of this 
 notice has enjoyed most kind and confidential relations with his people, and 
 with brethren in the Christian ministry in his own and other denominations. 
 In 18")! his health became impaired, but a sea- voyage and a tour in Eiu'ope, 
 recommended by his physicians, proved decidedly and permanently bene- 
 ficial ; and, with that brief exception, his pastoral labors have been 
 constant, laborious aaid crowned with a good measure of success. He 
 was married, July 3, 1834, to Tryphena L. Walker, daughter of Rev. Elna- 
 thau Walker, for many years a successful pastor of the Congregational 
 church in Homer, N. Y. Of three children two are living : the eldest, 
 Mrs. Emma R. Ball, is the wife of Judge Charles B. Ball of Leesburg, 
 Lovidoun Co., Va., a great grandnephew of George Washington ; the 
 other is a son, who bears his father's name." . . . 
 
 [Commun. by himself, Jan., 1S79,] 
 
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 *KKE]), EDWARD. 
 
 *1863. From Coxsackic, N. Y 
 
 "Edward Uced was bum at Coxsackie, N. Y., Oct. ol, 1812. Leaving 
 Yale in 1830 lie received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers 
 College in 1832. He completed the full course of study at the General 
 Theological Seminaiy in New York, June 2yth, 1838 ; and was ordained 
 a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church by liishop Onderdonk, at 
 Athens, Greene Co., N. Y., in July of the same year. He was ordained 
 presbyter by Bishop Otey at Lagrange, Tenn., in 1S40. Removing to 
 South Carolina a year or t\\o later he was married, Oct. 31, 1843, to Miss 
 Julia Blocker of Edgefield Co., S. C, he being at that time rector of the 
 church at Grahamville, S. C. At the convention of the Episcopal Cluu'ch 
 which met in Charleston, S. C, in May, 1853, to elect a Bishop, he was 
 the candidate of the Low Chiu'ch party. At the close of the first day's 
 ))all(iting he had received twenty-one clerical, and fourteen lay, votes; 
 Mr. -Shoud, liis opponent, twenty-twn) clerical, and fourteen lay, votes; 
 but, the second day showing it to be impossible to come to a choice, a new 
 candidate, a Mr. Davis of Camden, was elected. Writing to my mother 
 under date of May 7th he says: 'I am sm-e I need not tell you that, so far 
 as I am concerned personally, I feel no disappointment. My own election 
 would have perplexed, and on some accounts distressed, me beyond 
 measure, and I am heartily thankful that another has been chosen. The 
 support I received from my bretlu'en has been very gratifying to me. I 
 received an amount which was wholly unexpected. It has knit ni}^ heart 
 more to my brethren, and will, I trust, be a motive to more labor and 
 
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 watclit'uluetss iu the uiiui.stiy.' In tlie spriiij^' of 1855, liis lie;iltli liiiviiiy 
 failed, the cong-reg-atioii of St. Mark's, (jlareiidoii, of wliich he was at that 
 tune rector, sent him to Europe for the l)ene(it of his liealth. He sailed 
 from New York on the lllth of May, and returned during the latter part 
 of August, having visited England, France, Switzerland, etc. In 1851J he 
 was professor of Hebrew in tlie Theological Seminary that was opened at 
 Camden, S. C. His health was never strong, and he was compelled to 
 make frequent changes of climate on that account, but he almost inv^a- 
 riably spent the summer at Flat Rock, N. C, where he had charge of the 
 Church of St. John in the Wilderness. The state of the country pre- 
 vented his returning to the low country, to the charge of Prince William's 
 parish, in the winter of 1862, and he died at Flat Rock, Jan. 15, 1863, and 
 is buried there." 
 
 [Commun. by a sou.] 
 
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 SALISBURY, EDWARD ELBBIDGE, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Boston, Mass. 
 
 Present address : Prof. E. E. Salisbuky, New Haven, of Lyme, Conn. 
 
 Edward P^lbridge Salisbury, son of Josiah (H. C. 1798) and Aliig-ail 
 (Breese) Salisbury, was born Apr. 6, 1814, in Boston, ]\lass., tlie home 
 of English ancestors of liis, in difterent lines, for several generations. On 
 his mother's side, a daughter of Judge Samuel Breese of Shrewsbury, 
 N. J., he is of Huguenot descent. As a boy, he was mostly taught 
 at liome, liv liis father, who, with scliolarly tastes and acquisitions, 
 widened and improved by foreign travel and study, devoted his leisure to 
 the education of his children. This liome-education, however, united with 
 excessive carefulness on the part of an anxious mother, especially after 
 his father died, when he was only twelve years old, had counterbalancing- 
 disadvantages which have been felt through life. liis ])reparation for col- 
 lege was completed at the Latin School in Boston, under tlie late Freder- 
 ick P. Leverett. After graduation, high in rank j^et very imperfectly 
 educated, he spent one year in private studies, and the three follow ing- 
 in studying theology at New Haven. In the spring of 1836 he married his 
 first cousin Abigail Salisbury Philliiis, daughter of Edward Phillips, Esq., 
 of Boston, and immediat(dy afterwards went to Europe for travel and 
 study. He remained abroad l)etween three and four years, and during 
 that time was led bv previous Hebrew studies to adopt the oriental 
 lield of research for special cuUivation. He studied with De Sacy and 
 Garcin de TassA in Paris, ami with Bopp in Berlin: and wdien, on the 
 death of De Sac\', liis lihrary was sold, he improved the opportunit\ to
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 secure some of its treasures for liis native land. In 11S41 tlie President 
 and Fellows of Yale College voted: "Whereas the Aru])ie and Hanskrit 
 languages are original and leading languages of the P]astern nations, and 
 the study of them is acf|uiring increasing importance on account of our 
 missionary efforts, and commercial intercourse with those regions, and also 
 has imi)nrtant bearings on our own language and literature, as well as on 
 the history of the world," that a professorship of the Arabic and Sanskrit 
 languages be established in the college ; and Mr. Salisbmy was appointed 
 to this professorship, "to give such instruction, from time to time, as may 
 suit his convenience, without the expectation of pecuniary compensation. 
 . . ." Accepting this appointment, he went again to Europe in 1842, 
 spent a winter in IJoini, reading Sanskrit with Lassen and attending 
 lectures, and on his return was inaugurated, delivering at this time an 
 "Inaugural Discourse on Arabic and Sanskrit Literatm'e," which was 
 afterwards privately printed. He never felt, however, that it was his 
 vocation to teach, and therefore could not do justice to the object of the 
 College in his appointment. Accordingly, in the year 1854, the name of 
 William D. Whitney (who began his oriental studies with him) having 
 already become distinguished, both at home and abroad, as one destined to 
 contribute much to the advancement of oriental learning, Mr. Salisbury 
 was glad to retire in his favor, making a provision for him as professor of 
 Sanskrit in Yale, which he afterwards increased to a full professor's foun- 
 dation, adding to that, later, the gift of his oriental library to Yale 
 College, together with funds for its increase. His own official connection 
 with Yale ceased in 1856. In 1857 he visited Europe a third time, for one 
 year. 15ut meanwhile he had become the Corresponding Secretary of the 
 American Oriental Society ; and for several years, in that capacity, he 
 labored to make its Journal the vehicle of some valuable contributions to 
 the Avorld's stock of oriental knowledge, as well as for the general pros- 
 perity of the Society — nor wholly without success, due in large measure 
 to the co(»peration of learned American missionaries. On the death of Dr. 
 Edward Robinson, in I8G3, he was made President of the Society, 
 Professor Whitney taking his place as corresponding secretary. He has 
 
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 published a nuiiil)(_n' of papers on oriental subjects in the "Joui'iial of tlie 
 Am. Oriental Society," more as an amateur-student, however, than as 
 a master with authority. Some literary subjects of more j^eueral 
 intei'est have been treated by liim in articles of the "New Eng'lander;" 
 and he lias privately printed a paper on the Diodati genealogy (a topic 
 of interest to him from his present wife's descent from a brother of Charles 
 Diodati the friend of Milton), read before the New Haven Colony His- 
 torical Society in 1875; also, a lecture on the "Principles of Domestic 
 Taste," delivered in the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1877. The "Yale 
 College," ])ublished by Holt & Co., New York, in 1879, contains a bio- 
 graphical and historical paper by him on the Trumbull Gallery. 
 
 In 1838 he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Paris; in 
 1839, a mend)er of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 
 1848, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston ; 
 in 1855, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and 
 Belles Lettres at Constantinople ; in 1859, a corresponding member of the 
 German Oriental Society ; in 18(11, a mendjer of the American Antiqua- 
 rian Society; and in 18(19 received the degree of Doctor of Laws from 
 Yale College. 
 
 On his first return from Europe in 1839 he was the fiither of an only 
 child, a beloved daughter named ]\Iary Phillips, who was born in Geneva, 
 Switzerland, Aug. 1, 1837, and died Apr. 5, 1875, in Charleston, S. C, 
 whither she had gone for her health, which had been always frail. Her 
 mother died Dec. 13, 1869. He was in P]urope again, for the fourth 
 time, in 1870-71 ; and, on the 23d of Nov., 1871, after his return, he 
 married Evelyn McCurdy, only child of Judge Charles J. McCurdy (Y. C. 
 1817) of Lyme, Conn., by whom his liome and life are now enriched and 
 brightened. From his early years down to the present time he lias owed 
 more than can be here expressed to the domestic charities, togetlier with 
 otlier precious influences and oi)portunities, unworthily as they have been 
 appropriated and improved, which, liy the blessing of (iod, liave come to 
 him as a husband and a father. 
 
 He now divides his time between his residence in New Haven and the 
 
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 colonial ancestral homestead of his venerable father-in-law in Lyme; 
 where rural smroundin^s, with books at hand, the social I'cfinements of a 
 rare New Enj^land \illage, and the constant example, at home, of vigorous 
 and active old ag-e, beautified by a noble presence, sparkling wit, keen 
 intelligence and the gentle Christian graces, contend with the old attrac- 
 tions to him of tlie university-town. 
 
 [K. K. S., Sept., 1880.] 
 
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 *8Ai;rKR, THOMAS aAllDlNEU. 
 
 *1872. From Muiisjivbl, Conn. 
 
 "Thomas Gardiner Salter, son of John and Mar}- (Williams) Salter, 
 was born at Mansfield, Conn., Ajiril 1, 1810. He was ba})tized in a 
 Presbyterian church by his maternal uncle, pastor of the j)arish. Having- 
 completed his preparatory studies at Ellington, Conn., he entered Yale 
 College in Oct., 1828. He left Yale quietly, but suddenly, in the year 1830, 
 and was received at Rutgers College, N. J. Having- been subjected to a 
 thorough examination, he entered the Junior Class, and was graduated in 
 the autumn of 1832. In 1833, and during part of 1834, his health being- 
 somewhat impaired, he travelled with a friend, both for recreation and 
 recovery. His improvement in health was such that in the fall of 1834 
 he entered the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, 
 and having finished the prescribed course of three years he was graduated 
 with his class in 1837. Having- been ordained deacon by Bishop Brownell 
 of Connecticut at Christ Church, Hartford, on the 16th of Dec, 1838, he 
 soon after took charge of Grace Church in Utica, N. Y., ^vhicll had been 
 organized the 21st of May of the same year. He remained here a few 
 months, and in Nov., 1839, was engaged to supply the pulpit of the 
 church in Lonsdale, R. I., until the following Easter. He received priest's 
 oi'ders from Bishop Griswold of the Eastern Diocese, at the parish-chiu-ch 
 of Lonsdale, Dec. 18, 1839. On the 21st of March, 1841, he took charge 
 of St. Stephen's parish in East Haddam, Conn., where he remained until 
 Nov. 26, 1842. From June 14, 1844, to Mar. 30, 1845, he ministered at 
 
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 tlie cliurcli ill Nantucket, Mass., and during liis residence here he married 
 Miss Mary, thiughter of Hon. Timothy Gardiner Coffin of New Bedford, 
 by whom lie had six cliildren. In 1847 he was settled over St. Thomas' 
 Church in Dover, N. II., and continued in charge of the parish until 
 July 1st, 18(!1. While in Dover Mr. Salter was a member of the Standing 
 Committee of New Hampshire, from 1850 to 1860. He was also a deputy 
 to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church from New Hampshire 
 in 1853-r)6. Receiving the a])pointment of chaplain in the United States 
 Navy, he resigned the rectorship of St. Thomas', and until the day of his 
 death, Feb. 2r)th, 1872, he remained in the Navy — taking charge, however, 
 of his old parish in Dover for a year, during a furlough in 1864, without 
 salary. 
 
 "As a boy, he was noted tVtr liis high spirits, his generous nature, and his 
 deeply religious character. He was thoroughly popular among his fellows. 
 At the parish-school, where he received his elementary training, the West- 
 minster Catechism was prescribed to be studied, as well as the common 
 brandies ; and the pastor of the parish, in his weekly visits, examined the 
 classes in that book, marked their proficiency, gave explanations of 
 difficult passages, and adapted his instructions to his youthful listeners. 
 Such a mode of teaching, and the almost daily religious counsels of a 
 pious and devoted mother, rapidly developed and sti'engthened the lad's 
 naturally religious bent. But his views, educated as he had been in the 
 strictest of Scotch Presbyterianism, underwent, at a later period, a great 
 and material cliange, leading him to accept the government of the 
 Episcojial ('luirch ; and after his graduation at Rutgers College, and 
 his return from his travels, he decided to enter the ministry of that 
 Church. 
 
 " Little is known of his earlier ministrations in the various parishes he 
 served, but the few members still living hold him in aflPectionate remem- 
 brance. While at East Haddam he met with a severe accident, which 
 caused a terrible shock to his nervous sj^stem, and serious trouble in the 
 head. It was fully a year before he was restored to his usual health. 
 
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 His labors in Dover, and tlie esteem in wliicli he was held, may be best 
 learned from tlie following copy of tlie resolutions passed at the time of 
 his resignation: 
 
 '&' 
 
 '" At a meeting of the Wardens and Vestry of St. Thomas' (,'lnirdi, held on the 
 lJ3tli day of April, A. D. 1801, tlie following resolutions were nnaiumonsly passed : 
 
 " ' ResoVoed, that we receive the resignation of our beloved rector with deep regi-et, 
 and contemplate with pain the sundering of those ties which, for fourteen years, have 
 hound us so harmoniously together; that we appreciate his self-saeriticing devotion to 
 this comparatively feeble parish for such a long series of years, and his useful labors 
 in the cause of religion, of general education and of the social interests of our whole 
 community ; that believing our loss to be his good, we ought not to withhold him 
 from that honorable, patriotic and wider tield of service to which our national govern- 
 ment has called him. And we tender to him our ardent wishes and prayers for a long- 
 future of health, hapjiiness and usefulness. 
 
 " ' Resolved, that the clerk be requested to send a copy of the foregoing resolutions 
 to Kev. Mr. Salter.' 
 
 "After four years at sea he was stationed on shore, at Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 New Loudon, Conn., and Charlestown, Mass., at which latter place he 
 died. He was on board the 'Minnesota,' at the time of her being nearly 
 destroyed by a torpedo, otf the Southern coast, during the late war be- 
 tween the States. The shock was severe, and, it is thought, unsettled his 
 system. He was also sutfering from dyspepsia, which considerably enfee- 
 bled his health. 
 
 "On the morning of his death, he, who had always been the very 
 soul of punctuality, did not appear at breakfast after the gong-call. Tlie 
 naval surgeon went to his room at the National House (his family being 
 absent at New London), nnd found (Jhaplain Salter lying insensible on the 
 floor near his bed. He recovei-ed consciousness, after being placed upon 
 a bed, siifficiently long to recognize two intimate friends, then rela])sed, 
 and remained unconscious till he passed quietly away at 3 p. m. of the 
 same day. He died with his harness on, for the room proved that he had 
 made every preparation for the public services at the Navy Yard. His 
 Book of Common Prayer and his sermon were ready, biit 7«.9 gong-call 
 
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 sounded to no other ears. His funeral was conducted at St. John's 
 Church, by the Rev. Dr. Lambert the rector, after which tlie Ijody was 
 taken to New Bedford, to be buried beside tlie two chikb-en who had 
 preceded him into the heavenly kingdom. 
 
 "Chaplain Salter was a thoroughly Christian gentleman. Ilis large- 
 heartedness and sj^mpathetic nature won for him the warm aft'ection of 
 parishioners and friends. In the Navy he was highly esteemed. He was 
 an excellent preacher and a true pastor. His manner and .spirit in 
 preaching made a good impression ; and being more brilliant than deep 
 his instructions were best adapted to promiscuous congregations. He was 
 not great, but good and true, with large nobleness of mind." 
 
