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CMICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 
 
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 -IJ WARREN AVF.NUE, - - CHICAGO. 
 
 Nov. 19, 1897 
 
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 rty thanks on behalf of the Seminary. 
 y the Quarterly Sketch of the Seminary, and our last 
 a sort of continuation to the former, as it gives coin- 
 ers, students etc., from the founding of the institutior 
 
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 QUARTER CENTENNIAL 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 JAMESON & MORSE, BOCK AND JOB PRINTERS. 
 1879. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 I. PLANS FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDY IN WESTERN COLLEGES, 
 
 II. BEGINNINGS, - 7 
 
 III. ORGANIZATION, 12 
 
 IV. ACTION OF GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS, 17 
 V. STRUGGLES OF PREPARATION, - 20 
 
 VI. OPENING OF THE SEMINARY, 24 
 
 VII. LOCATION, 26 
 
 VIII. BUILDINGS, 29 
 
 IX. LIBRARY, 31 
 
 X. TRIENNIAL CONVENTIONS, 
 
 XI. PROPOSED UNION WITH OBERLIN, :u 
 
 XII. TREASURERS, AGENTS, AND GENERAL FUNDS, 3t; 
 
 XIII. ENDOWMENTS, 40 
 
 XIV. OUT OF THE FIRE, 45 
 XV. FACULTY AND STUDENTS, 
 
 XVI. CONCLUSION, : > 
 
 QUARTER CENTENNIAL FUND, 53 
 
 CHARTER OF THE SEMINARY, " 1 - 1 
 
 Al.IMNI OF THE SEMINARY, 'l 
 

 
 STATEMENT. 
 
 By the "Great Fire" in Chicago, October, 1871, there 
 were lost the Records of the Board of Directors of the 
 Chicago Theological Seminary, also the Records of their 
 Executive Committee, the official Reports of the Treas- 
 urer and Agent, as well as many other important docu- 
 ments. In consequence only a meager History of the 
 Seminary did the Committee, appointed for that purpose, 
 count themselves able to make. 
 
 They have, however, been gratefully surprised to find 
 how much reliable history they still could gather. This 
 required minute search in private diaries and letters, in 
 written memoranda, published periodicals and the fortun- 
 ately preserved duplicates of Reports made by Mr. Kedzie 
 during his Agency, and involved also extensive corres- 
 pondence. 
 
 Often long search and much correspondence has been 
 necessary to settle a date or fact, which could be recorded 
 in a single line. The Committee have spared no pains to 
 make this History accurate. For all important dates and 
 facts they found some printed document, written memo- 
 randum, or personal testimony, on which they could rely. 
 Thus they have been able to gather the important facts 
 concerning the organization and work of the Seminary 
 thus far, which, else, were likely to perish with this gen- 
 eration. 
 
 A review of those early times awakens conflicting 
 emotions in the minds of those participating therein. 
 The Directors, undertaking a work in which they never 
 
before had been engaged, saw, afterward, wherein errors 
 of judgment were committed, for which they found some 
 excuse in their right intent and lack of experience. To 
 bring the Seminary to its present stage of progress, has 
 cost much care and labor on the part of the Directors and 
 Professors gladly again to be endured for completing a 
 work so well begun. 
 
 Upon our Chicago Theological Seminary, this sacred, 
 and, we trust, yet to become ancient seat of learning, we 
 invoke what it has hitherto enjoyed, the cooperation of 
 the churches and the favor of Him, their Divine Head, 
 that thus it may grow to full maturity of strength, and 
 come to ripe, abundant and perpetual fruitage. 
 
 A. S. KEJDZIE, 
 
 ( 'Jmirnuni <>f ( Committee. 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL., June, 1879. 
 
I. 
 
 PLANS FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDY IN WESTERN 
 COLLEGES. 
 
 The establishment of colleges in the Northwest was 
 in the interest both of education and religion. Their 
 founders looked forward to educating a Christian ministry, 
 as an important function of those colleges. Facilities for 
 theological education were provided in the plan of some 
 of them. 
 
 Soon after Beloit College began its work, the question 
 of providing theological education came before its Trus- 
 tees in consequence of actual application for such instruc- 
 tion. To meet this want, early in 1852 the Pastor elect 
 of the First Congregational Church in Beloit was elected 
 Professor of Theology in the college. This, it was 
 thought, would be the beginning of a Theological De- 
 partment in which Congregationalists and Presbyterians 
 could unite, and where students in theology would come 
 with advantage under the influence and instruction of a 
 pastor. The call to both offices was declined. No fur- 
 ther attempt has been made to open a Theological De- 
 partment in Beloit College. The large number of young 
 men whom this college has helped train for the ministry, 
 shows that it is fulfilling a noble design in its own proper 
 sphere as a college. 
 
 When the attempt was made to found Illinois Col- 
 lege there was in a large part of Illinois a violent preju- 
 dice against church and clergy so violent that for two 
 
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 years the Legislature refused a charter for the college. 
 One cause for this hostility was a wide and wild excite- 
 ment caused throughout the West by Hon. E. M. John- 
 son's Eeport in Congress against the Anti- Sunday Mails 
 Petition, charging the petitioners with the design of 
 uniting church and state, and of establishing a religious 
 despotism. Men, whose memories run not back to that 
 time, have little idea of the violence and bitterness of that 
 excitement. Only when, later, four religious denomina- 
 tions united in application for charters, were any granted. 
 The charter of Illinois College, when first granted, forbade 
 theological education: afterward this prohibition was 
 repealed. A legacy was received by the college toward 
 founding a Professorship of Theology. The Trustees, 
 though not making any formal relinquishment of the 
 design, have not, as yet, taken any steps to open a Theo- 
 logical Department. 
 
 It was in the original design of Knox College to have 
 a Theological Department, and a fund was set apart for 
 that purpose. Afterward the plan was abandoned, and 
 the fund, according to provision before made, was devoted 
 to the college proper. 
 
 When founding a Theological Seminary in Michigan 
 was first discussed, one of the projects under considera- 
 tion was to have the Seminary located on the campus of 
 the State University, by permission of the Eegents, that 
 the theological students might avail themselves of certain 
 courses of instruction in the University, thereby enlarging 
 the rsi ge of study, and affording helps to those pursuing 
 a special course of studies. 
 
 Iowa College had no place in its plan for a Theo- 
 logical Department : yet the education of ministers was 
 central in the aim of its founders, so far as it could be 
 helped by a thorough course of collegiate study. The 
 
history of the college and its work of helping men into 
 the ministry show how well the founders of the college 
 planned and wrought. 
 
 The same may be said of Carlton, Wheaton, Olivet, 
 Ripon and other colleges, which have come into promin- 
 ence since Chicago Theological Seminary was founded. 
 Their most precious fruit is the young men they educate 
 for the ministry. 
 
 But in respect to those colleges which had theologi- 
 cal education in their plans, it was seen that to lay their 
 foundations, involved struggles so many, that, though none 
 of them came to founding a Theological Department, their 
 success as colleges was ample reward and honor for the 
 heroic faith of their founders. Besides, another and 
 better design seems to have been in the purpose of God, 
 as disclosed by His providences, the establishment of one 
 Theological Seminary, uniting all the Congregational 
 churches in the Northwest. 
 
 II. 
 
 
 
 BEGINNINGS. 
 
 Plans for theological education not having come to 
 maturity in the colleges, from the year 1850 to 1860 there 
 was a general move among evangelical denominations in 
 the Northwest for theological education. This led to the 
 establishment of theological seminaries.* The discussion 
 
 * The " Garrett Biblical Institute " of the Methodists was opened in Sept., 
 1856; the "Chicago Theological Seminary" of the CongregationaJists in Oct., 
 1858; the "Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest" in Oct., 
 1859, it having been transferred from New Albany, Ind. -and the " Baptist 
 Union Theological Seminary " in Oct., 1867, though theological instruction had 
 been given during the two previous years under the auspiees of the Baptist 
 Theological Union. 
 
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 incident thereto led many men of broad views and catholic 
 spirit to favor the union of Presbyterians and Congrega- 
 tionalists in one theological seminary. This was resisted 
 by men of more intense denominational affinities. The 
 resistance came principally from the Presbyterians, who 
 had the advantages of early occupation and greater 
 strength. The Congregationalists, pressed with a sense 
 of responsibility to do their share of the work of evangeli- 
 zation in the Northwest, continued to grope their way for 
 the path, which at length they found. 
 
 The design of founding a Theological Seminary in the 
 Northwest came, about the same time, to different Con- 
 gregationalists, though far removed from each other. 
 This may show it all the more clearly to have been "what 
 the spirit saith to the churches." 
 
 Previous to 1853 the need of a larger supply of min- 
 isters for the smaller churches in Michigan, and of men 
 more adequately trained for pastoral work, occupied the 
 attention of thoughtful men in that State. To meet this 
 want the plan of theological education, indicated below, 
 was designed by Rev. L. Smith Hobart, then pastor at 
 Ann Arbor, and by him submitted to the General Associa- 
 tion of Michigan, in May, 1853. This plan was given 
 into the hands of a committee of the Association, Messrs. 
 H. D. Kitchel, A. S. Kedzie and D. Mussey, who reported 
 it to that body for favorable consideration. After discus- 
 sion it was referred to a committee, Revs. L. Smith 
 Hobart, E. N. Bartlett and J. Patchin, for report at the 
 next annual meeting. 
 
 The chairman of this committee sent a copy of the 
 Plan to the Congregational Herald, which was published 
 in its issue of June 18th, 1853. It awakened interest 
 among the ministers of the Northwest, many of whom, 
 
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 during that year, came to feel that efforts should soon be 
 made to found a Theological Seminary in this large and 
 important section of our country. When first designed 
 the plan was to have a Theological Seminary in Michi- 
 gan and chiefly for that State. But further study and a 
 correspondence which revealed the broader plan enter- 
 tained by the brethren in Illinois to have one Seminary 
 for the Northwest led to a ready acquiescence therein. 
 
 At the next meeting of the General Association of 
 Michigan, at Detroit, May, 1854, this committee made 
 report, calling attention to the fact that the Plan pro- 
 posed sought to combine the advantages of two methods 
 of theological education, study with pastors and instruc- 
 tion in a seminary. The Plan embraced the following 
 particulars: The establishment of a Theological Sem- 
 inary at some eligible point in the Northwest : its course 
 of study to be divided, each year, into two terms, a Lec- 
 ture Term of six months under the instruction of the 
 Faculty, and a Reading Term of six months, to be pur- 
 sued with pastors of churches : The degree of Bachelor 
 of Divinity to be conferred on those completing the full 
 course of study: Each State interested in the Seminary 
 to endow a Professorship : The control of the Institution 
 to be in a Board of Trustees elected by the General Asso- 
 ciation of such States : Contributions to be taken up 
 annually in the churches for the Library. 
 
 After full discussion the General Association adopted 
 the report of the Committee, highly approving its Plan of 
 a Theological Seminary, and authorized the Secretary to 
 confer with other Ecclesiastical Bodies in the Northwest 
 to secure their approval and cooperation. 
 
 Accordingly, the Secretary, Rev. L. S. Hobart, com- 
 municated with ministers in the Northwest on the subject. 
 
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 He also furnished a copy of the report to Kev. H. L. 
 Hammond, delegate to the General Association of Iowa, 
 which was laid before that body at Davenport, June, 1854,' 
 and received its hearty approval. 
 
 Meantime, the roots which have given growth to 
 Chicago Theological Seminary, were germinating else- 
 where. It was an encouragement to the founders of the 
 Seminary that its roots spread so far. 
 
 In March, 1854, Rev. Stephen Peet, of Batavia, Ills., 
 and Rev. G. S. F. Savage, of St. Charles, Ills., after con- 
 ferring with each other, sent letters to several brethren in 
 Wisconsin and Illinois, calling a meeting to consider the 
 project of founding a Theological Seminary for the North- 
 west. This meeting was held two weeks later in Chicago, 
 Philo Carpenter, Esq., being Moderator, and Rev. G. S. F. 
 Savage, Scribe. The result of discussion was a unani- 
 mous conviction that the project was important and 
 feasible. An adjourned meeting was held a few weeks 
 later, in which Iowa was represented, and the movement 
 in Michigan reported. 
 
 As a result of deliberations at this adjourned meeting 
 and at the State Associations following, a larger meeting 
 was called. It met in Chicago June 12th, 1854, with Rev. 
 Asa Turner, Jr., of Iowa, for Moderator, and Rev. G. S. F. 
 Savage, Scribe. Most of the Northwestern States were 
 represented. Discussion in this meeting revealed the 
 fact, that its members, often without conference, had been 
 deeply interested in founding a Theological Seminary in 
 the Northwest. This meeting voted that the time had 
 fully come for this work, and elected a committee of 
 twenty-one, from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, 
 Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota*, to mature the Plan of the 
 Seminary ; to invite proposals for a central site ; to make 
 
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 other preliminary arrangements and submit the same to a 
 general convention of Congregationalists in the North- 
 west, to meet in Chicago upon call of said committee. 
 
 This committee of twenty-one met in Chicago, July 
 12th, 1854. After a full comparison of views and dis- 
 cussion of measures, it was voted to call a convention of 
 those interested in founding a Theological Seminary, to 
 meet at Chicago in the following September. Meanwhile, 
 in timely utterances, the project was held before the 
 churches by Rev. J. C. Holbrook, in the Congregational 
 Herald, of which he was editor. 
 
 In faith 'that the churches would approve the enter- 
 prise and in anticipation of future organization, friends of 
 the project, as early as June, 1854, secured the services 
 of Rev. S. Peet as Financial Agent, holding themselves 
 responsible to him for an annual salary of $1,200 and 
 traveling expenses. 
 