 [Commun. by his widow, from a brother. May, 1879.] 
 
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 SAUNDERSON, HENBY HAMIUTON. 
 
 From Hollis, N. H. 
 Present address : Kev. II. II. Saundeeson, Swanzey, N. H. 
 
 "Feb. 18, 1879. 
 "Henry H. Saunderson, son of Jonathan and Lucy (Poole) Sann- 
 derson, was born in Hollis, N. H., Sept. 12, 1810. After leaving college 
 in my Junior-year I devoted about three years to study. Then, deciding 
 that I did n(it wish to enter any of the so-called professions, I established 
 myself in the vicinity of Philadelphia as a teacher of nuisic, to which art 
 I had given particular attention. After teaching about a year I opened 
 rooms in the city, where I remained till 1837; in the summer of whicli year, 
 my health having failed, I returned to my paternal home in New Hampshire, 
 and there remained till 1839. A change in my religious views having 
 then taken place, I deternuned to enter the ministry. With this object I 
 entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., where I was graduated 
 in 1842. I spent several months in supplying different churches, when I 
 returned to Andover, and remained about two years as a resident graduate. 
 In the autunni of 184:5 I went to Michigan, and supplied the Presbyterian 
 church at Yj)silanti; in 1S47 returned to New England; and early in 1848 
 commenced preaching in Ludlow, Vt., and was pastor of the church from 
 April, 1848, to 1853. I was acting pastor of the church in Wallingford, 
 Vt, from May, 1853, to May, 1862 ; acting pastor of the church in Lud- 
 low from 1862 to 1864. From Ludlow I received a call to Charlestown, 
 N. H., where I remained twelve years. I was minister of the church, 
 however, only nine years ; after which the town invited me to write their 
 
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 history, and I yjivc up preaching' for tlio time, i'or tliat piii-pose.* ... I 
 al.so wrote, while in Charlestown, a liistorv of Wallhigford, Vt. 1 came 
 liere [to Svvanzey, N. H.] in May, 1877, and liave a pleasant parish. 1 
 \\ ill add that my life has been a pleasant one, burdened by comparatively 
 few cares. My home has been among the happiest, aiitl 1 have been 
 fortunate in my parishes, having invariably had good ones. . . . 
 
 "I have had two children, a daughter who died an infent hi 1851, and 
 a son, born in 1852, who was graduated from the Scientific Department of 
 Dartmouth College m 1873." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
 * History of Charlestown, New Hampshire . . . with (Teneah)gies anil Sketches of 
 Families, from its Settlement to 1876. T'2G pages, illustr. with heliotypes. By the liev. 
 II. II. Saimderson. Charlestown. 
 
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 SCHLEY, GEOIiGE, A. M. 1879. 
 
 From FredericJi, Md. 
 Present address : Hon. G. Schley, Ilagerstown, Md. 
 
 "George Schley was born in Frederick, Md., Jan. 27th, 1S1;5. His 
 parents were Frederick Augustus and Ehza Asbury Schley. The latter, 
 who was a daughter of James McCannon, Esq., of Baltimore, died 
 suddenly in 181G, leaving two sons, who were reared by their father and 
 a slave woman, owned by their father, whom the children always called 
 Aunt Polly, even after they had grown to be men. Their father was a 
 pupil in the law of Chief Justice Taney, with whom he liad a life-long 
 intimacy and friendship. His practice was very large and lucrative, in 
 the counties of Frederick, Washington and Allegany, and he. was one of 
 Maryland's most distinguished jurists and advocates, severely logical in 
 legal argument, and easy, graceful and forcible in elocution before a jvuy. 
 His memory had at command a treasure of poetry which he occasionally 
 • quoted in his public addresses with marked effect, and he possessed in 
 a preeminent degree the ' suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.' He was, 
 also, a man of commanding- stature, of about six feet and two inches. His 
 fame, like that of most lawyers, has died with the generation to which he 
 belonged ; yet the Maryland Reports contain many of his arguments 
 before the Court of Appeals, which still attest his legal research, ability 
 and acumen. 
 
 "George Schley was the eldest child of his fatlier. He was prepared 
 for college at the Frederick Academy and at a private school near Fred- 
 erick, then kept and taught by the late Rev. Jonathan Woodbridge of 
 
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 Massachusetts. In 1829 he entered the Sophomore Class of Yale College. 
 His father accompanied him and the late John J. Steiner to the college, 
 and was present at their examination for admission by Professors Kingsley 
 and Sillimau. l^oth of tlie young men, being very ambitious and to a 
 certain extent rivals, were at first a little nervous, but were relieved by 
 Professor Kingsley's interrupting the examination, on the reading of the 
 words in the first book of the Aeneid: 'et mens sibi conscia recti,' to tell the 
 story of two rival shoemakers, one of whom had hung up a new sign with 
 those words upon it, given to him by a friendly scholar, whereupon his com- 
 petitor, not meaning to be outdone, got up his new sign, also, with the words 
 'mens and ivomerh conscia recti' upon it! This pleasantry restored the equi- 
 librium of the young men, and the examination proceeded to the satisfaction 
 of all concerned. After leaving Yale, under circumstances which need 
 not here be recapitulated, he spent two years and a half at the University 
 of Virginia, where he was graduated in the Schools of Ancient and Modern 
 Languages. Thereupon, shnply in pursuit of science, he studied and prac- 
 tised chemistry at Baer's Chenncal Works in Carroll County, Md., for six 
 or seven months. Then he read law in his father's office in Frederick, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1837, and commenced the practice of law in Fred- 
 erick. Within a very few months after he opened his office he Avas much 
 astonished bv the announcement to him that he had been nominated for 
 the Leo-islature. His astonishment may be imagined when it is stated that 
 he did not even know that a political convention was being held, or that 
 his name had ever Ijeen mentioned in that connection. That year, how- 
 ever, the party (Wliig) was defeated ; the next year he was i-e-noniinated 
 and elected. After the adjournment of the Legislatm-e, in May, 1839, he 
 removed to Hagerstown, and in June of the same year was married to 
 Mary S. Hall, daughter of Thomas B. Hall, Esq., who was bred to the 
 law, but had died years before. In 1850 he was nominated for, and 
 elected to, a convention for the reform of the constitution of Maryland, and 
 took an active part in its proceedings. In 1852 he was nominated for the 
 Senate of Maryland, and was elected, and ser\ed as Senator during the 
 sessions of 1854 and 1856. He was chairman of the most important 
 
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 conmiittees of that luxly, and cliaii'inan of tlic joint coiinnittee of the 
 two houses upon the reform of conveyancing, civil jjroceediiig.s and 
 pleadings. In 18(!2 lie was nominated for Congress, luit declined the 
 nomination. Since that time he has confined himself to the practice 
 of his profession. He was nominated for judge in 1872, hut, owing 
 to pride of county-feeling that prevailed in one of the counties of the 
 district, lu; failed of election. His reputation as a lawyer is local, and 
 his arguments can only be known by those conversant with the Maryland 
 Reports. In 1873 be was elected president of the First National Bank of 
 Hagerstown, a })osition which be still holds. 
 
 "His family consisted of tliree daughters and a son. The latter was 
 graduated in medicine at the University of Maryland, and immediately 
 thereafter was elected by the Facult)' to be Clinical Assistant. In the 
 discbarge of his duties be contracted malignant typhus fever, and died 
 after five days of sickness. Two of the daughters are married. ... In 
 January last Mrs. Scbley died suddenly in Boston, Mass., while on a visit 
 to a daughter who resides there; and the billows of a desolating aftliction 
 rolled over him." 
 
 [Letter by himself, Sept., ISSO.] 
 
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 SEYMOUR, WALTER WELLES, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Wethersfield, Conn. 
 Present address : "W. W. Seymour, Esq., French's Hotel, New York. 
 
 "Walter Welles Seymour, son of Ashbel and Mary (Lowrey) Seymour, 
 was born in Newington (formerl)^ a parish of Wethersfield), Conn., Feb. 
 23, ISOrj. His early life was spent on tlie farm and in the connnoii schools. 
 His studies preparatory to a collegiate course were under the guidance of 
 Rev. Joab Brace, D.D., the pastor of the Congregational church in 
 that 2^hice. Soon after graduation he commenced reading law in the 
 office of Hon. H. Z. Hayner, continuing it afterwards in the office 
 of Cushman & Seymour of Troy, N. Y. ; and in the winter of 1834 
 attended lectures at the New Haven Law School. In 1835 he was 
 admitted an attorney at law, and began the practice of the profession in 
 Troy, where he continued in it until IS.of). From that time to 1859 he 
 was not in business. Since then, up to the present time, lie has been 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits in Hlinois, residing there about four years, 
 and, with that exception, in the State of New York, residing, for the last 
 nine years, in the city of New York." 
 
 [('oinnuin. by luniself, Ooc, 1878.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 SlIELTON, THEODORE BOTSFORI). 
 
 From New Havnt, Conn. 
 Present address : Dr. T. B. Shelton, New York. 
 
 "Aug-. 2, 1880. 
 
 Theodore Botsford Shelton, son of IJenjaniin F. Shelton, 
 
 deceased, formerly a lawyer of" that place, and a graduate of Yale 
 College [1809], was born in Stamford, Conn. lie entered college at the 
 age of fourteen, and after remaining a few months commenced the study 
 of medicine with Professor Ives of New Haven, and was graduated at 
 the Medical Institution of Yale College [in 1834]. Has since resided in 
 the city of New York. 
 
 "I do not think of anything more that I can say." 
 
 [Letter by himaelf.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *8MITI1, aiLBERT LIVINGSTON. 
 
 *1835. From Sl/((ri>i/, Voim. 
 
 "(Tilbcrt Livingston Sniitli was horn ;it the t'aniily-rusidenctj in Sharon, 
 Conn., the 19th of May, 1813. On the ])aternal side he was tlie eighth 
 in lineal descent from Rev. Henry Smith wlio came from Norfolkshire, 
 England, in lGo(!, and was the tirst installed minister of Wetherstiehl, 
 Conn., where he died in l<i48. Ilis great grandfather was Rev. Cotton 
 Mather Smith, born in 17."!1, graduated at Yale in 1751, who was ordained 
 pastor at Sharon in 1755 (the entire township being his [larish), and there 
 preached liis half-century sermon in 1S05. The only son of Rev. Mr. 
 Smith, and the grandfather of the subject of this notice, was lion. John 
 Cotton Smith, the last Governor of Connecticut under the Charter, often 
 tlie Speaker of its Legislature, Judge of its Supreme Court, Representa- 
 tive in Congress, and, during the later years of his honored and useful life, 
 President of the Am. Board of Comm. for For. Missions, and of the Am. 
 Bible Society, all of which positions he adorned by the possession of the 
 virtue and the grace which slied lustre upon the character of a Christian 
 and the demeanor of a gentleman. The only child of Gov. Smith, William 
 Mather Smith, Esq., a graduate of Yale in 1805, who died in 1864, 
 after a life of eminent piety, a pattern of useful citizenship, was the father 
 of Gilbert Livingston Smith, who took his name from his maternal grand- 
 father Gilbert R. Livingston, Esq., of Red Hook, Dutchess Co., X. Y. 
 
 "From his childhood Gilbert was noted for amiability of disposition, 
 and for both mental and physical activity. Without apparently seeking 
 affection and popularity from relatives, friends and acquaintances, they 
 
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 MKMOKANDA. 
 
 seuiuod to follow him iiiisoiif>'ht ; for his isWLietiiosH ol tciM|ici- disaiiiicd 
 prejudice, iiiid iie\'er wounded the self-love ot others. 'l'hei-e heiiiji;' then 
 in his native place an excellent academy, he was fitted for collejie while 
 residing at home, and entered the Freshman Class at Yale in the antumn 
 of ISiiS, when fifteen years of age. lie left Vale in IS.'JO, and then 
 became a member of llutgers College, N. J., and was graduated with credit 
 at that institution in l'S,")2. 15eing at home for a vacation-season during his 
 Senior-ycai', he became dee})ly interested in subjects of a religious nature, 
 and immediately upon his graduation, in accordance with his feelings of 
 duty, and the wishes of his father, he became a member of the Theological 
 Seminary at Princeton. The third year of the course being nearly com- 
 pleted, he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel; and his pulpit-efforts 
 were universalh' admireil for the sentiment, taste and elo(|uence with which 
 they were written and delivered. His voice was strong and musical, and 
 his manner in the desk was easy, dignified and impressive. The elderly 
 members of the profession, with whom he was a great favorite by reason of 
 his modesty and courteous bearing, gladly welcomed him to their homes 
 and pul})its, and predicted for him a career both brilliant and useful. Alas ! 
 graceful in person, bright in intellect, pure and good in heart and life, as 
 he most truly was, he was destined to add only another to the many 
 examples of the vanity of earthly hopes and human expectations. In the 
 hand-writing of his venerable grandfather is the following record of his 
 decease, sad and tender in its expression both of grief and affection: 'This 
 beloved grandson died greatly lamented, in the city of New York, on 
 Saturday evening, November 7, 1S35, aged 22 years, 5 months, 19 days, 
 lie had entered the Gospel-ministry but a short time before his death, and 
 h\ his talents, jiiety and uncommon loveliness of character, had awakened 
 high hopes of his future usefulness and distinction in the Church of God.'" 
 
 [Cotuimin. by a brotlier.] 
 
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 MKMOI.'AMlA. 
 
 8MTTTI, JOJJN DERBY, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Netv Haven, Conn. 
 Present address: Rev. J. D. Smith, M.i)., Scotland, Mass. 
 
 "Dec. 10, IS 78. 
 "I was born [a son of the celebrated )>liysician Dr. Natlian Smith] in tlie 
 town of Hanover, N. H., Apr. 9, 1812. After graduating at Yale I pur- 
 sued the study of theology, first at New Haven, and then at Andover. 
 In 1837 (I think) I was licensed to pi-eacli by the North Worcester Asso- 
 ciation ; and in 1839 I was ordained and settled over the Second Congre- 
 gational church of Charleniont, Franklin Co., Mass. My connection with that 
 church, first and last, was of al)out ten years' continuance After resigning 
 my charge I betook myself (in consequence of the partial fiiilure of my 
 health) to the study of medicine, and received a diploma from the Baltimore 
 Medical College. During the war of the rebellion I entered the army as 
 a contract-sm-geon. After the war was over I received an ai)i)ointment 
 in the Vol. Navy, and for some years performed, ashore and afloat, the 
 duties of surgeon. After serving for a while in the West Indies and South 
 America I was ordered to Pensacola Navy Yard, and was for some time 
 in charge of the Naval Hospital in that place. After several attacks of 
 fever my health was so far broken that I was sent home on sick-leave. 
 At home I have since remained, in feeble-health, my advanced age forbid- 
 ding me to hope ever to be very well again. 
 
 "I have been married three times. My first wife was Sai'ah Racon of 
 Woodbury, Conn.; my second wife was Mary M. Dole of ( 'liai-lemont, 
 Mass.; . . . niA' third wife (who still survives) was Susan A. Anthony, 
 eldest daughter of Doct. J. H. Anthony of Providence, 11. I." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *SPERRY, GORYDON 8TILLMAN, A.B. lsr,2. 
 *1856. From Bristol, Conn. 
 
 "1 
 
 "Coiydon Stillman Speny was tlio sou of Hezekiah Speny of liristol, 
 Conn., and was born in tliat town ^[ar. 11, 1810. After leaving- college 
 lie taiiglit school for a short time in Woodliury, Conn., and afterwards in 
 this city [Waterbury, Coini.], where he was principal of the public school. 
 He married, June 10, 1835, Catharine, daughter of Mark Leavenworth of 
 this city — soon after becoming a member of the firm of Leavenworth, 
 Spencer & Sperry, makers of buttons. About 1836 he weiit to reside in 
 New York city, acting there as selling agent for the firm just named, and 
 subsequently for other firms, continuing in this business until October, 
 1852, when he removed to this city. Here he became interested in several 
 manufacturing corporations, particularly in the Am. Hosiery Co. and the 
 Waterbury Cotton Gin Co., in the management of both of which he to(dv 
 an active part. 1\\ Feb., 1855, his wife died, and his own health failed 
 rapidly thereafter, until Feb. 10, 1856, when he died. He left a faniilv 
 of two sons and four daughters." 
 
 [Commiin. by a sou.] 
 
 "A solid, good, agreeable, friendl\- man." 
 
 [Note by his classmate C. T.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 SIWRR, NATHANIEL WINTHHOI', A.M. 1S79. 
 
 From T)(i,i/]>unj, (Jonn. 
 Present address: N. W. Starr, Esi]., Port Oliester, N. Y. 
 
 "Jan. 27, 1879. 
 "I was tlie (inly .son of Elias Starr and Mary Edniond (eldest daugliter 
 of Hon. William Edniond of Newtown, ("onn., wlio was a fj^raduate of 
 Yale durini^- onr K evolutionary War [1777], having' left college, as a 
 student, to join the forces imder Gen. Wooster to drive Tr^ou from the 
 State : after his recovery from a serious wound in his knee, received in 
 an engag-ement near Ridgefield, Conn., he returned to Yale and took his 
 degree ; my father was a gi'aduate of Yale in 1803). I was horn in 
 Danbury, Conn., May G, 1811. After leaving college I s^^ent two years 
 in the law-office of Reuben Booth in Danbury. In the ftill of 1834 I went 
 to the city of New Y'^ork with the intention of prosecuting my profession. 
 Soon thereafter, Dec. 3, 1835, I married Mary A. Mumford, yoinigest 
 daughter of Benjamin A. Mumford of Newport, R. I. Finding it neces- 
 sary to meet increased expenses, I changed my profession to that of 
 teachhig. I remained in New York until the spring of 1854, when, on 
 invitation, I removed to Y^onkers, N. Y., to establish a military and col- 
 legiate school. In this I was very successful ixntil 1867, when, thinking 
 I had sufficient property for the remainder of my life, I retired on a farm in 
 New Canaan, Conn. The experiment tried for one year and a half satisfied 
 me that I was not born a farmer. During this time I lost my wife. I then 
 
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 withdrew among- my friends in tliis city [Kingston, N. Y.], marrying, Feb. 
 3, 1869, Eliza E. Tappen, youngest daughter of Henry Tappen, counsellor 
 at law ; and liere I am now, assisting a few of my friends in the education 
 of their children, two of my pupils being of the (!lass of 1879 in Yale." 
 
 [Letter by himself.] 
 
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 *STEINER, JOHN J. 
 
 *1876. From Frederick, Md. 
 
 "John J. Steiner, son of Captain Henry Steiner, was born in Frederick, 
 Mel, on the 9th of March, 1812, and died in Tiffin City, Ohio, on the 17th 
 of April, 1876. Soon after leaving Yale College [in 1830] he commenced 
 the study of law in the office of Hon. William Schley of Maryland. 
 After admission to the bar he located himself in Tiffin, Ohio, and commenced 
 the practice of law. He was soon made district-attorney, and obtained a 
 good practice. In a fe\v years he removed to the eastern part ot Alabama, 
 where he speedily obtained a prominent place in his profession, and in 
 political life, coming within a very few votes of receiving the Democratic 
 nomination for Congress about the year 1844. Soon afterwards, in con- 
 sequence of ill-heath, he abandoned the practice of his profession and 
 returned to Ohio, where he continued to live until his death. A few years 
 after his return to Ohio he was elected auditor of Seneca county. Soon 
 after his term of office ended he bought a farm, on which lie lived, 
 devoting much of his time to reading. During the war he served in the 
 Union-army as marshal. After the war he lived most of the time in tlie 
 city of Tiffin. 
 
 "He was a man of great intellectual power, and his mind Wiis highly 
 cultivated. He was very courteous and polished in manners, and of an 
 obliging disposition. He was possessed of all the elements necessary to 
 insure success and high distinction in the law (which he well understood), 
 or in politiciil life, with the exception of energy. He was more a student 
 
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 than an actor, lie possessed a personal magnetism vvliicli endeared liiui 
 to liis associates. 
 
 "lie married Miss Fannie Boyer, dangliter of \)y. K. Hover of" 'I'iffin, 
 Ohio, about tlie year 183(S." 
 
 [(Jomimin. by a brotlier.] 
 
 "Steiner's fatlier was a captain, and acted as colonel, in the war of 
 1<S12, commanding a regiment at iJaltimore wlien the P>ritisli were in the 
 attack on that city, and was, at his death, register of wills for Frederick 
 county. He was a gentleman of exalted character, and the mother of our 
 classmate was a woman of indomitable energy and personal courage." 
 
 [From Ills classmate G. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 STILLE, ALFRED, A.M. 1850. 
 
 From FhiladelpMa, Fa. 
 Present address: Prof. Alfred Stille, M.D., Pliiladcl]>liia, Pa. 
 
 "Alfred Stille was born in Philadelpliia, Pa., Oct. 30tli, \^\?>. His 
 family was of Swedish origin, the first American founder of it having been 
 Olof Stille, who came with the Swedish colony to the shores of the 
 Delaware about A. I). IGrjn. His father was a prosperous merchant of 
 Philadelphia, from 1790 to 1810. After a good course of pre]:)aration, in 
 the school of Rev. Dr. Wylie in his native city, Stille entered as Freshman 
 at Yale in 1828, at the age of fifteen years; an age at which some lads 
 may have the strength of character, and fixed principle enough, to enable 
 them to resist the storm of temptations to which they are exposed in a 
 university-town, but in most cases too early for them to a})preciate their 
 own opportunities or perils, or to have any thought of tlie serious nature 
 of their relation to the intellectual and moral discipline of the college. 
 Too often the first two years are almost wholly lost, except for the bitter 
 experience of failure and disgrace, upon which, if principle and character 
 enough are left for it, they may, in the remaining years, build up a 
 chastened and purified manhood. In the case of Stille, the fine domestic 
 influences which had surrounded his childhood, and his own gentlemanly 
 instincts, kept him from low dissipations. He had a just sense of personal 
 dignit}', and a sweetness and purity of character, that made him shrink 
 from all riotous and degi'ading companionships. If he had not j'et read or 
 reflected on the advice of Polonius to his son, in regard to his relations to 
 other young' men, he at least acted on the same principles. Without 
 giving any marked sign of futm'e distinction, Stille maintained a respecta- 
 ble standing in the Class, till his course was cut short in the year 1830. 
 
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 Twenty years later, liovvever, he received from Yale College the h(Hioi-;iry 
 degree of Master of Arts. Immediately on leaving Yale he entered the 
 Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was gi-adu- 
 ated with honor in 1832. In tlie following year he commenced the study 
 of medicine, and in 1836 received the degree of M.I), from the Tiiiversity 
 of Pennsylvania, and ^vas appointed resident physician in the Philadelphia 
 Hospital. After a few months he resigned this jjosition and went abroad 
 to perfect his medical education, spending two years in study, mostly in 
 the schools of Paris. On his retuni he was for two yeai's a resident 
 physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital. In I80I he again visited Euro})e, 
 and spent a year in professional studies, chiefly in Vienna. 
 
 "Dr. Stillc's Avliole course has been marked by intense and enthusiastic 
 devotion to medical science, and attended with honors and rewards well 
 repaying the sacrifice. From the year 1839 onwards he has been continu- 
 ally in official position as resident or attending physician, lecturer, pro- 
 fessor, or president, in one or another of the medical institutions of his native 
 city. In 1871 he was President of the American Medical Association, 
 and in 187G received the honorary degree of LL.I). from Pennsylvania 
 College. Since 180-1: his position has been that of Professor of the 
 Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvanin. In this chair he has lectured each year to large 
 and admiring classes, and has contributed eminently to make Philadelphia 
 that centre of attraction to medical aspirants which it has now become 
 During all this time his literary activity has been great and increasing 
 The number of his published essays, translations, reviews, occasional 
 articles and solid original works, is very large. The most important, and 
 those that have achieved for him a high and enduring reputation, both at 
 home and abroad, are his 'Elements of General Pathology,' published in 
 1848, and, in a still higher degree, his 'Therapeutics and Materia Medica,' 
 a systematic treatise on the action and uses of medicinal agents, including 
 their description and history. This truly noble Avork, in two volumes of 
 nearly one thousand pages each, first published in 1860, has passed 
 through four editions, and is everywhere recognized as a standaixl treatise 
 
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 and b()t)k of reference in its department. Each .successive edition has 
 brought out the most flattering- notices from such established autliorities as 
 the 'London Lancet,' the 'Edinburg Medical Journal,' the 'Archives 
 Grenerales of Paris,' the 'Prague Quarterly Journal,' and from numerous 
 other sources European and American. It has placed tlu! iuithoi-, by 
 universal consent, in the front rank of medical authors, and has secured 
 his fame and usefulness for many years to come. Of the third edition, 
 published in 1868, the 'London Lancet' observed: 'It is the only Materia 
 Medica in which therapeutics are primarily considered; the mere natural 
 history of drugs being briefly disposed of. To medical practitioners this is 
 a very valuable conception. It is w^onderful how much of the riches of 
 the literature of materia medica has been condensed into this book. The 
 references alone would make it worth possessing. For purposes of prac- 
 tice it is almost unique as a repertory of information, empirical and 
 scientific, on the action and use of medicines.' In 1880 was published 
 the ' National Dispensatory,' prepared by Professor Maisch conjointl}- a\ ith 
 D)". Stille. Although a very elaborate work, a second edition of it was 
 required within six months. 
 
 "Dr. Stille was married in 1841, and has had three children, the eldest 
 of whom, a daughter, married Dr. Robert S. Ives of New Haven. Both (if 
 his sons were physicians ; the younger died at the age of twenty-three, 
 the elder practices his profession in Mexico. 
 
 "The memory of the writer of this brief sketch, reaching back to the 
 year 1830, sets Alft-ed Stille before him as a slightly built lad, with fine 
 clean-cut features, of quiet and gentlemanly manners, carefully dressed, 
 and with a general air of refinement throughout. His life has been that 
 of a benefactor of his species, in one of the noblest of human callings, and 
 presents an example, full of encouragement to college-men, of what may 
 be achieved by intense and unremitting fidelity to duty. His classmates 
 will recall with pleasure and pride that for two years, at least, they Avere 
 associated with him, in a Class rather disastrously distinguished for the 
 thiiniess of its ranks at graduation." 
 
 [Comimm. liy his chissmate S. M. II.] 
 
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 *ST(:)NE, COLLINS, A.B. 1832. 
 
 4870. From Durham, Conn. 
 
 *i 
 
 Collins Stone, the secuiid son of Timothy and iMinice (Parmalee) 
 Stone, of Gruilford, Conn., was born in that town Sept. 7, 1812. In 1833, 
 IiaA-iny- taught school for a few niontlis after his graduation, with marked 
 eificiency and success, he became a teacher in the American Asylum for 
 the Deaf and Dumb at liartford. Conn., which position he continued to 
 hold until October, 1852, \\'lien he was advanced to the oifice of Principal 
 of the ()hio State Asylum at Columbus. In 1863 he was recalled to the 
 American Asylum as Principal, and that place he held at the time of his 
 death. He was killed, almost instantly, Dec. 23, 1870, in attempting to 
 drive across the railway-track in Hartford, in front of an approaching 
 train. 
 
 Mr. Stone studied theology with the late Rev. Dr. liawes of Hartford, 
 and was ordained as an evangelist, in Ohio, Apr. 5, 1853. At the time 
 of his death he was a deacon in the Centre Church in Hartford. 
 
 He married Miss Ellen Jane Gill in 1839, who survived liim, with two 
 sons and three daughters: the elder son was graduated at Yale in 18G2, 
 and succeeded his father in the cliarge of the American Asylum, but died 
 after a brief term of service there. 
 
 To Mr. Stone belongs the credit of laying the foundations upon which 
 the Ohio institution for deaf nmtes has risen to its present prosperous 
 condition; and the Asylum in Hartford was successfully carried by him 
 through difficult times. The secret of his success is not to be found in 
 anv original, or brilliant, qualities of mind, but I'atlier in his executive 
 
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 efficiency, due to good sense, j^ower of concentration, strength of will, 
 quickness of perception and alacrity in action, balanced by an instinct of 
 cautiousness without finesse. Yet all-enntrolling was his conscientious, self- 
 denying devotion to duty, which had its spring in unostentatious but 
 genuinely honest religious faitli and hope. In all the relations of life he 
 manifested goodness of heart, though a positive, urgent aiul pei'sistent 
 nature sometimes gave to his manners a touch of roughness. He was 
 distinguished for modesty, was never elated by promotion, and, so far 
 from putting on airs toward his subordinates, sought to prevent their 
 being conscious of his authority. Cheerful in disposition, lie delighted to 
 unbend in sprightly social converse, varied by sports belonging to boy- 
 hood, games of skill, riding and driving. As a writer his productions 
 were generally marked by vigor, orderly arrangement, coiTectness of 
 taste, clearness and aptness; on an occasion which called for it lie could 
 write in a style of finished and impressive eloqiience. 
 
 [Abr. from Fifty-fifth An. Report of Am. .\s_rhmi, pp. U II, and from Oliit. Rcc, ctf., Xo. I of peeoiiil 
 series. — E. E. S.] 
 
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 STONE, ROLLIN SIDNEY, A. P.. is;32. 
 
 From New York. 
 Present address: Rev. E. S. Stone, Cliatliam, N. J. 
 
 Rollin Sidney Stone, fiftli child of William and Lncy (Parmalee) Stone, 
 and of tlie seventh generation from Ivev. Samnel Stone, a I'uritan divine 
 in tlie reign of (jueen Elizabeth, was born in ( 'anton. Conn., Feb. 1<S, 
 ISO'.I. In lS-21 his father moved with liis family to the city of New York, 
 where he spent a few years as a clerk. He united with the Central 
 Presbyterian Church in I^roome street, New York, under the pastoral care 
 of Rev. Dr. Patton, in Nov., 182r). Having entered Yale in 1S28, he 
 taught in Derby, Conn., while in college and afterwards. In May, 1833, 
 he received a local license from the New Haven West Association, and 
 engaged to supply the pulpits of Derby and Humphreysville, Conn., 
 alternately with Rev. Zephaniah Swift of Derb}^ In October of the same 
 year he entered the Yale Theological Seminary, and took an exempt 
 course of study for one year; after which he received a regular license to 
 preach from the New Haven East Association. He began to preach in 
 i3rooklyn, L. I., in Sept., 1834, in a mission-enterprise, which rijiened into 
 the Third Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained pastor, and 
 continued so to be till April, 1837. In Jan., 1838, he was installed pastor 
 of the Congregational church iu Danbury, Conn., where lie remained till 
 Feb., 1850. From 1850 to 1852 he was pastor of the Congregational 
 church in East Hampton, Mass. ; afterwards, of the newly organized 
 Payson Church in that place till 1863. He returned to Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 in 1865, served about a year as agent for the American Freedmen's Relief 
 
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 Association, and for another yeai- was engaged as City Missionary. In 
 Nov., 1835, he married Miss Urania E. Stone, dangliter of Timothy and 
 I^lnnice (Parmalee) Stone of Dnrham, Conn., and lias liad five children, of 
 whom three are living, and three grandchildren. He says of himself: "I 
 think I have done some good in the world, bnt know I have done so 
 much evil that perhaps the world would have been better if T had con- 
 tinued to shmiber in some pre-existent state." 
 
 In 1879 he was settled over the Congregational church in Stanley, 
 N.J. 
 
 [Mostly from coinmua. by himself, Dec, ISIS. — E. E. S.J 
 
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 *SWIFT, CILABLES WELLS. 
 
 *1877. Fivin VoiKjlilceepsie, N. Y. 
 
 "Charles Wells Swift, late of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N. Y., wlio 
 died on the l!)th of November, 1877, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, 
 was born in the town of Washington in that county. He was tlie son of 
 Henry Swift (Y. C. 1S04), a lawyer of celebrity in his life-time, who, 
 four years after the birtli of liis son, I'emoved liis residence from the town 
 of Washington to Poughkeepsie; and the family have since always resided 
 in that city. He was entered in the Freshman Class of Yale College in 
 the year 1828, but ceased to be connected with that college in the Sopho- 
 more-year, and was graduated at Rutgers in the year 1832. He received 
 the degree of A.M. from Rutgers in 1836, and was appointed a trustee of 
 that institution in 1853 — an office which he held until his death. Mr. 
 Swift studied law in the office of his father, and was admitted to the bar 
 in the year 1836. He was twice married: in early life to a daugliter of 
 John C. Van Wyck of Fishkill on the Hudson; and afterwards to a 
 daughter of Dr. Messier of Somerville, N. J. He left surviving him his 
 widow and a family of six children. Mr. Swift had been mayor of 
 Poughkeepsie for two successive terms. At the time of his death he filled 
 many places of trust and responsibility: was vice-president of a bank and 
 one of its principal managers; president of the Dutchess Turnpike Co.; 
 director of the Dutchess Countv Mutual Insurance Co., and of tlie Pouffh- 
 keepsie Gas Co.; a trustee, and for several years prominent in the direc- 
 
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 tioii, <>l' N'nssar College; even to a greater extent itniniiiicnt in the direction 
 of the ( )1(1 Ladies Home at Poughkeepsie; and othei-wise lai'gely interested 
 in most of tlie business-enterprises of that city. 
 