 The Seminary was conceived in many hearts, longed 
 for in many prayers. It was demanded by increasing des- 
 titutions and by multiplication of churches, as the wave 
 of population rolled westward and spread into hitherto 
 uninhabited wastes. A movement to found the Seminary, 
 once begun, called out the deep interest felt on the sub- 
 ject in minds widely separated, not stirred by mutual talk, 
 but because they had talked much with God about the 
 moral influence and destiny of these Northwestern States. 
 
 That there was to be a Theological Seminary in the 
 Northwest, was a foregone conclusion. Christian homes, 
 churches and colleges prepared the way for it. These 
 Christian forces, for full development and free work, 
 needed to become productive of a ministry. Their full- 
 orbed life could not else be reached. The elements of a 
 Christian civilization were at work over these broad 
 
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 States, and all the agencies of such a civilization were to 
 be brought forth and put to use. 
 
 Besides, here were gathering mighty forces : some of 
 them hostile to Christ's sovereignty over these common- 
 wealths and their teeming populations. In the coming 
 conflicts no agencies of the Gospel could be spared, least 
 of all the Savior's ascension gift, the Gospel ministry. 
 
 III. 
 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 The Convention called by the before named Committee 
 of twenty-one, met at Chicago Sept. 26th, 1854, in the 
 Plymouth Church, and was attended by delegates from 
 the churches in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wis- 
 consin and Missouri. The first question in this Conven- 
 tion was whether the time had come for our churches to 
 found a Theological Seminary. Both " No" and "Yes" 
 were given in answer. The judgment of other churches, 
 expressed by movements for this end, already begun, had 
 its influence. It was felt by many that our churches 
 could not be what their times and surroundings require, 
 unless productive of a ministry. It was no objection to 
 the project that there were ministers out of employ; for 
 not salaries unused, but work undone, was the matter to 
 be looked after. Some held that our 380 churches in 
 the Northwest were hardly an adequate constituency for 
 a Theological Seminary. The faith of others, however, 
 saw a large increase of this number in the near future. 
 
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 Under this expectation, the Convention ratified the 
 action of preliminary meetings and elected a Board of 
 Directors the charter members of the Board, distributed 
 among the States as follows : - 
 
 MICHIGAN. Rev. L. Smith Hobart, Rev. Harvey D. 
 Kitchel, Rev. Adam S. Kedzie, Judge Solomon L. Withey, 
 and Joseph E. Beebe, Esq. 
 
 ILLINOIS. Rev. Stephen Peet, Rev. William Carter, 
 Rev. Flavel Bascom, Rev. George W. Perkins, Rev. John 
 C. Holbrook, Rev. Nathaniel H. Eggleston, Rev. George 
 S. F. Savage, Philo Carpenter, Esq., and Joseph Johnston, 
 Esq. 
 
 IOWA. Rev. Alden B. Robbins, Rev. Jesse Gurnsey, 
 and John G. Foote, Esq. 
 
 WISCONSIN. Rev. Charles W. Camp, Rev. Hiram 
 Foote, Rev. John J. Miter, and Horace Hobart, Esq. 
 
 MINNESOTA. Rev. Richard Hall. 
 
 INDIANA. Rev. M. Augustas Jewett. 
 
 MISSOURI. Rev. Truman M. Post. 
 
 The first Board of Visitors were Rev. Asa Turner, 
 Jr., of Iowa; Rev. N. C. Clark, Rev. R. M. Pearson and 
 A. Comstock, Esq., of Illinois; Rev. H. N. Brinsmade 
 and Rev. S. M. Eaton, of Wisconsin; and Rev. D. M. 
 Bardwell, of Indiana. 
 
 The Board of Directors were organized Sept. 27, 
 1854, by electing Rev. S. Peet, President; Rev. N. H. 
 Eggleston, Scribe; Philo Carpenter, Esq., Treasurer; 
 Rev. S. Peet, Rev. J. C. Holbrook, Rev. G. W. Perkins, 
 Philo Carpenter, Esq., and Joseph Johnston, Esq., Exec- 
 utive Committee; which Committee were instructed to 
 procure a Charter. Rev. L. S. Hobart, Rev. A. S. Ked- 
 zie and Rev. H. D. Kitchel were elected a Committee to 
 draft a Constitution, which work providentially fell to the 
 
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 second member of the Committee, he having frequent 
 consultations with the others. 
 
 In this Convention and in the early meetings of the 
 Board of Directors to the Seminary its characteristic 
 features were given. Of these none were deemed of 
 greater importance than the control, under which the 
 Seminary should be. A close and self-perpetuating cor- 
 poration was advocated by some and opposed by more. 
 The original plan of having the Board of Control elected 
 by the General Associations was advocated, and then op- 
 posed on the ground that such Associations were human 
 institutions, which probably would continue, but might 
 not. The churches, on the other hand, were held to be 
 of divine institution; and that the Seminary would be 
 best cared for, most successfully nurtured, as well as most 
 effectually guarded against error, if put under the watch 
 and control of the churches. This view after full discus- 
 sion prevailed with unanimity ; and the election of Direc- 
 tors and Visitors was, by the Convention, and by the con- 
 sequent provisions of the Constitution, put into the hands 
 of the churches interested, meeting for this purpose in 
 Triennial Convention. 
 
 The Convention held that for sufficient reasons they 
 could make the Seminary different from any other. Some 
 felt that there should be a more practical way of training 
 men for their work, as found in the legal and medical pro- 
 fessions; and that ministers should not, as so often, by 
 continuous scholastic study, be educated out of acquain- 
 tance and sympathy with the conditions, in which they 
 were to work. This view was advocated by Kev. L. S. 
 Hobart and Eev. S. Peet. To teach it was original; nor 
 to them alone. With more or less distinctness the same 
 convictions stirred in the minds of many Western Min- 
 
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 isters, started by a desire to reach the people, for which 
 they felt their scholastic habits had somewhat unfitted 
 them. 
 
 This led to the adoption of what has been called the 
 " Heading Term," found afterwards to be a misnomer. 
 The original design contemplated a course of reading to 
 be pursued by each student under the instruction of some 
 pastor. But a more important end was to be served by 
 initiating the student into the practical work of his calling 
 under the guidance of an experienced pastor, engaging 
 with him in pastoral visitation and in other forms of min- 
 isterial work. 
 
 But the Lord seems to call many to the ministry, 
 who are not rich in this world's goods. This fact and 
 lack of adequate scholarship-funds have led to a practical 
 modification of this Beading Term, in which, however, 
 some of its most valuable features are still retained. 
 Students take charge of vacant churches and get much 
 valuable training by these experimental ministrations. A 
 modification of the original plan may be demanded by the 
 necessities of the case, and it still be retained as a char- 
 acteristic and valuable feature of the Seminary. 
 
 In this Convention some urged a Special Course of 
 study by which men, too old to go through college, or for 
 other reasons unable to do so, yet nevertheless having 
 had advantages of study, and having withal a heart de- 
 voted to the work, and natural gifts therefor, might be 
 educated for the % ministry. This course was advocated 
 by Rev. J. C. Holbrook, suggested, perhaps, by his own 
 successful experience, as the course of other Christian 
 denominations had suggested to many minds. The Con- 
 vention authorized this department of the Seminary's 
 work; and the usefulness of the men, who have thereby 
 
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 been educated for the ministry, has amply justified the 
 wisdom of the Convention. In its essential features this 
 course of study has been adopted by other theological 
 seminaries. For a full discussion of the subject reference 
 is made to a Report thereon to the Triennial Convention 
 of 1879. 
 
 An enlargement in the curriculum of theological 
 study was advocated in the Convention. Though favor- 
 ably received, no action was taken. Subsequently the 
 matter came up in the early meetings of the Board of 
 Directors. They held that the ministers needed in the 
 West, while panoplied in Biblical Doctrine, must be able 
 to meet those who rejected every appeal to the Bible ; and 
 that the students sent forth from this Seminary must be 
 fitted for a more varied campaign, than they would be 
 qualified for under the old routine of theological study. 
 And this view still has a strong hold among the Directors. 
 It has led at different times to the introduction of Special 
 Lectures, as need and ability warranted an example fol- 
 lowed, also, by other Seminaries. 
 
 A final subject considered in the Convention was co- 
 operation with the New School Presbyterians of the 
 Northwest in founding a Union Theological Seminary. 
 When these Presbyterians in 1850 and later had in hand 
 the plan of founding at Galena, Chicago or elsewhere, a 
 Theological Seminary for the Northwest, they declined 
 an overture for making it a Union Seminary in which 
 Congregationalists and Presbyterians would have equal 
 rights, powers and privileges. This overture was declined, 
 doubtless for what seemed to them good reasons. Such 
 copartnership might subsequently have stood in the way 
 of a union of the two General Assemblies. 
 
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 Long wonted to cooperate with Presbyterians in Home 
 and Foreign Missions, as also in other benevolent enter- 
 prises, Congregationalists still kept alive the amiable 
 spirit of the disowned " Plan of Union." In consequence, 
 after much discussion, the Convention instructed the 
 Board of Directors to entertain favorably any propos- 
 ition for denominational union in the work of training 
 men for the ministry. The Directors even went further, 
 took the initiative and privately proposed such coopera- 
 ation with the New School Presbyterians, which, however, 
 was unofficially declined. Union in the work of theolog- 
 ical education will doubtless come as a fruit of a broader 
 charity and a more perfect union among evangelical 
 churches. 
 
 IV. 
 
 ACTION OF GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 Though the Board of Directors were upborne by the 
 enthusiasm of the Convention electing them, yet they 
 felt solicitous for votes of confidence, which the churches 
 might give in the calm deliberation of their State Asso- 
 ciations. It would be repetitious to place all their "Bes- 
 olutions " upon record. Representative illustrations are 
 here given, pertaining to the Seminary as a projected de- 
 sign, and then as an actual organization. This chapter 
 might be enlarged by recording the favorable action of 
 these Associations from year to year according to the 
 various conditions of the Seminary's want and work. 
 
 In May, 1854, the General Association of Michigan, 
 anticipating the founding of a Theological Seminary and 
 
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 having the plan of it already before them, " RESOLVED 
 That we adopt the report of the committee, highly ap- 
 proving the Plan of a Theological Seminary which is 
 proposed therein, and that we authorize the Secretary to 
 confer with other Ecclesiastical Bodies in the Northwest 
 for the purpose of securing its approval by them, and the 
 adoption of such measures as may be necessary for the 
 accomplishment of the end in view." 
 
 The date of this action and the fact, that it was 
 taken upon the report of a committee appointed the year 
 before, show how early the churches in Michigan gave 
 attention to this matter. 
 
 In the autumn of the same year the General Con- 
 vention of Presbyterian and Congregational churches in 
 Wisconsin on this subject took action, which shows how 
 reluctant some were to abandon the idea of a Union Sem- 
 inary. Their action was as follows : 
 
 "Whereas, the subject of establishing Theological 
 Seminaries in the Northwest has for some time past been 
 under consideration by individuals and ecclesiastical 
 bodies, and preliminary steps have been taken toward 
 establishing two ,such Institutions in Chicago ; And 
 Whereas such movements are of great importance to the 
 interests of religion among us : 
 
 " RESOLVED That it is the opinion of this Conven- 
 tion that immediate and efficient measures should be taken 
 to furnish in the Northwest theological instruction suited 
 to the wants of Christian young men desirous to enter the 
 ministry. 
 
 " RESOLVED That in view of the numbers and con- 
 dition of the Theological Institutions at the East, the 
 churches at the West cannot at present reasonably depend 
 on the munificence of their Eastern Brethern, but should 
 
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 rely mainly on their own resources for the means to pro- 
 vide theological instruction for our young men. 
 
 " RESOLVED That in the opinion of this Convention 
 one Theological Institution is all that will be needful for 
 many years to come in the Northwest for Congregation- 
 alists and New School Presbyterians ; and that to under- 
 take a distinctive Congregational or Presbyterian Semin- 
 ary in the Northwest would be unwise and injurious to 
 the best interests of Christ's Kingdom in this region. 
 
 " RESOLVED That we hereby declare our sincere 
 desire for a union of the two denominations in providing 
 Theological instruction, and that we are ready to pledge 
 our hearty co-operation in such an enterprise." 
 
 Subsequently President Chapin of Beloit college 
 wrote: "The course of events rendered such a joint 
 enterprise impracticable, and the Convention in due time 
 came heartily to the recommendation and support of the 
 Chicago Theological Seminary, and has contributed freely 
 to its establishment and operations." 
 
 From the minutes of the General Association of Iowa 
 for 1854, the following extract is made:^ "A Report on 
 the subject of theological education in the Northwest 
 was made by a Delegate from the General Association of 
 Michigan;" whereupon the Association 
 
 " RESOLVED That we approve of the establishment 
 at an early day of a Theological Institution in the North- 
 west, according to the general principles proposed in the 
 Report." Next year they 
 
 " RESOLVED That we feel strong confidence in the 
 wisdom of the plan for establishing a Theological Semin- 
 ary at Chicago ; that we are deeply interested in its pros- 
 perity, and hereby pledge our prayers and active cooper- 
 ation for the accomplishment of the enterprise." 
 
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 The minutes of the General Association of Illinois for 
 1855, say : " An efficient movement has been begun for a 
 Theological Seminary to be located at Chicago, and the 
 institution is expected soon to be placed on a permanent 
 basis." The next year in their narrative of the state of 
 'religion they say: "A wide spread interest has been 
 awakened in the establishment of the Chicago Theological 
 Seminary, and a ready response has been made to efforts 
 to give it a full endowment and efficient support. We 
 heartily commend this Institution to the confidence and 
 prayers of the churches as an important and essential 
 instrument in raising up a ministry for the West." 
 
 These Associations and others in the Northwest 
 during subsequent years have expressed their interest in 
 the Seminary, their approval of its men and methods, their 
 sympathy in its trials, and their satisfaction in its 
 graduates. 
 