 "A ])art of one of the numerous published (djituary notices of Mr. 
 Swift was in the following words: 'The prominent business-men named 
 him as the most sagacious of their number; the legal profession recognized 
 the eminent wisdom of his counsel; the men of taste for literature had 
 genial conn»anIonship witli him; those who sought integrity of character 
 found it in him. In his life were the virtues of geniality, of gentleness, of 
 modesty, of patience, of charity ; and these are the virtues of the Clu-istian 
 gentleman. The students of Vassar owe grateful remembrance to Mr. 
 Swift's name. Their founder was a man bearing about with liim a sublime 
 purpose, but consciously wanting the special experience that would have 
 fitted him to dispense with the advice of others, in attempting to execute 
 that purpose, ilis })eculiar goodness and good sense are nowhere dis- 
 played more noticeabl}' than in the selection of his counsellors, and in the 
 faithfulness with which he guided himself by their sagacity. Among those 
 whom he selected to lean upon no one was more frequently called to his 
 side, no one was more ready to serve, no one was more hopeful, than Mr. 
 Swift. The marks of his mind are impressed upon the organization of this 
 college. His time, most valuable to himself, and his thinking, clear, 
 forcible, far-reaching, were lavishly exjjended in guarding Mr. Vassar's 
 gift, and in devising ways whereby it should most effectively promote the 
 his/her education of woman.' 
 
 "The death of Mr. Swift was sudden, though sometime previous to it 
 the fact tliat he had heart-disease had been discovered by his |)hysician. 
 On his annoimcing to him that to him soon 'time would be no more,' he 
 resignedly replied: 'I expect so, and I expect to go suddenly when I go.' 
 At his request the fact was concealed even from his family. His death 
 occurred at his farm, a short distance from Poughkeepsie. It was the 
 twenty-sixth anniversary of his wedding-day, and he had been enjoying 
 his usual health, and in good spirits, during the day. In the aftei-noon, 
 accompanied by his wife, he rode out to his farm. The place was reached;
 
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 ;i iiKiiueut afterwards lie stepped from his carriage, sank instantly down, 
 and expired. 
 
 "With words from a letter of his widoAV to the writer, he closes this 
 brief and imperfect sketch of the career and character of Mr. Swift: 'To 
 you, who was his friend, I can say he did good to every man as he had 
 opportunity.' " 
 
 [Coramuii. by his classmate J. A. M.] 
 
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 *TALCOTT, ELEAZEB POMEIIOY, A.I5. is^2. 
 
 *1832. Fwm Coventry, (Joi/ii. 
 
 Eleazer Ponieroy Talcott, only cliild of William 'J'alcott of Coventry, 
 Conn., and his wife Polly Pomeroy, was born Dec. 12, ISO'.I, and died 
 Nov. 14, lS.'i2 — the first one of the Class to lie marked with the star. "In 
 infancy he sntfered from necrosis of the thigh-bone, wliich made him a 
 cripple for life, l)nt, notwithstandin;^' tliis great infirmity, and its accom- 
 panying boilih' ailments and weaknesses, he preserved a, most amiable and 
 kindly disposition, and was greatly esteemed by all his acqnaintances. 
 His filial regard was especially strong, and her grief at his death cost his 
 mother her life. The cause of his death was pulmonary consumption, 
 which was far advanced at the time of the examination for degrees, and 
 had involved the vocal organs to such an extent that he could only articu- 
 late in a whisjier; but his resolution nerved him to nndertake the trying- 
 ordeal. Professor Olmsted told me, afterwards, that to see his emaciated 
 form, and listen to his replies, whicli tlie poor fellow had strength liardly 
 to utter, even in a whisper, was to himself a very sad and melancholy 
 experience." 
 
 [Mostly I'oniiiinn. liy a fellow-townsinaii ami n>lativp.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *TENNENT, HENRY. 
 
 *1847. From Seaford, Bel. 
 
 Henry Tennent, son of John and Sarah Tennent, was born near Sea- 
 ford, Sussex Co., Del, Jnly 15, 1813. Having- left Yale in IS.'^.O, he 
 finished his college-stndies and was graduated at Rutgers ; after whicli he 
 studied medicine in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He settled himself 
 in the practice of his profession at Pine Ridge near Natchez, Miss., and 
 resided there about twelve years. In 184G he removed to Thibodaux, on 
 Bayou La Fourche, La., and there, while on a pleasure-excursion to the 
 mouth of the bayou, and loathing in the surf, he was drowned Jmie 5th, 
 1847. He was much beloved, and held a liigli position in liis j)rofessiou, 
 and his death caused deep regret among his many friends in Mississijipi 
 and Loiiisiana. He was never married. 
 
 [Fr. commuu. by a sister and a brotlier. — E. K. S.] 
 
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 TENNEY, WTLLIAM JEWETT, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Wetliersjidd, Conn. 
 Present address: W. J. Tenney, Es(1., Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss. 
 
 To iui ;ip[)lic;;itiuu tor the leading facts of his Hfe Mr. TKjiiuey rephed 
 only by the words "requieseat in pace," added to his signature. His 
 near friends have onh- referred us to a dictionary of authors. To our 
 regret, therefore, his record must l)e somewhat conjectural. 
 
 William Jewett 'J'eniiey, son of Rev. Dr. Caleb Jewett (l)artni. Coll. 
 1801) and Ruth (Channing) Tenney, was lioru in Newport, R. 1., in 1811. 
 He was present at a meeting of the ( -lass in 1835, when he reported him- 
 self as a student of medicine, connected with the medical department of the 
 Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, C*onn. After this he went to Western 
 New York, and commenced the study of law: in 1840 he was understood 
 to be settled as a lawyer in Ohio. For several years past he has been 
 occupied with various literary works, among which may be mentioned "The 
 Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States, etc.," 
 published at New York in 18G5. "He completed and made all the indexes 
 to Benton's 'Abridgment of the Debates of Congress' (left unfinished at 
 Benton's death); edited the 'Queens of England,' illustrated, 1852, and 
 (Appleton's) 'American Annual Cyclopaedia;' was co-editor of the 
 'Joiu-nal of Commerce' (N. York), 1841, and of the 'New York Evening 
 Post,' 1842-3, 1847-8; and editor of the 'Mining Magazine' (monthly) 
 New York, 1853, etc., and contributed to Hunt's 'Merchants' ]\Iagazine.' " 
 He is believed to have been a confidential adviser of the publishing house 
 of Messrs. Apjdeton & Co. of New York. At last accounts, he was 
 
 "engaged with ex-President Davis." 
 
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 He iiuirried Siirali, (Uuiyliter ot" Mr. Orestes A. ISiowiisoii of JJo.stoii, 
 Mass., wlio followed her father into the Ivonuui Catholic coiiiiuuiiioii, and 
 whose religious faith her husband also adopted, some years since. Mrs. 
 Tenney died in 1876. 
 
 [Mostly from original elass-reoords aud Allibone's Critical Dictionary, etc., iii, 2371. — E. E. S.] 
 
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 MEMOKANDA. 
 
 TRACY, CHARLES, A.J}. ls;;2. 
 
 From Whiteshoro [Whitcstoum'], N. V. 
 
 Present address: C. Tracy, Esq., New ^Ork. 
 
 Charles Tracy, son of William Gedney Tracy of Whltestown, ( (iieida 
 Co., N. Y., ;ni(l liis wife IvJiclu!], ;i, (laiiji-hter of Benj;iii:iii Iliiiitiuytoii (Y. C. 
 1 7(il) of Norwich, Conn., \\;is honi ;it Whitestowii, Fcl). 17, ISIO; and 
 on the 30th Anf^ust, IS,'!?, niarrie<l Louisa, daughter of Joseph Kirklaiid 
 (Y. C. 171)0) of Utica, N. Y., wlio, now, with six survivoi-s of his seven 
 children, and ('hildren-indaw aiul grand-children, makes his "life in its 
 descent towards old age happy and liojieful." He was admitted as an 
 attorney at haw in IS^o, and as counsellor in 1S37. His earlier profes- 
 sional life was spent in Utica. In 1<S4!) he went to New York, and since 
 then he has continued in the active practice of his profession in that city. 
 With great capacity and ability for work, he long since achieved for himself 
 a place among the foremost at the bar, and withal has ]\.e\)t himself well 
 abreast of the current of thought and the development of the times. 
 Having no desire or opportunity tor political preferment, none has ever 
 come to him, although his public spirit and interest in the welfare of the 
 country have never been deficient. lie has led the life of an earnest, 
 faithful man, witli a full share of the cares and joys of such a life, of the 
 well merited rewards of professional labor, and of the esteem and honor of 
 his cotemporaries. "Of one virtue," he himself says, "I may boast — that 
 of loyalty to Yale College, a common sentiment of her sons; and I believe 
 in its mission as great, and in its administration as wise, and hope I shall 
 never flag in efforts to favor both." These sentiments of loyalty may be 
 
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 regarded as in part an old inheritance; for otlier ancestors of Mr. Tracy, 
 of earlier periods than those above named, were also graduates of Yale. 
 For several years Mr. Tracy has been the president of the New York 
 Association of Alumni (jf Yale. He says, also, respecting himself: "All 
 my life long I have had to smother some uprising wishes to pursue letters 
 and science, and been forced to content myself with the smattering which 
 comes from occasional and rapid dashes at those glittering and attractive 
 subjects, which can be taken in fully, and enjoyed heartily, only by such 
 as may devote themselves to them. Still the law does involve almost every 
 thing pertaining to man and his development; and my duties as counsel 
 have not wholly failed to require (or allow) a peej) into Aristophanes, 
 Quintilian, Pliny, and Cicero, as well as at modern science and the arts." 
 
 [Mostly comnmii. liy a son, Mar., 1879, as suppl. to notes liy himself.] 
 
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 VAN BERGEN, PETEB. ANTHONY, A.M. 187'J. 
 
 From Coxsackie, N. Y. 
 Present address: P. A. Van Bergen, Esq., Flusliing (L. I.), N. Y. 
 
 "Peter Anthony Van Berg-en was born at Coxsackie, Greene Co., N. Y., 
 Jan. 12th, 1812, iind was tlie third chihl of Anthony Van Bergen of Cox- 
 sackie, wlio married Clariue Peck of Lyme, Conn., Apr. 19, 1806, wliile a 
 student at law. Anthony Van Bergen being an only cliild, and his father 
 deceased, he at once turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and 
 continued it through life; in the course of which he became Judge of 
 his county of Greene, member of Assembly and president of the State 
 Agricultural Society of New York. He died at Coxsackie, Dec. 27, 1859, 
 aged seventy-three years; and his widow died at Coxsackie, Oct. 30, 1872, 
 at the age of eighty-seven. The parents of Anthony Van Bergen were 
 Peter A. Van Bergen and Esther Houghtaling his wife, of Coxsackie, of 
 whom the former died Aug. 30, 1804, while State Senator, leaving- his son 
 in Williams College. Peter A. Van Bergen was the eldest son of Col. 
 Anthony Van Bergen of Coxsackie, who was born iit Coxsackie, Nov. 1, 
 1729, and married Maria Salisbury in 1761. Col. Anthony Van Bergen 
 was the second s(jn of Petrus Van Bergen of Coxsackie, who married 
 Christina Costar of Albany, Nov. 7, 1724. Peti-us Van Bergen was the 
 third son of Martin Garretson Van Bergen, who emigrated from Holland to 
 Albany in the year 1630, and married Neeltje ]\Ieynderts. This progenitor 
 of the American family was for a long time a prominent man in Rensselaer- 
 wick, and in our colonial aflairs. He died at or near Albany, near the 
 
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 close of the seventeenth century, possessed of Uirge estates at Albany, 
 Catskill and Coxsackie. 
 
 "Peter Anthony Van Bergen, whose lineage has been thns briefly 
 traced, after an academic course of study at an academy in Greenville, 
 Greene Co., N. Y., and elsewhere, entered the Freshman Class in Yale 
 College in 1828, left Yale in August, 1830, was soon thereafter admitted 
 into Rutgers College, N. J., and received from that institution the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts in 1832. A short time after leaving college he entered 
 the law-oftice of Powers & Day of Catskill, N. Y., and continued there 
 until admitted to the bar in 1836. In the year 1S37 he commenced the 
 ])ractice of law in Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., in partnership with the late 
 John Romeyn Brodhead, the historian. In 1841 he was induced by a 
 prominent lawyer of New York to enter into partnership with him in the 
 practice of law in that city. 
 
 "On the 2Uth of June. 1849, he married Lucy A. Smart, daughter of 
 William Smart and Elizabeth Franklin his wife (both now deceased), of 
 Flushing, L. I. From that time he has made Flushing his place of resi- 
 dence, continuing the practice of law In New York. His family consists 
 of his wife and an only daughter, Elizabeth Franklin Van Bergen, born a 
 number of years after his marriage. 
 
 "He is a member of the Episcopal church of Flushing. In October, 
 18{)6, he was oifered and accepted a position in the New York Custom 
 House, which he held until July, 1877. Since his retirement from that 
 position his profession has occupied part of his time." 
 
 [Coiiiiiimi. by himself, Sept.. 1880.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *WALLACE, JAMES WILSON. 
 
 *1862. From Philadelphia, Fa. 
 
 James Wilson Wallace, son of William and Ann (Newkirk) Wallace, 
 was born in Pliiladelpliia, May 18, 1811. He was named after the 
 eminent Rev. James Wilson, D.I)., pastor of the First l*resbyteri;in (^hnrch, 
 of which his mother A\as a mendjer. He was fitted for college in his 
 native city. After leaving- Yale, in his Freshman-year, he attended the 
 Law School of Jndge Gould in Litchfield, Conn., for about a year and a 
 half, and then entered the office of Hon. George M. Dallas in Philadelphia, 
 and Avas admitted to tlie bar May 24, 1833. He married, in 1842, 
 Elizabeth Lloffman of l*hiladel])hia, and liad four children, of whom a son 
 and a daughter are now li\ing. For several years, after l.S3(), he was 
 secretary of the Phila., Wilm. and Bait. R. R. Co., of wlilcli liis uncle 
 Matthew Newkirk, Esq., was the president. He also liad a law-office. He 
 purchased a tract of land near the junction of the Raucocas Creek with the 
 Delaware, and originated the village of Delanco, on the Camden and 
 Amboy railroad, and g?„ve it its name. He died in Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 
 18G2. 
 
 [Commun. by his classmate 8. C. B., Feb., 1879.] 
 
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 MEMOIUNDA. 
 
 WALLIS, JOHN SPENCER, A.P>. 1832. 
 
 Frotn SalcDi, Mass. 
 Present address : Mr. J. S. Wallis, Bolton, Mass. 
 
 "John Spencer Wallis, son of John iiiid Susan (Parker) Wallis, was 
 born in Daiivors (now Peabody), Mass., on the 5th of" Febrnary, ISll. 
 His fatlier was a blacksmith. Tie was a pupil at tlie grammar-schools of 
 Boston and Salem from his tenth to his fourteenth year. He was then fitted 
 for college at the Salem Latin Grammar School, under the instruction of 
 Theodore Eames, Esq. (Y. C. 1809), and of Gen. Henry K. Oliver (Dartm. 
 Coll. 1816), for the past three years mayor of Salem; a,nd entered college 
 in 1828. On the 20th of June, 1840, he married Siisan Jane Benton of 
 Berkshire Co., Mass. Since graduation he has taught school, for about 
 ten years, in different towns and States; has been a trader in a counti-y- 
 store for about eight years; and a farmer for about twenty-five years; and 
 he and his wife liave lived, the remainder of the time, with his only child, a 
 daiighter, and her husband, and four grandchildren. He had a son Ijorn 
 in 1843, who died in 1847. He has been blessed, during these years, witli 
 perhaps as large a share of peace, poverty and good health as is the lot of 
 most mortals." 
 
 [Ciinumiii. Iiy himselt, Mar,, 1S79.| 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 WARNER, ISAAC WELTON, A.B. 1832. 
 
 From Plymouth, Conn. 
 Present address : Rev. T. W. Warner, Brooklyn (E. D.), N. Y. 
 
 "I am the son of Lyman and Annis Warner, born on tlie 8th of 
 February, 1806, at Plymouth, Conn. Was married to Emily H. Jones of 
 Hunting-ton, Conn., in 1842; and again, to Jane Ann Sutphin of New 
 Brunswick, N. J., in 18G(). Was iirst licensed by the Litchfield South 
 Association, and again by the South (Jlassis of New York City of the 
 Reformed Church. I am occuiued with teaching, or with a Bible-distribu- 
 ting agency for the Brooklyn City Bible Society." 
 
 [Letter by himself, Aug., 1878.] 
 
 2n 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 WHARTON, WILLIAM CBAIG, A.M. 1879. 
 
 From. Philadelpliia, Pa. 
 Present address : W. C. Wharton, Esq., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Tlie follo'\\'ing' note is all we have been able to draw from Mr. 
 Wharton: 
 
 "Boston, 127 Beacon St., Dec. 17, 1878. 
 "Dkar Sir — I did receive your letter of Nov. 27th ult., bnt cannot 
 persuade myself to answer its requirements. ... I have done otherwise: 
 busy without usefulness, occupied without progress, I remember no life- 
 work suitable for such a record as you propose, for use and the informa- 
 tion of others interested. Therefore the less the future of this world shall 
 
 know of me the better 
 
 I remain, dear sir, very cordially yours, 
 
 Wm. Ceaig Whaeton.'' 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 * WI N G , UA LSE ) ■ /.' aERS. 
 
 *1870. From Fort Fdicard, N. Y. 
 
 Halsey Rogers Wing, eldest son of Daniel and Klioda A. (Stewart) 
 Wing, was born at Sandy Hill, N. Y., on the 9tli Jul}-, 180!). When he 
 was about five years old his father removed to Fort P^dward. He was a 
 great grandson of Al)rahani AA'ing, who in 17(12 l)ecanie 1)\' purchase one 
 of the largest y)ropriet()rs in a, large j)atent of land then ixn^eutly granted 
 under the title of the township of Queensbury; and the elegant residence 
 of the subject of this notice overlooked the broad domain of his ancestor, 
 and Avas but a few rods distant from the original site of his pioneer-cabin. 
 At Fort Edward he acquired the rudiments of a common-school education. 
 In 1S25 he was sent to the Lenox Academy in Berkshire Co., Mass., where 
 he remained three years, perfecting himself in his coiirse of study ])repara- 
 toiy to entering college. Froiu Lenox he proceeded to Yale College, 
 where he was matriculated, and remained a short time, transferring his 
 studies, then, to Middlebiiry, Vt, where he entered in advance, and was 
 gi'aduated, with the highest honors of his class, in 1832. Even in his 
 schoolboy- and college-life, it is said by those who knew him best, he was 
 kind and considerate of the feelings of others, gentlemanly and courteous in 
 his deportment, exacting and commanding respect and deference. Soon 
 after leaving college he entered the law-office of Judge Samuel Cheever of 
 Albany, and in Oct., 1834, he was admitted to practice as an attorney. 
 In the following December he received his license as solicitor in Chancerv, 
 and soon after went to Brockport, Monroe Co., N. Y., and entered into a 
 legal partnership with E. B. Holmes. From there he removed to liutfalo, 
 
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 MKMOKANJM. 
 
 entering- into a law-partiiorsliip witli Hon. F. P. Stevens. On tlio 31st 
 Aug., IS.'Jf), he miirried Harriet N., sister of tlie Hon. E. P. Walton of 
 Montpelier, Vt. (Jf this union it is not improper to say that it was one of 
 most perfect accord and harmony, "^llie chivalrous and devoted respect 
 with which he a.hvays regarded the gentler sex found its point of rest in 
 his wife, whom he reverenced and loved with a devotion which few have 
 equalled and none have excelled. Through all his life he seems to have 
 made it a special study to spare tliose he loved from all care, trouble, 
 anxiety, or ap])rehension. His friendships were sincei'e and lasting, and 
 beneath a bluff" and somewhat reserved demeanor he earned as kind a 
 heart, and a soul as full of tender emotion, as ever animated a human 
 being. 
 
 In 1841 he removed to Glen's Falls, N. Y., and the same year was 
 admitted to the rank of counsellor in the Supreme Court, and the follow- 
 ing year to that of counsellor in C'liancery. In 1842 he was admitted to 
 practice in the United States District Court of Northern New York, and 
 also in the U. S. Circuit Court. In 1843-4 he became County Superin- 
 tendent of Common Schools. In 1845 he succeeded to the position of 
 First Judge of the County. In all these and other relations he invariably 
 fulfilled the trusts, and discharged the duties, belonging to them with 
 fidelity and conscientious thorouo-hness. From 1851 to 1854 he withdrew 
 temporarily from the practice of law^, to engage in a business-enterprise 
 bv which he amassed a large fortune. 
 
 Mr. Wing was an ardent politician, earnest, energetic, and thorough- 
 going; an ardent and faithful laborer in the cause of tempei'ance; a ready 
 promoter and advocate of the interests of education; and in all public 
 matters connected with education or morality an earnest and zealous 
 worker. He was a regular attendant upon the ministi'ations of the Presby- 
 terian church in the place of his residence, and acted as one of its trustees. 
 With the outbreak of the Rebellion he immediately became identified 
 with the war-movement, earnestly and faithfully laboring to fm-ther the 
 interests of the Union, and he left behind him a proud record of munifi- 
 cence, self-sacrifice and heroic devotion to his country. He gave two sons 
 
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 to the cause, one of" whom tell in tlu; iiglit near Drewiy's IJlufF in \'ir<^-inia, 
 in 1864. He died on the 26th Jan., 1870, leaving a widow and four 
 children. 
 
 [Alir. from an ohitunry conimun. by his widow. — K. JO. S.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 WINTHRUP, CHAIiLES AIlCHIJJALl), A.M. l.ST'i. 
 
 From New Haven, Conn. 
 Present address : C. A. Winthrop, Esq., Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Charles Archibald Winthrop, son of Francis Bayard (Y. C. 1804) 
 and Julia Ann (Rogers) Winthrop of New York [a lineal descendant of 
 Gov. Winthrop of the old Bay Colony, throujih liis son John Winthrop, Jr, 
 colonial Governor of Connecticnt], was born in New York, Jan. 25, 1S1;3. 
 He left Yale in ISoO; married in 1844 Jeannette Bradley of New Haven, 
 Conn. ; and for several years after 1845 was engaged in agriculture in 
 the town of Tioga, Tioga Co., N. Y^ ; in 1848 he married Mary Boyer 
 of Caroline, Tompkins Co., N. Y. From about 1860 to 1869 he resided in 
 Owego, N. Y. On the 1st Sept., 186!:l, he removed to Cambridge, Mass., 
 on account of his present wife's health, who was Mary Codman Gray, of 
 Boston, Mass., whom he married Dec. 14th, 1854. 
 
 [Letters by himself, Nov., 1878, aud Sept., 1880.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *WRIGHT, JAMES LOCK WOOD, A. 15. 1S?,2. 
 
 4871. From Glastonhnrij, ('oiiii. 
 
 *i 
 
 Jauie.s Lockwood Wriii'lit, son of Joseph (Y. 0. i8U4) and Sarah 
 (Lockwood) Wri,n-]it, was born in Glastonbury, Conn., May 12, 1810. His 
 mother was a daughter of Rev. William Lockwood (Y. C. 1774), a 
 chaplain in the army of the Revolution, and subsequently pastor of the 
 Congregational church at Milford, Conn., and at Glastonbury. From the 
 blended influence of piety and culture, combined in the home of his 
 childhood, the son received tlie impressions which gave direction to his 
 lionored and useful life Me began his j)reparatory studies with Rev. Dr. 
 Joab Brace of Newington, Conn., father of one of his college-classmates, 
 and there became a professed Christian. He finished his preparation for 
 college at the Hartford Grannnar School, under the instruction of the since 
 widely known Professor E. P. Barrows. Entering the Theological Depart- 
 ment of Y'ale College, iunnediately after his graduation in 1832, he 
 completed the course of three years in 1835, and was licensed to })reach. 
 He was ordained by the Hartford South Association in 18;59; but, partly on 
 account of the state of his health, declined invitations to settle, and devoted 
 himself, for several years, to teaching, still, however, preaching from time 
 to time, and maintaining a lively and growing interest in theological 
 studies. His first settlement was at Burlington, Coini., from 184!l to 1854. 
 In 1855 he was called to the church in Haddam, Conn. Here, where 
 J(»hn Marsh, David D. Field, and others less widely known, had discharged 
 the duties of their great connnission as ministers of the gospel — here, 
 where John and David Brainerd were born, and others who have gone out 
 
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 MKMOKANDA. 
 
 to wide ;iiiii liuiini-cd liclds of usct'tilness, Mr. Wi-iiilit toiled willi uiiMssuni- 
 iiiL;- tidclitx' till liis dcatli. Mis relation to lii.s cliundi was one ot iniitiial 
 confidence and aH'ection, increasing)- to the en<l. In all jilaces he was the 
 minister, in all places lie was the gentle, syni))athizin<i', kind, tnistfnl and 
 trusted Cliristian man. He was an lionest, earnest, independent thinker. 
 In accordance witii a saying of his lioiiored instructor the Rev. Dr. 
 Nathaniel W. Ta)'loi-: -'Pin your faith on any man's sleeve, and I would 
 not give a i)in for it," he made the Scriptures, interpreted by an honest 
 heart and connnon sense, the foundation of the o2)inions which he cheri.shed 
 and preached, ^yhile he was attracted to various fields of knowledge, 
 mental science was, next to theology, his favorite. Of the cause of tem- 
 perance he was an unwearied advocate; of education, a devoted jtatron 
 and friend. Thi'ough the years of trial to the I'nion he was a steadfast 
 patriot, giving to the country, with his prayers, the life of a son. 
 
 He was married. May 30, 1838, to Miss Lucy A. North, daughter of 
 James North, Esq., of Middletown, Conn., a brother of Rev. Dr. Simeon 
 North, ex-president of Hamilton College; and ;it his death, Jan. IS, 1871, 
 left a widf)W and three children, one.daughtei' and \\vo sons. 
 
 [Alu'. from lu Momoriain Rev. .J. L. Wiight. — E. K. S.J 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 *WK1({JIT, 'JOSHUA BUTLEIL 
 
 *1877. From New York. 
 
 "The late Joshua Pmtler Wri,i>lit ^vas born in lloine, N. Y., oi: the Htli 
 of March, 1812, the fittli sou of Benjauiiii Wright and Philouiehi, his w ife, 
 daugliter of the Rev. Simon Waterman of Connecticut. Benjamin Wriglit 
 was born in Wethersfiekl, Conn., Oct. 10th, 1770, son of Ebenezer Wright, 
 also born in Wethersfiekl, an officer of the Continental Line during the 
 war of the American Revolution. The father of the latter, also of Wethers- 
 iield, was Rev. Ebenezer Wright, a graduate of Yale College in 1724, 
 and a settled jjreacher of the gospel in Stamford, Conn. The Rev. 
 Ebenezer Wright was descended from Thomas Wright, third son and 
 sixth child of John Wright of Brook Hall in the parish of Soutk Weald, 
 comity of Essex, England, ^^ho died May 13, 1640. Thomas Wright 
 emigrated to America, and was a Deputy to the General Coui't from 
 Wethersfiekl in 1643, and there died in April, 1670. . . . 
 
 "Benjamin Wright, the father of J. B. Wright, was a mnn distiuguislied 
 for his talent and skill in the line of his profession, that of surveyor and 
 civil engineer, and for his services as chief engineer of many important 
 public works. Witli the New York and Erie Canal he was especially 
 identified. During its construction he was chief engineer, and the able 
 assistant of its jirojector and constant friend DeWitt Clinton; and the name 
 of Benjamin Wright, like that of Clinton, will be long-lived in connec- 
 tion with the Imilding of that great pioneer-work of internal improvement 
 in this country. About the time of its completion he removed from 
 Oneida Co. to the city of New York, where he continued to reside during 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 the rest of his long and useful life;. Hi; died Au;^'. 2(j, 184"_'. The writer 
 of this well remembers his venerable figure and intellectual countenance. 
 
 "Joshua Butler Wright joined the Freshman Class of Yale College in 
 1828, left Yale in 1830, was admitted to the Junior (Jlass of Rutgers Col- 
 lege, and was there graduated in 18.'52. He studied law in the city of 
 New York, in the ofiice of Timothy R. Green, a learned and much 
 esteemed lawyer of that day, and was admitted to the bar at the January- 
 term of the Supreme Coiirt in the year 1836. He soon became occupied 
 with a successful practice of law in the city of New York, and in 1850 was 
 mari'ied to Louisa Bradford, second daughter of the late 11. D. Bradford 
 of New York. During the last seventeen years of his life Mr. Wright 
 chiefly resided at his country-place near Scarborough on the Hudson. In 
 his pleasant home he loved to pass his time, though not because he wished 
 to be considered, or ever was, wholly a man of leisure; for he was always 
 industrious, and always usefully employed. He was a man of business; 
 aiid, though retired from the general practice of his })rofession of the law, 
 his private affairs received from him a careful attention, and the constant 
 supervision of them occupied largely his time and thoughts. 
 
 " 'His life was an instance, unfortunately too rare, of harmony between 
 wealth and its possessor. . . . The adornments of his home were the out- 
 come of a refined taste, not the prodigal display of a spendthrift. The 
 neighbors watched from year to year the development of his plans, not as 
 of one wrapt in isolated selfishness, but as of one of themselves. . . . The 
 gates of his beautiful grounds were as wide open in his living-days as they 
 were on the dav of his funeral. ... His gifts were like those hidden 
 springs which, without being revealed, enrich and beautify the earth. . . . 
 He rejoiced in everv opportunity of good citizenship. . . . To a naturally 
 fine character was added that which completed the man, the lustre of a 
 religiotis life. So unostentatious was his piety that one would need to 
 know him well to realize the fact, in his case, that "the secret of the Lord 
 is with them that fear Ilim." ' . . . 
 
 "In early life he was a model of physical comeliness in form and 
 feature; and even afterwards he continued to have a personal presence 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 wliicli won vcspcft, and tciidcd to excite the esteem of tlie liijj;li-iiiiii(led and 
 the good. Robust in t'oriu, and with a natural vigor of constitution wliich 
 seemed to defy disease — apparently never ill — it was his fate to be stricken 
 with a malady treacherous, paiiifu!, lingering and incni-ablc. All those 
 cherished objects which often render this present life so pleasant and so 
 useful, and of which he had a store more tlian ample, wei-c to be left 
 behind. But with maid\- resignation he submitted to the blow, witli 
 patient fortitude he endured the suffering and pains of long continued 
 bodily sickness, and witli ( 'In-istian taith and hope he quietly died. His 
 death occurred at Scarborougli, on the 30tli Oct., 1877. His wife and two 
 sons, Louis Bogort Wright and Albert Markoe Wright, survived him. 
 
 "He was a man of supei'ior intelligence, prudent, cautious and accurate 
 in the transaction of his business; his opinions of men and things were 
 always decided. Not hasty in the forming of an oi)inion, he carefully and 
 cautiously expressed it, when formed, and his judgment on any subject he 
 considered was sound and reliable. Though to him 'the post of honor was 
 the private station,' his cultivated intellect and great executive ability 
 well fitted him for elevated ofKce and position; indeed, he was the 
 kind of man the public life of the country needs, but does not always 
 obtain. 
 
 "Mr. Wright and the writer of this sketch of his life were classmates at 
 Yale, and also at Rutgers College. They commenced the practice of law 
 in New York together, being friendly associates in the same office, in the 
 transaction of their separate affairs; and for more than forty years the 
 writer had his place of business in connection with this friend and com- 
 panion of early days. He thinks, therefore, that he may truly say he 
 knew him well." 
 
 [i^'ommim. by his classmate J. A. M., Jan., 1879, inchuling an extract from an obituary commun, by a son.] 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 WURT8, EDWAItl), A. I!. ls;j2. 
 
 Front Louisville, Ky. 
 Present address: Rev. E. Wukts, I'liiladeliiliia, Pa. 
 