 V. 
 
 STRUGGLES OF PREPARATION. 
 
 The Board of Directors met at Chicago, March 27, 
 1855, in deep sorrow, because of the sudden death of Rev. 
 S. Peet, their President and Financial Agent. Some of 
 them had individually co-operated with him in his suc- 
 cessful labors for the Seminary ; the others had heard of 
 his success, and been quickened by his enthusiasm. In 
 the interest of the Seminary he went to New England, 
 where he found the project looked upon with curiosity by 
 some and with deep interest by many. To report results 
 he called a meeting of the Board, in the hope that what 
 
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 had been so auspiciously begun would soon be completed. 
 The sanguine hopes of many, the headlong rush of West- 
 ern life, and an inadequate sense of the cost of a Theo- 
 logical Seminary, led many to look for the opening of the 
 Seminary even if in a somewhat immature condition 
 at least as early as during the next autumn, there having 
 then been a whole year of preparation ! 
 
 Could the Board have seen that three and a half 
 years of struggle still awaited them before the realization 
 of their hopes in the actual work of the Seminary, though 
 their faith might not have failed, yet the sadness of their 
 meeting would have been deeper. But prayer and con- 
 ference brought them to the conviction, that the design 
 of founding this Theological Seminary was born, not in the 
 counsel of men, but in the wisdom of God : and that He 
 still called them to a vigorous prosecution of the work. 
 
 Moved with this conviction, the Board, without 
 faltering, pushed on their work. Mr. Carpenter declining 
 to serve as Treasurer because of the press of his own 
 business, the Board elected Lucius D. Olmsted, Esq., to 
 that office, which he held till his death, in March, 1862, 
 discharging its complicated and onerous duties with suc- 
 cess, yet without reward, save the satisfaction of aiding 
 in what he considered an important work of his life. 
 Keasonably, the Board paid for the clerk service needed 
 in the office, the collection of funds from subscribers 
 being chiefly by correspondence. 
 
 For Financial Agent, Eev. Adam S. Kedzie, of Michi- 
 gan, was chosen. He soon entered upon the work and 
 continued it till July, 1862, canvassing most of the Con- 
 gregational Churches of the Northwest in solicitation of 
 funds, and rendering a varied service in getting the Sem- 
 inary into working order. 
 
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 A very favorable Charter was secured without diffi- 
 culty from the Legislature of Illinois. This Charter, by 
 recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, exempts all property of the Seminary in Illinois 
 from taxation. The Directors organized under this 
 Charter, amended and adopted the Constitution reported 
 by the Committee, and elected officers. The Charter and 
 Constitution were printed and distributed, thus making 
 known more fully the aims and methods of the Seminary- 
 In so doing, the Constitution was stereotyped, in blessed 
 ignorance of the fact that the well nigh yearly amend- 
 ments to it would not let it stay stereotyped. 
 
 The finances of the Seminary were found without 
 order. No system of keeping accounts had been adopted, 
 nor any books opened. Some of its counted assets were 
 only verbal promises to give; and others, though in 
 written form, had no legal validity. The Treasurer and 
 Agent gave immediate attention to getting affairs into 
 order, and legal forms into use. 
 
 Then began the persistent work of securing funds. 
 This was chiefly by creating a General Fund, to be ex- 
 pended for any uses of the Seminary. The plan was to 
 put the Seminary into operation as soon as possible, and 
 to meet the cost thereof out of this General Fund, till 
 endowments were secured, a plan eventually carried out. 
 
 Could this increase of assets have gone on as suc- 
 cessfully as in 1855 and '56, the, Seminary would have 
 speedily reached prosperity. But soon came the commer- 
 cial disasters of 1857, which put the Seminary through a 
 process of seasoning, hardening it for the endurance it 
 was yet to suffer. 
 
 As this was not foreseen, the Executive Committee, 
 in March, 1856, sent Eevs. H. D. Kitchel and A. S. Ked- 
 
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 zie to the East for wise men to fill the chairs of instruc- 
 tion in the Seminary. Men were freely recommended as 
 Professors, sometimes with a surprising lack of discrim- 
 ination. 
 
 After their return the Board, in April, 1856, elected 
 a Faculty of five Professors for the usual departments of 
 instruction, and enlarged the range of study by electing 
 six lecturers in expectation that the Seminary would he 
 opened in the autumn of 1856. When, two years later, 
 the Seminary did open, it was with a Faculty able in their 
 personal and professional' qualifications, but more econ- 
 omical in numbers. 
 
 The difficulties about the location of the Seminary- 
 explained below lack of funds in the treasury and other 
 facts of incompleteness, made the opening of the. Semi- 
 nary in the autumn of that year, to many of the Direc- 
 tors, seem premature. Such an opening was soon made 
 impracticable by the Professors declining to accept the 
 positions offered them, except one who held his appoint- 
 ment under consideration. 
 
 Another election of Professors was made in January, 
 1857, for the two other most important chairs, in the 
 hope of opening the Seminary in the autumn of that year. 
 But soon throughout the country came the financial dis- 
 asters which marked 1857. Then doubts arose as to the 
 practicability of opening the Seminary that autumn, and 
 the two Professors newly elected declined. The Board 
 felt strong pressure from subscribers to the funds; some 
 of whom declined further investments till they had re- 
 turns in the shape of a class graduated from the Serni.- 
 nary. Still, for reasons that seemed imperative to a ma- 
 jority of the Directors, but against the protest of some, 
 the opening of the Seminary was deferred, yet definitely 
 fixed for the autumn of 1858. 
 
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 In preparation for this the Board of Directors, at 
 their meeting in April, 1858, elected Rev. Joseph Haven, 
 D. D., to the chair of Systematic Theology, and Rev. 
 Samuel C. Bartlett, D. D., to the chair of Biblical Lit- 
 erature. Prof. Franklin W. Fisk, D. D., was, in April, 
 1856, elected to the chair of Sacred Rhetoric. He held 
 it a matter of honor to give Beloit College a year's notice 
 before vacating his chair in that Institution. Accordingly 
 he was requested by the Directors, in 1858, to give such 
 notice, so as to occupy his chair in the Seminary as early as 
 the opening of its second year. These Professors accept- 
 ed their appointments, and the annual prospect of open- 
 ing the Seminary stood out as a brighter vision than at 
 any former time. 
 
 YI. 
 
 OPENING OF THE SEMINARY. 
 
 At last, after four years of preparatory struggle, on 
 the 6th of October, 1858, the Chicago Theological Sem- 
 nary was formally opened in the parlors of the First 
 Congregational Church on the south-west corner of West 
 Washington and Green streets. The Faculty present 
 consisted of two Professors, Rev. Joseph Haven, D. D., 
 and Rev*. Samuel C. Bartlett, D. D. Ten students were 
 in attendance. A violent rain prevailed during that and 
 the previous hour, which kept some students, then in dis- 
 tant parts of the city, from being present. Some of the 
 
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 Board of Directors, came to see the fulfillment of their 
 long cherished hopes. 
 
 The General Agent called the meeting to order and 
 introduced Prof. Haven, who inaugurated the work with 
 a prayer befitting the occasion. It referred to the pres- 
 ent day of small things, and then Faith, with her clear 
 and far reaching eye, took into view the future record 
 which the Seminary was to make. Petitions were offered 
 that among the forces then and there set at work, the life 
 of Christ might be central and all-pervading, and that, in 
 gathering their sympathies around the Seminary, the 
 churches might be lifted up into a commanding sympathy 
 with Christ and into a broad field of cooperation with 
 Him. 
 
 Brief remarks were made by the Professors and Di- 
 rectors, all in the line of gratefully recognizing the way 
 in which the Lord had guided the affairs of this Institu- 
 tion; and examination of students was assigned for an 
 hour the next day. Among all the doings in that busy, 
 bustling city, the opening of this Theological Seminary 
 was the most significant thing for that day. 
 
 At the meeting of the Faculty and students the next 
 day for prayers, Prof. Bartlett officiated, reading the 12th 
 chapter of Eomans. Sixteen students were present, and 
 when the Seminary got fairly at work their number was 
 found to be twenty-nine. The Seminary having no build- 
 ings, the students were distributed into Christian families, 
 by whom, during the first year, they were entertained, in 
 many cases, without charge. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 LOCATION. 
 
 The Charter provided that the "Seminary shall be 
 located in or near the City of Chicago." At the first, 
 Mr. Peet made a verbal agreement with the Trustees of 
 Kush Medical College to purchase their building for the 
 use of the Seminary, but this failed. 
 
 At the beginning of his agency, Mr. Kedzie was 
 charged with the duty of securing a location for the Sem- 
 inary. He received a large number of proposals from 
 property owners and real estate dealers, and examined 
 some forty different locations, in quantities varying from 
 one hundred feet square to eighty acres, and in position 
 reaching from central parts of the city to miles away. 
 
 To go to some near-by village where location and 
 building for the public rooms of the seminary could be 
 had without cost; to secure a considerable quantity of 
 land for use and sale and build up a suburban town; or 
 to get the best location in the city and put the Seminary 
 in close contact with its churches; these were the pro- 
 jects discussed, often and earnestly. The latter project 
 prevailed, and purchase was made in 1856 of the corner 
 west of Ashland Avenue and south of West Lake street, 
 relying on local interest to help in making payments. 
 This reliance failed, and business was found crowding on 
 that corner. So exchange was made for the entire front 
 of the next block south, facing on Union Park, in 1858. 
 
 Payment on this location gave the Directors their 
 sorest financial embarrassment. Inability to make over- 
 due collections brought the Seminary into peril. Hence 
 the depressing influence felt and exerted by the Triennial 
 
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 Convention of 1861. As on other occasions, from this 
 distress the Seminary was rescued by such friends as 
 Philo Carpenter, C. G. Hammond, E. W. Blatchford, J. 
 M. Williams, T. M. Avery and S. M. Moore. Others in 
 their way tugged at this work as they were able, and their 
 names are not forgotten by Him, for whose dear sake they 
 did it. This relief saved to the Seminary only the south 
 75 feet of its location, on which then stood its temporary 
 building. This location, though inadequate, being free 
 from incumbrance, was highly prized. 
 
 Its inadequacy, however, led to further inquiry and 
 endeavor. At the meeting of the Board of Directors, in 
 April, 1865, Philo Carpenter, Esq., who so often had 
 helped the Board over hard places, carne again to their 
 relief. He offered to take the corner on Ashland Avenue 
 and West Washington street, and give in exchange the 
 corner west of Ashland and north of Warren Avenues, 
 fronting on Union Park. Thereby was secured for the 
 Seminary an adequate and permanent location. The 
 remainder of the park-front in this block is owned and 
 used by the Union Park Congregational Church, whose 
 building and those of the Seminary are made to harmon- 
 ize in style and structure, thereby each adding to the 
 beauty of the other. This exchange involved a gift of 
 $7,000, at prices then current. And this was understood 
 between Mr. Carpenter and the Board to be in lieu of his 
 former conditional gift of $5,000 to the Professorship of 
 Ecclesiastical History. The Board, gratefully recogniz- 
 ing the liberality of Mr. Carpenter, then and previously, 
 voted to call the main building to be erected on that site 
 "Carpenter Hall." So, after much and sore tribulation 
 (more fully shown below in the section on "General 
 Funds,") the Directors came into possession of a location, 
 
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 which, when the buildings are completed, will be ade- 
 quate, perhaps for generations, and which may be regarded 
 as fitting and beautiful. 
 
 In the matter of personal services, mention should 
 be made of the Boards of Directors and Visitors, who, 
 within a wide circle, reaching from Detroit to Indianapo- 
 lis, St. Louis, Grinnell, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, have 
 at great personal sacrifice, been prompt in attendance at 
 their several and many meetings. They have come to- 
 gether not to ratify plans previously formulated, but have 
 taken all the interests of the Seminary into full consider- 
 ation, giving them protracted and laborious study, and 
 then handling them as best they could. 
 
 The most difficult and perplexing details of their 
 work have been passed over to the Executive Committee, 
 and in managing them this committee have given such 
 service as could be obtained only for the reward of help- 
 ing so important an interest as the Eedeemer's Kingdom. 
 
 Mention should also be made of the Board of Audit- 
 ors, who, annually, have taken up the numerous accounts 
 of the treasury, giving them full investigation and ascer- 
 taining their exact condition before reporting them to the 
 Board of Directors with approval all this gratuitously 
 and as a work of love. 
 
 A gratitude which burdens the hearts of many friends 
 of the Seminary, would be denied expression if no men- 
 tion were made of the sacrifices borne and the efforts 
 made by friends of the Seminary who have had much to 
 do in looking after its pecuniary interests. As elsewhere 
 noted, Philo Carpenter has repeatedly shown himself an 
 active and liberal friend of the Seminary. Among others, 
 mention should also be made of C. G. Hammond, E. W. 
 Blatchford, and J. W. Scoville, who, as liberal donors to 
 
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 the Seminary, have repeatedly brought it opportune re- 
 lief in gifts of money and wisdom. The two latter also 
 as a Financial Committee of the Executive Committee, 
 have rendered a laborious and invaluable service in advis- 
 ing the Treasurer as to making investments, and in aiding 
 him to secure those imperiled by financial depression. If 
 particulars could be given, a grateful sense of this obliga- 
 tion would be widely felt. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 BUILDINGS. 
 
 The Seminary found its earliest home in the parlors 
 of the First Congregational Church of Chicago. These 
 as chapel, lecture and recitation rooms it used, till they 
 were found inadequate. This church, in 1859, offered to 
 the Seminary the use for five years of an unfinished mission 
 building standing a few blocks west of Union Park. This 
 was accepted and removed to the corner of Ashland Ave- 
 nue and West Washington street. To it were added the 
 rooms most urgently needed. This building was for the 
 use of the Seminary, and those who afterward were organ- 
 ized into the Union Park Congregational Church. To 
 this church, from its infancy, the Professors of the Semi- 
 nary ministered, for nearly seven years, till its first pas- 
 tor, Rev. C. D. Helmer, came thereby not only eking 
 out a living which the treasury of the Seminary failed to 
 afford, but also fostering a church, which in its maturity 
 became, like the First Church, a nursing mother to the 
 Seminary. 
 
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 Meantime it was found impracticable to do without 
 dormitories. The difficulty of having students scattered 
 into different parts of the city, hindering the maintenance 
 of the essential esprit du corps, led to renting part of 
 the Union Park Hotel, which in 1864 was used by the 
 students for dormitories. 
 
 The location of the Seminary having been removed 
 to the corner of Ashland and Warren Avenues, opportu- 
 nity was afforded for the erection of permanent buildings, 
 which were demanded by the growth of the institution. 
 
 Willard Keyes, Esq., of Quincy, Illinois, having given 
 a block of land in that city toward endowing the Profes- 
 sorship of Ecclesiastical History, consented that the avails 
 of it might be used in the erection of a Hall. This first 
 permanent building, "Keyes Hall," was completed in the 
 autumn of 1865. Besides rooms for general use, it con- 
 tains studies and dormitories for 38 students. When 
 completed it was not able to meet the wants created by 
 the growth of the Seminary. 
 
 In 1868 was begun the erection of the north wing of 
 the main building, called "Carpenter Hall," in acknowl- 
 edgment of obligation to Philo Carpenter, hitherto the 
 most liberal and opportune donor to the Seminary. In 
 1869 it was ready for use, and contains a chapel, lecture 
 room and twenty suites of rooms for students. Most of 
 the dormitories and studies in both these halls have been 
 comfortably furnished by churches or individuals. In 
 the erection of these buildings a debt was incurred, which 
 long has been a weight upon the Seminary, and now 
 amounts to $18,600. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 So important is a library to a Theological Seminary, 
 that steps were taken to secure one for the Chicago Semi- 
 nary before it was opened. In 1856 the valuable library 
 of Eev. Geo. W. Perkins, containing 500 volumes, was 
 accepted from his estate as payment of his donation of 
 $500 to the Seminary. Valuable gifts of books were 
 secured by Eev. Wm. Patton, D. D., of New Haven, Ct., 
 while traveling in England. Contributions of books were 
 made by Revs. Prof. Twining, J. L. Corning, G. S. F. 
 Savage, D. D., G. F. Magoun, D. D., J. P. Gulliver, D. 
 D., L. Parker, G. B. Hubbard, L. Farnham, A. S. Kedzie, 
 A. W. Porter, E. M. Pearson, T. G. Brainard, H. H. 
 Morgan, and others; also by A. Kingman, Esq., of Bos- 
 ton, Mass., E. Carter and D. Appleton, Esqs., of New 
 York city; James Eeed, Esq., of Stockbridge, Mass. ; Eev. 
 D. Wilson, of Port Byron, N. Y. ; Warren F. Draper, of 
 Andover, Mass., and by Eev. E. N. Kirk, D. D., of Bos- 
 ton, Mass., the last being Walton's Polly glott Bible, in 
 eight folio volumes, worth $250. 
 
 Prof. Bartlett, while Librarian, secured donations, 
 principally from New England Church of Chicago, to the 
 amount of nearly $1000, <for the purchase of new and 
 much needed books. In 1875 Eev. E. M. Williams, of 
 Minneapolis, Minn., an alumnus of the Seminary, made 
 a donation of books costing $1,500. These are rare and 
 valuable books, pertaining to Egyptology, and are highly 
 prized by scholars. 
 
 The Seminary has thus come to have a library con- 
 taining some 5,500 volumes, and worth about $7,000. 
 
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 This is a short story. Would that there were more to tell. 
 No want of the Seminary is more imperative than a large 
 increase of the library, and a suitable building in which 
 it can be safely kept. A large and well selected library 
 would strengthen the future ministers of our Northwest- 
 ern churches for coming conflicts. Besides, it would be 
 an armory from which they might draw weapons, upon 
 occasion, both for defense and attack. Would that some 
 might place within reach of these ministers the critical 
 research and sanctified wisdom of the world's scholarship ! 
 
 X. 
 
 TRIENNIAL CONVENTIONS. 
 
 Since the first Convention, which selected the char- 
 ter members of the Board of Directors, eight Triennial 
 Conventions have been held, averaging 208 members, and 
 representing seven states. Could the names of these 
 members be given, they would be found a fair representa- 
 tion of those who are most earnest and aggressive in 
 pushing the conquests of the Redeemer's Kingdom. 
 These conventions, by their conduct of affairs, have fully 
 justified their having oversight of the Seminary. 
 
 Pains have been taken by the different Boards of 
 the Seminary to bring before these conventions a full 
 and accurate statement of its affairs. These statements 
 have been taken up by the conventions in an intelli- 
 gent way and appreciative spirit. To them they gave 
 full consideration and free discussion. Where difficulty 
 was found and help needed, the delegates to these con- 
 ventions have not only devised such plans of relief as 
 
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 their wisdom suggested, but have gone back to their 
 churches to carry out these plans though not always 
 with success and to quicken the churches with new 
 interest in the Seminary. Thereby the churches have 
 had not only confidence in the conduct of the Seminary's 
 affairs, but also a growing interest in its welfare ; and so 
 the conviction has come to them that, in laying its foun- 
 dations, "they builded better than they knew." 
 
 It is no objection to this view, but in illustration of 
 it, that the Second Triennial Convention, held October, 
 1861, was depressing in its influence upon the minds of 
 the Professors, Directors and friends of the Seminary. 
 This convention was held during the first year of the war 
 of the Eebellion. The finances of the Seminary were in 
 their most depressed condition. The trouble about the 
 location was in its most discouraging stage. In some 
 minds there, was lack of faith in the future success of the 
 Seminary; just as in some minds there was lack of faith 
 in the stability of our national government. 
 
 But, as in that crisis of our country there were -not 
 wanting brave and loyal hearts in adequate numbers, so in 
 that crisis of our Seminary there were not wanting true 
 and fast friends, whose faith in the Seminary in its work 
 and in its future wavered not. The Board of Directors 
 made a full exhibit of its affairs, because they had faith 
 in the churches, and in God. Thereby and through help 
 of the convention, they secured the confidence of the 
 churches, as could have been done by no other method. 
 
 No one can look over the minutes of these eight 
 conventions ; can see how faithfully and fully the condi- 
 tion of the Seminary has been presented by its Boards of 
 Control, Oversight and Instruction, even when some 
 aspects of the condition were full of discouragement; 
 
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 and can see how fully the presentation has been taken up, 
 discussed until fully understood, and then shaped by the 
 wisdom of the convention, without coming to the convic- 
 tion that a higher than human wisdom gave the oversight 
 of the Seminary to these Triennial Conventions. 
 
 XI. 
 
 PROPOSED UNION WITH OBERLIN. 
 
 The aim of the Board of Directors was not simply to 
 build up an Institution, but to train men for the ministry. 
 For this, as they had before shown in their willingness to 
 cooperate with New School Presbyterians, they were 
 ready to adopt any cooperative yet efficient means. So, 
 attempt was made, and repeated, to unite Chicago Theo- 
 logical Seminary and the Theological Department of 
 Oberlin College. Though nothing came of it, yet record 
 of these attempts is here made, as showing the spirit of 
 the Board of Directors. 
 
 In November, 1857, the Agent, without any formal 
 action of the Board, but in accordance with their wishes, 
 went to Oberlin and informally consulted with some of 
 the Trustees of that college, with Professors in the Theo- 
 logical Department, and with others, on removing that 
 Department with its Professors to Chicago and making it 
 the nucleus of the Theological Seminary then about to be 
 opened there. 
 
 Kefusals of Professors elect to accept Chairs in the 
 Seminary, led the Board to be less sanguine than at the 
 first, in their hopes of securing men fitted for the work of 
 instruction, and for giving the Seminary a commanding 
 
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 position in the esteem of the churches. In consequence, 
 they were disposed to take men who had already proved 
 themselves competent for these purposes. Hence, the 
 above proposal for union. And though no action was 
 taken by either party, the attempt, though for other 
 reasons, was afterwards renewed in a more formal way. 
 
 In June, 1869, Hon. C. G. Hammond, Revs. A. S. 
 Kedzie and H. Foote, members of the Board, were sent 
 to Oberlin, bearing a formal proposal for the transfer of 
 the Theological Department of Oberlin College to Chi- 
 cago, with its Professors and funds. With the immigrant 
 drift, ministers educated at Oberlin had come to Michi- 
 gan and further west. In consequence, many of the 
 churches in the Northwest felt a warm interest in 
 Oberlin, yet were officially connected with the Seminary 
 at Chicago, through the Triennial Convention. This 
 division of interest was a chief reason for the proposed 
 transfer. Concentration of strength, more work for the 
 same Professors, and facilities for experimental work 
 afforded by a large city, were also urged. 
 
 To these reasons it was replied : That from the 
 founding of Oberlin one of its aims was the education of 
 ministers; that there were doubts as to the legality of 
 such a transfer; -and that, though the Chicago Seminary 
 had a large work to do in its broad field of the Northwest, 
 the Oberlin Seminary had a work to do in training min- 
 isters to labor in the opening fields of the South. Yet 
 that, if the churches in Ohio did not put the Seminary at 
 Oberlin in a more effectual way of reaching its ends, the 
 proposed transfer would hereafter receive more favorable 
 consideration. 
 
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 XII. 
 
 TREASURERS, AGENTS AND GENERAL FUNDS. 
 
 At the organization of the Board of Directors, Philo 
 Carpenter, Esq., was elected Treasurer. The pressure of 
 his business forbade his serving. At the meeting of the 
 Board in March, 1855, Lucius D. Olmsted, Esq., was 
 elected to that office, and served, gratuitously yet faith- 
 fully, till his death seven years later. He organized the 
 Treasury Department, and initiated its admirable system 
 of keeping accounts. 
 
 In April, 1862, Rev. Henry L. Hammond was elected 
 Treasurer and General Agent, Mr. Kedzie's resignation 
 of the latter office taking effect in July of that year. Mr. 
 Hammond served till July, 1872. Under his administra- 
 tion very marked progress was made in securing endow- 
 ments and in erecting the permanent buildings of the 
 Seminary. In substantial prosperity, the ten years of his 
 service was the most encouraging decade in the history 
 of the Seminary to this date. 
 
 In July, 1872, Rev. George S. F. Savage, D.D., 
 elected Treasurer at the previous meeting of the Board, 
 entered upon the duties of that office, with great advan- 
 tage to the Seminary and satisfaction to the Board, and 
 with like acceptance serving to this date. Securing 
 funds imperilled by the late financial depression, safely 
 investing them, providing for claims on the treasury, 
 caring for the welfare of the students and the safety of 
 the buildings, made his vocation, like that of his prede- 
 cessor, perplexing and onerous. Yet its duties have been 
 well met. Also, by his large acquaintance he has made 
 the Seminary widely and favorably known, thereby se- 
 
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 curing to it an encouraging increase of both General and 
 Permanent Funds. 
 
 After the short and successful agency of Rev. Ste- 
 phen Peet, terminating with his death, Rev. Adam S. 
 Kedzie was elected General Agent, or Financial Secretary. 
 After more than seven years of service he resigned. He 
 has since in like way served the Seminary as the exigency 
 of its affairs demanded, and is now in the eleventh year 
 of his service as Financial Secretary. In this work of 
 raising funds for the Seminary, special service for brief 
 times has been rendered by Revs. N. H. Eggleston, James 
 Hawley, Hiram Elmer, Philo E. Kurd, D.D., C. A. Leach, 
 W. H. Daniels, J. W. Cass, E. Hildreth, and F. Wheeler. 
 
 Nominal assets to the amount of about $250,000 
 were obtained for the Seminary during eight years from 
 the first organization of the Board of Directors. Here 
 was a show of prosperity, betokening the deep interest 
 which Northwestern Congregationalists felt in the Semi- 
 nary. Much of this was in notes payable in five annual 
 installments. Before these fell due, many found that in 
 giving such notes they had followed the impulse of their 
 hearts, rather than the counsels of their judgments. 
 
 Then came the commercial disasters of 1857, and a 
 few years later the War of the Rebellion. Many makers 
 of these notes had gone to the defense of their country 
 some never to return. Consequently, though an admira- 
 ble system of collections was persistently pushed by the 
 Treasurer, L. D. Olmsted, Esq., still, when that disheart- 
 ening Triennial Convention of Oct., 1861, came, he was 
 compelled to report as past due- 
 January 1, 1859, $28,177 20 
 1, 1860, 34,233 74 
 1, 1861, - - 39,569 65 
 
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 Union Park subscriptions to the building fund, made 
 by parties who in so doing were interested only in mate- 
 rial improvements, cairne to pretty general failure in 
 some cases because the parties themselves had failed; 
 others sought excuse because elegant and costly buildings 
 were not speedily erected. The Treasurer and Financial 
 Secretary sifted the chaff out of this General Fund, and 
 the valuable part left was hypothecated to pay different 
 claimants upon the treasury. 
 
 Amid these disheartenments, mention should be made 
 of the faith and steadfastness of the Professors. They 
 had left desirable positions and ventured their temporal 
 prosperity upon the "promises to pay" held by the Treas- 
 urer; so many of which, excusably or not, were found a 
 snare. Though invited to attractive work elsewhere, the 
 Professors held fast the places, into which it seemed the 
 providence of God had called them, being confident that 
 God and the churches would not let so great a work 
 come to failure. 
 