 "Edward Wurts, sou of Daniel and Phebe (Wade) Wuvts, was l)orn in 
 the city of New York, in Ang., 1810. At the age of seven }-ears lie was 
 removed to Louisville, Ky., and there prepared for (-(dlege under the 
 instruction of F. E. Goddard. He entered the Class of IS.'!!, in the third 
 term of Freshman-year, iuid continued a member of it until tlie Junior- 
 year; then, disabled by sickness, was out of college for nearly a year; 
 after which he joined the Class of 1832 in its Senior-year. After gradua- 
 tion, he was, for about five years, engaged in mercantile and banking 
 business at Louisville. In the winter of 1838-39 he entered the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary at Princeton, N. J., but, from ill health, withdrew after a 
 few mouths. In 1843, the interval having been again partially occupied 
 with business, he returned to Princeton, and after a full course of study 
 was graduated in 1846; and in May, 1847, he was licensed to preach. For 
 about three years thereafter he was unemployed, and in pursuit of liealth. 
 In 1850 he went to Louisiana, as preacher to the colored people. In 
 the fall of 1851 he was called to the Presbyterian church at Rodney, 
 Miss., and was ordained and installed as its pastor in the spring of 
 1852. For ten years he preached continuously in the States of Mississippi 
 and Louisiana, his last charge in that region being one of four years' 
 continuance at Lake Providence, La. In the fall of 1859 he was called 
 to the Portland Avenue Presbyterian Church at Louisville, Kj^, where he 
 remained about six years. He resigned this charge in July, 1865, with 
 
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 MEMORANDA. 
 
 health seriously hnpaired, and spent the following winter and spring- in 
 Florida. During the next three winter-seasons, or until the spring of 
 1869, he had temporary charge of the Presbyterian church at Palatka, Fla. 
 Since this period he has resided in Pliiladelphia, Pa., nominally 'on the 
 retired list,' preaching occasionally, hut latterly with less and less 
 frequenc)-, owing to advanced age and inci-easing infirmity." 
 
 [Commun. by himself, Oct., 1879.] 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 ABSTRACT OF RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF THE CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 "August 15, 1832. 
 
 " At a meeting of tlie Class, held on the evening of the first Commencement of 
 the Class, the bully Mr. E. Lyman in the chair, on motion it was resolved : 
 
 " That it is expedient tliat a Secretary be appointed to gather information with 
 regard to the well-being, and tlie different pursuits in life, of the several members of 
 the Class ; 
 
 " That it be considered the duty, and this meeting particularly request, of the 
 several members of the Class, as often as once in ten yeai-s, and at any rate as often 
 as once before every general meeting of the f -lass, to send a letter to the Secretaiy 
 for the time lieing of the Class, stating such matters and circumstances with regai-d 
 to his success in life as he thinks will be interesting to his friends, and proper to be 
 placed on file ; 
 
 " That Mr. George T. Kingslcy be ap]3ointed Secretary and general agent of tlie 
 Class ; 
 
 " That this meeting now adjourn, to re-assemble at New Haven in August, 1835, 
 at such time and place as shall be provided by the Secretary. 
 
 " A true record, 
 
 Attest, GEO. T. KINGSLEY, Sec^ 
 
 " According to public notice, there was a general meeting of the Class on the day 
 before Commencement, at which it was resolved : 
 
 " Tliat the Class of 1832 do meet at the Pavilion Hotel to-morrow evening, when, 
 after a literary symposium, the objects of our assembling may be attended to with 
 proper decorum. 
 
 " August, 1835. 
 
 " A true record. 
 
 Attest, GEO. T. KINGSLEY, Sec. Clnss 1832." 
 
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 AIM'KNUIX. 
 
 " In ])ur8uance of the vote of yesterday, at eight o'clock on (Commencement 
 evening Mr. AUis of the Pavilion j^rovided a Kuniptuous repast, consisting of fisli, 
 flesh and fowl, of the greatest delicacy and in the greatest profusion. The feast was 
 flanked by an abundant siippl}' of excellent coffee, while the rear was closed Ijy some 
 of his well known pale sherry, and last, though not least important, some sparkling 
 champagne. In the course of the evening many toasts were elicited, as sparkling as 
 tlie wine in which they were drowned. Some flne singing, in which Mr. Brown 
 displayed himself to miich advantage, contributed to the entertainment of the even- 
 ing ; nor must our friend Abner Neal's song ' By the light of the moon ' be forgotten. 
 
 " The meeting was called to order by the Secretary, who escorted the bully Mr. 
 E. Lyman t() the chair at the head of the table. On motion, Mr. A. Neal was 
 appointed vice-president, and took his scat ;it the foot. After grace had been 
 pronounced by the bully, the gentlemen fell to with an appetite which did ample 
 credit to Mr. AUis' excellent fare. 
 
 " The following gentlemen were present at the supper : Brace, Brown, Cleveland, 
 E. Colton, J. O. Colton, DeForest, Dickson, Dunning, Foote, Kingsley, Ljinan, 
 Neal, Noble, Salisbury, Sejmiour, Speriy, C. Stone, Tenney, Tracy, Wurts. 
 
 " The meeting broke up in good order Ijetween twelve and one o'clock, after 
 passing the following resolutions: 
 
 " That the Class of 1832 do meet at New Haven on the Tuesday before the 
 Commencement of 1840, at such time and place as shall be provided by the Secretary ; 
 
 '■ That the present Secretary be requested to retain his oflice until that time." 
 
 [G. T. KINGSLEY.] 
 
 "Class of 1832. Second Adjourned Meeting, Aug. 19, 1840. 
 
 "After dining together in commons, the Cla.ss adjourned to the Theological 
 Chamber. E. Lyman took the chair, and H. A. DeForest was appointed monitor 
 [in the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Kingsley, detained from the meeting at 
 Cleveland, (Jhio, who, however, sent his greetings]. On calling the roll, nine 
 members were found to be present, viz.: E. Colton, H. A. DeForest, J. J. A. 
 Ebbetts, R. S. Fellowes, W. C. Foote, E. Lyman, C. S. Sperry, I. W. Warner, 
 J. L. Wright." 
 
 Some account was then given of each graduate of the Class, present or absent. 
 
 " It was found that three of our number had died since our last meeting [Frisby, 
 1838 ; J. O. Colton, 1840 ; Dewey, 1840], making five deaths [with Talcott, 1832 ; 
 and Evarts, 1833] since our graduation, and all by consumption.
 
 ACI'HNDIX. 
 
 " Tlie Claws tlicii Temlved : That, wlien tliey adjcnini, tliey adjourn lor live ycarH ; 
 and that tlie jjcrnuuient Secretary give notice to each ineniber, a few niontlis previous 
 to the meeting, requesting all to attend, and asking every one who can not be present 
 to write his history, and send it to the Seei-etary of Class of 1832, New Haven." 
 
 [H. A. DEFOREST.] 
 
 No records of the meeting of 1845 are extant. But letters from absent members 
 of the Class, read at that time, are preserved, as follows : 
 
 From Eev. J. H. Carrath, of Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., Aug. 14, 1845. 
 
 From Rev. E. O. Dunning, of Herkimer, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1845. (Printed on 2)p. 
 96-7 of our " Biographical Memoranda.") 
 
 From Rev. F. S. Ernst, Baton Rouge, July 17, 1845 — who writes: 
 
 " Respected Classmates : 
 
 .... It would greatly rej<jice my heart to be 2>resent with you all at the i)ro- 
 posed meeting, and join in your fraternal greetings. But a great many miles will 
 
 necessarily separate me from you on that joyful and aifectiug occasion Yet, 
 
 Itrothers, my heart is with you . . . may yoiir conference be most happy, may peace 
 be with you, aiul the blessing of the Great God rest upon you and the honored insti- 
 tution where it is your happiness to meet ! 
 
 " Our father, the President of the College, is still alive ; you will gi-asp his hand, 
 and also those of the other members of the Faculty. Of this great pleasure I shall 
 be debarred ; yet I will not trouble you with the expression of my grief. May he 
 and they long be spared to the College, to tlieir country, and to the cause of (iod. 
 .... Brothers, farewell and again farewell. 
 
 " Ailectiojjately yours." 
 
 "Class of 1832. Meeting Aug. 14, 1850, at Professor Salisl)ury's house. 
 
 " Present : Bowers, E. Colton, Dickson, Dunning, Eddy, Foote, Lyman, Prentice, 
 Salisbury, Seymour, Sperry, C. Stone, R. S. Stone, Tracy." 
 
 The roll was called ; minutes were made by the secretary of the meeting, Charles 
 Tracy, Esq., respecting the several meml)ers of the Class ; and letters to the Secretary 
 from some of the absent ones were read, as follows : 
 
 From Rev. E. Cleveland, of Cabot, Vt., August 8, 1850. 
 
 From Mr. G. W. Edwards, of New York, August 13, 1850 — who writes: 
 
 "I am reminded by your notice in the New York Tribune, as well as by the 
 suggestions of memory (ever ready to summon its possessor to a promised good), that 
 
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 Al'l'KNOIX. 
 
 the apjxnnted meeting of tlie Class of 1832 is lu-ar at liaiid. It is with no ordinary 
 
 feelings of regret that I inform you that I can not be present on that occasion 
 
 Five years have now passed since I last met with you and my Classmates — five years, 
 and how quickly they have flown — five years, and how full of interest have they been 
 to you and me and to each one of us ! They remind me, probably they remind us all, 
 of the dawning of new earthly hopes, and the closing forever of others in eternal 
 night ; of projects planned in exultation and ending in disappointment ; of schemes 
 laid with jirudence and forethought, and yet baffling our best efforts to carry them into 
 execution ; of expectations raised only to be dashed, and resolutions formed only to 
 be broken. They remind us of an unseen hand that has directed our steps often in 
 ' ways that we knew not,' of the realization in our (nvn experience of the fact that 
 ' there is a providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we may.' They 
 remind us, perhaps, of some dark storm nishing suddenly upon the noontide of happi- 
 ness, and then again of hope's rays beaming out from the nudst of the clouds, and 
 revealing themselves more fully in the radiant bow on the dark prospective of sorrow. 
 It is but a common-place reflection that in the life of every human being there are 
 connected with every year and hour and moment, as they pass, circumstances that are 
 to him of an infinite importance, events that have a mighty influence upon his char- 
 acter and his destiny for all coming time, and that eternity of which time is but the 
 portal ; and yet to the outward world all these circumstances and events may i)ass 
 unobserved and iinnoticed. ' Every heart knows its own bitterness.' It hath its own 
 appropriate sorrows and its own appropriate joys ; whatever else it may have in 
 common with the world around, these are its peculiar property, with which ' a 
 stranger intermeddleth not.' .... 
 
 " I have no record for my classmates of honorable distinction acquired in the world, 
 of exploits performed or reputation won, in fame's contest with my fellowmen. But 
 in regard to the education that I had at ' Old Yale,' I will say that I have every day 
 reason to be thankful for it as the means of doing good to others, and the source of 
 intellectual enjoyment to myself " 
 
 From Kev. H. L. Hitchcock, of Columbus, Ohio, July 18, 1850. 
 A letter from Kev. J. H. Carruth, of Fly Creek, near Cooperstown, H. Y., Aug. 
 13, 1850, was received too late to be read at the meeting. 
 
 " Tutor Blanchard, of the South Division, was present, then settled at Lowell, 
 Mass., where he had been during the whole of his ministerial life of nearly twenty- 
 one years. 
 
 '■^Resolved: That the Class meet again in 1855." 
 
 [C. TRACY.]
 
 Ai>i'i:.\iii.\. 
 
 "Jui.v '25, 1«.55. 
 
 "Present: Bowers, Fcllowes, Prentice, Siilisljiiry, Sperry." 
 
 Rejjorts of members of tlic Class were niadu mid luiinited, as usual. I.ettcrs were 
 read as follows : 
 
 From Rev. ,J. II. Carrutli, of Watertown, .lett'ersou (!o., N. Y., Jidy 1(1, 1855 — 
 who writes : 
 
 ... "I should have been glad exceedingly to see JMew ITaven, and to see the 
 gray liairs and bald heads that will then and tliei-e be seen, and also to show my own ; 
 but God in his providence wills otherwise. ... I have to-day walked eighteen miles 
 with scarcely any fatigne, though walking at a brisk rate, aixl in a hot sun. I am 
 
 beginning to be long-sighted, but do not use spectacles I am as poor ;is T can 
 
 be comfortably, and have sometimes been Tuore so. . . . 
 
 " Wishing you and all our surviving classmates a hapjiy old age, a hajipy death, and 
 a happy eternity, I am 
 
 Respectfully." 
 
 From Rev. R. S. Stone, of East Hampton, Mass., July 23, 1S55 — who writes : 
 
 . . . " It is a vei-y great disappointment to me to find myself unable to meet with 
 my classmates, respected and beloved, on that occasion. . . . But I hereby send my 
 most cordial salutations to all who may assemble. . . . 
 
 " The oldest living graduate of Yale, the Rev. Payson Williston, D.D., resides here, 
 and, though now just past ninety-two, bids fair to stay a few years longer. Far short 
 of that great age as we classmates come, it is yet to me an affecting thought that just 
 half of my life has passed since I left college ; and our oft returning Commencements 
 leave that point of our history farther behind, and almost out of sight. Who of us 
 will, in a few years, be the only survivor of our Class ? . . ." 
 
 "It was resolved: That the next meeting of the Class be in 1857, for the reason 
 that twenty-five years will then have elapsed since its graduation." 
 
 [R. S. FELLOWES, 
 
 Secretary of the meeting/.'] 
 
 No records of the meeting of 1857 are to l)e found; nor does it appear that any 
 letters from absent members of the Class were read on that occasion.
 
 AWENDIX. 
 
 Karlv ill May, 1880, an invitation was sent out tu " tlie survivors of (dl those who 
 were at any tvme membei's of the Class of 1832 in Yale College, to meet at the liouse 
 of the Class-Secretary in New Haven, on the 30th of June, " for renewal of acquaiiit- 
 uiu'C and tlie transaction of any appro])i'iate Inisiiiess." 
 
 The following gentlemen, accordingly, came together at 6 P. M. on that day : 
 Brace, E. Col ton, Fellowes, Foote, Frazier, Hebard, Noble, Manning, Plummer, 
 Salisbury, Seymour, Starr, Stille, Tracy, VanBergen, Warner, Winthrop. Letters 
 expressing regret at absence, from Archer, Bulkley, Carruth, Cleveland, Edwards, 
 Farley, Gould, Hoff, Hopkins, W. J. Hoppin, Huntington, Ingersoll, Keep, Latimer, 
 Livingston, Lyman, McCrea, Meriam, Miles, Norton, Saimderson, Schley, Shelton, 
 J. D. Smith, Tenney, Wharton, Wurts, were read. Messrs. Norton, Carruth, and the 
 late Dr. Brown were represented by their likenesses." 
 
 " Mr. Salisbury read an address of welcome and congratulation," as follows : 
 
 ' GENTLEiMEN, MY DEAK FkIENDS : 
 
 ' Having already had the pleasure of welcoming you individually, it is now my 
 privilege to bid you welcome as a Class. This is our eighth meeting since graduation, 
 the otliers having been held on the evening of August 15, 1832, in 1835, 1840, 1845, 
 18.5(1, 1855 and 1857, respectively, as shown by the records. But I am sure of expressing 
 a feeling common to all who were graduated here in 1832, when I say that in every 
 previous meeting we have had a painful sense of being a mutilated class, bereft, as we 
 were when only half through our course, of many of our most brilliant men, and valued 
 friends, by a sad catastrophe — a sense under the pressure of which we have not, hitherto, 
 been able to rise to any high degree of class-enthusiasm. Now, however, the broken 
 bonds are re-united ; and, though not a few of those whom we lost in that catastrophe, 
 as well as others of our number, have been separated from us by death, yet many of 
 them survive to gladden us with their presence, or have sent us messages of fraternal 
 greeting whicli bring them into our circle, to-day. So that we are " omnes in uno," 
 again, with a peculiar emphasis of meaning, scarcely to have been anticipated when a 
 cruel fatality broke our class in two, long years ago. Nor has this happy consummation 
 come too late. A reparation of injury, a restoration of harmony, though it may be 
 tardy, is never out of time. None of us, I hoj)e, are too old to respond to the (piickening 
 influence of a revival of .associations of our youthful days. There is not one of us, I am 
 sure, who may not be clieered and strengthened by it to do and dare the more in what 
 remains of the work of earthly life. 
 