 Yet it will be well to know how near to failure the 
 Seminary came in 1861 and '62. The Treasurer could 
 not pay the Professors, whose chief pecuniary reliance 
 thus failed them. The depressing influences of the Tri- 
 ennial Convention of October, 1861, were felt deeply. 
 These were the discouraging times in the War of the 
 Rebellion, when for weary months the daily report came ; 
 "All quiet on the Potomac." The difficulty about the 
 location was in its ugliest shape, the Board being bound 
 to make payments, which failure of the General Fund 
 and Location Fund made impossible. It was a time of 
 rebuke. The Board held before them the question of 
 suspension. But how could this be done, when the prac- 
 tical work of the Seminary was going on so successfully? 
 
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 The Board felt this to be the most critical period in their 
 history : but rather than take up the question of suspen- 
 sion, they took in hand the matter of reducing expenses, 
 and of suffering loss by failure in payments on the lo- 
 cation. 
 
 Then each of the Professors voluntarily made reduc- 
 tion of his salary to the amount of $500 per annum for 
 three years. At the same time, 1861, appeal was made 
 by the Board to the churches renewed in 1862 for col- 
 lections to pay the Professors and keep the Seminary at 
 work. In response, the General Association of Michigan, 
 called on its churches for $1,000 a year; Iowa for $750 
 from its churches; Wisconsin for $1,000; Illinois, outside 
 of Chicago Association, $1,000; and the Chicago Asso- 
 ciation for $2,000. The results of these efforts were very 
 disheartening. Meantime, a special form of note was 
 pushed by the Agents, for a fund to be exclusively used 
 in paying the Professors. 
 
 By all these means it was hoped $6,000 a year might 
 be secured, but in consequence only $4,000 per year 
 came. In the summer vacation of 1862, at the request 
 of the Board of Directors, the Professors went East and 
 appealed to friends in New England, and secured relief to 
 the amount of about $4,000. And so, by one means and 
 another, through the good providence of God, the Semi- 
 nary, despite forebodings of evil and prophecies of failure, 
 was kept alive, and the Professors at their posts, till the 
 work of endowing three Professorships was successfully 
 undertaken. 
 
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 XIII. 
 
 ENDOWMENTS. 
 
 The Board of Directors held that, while endowments 
 for Professorships and Scholarships were important, the 
 first and most pressing object was a General Fund, all of 
 which could be used for any of the purposes of the Semi- 
 nary : consequently, to secure such a Fund was the chief 
 aim in the early years of the Seminary. Yet, during the 
 Agency of Mr. Kedzie, some scholarships were secured, 
 which afterwards became available; and some Professor- 
 ships, which did not become available for that purpose. 
 
 As before noted, Willard Keyes, Esq., of Quincy, 111., 
 gave land lying in that city, the prospective value of which, 
 it was hoped, would endow the Chair of Ecclesiastical 
 History. To meet a more immediate want of the Semi- 
 nary, by his consent, this donation was used in erecting 
 " Keyes Hall." 
 
 As early as in 1855, when the Seminary could be 
 seen only by faith, Philo Carpenter, Esq., of Chicago, 
 gave a donation of land in that city^ the avails of which, 
 when needed, were expected to be adequate to endow the 
 Chair of Biblical Theology. This, with his consent, was 
 used for other purposes of the Seminary. 
 
 And here it may be worth noting, as indicating the 
 forces at work, that Mr. Carpenter stipulated, in accord- 
 ance with the Constitution of the Seminary, that, when 
 his offered endowment should become available, no incum- 
 bent of that Chair of Biblical Theology should teach that 
 slavery is in accordance with the Word of God. Looking 
 back from that time, this seemed a wise caution, however 
 it may now appear. Perhaps there was no need of it in 
 
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 a Seminary controlled by the free churches of the North- 
 west ; but the stipulation, and its ready acceptance by the 
 Directors, show the conflict of those times, and the spirit 
 of the Founders of the Seminary. 
 
 For five years after the opening of the Seminary, its 
 two, and then three Professors, were paid, and other 
 expenses of the Institution met, from the General Fund. 
 When this Fund ran low, and the discouragements of 
 1861 and '62 had been borne unto weariness, and even 
 faintness, God stirred up the heart of Philo Carpenter, as 
 before, to come to the relief of the Seminary. Compre- 
 hending the situation and its peril, Mr. Carpenter, at his 
 own instance, offered to give $5,000 to each of the three 
 earliest occupied Professorships, on condition that the 
 Board raise $20,000 additional for each of said Professor- 
 ships ; a pledge which he afterwards fully redeemed by 
 paying the promised amount into the treasury in cash and 
 United States bonds. 
 
 Encouraged by this offer, the friends of the Semi- 
 nary, without seeing very clearly how the above con- 
 dition could be met, nevertheless projected the plan of 
 raising one of these Professorships in Illinois, a second in 
 Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, and the third in New 
 England. Manifold failures in finance had brought the 
 friends of the Seminary to a spirit of moderation in their 
 expectations. 
 
 Just then relief and encouragement came. In the 
 spring of 1863, Prof. Fisk was called to labor in the 
 Plymouth Church, Milwaukee, Wis., during a time of re- 
 ligious interest. He won their hearts, and they took hold 
 of the work of endowing his Professorship. In that and 
 neighboring churches, Prof. Fisk raised $20,000, and 
 $3,000 more among his friends in Boston, Mass., thereby 
 
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 securing Mr. Carpenter's offer. This Wisconsin endow- 
 ment, productive and unproductive, now amounts to 
 $35,000. 
 
 Encouraged by this marked success, Prof. Bartlett, 
 having secured $5,000 in Illinois, chiefly from the New 
 England Church, in Chicago, of which he had formerly 
 been Pastor, made three trips to the East, in 1863, and 
 canvassed in twenty-one towns and cities, aided in this by 
 the Treasurer, Kev. H. L. Hammond. Thereby, $20,000 
 and the pledge of Mr. Carpenter were secured. This 
 New England endowment, productive and unproductive, 
 now is $36,000. 
 
 Meantime, Prof. Haven, in 1863, by personal solicit- 
 ation among his friends at the East, by canvass of St. 
 Louis, Mo., Terre Haute, Ind., and of the principal towns 
 in Illinois, aided in this by the Treasurer and others, 
 adding Mr. Carpenter's donation, secured the Illinois en- 
 dowment, now amounting to $27,500 productive and un- 
 productive. 
 
 So inspiriting was the success in securing these 
 endowments, that the Triennial Convention, in April, 
 1864, was a jubilant one, quite in contrast with that of 
 October, 1861. When the Report of the Board of Di- 
 rectors was half read, the Convention felt constrained to 
 request that the reading might cease, till they could give 
 special thanks to God for these marked tokens of His 
 favor to the Seminary. 
 
 The churches in Michigan, meantime, began to feel 
 a sense of their responsibility in the matter of endowing 
 the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History. Nothing, 
 however, was done till 1866. Two years later, they ad- 
 dressed themselves more vigorously to the work, district- 
 ing the State, and assigning one district to each of the 
 
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 resident Directors, to be canvassed by him. Blank forms 
 of notes were prepared ; also circulars, setting forth the 
 main facts and arguments of the case. What the result 
 of the effort would have been, cannot now be known; for 
 just at this juncture the whole proceeding was stopped 
 by the well-warranted announcement that Mrs. Mary J. 
 Sweetzer, of Port Huron, Mich., had left a legacy of 
 $30,000 for the endowment of the Professorship of Eccle- 
 siastical History in the Chicago Theological Seminary, 
 the same being one-third of the amount left by her for 
 the religious department of life's business. 
 
 Mrs. Sweetzer was a worthy member of the Congre- 
 gational Church at Port Huron, whose Pastor was Rev. 
 J. S. Hoyt, D.D., a warm friend of the Seminary, a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Visitors, and afterward of the Board 
 of Directors. How far he quickened this interest in her 
 mind, and how far the prevalent feeling among the 
 churches of the State affected her, has been inquired for; 
 but some one's modesty refuses to tell. The last $4,500 
 of this legacy will be paid in November, 1879, when the 
 Sweetzer and Michigan endowments, productive and un- 
 productive, will be $32,000. 
 
 Afterward, Iowa, not consenting to be without share 
 in this good work, began the endowment of the Professor- 
 ship of Pastoral Theology and Special Studies. This 
 Iowa endowment now amounts to $25,000, of which 
 only $19,000 are productive. 
 
 There are wanted : 1st. The completion of these well- 
 begun endowments ; 2d. An endowment for the Professor- 
 ship of New Testament Literature; 3d. A fund for 
 instruction in Elocution; and 4th. Foundations for cer- 
 tain much-desired Lectureships, thereby to enlarge the 
 course of study. These are the pressing wants in the 
 Department of Instruction. 
 
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 Since the first, other Scholarships have been obtained. 
 Of those already secured, twenty-one are productive: 
 viz., Austin Memorial, Horace Billings, Elizabeth Booth, 
 Joseph Burrage, John L. Childs, Willard Cook, E. W. 
 Davis, Deer Park, Depew, Emily Doane, John Dove, 
 J. Worcester Field, Haywood, W. Hunt, L. J. Knowles, 
 New London, Olivet, E. G. Peters, Joseph Tilson, El- 
 bridge Torrey, W. Wolcott. Twelve other Scholarships 
 are pledged for the future : viz., Bascom, Blood, Gush- 
 ing, Foster, Hubbell, Kendrick, Lewis, Mack, Keynolds, 
 C. L. A. Tank, L. Warner and S. Warner. 
 
 The total amount of Scholarship Funds, paid and 
 pledged, is $42,785. An urgent want of the Seminary is 
 more of these funds. Yearly, students, who would prefer 
 to study in our Seminary, are compelled to desist or go 
 elsewhere, for lack of such aid. The founder of a Schol- 
 arship educates a perpetual line of young men for the 
 ministry. Also, Scholarship Funds are needed, to afford 
 the means and incentive to more extended study and 
 riper scholarship. For coming conflicts, men cannot be 
 educated too soon, nor too well. 
 
 Eev. W. W. Patton, D. D., President of Howard 
 University, formerly an efficient member of the Board of 
 Directors, gave $1,000, the interest of which is to be used 
 in binding books, pamphlets, &c., for the Library. By 
 vote of the Board, it is known as the " Patton Binding 
 Fund." 
 
 In all such Institutions, a Permanent General Fund, 
 the avails of which shall meet incidental, current and 
 ever recurrent expenses, is a pressing necessity. The 
 larger and wealthier an Institution becomes, the more 
 urgent is this want. Dr. Savage, during his service as 
 Treasurer, in addition to his other duties, has devoted his 
 
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 efforts, so far as he has had time, to raising such a fund, 
 and has secured nearly $20,000 for that object. Toward 
 this permanent General Fund, A. P. Kelley, C. F. Gates, 
 and O. B. Green, Esqs., of Chicago, and John Bertram, 
 Esq., of Salem, Mass., have made liberal donations. The 
 completion of this fund would save much painful friction. 
 No want of the Seminary is more constantly felt. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 OUT OF THE FIRE. 
 
 God is to be praised for His wonderful care of the 
 Institution during the " Great Fire of Oct. 8th and 9th, 
 1871." He restrained the flames and kept them more 
 than a mile away from the Seminary, in whose buildings 
 some of its best friends found a safe refuge for their 
 goods. The dwellings of the Professors were all passed 
 by unharmed. The Treasurer's office was indeed burned, 
 with important records, account books and documents, 
 but the most valuable papers in it were saved. 
 
 A kind Providence had detained the Treasurer, Rev. 
 H. L. Hammond, in the city, against his plans and wishes, 
 over that eventful Sabbath. He was awakened at his home 
 on Sangamon street, a mile and a half from the office, a 
 little before 2 o'clock on Monday morning, and learned 
 from a passer-by that the fire had crossed the river and 
 was raging on the South side. He went out at once with 
 his son to see it. Soon it became apparent that the office 
 was in danger ; and the valuables there, protected only by 
 
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 an old safe, were in peril. They started for it. The devour; 
 ing wave had cut off their nearest route ; but by making 
 a detour of several blocks, running through a storm of 
 live coals, they reached the office, 84 Washington street 
 near Dearborn, a few minutes before it was burned. 
 
 By the light of the flames, now close upon them, 
 they opened the safe, took out papers representing about 
 $150,000 of assets, hastily gathered a few other things, 
 and retreated amid the rush and roar of the hot wind and 
 flying fire-brands, the crash of falling walls and terrific 
 explosions, whose cause they could only conjecture. 
 
 But how to return to the West side? Five minutes 
 had rapidly spread the devastation east and north, and a 
 larger circuit was required for safety. They went east to 
 State street and north to South Water, before they could 
 turn westward and cross by Lake street bridge. They 
 regained Sangamon street safely, with their precious bur- 
 den, at three o'clock, having gone more than three miles 
 in one hour, an hour in which millions of dollars vanished, 
 and thousands of homes were destroyed. 
 
 This rescue not only required that the Treasurer and 
 his son should rush into danger, but the exertion necessary 
 to save those assets, induced severe suffering, and im- 
 perilled the life of the Treasurer. The importance of the 
 rescue was enhanced by the fact that the official records 
 of these securities was destroyed by the burning of the 
 County Records. It was found, after the fire, that, 
 although the investments of the Seminary's funds were 
 almost wholly, in Chicago, only $2,000 were secured on 
 property in the burnt district ; and that loan was soon 
 paid. 
 
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 XV. 
 
 FACULTY AND STUDENTS. 
 
 Eight Professors have been elected, and seven in- 
 augurated, in the Seminary. Rev. Joseph Haven, D. D. 
 to the Chair of Systematic Theology, and Rev. Samuel 
 C. Bartlett, D. D. to the Chair of Biblical Literature, 
 were elected April 28th, 1858; and were inaugurated, the 
 former October '20th, and the latter October 21st, of that 
 year. These inaugurations were in the First Baptist 
 Church, where now stands the Chamber of Commerce, 
 and during the sessions of the Triennial Convention. 
 To these Professors the Charge was given by Rev. Dr. 
 Kitchel, as President of the Board. Prof. Haven gave 
 instruction till the summer of 1870, when, while absent 
 in Europe in search of health, he resigned his Chair. 
 Prof. Bartlett resigned, to take effect July 1st, 1877, and 
 accepted the Presidency of Dartmouth College. 
 
 Rev. Franklin W. Fisk, D. D. was elected April 2d, 
 1856, to the Chair of Sacred Rhetoric. Upon acceptance, 
 after somewhat protracted consideration, he felt that he 
 could not honorably release himself from Beloit College 
 till 1859, and was inaugurated April 28th, of that year. 
 The Charge was addressed to him by Rev. Dr. Bascom. 
 
 Rev. James T. Hyde, D. D., was elected Sept. 21st, 
 1869, to the Professorship of Pastoral Theology and Spe- 
 cial Studies, and was inaugurated April 26th, 1870. The 
 Charge by Rev. Dr. Robbins. 
 
 To the Chair resigned by Prof. Haven, Rev. George 
 N. Boardman, D. D., was elected April 4th, 1871, and was 
 inaugurated Sept. 14th, 1871. The Charge was deliv- 
 ered by Rev. A. S. Kedzie. 
 
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 Eev. Theodore W. Hopkins, A. M., was elected Pro- 
 fessor of Ecclesiastical History April 29th, 1874, and was 
 inaugurated April 29th, 1875. The Charge by Rev. Dr. 
 Post. 
 
 Eev. Samuel Ives Curtiss, Ph. D.-D. D., was elected 
 Professor of Biblical Literature, in the place of Dr. Bart- 
 lett, May 15th, 1878. He was inaugurated April 22d, 
 1879. The Charge by Rev. Dr. Chapin. 
 
 All the above inaugurations were, as required by 
 the Constitution, in the presence of the Board of Direc- 
 tors, and with assent to the Constitutional Formula of 
 Faith. 
 
 The Professorship of Biblical Literatue was divided 
 June 10th, 1879. Whereupon Prof. S. Ives Curtiss, Ph. 
 D.-D. D., was retained as the New England Professor of 
 Old Testament Literature and Interpretation; and Prof. 
 J. T. Hyde, D. D., was transferred to the Professorship 
 of New Testament Literature and Interpretation, upon 
 the Iowa Endowment. 
 
 At the same date, Rey. G. Buckingham Willcox, D. 
 D., was elected to be Professor of Pastoral Theology and 
 Special Studies. He has accepted and will enter upon 
 his course of instruction in the autumn of 1879. 
 
 Prof. Edward M. Booth, A. M., has given instruc- 
 tion in elocution each year, since 1868, training all the 
 students in the best methods of effective address. 
 
 Profs. Bartlett and Fisk, after many years of service, 
 were granted leave of absence for a year, to travel and 
 study in the Old World. 
 
 Special Courses of Lectures have been given by : 
 
 1. Pres. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., in 1859-62, on 
 Modern Sects. 
 
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 2. Kev. T. M. Post, D. D., in 1870-72, on Ecclesi- 
 astical History. 
 
 3. Eev. E. Beecher, D. D., in 1860-63, on Chris- 
 tian Organization of Society. 
 
 4. Kev. J. Blanchard, in 1858-59, on Connection 
 of Old and New Testaments, and omPastoral Theology. 
 
 5. Eev. J. B. Walker, D. D., in 1858-62, on Con- 
 nection of Science and Religion. 
 
 6. Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., in 1862, on Chris- 
 tianity and Social Life. 
 
 7. Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., in 1875-77, on Mod- 
 ern Skepticism. 
 
 This enlargement of the range of study by Lecturers 
 especially qualified to open new fields of research, is an 
 example, which other like Institutions have followed; 
 and they have pushed it even more successfully than this 
 Seminary, owing to lack of funds has been able to do. 
 
 Four hundred and four students have been instruc- 
 ted in Chicago Seminary. They have come from 24 
 States and Territories of our Union, also from Canada, 
 England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, 
 Holland, Iceland, Africa, and India. Of these students 
 some completed their course elsewhere, and some failed 
 for various reasons to take the prescribed curriculum of 
 study. The 209 others have graduated, 164 from the 
 Regular and 45 from the Special Course. 
 
 The Alumni have formed an Association for further 
 progress in study. For the past fifteen years this Asso- 
 ciation has met at the Seminary, and, aided by the Pro- 
 fessors and others, its members have taken in hand for 
 discussion such matters of doctrine and practice as study 
 and experience suggested, renewing their attachment to 
 
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 their Alma Mater, and more fully qualifying themselves 
 for their work. 
 
 Of the Alumni twelve have died. The others are 
 serving the Master in twenty-eight states and territories 
 of our Union and in nine foreign countries. They were 
 all loyal to their country in the War of the Rebellion, 
 several of them having served in the army; but what is 
 more than that, so far as known, they are loyal to the 
 Truth and true to the Master. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 The work of founding and fostering our Theological 
 Seminary has brought about noteworthy results. Only 
 brief mention of some of these can here be made. 
 
 1. The Seminary has trained hundreds of men for 
 the ministry, for many of whom it has opened a way that 
 would not else have been found a way that now stands 
 open to thousands more. 
 
 2. These sons of our Northwestern churches are 
 laboring at home and abroad, thereby giving the churches 
 a new sense of their work, doing and to be done, on the 
 fields of Home and Foreign Missions. 
 
 3. These churches, in becoming productive of a min- 
 istry, are coming into a more quickened sense of coopera- 
 tion with the Master, enlarging the range of thought and 
 ennobling the aim of life. 
 
 4. In training a ministry, the churches are coming, 
 also, to a rectified judgment of the qualification of minis- 
 
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 ters for the work and conflict in this land and in the 
 corning time. 
 
 5. In the organization of the Seminary a great force 
 has heen established in this Northwest. There has been 
 gathered and set at work sanctified Scholarship of a high 
 order, stimulating, defensive and aggressive. 
 
 6. Through the Seminary are provided ways by 
 which men of forecast and wealth can inaugurate forces 
 which shall reach many generations with quickening, 
 moulding and sanctifying power. 
 
REPORT 
 
 Quarter Centennial Fund, 
 
 BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO THE TRIENNIAL CONVENTION, 
 
 AND ITS ACTION THEREON. 
 
 Twenty-five years ago began the movement to found 
 our Theological Seminary. At the end of this Quarter 
 Century, we inquire " What next? What aspects has 
 the work of the Lord, meantime, assumed? What, in 
 consequence, is his word of command to us? 
 
 Our field of work lies within our Congregationalism, 
 actual and possible. And to us our Congregationalism 
 means, not merely a polity, but a system of doctrines, an 
 historic faith, the entire gospel, as held by our fathers and 
 received by their sons varied, but only made more vital 
 and vigorous by the increasing light and heat of the Sun 
 of Eighteousness a Congregationalism embodied in 
 churches of spiritually quickened membership and minis- 
 try, with their growing institutions and working forces. 
 
 Our Theological Seminary, in its Boards of Control, 
 Oversight and Instruction, and in the Triennial Conven- 
 tion of the Churches, which directly or indirectly elects 
 these Boards, represents the Congregationalism of these 
 Northwestern States and Territories, twelve of them, 
 enough for a mighty empire. 
 
 What is our actual and relative standing in the con- 
 crete Congregationalism of our country? Here in this 
 vast territory, covered by the constituency of our Semin- 
 
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 ary, is the groioing part of our Congregationalism. The 
 roots of our growth run far to the East and find nutri- 
 ment -which we acknowledge with gratitude and pride- 
 yet the actual growth, largely increased by such nutriment, 
 is most visible in this Northwest. 
 
 Though of the Congregational church-members in 
 the United States we have only 23 per cent., yet during 
 the year covered by the statistics in the last Year Book, 
 we have 31 per cent, in the net gain of church members, 
 and 36 per cent, of the increase in Sabbath school attend- 
 ance. 
 
 This crescent state of Congregationalism in the 
 Northwest the growing condition of the work assigned 
 us by the Master is still further and more emphatically 
 shown by this fact : the net increase in the number of 
 our churches during the year reported in the last Year 
 Book was 56. Of these new churches, 10 are on the 
 Pacific Slope, 43 on the field covered by the constituency 
 of our Theological Seminary, including Michigan on the 
 east and Wyoming on the west, and only three in the 
 remainder of the United States. 
 
 The growth of Congregationalism of our work in 
 the Northwest, is shown by a broader fact. When 25 
 years ago the first steps were taken to organize our The- 
 ological Seminary, there was possible to it a constituency 
 of only 380 Churches, northwest from Ohio. Now, after 
 a lapse of 35 years, the Churches in the Northwest form- 
 ing the constituency of our Seminary exceed that num- 
 ber by more than 1000. 
 
 Now why this concentration of forces in these North- 
 western States by our own, and correspondingly by other 
 Christian churches? Why this swift execution in these 
 processes of organization? No man, who both thinks 
 and prays, need search long for an answer. 
 
1. Because here are gathering immense forces, vast 
 powers of wealth to be developed agricultural, commer- 
 cial, mining and manufacturing forces too vast for the 
 comprehension of any finite mind. God's claim to these, 
 to the hearts and hands that wield them, these Christian 
 churches of all sorts must maintain and make good. 
 
 2. Because, slowly hut surely, toward this junction 
 of the Valley of the Lakes with the Valley of the Missis- 
 sippi is moving the center of the population of the United 
 States. 
 
 3. Because here is freedom of thought, trammeled 
 by no traditions, in the churches or out ; insisting upon 
 rehandling everything, settled or unsettled; participated 
 in by many nationalities and schools, reverent and irrev- 
 erent. 
 
 The main work assigned us by the Master to do in 
 this Northwest, and for which we need a ministry ade- 
 quate in numbers and qualifications, is the evangelization 
 which we are carrying on in common with other Chris- 
 tian churches. Yet we have, in addition to this, a less 
 important, but positive and characteristic work. First. 
 To afford a basis for church organization, on which evan- 
 gelical Christians of various antecedents can readily 
 unite this by the adaptation, flexibility and adequate 
 efficiency of our polity, and by holding the word of God 
 as the only authoritative Eule of Faith. Also, secondly. 
 By the freedom of utterance found in our pulpits and 
 in the entire range of our Congregational literature, to 
 foster and conserve all that is valuable in the freedom of 
 thought, demanded and inevitable in this Northwest. 
 
 To the work of our churches there are hindrances. 
 
 1. The needful unfolding of the material wealth of 
 the Northwest has given an intense aggravation to world- 
 
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 liness, shown not only in the push of enterprises, but 
 also in ruinous extravagance, and in the wreck of both 
 characters and fortunes. Bonanza kings, railroad kings, 
 merchant princes, lordly bankers and masters in manu- 
 facture, rule society, making men satisfied with a pros- 
 perity which neither betters humanity, nor helps on the 
 great ends for which the ages continue. 
 
 2. The hindrances become more formidable because 
 to the dullness of carnality and the engrossment of world- 
 liness there is .added a various infidelity among the edu- 
 cated a scientific skepticism among the unlettered the 
 gross infidelity of Thomas Paine wrestling again with 
 difficulties which well read men know were fully met 100 
 years ago. 
 
 3. Then there is Communism in its American 
 shapes, young, but growing, and greedy of life, together 
 with other evils of a society that is becoming stratified 
 in a very undemocratic way and degree. This Commun- 
 ism and its allied craft-organizations, are likely to do 
 something more than, as once, to stop the railroad traffic 
 of the country. 
 
 4. Sectarianism, everywhere a hindrance, in instan- 
 ces, not a few, unpeaceably and unsafely dominant. 
 
 Only the Gospel, as it ennobles life with its hopes, 
 as it tones society by its individual regenerations, shapes 
 law and vitalizes human brotherhood, can cure sectarian- 
 ism, and solve the problems, with which Communism and 
 craft- organizations vainly struggle. Only the Gospel can 
 make safe the prosperity of the Northwest. 
 
 So, for the work to be done in these Northwestern 
 States, there is needed that right hand of the Churches, 
 an educated, spiritual and orthodox ministry men, who 
 can find a place to work, or make a place men, who by 
 
 
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 residence and education in this section of our country 
 shall be in acquaintance and sympathy with the work 
 here to be done men, abreast with the best literature of 
 their age ; testing every moral question by the infallible 
 Word of God; and, like Congregational ministers from 
 the Plymouth Rock days till now, leaders in the think- 
 ing of their times. Every year the forces at work for 
 good or evil grow stronger, so must the pulpit, or yield 
 to such rivals as the platform and the press. 
 
 For the training of such a ministry for the work 
 urgent upon our Theological Seminary it needs : 
 
 1. Completion in the endowment of the present 
 Professorships. 
 
 2. An endowment of the Professorship of New Tes- 
 tament Literature. 
 
 3. The completion of the Permanent General Fund. 
 
 4. A Library Fund, large additions to the Library, 
 and a fire-proof Library Hall. 
 
 5. Additional Scholarships: all requiring at least 
 $100,000. 
 
 Your Committee, therefore, could not be true to 
 their own convictions, without urging these Eesolutions : 
 
 1. That resting on the merits of the case, trusting 
 in the Lord, and encouraged by the counsels and offers 
 already made, as well as by the hopes we entertain, we, 
 as a Board of Directors put in charge of this important 
 Institution, ask the Churches, in grateful recognition of 
 the work God has already given the Seminary to do, and 
 of its greater work hereafter, to increase its endowments 
 by raising a Quarter Centennial Fund of at least $100,- 
 000, to be devoted to such wants of the Seminary as the 
 donors of said Fund and the Board of Directors shall 
 determine. 
 