 ' This meeting has grown out of an undert.akiug, begun nearly two years since, to 
 trace and brieily record the fortunes of all those who ever were members of the Class of 
 1832 in Yale College — to which 1 was led, in part, by the consciousness of having not 
 been duly attentive, previously, to the duties of Class-Secretary, which had been 
 somehow laid upon me (probably, at the meeting of the Class in 1845, the first permanent 
 Secretary, Mr. Kingsley, having died in 1842), though no record of the fact appears. 
 As my inquiries were pushed, I became animated by the thought of the possibility of 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 restoring the unity ol' tlie Class; tlie suggestion of whicli met witli universal favor 
 among the survivors of our graduates of 1832, and was cordially and gracefully met, on 
 our jietition, by the President and Fellows of Yale, who last year gave back to us all 
 who had then been traced, and were found to be still living, of our lost brothers, by 
 conferring on them the honorary Master's degree. Two others, traced since, will receive 
 the same degree to-morrow. 
 
 ' Here it may be in place to give some class-statistics. The whole number of iTieinliers, 
 at one time or another, longer or shorter, is one hundred and nineteen. Of these, fifty- 
 five — a few less than half — are believed to be still living. The class counted fifty-three 
 men at its graduation, of whom twenty-eight still live — a fraction more than half. The 
 invitation to this meeting included all of the fifty-five survivors, together with two 
 others, then supposed to be living, but since found to have already " gone before," and 
 two who have died since the invitation was sent out, one of whom, presently to be 
 named, has died within a few days. Twenty-seven* have sent letters of regret that they 
 could not join us, all with some expression of fraternal sympathy — fourteen of these 
 being men who were not graduated here in course, in 1832, and the other thirteen among 
 those who then took their Yale-degrees. Eleven of our survivors have not been heard 
 from in answer to the invitation. 
 
 ' One of those invited, who most earnestly desired to be present with us to-day, liaviiig 
 looked forward to this meeting with longing, even from his distant home in Japan, is, 
 alas, not here, after all ! He was suddenly " called up higher," oidy ten days ago. It 
 was the rare privilege of Rev. Dr. Samuel Robbins Brown, after years of valuable 
 service as a missionary in China, to be called to impress his own mind and character, ))v 
 means of education and translation of the Scriptures, upon all the coming history of that 
 wonderful civilization of Japan, long shut out from commimication with the rest of the 
 world, except by one port open to one people ; but of which the various jiroducts, 
 especially those in the department of art, have of late become so highly prized, by all 
 people of culture, that one can scarcely be regarded as educated up to the requirements 
 of the time, who is not more or less familiar with Japanese arts and manufactures. With 
 all her culture, however, original and elaborate as it was, Japan, so long as she remained 
 isolated, was not in the line of progress, according to western conceptions of \\liat that 
 signifies ; and felt none of those specially quickening influences which have come to 
 nations of the West through Christianity. Even the multiplied commercial advances of 
 western people, in recent times, to lier shores, would not, in all jsrobability, have wrought 
 any radical or permanent changes in her destiny, but for the new inspiration, the liberal- 
 izing impulse, communicated by Christian missions. This agency it was, in one form 
 or another, which, animated and borne along by Christian love and beneficence, broke 
 down barriers, and overcame prejudices, as no other. power could have done. In this 
 auspicious introduction of Chi-istianity into Japan, our lamented classmate Brown had 
 the honor to be a pioneer, and for several years a successful laborer. A record of his 
 life by himself, which is in our possession for publication, closes with these words : " It 
 is a joy to me that I have spent twenty-nine years of my life as a pioneer worker in 
 China and in the Land of the Rising Sun. All that far East has begun to move, and to 
 fall in with the march of the nations of the West. I almost envy those younger than 
 
 * Mr. Clay sent his regrets later.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 iiivsc'lf, wlio will livo to see the future advance." His presence liere, on this occasion, 
 will be sadly missed. But " an honored life, a peaceful death, and heaven to crown it 
 all," apportioned to him, remain for us to rejoice in and he thankful for. 
 
 ' Our class has been honorably distinguished for its large proportion of men of 
 professed Christian principle. The spirit in whic-li we ])arted, in 1832, was felicitously 
 expressed by one of our number (who is happily with us to-day),* in a hymn, sung at 
 our closing service in the Chapel, which I have the pleasure of recalling to you : 
 
 " Peace to the whispers of sadness at ])artiiig, 
 
 The love that hath bound us unbroken remains ; 
 Bright rays of hope from above are still darting, 
 
 And God who hath filled us with gladness still reigns. 
 
 Chorus — Peace to the whispers of sadness at parting, 
 
 For God who hath filled us with gladness still reigns. 
 
 " Brief are the hours we have sojourned together, 
 The last sand is rvmning, we hasten to j)art ; 
 Earth hath no union but time will dissever — 
 
 To meet with the blest be the prayer of our heart. 
 
 CiiOKUs — Peace to the whispers of sadness at parting. 
 
 To meet with the blest be the prayer of our heart. 
 
 " High be His praises whose mercy abounding 
 On us has so richly, so freely, been poured ; 
 Swell the loud chorus in anthems resounding, 
 Be glad every heart, and rejoice in the Lord. 
 
 Chorus — Swell the loud chorus in anthems resounding. 
 Be glad every heart and rejoice in the Lord." 
 
 'The key-note of this onr re-union, after the lapse of nearly half a century, may be 
 appropriately struck by the following words, in a similar strain, of our great Quaker 
 
 j)oet : 
 
 " I mourn no more my vanished years ; 
 Beneath a tender rain. 
 An April rain of smiles and tears, 
 
 My heart is young again. 
 ***** 
 
 " No longer forward nor behind 
 I look in hope and fear; 
 But, grateful, take the good I find. 
 The V)est of now and here. 
 
 i|C ?jC Jp Jp 3|C 
 
 " I break my pilgrim staff, I lay 
 
 Aside the toiling oar ; 
 The angel sought so far away 
 
 T welcome at my door. 
 ***** 
 
 " All as God wills, who wisely heeds 
 To give or to withhold. 
 And knoweth more of all my needs 
 Thau all my prayers have told ! 
 
 * Cliarles Tracy, l?sq., of New York,
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 " Enough that blessings undeserved 
 Have marked my erring track — 
 That whereso'er my feet have swerved, 
 His chastening turned nie back — 
 
 " Tliat more and more a Providence 
 Of love is understood, 
 Making the springs of time and sense 
 Sweet with eternal good — 
 
 " That death seems but a covered way 
 Which opens into light, 
 Wherein no blinded child can stray 
 Beyond the Father's sight — 
 
 " That care and trial seem at last, 
 Through jVIemory's simset air, 
 Like mountain-ranges overpast, 
 In purple distance fair. 
 
 * iit * * * " 
 
 ' It now only remains for me to propose that this meeting be organized by the appoint- 
 ment of a President and Secretary — to give direction to our proceedings, to jireserve 
 order, if needful, and to record what may be said and done. As already intimated, I 
 have at hand letters from absent brothers ; these should be read at the proper time. 
 There are also before you interesting memoranda respecting mendiers of the Class, to 
 which reference may be had on request for information. The gentlemen present will 
 be expected, I suppose, to speak for themselves. One chief object of our gathering is, 
 of course, to renew acquaintance with and in regard to one another. May I be alhnved 
 to propose, then, that lion. William Frazier of Staunton, in the Old Dominion, pre- 
 side over our meeting ; and that Richard Simpson Fellowes, Esq., of New Haven, 
 act as Secretary ? ' 
 
 " Hon. William Frazier was then called to the chair, and made a few pleasant and 
 ])atriotic remarks ; and Mr. Fellowes was appointed Secretary of the meeting. 
 
 " Mr. Salisbury, as Class-Secretary, gave in brief some of the results of two years 
 of correspondence with [or, about] members of the Class, in which ' work of love,' as he 
 called it, he had gathered many details of their history ; the roll of deceased members 
 was read in full. 
 
 " Mr. Tracy then gracefully proposed a vote of thanks to Prof. Salisbury for his 
 pains in tracing tlie fortunes of the members of tlie Class since graduation, and for his 
 cordial hospitality, etc., which was unanimously passed." 
 
 The gentlemen jiresent being called upon, in turn, for off-hand speeches : 
 
 "Mr. Hebard spoke of his pleasure in meeting his classmates, to do which lie had 
 
 come 2000 miles ; he wished to get a mental photograph of those present ; he had been 
 
 teacher, pioneer, engineer and farmer, and had been successful ; had lived most of the 
 
 time on the western rim of civilization ; had been in the Iowa Legislature and Senate, 
 
 B 9
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 and had, with Gov. Chambers, aided in making treaties witli Indian tribes. He also 
 broiight np the name of Henry A. DeForest, speaking of him with coi-dial feeling 
 and emotion. 
 
 "Mr. Phimmer had always been thankful that he was a graduate of Yale; his 
 education at Yale, and for the ministry, had brought him always into full sympathy 
 with the good men and the good objects of the whole world. 
 
 " Mr. Starr made a few remarks of similar purport. 
 
 " Mr. Brace was delighted to meet his Class, paid a tribute to Mr. Salisbury for 
 what he had done in preparing for this gathering, and then spoke feelingly of the 
 late Dr. Brown of Japan, of his evenness of temper, capacities and usefulness. 
 
 " Dr. Stille said, if he were to say all he wished to, he should talk all night ; sad- 
 ness was joined to the pleasure ; associations of names often made him smile ; he 
 alluded to Saunderson as a wit and lampoonist, and gave several illustrations of his 
 ability in that direction — which recalled Edwards, Salter, Peiia, Tutor Jones, whose 
 ]3aterual mode of discipline he admired, and others. 
 
 " Mr. Manning then gave a hearty tribute to the memory of Mr. Joiies (in which 
 others joined) ; and was followed by Mr. Foote in praise of his room-mate Peiia, 
 relating several anecdotes of college-Ufe ; his own life had l)een too uneventful to 
 talk about. 
 
 " Mr. Colton expressed his thanks to the Class-Secretary, and praised the late Dr. 
 Brown. 
 
 " Mr. Winthrop spoke of his regrets at not having graduated with the Class, and 
 of his agricultural employments. 
 
 " Mr. Foote rejoiced in the depths of his heart at this class-reunion, etc." 
 
 Mr. Salisbury illustrated the impropriety of his attempticg to make a speech, by 
 relating the incident of his losing his balance in the midst of a declamation in the 
 College Chapel, and being forced to jump from the platform, to save himself from a 
 fall, much to the amusement of his comrades. 
 
 " General Noble said that, oiitside of family, college and country have the next 
 claims upon us ; he heard the first gun at Sumter, was at Andersonville, etc. ; if the 
 war had done no other good, it had taught our citizen-soldiers what a great country 
 they have ; he was well, active, and able to work sixteen hours out of twenty-four. 
 
 " Mr. VanBergen, alluding to the peculiar circumstances of the meeting, said it 
 illustrated, what lawyers know, that there is a way out of every difiiculty. 
 
 " Mr. Seymour had great pleasure on the occasion. 
 
 " Mr. Warner hoped that education would make us all missionaries for good. 
 
 " Mr. Frazier pleasantly stated some of his reminiscences of Professor Olmsted, 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 and of tutors Joues and Pettiugell, whose names the Class ought to l)ear in reuicni- 
 brance, etc. 
 
 " Evening-refreshments were then served ; and the company drank to the toast of 
 'omnes in imo' given by Mr. Salisbury, 'with a new significance and a new conse- 
 cration — ' in uno ' in brotherhood, in devotion to our whole country, in loyalty to 
 our common Alma Mater — a motto, now, no longer for a portion of the Class,* but 
 for the whole Class.' 
 
 " After the meeting was again called to order, Mr. Salisbury showed copies of the 
 form proposed for the publication of our ' Biographical Memoranda,' and called 
 particular attention to his statement, in a prefatory note, relative to the disniption of 
 the Class in 1830 — which was generally aj^proved, though somewhat criticised by Dr. 
 Stille.f There was then some discussion as to the number of copies which would be 
 needed, and, upon the Class-Secretary stating that he thought four hinidred might be 
 the right number, it was resolved, on motion by Mr. Tracy, seconded by Mr. Fellowes : 
 That the form of publication, as shown, be appi-oved ; and that four hundred copies 
 be printed, at the convenience of Mr. Salisbury. 
 
 " Before the meeting broke up, subscriptions were made towards defraying the 
 printing-expenses. 
 
 K. S. FELLOWES, 
 
 Secretary of meeting of^Oth June, 1880." 
 
 * In allusion to the fact that those who left ua in 1830 assumed, as their badge of distinction, a massive 
 gold ring with these words inscribed upon it. 
 
 f A correspondence with Dr. Stillii, afterwards, led to some slight modifications of this statement, giving it 
 the form printed above. 
 
 li
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 SKETCHES FROM MEMORY. 
 
 Rhad before the Yale Alumni Association op New York, DEt'EMiiEit 12, 1813, 
 
 BY 
 
 Charles Tracy. 
 
 The period of observation covered by what is now offered, began in 182!), and 
 ended, for the most part, in 1832. Those who then were jM-oniinent in the admin' 
 istration of Yale College, with few exceptions, have passed from life and become fair 
 subjects of history ; and in speaking only of them no slight is intended as to others 
 more lately or even now among us. 
 
 The class of 1832 was under the presidency of Dr. Day, and the instruction of 
 himself and Professors Silliman, Kingsley, Goodrich and Olmsted. Its last term of 
 Senior-year gave it the first openings of Professor "Woolsey, in the department of the 
 Greek language. Long may lie flourish before his completed career shall demand an 
 historian ! 
 
 President Day held his position and fulfilled his duties with unfailing care, and 
 without a trace of assumption or magisterial bearing. He was not only benevolent 
 and paternal in spirit, but quiet, constant, hopeful ; seeing and seen of all, watching 
 the movement of things, but never hastily interrupting the current. "While he taught 
 metaphysics with the accuracy of the mathematician, he furnished in himself the 
 living type of the philosopher. 
 
 There was an ample spring of humor in his mind, wliich ordinarily was kept back, 
 but sometimes burst out when occasion demanded. Once an alarm was raised in conse- 
 quence of some cases of smallpox near the college-buildings, and great stir and talk were 
 excited among the students. Things were coming to a serious pass. The president com- 
 prehended the situation. Immediately after evening-prayers lie came before the whole 
 assembly and made a speech so wise and withal so humorous that all were enlightened 
 and vastly amused ; and he gave the excitement a finishing touch by saying he was 
 concerned to find that the anxiety on this subject prevailed most in one class, and was 
 in fact almost confined to it — the Sophomore Class. Thenceforth the pestilence became 
 a joke, and the Sophomores made the best of their case and joined in the laugh. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 Professor Sillimaii was an enthusiast in his department. He liad imported eliem 
 istry and set it up in the place of the old speculations about four elements, phlogiston 
 and the like. In his own country he nobly proclaimed the new science, and also 
 pushed forward its investigations. Since the period now under consideration chemistry 
 has grown ; but all there was of it then — the main stock of what there is now — was in 
 his head ami heart, and he loved to make it known. There was eloquence in his 
 lectures and magic in his material demonstrations. Mineralogy also received admirable 
 treatment at his hands. As for geology, its doctrines were afloat, its observations 
 scant ; and no sound teacher of the young could treat it as a matured science, or safely 
 take a stand ujjon any general theory ; but lie displayed and grouped the things known, 
 and indicated the line of investigation, and trained his jjupils for the grand pursuit 
 which was opening. 
 