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 2. That this whole subject be laid before the Trien- 
 nial Convention about to meet, asking its judgment 
 thereon. 
 
 3. That if the Churches in Triennial Convention 
 respond favorably to this request, the Board of Directors 
 devote their efforts assiduously to the work of raising 
 this Quarter Centennial Fund, till it be accomplished. 
 
 4. That for the purpose of more fully acquainting 
 the Churches with the Seminary, and interesting them 
 in its work, an abstract of a History of the Seminary to 
 date, be published and distributed, supplemented by this 
 Report, and such action as the Triennial Convention 
 may take. 
 
 A. S. KEDZIE, ") 
 
 E. W. BLATCHFOED, 
 J. W. SCOVILLE, f 
 O. DAVIDSON, J 
 
 In behalf of the Board of Directors, E. W. Blatch- 
 ford, Esq., presented the above Eeport accompanying it 
 with suitable remarks. It was then moved that the Re- 
 port be amended so as to ask for $150,000 instead of 
 $100.000. After full discussion, both the amendment and 
 the Report were unanimously adopted by a rising vote., 
 
 May the Lord multiply those who shall have power 
 to make this Seminary strong for the work it has to do 
 in the future. May He give them wisdom to see how an 
 enlargement of the Seminary's work will advance the 
 Kingdom of Christ, at home and abroad. And by their 
 liberal contribution to the Seminary's strength may He 
 bring them into fuller fellowship with Him in work for 
 the world's salvation. 
 
CHARTER. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 TO INCORPORATE THE CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 
 
 SECTION 1. He it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
 sented in the General Assembly, That STEPHEN PEET, WILLIAM CARTER, 
 FLAVEL BASCOM, M. A. JEWETT, GEORGE W. PERKINS, PHILO CARPENTER, 
 TRUMAN POST, JOHN C. HOLBROOK, HORACE HOBART, JOHN J. MITER, HIRAM 
 FOOTE, JOSEPH JOHNSTON, HARVEY D. KITCHEL, ALDEN B. BOBBINS, ADAM 
 S. KEDZIE, L. SMITH HOBART, NATHANIEL H. EGGLESTON, SOLOMON L. 
 WITHEY, JESSE GUERNSEY, JOSEPH E. BEEBE, CHAS. W. CAMP, JOHN G. 
 FOOTE, BICHARD HALL, GEO. S. F. SAVAGE, and their successors, be and 
 they hereby are created a body politic and corporate, to be styled, " The 
 Board of Directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary," and by that 
 name and style to remain and have perpetual succession, with full power 
 to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold and convey 
 property, real and personal, to have and use a common seal, to alter and 
 renew the same at pleasure, to make and alter a Constitution and By- 
 Laws for the conducting and government of said Institution, and fully to 
 do whatever may be necessafry to carry out the object of this act of incor- 
 poration. 
 
 SECTION 2. That the Seminary shall be located in or near the City of 
 Chicago. The object shall be to furnish instruction and the means of 
 education to young men preparing for the Gospel Ministry, and the In- 
 stitution shall be equally open to all denominations of Christians for this 
 purpose. 
 
 SECTION 3. That the Board of Directors shall consist of twenty-four 
 members, nine of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
 business. The Directors shall hereafter be elected in accordance with 
 the provisions of the Constitution under which they act, and shah 1 hold 
 their office/ until their successors are appointed. 
 
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 SECTION 4. That the Board of Directors shall have power to appoint 
 an Executive Committee, and such agents as they may deem necessary, 
 and such Officers, Professors and Teachers as the government and in- 
 struction of the Seminary may require, and prescribe their duties; to 
 remove any of them for sufficient reasons, and to prescribe and direct 
 the course of studies to be pursued in the Institution ; also to confer such 
 degrees as are consistent with the object of the Institution. 
 
 SECTION 5. That the property, of whatever kind or description, be- 
 longing or appertaining to said Seminary, shall be forever free and 
 exempt from all taxation, for all purposes whatsoever. 
 
 SECTION 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its 
 passage, and it shall be deemed a public act, and shall be construed 
 liberally in ah 1 courts for the purposes therein expressed. 
 
 THOS. J. TURNER, 
 
 Speaker of the .House of Representatives. 
 G. KOERNER, 
 
 Speaker of the Senate. 
 APPROVED February 15, 1855. 
 
 J. A. MATTESON. 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 
 
 r SS 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS. \ 
 
 I, ALEXANDER STARNE, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do 
 hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an enrolled 
 law now on file in my office. 
 
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
 L. S. and affixed the seal of said State, this 6th day of 
 
 March, A.D. 1855. 
 
 ALEXANDER STARNE, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
ALUMNI. 
 
 NAMES. GRADUATED. ORDAINED. RESIDENCE. 
 
 Abbott, C. H 1875 Dec. 1875 Huntley, 111. 
 
 Adams, William A 1862 May 18,1862 Deceased. 
 
 Anderson, David R 1876 June 15, 1876 Oconomowoc, Wis. 
 
 Anderson, Kerr C 1875 Mov. 11,1873 Oshkosh, Wis. 
 
 Armstrong, Julius C 1874 June 17,1874 Lyonsville, 111. 
 
 Arnold, Arthur E 1867 Dec. 1867 Lemars, la. 
 
 Arnold, Seth A 1873 Sept. 8,1873 Wittenberg, la. 
 
 Allender, John 1868 Feb. 23,1869 Red Oak, la. 
 
 Atkinson, John L 1869 Sept. 24,1869 Missionary to Japan. 
 
 Atkinson, William H 1867 April 18, 1867 Orchard, la. 
 
 Bailey, Amos Judson 1871 Oct. 24,1871 Hennepin, 111. 
 
 Baird, John W 1872 May 22,1872 Missionary to Bulgaria. 
 
 Baker, Mons. Samuel 1879 Northfield, Minn. 
 
 Baldwin, David J 1865 Nov. 10,1865 Sibley, la. 
 
 Barnard, Elihu C 1866 Dec. 1 8, 1866 Moline, 111. 
 
 Barnes, Charles M 1859 Sept. 16,1859 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Barnes, Henry E 1864 May 28,1864 Haverill, Mass. 
 
 Barrett, Edward N 1870 Nov. 21,1871 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Barrett, John F 1877 Dec. 21,1877 Manchester, la. 
 
 Bascom, George S 1870 June 29,1870 Peru, 111. 
 
 Beach, Edwin R 1869 Sept. 21, 1869 Longmont, Colorado. 
 
 Beecher, Frederick W 1861 Nov. 12, 1861 Jamestown, N. Y. 
 
 Beecher, George H 1863 Oct. 26,1864 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Benton. Ledyard E 1874 Nov. 19,1874 Crete, Neb. 
 
 Betts, Eben M 1869 Sept. 19,1869 Fond du Lac, Wis. 
 
 Bidwell, John B 1874 June 17,1874 Tomah, Wis. 
 
 Bill, A. Wesley 1873 Sept. 9,1873 Menominee, Mich. 
 
 Bingham, Charles M 1870 June 16,1870 Milburn, 111. 
 
 Bisbee, Marvin B 1874 Sept. 10,1874 Cambridgeport, Mass. 
 
 Blake, Daniel H 1859 June 9,1859 Deceased. 
 
 Blodgett, George D 1861 May 8, 1861 Deceased. 
 
 Bradshaw, John W 1874 Oct. 29,1874 Batavia, 111. 
 
 Bray, William L 1861 Aug. 8, 1861 Clinton, la. 
 
 Breckenridge, Daniel M 1869 Sept. 21, 1869 Fort Dodge, la. 
 
62 
 
 GRADUATED. ORDAINKI). 
 
 RESIDENCE. 
 
 Bross, Harmon 1867 Sept. 
 
 Brobst, Flavius J 1879 
 
 Brown, T. Lincoln 1873 
 
 Burton, Nathan L 1877 
 
 Burt, Jirah S 1860 
 
 1863 Crete, Neb. 
 
 1879 Roberts, 111. 
 Sept. 2, 1873 Elkhart, Ind. 
 June 19, 1877 Lamoille, 111. 
 
 North Weston, Ind. 
 
 Bush, Frederick W 1871 May 16,1871 Alamo, Midi. 
 
 Butcher, William R 1869 June 15,1869 Kokomo, Ind. 
 
 Campbell, Gabriel 
 
 1868 
 
 Oct. 
 
 27, 
 
 1868 
 
 Cass, John W 
 
 1863 
 
 May 
 
 II, 
 
 1863 
 
 Chamberlin, James A 
 
 1879 
 
 
 
 1879 
 
 Champlin, Oliver P 
 
 1870 
 
 July 
 
 IO, 
 
 1870 
 
 Chase, Edward R 
 
 1871 
 
 
 
 
 Cheeny, Russell L 
 
 1876 
 
 Oct. 
 
 24, 
 
 1876 
 
 Chittenden, Albeit J 
 
 1874 
 
 
 
 
 Clapp, Cephas F 
 
 1871 
 
 June 
 
 21, 
 
 1871 
 
 Clark, William J 
 
 1869 
 
 Nov. 
 
 19, 
 
 1869 
 
 Clark, Moulton L 
 
 1877 
 
 
 
 1877 
 
 Codington, George S 
 
 1870 
 
 July 
 
 I, 
 
 1870 
 
 Comstock, D. W 
 
 1864 
 
 June 
 
 5. 
 
 1861 
 
 Corsbie, Hadley M 
 
 1879 
 
 Aug. 
 
 3 1 ' 
 
 1876 
 
 Cragin, Charles C 
 
 1869 
 
 Feb. 
 
 16, 
 
 1870 
 
 Crawford, Matthew A 
 
 1878 
 
 
 
 
 Crawford, O. D 
 
 1872 
 
 Nov. 
 
 i, 
 
 1872 
 
 Cross, W. H 
 
 1870 
 
 June 
 
 29, 
 
 1870 
 
 Croswell, Micah S 
 
 1868 
 
 April 
 
 21, 
 
 1869 
 
 Cruzan, John Alexander 
 
 1871 
 
 Sept. 
 
 28, 
 
 1871 
 
 Curtis, Asher W 
 
 1868 
 
 July 
 
 2, 
 
 1868 
 
 Curtis, William Willis 
 
 i873 
 
 Aug. 
 
 IO, 
 
 1873 
 
 Dada, Edgar P 
 
 1864 
 
 July 
 
 I, 
 
 1864 
 
 Daniels, Henry M 
 
 1861 
 
 June 
 
 25, 
 
 1861 
 
 Davis, Jerome D 
 
 1869 
 
 June 
 
 I, 
 
 1869 
 
 Day, Warren F 
 
 1866 
 
 May 
 
 2, 
 
 1866 
 
 Danforth, James R '. . 
 
 1867 
 
 Jan. 
 
 2, 
 
 1868 
 
 Demarest, Sidney B 
 
 1869 
 
 Sept. 
 
 7, 
 
 1869 
 
 Dewey, Willis C 
 
 1877 
 
 May 
 
 29, 
 
 1877 
 
 Dickinson, C. E 
 
 1863 
 
 June 
 
 2, 
 
 1863 
 
 Dickinson, Samuel F 
 
 1869 
 
 June 
 
 9 
 
 1870 
 
 Dickenson, William G 
 
 1873 
 
 June 
 
 24, 
 
 1873 
 
 Dixon, Julian Howell 
 
 1871 
 
 Sept. 
 
 6, 
 
 1871 
 
 Douglass, Francis J 
 
 1869 
 
 June 
 
 22, 
 
 1869 
 
 Douglas, Truman O 
 
 1868 
 
 Oct. 
 
 28, 
 
 1868 
 
 Durham, Benjamin (M. D.)... 
 
 1861 
 
 
 
 
 Durham, Henry (M. D.) 
 
 1863 
 
 Nov. 
 
 3, 
 
 1864 
 
 Duncan, John C 
 
 1877 
 
 
 
 
 DeRiemer, William E 
 
 1867 
 
 April 
 
 18, 
 
 1867 
 
 East Minneapolis, Minn. 
 Deceased. 
 Union Grove, Wis. 
 Sleepy Eye, Minn. 
 Deceased. 
 Bloomington, Wis. 
 Boulder, Colorado. 
 Prairie du Chien, Wis. 
 Okalla, 111. 
 Constableville, N. Y. 
 Deceased. 
 Otsego, Mich. 
 Burlington, Wis. 
 McGregor, la. 
 David City, Neb. 
 West Bloomfield, N. Y. 
 Hollister, Cal. 
 Amboy, 111. 
 Portland, Oregon. 
 Hastings, Neb. 
 Missionary to Japan. 
 
 Mazeppa, Minn. 
 Dallas, Texas. 
 Missionary to Japan. 
 East Saginaw, Mich. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Dart ford, Wis. 
 Mi-sionary to Turkey. 
 Elgin, 111. 
 Cambridge, 111. 
 Shabbona, 111. 
 Ridgefield, 111. 
 Richmond, 111. 
 Osage, la. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 Crete, Neb. 
 Tugaloo, Miss. 
 Missionary to Ceylon. 
 
03 
 
 GRADUATED. ORDAINED. 
 
 RESIDENCE. 
 
 Edgerton, Foster E .......... Died just before graduating. 
 
 Evans, Samuel E ............. 1867 April 18, 1867 Seakonk, Rhode Island. 
 
 Fay, Osmer W ............... 1863 July 2,1867 Montgomery, Ala. 
 
 Feemster, Paul S ............. 1867 Nov. 25,1869 Columbus, Miss. 
 
 Ferner, John W .............. 1876 June 17,1876 Mitchelville, la. 
 
 Ferris, Hiram J .............. 1876 Sept. 7, 1876 New Milford, 111. 
 
 Fonda, Jesse Lawrence ....... 1873 Sept. 16,1873 Morris, Minn. 
 