 Mr. Silliman was heard sometimes on other subjects, and always was tlie true 
 orator. While the Faculty of the college, as a whole, was conspicuous for correct 
 knowledge of the Englisli language and for cultivated expression, the true rhetorical 
 art, in spoken discourse, had its best example in Professor Silliman. Some cherished 
 the antiquated pronunciation, and said natur and vi/iu and valooitUe, and dropped 
 the final g of the present participle — all upon jjrinciple and with rigid system ; but 
 Ml-. Silliman had caught the full pronunciation of scholars in England. Americans 
 often lightly touched tlie accented syllable of a word, l>ut he made it prominent, as did 
 Daniel Webster and some others of tlie best deliverers of discourse. Mr. Silliman's 
 pronunciation went a little further in the old-country line ; for he pronounced the a in 
 m cm, bad, lance and the like, as it is heard usually in far and /'at fur. Beyond this 
 little matter, he was clear and rapid in statement, rich in illustration, ardent in delivery, 
 brilliant in witty sallies, and at all times glowing with uuaifected goodness of soul and 
 sympathy with whatever was noble and pure. In one of his lectures, after describing 
 certain phenomena in which ph^'sical nature was working out the comfort and safety 
 of man, he spoke of the evidence of a jiersonal divinity in the manifest design of such 
 a material law ; " design," said he, " as plain to be seen here, as it is in the hinge of a 
 door." What could be liner 1 
 
 His origin and training and his whole life belonged to culture and refinement — in 
 fact to the aristocracy ; and without pretensions or claims, but with true dignity, he 
 always was a gentleman, as well as an example and guide in the walks of virtue ; 
 never wanting in the exaltation belonging to a profound religious faith, nor the 
 sentiment moving to devout worship. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 Professor Kingsloy was ;i close stuilent and Ijook-woruL, liut wore tlie expression 
 of vivacity. When met at liis room lie was fonnd spirited and ready. A fortunate 
 errand took a student to liis jirivate library for the form of a Latin inscription to he 
 cut on a monument ; and there sat the learned man, surrounded by shelves of classics, 
 all i^uai-ded by paper covers — aii awe ins]iiriniif sight to a college-boy — the prftfessor's 
 posture and sparkling face repeating the portrait of Sterne, and his conversation not 
 out of harmony with his looks. The course of lectures he gave to the Seniors on 
 chronology, the i)rinciple8 of history and what he called general graniniar, were among 
 the things most enjoya])le at the time and most firmly remembered afterwards. His 
 readiiigs of Plato were absolutely charming. Not having fully retained his voice 
 during the period of this notice, he ceased his weekly turn at evening-prayers on his 
 delivery becoming inaudihie, but the Class gathered near him in the lecture-room and 
 lost not a word. 
 
 These three gentleincn, with all their propriety, possessed much of true humor ; 
 and it was not always smothered. A student caught a iiash now and then ; but their 
 own private intercourse, it was said, struck out many a good thing, wliicli was quoted 
 and passed along down the line. Mr. Kingsley, having just received an invitation to 
 dine with a friend, met Mr. Silliman, who came to give a similar invitation for the 
 same day. " Pmt how can I eat two dinners at once and in two places f ' says Kingsley. 
 " You are the ass between two bundles of hay, not knowing which to choose," was the 
 reply; and the instant rejoinder was: "No! a bundle of hay between two asses." 
 Some days afterwards Professor Kingsley called to see the new laboratory, where 
 Professor Silliman was at work amidst foi'ge and tank and retort. The establishment 
 struck tlie visitor as bearing an odd likeness to a smithy ; and, with a <piizzical tone, 
 lie asked : " Is this the place where you shoe asses ?" The answer was : " Yes, hold up 
 your foot." 
 
 Professor Olmsted left most grateful recollections. He was a true man and a 
 diligent and effective teacher. The work of carrying a class through a course of 
 natural philosophy and astronomy, treating it with exactness, and making them com- 
 prehend the subject, is essentially arduous ; and he performed it with a patient spirit, 
 and evinced rare gifts of imparting ideas and fixing them in the mind. 
 
 His nile was to press a point until he could read it in the face of the slowest of his 
 hearers, and of course some versatility was requisite for holding the interest of others, 
 who quickly caught it, while the gradual impression was working in heavier mould. 
 This is the very difficulty in all rational arguments before judges, juries and ci'owds : 
 to keep up the thought in varying forms, not wearying the fast while convincing the 
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 slow. He did a great service to meteorology hj long and exhaustive laliors in the 
 investigation of the great meteoric shower of 1833 ; gathering reports from tliousands 
 of observers, reducing them to system, and propounding an hv])otlicsifi which ])laced 
 the whole within the range of scientific consideration. 
 
 This suggested resolution of the phenomena was not jmt forth as a theory or 
 determined conclusion, but strictly as an hypothesis ; and altliougli other anil later 
 observations caused his scheme to be somewliat obscured, yet it wrought the true 
 work of an hypothesis, l)y gr()U])ing jihenomena, tracing portions of a general law, 
 and helping forward tlie intpiiry which has not stopped, and even now challenges the 
 student of natiire to face new facts and startling affinities. 
 
 Professor Goodrich gave to rhetoine a thoughtful ti-eatment, while encouraging 
 the attempts of his pupils in their crude essays. He was, moreover, the critical editor, 
 who furnished or polished tlie issiies of a distinguished serial magazine ; and he also 
 impressed his ample learning and methodical care upon the great dictionary of 
 Webster. 
 
 Of the tutors in those days there remains a pleasant memory for general kindness 
 and friendliness. l>ut at tliat period they were hardly expected or allowed to do 
 miich practical teaching. Their chief office was to see that every student had learned 
 his lesson, and to mark down his attendance and proficiency : in short, to be head- 
 monitor and policeman. It was a waste of good brains to keeji such clever men as 
 the tutors were at such duty, and not to use them more effectually in the very woi'k 
 of education — in imparting ideas, smoothing difficulties, encouraging the faint, guiding 
 the courageous and helping all. 
 
 Dr. Fitch, then the minister of the chapel, as well as instructor in ethics, was a 
 graceful writer and a bold thinker, but too diffident for extemporaneous discourse or 
 even class-instruction. His pulpit-performances were of a high order, and he warmed 
 in the delivery of grand passages. One instance of his advancing courage may be 
 mentioned. It was in a sermon on the resurrection. He distinguished the two ideas 
 expressed in the common translation by the same tenn resurrection^ one looking to a 
 rising of 1)ody and the other to a persistent being of soul ; and thus, in few words, 
 propounded what then was startling, although much considered since that time. 
 
 In those days New Haven had its characters. There was Percival the poet, 
 dwelling alone in a cheerless house with not a green thing about it, and coming forth 
 at times haggard and crazed in looks, wearing a doleful hat, and in the hottest days 
 
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 wi'appetl in a faded plaid-cloak. Yet lie was a true poet, ami morenver was a hi^li 
 matlieinatician and a master of mineralogy. The State did wisely in f^iving its 
 geological sui'vey into liis IkuhIs. There was Palmer, the engineer, who opei-atcil in 
 his surveys \\itli (jueer instruments of his own invention and construction, jiressed to 
 the highest and hardest in the study of exact science, solved the puzzles of numbers, 
 determined the diameter of the ultimate globules or particles of water, made the very 
 best of all repoi'ts on the shooting stars, and — lived under the shadow of West Itock, 
 and sent his milk-cart to the city. There was Jiidson, an eccentric critic, who wrote 
 strange papers and said odd things. One of his saws was this : " Some men are wise 
 and some are otherwise." There was Nathan Smith, the aged lawyer, a man of 
 eminence at jui'y-trials. lie was the last who came to the bar in small-clothes, long 
 hose, blue coat with gold buttons and a queue and powder. He was not a polished 
 orator. His tone was of the ruder quality and not free from lisping, but his treatment 
 of a cause befoi-e a jnry was reniarkalily great. Here is an example, which some of 
 the class of 1832 witnessed and enjoyed. There was a suit for the loss of a horse, the 
 cpiestion being whether the animal died from negligent watering when overheated, or 
 from prior fatal disease. After a conflict of testimony as to the facts, and clashing 
 u[)iniuns of medical experts, and skilful handling of the cause by counsel, the general 
 impression tended to innocence of the driver. Now Smith took up the word. He 
 played with the case awhile, tripped through the evidence, worked up funny contrasts, 
 made ci;ts at the opposite counsel, and thus freshened everybody for his grand go. 
 Then, abruptly assuming great force and dignity, he came down on the jury : '• Now, 
 gentlemen, I will show you to a demonstration what killed that boss;" and he rapidly 
 and clearly struck the true key of the controversy, arranged the decisive facts in (trder 
 as if they were crystallized, and in a few minutes made out his demonstration. Every 
 difficulty had vanished. The judge lost his anxious look. The jurymen hitched 
 al)out in their seats as if relieved of a puzzle, and the fate of the case was settled. 
 The whole performance was as perfect an achievement in its way as an average 
 lifetime may witness. There was the stone-cutter, whose monumental structui-es in 
 the cemetery, inscribed " Executed by D. Eitter," led a foreigner to remark how 
 many respectable citizens of New Haven had been hanged. He also invented an 
 improved razor-strap, and sent one to General Jackson — then a candidate for the 
 Presidency — and obtained and published an acknowledgment of the gift, wherein the 
 article was mentioned as " presented to me in testimony of your admiration for my 
 distinguished services." 
 
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 Ill tliose days we did not row, l)nt we played at base and cricket, and climhcd and 
 whirled and walked the rope in the gynmasinni. To some tiie plaiiiK and hills and 
 valleys of the vicinity were as familiar as the way to dinner. 8onie even cut wood 
 for exercise, and a dainty fellow dignified this course by decorating his axe-helve with 
 a Greek motto from an ancient poet, to the effect that it was an honor to woi'k and a 
 shame to be lazy. 
 
 There were commons in those days ; not altogether coni])u]8ory, and preferred by 
 many — each class sitting by itself, with a tutor on the dais, and an abundant supply of 
 economical food, little beyond the style of the ancient heroes' diet; but a merry and 
 sociable company, which was a growing pleasure to the last. Mr. Hillhouse once 
 proposed that Congress sliould dine in commons : a plan which might perhaps have 
 done something to civilize even that hopeless body. 
 
 A special good word must be said of one of our tutors, a favorite, and hence known 
 by one syllable of his long name — Pet. One night a student was in a bad way. In a 
 Californian plirase, he was " discouraged." His friends could not keep him from stalk- 
 ing through the grass in ghostly attire and making a great noise. This tutor came to 
 the rescue, and proposed going under cover ; but in vain. He urged : " The grass is 
 wet, the air chilly; you may take cold." The poor fellow lifted his foot: "Not a 
 speck of danger, Pet ; don't you see I have my boots on i " That tutor was as bright 
 as he was good. In the words of his epitaph, he was 
 
 Vir ingenio prompto et versatili: 
 Sodalis gratiosus: fidus amicns. 
 
 The class of 1S32 gained a sad distinction, in being the subject of the last great 
 rebellion, the greatest of all college-performances of that sort. It made a fracture 
 throwing out nearly half the members, and leaving only fifty-three to receive their 
 degrees; but the personal bond of friendship survived, and neither fragment failed to 
 attain honorable positions in life ; M'hile the graduating iTiendjers have been among the 
 foremost advocates of the college and contributors to its needed pecuniary aid. It 
 would be pleasant to leave this item of history unrecorded ; but the matter has its bear- 
 ing on philosophy and the progress of college-rule, and to that extent requires mention. 
 
 Two students of ambitious natures were rivals for the chieftaincy in class-influence 
 and the preference in college-grade — one from the North, cold, hard and arrogant, the 
 other from the South, venturesome, crafty and popular — neither of them too good to 
 seek for rule or ruin. It was in dog-days, and the long lessons in an unskilfully con- 
 structed work on conic sections were a strain on the majority, while light to the few 
 
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 iiMlur;il iiiatliematiciaus. Such was tlic occasion. Dissatisfaction led to inuttci-in^s ; 
 and then the two rivals conuueiiced the niiscliief, and ran a race in winninff over 
 others to disaffection. The college-government became next in fault. The alhiir wajs 
 managed badly. It is not well to fix the blame in any particular quarter : but clearly 
 the thin* might have been dealt with like the smallpox-panic, and with equal effect. 
 Alas, it was not so to be ! Conic sections, over-tasking, dog-days, reckless rivals and 
 official harshness combined to work out the bad result. The exj^erience of that affair 
 did not instantly correct all the errors which had led to it ; for not many months later 
 the remaining members of the ('lass felt an encroachment and a grievance, and in full 
 assembly and with great spirit uttered their sentiments. There was an ugly prospect 
 of a fatal repetition of the prior scene. But as we had our own way the elements 
 subsided, and the class of 1832 went on in peace to the end, and finally celebrated its 
 Commencement with great eclat, although the Asiatic cholera was tlien first raging in 
 New York and the country was in general alarm. 
 
 The college had inherited from the jjast a monastic method of government or 
 management not fully adapted to modern times ; and the New England race clung to 
 some of the tendencies which gained for its ancestors the epithet of precisians. The 
 young student who picked up President Stiles, when he had fallen on the ice, and 
 restored his hat and cane, forgetting for the moment his own hat not doft'ed, was fined. 
 The boy's heart and head were right, but his hat was wrong. Time and growth and 
 expansion have modified those severities. The adventures of my class did good. We 
 have few precisians now. There is less governing done and more government accom- 
 plished, less ordering and more order, a very few who frown and a great many who 
 are happy and content. 
 
 Matriculation was an offence to the students, as it required a jironiise to obey a 
 code of rules, some of which no one intended to regard. It was usiud to smooth the 
 difficulty by a kind of argument, or disguise of thin logic, and ease it by mental 
 reservations. In the class of 1832 the observance chanced to be omitted, as to several 
 ineniliers, including myself, until late in Senior-year, and then was imposed and suIh 
 mitted to as a condition of graduation. If some form and dignity had been Ijcstowed 
 upon the proceeding, the affair might have passed off as a show. A recent graduate 
 of an American college, (m being matriculated in a German university, found himself 
 enrolled as Vir Pt'cKnohUissimiis Amerieanus. After that it was not sti-anjie that 
 he was familiarly addi'essed as Ilerr Graf.
 
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 Tlio class uf 1832 had its fair proportion of wealtli and social rank, and Intellectual 
 powei', ami mora! earnestness. It shared full}' in the pleasant things of those days. 
 The drama had a place in the great societies, and no little histrionic resource was 
 developed. Of the draviatis personoB in one comedy, a Catholic ])rieBt, an Irish 
 laborer, and a raw southwestern girl in calico and ribbons who both spoke and sang, 
 were represented by three students ; and if their names were now given there would 
 be recognized a stylish and |)ortly millionaire, a lawyer in gray locks and a right 
 reverend and mitred bishop. Should they repeat the performance now, and in the 
 same costumes, it would be higher comedy. 
 
 In those days free-masonry and aiiti-masonry fought their battles; and a grave 
 questiim of conscience arose about the promise of secrecy exacted on initiation into the 
 Phi Beta Kajjpa Society. Harvard was for dissolving the secrec}', and it sent Edward 
 Everett to the private meeting at Yale to advocate the cause. He used a tender tone, 
 stood half drooping as he spoke, and touchingly set forth that the students at Harvard 
 had such conscientious scruples as to keep them from taking the vow of secrecy, and 
 the society's life was thus endangered. There was stout opposition, but the inotion 
 prevailed, and the missionary returned to gladden the tender consciences of the 
 Harvard boys. The seci'et of course was out. The world did not stare at the discov- 
 ery ; and when a few years had passed the society took back its secrecy aud revived 
 its grip. 
 
 Nicknames were coming into vogue in those days. We had two men who rejoiced 
 in the name of Stone. The little one was the Pebble, and the portly man was 
 Magnum Saxum. Two bore the name of Wright, and as neither could be wrong 
 the one who was very tall and rigidly erect in figure was Recte. He came from 
 Wright's Island — his father's property — in the Connecticut River, a sjjot abounding 
 in blackbirds, and also su])ject to inundations from the floods, which once actually 
 drove the family into their garret. Hence the Byronic stanza : 
 
 "The Isle of Wright, the Isle of Wright, 
 Where Recte rose and blackbirds sang ; 
 Eternal freshets drown it yet, 
 And all except the garret 's wet." 
 
 The love of the old college is a mystery. Something more than an appreciation 
 
 of utility, and more than the force of early association. It is a sentiment. The few 
 
 years passed in active mental employment, in a succession of discoveries of new ideas, 
 
 in subjection to routine, in forming friendships, in common pureuits with many equals, 
 
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 make an iniju'cssion wliicli docs not fade, and f'oi-evor renders occanional ix'turns to the 
 college-grounds a thoughtful pleasure. The old and rude l)nilding and appointments 
 which have served necessary uses are venerable, and loyal feeling dignifies thcin. As 
 they give place to modern ai-chitecture and improvements gi-atifying to aesthetic sense, 
 the sentiment is transferred hut holds its power. Whatever lietides an old college- 
 room, the memoi'ies of things that happened and thoughts that were horn there long 
 ago haunt the spot ; and the man of years, returned from far, renews the revei-ie of 
 boyhood, and feels that while time's stream bears him along he is never out of sight 
 of the starting-point, and that he belongs to a true succession biniling the |);ist :iiid 
 the coming in a golden chain. 
 
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