 Fowle, Hanford ............. 1866 June 13,1866 East Troy, Wis. 
 
 Gallagher, Wm. Jr ........... 1874 Dec. 1,1874 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Gillespie, Thomas ........... 1867 Nov. 20,1867 Bristol, Wisconsin. 
 
 Gilmore, Daniel W .......... 1875 Potosi, Wisconsin. 
 
 Goodell, Henry M ........... 1874 1876 Newago, Mich. 
 
 Goodrich, Edward P ......... 1870 Oct. i, 1870 Decatur, Mich. 
 
 Goodsell, Dennis ............. 1879 Fergus Falls, Minn. 
 
 Granger, John S ............. 1866 July 12, 1866 Granville, 111. 
 
 Guild, Rufus B .............. 1864 Nov. 3,1864 Seneca, Kan. 
 
 Guyton, Jacob F ............. 1869 Aug. 24,1869 Evanston, 111. 
 
 Hall, Martin S .............. 1871 June 15, 1871 Lawn Ridge, 111. 
 
 Hand, Laroy S .............. 1868 June 1 8, 1868 Ogden, la. 
 
 Harbaugh, Hiram Wallace ... 1879 Pecatonica, 111. 
 
 Hardy, Vitellas M ........... 1869 Jan. 31,1872 West Randolph, Vt. 
 
 Harrah, Charles C ........... 1870 Aug. 3,1870 Galva, 111. 
 
 Harrison, James ............. 1868 Dec. 17,1868 Wisconsin. 
 
 Harvey, Charles A ........... 1861 June 20, 1861 Middletown, N. Y. 
 
 Hancock, Charles (M. D.) ---- 1861 June 5,1861 Alden, Iowa. 
 
 Hibbard, Charles ............ 1869 Sept. 21, 1869 Fairmount, Neb. 
 
 Higley, George T ............ 1861 May 31,1861 Ashland, Mass. 
 
 Hildreth, Edward ........... 1861 Dec. 30,1862 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Hill, Dexter D .............. 1869 June 1,1869 Aurora, 111. 
 
 Hinckley, William H ......... 1877 Dec. 20,1876 Racine, Wis. 
 
 Holcombe, Gilbert T ......... 1875 June 22,1875 California. 
 
 Holbrook, David L. ........ 1877 July 19,1877 Geneva, Wis. 
 
 Hooker, Edward T .......... 1867 June 17,1868 Castleton, Vt. 
 
 Humphrey. C. C ............. 1861 June 6, 1861 Osceola, Neb. 
 
 Hughes, Isaac Collstr ........ 1873 Sept. 21,1873 Columbus City, la. 
 
 Hurd, Alva Ansel ........... 1871 Mar. 21,1871 Scotland, Conn. 
 
 Jacobs, Henry ............... 1870 Sept. 22,1870 Wayne Center, 111. 
 
 Jagger, Edward L ............. 1861 Mar. 6, 1862 Bristol, N. H. 
 
 Jones, David D .............. 1875 Minnesota. 
 
 Jones, Lemuel .............. 1864 April 20,1865 Englewood, N. J. 
 
 Keen, Lyman S .......... ___ . 1879 Wauponsie Grove, 111. 
 
 Kirk, Robert ........... ..... 1874 Sept. 1874 Springfield, Dakota. 
 
 Knobel, Godfrey C ........... 1875 April 11,1875 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
64 
 
 GRADUATED. 
 
 RESIDENCE. 
 
 Landon, George M 1868 1868 Monroe, Mich. 
 
 Lathrop, Stanley E 1870 Dec. 21,1870 Macon, Ga. 
 
 Lewis, Edwin N 1862 Oct. 14,1862 Ottawa, 111. 
 
 Marsh, Charles E 1867 
 
 Marsh, George Daniel 1871 
 
 Matson, Albert 1871 
 
 May, Oscar G 1870 
 
 McArthur, H. G 1859, 
 
 McCulloch, Oscar C 1870 
 
 Merrill, Chas. Wilber 1873 
 
 Millard, Watson B 1874 
 
 Miller, Richard 1873 
 
 Millerd, Norman A 1862 
 
 Mills, Harlow S 1877 
 
 Mirick, Edward A 1869 
 
 Montgomery, John A 1866 
 
 Morrill, Stephen S 1859 
 
 Nelson, Geo. William 1873 
 
 Norcross, Lanson P 1869 
 
 Northcott, Theodore C 1875 
 
 Norton, Frank B 1864 
 
 Noyes, Mortimer L. S 1871 
 
 Oakley, James 1875 
 
 Paddock, George A 1868 
 
 Parker, Homer Joseph 1873 
 
 Parker, John D 1865 
 
 Philips, Wm. Irving 1876 
 
 Pinkerton, Myron W 1871 
 
 Putnam, Samuel P 1868 
 
 Reed, Charles Francis 1873 
 
 Reed, Myron W 1866 
 
 Rice, Augustus M 1873 
 
 Richards, J. P 1861 
 
 Riggs, Alfred L 1862 
 
 Riggs, T. L 1872 
 
 Rindell, Gilbert, Jr 1874 
 
 Robbins, H. H 1874 
 
 Rogers, Charles H 1877 
 
 Root, Barnabas Walker 1873 
 
 Oct. 13, 1868 
 July 1872 
 
 June 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 June 
 
 Dec. 
 
 June 
 
 June 
 
 Sept. 
 
 June 
 
 May 
 
 21, 1870 
 
 25, 1859 
 19, 1870 
 29, 1873 
 
 1 8, 1874 
 23, 1873 
 27, 1862 
 
 S l8 77 
 
 19, 1869 
 15, 1866 
 
 12, 1859 
 
 Sept. 9, 1873 
 
 Jan. 26, 1870 
 
 May 13, 1875 
 
 July 12, 1864 
 
 Summer Hill, 111. 
 Missionary to Bulgaria. 
 Salina, Kan. 
 Fulton, Wis. 
 Beloit, Wis. 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 Spring Valley, Minn. 
 Dundee, 111. 
 Calumet, Mich. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 Dunlap, Iowa. 
 Neodesha, Kan. 
 Mori is, 111. 
 Deceased. 
 
 Wauwatosa, Wis. 
 Deadwood, Wyo. Terr. 
 Faribault, Minn. 
 Oshkosh, Wis. 
 Deceased Nov. 14, 1872. 
 
 Oct. 31, 1875 Ridgefield, 111. 
 
 Aug. 20, 1868 Deceased. 
 
 Sept. 16, 1873 Bay City, Mich. 
 
 Aug. 16, 1865 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Sept. i, 1876 College Springs, la. 
 
 Aug. 1871 Missionary to South Africa. 
 Ohio. 
 
 June i, 1874 
 
 July 10, 1866 
 
 Oct. 31, 1861 
 
 Nov. 4, 1863 
 
 Jan. 17, 1873 
 
 Nov. 1874 
 
 July 29, 1874 
 
 July, 11, 1877 
 1874 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Safford, Albert Walker 1871 Aug. 2,1872 
 
 Samuel, Robert 1859 Nov. 3,1859 
 
 Sanders, Clarendon M 1867 April 19, 1867 
 
 Sargent, Moses F 1879 
 
 Shinn, Robert F 1865 Sept. 14, 1868 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Little Compton, R. I. 
 
 Bowensburg, 111. 
 
 Miss'y Santee Agency, Neb. 
 
 Miss'y Ft. Sully, Dakota. 
 
 Plymouth, Wis. 
 
 Postville, la. 
 
 Lansing, la. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 Cawker City, Kan. 
 Cheyenne, Wyo. Terr. 
 Winnebugo, 111. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
65 
 
 NAMES. GRADUATED. ORDAINED. RESIDENCE. 
 
 Shirrill, Dana 1873 June 24,1873 Forest, 111. 
 
 Simmons, H. C 1872 May 8, 1872 Marshall, Minn. 
 
 Skeels, Henry M 1876 June 29,1876 Turner, 111. 
 
 Skentlebury, Wm. H 1873 July 7,1875 Wacousta, Mich. 
 
 Smith, Andrew J 1874 July 1,1874 Neosho, Mo. 
 
 Smith, Augustine T 1866 Deceased. 
 
 Smith, Emerson F 1875 Wellsville, Kan. 
 
 Smith, Frederick H 1877 Crookston, Minn. 
 
 Smith, James F 1873 Mav 6 ' l8 73 Crete, 111. 
 
 Smith, George 1867 Jan. 20,1868 Whitewater, Wis. 
 
 Smith, Orville S 1874 Nov. 4,1874 Hartland, Wis. 
 
 Smith, Simon P 1879 Marietta, Ga. 
 
 Storm, Julius E 1875 June 9,1875 Princeton, Minn. 
 
 Stratton, Samuel F 1868 Sept, 24,1868 Downer's Grove, 111. 
 
 Sveinbjorson, Arnabjarni 1878 Reykjarvik, Iceland. 
 
 Tade, Ewing 1861 Sept. 4,1861 Fidalgo, Wash. Ter. 
 
 Taylor, John G 1872 Jan. 9,1873 Melrose, Mass. 
 
 Thain, Alexander R 1870 Oct. 17,1870 Galesburg, 111. 
 
 Thayer, Carmi C 1867 April 18,1867 Maywood, 111. 
 
 Tibbitts, Dallas David 1873 Blackberry, 111. 
 
 Todd, Quintus C 1879 Corning, la. 
 
 Tompkins, James 1867 April 24,1867 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Towle, Charles A 1869 May 29,1869 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Tuttle, Hanson Eascom 1873 Jan. 20,1874 Worthington, Minn. 
 
 Van Noorden, Emmanuel 1871 Oct. 1873 Miss'y to Buenos Ayres, S. A. 
 
 Van Wagner, Allen J 1873 Oct. 23,1873 Elmwood, 111. 
 
 Volentine, Thomas J 1870 Oct. 13, 1870 Webster's Grove, Mo. 
 
 Wainwright, G. W 1862 May 27,1862 Raymond, Wis. 
 
 Waterman, William A 1867 Feb. 13, 1868 Marion, la. 
 
 Waterman, H. B 1869 June 1869 Moline, 111. 
 
 Webb, Stephen W 1869 April 19, 1870 Great Falls, N. H. 
 
 Wells, George H 1867 Oct. 1,1867 Montreal, Canada. 
 
 Wells, Spencer R 1867 April 18, 1867 Miss'y Armednugger, India. 
 
 West, Lester L 1878 Nov. 13,1878 Fort Dodge, la. 
 
 Wheeler, Charles H 1867 1867 Ohio. 
 
 Wheeler, Frederick 1861 Feb. 18,1862 Hoylton. 111. 
 
 Wiard, H. De Forrest 1878 Nov. u, 1873 Eaclville, 111. 
 
 Wilcox, Seth M 1875 Dec. 1875 Griggsville, 111. 
 
 Williams, Edward M 1868 Feb. 25,1869 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Willett, Mahlon 1873 June 4,1873 San Jose, Cal. 
 
 Wilson, Henry 1876 Jan. 4, 1877 Wyanet, 111. 
 
 Wright, Eugene F 1876 Nov. 1875 Seward, III. 
 
 Vates, Thomas 1872 Sept. 1,1874 Shultzburg, Mass. 
 
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 REV. T. M. POST. D. ]).. Pice-President ................................. St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 CLASS I. Term of Office Expires in 1882. 
 
 REV. A. S. KEDZIE ................................................... St. Joseph, Mich. 
 
 REV. N. A. HYDE, D. D., ............................................. Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 REV. F. BASCOM, D. D ................................................... Hinsdale, 111. 
 
 REV. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D .................................................... Chicago. 
 
 REV. G. S. F. SAVAGE, D. D .................................................. 
 
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 J. W. SCOVILLE, ESQ .................................................... Oak Park, 111. 
 
 REV. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D ................................................... Beloit, Wis. 
 
 REV. H. T. ROSE ....................................................... Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 J. H. MERRILL, ESQ ................................................ Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 REV. H. N. GATES ......................................................... Omaha, Neb. 
 
 REV. PETER M. VICKER, D. D .......................................... Topeka, Kan. 
 
 CLASS II. Term of Office Expires 1885. 
 
 REV. O. C. THOMPSON .................................................. Detroit, Mich. 
 
 REV. W. F. DAY ................................................... East Saginaw, Midi. 
 
 R. G. PETERS, ESQ ..................................................... Manistee, Mich. 
 
 C. G. HAMMOND, ESQ ..................................................... Chicago, 111. 
 
 L. G. FISHER, ESQ ......................................................... 
 
 O. DAVIDSON, ESQ, ........................................................... Elgin, III. 
 
 REV. C. W. CAMP ...................................................... Waukesha, Wis. 
 
 REV. A. B. ROBBINS, D. D ........................................... Muscatine, Iowa. 
 
 REV. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D .............................................. Grinnell, Iowa. 
 
 J. G. FOOTE, ESQ ..................................................... Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 REV. J. W. STRONG, D. D ............................................ Northfield, Minn. 
 
 REV. T. M. POST, D. D .................................................. St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 REV. F. BASCOM, D. D. L. G. FISHER, ESQ. 
 
 O. DAVIDSON, ESQ. 
 
 CLASS I. Term of Office Expires 18*2. 
 REV. J. W. BRADSHAW ................................................... Batavia, 111. 
 
 REV. E. M. WILLIAMS .............................................. Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 REV. J. G. MERRILL ................................................. Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 REV. D. L. HOLBROOK ................................................... Geneva, Wis. 
 
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 REV G. T. LADD ...................................................... Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 RF.V. E. F. WILLIAMS ....................................... . ............. Chicago, 111. 
 
 REV. E. KENT ...................................................... Michigan City, Ind. 
 
 LYMAN BAIRD, ESQ ....................................................... Chicago, 111. 
 
 C. F. GATES, ESQ .......................................................... 
 
 GEO. CULVER, ESQ ........................................................ 
 
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